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HISTORY History gives two classes claim to title of 100th Hey Day

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SPEC cancels spring concert SPEC-TRUM had planned to feature YG, Metro Boomin and Kamaiyah CHERRY ZHI Staff Reporter

On Wednesday morning, the Social Planning and Events Committee to Represent Undergraduate Minorities announced that YG would no longer be performing at the SPEC-TRUM spring concert scheduled for that night. Then, three hours before the show, SPEC-TRUM cancelled the concert altogether after Metro Boomin missed his flight to Philadelphia, according to the Facebook event.

Originally, SPEC-TRUM planned its annual spring concert featuring YG, Metro Boomin and Kamaiyah to be held on Wednesday night at 8 p.m. at the 23rd Street Armory. The event was scheduled for the last day of classes to celebrate the end of the year, and SPEC-TRUM had been selling tickets on Locust Walk and online leading up to the event.

At 9 a.m. on Wednesday, SPEC-TRUM posted on its Facebook event page that “because YG is

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very year, on the first day of reading days in April, the junior class celebrates their initial “moving up” as seniors in the annual Hey Day parade and celebration.

Students march down Locust Walk dressed in red shirts, straw hats and canes, to President Amy Gutmann, who awaits the class on the steps of College Hall. Students roar and cheer, welcoming in their final year at Penn.

But before being officially

crowned seniors, the junior class must answer three questions, part of an annual test. The University president, like presidents before, will ask: “Who is the founder of the University of Pennsylvania?” “Who is your class president?” and “True or False: The Penn Class of [insert latest year here] will be the best senior class ever.”

But 2015 was not like the rest. “On our year, I don’t know if she did this

by herself, but she changed the traditional questions,” said 2016 Class Board President Jesus Perez.

Instead of the traditional question, she asked, “How many Hey Days have there been?” and the class responded with an enthusiastic “One hundred.”

Gutmann then announced, “I hereby declare you century seniors,” SEE HEY DAY PAGE A5

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Can coding be a foreign language?

Profs. consider overlap in compsci and language SHOBA BABU Staff Reporter

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Students at Penn are weighing in on whether computer languages should be able to satisfy the foreign language requirement.

Spanish, French, Mandarin — and Java? As the debate to consider counting coding as a foreign language grows louder, members of the Penn community weigh in on the possibility of a similar policy here.

Last month in a 35-5 vote, Florida senators approved a bill that proposes allowing high school students to use computer coding to fill foreign language

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requirements. The law will also require all public Florida colleges and universities to accept this credit, although officials provide a caveat that this may not be accepted at other universities outside the state. This law will be implemented in the 2018-19 school year and will be the first of its kind in the country. Still, critics at Penn have concerns.

Technology Director of the Penn Language Center Edward Dixon is surprised by the assumption that coding could substitute foreign language. As someone with a background in both technology and foreign

language, he says that there is a stark contrast between the solitary nature of coding and the community-oriented nature of language.

“Language learning is a different experience with interaction.

It’s a social activity … students are not only learning about language and culture, but they’re learning to begin to understand and empathize with people who are different from themselves,” Dixon said. “In that way, language learning is a vehicle that puts students in the shoes of the other, which computer coding can’t do.”

As an example, he pointed to classes taught by French professor Melanie Peron, who connects her students with native speakers so they are able to listen to and converse with each other and share views on relevant social and global issues. Meeting and interacting with people from an entirely different background opens up a whole new world for students.

Dixon said foreign language study serves a humanistic purpose and exposes people to a global perspective, which is SEE CODING PAGE B3

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New Facebook group alerts students to free food Junior Wayne Schmitt started Free Food at Penn EMILY CIESLAK Contributing Reporter

A few slices of cold pizza sitting in their oily cardboard misery. Boxes of coffee stained with greasy fingerprints. Halfempty liters of soda that look as if their bubbles have lost their enthusiasm.

On any given night, food scraps from speaker events and club meetings collect in the lobby of Huntsman Hall. Hungry passersby snag a few slices or drinks until what looks appetizing is gone. The uneaten food has a common destination: the trash.

Environmentally-conscious and thrifty, College junior Wayne Schmitt recognized this food waste and decided it was time to do something about it.

This past February, he created the Facebook group Free Food at Penn, designed to connect Penn students to free food on campus.

“I kept on seeing all of these events that have free food, and I thought there should be a collective of all of these things,” Schmitt said.

Shortly after, he enlisted his friend, College senior Nick

Welch, to help approve members.

The group has more than 660 members and is very active, with members posting club events with food, coupons for restaurants and photos of leftovers from events.

The group isn’t about encouraging eat and run. Schmitt and Welch see it as a step toward increasing club engagement, reducing food waste and combating food insecurity on campus.

“My intentions when I made it was not just to make a thing where people get food and leave.

I also want to it to be reciprocal,” Schmitt said. “Clubs post in there, they get more attendees and then people get food. It’s a win-win scenario.”

An alternate meal plan Wharton sophomore Laura Gao joked she has gone to Fresh Grocer twice this semester thanks to the group.

“I am fairly low maintenance since I don’t spend that much money on food, but this group has lowered that amount even more,” Gao said. “I also save time because I don’t have to spend time going grocery shopping and preparing food.”

Scouting out and attending the events can become a time

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Provost for University Life lists a few organizations on its website that students can contact when in need of emergency funding, none of these are specific to food. Students who cannot afford items in the cost of attendance, including a dining plan, are encouraged

by Student Registration and Financial Services to talk to their financial aid adviser.

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The Facebook group Free Food at Penn was created to reduce the food waste after speaker events or club meetings.

Schmitt said. “It’s a balance of saving money while also nourishing yourself. And I mean that is kind of like a larger issue in the United States where worse food is generally cheaper.”

Resources at Penn Schmitt and Welch said they went off Penn’s dining plan as early as they could, receiving a financial aid refund in its place.

However, students who rely on their dining plans may find it difficult to stay on campus during breaks when most dining locations close.

Penn Dining provides prepackaged, to-go meals during breaks to dining plan holders, according to a statement from the Division of Business Services and Student Registration and Financial Services. However, there are some other lesser-known resources on campus for students who may face food insecurity.

Jamie-Lee Josselyn, a College House Fellow at Hill College House, said she cooked a few meals for students of low-income backgrounds over spring break.

As a former first-generation student at Penn, Josselyn said she

hasn’t seen many initiatives by the institution to tackle food insecurity.

“I think there are some small organizations on campus that are being mindful about this and being generous with their food offerings, perhaps as a way to triage or help a larger problem that might be addressed by the University as a whole at some point,” Josselyn said.

Josselyn is also a creative writing instructor who works closely with the Kelly Writers House — she said the house is known to provide its own “dining plan” through its kitchen and frequent events with free food.

The Greenfield Intercultural Center has also made a kitchen and snacks accessible to students and offered meals during spring break, Director Valerie De Cruz said. Penn Women’s Center usually cooks a pot of pasta every Monday for students to take.

Hillel Soup Kitchen serves anybody in need, though College senior and co-director Allison Resnick said she has personally never seen a student use it in her three years in the position.

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Creating a dialogue Free Food at Penn allows students to tap into the University’s resources to make food more accessible.

“This money isn’t actually free. It’s coming from the school, but I just am under the opinion that the school has enough money to feed us more,” Schmitt said.

The supportive, positive environment of the group may stop students from feeling ashamed to take advantage of these resources.

“There is a certain campus climate where socioeconomic status is something to hide,” Welch said. “It’s easy to have shame about [food insecurity], so I think if you show up to an event people are not going to assume anything about you.”

He added, “It’s kind of a sad thing, but people can still hide that aspect of themselves. They don’t have to say, ‘Oh, if I don’t eat this, I literally won’t have dinner tonight.’ They don’t have to explain themselves.”

While the Facebook group can be a tool for low-income students, Schmitt and Welch said the group can be useful for all students.

“I think any student can appreciate the benefits of having free food there, not just students from particular backgrounds.

Also, it is really cool that often when I go to these events, they usually are about subjects I’m not really familiar with,” Welch said.

He added, “It’s just a cool intellectual experience on top of having free food and not having to pay for dinner that night.”

