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More than 50 students, faculty, and staff members gathered Wednesday to honor the lives of the 359 people killed by bombings that struck several churches in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday.

Penn mourns Sri Lankan victims in vigil Students and faculty stressed interfaith solidarity AMANDA O’BRIEN Staff Reporter

More than 50 students, faculty, and staff members gathered Wednesday to honor the lives of the 359 people killed by bombings that struck several churches in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday.

Standing in front of the Benjamin Franklin Statue, students and faculty stressed the importance of interfaith solidarity, recited prayers from the Bible, and offered each other support. The vigil was hosted by the Penn Catholic Newman Community, the Collegium Institute for Catholic Thought & Culture, and the Penn Spiritual & Religious Life Center.

The vigil began with remarks from Penn Assistant Chaplain Sana

Saeed, who spoke about the interconnectedness and solidarity among people of different faiths.

“Make no mistake, when one group is targeted we are all affected,” Saeed said. “It becomes hard not to despair about the world seeing these events.”

On April 20, several churches and hotels in Sri Lanka were attacked by suicide bombers. Video footage showed the suspected leader of

Students protest Penn Book Center closing Protestors call on Penn to help save the bookstore DANIEL WANG AND ASHLEY AHN Staff Reporters

More than two dozen students, faculty, and local residents stood in protest and recited poetry Monday afternoon to call on Penn to save the Penn Book Center, which announced its closure two weeks ago after nearly 60 years on campus.

At noon, people gathered in front of the Button for the first day of the weeklong protest to urge Penn to help develop a business model to sustain the bookstore. While several people spoke about the unique and irreplaceable collection of literature at the Penn Book Center, which is located near 34th and Sansom streets, other protestors stood near College Green, holding signs with slogans such as “Books not bros, save PBC” and “Amazon Kills, read locally.”

The protestors then marched in a group to the Penn Book Center, chanting, “What do we want? Penn Book Center! When do we want it? Now and forever!”

Third-year English Ph.D. candidate and graduate student coordinator Nick Millman said the poetry recitations set the rhythm for the protests.

“If you go to any protest, it’s all about the rhythm; it’s all about how you say things; it’s poetic and we’re trying to bring that character out and to say we’re not just selling old, dusty

textbooks. There’s a living sort of form of poetry that we are trying to put on display,” Millman said.

English professor Chi-ming Yang organized the protests after the Penn Book Center announced on April 8 that it will close at the end of May. Penn Book Center co-owner Ashley Montague, who graduated from Penn in 1999 with a Ph.D. in English, said the bookstore was closing because it did not generate enough revenue to cover the rent.

Yang also started a Change.org petition on April 10 calling on Penn to set up meetings with the Penn Book Center so that they could find a business solution to sustain the bookstore. As of April 23, the petition has garnered more than 4,300 signatures.

Local poet Raena Shirali, who attended the protest on Monday along with the students and faculty, said the Penn Book Center has the best poetry collection in the city.

“Penn Book Center is one of very few bookstores in Philly that asked me to carry my book, and went out of their way to accommodate and make me feel comfortable as a new local author when I very first moved here,” Shirali said. Her book, “GILT,” is carried at the Penn Book Center.

College sophomore Avneet Randhawa said the turnout at the demonstrations helps the Penn humanities faculty negotiate with the administration for an economic partnership between Penn SEE BOOK CENTER PAGE 2

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the attacks pledging support for the Islamic State, which claimed the attack on Tuesday, The New York Times reported. More than 60 arrests have been made, Sri Lankan authorities told The Times.

Saeed also read a statement condemning the tragedy from Penn President Amy Gutmann, who was unable to attend the vigil because of SEE VIGIL PAGE 3

The largest Panera Bread restaurant in Philadelphia is expected to open on Penn’s campus on May 20, just days after most students will leave for summer break.

The restaurant will open in the vacant space on 40th and Walnut streets, once occupied by the popular Harvest Seasonal Grill and Wine Bar. Although the restaurant was originally slated to open by the end of April, the opening date was changed because of construction delays, American Bread Company Director of Development Peter Strang wrote in an email to The Daily Pennsylvanian.

The two-story restaurant will feature several conference rooms, community tables, and a private room for meetings and studying. There will also be an outdoor patio that seats 40 people, Strang said.

Panera will offer traditional, kiosk, and online ordering along with small order delivery and catering.

Any order that exceeds $5 will be eligible for delivery on Penn’s campus. There will be a $3 delivery fee,

Strang said.

Strang said the restaurant will be the largest in the greater Philadelphia area given the location’s twostory building. Although he said the company originally tried to split up the building, after they experienced issues with the landlord, they decided to take the entire space to provide additional seating areas.

“We have been actively looking in the UPenn [and] University City area for several years now,” Strang said.

Students who will be on campus over the summer said they are looking forward to frequenting the restaurant, which they say is also popular in their local hometowns.

College freshman Natasha Gupta, who will be living in her sorority house near Panera over the summer, said she plans to eat at Panera once every two weeks.

“I am a huge fan of Panera and I used to eat there all the time at home,” Gupta said. “I usually get the Frontega chicken panini and broccoli cheddar soup.”

College sophomore Anne Lally, who will also live near Panera this summer, said she was excited because she frequently eats SEE PANERA PAGE 3

BBB program considers changing name to “Neuroscience” Students say ‘BBB’ causes confusion GORDON HO Staff Reporter

The Biological Basis of Behavior program is weighing a decision to change the major’s name to the more simplified “neuroscience” or “neuroscience and behavior,” a move that an overwhelming majority of students are welcoming given its obscure name.

In a survey distributed on April 17 to BBB majors, 50% of respondents said they wanted the major’s name changed to “neuroscience,” while 32% of respondents preferred “neuroscience and behavior,” according to an April 23 email sent to majors by BBB Associate Director Jennifer Heerding. Only 18% of students reported that they wanted to keep the original name.

BBB program Co-Director and Psychology professor Lori Flanagan-Cato said about 200 out of 260 current majors responded to the survey.

Students say they approve of the change, given the major’s unnecessarily

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complex title compared to “neuroscience,” which is more recognizable to job recruiters and professionals in the field. The program heads are now reviewing responses before they decide to submit an official proposal to change the major’s name, which could go into effect as early as fall 2020, Flanagan-Cato said.

BBB is an interdisciplinary major that lets students study neuroscience and behavior from a variety of angles, combining aspects of biology, chemistry,

psychology, and statistics.

While the biological aspect of the major examines topics such as brain anatomy, the behavioral aspect focuses on topics like human cognition and neurological diseases, according to the BBB website.

College junior Aaron Groff said BBB program leaders should change the major’s name because it would be easier to explain the major to other people, including job recruiters and family members.

“Sometimes when I say biological basis of behav-

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ior, I get looked at like I have three heads,” Groff said.

College and Wharton senior Ryan Leone also said he supports the change because the current name is unnecessarily complicated.

“People don’t really understand what [BBB] is, so you explain it,” Leone said.

“And when you explain it, you are often telling them neuroscience anyway.”

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Energy research building to open in 2024 The new building will be located next to DRL DANIEL WANG Staff Reporter

Penn’s new energy research building, which received a $50 million donation from Roy and Diana Vagelos earlier this month, is set to open in summer 2024.

The plan comes in response to the need to further fundraise to cover the total cost of the building.

The building, which is temporarily called the Energy Science and Technology building, will be located at 32nd and Walnut streets, next to David Rittenhouse Laboratory. The finished building will be named after the Vagelos couple, whose donation was the largest in the history of the School of Arts and Sciences. Penn has not determined the total cost of the building, but the school will need additional fundraising as part of the Power of Penn campaign to fully fund the building, SAS Vice Dean for Finance and Administration Matthew Lane said.

When finished, the building will serve as the home of the Vagelos Institute for Energy Science and Technology and the Vagelos Integrated Program in Energy Research. Outside of these two programs, the building will consist only of research labs, which will be shared between SAS and the School of Engineering and Applied Science, Engineering Dean Vijay Kumar said. The building will not have any conventional classrooms, but the lab spaces in the building will be used as teaching spaces for students.

The building is part of plans by the Engineering School to expand by 33%, Kumar added. The project was initially proposed about five years ago as part of Penn Connects 2.0 and was one of President Gutmann’s Power of Penn priorities, Lane said.

As the research conducted in the new building will span a variety of disciplines in both

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Vagelos donated $50 million to the construction of the new Energy Science and Technology building, which was the largest donation in the history of the School of Arts and Sciences.

schools, the exact departments that will move into the building have not been finalized. Lane said proposed occupancy will be determined by the dean’s office along with a committee of faculty.

Facilities and Real Estate Services held a meeting last week with six architectural firms that were invited to design the project.

FRES asked architects to return the design proposals and cost estimates within a month.

FRES and a committee of faculty and staff from SAS and Engineering will select the architect, University Architect Mark Kocent said. President Gutmann will take part in making the final architectural decision and FRES is currently in the process of selecting that committee for the Energy Science and Technology building.

The final firm will be selected based on the best value for the project and FRES expects to have an architect selected in the next

two months. SAS Dean Steven Fluharty said the architectural team will be working with faculty and staff leadership to determine the details of the construction plan. He added that this process is currently scheduled to be completed by the end of 2021.

Once the selection committee makes a decision, they will propose it as a recommendation to Fluharty. He added the facility is intended to augment the research space of both schools and is not envisioned as a direct replacement for any portion of DRL. However, it will take up the current site of the High Bay facility, which will be relocated to a nearby area on campus, FRES said.

