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Biden Center says focus will not change

Muslim students balance Ramadan and finals

Joe Biden is taking a leave of absence for his presidential campaign

Ramadan falls during final exams this year

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Although Penn professor Joe Biden is taking a leave of absence to compete for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020, Penn Biden Center officials said the center isn’t going anywhere.

Penn Biden Center and University officials said the center, which opened in February 2018, will continue to operate and maintain the same “mission” while the former vice president is on the campaign trail. Biden Center officials declined to comment on whether any of the center’s operations would change in light of Biden’s announcement.

“Our focus will not change — the Penn Biden Center will continue to advance the values that have formed the core of our mission since we opened: standing up for democratic principles, promoting peace and shared security, and defending universal human rights,” Biden Center Director of Communications Carlyn Reichel wrote in an email to The Daily Pennsylvanian.

“We will remain active in shaping the debate around important foreign policy issues and fostering a new generation of leaders,” Reichel added.

Penn President Amy Gutmann wrote in an email to the Penn community Thursday that Penn Presidential Professor of Practice Biden “will be taking an unpaid leave of absence from his work at the Penn Biden Center” throughout his campaign.

“The Penn Biden Center provides Penn with a highly visible and important presence in Washington, D.C.,” Gutmann’s email read. “It will continue to function as an integral component of the University’s global strategy to bring the world to

For the first time in about a decade, the month-long Islamic holiday of Ramadan will take place during finals week at Penn.

From May 5 to June 4, Muslim students at Penn will fast from sunrise to sunset each day, and will have to balance their schoolwork with their religious observance.

During Ramadan, Muslim people are highly encouraged to read the Quran as much as possible and to reflect on religious scriptures, which students say can be difficult to balance with the stress of finals week.

“Sometimes you feel because you are studying, because you are investing so much time and making sure that you are doing well in your papers and your exams, that you are losing on the other end of not really partaking in those spiritual activities,” former Muslim Students’ Association President and College senior Zahraa Mohammed said. “So it’s just trying to find a balance of how to satisfy both ends.”

MSA Programs Chair and Wharton sophomore Ryanne Fadel said Ramadan this year marks a time when two difficult things — his dedication to God and his grades — have to be prioritized.

One of Fadel’s professors approached Fadel and told him it was possible for him to take his final exam earlier. Although Fadel said studying for the exam will be manageable and he turned it down, he felt appreciative that the professor came to him individually to offer an alternative option.

Fadel said he is planning to study during the day and set aside some time at night for prayers.

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The 125th running of the Penn Relays took place at Franklin Field from April 25 to April 27. On the final morning of the world-renowned event, athletes from around the world participated in the high school boys 4x400 relays.

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Students present on Penn’s former racist ideology and monetary ties to slavery

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Undergraduate students (left to right) Nathan Coonts, Anna-Lisa Lowenstein, Ashley Waiters, Bryan AndersonWooten, Hayle Meyerhoff, and Hyungtae Kim spoke in the second half of the Penn & Slavery Project presentation.

The event took place Friday afternoon MANLU LIU News Editor

As part of the Penn & Slavery project, students presented on Penn’s historical ties to slavery and the propagation of racist ideology by Penn alumni to faculty, students, and local Philadelphia residents on Friday.

Students part of the Penn & Slavery project presented new informa-

tion related to their previous research that the University depended on funding from enslavers and collected body parts without consent from enslaved people.

The students took part in this panel as part of their final presentations in HIST 273, a class that was created as an extension to the 2017 undergraduate research study called the “Penn Slavery Project” that found that many of the University’s founding trustees had substantial connections to the slave trade. Since then, student re-

searchers and faculty have discovered that 75 of Penn’s former trustees were owners of enslaved people, including Penn’s first provost William Smith.

College sophomore Sam Orloff found that William Smith, who was the University’s first provost, fundraised from the Church of England, which admitted to its own links to slavery in 2006, Orloff said. Smith also raised money from enslavers in the South and was also an enslaver himself.

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in 1762 and 1764 was systematically raising money from enslavers the way it was in the South a decade later; however, I think this tells us that if you were an institution, like the Academy, that wanted to raise large sums of money in that period and you were going to the place where that money was, you were bound to raise money from enslavers,” he said.

College sophomore Carson Eckhard found that the Morton Cranial Collection included 53 crania belonged to those of enslaved people from Havana, Cuba and two crania belonged to enslaved Americans.

Samuel Morton, the original owner of the collection, graduated from Penn’s medical school in 1820. The collection is now housed at the Penn Museum.

The crania in the Morton collection should be returned to relatives, and if that’s not possible, buried, said Abdul-Aliy Muhammad, who attended the event and is the co-founder of Black and Brown Workers CoOp, a social justice organization.

Penn responded to the students’ findings by forming its own working group to investigate the University’s ties to slavery after meeting with the students who were part of the research group. The findings were a reversal of Penn’s denial in 2016 that Penn had no direct ties to slavSEE PENN & SLAVERY PAGE 2

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Students create groups to support 2020 candidates Groups create Instagram pages for candidates GRANT BIANCO Staff Reporter

The 2020 presidential election may be more than a year and a half away — but that’s not stopping Penn students from throwing their support behind their preferred candidates.

Over the last few weeks, several student groups supporting individual candidates in the Democratic primary — Penn for Bernie, Penn for Beto, Penn for Pete, and Penn for Kamala — have created Instagram pages and begun planning meetings. Politically inclined Penn students are enthusiastic to get behind presidential hopefuls, even while Penn’s official Democratic student organization is waiting to endorse candidates until 2020.

Penn for Bernie President and College freshman Jack Cahill said he heard that a Penn for Bernie Club existed in 2016 and he decided to reach out to the group. Although most members of the group had al-

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ready graduated, he said the previous members assisted him in setting up an updated version for Sanders’ 2020 campaign.

“They gave me some advice on what positions there were, what events they did, and a little bit on how they raised money,” Cahill said. “They gave me good guidance on where I should go.”

The independent senator from Vermont is currently in second place in Democratic polls, with an average of 23% support nationwide, according to the RealClear Politics polling average. Cahill said he favors Sanders because he believes he is uniquely positioned to recapture the Rust Belt states of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, all of which voted Republican in 2016.

Penn for Beto presidents and Wharton freshmen Shreya Rao and Lesly Villanueva are supporting former Texas congressman O’Rourke, who mounted a spirited yet unsuccessful senatorial campaign against Ted Cruz (R-Texas) in November.

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“We’re both from Texas. Shreya worked for [O’Rourke’s Senate] campaign,” Villanueva said, praising his moderate record. “Our views align with his views and we just really support Beto and everything that he does.”

O’Rourke is polling at about 6% nationally, which leaves him in sixth place in the early field.

Penn for Pete Co-president and College sophomore Sam Kaufmann said the group’s leadership shared a common love for Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind. The 37-year-old has catapulted from a virtual unknown to fourth place in the polls in a matter of weeks, with his national support registering at about 7.5%.

“Almost all of the leadership of Penn for Pete came to a love of Pete Buttigieg and his message more or less independently,” Kaufmann said, who was impressed by the mayor’s focus on local communities. “It occurred to me to start [Penn for Pete] the very first moment other people started clubs for other candidates.”

Penn Democrats President and College sophomore EJ Carlson said Dems has allowed the groups to advertise on the Dems Facebook page to garner more support.

