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The Spoon - The oldest of the men’s awards presented during Hey Day, dating back to the mid-1800s. The Spoon is presented to the most popular member of the senior class, known as the “Spoon Man.”

A look at 100 years of Hey Day traditions DIA SOTIROPOULOU Staff Reporter

In 1940, Hey Day nearly died.

Student apathy was threatening to abort the tradition, inaugurated in 1916 as a “Moving-Up Day” to honor the advancement of Penn juniors to their next year. The occasion was later baptized “Hey Day” to give it a unique Penn signature. In a fashion similarly characteristic of Penn, 1940s seniors filled out that year’s Hey Day improvement questionnaire with joking answers. The Office on Student Affairs voted to abolish the celebration, and it was only narrowly saved in May 1940 by a student petition.

Leap ahead to 2014, and the tradition is hardly feeble — photos from that spring show an ocean of exuberant juniors trooping messily down Locust Walk, dressed in flaming red Tshirts and fake straw hats.

Indeed, Hey Day has evolved and reconstituted itself in tandem with Penn, reflecting each of its generations.

Since its founding, the custom has witnessed a world war and the University’s 1976 co-ed integration. It has been jeopardized twice, first by the reluctant seniors of 1940 and then by a perhaps overenthusiastic group of students in 1990 — they poured beer on then-President Sheldon Hackney and carried him out of College Hall on their shoulders, dropping him on the steps. It has absorbed a number of different Penn traditions while merging others.

On this year, the 100th time Hey Day will be celebrated, it’s worth taking a look back at the tradition’s colorful journey to its present incarnation.

ORIGINS AND GROWING PAINS The cheerful parade-and-picnic arrangement currently constituting Hey Day has unexpected beginnings. According to Penn archivist Mark Lloyd, the celebration was born from a Penn tradition called the Bowl Fight.

A yearly ritual since the Civil War, the Bowl Fight was a rambunctious mass wrestling match between Penn’s freshman and sophomore classes. The sophomores would provide a bowl inscribed with their graduation year, and the freshmen nominated a so-called “bowl man.”

The freshman class’ objective was to break the bowl; the sophomore class’ was to put the bowl man into the bowl. In 1916, freshman William Lifson was killed in the fight, leading to the abandonment of the controversial custom.

“Hey Day,” Lloyd explained, “was to take the place of the Bowl Fight.”

In 1916, therefore, the inaugural Hey Day was held, a somewhat tamer occasion involving an enormous congregation of all the undergraduates and the distribution of four senior honors awards known as the Spoon, Bowl, Cane and Spade awards. Then-President Edgar Fahs Smith

The Bowl - The second-oldest of the men’s awards presented at Hey Day, instituted in 1882. Originally a component of the Bowl Fight, in which the freshman and sophomore classes would wrestle with a large bowl. The tradition ended in 1916 with the death of freshman William Lifson, but the Bowl was retained as an honors award.

The Cane - Originally the signature accessory of the Junior Cane March from the Quad to Houston Hall, during which each junior man toted a cane of solid mahogany with a customizable silver band. In the '80s, canes were issued in a cheaper, more flexible bamboo version.

The Hat - The straw skimmer, the grandfather of Hey Day’s round-brimmed Styrofoam hat, was part of the Junior Cane March uniform.

The Red T-shirt - Introduced in the 1980’s as a nod to contemporary student fashions. The Styrofoam version of the skimmer hat was introduced at the same time.

Althea K. Hottel Award - A woman's honor award presented at Hey Day named after a pioneer in women’s education who earned three Penn degrees.

Althea Hottel served as the Dean of Women from 1943 to 1959.

R. Jean Brownlee Award - A woman's honor award first presented at 1977's Hey Day. Brownlee was Dean of the College for Women from 1958 to 1975, and earned three degrees at Penn. She received an honorary Doctor of Laws in 1986, and was known for championing women’s causes long before they entered the mainstream.

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Behind the swipe: Why does a Penn dining hall swipe cost $12?

Bon Appetit, students and profs. offer different views DAVID CAHN Staff Reporter

Students often complain at the high price of dining hall swipes — which amount to about $12 each — when they can buy a Chipotle burrito for just $8. Add-on visits can cost up to $15 a swipe on the most popular plan. There are a few theories of why this is the case.

While Penn Dining says union labor drives up the costs, economics researchers think it might be the effect of having a monopoly or a tool to price out upperclassmen.

Executive Director of Business Services Doug Berger said the primary driver of dining hall costs is unionized labor. 30 percent of dining hall expenses go toward the cost of food, 44 percent goes to labor costs and 26 percent are direct expenses, such as utilities. One hundred and twenty-one Penn Dining staff members are unionized under Local 54, Berger said.

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Chair Brianna Krejci, who is also the president of the Penn Vegan Society, does not support the structure of Penn Dining’s union. “I’m significantly less in support of the union structure as it applies to dining at Penn,” she said.

Krejci said the union prevents Bon Appetit from asking staff members to do additional work and reduces the incentive for employees to be innovative on the job. The union structure “allows people to exist at the bottomlevel,” she said. Krejci also noted that the union rules might lead to overstaffing, which would exacerbate cost problems. On Sunday at Hill brunch, around 20 employees appeared to be on duty at one time.

Krejci said she supports living wages, but believes that the university can engage in corporate social responsibility and pay employees fair wages, without having to be bound by the strict rules and regulations that surround unions.

This year, Krejci purchased the “Take Your Pick” meal plan, which offers a flexible number of dining dollars and swipes. Next

year, she will move off campus and not buy a meal plan. “I am the chair of the dining advisory board and I care a lot about what Bon Appetit does but I can’t afford a meal plan next year.”

Krejci estimates that the cost of a meal plan is a financial concern for around 35 percent of students. Particularly for the 13 percent of students whose families earn less than $50,000 a year, Krejci said it makes more sense not to buy a meal plan and instead use that money for the cost of living in Philadelphia.

Overall, Berger said Penn offers the third cheapest dining plan among its peer institutions.

Only Brown and Dartmouth offer less expensive dining plans, but both require students to purchase a meal plan for either three or four years. Stanford’s dining plan is $1,000 more expensive, he said.

Whether PennDining’s larger mission to serve students justifies higher prices is up for debate.

“I don’t necessarily think the dining hall food allows me to always choose the food that I want to eat,” Wharton freshman

Emily Zhen said. Zhen does not plan to buy a meal plan next year.

“Maybe if it was like $5 a swipe, like if it was the equivalent of a food truck, which, in my opinion, gives better food and more variety and convenience,” she said.

Wharton freshman Billy Kacyem said he plans to buy a dining plan for sophomore year.

“I might do the one where you can pick your own swipes and dining dollars. I feel like I have a better idea of how much I eat now.”

Kacyem said the price of meal swipes will not affect his decision. “I think the pricing is just something that I can’t control, so I just take it as a given,” he said.

Despite Penn Dining’s claims that union labor is the main cost differentiator, not everyone is so sure that this is the case.

Over a dining hall dinner, Yanhao Wei, an Economics Ph.D student who studies the movie industry, said he believes that high dining hall prices force upperclassman out of the market.

It is possible that “the university doesn’t want seniors and juniors to come to the dining hall or live in the dormitory,” he said.

Wei said that higher prices might be a way to allocate limited capacity. “Maybe because they have limited space … they increase price,” he said. “They want first year[s] to come here, to socialize or whatever, but maybe they want to discourage the second or third year student.”

Penn Dining did not respond to repeated requests for specific data on the breakdown of dining hall expenses.

Director of the Microeconomic Principles Program in the Economics Department Rebecca Stein said Wei’s hypothesis is “internally consistent.” She said it is also plausible that increased pressure from students to provide higher wages for Penn Dining staff bumps up the price. She noted that students have no incentive to propose lower prices since their parents, the federal government and society will foot the bill.

Stein also said there is a third hypothesis that could explain dining hall prices. Because Penn Dining is a monopoly, she said it is possible that high prices are simply a method of extracting increased revenue from Penn

students. While Penn in a nonfor-profit, it still has incentives to generate revenue, whether for increasing financial aid or building a new building.