The collaboration between SAS and Engineering will advance two fields of energy research, storage and catalysis, Kumar said. The focus of energy research at Penn has been on policy, Kumar said, but the new building will focus on science and technology.

Kumar said the research in the building will include studies about how energy solutions can be scaled up to support buildings, city blocks, and eventually cities. Researchers are interested in developing energy conversion methods that are clean and efficient.

An example of the merging of science and engineering that might take place in the new building is using nanotechnology to synthesize new catalysts, Kumar added. The catalysts will then be used for the sustainable conversion of various chemicals into plastics.

On Monday, Penn’s Kleinman Center for Energy Policy has received a $30 million anonymous gift that will allow the Center to hire new faculty who specialize in energy policy, as well as supporting its continued programming. The donation towards energy policy research comes three weeks after the Vageloses’ donation towards the building for energy science research.

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and the local bookstore. “[The Penn Book Center] is not just for us,” Randhawa said. “It’s for Philadelphia, and when we shut down a place that is for Philadelphians, we are actively gentrifying even more that we have gentrified the area around University City.”

“If this place closes down, then that’s just another symbol and literal marker that Penn is encroaching on all of Philadelphia’s local spaces,” she added.

Millman said the petition signed by thousands, the upcoming protests, and “remarkable amount of press and attention” helps add pressure on Penn administrators and encourages them to sit down with the Penn Book Center owners.

Yang said she encourages everyone, especially those who signed the petition, to stand in protest, stop by in between classes, and meet the bookstore owners.

“If I wanted to get Starbucks, a sweatshirt, or a water bottle I would go to the Penn Bookstore,” Randhawa said, “but if I want to read Dostoevsky, if I want to read Hannah Arendt, if I want to read Karl Marx, I would go to the Penn Book Center, but again I would not have the ability to do this anymore if it closes.”

“With the pre-professional school that Penn can tend to be, it is all the more important that we have this kind of space for intellectual reflection and curiosity, something beyond purely utilitarian studies like business and medicine,” second-year French and Francophone Studies Ph.D. candidate Marcus Dominick said.

Fourth-year English Ph.D. candidate Davy Knittle said he will read poetry at the protest on Tuesday and will bring his Urban Studies 277 students to the protest during class time.

Penn administrators have had internal conversations about the Penn Book Center’s closure, Yang said.

After Yang sent members of the administration a copy of the petition on April 12, Executive Vice President Craig Carnaroli replied back to Yang on April 16 saying that Penn would have an administrative meeting later that week to gather facts.

“They said they value the role the store plays in the life of the campus and that they would be meeting this week internally to review this matter and they would get back in touch with us, so there has been an initial response,” Yang said.

Carnaroli said in an email to The Daily Pennsylvanian on April 21 that he had no further comment at the time.

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More than two dozen students, faculty, and local residents gathered on Monday to protest and march together to the Penn Book Center.

FGLIQ creates space for first-gen., low income queer students A second-year GSE student formed the group DANIELLE CAPRIGLIONE Staff Reporter

FGLIQ, a new student group that is the first of its kind at Penn, is working to solidify a space for first-generation, lowincome students who identify as LGBTQ. Second-year Graduate School of Education student Sarah Simi Cohen said she formed the group last fall because it is difficult for students who identify as both FGLI and LGBTQ to feel like they fit into spaces that are not specifically designed to understand both aspects of their identity. Since then, FGLIQ has hosted several social events and presented the group to members of Lambda Alliance, the undergraduate LGBTQ umbrella

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“What I wanted out of FGLIQ was awareness, advocacy, and community, and I think all three of those have been accomplished,” Cohen said.

LGBT Center Associate Director Tiffany Thompson, who serves as an advisor for FGLIQ, said the group provides “a great model” for a space where students do not need to separate their core identities.

“Queer and trans folks sometimes need a little bit of an extra space to be queer and trans and be themselves in that way,” Thompson said. “We already know that, but we forget. There is more than just ethnicity or socioeconomic status.”

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The group is now made up of about 35 undergraduate and graduate students who regularly meet in the LGBT Center.

LGBT Center Director Erin Cross said there is a large concentration of FGLI students who identify as LGBTQ at Penn, and that FGLIQ is likely the first student group of its kind on a college campus.

College junior Amber Auslander, who is an undergraduate representative in FGLIQ, said the group wants to grow their membership by hosting campus events, such as movie nights and FGLIQ student panels.

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Lack of funding prevented renovations to DRL in 2013 Conditions in DRL has worsened DANIEL WANG Staff Reporter

After a series of damaging leaks in David Rittenhouse Laboratory earlier this semester, students and faculty petitioned Penn to fix the building’s poor working conditions. However, this isn’t the first time attempts have been made to improve DRL — a plan to renovate the building was scrapped in 2013 after administrators determined there was not enough funding.

The discussion surrounding DRL’s facilities escalated last month when a petition calling on the University to provide better work conditions garnered more than 150 signatures. The petition followed a series of floods caused by burst pipes that displaced dozens of graduate students who work in DRL. Shortly after the petition was sent, the administration removed the remaining problematic piping in the roof and began restorative cleaning throughout the building. But students said the long-term plans were “vague” and called on the University to prioritize a complete renovation of DRL, which is located at 33rd and Walnut streets and houses the Physics and Math departments.

Six years prior, in 2013, the School of Arts and Sciences hired architects to draw up possible renovation plans for the

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a conflict with her travel plans.

“In dark and dangerous times such as these, when the Penn community gathers in an iconic and beloved spot to mourn the deaths of Christians, where previously we have gathered to mourn the deaths of Muslims in worship and before that gathered to mourn the deaths of Jews at prayer, it helps to recall this truth that unites all religions: The essence of faith is a refusal to be afraid,” Gutmann wrote.

This marks the third Penn vigil honoring the lives of people killed because of religious motives since the start of the academic year. In October 2018, members of the community gathered on College Green after the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting. Months later in March, students and faculty held a vigil and stood in solidarity for the victims of the New Zealand mosque attacks.

Other speakers included Father Carlos Keen from the Newman Center, Chaplain of the Muslim Life Program Patricia Anton, South Asia Studies professor Varun Khanna, and Co-chairs of Programs for

building, according to multiple professors. The renovation ideas ranged from changing the signage to reconfiguring the layout of offices, Physics professor Gene Mele added that the architects also made plans to remodel the infrastructure, including the air handling, plumbing, and heating.

One of the plans also proposed building a six-story tower above the current DRL building, Physics Graduate Chair Joshua Klein said.

The plans ranged from $90 to $150 million each and would have taken at least two years to become a detailed proposal, Math Department Chair Jerry Kazdan said. None of the renovation plans took off due to budget constraints.

“Once the price tag came in, my impression was that it was not thought possible to do any of them at that time,” Physics Department Chair Mark Trodden said.

On April 5, 1950 College graduate Roy Vagelos and his wife Diana Vagelos donated $50 million to SAS to fund the construction of a new science building focused on energy research. The building, which will be named after Roy and Diana Vagelos, is the biggest donation in SAS history. The building will be located right next to DRL and will displace the High Bay area, Klein said.

Vagelos’ record gift was the latest in the sums donated to Penn President Amy Gutmann’s

Power of Penn Campaign that funded more than half a dozen building projects, such as Tangen Hall for student entrepreneurship, a new pavilion at the Graduate School of Education, and New College House West.

In 2013, DRL faculty met with the architects multiple times to talk about faculty needs for improvements to the building and what could be feasibly implemented. Klein said in a meeting with architects, faculty expressed a desire for more

Religious, Interfaith, and Spiritual Matters and College sophomores Cassandra Jobman and Nimai Agarwal.

“I’m just thinking back to Sunday as I was celebrating Easter, a time of victory and joy with community and family, I just can’t even imagine what was happening in Sri Lanka at the time,” Jobman said.

“It’s heart-wrenching and words really fail me, but I just take comfort in the fact that Jesus wept and he weeps and so do we as we stand in solidarity.”

Father Keen read aloud from a testimony written by 2013 College graduate Romero Santiago, who, as a Sri Lankan American, had a personal connection to the tragedy.

“Saint Anthony’s church, where one of the attacks was, is a very special place for my parents, who would attend for worship frequently when growing up,” Santiago wrote.

“And as a result, seeing this brutality against my fellow worshippers is absolutely heartbreaking to see and unforgivable, especially on the holiest day of Easter Sunday that is celebrated so immensely in Sri Lanka.”

College sophomore Daisy Angeles said as someone of Catholic

faith, the bombings hit especially close to her.

“I identify as Catholic, and so this event that just happened over the weekend really hit close for me just as a member of the same religious community,” Angeles said.

“Even for those who don’t share the faith or who have no idea about Sri Lanka’s culture, solidarity is so important in these moments when we don’t know what to do.”

Former Newman president and Nursing senior Marya Lieb also stressed the importance of interfaith support in the aftermath of the bombings.

“There are so many communities affected by it, and I think it’s just a really unique way to support each other and say that this is a horrible thing, that we’re walking with each other through it and that we can unite in prayer and unite in peace,” Lieb said.

Nursing junior Theresa Dierkes, along with College freshmen Nikole Bonillas and Nick Plante went up to the statue as the event came to a close and performed a song to the quiet audience.

“Even when my strength is lost, I praise you,” Bonilla’s voice rang out.

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The discussion surrounding DRL escalated last month when a petition called on the University to improve DRL’s working conditions. Dozens of graduate students were displaced because of recurring pipe bursts.

