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EARTH DAY’S A Rhodes Scholar and a rower

HOW PENN HELPED CREATE THE FIRST EARTH DAY

Senior Jenna Hebert embodies what it means to be a student-athlete ANDREW ZHENG Sports Reporter

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A four-year rower in the Varsity 8, a twotime CRCA National Scholar Athlete, a two-time first-team CRCA All-Region and a 2016 Rhodes Scholar all sit in the same boat. With a lineup stacked with such talent and determination, it’s easy to see why Penn is in the midst of a spell of success. Last week’s win over Cornell to claim the Class of ‘89 Plaque — Penn’s first in over eight years — showed that this is not your typical Red and Blue crew. For the first time in a long time, Penn seems to be in position to challenge its fellow Ivy opponents for an NCAA berth. A large part of this newfound spirit can be attributed to star senior and 2016 Rhodes Scholar Jenna Hebert. Now, you might ask, “what about the other three factors, the other three rowers whose accolades were listed above?”

P e n n’s campus brims with environmentallyfriendly efforts like reusable food containers at 1920 Commons, bike share programs and recycling bins near trash cans. But 46 years ago, this kind of awareness and access to resources was only a dream. This dream began turning into a reality on April 22, 1970, when members of the Penn community banded together to create the first ever Earth Day.

Earth Day was inspired by a 1969 speech by Wisconsin Sen. Gaylord Nelson, highlighting the consequences of depleting natural resources. The speech came at a time when environmental issues were on people’s minds — soon after the publication of Rachel Carson’s book “Silent Spring” and the massive 1969 fire on Cuyahoga River. Nelson invited the entire nation to partake in Earth Day celebrations, which led

to a grassroots movement among hundreds of thousands of people who gathered in cities across the country to show support for the environment. In Philadelphia, a group of mostly Penn students and faculty, including late landscape architecture and urban planning professor Ian McHarg and retired earth science professor Robert Geigengack, led efforts for the Philadelphia region’s first Earth Day events.

Teaming up with leaders, activists and planners from the city and local universities, they hosted an entire week of programming, starting on April 16, that culminated in the first ever Earth Day on April 22. According to Ian McHarding’s autobiography at the first Earth Day rally, an estimated crowd of 30,000 people came to Fairmount Park in Philadelphia to hear the city’s keynote speaker Sen. Edmund Muskie SEE EARTH DAY PAGE 3

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First President’s Innovation Prize winners named Winners get $100,000 for commercial ventures SYDNEY SCHAEDEL Deputy News Editor

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Engineering seniors Sade Oba , Alfredo Muniz , William Duckworth and Wharton senior Aaron Goldstein are the inaugural President’s Innovation Prize recipients, President A my Gutma nn a nnounced Tuesday. The President’s Innovation Prize is similar to the President’s Engagement Prize in that seniors are eligible to submit projects, but the Innovation Prize accepts submissions that are commercial

ventures, rather than projects based solely based in community engagement. Oba and Muniz received the award for a project called XEED. XEED is a network of wearable devices that tracks the movement of limbs and transmits that information to a smartphone. The project is designed to help patients who suffer from Parkinson’s disease and their families to keep tabs on their well being. Duckworth and Goldstein also won the prize for a healthcare related project, called Fever Smart. Fever Smart is a device that monitors core body temperature over time and sends the information to

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a cloud system, which then allows the patient and doctors to monitor the patient’s body temperature over time. Gutmann said that while she initially planned to only pick one project, she couldn’t decide between the two winners. “I was hoping, planning and expecting to pick one,” she said, but added, “There was no way of choosing between them.” A lt houg h bot h of t he winning projects are healthrelated, Gutmann stressed that it wasn’t a commonality among the 21 projects that were submitted. “They just came to the top out of a very broad group

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which ranged quite widely,” she said. The 21 Innovation Prize projects that were in the running exceeds the number of Engagement Prize applications this year, at 18, even though the Engagement Prize is in its second year and this is only the first for the Innovation Prize. Each of the President’s Innovation Prize teams will receive $100,000 to implement their projects and a $50,000 living stipend per team member, the same dollar amount as the Engagement Prize. The winners will also receive dedicated workspace in the Pennovation Center and mentorship from the Penn Center for Innovation.

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Hillary Clinton rallies in Phila. before primary

Protestors at the event were quickly escorted away SYDNEY SCHAEDEL Deputy News Editor

Hillary Clinton addressed an enthusiastic crowd on Wednesday night at The Fillmore in Fishtown that remained unfazed by disruptions by protestors. College junior Barry Johnson kicked off the night, calling out to the crowd, “Good evening, everyone. Are you excited to see Hillary Clinton?” After the supporters let out their roar, Johnson went on to explain his status as a Penn undergraduate and as a fellow for the Clinton campaign. “I’ve been constantly reminded why Hillary Clinton is the best candidate and also has the most experience to be President of the United States,” Johnson said, before launching into her policy positions.

When he mentioned women’s rights, the crowd cheered the loudest. At the end of the remarks, Johnson said, “One issue that matters most to me is education,” and explained how he had benefited from the Upward Bound program, a program that Clinton helped initiate as First Lady. “We should not only make education more affordable, but more accessible, and that’s what Hillary Clinton is going to do,” he said. Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) took the stage a few moments later, expressing his own support for Clinton and listing out choice policy proposals and positions. Next, Malcolm Kenyatta-Green, who works for the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce and is a member of the board of directors of the Liberty City LGBT Democratic Club, also had his turn at the microphone to voice his support for Clinton. “She has the know-how to get

results on day one,” he said passionately. The crowd had been building in energy and growing in size as the three men were speaking, and when Kenyatta-Green called out, “Join me in welcoming the best fighter I know!” and Clinton walked on to Rachel Platten’s “Fight Song,” the supporters gave out their loudest cheer yet. She began by thanking Casey, and acknowledging other elected officials, including former Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter. “We had a really really good day in New York yesterday,” she said, eliciting a cheer from the crowd. She also spoke about her connections to Pennsylvania, referencing her father’s childhood in Scranton and her son-in-law’s origins in Philadelphia. The rest of her speech largely covered her policy positions, with a few jabs to her Republican rivals thrown in.

“When I hear Donald Trump and Ted Cruz talk about international issues, I mean, what they say is not only offensive — it’s downright dangerous,” she said. As Clinton spoke about pay equality for men and women, a group of four or five protestors began shouting and were escorted out. They were wearing matching Tshirts, carrying signs and chanting. A few minutes later, three more protestors were escorted away separately. One protester was saying, “Don’t vote for Hillary. She’s killing black people.” The protestors continued to chant outside as supporters exited the event. Though Clinton did not address the protestors directly, College freshman Abby Lee and sophomore Josh Jordan, who were at the rally, felt that she ended up referencing them when she was speaking about reaching across the aisle. “What we cannot abide is breaking ourselves into groups where we can’t even talk or listen to each other,” Clinton said. “I think she’s done a lot to try to meet common ground,” Jordan said, adding that Clinton had previously

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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton came to The Fillmore in Philadelphia, and spoke largely about her policy positions.

met with Black Lives Matters activists. “Honestly, I think that Hillary handled it really well, just the fact that she’s so accepting of other opinions and that she can handle opposition very well,” Lee added. At the end of her speech, Clinton spoke about looking forward to the

Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. She said it was “fitting” that the convention be held in Philadelphia. “I want us all to be reminded of the incredible legacy that we’ve all inherited,” she said. “[But] I believe that our best years can still be ahead of us.”

