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Hopefully you’ve never found a cockroach in your dinner.

Whether eating on or off-campus, it is important to know exactly what is in the food and that the food has been cooked and handled properly.

Bon Appetit, which operates all of Penn Dining’s facilities except those

in Huntsman Hall, has many protocols in place to ensure food safety at Penn.

“Food safety is our top, top priority,” Stephen Scardina, resident district manager of Bon Appetit, said.

He added that all of Bon Appetit’s chefs and managers, among other employees, are ServSafe trained in food safety, certified by the National Restaurant Association and must seek further certification from the Philadelphia Department of Public Health.

“Our chefs and managers also

do a bi-monthly self-inspection and must report everything to their direct supervisor,” Scardina said. Before opening a food operation, Bon Appetit employees have a pre-service “ten at ten” meeting where issues like food safety and new menu items are discussed. Penn Dining also does quarterly inspections of its facilities.

“We also make our chefs and others who handle food keep detailed time and temperature logs of everything,” Scardina said. “The absolute maximum that food can be kept out is four hours, and typically we are so

busy that the food is never out for that long anyway.”

To control possible pests, Bon Appetit hires EcoSure to inspect every dining facility once a semester, which is a precautionary step not required by the Department of Public Health.

Sardina added that all of Bon Appetit’s operations have received the best ratings possible from EcoSure so far.

This year Bon Appetit has brought in Dan Connolly as their registered dietician and nutritionist. “Not only

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Sexual assault survey sees few responses The survey will close tonight at midnight CAROLINE SIMON Staff Reporter

SEPTA budget up, but card system unlikely to replace coins Budget jumps to $1.36 billion in Fiscal Year 2016 PAT ZANCOLLI Staff Reporter

SEPTA is looking to implement a number of improvements in the 2015-2016 fiscal year, but it seems as though the long-awaited Key program will not be one of them.

On Tuesday, SEPTA held two public hearings to seek input regarding their capital and operating budgets for next fiscal year. The hearings were held at SEPTA Headquarters at 1234 Market St., as part of their week-long series of meetings held in each of the five counties SEPTA services.

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With just one day left for students to complete the campus climate survey on sexual assault and sexual misconduct, the response rate is disappointingly low in the eyes of the administration.

The survey is sponsored by the Association of American Universities, which is chaired by Penn President Amy Gutmann and is administered by the independent research firm Westat.

It was released on April 2 and will close on April 23 at midnight. Twentyeight universities, including Penn, are participating in the survey.

Penn hoped to achieve a response rate for this survey comparable to that of similar surveys — high 30 to mid 40 percent, Vice President for Institutional Affairs Joann Mitchell said. So far, the response rate is only around 25 percent.

Mitchell said that a higher response rate will ensure that the student body is accurately represented in the survey’s results.

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Divestment movements gain steam despite low impact Penn Divest from Displacement launched on March 30 ELLIE SCHROEDER & JONATHAN BAER Staff Reporters

Divestment movements are sweeping through higher education — though results at Penn have yet to be seen.

In February, a referendum in which Penn undergraduates voted on whether they wanted the University to divest from fossil fuels passed over whelm ingly. Thir ty-th ree

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percent of undergraduate students voted in the referendum, with 87.8 percent favoring divestment. But the referendum has not yet led to any signs of change on Penn’s campus.

Only Penn’s Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees has the final say in the University’s investment decisions — any other party can only make recommendations.

While the February referendum formally established that the student body is largely in favor of divestment from fossil fuels, it has no tangible direct impact — the Undergraduate

Assembly is only one step in the long path to divestment. “[The referendum is] an indication to the UA that this is the definitive opinion on this issue,” Wharton junior and Nominations and Elections Committee chair Devin Grossman said. “The UA’s role is to act in whatever way possible to advocate the results of the referendum.”

UA President Jane Meyer said that at this point there is no set plan on how exactly the UA will move forward with the fossil fuel divestment

movement. One possible course of action is that the UA will present to the University Council, a group consisting of student leaders and administrators, who would then evaluate the proposal and consider passing it onto a higher committee.

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For some Penn students, hackathons are more than a hobby Penn Apps was the first college-run hackathon EMILY OFFIT Staff Reporter

For some Penn students, hacking is more than a hobby — it’s a culture in itself.

Hackathons are becoming more and more popular across the globe, with over 13,000 members in the “Hackathon Hackers” Facebook group. Earlier this month, The New York Times published an article titled, “The Hackathon Fast Track, From Campus to Silicon Valley,” which highlighted student hackers at the Stanford sponsored hackathon, TreeHacks.

Last year there were some 40 intercollegiate hackathons, and more than 150 are expected to take place this year, the Times reported.

The hackathon community is known for its close-knit nature, with a lot of the same college students attending the same large collegiate hackathons across the country.

“They provide a way for people who may not be that good at coding to go and see what the

environment is like,” said Zach Feldman, the co-founder of New York Code and Design Academy, which aims to help any developer improve their coding and web building skillset. “You’re surrounded by a community of people who can help you level up as developers.”

Twice a year, Penn holds the longest-running college-sponsored hackathon, Penn Apps, where students compete in a weekend-long coding marathon to solve real-world problems. This year boasted 1,300 students who competed for thousands of dollars worth of prizes and gadget giveaways.

Hackathons usually provide compensation for student travelers, and some students come to these events hoping to find venture capitalists who will invest in their ideas or recruiters who will hire them for jobs during the summer or after college.

“At some events, six figure numbers will be thrown at these kids,” Engineering and College sophomore Benjamin Jiang said. “Peter Thiel is at some of these hacks and he’s kind of like the boogeyman, if you take his

can be sexist and kind of racist, they don’t consider what it is like to be entering computer science from any kind of minority background.”

In preparation for a hackathon event, Jiang and his team of five, which includes students from colleges from coast to coast, brainstorm ideas almost a month in advance. Jiang explained that the same teams will often make the top 10 at many different events.

Wong feels that those who work towards a certain prize at these hackathons are missing the point.

“For me, it’s the concept of doing something really cool,” ZOE GAN | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Wong said. “I feel like if you try Twice a year, Penn hosts Penn Apps, the longest-running, college-sponsored hackathon. hard to aim for a specific prize you will sell yourself short bemoney and you don’t make it hot Jiang said. “My friends and I many of the same students attend cause you will not make a project you have nothing.” never end up doing any of the major hacking events — yet she entirely because you want to.”

Although hacking culture is social things.” feels that the group is somewhat Regardless of the personal relatively close-knit, some divides “This is problematic in the homogenous. outcome of these hacking events, do exist. Jiang, who attends about sense that it is like putting people “If you think about the ar- coding is becoming an increasfive of these hackathons per year, who are playing rec ball against chetype for someone who does ingly important skill. explained there is a competitive people who are semi pro,” he hackathons it’s generally a white, “It touches every aspect of our side as well. added. college male. A result is that it lives,” Feldman said. “It’s better “There is a divide between Engineering sophomore Nancy can be not that friendly,” Wong to be a producer than a consumer those who come there for fun and Wong does agree that the hacker said. “The Facebook group and because you can better tailor those who come there to win,” community is very close and sees the general hackathon culture technology to your own needs.”

FCC commissioner talks net neutrality, Wi-Fi and the ‘homework gap’ Innovations in technology slowed by Washington VIBHA KANNAN Contributing Reporter

At a time when the accessibility of the internet has come into question, Federal Commu n ic a t io n s C om m i s sio n Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel came to speak at Penn.

In the fireside chat moderated by Wharton professor Kevin Werbach, Rosenworcel discussed initiatives shaping technology and entrepreneurial opportunities, such as wireless innovation, education

technology and net neutrality.

“We live in the digital age where everything is getting converted into 0s and 1s, and everything we have is getting connected through broadband and wireless networks,” Rosenworcel said.

According to her, the FCC works to make sure the broadband networks that initiate communication are far-reaching and robust. In fact, the agency recently approved net neutrality regulations under Title II of the Communications Act. Under this act, service providers cannot charge content creators different prices depending on

the amount of bandwidth they require.

“I thoroughly support network neutrality and I think the agency did the right thing,” Rosenworcel said. “The internet was built on the foundation of openness and we want to ensure that it continues and our standard of free speech continues.

That’s essentially the goal of the open internet policy.”

Rosenworcel also gave audience members a peek into less well-known issues in Washington. She discussed the importance of "spectrum" — the amount of space available for wireless broadband — amidst

a climate of increasing demand for it.

“Wi-Fi is like free beer — everyone wants some,” Rosenworcel said. “Because of that, spectrum matters like never before. How we clear space for wireless activities is one of the most important issues in the next 10 years.”

Net neutrality and Wi-Fi are not the only important considerations for Rosenworcel. She said there also needs to be a greater focus on getting higher broadband speeds into schools and households.

“Seven out of 10 teachers in the country assign homework

that requires internet use, but almost one-third of households in the country don’t subscribe to broadband,” Rosenworcel said. “The new digital divide is the ‘homework gap’, and I think that’s what we need to focus on.”

In the discussion, Rosenworcel also proposed a new method to implement policies faster called “sandbox thinking,” that would allow other parts of the economy to keep pace with the digital age.

“I’m not sure that this slow, deliberative process is the right thing in such a fast moving economy. Instead of doing

things on the national scale where we could mess more things up, we could do things on a smaller scale and embrace iterative learning,” Rosenworcel said.

She noted that transportation, education and communication sectors are sectors soon to be hit by the speed of the digital age.

However, they are also governed by the capitol, which has a much slower and deliberative process.

“We have to make sure that people have the confidence to invest in innovative technology, and in turn, that consumers have the confidence to use that technology,” she said.

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‘Alcohol doesn’t cause rape, rapists cause rape’ Law profs. discuss Penn’s sexual assault policies ELIZABETH WINSTON Staff Reporter

Are Penn’s new sexual assault policies fair to both the accusers and the accused?

