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In Pennsylvania’s ‘loophole’ primary, delegates traditionally wield far more power than voters CHARLOTTE LARACY Staff Reporter

On Tuesday, Pennsylvania voters will wait in lines and check off names as they weigh in on the 2016 presidential nomination. Unlike in previous years, the Pennsylvania primary carries unusual weight because neither party has a candidate that has obtained a majority of the necessary delegates. The real race will take place on the bottom of the Republican ballot, where voters will directly select delegates, almost 80 percent of whom are unpledged.

The Democratic Primary: The Democratic Party primary is relatively straightforward. Statewide winners get a number of delegates in proportion to how they did in the popular voting. Of the 189 delegates at stake in Pennsylvania, 127 are handed out based on the results in individual Congressional districts, while 62 are pledged based on statewide totals.

Pennsylvania also has superdelegates — consisting of party officials, former and current Democratic politicians — who vote for candidates independent of the popular vote.

Of the 21 superdelegates in the state, at least 18 of them are pledged to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, The Boston Globe reported in an April 21 article.

According to The Associated Press, Clinton has 275 more delegates and 477 more superdelegates than Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). If Sanders won every delegate in both Pennsylvania and Maryland, which also votes on Tuesday, he could close the delegate gap.

But that seems unlikely since an April 20 poll conducted by Monmouth University found Clinton leading by about 13 points in Pennsylvania. Because of proportional delegation, Sanders would have to win more than 85 percent of the vote in Pennsylvania to close the delegate gap.

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Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are predicted to win easily ELIZABETH WINSTON Staff Reporter

After months of on-campus voter registration, campaigning and opinionated Facebook posts, Tuesday is finally primary day in Pennsylvania. Polls will be open for voters from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. tonight.

Presidential Race: For both Republicans and Democrats, there will be primaries in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland and Rhode Island on Tuesday as well. Democratic candidates have concentrated their efforts on Pennsylvania, while the Republicans have spread their campaigning throughout the other states.

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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who won the primary here in 2007 against then-Sen. Barack Obama, is heavily favored against Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). Clinton was at City Hall on Monday night for a “Get the Vote Out” event, while Sanders held a rally during the afternoon at Drexel’s Daskalakis Athletic Center. Actor and avid Sanders supporter Justin Long made an appearance at Penn on Saturday, urging students to get the word out.

There is still some hope for those “feeling the Bern,” but Sanders will need some unlikely upsets in order to catch up with Clinton’s wide delegate lead. Sanders is trailing Clinton by 752 delegates right now according to Politico.

On the other side of the aisle, 1968 Wharton graduate Donald Trump is expecting a victory in Pennsylvania. On Monday, Trump spoke at West Chester University,

about 40 minutes from Philadelphia.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Ohio Gov. John Kasich announced on Sunday a plan to “team-up” to beat Trump in primaries early next month. Cruz is placing his focus on campaigning in Indiana, while Kasich is working to garner enough support in Oregon and New Mexico to beat Trump, who is currently the frontrunner.

Trump only needs 392 of the remaining 733 delegates to automatically qualify as the Republican nominee. Cruz and Kasich, who are both mathematically incapable of reaching the required majority, are working to at least deny Trump the nomination.

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Recent Republican nominees have all won the Pennsylvania primary SYDNEY SCHAEDEL Deputy News Editor

After years of falling near the end of the presidential primary cycle, the April 26 Pennsylvania primary is finally relevant.

Seventy-one Republican and 210 Democratic delegates will be on the line when Pennsylvania votes on Tuesday and, this time, their votes will be crucial.

The delegates’ votes, that is.

This year and in past years, it’s been more important for Republican candidates to woo delegates than voters. Someone like Republican front-runner and 1968 Wharton graduate Donald Trump who can secure the numbers in a popular vote may not win many delegates

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if the other candidates have been making the rounds to urge delegates to vote for them.

This type of thing has happened in the past, where popular vote mattered little. Incumbent president Gerald Ford and presidential candidate Ronald Reagan were so close in the 1976 primaries that Reagan decided to choose a running mate from Pennsylvania, Sen. Richard Schweiker, in the hope that he would help him take Pennsylvanian delegates away from Ford. But Ford also had his own Pennsylvania ally, Drew Lewis, who headed the state’s delegation at the 1976 Republican National Convention. Four years later, Lewis executed the same strategy for Reagan, who won most of the Pennsylvania delegates in the primary even though he lost the popular vote by 100,000 votes to George H.W. Bush.

Former President George W. Bush won the Pennsylvania primary in 2000, Sen. John

McCain (R-Ariz.) in 2008 and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in 2012, making it historically a good predictor of who the eventual nominee will be, though only time will tell if that will remain the trend this year.

Though the Democratic primary is more straightforward, history also may have an impact on the outcome this year. The Clintons have historically been popular in Pennsylvania. Former President Bill Clinton won 56.5 percent of the vote in the 1992 primary and Pennsylvania has voted consistently for Democrats in the general election since Reagan’s reelection in 1984. Hillary Clinton, whose grandparents and father both hailed from Scranton, Pa. is also popular among Pennsylvania Democrats. She beat Barack Obama in in the Pennsylvania primary in 2008, and is leading in many of the polls.

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LGBTQ faculty members face challenges at Penn

Penn schools lack a cohesive diversity action plan CHLOE CHENG Staff Reporter

In recent years, recruitment of a diverse faculty has been a topic of much discussion within Penn’s administrative circles. But LGBTQ faculty members — already marginalized group — may often be pushed to the wayside or forgotten under the umbrella of diversity. Once on campus, many then face institutional and personal challenges stemming from their identities.

include both sexual orientation and gender identity under their definition of diversity. The School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Science include only sexual orientation in their definitions.

Mathematics professor and College of Arts and Sciences Dean Dennis DeTurck said that SAS’s action plan may only include sexual orientation and not gender identity because he imagines that “those two things mean the same thing to a lot of people.”

In response to a perceived lack of explicit and comprehensive LGBTQ inclusivity in the University’s diversity initiatives, the LGBT Center founded the LGBT+ Faculty Diversity Working Group in 2011. The group’s primary aims are to ensure that gender and sexual minorities are

Defining diversity In June 2011, Penn President Amy Gutmann announced the five-year Action Plan for Faculty Diversity and Excellence, backed up with $100 million in funding. The plan aims to recruit, retain and mentor a diverse faculty. In its introduction, a brief mention of diversity in several of its forms is featured, stating, “Across 12 Schools, more than 25,000 students, and more than 4,000 faculty members, we become one university: a -Vice Provost for Faculty wide-ranging, ever-changing Anita Allen community that draws its strength from a multitude of races, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, historical included when it comes to divertraditions, ages, religions, dis- sity hiring, aid individual schools abilities, veteran status, interests, in reforming their action plans’ perspectives, and socioeconomic language, and push for more backgrounds.” queer scholarship.

Other than in this introduction, Vice Provost for Faculty Anita sexual orientation — and not to Allen pointed out that some of mention, gender identity, which the schools whose action plans isn’t included in the official action lack LGBTQ-related language plan in any respect — is not ex- are actually at the forefront of the plicitly referred to at any other university in terms of LGBTQ point. leadership. She continued, “I The official action plan man- think that we have to be careful dated that Penn’s 12 schools each not to be obsessed with whether formulate their own diversity particular words are there — if action plans by May 2012. Some the values are there, the intention schools included sexual orienta- is there, the commitment is there tion and gender identity in their and the practice is there.” definitions of diversity, while LGBTQ faculty diversity is some included only sexual orien- not tracked in official action plan tation and still others decided to progress reports. The action plan forgo a specific definition of di- progress reports focus on gender versity. equity and “minority equity,” Penn Law School chose not which translates to race and ethto define diversity because “as nicity and incorporates no other a faculty we have been, and will minority group. continue to be, aware of the many When asked whether she diversity considerations in hiring, knows if Penn has been hiring and our precise conception of more LGBTQ faculty, Allen said, what dimensions of difference “I don’t know whether we’ve been matter may change somewhat hiring more LGBT faculty; that over time and through our delib- would presuppose that I know erative process,” its action plan the exact numbers that were hired states. say, in 2012, 2013. We don’t know The School of Dental Medi- exact numbers, but what I can cine — whose original action plan say with great confidence is that did not include LGBTQ-specific we’ve hired some amazing LGBT language — is now working on faculty in the last couple of years.” revising its plan to be more incluWhile the University colsive. lects concrete data on race and Out of the four undergradu- gender, the fact that sexual orienate schools, only the School of tation and gender identity is left Nursing and the Wharton School out of the process has led some

Seeking a diverse faculty is a way to say, ‘we want to have a wide range of ideas discussed…’”

administrators to question how they can ensure that progress is being made.