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commitment of its own. Schmitt strategically attends events with free food to feed himself — he has gone several days this semester without having to pay for any meals.

For him, this extra planning is an everyday part of budgeting his food.

“I come from a low-income background, and I get financial aid which is great, but my family does not really have enough money to support me otherwise, so because of that I have tried to find ways to save money,” Schmitt said. “I eat at food carts, cheap places — there are a few restaurants around that are usually under $10, and I use coupons whenever I can.”

Welch, who also identified as low-income, said he pairs a couple free food events a week with his own methods for making ends meet.

“I find myself to be a very resourceful person in general. I’m constantly looking for coupons for things, using Groupon all the time. Also, checking in with my friends to see if they have food or to see if they want to go to a place and split food with me,” Welch said.

Eating on a low budget ends up consuming a lot of Welch’s time and energy.

“I think a lot of measures in my life I take because I think it will help me, but if you ask any of my friends they would say I don’t really sleep,” Welch said.

Schmitt said he blocks off 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. because that’s when most events with food occur. Sometimes people post right before an event starts, either causing him to change his plans last minute or regret he purchased food without knowing.

When people don’t post the type of food being served, students may show up only to realize they can’t eat it or it’s pizza — again.

“It’s important to make sure that while you are doing things like this, you are still having a healthy diet and exercising,”

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Reflections on a Year at Penn cup o’ joe | Despite its faults, I’m very glad to be here

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As a junior transfer student, I have the unique perspective of having gone to Vassar College, a small liberal arts school which is, in many ways, the polar opposite of Penn.

The joke I like to tell about Vassar is that “it’s a small liberal arts school, which is very small, very liberal and very artsy.” The entire Vassar student body is the size of one year at Penn. It is comically liberal, so much so that ABC News did a story mentioning Luka Ladan and his experience as one of the few (openly) conservative people on campus. Finally, Vassar is very artsy. Its reputation is built upon its strong theater and music departments, its excellent performance groups and an incredibly pervasive a capella culture.

Penn, on the other hand, is big, politically diverse, and although it has excellent arts programs and performers, its primary reputation is one of aggressive and excessive pre professionalism. I certainly noticed that from the very

beginning, when I realized that the club fair contained extensive applications for industry interest groups.

I also noticed how unprepared I was when I strongly gunned for two clubs the beginning of fall semester, didn’t even get past the “Google Form application stage,” then overcompensated by applying to everything else (a classic Penn move), and was rejected from most of those clubs as well. At first I actually kept a list on my phone of all my acceptances and rejections, but I eventually stopped because the list of rejections got so long I couldn’t handle looking at it anymore.

I also went fratting — which I wasn’t great at — and I went to my first BYO — which I was disappointed by — and wandered my way into several parties. One observation that’s held true across every social niche I’ve seen at Penn is that if a party is boring, awkward or if there is any problem in any way, the solution is to drink more. Just got

here? You need to drink.

Not enjoying the music?

Try drinking more. That guy was mean to you? Who cares, just drink more. If you stand still long enough someone will tell you to drink, if not hand you one outright. At Penn, I drank

OCR as a boring snoozefest for corporate drones desperate to be noticed. I made jokes with my less business-inclined friends, deriding the banking and consulting hopefuls as sellouts or walking suits. But come spring semester, I

Penn gets a lot of flak for being overly pre professional.

But I think that it is both the best and worst thing about Penn.” more and had less fun.

And that attitude carries on into the adult world.

“Oh, we don’t have anything in common, well, let’s drink more!” One could argue that Penn prepares its students well for the real world in creating that mindset early, cynical as that statement might be.

Early in the fall semester I took pride in deriding

became that walking suit.

I went to the consulting info sessions, schmoozed it up, followed up via email, submitted my cover letters through PennLink and got rejected from almost everything.

I received two interviews, bombed one and performed astonishingly well on the other, but eventually turned down further

interviews as I realized the position was not really aligned with my long-term goals. I’m actually extremely grateful I OCRed and failed, as it helped me realize what I want to do with my career.

Despite my long list of rejections, I am incredibly glad I transferred, because a lot of my disappointing failures come from opportunities that would not have even existed at my old school. I never would have heard of the firms that rejected me if I didn’t come here. I never would have been able to be rejected from the “healthcare-business clubs” (WUHC and MedX) because there isn’t one at Vassar, let alone two.

Penn gets a lot of flak for being overly pre professional. But I think that it is both the best and worst thing about Penn. It is easy to see all the negatives: the high pressure culture, the OCR madness, the interviews for student run clubs. But in decrying the negatives, we forget that these problems are caused by the incredible amount

joe tharakan and depth of opportunities we are afforded by going to such a great school.

The pre professional atmosphere and the social culture of Penn both mimic what a professional career might consist of.

No matter where you go, there’s going to be problems with the school’s culture. But having seen the opposite end of the spectrum, I can say that we should be mindful of all the positives that Penn creates. joe tharakan is a College junior from the Bronx majoring in biological basis of behavior.

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With graduation almost here, and a farewell to four unforgettable years on Locust Walk, you might already be making plans for graduation trips, time at home and beginning your first full-time job. Why would you even think about business school at this stage, when applying for your MBA at Harvard Business School, Stanford Graduate School of Business or the Wharton School is years down the road?

Truth is, the strongest applicants to the top MBA programs plan their applications years ahead.

The first two years out of undergrad are in fact the perfect time to start building your business school profile. One of the first things that MBA admissions consider when reviewing applications is what has transpired since undergrad — not just in terms of professional development, but how you continue to engage with your community and

how you are building a track record of leadership both professionally and personally.

Exciting as it is to start at Goldman Sachs, Deloitte, Cisco Systems, UBS Financial Services Inc. or Bain & Company this fall, now is the time to be thinking about your exit as well. How can you make an impact on your organization and stand out from your peers?

Let your boss know early in the game that you are considering an MBA in a few years, and that you would like to take on assignments that will challenge you to develop new skills. Say “yes” to projects that others may turn down (remote locations, less “sexy” industries) — both of which give you the opportunity to really shine in terms of what you can contribute to the team. Taking on less popular assignments can generate great interaction with potential recommenders.

You should begi n

thinking about those recommenders early in your professional tenure. Business schools will want to know about your growth within the context of the organization, and who better to speak about this than someone who

taking the Graduate Management Admission Test or the Graduate Record Examinations this summer while you are still in study mode. Consider taking a baseline test during the month of June to gauge which may be the better

Truth is, the strongest applicants to the top MBA programs plan their applications years ahead.” has known you from the start?

While asking someone to be your mentor is admittedly awkward, you may naturally begin to develop relationships within the firm that can be helpful for you both in terms of advice and ultimately for the recommendation.

You may want to consider

exam for you. We recommend doing the exam now — it will be valid for five years — or waiting until you have been working for at least two years, as your new position will require a lot of time and dedication.

That said, this is not the time to step back from your

community engagement.

You’ve filled your years at Penn with Mask and Wig rehearsals, tutoring in West Philly, working on the Panhellenic Council or Penn Electric Racing. While we know it will be difficult to pick up right where you left off, getting involved in personally meaningful local activities can help to ease the transition to a full time job or a move to a new city. Business schools will want to know what you bring to their communities. So finding ways to get involved in your new hometown, even if it’s only once or twice a month, can highlight to the schools that you have a track record of engagement.

And getting involved with your local Penn Club or as an alumni interviewer is a terrific way to stay connected to Penn and help recruit the next generation of Quakers!

One last point is not to wait to start learning about the

schools that you may be considering. Sign up to receive their emails. Find out if they will be doing presentations in your city, or when travelling for work, take advantage of a campus visit. Learning about the culture and fit of the different schools is invaluable when you then apply in the fall of 2018 or 2019.

It’s an extraordinary time in your lives as you move from Franklin Field and Van Pelt Library, late nights studying at Steinberg-Dietrich Hall and Spring Fling to your professional careers. With many new professional adventures ahead, good preplanning can also help you get your business school aspirations off to a great start. brittany maschal is a former Whar ton MBA Admissions Officer and now an expert admissions coach at Fortuna Admissions. She will be co-hosting a workshop in NYC for early stage MBA planning.