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common areas in the building.

Both the Math and Physics departments currently have small lounges and break rooms, but they are not centrally located and do not serve as good places for faculty and students to meet each other, Klein said. Even though the lobby is a common area, it is completely walled off from Shoemaker Green, which is the green space in front of DRL, despite being right in front of it.

In addition to spatial changes, the biggest concerns among faculty were the heating, ventilation,

and air conditioning systems, Klein said.

“We lose our research time when we turn off the computers because they are too hot, [or] when people’s fingers are too cold to type,” Klein said. “There’s a lot of energy waste in the building because people are running space heaters even in the summer because the air conditioning is up to high.”

Klein said he is not sure whether some DRL design flaws could be fixed by the renovations, adding that DRL was built in a

time when physics was considered “quasi-military.”

“The idea was that you shouldn’t let anyone see what you were doing, because it might be secret and important, and might have national security interests involved. So it was built intentionally to hide everything,” Klein said.

Gladney, who represented the department in discussions of planning for major renovations, said the renovation planning process did not produce a complete design for a renovated building, instead producing what architects refer to as massing drawings.

“To produce actual renovation plans would have required considerably more time, expense, and some level of commitment to meet the expected cost,” Gladney said.

Raising the necessary funds now for the large-scale renovations would require significant support from the University and help searching for donors, Kazdan said. The federal government is another potential source of funding, through organizations like the National Science Foundation.

Lane added that University Facilities and SAS are prioritizing HVAC renovations in DRL for the next Facilities Renewal Funds funding cycle, Lane said.

The sources of funds for known current and future renovations of DRL are from SAS and from the University Facilities Renewal Funds.

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“I’m excited to have the Panera and will probably try it and shop there a few times,” Lally said. “I have gone to Panera a lot at home, and I enjoy their soups and their seasonal salads.”

“There are a lot [of Paneras] in my area back home,” Wharton sophomore Maddie Blake said, who will be working on campus over the summer. “I particularly love the bagels and mac and cheese so I will definitely be stopping in

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THURSDAY APRIL 25, 2019 VOL. CXXXV, NO. 26 135th Year of Publication JULIA SCHORR President SARAH FORTINSKY Executive Editor ALICE HEYEH Print Director BEN ZHAO Digital Director ISABELLA SIMONETTI Opinion Editor MADELEINE NGO Senior News Editor THEODOROS PAPAZEKOS Senior Sports Editor GILLIAN DIEBOLD Senior Design Editor JESS TAN Design Editor LUCY FERRY Design Editor TAMSYN BRANN Design Editor GIOVANNA PAZ News Editor MANLU LIU News Editor MAX COHEN News Editor DEENA ELUL Assignments Editor DANNY CHIARODIT Sports Editor MICHAEL LANDAU Sports Editor WILL DiGRANDE Sports Editor KATIE STEELE Copy Editor TAHIRA ISLAM Copy Editor DANIEL SALIB Director of Web Development AVNI KATARIA Audience Engagement Editor SAM HOLLAND Online Projects Editor CHASE SUTTON Senior Multimedia Editor

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he rise of the internet has transformed the media industry, upending the traditional print business model of journalism but also allowing outlets to reach larger audiences than previously imaginable.

Student-run news organizations are often excluded from conversations about the future of journalism, but student media organizations are facing the same financial challenges as big-name papers. Many student papers have been forced to sacrifice their independence — their only protection from college administrators’ censorship — to stay alive.

That’s why The Daily Pennsylvanian is joining the #SaveStudentNewsrooms campaign, an initiative spearheaded by editors at the University of Florida’s student newspaper in 2018 to draw attention to the importance of independent student media.

Independent student journalism is crucial both for the campus communities student journalists cover and for the media industry at large. It is our responsibility to keep the Penn community informed on what’s happening on and around campus and hold individuals and organizations accountable, even when this coverage is unflattering to the University or student leaders.

Additionally, student-run organizations are where many professional journalists gained their first experiences in the industry. At Penn, where there is no journalism school or major, the DP serves as Penn’s “unofficial journalism department” and has alumni on the staffs of nearly every major news outlet.

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Editorials represent the majority view of members of The Daily Pennsylvanian, Inc. Editorial Board, which meets regularly to discuss issues relevant to Penn’s campus. Participants in these meetings are not involved in the reporting of articles on related topics.

At Penn, where there is no journalism school or major, the DP serves as Penn’s “unofficial journalism department” and has alumni on the staffs of nearly every major news outlet.”

In May 2018, Southern Methodist University newspaper The Daily Campus lost its independence due to financial constraints and became part of SMU’s journalism department. In addition to relinquishing editorial control, losing independence means that faculty supervise the students who work for The Daily Campus.

One of the most valuable aspects of being a part of an independent media organization is the handson management experience that students gain, which prepares

them for careers in journalism and in other industries.

The DP was first published in 1885 and existed under editorial control of the University until 1962, when the DP broke away from men’s student government and merged with the University’s women’s newspaper. At the time, editors at the DP wanted women to be able to join but faced backlash from men’s student government. The break from men’s student government came after student leaders attempted to shut

down the DP for satirizing sexism in the men’s student government in the DP’s annual joke issue, which included a front-page editorial urging the University to “abolish all student government.”

From 1962 to 1984, the DP existed as an autonomous student organization. We received funding from Penn but had a memorandum of understanding with the University allowing for editorial independence. In 1984, the DP incorporated as a 501(c) (3) organization — formally

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completing the separation from any editorial or financial control from the University. Each year, outgoing editors and business managers elect a new student board to run The Daily Pennsylvanian, Inc., which includes the DP, 34th Street Magazine, and Under the Button.

If the DP were to become a part of the University, we could be subject to censorship that would make it far more challenging to publish stories that are crucial to our community. In 2017, we published a special issue dedicated to mental health, including a story about how some students felt Penn did not adequately support them following the death by suicide of a close friend. In 2018, we published an investigative report on former professor Robert Kurzban, who had a relationship with a student while he was her minor advisor. Just last week, we released a report on the alleged mistreatment of Penn volleyball players by coach Iain Braddak. We are able to publish stories like these because we are independent.

Losing our independence would mean that the Student Activities Council could cut our budget if they didn’t like something we published.

The financial challenges of the media industry threaten the independence of student newspapers like ours. The DP does its best to accurately report on the Penn community and to provide a platform for all student voices so that students and faculty have access to an uncensored media outlet.

This is a great responsibility — one that we hope to continue to see through in the years to come.

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fter half a century of serving university students, professors, and the greater Philadelphia community, the Penn Book Center will be closing down this May, citing the growing market power of online retailers as the impetus for this decision.

Shortly after this announcement, Penn students and educators in the humanities spearheaded a campaign to show our university’s administration the integral role independent bookstores play in upholding a vibrant intellectual campus culture. In a matter of two weeks, a Change.org petition created

by English professor Chi-ming Yang garnered over 4,000 signatures, demonstrating a clear desire from the undergraduate and graduate student body to save a beloved gatekeeper of knowledge for the public. This week, protests have been taking place every day of the week day from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. in front of the Button.

As the undergraduate liaison to this allied cause organized by my academic peers, Penn faculty, and Philadelphians, my admiration for the Penn Book Center has only grown. Unlike its neighboring book stores such as The Last Word and House of Our Own, which primarily focus on collecting and selling used literary texts, the Penn Book Center has a stock of both under-appreciated and canonical works of fiction, nonfiction, and more. For undergraduates completing interdisciplinary papers, research projects, or honors theses, the wide selection that indie sellers like the Penn Book Center offer only helps in the writing process.

Of course, some students have not yet experienced the joys of perusing the meticulously curated aisles of the Penn Book Center. So, why should this independent bookstore deserve an economic partnership from Penn, and how would undergraduates benefit from such

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a symbiotic relationship?

For starters, the financial troubles of brick-and-mortar stores like the Penn Book Center have largely been exacerbated by the decision-making of Penn, which has allowed for Amazon to have a home nested right on Locust Walk, making both the Penn Book Center and Penn Bookstore enter into direct competition with one another for textbook sales. Without the large-scale patronage that the Penn Book Center once enjoyed for decades from college students seeking coursebooks, foot traffic to the shop incrementally decreased. Without the initial purchase of a required textbook, which retains first-time customers, undergraduates became less and less conscious of the fact that a place like the Penn Book Center even existed right on 34th Street.

By early 2017, the Penn Book Center was forced to change their business model entirely, taking coursebooks out of their inventory to focus on hosting community literary events with locally and nationally ac-

claimed authors and academics.

However, without any tangible support from private institutions, local shops do not stand a chance against corporations like Amazon, which hold market caps of $1 trillion. Simultaneously, initiatives like Shop At Penn are actively transforming the University City area, slowly making indie sellers unable to survive growing rent prices.

Penn President Amy Gutmann and the administration must realize the ideological and moral imperative to support one of the last bastions of intellectual culture on our campus. For countless undergraduates in the social sciences and humanities, most organizations at Penn are simply inadequate at fostering critical thinking outside of the classroom, as they largely cater to the pre-professional ambitions of students interested in jobs in finance, law, or the hard sciences. As a result, non-campus sites such as the Penn Book Center serve as both social and literary spaces to find thoughtprovoking reading material, to speak to others with similar in-

terests, and to attend events for local writers who do not find financial success in retailers such as Barnes & Noble. While the Penn Bookstore may have a handful of texts by T.S. Eliot or Joan Didion, publicly traded book giants simply do not have the capability or drive to supply the gems that indie sellers work assiduously to find. Unlike algorithmically generated book advertisements on Amazon or Facebook, which solely strive to drive consumption, the Penn Book Center and its workers have a desire to point patrons in the direction of texts that they would meaningfully enjoy and actually hold the expertise to do so. If we would like to maintain our reputation as a leading academic institution for groundbreaking intellectual work, then we must allocate the resources to support our local book shop, which Ivy League universities such as Princeton have already done.