“We are promoting these groups to members and letting them know when new groups for candidates are formed,” Carlson said. “As long as they’re members of Dems, they’re free to post about events for

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ery. Now the faculty working group provides administrative support to the student researchers, such as securing funding and putting on the Penn & Slavery Symposium that occurred earlier this April.

VanJessica Gladney, who is a Penn & Slavery research fellow, said there should be administrative efforts taken to address that skulls in the Morton Collection, including those from enslaved people, were taken without consent.

College junior Archana Upadhyay found that Hugh Lenox Hodge, who was a Penn professor of Obstetrics and the Diseases of Women from 1828 to 1863, received an abdominal cavity and fetuses of an enslaved woman from Virginia and put it in his specimen collection at Penn.

According to the Penn & Slavery Project website, Upadhyay wrote that Hodge was part of an extensive “specimen obtaining” network of Penn medical professors and Southern alumni, who operated on enslaved people or were enslavers themselves.

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Over the last few weeks, several student groups have supported individual candidates in the Democratic primary on Instagram.

candidates in our Facebook page.”

Cahill, whose pro-Sanders group was featured in the Penn Dems page, appreciated the promotion.

“They’ve done that for Penn for Kamala, Penn for Beto, Penn for Pete Buttigieg,” Cahill said. “They seemed happy to just post it just in case anyone wanted to see it.”

While Penn Dems is helping the groups raise their profiles, the organization itself has not yet endorsed anyone for president.

In March, Penn Dems Political Director and College sophomore Owen Voutsinas-Klose said the group was not going to endorse a presidential candidate until March 2020, as they want to hear firsthand from visiting candidates and conduct extensive research on the potential Democratic nominees for president. The group endorsed

Hillary Clinton in February 2016, and Barack Obama back in 2008.

Former Vice President and Penn Presidential Professor of Practice Joe Biden is leading the overall Democratic race, having just officially declared on April 25. The declared field includes 20 candidates, with big names like Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and lesser-known candidates like author Marianne Williamson.

Despite not officially endorsing a candidate yet, Carlson said Penn Dems is hoping to introduce the various candidate groups to members in the coming months.

“We’re planning on doing an exploratory type of programming in the fall, where we invite them to our meeting to ask them to present about their candidate to our club,” Carlson said.

Eckhard also presented that former Penn mathematics professor, Hugh Williams, who received a degree from Penn in 1757, worked on creating the Three-Fifths Compromise.

Students also found that there was pro-slavery ideology in the debates held by the two undergraduate debate societies in the 1800s, The Philomathean Society and the Zelosophic Society.

Haverford junior Hayle Meyerhoff found that many of the debates in the 1800s concerned questions surrounding slavery.

She found that the Zelosophic Society decided in affirmative on the question of “whether the fugitive slave law is in accordance with the spirit of the constitution.” Other questions included “Is slavery a moral evil?”

Meyerhoff said that although there are no records of the outcome of the debate on whether slavery is a moral evil, the fact that the question was debated at the time meant that students found both sides of the debate were valid opinions to hold.

College junior Hyungtae Kim found that out of the five debates about slavery that occurred at the

Philomathean Society between 1840 to 1845, one was not decided in an abolitionist standpoint.

Muhammad said the presentations “shows that the University is complicit in not just the violence levied against enslaved people but also in propagating false and horrific ideas of racial difference.”

Muhammad said he believes there needs to reparative action, including monetary reparations to the descendants of the enslaved people who are students.

He added that it is the University’s responsibility to unearth the connections between the institution and slavery.

Gladney said the administration is being supportive of the undergraduate research and should not take over the research on the connections between Penn & Slavery.

“It’s an academic institution.

There are students here who are historians, there are students here who want to do things in the future that have to do with academia, so [the administration] should give students the resources to continue doing that,” Gladney said.

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Ramadan falls during finals week this year, for the first time in about a decade. Muslim students at Penn who observe the month-long holiday will fast from sunrise to sunset each day.

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said for the next 25 years, Ramadan will coincide with the school year.

For many students, despite the challenges of fasting and studying, Ramadan takes on renewed importance because of its communal nature at Penn.

MSA President and Nursing junior Tafshena Khan said she will be done with her classes early next week and that her schoolwork will not be affected by the holiday. For Khan, Ramadan is a communal period celebrated akin to Thanksgiving.

“We break our fast all together,” Khan said. “We all gather at the table and sit down and have the meal together.”

As one of the Five Pillars of Islam, Ramadan occurs during

the ninth month of the Islamic calendar when Muslims observe a month-long fasting to commemorate the first revelation of the Quran to the prophet Muhammad. Each year, the holiday moves backward by about 11 days relative to the Gregorian calendar. During the period, Muslims cannot eat or drink from sunrise to sunset.

While the University policy allows examinations to be postponed for religious observance and allows students to take make-up exams during the first week of the fall or spring semester, the exact details are left up to the faculty and students to decide, Howard said.

During Ramadan, Penn Dining will have special meal arrangements to accommodate Muslim students from May 5 to May 14. Early morning prefast meals will be pre-boxed and available to students at

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Two dining halls will also extend closing hours for students to have the fast-breaking meals after sunset. Kings Court English House will close at 9 p.m. on weeknights from May 6 to May 13, while Gourmet Grocer will extend its hours until midnight from Sunday to Thursday and until 9:30 p.m. on Friday.

MSA member and College sophomore Shaina Zafar said Ramadan is a communal spiritual month for her, especially when she knows millions of people outside of Penn are also fasting.

“I enjoy fasting during Ramadan regardless of the time and I think sometimes when you do have to do work, it actually makes you hyper-focused,” Zafar said. “Sometimes the fasting even goes quicker because you have something to do.”

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When asked for additional comment following the vice president’s announcement, University spokesperson Stephen MacCarthy referred the DP to Gutmann’s statement and declined to comment further.

Biden’s leave of absence will also apply to his role as a Presidential Practice Professor and all of his affiliations with the University, Reichel wrote.

The names of Biden’s leadership team at the Biden Center also did not appear on a list of Biden’s senior campaign staff that the campaign announced. Reichel declined to comment on whether any of Biden’s top aides at the center would be working on his campaign.

In March, The Hill reported that Biden Center Managing Director Steve Richetti, a long-time Biden adviser, has been making calls on behalf of the vice president in a bid to secure endorsements for the campaign, but his name did not appear on the senior campaign staff list.

Reichel also wrote that the center would continue to offer the same opportunities to Penn students, such as internships and policy roundtables.

“The Penn Biden Center also looks forward to hosting its second career day for Penn students interning in Washington, DC, over the summer,” Reichel wrote.

Gutmann’s email on Thursday marked a shift from the University’s previous silence about Biden’s political prospects.

“We are not commenting on anything regarding Vice

President Biden unless or until he were to make an announcement regarding his plans,” MacCarthy wrote in an email to the DP in March.

Biden was last on campus in early April to participate in a discussion on the opioid crisis, and he has had strong ties to Penn ever since he was unveiled as a professor in 2017.

Biden’s frequent events on campus dealt with everything from immigration reform to foreign policy in front of sold-out crowds. Biden also participated in a voter registration initiative hosted by student groups in September 2018.

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GAPSA elects Greg Callaghan as next president

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Greg Callaghan hopes to restructure and reorganize GAPSA to increase efficiency, and improve communications and transparency.