Senior Director to the Deputy Dean of the Wharton School Anita Henderson, who also serves as Wharton’s diversity officer, believes the difference in data collection may be due in part to the lack of federal anti-discrimination laws regarding LGBTQ-identifying individuals, while such laws exist for issues of race and gender.

This lack of laws could discourage queer faculty from feeling comfortable identifying themselves.

Allen said that information on race and ethnicity, as well as gender, is routinely collected because the University is required to report such information to the federal government. Other categories, such as sexual orientation and gender identity, are not required, but without the relevant data collection, keeping track of the university’s progress in recruiting and retaining LGBTQ faculty becomes harder.

Penn Law professor Fernando Chang-Muy said that data and research is crucial for providing information as to where Penn stands in relation to its peer institutions and serving as the springboard from which to take the correct and necessary actions.

To determine Penn’s climate during the 2011-12 academic year, the year during which the action plan was announced, a University-wide survey of standing faculty was sent out. Of the 2,523 standing faculty members, 1,854 completed the survey. Out of those 1,854, every single one identified their gender and race.

But on a question giving faculty the opportunity to identify their sexual orientation, only 1,744 responded. 3 percent or about 52 faculty members identified themselves as “lesbian, gay or queer.”

Another 3 percent said they would prefer not to respond.

The importance of LGBTQ faculty diversity In the same faculty survey, when asked whether Penn was diverse, 25 percent of respondents said “not at all” or “a little.” When asked how often they engaged in conversation with those whose sexual orientations differed from theirs, 10 percent said “rarely or never” and 33 percent said “occasionally.” Overall, faculty interacted more often with those whose religions, nationality, race and ethnicity, gender and political beliefs differed from theirs.

Diversity and equity is a goal toward which work will be ongoing for many years, as faculty turnover is slow, according to DeTurck.

Allen described why she works to increase faculty diversity, emphasizing the different perspectives and ideas that a diverse faculty brings to an academic institution.

“I believe that a diverse faculty and a diverse student body lead to the most interdisciplinary and comprehensive scholarly and intellectual collaboration. The more diversity in the population, the more diversity of ideas,” she said. “So seeking a diverse faculty is a way to say, ‘we want to have a wide range of ideas discussed, debated and condoned.’”

Queer faculty members also serve as someone for potential faculty hires — as well as LGBTQ students — to identify with.

Chemistry professor Eric Schelter recounts his impression

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Despite the range of groups for students who identify as LGBTQ at Penn, LGBTQ faculty members find that they do not receive the same level of support from the University.

of Penn while considering where terms of LGBT people and their to work. “It was soon after I ar- spouses.” rived here [to visit] that I met other A number of professors choose gay professors in a variety of sub- to come out during the hiring jects,” he said. “It just seemed to process, so as to get an accurate be part of the fabric of the univer- gauge of the climate of their posity.” Although seeing other queer tential schools and departments. faculty helped him make his deci- Presidential professor of cancer sion, he added, “There are still not biology at Penn Medicine Donita as many out faculty as you would Brady brought her fiancée along necessarily expect. So the ques- with her during her second visit tion is, why is that?” to Penn because “when you’re While faculty and administra- thinking about starting a life tion alike stress the importance of at a new place, you also need to faculty diversity, there is a seem- consider the person that you’re ing disparity between ideals and bringing along.” perceptions of reality. Only 38 Some faculty members choose percent of surveyed LGBTQ- to come out by using examples identifying individuals agreed from their personal lives to ilthat Penn’s departments and lustrate class concepts, while schools make genuine efforts to others decide to keep the topic recruit and retain minority fac- of their sexuality outside of the ulty. classroom. Annenberg School of “I’ll just put it this way,” Communication assistant profesSchool of Social Policy & Prac- sor Jessa Lingel generally comes tice assistant professor Ezekiel out to her undergraduates students Dixon-Roman, who also serves but noted that when she teaches as the chair for the University graduate students who are closer Council Committee on Diversity to her in age, she tries to maintain and Equity, said. “While there are a certain distance by not menvarious reasons why faculty leave an institution, both professional and personal, push and pull, I do know of instances where faculty of color and queer faculty have left due to issues with their experiences with the institution.”

On the more administrative side, Allen said she did not know of any instances in - Chemistry professor Eric which faculty members left Schelter due to discrimination.

law department needed someone to teach family law or sexual orientation and the law, and how if you’re openly gay or not you can lose custody of your child, it might help,” he said.

It was soon after I arrived here [to visit] that I met other gay professors in a variety of subjects.”

Coming out Since the latter half of the 20th century, Penn has been a pioneer relative to its peers in its treatment and attitudes toward LGBTQidentifying faculty.

Professor emeritus of religious studies Ann Matter, who came to Penn in the 1970s, described her experiences at Penn as “all positive.”

“I never felt any discrimination. I was able to get benefits for my partner. I always knew that Penn didn’t discriminate against people for sexual preference, and I thought that was excellent,” she said.

Penn has been and is progressive in the benefits it offers to queer couples. Schelter recalled that Penn’s insurance policies regarding his partnership was an important consideration in his decision to come teach at Penn in 2009. He “felt that Penn was pretty progressive at that time, in

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tioning her sexual orientation, as she believes “sharing queerness comes with an obligation to be intimate.”

Some queer faculty members are hesitant to come out in fear of jeopardizing their chances of receiving tenure. “12 schools.

12 very different atmospheres.

We still have folks who come to campus when they’re hired, saying, ‘I’m queer, I’m so excited’ and they meet with us [the LGBT Center],” said Erin Cross, senior associate director of the LGBT Center. “And then they disappear because they feel they can’t be out in their school environment or they won’t get tenure. I wish that was not still happening and I think that’s part of what we’re up against.”

Chang-Muy sees how being LGBTQ might be an issue where tenure is concerned, unless that faculty member is fulfilling a need for a department. “If the

Queer Faculty versus Queer Scholarship In its drive to increase the number of queer faculty, the administration has run into the question of how to do so in a legal manner. One way to work around this issue is to focus on increasing queer scholarship — the study of sexual orientation and gender identity — as many believe this increases the likelihood of hiring queer faculty.

“Today, one of the most exciting and emerging areas of scholarship is LGBTQ theory and scholarship. We clearly want to be in the forefront of the scholarly advances being made in this area, so if we are alert to the possibility of hiring and retaining LGBTQ faculty, then we absolutely want to do it,” Allen said.

When asked whether he thinks the University may sometimes view queer faculty and queer scholarship as the same entity, Dixon-Román stated that many institutions tend to engage in “identity politics” and tend to expect queer faculty to be the ones conducting queer scholarship.

“I am not one who necessarily agrees with identity politics,” he said. “I do think that representation is important, but representation doesn’t mean that it’s going to bring about queer studies scholarship or any other category.”

For years, the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies program has pushed for more queer scholarship, but funding and the appropriate level of attention from the administration has been hard to come by. “I don’t know if most administrators make it a priority,” said Director of the GSWS program and professor of political science Nancy Hirschmann. “I’m hoping College Hall is recognizing the need for more courses.”

As an additional impetus for increasing queer scholarship, Hirschmann believes that the likelihood of hiring queer professors could also increase.

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but acknowledges that finding itself out in hiring, reviewing released in 2011 will expire at the a way to hire queer faculty in for promotion and when you’re end of this semester, although non-queer subjects is difficult. trying to publish through the individual schools’ action plans She believes that continuously peer review process and going and diversity initiatives will stay striving to improve the campus through journals that are still in effect. climate is essential, as this may very heteronormative.” attract queer faculty in all subStudent as catalysts for change jects.