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Wharton constructs gender-neutral bathroom The initiative is a product of semester-long collab.

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In an email sent to Wharton undergraduates on April 19, Wharton Dean Geoffrey Garrett announced the construction of gender-neutral restrooms on the forum level of Huntsman Hall. The same email also announced that half of the restrooms in the Colonial Penn Center are now accessible to “people of any gender” following a change in signage.

The restrooms will be located outside the Ambani Auditorium on the Walnut Street side. Wharton will also add a lactation suite on the first floor of Huntsman Hall.

The construction of the restrooms is the product of a semester-long collaboration between

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delivered to Dean Garrett earlier this semester. In a span of about two to three months, the administration was extremely responsive and receptive to the students’ needs, Redmond said.

The administration has not yet released the timeline for the construction of the bathrooms. The restrooms will be paid for using school funds, said Anita Henderson, senior director to the deputy dean of Wharton, in an emailed statement.

College freshman Aiden Castellanos, education chair for Penn Non-Cis, sees the construction of the gender-neutral bathrooms as a major triumph for the transgender community. He described genderneutral restrooms as single-stalled restrooms that can help alleviate a lot of the emotional and physical stress that accompanies bathroom usage by transgender individuals.

“You have to go over and think

about, how am I dressed today.

Could this possibly incite violence from other people?” Castellanos said.

Castellanos explained that questions like these can deter transgender individuals from using the restrooms available to them all day long, something he struggled with as a high school student and inspired him to advocate for the construction of gender-neutral restrooms.

Castellanos doesn’t see the construction of gender-neutral restrooms as particularly disruptive or offensive to people who are comfortable with traditional gendered bathrooms. “A gender-neutral restroom, the nicest thing about it, is that anyone could use it,” he said.

He also cited the functionality of gender-neutral restrooms as family restrooms. Gender neutral restrooms may be the best options for parents who need to change the

diapers of their young children, he said.

“I think it’s great that they’re doing it. I think it shows a concern for the comfort and safety of students who are trans or not binary,” said a College freshman and member of the LGBTQ community who did not wish to be identified.

Other students are pleased with the construction, but don’t view it as a reflection of Wharton’s genuine interest in protecting the rights of its students.

“The thing I’m not actually as crazy about … is the fact that this has been celebrated a lot as something that is almost a Wharton brand alignment with the ongoing transgender rights issues when the reality is that I think it really should be portrayed as Wharton catching up,” said College senior Aidan McConnell, co-founder of “The Statesman,” a Penn political

publication that gives voices to under-represented political opinions at Penn.

McConnell noted that some of his friends have been similarly skeptical of businesses in North Carolina, which have become more transgender friendly to appeal to consumers who are critical of the recent bathroom bills passed in the state. These bills prohibit individuals from using gendered bathrooms unless they are biologically that gender.

McConnell said such attempts don’t represent the sincerely held beliefs of individuals who are fighting for people’s rights.

Regardless of the motives, gender-neutral bathrooms will help the students they are designed to serve.

“It doesn’t need to be a controversial issue; it’s just a matter of needing to use the restroom,” Castellanos said.

knew that the Class of 2017 would have a competing claim to history.

2017 Class Board Executive Vice President Max Levy said that the Class of 2017 began planning their Hey Day two summers ago. Conversations took place between the Undergraduate Assembly and the two class boards. “The good news was that Penn was really excited to help with both our classes,” he said.

The 2016 Class Board met with Penn Archives, where historians confirmed that, counting from the first celebration, 2015 would mark the 100th Hey Day. But, with the first Hey Day occurring in 1916, the Hey Day celebration for the Class of 2017 would fall on the 100th anniversary of the first Hey Day. “They also said that [2016] would be the 100th anniversary,” Perez said. “But we used the same formula that the Super Bowl uses. So that’s how we did it. Hey Day 100.”

During the summer, Perez met with 2017 Class Board President Darren Tomasso to discuss developing plans for the Class of 2017 to celebrate as the 100th anniversary of Hey Day. “I had a very long conversation with Darren Tomasso. We

agreed to disagree,” Perez said.

Tomasso did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

As of a few weeks ago, Levy said that the Class Board was still working on developing its activities and event marketing. It’s a process he describes as “centennialization,” a way to personalize the almost $50,000-event for this year’s juniors.

In some ways, the Hey Day of 2016 reflects a century of change.

Hey Day’s history stretches back to 1865, when an event then-titled “Class Day” is first documented.

At the time, Penn was housed on 9th Street, across the city from its present-day campus in West Philadelphia.

Among other traditions, freshmen and sophomores participated in the Bowl Fight. The rules of the game were simple: Freshmen chose a classmate, designated the “bowlman,” and sophomores provided a bowl. The freshman class won if they managed to break the bowl before the sophomore class found the bowlman and placed him inside the bowl. If the sophomores accomplished their objective first, victory

was theirs.

In 1919, the tradition was discontinued after freshman William Lifson died.

The more sentimental tradition of Ivy Day also grew out of Hey Day. Established in 1873, the day was set aside for the senior class. For the first Ivy Day, the class imported a twig of Ivy from Scotland and planted it along the side of College Hall. This tradition established ivy as “a lasting symbol for each year’s graduating class,” according to the

University Archives’ website.

In later years, the day was used as an opportunity for antiwar protests, and in 1968, women were finally included in the celebration.

The now iconic tradition of canemarching was only added in 1965.

Even in 2015, the Class Board “fundamentally changed a lot of the events,” Perez said.

Last year, the Class of 2016 reduced the cost of the Hey Day package, after finding that one in five Penn students could not afford

the $35 needed for a cane, hat and T-shirt. This year’s class has been awarded an increased budget for festivities.

“It’s an amazing tradition, either way. I think every class deserves to have an amazing Hey Day. And as seniors, we’re still participating.”

Perez said. “Even though there’s this debate, it doesn’t take away from the magic of Hey Day. “It’s a very fluid conversation. I don’t think there’s a right answer,” he added.

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acknowledging 2016 as the year of the 100th Hey Day. Tweets with the hashtags #CenturySenior and #HeyDay100 circulated online, and students caught up with Hey Day traditions from materials published by the University Archives and Records Center, Penn administration and The Daily Pennsylvanian.

“I was surprised,” Perez said. “‘I thought that was funny and a little special.”

But now, a year later, students from the Class of 2017 are also celebrating “100” in their Hey Day celebration, dubbed the “Centennial Hey Day” by the Class Board for the Class of 2017. But how can two classes celebrate the same anniversary?

In their freshman year, the 2016 Class Board, now seniors, realized that it would be a history-making class. Perez said the student government worked all three years, beginning “as soon as our year realized we’d be falling on the 100th [Hey Day].”

Yet from the beginning, they

Penn Non-Cis, Out for Business and Wharton Women in Business.

Penn Non-Cis is a student-run organization designed to serve the needs of the university’s transgender community. Out for Business is a club for Wharton graduate students, faculty and staff who identify as part of the LGBTQ community.

Wharton Women helps women MBAs build professional and social networks.

On Nov. 20, 2015, the Transgender Day of Remembrance, MBA candidate and outgoing Out for Business co-president Jennifer Redmond set out to build genderneutral bathrooms in Huntsman.

Redmond’s interest was piqued after she learned that Huntsman didn’t have any gender-neutral restrooms, unlike many other academic buildings on Penn’s campus.

The three organizations coauthored and signed a proposal

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Students push for easier access to SHS medical records Students accessing records must do so manually CHERRY ZHI Staff Reporter

To access their Student Health Service medical records, students must fill out a paper request form and then wait for the records to be mailed back or sent in PDF form.

But some students are trying to streamline this process by adopting a completely electronic system instead.

SHS’s current system does not release health history information to third parties, for privacy and security reasons. Students must request their records themselves, which can take up to 30 days after SHS receives the request. Students must then forward these records to graduate schools, employers and other programs requiring health histories.

After graduation, as years pass and students move away from Philadelphia, some feel that the

process is cumbersome and inefficient.

“We want to improve the process by which you request and receive your records … right now it’s an annoying process and we should be able to push a button and get our records digitally right there and then,” Nursing senior Leah Quinn said.