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At 1:40 a.m., an unafﬁliated 25-year-old man got into an argument with someone, whose gender and age was not given, at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and struck him/her. The man was arrested.

Burglary

At 3:18 p.m., an afﬁliated 20-year-old man reported a theft from the Pi Kappa Alpha house on Spruce Street near 39th. No arrest was made.

Fraud

At 10:10 a.m., an afﬁliated 20-year-old woman reported receiving a phone call from someone she did not know claiming to be holding her family members hostage and requesting money for their release. The woman wired money to this person. After her family was found to be safe, the woman discovered the call was a scam. No arrest was made.

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Students to ride across the U.S. Team to also aid in building affordable housing CAROLINE CARBALLEIRA Contributing Reporter

Most people fly when they need to cross the United States. Some choose to drive. Forrest Gump opted to run. But this summer, Penn students are ready to ride. College junior Nick Moncy, College senior Edgar Agudelo and Engineering sophomore Liam Gallagher plan to bike across the country and help build affordable housing through an organization called Bike & Build. Bike & Build began in 2003 and plans trips for groups of approximately 30 people to bike cross-country, aid in building housing and raise funding

and awareness for affordable housing. Riders can apply to participate in multiple cross-country routes, beginning in places such as North Carolina, Virginia and Rhode Island, and ending in California, Oregon and Washington. Participants in one of the organization’s trips must raise $4,500 before the start of their journeys, which can serve as a daunting but also rewarding challenge. Riders reach out to their personal networks, along with using creative methods such as garage sales to obtain the funds. Moncy believes that fundraising has taught him how to ask for help from others. “That’s something I had a hard time with at Penn. I tried to do things on my own,” Moncy said. “So being with a group of people, being with a team on Bike & Build and asking friends

and family and everyone who will listen about fundraising has taught me that life’s a lot easier when you have people to support you.” In addition to raising money for the cause, riders must also be prepared for the physical task of biking approximately 4,000 miles through diverse terrain. Bike & Build requires riders to bike 500 miles before the start of their trips. Moncy and Agudelo both currently live in Florida and have worked together to ready themselves for the summer. Back at Penn, Gallagher wants to exceed the mileage requirement, hoping to bike 100 miles a week in the next month when he finds time on the weekends. “I used to cycle some when I was in high school … but I never linked together 80 miles a day,

80 miles a day, day in day out,” Gallagher said. “So I don’t think there’s any possible way I can really be ready for that until I do it.” The affordable housing aspect of the experience serves as a strong motivating factor for the riders, who said they want to make an impact in the communities they visit and emphasized the importance of awareness of America’s housing issues. “It’s so important to feel that connection with communities that we’re going to be in. Building goes a long way towards fostering a sense of community,” Agudelo said. “I don’t think that it’s always the highlight or at the forefront of a lot of issues that we deal with, but it’s definitely something we have to think about.”

First-generation students consider a place to call their own on campus Brown U. first in Ivy League to have such SHOBA BABU Staff Reporter

For first-generation students, locating resources, navigating college life and finding a community of people who share similar experiences can be difficult. But a new move by Brown University could be the answer colleges including Penn are looking for. After Brown’s recent announcement that it will build a First-Generation College Student Center this summer, first-generation students at Penn hope that one day Penn can follow this path as well. The center — which was created after a steady stream of student-driven efforts — will serve as a dedicated home for all the resources offered to first-generation and lowincome students at Brown and will be the first of its kind at any Ivy League university. Penn First founding member and College junior Juana Granados says that one of the main reasons Brown is the first to have this type of resource is probably because their student group for first-generation and low-income students has been active for almost a decade. The group’s growth and longtime presence on campus over the years demonstrated a visible need to the university. And 16 percent of Brown students are first generation — the largest at any Ivy — compared to 12 percent at Penn and similar numbers at the other seven schools. Penn First, Penn’s student group for first-generation and low-income students, was established just last year by a group of undergraduates. Because of this, Granados realizes that creating a center would be a long-term goal. “It’s something that we as the other groups also want to get going but we know it’s something that’s going to take a lot of time — to become a force on our campus large enough for it to actually be something we can accomplish,” Granados said.

A recognition of the struggles faced by first-generation students — especially at prestigious universities where most students come from aff luent backgrounds — has been coming into light over the yea rs. This Febr ua r y marked the second ever InterIvy, First-Generation College Students’ Conference, which is devoted to discussing the problems first-generation and low-income students face. Ricky Gresh, director for campus life projects at Brown and a future co-director of Brown’s FGLI Center, states that having an actual space for firstgeneration students is essential. “Growing research shows that in order for first-generation students to succeed, we must affirm their identities and experiences and create a sense of belonging for them on campus,” he said in a press release from Brown. “We have to go beyond offering resources and expecting students to have the tools to navigate them on their own, to building trust and relationships with students and meeting them in their spaces.” Granados said that having a community of students who can share these experiences is extremely helpful. She herself experienced isolation when she arrived at Penn, and discussions with other Penn First members were the first times in her three years here that she felt there were others who understood what she was going through. She agreed with Brown that having a center would not only help centralize resources available, but like the other centers on campus, it would create a safe space where students can accept that part of their identity and meet similar students. It would also reduce the stigma of being a firstgeneration student on campus. She emphasized, though, that she and other first-generation students are extremely grateful for all Penn does and recognize that they are privileged to be at the University. Over the years Penn has been pushing for including more first-generation and lowincome students and providing

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more support for them under the leadership of Amy Gutmann, who is a first-generation student herself. According to an email from Vice Provost of University Life Valarie Swain-Cade McCoullum, Penn wants to work closely with first-generation students to provide programming and improve resources available as well. In fact, they are currently scheduled to hold a meeting with first-generation and low-income students to discuss further options this coming Monday. “As a first-generation, lowincome student myself, this partnership is more than a professional priority: support of FGLI students is my personal

passion,“ McCoullum wrote. McCou l lu m says some of the topics of focus at the meeting will be defining firstgeneration and low-income program space and administrative support, increasing access to research and internships and increasing FGLI student access to graduate and professional opportunities. “This isn’t something we just want to push on administration. This is something that we want to work for as well, whether that’s reaching out to other student groups [at other schools to create a model and tangible plan of action] or actively finding funds and ways that we can contribute to this as well,” Granados said.