Fundamentally, our administration must grapple with the fact a sizable portion of its students majoring in fields such

as English, Africana Studies, Comparative Literature, and Classics are not entirely fulfilled by the handful of campus spaces made for us, such as the Kelly Writers House. If they allow the Penn Book Center to close down in the next month, this would send a pointed message to undergraduates across countless departments that our academic passions must take a backseat to profit. Already, students in the humanities feel as if their work is undervalued within the private university system, which largely advertises STEM and business degrees to prospective students. As a campus with the nation’s leading business concentration in Social Impact & Responsibility, we should feel obligated to find room in our $3.4 billion dollar budget to economically subsidize a space that supports an unheard student body.

AVNEET RANDHAWA is a College sophomore from Houston, Texas studying English. Her email address is avneet@sas.upenn.edu.

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Volunteering this summer isn’t financially sustainable for everyone STIRRING THE POT | Having a paid summer job doesn’t make you less of an activist

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s we approach the last day of classes, conversations around campus are shifting from final exams and projects to summer plans — be they family vacations, spontaneous road trips with friends, internships, or jobs.

In typical Penn fashion, where even discussions about sleep turn into full-fledged competitions about how few hours students have gotten, or how many all-nighters they’ve pulled, the world of summer internships and jobs has become its own resume-building Olympics.

While the general consensus seems to be that students should spend the summer doing something more meaningful than lounging around, the dissonance occurs when students with diverging views take it upon themselves to break down what exactly classifies as “meaningful.” In a world full of economic and racial injustice, some believe that we must spend our time doing social justice work. A College freshman went so far as to insinuate that her peers were hypocrites for taking summer jobs on Wall Street while claiming to “want socialism.” Her tweet spurred large debate, particularly in the black community, about Penn’s capitalist values. To her, and others like her, a job in the corporate world might as well mean working in Trump’s cabi-

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What some, blindsided by activist ambitions, are so quick to overlook, is that having the ability to volunteer or take on an unpaid internship exudes extreme privilege.” net. If you’re pre-med, volunteer at a hospital. Planning on going to law school? Volunteer at a public interest organization. And so on. But there’s a fundamental flaw with this ide-

ology.

The truth of the matter, and what some, blindsided by activist ambitions, are so quick to overlook, is that having the ability to volunteer or take on

an unpaid internship exudes extreme privilege. Many students belong to a household where the steady income depends on the contributions of more than just their parents, making a

summer job non-negotiable in order to pay their daily expenses, not to mention Penn’s exorbitant and ever-increasing tuition. This in no way means they’re no longer radical, progressive, or even liberal. It doesn’t mean they don’t still question the severe inequity that our country was founded upon, and continues to enforce.

It doesn’t mean they don’t care.

It simply means they must prioritize their basic needs and those of their families.

Believing otherwise is not only elitist, but extremely contradictory. If this judgment comes from a place of disgust at our current economic system, which doesn’t provide indigent people with enough opportunities to support themselves, how can one be surprised, let alone angry, that a large portion of Penn’s student body cannot afford to spend an entire summer without a steady source of income?

Maybe, instead of directing criticism at these students — many of whom would jump at the opportunity to volunteer to help those who are less fortunate — we can direct it at Penn’s lackluster financial aid and career services departments, which only provides internship funding up to a mere $4,000. And only for those who are “highly aided.” And only for rising juniors and seniors.

Not only does the University not guarantee aid for those

HADRIANA LOWENKRON whose financial situations put them in the unfortunate “sweet spot,” where they have more money than qualifies them as “highly aided” but not enough to do without summer income, but it doesn’t offer, let alone guarantee, anything at all for rising sophomores. Additionally, the internship must be a minimum of 30 hours per week and at least six weeks long, which eliminates the option of obtaining paid work while volunteering.

So before we jump to conclusions about students’ morals and political beliefs based on the way they spend their summers, let’s remember that we, just like those who would benefit from our volunteering, are victims of a capitalist society that not only thrives off of, but cannot function without, inequality. And barring a revolution, there’s really not much we can do about it.

HADRIANA LOWENKRON is a College freshman studying Urban Studies and Journalism. Her email address is lowenkron@thedp.com.

Penn students need to lead more sustainable lives TYLER’S TAKE | Small changes can yield big results

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t’s no secret that we all need to do our part to protect our environment. And yet, we are not doing enough here at Penn.

Penn students, unfortunately, do not lead the most environmentally sustainable lives. We use disposable items all day, eating meal after meal with plastic utensils.

We don’t recycle when it’s not convenient. We buy plastic bottles of water from Pret and use plastic bags for our groceries. I only know a handful of people here who are vegetarian or vegan. And yes, unfortunately, party culture contributes to this problem as well. Those red solo cups are not exactly sustainable, and are rarely recycled. It does add up eventually.

But we know this. We know we could do better. We could turn the lights off mpre religiously when we leave rooms, skip a few elevator rides, take SEPTA instead of Uber. We could live incredibly sustainable lives. But we don’t.

We are too distracted by other

things. Who has time to make lunch when running from class to class or interview to interview?

Who wants to deal with the inconvenience of running back to their house to grab a reusable bag? We are all busy, stressed students worrying about our futures, not about whether that plastic container we just threw away will end up in the ocean.

Still, we have an obligation to our planet. We do not have the excuse of ignorance. As students at an Ivy League university, we know better than most just how catastrophic the results of inaction will be. Human use of plastic is ravaging the planet, and greenhouse gas emissions are propelling us into a climate catastrophe. Inconvenience is no longer an acceptable excuse.

But we don’t have to be perfect.

I must admit, I am not vegetarian or vegan, even though I know that giving up animal products would reduce my carbon footprint. However, I make efforts to reduce my consumption of meat. If everyone

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did this, the combined impact would be significant.

I have tried personally to be as sustainable as possible. I try to recycle as much as I can, use reusable bags, cut back on my waste.

And yet, I fail. There are countless times where I have rushed out to CVS to pick something up, only to realize I forgot my bag and admittedly did not think it was worth the inconvenience to run

back and get it. Still, more often than not I have avoided using unnecessary plastic, and I can almost guarantee it adds up to a significant amount.

Again, if everyone took the

time to make small changes in the way they live their lives, it would have a huge impact.

We don’t all need to go out and change our lives in extreme ways.

It is the little things that count, and most importantly, the shift in our awareness. E nvironmental mindfulness is the path to a more sustainable world for us all.

So let’s start making some small changes for the sake of our planet.

T YLER L ARKWORTHY is an Engineering junior from McLean, Va. studying Computer Science. His email address is tlarkwor@seas. upenn.edu.

Now more than ever, it’s important to say no sometimes

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few weeks ago, I stumbled across a blog post halfway down the first page of Google titled “The Simplest Ways To Happiness.” I usually steer clear of headlines like this which often seem to repeat the same advice, but I clicked anyway. The page was dedicated to a challenge urging readers to say “yes” to all of the opportunities thrown their way.

“Saying yes adds spice and variety to our lives. Every great thing started with the right attitude … a ‘Yes!’ attitude!” it read. At first glance, this philosophy seems like the perfect plan — one that it feels like many of the always-busy, completely well-rounded, and highly involved students at Penn have mastered. But much like drinking eight liters of water because you read that it was good for you and then having to relocate to the bathroom for the next five hours, you can have too much of a good thing. I learned the hard way

COMING UNDONE | If you feel like you’re stretched too thin, know that it’s okay to put yourself first that saying “yes” to everything can leave you exhausted and resentful.

Before I came to Penn, I pretty much said “yes” to every kind of position or opportunity presented to me. “Do you want to start this new club that we realistically have no time to devote to or keep up?” Yes.

to be alone right now.” Cool. I wanted to be Carrie Bradshaw, I wanted my life to embody the movie “I Don’t Know How She Does It,” I wanted to effortlessly balance an insane number of obligations, friendships, and relationships all while being constantly put together.

In my mind, everything I was

Before I came to Penn, I pretty much said ‘yes’ to every kind of position or opportunity presented to me.”

“Should we keep being friends even though we kind of hate each other and I tear you down every chance I get?” Yeah, sure, I guess it’ll be easier that way.

“Let’s keep seeing each other even though I don’t take you seriously because I don’t want

doing was leading up to some fantastic life concept that I had been mapping out since I was 12: do every possible extracurricular so that you can get into the school and have the job of your dreams, overwork yourself every single day so

that you never lose sight of a 4.0 GPA, agree to every single social event on your calendar, occasionally maintain toxic relationships because it’s easier than confronting people who upset you. I figured that if I said “yes” enough, there would be nothing left to say “no” to. I would have done it all. I would have successfully remodeled myself into the person I always wanted to be by taking life by the horns and never letting a single opportunity pass me by.

But what goes up must come down, and come down it did.