At the end of the day, Berger said that Penn Dining breaks even. Penn Dining is “mission driven by the university,” he said. Penn Dining, along with the Dining Advisory Board, recently added Hill Express to address the concerns of student athletes who did not finish practice in time to swipe in at a dining hall.

Berger added that Penn Dining offers better quality food than retail competitors. Comparing Penn Dining to Wawa, Berger said, at Penn dining halls the food is always fresh. Krejci agreed, noting that Penn Dining offers works hard to provide students with balanced meals.

“If we were financiallydriven, we might make some different decisions,” Berger said.

Many retail institutions don’t provide employees with sick days and serve frozen or low-quality food, he said. PennDining and Bon Appetit partner with farms to guarantee a sustainable process from the farm to the table.

SOUL protests against Dec. Phi Delt controversy with slave auction Protest part of the “Ferguson Friday” initiative JESSICA WASHINGTON Staff Reporter

Locust Walk was transformed into a slave auctioning block on Friday afternoon as part of a protest led by Students Organizing for Unity and Liberation.

In front of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity house, a member of the group stood on a box with plastic chains around her neck, reciting a poem directed toward the members of the fraternity, calling them out for their choice to feature a black blow-up sex doll in their holiday photo last December.

“When you walk on Locust, you’re not supposed to feel the violence that is this house,” College senior Victoria Ford, the student reciting the poem, said.

The photo went viral at the time after students expressed outrage at the inclusion of the doll, something many students felt was racially insensitive and

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A member of Students Organizing for Unity and Liberation recited a poem in front of the Phi Delta Theta chapter house on Locust Walk.

potentially sexist. Students in the fraternity claimed the doll was meant to be a joke gift during the fraternity’s Secret Santa exchange, and was marketed as resembling Beyoncé.

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During the protest, one brother of Phi Delta Theta came outside and told the protesters that “people are listening.”

A member of SOUL responded, “We don’t feel like you guys are actually sympathizing at all.”

Although the chapter was placed on probation by its national organization in January and required to complete cultural sensitivity and sexual and relationship misconduct education programs, some students feel the penalties weren’t severe enough.

“We haven’t forgotten about this and remain unsatisfied with the University’s response and punishment of Phi Delta Theta,” SOUL posted on its Facebook event for a Tuesday meeting to organize the protest.

Phi Delt members contacted for this article were not immediately available for comment.

In December, a draft apology signed “The Brothers of Phi Delta Theta at the University of Pennsylvania” said the inclusion of the sex doll in the photo was “distasteful” and “once removed from the packaging, it bore no semblance to the artist beyond skin color, adding to its offensive nature.”

“There were absolutely no prejudicial motivations behind the gift,” the apology continued, acknowledging, “the

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joined the protest and painted his face in solidarity with the cause. He said to protesters that they were listening and taking the concerns seriously. Several other members came out of the house but did not speak to the protesters.

Members of SOUL later spoke about how the event is the first Ferguson Friday demonstration focusing on black women, as previous events have focused on black men. They said they were “reclaiming” the space outside of the fraternity by conducting this demonstration.

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The fake slave auction in front of the chapter house was meant to tie the purchasing of the black sex-doll into the larger narrative of slavery, and the historical relationship between white men and black women.

The fake auctioneers held signs that read $14.60, symbolizing the amount of money the blow-up doll cost. Protesters also painted their heads as a symbol of police brutality.

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he University should not look at the Africa Center, the only space exclusively devoted to Africa at Penn, as a space that can be shut down. Following cuts of federal funding, the University recently announced both the closure of the Africa Center and the merging of the African studies major with the Africana Studies Department, decisions that sparked anger and dissatisfaction among students. On April 13, in a protest led by African studies majors, the Penn African Students Association and Students Organizing for Unity and Liberation, students took to College Green to display their disapproval of the decision to close the center and the injustice of the conflation of Africana and African studies.

While some may follow Penn’s lead and assume that since both contain the word “Africa” they must be similar

enough to simply be merged into one program, this thinking is unfounded and wrong.

This oversimplified reasoning serves as yet another example of the suppression and the overgeneralization of black voices in the world and within our own University.

According to the Penn website, the Africana studies major centers on “experiences of African-descended people in their contemporary and historical multi-faceted, multi-dimensional expressions throughout the Diaspora” — that is, the dispersion of people of African descent all throughout the world, largely as a result of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

African studies, on the other hand, encompasses the study of “historical and contemporary Africa.”

To make it even clearer — Africana is the study of African dispersion throughout the world while African studies is explicitly centered on the

study of Africa itself. While the two studies certainly do have intersections, combining them implies a sameness of experience that destroys the distinct narratives that deserve to be represented in their entirety.

The Africa Center is the only space at Penn exclusively centered on the con-

encompassed not just offerings within the African Studies major but also provided speakers and other events centered on expanding students’ knowledge.

School of Arts and Sciences Dean Steven Fluharty has stressed that the decision to close the Africa Center was purely a financial one, as

of other more costly projects are currently underway.

While administrators, including the dean, claim that both the study of the history of the continent and the Diaspora will be honored, we have to question how much energy is being put into maintaining the dignity of the department when neither students nor

While the two studies certainly do have intersections, combining them implies a sameness of experience that destroys the distinct narratives that deserve to be represented in their entirety.” tinent of Africa, and is a space that benefits both African students and the whole University through a muchneeded recognition of the significance of historical and contemporary events occurring throughout the diverse continent. The Africa Center

federal support for international research and education has recently been cut. We wonder exactly how much effort was put into attempting to find the means to support the Africa Center — which employed just three staff members — when a number

Africa Center faculty were ever consulted prior to making the final decision to close the center and house the majors in a single department.

It was not until after protests that a special committee was formed to begin to properly address the issue with the

voices that should have been heard from the beginning.

The continent of Africa has a history — a rich and complex one that has power and meaning outside of the influences of other areas. It is only right that there be a space devoted exclusively to Africa — a continent of 1.1 billion people with a long history of being oversimplified and misrepresented in the United States and all over the world. We need more students seeking to understand and appreciate the intricacies and complexities of African studies, not less.

While the University obviously has a budget to adhere to, the Africa Center is not a space that can simply be cut. The Africa Center is an essential space at this University, and we encourage students to continue pressuring the administration to honor this need.

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The Fling party that never got busted GUEST COLUMN BY SARA JONES AND VICTORIA PEREIRA | Behind the scenes with

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few hours after the weekend ended and our tired bodies were flinged/flang/ flung out, curious friends pelted us with the same question: “What’s Fling like for MERT?” Our answer to this question is always the same: “organized chaos.” But also, as far as our positions are concerned, “you have no idea.”

It’s no rumor that Fling weekend is the Medical Emergency Response Team’s busiest.

So what does it really take to be on MERT during Fling?

As the Chief and Captain of MERT, our past few months have been dedicated to preparing the medical side of Spring Fling. Since February, we have worked tirelessly — getting our bikes into shape, touring the space for our concert observation area (OA), training our members and ordering extra equipment (especially extra eyewash because, you know, “throw some glitter, make it rain”).

Then came April … the 17-day “hell week” for all organizations involved in Fling operations.

On Thursday of Fling, our preparations were put to the test. After checking over lists of everything we would need, we realized this would be our one opportunity to celebrate the weekend before our continuous shifts began. But Friday morning came quickly. At 10 a.m., the two of us met in the MERT squad room and mentally pre-

MERT

pared ourselves. Both of us, and MERT’s Lieutenant Neville Dusaj, would be MERT Command for the duration of the day.

As Command, we were responsible for managing all MERT operations. This required staying in radio contact with Penn Police, FlingSafe and our members.

The mood became more serious as we shifted our operations toward the concert. We would be splitting up: Sara at the unified command station as sole MERT Command, Victoria and Neville heading operations in our concert OA — an area where patients can be monitored over time.

radio, the other through security’s radio. The rest of the night involved alternating between receiving calls, dispatching emergency medical technicians and taking the occasional breath of air to step into the stands and hear a few seconds of the concert.

Manning the OA didn’t provide the same opportunity to enjoy Kesha’s riveting performance, as our first patient staggered in while our EMTs finished setting up and briefing.