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— the largest gathering in any location. “We can use the power of the people to turn the nation around,” Muskie said. “The power of the ballot box, the cash register, the courts and peaceful assembly, where we can demand redress of grievances as we are doing here today and across the land.” *** Flash forward to 2016 — the Student Sustainability Association now boasts 15 constituent groups, and on Friday, Penn will celebrate its seventh Tree Campus USA title, an prize awarded by the Arbor Day foundation to campuses that commit to tree management, foster healthy urban forests, community outreach and engagement of the student population. Facilities and Real Estate Environmental Sustainability Director Dan Garofalo says the campus has come a long way. “A friend of mine sent me photos he took during his Fling — I think these were from the 1980s,” he said. “At the time, the city didn’t have recycling. The University didn’t have recycling programs that were formalized. So the students had a truck which all during Fling collected bottles and cans and things like that. It was something he was really proud of because the students at the time were really taking the lead in bringing environmental awareness to the campus.” He said this history reflects Penn’s legacy of commitment to the environment, but added that people at Penn and elsewhere can do more to help the earth, by reducing the amount of nondurable goods they use. “Everyone has a responsibility to try and reduce and minimize our waste every day, and everyone on campus has a role to play,” he said. His message resonates with College sophomore and Daily Pennsylvanian contributing reporter Aria Kovalovich. As one of the founding members of Epsilon Eta, Penn’s environmental fraternity, she says that the commitment shown in the 1970s is something current students can aspire to. “That’s our goal: a Penn in which there’s enough students who care about this and are active and see this vision and want to carry it through,” Kovalovich said. She was inspired by the fact

that regular students were able to gather together to make such a lasting impact, believes it demonstrates how Penn is a place where students can use their voices to make a difference. She said it can simply start in the classroom — she met her fellow Eta founders in environmental science class, and fun conversations about their passion for the environment turned into something bigger. “We wanted to create more of a cohesive community where it’s really accessible and cool to care about these issues,” Kovalovich said. *** Since the 1970s, Earth Day has grown. The first Earth Day is said to have attracted 20 million Americans from 10,000 elementary and high schools, 2,000 colleges and more than 1,000 cities and towns, according to Penn Current. Today, Earth Day Network collaborates with more than 17,000 partners and organizations in 174 countries with more than 1 billion people across the globe, according to History. com. College junior and School of Social Policy & Practice graduate student Gavriela Reiter, a student director of the Student Sustainability Association, believes that although Penn has achieved commendable progress, there is still much more that can be done, such as divesting from fossil fuels. Still, she said, the University is showing signs of improvement. She points to the revamping of the Eco-Reps program, which will soon become more project-based, for example. “The fact that the first Earth Day was a project of the professors and students at Penn really speaks to the spirit we have in sparking real-world discussions and action on campus, and I think one way Penn students can take that legacy forward is looking at intersectionality,” Reiter said. She mentioned that not all people are as lucky to live in safe and clean conditions like those at Penn, and emphasized the importance of looking at the broader impact of people’s actions, rather than just the individual effects. Her sentiments echo those of Nelson himself. “Our goal is not just an environment of clean air and water and scenic beauty,” Nelson said in his 1970 Earth Day speech. “The objective is an environment of decency, quality and mutual respect for all other human beings and all other living creatures.”

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When a former student asked me recently to share something on my teaching experience in The Daily Pennsylvanian, I wasn’t sure I had anything to say. Then, as I was going through old files, I came across my first teaching philosophy. The novice teacher I was proudly stated that her main goal was to make students responsible. The epithet enabled her to launch into a pompous description of what a responsible student was in her mind: a student who was never late to class, religiously turned in assignments on time, scrupulously followed directions, was totally engaged in their learning process and infallibly participated in class. It sounded so crisp, so professional, so teacher-like. As I am reading it today, I am petrified. The

commonplace jargon only conjures up military images of perfect little students. Did that make me a drill sergeant? The teacher I was forgot one thing: Life happens. More than a decade later, my goal is still to help students be responsible. Yet with another definition attached to the adjective — “able to choose between right and wrong for oneself.” 2015 was tragic in many ways, not least of all in France, where the year began and ended with terrorist attacks. At the beginning of this semester, in the course I teach about France from 1789 to 1944, I pledged to my class that I would try to give sense to life even when things did not seem to make sense anymore. In return, I asked them to pledge to be kind to themselves, be kind with each

other and to take walks and get deliberately lost. Our cynical selves might read the last sentence and chuckle. What does being kind to oneself mean? To re-

imagined in the classroom — and there is comfort in this. Being kind to ourselves makes us more ready to be supportive of others. In

More than a decade later, my goal is still to help students be responsible. Yet with another definition attached to the adjective: ‘able to choose between right and wrong for oneself.’” alize that it is okay to make mistakes. The mistakes we make are precisely what remind us that we are not the machines my younger self had

times of turmoil, solidarity is the most sensible response. As for asking students to walk, it is a way to teach them to slow down and rediscover the ability to live in

the moment. Life on campus is too often synonymous with going fast and finding short cuts. When they “botanize on the asphalt” (as the poet Charles Baudelaire beautifully described the flaneur’s activity), with all their senses wide open, they are ready to experience the city more intensely. Walking, if it is lived as an aesthetic practice, triggers magic moments through the rediscovery of our surroundings, the streets become texts for us to read and we let ourselves approach life as the imaginative children we once were. Between my two selves — the novice teacher I was and the more experienced teacher I am now — life happened. Difficult moments made me realize that being responsible should mean first and foremost being flexible, compassionate and

taking care of one another. I believe it is the only way to help students give a sense to our future. As the historian Patrick Boucheron said in his inaugural speech to the Collège de France last December, “Why take the trouble to teach, if not precisely to convince the youngest among us that they never arrive too late? In this way, we work to preserve our debt to youth.” This is how I see my responsibility as an educator. Melanie Peron is a Penn profe s s or who teache s “Intermediate French,” “French Civilization from the Beginning to 1789” and ”Modern France: 1789-1945.” Out of 1,730 Penn professors who taught at least four undergraduate courses since spring 2009, she is ranked the 10th highest on Penn Course Review in terms of “instructor quality.”

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“Democracy is so overrated.” While this line was spoken by “House of Cards” character Frank Underwood, this sentiment is increasingly common in political discourse at Penn and around the country. Whenever Donald Trump is mentioned here, there is almost universally an implicit assumption that he is not a legitimate candidate. To most students, Trump supporters are ignorant, sexist, xenophobic or racist. Even conservative students thumb their noses, most hoping for a contested convention that embraces a savior like John Kasich or Paul Ryan. We’ve all participated in these conversations, which have the common theme that supporting Trump is unacceptable. While I know dozens of Trump supporters — both Republicans and Democrats — on campus, they keep their support secret for fear of being labeled as bigots. Consequently, support for Trump is rendered invisible, with those who do support him remaining silent. As for the

millions of voters supporting Trump nationwide, campus consensus is clear: They’re wrong. For some people, the conversation ends there and they resolve to vote differently than those eight million ignoramuses. Others, like Facebook’s executives, are doing more. This week, we learned that Facebook’s leadership is currently debating whether to manipulate their massive social media network to ensure a Trump loss. Why let the people decide when they can intervene and ensure the voters reach the right result? Leaders in both political parties have a similar idea. As Pennsylvania prepares to vote this coming Tuesday, neither party is prepared to trust the popular vote. Of the 210 Democratic delegates available, 21 are superdelegates freed from democratic constraints. But that abandons 90 percent of the delegates to the popular will. As long as more than 60 percent of voters don’t choose Bernie Sanders, Democrats need not fret democracy. Voters, don’t screw this up.