Penn Law professors and experts on sexual assault took part in a panel discussion on Wednesday about the University’s handling of sexual assault and misconduct cases. The event, titled “With Justice for All: Investigating Campus Sexual Assault,” was a collaboration between the Evelyn Jacobs Ortner Center on Family Violence and the Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice. It was moderated by Ali Velshi, host of Al Jazeera America’s “Real Money with Ali Velshi.”

The panel addressed how Penn’s actions have affected sexual assault victims and perpetrators. Panelists held varied views, but agreed that there is

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2015-2016 year and SEPTA’s five year plan,” SEPTA Operating Budgets Director Frank Gormley said at the beginning of the hearing.

For Fiscal Year 2016, running from July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2016, SEPTA proposed a $1.36 billion operating budget, a 2.8 percent increase over Fiscal Year 2015. The increase is largely attributed to a rise in wage costs, specifically the medical, dental and drug expenses for SEPTA’s roughly 9,000 employees. Other additional expenses include the implementation of permanent 24-hour weekend service on the Market-Frankford Line and Broad Street Line, as well as the purchase of more hybrid buses.

At Tuesday’s hearing, members of the public were invited to speak out to SEPTA officials and community members alike.

A common concern amongst citizens was the timeline for the implementation of SEPTA’s Key program, which will allow riders to swipe a card as opposed to paying a cash fare or using tokens at the turnstile. Several local residents asked SEPTA officials when the Key program will be implemented, but the officials were reluctant to provide any details.

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Law professors and experts on sexual assault held a panel discussion on Wednesday regarding how Penn has changed the way sexual assault and misconduct cases are handled on campus.

still more to done on the issue.

In a response to a call to action from the Obama Administration, Penn has made several changes to how it handles sexual assault this year. In February, the University hired Christopher Mallios as a sexual violence investigation officer and relaxed

the requirements for proving that sexual assault had occurred. Sixteen Penn Law professors made national headlines when they penned a letter to the University’s administration, criticizing the policies for not offering enough due process to the accused.

Mallios sat on the panel along

with five others.

David Rudovsky, a criminal law professor and one of the letter’s authors, pointed out that, even if a perpetrator is not expelled from the University, “This is a life-changing event for someone found guilty.” He added that this holds true for those who are

increases every three year since 2007, with the next one scheduled for 2016.

Other major East Coast cities, such as New York, Washington, D.C. and Boston, already implement some form of a card system, and many riders feel that this increases efficiency.

College freshman Simone Bank, a Staten Island native, prefers the New York subway and bus system to Philadelphia’s.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, New York’s version of SEPTA, raised its subway and bus fare to $2.75 per ride in March. This is 50 cents more than Philadelphia’s subway and bus fare, but Bank prefers the efficiency of New York’s MetroCard.

“I would be less reluctant to use SEPTA if I no longer had to worry about whether or not I had or had access to tokens,” Bank said, adding that she felt the payment system was antiquated.

For more comparisons, in Boston the one way subway and bus fares are $2.65 and $2.19, respectively. Washington, D.C. runs on a different system, in which a rider pays a minimum of $2.15 on the subway with an increase depending on how far he or she goes. The city’s bus fare is fixed at $1.75.

SEPTA’s free transfer policy, in which you can transfer between the trolley lines and the Market-Frankford and Broad Street lines at no cost seems to be a popular aspect of SEPTA’s operations. College freshman Annie Grainge, who went to high school in Philadelphia, has had a lot of experience with SEPTA over the past several years.

Nursing freshman Delaney Lawson thinks that SEPTA could implement a system similar to D.C.’s to increase ridership.

“Sometimes I feel like paying $2.25 is too expensive if I’m only going a few stops,” Lawson said.

When visiting a friend in D.C. last semester, Lawson liked how the D.C. system worked.

“You pay for how much you utilize,” she said. “I felt that was interesting and something we could do here.”

Lawson also expressed approval with the transfer system.

“I really like taking advantage of the cheap fare,” she said in regards to being able to travel a far distance with the free transfer.

A Massachusetts native, Lawson noted that Boston is similar to Philadelphia in price and how the system works, but she, like Bank, also prefers the card system that Boston implements.

“I think tokens are hard to keep track of,” Lawson said, comparing them to loose change.

The expansion of service on the Market-Frankford and Broad Street lines was a result of a pilot program that SEPTA ran during summer 2014, SEPTA spokesperson Andrew Busch said. The program came from SEPTA’s “own assessment of demand in Center City and Philadelphia,” Busch said, citing a 50 percent or more increase in train riders who would otherwise be forced to take the bus during those hours.

With an increase in hours of operation naturally comes an increase in work personnel.

SEPTA plans to hire 70 more workers across all departments.

Many of the workers will be assigned to the new 24-hour

subway lines that have been largely contingent on overtime workers, Busch said.

Starting in 2016, half of SEPTA’s busing fleet will be comprised of hybrid vehicles, SEPTA CFO Richard Burnfield said. SEPTA is looking to add 185 articulated buses (which bend in the middle) and 96 40-foot traditional buses. Implementing more hybrid buses will allow SEPTA to decrease diesel fuel usage.

Grainge used SEPTA’s 47 bus line to get to and from school, and she continues to use the trolley and subway lines for a number of reasons, including going home and going to her work-study job. “When I go home, I take the trolley and use the free transfer at 15th St. Station,” Grainge said. “In that sense, $2.25 is a good deal.”

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“I personally would be much happier if we could get much closer to the 40 percent response rate so that we will be able to have much more confidence in the kinds of conclusions we draw and ensure that we really have representative sampling,” she said.

Although the survey has been emailed to students multiple times in addition to being advertised in other ways, the response window falls at a difficult time of year — three weeks during which it has been administered have included Easter, Passover, Spring Fling and

due process is only guaranteed in a trial by the state, not a private institution such as Penn.

Campus culture and how it contributes to the difficulty of accountability was another hot-button issue. Some voiced concern that excessive consumption of alcohol at parties may contribute to situations that facilitate sexual misconduct.

“Penn has failed at changing the culture,” Rudovsky said.

Villanova University School of Law professor Michelle Dempsy rebutted his argument.

“Alcohol doesn’t cause rape, rapists cause rape,” Dempsy said.

“Alcohol is used as weapon to accomplish an assault.”

Looking at a philosophical perspective, Penn professor Alexander Guerro pointed out that hearing procedures that give the benefit of the doubt to either side make the process unfair. He said that people may often stereotype based on gender, adding another level of difficulty in reaching a resolution to a given case.

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Rudovsky went on to criticize the fact that in sexual misconduct hearings, there are no cross examinations of witnesses, which may lead to an inaccurate portrayal of the events in question.

He claims that when it comes to the question of sexual misconduct, it is easy to dilute the protection for those who we believe have done wrong.

Penn is not the only university that runs hearings without cross examinations. “Very few campuses have ever provided cross examinations at academic hearings,” said Claire Finkelstein, a Penn Law professor and chair of Faculty Senate. Finkelstein went on to explain that because the hearings for sexual misconduct are done through the University they do not give those involved the same rights that they would have in a criminal trial.

“Due process is based on substantive law of the University,” she added. In other words, she said the constitutional right of

early preparation for finals.

“All things being equal, if we could have done it at a different time of year, that would have been something that I probably personally would have advocated for,” Mitchell said.

The survey takes about 20 minutes to complete and offers a $5 Amazon gift card to anyone who completes it.

Mitchell said the survey is important because it will allow Penn to compare its feedback on sexual assault with peer institutions, and that the survey’s large scale will ensure anonymity for students.

“We wanted people to be assured that there’s no way that any of the

information they give in response could come back to them as an individual,” she said.

Despite the time commitment necessary to complete the survey, Mitchell believes that the results — set to be released in September — will be well worth it.

“At the end of the day it’s an investment of their [students’] time that will help us ensure that we have a campus that is free of sexual assault and sexual misconduct,” Mitchell said. “It’s really, really important, not only for students who are on campus now, but to students who will follow them in the future.”

Personal links to the survey have been sent out to every Penn student.

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ALLYSON AHLSTROM Ahlstrom created Threads for Teens when she was 14 MIKAELA GILBERT-LURIE 34th Street Editor

It takes a special kind of 14-year-old to think that she’s being lazy for not having changed the world yet, but Wharton sophomore Allyson Ahlstrom was that kind of kid.

After reading, “Generation Change,” a book by a normal teenage boy who had pledged to end modern-day slavery, Allyson decided that she too needed to do something to change the world.

“I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, there’s a 12-year-old raising money for human trafficking, I’m behind the game — I need to do something,’” she explained.

That night, she developed a logo, a letter to solicit donations and an idea for a one-time clothing drive to provide new outfits for girls in foster care. That onetime clothing drive has since developed into a registered nonprofit, with Allyson at the helm, called Threads for Teens.

“I was just young and naive, so I sent out over 300 letters to clothing companies like, ‘I’m Allyson!

I’m 14! I want to make a difference! Can you help me?’ and I got a great response. And ever since then it’s just grown and grown and grown, and now here I am with a year-round, full-time organization,” Allyson said.

Threads for Teens is a clothing boutique for girls in foster care and group homes aged 13-17. The girls Allyson serves can come to the boutique and pick out two new outfits, all completely for free. Over 40 national sponsors, including Nasty Gal, For Love & Lemons, Mara Hoffman and Claire’s, donate clothing to stock the California boutique and the semi-truck that she has converted into a mobile boutique.

Over the past two summers, Allyson drove the mobile boutique

around the country, visiting the 48 continental states and Washington, D.C., to give over 2,000 girls new outfits. She is currently expanding, with plans to open a boutique here in Philadelphia.

Ultimately, Allyson plans to open boutiques in all 50 states.

According to her mother, Amy Ahlstrom, Allyson never thought she was too young to make a difference in the world.

“Allyson has never let her age get in the way of her passion for volunteerism. When she wants to get something done, she does it,” Amy said. “Allyson serves others out of her heart, not out of obligation.”

