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Leaving behind barriers

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President Amy Gutmann speaks at a University Council meeting in February during which she introduced the Task Force on Student Psychological Health and Welfare.

Students face stigma, administrative difficulties associated with taking leaves of absence SOPHIA WITTE Senior Reporter

Last spring, College freshman Kathryn Dewitt was facing her own crisis amidst a semester marked by two student suicides in three weeks. The peak of her crisis — a hospitalization related to her mental health — happened just a few days after the death of then-College freshman Madison Holleran, who lived on the same floor as her. Even though her personal issues had been culminating for months, the thought of taking a leave of absence from Penn had never crossed her mind. “Penn thought it was best for me to take

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time to take care of myself, but I wasn’t in my capacity to hear their reasoning that it could be a good option,” Dewitt said. “When you only see people doing amazing things and graduating in the typical four years, you don’t see a leave as part of the typical Penn experience. I thought it was far too deviant, too abnormal.” While Penn students take leaves of absence for various reasons, including working on a political campaign and pursuing a startup idea, those dealing with mental health issues stress that leaves must become an acceptable step for students to take on the path to graduating. The Task Force on Student Psychological Health and Welfare — created in the wake of six student suicides over 15 months — advised the University in February to not only clarify its policy on leaves of absence, but to address the stigma associated with taking time off

from school. While each of the undergraduate schools has worked to emphasize the consistent process for taking and returning from a leave, many students hold that the administrative complications of taking a leave, coupled with students’ own perceptions about taking time off, prevent them from making decisions that may be best for their wellbeing. “There’s a need to create campus unity about leaves of absence,” Dewitt said. “I have hope that work can be done so that students recognize that leaves can be important and normalized at Penn.” Feeling caught in an ‘only option’ position Along with medical complications from asthma that left her hospitalized, Dewitt’s crisis last spring came out of a combination of family issues, difficulties with the social transition to Penn and

academic struggles in classes in which she had hoped to major and excel. “On top of everything, seeing my academic dream, and generally my set plan, disintegrate was kind of hard,” she said. “A lot of mental games were going on from it all.” Though Dewitt knew staying at Penn was worsening her mental state, she did not seriously look into the possibility of taking a leave. “Even before coming back for second semester, I was caught in the duality of not wanting to be at Penn, but also not wanting to be at home,” she said. “I didn’t see another alternative to staying at Penn, and it’s never a good place to be feeling like you’re in an ‘only option’ position.” After being released from the hospital for mental health reasons, students are highly encouraged by the administration to take time off. In Dewitt’s case, she left

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the hospital to find her PennCard deactivated and her dorm room locked. Rob Nelson, Penn’s executive director for education and academic planning, said students dealing with many overlapping pressures or personal difficulties often fail to see the potential benefits of taking a leave. “When students are facing any combination of high-pressure situations and putting a lot of pressure on themselves, it can feel like [leaves] are punitive,” Nelson said. “But in reality, they’re there to help students get out of those situations and handle the problem in order to come back and succeed.” Penn gave Dewitt a chance to prove that she was well enough to continue her semester. With family pressure to resume classes, coupled with an internal sense of

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After a summer internship at Equis Funds Group, a private equity fund in Singapore, Wharton junior Connie Chen returned back to the United States $5,000 in debt. Despite receiving funding from Penn’s International Internship Program, Chen said the fund only covered her transportation and some small living expenses. Pricey housing in Singapore and the cost of living meant that even with the funding, she was still in debt for the summer. Like many Penn students, Chen returned

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Penn Dining’s Meal Swipe Conversion Policy has some students questioning the value of a dining plan. Until the end of April, any student who signs up for a fall meal plan may convert 10 to 50 meal swipes into dining dollars at a rate of $4.75 per swipe. This value is lower than a meal swipe’s value on any year-long meal plan by a significant margin. Swipe equiva lents ra nge from

in the fall with real-world experience and empty pockets. Chen spent a lot of the summer organizing basic Excel spreadsheets and making preliminary calculations. But she also gained some rewarding skills, such as researching how to best allocate the company’s $50,000 corporate social responsibility fund. “The job just sounded really good, so now that I have that on my resume, it’s much easier to maybe get something through PennLink this summer,” Chen said. Chen chose the internship because it aligned better with her long-term goals, even though it led to financial loss in the shortterm.

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When it comes to Wharton’s social media strategy, what may seem like a one-man show is in fact a large operation. Stefan Frank is the director of new media communications at the Wharton School, namely the director of the school’s social media. He oversees the team of people creating the posts seen by social media users, from future Whartonites to proud parents to others across the globe. SEE WHARTON PAGE 9

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Penn political groups endorse mayoral candidates with under three weeks to primary Other organizations have no-endorsal policy DAN SPINELLI Staff Reporter

With only a few weeks until the May 19 mayoral primary, Penn political groups have started coalescing around specific candidates. Penn Democrats officially endorsed former City Councilman Jim Kenney last week, citing his “ability to get things done for the people of this city” as a “proud and effective champion of equal rights.” In its statement, Penn Dems went on to praise Kenney’s work on LGBTQ equality and marijuana decriminalization while on city council. It also applauded his pledge to end the police’s use of “stop-andfrisk” and his opposition to the policy of detaining undocumented immigrants “for up to 48 hours before transfer to federal

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custody.” Kenney has ties to Penn through the Fels Institute of Government, where he had been an adjunct instructor for the last 13 years. In 2007, Penn Dems endorsed Mayor Michael Nutter. Its early endorsement provided key support for the then-city councilman, who has since expressed his gratitude for its approval. The other main partisan political group on campus, College Republicans, has mostly stayed out of the mayoral race, which will likely be won by a Democrat. There is only one Republican candidate in the race — business executive Melissa

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and College freshman Mitchell Chan said. The College Republicans have allowed Wolfe, who is also a Penn alumnus, “to campaign at all of [these events],” Chan added. Other organizations avoid direct endorsements as a matter of principle. The Government and Politics Association has a byline in its constitution “against endorsements of any kind, due to [its] nonpartisan mandate,” GPA President and College sophomore Sarah Simon said. The LGBT Center denied one candidate for elected office the opportunity to advertise in its online newsletter because of its policy against clear endorsements. The Center has supported the presence of more out candidates and faculty, but cannot politically endorse one in particular. The primary is less than three weeks away.