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The Graduate and Professional Student Assembly elected fifth-year Ancient History Ph.D. candidate Greg Callaghan and fourth-year Nursing Ph.D. Candidate Matthew Lee as GAPSA’s next president and vice president, respectively, Wednesday night.

The election, which took place at Irvine Auditorium’s Amado Recital Hall, lasted more than four hours. Other candidates for president included Lee, second-year law student BJ Courville and chemistry Ph.D. candidate and 2018-2019 GAPSA Vice President Buyan Pan. There were about 50 general assembly members present.

Penn has 11,355 graduate students, according to fall 2018 statistics from a Penn website.

“One of my top priorities as President will be to restructure and reorganize GAPSA in order to increase efficiency, improve communications and transparency,” Callaghan said in an emailed statement.

“Such a restructuring is the best way to guarantee that all of us who wish to better our Penn community are able to do so.”

Lee also stressed the impor-

tance of increasing collaboration and communication within and beyond GAPSA. “This year the members of the Executive Board functioned more or less in isolation,” Lee said. “We are far stronger when are we are pulling together as opposed to pulling alone.”

He added that he would also like to increase GAPSAinitiated communication with the twelve graduate student governments and make community-building events more accessible to reach a wider population of the student body.

As GAPSA Student Life chair, Lee helped to compile graduate mental health survey results and launch the peer support group Franklins.

According to the GAPSA website, Callaghan also held previous positions as the School of Arts and Sciences Government president, GAPSA general assembly representative and GAPSA finance deputy last year, and SASgov Vice President of Financial Operations and GAPSA SASgov general assembly representative in 2016-17.

Callaghan, Lee, and the GAPSA Research Council helped develop an online feedback form in conjunction with the Office of the Vice Provost for Education in January, where students in graduate groups that are being reviewed can submit their feedback anonymously.

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The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission approved a $2 million study this March on the feasibility of a hyperloop between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, which would theoretically cut travel time between the cities to under 30 minutes.

While Penn students from Pittsburgh said the hyperloop would provide a much-needed faster travel option, professors expressed skepticism over the necessity of the hyperloop.

The hyperloop, proposed by 1997 College and Wharton graduate Elon Musk, would use electric propulsion to move people and freight through a low-pressure tube. This reduces travel friction and allows vehicles to reach maximum speeds of nearly 700 mph — two to three times faster than highspeed rail and 10 to 15 times faster than traditional trains.

Pennsylvania’s hyperloop feasibility study is expected to reach a conclusion by 2020.

Penn students from Pittsburgh said a PhiladelphiaPittsburgh hyperloop would make trips home far more convenient.

Wharton freshman Ben Zeisloft said his two current transportation options are Amtrak trains or Greyhound buses.

Both of these usually take “about seven or eight hours,” far longer than the proposed hyperloop.

“Personally, I would find it really convenient if some form of this could be executed just because [of] how much I do travel back and forth between Philly and Pittsburgh,” Wharton freshman Mahak Sethi added. “Right now, the transportation options take forever.”

loop, you probably don’t want to start with Philadelphia to Pittsburgh.”

Megan Ryerson, the UPS Chair of Transportation in the Weitzman School of Design, echoed Duranton’s concerns that a Philadelphia-Pittsburgh hyperloop does not target a high-volume traffic corridor.

“Today, the demand for high speed travel between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia doesn’t necessarily justify such a massive new system,” Ryerson said.

Ryerson added that state officials should focus more on improving existing transportation systems rather than chasing novel solutions.

“The transportation system has a very, very long history of getting excited about new projects rather than being excited about what’s really need-

ed, like incremental maintenance and system upgrades,” she said. “But that’s not exciting. It’s what’s needed but it’s not what’s exciting.”

While professors were skeptical, Zeisloft expressed support for the hyperloop, seeing it as an investment in an oft-overlooked Pittsburgh economy.

“It’s encouraging to see more interest in our economy, especially from the Northeast [because] sometimes we feel separated from the rest of this part of the country,” Zeisloft said of Pittsburgh.

Mahak expressed a bleaker view of the hyperloop proposal.

“In an ideal world, it could be a really cool idea,” she said. Still, she predicted “the outcome of the study will most likely be negative.”

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But Penn professors said they do not think building a Philadelphia-Pittsburgh hyperloop would be productive given the high costs.

Real Estate Department Chair Gilles Duranton said the hyperloop would cost “tens, if not hundreds, of billions” of dollars and would not be economically advisable even if it was technically feasible.

If a hyperloop was to be built, Duranton said, Boston to New York City or Los Angeles to San Francisco would be better starting points because of their higher volumes of traffic.

“Does it really make sense to build a hyperloop between two cities where between which traffic is not that great, instead of two much bigger cities?” Duranton asked. “If it makes sense to build a hyper-

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MONDAY APRIL 29, 2019 VOL. CXXXV, NO. 27 135th Year of Publication JULIA SCHORR President SARAH FORTINSKY Executive Editor ALICE HEYEH Print Director BEN ZHAO Digital Director ISABELLA SIMONETTI Opinion Editor MADELEINE NGO Senior News Editor THEODOROS PAPAZEKOS Senior Sports Editor GILLIAN DIEBOLD Senior Design Editor JESS TAN Design Editor LUCY FERRY Design Editor TAMSYN BRANN Design Editor GIOVANNA PAZ News Editor MANLU LIU News Editor MAX COHEN News Editor DEENA ELUL Assignments Editor DANNY CHIARODIT Sports Editor MICHAEL LANDAU Sports Editor WILL DiGRANDE Sports Editor KATIE STEELE Copy Editor TAHIRA ISLAM Copy Editor DANIEL SALIB Director of Web Development AVNI KATARIA Audience Engagement Editor SAM HOLLAND Online Projects Editor CHASE SUTTON Senior Multimedia Editor MARIA MURAD News Photo Editor ALEC DRUGGAN Sports Photo Editor SAGE LEVINE Video Producer SAM MITCHELL Podcast Editor

The 2019 Report on Diversity at The Daily Pennsylvanian, Inc. THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN EDITORIAL BOARD

Why are we doing this?

The Daily Pennsylvanian, Inc. has a duty to report on the Penn community accurately and responsibly. To do this, the DP must have a staff and board that represent people from a variety of backgrounds. As one of the largest organizations on campus, we want to build an environment where everyone feels comfortable and welcome.

The 135th board of editors and managers is committed to maintaining and building upon prior progress concerning diversity in the organization. This is our third time surveying the demographics of our community, and our second time publishing an editorial with our findings.

Spring 2019 demographic data In Penn’s data, international students are placed in a category separate from other races.

This excludes 1,339 undergraduates from the University’s racial breakdown. In addition, because Penn only counts one race per student (unless they select “two or more races,” a separate category), international and multiracial students are not accurately counted.

Our staff and board members are still disproportionately white and Asian compared with Penn’s undergraduate population. The percentage of respondents who identified as Asian in the 2018 survey was 8 percentage points lower than that of the 2019 survey. Additionally, the percentage of respondents who identified as white in the 2018 survey was roughly 6 percentage points higher than that of the 2019 survey.

Black and Hispanic/Latinx students are still underrepresented at the DP as compared with Penn’s undergraduate population, and both groups have a lower percentage of students working at the DP when compared to last spring’s data. At the board level, the percentage of black students increased but the percentage of Hispanic/Latinx students decreased.