Within a minute, we quickly assessed the medical priority of the patient and sent them to the appropriate treatment area. Everyone snapped to action, ready

EMT at their side. On the left were the less medically urgent patients, many of them becoming friends with each other as they received treatment, some patients even exchanging phone numbers.

As we discharged our last patient from the OA, Friday night finally came to an end.

Fling is an exhausting, but rewarding experience. We hope we were helpful and respectful to our fellow students, and we’re appreciative that we can provide this service.

None of the success of Fling weekend would be possible without the Division of Public Safety, Vice Provost for Univer-

Manning the OA didn’t provide the same opportunity to enjoy Kesha’s riveting performance, as our first patient staggered in ….”

Duties at the unified command station, a small table at the end of the concourse, began immediately upon entering Franklin Field. We hadn’t even been given chairs before an all-toofamiliar “radio to MERT Command” came across the radio and demanded attention. With a “MERT received and responding,” two of our 18 members in service for the night were dispatched. The heads of security soon joined the table. There was time to exchange quick introductions before two more calls came in: one through the MERT

to use their training to help their fellow students. As soon as the first patient was comfortably settled, two more arrived in wheelchairs and the night began at a running start. Whether it was an alcohol emergency, drug overdose, physical injury or panic attack, our members remained confident and calm. For four hours, patients streamed in — ­sometimes three entered at once, other times none arrived for a while. To the right of the room were the higher priority patients, some with IVs placed in their arms and a reassuring

sity Life, Student Health Services, Social Planning and Events Committee, Office of Alcohol and Other Drugs, Office of Risk Management and MERT’s Medical Director Dr. Alvin Wang. Thank you for your endless support and guidance.

SARA JONES AND VICTORIA PEREIRA are College juniors from New Jersey studying BBB and English respectively. Sara’s email address is chief@pennmert. org. Victoria’s email address is captain@pennmert.org.

n the last few weeks, Trevor Noah’s track record as a comedian has come under fire for a series of tweets written in a tone unfit for the politically conscious and politically correct “The Daily Show.” The host’s presumptive gags regularly alluded to women and Jews — also known as misogyny and anti-Semitism — and occasionally even the Holocaust.

This comes in sharp contrast to Jon Stewart, who, despite his cynicism and sardonic spin, was largely anodyne and recognized his stature as a straight white male. And because “The Daily Show” is the doyen of American society, there is a tide of calls for his host tenure to be rescinded.

There is a stronger case for Trevor Noah to be dismissed for being so clumsy as to think his tweets were funny, than for being offensive. They’re offensive because they’re barely funny.

Slapstick notwithstanding, humor is about being creative, offering new takes on issues, invoking the unexpected and juxtaposing disparities together. Toe-dipping at the line of what is socially acceptable offers novel perspectives. When we try to be funny, we are fiddling with a system of mores; they don’t necessarily express the convictions of its teller.

Except for plagiarism, a comedian doesn’t need to abide by a moral stance when he’s performing — moral stances are boring.

For example, one of my favorite stock punchlines is, “Do you know what my least favorite class at Penn is? The working class.” This glib remark may be taken as callous at best and bigoted at worst. I like to think, however, that the intention of this joke is to satirize exactly the type of people who subscribe to this mentality, that its believability says a lot about the wealth culture at Penn.

The cost of any potentially offensive joke can be redeemed if the joke is clever enough — so much so that the audience recognizes the intention and structure is to be funny, and not that its choice of topic matter is inherently funny. In the case of Trevor Noah, he comes off as reckless. Tweets like “Almost bumped a Jewish kid crossing the road. He didn’t look b4 crossing but I still would hav felt so bad in my german car!” are bland, and rely on incredibly cliched and middle-school level tropes that German plus Jewish equals “uh oh.” In the

JASON TANGSON scope of Holocaust jokes, this was a bad Holocaust joke.

Some coming to his defense point out his slightly tenuous Jewish ancestry as proof that, as part of the in-group, Noah is incapable of being anti-Semitic. This defense suggests that Noah’s intention was to offend Jews, and it only placates people boneheaded enough to worry that his jokes are evidence of a lack of empathy.

It should be obvious that the intention of a joke is to be funny. Yet, we spend too much time contextualizing humor to its teller. A few months ago, I made an appeal for Penn to ditch dealing with diversity and move to Manayunk. I did so because I wanted to highlight a prevailing strand of elitism and snobbery in Penn, and not because I had a Dickensian view on society.

Despite the fact that the underlying intention of the satire was as thinly veiled as a cellophane burka, I still managed to receive a few accusations of espousing problematic bigotry.

These concerns were largely muffled when I laid down my hand of first-generation, single-parent and full-aid cards.

Yet scrutinizing me was not the point; scrutinizing Penn was. Humor should be understood for its own sake and for its intention. Noah offered neither.

While I don’t think Trevor Noah should be sacked, as an avid sipper of the pea soup of political satire, I’m disappointed that we’ve chosen Trevor’s mediocre feet to fill in Jon’s Italian leather shoes. I hope the timestamp of his series of tweets, from 2008 to 2011, reflects some developmental distance as a comedian, and I’m sure that the inheritance of a cadre of “The Daily Show” writers will make up for any deficiencies of the host.

JASON TANGSON is a College junior from Cambridge, Mass., studying linguistics.

His email address is tjason@sas.upenn.edu.

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Phila. to launch bike-sharing program

Bikes available in 70 stations around Phila.

PAT ZANCOLLI Staff Reporter

With a number of cities across the country implementing bike share programs, Philadelphia is following suit.

This past Friday, the city of Philadelphia rolled out their new Indego bike share program, sponsored by Independence Blue Cross. “Bike share is a new way to move around the city,” Program Director and Manager of Strategic Initiatives in the Philadelphia Mayor’s Office of Transportation & Utilities Cara Ferrentino said.

Currently, there are 70 stations located from Temple University down to Tasgar St., as well as from 44th St. to the Delaware River.

The program launch was held at Eakins Oval in front of the Philadelphia Art Museum. Remarks were made by Mayor Michael Nutter and sponsor Independence Blue Cross, before a celebratory ribbon cutting. A parade was held around the oval, and 300 riders set out from the oval to jump start the Indego program, Ferrentino said.

A team from Penn participated in the launch, Director of Communications and External Relations in Penn’s Department of Business Services Barbara Lea-Kruger said

in an email. They rode bikes from downtown to one of the stations on Penn’s campus outside Urban Outfitters on the corner of 36th and Sansom Streets.

In addition to the station outside Urban, there are two other stations located on Penn’s campus. One is on 40th St., between Spruce and Locust Streets, outside the Dental School. The other is near the University City Regional Rail station located next to Franklin Field off of South St. “The University’s Bike Committee is pleased to be at the start of this exciting venture. With three stations located on campus, and several more within a few blocks from our boundaries, this program aligns with Penn’s commitment to its Climate Action Plan and sustainability,” chair of Penn’s Bike Committee and Associate Director of Penn Transit Services, Matthew Brown said. “It is a great addition to our multi-faceted transit program that helps our community travel to, from and around campus.”

“The program is meant to be affordable for students,” Ferrentino said. Indego offers three membership options. For $15 a month, users can take an unlimited number of one hour trips within that period. There is also a flex pass option, which allows users — for $10 per year — to take an

unlimited number of $4 one hour trips within the year. Otherwise, a one time use costs $4 per half hour.

By comparison, New York City’s bike share program costs $9.95 plus tax for all-day use.

For riders who don’t see themselves using Indego that often, they can try the program whenever by walking up to a station and paying with credit or debit.

“Indego becomes a new way to get to different parts of the city,” Ferrentino said. “We’re excited to see how people will be creative with this type of stuff.”

College freshman Max Wengyn thinks bringing the Indego bike share program to campus is a good idea, citing a cut down on people using taxis and reducing congestion as potential effects.

“You may not need a bike all of the time, so it wouldn’t warrant you having your own. However, if

a situation were to come up that would warrant you needing a bike, [Indego] would streamline the process of getting one,” Wengyn said.

Engineering freshman Hans Stedman also approved of the program. An aspect he likes particularly is the fact that you can get a bike at one station and park it at another station.