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roughly $8 to $16 depending on the amount of dining dollars included in the meal. Adding dining dollars to a meal plan costs $1 per dining dollar. Penn Dining did not respond to repeated in-person and email requests for comment about dining dollars. Locations for students on a meal plan to use their dining dollars currently include 1920 Commons’ retail operations, Accenture Café, Tortas Frontera, Houston Market, Joe’s Café, The Bridge Café, Plaza Café and Mark’s Café. Williams Café is one establishment on campus popular among students that does not accept dining dollars because it is run by Penn Student Agencies. On the other side of University City, Drexel offers a similar dining dollar service to students on a meal plan, along with DragonDollars that can be used

for food and services like printing, similar to PennCash. DragonDollars are also accepted at dozens of food and convenience establishments in University City which are closer to Penn’s campus than to Drexel. These locations include Harvest Seasonal Grill & Wine Bar, Hip City Veg, Fresh Grocer, Baby Blues BBQ and CVS, among others. In contrast to Penn’s three dining halls, Drexel only has one: Handschumacher Dining Center. “It’s good to have some dining dollars on my meal plan, but I just wish I could use dining dollars at more places I actually want to eat at,” College freshman Cassie Huang said. “Chipotle, Greek Lady or Sweet Green would be pretty ideal, but I don’t plan on getting a meal plan in the fall anyway.” “I hardly ever use the dining dollars that I have on my plan,” former DP staffer and College freshman Kendra Hong said. “If ever, I use them at Frontera.”

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Some minorities find the cultural centers at Penn limiting Students claim cultural spaces need improving JESSICA WASHINGTON AND ELIZABETH WINSTON Staff Reporters

Cultural centers at Penn aim to provide safe spaces for minority students. While many participate, others find them socially limiting. Many minority students at Penn find it helpful to have spaces on campus where they can connect to people who share their ethnic and cultural backgrounds. A lt hough over ha lf of students at Penn identify as minorities, many minority students find it necessary to have their own spaces on campus. Many black students opt to live in Du Bois College House, for example, which Penn Residential Services describes on its website as a community providing “an environment that embraces African American scholarship and culture.” In addition, the ARCH building houses Makuu: The Black Cultural Center, La Casa Latina, and the Pan-Asian

American Community House. College sophomore Ray Clark, co-chair of UMOJA — Penn’s undergraduate umbrella organization for African Diaspora organizations on campus — believes that spaces designated specifically for minority students are vital for making these students feel comfortable at Penn. “It’s important for a university as diverse as Penn to have spaces for students to feel at home,” Clark said. “I think Du Bois serves the same role as Hillel, the GIC [Greenfield Intercultural Center], the LBGT Center and the ARCH — which is to build community.” Clark stressed that these cultural centers are open to all students. “The thing people should know is that these spaces are welcome to everyone, and the best way to learn about different cultures is to visit,” Clark said. But not all minority students feel as comfortable in these groups as they would like. “Just because you call it safe doesn’t mean it’s actually a safe and welcoming space,” College

junior Abel McDaniels said. College sophomore Brooke Edwards believes cultural centers could do more to ensure they are open to students and helping them in the most effective way. “We must, however, work harder to ensure that these spaces actually fulfill their mission of being open and inclusive,” Edwards said. Other students are not concerned about having a separate social space based on backgrounds. “I guess there is some solace in being in a friend group where you can all relate based off race, but I find that that only gets one so far,” College freshman Elaina Joseph said. “Race doesn’t matter in friendship for me and I have some really awesome friends because I chose them for them and not their skin color.” Other students feel like they don’t fit in with racially-labeled groups. College freshman Destiny Bingham went to a high school with mostly minority students. Still, she said of the experience, “I didn’t feel like I fit in with the black kids at my

predominantly black and latino school.” Despite the fact that cultural centers are aimed at being resources mostly for people of specific backgrounds, McDaniels and Edwards reject the idea that any of these groups are forms of self-segregation. “We don’t call it self-segregation when it’s a group of white people,” Daniels said. “To me, the term ‘selfsegregation’ has this negative connotation that seems to blame minority students themselves for not integrating into the more mainstream school culture without questioning why,” she added. “We need to start looking at mainstream Penn culture and just how unwelcoming it can be for minority students at this university.” Edwards feels that despite concerns she might have with these sectioned-off cultural spaces, they are still integral to her Penn experience. “It’s absolutely essential that minority students have their own spaces on campus where they can feel safe and at home,” Edwards said.