While Penn releases the percentage of admitted students who identify as first-generation or low-income, the University does not publicly release data on the percentage of current undergraduate students who identify as FGLI. For that reason, we are not able to determine how representative the DP is of the student body in this regard.

There is a still a disparity between the percentage of FGLI and low-income students between our board and staff. But compared to last year’s survey, the percentage of FGLI and

low-income students has increased.

What are we doing about it?

We plan to continue measuring the demographics of our organization and to share that information with our readers.

Our demographics survey this semester had a response rate of approximately 60%, whereas our survey from last spring received responses from 80% of staffers. It is important that our results be the most representative

sample of our organization, and increasing the response rate will continue to be a priority in the coming semesters.

Our President and Executive Editor correspond regularly with leaders from underrepresented groups to discuss our diversity efforts, and will continue to do so. We also opened up the opportunity to join the Diversity Committee to staffers. We have an ongoing goal of increasing the amount of staffers present at meetings, as we must incorporate their experiences and opinions in our conversations

about diversity.

As an independent student media organization, the DP is shaped largely by its elected student leaders. We hope to increase the diversity of the board and ensure that current leaders are aware of our diversity goals.

To achieve this, we introduced mandatory diversity and sensitivity training for all board applicants. Additionally, our Multimedia department held its own specialized diversity training. We plan to offer more avenues for our community to learn new strategies and methods for implementing the values of diversity and inclusivity in their daily work for the DP. We still experience a disparity between our staff and board members who identify as FGLI. This may be due to the significant time commitment required to be in a leadership position at the DP, which does not pay. We recently expanded a scholarship that grants stipends to those who dedicate a significant amount of time to the DP. While this stipend was previously only open to board members who qualify for financial aid, it now is open to staffers as well. We hope that this policy change will enable students who depend on work-study or other sources of income to make a greater time commitment to the DP, including running for and holding leadership positions.

We mentioned in last year’s diversity report that we were working with alumni to establish a scholarship to help students from underrepresented identities at the DP secure media internships over the summer. We have made solid progress on this goal, and are on track to raise enough funding to start offering stipends for summer 2020.

We understand our diversity initiatives require dedication from student leadership as well as openness to criticism and suggestions from the wider Penn community. We want to hear from you about how we can continue to make the DP a more inclusive and diverse place. If you have thoughts, suggestions, or questions, please email us at diversity@thedp. com.

Additional data We collected a range of demographic information from our staff and board. The graphs embedded throughout the editorial reflect all of the questions on our survey.

Penn does not collect data on sexual orientation, religion, or disability, so there are no available points of comparison for these categories. Our data is included in full online.

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Penn will implement three new wellness initiatives next fall The ideas include weekly walks and an urban farm COURTNEY DAUB Staff Reporter

Penn will implement three new initiatives next fall to improve wellness on campus. The decision was made at the final round of the “Your Big Idea” wellness competition, where judges chose themed walks, nature prescriptions, and urban farms as the winners.

Penn launched the “Your Big Idea” challenge on Feb. 4, calling on all Penn-affiliated people to submit ideas to enhance wellness at Penn. After submissions closed on March 1, a committee of students, faculty, and staff voted on the ideas in mid-March and selected semifinalists. At the “Enhancing Wellness at Penn: Big Idea Pitch Event” Thursday, a team of administrator and student judges chose the three winners of the challenge.

The initiative is being led by Faculty Senate Chair and Penn Nursing professor Jennifer Pinto-Martin and Chief Wellness Officer Benoit Dubé.

At the pitch event, fourteen semifinalists gave pitches under a three-minute time limit to the panel of judges and an audience. Audience members could rate the ideas with an online link in real-time on a scale of five, with one being “not interested,” and five being “definitely fund this.” The judges take the audience votes into consideration when making their final decision, which is based on five criteria including the number of Penn affliates the initatives will impact.

Elaine Weigelt, a Community Outreach Program manager for the Center for Public Health Initiatives and Amanpreet Kaur, Community Health and Engineering librarian, pitched “weekly themed walks” open to all Penn staff, faculty, and students that would be lead by experts at Penn talking about different topics.

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At the “Enhancing Wellness at Penn: Big Idea Pitch Event”, semifinalists presented their ideas in three-minute pitches. A team of administrators and student judges chose the three winners of the challenge.

“We have an epidemic on campus of sitting,” Weigelt said in the pitch. “Imagine a walk with a librarian, a walk with a botanist, a walk with a provost,” Kaur added.

Chloe Cerwinka, a Landscape Planner for Facilities and Real Estate Services, pitched “Nature Rx,” a program that would encourage health providers on and near campus to prescribe time in nature to students seeking help.

The idea is based on a similar program implemented at Cornell by newly appointed CAPS executive director Gregory Eells. At Cornell, the program included a committee led by faculty, staff, and students who manage the website that lists natural places on and near campus and a student organization that leads weekly walks.

Eells co-wrote a recently published book entitled “Nature Rx: Improving College-Student

Mental Health.”

A similar program, called NaturePHL, was also piloted at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in August 2017. The database has a map of parks across Philadelphia.

“Imagine how many people we could reach,” Cerwinka said in her pitch, adding that students do not need to leave campus to spend time in nature as Penn is considered one of the only urban campus arboretums

in the United States.

Lila Bhide, who is the coordinator for the Penn Community Garden, said during her pitch that poor nutrition and financial barriers to eating regular meals add to the stress of college students. She said she hopes to address these issues along with climate change and mental health with “Penn Food Hub.” Penn Food Hub would act as an urban farm operated par-

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tially by Penn students, faculty and staff volunteers. The farm could be modeled off of similar projects implemented on urban campuses such as Yale’s, she added. Yale’s farm, which broke ground in 2003, is an “academic farm” that produces many types of vegetables, fruits, herbs, and flowers, according its website.

Yale has classes in which students visit the farm to study the connection between land and food. The farm also hosts weekly volunteer workdays for students.

While one acre may seem small, Bhide said up to 22,000 pounds of produce can be grown on that land in a year.

“Penn would truly be the best of both worlds,” Bhide said. “We would get all the opportunities from an urban campus, without sacrificing any of the benefits of nature and the therapeutic aspects of growing food.”

“We heard 14 very convincing and compelling ideas,” Dubé said before announcing the ideas. “Just because we will not be naming all fourteen for potential funding doesn’t mean all these ideas will sit on the shelf and gather dust.” He added that there will be “additional avenues for dialogue and collaboration.”

The panel of judges at the event consisted of administrators and students. Sitting on the panel were Dubé, Pinto-Martin, Executive Director of Penn Medicine Center for Health Care Innovation David Asch, Vice President of the Division of Human Resources Jack Heuer, Undergraduate Assembly President Michael Krone and Graduate and Professional Student Assembly President Haley Pilgrim.

Semi-finalist proposals that did not win in the final round include ideas for an animal cafe and for an embedded model of Counseling and Psychological Services, where a CAPS psychologist would be stationed at each of Penn’s schools.

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TRACK | The Relays attract a sizeable contingent from all corners of the world WILL DiGRANDE Sports Editor

If you’ve ever been to the Penn Relays, you know the animated international crowd is central to the experience.

No matter how old they are or how far they travel, the tens of thousands of fans who flock to Franklin Field every year for the event are united by a passion for track and field and the thrill of the competition.