A project proponent Threads for Teens focuses on clothing and the relationship between what someone wears and self-confidence — a natural fit for Allyson’s longstanding interest in fashion. She spent her free time sewing, sketching and pattern reading, and planned on going to fashion school before deciding that she was better suited for a business background.

“I’ve always been kind of obsessed with trying to make money and start a business. I have so many books that I bought when I was younger about how to sell stuff on eBay, and business ideas like make a lemonade stand, make your own beauty products or whatever it may be,” Allyson said.

But her final decision to forego design school for business school had more to do with Allyson’s role models than anything else. She realized that the people she admired all had what she perceived as more rigorous educations than she could get from fashion school.

“I’m a very, very high achieving individual and, you know, getting into fashion school I guess isn’t the most difficult thing, but it is pretty difficult to go to a top business school and do well at that school and learn so much stuff,” she said. “And the resources here

are just so valuable, just to have the opportunity to work with top leaders in the field of management and finance.”

Threads for Teens may have been Allyson’s most successful venture so far, but she has always been singularly focused and project-oriented. She started a newspaper at her elementary school, which she enjoyed so much that she also worked to create a newspaper at her high school. At Penn, she is a member of the marketing club MUSE, where she just finished planning a week-long marketing conference.

Allyson is also the social chair for her sorority, Zeta Tau Alpha, as well as the vice president of marketing for the Wharton Entrepreneurship Club.

“I’m definitely one of those people who starts stuff and finishes it,” she said. “People that know me describe me as like, ‘Okay she gets stuff done.’”

Allyson’s desire to immerse herself in activities at Penn has stretched her thin, forcing her to spend less time on Threads for Teens than she feels she needs to.

For this reason, she has decided to decrease her involvement in some of her Penn-related groups to commit more time to running her organization.

“I think I made a mistake when I first came to Penn and got involved with so many organizations and sought leadership positions in them, that it was not feasible to do Threads for Teens full-time, but I’ve been slowly stepping away,” Allyson said.

“I’m trying to make Threads for Teens my number one priority.”

Latent power Penn students may be familiar with the prevailing narratives about Wharton’s highly ambitious students like Allyson, but few have had her highly individualized schooling experience. After attending elementary school in Nevada, Allyson and her family moved to California, where she was homeschooled with her sister.

Her mother stressed the importance of immersive education, so Allyson and her sister travelled around the world to visit the places they were studying. The sisters learned about the Boston Tea Party in Boston and the French Revolution in France. She recounted meeting the subject of a book she had read for her English

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curriculum on a family visit to Alaska.

“We went to Alaska and we were learning about dog-sledding, and I actually got to meet a famous dog-sledder named Libby Riddles,” she said. “I had read one of her books, and I thought that was really cool.”

After middle school, Allyson moved back to the Bay Area of California to attend high school.

This kind of schooling, she imagines, is how she would educate her own children.

“I would love to homeschool [my own kids,] but they need to go to high school. I think it’s really important to learn how to socialize before going to college,” she said. “I cannot imagine coming to Penn after being homeschooled.

That would have been culture shock; it would have been awful.”

Allyson hopes to expand Threads for Teens into an allencompassing program centered on mentorship and female empowerment. Still, she views the experience of choosing one’s own clothing as a critical step in developing self-confidence.

“By giving these girls clothes and by giving them the option to choose something they love, they’re expressing themselves.

And furthermore, it’s not just about the clothes — it’s also about the experience of being treated with dignity,” Allyson said.

Allyson recounted a story about a girl she met during one of her summer road trips in the mobile boutique to Cheyenne, Wyo. The girl broke down in tears upon entering the boutique because she had never been given clothing out of anything other than a garbage bag. She had always wanted a dress but had never had the opportunity to choose one. Allyson points to this as a display of the humanizing experience she hopes to spread to young girls.

Ultimately, Allyson’s dreams extend beyond Threads for Teens.

She may want to start her own fashion line and run her own business, but she wants to leave her organization in capable hands and with a self-sustaining model.

Her mother has big, if slightly less specific, hopes for Allyson as well.

“My hope for Allyson’s future is that she is happy and that all of her dreams and goals become a reality,” Amy said.

Beneath all the clothes and the glitzy pink semi-truck, Allyson and Threads for Teens offer an important message about female empowerment. Clothes are a part of her mission, certainly, but she uses them as a means to an end.

Through fashion, she connects girls who have suffered from a lack of opportunity and respect with their inner confidence. Using a tool that many Penn students take for granted — the ability to express ourselves and our goals through our clothing choices — Allyson wants to tap into girls’ latent power.

At its heart, Threads for Teens is a feminist organization.

“I don’t know how anyone could not consider themselves a feminist. I think the word maybe has some negative connotations, but I see being a feminist as just wanting gender equality and empowering girls to go after their dreams in life,” Allyson said. “I don’t know anyone who doesn’t want that.”

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He may be the most sociable student at Penn. He knows the name of the swiping lady at Pottruck and fist bumps the burrito woman at Chipotle. He is obsessed with socks. He wore a raccoon hat during his NSO and introduced himself to everyone.

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College sophomore Christopher Yao turned a scary diagnosis into a wildly successful charity — all while in middle school.

Chris is the founder of Kids Change the World, an IRS 501(c)3 certified nonprofit that leverages the power of youths to fund schools, support troops and offer oral surgery grants. It has received recognition and grants from two U.S. presidents, the U.S. Department of Education, the Department of State, the Environmental Protection Agency, Prudential Financial, Nestle USA and Kroger. The nonprofit also received airtime and a grant from Nickelodeon.

Chris’ passion for social impact was born when he was diagnosed with a severe class III underbite in the fifth grade.

“It was a relatively rare condition, only a couple of millimeters off, but that matters a lot when it comes to your jaw,” Chris said. “Pretty much all the doctors had suggested that it would need about 10 hours under anesthetic to fix it.”

After receiving his preliminary prognosis, Chris was anxious. Sifting through articles revealed the possibility of having to eat with tubes, barely speak and bear the highly visible signs of medical attention.

From this initial state of shock, Chris started to look into other conditions like his.

“When he was researching his own [condition], he came across children with cleft palettes, with more severe problems than him, and they didn’t have the ability to pay — so that’s when he started Kids Change the World,” Chris’s eighth grade teacher Judith Adler said.

Kids Change the World is a charity that aims to empower youths to support U.S. troops, improve education and provide oral surgery grants. His fundraising efforts started with amusement park rides in his

backyard, a marathon and an auction of his stuffed animals.

Later on, Chris found his preferred method of raising funds — a read-a-thon.

On a day-to-day basis, the charity’s work entails distributing fundraising materials to high schools, sending T-shirts and bracelets, sending volunteers to speak at classrooms and coordinating read-a-thons across the country. “It’s very evenly split, about 30-40 schools that are fairly distributed across the United States … usually it’s because someone there is close to the cause, not because they’re closer to New York where I’m based.

“I spent days making and distributing flyers in local schools and libraries … now I spend about 20 hours a week coordinating things, emailing, calling people, taking phone calls, contacting surgeons in China — it’s quite a lot,” Chris said.

“He’s so humble, nobody knows what he’s doing. When I found out what he was doing, I would say to him, ‘Chris have you told anybody?’ ‘Nah, never told anybody,’ he would reply.

Then I would contact the public relations person at our school …

he’s got so many awards and deserves recognition,” Adler said.

“Christopher would have an idea, come back to me and ask, was this something we could do via the school? How could we expand it? But it was all him, he took the initiative,” Adler said.

Jeanne O’Brien, another one of his teachers, said that “[his] philanthropic efforts include the distribution of school supplies to needy students, and the collection of more than 2,000 cards and gifts for hospitalized children in the country … globally he provides free resources to young people in other countries that help them start their own charitable programs.”

It took Chris’ drive to get Kids for Change off the ground. “[My parents] weren’t all that supportive at first. They were like, ‘Why don’t you just join the community service club? Help with raffle?’ … but that turned around seeing the support I got.

They’re quite supportive now.

They encourage me to go on,” he said.

At Penn, Chris said he’s been able to balance the demands of running the charity reasonably well with schoolwork and some extracurricular involvement.

“I’m involved in PAACH, particularly the peer-mentoring program. I’ve wanted to swim a bit more — I used to be a varsity swimmer in high school — and maybe get more involved with the chess club here,” Chris said.

“But definitely the priority is still Kids Change the World.”

It’s the phone calls, letters, cards and interactions with families who receive treatment that motivate Chris.

“Meeting them in person made me realize that they share the same desires, dreamsremoved comma and ambitions as youths everywhere — dreams of fitting in, getting a good education, doing something grand,” he said.

A young, humble and inspiring freshman, the next question is how Kids for Change can be expanded to Penn. Chris admits, “I’ve reached out to as many people here as I can. Hopefully I can get some kind of fundraiser on campus.”

Adler is optimistic.

“I think he’s going to be somebody in the future, just a genuine and giving kid. He’s going to leave his mark on society. With all his charitable work, where will it take him?”

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He may also be the busiest person on campus. A Wharton senior, Dan Fine has founded four businesses, actively runs Glass-U and developed Dosed in the midst of his studies and extracurriculars.

Dan is best known at Penn for Glass-U, which was conceived in his Ware College House dorm room during his freshman year. Glass-U makes fully-folding sunglasses and is now licensed to produce glasses with the logos of hundreds of universities and Greek organizations across the country.

Dan said it has been a challenge to maintain a balance between work, school and a social life.

“I’m a pretty social guy,” Dan said. “It’s very challenging to focus and run a company when everyone is out there having fun. No doubt it is a balancing act.”

There is no typical school day for Dan — only that he “claims” to wake up every morning at 7:21 a.m.

“7:21, because 21 is my lucky number,” he said, “but that doesn’t work when I’m at Smoke’s until 2 a.m.”

Aside from the wake-up time, essentials in Dan’s day are a workout at Pottruck and meals with friends — “I never eat alone. I hate eating alone,” he said.