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THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 2015 VOL. CXXXI, NO. 55 131st Year of Publication MATT MANTICA President JILL CASTELLANO Editor-in-Chief SHAWN KELLEY Opinion Editor LUKE CHEN Director of Online Projects LAUREN FEINER City News Editor KRISTEN GRABARZ Campus News Editor CLAIRE COHEN Assignments Editor STEVEN TYDINGS Social Media Director PAOLA RUANO Copy Editor RILEY STEELE Senior Sports Editor HOLDEN MCGINNIS Sports Editor

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A civic choice: endorsement for mayor EDITORIAL

sk yourself this: Do you know all of the candidates in the running for the upcoming Philadelphia mayoral election? Or even one? It is probably safe to presume that most answered “no” to the former, and — let’s face it — most said “no” to the latter as well. In general, Penn students are embarrassingly uninformed when it comes to Philadelphia politics. For members of the supposed “Civic Ivy,” which flaunts student involvement in the local community, we are hypocritically apathetic towards local political affairs. It’s time we become less detached. We have an obligation to be informed voters. It is our duty as part of the greater Philadelphia community, as citizens and as an institution whose future is indelibly tied to that of Philadelphia. The elections are not just the matter of the Philadelphia locals you see on the street on

retirement and pensions), the Committee on Rules (which handles zoning, city planning and procedure of the Council), the Committee on the Environment (which handles air and water quality, waste management and green spaces) and the Committee on Law and Government (which handles the Law Department and moral claims against the city), Kenney has ample experience covering a wide range of the myriad aspects of governing Philadelphia to prepare him for mayorship. By pushing forward the LGBT Equality Bill in 2013 — which made Philadelphia the largest city in the nation to offer broad protections to the LGBT community — he has gained the support of many within the city, including the AFL-CIO and LGBT leaders, such as state Rep. Brian Sims, the first openly gay man to be elected to the legislature. At Penn, the Penn Democrats have thrown their support behind Kenney as

ing of the workings of our city’s government. For a mayoral candidate, we seek someone whose knowledge and experience are specifically relevant to Philadelphia. We concede that Lynne Abraham is also a strong candidate with substantial experience in the Philadelphia locale. After 19 years as Philadelphia’s district attorney following a string of judicial and administrative roles, Abraham has been a staple in the local political scene. However, we must admit reservations about her physical ability. While we do not mean to devalue her worth as a candidate by age alone, 74-year-old Abraham’s collapse during the debate on April 7 remains the most memorable episode of the elections thus far. We are also concerned with her track record of aggressively pursuing the death penalty during her tenure as district attorney. This fact is particularly salient today with the recent focus on law enforce-

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We have an obligation to be informed voters. It is our duty as part of the greater Philadelphia community, as citizens and as an institution whose future is indelibly tied to that of Philadelphia.” your way to Chipotle. We are locals, too. Therefore, we urge all of you registered as voters in Pennsylvania to turn out to vote for the mayoral elections. Even if you aren’t a registered voter, keep yourself informed. Currently, three candidates lead the polls: Lynne Abraham, Jim Kenney and Anthony Williams. The Daily Pennsylvanian has chosen to endorse Mr. Kenney as the most capable candidate for Philadelphia mayor. Jim Kenney has held a seat on the city’s Council-at-Large for 24 years, since 1991. With involvement and leadership in various committees including, but not limited to, the Council Committee on Labor and Civil Service (which handles labor,

well. Additionally, after the brutal Center City attacks in 2014, he helped pass an ordinance that imposes elevated punishments for violent attacks based on gender identity, sexual orientation or disability status. We find his clear plans for improving the economy, education, public safety, transportation, transparency in government and equality are better informed than that of rival candidate Anthony Williams, whose experiences are also limited to the state level at the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives and Senate. Although we may not completely agree with all of his plans, we are more willing to back Kenney, who seems to have realistic goals and a better understand-

ment overreach as a dominant issue of social justice. A mayor cannot immediately bring about dramatic changes in our lives. But as the leading political figure of the city, he or she will have immense influence on how the city is run for the next four years, which, for better or worse, indirectly affects the course of our university’s future as well. Therefore, we Penn students have a stake in the well-being of our home city of Philadelphia. Choosing the best candidate for mayor is part of our responsibility to the city and to ourselves. And the most prudent option is electing James F. Kenney for Philadelphia mayor.

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NICK MONCY is a College junior from North Miami, Fla. His email is nickmon@sas.upenn.edu.

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My sinusoidal freshman year

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here are no neat conclusions to draw from a year at Penn. But if I had to assign a label to my freshman year, it would be “sinusoidal.” The past eight months have been a sequence of peaks and troughs, memories and mishaps. I wouldn’t trade them for anything. Reflecting on the past year means appointing “Friends” episode titles to our days. The one where we trailed the tunnels beneath the Quad, swapping life philosophies.The one with the Sprite bottle that exploded across Harrison College House. The one where we sang, we spun, we got That Look from That Person, but we kept it up anyway. The ones when we didn’t give a damn, and then when we cared so much it hurt. The one with the banana. There are the hosts of

paint ourselves into different situations. We applied here with a purpose, neatly packaged into 500 words and sieved through the Common App. And for me, at least, it’s been easy to lose sight of that. There have been months where my main focus didn’t extend beyond waking up and cranking out my assign- DANI BLUM ments. There have been days I felt this incredible, irwhere all I did was flounder. And there have been mo- reverent joy in knowing we ments where the sheer fact had time left here. Penn that I was at Penn wasn’t isn’t a launchpad for future enough for me. Some point goals; it’s an adventure in over the course of this past itself. That’s a very freshyear, I stopped feeling in- man attitude to take, and I debted to the University for understand that now. I’m admitting me. The gratitude aware of how naive I sound. I felt in being able to walk But we don’t have to surrender this sentiment. There’s down Locust chipped away. Part of the Penn experi- no rule that mandates our ence consists of feeling out disenchantment with this of place here, of Googling place, that stops Penn from transfer applications and being Penn. The University then closing the tab out of can disappoint us, gnaw at guilt. There’s a lot about us, anger us and color our