The result was basically an exasperated shell of the person I used to be, and this continued to some extent into my freshman year. I felt like I was tangled up in life and did not know which way to turn. I had allowed people who had the furthest thing from my best interest at heart into my life because I wanted so badly for the idea I had created of them to match their reality. I was

working too much, sleeping too little, and not taking care of myself at all. I knew that it was time to start downsizing, and my life is all the better since I did.

No part of this column aims to say that you should not chase great opportunities. You should — but first, consider it realistically in terms of how ISAMI MCCOWAN the responsibility, the relationship, or the workload will af- stretched too thin, know that fect you. You do not have to it’s okay to put yourself first. say “yes” to everything, and Deciding that I was going to in my honest opinion and own stop mentally and emotionally experience, you shouldn’t. Say draining myself to keep up ap“yes” to the things that are im- pearances and chase some false portant to you, to your growth, sense of “having it all” dramatand to who and what you want ically changed the way I see to be right now as well as in and move through the world. the future. It can be incredibly To quote Fantasia in her iconic difficult not to compare what 2010 song of the same name, you’re doing to what the peo- “I’m doin’ me.” ple around you are, or avoid getting into “I’m busier, more ISAMI MCCOWAN is a College stressed, and more accom- sophomore from Durham, N.C studying Politics, Philosophy, and plished than you” battles.

Try to look inward instead Economics. Her email address is of out. If you feel like you’re isami@sas.upenn.edu. .

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‘#AcademiaToo’: Panelists address sexual harassment in schools Faculty and students unpack ‘abuses of power’ DANIELLE CAPRIGLIONE Staff Reporter

About 30 people gathered in Houston Hall to discuss sexual harassment and its impact on graduate students and faculty at Penn Tuesday night.

The panel, titled “#AcademiaToo: The Impact of Sexual Harassment in the Academy,” featured faculty members, a psychologist from Counseling and Psychological Services, and a Ph.D. candidate known for her activism in changing the University’s sexual harassment policy.

The panelists spoke about the way power dynamics contribute to the problem and how marginalized communities are more likely to experience harassment. The Graduate and Professional Student Assembly’s Sexual Harassment Reform Committee hosted the event.

Alicia Chatterjee, a first-year doctoral candidate in social welfare at the School of Social Policy & Practice, said graduate students are particularly vulnerable to sexual harassment because they receive low incomes that are tied to their work with an advisor.

“Research as well as personal experience has definitely shown that really strong and rigid hierarchies that are very present in the academy are directly linked to abuses of power,” Chatterjee said.

“That is definitely something we wanted to take the cover off of and look more carefully at.”

In September 2017, the Graduate Employees Together-University of Pennsylvania, which attempted to unionize Penn graduate students, published a petition calling for improved procedures for reporting sexual harassment for students in the Graduate School of Education.

Women’s Center Director Sherisse Laud-Hammond, who moderated the panel, said the tenure process for professors relies

on support from tenured faculty.

Laud-Hammond said this means professors could be ostracized for coming forward with sexual harassment allegations against their superiors.

Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies at the Annenberg School for Communication Litty Paxton spoke about the case of David Marchant, a geology professor at Boston University who was found responsible by the university in November 2017 for harassing a former Penn assistant professor in Earth and Environmental Science while on a research trip in Antarctica.

The accuser, Jane Willenbring, was a graduate student at Boston University at the time of the harassment and waited until she was tenured to file a complaint because she feared retaliation from Marchant would negatively affect her career.

CAPS psychologist Batsirai Bvunzawabaya said it is often difficult for students who have

experienced sexual harassment to come forward. She said mental health conditions such as anxiety and depression can be caused or worsened because of harassment.

Bvunzawabaya also said there is still shame and victim-blaming that can be intensified in the confined space of a university. GSE Ph.D. candidate Jennifer Phuong, who authored the GET-UP petition, echoed how these fears of stigmatization are amplified by the small communities doctoral candidates live in, and she said the decentralization at Penn makes it hard for students across schools to combat sexual harassment.

Panelists also noted that people in marginalized communities are more likely to be affected by sexual harassment.

Phuong said there is increased ambiguity for marginalized students, who are often unsure if something is considered sexual harassment and unfamiliar with the process for reporting it. She gave the example of international

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About 30 people gathered in Houston Hall to discuss sexual harassment and its impact on graduate students and faculty at Penn Tuesday night.

students who may not know the reporting process and may be worried it could affect their visa statuses.

“This is an issue that I care about a lot as a graduate student in higher

education, and who is thinking a lot about higher education,” said Alice Wang, a second-year student in GSE and SP2. “Sexual harassment is about power, so power dynamics play a huge role in that.”

Penn student develops devices to solve issues faced in Ghana His products include an LED lamp and flood alert system CARMINA HACHENBURG Staff Reporter

Anthony Ayebiahwe used to look for light by sitting outside the homes of neighbors with generators when the electricity went out in his hometown of Elmina, Ghana. Now, the Weitzman School of Design master’s student is creating an affordable LED lamp and flooding alert system to help the local residents deal with the challenges he faced in his youth.

I n Ja nua r y, Ayebia hwe founded the nonprofit A&Co. to develop technologies that help solve some of the problems he faced in Ghana. He is currently

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(From left to right) Neeraj Chandreseker, Anthony Ayebiahwe, Steven Chang, and Japhet Debrah are part of the team working to create a rechargable LED lamp and flooding alert system to be used throughout Ghana.

working on several products, including a flooding alert system

and a solar panel system, that aim to provide affordable,

versatile solutions to challenges such as flooding and limited

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electricity. One of Ayebiahwe’s projects is a multipurpose, rechargeable, affordable LED lamp.

“I want it to be something that is beneficial to a lot of people,” Ayebiahwe said of the lamp. “I want it to be something that is a go-to for most people in rural areas in Ghana.”

Ayebiahwe traveled to the United States after meeting 2012 Wharton graduate Phillip Levine, who was volunteering in his hometown and helped him study for the SAT and work on the college application process.

Ayebiahwe completed his undergraduate studies at Berea College in Kentucky before attending PennDesign, where he is pursing a master’s degree in Urban Spatial Analytics.

Engineering junior Japhet Debrah, who is also working on developing the lamp, said his Ghanaian background and passion for startups encouraged him to get involved in the project.

“Because I am from Ghana, I am always looking for something to do to help Ghana,” Debrah said.

While the lamp is still in the prototype process, Ayebiahwe said his team plans to finish the product by May and send it to partner schools and clinics in Ghana to receive their feedback.

Ayebiahwe is also working to develop a flooding alert system to deal with the devastating floods in Ghana. He said extreme f looding is a cross-continental issue, and he hopes the alert system will have an “impact in Ghana and the broader African continent.”

Leonard Shaw, a secondyea r appl ie d ge oscience master’s student who has also

been working on the flooding alert system, said he has developed a program to collect real-time data on the weather and rainfall levels of 60 locations in Ghana. Shaw said he hopes to expand the program to model and calculate the probability of flooding in a given area, which would allow the team to warn people about potential floods before they begin.

Ayebiahwe added that while the program is currently a web page, he hopes to develop a mobile app that can send realtime notifications about nearby floods. He also hopes to eventually partner with Ghana’s telecommunication system to create a text-message flood alert system.

Beyond the lamp and the flood alert system, Ayebiahwe said he is in the process of developing an easily accessible solar panel system that would be provided and manufactured in Ghana.

“If I look at where I came from in Ghana and how far my country has come to right now, and see that something that we are going to build is going to have impact on more than 24 million people, it just feels humbling,” he said.

Steven Chang, a master’s student in Urban Spatial Analytics who is working on manufacturing the LED lamp, said he has appreciated the chance to work on the project.

“I think it is great to learn a different perspective and to know that there is something I can do as a collaborator with the group to kind of help out in this situation,” Chang said. “It is no longer that I say that I am aware of all of these issues, I’m actually participating in an initiative that is actively trying to solve these problems.”

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major incorporates many aspects of neuroscience that focus less on behaviors and biology and more on neuroanatomy, neurochemistry, and physiology.

Flanagan-Cato cited the mandatory Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology course, which does not have behavior in the course title, as an example of the absence of behavior-focused courses in some aspects of the major. Some students may also choose to concentrate on neuroanatomy and not behaviors, Flanagan-Cato added.

The BBB co-directors, the associate director, and all lecturers have met to discuss the possible name change. If the program decides to move forward to change its name, it will submit the proposal to the Curriculum Committee for approval next fall. The current name will remain until fall 2020, Flanagan-Cato said, even if the proposal passes.

“The fact that many students like the name neuroscience, I think, is just another factor that encourages us to think about changing the name,” FlanaganCato said.

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diversity of materials the major covers. “[Neuroscience and Behavior is] not too bold of a move away from BBB, while it’s not too generic as neuroscience,” College senior Ian Jean said.

College sophomore Christina Dicindio also said she hopes the major will be changed to “neuroscience and behavior” because it encompasses what the students are learning. While the current name points out the behavioral aspect of the field, everything in the discipline is still directed toward the brain and the nervous system, Dicindio said.

In the late 1960s, when the field emerged, people called the field “biological basis of behavior” and considered it an area where biology and psychology met, Flanagan-Cato said. The program leaders have kept the name since the major was first offered in 1978, but the growth of the neuroscience field is now making the program leaders reconsider.

Flanagan-Cato also said the

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FOUNDED 1885

Many historic athletes have competed at Penn JESS MIXON Associate Sports Editor

At a whopping 125 years old, the Penn Relays predates the addition of six states to the Union.