Looking forward Hirschmann, along with CoWhile queer faculty and queer In the fall of the current 2015- Director of GSWS Demie Kurz, scholarship are often assumed to 16 academic year, a second believes that students are the intersect, queer representation university-wide faculty survey most important and impactful in a variety of subjects is an es- was sent out and official results way to create change on campus. sential component of LGBTQ pend release. An increase in Both the Penn Women’s Center diversity. “I think having queer self-identification by LGBTQ- and GSWS were formed in part professors is important for identifying faculty members due to student advocacy and sitscholarly endeavors; people’s could possibly indicate success- ins. life experiences inform their ful recruitment of queer faculty, Since students are the main research, and even if it’s not an increasingly open and wel- constituents of the university, queer-specific research, it still coming environment for queer their demands and needs are ininforms what they’re doing and faculty where they feel more fluential in shaping the agenda really brings added viewpoints comfortable to identify them- and priorities of the administrathat might not be there other- selves or both. tion. wise,” Cross said. “That really According to Allen, prelimiGraduate School of Education makes Penn the locus for inte- nary data shows that 3 percent of assistant professor Nelson Flores grating knowledge that it wants faculty — the same percentage said, “Some of the students at the to be.” as in 2011 — identified them- GSE have done a really good job English professor Heather selves as lesbian, gay or queer, of bringing queer issues to the Love believes that both faculty but the percentage of faculty who forefront and saying, ‘We don’t and scholarship are integral have courses that address to a strong university. “Idethese issues. We don’t have ally, a university needs mentors who can support I think having both a strong curriculum us in these issues.’ And I queer professors in LGBTQ studies, as well think that has shaped the as active, visible LGBTQ conversation.” is important for faculty, since both serve Besides demanding different ends,” she said. scholarly endeavors; change, undergraduate stu“Sometimes, of course, these people’s life experiences dents are the professors of will intersect, and it can be tomorrow. “My message inform their research…” powerful to have someone to students it that if you are teaching this material who - Senior Associate Director of queer — if you are LGBTQ can also speak directly to the LGBT Center Erin Cross — you need to consider the lived experience of queer becoming faculty,” Henpeople.” derson said. “If you want to Having a non-LGBTQ profes- identified themselves as queer is see a greater presence in the facsor teaching queer studies also twice as high when looking just ulty, then go do it. Everyone says has unique benefits. “It discour- within the underrepresented we need change, but we need ages insularity,” DeTurck said. minority population. Allen also someone to do that.”

“I think queer studies has some- said that other preliminary reThe official action plan adthing to gain from an open and sults from this survey, such as dresses the importance of honest attempt by somebody those concerning whether mi- undergraduate students in the who’s not part of that community norities feel as if they have to faculty pipeline, outlining proto understand them.” work harder to be perceived as grams meant to encourage 51 percent of LGBTQ-iden- legitimate scholars, seem similar students from underrepresented tifying Penn faculty members to those from 2011. minority groups to pursue gradsurveyed in 2011 agreed to some While in the past, gender uate work and future careers in extent that they needed to work equity and minority equity the professoriate. Many of the harder than their peers to be per- reports were separate docu- diversity action plans of the inceived as legitimate scholars. ments, Allen wants to revise this dividual schools also address the “The reality is we are in a practice to best take intersection- faculty pipeline. heteronormative institution, and ality into consideration. She also “I think it’s great that we have that’s not just in arrangement wants to include information young activists,” Chang-Muy and structure, it’s also in scholar- on other minority groups. The said. “It’s great that we have the ship,” Dixon-Román said. “Penn newly revised and structured next generation of leaders, so is probably more progressive report will come out in the 2016- the work that my generation has than many other institutions, 17 academic year. done will be taken up by the next but heteronormativity still plays The official action plan cohort of people. There’s hope.”

Kasich visits Philadelphia diner to talk to voters Penn for Kasich attended the event in South Phila.

REBECCA HEILWEIL Staff Reporter

On Monday, Republican presidential candidate John Kasich stopped by the Penrose Diner in South Philadelphia to talk with Pennsylvania voters.

Penn for Kasich, currently the only campaign group on campus to have endorsed a Republican candidate, also attended.

Kasich, who was born outside Pittsburgh but serves as governor of Ohio, is upping his grassroots efforts in Pennsylvania in advance of Tuesday’s Pennsylvania primary. According to an NBC/ WSJ/Marist poll released on Sunday, Kasich maintains support from only 24 percent of likely Pennsylvania voters, falling in third after Trump and Cruz.

This campaign stop is also one of Kasich’s first following news that his campaign will be coordinating with Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-Texas) to deny Donald Trump

the Republican nomination.

Chairman of Penn for Kasich and College junior Joe Kiernan had seen the candidate twice before.

“It was great to see the governor in Philadelphia,” he said.

During his hour-long visit, Kasich signed memorabilia, ate at the diner’s bar and met with the owners.

About eight Penn students appeared at the event along with a crowd of Kasich supporters and press members. Only one student was able to speak with the governor, while several got the opportunity to shake his hand.

College junior Ben Fogel said he heard about the event from Kiernan and became an ardent supporter of the Ohio governor following the second Republican primary debate.

“He does have experience as a responsible and experienced leader of a major U.S. state,” Fogel said. He liked that “[Kasich] has very nuanced views on some of these positions, and that at times he’s willing to take a principled or unpopular view,

despite members of the Republican Party moving to the right.

He’s been a moderating voice.”

Engineering senior Dillon Weber, another member of Penn for Kasich at the event, said the candidate had “been [his] pick the entire season.”

Yesterday, Cruz campaign manager Jeff Roe released a statement, saying, “To ensure that we nominate a Republican who can unify the Republican Party and win in November, our campaign will focus its time and resources in Indiana and in turn clear the path for Gov. Kasich to compete in Oregon and New Mexico.”

Republican frontrunner and 1968 Wharton graduate Donald Trump responded by tweeting “Lyin’ Ted Cruz and 1 for 38 Kasich are unable to beat me on their own so they have to team up (collusion) in a two on one. Shows weakness!”

Kasich has a difficult path to the Republican nomination ahead. With only 165 delegates, compared to Cruz’s 559 and Trump’s 845, he remains in a distant third place.

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OPINION You are what you think Growing pains | Why I write (and will keep writing) about growing up

Tuesday april 26, 2016 VOL. CXXXII, NO. 54 132nd Year of Publication COLIN HENDERSON President LAUREN FEINER Editor-in-Chief ANDREW FISCHER Director of Online Projects BRIELLA MEGLIO Director of Internal Consulting ISABEL KIM Opinion Editor JESSICA MCDOWELL Enterprise Editor DAN SPINELLI City News Editor CAROLINE SIMON Campus News Editor ELLIE SCHROEDER Assignments Editor LUCIEN WANG Copy Editor SUNNY CHEN Copy Editor NICK BUCHTA Senior Sports Editor TOM NOWLAN Sports Editor LAINE HIGGINS Sports Editor TOMMY ROTHMAN Sports Editor

When I applied to be an opinion columnist a year ago, I wasn’t quite sure if I fit the mold. Most opinion columns I’d read, whether in The Daily Pennsylvanian or in national newspapers, were about politics, economics or controversial things. But even though I like discussing politics and economics and controversy, whenever I sat down to write a column, I never found myself actually wanting to write about those subjects.

Instead, I naturally gravitated toward my personal experience, the things that I went through in everyday life that were representative of the process of becoming an adult. Hence the title of my column: “Growing Pains.”

When I first became a columnist, I was told that different DP alumni critique every issue of the DP and send in their feedback so that we can improve the paper. The first time I received a critique, I was on pins and needles. It was similar to the ones I would

receive over the next two semesters: “Great story, but perhaps something that belongs more on a blog than in a daily newspaper.”

“Too reflective.”

Over time, I began to doubt the importance of my column and to question both what I was writing and why I was writing it.

If my columns weren’t addressing important policies or legislation or attempting to answer difficult social justice questions, were they serving any purpose for the Penn student body?

About halfway through the year, I met with Alec Ward, another DP columnist who often writes about political issues and university policies. I told Alec I was considering changing the focus of my column, and asked him if he had any advice about how to go about writing political articles. During the course of our conversation he asked, “What do you think about the most? Whatever that is, that’s what you should write about for your column to be the best it can

be.”

The more I thought about it, the more I realized that my column was what I think about the most. I am fascinated by what it means to grow up, by the roller coaster of ex-

childhoods.

And to be honest, I do not consider any of that to be less important than politics, economics or controversial issues. Newspapers ought to have articles that speak to the complexity of

If my columns weren’t addressing important policies or legislation or attempting to answer difficult social justice questions, were they serving any purpose for the Penn student body?” periences as we transition from young adult to adult, the decisions we have to learn how to make, the consequences we have to live with, the unique, irreversible sensation of edging closer to our adult lives and further from our

the human experience as well as articles that speak to the complexity of the issues of the modern world.