College senior Bailey Ramsey is one of Dan’s close friends at Penn and said she and Dan see each other mostly over meals.

“Any meal he goes to, he insists on ordering for everyone. I originally thought it was annoying, but now I love it,” she said.

College senior and another close friend Zachary Levy said that Dan has his own rules, but that he “has a huge heart” and is “the most wellintentioned person” he knows.

Family First Many of Dan’s friends are also close with his family and say it is clear where Dan’s personality comes from.

“His family is amazing,” Levy said. “Everything that Dan gives comes from his family. His calm, cool, collected nature is definitely from his dad. His dad is smart and kind-hearted. All of his Dan Fineness comes from his mom.”

Ramsey agreed. “I know his parents very well. I love his family. He and his mom are very similar; she is very passionate and very good at what she does. She calls me more than my own mother calls me.”

Dan himself emphasized the supportive environment his family has created. His parents and his brother, Jake, are the people he looks up to the most.

“My family is incredibly close,” Dan said. “That is a part of why I chose Penn — it’s 45 minutes from home.”

Dan’s entrepreneurial story also began with his family. Dan was 11 years old when his younger brother was diagnosed with Type-1 Juvenile diabetes. Dan found out when he got off the bus from summer camp in 2004, and he recalled that his first thought was, “How can I help?” “[Jake] has to prick his finger once a day when I cringe at going to the doctor once a year,” Dan said. “The

goal was to maintain his normal life: He has diabetes, diabetes doesn’t have him.”

But Dan’s ambition went beyond helping his brother. With the desire to find a cure for diabetes and help others with the disease, Dan founded Team Brotherly Love, a non-profit organization that has raised over 1.9 million dollars for diabetes research to date.

Dan emphasized that, at age 12, he did not feel like an entrepreneur, but instead attributes much of the success of TBL to his community in his hometown of Princeton, New Jersey.

“It wasn’t viewed as founding a company,” Dan said. “The purpose was to help Jake. Everything was created by community. Parents were going out and getting prizes for our auctions. Fifty individuals are entirely responsible for our success.

None of [this] could have been done without them.”

Dan feels that TBL has done more than just raise diabetes awareness.

“A huge purpose [of TBL] was how to engage young people in philanthropy. To teach people the importance of giving back. I’m passionate about diabetes, and most people are connected to some cause – the point is go make a difference,” Dan said.

Student and Entrepreneur The past 11 years since founding TBL have been a whirlwind for Dan. Upon graduating from Peddie School in 2011, Dan and his friend founded Match Tutors, which aligns students and tutors based on personality.

When he arrived at Penn, Dan tried to maintain a balance between life as a typical college student and a budding entrepreneur. A “swimming powerhouse” in high school, Dan had been recruited to swim for the varsity team and also joined the off-campus fraternity APES. Although Dan left the swim team during his sophomore year, he remains a member of the Penn Cycling Team and a member of the Bell Society, an innovation group for seniors.

Yet since Glass-U was launched at the Rose Bowl in 2013, Dan spends much of his time in his office at the Pine Arms, running and expanding his business.

“It’s not just about sunglasses.

It’s not a world-changing entity but does donate some of the profits [to charity],” Dan said. “Glass-U is targeting millennials. What is one of the products that everyone wears?

Sunglasses. If you put in front of them a product that they actually desire, they will donate more.”

Dan also worked as the “client” for two Management 100 projects last semester.

“I love working with MGMT 100 teams,” he said. “It has been one of my favorite activities at Penn, being the client. It’s been a huge win-win. I sense they enjoy the projects, and it’s cool and flattering when they ask if they can intern with me.”

Wharton freshman Sam Bauman was one of the MGMT 100 students who worked with Glass-U.

DAN FINE

“Dan was the ‘cool’ client on the list and [my team] knew that he would be readily accessible,” Bauman said. “You could tell he was really into his company, really cared about what he did and was excited to get people involved. I think he’s extremely savvy, he knows how to get what he wants and he’s really good with people.”

Bauman is one of the half dozen students who will continue to work with Dan this summer.

“All in, [MGMT 100] is a cool program and I love what its done to be able to connect me with younger students,” Dan said. “[My professor] Dr. G gave me a B-plus,” he laughed.

“I learned what I liked and didn’t like through MGMT 100. I definitely prefer the client side to the student side.”

While MGMT 100 students are learning leadership skills through working for Dan’s company, he said that his own leadership style is still evolving.

“I don’t have a defined style,” he said. “How I lead has changed dramatically over the past year – watching employees come and go.”

Dan said he often learns through trial and error.

“Something that failed was having a bunch of people who were all task managers. ... It takes more work on my end and is not fun,” he said. “Now I am assigning someone to something that they’re passionate about. They can own that, have a project that they can define and go for it. It can be ‘intrapreneurial’ and takes way more off my plate. We’re building a culture around people following passions.”

Dan’s presence on campus and success has also captured the attention of Management professor Peter Fader, whose daughter is a College senior and whose son is a Wharton freshman and also worked with Glass-U for Dan. “Glass-U on the surface seems like a modest idea, but there is so much more to it — [Dan’s] two steps ahead,” Fader said. “He comes up with clever ideas, he’s the ultimate salesman, he knows more than just how to get people onboard. He’s not walking in saying ‘I’m a student entrepreneur, help me out’ — he’s running it like a real business.”

Levy agreed with Fader and said that Dan’s unique style that he is loved for by his friends also applies to his way of doing business. “He is determined, he doesn’t accept boundaries,” Levy said. “He defies whatever social conventions are in place in order to pursue his goal.”

A serial entrepreneur In addition to Glass-U, Dan is now working on a new company, Dosed, with his brother. Dosed is a mobile app for diabetics that will allow them to manage and track their insulin dosage.

Dan came up for the idea for

Dosed a year and a half ago and pursued it as a “hack” at PennApps. After hacking for eight hours straight, Dosed won the award for the Best Health and I.T. hack.

With the impending release of Dosed and operations of Glass-U at their busiest point of the year, due to the upcoming summer season, Dan said he has “way too much on [his] plate right now,” which is a challenge.

“It’s important to understand when a door opens, but also to be able to understand when to say no. I’ve hit that point. Having to cancel on people sucks. Some of the things you deem important, you won’t be able to squeeze in,” he said.

Dan also emphasized that the startup world is “glorified.” “Everybody looks at startups at how sexy they are, but there is very little about how easy it is,” he said.

Yet he is optimistic about the future.

“I totally view myself as a serial entrepreneur. I can create whatever I want. I want to build the next Virgin [Group],” he said.

Family friend and fellow entrepreneur Wayne Kimmel has known Dan for over 10 years, and is equally confident.

“I’m really proud of what he’s done and really excited about the next 10 to 20 years,” Kimmel said. “His fearlessness is incredible and his excitement is contagious. I think he will be so successful.”

As for further education, it is not in Dan’s direct trajectory.

“I don’t see myself going for an MBA,” he said. “I think it’s repetitive to the Wharton undergrad. I typically say I won’t go for higher level but I also see the value in it.”

But in the immediate future, Dan wants to enjoy his last few weeks at Penn.

“I’m living the life of a college senior and making the most of that time,” he said. “But I’m trying to prepare my business to hit the ground running [after graduation].”

While his friends agree that Dan’s studies took the backseat to his work and social life, friend and fellow Wharton senior Sylvester Wee argued that Dan has gained just as much as any other student from his Wharton education.

“The point of being a student is trying to apply your classroom knowledge to reality,” Wee said.

“There is no point learning all this knowledge and not being able to apply to the future. [Dan] makes the concepts play out in reality. That’s a true education. He has represented the University well.”

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he College of Liberal and Professional Studies within the School of Arts and Sciences has been receiving a fair amount of attention recently. While there are some issues with the college, overall it continues to offer successful — if sometimes unknown — programs for nontraditional students.

LPS is not alone in the Ivies for serving nontraditional students: Harvard Extension School; Columbia School of General Studies; Brown Resumed Undergraduate Education; and Yale Eli Whitney Students Program. All are designed to give a varying degree of the “Ivy experience” to students who either took a break from studies, were in the military or followed some other path that has now brought them back to pursue undergraduate studies.

Yet LPS is unique in all of these programs as it is the only one which awards the very same degree to its stu-

dents as the parent school.

One of the reasons for this, and one of the main distinctions between LPS and some of its rivals, is that students in LPS can — and usually are — required to take classes with regular College students in their major.

This distinction in class attendance benefits not only students of LPS, but the entire University. There is an intellectual transformation that occurs when members of your class can not only talk about subjects in the classroom, but can share personal experiences that the average undergraduate student will not have had. Students can have the benefit of studying military history, and then hearing the experiences of a veteran who has been in combat. It is accounts such as these that bring real world applications into the classroom and add a dimension to the education that cannot be filled by books alone.

The problem facing LPS now is its rapidly changing

student body. While the current system is set up to cater to students who only attend part-time, it doesn’t take into consideration its growing

with Amy Gutmann or any other class year based activity, which can be highlights of many traditional undergraduates’ Penn experiences.

There is an intellectual transformation that occurs when members of your class can not only talk about subjects in the classroom, but can share personal experiences that the average undergraduate student will not have had.” population of full-time students.

This is especially evident in having students participate in class activities. With the current system, LPS students are not assigned to a specific class year, since the programs were designed for part-time students. However, many full-time students who wish to amalgamate with their University colleagues find themselves disappointed.

There is no Hey Day, no Ivy Day, no junior “P” sweaters, no Welcome Back Picnics

Of the restrictions placed on students, most affect and work against those who are attempting to pursue a true university experience. One of these restrictions — only being able to take classes within the declared major of the student — in effect goes against the very foundation upon which the school was created.

While it could be argued that there is no such constraint, as long as reduced tuition is restricted to in-major courses, for the many stu-

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rigorous institution, who also have families or other financial burdens that they are bringing with them.