Founded in 1895, the Relays are the oldest collegiate track meet in the United States. Every year, top high school, collegiate, and Olympic-level athletes travel to Franklin Field to compete in front of an international crowd. The race has expanded from nine races attracting 5,000 spectators to now over 425 events, which attract as many as 110,000 fans. The transformation did not happen overnight, so on the 125th running of the event that draws more athletes than the Olympics, we’re

taking a look back at the biggest historical moments.

The first year, the meet had only nine events, with four for college and four for high school athletes. The last was a college championship, which in its first year was won by Harvard, as the Crimson men defeated the Red and Blue in the 4x400yard relay.

The meet predates the first modern Olympics by a year, and after only 19 years, it began drawing a similar international crowd. In 1914, a team from Oxford University in the United Kingdom traveled across the Atlantic by boat to compete and ultimately win the four-mile relay.

The Relays quickly became a pit stop on the path to greatness for many track legends. In the months leading up to the 1936 Olympics SEE 125 YEARS PAGE 10

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Here are four events to keep an eye on at this year’s Penn Relays USA vs. the World events will be featured on Saturday

What to expect from the Quakers at the Penn Relays This will be the final home meet for the senior class

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EMMA RONZETTI Sports Reporter

After a long-awaited return, it’s that time of year again.

Penn track will host the 125th Penn Relays at Franklin Field this week, running from Thursday until Saturday. Here are four key events you will not want to miss this weekend.

College Men’s Distance Medley Championship of America Invitational — Friday 5:15 p.m.

In this race, the Quakers and 12 other teams compete in a distancebased relay. Historically, Villanova tops the leaderboard in this event by a long shot with 25 victories, followed by Arkansas with 15.

Penn sits in sixth place with five wins.

Villanova took victory in the event last year, with the win largely secured by senior Casey Comber, who posted an individual time of just under four minutes to charge into the lead following significant deficit.

College Women’s High Jump Championship — Saturday 10 a.m.

This event is set to be an important competition for Penn, with the Red and Blue qualifying two jumpers. Senior Anna Peyton Mal-

With a chance to showcase the momentum it has garnered all season, Penn track will test its confidence in the historic 125th Penn Relays this weekend.

The Red and Blue have positioned themselves to perform well, and both the men’s and women’s teams have the record to prove it.

Six program records were topped in April alone. On top of that, Penn leads the Ivy League in the Conference Rating Index and is ranked second in the Mid-Atlantic Region in the Regional Rating Index.

Still, the Quakers have some challenges to juggle this weekend.

While both teams have done well this season, the men have had difficulty accumulating wins in track events. Among their competitors this weekend is reigning MidAtlantic Region winner Navy. On the women’s side, Penn State — the top Mid-Atlantic Region team — will compete with Penn in 17 events, so the Relays will be a great opportunity for the Quakers to test themselves against several elite squads.

In spite of this weekend’s high stakes, the Red and Blue don’t feel overwhelmed.

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Senior high jumper Anna Peyton Malizia will look to impress in front of an international crowd at the Penn Relays this weekend.

izia is the No. 4 seed, and junior Olivia Welsh is the No. 10 seed.

South Carolina also plans to send two jumpers, including junior Lissa Labiche, the No. 1 seed. Last season, Labiche set a personal best at the Penn Relays, clearing 1.82 meters. Malizia took second place last year with a 1.78m personalbest mark, one which she has

already topped this season. Penn freshman Claire Moreau will also compete in the high jump at 10 a.m. on Thursday. “[Malizia] is one of the best in the country right now and is just on the cusp of breaking six feet, which would be awesome to see at our SEE EVENTS PAGE 9

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Junior Nia Akins, who ranks No. 4 in Division I in the 800-meters, will look to add to her already record-breaking season this weekend.

“I don’t think pressure is the right word,” coach Steve Dolan said. “I think we have extra adrenaline and excitement knowing that it’s our track, and we’re familiar with our field event venues.”

As the first of several weighty competitions that mark the end of the season, Penn Relays serves as a litmus test for many athletes looking to grab other significant titles in the coming weeks.

“We’ve been preparing really well all year for big meets,” said

senior Rachel Lee Wilson, who is a favorite to win in the hammer throw. “Penn Relays is like dipping your toe into championship season, since [the Heptagonal Championships are] next week and then we’re off to the NCAA Championships.”

Wilson has had an impressive season, smashing her own program record in the hammer throw this month and winning the event just last weekend at Princeton’s Larry SEE PENN PREVIEW PAGE 9

Rachel Lee Wilson has been a record-setting thrower for Penn track The senior owns the program record in multiple field events MARIANA SIMOES Associate Sports Editor

Over the past few years, senior thrower Rachel Lee Wilson has become one of the most dominant athletes in Penn track.

The numbers don’t lie: Wilson currently holds the program record in the outdoor hammer throw (63.89 meters) and the indoor weight throw (20.53m).

These numbers secured her a second consecutive title in the Ivy League Indoor Heptagonal Championships earlier this season.

But unlike most student-athletes, Wilson did not compete in these sports during high school, since the hammer throw is not offered as a high school sport in any state except Rhode Island.

Instead, her main events were the discus and the shot put, while she would only practice the hammer throw during the summer

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Senior Rachel Lee Wilson took a title for the second consecutive year late this winter at the Ivy League Indoor Heptagonal Championships.

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with her father, who was also a thrower in high school.

“I applied to Penn, and I contacted the coach at the time and I asked if he had any spots on the team, because my numbers were decent, but they weren’t good enough to get recruited,” Wilson said. “He didn’t have any girls recruited that year, so it ended up working out. Once I got here, I started to get more serious with the hammer and now that’s my main event.”

After joining the team in

2015, Wilson quickly started to impress. During her first season as a Quaker, Wilson recorded 21 top-10 performances between the two events and set the school record in the weight throw at Indoor Heps, placing third. She was also named the team’s most valuable player of the freshman class. From then on, the nowsenior has held the weight throw program record and keeps extending it each year.

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Quakers head to Harvard for final matchup before Ivy Tournament W. LAX | Penn looks to make in No. 10 Princeton and No. it 19 straight versus Crimson 12 Dartmouth — both games PARKER JONES Sports Reporter

Penn women’s lacrosse will aim to spoil the last home game for Harvard’s soon-to-be graduates on their Senior Day. This Saturday, the Quakers will head to Cambridge, Mass., where the Red and Blue will take on the Crimson in their final Ivy League contest of the regular season.

The Red and Blue (10-4, 4-2 Ivy) are looking to finish off this year’s conference play with another Ivy League win. A victory would preserve Penn’s 18-year win streak against the Crimson (6-9, 2-5).

The last time the Quakers fell to Harvard was in 2000, but with star Penn players like junior attacker Gabby Rosenzweig, junior midfielder Erin Barry, and sophomore attacker Zoe Belodeau, the odds look to be in Penn’s favor.

After suffering a pair of tough losses to ranked teams

saw the Quakers jump out to first half leads before struggling in the second period of play — Penn looked to rebound last weekend, and they did just that in a blowout win over Columbia. The resounding 21-7 victory, in which the Red and Blue took a 14-3 lead over the host Lions into halftime, has re-energized the team ahead of the final weekend before postseason play.

“We have a huge opportunity to finish out the season strong,” Rosenzweig said. “The game plan this weekend is to continue coming out with fire and energy.”

Rosenzweig, who is pacing the Quakers in assists and points with 44 and 72, respectively, has had a phenomenal season thus far. Against Columbia, she notched five points behind two goals and three assists. The junior has registered multiple points in each of the Quakers’ 14 games en route to solidifying herself atop the Ancient Eight in points per game, as she is the only player averag-

ing more than five points each time she takes the field.

“We’ve been working really hard on attacking against a zone, and I’m really excited to see us put it together this weekend,” Rosenzweig said.

Rosenzweig also leads the way among Ivy League players in assists per game with 3.14.

Nevertheless, she is receiving plenty of help from a strong supporting cast.

Belodeau is right behind her teammate with a total of 44 points, which include 12 assists and a team-best 32 goals.

The Red and Blue will need to play with more consistency and put in a full 60-minute performance in order to to secure their fifth Ancient Eight success of the season. The Quakers’ troublesome second half showings will not treat the team well in tournament competition when teams bring more intensity to every aspect of the game, so this weekend’s clash with a Harvard team that the Quakers have dominated for nearly two decades should be a fantastic opportunity to build momentum.

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Junior attacker Gabby Rosenzweig leads Penn women’s lacrosse in both assists and points this season, with 44 and 72, respectively. She is currently ranked fourth in the country in assists per game with 3.14.

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Baseball cashes in late, beats Seton Hall in bounce-back win Quakers scored three runs in the eighth to take the lead OJ SINGH Associate Sports Editor

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Penn baseball grinded out a nail-biting victory on Wednesday, wrapping up its final midweek home game of the season in fine form.

After a series sweep at the hands of Yale last weekend, the Quakers defeated Seton Hall, 5-2, on the back of three key runs in the eighth inning.

On a beautiful day in Meiklejohn Stadium, the first three innings saw solid pitching and defense from both sides. A highlight from the opening innings was senior captain Matt O’Neill’s play that ended the top of the second inning. Seton Hall (16-21, 2-4 Big East) attempted to steal second base to put a runner in scoring position, but the catcher’s impressive throw beat the runner to the bag.

The Quakers (20-14, 8-7 Ivy) drew first blood when freshman shortstop Josh Hood tripled to center field, allowing senior captain and designated hitter Sean Phelan to reach home and put the Quakers up by one. For Phelan, the game was a momentous occasion, as he tied the program record for appearances.