After all, the things we experience now, the choices we make now, the people we meet now, the emotions we feel now shape our

opinions, our identities and our interactions — just as laws and politics shape the world that we live in.

And while questioning institutional authority and brainstorming solutions to wrongs that we see around us is a fundamental part of being an informed citizen, it is just as fundamental to question and reflect upon the processes that take place within ourselves as we grow up. We cannot forget that the microcosm is just as significant as the macrocosm — nor that the microcosm is what shapes the macrocosm.

I hope that my column has served the purpose of encouraging the Penn student body to reflect upon their own experiences and feelings as college students, as they grow up — and to realize that those experiences and feelings are intrinsically connected to those of the students around them. I know that it has certainly served that purpose for me.

Writing this column has allowed me to better under-

EMILY HOEVEN stand the depth and complexity of what it means to be an adult-in-progress, and I think that’s because I was able to share it with you, my fellow adults-inprogress. All I can really say is, thank you for allowing me to share my experiences, share my insecurities, share my thoughts, share my opinions, share myself. And thank you to those, in turn, who shared themselves with me.

Chances are, I’ll still be writing about growing up next year.

EMILY HOEVEN is a College sophomore from Fremont, Calif., studying English. Her email address is ehoeven@sas. upenn.edu.

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Like most Penn students, I spent Fling partying outdoors in the sun. It was wonderful, but when I recounted my weekend to friends later this week, there was a part of the story that I wanted to leave out. That Saturday morning, I went to a brunch mixer, and didn’t take the medications I normally take during breakfast. By the time I was watching Mask and Wig perform in the Quad, I started to shake. When my friends and I agreed to go home and nap in preparation for going out later that night, I found myself stiff and panicked on my couch, unable to sleep or breathe deeply.

It was the early stages of a panic attack. Eventually, I remembered that my interrupted morning schedule had caused me to forget my anxiety medication. I downed a pill and a half, and I was feeling back to normal within the hour.

After Olivia Kong’s suicide, I have seen the Penn community come together in an impressive display. We

are all living in fear that the next student that takes their life will be a friend, who takes some of our heart and our peace with them. So, we have spoken out, with many people sharing their personal stories of mental health issues. However, I can’t help but feel that our dialogue is missing a crucial piece. Though I have read a multitude of stories about Penn students reaching out for counseling after personal turmoil, the subject of psychiatric medication is a glaring omission. On weekends like Fling, it becomes abundantly clear to me that many Penn students are turning to the wrong substances to deal with their emotional issues.

We are happy to use a steady flow of drugs and alcohol to relieve our stress, often to the point of blacking out, but resistant to the idea of looking into medication therapy to help us function.

I have suffered from anxiety since I was a tiny child.

It reached a crisis point at the beginning of my senior

year at Penn, after a stressful summer job. I found myself struggling to breathe often, my lungs feeling like they were in a vice grip every time I walked down Locust. My hands shook,

therapy was not enough to help me.

I was trembling when I sat down for my initial evaluation with the psychiatrist. If my sessions with the therapist were a coffee chat,

From now on, I will not be a part of our campus’, and society’s, problem with psychiatric medication.” my mind raced constantly and I felt ready to vomit at any point. I had at least one small panic attack a day.

The physical discomfort became unbearable, and I reluctantly took action. The therapist assigned to me at CAPS was wonderful. I felt like I was talking to a friend rather than a counselor, and he had such creative ways of framing my issues. However, it became clear to both of us after a while that talk

this was a second-round interview. He was older and more clinical, taking continuous notes on a pad during our appointment. The only time his bespectacled face cracked a smile was when we got to the questions about my dealings with men, which are their own kind of comedy. He even probed into my neurotic house cleaning habits, only to realize that they stemmed from being raised in the South

rather than a psychological disorder. When we finished talking, he wrote me a prescription for Lexapro that I filled within hours at CVS. Though he spent quite a while describing how the drug would need to trickle into my system before taking effect, I could feel it within two days. A corset I had been wearing for years was loosened. My hands were still, and my breaths were longer and slower. The number of thoughts I had in a day was cut in half. My fear and nerves were quickly replaced by the regret that I had not done this sooner, that it took a crisis for me to value myself enough to turn to medication. Now, in the rare times that I have anxious thoughts, they are frequently about the fact that I cheated myself out of this peace for years by caving to stigma about psychiatric drugs. People tend to think of these medications in the extreme, conjuring mental images of the shuffling patients in “One Flew

Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”

We fail to realize that, like physical ailments, mental health issues exist on a spectrum. If we will take NyQuil for the flu so it doesn’t turn into pneumonia, why won’t we consider medicating for anxiety and depression before they turn into a breakdown?

From now on, I will not be a part of our campus’, and society’s, problem with psychiatric medication. I owe it to everyone whose pride has pushed them to suffer in silence. I will try my best to be as willing to talk to my friends about seeking medication therapy for their issues as I am to cajoling them into taking another shot with me. I will be open about the fact that my pills are a part of my personal chemistry.

Every morning, I will take Singuliar for my asthma and allergies, and Lexapro so I can breathe.

Ansley Bolick is a graduate student in the Perelman School of Medicine.

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Penn Masti wins Best Mix at Bollywood America Penn Masti mixed a vast array of dance styles SHOBA BABU Staff Reporter

The curtains opened to reveal flashing shades of deep crimson, sparkling gold and jet black. The audience erupted into cheers and a medley of music played as Penn Masti’s dance began at the one of the largest Bollywood dance competitions in the country, Bollywood America.

This April marked a big win for Penn Masti, Penn’s South Asian co-ed fusion dance group.

After months of practice and preparation, the group recently won Best Mix at Bollywood America, one of the largest Bollywood dance competitions in the country.

Competition at Bollywood America is fierce and stakes run high, so the weeks leading up to the competition were filled with intense practice sessions.

“We practiced from eight to 12

at least, but it was really till one or two,” College freshman Anjali Mahadevia said. “We had people come watch us, like Dhamaka, Naach and SAS Board — alumni as well. We had this huge support group behind us and we would drill each sequence and get the facials right — it was a really great bonding experience for us.”

This year, Bollywood America was held in Cleveland, Ohio.

Penn’s team rented out a bus and embarked on the eight-hour drive the day before, along with other members of the Penn community who came out to show support — including alumni, and newer members of the team who joined just three weeks prior to the contest.

Masti mixes a vast array of dance styles in their routines, including Hindi film dance, bhangra, hip-hop, jazz, raas, bharatanatyam, lyrical, modern, folk, Broadway and even some Filipino styles. Different teams also incorporate different overarching storylines into their

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Penn’s South Asian co-ed fusion dance group Penn Masti won the Best Mix category in the dance competition Bollywood America.

dances. “[Our] theme was the rift between India and Pakistan. It touches upon the divide and how that created a separation between the two populations but that can be bridged because ultimately we’re all the same people,” Mahadevia said.

Gupta added that the theme

is also relevant to current events as well. “The end moral is not to generalize the views of a few extremists to an entire group of people,” he added.

The road to Bollywood America is a long one — in fact, some preparations started before school even began.

“We started [choosing the mix]

during the summer so [Anjali] wasn’t even on the team when we had decided this theme. We first found something relevant and current and constructed a theme out of it and then we had the general idea of the mood of every piece and [tried to choose a song that fit that mood] and we constantly refined it,” Wharton and Engineering junior Gagan Gupta.

Preparing for and performing in the final competition come with unique challenges as well.

Women go through three hours of hair and makeup prep beforehand and on stage, both men and women go through three or four costume changes. According to Gupta and Mahadevia, members will dance off stage in a matter of seconds, change in the sidelines in around five seconds, and quickly dance back on stage for the next sequence.

This year, 11 teams from across the country competed. Six teams, including Masti, were selected from automatic bid competitions where winners automatically

earned a spot in the competition while the other five were selected based on the number of points they accrued from competing in other contests. This marks the second year Masti was selected to dance in the competition.

Gupta and Mahadevia said that each member of the team played a crucial role in earning the win and gave a special shout out to their dedicated senior members, especially team captain and College senior Nikhil Naidu, who made the mix.