Wengyn and Stedman, both owners of bikes on campus, don’t see themselves using Indego, but they recognize there are situations where taking advantage of the bike share program would be a good idea.

On busy days, Wengyn believes that using the bike share program could cut down on travel time for students who do not have bikes on campus. Additionally, if a group of friends wanted to take a bike ride one day, perhaps along the river, but they didn’t all have a bike on campus, using Indego would be

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A new bike-share rack opened recently on 36th and Sansom streets.

perfect for this, Wengyn said.

Although students recognize that Indego is a good program for the city of Philadelphia to implement, they don’t envision it having a substantial impact on campus life. “I don’t see it being used a lot,” Stedman said.

Bringing Indego stations to

campus has been the result of collaboration between the Division of Business Services, Facilities and Real Estate Services, the Division of Public Safety, Student Health Services, Penn Cycles and Penn Bike Commuters, a press release from Penn’s Department of Business Services said.

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gave a short speech, which was followed by athletic events including a senior-junior track meet and soccer match.

Bouts of wrestling, boxing and tug-of-war matches at Franklin Field punctuated the evening, as well as the Sophomore Cremation, another tradition in which sophomores burned effigies of their most detested professors.

Freshmen provided a finishing twist by throwing their black caps on the smoldering residues.

The parade component that is Hey Day’s signature today was added in 1938, causing The Daily Pennsylvanian to declare with satisfaction that Hey Day was “the most interesting class ceremony because it does not pertain to boring speeches.” All four years participated in a spirited march to the Junior Balcony in the Upper Quad, with the president of each class holding a class flag aloft.

A second trademark of the celebration fell into place when the so-called Junior Cane March, discontinued in 1959, was revived and added to the Hey Day program in 1965. Junior men dressed in jackets, ties and skimmers marched with cane in hand from McClelland Hall to College Hall before the official ceremonies began.

According to 1966 College

graduate Cary Schwartz , however, Hey Day was still far from its current configuration at the time. To start with, Schwartz explained, campus geography in the ‘60s did not accommodate a grand march. “Locust [Walk] didn’t exist at that point,” he said.

“The street was a pedestrian walkway to 34th Street — there were cars parked, and people drove from 37th to 40th.”

Moreover, Schwartz said, national events that year cast a foreboding shadow over the campus. “It was the brink of a tumultuous period,” he said of the beginning of the Vietnam draft. “You could sense it because all of the members of our class either went to grad school or were subject to the draft. Nearly everybody was taking physicals and seeking deferrals.”

Schwartz associates his own Hey Day mainly with its ceremonial components — initiation into the men’s honor societies, Sphinx and Friars, as well as distribution of the men’s awards.

The real end-of-year student celebration happened, he explained, at the so-called Skimmer Weekend, when undergraduates would go down to the side of the Schuykill River to watch crew team races.

Penn students’ timeless resistance to official supervision was on full display at these events.

“There was no campus police

at that point and the Philadelphia police were not amenable to students having a good time,” Schwartz said. “At that point, excess drinking and partying was sometimes met with hostility.”

It was in the ‘70s that the straw hats took on their cheaper styrofoam form. They began receiving the traditional “bites” to the brim in the ‘80s, when the bright red tshirt was introduced into the Hey Day getup.

The history of female students’ involvement in Hey Day is equally complex. It was in the ‘80s as well that Penn’s undergraduate women, still in a single-sex college of their own, were permitted for the first time to celebrate Hey Day alongside the male student body.

Back in 1926, Penn’s then allmale student body refused to allow their counterparts in the College of Women to partake in the Hey Day festivities alongside them, so the women — as they had done with many other student institutions from which they were barred, including The Daily Pennsylvanian and the activities planning committee — created their own equivalent.

The first women’s Hey Day was celebrated that year. A quartet of honors awards were meant to correspond to the awards given to the men, named after Penn pioneers Althea K. Hottel, Gaylord P. Harnwell, David R. Goddard

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and R. Jean Brownlee. It would be another 40 years after that before Penn women were allowed to participate in Hey Day with male students.

College of Women 1969 graduate Mary Cianfrani Miller remembers when the men’s and women’s Hey Day ceremony components were first held jointly in 1968. Treasurer of her class in her senior year and alumni president for the Class of 1969, Cianfrani said that integration was already in the air that year, though still a ways off — the College of Women wasn’t integrated into the University properly until 1976.

“We didn’t march with the men,” she said. “We were invited to Irvine Auditorium for the ceremony.”

HITTING 100 Fast-forward to 2015, and junior class president Jesus Perez has plans to leave his class’ own mark on the tradition. This year’s celebration on April 30 is billed as the 100th Hey Day, with all the trappings of a proper anniversary in the works.

“It’s so crazy that the past three years have gone by so fast. Freshman year, I didn’t know what Hey Day was, and now, I’m picking up my shirt tomorrow,” College junior Dan Kurland said.

Perez has made a number of changes he hopes will further refresh and strengthen the tradition.

The intention, of course, is to “stay true to a 100-year-old tradition,” he said. “We’re going to have a picnic and a huge parade down Locust,” he enthused, and “decorate, line the trees down Locust Walk. It’s going to be beautiful.”

Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush, however, intends to keep the peace as meticulously as in previous years.

Students are known to get fairly reckless on Hey Day, she said.

“People will enjoy libations, but they must do it safely,” she said. “I believe this Hey Day is a milestone, 100 years. It’s even more important that it be a really successful, safe event for the legacy of the senior class and the junior class.”

Police security, undercover officers, and the Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement are likely to join the event, she affirmed.

Perez has made participation in the festivities cheaper and more accessible than ever before. Each junior’s “all-inclusive bundle” was subsidized, reducing it from $35 to $20, a 43 percent drop.

Sales were also conducted online, making acquiring a bundle far more convenient.

The result has been a higher number of bundles sold than ever before — 2100 so far, as compared to the approximately 1600 of previous years.

This was accomplished

through “phenomenal” sales of the signature junior class sweater, whose bright red “P” has since saturated campus. “$35 is kind of hefty,” Perez said of the traditional fee. Students in the past have often had to seek financial help to cover the cost.

“In previous years the number of complaints that we heard were just overwhelming,” Perez said.

“We virtually had no one [this time] reach out saying they had difficulty. That’s what I’m happiest about.”

Perez emphasized that the quality of the event would not be diminished at all. Costs have been strategically cut by diversifying the food options at the picnic while reducing the net volume of wasted food.

The cane forming an essential part of the junior-class uniform will be reintroduced in its cheaper bamboo version, a throwback, Perez said, to the 80’s and 90’s.

Finally, a still-in-the-works “after-party” will be introduced, Perez continued, in which restaurants around campus will provide special discounts to juniors. Smokes and Copacabana are two restaurants currently being courted.

“We want everyone to continue hanging out with their friends since it is a very special day,” he said. “All of Penn should be celebrating.”

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Balloon launched into space Penn alumnae discuss changing admissions landscape

Penn Aerospace Club releases weather balloon JEFFREY WANG Contributing Reporter

Agree admit process is increasingly “torturous”

For the Penn Aerospace Club, getting high in mid-April means sending a weather balloon into the stratosphere.

Two weeks ago, the Penn Aerospace Club launched a weather balloon 40,000 feet into space in hopes of winning the Global Space Balloon Challenge. They are just one of 291 teams representing 47 countries around the world. These teams around the globe have the opportunity to fly a balloon to the edge of space between April 10 and April 27, and they compete for prizes in various categories including highest altitude, best design and more.

While the Penn Aerospace Club only began their endeavors last year, they have high hopes to win in the “Best Experiment” category. The club’s experiment and payload teams collaborated to develop a payload that attaches and detaches from their balloon that measures the relationship between black mold population and radiation at various altitudes of the atmosphere. The communication team wrote software that enables GPS tracking and data feedback.

Despite their strong efforts, the team has had to overcome many challenges. Initially, the group was intimidated by the sheer size of the challenge. Furthermore, the communications team faced a few issues with software development. According to Wharton and Engineering sophomore Naman Mehrotra, upon their first launch in Allentown, Pa., they realized the readings were incorrect, the geofencing mechanism was down and their camera ran out of battery.