The Republicans have better fulfilled Frank Underwood’s vision. Of their 71 delegates, only 17 are attached to the state’s popular vote, with the rest chosen by a complex process effectively dominated by party officials. In other words, Pennsylvania Republican

Republican voters opine. In other states, the party is systematically working to reverse democratic decisions. Of the 42 delegates Trump won in Georgia, 32 of those actually selected Ted Cruz. In Louisiana, a state where the people chose Trump, Cruz ended up with 10 more

So what do we prefer, letting the people decide or reaching the right answer?” voters have a say over about 24 percent of their delegates. What do the people know, anyway? Across the country, the Republican party is striking back against Trump’s insurgency by retaining control of the delegate selection process. In Colorado, North Dakota and Wyoming, there are no statewide votes. It’s so much simpler to let a few thousand party activists decide than letting the million plus registered

delegates than the winner. At a contested convention in Cleveland, Trump could lose hundreds of his delegates because the party was careful to correct democracy’s failure. But surely, as Ted Cruz responds, Trump should have known the rules and better navigated the party’s complex procedures. Fair point, Ted — but then we should make something clear. America is not a democracy.

President Franklin Roosevelt once said, “We know [democracy] cannot die … because democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men’s enlightened will.” What “enlightened will” could Roosevelt be referring to? Perhaps Roosevelt would have revised his remarks if he knew millions of Americans would vote for Trump, if he knew that an ignorant, sexist and racist electorate might choose The Donald over Marco Rubio or Hillary Clinton. So what do we prefer, letting the people decide or reaching the “right” answer? If we prefer the latter, perhaps we should consider establishing a monarchy or a technocracy, the trendy option preferred by many of my Penn friends. Surely these forms of government, staffed by progressive and well-educated people, would reach the “right” decisions more efficiently. Or perhaps we can just retain the status quo, where we pay lip service to democracy while letting party officials, or perhaps Facebook, decide.

LOUIS CAPOZZI There are legitimate reasons to prefer this system, like stopping the voters from choosing Trump or Sanders. There are, after all, many good arguments against both, with the news media choking the airways with putdowns of Trump. If we reject the voters’ will, can we at least dispense with our democratic ostentation and avoid glaring hypocrisy? Then again, perhaps I’m being naive. As Frank Underwood says, “The road to power is paved with hypocrisy.” LOUIS CAPOZZI is a College senior from Mechanicsburg, Pa., studying classics and history. His email address is capozzil@sas.upenn.edu. “Citizen Capozzi” usually appears every other Thursday.

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Penn professor calls for greater focus on ethics in nursing Nursing underrepresented in Penn bioethics presence JINAH KIM Staff Reporter

Nursing students at Penn learn valuable skills in biology and physiology, but they also study a more unusual subject: ethics. While there isn’t a significant amount of research on ethics in nursing, bioethics as a whole enjoys a greater presence at Penn than it does at many other universities. “One of the unique aspects of Penn Nursing is that we do have a bioethics course,” School of Nursing professor Connie Ulrich said. Ulrich is the only nurse bioethicist at the University, but the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy itself has over 40 primary and affiliated faculty. “I think we recognize that nurses have to think about the ethical decisions that are made on a daily basis related to their patients.” Ulrich recently wrote an

editorial titled “Nurses and Industry: Conflict or Collaboration?” for the journal Annals of Internal Medicine, about the need for greater research into ethical problems nurses may face. The editorial was spurred by a recent study by Grundy et al. that found that nurses were having increasing contact with pharmaceutical and biotech companies, which could lead to potential conflicts of interest. “Much of the [bioethics] research has focused on physicians and physician conflict of interest in working with industry; the focus has not been on nursing,” Ulrich said. “But in this study we saw that nurses were interacting on a daily basis with industry and helping to make decisions related to patient care.” All nursing students at Penn are required to take either a class on health care ethics or public health policy, a requirement that reflects the relatively strong presence of bioethics at the University in general. “I think a lot of it does stem

from this really strong bioethics department that we have,” College junior Darby Marx said. Marx is editor-in-chief of the Penn Bioethics Journal, a peer-reviewed undergraduate publication. “Re cent ly t he bio et h ics minor was developed,” Darby said, “And I think that was ... a bunch of different departments getting together and saying, ‘Hey, this is a growing field and it’s becoming increasingly important in the realm of health care.’” Managing Editor and College junior Jamie Atienza said she thought that the relative awareness of bioethics at Penn might be due to the school’s pre-professional atmosphere. “I think at some point everybody who is pre-med, or pre-health in general, gets at least some exposure to the issues that come up in bioethics, whether it be in health policy or a globa l hea lth class,” she said. At ien za a nd Ma r x sa id that despite the wide range of subjects covered in the Penn

Bioethics Journal, ethics in nursing had not been explored in the publication. “We act ua lly don’t ta l k about nursing ethics at all, which is interesting because we have such a big nursing com munity,” Atienza sa id. “When we consider the hospital setting, it’s very much patient-provider, patient-physician relationships.” The lack of submissions on ethics in nursing to the Penn Bioethics Journal may be due to the relative lack of research focus on ethics in nursing in general. Ulr ich hopes that the recent study by Grundy et al. will draw attention to the issue. “Because the study was sma ll, we rea lly could n’t generalize the information,” Ulrich said. “We need more research to better understand the role[s] of nursing and industry, [and] we need larger studies to look at those specific interactions and whether or not those interactions influence the ethical conduct of nurses in that clinical setting.”

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Despite the lack of significant research on ethics in nursing, bioethics still enjoys a greater presence at Penn than it does at other universities.

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Psychology of Food: Psychological, Cultural, and Biological Perspectives PSYC-070

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Keep in mind what department the course is in that you’re looking at. STEM courses are likely to get lower quality ratings, even if students learn a lot and have a good experience in class. On the flip side, humanities courses are likely to receive higher ratings. Required courses generally receive lower rankings than elective courses, partly because students aren’t as interested in courses they have to take compared to those they want to take. So when picking a sector course, try to find one that’s genuinely interesting to you — even if it has a higher difficulty score than other possible classes you could take to fill the sector. Being interested in the subject will be a greater motivator. Don’t be too quick to ignore a class taught by a new professor. New professor are still adjusting to teaching at Penn and their evaluations will likely improve over time.