He has started every game since his sophomore year and has the third-most career hits, with 188, in Penn history, just 16 shy of the program record.

“Obviously the seniors did a great job today, and with only six games to go in the Ivy slate, I hope a sense of urgency has crept into the whole team to capitalize on what we have left,” coach John Yurkow said.

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Senior captain and catcher Matt O’Neill had two RBIs and caught a runner stealing for Penn baseball in the team’s win over Seton Hall.

Seton Hall responded right away, as the Pirates capitalized on an infield error by the Quakers and took the lead with a two-run single in the top of the fifth. Penn junior right fielder Peter Matt found his way to third base in the bottom of the inning with a leadoff single, a balk, and a stolen base, but he was stranded as the offense was unable to cash in.

In top of the seventh, the Red and Blue had their backs against the wall. With two outs and the bases loaded, junior pitcher Jacob Sadowitz got a crucial out by forcing a pop fly to shallow left field on his first pitch of the day.

Penn rode this momentum into the bottom of the seventh to tie up the game at 2-2. Matt found his way to third base again with a program-record tying triple, but this time, he found his way home with the help of an O’Neill RBI single.

Sophomore left fielder Eduardo Malinowski followed that up with a single, but a double play ended the inning.

In the top of the eighth, Sadowitz picked up right where he

left off, striking out two hitters and preventing Seton Hall from scoring. Phelan then continued to have a hot bat, putting the Quakers in scoring position with a leadoff double. Hood knocked in the go-ahead run with a single to left field, giving the Quakers a 3-2 lead.

Senior third baseman Matt McGeagh was hit by a pitch and advanced to first base, allowing Hood to advance to second.

Freshman center fielder Tommy Courtney then singled to right field, loading up the bases. The Quakers scored two more runs off a walk and a sacrifice fly by O’Neill before freshman pitcher Kevin Eaise closed the game out in the ninth inning.

“Today was a great win for the whole team,” Yurkow said.

“A lot of guys who don’t normally get playing time delivered well for us today, and we hope to ride the momentum into the series against Cornell this weekend.”

Penn will return to Ivy League play this weekend on the road against Cornell for their penultimate series of the season.

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As his Penn career comes to an end, senior offensive lineman Tommy Dennis has hopes of being drafted to the NFL. During his time at Penn, Dennis started in every game from his sophomore to senior year. He was named second team All-Ivy in his junior and senior seasons. Dennis attributes some of the recognition he got while at Penn to the fact that he started for three years.

Penn hosted a Pro Day on March 18 of this year. Though not many scouts showed up, Dennis was ready to show off his versatility and agility as a player, taking advantage of any chance he could to prove his ability. “[The] Ivy League, it’s pretty good football, but obviously the guys at Alabama, coming from bigger schools, [the scouts] wanted to see if I could compete at that level,” Dennis said.

Prior to Penn’s Pro Day, Dennis competed at a higher level when he was invited to the Football Championship Subdivision Senior Bowl,

played in games alongside FCS Division I prospects and practiced against them in one-on-one drills.

Since he did well at the FCS Senior Bowl, Dennis was also invited to the Football Bowl Subdivision Senior Bowl, where he had a chance to play with and against players from bigger football schools. His goal was to show that he could compete with players from schools like Alabama and Florida State.

On April 5, Dennis was invited to the New York Giants’ local Pro Day. He got to spend the day at the Giants’ facility in East Rutherford, N.J. “That was one of the coolest things I’ve done so far, and it just shows how it’s really happening,” Dennis said. “You dream about it, and then you get to actually play in those facilities, so that’s very cool.”

Recently, Dennis hired an agent, Brian Adkins, to help him with his recruitment process. Adkins has experience helping other players get drafted to the NFL. Dennis follows in the footsteps of Penn players like wide receiver Justin Watson, who graduated from Wharton in 2018. Watson was drafted as the 114th overall

pick in the fifth round of the NFL draft by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and remains on their roster after his rookie season.

“He’s a good friend of mine, so I’ve been talking to him a lot through this,” Dennis said. “He obviously just went through it last year, so he’s been helping me out a lot with the process, just making sure I’m doing all the right things, talking to the right people.”

Greg Van Roten, who graduated from Penn in 2012, has also provided support for Dennis. Van Roten currently plays for the Carolina Panthers, where he was a fulltime starter at left guard in 2018.

Dennis met Van Roten during his junior year at Penn, and since they play the same position, Van Roten has had some invaluable insight for Dennis.

Even though he is not on any major mock draft boards, Dennis believes that his prospects look good. So far, he has talked to the Giants, Jets, Ravens, and Buccaneers, as well as a few teams in California. Dennis is confident that he will be drafted.

“If I didn’t think I had a chance, I wouldn’t be doing it.”

The NFL draft takes place from April 25-27 in Nashville, Tenn.

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Former Penn football offensive lineman Tommy Dennis hopes to be selected in the NFL draft, which takes place from April 25-27 in Nashville, Tenn. He could also be signed as a free agent.

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home track,” sophomore sprinter Camille Dickson said.

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Ellis Invitational.

Other notable athletes in field events include senior Anna Peyton Malizia and junior Sean Clarke, who both placed second in last year’s Penn Relays in the high jump and pole vault, respectively, and will attempt to improve on their placement Friday and Saturday.

“I’m excited. Every year, Penn Relays has gotten more and more competitive for me, so this year, I’m hoping to do the best I’ve ever had and put everything out there,” Malizia said.

The breakout star of the javelin throw, freshman Marc Minichello, will look to add to his impressive rookie year performance, which

WILSON >> PAGE 7

In her junior year, Wilson really stood out, winning six meets in the weight throw, including an individual indoor Ivy Heps title. She successfully defended her title this year when she became the first Penn athlete ever to crack the 20m mark in the weight throw.

In the hammer throw, Wilson has been just as unstoppable. After being named to the second team All-Ivy list in 2017, the thrower came back even stronger and collected an outdoor Ivy Heps title. Furthermore, she also received an honorable mention after a 23rdplace finish in the NCAA Outdoor Championships.

But the secret for Wilson’s

the women’s sprint medley, the United States will compete against the The Bahamas, Canada, Guyana, Jamaica, and Kenya. The American men, who will send two squads to compete, the Red team and the Blue team, will be competing against Canada, Haiti, Jamaica, and Kenya.

Women’s 4x400m Relay Championship of America — Saturday 2:13 p.m.

At the Penn Relays last season, Penn’s women broke their own record set previously that season in the 4x400-meters with a time of 3:36.52. Penn men’s track also holds an impressive record in this event, earning the second-most victories historically with 10, second only to Villanova’s 12.

“This event closes out the meet with a bang, and often sees fierce competition,” Dickson said.

already includes nabbing the third spot on the NCAA East list and the fifth position nationally.

In track, the spotlight shines on junior Nia Akins, who is ranked fourth in Division I for the 800-meters and recently beat her own program record. The first Quaker to qualify for the NCAA Indoor Championships since 2008, Akins is poised to kick off her championship season with a good performance.

This weekend’s competition is also the final home meet for the seniors, and the athletes have conflicting emotions about the culmination of their Penn Relays career.

“It’s my last Penn Relays, and it’s always exciting to see Franklin Field filled with people, but it is also just another meet. I’m here

to get the job done, but the added excitement of Penn Relays always helps,” Wilson said.

“I missed my first two Penn Relays, so this is actually only my second time running in it,” said senior Calvary Rogers, the 2019 Indoor Heps Champion in the 200m. “It’s bittersweet because I wish I had more chances to run in it, but at the same time, it’s been such a privilege to appreciate it over the four years we’ve been here. And it being the 125th [anniversary] makes it all the more historic.”

Penn Relays will extend until Saturday night. While no one knows what will happen at Franklin Field this weekend, Penn seems on track to rack up some memorable accomplishments in this already historic competition.

success during her time at Penn does not come from any premeet rituals or superstitions. In fact, Wilson credits her accomplishments to her time management skills and hard-work.

“She had already achieved so many things, but after having a phenomenal junior year, she further dedicated herself, trying to get to the next level,” throwing coach Jeff Pflaumbaum said. “It’s amazing to see how she can excel in both academics and athletics, especially in an Ivy League school. This dedication makes her a leader; she’s always trying to push the group forward.”

Despite being ranked No. 111 in the world, Wilson does not plan to continue her career in track. After graduation, she has plans to move to Michigan

and work as an engineer, but for now, the senior still has high hopes for the end of the season.

“After NCAAs last year, I wasn’t really happy with my performance, and I really didn’t want it to happen again,” Wilson said. “My main goals are to make it to the NCAAs again, to set the new Ivy League record for hammer, and to win the Ivy Heps again.”

Penn Relays isn’t famous for its throwing events — they don’t take place at Franklin Field and are in some ways overshadowed by the track events. Fans don’t always know where to go to watch the throwers. If fans were to go to the Mondschein Throwing Complex on Thursday, they’d get a chance to watch a three-time Ivy champion.

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Three Questions: Can Penn softball earn a spot in the Ivy Championship?

Baseball will look to rebound after being swept last week

ficult challenge for the Red and Blue.

The matchup should be a good test of strength versus strength, as Columbia’s secondbest Ivy League earned run average will be challenged by the Quakers’ league-high runs per game. That is not to say either of these teams struggle on the other side of the ball.