What I don’t want to lose is the possibility we felt when we came to Penn.” stories we wish we made: Friends we didn’t catch up with, clubs we didn’t join or that lunch we forgot to schedule. That GroupMe we all muted. The BYO we never planned. There’s an anxiety that we can’t try anything new once we’re out of freshman year — club positions will be dictated, spots will be filled, “It’ll be too late.” At the risk of sounding preachy, though, we can’t cheat ourselves out of experiences. Save for those who are graduating (sorry, I can’t help you out there), it’s not too late to delve into another aspect of Penn. College is too short to live constrained. What I don’t want to lose is the possibility we felt when we came to Penn. I miss the energetic faces we wore during New Student Orientation as we tried to

Penn that makes me question the bubbly descriptors I used in my “Why Penn?” essay. I’m still searching for the “overarching creative spirit” and “balance” I imagined when I was 17 years old. This is not anything close to a perfect school. But that doesn’t stop me from loving the experience. Sun-soaked and powderslicked after our first Holi, I grabbed two of my best friends’ hands and ran to Penn Park, our shoes spilling tufts of color onto the sidewalk. We wheezed our way over the bridge, past tennis courts and up stairs until we found a nook where we could see the Schuylkill River. We stood. And stared. And just talked — about life, about Penn. About the reasons we were here. About how young we still were.

perspectives. I’d argue that everyone here has felt moments of happiness, though, and that most of those are associated with Firsts — the first weeks we spent on campus. The first Fling. The first nights of NSO. The first year. We might be done with freshman year. We might have run out of our Penn firsts. But repeating experiences doesn’t necessarily cheapen them — in some cases, it might make them better. I intend to return to campus in full, rose-colored glasses, still clinging to the freshman high.

DANI BLUM is a College freshman from Ridgefield, Conn. Her email address is kblum@sas.upenn.edu. “The Danalyst” appears every Thursday.

Penn senior loses grant, gains life-changing project

hen my friend, Sayid Abdullaev, approached me to apply for the University of Pennsylvania’s inaugural President’s Engagement Prizes — a $100,000 grant awarded annually to Penn seniors to design and implement local, national or global engagement projects during the first year after graduation — I hesitated. I doubted my ability to open up about something that I had gone to such lengths to conceal in the past. Luckily, the necessity of our project inspired me to be brave. The initial concept for our project, AsylumConnect, was borne out of Sayid’s personal experiences as an LGBTQ asylum seeker in the United States. Our premise was simple: to support

GUEST COLUMN BY KATIE SGARRO people seeking political asylum in the U.S. because of sexual orientation or gender expression. In addition to providing small grants to cover basic living needs, we would accomplish this by creating the first website and mobile app specifically designed for LGBTQ asylum seekers. These platforms would feature a centralized catalog of available LGBTQ-friendly services by location, themed educational webinars and animated how-to videos. As we combined our distinct experiences into a singular effort to advance AsylumConnect, the line separating us from our project faded. What I uncovered during my research — what I was hearing from existing organizations and LGBTQ asylum seekers — deeply affected me. It

altered my worldview and rearranged my priorities. The reality is sobering for anyone. It is still illegal to be gay in 77 countries. LGBTQ people in these countries are imprisoned and subjected to “corrective” action, including rape by government officials, public humiliation and the death penalty. Upon arrival in the U.S., LGBTQ asylum seekers face abuse in detention centers. Many have nowhere to go, have no social support and end up homeless. They cannot legally work in the U.S., nor are they entitled to a government attorney without a work permit, which typically takes at least one year to obtain. An estimated 44 percent of LGBTQ refugees suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder.

I became profoundly aware that I had failed to speak out for more than a decade in a country where I at least had that choice. And with this realization came painful memories. My mind traveled back to when I was 15 years old, sitting in mandatory religion class at my Catholic boarding school — my least favorite part of the day. I felt my palms sweat as I nervously glanced around the classroom. A monk stood at the blackboard, equating homosexuality to bestiality and necrophilia. His words, sharp as knives to me, were blunt instruments to the surrounding faces, used merely to convey the severity of the aforementioned “sins.” Shame washed over me. As I pretended to be fascinated by the chips in the wooden exterior of my desk, I silently marveled at how eas-

ily my peers seemed to accept our teacher’s words. Oblivious to my discomfort, they vigorously scribbled each homophobic thought into their notebooks to ensure an “A.” I vowed, once again, to never come out. As my own story began to intersect with those I encountered for our project, the President’s Engagement Prizes became more than just a competition to me. It became a chance for selfredemption and a rare opportunity to improve the lives of the thousands of LGBTQ asylum seekers in the U.S. With this transformation, losing was no longer an option. Even after the award recipients were announced and our names were not among them, I remained unable to accept this loss. I realized that our passion

for this cause cannot be extinguished by the outcome of an application. It is rooted in our upbringings: Both of us grew up in environments that rejected and even condemned homosexuality, albeit to differing degrees. Consequently, both of us know what it is like to deny who we are, and we are willing to fight to prevent others from undergoing similar experiences. We may not have won the grant, but I won this realization. This is not a loss. This is a beginning.

KATIE SGARRO is a College senior from Scottsdale, Ariz., studying health and societies. Her email address is ksgarro@sas.upenn.edu.