Quinn sits on the Student Health Advisory Board as a Undergraduate Assembly representative and has been working on expanding what students can access through the SHS PennPortal in addition to improving the medical records request process.

Currently, the SHS portal does not show allergies, appointment history and medications or other details, which can be problematic if students want to know of drug allergies or avoid duplicate tests. This is not necessarily constrained by software limitations; Harvard uses the same software system but its student health portal allows students to view

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their medications and appointment histories.

“We are definitely capable of including more but we have just been reluctant to add more details,” SHS Executive Director Giang Nguyen said. “We are concerned about protecting patients’ privacy but that’s not something young people see the full implications of.”

Nguyen explained that “although it’s not allowed, a lot of students share their PennKeys with their parents, which can be helpful with registration and bills, but what they don’t realize is that they can also access the SHS portal.”

On Oct. 4, 2015, the UA passed a resolution that health records must be made more accessible to students and become an important part of the checkout process during graduation.

By encouraging seniors to request medical records before graduating, students can avoid having to contact the school later.

But this also pressures SHS to look for a more efficient system.

“If they don’t need to fix [the system], they’re not going to fix it.

But if we get a lot more people to request their records, this creates a burden for change,” Quinn said.

Others have suggested using online solutions to transform the system. 1996 Wharton graduate Brian Korb founded Swellbox, a secure online dropbox that allows students to pull and access their medical records from various locations all in one platform. Users can link their student health portals to Swellbox and their immunization records, lab results, doctor visits and other records will automatically be imported.

Users can also link to information from their doctors and hospitals back home as well as insurance

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Some students are trying to streamline access to their SHS medical records by adopting a system that is completely electronic. The current system requires students to file paper request forms to SHS.

records so that a through medical history is always readily available on the cloud in a free lifetime account.

Cur rently, Swellbox is available at Harvard, Penn, Northwestern and Columbia and is expanding to Stanford.

“The digital transformation is happening in health records but there is a lot of catch up that needs to be done,” Korb said. “This resonated with these schools who pride themselves in being leaders of innovation but everyone was falling short in their digital health readiness.”

Korb explained that in a consumer world, “students should own their health records because it belongs to them and students

should have the choice to do whatever they want with them.”

College and Wharton sophomore Stephen Cho is an ambassador for Swellbox and has been trying to increase Swellbox’s usership base at Penn by reaching out to clubs and Greek organizations as well as the medical school and MBAs. As a representative of the University, Quinn said that “it is not the intention of my projects or Student Health to promote or use Swellbox, but the conversation definitely brought to light improvements that could be made.”

Korb echoed that this was not an attempt to get the administration to endorse this business, saying instead that “we’re not

trying to get Penn to align with Swellbox. We just want to help them create an integration layer to improve the current system.”

Nguyen is hesitant about using tools like Swellbox, saying that “creating a tunnel to a third party puts a lot of trust in the tunnel.”

However, SHS is considering making more information available through the current portal but must work out back-end programming technicalities to ensure patient privacy is prioritized.

“It’s good people are interested in their health records and that they own it,” Nguyen said. “It shows that they’re engaged and on the right track for their healthcare and well-being.”

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Freshman chosen as CAH Science Ambassador Cards Against Humanity offered her a scholarship SHOBA BABU Staff Reporter

One Penn freshman can now pursue and share her love of science thanks to an unlikely ally — Cards Against Humanity.

Engineering freshman Sona Dadhania was recently chosen as this year’s Cards Against Humanity Science Ambassador. The card game company, marketed as “a party game for horrible people” and known for its crude and unusual antics like selling a box of bull feces literally labeled “Bullshit” on Black Friday, offered her a full four-year scholarship to earn her STEM degree.

Despite its branding, CAH is known for its philanthropic acts.

Since 2012 it has raised nearly $4 million to support various charities like DonorsChoose, which helps underfunded classrooms, and Worldbuilders, which partners with Heifer International to help impoverished communities across the globe (that’s where the money from “Bullshit” went).

The Science Ambassador Scholarship will be funded by proceeds from a science-themed expansion pack of cards sold on the company’s website, which so far total $871,209.

Dadhania was chosen from a pool of over 1,000 undergraduate and soon-to-be-undergraduate applicants. The application, which opened up in November, asked students to submit a personal video explaining a topic in science that they are passionate about, which was judged by a panel of 57 female scientists.

Dadhania’s video talked about nanotechnology — a topic that she learned about and gained interest in through her chemistry class at Penn.

Nanoparticles are small particles that range in size from one to 100 nanometers. What makes the topic of this nanoscale so unique is that materials change properties at this microscopic level — for example, at the nanoscale, gold particles aren’t even gold-colored. This fact can be used to develop advancements in medicine and engineering, like helping heal paralysis or

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Engineering freshman Sona Dadhania was chosen as Cards Against Humanity’s Science Ambassador for this year.

removing tumors.

Dadhania pointed to Penn professor Shu Yang, who is using nanotechnology to create a new material that changes into different colors based on the amount

of force applied to it. Yang is using the material to create bike helmets that can potentially help detect concussions.

“Sona was a great candidate from the very first round of

judging,” said board member of Cards Against Humanity Veronica Berns in a press release. “Her video explained difficult concepts in nanotechnology in a creative, visual way that made them simple to understand without feeling condescending. That’s a very hard thing to do, and Sona made it look easy. I can tell she is a very talented young scientist, and I’m so happy that we will get to throw a spotlight on the work she is doing in the coming years.”

As Ambassador, Dadhania will be sharing her love of science by continuing to create videos for CAH’s YouTube channel. Next semester, she is aiming to post one or two videos explaining the working mechanisms behind complex topics in science that people have heard about but may not fully understand — such as how bulletproof vests work.

Dadhania expressed her gratitude towards the company and said that their history of supporting charitable causes shows that companies can have a meaningful impact and contribute to causes even if their products don’t necessarily relate to those topics.

Many CAH board members have STEM backgrounds, and the underrepresentation of women in the field was a problem they saw firsthand. This inspired them to create the scholarship to give women a platform to share topics they care about and increase visibility of women in the field.

Dadhania noticed this problem as well in some of her science classes in high school. Her advice for girls pursuing STEM is to be confident in their abilities.

“Don’t be intimidated. Regardless of who you are or what you are, what’s important is how much you know and your ability as a science major or an engineer.

If you focus on that, you’ll go far,” Dadhania said.

She also encouraged all students to always take advantage of opportunities offered to them.

“When I applied for this, I wasn’t expecting anything out of it at all, but I ended up winning.

So no matter how unlikely things might seem, if opportunities present themselves, make sure to go for it because there’s always the chance that you can get it,” Dadhania said.

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Professor reflects on gender imbalance at Penn

Prof. Rackin was one of the first women profs. at Penn CHLOE CHENG Staff Reporter

Today, women account for 30.7 percent of Penn’s standing faculty, according to a University-wide survey conducted in 2011. This divide is far from even — but it was only within the last century that women were professors at Penn at all.

Conditions at Penn and academia in general have improved for women, but such progress did not come easily or without a fight. One of the women who helped open up opportunities for women in academia was Phyllis Rackin, a retired professor of English who teaches one course per year and first arrived at Penn in 1962.

At the time Rackin joined the English department, women were not being hired at other Ivy League universities, Rackin said, but Penn’s English department was looking to hire female faculty members.

“They had absolutely no women

in the department,” Rackin said.

Two other women were hired at the same time as she was. “So it was like I was in this special class of women.”

Rackin recounts some of the gender–based differences she encountered early on in her career at Penn, noting that all three of the new women faculty members had to share an office, while the men were two to an office — men and women were not allowed to share.

And while women were limited to advising only female students, men could advise anyone.

Rackin remembered committee meetings, where there was a dress code requiring women to wear a skirt, pantyhose and pumps.

During these meetings, she noticed that when a woman introduced a point, it would often be passed over by the other committee members.

Minutes later, when a man would repeat the same idea, members would embrace it.

One of the most “flagrant examples of discrimination” that Rackin encountered was while she was part of the graduate admissions

committee of the School of Arts and Sciences, which was chaired by a man who she called “notorious” for discrimination. “He would tell female students, ‘Why are you here? You’re taking up a place that a man could have,’” Rackin said.