It’s the crowd — waving a rainbow of flags and bringing contagiously vibrant energy — that truly sets this event apart from other similar competitions.

One part of why the Relays attract such a diverse group is the broad range of competition.

Over the course of the three days, events are open to entrants of all ages from all over the globe, from elementary-age students through college athletes — even races limited to those 80 and older. It’s one thing to go as a general track fan, but it’s a separate affair to watch a friend or family member compete.

For Valerie Scott, from Winter Park, Fla., this was her second consecutive year at the Relays supporting her son Ian. “When we’re in the area, we’ll always stop by just because it’s so much fun,” she said.

“Walking into Franklin Field, the atmosphere is awesome.”

Also supporting his son was Tom Leonard of Malvern, Pa. Although it was just his first time at the Relays, he understood all the hype SEE FANS PAGE 11

Relays legend Nehemiah returns to Franklin Field TRACK | The former sprinter and hurdler was the MVP of the Relays 40 years ago DANNY CHIARODIT Sports Editor

Renaldo Nehemiah knows what it’s like to be the star of the Penn Relays. In 1979, running the anchor leg, he led the University of Maryland to victory in the shuttle hurdle relay, 4x200-meter relay, and 4x400meter relay, and he earned the meet MVP award.

After his illustrious track career, Nehemiah went on to play in the NFL, despite not playing college football. He signed with the San Francisco 49ers in 1982, and played for three years before returning to the track.

This year, Nehemiah was named the Honorary Carnival Referee for the 125th Penn Relays. The Daily Pennsylvanian chatted with the track legend 40 years after his MVP meet.

Danny Chiarodit, The DP: With the Penn Relays turning 125 years old, what does that mean to you as someone who understands the history of this and has competed in it?

Renaldo Nehemiah: Well nowadays, that’s very uncommon in sports for anything to sustain itself for 125 consecutive years. But this is a mainstay in America. If you really want to make a name for yourself, male or female, this is the place where that has to start, and greatness is born here.

You see some phenomenal things. I’ve seen where it went from 10,000 to 50,000 people. In no other place, outside of maybe an Olympic trials, will you get this kind of atmosphere. And then these fans, they know everything about the sport. Some have been here 50-plus years, so they’re true track geeks.

And to me, this is just fun. It started out as a carnival, and it still is a carnival. I guess it’s the most organized, dysfunctional meet that you could ever see. So if you can drown SEE NEHEMIAH PAGE 10 out all the distrac-

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Red and Blue post historic performances on home track Penn athletes captured victories in the women’s distance medley and high jump JACOB WESSELS Associate Sports Editor

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Even after 125 years, the Quakers proved they still had something to add to the storied legacy of the Penn Relays.

After a thrilling weekend of competition with over 15,000 participants from almost every level of track competition and countries all over the world, Penn track came away with one of its most successful performances in Relays history.

The Quakers did not waste any time making their presence known. In the College Women’s Championship of America Distance Medley Relay, the first of many Championship of America events, the Red and Blue came out on top.

The Quakers got a fast start from junior and 2019 NCAA Indoor runner-up Nia Akins in the the 1200-meter leg of the relay, separating herself from the pack on her third and final lap and giving Penn an early five second advantage.

Akins passed the baton to sophomore Uchechi Nwogwugwu, who proceeded to break her own Penn record in the 400 with a time of 52.22 seconds.

“I think every year I come to Penn Relays and something special happens to me,” Nwogwugwu said. “I run my season best every time I run here.”

While the other teams were able to close the gap a little on sophomore Melissa Tanaka and junior Maddie Villalba, the Quakers’ early advantage was simply too much for the other 14 teams in the field to overcome, as Villalba came down the final stretch well ahead of the rest of the teams.

“I was yelling ‘stay in the moment’ because it is SEE WEEKEND PAGE 11

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Here are the best moments from the 125th Penn Relays TRACK | These five moments defined the history made this weekend at Franklin Field OJ SINGH Associate Sports Editor

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The 125th edition of Penn Relays was yet another historic layer in the rich tapestry of the oldest and largest track competition in the United States.

With marquee events taking place on each day of the meet, there were many unforgettable moments throughout the weekend.

5. Penn senior Anna Peyton Malizia’s high jump into history There is not much that Malizia hasn’t won.

Until Saturday, a Penn Relays watch was one of those things.

The senior became the first woman in Penn history to capture the high jump championship, clearing a height of 1.82 meters on her way to glory. A three-time Ivy Heps Champion, Malizia now has her sights set on her personal quartet as Penn heads into Outdoor Heps next weekend.

For now, she can relish in her own achievement in what was an outstanding weekend for Penn track.

4. USA vs. the World: Where both David and Goliath got their share Kenya has long been put into a box as a nation that produces the greatest distance runners to have ever taken up track and field.

The best feel-good story came as an unexpected surprise, as Kenya won the men’s sprint medley relay ahead of USA Red and Jamaica, which finished second and third, respectively.

Mike Mokamba, Alfas Kishoyian, Collins Omae, and Collin Kipruto finished in 3:16.21 to carry Kenya to glory over the two traditional SEE TOP MOMENTS PAGE 10

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Quakers cruise past Crimson in final regular season contest Seven players scored a pair of goals for the Quakers ZACK ROVNER Associate Sports Editor

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After clinching their 10th straight berth to the Ivy League Tournament last weekend, the Quakers finally know what seed they will be.

In its final contest of the regular season, No. 13 Penn women’s lacrosse clinched the No. 3 seed in the upcoming Ivy League Tournament after defeating Harvard, 17-9.

The win marks another dominant performance against Harvard (6-9, 1-6 Ivy). Penn (11-4, 5-2) has now defeated Harvard in 19 straight matchups, losing its last game to the

Crimson in 2000.

On the heels of a 21-7 thrashing of Columbia, Penn continued its hot stretch of play by scoring 17 goals on Saturday. Ten different players scored for the Red and Blue, including two goals from seven different players.

After a back and forth first 20 minutes of play, the two teams were tied at four. The Quakers then made a run, scoring five goals unanswered and only allowing one goal in the final 10 minutes of the first half.

The second half found more of the same. Penn scored six unanswered goals to start the half and did not surrender a goal for the first 20 minutes. “[At halftime], we just talked about the basics and how to attack their zone correctly and what we needed to do in order to get some easy goals and find the openings in their zone,” junior attacker Gabby Rosenzweig said. “We talked a lot

on defense about how to stop a lot of their cuts that they were getting as well.”

The Quakers were able to exploit Harvard’s zone defense — a defense they struggled against a few weeks ago against Dartmouth — en route to the win.

“I was pleased with the overall team effort today against the zone,” coach Karin Corbett said. “It was a real team effort. We had a lot of balanced scoring, and that’s really what you want. That’s always great, especially going into the Ivy League Tournament.”

Rosenzweig, who leads the team in points with 86 and assists with 54, continued her excellent play with two goals and five assists on the day.

“A lot of [my success today] was because of my teammates,” Rosenzweig said. “They finished a lot of my passes, and that was really great to see. Our offense was moving re-

ally well, and that was opening up a lot of holes for me to see and feed, and they were finishing with great shots.”