Many of these restrictions, while in the various literature on the program, are not immediately visible to students until they are already enrolled. As reported

by The Daily Pennsylvanian, even policies and communication between LPS and other administrative offices, such as Student Financial Services and major departments within the College, are

met with confusion or misunderstanding.

Change in an institution as old and large as Penn does not always come quickly, but it does come. The University should be working to ensure LPS stays competitive for nontraditional students, which to date it has done a commendable job on. However, issues of transparency — with prospective students and within the University itself — bear addressing. Finding ways to incorporate those students who wish to fully participate in the University, whether it be class activities or intercollegiate sports, should be given the opportunity to do so without jumping through innumerable hoops or outright denied. It is time the University proves it sees nontraditional students enrolled in LPS as more than just secondhand students and rather as full-fledged members of its rich history.

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dents who rely on financial aid it is the same as having an institutional regulation.

These are students who are returning to an academically

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n last Tuesday’s “Toe the Line,” Carter Skeel argued that Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act is a reasonable law.

Former members of Penn College Republicans rushed in a letter to express their “utter dismay.” Current Penn Republicans repudiated the article on their Facebook page. Anonymous commentors spewed expletives and suggested that Mr. Skeel be disenfranchised; friendly commentors told him to retract the article ASAP. Surprisingly few — in fragmented Disqus comments — tackled the more difficult subtleties of the Act. The text of Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act can be found online. Most of the law is similar to the Federal RFRA and individual RFRAs of 21 states, including Pennsylvania. The law was controversial because it states the government may not “substantially burden” a proprietor’s exercise of religion in the operation of their for-profit companies unless doing so is the least restrictive means of furthering a compelling government interest. The law explicitly adds that this rule applies regardless of whether the case in question was brought by the state or an individual.

Some assumed that religious bigots throughout Indiana would claim that it “substantially burdened” their free exercise of religion to provide service to homosexuals. In a market with many others happy to provide the relevant service, it would be

GUEST COLUMN BY JEREMIAH KEENAN difficult to argue that the “least restrictive” means of furthering a “compelling” government interest would include forcing such people to provide their service to the LGBTQ+ community. Thus, it was feared, the law would override local nondiscrimination ordinances in almost every case where a religious person refused service to a homosexual.

Great pressure was brought on Indiana to scrap RFRA or join a minority of states by creating a non-discrimination law naming the LGBTQ+ community as a protected class.

Such solutions are satisfying in their simplicity. But they tend to throw the baby out with the bathwater. They are based

opportunity to design floral arrangements for, physically attend and assist the wedding party of Robert Ingersoll. Importantly, Stutzman’s decision had nothing to do with bigotry — she had sold flowers to Ingersoll for years, and he had shared them with his partner. Ingersoll was her friend, and she didn’t give him a summary rejection when he asked her to do his wedding.

She explained that she had religious objections to doing so, they hugged and Ingersoll left.

She wasn’t turning down the job because of who Ingersoll was or how he chose to live his life. The Ingersoll that asked her to festoon his wedding was the same Ingersoll to whom she sold flowers for nine years — flowers

Washington State doesn’t. You might be anywhere in-between.

But one thing’s for sure.

Not every Christian is a bloodsucking bigot if she won’t bake a cake. And not every Republican that supports RFRA should be cussed off the campus.

If we choose not to take the libertarian approach to the forprofit market, a choice — right or wrong — that America made some time ago, we need to find ways to manage the market equitably. As Mr. Skeel said, this issue involves “a balancing of rights.” And we’re not talking about a spurious “right” to throw peaceable homosexuals off a public bus in the name of religion. An intelligent court wouldn’t put up with that, and

Not every Christian is a bloodsucking bigot if she won’t bake a cake.” on the unreasonable assumption that any case involving refusal of specific services on the basis of religious belief must be a case of bigoted discrimination if the individuals being refused service identify with the LGBTQ+ community.

This simply isn’t true.

Go to the state of Washington, for example, where there is no RFRA and a non-discrimination law covers gender identity and sexual orientation. There, a judge recently ruled that Ms. Barronelle Stutzman violated state law by declining a paid

that she knew he was giving to his boyfriend. Stutzman refused because she felt that to do the job right she’d have to create and participate in an integral part of a celebration she believed was morally wrong.

Was her judgment correct?

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. But should such a choice — clearly motivated by religious scruples and causing no substantial harm to anyone (Ingersoll sued for $7.91 to cover gas costs) be protected under the law?

I think yes. Indiana did too.

I know of no modern court that has. We’re talking about making sure that Indiana’s local non-discrimination laws aren’t used to punish decent people in the free market for refusing to do something that violates their conscience.

JEREMIAH KEENAN is a College sophomore from China studying math. His email address is jkeenan@ sas.upenn.edu. He is a former DP columnist.

e flung.

Freshman Fling was hyped up to me as a time to enjoy myself — a time to relax and feel connected with everyone else. A time for “so college” backyard parties and Quad performances, fried Oreos and, this year, way too much glitter. It meant “waking up and rallying.”

And, for a lot of us, it meant sunburns and unfortunate tanlines.

My friends and I blundered around campus, from one end to the other and then back again, dancing and talking and enjoying the sun. We weren’t on our phones. We weren’t stressed about work or meetings or our five-year plans. We were just there, in the moment.

At peace.

For once, we were united.

The campus pulsed with a singular goal, a common energy; we all knew what everyone else was doing. That’s the beauty of Fling. More than attempts to live up to “I’m Schmacked” videos, we understood we were united by the same spectrum of experiences.

Fling is a phenomenon we all go through together. It’s hard to join 10,000 undergraduates together, but Fling allows us to unify and feel like we’re a part of something. We acted as a force, a team. I might be over sentimentalizing (hey, isn’t that what freshman year is for?), but I believe Fling is important for us to celebrate just being here.

Over the past few days, I’ve tried to explain Fling to my friends back home. “It’s a carnival,” I tried to tell them.

“It’s a few days to just relax.”

In our “work hard, play hard” environment, Fling means the chance to take a break from Penn, but also to epitomize our dear University. We wear Fling tanks to demonstrate our love for the different groups we’re passionate about. We watch performing arts groups in the Quad and cheer on Penn’s diversity and talent. We adventure with our friends, repeat ing again and again that “so much of learning in college occurs outside the classroom.”

I spent much of Fling trailing down Locust Walk in the miraculously clear weather and attempting to take everything in. Penn on a regular day is overwhelming; Penn during Fling, insanely so.

Fling didn’t comply with

DANI BLUM my image of it. I didn’t spend as much time in the Quad as I thought; there were a few friends whom I thought I would roam around with all day that I just didn’t see. I’ve known about Fling since before I applied to Penn and built up these preconceived notions.

I’d spend hours in a bouncy castle — I didn’t even step into one. I’d eat pounds of cotton candy — at most, I had three bites. After rehashing our weekends over the past week, my friends and I have realized we all projected different expectations onto Fling, a microcosm of our August naivety towards college itself.

A close friend of mine and I spent the days leading up to Fling referring to it as our “last first” — the last recurring Penn tradition we freshmen would partake in before becoming slightly washed-up, jaded sophomores. We’ll have more events to look forward to — I am stoked for Hey Day — but Fling was the last major Penn event we brave as freshmen. So we built it up. We checked it off. We packed Van Pelt Library. That sequence of events seems to summarize much of this past year at Penn.

The Fling-to-finals dichotomy demonstrates what I consider to be Penn’s defining characteristic: its intensity. This past fall, we were ranked the third most intense school in the country by Business Insider. We don’t accept moderation; we snap between extremes. We swap stories with our friends in the middle of day-long study sessions.

And at the end of the day, we pack up our bags, walk past the stream of campus tours and realize — or maybe just re-remember — how lucky we are to be here at all.

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Penn Law prof. tackles juvenile felony murder verdict Controversial Elkhart Four case being appealed JONATHAN WEYAND Contributing Reporter

In August 2013, four teenagers — Jose Quiroz, Blake Layman, Anthony Sharp and Levi Sparks were charged with the felony murder of their friend, Danzele Johnson who died at the hands of a third party. Penn Law professor Marsha Levick is working to overturn their verdict.

Levick is Chief Counsel and Deputy Director of the Juvenile Law Center, and champions cases like this one, Layman v. Indiana and Sparks v. Indiana, known as the Elkhart Four. The center has advocated in many landmark cases, most notably — Roper v.

Simmons (2005), which abolished the death penalty for juveniles.

On Oct. 3, 2012, five young males, three of them underage, attempted to burglarize a household in Elkhart County, Ind. After determining if anyone was home, the five entered the home of Rodney Scott. To their surprise, Scott was in fact home. In self-defense, Scott opened fire upon them, leaving Layman wounded and Johnson dead. At the trial in August, the four teenagers were found guilty of felony murder and sentenced to 55 years in prison.

Levick and the Juvenile Law Center is focusing on a more specific area of this national felony murder discussion.

“We aren’t attacking felony murder wholesale, but rather we are concerned that the courts are

holding juveniles to the same level of accountability as adults under the same set of circumstances.”

Less than two weeks ago, the Free-the-Elkhart-4 website released a statement that the Court of Appeals for Indiana approved an amendment to the amicus curiae submitted by the Juvenile Law Center in support of defendants Layman and Sparks.

On behalf of the Juvenile Law Center, Levick and Scott F. Bieniek signed this brief in support of the defense’s appeal. “At the Law Center we have the means and the expertise to help our colleagues across the country construct their arguments and frame them in the best light for trial hearings,” Levick said. “The precedent case law — Roper v. Simmons, Graham v. Florida and J.B.D. v. North

Carolina — and the scientific research in brain development both point to the recognition that juveniles are inherently different from adults in their perception of risk and foreseeability for judgement and decision-making.”

In February 2015, the Indiana Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the case to determine if there is reasoning to overturn felony murder conviction. The opposing side argued that since the felony murder doctrine was approved by the state, the statute is fair and that it was passed to deter individuals from taking part in dangerous activity.