When looking at the write ups that describe classes and professors, watch out for negative descriptions of professors that might stem from biases. For example, if a female professor is described as “rude,” remember that this might come from students’ own misconceptions about female professors rather than her actual personality.

Penn’s Top Professors

3 0.90

Italian Conversation in Residence ITAL-180

4 0.96

Film in Residence: Film Culture in Residence CINE-180

5 1.01

Russian Film 1900-1945 CINE-164

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Adam Grant (MGMT-238) Joseph Schatz Clinicals in psychiatric mental health (NURS-235 & NURS-322) Kristen Sigafus Nursing Clinicals (NURS-245 & NURS-270)

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3.11

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Integrated Human Anatomy: Physiology and Assessment II NURS-164

5 3.73

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Student tend to rate departments falling under the umbrella of STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) poorer than they rate the average Penn department. Most STEM departments fall below the average course and instructor quality, but above the average difficulty score, according to Penn Course Review data from Spring 2009 to Spring 2015.

Gerald Kent (NURS-235 & NURS-322)

3 3.97

Circuit-Level Modeling ESE-370

Physiology and Assessment I NURS-163

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2 3.97

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3.28 3.35 3.29 3.12 3.08 3.04 3.01 3.00 2.98 2.93 2.91 2.90 2.88 2.84 2.83 2.81 2.75 2.71 2.70 2.60 2.60 2.57 2.48 2.45 2.35

3.20 3.15 3.05 2.94 2.92 2.92 2.91 2.87 2.83 2.80 2.78 2.77 2.72 2.72 2.70 2.69 2.68 2.47 2.45 2.37 2.35 2.33 2.27 2.23 2.08

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Environmental Studies

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Biochemistry

ESE

Electrical Systes & Engineering

Bioengineering

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Genomics & Computational Biology

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Biological Bases of Behavior

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Geology

BIOL

Biology

MATH

Mathematics

CAMB

Cell & Molecular Biology

MEAM

Mechanical Engineering & Applied Sciences

CBE

Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

MSE

Materials Science & Engineering

CHEM

Chemistry

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Networked & Social Systems

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Computer Information and Science

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Neuroscience

EAS

Engineering & Applied Sciences

PHYS

Physics

ENGR

Engineering

STAT

Statistics

ENM

Engineering Mathematics

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Penn professor Adam Grant donned a Superman T-shirt and cape as he welcomed speaker Amy Cuddy onto the stage of Zellerbach Theater. He struck a power pose — the posture that made Cuddy a world renowned speaker. Cuddy spoke to an audience of Penn students and faculty about “how our bodies shape our minds,” as part of the Authors@ Wharton Speaker Series. Cuddy is a social psychologist and associate professor at Harvard Business School, as well as a speaker and author. Cuddy’s 2012 TED Talk on “power poses” is the site’s second most viewed video of all time. After her successful talk, she accepted speaking invitations from around the world. A year later, she published a New York Times Bestseller entitled “Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges.” “When we feel powerful, we expand. When we feel powerless, we shrink,” Cuddy said. “Women in particular often shrink in public settings,” Cuddy said. “These postures are associated with powerlessness and intimidation and keep people back from expressing who they really are,” Authors@Wharton invites speakers based on the votes made by a committee of undergraduate and MBA students. “Amy was high on our list,” Director of Marketing and Communications Kate FitzGerald said. Grant asked Cuddy how she

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remains poised under pressure, and she cited a moment when she teared up onstage while telling a story about a devastating brain injury she sustained at the age of 19. She was a student at the University of Colorado and doctors told her she might struggle to regain full mental capacity and finish college. The brain injury had caused her IQ to drop by two standard deviations. Cuddy finished her undergraduate degree in spite of her doctors’ predictions and went on to earn her doctorate at Princeton in social psychology. But she suffered acutely from imposter syndrome — she believed she did not deserve to be there and worried that she would be discovered as a fraud. She was so afraid to give her

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first-year talk as a Ph.D. student she told her adviser she was quitting. Her advisor told her “fake it ‘till you make it,” and she went through with the presentation, feigning confidence all the way to Harvard Business School. Her insight into the relationship between mind and body comes from her own research that found that lab participants who spent two minutes in a room alone doing high-power poses increased their testosterone levels by about 20 percent and lowered the stress hormone cortisol by about 25 percent. Cuddy ended her talk with a quote from Maya Angelou. “Stand up straight and realize who you are, that you tower over your circumstances,” she said. “Stand up straight.”

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Penn golf will hit the road this weekend and compete for

the Ivy League championship, with the men’s team looking to defend its title in Greenwich, Conn., and the women looking to win their first league crown since 2010 in Jackson, N.J. The women’s team is coming in with momentum, having finished top-five in each of its first three tournaments this spring after a strong fall season. Coach Mark Anderson is optimistic about his team’s chances going to the big tournament. “We expect to win,” Anderson said. “Harvard certainly has a good team, but we’ve beaten them a few times this year. We feel like if we play well, we can beat anybody.” The men, however, have struggled this season. Following

a disappointing fall, the team has stumbled through the spring thus far. With his team ice-cold going into the championship tournament, coach Bob Heintz is keeping his expectations in check. “Statistically, we’ve been too inconsistent to be considered a favorite for this event,” Heintz said. “So we’re looking at this as being underdogs and young. We still feel that we have a shot at the title, but it’s gonna take some strong contributions all the way throughout the lineup for us to have a chance.” Of course, the men were underdogs heading into the tournament last year, and that didn’t stop them from going worst-to-first, taking the Ivy

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the outside, it was questionable whether or not such a young team would be able to succeed, especially with such a tough schedule. But the team has stepped up and shown that it can hang with some of the top programs in the nation. “In college you have to be a lot more technically sound,” freshman attacker and team-leading goalscorer Simon Mathias said. “In high school, we were the better lacrosse players out on those fields. But when you get here, when you get to college, everyone is a Division I recruit, everyone is an All-American, so you have to be fundamentally sound and you have to do everything right or else you’ll pay the price.”