“There are a lot of people in the dance circuit who are solely DJs and they only make the mixes for teams but Nikhil was not only [our DJ but also] our captain, our lead, and ran all the practices and it was awesome to see him win that because he put so much into the team,” Gupta said.

Finally, they are looking forward to their tenth anniversary show next year and what the future holds.

“The goal is to be BA-ck to BA next year,” Mahadevia said.

Trump says, ‘I loved Penn’ at West Chester U. rally Protesters greeted the 1968 Wharton graduate PAT GOODRIDGE Contributing Reporter

On Monday afternoon, Republican front-runner and 1968 Wharton graduate Donald Trump held a rally at West Chester University in West Chester, Pa., roughly 40 miles outside of Philadelphia.

Speaking about an hour from campus, Trump spoke briefly about his alma mater.

Trump expounded on how he “knows Pennsylvania” after attending the Wharton School 48

years ago. “I loved Penn,” he said.

“Wharton is the best business school in the world. It’s one of the hardest to get into.” He insisted he would win Pennsylvania in not only the primary, but in the general election and that he “wants to run against Hillary.”

Thousands of students and supporters arrived hours early for the best seating in WCU’s gym, and were met outside on lawn spaces by protesters loyal to Democratic candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), as well as by others in the small town who simply wanted to experience the momentous event.

This mixed collection of people symbolized the mixed attitudes

of West Chester students about having such a controversial political figure visit their school.

“There’s definitely been a mixed mood about this on campus,” said WCU junior James Kesge, who does not support Trump. “We don’t like that we as students weren’t asked how we felt about having Trump on campus, but we can’t miss the opportunity to see such a talked-out person and we know it means a lot for the school to have someone so important visit.”

Young, passionate Trump supporters swarmed the main floor of the gym, forming a sort of “student section” directly in front of the podium. Many of the students

donned the iconic red caps with the Trump slogan, “Make America Great Again,” printed across the top, along with other Trump paraphernalia and patriotic garb.

On numerous occasions, the crowd chanted, “Build that wall,” a reference to Trump’s promise to reinforce the U.S.-Mexico border.

Immigration seems to be a crucial issue for these young voters.

“Why should I pay taxes and my hard-earned money to pay for immigrants? They shouldn’t have social security,” said Kaylee Plisitski, a sophomore at nearby Cabrini College. “Liberals don’t understand how hard I work. I’ve had a job since I was 15 and am

paying my way through college.

Lots of people feel this way.”

When Trump finally emerged to give his address, he too seemed adamant about addressing immigration from Latin America.

“We want people to come to this country, but we want them to come legally,” he repeated in variations throughout the rally.

Trump was also vocal about his political opponents. Instead of firing off at Democratic candidates former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), he focused on Republican adversaries Sen. Ted Cruz (I-Vt.) and Ohio Gov. John Kasich — no coincidence in light

of Pennsylvania’s upcoming Republican primary.

Speaking of the recent CruzKasich alliance to stop Trump from reaching a majority of delegates before the Republican National Convention, Trump said, “How pathetic is it when they use collusion. How weak does it make them look?” Trump currently leads with 46.6 percent of the Republican vote in PA. In terms of his potential to hold the highest office, Trump seems not only to believe he has the leadership capability for the presidency, but also that he has the image: “Look how handsome I am.

Don’t I look presidential?”

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2016 The mission of the College Houses is to provide supportive residential communities for undergraduate students. By design, the Houses integrate the intellectual and academic experiences of the conventional classroom with those of everyday life—through programming, events, and powerful interactions between faculty, staff, and students.

In support of that academic mission, the College House Deans, who serve as chief administrators of these communities, established the College House Deans Integrated Knowledge Award. The Integrated Knowledge Award honors those residents who have shown themselves able to combine their academic passions with the concerns of the day-to-day life of the College House communities they live in, and through their activities and participation have directly benefited the members of their own House.

Austin Bream Kings Court English College House

First Place Award winner

Austin Bream is a man with a passion for practical, forward-thinking sustainability. Currently serving as a Resident Advisor in Kings Court English College House, he is also working as an intern with Green Campus Partnership, running the Green Living Certification program and the Power Down Challenge. He works with the Penn Program in the Environmental Humanities as a member of the Academic Advisory Board, and he helped launch WetLand, a "mobile, sculptural habitat and public space constructed to explore resource interdependency and climate change in urban centers" (www.wet-land.org). In Kings Court English, he is developing a solar-powered, hydroponic food garden and leads House programming on sustainability and environmental issues.

"Austin has unobtrusively but consistently combined acknowledgment of his responsibility to his community with expressions of his community’s responsibilities to its world. He provides an ongoing but understated example of how to integrate one’s passion for the pursuit of meaningful and tangible change with a rigorous pursuit of one’s intellectual and academic goals. He is, in short, a stellar role model for his residents, and for the residents of KCECH more broadly. And he achieves all of this without ever standing on a soap-box or stridently calling for change." — Prof. Cam Grey, College House Fellow, Kings Court English College House

Darlina Liu Rodin College House Second Place

As an RA in Rodin College House, biology major Darlina Liu strives to integrate her interests in health and wellness into the lives of her College House residents. Leveraging her experiences as a programming VP in the Leadership Residential Program and as a Caught Caring volunteer in Rodin's #rodinCARES program, she has melded her academic interests in biology and anthropology by organizing Rodin_24 dinners around the topics as diverse as gun violence and bio-photonics research. Creating events like "Fitness February" and Walk'n'Talks allows her to foster cultural change aimed at increased health and happiness in her community.

"I have noticed Darlina especially in her role as co-leader of #rodinCARES. I myself have benefited from the “Take What You Need” campaign, and noted how successful such a simple and silent gesture could be... My family personally participated in the MLK Jr. Day of stairwell painting—that activity offers permanent support for generations of students to come, with the uplifting and colorful messages and images in the otherwise dreary and dirty stairwells. They make a difference in my own daily life, time and time again. And the day of painting itself is therapeutic, community-building, and memorable... Her whole-person approach, to herself and to others, is itself a healing influence." — Dr. Jamuna Samuels, College House Fellow, Rodin College House

Jared Fenton Harrison College House Third Place

Seeking solutions to remedy the ongoing mental health crisis at Penn has been a challenge for the University administration and health professionals. Also answering the call for aid is Harrison's Jared Fenton, a Penn Civic Scholar who founded Penn Reflect, a student group intended to give Penn students a place for peer support and student-run group therapy. Gathering over food like sushi and pizza, Penn Reflect welcomes students to open up to each other about what life at the University is actually like, providing opportunities for them to form supportive communities to combat stress and feelings of failure. Jared partnered with the College Houses, bringing programming to Harrison and Rodin, and his program has grown to over 300 participants and spawned offshoots to continue and spread the work of healing.

"Most residents come to events looking for a source of food or something to pass the time with, but Jared engages more than others. He is one of the most passionate residents I have met so far." — Lyndsi Burcham, Social Events Coordinator, Harrison College House

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Penn GSE wins grant SPEC-TRUM announces to study law admissions Spring Concert lineup Grant was awarded by the Access Group

This year’s event will be held at the Armory

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CHERRY ZHI Staff Reporter

The Graduate School of Education won a $138,000 grant earlier this month to study the law school admissions market.

The grant was awarded to the Alliance for Higher Education and Democracy, or AHEAD, a group within GSE that studies higher education policy in the context of societal equity. It was part of a larger group of grants totaling $335,000 awarded by the Access Group Center for Research and Policy Analysis, an organization which conducts and funds research into issues of access, affordability and value in legal education.

“If you want to understand how the higher education system distributes students among the various colleges and universities, you have to approach it as a market,” GSE professor Robert Zemskyok said. Zemsky is the principal investigator on the project. “We were sort of the first to argue that, and when they need a market study they keep coming back to us.”

The study, slated to be finished November of 2016, is still in its beginning stages. It hopes to analyze the changing law school admissions market and the effects that a shrinking market may have in the future.

“The issue with law schools is that law school applications are declining … precipitously,” Zemsky said. “So if you’re the Access Group, who services the law school community, you have

On the last day of classes, YG, Metro Boomin and Kamaiyah will be performing in SPECTRUM’s annual Spring Concert held at the Armory.

The Social Planning and Events Committee to Represent Undergraduate Minorities will be hosting the concert on Wednesday, April 27 at the Armory on 23rd Street, a change from last year’s spring concert which was held at World Cafe Live.