“Those kinds of technical things have been challenges for us, but our team has been working a lot over the past two weeks to fix them,” Mehrotra said.

“We are hoping that everything will work out [during our next

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Two weeks ago, the Penn Aerospace Club launched a weather balloon 40,000 feet into space in hopes of winning the Global Space Balloon Challenge.

launch].”

They have also received funding from an aerospace company and guidance from Penn Mechanical Engineering professor and aerospace engineering expert Bruce Kothmann.

“Dr. Kothmann teaches a lot of mechanical engineering labs which are really hands on, so we decided that he would be the best adviser to help us for a project like this,” said Mehrotra.

Outside of tackling large-scale projects, the Penn Aerospace Club also enjoys recreational aircraft flying. One of the club members has a pilot’s license, and the other club members take advantage of

it.

“Club members could go to an airport nearby and learn how to fly a plane. We had a couple trips last year,” Mehrota stated. “A lot of people think it’s difficult to fly, but surprisingly, it’s not. My first time in the cockpit I had the opportunity to actually fly the plane, and it was a really good first experience.”

In the future, the club hopes to continue to tackle large-scale projects, including building a small rocket. The club also hopes to continue to expand to include those interested in gaining aerospace and engineering experience.

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As Penn has transformed through the last few decades, so has its admissions process.

Alumnae from the classes of 1975, 1985 and 1995 shared their application stories, and revealed how much things have changed.

When 1975 College of Women graduate Lisa Aldisert applied to Penn in the fall of 1970, the Common Application did not exist — and neither did the computer. Because she had to type her application on a typewriter, avoiding mistakes was crucial.

“You had to be extra careful, because you didn’t want it to be covered with white-out ,” she said. “The physical handling of the application was just a little different than it is today.”

Penn was still divided by gender at the time. Although men and women took the same classes, all women were separately enrolled in the College for Women.

“There was a separate administrative component to being female,” she said. She estimates that only about 20 percent of the class was comprised of women.

Aldisert added that the culture of women in the workplace was only just beginning, and that taking classes alongside men prepared her for the business world.

Ten years later, 1985 Wharton graduate Corinne Keller visited campus before applying in the fall of 1980. Initially,

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she was intimidated by Penn’s social scene.

“I went to Spring Fling, but wasn’t very favorably impressed — it was a little too crazy for me,” she said.

But when Penn offered her better financial aid than any of the other schools she was considering, she decided to attend.

Now, as Keller’s son begins to look at colleges, she is reminded of how much the process has changed. Since 1980, college applications have been complicated by greater numbers of applicants vying for the same number of spots, increasingly early preparation for college and the rise of technology.

“I don’t remember this torturous process,” she said. “In a lot of ways it’s made it so difficult and so stressful for the families of the kids applying.”

After another 10 years had passed, 1995 College graduate Jordana Horn applied to Penn in 1990. At first, her expectations of Penn were far from positive — but after visiting, she changed her mind.

“I went to Penn as a sophomore [in high school] fairly sure that I would hate it because it was something that my mother loved, and then I fell in love with it anyway,” she said.

Even as recently as 20 years ago, Horn said that the application process was different than it is today.

“It was comparatively lowkey,” she said.

Now, as she raises her children, she is dismayed at the early emphasis placed on preparing young children for later success in higher education.

“People are trying to hone in on someone’s unique talent or skill at ridiculously low ages,” she said. “I think it really detracts from the experience of just being a kid.”

Horn believes that her application experience was relatively calm — but her own children will not have the same luxury, she said.

“I think I was more laid back,” she said. “I don’t think that you necessarily can be that way anymore.”

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Penn students help ex-offenders ‘PREP’ for entrepreneurial success Program was brainchild of SP2 prof. Charlotte Ren SHOBA BABU Staff Reporter

One Penn program spent the semester “prepping” former inmates to launch their entrepreneurial ideas.

On Saturday, the Penn Restorative Entrepreneurship Program — a partnership between the School of Social Policy & Practice’s Goldring Reentry Initiative, the Wharton Social Impact Initiative and the Rescue Mission of Trenton that teaches formerly incarcerated individuals valuable entrepreneurial skills to help them re-enter society — held final presentations for its pilot year.

Six of the ex-offenders, referred to as “clients,” presented business pitches to SP2 professors, Rescue Mission board members and an evaluation committee of three actual businessmen, who provided them with feedback on their ideas.

Phase One of the program — which culminated in the final presentations — offered 10 weeks of intensive entrepreneurial workshop sessions on Saturdays taught by eight student mentors from SP2, Wharton, Penn Law School and the College of Arts and Sciences.

The PREP program, which was launched in February, is the brainchild of SP2 professor Charlotte Ren, who has been preparing for the program for two years. The six clients who presented were selected from the 10 participants in the program

based on various factors such as how well developed their ideas were. Presentations were five minutes each, followed by a 10 minute question and answer session.

Although clients presented a wide variety of ideas ranging from landscaping companies to social media platforms, one theme was common among all of their presentations. They all spoke with confidence and passion and agreed that the experience had been life changing.

PREP client Wallace Brown, who hopes to start a food cart selling Southern cuisine inspired by his mother’s home cooked meals, said “[I’ve felt myself personally grow] tremendously.

People have called me antisocial, so being able to stand in front of people I don’t know and present something big has been groundbreaking for me.”

Fellow client Eric Miller, who pitched the idea of a welding company, agreed. “It’s been a great experience. [The program] gave me a great opportunity to incite my business idea, develop it and learn how to get it off the ground. I’ve been welding for over 20 years, and I never thought of owning a business until I took this class,” Miller said.

Client Jeffrey Smith, who presented his idea for a landscaping business, raved about the Saturday classes. “It was such a learning experience.

[The mentors] were awesome …

Informative, caring, understanding … I can’t say enough about them,” he said.

Ren was proud to see her

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The Penn Restorative Entrepreneurship Program mentors, clients and Dr. Ren and Alex Patel.

idea come to fruition. “I’m really touched by [our clients’] commitment and capability of dreaming big,” Ren said. ”[Our clients and mentors] have achieved an enormous amount of progress and success throughout this process, so as faculty director of the program, I am incredibly, sincerely proud.”

Both Ren and her partner Barrett Young, chief operating officer of the Rescue Mission, said that the personal growth and newfound confidence and motivation of the clients after the 10 week period was evident.

“I can say for all the participants of the program that there has been a large increase in their self-confidence and their self-awareness… This program has given them that fire in their belly to move their life forward.”

Young said.

He shared a distinct memory of dropping into the classroom during a session.

Young recalled that it was the first time in the 13 years he has worked for the Rescue Mission that the clients did not

immediately greet him.

“It wasn’t out of disrespect — they were so focused on the class that I don’t think they even noticed I walked into the room,” Young said. “It’s amazing. You could have taken that class and picked it up and put it on any college campus in America and no one would have known that one — the people teaching the class were all students — and two — that the guys sitting in that room were all ex-offenders — and I think that’s a testament to both the clients of the Rescue Mission … and the students at Penn … It was very powerful to see that.”

Ren was both impressed by and appreciative of the mentors as well.

“You would be amazed by the quality of their research and their teaching skills,” Ren said. “[Our clients] ask some very specific questions … that most professors won’t be able to answer well, but our students have done a lot [of research].”

Student mentors opt to participate in the PREP program as an independent study option.

Unlike professors teaching undergrads and MBAs, student mentors have to focus on making material useful and comprehensive to clients as opposed to teaching theoretical class concepts. One of the student mentors even talked to her friend in the insurance industry to provide the most relevant insurance information for the client’s company.

The mentors returned the clients’ sentiments, praising their enthusiasm and commitment and discussing their pride in their mentees.

“It’s been incredibly grounding for the mentors to go out to a totally different community and see a nonprofit that’s operating in the manner that the Trenton Rescue Mission is … It puts what you’re doing every day into a totally different light,” said mentor and Penn Law and Wharton student Nicole Schneidman.

“This was an amazing program … It’s definitely given me a chance to do something not just for myself but for someone else and I’m excited to see [my

mentee’s] business grow and be his first customer,” said College senior Jenna Goldstein, who mentored aspiring landscaping entrepreneur Lester Williams.