In response to the theory of deterrence, Levick said, “It is an important argument to consider, but there is not much evidence that kids will be deterred by the severe

consequences if they do not think about them to begin with.”

Students weighed in on the discussion, being a few years older than the individuals convicted.

“While I do not condone the actions of the teenagers, I would have to disagree with the murder charge.

The fact that you can legally pin something on someone that they did not do is concerning,” College freshman Nick DeMarie said.

“They should not have full responsibility for the murder. Rather, the Indiana statute should allow for different degrees of what constitutes felony murder just as there are different degrees of murder itself.”

College sophomore Joseph Martin, agreed with DeMarie. “I can reasonably see how the prosecution, in their efforts to seek justice, would charge the murder of

Johnson to the surviving burglars because had they not attempted to burglarize the house in the first place, the murder would not have taken place,” he said. “Yet, I do not think that the four teenagers should be facing such harsh penalties because they are not solely responsible for the death; they did not pull the trigger.”

“I chose to advocate for this case because the sentences were especially severe — it wasn’t even a co-defendant that pulled the trigger — and this is the most extreme form of felony murder responsibility you will ever see,” Levick said.

“And whether we win or lose this case, felony murder applied to juveniles as well as a general doctrine will continue to be debated on a widespread scale, as the statute is ripe for review.”

University Council holds its last meeting of the semester

The University Council’s last meeting of the semester was held April 22 in Houston Hall. It served as a wrap-up and forum where the ISABEL KIM various University Council ComStaff Reporter mittees could present their reports While rain poured outside, and recommendations for future members of the Penn community development. congregated to discuss improveAlthough the meeting is open to ments made to the University in the the Penn community, the vast mapast year, and what improvements jority of attendees were members could be made going forward. of various committees, along with

administrators and Penn President Amy Gutmann.

Presentations were made by an assortment of committees.

Attendees discussed the issue of better programming for international students, particularly at the beginning of the year, as well as engaging more with local schools associated with Penn, such as the Penn Alexander School.

“We should engage more actively

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chance to spread and multiply and make you sick.”

A few blocks over from Beijing, Alan Segal and Dave Clouser have owned and operated Wishbone since October 2013.

One of the only health violations documented at Wishbone from their last inspection, in May 2014 was the absence of a sign in the restroom to remind employees to wash their hands.

“We bring an academic angle to food safety and are very disciplined,” Segal, who previously taught Culinary Science at Drexel University, said. “It’s something that we take very seriously.”

Wishbone serves roughly 150 to 200 customers a day and is best known for its fried chicken.

“One of the benefits of a limited menu — like chicken — is that there is a lot less risk of cross-contamination,” Segal said. “We were lucky to get a very big kitchen, so it’s easy for us to keep everything separated.”

Segal and his partner built their kitchen from scratch, so they had the opportunity to install new, easy-to-clean floors and walls, as well as brand new cooking equipment.

“When people from the industry walk through our kitchen, they always say that this is the cleanest kitchen they’ve ever seen,” he said.

“We have multiple cleaning cycles throughout the day, not just at the end of the night, so [the restaurant is] always in a state of being pretty clean,” “For us cleaning is non-negotiable — we spend a fortune on cleaning products,” he added.

Segal appreciates the work of the Department of Public Health, but would like to see Philadelphia adopt the letter-grade system that New York City has. He said the public display of inspection results is “a great way to bring it forward and encourage everyone to keep their kitchens clean.”

It served as a wrap-up and forum of discussion

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does [Connolly] make sure that the nomenclature and personal identifiers are all correct, but he also does spot checks like temperature across our facilities occasionally,” Scardina said.

Connolly works directly with students with dietary concerns like allergies to help guide them through Penn’s dining facilities and find meals that work for them.

“Dan also helps students to establish a personal relationship with our chefs and other employees, and that personal relationship is something we really value and emphasize,” Scardina said.

Despite all of these precautions, there are sometimes cracks in the system. College freshman Victoria Greene suffered firsthand from a lapse in food safety at 1920 Commons in August. She was hospitalized after eating food labeled ‘vegan’ in Commons.

“I have a serious food allergy to dairy, so I avoid anything with milk in it,” Greene said, adding that she was afraid to eat at the dining halls at first given her situation. “I slowly became more comfortable with [eating at the dining halls] and was having success with food with the vegan label on it.”

The food that Greene consumed when she got sick was found to contain small amounts of cheese, she said, but was not labeled as such.

“It was a wholeheartedly unpleasant experience,” she added.

Following her hospitalization, Greene’s meal swipes were converted into dining dollars to allow her to better control what she would be eating from Penn Dining in the future. She now buys a lot of her food at Gourmet Grocer and cooks her own meals in her dorm room.

“It’s not terrible — I’m well-fed and I’m not starving — it’s just a little difficult to keep up with everything,” Green said. “A lot of the time I just resort to microwavable noodles when I’m too busy or lazy to cook.”

Both Bon Appetit and Penn Dining declined to comment on Greene’s case, citing privacy concerns.

Food safety extends off campus While dining dollars and meal swipes do not transfer over to offcampus restaurants, concern for food safety certainly does.

Alex Yuen is the owner and operator of Beijing Restaurant at 37th and Spruce streets. The oldest son of a father who spent decades in the Chinese restaurant business, Yuen obtained his Ph.D. in electrical engineering before taking over his father’s restaurant.

“Somehow as an engineering and science guy, I was always interested in how to cook food,” Yuen said. ”I learned about food safety and how germs and

microbia spread while in college so that I could get into the business.”

The Chinese food that Yuen’s restaurant prepares calls for a wide variety of sauces and condiments, so each sauce is prepared and bottled separately to avoid cross-contact. “That is something that a lot of other places just can’t do, because they don’t have the demand or the volume needed for the system to work,” Yuen said.

Yuen has his chefs be safe with more than just the myriad of sauces. “We do the most safe thing, which is to steam all the vegetables at a very high temperature and to cook the meat consistently all the way through before we even put it in the wok,” he said. “Meat, eggs and really any perishable is really dangerous if you don’t cook it to the proper temperature.”

“Not to point a finger at anybody, but I always told my children to never eat from a food truck,” Yuen said.

Yuen has had longtime concerns about the sanitary conditions of local food trucks, hinting at some of the ones that line Penn’s campus.

“Philadelphia normally requires that you have a licensed, commercial kitchen to sell and serve your food, and most of these food trucks don’t have that,” he said. “Many don’t have access to running water, or to a real bathroom.”

Beijing has a checkered inspection file with the Philadelphia Office of Food Protection at the Department of Public Health.

Documented in Beijing’s most recent inspection report from December 2014, there was “visible physical evidence of rodent/insect activity observed in the dish washing and dry storage area” as well as “mouse feces observed” in the restaurant.

The inspection also found black residue and pick slime in the restaurant’s ice machine bin, as well as food kept almost 10 degrees warmer than required by law.

After discussing these issues with the Daily Pennsylvanian, Yuen gave the DP a tour of his establishment, ensuring that all of the food product was stored at the proper temperatures.

“Sometimes when the health inspector comes, he can’t understand my manager because he has such a thick accent,” Yuen said. “So [the inspector] ends up misunderstanding things. We fix everything he said was wrong but when we call for him to come again, no one shows up.”

Beyond the regulations of the Department of Public Health, Beijing is a Penn-certified caterer, which enables them to provide food for University-sponsored events.

“We tell our customers strict times when they should no longer eat the food and not to keep leftovers,” Yuen said. “After so long the food drops to a certain temperature and bacteria has a great

with the community,” Chair of the Committee on Campus and Community Rebecca Maynard said.

“We have not done this in a big way … our access to data is much more erratic, we think we could have a more systemic approach it.”

The Council also addressed the issue of reporting sexual misconduct or related misbehaviors online. The Committee on Campus and Community noted a flaw in

the online portal system, saying “if you were inside Penn you had much easier access than if you were outside.”

Attendees also discussed the question of same sex partner benefits. “It did make sense to change out of same sex partner benefits, but it would make sense to wait until the Supreme Court ruling,” Chair of the Committee on Personnel Benefits Reed Shuldiner said.

No new business or questions followed the reports, but Maureen Rush, vice president of Public Safety, congratulated Penn students on their Fling, and the fact that there was “no new damage to the quad.”

“This is our last University Council for the year, but we are galloping to the end of the year,” Gutmann said, closing the meeting.

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A February referendum formally established that the student body is largely in favor of divestment from fossil fuels.

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from both faculty and students — though the cause did not use a referendum.

On March 30, students launched another divestment movement called Penn Divest from Displacement, which proposes that the University divest from corporations that profit through practices that displace people. This proposal has incited controversy because of its objective of divestment from companies profiting from Palestinian occupation.

Engineering senior Lauren Ballester, a leader of Penn Divest for Displacement, said that it is a long-term movement, which is also designed to spark dialogue and awareness throughout campus. The groups plans to launch its own

referendum in the fall, Ballester said.

While Penn students have decided to try a referendum this time around, Harvard undergraduates have taken a different approach — last week, the group Divest Harvard launched its “Heat Week” of protests, blocking off important administrative buildings to try to gain administrators’ attention.

The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, an international campaign which shares similar goals to Penn Divest from Displacement, has contributed to movements on college campus across the country. This week, students from Princeton University will vote to support divestment from corporations that maintain infrastructure in the West Bank.

Engineering junior Sasha Klebnikov believes that although these referendums probably will not lead to divestment anytime soon, the fossil fuel referendum was an important display of student consensus and a highly effective method of mobilizing students to support environmental issues.

“Its going to send a very, very clear message to President Gutmann and the Trustees, et cetera that the Penn student body really cares about the environment and really is quite worried about the negative effects of big oil. That is a very clear message that has not been lost on anyone,” Klebnikov said.

He added, “It’s going to accomplish a lot, but it’s not going to accomplish what it said it was going to.”