On the defensive side, the Quakers held the Crimson below their season average of 10.93 goals per game. On the Crimson’s Senior Day, senior Keeley MacAfee scored four goals in her last game, finishing her final season with Harvard with 49 goals. MacAfee is just the sixth player in Harvard program history to record 200 career points.

“She’s a great player, and she’s had a great career at Harvard,” Corbett said. “She’s a really good athlete. She’s played well against us over her four years, so I’m kind of glad she’s graduating. She’s a really great finisher.”

Prior to the Quakers’ two-game win streak, they fell in back-to-back games against Ivy League Tournament foes Dartmouth and Princeton by a combined total of six goals.

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Junior attacker Gabby Rosenzweig scored two goals and led the team with five assists in the victory against Harvard on Saturday.

“[This win] gave us a nice confidence boost heading into the Ivy League Tournament that we can really crush a zone and do really well against a zone attacking wise, and we can really play well on the defensive end as well,” Rosenzweig

said. “It’s just going to give us a lot of confidence going into our practice this week and then the tournament.”

The Quakers will face Dartmouth next weekend in the first round of the Ivy League Tournament.

No. 4 Red and Blue extend win streak to nine with victory over Vermont Adam Goldner set the Penn single-season goals record EVAN VIROSLAV Sports Reporter

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That was a close one.

Narrowly escaping the clutches of unranked Vermont, No. 4 Penn men’s lacrosse found a way to secure its ninth straight win of the season in an unexpected 12-10 nail-biter.

Freshman midfielder Sam Handley came up clutch for the Quakers (9-3, 6-0 Ivy), netting two of his four goals in the last seven minutes of the game to give Penn its final two-goal advantage. “[Handley] has steadily gained confidence and grown his role,” coach Mike Murphy said. “He con-

tinues to do things very well and at a very high level of consistency.”

Despite Handley’s heroics, Vermont (7-6, 4-2 America East) had many opportunities to pull off an upset or at least tie the game late, especially after a Penn turnover with less than a minute and a half remaining. The Catamounts, however, were unable to capitalize, giving the Red and Blue the win.

The Quakers, now finished with the regular season play, will roll into next week’s Ivy League Tournament at Columbia with a lot of momentum and NCAA Championship hopes.

Penn currently shares the longest active winning streak in Division I men’s lacrosse with No. 1 Penn State, which defeated Penn earlier in the season by a single goal.

Besides Penn maintaining its nine-game hot streak, junior attackman Adam Goldner, who contributed two goals in the victory, made history, netting his 46th score of the season. Goldner set a Penn record

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Freshman midfielder Sam Handley scored the final two goals to seal the victory for Penn men’s lacrosse over Vermont on Saturday.

for goals in a season and has now scored the ninth most goals of any Quaker all-time with 85. He is also on a 21-game scoring streak.

“We’ve been around for 119 years, so [Goldner’s record] is not insignificant,” Murphy said.

Multiple Quakers filled up the record books in the win, with senior attackman Simon Mathias also

extending his goal-scoring streak to 32, which currently leads the nation. Mathias also holds the nation’s second-longest point-scoring streak, which spans the entirety of his 55game career.

“It’s not surprising that [Mathias] has a streak, and it’s not surprising that he’s working his way up our alltime list of goals scored and points

scored,” Murphy said. “His value for us this year is even greater than his point contribution. His leadership has been tremendous.”

The sheer talent of this Penn team has undoubtedly carried it to new heights this season, but the ability of the Quakers to spread the ball around and create opportunities might be the deciding factor heading into the postseason.

Penn’s team-oriented framework was on display against Vermont, as the team’s first four goals came from four different players. Furthermore, the Quakers have shown a knack for finding the open man throughout the season, with close to 60% of their goals coming off assists.

While the game did demonstrate what has worked for Penn all season, it also shed a light on the team’s weaknesses, specifically turnovers.

The Quakers finished with six more turnovers than the Catamounts with seven of their 17 total being forced

by Vermont.

This problem has plagued the Quakers, who have committed 20 more turnovers than their opponents and forced 10 fewer on the season.

Fortunately for the team, Penn’s efficiency on offense has so far outweighed their issues with maintaining possession, but as the stakes are heightened and the competition becomes fiercer, the Quakers will have to find a way to protect the ball even more.

“We’re not going to be perfect; we’re not trying to be perfect,” Murphy said. “But those are areas we’ll have to shore up before the Ivy Tournament next week.”

Next up on the schedule is Brown in the semifinals of the four-team tournament, which will also feature Yale and Cornell.

Penn’s confidence is certainly peaking at the right time.

“We can play with anybody,” Murphy said.

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Penn softball drops pair of contests to Ivy frontrunner Columbia Each of the three games were decided by a single run CARTER THOMPSON Sports Reporter

Being on the road against first-place Columbia presented a big challenge in the Big Apple for Penn softball.

Needing to win the series and perhaps sweep to reach the postseason, the Red and Blue proved that they were up for the challenge. Each game of the series was decided by one run, and with a few more plays going their way, the results might have swung in the Red and Blue’s favor. But by the end of the series, Penn lost two of three against Columbia.

Despite late heroics and some strong performances, the Quakers (22-17, 13-8 Ivy) dropped the rubber match of their series against the Lions (22-18, 13-5) on Sunday. Although losing the series hurts their postseason odds, the Red and Blue still have a chance to make the Ivy League Championship Series. If Harvard loses all three games next weekend and Princeton drops at least

one, the Quakers will still find themselves in the championship.

In game one of the series, the Lions defeated the Quakers, 6-5, in a game that was greatly affected by the weather. A steady and stiff breeze blowing in from right field wreaked havoc for both defenses, causing five combined errors from the two teams.

Columbia’s six runs were scored on only four hits.

The Red and Blue were resilient all game, answering whenever Columbia scored.

After the Lions pushed their lead to 3-1 after the fourth inning, the Quakers struck back in the fifth.

Senior shortstop Jessica England scored following a Columbia error off the bat of freshman center fielder Emma Nedley. On the next play, Nedley and sophomore third baseman Lucy Yang pulled off a double steal, as Yang slid into home to even up the game.

After Columbia hit a three-run shot in the bottom of the sixth, the Quakers found themselves with their backs against the wall.

But they wouldn’t go down quietly. England and fellow senior Sarah Cwiertnia started the rally

and reached base to begin the inning. England scored on a deep sacrifice fly from Yang that, with no wind, might have been her fifth home run of the season.

Nedley plated another run with a sacrifice fly of her own to make it a one-run game. Unfortunately for the Red and Blue, that’s where the contest would stay.

In game two, freshman pitcher Julia Longo was dealing. After she handled the Lions for three innings, the Penn bats started getting going behind her. Senior first baseman Hannah Gibbons laced one to the gap in right-center field, which scored Nedley to get Penn on the board. On the next at-bat, freshman left fielder Corrie Phillips hit a two-run bomb over the right field wall, her first home run of the season.

Columbia scored one run in the fourth and fifth innings, but the Quakers added another in the top of the sixth when sophomore right fielder Kayla Ketring singled to bring Nedley home for a 4-2 lead. That would be all the Red and Blue needed as they hung on to win, 4-3.

In the third game, the Quakers got down but couldn’t catch

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Sophomore third baseman Lucy Yang scored and batted in some key runs this weekend for the Red and Blue, but it wasn’t enough to secure the series victory over the Lions in New York City.

back up. However, despite trailing by a score of 5-0 to start the seventh, the Red and Blue made it interesting. Phillips hit a ball to center that was dropped, allowing Yang and freshman pinch runner Julia Schneider to score.