In their series against Brown, the Red and Blue’s pitching — led by junior Jennifer Brann’s

historic perfect game — was the main reason the Quakers secured all three victories. For the Lions, junior outfielder Sommer Grzybek is one of the best hitters in the Ivy League, leading the conference with eight home runs and boasting the secondbest slugging percentage of .727.

While the Quakers don’t quite control their own destiny, a sweep of this series would clinch the Red and Blue a spot

in the Ivy League Championship as long as Princeton loses just one of its final six Ivy League contests. If Penn only manages to take two of three from the Lions, the road becomes much more difficult. Princeton would need to lose at least twice, and the Quakers would need Harvard or Columbia to drop a game in their final series of the year.

Unfortunately for the Red and Blue, the final opponents for the Crimson and Lions are last place

teams Cornell and Brown.

Can Penn baseball’s offense get back on track and end the skid?

Despite a four-game Ivy losing streak, the Quakers (20-14, 8-7) still sit in third place in the Ancient Eight with six conference games to go, giving them an outside shot of qualifying for the Ivy League Championship Series. The road to the playoff would likely start with a sweep of last place Cornell (9-21, 4-11) this weekend, and crucial to the Quakers’ ability to accomplish this is getting their historically productive offense back on track.

While the Quakers still lead the Ivy League in runs per game, batting average, slugging percentage, and a number of other key offensive categories, a concerning trend has come about recently for the Penn offense. After averaging 10.7 runs per game in their first 27 contests this season, the Quakers have averaged just 3.5 in their last six games to go along with a 1-5 record.

While the Big Red have struggled this season, it has largely been a result of their Leagueworst offense, as they actually

Samuelson, and Marion Jones.

Most recently, Usain Bolt ran the 4x100m relay for Jamaica in 2010 as part of the USA vs. the World event, which was added in 2000 to expand the meet’s international presence.

Although there has been a significant presence from male competitors since the meet’s inception, the women’s side did not see development until much later.

In 1962, an event for women was finally added for the 68th iteration of the meet. The inaugural event was the 100-yard dash, and only nine women were invited to compete. Among them was Willye White, who competed and medaled in every Olympics from 1956 to 1972. White won the event, clocking 10.90 seconds to cement the gold medal standard of

women competitors at the Relays.

Gina Procaccio, the current Villanova women’s track coach, has been attending the meet for 40 years, first as an athlete, and now as a coach for the one of the most successful women’s programs. For her, the legacy of Penn Relays is what it’s been able to do for women’s running. “It’s a meet that you get a lot of exposure from. For any women’s program that has success here, you’re going to hear about it,�

Procaccio said.

The transition from having all male events to eventually adding a third day of competition completely devoted to women’s events in 1978 marks the Relays’ influence on women’s running as a whole. The Relays quickly became a place where aspiring

female Olympians would make their first mark on the running community.

Gold medalists at the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984, Benita Fitzgerald-Brown, Chandra Cheeseborough, and Diane Dixon were some of the earliest competitors in the Women’s Day events.

An event with undeniable historical significance, the meet stands for more than just athletics. Its longstanding presence has become a tradition that is ingrained in people’s lives.

Robert Batdorf, the 1960 and 1961 discus champion and 1962 Penn graduate, recalled dreaming of running in the Relays from an early age. “After my father took me down to see the relays when I was I kid, I had always wanted to compete

in the Relays against the best people in the country so that I could see what I could do,� Batdorf said.

The allure of the competition similarly infatuated John Haines, a 1956 Penn graduate, who won the 100-yard dash his senior year, holding an all-time record of 9.60 seconds for three years, before it was broken in 1959. The Penn Relays have made such a profound impact on his life that after finding great success as an athlete for eight years, he transitioned to officiating, a role he has had with the meet for 53 years now. Haines has passed on this passion for the Relays to his entire family. “Within the Haines family, I would say if I added up my years and my various sons’ and daughters’ years, I would estimate we’re

JACOB WESSELS Associate Sports Editor

While the eyes of the Penn Athletics world turn to Franklin Field for the Penn Relays this weekend, it might be easy to ignore the other Penn teams that are competing at the same time.

With a number of key games on tap, here are three key questions to consider going into an important weekend of play.

Can Penn softball qualify for the Ivy League Championship Series?

The Quakers (21-14, 12-6 Ivy) enter their final Ivy series of the year against Columbia (19-17, 11-4) just a half game back of the Lions and Harvard (18-16, 11-4) for a spot in the top two of the Ivy League and a trip to the Ivy League Championship Series.

Coming off a dominant sweep of Brown at home last weekend, the Quakers will certainly have the momentum as they make the trip to New York this weekend.

However, the Lions pose a dif-

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Junior pitcher Jennifer Brann threw the second perfect game in program history for Penn softball against Brown last weekend. The Quakers will look to continue their success in their last Ivy series of the season.

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in Berlin, Jesse Owens represented Ohio State at the Relays and won three separate events.

Later that year, he would win four gold medals at the Olympics, a remarkable event of huge symbolic significance for America’s strength against Nazi Germany before World War II. Roger Bannister, the famous British mile runner, ran the Ben Franklin Mile at the Penn Relays in 1951 in a record time of 4:08.30. He would go on to become the first man to run a mile in under four minutes.

Other famous athletes who have run at the Relays include Wilma Rudolph, Bob Beamon, Edwin Moses, Joan Benoit

have the third-best ERA in the conference. This weekend gives the Red and Blue’s offense a chance to get back on track against good pitching to prepare themselves for the crucial home stretch of the season.

Can lightweight rowing take back the Callow Cup? Lightweight rowing will travel to Annapolis, Md. this weekend to take on Navy in a battle for the Callow Cup. The history of the competition has seen each school go on long runs of dominance, with the Quakers winning all but two in the late 1980s and 90s, followed by Navy winning every cup from 2001 to 2012.

In recent years, it has been more of a back and forth battle, with the Quakers coming out slightly ahead, winning four of the last six and three of the last four. However, the Red and Blue fell to the Midshipmen by just 2.7 seconds last season in the Varsity 8 race, relinquishing the cup.

The Quakers will take to the Severn River with their sights set on reclaiming the Callow Cup before a three-week break until they compete again on May 19.

up to 200 years total of attending the Relays,� he said. “When you run the Relays, I don’t care how old or young you are, you always remember. People just remember.

It’s a big event and a big part of people’s lives.�

In 125 years of running, the meet has touched countless people’s lives across generations.

A great portion of Penn Relays competitors go on to live extraordinary lives beyond athletics.

Among them are famous figures such as Buzz Aldrin, Sean “P. Diddy� Combs, and even Bernie Sanders.

If you choose to attend the Relays this weekend, make sure to look out for the next Olympian, presidential candidate, or even space traveler. You might even witness history in the making.

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Penn looks to extend eight-game win streak against Vermont

CHARLIE MA Sports Reporter

With one game left in the regular season, the Quakers are peaking at just the right time.

On the heels of a dominating win against Dartmouth to claim the program’s first outright Ivy League championship since 1986, No. 4 Penn men’s lacrosse (8-3, 6-0 Ivy) will travel to Wilton, Conn. on Saturday to play Vermont in its last game before the Ivy League Tournament.

It all came together for the Red and Blue in the last few weeks.

The Quakers haven’t lost a game since the beginning of March, matching the longest active winning streak in the country with eight straight victories. Showing no signs of slowing down, the

team has won the last three by a combined margin of 36 goals.

However, the team has its eyes on the bigger picture. “[The winning streak] is definitely something to be proud of, but that’s not really our goal. Our goal is to get better from week to week, so we can play our best lacrosse in May when the postseason comes up,” Junior attackman Adam Goldner said.

With one last chance to round out any rough edges before the postseason begins, the Quakers will look to keep their momentum up and build upon their already impressive resumé for the NCAA Tournament when they face the Catamounts (7-5, 4-2 America East).

Vermont has one of the top defenses in the country. The Catamounts rank ninth in the nation in scoring defense, limiting their opponents to just under 10 goals per game. They are also 11th in

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Junior attackman Adam Goldner could set an all-time program record in goals for the Red and Blue if he scores one more goal on Saturday.

the country in man-down defense. Furthermore, standing in goal for Vermont is junior Nick Washuta, who ranks in the top 10

nationally in save percentage and goals-against average.

“For us, it’s about playing with pace and being selfless, and

we’ll continue to focus on that. It seems like [Vermont] is a fairly quick sliding, pre-sliding manto-man defense, so that will increase the importance of us playing at that pace,” coach Mike Murphy said.

Luckily for the Quakers, they are equipped with an an elite offense. As a team, Penn ranks in the top 10 in a multitude of offensive categories: points per game, assists per game, faceoff winning percentage, scoring offense, and scoring margin. Individually, Goldner leads the Ivy League in goals per game, while freshman attackman San Handley ranks seventh in goals per game and fourth in assists per game.

Goldner has 44 goals on the season, which is tied for the most in Penn history. One more goal on Saturday would give him the all-time program record.

On the other side, the Catamounts lead the American East

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While Penn will finish the regular season as Ivy League champions with an undefeated conference record for the first time in over 30 years, the Quakers will have something else to celebrate — the selection of senior midfielder Tyler Dunn by the Redwoods LC in the second round of the inaugural Premier Lacrosse League Collegiate Draft. Serving as a co-captain of the Red and Blue, Dunn has 15 goals, seven assists, eight caused turnovers and 28 ground balls this season.

Before they can truly celebrate, however, the Quakers will look to take care of Vermont before preparing for the postseason.

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