“This year’s venue is off-campus but it’s right over the bridge and a very short walk… Last year there was such a high demand for our show with Rae Sremmurd and people were selling their tickets on our Facebook page for $70,” SPEC-TRUM Director and College senior Erica Nicokiris said. “We’re excited to try a new venue that has a larger capacity and we want to make [the concert] more accessible to Penn students.”

This year’s tickets are $20 for Penn students and $30 for nonPenn students.

This year’s headliner is the Compton, California-born rapper Keenon Jackson, better known by as stage name “YG”. His album “My Krazy Life” was released in 2014, and the 26-year-old hip-hop artist is now going on tour with G-Eazy and Logic this summer after performing at Coachella this past weekend.

One of this year’s openers, Kamaiyah, is also friends with YG. An up-and-coming rapper from

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The Republican Primary: The Pennsylvania GOP primary, on the other hand, is one of the strangest primary elections in the country. In Pennsylvania, there are 71 GOP delegates, but 54 are directly elected by Pennsylvania voters. The rest of the delegates are obligated to adhere to the results of the primary for at least the first round of voting at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland this July.

No other state leaves so many of its delegates unbound. Stranger still, the ballot includes no guidance on which candidate the delegate will commit to at the national convention.

On the primary ballot, a Pennsylvanian voter can cast a vote for a presidential candidate and for delegate candidates to go to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland this July. Each Congressional district must pick among the available delegate candidates for three representatives to send to the RNC. If a Republican enters a voting booth in Pennsylvania’s 2nd district, which includes Penn’s campus, they would see four delegates — Aaron Cohen, Aldridk Gessa, Elizabeth Havey and Calvin

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The Penn Graduate School of Education has won a large grant to study the changing law schools admissions market.

a real interest in sort of understanding who is going to be hurt by this contracting market — and that’s what we’re going to be able to tell them.”

According to the American Bar Association, total enrollment in law school for the year of 2015 was 113,900, down by almost 6,000 students from 2014’s enrollment number, 119,775. While fewer schools reported a decline in their numbers of first-year law students than in 2014, down to 107 from 127, law school enrollment numbers have been declining after reaching a high of 147,525 in 2010 — 29.5 percent higher than 2015’s number.

“We want to be able to predict what’s likely to happen,” Zemsky said. “If this contraction continues, what might the population of law schools look like?”

AHEAD hopes to study the different ways in which the contracting law school admissions

market has affected different types of institutions.

“What we do is what you would do in any sort of market study; you create market segments based on price … and then you ask, how are the highprice institutions different from the low-price institutions?”

Zemsky said. “Are the bar passage rates higher? Are the employment oppor tunities higher? Are the LSATs higher?

Do the demographics of these high-price schools look different from the demographics of the low-price schools and the schools in the middle?”

“What I know from some law schools anecdotally [is that] the law schools at the bottom of the market aren’t filling their classes,” he said.

While the results of the study will not be published for several months, students interested in pursuing a career in law may want to keep an eye out for their findings.

Tucker — but would receive no guidance on who the delegates support. Gessa has voluntarily pledged to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Cohen and Tucker are uncommitted and Havey has said she will vote for whomever wins the district popular vote.

At least 50 other delegate candidates have promised to vote for the winner of their congressional district or the statewide primary, which appears to be 1968 Wharton graduate Donald Trump. In the latest Monmouth poll, Trump held a 13-point lead over Cruz and a 15point lead over Kasich.

of their votes at the RNC. Because unpledged delegates do not have their support listed on the ballot, as is the case in other states, Republican voters could unknowingly vote for a delegate who supports a presidential candidate they do not support.

Unpledged delegates are also not bound to vote for the presidential candidate they have endorsed. For example, the delegate candidate could say they will vote for Trump or the statewide winner and then vote for Ohio Gov. John Kasich at the convention if they wanted.

Political pundits have said that Trump cannot rely on Pennsylvania delegate votes at the convention because there will be a lot of pressure on the delegates to not vote for him.

At the Cleveland convention, most delegates are required to vote for a specific candidate on the first ballot, unlike most of the delegates in Pennsylvania. Trump would be favored to win a majority of Pennsylvania’s 71 delegates under any other primary system.

This “loophole primary,” as some media outlets have called it, results in Pennsylvania’s delegation playing a major role at the convention. The Pennsylvania GOP primary thus presents an opportunity for Cruz and Kasich to acquire delegates from Trump and impede his path to the nomination.

Will Trump Win? Even though Trump leads in Pennsylvania polls, that advantage may not translate into more delegates.

The first thing to consider is the presidential primary preference vote. The winner of this contest gets all of Pennsylvania’s 17 at-large and bonus delegates. Voters select the other 54 delegate candidates, who are not listed with any candidate allegiances.

Some of the delegates have publicly announced who they will support so voters know which candidate they are backing in the primary. This process causes campaigns to lobby different delegates in order to secure a public promise

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candidates Joe Sestak, Katie McGinty and John Fetterman . The race has received national press in recent weeks due to the Democratic Party’s outward support of McGinty, who has received praise from President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, at the expense of Sestak. Penn Democrats also endorsed McGinty.

A former Navy admiral, Sestak served in Congress from 2007-11 and won the Democratic senatorial nomination in 2010, where he lost to Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.).

If Sestak wins the primary, he will face Toomey in a rematch. A Harper’s poll of

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YG, who performed at Coachella this past weeked, is this year’s Spring Concert headliner and is a rapper originally from California.

Oakland, California, she collaborated on a song with YG as part of her debut mixtape “A Good Night in the Ghetto,” released in March 2016. “[YG and Kamaiyah] are friends and we’re really excited for them to collab on stage,” Nicokiris said.

The second opener, Metro Boomin, has been blowing up on social media and pop culture with his DJ tag “If Young Metro Don’t Trust You,” which was used in the songs “Jumpman” by Drake and Future and “Father Stretch My Hands Pt. 1” by Kanye West in his album “The Life of Pablo.”

The 22-year-old Atlantabased record producer has produced instrumentals for rappers including Future, Drake, Kanye West and Young Thug and composed the majority of tracks on Drake’s album “What a Time to Be Alive” and Future’s “DS2”. Metro Boomin attended

Morehouse College to study business management but dropped out after his music career schedule became too demanding.

“We really want to take advantage while he’s still climbing the charts and get him to perform at Penn now,” Nicokiris said. SPECTRUM is known for bringing in up-and-coming artists right before they make it big. In the past, Kendrick Lamar, Chance the Rapper and Travis Scott have all performed at SPEC-TRUM concerts.

Unlike past years, this year’s concert is held on the last day of classes to celebrate the end of the year. “The concert is definitely the place to be to unwind and dance and be in a good environment…it’s the last day of classes and a great way to reward yourself for working so hard throughout the year,” Nicokiris said.

likely Democratic voters gave McGinty a six-point advantage over Sestak, the first time polling has favored her in the race. Fetterman, the mayor of Braddock, Pa., trails farther behind.

The state attorney general seat is also up for grabs this yea r. Cur rent Democratic Attorney General Kathleen Kane , who was indicted last year on charges of obstruction of justice and perjury, will not seek reelection. Five candidates, three Republicans and two Democrats, will compete to replace her.

incumbent Rep. Chaka Fattah , a 1986 Fels Institute of Government graduate, is running against three other candidates: Dan Muroff, Brian Gordon and Dwight Evans.

Fattah was indicted last summer on a slew of charges relating to racketeering conspiracy, and although he has an upcoming criminal trial, he is still running for reelection.

He was accused of obtaining an illegal $1 million loan to run for mayor in 2007. He then allegedly used federal and charitable funds to repay the debt, and tried to hide this information by submitting false billing statements.

Despite his legal troubles, Fattah still received an endorsement from the city Democratic Party.

Local Races: A final competitive race is taking place in the 2nd Congressional District , where Penn is located. Democratic

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n Monday I wore a Sidney Crosby jersey.

That may not seem that unusual — his team, the Penguins, did just advance to second round of the NHL playoffs — until you realize that I am a diehard New York Rangers fan and Crosby’s Pens just beat up on my squad, 4-1. I lost a bet on the series with my roommate, who is from Pittsburgh, and this was my punishment.

It probably wasn’t a smart bet, given that the Penguins are a much better team, but it’s a bet I would make again. I would do it again because I believe in my team, because I am invested in my team, and because I care about my team.