Freshman attacker Tyler Dunn agreed with Mathias’ analysis of play. “Pace of play is really a big thing, having situational awareness is key, and on- and off-ball is important. I’d say those are definitely the biggest things I think [associate head coach Patrick] Myers, [head coach Mike] Murphy and [defensive coordinator Jim] Stagnitta have really helped us out with,” Dunn said. That’s not to say there is not still work to be done. Their play has just begun to become more steady and consistent rather than streaky and varied. They will have to aspire to that style of play if they are to win the Ivy tournament and make it to the national stage. “Sometimes it can feel a little bit like whack-a-mole. Sometimes

you focus too much on one aspect of the game and then another problem crops up, so we just try to be consistent,” coach Mike Murphy said. “We try to touch on things at least weekly, if not daily, whether it be tactical or technical skill.” That being said, it’s clear that the Quakers have made good strides despite battling through some growing pains this season. And the players feel as though there’s really not much holding them back except themselves. “We can go this season as far as we want to,” Dunn said. “We definitely have the talent and definitely have the skill. We just need to keep being mentally tight, keep being healthy. Our captain Nick Doktor is doing a great job with us, so if we follow him we can go as far as we want.”

crown after a last-place finish in 2014. Senior captain Patrick O’Leary is the lone returning member from last year’s titlewinning five (teams send five players and count the top four scores). “As far as our leadership, I was there and Patrick was there. These other four guys, we just have to get them to buy into the process,” Heintz said. “Golf is really strange — you can have guys who look like they’re the favorites going in, and then somebody walks in there and plays really well and takes it away from people. “We’re very capable of that. I’ve said it all year, we’re definitely among the most talented teams in the league. We just

haven’t been very consistent.” The men will send O’Leary, junior Matt Kern, sophomore Carter Thompson and freshmen Josh Goldenberg and KJ Smith. The women will send juniors Isabella Rahm, Erin Lo and Sophia Chen, sophomore Tiffany Yau and freshman Rachel Dai. The women’s team has no seniors, so nobody will be playing under the pressure of knowing it is their final chance to win a league title. Regardless of where the team finishes on the leaderboard, Heintz has other targets he’d like to hit over the three rounds. “I’d like to see if the guys can finish stronger than they start this week,” the coach said, calling the team’s recent tendency

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record for career assists. If that was not special enough, Corcoran would beat that performance with another assist, putting herself in the record books once again for most assists in a single season with 41. “She’s been great. She’s just a playmaker,” coach Karin Corbett said, noting that Princeton tried several times in vain to double up on Corcoran. “She is confident driving herself and finishing. She’s the catalyst for our attack and really in charge out there and is our quarterback and she’s just playing great.” Princeton would eke out two more goals before time expired but the damage had already been done: the Quakers had ended Princeton’s 13-game conference win streak and trampled their Ivy rivals for 60 minutes. Penn won 12-7 and put on one of its best showings of the season. “There are certain teams that we really get up for. We had a great win tonight and a great game and we need to play 60 minutes like this against other people,” Corbett said.

Flying under the radar throughout the season, sophomore midfielder Alex Condon has been a pleasant surprise recently: her hat trick tonight markets her fourth in her last four games. One would be remiss, however, to be impressed only by the sophomore’s finishing ability, according to Corbett. “She has really blossomed this season to become a complete midfielder. She’s playing really defensively as well,” Corbett said. “She is a great finisher and is somebody who we’re really confident in when she has the ball in her hands.” As Corbett previously mentioned, Wednesday’s contest again Princeton marked a full team effort from start to finish. While the offense constantly earns praise, the defense did its job stopping a potent Princeton attack. Heading into tonight, the Tigers offense averaged 10.25 goals per game. With a team defensive effort and a standout performance from junior goalkeeper Britt Brown — in just her second game back from a concussion — Penn held the opposition to just seven goals.

to falter down the stretch a “disturbing” trend. “And I’d like to have us shoot a score under 290. We haven’t done that this year, and this would be a heck of a time to pull that off.” Rahm is hoping to bring home some extra hardware to go with what she hopes will be a title-winning team performance. “Winning the [individual] Ivy League championship is a personal goal of mine,” the captain said. “My short game is very strong right now, so hopefully that’s going to help me at the tournament.” It’s an individual sport, but both Red and Blue squads will need excellent individual performances across the board to succeed as a team.

“Princeton has a lot of threats on the attack and I thought we played as a unit well and helped each other a lot and play good, solid 1-on-1 [defense]. Brittany had some really key saves at important times. All over the field it was a real team effort and a complete game for us for the 60 which is really important as we continue to move forward.” Moving forward, Penn cannot afford to let up. Certainly, beating the reigning Ancient Eight champions was a sign that the Red and Blue will contend if given the chance in the Ivy League tournament. The hard part, at the moment, will be for the Quakers to get themselves into the fourteam tournament. The Red and Blue have a brief three-day respite before traveling again to New Haven to take on Yale on Saturday. They will finish their regular season campaign the following Saturday when they travel to Cornell. “We need to play Yale to win,” Corbett said. “We have two tough games ahead of us and we have to take each one as it comes. I think after the Dartmouth game every one has become a must win for us and we need to play that way.”

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Tennis players make the jump from varsity to club Students find outlet in Tennis on Campus MATT FINE Associate Sports Editor

The expansion and widespread success of club sports across the country has had a tremendous effect on college students over the last decade. For club tennis, this has become especially evident with the creation of an official nationwide organization known as USTA Tennis on Campus. And for members of Penn club tennis, Tennis on Campus has provided an opportunity that most did not think would be possible: to play competitive tennis at a high level without playing on varsity squads. The level of play on the Penn club team is impressive in itself, with almost everyone having played USTA sectional or national level tournaments in high

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school, with some even coming to Penn despite being recruited elsewhere. With the limited number of varsity spots available to American junior tennis players, and an even more limited number of walk-on spots awarded across all of Division I tennis, Tennis on Campus has become an attractive option for many players â&#x20AC;&#x201D; even those with the capability to play at the varsity level. And this past weekend at the Tennis on Campus National Championship, this trend was easy to see. Throughout the entire tournament there were dozens of players who could be playing at the higher level of college athletics but decided club provides a satisfyingly high level of tennis as well as the flexibility for the social and academic life of an ordinary college student. On the menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s side, one of the players for three-time champion UC-Berkeley was an international student out of Hong Kong

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over half a boat, but luckily for the Quakers, Hebert only takes up one seat. A Penn Athletics release at the time of Hebertâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rhodes Scholar announcement in November read, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hebert is not only a member of the Penn womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

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who was considered one of the top 100 recruits coming into college, but didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t end up playing for the Golden Bears because an

injury prevented him from being able to handle the daily grind of D-I sports. Ashley Kitchen, member of

rowing program, she is arguably the Quakersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; top rower.â&#x20AC;? Statements like that can place unwelcome amounts of pressure on a single person, but Hebert is quick to turn attention to the support and efforts of her teammates.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think I felt pressure,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have some really amazing rowers on the team, so I just use them as inspiration and to push me to be the best version of myself.â&#x20AC;? While the camaraderie of the boat is not lost on Hebert, she has made a name for herself in particular through her renowned effort and determination. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think she had a great reputation that preceded her before I arrived at Penn,â&#x20AC;? head coach Wesley Ng said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I knew of her as a hard worker, someone with a lot of physical capacity, somebody who was very conscientious,â&#x20AC;? the first-year coach continued. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And all of those things were really confirmed during the very first few weeks of practice.â&#x20AC;? What makes Hebertâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s success on the water even more impressive is the fact that it is on equal standing, if not surpassed, by her incredible academic achievement. She is the first Penn athlete to be named a Rhodes Scholar since 1984, and is now only the fifth inductee to that illustrious list of athlete scholars. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not going to say that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easy to balance Division I rowing and rigorous academics at Penn, but honestly, I think that rowing has helped me perform well in academics,â&#x20AC;? the 5-foot-5 bow seat said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Also, I know itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a cliche, but rowing really makes you strong mentally,â&#x20AC;? she continued. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So taking a 15-minute exam is nothing after doing a three hour long practice.â&#x20AC;? As true as that statement may be, her coaches and teammates have come to recognize that Hebert is one of a kind. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think I underestimated her willingness to go really hard and her capacity to succeed in everything that was asked of her,â&#x20AC;? Ng said. Such observations have also led fellow rowers to ask more out of the former U-23 national team member, who only this season begun to make her voice heard. For a long time, Hebert embodied the strong, silent type â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the team standout who led by example more so than loudness. At the urging of her coach and teammates, Hebert has stepped into a more engaging role,