“He was pretty upfront with his misogyny.”

While the committee was reviewing applications, Rackin noticed that certain applicants were being passed over. When she inquired as to why, the chairman answered that they were women and just going to get married without doing anything with their degrees.

Despite these subtle and more obvious moments of discrimination, Rackin felt extremely lucky to have a job and said she was treated quite well. “They treated me sort of like their pet dog or something — in a kind of paternalistic, benevolent way,” she said. “The way you treat a token.”

In 1965, professor Robert Lumiansky became the new chair of Penn’s English Department. He had previously held top administrative positions at Tulane University

and terminated the said. “There’s a lot of contracts of several kind of crooked stuff women. When he came that went on.” to Penn, he called all Sensing gender disof the women in the crimination, Rackin department, except for proceeded to file suit Rackin, into his office against the University and told them that their with the help of a large contracts were going law firm, now known PHYLLIS RACKIN to expire and that they as Pepper Hamilton would not be rehired.

LLP, who supported Rackin thinks she was able to keep her case on a pro bono basis. Evenher job because she was “sort of the tually, the University agreed to a ‘fair-haired girl.’” settlement and granted her tenure.

Her luck ran out when she “There were a few nutcases like came up for tenure. On Nov. 4, [Lumiansky] who really had psy1969, a majority of the faculty in chological problems about women. her department voted in favor of Most people had just sort of gardenawarding Rackin with an associ- variety prejudice,” Rackin said. ate professorship with tenure. Their “It’s like the difference between recommendation then went on to Donald Trump and your average higher-level administrators. But in man. Some men are obsessed with February 1970, Rackin received a hating women, and some people handwritten note from Lumiansky, just think they’re second-class which informed her that she would citizens but are benevolent toward not receive a promotion and tenure. them.”

“When the department voted for Rackin’s successful lawsuit me, [Lumiansky] opposed it, and opened the door for more women the people in the college personnel to move up the ranks in Penn’s committee also opposed it because English Department, but even now, the chairman opposed it,” Rackin decades later, Rackin believes that

the statistics show that women still face challenges in academia. In the 2011 faculty survey, women were the minority group least likely to agree that their schools and departments made genuine efforts to recruit and retain women faculty. Forty percent of women also agreed to some extent that they had to work harder than their peers to be regarded as legitimate scholars.

“In general, I think that things have changed drastically for the better since the ‘70s,” English professor Melissa Sanchez said.

“Unfortunately, however, women at Penn across all faculty ranks are still paid less than their male colleagues, and women are tenured, promoted and named endowed professors at a lower rate.”

The students in Rackin’s classes give her hope for the future. “I am so pleased at the young women at Penn right now. For a while, women students seemed to be really oblivious to feminist issues. [This] generation seems to be much more aware,” she said. “The students make me very optimistic about the future.”

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Students to fight for LGBTQ-friendly healthcare

Working group will operate as part of LGBT Center CHLOE CHENG Staff Reporter

When most students visit their health care providers, they don’t have to worry about whether all parts of their identities will be considered. But for students in the LGBTQ community, fighting for queer-friendly health care services is a priority.

This past Monday, the newlyformed LGBT Health and Wellness Working Group held its first meeting. The group operates as part of the LGBT Center

Advisory Council, which also oversees other working groups focused on development, faculty diversity and student engagement.

First-year medical student Mark Meisarah was driven to create the Health and Wellness Working Group because he saw a number of providers leave Student Health Services whom he knew were LGBTQ-friendly. “I didn’t know who was going to backfill those positions, or who was going to be hired. And as a student who goes there for my health care services, now who do I go to?”

According to information provided by SHS, there are currently three staff members in SHS who

identify as LGBTQ — Sallyann Bowman, Daniel Meyer and Executive Director of SHS Giang Nguyen — out of around 40. At the meeting, Nguyen suggested developing easily accessible provider profiles so that students would be able to choose whom they wish to see.

“People who are sexual and gender minorities often have this justifiable concern about medical care and the kind of quality they can get when they go to the doctor,” Nguyen said. “So we’ve tried to be very cognizant of that in what we do here because we don’t want to be ‘that doctor’s office’ that is considered to be

unwelcoming or unaffirming.”

At Penn, Nguyen said, SHS has long taken into consideration the diversity of its constituency, striving to make students’ experiences as welcoming and affirming as possible.

“I want to make sure that our LGBTQ students know that this is a place that welcomes them and that really, truly has a mission of providing the best care possible for them,” Nguyen said.

Transgender health coverage is one area in which Penn has been a pioneer among its peer institutions. The University was one of the first schools in the nation to cover gender affirmation surgery

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in its student health insurance plan and is continuing to work with Aetna Student Health to expand the range of surgeries that are covered. Starting in the 2016-17 academic year, there will no longer be a $50,000 annual cap on insurance benefits for such surgeries.

Despite these advances, SHS has historically faced challenges in having its demands heard by Aetna. “It’s a challenge because if we want Aetna Student Health to make a change, there are certain things they can only change if the entire Aetna company changes,” Nguyen said. “From the company standpoint, we are small potatoes.”

According to Nursing junior and Chair of Lambda Alliance Ian Jeong, who recently met with Nguyen to discuss the queer community’s concerns, Lambda is looking to partner with peer institutions who also use Aetna in order to push for more changes in Aetna’s company policies.

Another project SHS has worked on is the revision of its electronic health record to include fields for students’ preferred names and gender identities.

While the technical end has been revised, Jeong questions how SHS can ensure that every provider respects the information found in the electronic health record. “How do we ensure that every clinician and every worker who’s using the [electronic health record] is checking to make sure that when they, for example, call someone in, that they’re using the right name?” he said. “When transgender students are called by the wrong name, they kind of see it as an act of violence or as an act of harassment.”

Jeong has similar concerns regarding the LGBTQ-specific training that SHS provides for its staff, as there is currently no system in place to ensure that every staff member attends the training sessions. “One person could be, by chance, missing all the seminars. We need to check who’s being trained and who is not attending,” he said.

Nguyen also acknowledged the areas for potential improvement.

“We’ve done a lot over the years that we can be proud of, but we can’t rest on that,” Nguyen said.

“We have to keep moving forward.”

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No. 18 Cornell (11-3, 5-1 Ivy)

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For nine members of Penn women’s lacrosse, Saturday will be a day of lasts. The last time they head on an Academy bus for the six-hour trek up to Cornell. The last time that they play a regular season game for

Ithaca, N.Y.

the Red and Blue. And their last shot at earning the third Ivy League title of their collegiate careers.

“We not only want to win, we need to win this game,” senior attack Iris Williamson said of the road matchup. “This is definitely one of

the biggest games of our season.”

Saying the game is one of the biggest of the season fails to capture just how much is riding on the result.

The outcome of Saturday’s matchup against the No. 16 Big Red (11-3, 5-1 Ivy) has major implications for Penn, currently the highest-ranked Ivy at 10th in the nation.

A win means that the Quakers (11-3, 5-1) would lock down the top spot in the Ancient Eight, taking home the Ivy crown that so narrowly eluded them in 2015. A loss — and a Princeton win over Brown — would mean that the Tigers earn a second consecutive conference title. If both Penn and Princeton lose, the Quakers will have lost at the hands of the 2016 Ivy champions.

Cornell is no easy foe, however, as the Big Red boast the reigning Ivy League defensive player of the week in goalie Renee Poullott.

“They hedge really well and they help each other and they have a good strong team defense,” Williamson explained. “But we have a good, strong dynamic attack. We have a lot of people that can score, drive, pass and handle the pressure.

“And you know, they can’t defend us all.”

That multi-pronged attack will be

key for the Quakers in their quest for victory – and what laurels lie beyond just a ‘W’ on the box score.

“Most of the girls felt the heartbreak of losing last year, so we want the title back where it belongs,” senior attack Catherine Dickinson said. “I think that’s the goal. That’s what we came in to do – every season we want to do that.”

Indeed, the Ivy League trophy has called University City home for eight of the last nine years. Part of that dominance comes from the culture of success inspired by Coach Karin Corbett. But this year, a big part of that dominance is because of the Class of 2016.