Like many Penn students, I am a

huge professional sports fan. I live and breathe Mets baseball, and love football, hockey and many other sports. And as a professional sports fan, it does not make sense to me why so many people who are passionate about professional sports are not passionate about Penn’s teams.

The reason that most people do not feel strongly about Penn sports is that, on the surface, they don’t attract that much attention.

They’re not prestigious like other professional sports, and the level of competition is significantly lower.

The Ivy League is not known for its athletics, and I get that. However, when you look closer at the issue, Penn Athletics has many of the ingredients that make professional sports great — and then some.

The reasons that people choose favorite teams in pro sports can vary, ranging from geographical location to the familial ties, but very rarely does a person root for a team because of a preexisting personal tie

to the team.

Here at Penn, we have just that, because our sports teams represent us. Each time an individual from Penn steps on the field, they represent not only themselves, but each and every student here at this university. That should mean something to us as a general student body.

The same can be said about receiving national attention. When a pro sports team makes the playoffs, people around the country can see their success, and it instills a sense of pride in that team’s fans.

Likewise, when a Penn team reaches the NCAA tournament or a Penn athlete becomes an NCAA champion, that brings acclaim to the school, just the same as someone associated with the University winning an award in academia. We should feel a sense of pride in our school when something like this happens because it reflects positively on our school and its athletics programs.

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Although student apathy has been the hallmark issue of Athletic Director Grace Calhoun’s tenure, there are a lot of similarities that run between rooting for the Red and Blue and following a professional sports team.

When Penn sports makes news, it should instill some sense of school spirit.

Part of the reason following a professional team is so enjoyable is that over a long season or even several years, you gather a sense of familiarity with the players and coaches. You feel like you get to know the team members, their personalities, making you feel more attached and more invested.

Student-athletes are just that ­ students and athletes. They are — our fellow students, colleagues and friends. We see them around campus, and interact with them on a daily basis. We do have the opportunity to know and become familiar with them, and that makes rooting for them all the more enjoyable and enticing.

The stakes for Penn athletics are not the same as those for pro

sports. No one here is going to have the wear the jersey of a rival team because Penn didn’t beat them.

But just because this is true doesn’t mean there is any less reason to be invested.

JONATHAN POLLACK is a College freshman from Stamford, Conn., and is a sports reporter at The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at dpsports@thedp.com.

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the most homers, runs and runners caught stealing among rookies to go along with the best slugging percentage. His batting average and RBI total are both second best — and among all Ancient Eight players, he is in the top 12 for each of those statistics.

Yet he holds not a single Ivy League Rookie of the Week award to his name.

Even if League officials haven’t been impressed with the rookie catcher’s work, his coaches have been. “I think the pitchers enjoy throwing to him,� Yurkow said. “He’s a good leader back there. I always say that the catcher’s got to be the quarterback of your defense, and he’s just taken to it really well.�

With O’Neill taking the lion’s share of games at catcher, the Quakers have pitched their way to a league-best 3.68 ERA, and their 252 strikeouts as a staff trail Dartmouth by just two. Add that to a pair of Big 5 Pitchers of the Week, and O’Neill is doing just fine as he leads Penn into the Post-Bossart Era. “You have a player like [Bossart], that gets drafted in the 14th round, I don’t know if you ever really replace a player like that, when his talent level is that high,� Yurkow reflected. “But I’ll tell you what, these two guys have done a great job, both Timmy and Matt.�

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Having started 22 games at catcher in his rookie campaign, Matt O’Neill has seamlessly settled in behind the plate for Penn baseball.

Heading into this past weekend’s games against Cornell, the Red and Blue stood three games back of Princeton in the Gehrig Division. With just eight games left, there seemed little hope of catching the Tigers — O’Neill had to catch himself when he said he wanted to walk away from University City with three Ivy rings to his name (“I want to walk away with three rings — hopefully four, I think we still have a shot to get one this year�).

But then the Quakers came back to life. As Princeton dropped three of four to Columbia, Penn had a chance to make its first Ivy title since 1995 a reality. After splitting a doubleheader on Saturday, however, Cornell took a one-run lead

in the top of the 10th.

It was the Quakers’ pair of catchers that saved the season.

After O’Neill doubled with the bases empty, it was Graul — serving as designated hitter — that brought him home to tie the game.

The Red and Blue went on to win the game and the one that followed, putting the Quakers just a game back of Princeton heading into the final week.

Having lost one of the best players in program history, it seems unlikely that Yurkow’s squad should be in a position to do what Bossart never did: win an Ivy title.

And yet, thanks in part to a freshman catcher from New Jersey, they might do just that.

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2016 offseason differently] to be honest; I kind of just stayed with what I was doing,� Graul said. “Just waited for a moment, waited for a situation where I’d get a lot of at-bats consistently, so I think I kind of just kept it simple.�

In turn, Graul has immediately become the mentor instead of the student, seizing a leadership role toward O’Neill parallel to the one Bossart held with him in the previous two years.

And with O’Neill off to his own impressive start, holding a .304 batting average — higher than either Graul or Bossart had in their respective freshman seasons — it’s clear that Graul’s impact exists outside of his own statistical contributions. “I think we’re all pretty good players; me, Austin and Matt, we’ve all been some of the better catchers around the league,�

Graul said. “We’re all very tight; we have a great coach, [Mike] Santello, who works with us every day, so that’s nice to have, and I think us being able to work together and get better throughout our time here has been big.�

As Penn has approached the homestretch of the season in an effort to secure its first conference title in 21 years, Graul has stepped up his game even further.

With the Quakers needing a series

NICK BUCHTA | SENIOR SPORTS EDITOR

After hitting just .245 with three home runs in his sophomore year, Tim Graul has exploded as a senior, leading the league in homers and RBI.

win against Cornell to stay within striking distance of divisionleading Princeton, Graul went an absurd 8-for-10 during Sunday’s doubleheader with five doubles — including a game-tying double in the bottom of the 10th inning of the first game — a home run, three RBI and five runs scored.

As a result, the Red and Blue swept Cornell to get to within one game of the conference lead. “That [game-tying hit] was pretty nice,� Graul said. “Coming in, I would say we’ve been waiting on a big hit as a team, and it was nice to come up with an opportunity to come back in this game and show a little fight, which is

what this team has kind of been looking for.�

Now, with Penn entering a make-or-break season-ending series with Columbia for the third straight year, clutch performances from Graul will be as necessary as ever.

And needless to say, in the midst of one of the most dominant stretches in school history, the first-year starter is ready. “I’ve always kind of thought I was a warm-weather hitter, so I’m pretty happy that this run is happening right now,� he said. “We all knew the Columbia series was going to be important, so let’s keep it going.�

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Quakers bring new sport to Philly with success ANNA DYER Associate Sports Editor

At the Olympics this summer in Rio, there will be a sport making its long-awaited return.

Last played at the Olympics in 1924, men’s and women’s rugby sevens — a rugby tournament with seven players per side — will make its return to the world games, bringing a sport that most Americans know little about into popular view. Not to mention, the United States men are a serious medal contender.

“I think [the Olympics] will have a massive impact on rugby in America,” Penn rugby coach Nic Clapinson said. “With the U.S. doing well, you’re going to see more growth and for a lot of us, it’s about keeping up.”

In an attempt to keep up with rugby’s evolving landscape in the northeast, and with some serious competition among Ivy League schools, Penn’s rugby program is undergoing a transformation that aims to propel itself into the top tier of programs in the nation.

While this isn’t expected to happen overnight, the students, alumni and coaches are committed to building a nationally recognized program.

“Historically, the program has been quite up and down,” Clapinson, who was hired just this year, said. “We brought in non-student coaches and management staff, and are looking to upgrade the program.

“It will still be a club sport for the foreseeable future, but we want to put it at a level of an elite club and keep up with a lot of other programs in the U.S. who are really upgrading and growing.”

Rugby Club President David Harris believes that these changes will really help reboot Penn’s rugby program.

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With the return of rugby to this summer’s Olympics for the first time since 1924, Penn club rugby is hoping that it can benefit from the new attention on the sport. Standing just outside the top tier of rugby teams nationwide, the program is hoping to catapult itself into success.

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The new team of coaches, along with the student leaders such as Harris, is focused on recruiting more talent, although this can sometimes be quite different for a non-varsity sport.