Mentors also emphasized their pride in being able to see their mentees’ ideas go from raw to concrete and their appreciation of the opportunity to learn vast information about a wide variety of subjects through teaching.

Ren said that they are currently in the process of discussing both Phase Two and Phase Three of the program.

Although plans have not been finalized, the main goals are to expand the program and make it sustainable and reapplicable to other organizations outside of Penn. In addition, they hope to help the clients become socially responsible entrepreneurs and find stable jobs in which to apply their abilities and skills if they cannot become entrepreneurs in the short term.

Phase Two will be launched in late May as a course offered in the summer semester.

“I think PREP is kind of like a call for the attention of prestigious schools like Penn because Penn faculty members and students are people who are super, super smart, but they live in a kind of ivory tower,” Ren said.

“This might be a call for them to pay attention to really serious and pressing social issues such as community reintegration issues. It’s a great opportunity to apply what we learn from the classroom and books to address real social issues and help Penn connect better with the community.”

Botswana partnership harnesses the power of Skype Doctors in rural areas will be able to gain expertise COLE SPEIDEL Contributing Reporter

Leveraging the power of Skype, Penn is bringing top of the line medical expertise to rural Botswana.

The Botswana-UPenn Partnership is expanding its telemedicine capabilities through a new joint project with Microsoft and other partners.

The partnership was founded in 2001, at first to help combat HIV, and then was expanded to

treat cervical cancer and tuberculosis. Until this new project, BUP’s telemedicine efforts revolved around cell phone technology — where rural physicians would send photos to experts in the capital, Gaborone. These pictures could be forwarded to Penn for consulting.

Under Project Kgolagano, meaning “to be connected or networked,” rural doctors will be able to video chat with the experts in the capital.

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The medical section has around 100 people in the country at a time, most of which are nurses and lab technicians, with the rest of the group being specialists.

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had the finishing power at the end. Cheserek did not — at least not on Saturday. And so the king was dethroned, by almost nine-tenths of a second.

“I’ve seen what [Cheserek’s] done,” Williamsz said. “I tried to give it back to him a little bit.”

Williamsz’ 4:13.6 anchor wasn’t a pretty number relative to the 4:02, 4:01.4 and 4:01.1 splits that his teammates put up, but it was enough to deliver a thrilling end to the race that turned those aforementioned boos into cheers and even had the sprint-crazed Jamaican fans in the stands at full throat.

“The last leg was basically full of theater. It was full of exciting moments, and their booing and cheering and everything,” Villanova coach Marcus O’Sullivan said. “It’s the excitement of getting a crowd. It’s entertainment, and you don’t know what the exciting finish is going to be.”

The thrills of events like the 4xMile are what drew 48,920 fans to Franklin Field on Saturday, track junkies or otherwise.

Even Penn students, who are normally the Athletic Department’s stingiest customers, turned out en masse, with snapshots from the stadium’s first and second decks populating

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plenty of Snapchat stories.

How many of them know who Cheserek is? In the end, it doesn’t really matter.

Penn students saw a thrilling race, one directly associated with the Penn Athletics brand.

The challenge, of course, is to convert one weekend’s worth of goodwill into year-round engagement.

What may help matters in the future is the continuing ascendance of Penn’s own track program under coach Steve Dolan.

Sophomore Noel Jancewicz notched the third-best heptathlon score in program history on Wednesday evening with her runner-up finish in the event.

The Red and Blue followed that up on Saturday with a fifthplace finish in the women’s 4x800-meter Championship of America. Penn’s 8:40.63 mark was only 27 hundredths behind the school record in the event, set back in 2006.

The Quakers also finished sixth in the 4xMile on Saturday, thanks to star Thomas Awad posting a 4:00.7 second leg and anchor Clark Shurtleff taking advantage of Cheserek’s tactical mistake to catch the lead pack.

Penn has won the 4xMile nine times in the 121-year long history of Penn Relays. A 10th title could be closer than many think.

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The event’s rich history has been thrown around all weekend as a means to justify its importance, and rightfully so.

In terms of attendance, it’s the largest annual track meet in the world. For each of the past 12 years, it has boasted total attendance of more than 110,000 across its three days. It has showcased international track superstars like Usain Bolt and — this year — Justin Gatlin and Asafa Powell.

But as impressive as all of that is, it would be a disservice to the event as a whole to reduce its importance to a bunch of fun facts one could find on the inside of a program.

What make the Relays truly special are the small yet beautiful moments of humanity during the course of the weekend’s annual proceedings. And these moments are all over the place.

On Saturday, nearly 50,000 people packed the stands in anticipation of the much publicized “USA vs. the World” sprint relay races. Around 2 p.m, the athletes for the men’s international 4x200meter relay took to the track, and the energy in the stadium was palpable.

Heading into the day, I was as

excited for this race as the next track enthusiast, especially with Olympian Wallace Spearmon set to anchor for the United States.

However, when 2 p.m rolled around, I found myself unable to concentrate on the race.

That’s because I was transfixed by what was going on in — of all events — the college men’s high jump.

Prior to approaching the bar, each athlete went through his own little preparatory routine, and no two were the same. Some looked

event if everyone ran the 5,000meter and nothing else.

But despite all of these minute differences, everyone in attendance — runners and jumpers, young and old, Americans and Jamaicans, alike — had gathered together in the name of track and field. And what was even more moving than the United States’ exciting victory in the 4x200m, was the crowd’s sportsmanship afterward, with Jamaican fans congratulating the U.S. contingent on a great race and vice versa.

— at least — the past decade. This dominance was fully on display on Friday, when he led his school to victory in the men’s DMR with an outstanding final leg.

On Saturday, Cheserek took the baton again, this time with a lead in the men’s 4xMile. To almost any spectator, the race was over. It was a near certainty that Cheserek would finish the job for Oregon.

Only that isn’t what happened.

To the shock of the crowd, Cheserek was passed by Villanova’s

But how could that happen? How could the top collegiate runner in the nation give up a lead on track’s biggest stage? ... He was human up to the sky in prayer, while others simply took a small step back before taking off.

Of particular interest to me was Penn freshman Mike Monroe’s routine. Before making his approach, he would shadowbox the air and repeatedly smack himself in the face with both hands.

All of this seems somewhat trivial, but I couldn’t take my eyes away for one main reason: It demonstrated the unique humanity in each of the athletes.

These small differences can be seen all over the place in Franklin Field, on the track and, especially, in the stands. And the Relays celebrate these differences; after all, it wouldn’t be a very interesting

There is an almost magical quality to the Relays’ ability to bring people together, and nobody understands this better than the athletes.

When Penn senior Conner Paez finished up his race in the 5,000, you could see a deep level of disappointment in his eyes. And I would bet that it had nothing to do with the time he ran, but rather that he might never be a part of the truly special event again.

One of the headlining collegians this year was Oregon sophomore Edward Cheserek.

Already with six national titles to his name, Cheserek is widely considered to be one of the most dominant collegiate runners of

Jordan Williamsz.

But how could that happen?

How could the top collegiate runner in nation give up a lead on track’s biggest stage?

Because at that moment, he wasn’t just the reigning NCAA champion or the reigning king of collegiate track and field. He was so much more and so much less: He was human.

And as Penn Relays has taught me, that is something worth celebrating.

COLIN HENDERSON is a Wharton sophomore from Nazareth, Pa., and is a sports editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at henderson@thedp.com.

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Penn’s Senior Day win comes down to the wire W. LACROSSE | Bensen

scores game winner

WILL AGATHIS Sports Reporter

For Penn women’s lacrosse, Sunday was a day of lasts.

The home game against Cornell was the last time that the Class of 2015 stepped onto Franklin Field for the Red and Blue during the regular season, and the win was earned in lastminute fashion thanks to some late game heroics.

In what was a great statement game, the Quakers (12-3, 6-1 Ivy) were able to fend off the Big Red (9-6, 4-3) and cap off their regular season with a 10-9 win.

After letting up two quick goals from Cornell, the Quakers went on a 5-1 run and carried forward a comfortable 6-3 lead. The Big Red then came rushing back, eventually tying the game at six apiece. With just 20 minutes left in the match, both teams attacked hard and traded goals until only three minutes remained.