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Penn sends fewer students directly to grad school 12.9 percent of 2014 grads enrolled CAROLINE SIMON Staff Reporter

As graduation inches closer for the Class of 2015, some Penn seniors are planning to immediately pursue an advanced degree. But this number is small relative to peer schools. While graduate school is a goal for graduating college seniors across the country, the percentage of Penn students who attend graduate or preprofessional school directly after college is comparatively low. In 2013, 16.2 percent of Penn’s graduating class reported that they had plans to immediately attend graduate school. In 2014, that number dropped to only 12.9 percent. By comparison, 18 percent of Princeton seniors who graduated in 2013 had plans to attend graduate

school right away. At Brown, 22 percent of graduating seniors in both 2013 and 2014 planned to continue their education. Meanwhile, 16 percent of Harvard’s graduating class in 2014 reported that they would be immediately pursuing graduate degrees. Director of Career Services Patricia Rose said the percentage of Penn seniors who go directly to graduate school is skewed downward by Wharton, as the majority of Wharton students choose to take jobs immediately after they graduate. “Most Ivy schools do not have undergraduate business schools,” Rose said in an email. “If you eliminate Wharton from the average, it climbs to the 18 to 19 percent range, which is probably closer to other schools.” Many Penn students who seek employment immediately after they complete their undergraduate degrees choose to return to graduate

school after a few years of work. MBA programs, in particular, generally prefer prospective students to have spent time in the workforce before applying. “The bottom line is that within five years, over 60 percent of Penn graduates have begun or completed a graduate degree,” Rose said. “Penn students want to work and are successful in finding work, want to save money before embarking on another degree, or want to make certain that a particular graduate degree makes sense before matriculating.” Another reason that seniors may wait to attend graduate school is that taking a few years off gives them a chance to improve their chances of gaining acceptance to graduate programs. “They may want to strengthen their academic records prior to applying,” Rose said. “But within a few years the majority are pursuing a graduate degree.”

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having no alternative to returning to Penn, Dewitt managed to prove that she could stay. She met with Counseling and Psychological Services and Student Intervention Services to demonstrate her wellbeing, even though she now admits that her personal problems were far from over. Dewitt was cleared to stay, but the University enforced conditions, including meeting with a CAPS therapist and moving to a separate room since her roommate no longer wanted to live with her. Already feeling isolated from what she described as “a fight to stay at Penn,” she then had to move to a single room away from her few close friends. “Before I had been self-harming, but there was the protective factor of having a roommate and needing to put on a front,” she said. “But then I was alone in that room with nothing to stop me from self-harming or doing more. It was at that point that I realized that I had to take a leave if I was going to survive.”

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Like Dewitt, many Penn students with serious personal issues glaze over the thought of taking a leave until the crisis finally becomes too extreme to ignore. Though he had been suffering for months with what would later be diagnosed as major depressive disorder, College senior Jack Park did not take a leave until his attempted suicide during the second semester of his freshman year. “The process of taking a leave, objectively, may not be that overwhelming, but dealing with a psychologically vulnerable subset of the population — when everything from eating to sleeping to speaking feels hard — taking a leave sounds like a huge challenge,” Park said. Though they were pushed to the breaking point, most students found the logistical process to take a leave as relatively easy, and they ultimately think their leaves were helpful for their mental health conditions. However, the process of returning back to Penn proved more difficult than expected. Immediately after her friend walked her to CAPS to disclose her 34 3434 T STST need to take a leave, Dewitt Scrucial simply returned to her room, packed in 15 minutes then left for the airport. “I was able to leave immediately

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that night and the little paperwork for it came after-the-fact,” she said. “They make it so easy to take a leave, but I realized how they make it so much harder to get back in.” When Dewitt applied to return the next semester, the University wrote a letter turning her down because they wanted her to continue treatment. But Dewitt also noted that the letter — along with writing incorrect dates about the timeline of her experience — said that she should continue to review her academic standings, even though her grades had not been a serious problem. “It was frustrating since I had done relatively well, so it sent the message that there was a whole other problem I needed to take on,” she said. “Even when you’re on a leave, there’s still the pressure that you have to be using your time well.” Dewitt took this letter as motivation to show that she was using her time well, throwing herself into an internship at Active Minds National, work at the National Alliance on Mental Illness and several hobbies during her time in D.C. While her fulfilling semester away was ultimately beneficial for her mental wellbeing, Dewitt said she felt unsettled that “the pressure of being a Penn student didn’t end” during what was supposed to be a break from that environment. For Katiera Sordjan, a Daily Pennsylvanian columnist who took a leave last year for mental health and academic reasons, the process of returning back was not only harder than she expected, but also taxing on the mental health progress she had made. After fulfilling the University’s conditions and deciding that she was mentally ready to come back, Sordjan did not end up returning until the fall, even though she had been planning and hoping to return for summer sessions. “I realize that it was not fully explained to me what exactly the process of coming back would look like and especially what that timeline would be,” she said. “The stress of getting back was kind of a test of where I was mentally, and the anxiety-inducing waiting process definitely aggravated things for me.”

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same underlying policies regarding leaves of absence, but the way in which each school communicated these policies led to ambiguous or slightly different interpretations. “Despite student concerns, the Task Force found that the policies were in fact consistent across the four undergraduate schools, but that the school websites emphasized different aspects of those policies,” said Rebecca Bushnell, Task Force cochair and former School of Arts and Sciences dean.ok “It is our understanding that this issue is now being addressed by the individual schools.” For all undergraduate schools, the process follows the same general steps: meeting with an academic advisor, submitting a formal request to leave and receiving specific conditions that the student must meet in order to return. Nelson said that each school has worked to clarify this common thread running through all of their procedures. Beyond analyzing the clarity of the language on each of their websites, the schools have aimed to foster a united attitude towards the decision of taking a leave — an attitude shift that will hopefully make leaves seem like a more viable option to students. “The schools have reviewed their websites effectively so that the descriptions allow students to better see how the process isn’t one of being punished, but one they can understand and think about as something that can help them succeed,” Nelson said. Though the process has the same overarching framework across schools, Nelson also noted that the unique reasons for taking leaves, along with the distinct academic requirements of each school, mean that students must work with advisors to create an individualized plan. “Medical, academic, mental health or a combination of these reasons require you to meet with certain offices and people, so it’s key to work with an advisor to map out and understand your plan for both going and returning,” Nelson said. Students agree that academic advisors help bring the process that can sometimes feel disconnected into a central place within their respective schools. Sordjan said the process felt “a bit split up and confusing” until her advisor served as a check-in point and helped streamline the procedures for her. But students believe that the extent of this advising benefit may be