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its final divisional opponent, Columbia (15-25, 6-10), with the hope of securing a fourth consecutive trip to the Ivy League Championship Series in May. While there are scenarios through which the Quakers could still advance even with a losing weekend, the Red and Blue will look to clinch the division outright with a series victory over the Lions.

Penn will travel to New York on Saturday to play the first two games of the four-game series before returning to Philadelphia on Sunday to finish the contest on its home field in Penn Park.

As they have all season, the Quakers pitching staff will likely rely on senior Alexis Borden to carry a large share of the work in this crucial series.

Borden — who leads the Ivy League in strikeouts and is fourth in the Ancient Eight in

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It’s familiar territory for Penn softball. Win this weekend, and there will be playoff softball at Penn Park again this year. Lose, and the season may well be over.

The Quakers (19-17, 10-6 Ivy) currently hold a two-game advantage over second-place Princeton in the Ivy League South Division. Penn will face

wins — has continued her outstanding career at Penn. This week she even earned her third Ivy League Pitcher of the Week nod after throwing a complete game shutout and notching 14 strikeouts against Princeton.

However, the Quakers will have to contend with a very talented Columbia pitching staff, led by sophomore lefthander Tonia Wu. Wu stands at fifth in the league in strikeouts and earned run average and has pitched exactly the same number of innings as Borden at 124.2.

Luckily for Penn, its own squad is not lacking in quality hitting.

The Red and Blue currently hold three of the top five RBI spots in the league rankings, with freshman Jurie Joyner, junior Lauren Li and sophomore Alexis Sargent placing first,

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Junior Lauren Li will be a key asset for the Quakers this weekend, as the veteran ranks third in batting average in the Ivy League.

second and fifth, respectively.

Joyner and Li also hold the second and third spots on the Ancient Eight’s batting average

chart, while Joyner slots in at number three in home runs.

As a team, the Quakers also boast the league’s third best

run and batting average totals.

After scoring 18 runs in its four games series against the Tigers last week, Penn’s offense looks primed to continue putting runs on the board. While Columbia’s offense has not racked up as impressive of offensive statistics as their Philadelphia rivals, the Light Blue have had consistent production at the plate with three players batting over .300.

The Lions have been efficient while running the bases as well, with the third-most stolen bases in the Ivies.

The series this weekend will by no means be an easy test for Penn. But fortunately for the Quakers, the team controls their own destiny — an element that should instill some confidence in the team’s play. And if the Quaker’s take care of business this weekend, then an Ivy title is only two more wins away.

Harvard, Navy awaits Penn in Annapolis

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seventh in the country, but they will need to find greater strength down the stretch to defeat No. 4 Harvard and No. 12 Navy.

Earlier this season in San Diego, the heavyweight squad bested the Midshipmen by a margin of 1.95 seconds. While coach Greg Myhr acknowledges the capabilities of his talented adversaries, he believes his crew is racing exceptionally well and possesses the ability to glide to victory this weekend. “Our strategy has been simple all year long: get our bow ahead early and keep driving past the finish line,� Myhr said.

Despite the simplicity of the racing strategy, executing in

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As Penn men’s heavyweight rowing approaches the end of its season, the Quakers will look to collect a pair of wins this weekend at the Adams Cup in Annapolis, Md. Facing off against Harvard and Navy throughout the event, the heavyweights must maintain the dominant form they exhibited last weekend in their convincing performance at the Blackwell Cup. The Quakers are currently ranked

Annapolis will be no easy task. If the Quakers find their stride this weekend in Maryland and defeat both teams, they ought to move up in the national rankings and place them in a commanding position leading up to the IRA Championships at the end of May in Mercer, N.J. The men’s lightweight rowing team will also travel to Annapolis, Md. this weekend to compete against Navy. This past October, the Red and Blue lost to Navy by a narrow margin of only three seconds at the Navy Day Regatta.

Since this will be the Quakers’ final regular season event, they will look to improve from their second place finish at this past weekend’s

Wood-Hammond Cup on the Schuylkill River.

Despite falling to Princeton in a close contest, the Quakers recorded a convincing victory over a Georgetown team that entered the weekend’s race in the last minute as a guest team.

The conditions this weekend in Annapolis are expected to be favorable for the Quakers — they pride themselves on training in whatever weather Philadelphia may bring.

When it comes to the people in the shells, Penn will continue to rely heavily on its talented senior class, which has been consistently strong throughout the season.

According to lightweight coach Colin Farrell, his senior class has played a crucial role in 2015. “As a first year head coach, you are always looking for ‘buy-in’ from the squad and for the older athletes to lead the charge in that respect,� he said. “The class of 2015 for us has been tremendous in that regard.�

Throughout his first season with the program, Farrell has guided

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Penn’s heavyweights, now No. 7 in the nation, have looked strong of late, and they will need to maintain their strong form to beat Harvard and Navy.

the team to several commendable results. This weekend, he says the objective is simple: “The key to success for us is to use this opportunity as best we can and learn as much as possible.�

Defeating Navy this weekend would be a tremendous achievement for the team leading into Eastern Sprints — its championship regatta in Worcester, Mass. — the following weekend.

in our lineup,� Yurkow said. “They’re a year older, a year wiser ... With the addition of [Montaldo and Betbeze,] we’ve really balanced out our lineup.�

Sophomore lefty Mike Reitcheck has also provided an unexpected boost to the pitching staff. After going 0-2 with a 4.22 ERA in 11 relief appearances during his freshman campaign, Reitcheck has moved into the starting rotation and dominated. His 1.81 ERA and 5-1 record are both team highs.

Despite all their success thus far, the Quakers have yet to face the Lions (23-12, 14-2), who have been equally as dominant and sport an identical Ivy record.

Senior outfielder Joey Falcone has hit .344 with eight home runs to lead their offense, while fellow senior outfielder Gus Craig has chipped in with a team-high .350 average and five dingers of his own.

The Columbia pitching staff has been equally impressive, as three different members of the starting rotation sport ERAs of 2.16 or lower in Ivy play. Senior

Mike Weisman has led the way, holding opposing batters to a .171 average and racking up a perfect 4-0 record against Ivy competition.

However, Yurkow is fully confident that the Penn bats can handle the Lions’ staff. “ T h ey’r e p r e dom i n a nt ly right-handed, which I like. We match up better against righthanders,� he said. “They’re really similar to us in that they don’t have that one dominant guy.�

Going into the final series of the season, it is tempting to shuffle the lineup and go with the hottest hands. However, Yurkow plans to stick with the same basic lineup he has used over the past several weeks. “I’m not one for trying to invent things late in the season,�

Yurkow said. “We’re going to stick with what’s been successful for us this year.�

That would appear to be a solid move; his lineup has passed every regular-season test with flying colors.

But now, it’s time to take the final examination.

and a four-team tournament, the conference agreed to have its fifth-place team face off with the Quakers to end the regular season. “We’re talking about doing it again next year, [the ACC] just doesn’t know where their tournament going to be, so that part’s up in the air,� Murphy said.

Virginia suffered its only losses of the season in conference play, finishing winless in the ACC, which has been the most dominant conference in NCAA men’s lacrosse all season.

The conference has four other teams in the nation’s top 10 — No. 1 Notre Dame, No. 2 North Carolina, No. 4 Syracuse and No. 6 Duke.

The Cavaliers boast one of the best goalkeepers in the country in All-ACC sophomore Matt Barrett. In his second season between the pipes, Barrett ranks

fourth in the nation in saves per game with 13.23, while posting a 56.0 save percentage. “They know that we have to get good shots and shoot them well. It’s a significant issue, good goalie play does have significant impact the way a face-off guy does,� Murphy said. “We just need to keep playing good offense and not worry too much about him.�

In Penn’s game, it topped Dartmouth, 15-12, for the team’s third straight Ivy League win.

During the streak, the offense has been rolling for the Red and Blue, averaging 13.0 goals per game. “The last couple weeks ... we’ve started to play a little bit faster and a bit sharper on the offensive end, except maybe the first half against Harvard,�

Murphy said. “Hopefully, we can get back on track defensively too.

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While the mid-day Ivy League games take place, the Quakers will be busy with the Young Quakers program, which helps support lacrosse teams for innercity kids. “Our guys will just be relaxing. I’m sure they’ll be checking the scores a bit, but there’s nothing we really need to see,�

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Ivy Championships leave no margin for error

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TOMMY ROTHMAN Associate Sports Editor

Penn golf is just three good rounds away from a championship. Unfortunately, so is the rest of the Ivy League.

Both the Quakers’ men’s and women’s teams will head to Bethlehem, Pa., on Friday to take part in the three-day Ivy Golf Championships. The team that does best over the course of 54 holes will take home the Ancient Eight title and qualify for NCAA Regionals in three weeks.

There’s nothing more to it. In Ivy golf, teams don’t have records and there are no seeds. A squad can’t be doomed by a slow start to the season nor feel too comfortable when having a bad tournament because it has done well throughout the season.

So the peculiar nature of the sport’s title quest becomes a doubleedged sword: each group of players gets to start with a clean slate, but there is absolutely no margin for error. Mistakes made before the tournament can be forgiven, but nobody will be that kind once the teams tee off on Friday.

Heading into the weekend, neither Penn team is a favorite. Golf is not one of the sports in which

dominated the league. Last year the women’s squad finished fifth, while the men placed eighth out of eight teams.

However, the Red and Blue are heading into the event confident that they have a fighting chance.

“I think that the way the team is playing right now — as they’ve gotten closer to the tournament — suggests that they’re ready to have a good run at the title,” men’s coach Bob Heintz said. “It’s a deeper team than we had last year going into Ivies. We’re very optimistic that we can at least get to the final day with a chance to win, which is sort of the goal in golf. Give yourself a chance, and everything can happen.”

Golf is an individual sport, but the championships follow a team-based format. Each school sends five golfers to the event, with the four best scores in each round accumulated while the worst score is thrown away.

And like Heintz, women’s coach Mark Anderson believes in his team, but stresses that consistency is necessary across the board in order for Penn to bring home a title.