After that, Nedley scored off

a groundout from sophomore catcher Sarah Ketring. Sophomore right fielder Kayla Ketring then singled to score Phillips, making the score 5-4.

The score would stay 5-4, however, as the Quakers couldn’t plate the tying run.

Though their regular season Ivy play is finished, the Red and Blue still have one more doubleheader next weekend against Howard. They’ll look to finish the regular season on a high note while they await their postseason Ivy League fate.

DP Sports Player of the Week: Penn track junior Nia Akins Akins ran the first leg of the distance medley relay ISAAC SPEAR Associate Sports Editor

In the largest Penn Athletics event of the entire year, one Penn athlete stood out.

Despite all of the hype surrounding the professional and top high school athletes at the Penn Relays, not to mention athletes from other, larger colleges, junior Nia Akins dominated her events to earn widespread recognition. At the end of the weekend, she was named the Women’s College Relay Athlete of the Meet.

Akins is the first Penn athlete to ever win the award and the fourth Ivy League athlete to earn the accomplishment.

On Thursday, Penn’s team, led by Akins, beat out 13 other elite collegiate teams to win the College Women's Distance Medley Championship of America Invitational. This was another first, as no Ivy League women’s team had ever won a Championship of America event.

The Quakers dominated the field in the distance medley, beating out the next closest team, Notre Dame, by more than three seconds. After Akins jumped ahead on the opening leg, the Quakers were able to hold the lead throughout the race and secure the victory.

Akins ran again on Saturday in the Championship of America 4x800-meter relay, contributing a blistering 2:02.33 split to lead Penn’s team to a fifth-place finish in the event.

Akins has been piling up accolades all season, including being named the Most Outstanding Indoor Track Performer of the Ivy League Indoor Heptagonal Championships and finishing in second place in the 800 at the NCAA Championships, a race she very nearly won. Akins also holds numerous program records, including the fastest individual times in the 800 and 1000 along with a team record in the 4x800.

Penn athletes sometimes take a back seat at the Penn Relays to all of the visiting athletes who bring along numerous fans. Akins made it known this year that the runners at Penn shouldn’t be overlooked.

In what was an historic event at the 125th running of the Penn Relays, Akins earned legendary status with her performance.

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Two heartbreaking defeats doom Penn BASEBALL | Quakers fell victim to pair of walk-offs ISAAC SPEAR Associate Sports Editor

Brutal, just brutal. There’s no other way to describe it.

Penn baseball fell on walk-offs twice in a two out of three series defeat against Cornell in Ithaca, N.Y. this weekend. The cold and gloomy weather throughout the weekend foreshadowed the Quakers’ downfall.

The Red and Blue (21-16, 9-9 Ivy) seemed to be in trouble early in game one of the doubleheader, as they quickly coughed up a two-run lead in the first two innings. Junior starting pitcher Christian Scafidi settled down after that, however, giving up three hits to the Big Red (11-22, 6-12) the rest of the way for a complete game gem, the first of his career.

The bats didn’t let Scafidi’s strong performance go to waste, putting up six unanswered runs for a comfortable 6-2 victory. Freshman center fielder Tommy Courtney had a three-hit game and scored three times, as well, thanks to senior designated hitter Sean Phelan’s two hits and two runs batted in.

Phelan has been a consistent presence for the Quakers all season as he inches closer to the end of an impressive four-year career.

The stalwart first baseman, who

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tion of all that’s going on around here, and not exert so much energy before you even get on the track, it’s quite the event. And it’s intimidating. It has a reputation that precedes itself, so now people want to come here to leave their mark on it.

DC: I’m sure returning and watching the athletes brings you back to when you ran here, right?

RN: Well, I come back because I love watching the high school kids. That’s where some of that unknown, untapped talent starts.

When I was in high school, that’s

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Junior pitcher Christian Scafidi threw the first complete game of his career on Saturday for Penn’s only win of the series at Cornell.

has been a starter since his freshman year, broke the program record for appearances with his 162nd and 163rd in Saturday’s doubleheader.

While Scafidi’s pitching stood out, it has been the offense that has defined the Quakers’ success all season. In the top of the seventh in game one, a single up the middle from senior catcher Matt O’Neill broke the single-season program record for hits by the team. It was the Red and Blue’s 463rd hit of the year, breaking the previous mark of 462 set by the 2010 squad.

The Quakers now have 485 hits,

still with four games to play, so they’ll give their record even more cushion by the end of the season.

O’Neill has been swinging the hottest bat of all this year, leading the team with a .409 batting average coming into the weekend. Yurkow made the unconventional but justified move of slotting his star catcher into the leadoff position for the entirety of the series. O’Neill showed why he deserved the spot, going 5-for-11 on the weekend with two RBIs. In game two on Saturday, junior pitcher Mitchell Holcomb delivered

all I heard about, the Penn Relays, so when our team qualified to make it, it was a wonderful day.

I don’t know if today’s athletes, at least non-East Coast athletes, know that much about it. They just know it’s on the schedule, and we’re going to the Penn Relays. East Coast schools, they all know about it, and then all the colleges know about it, so they come here for bragging rights.

And then for a meet that happens at the end of April, which is really the earliest of the spring seasons, guys and girls come in peak form, and if they’re not, just with the adrenaline and the enthusiasm from

the fans, you see some pretty amazing performances.

DC: Having competed in some of the greatest venues, both in track and football, where does this rank for you?

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sprint powerhouses by over a second.

USA Red came back for a victory in the 4x400meter relay, finishing in 3:02.70. My’lik Kerley, Michael Cherry, Dontavius Wright, and Je’Von Hutchison delivered a powering win for a delighted crowd, defending their title in style as Canada and the Bahamas finished second and third, respectively.

3. Wisconsin winning its first Championship of America in 103 years On a day when it wasn’t so sunny in Philadelphia, the Badgers shone bright to make some light of their own.

The quartet of Morgan McDonald, Corbin Ellis, and Eric Brown, and Olli Hoare, bagged Wisconsin’s second-ever Championship of America by taking down reigning NCAA champion Notre Dame in the men’s distance medley.

Starting off with the 1200 was McDonald, a three-time NCAA Champion, who passed the baton to Ellis, who blitzed around the track in 47.39.

Following Ellis’ effort, Brown ran the fastest 800 leg in the race with a time of 1:49:37 to pass the baton on to Hoare, the 2018 NCAA Outdoor 1500 champion and current world-leader in the event.

Hoare lived up to his billing, and the group finished in 9:47.19.

The best part? Wisconsin ran with two walk-ons.

2. Houston men’s sweeping the sprint relays The University of Houston, a national track powerhouse, became the sixth team ever, and first since 2006, to sweep the sprint relays at the Penn Relays.

The 4x100 squad, which consisted of senior Brandon Taylor, senior Mario Burke, junior Travis Collins, and sophomore Nicholas Alexander, got the first picture with the wheel, finishing in 39.23 seconds, only 1.06 seconds shy of their national

record set in 2018.

The Cougars have now won this event for three years in a row.

The 4x200 squad, composed of the same members as the 4x100 squad, took the title by beating the next team by almost two seconds, finishing in 1:22.04.