“We’re lucky because we are such a big presence on the team with nine girls,” Dickinson explained.

Undoubtedly, their efforts on the field are not insignificant. With one regular season game left to play, senior midfielder Nina Corcoran has already broken the Penn career record for assists with 111 – 47 of which have come in 2016. Simply put, when she is on the pitch she makes her presence felt – so much so that her teammates regard her as the quarterback of the Quakers’ offense.

In addition to Corcoran, the Red and Blue offense is dominated by

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As Penn women’s lacrosse seeks its ninth Ivy title in 10 years, it will look to its seniors to lead them past Cornell, including attack Iris Williamson.

seniors. Williamson, Dickinson and midfielder Lely DeSimone are all within the top six for points scored on their team and combine for a total 70 points of offense this season.

The defense is experienced too, with senior defenseman Liz Gully starting 12 of the Quakers’ 13 games this year.

Beyond the minutes they play, though, the senior class has been instrumental in setting the tone of the 2016 season.

“As a group we wanted to really show the younger girls how much

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“I think a lot of that came with just showing them how much we wanted it every day in practice, working hard, never giving up and telling them what it’s like to win a championship, what it’s like to go out and beat Princeton.”

So far, the hard work has been put in, the win over Princeton has been clinched and all that’s left is that championship ring.

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hallmarks of her tenure thus far.

She knows it’s going to be a long haul trying to reform an entire campus culture, but there’s still great strides that need to be made.

6,007 students came out to watch as Penn football clinched the Ivy title over Cornell. Average attendance at home games fell from 8,720 in 2014 — when then team went 3-7 and won just two games — to 6,048 this past year.

Some of that can be attributed to the Fordham game, which attracted just over 2,000 fans during fall break. Nonetheless, the onthe-field improvement should not be met with that kind of decline in the stands.

That said, men’s basketball attendance rose by 500 per game to just over 3,200, and the potential

atmosphere to bring students to the Palestra is only going to improve with the inaugural Ivy basketball tournaments coming to University City next year.

While we’re on the subject, let’s talk about the men’s and women’s basketball tournaments.

Absolutely, they’ll do wonders for enthusiasm. I have reservations about the tournament — and its potential to harm teams that go 13-1 in the regular season and get tripped up in tournament play (Penn women’s basketball come to mind).

Not only that, but Robin Harris, the league’s executive director, noted when the tournament was announced that it would occur during most schools’ spring breaks. This includes the host school. There isn’t much the conference can do about that considering how the season is

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THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 2016 scheduled, but one of the most potentially exciting athletics events the Palestra will host next year will occur when a huge proportion of the student body isn’t even on campus.

Speaking of games over break, look no further than Penn-Princeton. I’m not sure if we’ll ever get back to a time where Ivy basketball’s greatest rivalry isn’t played over winter and spring breaks, but all four men’s and women’s Penn-Princeton games this year rank among the five best basketball games I’ve seen at Penn. The title-winner for the women over spring break, followed by an awesome effort from Steve Donahue’s men’s squad were absolutely electrifying.

But if no one is around to watch it, does it even matter?

In looking at the state of Penn Athletics, I’d be remiss in not

calling out the fact that some of the most exciting events of the year occur when no one is on campus.

So as I sit back and think about what I’ve seen in my time as senior sports editor, I can’t help but be amazed that this is the same Penn Athletics I saw when I stepped on campus almost three years ago.

There’s work to be done, but make no doubt, the state of Penn Athletics is strong indeed. Speaking for myself, I can’t wait for next year.

Oh, and in case anyone forgot, we’ve got two national champions in University City.

NICK BUCHTA is a College junior from Olmsted Falls, Ohio, and is senior sports editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at buchta@thedp.com.

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high school. Back then, sports writing was a means to an end, not the main event.

The same cannot be said within the confines of 4015 Walnut. As I sit here, surrounded by people who have devoted an unhealthy portion of their lives to covering Penn Athletics, it is clear that there is a value in sports journalism that transcends even the sport itself. And that sentiment is contagious.

It’s not that the the Penn community is so captivated by our content.

In fact, student apathy for athletics may be even greater here than it was in my high sx-chool. What has made sports so special for me is realizing that it does not take much to take pride in one’s work, to feel compelled to provide the best coverage that you can.

Before I signed on as a sports reporter, my passion for Penn Athletics was thin, if even existent. This past fall, I rooted for Columbia, the team one of my best friend’s plays on, when they played Penn in New York (blasphemous, I know). Even after a year in University City, I still plan to be a Lions fan when the teams meet again next year, but assign me a recap on any Penn team’s most recent competition, and I will give everything I can to do it justice.

That’s the beauty of being a sports reporter. You don’t have be be into sports or even Penn to appreciate sports journalism. If you don’t believe me, come give it a try.

ANDREW ZHENG is a Wharton freshman from Naperville, Ill., and is an associate sports editor at The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at dpsports@thedp.com.

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in outdoor season was then-sophomore Maalik Reynolds in the high jump, with Tim Carey and Karl Ingram making the second team. “When we recruited Tommy we weren’t that good,� men’s track head coach Robin Martin said. “I don’t think there was anybody on that team who broke 15 minutes in the 5K, right now we probably have 15.�

Martin, who was involved in Awad’s recruitment along with former head cross country coach Blake Boldon, said it was sometimes tough to recruit on the pitch of developing a program, but that pitch resonated with those who

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pretty good at it, so when I went to high school I said I wanted to get into running because I like sports and I’m actually good at this,� Awad said.

Awad said his big moment in high school came at the Millrose Games in his junior year, where he ran the mile in 4:16 and began to garner media attention. In his words, he shifted from being “just a pretty good runner to a big name in New York State.�

With that attention, Awad caught the eye of some prestigious programs, and was left to think about what he wanted out of the university he chose. “I ended up being much better than I thought I would get, and it came to the point where I was getting recruited by the top schools in the country and ended up picking Penn.�

Now, with Penn men’s track - Tom Awad and field on the bubble of the USTFCCCA top 25, you might not think much of that last wanted to build a program rather sentence. However, when Awad than join one. committed, things were far dif“We didn’t have an accomferent. plished program so we couldn’t sell one. We were selling the idea Building a Program of what was possible, what we In the spring of 2012, when could create. I always hold dear Awad graduated from high those who really believed that school, the Red and Blue’s lone and started that process,� he said. first team All-Ivy representative Martin and Boldon had the

I ended up being much better than I thought I would get.�

vision of Penn as a top program, and wanted to find others who shared that belief. Martin said Awad was one of the first. “I was getting recruited by a bunch of established programs, and I was thinking, ‘Well, I can go to Georgetown or one of these other schools but I’m just going to be another guy there. Or I can go to Penn and make us really good and start something big.’ I ended up picking Penn on that,� Awad said. “They were both into trying to make this program great, and I bought into that because I kind of believed they were going to do it.�

However, Boldon and Penn Athletics parted ways, leaving a coaching vacancy and a worried pre-frosh Awad. “Coach Boldon ended up leaving, which I was pretty devastated at, and I thought about transferring for a little bit because I picked this school because I thought this guy was going to be my coach and now I don’t have that coach,� he said.

He decided to stay at Penn for at least his first year, and if he didn’t like it, he could always transfer.

Enter Steve Dolan, the former Princeton cross country and assistant track coach who spent part of the summer before his first year at Penn coaching former Tigers standout Donn Cabral.

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Under Dolan’s direction, Cabral was an NCAA champion and placed eighth in the 2012 London Olympics.

Dolan was recognized as a top distance coach, evidenced

by Princeton claiming five of six Ivy League titles at cross country Heps. Dolan won NCAA Regional Coach of the Year four times, and in the spring immediately prior to his hiring, Princeton became the first Ivy team to sweep the DMR and 4xMile in over half a decade.