Throughout the second half, Penn had great control in the

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In the Class of 2015’s final hurrah in Franklin Field, senior midfielder Lindsey Smith joined attack Tory Bensen as one of two seniors to net a goal on Senior Day as Penn won its final regular season game.

zone, but could not find a viable scoring opportunity. Coach Karin Corbett decided to call a timeout in an attempt to rally her

troops.

Clearly something clicked; just seconds after stepping back onto the field, senior attack Tory

Bensen drove hard to the net, spun and notched what would ultimately be the game-winning goal.

“That goal was the product of great ball movement. Our attackers worked it high, we worked it low, we kicked it low,� Bensen said. “That was a full seven-man effort to get in the open down there. That was a full team effort to get that goal.�

Over the last two minutes, there were numerous points when Cornell looked like it was going to net the equalizer, but Penn fought hard and eventually came out on top. “I think it was an okay game for us,� Corbett said. “We came through in the end, but we gave up too many shots defensively.

We turned the ball over in transition. It wasn’t a great game, but at least we pulled it out.�

Sunday’s tilt marks the last time this team, under its current makeup, will ever play a game at Franklin Field. In a timely tribute to the graduating class, Corbett started all 10 senior team members against the Big Red. Corbett thinks that their performance spoke wonders about the team. “They’re not a team that’s going to give up.� Corbett said. “They showed that they wanted to win their last game together on

this field, and that was very important for the 10 seniors.�

In addition to Bensen’s threegoal game — which put her in second on Penn women’s lacrosse all-time goal scoring leaders with 129 career points — senior midfielder Lindsey Smith also scored a goal.

The Quakers will travel to Princeton on Friday where they will face Cornell in a rematch of this weekend’s Ivy regular season finale. That is not going to be stress-free, even after the Quakers won the first matchup. “It’s hard. It’s really hard,�

Corbett said. “I think we both played a tough game today, and now we have to think about what they’re going to do differently and what we’re going to do differently.�

Even though the game means little in terms of standing, as Penn was set to play Cornell regardless of Sunday’s result, the importance of the win should not be understated. “We have a lot to work on this week,� Bensen said. “They’re a very strong team and they’re going to come out even stronger on Friday.�

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Out of Ivy title contention, Red and Blue fall in ACC-Penn Classic M. LACROSSE | Penn hurt

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After staging a miraculous late-season rebound to put itself in position to potentially qualify for postseason play, Penn men’s lacrosse was eliminated from contention for the Ivy League Tournament on Saturday before taking itself out of playoff consideration with a loss to No. 8 Virginia in the ACC-Penn

Classic later that night.

In the first edition of the Quakers’ matchup with the fifth-place team in the hyper-competitive Atlantic Coast Conference, Penn found itself in a rough position early on and could not rebound against the Cavaliers, eventually falling, 12-6. “To beat a team like that we needed to play well in all places,� coach Mike Murphy said. “And I don’t think we played well enough.�

One year after clinching the Ivy League championship with two wins in the conference tournament, the Red and Blue (6-7) endured a

midseason slump in which they dropped four consecutive contests, including a triple-overtime loss against then-No. 7 Cornell. Penn managed to kickstart the end of its season with an enormous win over Brown on April 4, and the Quakers emerged victorious in their final three Ivy contests.

However, after Brown defeated Dartmouth earlier in the day on Saturday, the Quakers were relegated to finishing tied for fourth in the Ancient Eight with Yale. However, the Elis managed to secure the bid in the Ivy League Tournament by virtue

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Back at Meiklejohn Stadium on Sunday, Penn celebrated its 10 graduating seniors before taking the field for the day’s first game.

Sophomore pitcher Jake Cousins got to work immediately against the Lions, tallying five strikeouts in the first four innings. Cousins garnered six total punch-outs in seven innings, while allowing only one hit.

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Junior Nick Doktor found freshman Kevin McGeary for the opening goal in Saturday’s game, but it wasn’t enough as Penn fell, 8-6.

and that’s what we are,� Murphy said. “We played the toughest schedule.

We worked as hard as we could to get to that point. “I feel good about the year. I don’t feel good about the record but we worked extremely hard as a team.�

On the other end of the field, junior Jimmy Sestilio and senior John Lopes split the time in goal, with each playing 30 minutes apiece.

It was a fitting end to a season in which the Red and Blue split between the two goalkeepers nearly every game. “I feel like by the end of the year we were playing well, we made some adjustments and started playing better defense really after the Yale game,� Murphy said.

This will be the first time in three

years that the Quakers don’t continue their season into May. However, Murphy is still proud of his squad. “I’m very proud of our team and the effort,� Murphy said. “We had a great senior class and they really did handle themselves very well throughout the year, and throughout their four years.�

When this senior class came to Penn, the program was in a very different place. An Ivy championship seemed way out of reach for the Quakers, let alone a home game in the NCAA Tournament. But it all happened. “Where this program is relative to 2011 when the seniors arrived is really night and day,� Murphy said. “The seniors should have a lot to feel good about.�

fourth inning. “Mitch has been huge,� Yurkow said. “It’s nice to know that if we need a couple runs, he can pop one out and get a rally going pretty quick.�

The streak of great performances by the Red and Blue pitchers came to an end in Sunday’s second game, as senior Connor Cuff was unable to make it out of the first inning. Cuff began the game inauspiciously by hitting Columbia’s leadoff batter with a pitch. He would go on to allow a single, a sacrifice fly, another hit batsman and then a two-run double before he was removed from the game. “You could tell pretty early on that his command wasn’t there,� Yurkow said of Cuff. “He was a little erratic.

He just didn’t have it. “We had the bullpen rested, and I think if you have that opportunity, you just have to use all of your guys.�

Yurkow went to his bullpen early, which he has not often been forced to do in a season where his starting pitchers have tossed ten complete games. “It’s been a while,� Yurkow said. “Lucky for us, Ronnie and Mike went deep into games on Saturday.

That gave us the chance to hang in there and compete today.�

Down in an early 3-0 hole, the Quakers did not go quietly and answered with a run in the second. The

game proved to be a tug-of-war between the two teams, as Penn tied it up with runs in the third in a bizarre sequence of events that included a catcher’s interference, a hit batsman and walk — the latter two of which came with the bases loaded — to force in two runs.

Penn took the lead in the fourth inning on a Bossart home run before ceding it again in the fifth inning.

The score was tied at six by the seventh inning, which was how it remained through the ninth to force extra innings.

Columbia notched two runs in the top of the tenth inning and, despite a late two-out rally in which the Quakers got runners to second and third, they could not come up with a big hit, and fell 8-6. “If we got a hit here or there in the seventh or eighth, it could have been a different outcome,� Yurkow said. “There were some mixed emotions.

We felt like we could have won the series, but they were well-played games. There weren’t too many errors and the pitchers threw strikes.

It was very good college baseball.�

Now, the Quakers will play a onegame playoff next week to decide the Gehrig Division. “We would’ve liked to have won the series, but we still have a shot,�

Yurkow said. “I like our chances going up there for next weekend.

We’ll be well-rested, and we’ll see

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of their head-to-head 15-7 win over Penn on March 28.

With the chance of defending their Ivy title gone by the time the game against Virginia (10-4) started, the only hope the Quakers had of making the postseason was tied to securing a win over the Cavaliers.

And early on, it seemed like the squad might have had a chance.

Penn started the game off strong with the contest’s first goal three minutes in as freshman Kevin McGeary scored off an assist from junior Nick Doktor.

That’s when Virginia stole the show. The Cavaliers — who finished fifth out of the five teams in the ACC — scored nine goals stretching from the first to fourth quarters before Penn was able to get on the board again. “I give credit to Virginia, their defense played very well,� Murphy said. “They’ve got some very good athletes. [But] our boys played pretty well. “We won quite a few faceoffs early on [and] then lost momentum in the second quarter. We rode well but didn’t clear great.�

With under 15 minutes to play, midfielder Austin Kreinz gave the Quakers some momentum with his successful shot. At that point, Virginia and Penn traded goals for several minutes until the Quakers captured the final two to solidify the outcome. “At the end of the day, we were 6-7

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SOFTBALL | Penn takes two in comeback fashion TOM NOWLAN Associate Sports Editor

Contrary to the sport’s name, Penn softball balled awfully hard this weekend.