Next up, the 4x400 squad, comprised of Burke, senior Amere Lattin, junior Jermaine Holt, and senior Obi Igbokwe, completed the sweep for the Cougars. The quartet won the event with this year’s NCAA record of 3:02.61 and will look to be the team to beat come National Outdoors in May. 1. Penn winning the College Women’s Distance Medley Relay The Penn Distance Medley Relay team of junior Nia Akins, junior Maddie Villalba, sophomore Melissa Tanaka, and sophomore Uchechi Nwogwugwu made history on the first day of the Relays by becoming the first Ivy League women’s team to win a Championship of America relay.

Not only did the Quakers beat the previous program record by more than nine seconds, running it in 10:59:44, but they also crushed their competition en route to lifting the wheel, beating secondplace Notre Dame by over three seconds and third-place Villanova by more than six.

NCAA runner-up Akins, who was also named the College Relay Athlete of the Meet, ran the 1,200-meter portion of the medley, leaving the pack in the dust to pass the baton on to Nwogwugwu, who in turn ran the fastest 400 in program history in 52.22.

Next, the baton was passed to Tanaka, who delivered under pressure and sprinted away from the threatening pack to pass the baton on to Villalba.

And Villalba brought it home without a doubt.

With the Penn contingent in the north stands passionately cheering each time she ran around the track, the junior clinched the title with a 4:37.30 mile, running right into the arms of her overjoyed teammates.

Penn track made history once again; it just felt a little bit sweeter at a competition as storied as the Penn Relays.

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your leg.

I’m from an individual sport mindset, so I’ve always had to depend on myself. But it’s a lot of pressure, especially because I was the anchor leg, so the anchor leg is supposed to be the guy that brings it home, and you can’t hide.

And I was just fortunate when I ran here that things lined up. I had a big heart, the fans were going crazy, and I ran angry because we were losing. So I was just trying to catch up, and I ended up passing my opponent.

DC: Thank you so much for your time!

RN: No problem. Thank you.

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another strong start for the Quakers, but with a 3-2 lead in the bottom of the ninth inning, back-to-back one-out singles would spell the end of his day. Freshman Kevin Eaise came on in relief and allowed the walk-off, a two-out triple off the bat of senior center fielder Adam Saks.

On Sunday, junior starter John Alan Kendrick took the hill, looking to make it three solid starts in a row for the Penn pitching staff.

He delivered six innings and gave up three runs, but only one earned.

Kendrick somehow managed to keep Cornell from scoring more despite giving up eight hits on the day.

Luckily for Penn, or maybe predictably, the Red and Blue offense came to play. Sophomore left fielder Eduardo Malinowski starred in the final game, notching three hits, including a double that sparked a three-run fourth inning and a threerun homer in the seventh.

The late innings proved to be the Quakers’ demise once again, just as they were in game two. This time, Cornell scored three runs in the final inning, all coming off the bat of senior catcher Will Simoneit, who hit the walk-off home run to left field to give Cornell the 8-7 victory.

Now sitting at an even 9-9 in conference play on the year, the Quakers still have an outside shot at earning an Ivy League Championship Series berth with a sweep over Columbia next weekend and a pair of Yale losses against Princeton.

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hard when you are by yourself and the crowd is going crazy with the announcer yelling, ‘no Ivy team has ever done this before!’” coach Steve Dolan said.

“I needed [the stay in the moment call]. It was very grounding to come around every lap and know that I was going to get what I needed from coach,” Villalba said.

The Quakers would finish over three seconds ahead of second place Notre Dame in a performance that made them the first Ivy League women’s team to win a Championship of America relay.

The relay win was just the beginning for the Quakers on Thursday. Sophomore Camille Dickson won the long jump college event, senior Rachel Lee Wilson placed sixth in the championship section of the hammer throw, and junior Maura Kimmel placed ninth in the shot put championship.

The excitement was not dampened by the rain on Friday,

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surrounding the event, especially at this year’s historic running.

“It’s a remarkable experience with the tradition, you can see why it’s been around 125 years,” he said. “It’s an unbelievable venue.”

Despite the fact that most of the teams racing come from local states, those from other countries aren’t lacking in support at all.

Some of the fastest teams come from Jamaica, and there are times the yellow, green, and black flags outnumber the familiar red, white, and blue.

Among the Jamaican fans in attendance this weekend were Lawrence Donovan and Dezine Anderson.

Currently living in New York, Donovan is a former Penn Relays athlete himself from New York Tech. For the

as sophomore Ashley Anumba placed second in the discus Championship of America and sophomore Cristian Constantin became the second Quaker of the weekend to win the long jump college event.

The Red and Blue came back on Saturday with plenty of chances to add wins to their already historic performance.

After clearing 1.82 meters, senior Anna Peyton Malizia took home Penn’s second Championship of America win of the tournament.

The Quakers also took to the track for three different Championship of America relays.

Despite Akins’ record-setting split of 2:02.33, the women placed fifth in the 4x800, while the men’s team finished sixth in the same event.

Facing a difficult battle in the women’s 4x400, the team of freshman Skyla Wilson, junior Cecil Ene, junior Elena BrownSoler and Nwogwugwu broke the school record with a time of 3:35.43, finishing second to South Carolina.

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past 20 years, he has been returning to the Frank amid thousands of his countrymen to cheer on the younger runners.

“It’s awesome, I come every year just for the fun of it,” he said. “[I support] just any team that says ‘Jamaica’ on the back.”

Even for those who haven’t had the honor of running in the Relays before, the supporters recognize and respect the gravity of competing on this stage.

Clutching an newly autographed poster from Olympian Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Anderson could be found standing and cheering her heart out all day long for the teams from her home country.

Now residing in Delaware, she has been coming to the Relays since 2015, but has been following track, especially on the local level, for much longer.

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Senior Anna Peyton Malizia won the championship of the women’s high jump at the 125th edition of the Penn Relays on Saturday afternoon.

the national champs, so we knew we would have to chase,” Brown-Soler said. “Our goal was to go 3:35 to break our school record and beat our regional mark, and that’s what we did.”

In the field events, Penn also found success, getting a second-place championship finish from freshman Marc Minichello in the javelin throw and a fifth-place discus champion-

“When I was back in Jamaica, we have Champs, and then after Champs is the Penn Relays,” Anderson said. “So we go there, then come here.”

Like Donovan, she cherishes the Relays as a time to cheer for her national team, especially when such highprofile athletes compete so close by.

The feeling of national pride is felt the most during the famed USA vs. the World races, where the stadium is at the point of eruption with national pride as the all-star runners fly down the track, fueled by the cheers of their respective compatriots.

The Penn Relays are much more than a series of races.

The fans who journey from near and far to take part in the excitement are just as iconic as the competition itself, providing that unique atmosphere that keeps people coming back year after year.

ship performance from sophomore Chudi Ikpeazu.

Even for the athletes who didn’t claim victories, the Penn Relays were still an incredibly special event for all involved.

“We get to practice in [Franklin Field] every day, but when you come for the Relays, it’s completely different. It’s a little bit intimidating, but we just

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Freshman Payton Morris finished third in the championship of the men’s pole vault at the Penn Relays with a clearance of 4.90 meters.

tell ourselves this is our home, this is our track,” Brown-Soler said.

In an event with so much his-

tory and hype, it is safe to say that the 125th running of the Penn Relays will be remembered for years to come.

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