It turned out that Dolan shared the view of Penn track’s potential, and it didn’t take long for Awad to buy into his new coach, whom he describes as “unbelievable.�

Endless Determination One can only become an Ivy League champion through hard work, and Awad is no exception. “His training is similar to ANANYA CHANDRA | SPORTS PHOTO EDITOR what we’re doing,� Dolan said. “There’s a portion of the team Tom Awad has All-American and All-Ivy honors to his name, as well as that runs a higher volume of plenty of Penn and Ivy records. His next goal? Becoming an Olympian. training, and he’s amongst that group, but there are others that In the spring of his sophomore at the Penn Relays. will train just as much. year, Awad was planning to com“He’d been running really “We’ll do things like he’ll run pete in the 10,000-meter run and well,� Dolan said. “Two weeks the interval workouts a bit faster 5K run at the Ivy League Outdoor previous he’d ran a very good than the group, similar, but at Championships, which was to be 1,500 that showed how strong he a faster pace. Sometimes he’ll his first time competing in the was. I told him that with a couple work with the group and other 10K. of good weeks of training and if times he’ll chase or lead. We have “At the time, there were two the race was right, he certainly a good group of guys that train at guys that were nationally ranked could do it. a similar intensity, it’s just that he at Harvard, and they were going “Tommy entered that race with can go a little faster than those to beat him,� Martin said. “He the understanding that he could guys.� was going to get second or third, break four minutes. What he did While junior Nick Tuck spoke and for a sophomore and his first with the race, which was how he highly of Awad’s competitiveness 10K, that would have been fine.� often does it, is he really didn’t when it came to racing, he noted Doing his best to stay at the run for the time, he ran to try to the difference in attitude between front, Awad fell late into second beat the other runners of the race, races and practices. place behind Harvard’s James and he won the race and got the “I only see that side of him Leakos. To the surprise of spec- time.� when he’s racing,� Tuck said. tators, Awad, who said he was “He’s usually pretty laid-back. already running hard, reached Olympic Dreams He just wants to get his work an almost sprint-like level and Awad has lofty goals for racing done.� caught up with Leakos with 200 after Penn: to make the Olympic Awad’s team-oriented nature meters to go.

Trials for the 2016 Rio Olympics is something that cannot be “He just found something and and to make racing his career. He missed among his teammates. just ran this guy down and won had been considering qualifying Senior co-captain Amy Darling- the 10K,� Martin said. “The team in the 1,500 or 5,000, but he has ton recalled their becoming fast flooded the track, and the 10K is recently concluded his best shot friends at the team’s cross coun- not the most popular event, so to is in the 1,500 because of the try camp during their freshman have the team flood the track for competitiveness of the upcoming year, and echoed the importance a 10K is pretty rare.� races. of the team’s success.

After the event, Awad was “There just aren’t races [in the “Tommy’s not just my friend taxed and out of gas. He decided 5,000 meters] that go that fast. on the track, he’s my friend off to withdraw from the 5,000, con- Maybe the Payton Jordan [Invithe track, and I think he’s that vinced he would finish last if he tational] out at Stanford might be way with everyone,� Darlington pushed himself to race the next a 13:20s race, but that’s also the said. “I think it’s great to see day.

Monday after Penn Relays, so I Tommy have individual success, “The 10K is one hell of an obviously can’t go,� Awad said. but you can also see the team suc- event, it’s so grueling, it’s so “If that’s the only race in cess, and he definitely has a America that’s going to be a huge impact on that because 13:20’s-type race, then I’m he’s one of the leaders.� going to be able to qualWhen I think about not According to Martin, it ify for the trials in that event, racing, he’s the is not always the fastest or which is a shame just because fittest racer that wins. Maxiprototypical racer. I think that’s my best event. I mizing what one can get out think I’m pretty strong in the of one’s talent is a skill, and He puts himself in good 1,500 also, and we’re going Awad has shown that ability positions, he’s really to go 1,500 because we have in his running career. to at this point, but if some savvy as a racer.� “There are some people weird opportunity presents that are competitive with ev- - Robin Martin, head itself in the 5K, we’ll proberything. I wouldn’t say that’s men’s track coach ably end up taking it.�

Tommy,� Martin said. “He Dolan recognizes the turns it on and turns it off. odds of Awad cracking the When I think about racing, he’s different than cross, and I don’t Olympic team are not ideal, but the prototypical racer. He puts know why,� Awad said. “It’s just that could be where the captain’s himself in good positions, he’s so much harder on your body and competitive spirit steps in. really savvy as a racer.�

I finished and it was weird be“It’s difficult in our system for Awad’s determination to win cause I never feel that bad after collegiate runners to make the sets him apart from the select a race.

Olympic team because of their few opponents who have similar “You’re usually tired, but that age relative to the guys postphysical talent. one I felt really off and I ended college, but he’s an outstanding “Tommy stands on the line up getting super sick that night competitor and the first step with a lot of people who are as and I was shaking all night and will be to post his time to make talented or more fit or more tal- I couldn’t really move. It was the Olympic trials, that’s goal ented, and he finds a way to win pretty bad.� number one for him,� Dolan said. and he has this ability to ‘go Two weeks prior to that race, “When you get there, you take there’, where most people are un- Awad broke four minutes in the it race-by-race. He’s a competitor, willing or unable to go,� Martin mile for the first time ever, to win and never sell him short in any added. the Olympic Development Mile race he gets in.�

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Quite literally, it’s anybody’s game. A chance at the Ivy League title is at stake for Penn baseball, and every other team in the conference.

The Quakers (18-19, 9-7 Ivy) will play a four-game series against Columbia this weekend, with Friday’s doubleheader being played at Meiklejohn Stadium and Saturday’s games to be played in New York.

Penn hasn’t won the Ivy

League’s Gehrig Division since 2007. In each of the last two seasons, the Red and Blue have fallen to the Lions (13-23, 7-9) in a one-game playoff for the Gehrig Division at the end of the season. Once again, the Quakers need a strong finish against Columbia to stay alive, but with Princeton a game ahead in the standings, the Red and Blue do not control their own destiny this year.

The winners of the Gehrig and Rolfe Divisions play for the league title. In the Rolfe Division, Yale (10-6 Ivy), Harvard (8-8), Dartmouth (8-8) and Brown (6-10) are all alive with four games left to play, but the Gehrig Division winner has historically dominated the final matchup.

In the Gehrig Division, Princeton (10-6 Ivy) needs a sweep of Cornell (6-10) to unconditionally clinch the division outright.

Princeton also clinches with three wins and a Penn loss, two wins and two Penn losses, or one win and exactly three Penn losses.

On the other hand, the Quakers

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After losing a one-game playoff for the Gehrig Division title each of the last two years, senior Gary Tesch has one shot left at the first title since 2007.

can clinch if they win two more games against Columbia than the Tigers win against the Big Red on the weekend.

If two teams finish tied, they play one game for the division championship, so even Cornell

will see another day with a sweep of Princeton and a 3-1 Columbia victory over the Red and Blue.

More importantly, Penn can give itself a chance to win the title by winning just one more game than Princeton this weekend, then

beating Princeton head-to-head.

All of this must make for a lot of “scoreboard watching.”

But Penn coach John Yurkow is hoping his team will keep its focus on the games they’re actually playing in.

“You just gotta block [the rest] out,” he said. “If we don’t take care of our business it’s not going to matter, so we just need to play our best baseball, and hopefully Cornell will play well [against Princeton].”

However, while Penn and Columbia will be finished by the end of Saturday, Princeton’s games are Friday and Sunday.

“We could be doing some scoreboard watching on Sunday,” Yurkow laughed. “Hopefully we play really well, then we can sit back and watch the rest on TV.” So what does Penn need to do against Columbia on Friday and Saturday to get the wins needed to put some pressure on Princeton heading into that final day?

“We’re going to have to continue to pitch well, because they do have some guys who are swinging it,” the coach said.

“Hopefully we can play like we did on Sunday [in a 16-5 win] against Cornell. We got some hits with runners in scoring position, we ran the bases well, we played solid defense, so that’s going to be the recipe again. We just need to play solid baseball, aggressive baseball.”

Easier said than done. You can hear the bitterness in Yurkow’s voice as he recalls how the last two seasons ended.

“I think in years past, we’ve had some chances late to close out Columbia, and it would have put us into the championship series, and we just didn’t come through.”

The Red and Blue aren’t in an ideal spot, but Yurkow has come to grips with the fact that even a perfect performance might not be enough.