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adding yet another dimension to her dynamic skillset. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What was neat in our spring training trip in Gainesville was her teammates asked her to be more vocal,â&#x20AC;? Ng said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think they respect her knowledge and her skill and her opinion, and they wanted to hear more of what she had to say.â&#x20AC;? Come this fall, after four years on the Schuylkill, the Quakersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; prized rower will take that same skillset over to the River Thames, where she plans to row for Oxford. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I see myself going until pretty much my back goes out. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a sport that you can do pretty much forever.â&#x20AC;? But in between Hebert and the next chapter of her rowing career lie three more races in the Red and Blue, and the senior is determined to make her final season not only the best of her four years, but potentially the best in this new millennium so far. Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first and only NCAA championship appearance dates back to 1998. Hebert and her teammates are determined to amend that discouraging piece of history. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never done before, and I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something that we could accomplish this year,â&#x20AC;? Hebert said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We still have about a month left in the season to accomplish that,

so that would be a great way to end my four years.â&#x20AC;? With Ng at the helm, who Hebert claims has brought the Red and Blue to the next level with his revamped training program and focus on technique, the Quakers might have their best chance in recent memory. The likelihood of such an accomplishment will be tested this weekend when the team goes up against Dartmouth, Princeton and Bucknell. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have a huge amount of respect for what Princeton is doing with their varsity boats,â&#x20AC;? Ng said. â&#x20AC;?I think weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to try and keep the margin as close as we can and use them as a foil to test our preparation.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think we need to start getting closer so that in future years we have a chance to really make a run at that trophy.â&#x20AC;? In addition, when the Varsity C 4 boat takes to the water this Saturday, it will be the first time that Penn has fielded an entire team with multiple rowers returning from injury. On the menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s side, the heavies will venture up to the Charles River in Cambridge, Mass. where they will face Harvard and Navy in the Blackwell Cup. The lightweights will join the women in Princeton where they will compete in the West-Hammond Cup against the Tigers and Georgetown.

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said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It turned out to be a great community, traveling to tournaments and going to practice with a relatively high level of tennis and was something I really enjoyed. She was also impressed by the national championship hosted by the USTA, complete with media booths and merchandise tents. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was shocked by how legitimate it was. The whole setup was so official and USTA Tennis on Campus did an incredible job. The level of tennis was actually shocking, especially on the guysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; side. Every single guy was very, very good and could be playing college tennis. They all had a high level. Overall the level was so much higher than expected.â&#x20AC;? As college athletics become more and more competitive, organizations like Tennis on Campus will grow and allow students to competing at a high level without playing on the varsity level.

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the Auburn club team â&#x20AC;&#x201D; winners of this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team national championship â&#x20AC;&#x201D; was a 5-star recruit ranked 31st in the nation when she arrived in college. However, after quitting the team, she decided to join club and helped lead her team to victory. Even here at Penn, there are several players who could have made the jump or have already gotten some varsity experience. Junior Brigitte Desnoes played on the varsity team for her most of her freshman year before leaving. First year engineering grad student Sam DeLuccia played as the top man on his Hobart varsity team before graduating and joining club. Sophomore McKay Novak came to Penn anticipating she would walk on but, after being on the roster, ended up deciding against it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I joined the team anticipating it would just be something I would do with a friend, practice once a week, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s it,â&#x20AC;? she

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everyone perform and really play at the top of our capabilities. We havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t done that in a long time, and I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll give us momentum heading into the weekend,â&#x20AC;? she said. In the second half of the doubleheader, the Quakersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; pitching was the story yet again. Penn sophomore Mason Spichiger allowed a solo home run in the first inning, but settled down to pitch three innings of two-hit ball. Junior Courtney Cuzick and freshman Joy Lewis both tossed two perfect frames in relief, notching the win and save respectively.

The Red and Blue got on the board in the fourth, tying the game up at one. The squad capitalized on another two-out throwing error by the Hawks to push Li across the plate. In the bottom of the fifth, the Quakers took a 4-1 lead that they would maintain for the rest of the game. After two infield singles and an error loaded the bases, junior Leah Allen ripped a double into leftcenter to plate two. Sargent added another run on a sacrifice fly. The big innings that Penn had in these two games played key roles in their two victories, as they have throughout the season. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Softballâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s weird like that,

sometimes you get those little momentum swings,â&#x20AC;? King said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I thought we got a little bit of luck today, which I think has been missing at times in our games this year, and it was really nice to get some breaks. We had some mishits that since weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re speedy we were able to run them out. And we drove some balls too, which was nice.â&#x20AC;? With just eight games left on the schedule, they will look to carry todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s success into the closing games of Ivy play, starting with a doubleheader on Saturday with Cornell. If they continue to catch a few breaks, they could find themselves back fighting atop the Ivy Leagueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s South Division.

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Larry Ellis Invitational All Day Princeton, N.J.

Mother nature has not shone brightly on Penn track and field this season. At the vast majority of the meets, the Quakers have been forced to embrace the elements. This weekend should be no different. There is an 80 percent chance of rain and thunderstorms in the forecast for Princeton this Friday, where the Red and Blue will be competing in the Larry Ellis Invitational hosted by their Ivy League rival. “At this point we’ve been victims of bad weather for most of the meets through the spring,” said throwing and head women’s coach Tony Tenisci. As a result, the team, and especially the throwers, have not had a chance to put up their best performances. “We’re a little under-achieved at this point,” Tenisci added. “But I feel now if the weather cooperates they’re in terrific shape.” However, Tenisci, who has over 30 years of coaching experience, has seen it all and is able to train and prepare his athletes regardless of any obstacles. “They’ve had wonderful training sets. Everyday they come down and they work hard and they look great,” he explained. “Then we go to a track meet and the weather’s lousy. So you really don’t see what they do everyday.” Still, Tenisci isn’t concerned about his team heading into the season’s final push because of what they’ve shown him on the practice fields. As a result, he hasn’t diverted from his training plan. “I’ve been steady with the work and the consistency,” he said. “It’s

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like in a classroom. It’s a steady state. You don’t need to add more or less if you’re holding that steady state.” The Larry Ellis Invitational will be a sort of trial run as the final meet before the Penn Relays and then the subsequent league and national championships. This year, however, the heat will be turned up a notch. Due to the unpredictable weather that has plagued this spring season, more teams than usual will make the trip to Princeton, upping the level of competition. What’s more is that Heptagonal and ECAC Championships will be held at the same facilities in Princeton over the two weekends following the Penn Relays. The combination of the venue and the field of athletes will give Penn a chance to size up its opponents and get a feel for the fields, tracks and equipment. For the Quakers to put on a good showing this weekend, the throwers will undoubtedly have to do their part. While seniors Sam Mattis and Kelsey Hay can always be relied upon for huge performances in their respective disciplines, juniors Noah Kennedy-White and Lisa SesinkClee will play huge roles as well.