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because he believes in the power of having “people tell their stories who have gotten away from the bubble that is the University and then come back to tell their success stories.” “I feel like I’m doing my college experience ‘right’ now that I’m not so worried about the grade or tomorrow, but more focused on what’s best for my experience now,” he said. While Park recognizes the University’s efforts to better publicize the policies, he believes that the main problem involves students’ initial inability to consider the personal benefits that come with a leave. Instead of taking a leave of absence being a problem involving language accuracy or access to the procedures, he believes it is an issue of individual perceptions about one’s surroundings and purpose at Penn. “The high school-bred idea of competitiveness and the societal idea of not wanting to fall behind

limited to students who have already entered into the process of taking a leave. “Advisors do work well one-onone with students, but in terms of spreading and educating everyone about leaves of absences and championing the benefits they can have, the University could do better,” said Wharton senior Marko Vucetic, who took one leave for academic and mental health reasons two years ago and another to pursue work in a nonprofit organization last year. While there is room to make the benefits of advising more widely available, students stress that most change should focus on the negative connotations that tend to surround the idea of leaves of absence. “The process of taking a leave itself isn’t too painful,” Vucetic said. “The shortcoming is the need to work on the culture.”

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Despite the obstacles to coming back, most students who have returned from leaves emphasize that the root of the problem lies in the general tendency of Penn students to focus more on external pressures than on their personal wellbeing. “It’s really stigmatized on campus since Penn is very ‘go-go-go’ and you don’t realize that there are actually a lot of students who take leaves,” Sordjan said. “Individually, the best thing to do is to focus on yourself, but that’s hard to do at Penn with all these incoming pressures.” When first having to take a leave, both Sordjan and Vucetic said they went out “kicking and screaming,” but now realize how much better their lives are at Penn after taking time away from campus to focus on themselves. “Ultimately, you need to get away from all of these pressures, step away from Penn, then come back and have a better experience for yourself after realizing what’s best for you,” Sordjan said. After returning from his leave, Vucetic noted the “culture shock” he felt when coming back to campus, when he was reminded of the high standards that everyone sets for themselves. Because students often feel isolated when returning to this environment, CAPS started a group for students who have returned from leaves of absence to meet and talk about this experience. For Vucetic, being in the group has been helpful

have led us all to want to be the best and brightest, which doesn’t seem to fit with taking a leave and facing the anxiety and uncertainty of that path,” he said. “Stigma is mostly in the individual student’s brain, so the individual has to change his or her perception of the world by starting to think differently.” Many students who have come back and had a better experience at Penn realize that there needs to be a culture shift in which students see leaves of absence as a viable option as a part of their time at Penn. “The point is not going on a leave, but to find out what you are doing here, who you are and what you want to do. Finding that ‘thing’ should be the focus,” Vucetic said. “For some people, leaves can be what helps them get there, so the point should be to make leaves a socially acceptable way for people to figure that ‘thing’ out.”

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Trying to get into Smokey Joe’s on a Wednesday night may seem harder than finding a GSR during finals week. But while bouncers stay strict, students sometimes find loopholes to get by. Somewhere around a third of underage people in the city of Philadelphia are carrying around a fake ID, according to an article on Billy Penn. In many areas of Pennsylvania, a first offense of carrying

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Every day, the social media team meets to review analytics, dedicating one day a week for each channel — Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google Plus, YouTube and LinkedIn. At the beginning of each week, Frank also sits down with the social media, media relations and content production teams to have a content strategy meeting. The staff discuss the events taking place and upcoming milestones and create assignments for each member. Beginning this past fall, the team has involved three students known as “storytelling interns” — one undergraduate student and two graduate students who are sent to take photos of Wharton events and other relevant material. “We tackle a lot of ground weekto-week,” Frank said. “We don’t [make posts] on a whim and not without peer review.” In terms of the target audience, Frank said it is broad-reaching.

“We must make sure that our content is of interest at any time,” he said. “We speak to a wide range of audiences from prospective students in undergrad to the most senior alumni, as well as industry leaders and faculty members.” Frank said that his team does its “homework” to see what demographics are following the school on each platform and to make sure the content is relevant and effective. His team uses a mix of web analytical tools and survey results to complete this research. “There is a rationale for every channel,” Frank said. “It comes down to the strategy: If the goal is to disseminate news, Twitter is where we would turn. If we are building affinity with or speaking to the current population, we turn to Instagram.” But across all platforms, Frank emphasized that his team must “be smart and ahead of the curve.” Wharton has not always placed such an emphasis on social media. “I was hired [in fall 2013] to take

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our social strategy from the 20052006 era and bring it up to date,” Frank said. Since Frank took on the position, Wharton’s online following has dramatically increased. During

2014, likes on the official Wharton School Facebook page increased by 43 percent, and followers on the official Twitter account increased by 50 percent. “It’s getting better in filtering and

focus,” marketing professor David Bell said of the changes made in the past year and a half. “It looks more professional, more fluid, more regular; there is more consistency.” Still, some students say Wharton’s social media is not directly on their radar. “I hadn’t taken the initiative to look at [the pages],” Wharton freshman Chen-hui Bergl said. “Maybe they should try to increase awareness of the accounts.” Fellow Wharton freshman Ekaterina Dyakova said she follows the Wharton Undergraduate Cohort System and Wharton Council Facebook pages, which are directed at current students, but not the Wharton School page, which she feels has a more general audience. “If prospective students look at the page, it is a great way for Wharton to market itself,” Dyakova said. “Wharton has a lot of pictures that show its facilities, but maybe they can engage current students more by having more photos of student life.”