“We’ve had our opportunities, we had our crack at Princeton, and we’ve let some games get away late, so it doesn’t do to dwell on that,” Yurkow said.

“We’ll just need to play our best baseball, and see where we are after that.”

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Sometimes things just don’t turn out as you expect them to.

As the Penn softball team gears up for the final contests of the regular season this weekend against Columbia (13-30, 5-11 Ivy), that seems to be the overarching theme. The team had high expectations coming into the season, but now they need a lot of help to even have a shot at making the Ivy League Championship Series.

The Red and Blue’s overall

record of 21-19 heading in the last weekend is quite similar to last year’s end of the year total, but that has not been the problem for the team this year. Rather, their conference play has led them to a position they do not want to be in.

With a 7-9 record against the Ancient Eight, the Quakers (21-19, 7-9) are currently on the outside looking in on the playoffs.

They are three games back of Ivy South Division leading Princeton (17-25, 10-6), who plays a fourgame series against Cornell this

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weekend.

“Obviously we want to be in the Ivy League Championship, that’s our goal going into the season,” Penn coach Leslie King said.

“We’re not out of it, and we’re going to fight with everything we have this weekend. Would we like to be in better standing right now?

Of course.”

In order for Penn to reach a tie atop the division, they have to win at least three games this weekend and Princeton has to lose at least three games. If the Quakers

cannot pull off a miracle and find their way into the Ivy League Championship Series, it will end their streak of four consecutive Ivy South titles.

The team’s current predicament cannot be chalked up to poor performance, as the Quakers have played well throughout many of their losing efforts.

Rather, the Red and Blue have simply ended up on the wrong side of a number of close contests.

The team has lost all three of their extra-inning games in Ivy play and witnessed several walk-off defeats.

“We’ve been unfortunate and have had four walk-off wins against us in the first half of doubleheaders away, and that’s really

hard to bounce back from,” King said. “I think we’ve shown a lot of resiliency, which is a good thing, but just a couple things didn’t go our way, and if a couple of games swing the other way we’d be in a much better spot.”

Friday represents an extra important set of games for the Quakers, as it will be their Senior Day at Penn Park. The seniors will be playing at home for the Red and Blue for the final times in their careers, and it is sure to be an emotional day.

“I think you would get a different answer from all three of us, but I’m someone who kind of knew there was an end date,” senior captain Kanani Datan said.

“I made my peace with it, so I’m

not as sentimental as somebody else.”

Datan, along with fellow seniors Korinne Raby and Lauren Li, will be honored on the field with their families before the first game on Friday. The festivities give the Quakers another reason to finish the season strong.

“You want to go out and put on a good performance for [the seniors],” King said. “You want them to go out feeling good.

You’re honoring them, and you want to be at your very best on Senior Day.” Time is running out on Penn’s season, and the team still has a lot of work to do this weekend if they want to give their seniors a fitting ending.

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he state of Penn Athletics is strong — and it’s getting stronger every day.

Three teams have won Ivy titles already this year, and there’s a good chance more are on the way.

Baseball may need a little help, but with four games to play this weekend, they’re only a game back of Princeton for the Gehrig Division title and the squad’s first trip to the Ivy League Championship Series since 2007.

Both lacrosse squads are well-positioned going down the stretch as well, with the women’s side needing just a win over Cornell on Saturday to lock up its ninth Ivy title in the last 10 years — just as attack Alex Condon and midfielder Nina Corcoran are playing better than almost anyone else in the nation.

And men’s lacrosse is done with the regular season, but they’ve locked up the No. 3 slot in the Ivy Tournament and just might make a run at the title just as they did two years ago.

A title from any of those three would mark the most Ancient Eight trophies since 2010-11. A title from two, and you have to go all the way back to 2006-07.

The Red and Blue are more competitive on the field as a whole than at any time since I’ve been here.

And here’s what’s scary: They’re only getting better.

When I think about the potential for football to repeat as champs next year, my thought isn’t ‘Can they do it?’ but ‘Who can stop them?’

Ditto for women’s basketball.

On the gridiron, Ray Priore’s squad’s biggest loss will be Ivy Defensive Player of the Year Tyler Drake.

Sure, he’s going to be hard to replace. But the loss occurs at linebacker, arguably the Quakers’ position with the most depth.

Coach Mike McLaughlin’s women’s basketball squad isn’t losing a single starter — including threetime Ivy Defensive Player of the Year and reigning Player of the Year Sydney Stipanovich — and rumor has it that some of the incoming freshmen for the Red and Blue have the potential to break into the starting rotation almost from the get-go.

The third Ivy champion we’ve seen this year, men’s fencing, didn’t just take home an Ancient Eight title this year — they were ranked No. 1 in the nation. Add in women’s squash finishing just short of a national championship, and Penn is competing on the national level in a way we’ve rarely seen in recent years.

On the whole, the storylines around many of Penn Athletics’ programs this year have been inspired by the youth. This is supposed to be a transitional period for the Red and Blue — but the Quakers are in positions to compete right now.

Add that to the lack of a single coach departing University City so far this year, and you’ve got the foundation for a new period of stability for the Red and Blue.

To match the on-field revolution we’ve seen, Athletic Director Grace Calhoun has unveiled a rebranding campaign that’s been over a year in the works. Penn Athletics has a slightly new look, and by the looks of it, it will pay dividends down the road. Calhoun and her department have truly taken a newly inspired approach to an age-old issue.

To be sure, there is yet a lot of work to be done.

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He came to campus with dreams of seeing the Penn track team become a powerhouse, and leaves University City with dreams of racing in the Olympics. For Thomas Awad, it’s about setting the goal and checking it off.

Awad, who will race at Franklin Field for the final time as a Penn undergraduate, is a threetime NCAA Championship qualifier in the 5,000 meter run and six-time first team All-Ivy honoree who has continuously shattered expectations en route to a storied Penn career.

The Making of a Track Star As a child, instead of running competitively, he chose to play sports more common to the schoolyard like basketball and soccer. However, he saw signs of what would be his real calling.

“I was always pretty good at those sports, but I’m kind of small, so I got bumped off the ball easily,” Awad said. “Basketball, if you’re not 6-foot you’re

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Senior distance runner Thomas Awad will compete at Franklin Field for the final time as a Penn student at this weekend’s Penn Relays.

not that good. I was always good with the endurance stuff and running.”

Before high school, his only formal running experiences were with his father, a

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recreational runner.

“I ran some local rotary 5Ks with my dad when I was younger. I had an idea I was SEE AWAD PAGE B6

hen I first set out on being a sports reporter, I did it for a girl.

No, not like that. There was no romantic intent. It was high school, and I had no ulterior motive other than beefing up my Common App with another extracurricular activity. The only problem was that I had to decide on a section to write for.

For the uninspired reason of knowing the most people there (aforementioned girl), I settled on sports. I continued with that line of work for the rest high school – even going on to become a sports editor my junior year – but when I arrived in University City this past fall, I had little intention of going down the same track.

In truth, one of the largest reasons I chose to write for sports in high school over a section like news or opinion was that it was the easiest. The quality of writing was the lowest in sports because frankly, nobody cared. Sports were often an afterthought, and writing about them carried no promises of

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excitement or prestige.

During the Daily Pennsylvanian recruiting session last fall, I signed up primarily as a news reporter, but still put my name down for the sports listserv. I thought I would try my luck in the big leagues while keeping a roster spot in the minors.

It did not take long for me to realize that I was a fish out of water.

This time, it was not the quality of my writing that held me back, it was the nature of the task. While news may have its charm, it was in the sports section that I felt at home. Before I knew it, I was in love.

The romance that I had never been looking for was suddenly

laid out in front of me, and I gradually chose to embrace it. As I interviewed players and coaches, interacted with members of Athletic Communications and integrated into the Daily Pennsylvanian sports section, I came to realize that sports journalism is not about extracurriculars, journalism or even sports.

At its heart, being a sports reporter is about being part of a community, whose whole is vastly greater than the sum of its parts.

Blinded by the prospect of college admissions, I never came to see that when I was toiling away in SEE ZHENG PAGE B5 CONTACT US: 215-422-4640