“The most you can do is [help potential students] along with the application process,” Clapinson said. “Hopefully, one day we will be in a different place, but that is essentially what we do now.

It’s a matter of tracking them, making sure you keep in touch, and making sure they do come out if they get in.”

Right now, there are about 35-40 registered players, but the coaches are aiming to get the numbers up to around 50, so Penn can field both a full development team and a full competitive team, especially considering the Ivy League is implementing a developmental league next year.

The majority of these players used to be international students from Australia, the UK and other rugby hotspots, and some still are, including one of the top players who is a member of the Zimbabwe national team.

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CATCHING FIRE

Tim Graul dominates Ivy League

Tim Graul

| Junior catcher leads league in homers, runs batted in

BASEBALL

O’Neill wows in rookie year BASEBALL | Freshman catcher thrives

in quest to replace departed Bossart

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Senior Sports Editor

Losing a four-time All-Ivy selection and 2015 co-Ivy League Player of the Year to graduation, Penn baseball had some hefty shoes to fill at the catcher position entering this season.

But if there were any questions about the Quakers’ production from behind the plate, consider junior catcher Tim Graul the answer.

With four-year starter and 2015 graduate Austin Bossart working his way through the Philadelphia Phillies’ organization, Graul has finally seized a starting role, and the junior has literally and figuratively knocked it out of the park. Leading the Ivy League with seven home runs, the 6-foot junior has stunned the conference with his ascent to stardom, helping a young Penn team remain in the mix for a division title despite its heavy graduation losses.

“I would definitely say I’m seeing the ball better — the fastballs I’ve been seeing pretty big, but I think the biggest difference would be seeing off-speed [pitches] coming out of the hand,” Graul said. “I don’t know; right now, it just seems like I can pick up any pitch — fastball, curveball or changeup.”

To call Graul a benchwarmer in his first two seasons would be a stretch — he did have 18 hits, three of them for home runs, in 21 career starts primarily as a designated hitter in 2014 and 2015.

But with Bossart heading to the pros after a legendary career in which he secured 163 hits — ninth-most in the 137-season history of Penn baseball — it was clear that Graul would have to step up like never before.

And step up he has. Starting every game of the season at either designated hitter or catcher — he and freshman Matt O’Neill routinely switch between the two positions to give each other rests — Graul has absolutely ravaged Ivy League pitching staffs, making an awfully compelling argument to follow up Bossart as the school’s second consecutive conference player of the year.

In 16 conference games so far, Graul ranks fourth among Ivy players with a .397 batting average, first with a .793 slugging percentage, third in on base percentage at .507, first in OPS at a barely legal 1.300, fourth with 15 runs scored, first with five home runs, first with 13 extra base hits, first with 46 total bases and third with 13 walks.

The secret to this unprecedented success?

Nothing more than a blue-collar work ethic and the patience to wait for his turn atop the depth chart.

“I wouldn’t really say [I approached the

As Penn baseball coach John Yurkow was faced with the prospect of life without former co-Ivy League Player of the Year Austin Bossart following the 2015 season, he didn’t have to look all that far from home.

At one of his camps for high school players, Yurkow had come across a young catcher from Seton Hall Prep School in West Orange, N.J., named Matt O’Neill.

“A coach that I knew gave us his name — probably when he was a sophomore — and he came to a fall camp his junior year, and I thought he looked pretty good at fall camp,” Yurkow said. “He obviously played in a very good high school program, Seton Hall Prep is a very good program — Rick Porcello went to Seton Hall Prep. They’re always one of the top parochial schools in the state of New Jersey.”

But playing at one of the top prep schools in the state, O’Neill was stuck as the backup even heading into 2014. From there, things accelerated quickly.

Taking over the starting job midway through the season, the then-junior catcher burst onto the scene, hitting .418 with 21 RBI in just 55 at-bats — and going 15-for-30 with three home runs down the stretch.

Less than a month after the season ended, Yurkow had his potential replacement. In the summer leading up to his — and Bossart’s — senior years, O’Neill decided he wanted to continue his playing career at Penn.

“It’s a unique combination of being able to play Division I baseball and obviously get an Ivy League education,” O’Neill said. “I was looking at a few other Ivy League schools — but I loved the coaches, the school’s awesome, the field’s awesome, it just felt like the right fit for me.”

O’Neill would set foot in University City as a student for the first time just over a year later. In the interim, Bossart finished out his senior campaign hitting .358 with 27 RBI, throwing out 17 of the 32 runners who tried to get a steal off of him and eventually being drafted in the 14th round of the MLB Draft by the Philadelphia Phillies.

As spring rolled around, it was time to see what life after Bossart would look like as O’Neill and junior Tim Graul were slated to split time behind the plate.

“It’s a much different obviously because the runners are faster, the pace of the game is much quicker so it took a little while to get adjusted to,” O’Neill noted. “But a couple games in I got the gist of it.”

Very quickly, the Morristown, N.J., native emerged as the team’s primary catcher. In one of the most stellar — and under the radar — freshman performances in the Ivy League, O’Neill has

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There’s definitely something in the water when it comes to Penn baseball catchers.

While the 2016 successes of current Quakers Matt O’Neill and Tim Graul have fueled Penn’s postseason aspirations, a distinguished alumnus — 2015 graduate Austin Bossart — is making his way through the Philadelphia Phillies’ minor league system.

After winning the Ivy Player of the Year in his senior campaign, Bossart was selected by Philly’s local squad in the 14th round of

last year’s MLB Draft. After excelling for the Class Low-A Williamsport Crosscutters a season ago, the backstop was promoted to the Class A Lakewood (N.J.) Blueclaws this spring. “[The promotion] was hinted at before spring training; I got a call from our catching coordinator and he was pretty sure I’d be moving up,” the Illinois native said. “So I showed up to camp a little early and caught a lot of bullpens and got the opportunity to move up a level.”

Bossart started out the season as Lakewood’s backup catcher, blocked from regular playing time by teammate Deivi Grullon, who already had played 107 games for the Blueclaws in 2015. However, when Grullon went down with injury on April 12, Bossart got

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the opportunity for more regular playing time.

“At first, I was only playing once every third or forth game,” Bossart explained. “But [Grullon] hurt his shoulder and had to go down to Florida to rehab, so now I’m usually catching two or three days in a row.”

A year ago, after hitting .361 and guiding Penn to a programrecord 16 conference wins, Bossart kept up his hot hitting at the professional level; he led Williamsport regulars with a .333 average across 37 games. Behind the plate, he helped guide the Crosscutters pitching staff to a 3.15 earned run average, good for second in the 14-team NY-Penn League.

Though he has been off to a slower start this season — hitting

just .188 with a .297 on-base percentage — those numbers are likely attributable to a minuscule sample size of nine games. He has heated up in his last two contests, swatting his first home run of the season on Friday versus Greensboro before going 3-for-6 with an RBI in a 11-7 win on Sunday.

Since he has found success at nearly every level, Bossart says his primary focus is just on maintaining his impressive numbers.

“I think they’re really just looking for consistency at this point,” he said. “Putting up consistent numbers, doing well at the plate and behind it ... that’s the name of the game at this level.”

As a catcher and one of a limited number of college graduates on the roster, Bossart sees himself as one of the team’s leaders.

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“Leadership is really one of the things I take upon myself; that’s part of the defensive job of a catcher. That’s definitely a priority for me.”

It would be a valid assumption to presume that Bossart’s graduation would leave a massive hole at catcher for Penn; However, the dynamic duo of junior Tim Graul — essentially Bossart’s understudy during his first two — and freshman Matt O’Neill have combined for production that rivals that of their predecessor. Graul leads the Ivy league with seven home runs and 29 RBI while O’Neill has chipped in with four homers and a .304 average of his own.

“We’ve just been fortunate to recruit some good catchers, to be honest,” Penn coach John Yurkow

said of his squad’s backstop pipeline. “When those guys come up with runners in scoring position, they’re not missing.”

“I’m really happy for them; that’s really awesome to see,” Bossart commented. “They just keep getting better. I unfortunately haven’t gotten the opportunity to meet Matt [O’Neill] yet, but I know he’s doing really well and the coaching staff is very pleased with him.”

And if the Quakers’ current crop of talent is thinking of taking their skills to the professional level, they don’t have to look far for reassurance.

Because Austin Bossart is proof positive that success at Penn is just a step away from prosperity in the pros.

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