Frank noted that the Wharton social media accounts are not competing directly with Penn’s other schools and emphasized the importance of Wharton social media to current students. “Our students go to one school,” Frank said. “When we want a message to go through, we are competing with other brands that students see [in their feeds]” — not necessarily other schools. “I won’t lie and say we won’t look to see what other schools are doing,” Frank added. “I communicate directly with a lot of peer schools. I believe in the value proposition for each school. The things that differentiate us are pretty unique. So we are open-minded with sharing tactics.” As for the effectiveness of Wharton social media, “It’s hard to know,” Bell said. “Who knows what it’s doing, but it’s probably not hurting. For sure we can look at more followers, mentions, retweets — it just depends what we are measuring, what the metrics are.”

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international experience that she otherwise would not have had. Van interned in Ghana at the developmental consultancy firm ILC Africa. She received funding for her internship which covered costs of travel and living. Van did mostly office work such as research and curriculum development, interacting minimally with locals on the job. Though she said the work she did was not always exciting, Van thought the opportunity to live in Ghana for the summer made her experience valuable. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The main gain was not so much from the actual work but the experience,â&#x20AC;? she said, pointing out that, due

to funding from Penn, she essentially at a Chinese consulting firm this credit for internships in most cases. College undergraduates and 15.5 got to live in Ghana for free even summer. When credit is required, the Univer- percent of Wharton undergraduates though she did not earn an income. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I feel like with an unpaid intern- sity will grant students â&#x20AC;&#x153;internship took unpaid internships. The same â&#x20AC;&#x153;Internship money, compared The experience of living in Ghana ship thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not as much structure, creditâ&#x20AC;? that will show up on their statistics were not made publicly to how much money you are supand doing healthcare-related work, which can be a good or bad thing. I transcripts. available for the Nursing and Engiposedly going to make in the real such as transcribing interviews con- plan on using the lack of structure On the other hand, internships in neering schools. world, is very minimal,â&#x20AC;? 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For Penn women’s lacrosse, it’s just about time for a changing of the guard. At the end of this season, senior superstars like goalkeeper Lucy Ferguson, defender Meg Markham and attack Tory Bensen will all graduate, leaving gaping holes in the starting lineup. Also gone will be starting senior defenders Taylor Foussadier and Lydia Miller, in addition to captain and starting midfielder Lindsey Smith. Meanwhile, important supporting players like defender Leah McBride, midfielders Grace Newfrock and Shannon Mangini and attack Lindsey O’Loughlin will also be leaving Penn at the end of this season. First among that class is team leader and stalwart goalkeeper Ferguson. A transfer from William & Mary, Ferguson arrived at Penn in

diately was named starter. Her 527 career saves rank second in program history, and she is now one of the top goalkeepers in the nation, earning first team All-Ivy honors in 2015. Markham, who helped lead the defense with Ferguson, spoke highly of her partner in the net. “Lucy has had a huge impact. I think she has come into her own the past four years,” she said. “She is a huge presence on defense. She is that anchor.” On the defensive side of the field, Markham has also been elite since her freshman year when she was a spot starter. She is a two-time Ivy League Defender of the Year — including in 2015 — and was named All-Ivy three times. In the front seven, Bensen has been nothing short of phenomenal. A generational talent, her 129 career goals rank second in program history, and her 46 goals this season also rank third all-time in the team’s history books. Despite her individual ability to make offensive fireworks, she credits all of her successes to the team. “I think it goes to the whole team. That comes from practice. That comes from day-in and dayout being pushed harder and being asked to do more and more, [practicing with] some of the best defenders

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On the defensive side, senior Taylor Foussadier has helped make goalkeeper Lucy Ferguson’s life simpler with strong protective play.

in the country and some of the best midfielders in the country bringing the ball up,” Bensen said. “I don’t think any individual can

take credit for that achievement alone. I’m really thankful that I’ve been playing with the people that I have. They definitely deserve the

credit there.” The importance of the other seniors on the squad cannot be overstated. Bensen singled out the team’s off-field rapport as a major key to its success more than anything. “It’s more of a family than a community,” she said. “These are my best friends, and the chemistry we’ve developed off the field has definitely helped on the field and it’s a reason why we’ve been so successful.” Because of the seniors’ successes, it is easy to overlook the underclassmen. Doing so, however, would mean missing out on some of the team’s brightest players — and the future of the Penn women’s lacrosse program, especially on defense. “Some of the underclassmen like Megan Kelly and Katie Cromie have gotten time, and Liz Gully will be here and she’s going to be a senior next year,” she said. “She’s a great player, and we’re making sure we teach them all that we know.” Bensen agrees that the rising senior class has a lot to offer this team. “You can look at the junior class as a whole, and they each have something to offer this team,” she said. This is no exaggeration: The incoming senior class has a lot to offer.

Junior midfielders Lely DeSimone and Nina Corcoran are both great possession players. Junior attack Iris Williamson ranks second on the team in goals and Catherine Dickinson is fourth. The four all started full-time this season and have already taken on their roles as vocal leaders. “I think a lot of the current junior class, like Lely DeSimone, Nina Corcoran, Iris [Williamson], Catherine [Dickinson],” Foussadier said. “There are some great leaders in the junior class, and I think next year they’ll do a great job filling in those leadership roles.” Bensen says that the incoming seniors will have no trouble filling in for the exiting class of 2015. “I think honestly they lose something big, a big goalscorer, a huge defender. And every year we have been able to remain successful,” she said. “It’s about the culture more than the people, and everyone has bought in. Somebody will step up next year, and I have the utmost faith in that.” On Friday, Penn women’s lacrosse goes up against Cornell and hopes to keep its NCAA tournament hopes alive. With such a great corps of seniors and a talented group of starting juniors, the sky is the limit for Penn women’s lacrosse this postseason.