The Red and Blue took three out of four games in a home-and-home matchup with Columbia, which — coupled with a pair of losses by Princeton — clinched the Ivy League South Division title for the Quakers. Having wrapped up the division, Penn will now square off with Dartmouth in the Ivy League Championship Series for the third consecutive season.

The Red and Blue’s weekend started Saturday afternoon when they squared off with the Lions in the Big Apple. In the first game of the doubleheader, senior Alexis Borden twirled a complete-game gem, shutting out Columbia for all seven innings in a 9-0 Quakers win.

But the Lions struck back in the second game of the series, using senior outfielder Mackensy Lakian’s two-run double to fuel a 5-3 victory.

Penn sophomore outfielder Leah Allen went five-for-eight with a home run over the two games. After a slow start to her 2015 campaign, Allen is now hitting .298 on the season with five dingers.

Coming into the weekend, the Quakers needed some combination of four wins of its own and losses by Princeton to clinch the division. After Penn split with Columbia and Princeton split with Cornell in Ithaca on Saturday, the Quakers’ magic number was reduced to two coming into the final day of the regular season.

On Sunday at Penn Park, the Red and Blue trailed 2-0 going into the bottom of the fifth inning of the first game.

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Despite struggling to kick off the 2015 campaign, sophomore outfielder Leah Allen has picked up her offense of late. In Saturday’s matchups against Columbia, Allen notched five hits in eight at-bats, including a home run, all of which helped pace the Quakers as the team clinched its fourth consecutive South Division title this weekend.

However, sophomore shortstop and No. 9 hitter Sydney Kranzmann picked the perfect moment to hit her first career home run, knocking a two-run blast over the fence to tie the game at two.

“It was a good time for her to have her first career home run, that’s for sure,” coach Leslie King said. “It was huge. We were struggling to put anything across the board, and for her to come up with that was a big morale boost.”

The following frame, the Red and Blue scored a run on a fielder’s choice to take a 3-2 lead they would never relinquish. Shortly before the final out was recorded in Philadelphia, Cornell defeated Princeton 7-5 in Ithaca.

With the win and the Tigers’ loss, the Quakers secured their fourth consecutive South Division crown.

“I actually didn’t hear [that Princeton had lost] until after the game,” King said. “We were focusing on what we had to do.”

Though the postseason picture had been settled, there was still a second game to be played.

In Sunday’s second tilt, the Quakers rallied back from a 7-2 deficit and held on in the final inning to win their final regular season game, 9-8.

Despite the substantially decreased importance of the second game, King was proud of her team’s fighting spirit.

“We’re not going to lay down,” King said. “We’re going to play every inning like it’s our last.”

Nearly lost in all of Sunday’s drama was the fact that the Quakers’ seniors played their final career home games. Following the second game of the doubleheader, each of the four

Penn seniors were honored in a touching ceremony.

“This senior class has done so much for the program,” King said. “All the credit to them.

They had great careers here.”

With the pomp and circumstance of Senior Day in the rearview mirror, the Quakers will shift their sights to Dartmouth, who finished 15-4 in Ivy play and will get the benefit of hosting the all-important threegame set.

Despite the daunting opponent and lack of a home-field advantage, King is not fazed by her squad’s next challenge.

“I really don’t see us as an underdog. We split with them down here [in two games on March 27],” she said. “They have a better record than us, but on the day of the game, the records don’t mean anything. It’s just all about who plays well that day.”

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Penn softball took three games against Columbia, clinching the Ivy South Division on Sunday

Penn women’s lacrosse sent its seniors out in style, as a late score helped clinch the win

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Although Villanova freshman Jordan Williamsz’s anchor split on the Men’s 4xMile relay on Saturday was almost 12 seconds slower than the rest of his Wildcat teammates, it was enough to overtake the reigning king of men’s collegiate distance running, Oregon sophomore Edward Cheserek, thanks to the latter’s decision to slow the pace dramatically in the final stretch of the race.

TRACK & FIELD | ‘Nova wins thrilling 4xMile IAN WENIK Senior Sports Reporter

W hen you’re told to “expect the unexpected,” it’s easy to take that cliched piece of advice with a desultory wave of the hand.

But let’s be honest: Who could have seen the result of Saturday’s Men’s 4xMile Championship of America at the Penn Relays coming?

I had never seen a Relays crowd boo in my three years covering the carnival. Yet that’s exactly what happened when Oregon anchor runner Edward Cheserek — the country’s best distance runner — slowed the pace to a near-walk entering the backstretch of the race’s 14th lap.

Last year, Cheserek posted a 3:56.4 second leg in the same event — blistering the field and building a massive lead that would result in the Ducks’ second consecutive win in the relay.

That wasn’t the case on Saturday. Cheserek — and the rest of the lead pack, for that matter — seemed afraid to take the lead. And for that hesitation, he ultimately paid the price.

When Cheserek started his kick with about 250 meters to go in the race, he found he had company in Villanova’s Jordan Williamsz, whom just one day earlier Cheserek had passed in the final stretch to win the distance medley relay.

Williamsz, a self-proclaimed 800-meter specialist, SEE TRACK & FIELD PAGE 13

TELLING NUMBERS in the heptathlon for Penn 5,051 points sophomore Noel Jancewicz old Champ Goldy finished Masters 98 year 75+ 100-meter race in 33.09 attendance at Franklin Field, 48,920 Sunday’s the most for any day of Penn Relays

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Little moments of humanity amid chaos at the Relays COLIN HENDERSON

Track and field is all about small moments and enormous stakes.

It’s about a series of little snippets of action that accumulate to become something much greater than the sum of its parts.

Think about a pole-vaulter

making an approach. With only one false step, his chance at victory — and all of the glory that comes with it — flies out the window.

In the days leading up to this year’s Penn Relays, my colleague called the event “a world affair,” and I couldn’t agree more. But at the same time — much like track and field as a sport — it is so much more and so much less.

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Senior catcher Austin Bossart had two huge hits for the Quakers in their series with Columbia, including a solo shot to spark Penn in its first game on Saturday.

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Penn baseball knew it would be in for its greatest test of the season this weekend against an evenly matched opponent in Columbia.

The Quakers took the field on Saturday tied for first place in the Ivy League’s Lou Gehrig Division, hoping to clinch the title by winning at least three out of the four games. Instead, the Red and Blue split the series with the Lions — Penn won the first game of doubleheaders on

both Saturday and Sunday, while Columbia took the nightcap each day.

“We always know it’s going to be a dogfight with us and Columbia, especially these past two years,” senior catcher Austin Bossart said. “We’re going in excited all the time.”

The series began at Columbia’s Satow Stadium in New York. Bossart staked the Quakers (22-14, 16-4 Ivy) to an early lead, hitting a solo home run in the first inning. Senior pitcher Ronnie Glenn surrendered that lead in the third, however, when Columbia strung together a series of singles to take a 2-1 lead.

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the back of a triple by junior outfielder Matt Greskoff and a double by senior shortstop Mitch Montaldo, before making it 4-2 in the sixth.

In the seventh, Glenn allowed a solo home run to Lions third baseman David Vandercook, but that was all he would give up as the burly right-hander finished off the final three batters for his fifth complete-game victory of the year.

“He’s been awesome,” coach John Yurkow said of Glenn’s durability.

Sophomore pitcher Mike Reitcheck — starting Saturday’s second game — delivered an even better performance, pitching eight innings while allowing

only one run. However, that run was all Columbia (25-14, 16-4) needed. Despite garnering 10 hits — including five doubles — Penn could not get a run across the plate, leaving nine men on base en route to a 1-0 loss.

“I think there was a little over-trying,” Yurkow said of the team’s failure to score. “A little pressing. Guys were trying to do too much with runners in scoring position. We did hit some balls hard, and [Columbia] made some plays. It’s crazy how you had these two high-scoring teams, and [Saturday’s] games were so low scoring.

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