Sometimes overshadowed by the seniors who compete in the same event as they do, Kennedy-White and Sesink-Clee are exceptional discus and javelin throwers, respectively, in their own right. They don’t just share commonalities in their class and their hyphenated last names. Sesink-Clee is the second-best javelin thrower in the Ivy League, and Kennedy-White holds the second-best discus throw in Penn history. Tenisci is looking forward to seeing what they, and others, can achieve down the stretch. “I’m hoping they can start to open it up a little bit more as we go forward,” he said. “We’re tapering right now in the weight room. Their bodies are more recovered. The only thing that gets in the way is exams. But they’re pretty resilient, these young people.” When the clouds clear up, the Quakers will be ready. “I’m hoping that as we go into Penn Relays, we’ll have momentum coming out of Larry Ellis, and that everyone begins to really put some good numbers down,” Tenisci added. The clock may be winding down, but everyone is calm. Especially Tenesci, who after 30 years with the program, is ready for anything.

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Yale (5-8, 2-3 Ivy) 3 p.m.

New Haven, Conn.

If people were initially bearish on Penn women’s lacrosse’s potential to reclaim their Ivy League championship, they may need to start rethinking things. The Quakers traveled to Princeton in a mid-week conference matchup and came out triumphant with a 12-7 victory. Clearly, the Red and Blue came to play. Just six minutes into the game, No. 14 Penn (10-3, 4-1 Ivy) had already scored four straight goals. A few minutes later,

the 11th-ranked Tigers (9-4, 4-1) came roaring back and went on a 3-1 run over the next 20 minutes. Penn would net two more before halftime for a 7-3 lead. If there was one contest where Penn could not squander an early lead, tonight’s game was it. Over the next eight minutes, Princeton would tally another two points to Penn’s one and the game became a tightly contested 8-5 affair. With a little under 25 minutes left in the game, Princeton clearly still had a chance to come back. Another goal for the Tigers could have given them the momentum to rally. A goal for Penn would have stopped the opposition dead in its tracks. Fortunately for the Red and Blue, sophomore attack Caroline Cummings delivered, scoring her second of the night in the process and giving Penn a 9-5 lead. Just over a minute later, Nina Corcoran set up fellow senior attack Catherine Dickinson for the latter’s second goal of the game. That assist from Corcoran marked the 109th of her career, breaking Penn’s SEE W. LAX PAGE 9 ALEX FISHER | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

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Maybe all they needed was just a little time away from the Ancient Eight. In a brief interlude from Ivy League competition, Penn took both games of a doubleheader against Saint Joesph’s yesterday, defeating the Hawks by scores of 7-0 and 4-1. The two games signified a returned to early season form for the Quakers (17-19, 3-9 Ivy), who have struggled recently in Ivy play. Much like earlier in the season, the theme of the day for the Red and Blue was pitching. Five Quakers combined to hold the Hawks (16-19) to just two runs on four hits scattered throughout the two games. “It was really pleasing to see all five of them just play their role,” coach Leslie King said. “We had specific tasks, and it just went really well. All five of them came

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in and pitched to their spots and kept the ball down and did an exceptional job.” The first game of the doubleheader started off as a pitchers’ duel between Penn’s ace junior Alexis Sargent and the Hawks’ Ashley Ventura. Neither pitcher alloed a base runner for the first two and a half innings, mowing through the opposing lineups. The Red and Blue broke through in the bottom of the third. Senior Korinne Raby led off the inning with a double to right field and moved to third on a sacrifice bunt by junior Sydney Kranzmann. After a ground out, freshman Sam Pederson knocked Raby in with a single up the middle. The Quakers cracked the game open in the fifth, scoring six runs to make it a 7-0 lead. The team capitalized on a Hawks’ error to score all of their runs with two outs. Highlights from the inning were a two-run double from Sargent and a two-run home run for sophomore Joyce Joyner. Senior Lauren Li came on in place of Sargent in the sixth and fired two scoreless innings to secure the shutout. Sargent finished the day with one hit allowed and two strikeouts over five innings, improving her record to 9-7 on the year. The performance was

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Hanover, N.H.

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Junior pitcher Alexis Sargent tossed a gem in the first game of Penn’s Wednesday doubleheader, allowing just one hit in five innings of work.

a much needed return to form for the junior, as she has struggled in Ivy play recently. “It really is a confidence booster to come back home, it has been

awhile since we’ve gotten to play here and have a dominant performance. It really meant a lot to see SEE SOFTBALL PAGE 10

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After clinching a berth in the Ivy tournament, you might think that Penn’s men’s lacrosse team has done its job. But rest assured, there is still plenty of work to do. The Quakers (7-5, 3-2 Ivy) will travel north to Hanover, N.H., this weekend to the Dartmouth Big Green (1-11, 0-4) in their final Ivy tilt of 2016. Penn will be entering its penultimate regular season game on a two-game winning streak, having beat Ivy foe Harvard at home on Saturday to clinch a berth in the postseason Ivy tournament before grinding out a hard-fought win at UMBC on Tuesday. This game will mark the third in a tough final stretch for the Red and Blue, who finish out their season with four games in two weeks. One might think these final two games against unranked

Dartmouth and crosstown rival Saint Joseph’s will serve simply as tune-up games for the Quakers, but the reality is that these two games still hold plenty of weight in determining the postseason fate of the team. Though Penn is currently unranked, it did receive votes in the Inside Lacrosse poll last week, indicating that they still have an outside shot at an at-large bid to the national tournament if they do not win the Ivy Championship. However, a loss to either of these two teams would likely crush whatever hope the Red and Blue has of obtaining such a bid. Luckily for the Quakers, they’ve been playing well of late. They bounced back from a thrashing at the hands of Brown to begin playing some of its best lacrosse of the season. In its past two games against Harvard and UMBC, the team won almost every statistical battle, from shots to ground balls to faceoffs, despite winning by just one goal in both games. If anything, this speaks to the development and maturity of the young players that have stepped up for the Quakers over the course of the season. From SEE M. LAX PAGE 9