“I honestly feel that we have five players that have the potential to finish All-Ivy [in the field’s top 10],” he said. “One thing we’ve been lacking is depth in our scores. [But] they all have the capability to post a score that’s going to put us near the top. So

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Penn’s young guns will need to come up big for the women’s golf squad this weekend at the Ivy League Championships, as four of the five players who will compete — including sophomore Erin Lo — are underclassmen. A first-place finish will qualify the team for NCAA Regionals.

if we’re all playing well, absolutely, we can be right there.”

“We’re going to need all five of the guys to pitch in at some point,” Heintz echoed. “There are other teams in this league that are pretty deep.”

The women will send senior Amanda Chin and sophomores Erin Lo, Isabella Rahm and Sophia Chen to the event, with freshman Michelle

Penn Relays startup partnership builds audience connections

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Colin Henderson Sports Editor

The Penn Relays began in 1895 and have grown to become the largest annual track meet in the world. Steeped in prestige and tradition, the Relays regularly attract over 100,000 spectators throughout the multi-day event.

WeHUB is a local tech startup founded in 2014 by 2014 Wharton MBA graduate Hagen Lee, an upstart social messaging app looking to carve its own niche in a world dominated by Facebook and Twitter.

At face value, the two entities — one a sports giant, the other a tech underdog — may not seem to have much in common. So it may have taken some by surprise when it was announced that the Penn Relays would be partnering with WeHub, exclusively using the app to send out official announcements throughout the weekend.

According to those involved, though, it should come as no surprise.

“As the first and oldest of relay meets, the Penn Relays has always tried to stay at the forefront of advances and our new alliance with WeHub reflects this mission,” Director of the Relays Dave Johnson said in a statement.

That’s because — according to Lee — the two share more than meets the eye.

“We’re a Penn startup, and they really heard about us through word of mouth,” he said. “They’re really forward thinking.”

Logistically, the partnership will allow the organizers of the Relays to communicate directly with the event’s overwhelming crowds.

“This year, we anticipate attendance at the Penn Relays to top 110,000,” Johnson said. “WeHub will help us stay connected with everyone at Franklin Field and the surrounding Carnival Village in real time.”

However, Lee hopes that his app’s impact extends well beyond simple logistical matters.

“It’s great to have an official channel for Penn Relays,” Lee said.

“But I’m more interested in the human drama.

“There will be 150,000 people, and they’ll all be seeing different things. And they can snap videos and take pictures ... of their experience. When they post it, that’s going to be a plethora of rich content through the eyes of fans and users and athletes, and not just the eyes of NBC’s lens.”

One can imagine the “rich content” that could have been generated during last year’s Relays, particularly during the event’s wild Saturday. As the USA men’s 4x100-meter relay team narrowly defeated the Jamaican squad, the reactions from the crowd varied drastically, from exultation to shocked disbelief.

But the comparisons between WeHUB and Penn Relays do not continue indefinitely. Notably, the Relays are already the largest entity of its kind in the world, while WeHub is still relatively small and looking to aggressively grow.

“We’re a tech startup, so we have to do more with less,” WeHUB’s Vice President Robbie Stone said.

“We wear a lot of different hats.”

The app utilizes a variety of platforms – from pictures to video to text messaging – but Lee asserts that its central appeal is simple.

“It’s literally the fastest way for you to be seen and for you to see what’s going on within your 100mile radius,” he said.

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“It doesn’t matter [if you have] 10 people, 100 people or 1,000 people,” he added. “We can group you with one push of a button.”

Which seems to hint at the greatest similarity between WeHUB and the Penn Relays: their passion for forming connections.

And forget 1,000 people. Over the next three days, over 100,000 fans – both young and old, U.S.born and foreign – will come together based on one shared connection: track and field.

Yom rounding out the group. The men will field seniors Austin Powell and Ben Cooley, junior Patrick O’Leary, sophomore Dane Walton and freshman Amay Poria.

With one Ivy championship in program history, the women’s team is looking to replicate the success of the 2010 season. The men’s squad has three Ivy titles of its own, with the most recent one coming in 2012.

Although both coaches hope to gain a bit of an edge from having a shorter commute to the tournament than their opponents, Heintz is concerned about another, less certain factor.

“As the weather has gone, the team has gone,” he said. “Our two good-weather events — the one in Florida and the one in North Carolina — we played very nicely. But

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unmatched by any other team.

“We are used to having a target on our backs,” Corbett said. “There have been five tournaments, and we have won three of them. We know what to expect, and I think that puts us in good shape.”

This weekend pits the conference’s top scoring offense against Penn’s stingy defense, which allows the fewest goals per game in the Ancient Eight.

Impressive performances could be on tap from Penn senior captain Tory Bensen and Cornell junior captain Lindsay Toppe, who are first and second in the Ivy League with 43 and 42 goals, respectively.

Penn expects to face formidable competition from Cornell’s sophomore goalkeeper, Renee Poullott, who was recently named the Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week. Poullott made two clutch saves with under a minute remaining last week against Harvard, preserving her team’s narrow 10-9 victory over the Crimson.

With a win this weekend, Penn could still have an outside shot at a remarkable ninth consecutive regular season Ivy League title. The Quakers need a win against Cornell as well as a loss by 11th-ranked Princeton versus Brown.

Such a result would grant the Red and Blue and Tigers each a share of the conference

when the weather was extremely challenging in New York and Pennsylvania, we struggled. So we’re hoping for good weather this week.”

It isn’t always sunny in Bethlehem. But every team will start in the same conditions, just as they will all start in an eight-way tie for first.

All that matters is how each team plays this weekend. Anything can happen, for better or worse.

championship.

Looking towards the tournament, Penn appears ready for whichever opponent it draws.

After Sunday’s matchup, the Quakers will have played every team in the Ivy League, and so will be reasonably familiar with any of their opponents come tournament play.

“We are going to prepare equally for three teams,” Corbett said. “You never know which team you are going to play, since anyone could win in a given game.”

The team that ends up with a win on Sunday will be the higher seed between the two heading into the tournament, and the momentum boost could prove invaluable going forward.

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With a slim lead in the South Division standings, Penn softball takes on Columbia this weekend

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Quakers to face Virginia in ACC clash

As Penn baseball heads into a fourgame winner-take-all series with Columbia for the Lou Gehrig Division title, the bulk of the responsibility for making up for last year’s disappointment will fall on senior leaders like pitcher Conner Cuff. Last year, the Lions defeated Penn, 2-0, in a one-game playoff.

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Freshman attack Kevin McGeary will need to be on his game Saturday against Virgina’s defense.

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Before the start of Penn men’s laVirginia crosse’s Saturday (9-4) night game, the team 7:30 p.m. will know whether it Chester, Pa. has secured the final spot in the Ivy League Tournament.

Regardless, the Quakers will approach their matchup with No. 8 Virginia with the same win-or-go-home attitude they have had the past three weeks.

“We’re going into this knowing all along that we’ve had two avenues to the NCAA Tournament,” coach Mike Murphy said. “One of them is an at-large bid, and one of them is through the Ivy League.”

“I said to the team yesterday, ‘We could have four days together or we could have four weeks together,’ and we’re going to go about it like both are possible.”

While Penn (6-6, 3-3 Ivy) doesn’t have any control over its berth in the ILT, a victory over the Cavaliers (9-4) in the ACC-Penn Classic would give the Quakers a second top-10 victory on the season and a chance at an at-large berth in the NCAA Tournament.

For Penn to make the ILT, Dartmouth needs to defeat Brown — then it gets complicated. At that point, there are two scenarios that would allow the Quakers to qualify for the postseason: they advance directly if Cornell beats SEE M. LACROSSE PAGE 8

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It’s deja vu all over again.

For the second time in as many years, Penn baseball enters the final weekend of the regular season tied with Columbia atop the Ivy League’s Lou Gehrig Division.

And for the second consecutive

year, the Quakers (20-12, 14-2 Ivy) will face off with their foes from the Big Apple in a winner-take-all, fourgame series.

Last season, the two teams split the four-game set, triggering a onegame playoff. As Red and Blue fans are well aware, the Lions took that game in crushing 2-0 fashion before heading on to sweep Dartmouth in the Ivy Championship Series.

“Last year, going into that series, we had never really been in that position before,” coach John Yurkow

said. “Having been there last year really puts us at more of an advantage.”

This time around, the Quakers have no intention of reliving history.

Though they are in exactly the same position as they were a year ago, they are objectively a much more well-rounded team.

From their pitching — their 3.34 team earned run average is nearly a full run better than any other Ivy SEE BASEBALL PAGE 8

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Columbia (23-12, 14-2 Ivy) 1 & 3:30 PM

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Matched up against Cornell’s stout goalkeeper, the offensive prowess of senior attack Tory Bensen will be key for the Quakers in their final regular season game. Bensen has 43 goals on the season, a mark that ranks first in the Ivy League.

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There’s a saying that goes “Good things come in threes.”

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As the 18th-ranked Quakers (11-3, 5-1 Ivy) welcome No. 24 Cornell to Franklin Field for Sunday’s final regular season contest, they hope to prevail in what will be the first of two consecutive matches between the teams. Next Friday, the squads are guaranteed to face each other in the first round of the Ivy League Tournament—Princeton has already clinched the top seed.

On one hand, Sunday’s match may allow Penn to get a better sense of the Big Red’s (9-5, 4-2) strengths and weaknesses in anticipation of the tournament. Still, the lack of time in between the two Cornell games will make it

difficult for the Quakers to make significant strategy changes before the second contest.

“It is challenging to play a team twice over the span of five days,” coach Karin Corbett said. “Usually, you have a few weeks to shape your strategy after you plan a team.

However, the time constraint gives us limited time to retool our game plan in between the two games.”

Fortunately for the Red and Blue, the tournament is familiar territory. They have participated every year since its inception in 2010, a feat SEE W. LACROSSE PAGE 9 CONTACT US: 215-422-4640