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from the Ivy championships â&#x20AC;&#x201D; could be as likely a time as any

for it. However, Dolan has always

preached the importance of staying even-keeled throughout the season, and he expects his squad to show up for competition once again this week, despite the lower-stakes atmosphere offered by Princeton. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sometimes competing is the best thing as youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re preparing for championships,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll see a number of nice performances as we set ourselves up for Heps.â&#x20AC;? Adding to the challenge of following up Penn Relays, Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s athletes will need to contend with preparing for finals. According to Dolan, balance is especially important this time of year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think our staff and our athletes are doing a good job of juggling our training, our competition and our academic work,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re really balancing all of those things right now.â&#x20AC;? The Quakersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; coaching staff will give a select few of their athletes the weekend off, but the majority will make the trek out to New Jersey. However, if Penn does ultimately crash and have an off weekend of competition, it is by no means the end of the world. The real test will come the following weekend in the form of outdoor Heptagonals â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the Ivy championship.

end of the season plays out for the Red and Blue, championships alone cannot define Penn Athletics. To only look at the numbers at the end of the year would do a disservice to the progress Athletic Director Grace Calhoun has made in her first year at the helm. In order for the athletic administration to provide its students with the â&#x20AC;&#x153;model student-athlete

experience,â&#x20AC;? as she terms it, the focus needs to go beyond simply aiming for championships. For all intents and purposes, in 2014-15 it clearly did.

the job was always going to be one of discovery. Learning about Penn. Learning about what each team needed in order to improve. Learning how to make the necessary changes for each program. In conducting this evaluation, it seems as if Calhoun is actually aware of how to reinvigorate the athletic community at Penn. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Where we could make wellinformed, calculated change, we did,â&#x20AC;? she said earlier this month. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Where we need to do our due diligence to make sure we get it done the right way, we are taking some time. We know that we need to modernize to move forward, that progress means having change.â&#x20AC;? One needs to look no further than Calhounâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s three coaching hires to feel confident about the athletic department moving forward. In each situation, the athletic director brought in a new face that either generated a winning culture right away â&#x20AC;&#x201D; as was the case for wrestling boss Alex Tirapelle, who sent five grapplers to NCAA Championshipâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s last month â&#x20AC;&#x201D; or gave off an impression of steady leadership moving forward. Tellingly, few are less

optimistic about the future of Penn basketball now than they were on March 10. In replacing Bilsky, it was unfair to demand too much of Calhoun in 2014-15. After all, the current executive director of the Big 5 didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t exactly leave his successor with a program firing on all cylinders. And for the first few months, this year featured plenty of bumps in the road for Penn Athletics. The football team went 2-8, menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s soccer failed to repeat its Ivy title win and Jerome Allenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s squad lost a program-worst seven consecutive Ivy games. Perhaps, given the outcome of the spring, that is the silver lining. With menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tennis demonstrating that it can recruit effectively against other Ivy powers, womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball guaranteed for an Ivy title push next year and virtually all spring sports contending for championships, this could be just the beginning. Under the leadership of Ray Priore and Donahue, respectively, there is reason to believe that Penn football and basketball will â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in the near future â&#x20AC;&#x201D; earn their given status as the Quakersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

preps for Princeton meet COLIN HENDERSON Sports Editor

Gearing up for this weekendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Princeton Invitational, the athletes of Penn track and field will find themselves battling the ups and downs of a â&#x20AC;&#x153;runnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s high.â&#x20AC;? Any runner â&#x20AC;&#x201D; from a weekend warrior to an Olympic track star â&#x20AC;&#x201D; knows the feeling of a runnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s high, that sensation of euphoria experienced after a run, especially a big race. And there arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t any bigger races than the Penn Relays. So itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s probably fair to say â&#x20AC;&#x201D; given their strong performance this past weekend at the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest annual track meet â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that the Quakers are feeling pretty good about themselves right now. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s success was three wins ... which was incredible,â&#x20AC;? said coach Steve Dolan. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But actually I think that if you look at the global success, we were better this year.â&#x20AC;? As any runner also knows, a runnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s high can often be accompanied by a crash, that feeling of pure exhaustion that finally hits two days after the race. If Penn track is going to

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marquee programs once again. That improvement, combined with the success seen this spring, positions Penn Athletics as a whole to compete with Princeton and Harvard in coming years. Throw in a resurfacing of the track at Franklin Field, a rumored multi-million dollar investment in new squash courts and a focus on developing corporate sponsorships with Coke and Nike, and the administration has reason to believe that it will be able to recruit and keep sufficient talent on the field throughout Calhounâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tenure. Without a doubt, the Quakers can capitalize on the momentum established thus far in 2015 to continue to increase their standing in the Ivy League. The state of Penn Athletics is not strong. Yet. But if this spring is just the beginning of continued success in 2015-16, it will be difficult to find a weak link in that chain moving forward.

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Bossart, Connor Betbeze and Mitch Montaldo has beaten up on opposing pitching to the tune of a league-leading .324 team batting average and .524 slugging percentage through the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 20 league games. However, despite its dominance, the Quakers are back in the same position that they were last year, when they lost a similar big game to their foes from the Big Apple. The Lions went on to sweep the Big Green in the championship . However, coach John Yurkow is confident that his team will find different results that it did last season. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a little bit easier,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Last year, you had a team that hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t played in a meaningful game. The nice thing is, right up until last weekend, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a playoff atmosphere.â&#x20AC;? Tied with Columbia in the Gehrig Division coming into last weekend, the Quakers split a four-game set with the Lions. The teams played two doubleheaders, with Penn taking the first matchup in each series before dropping the second game. Thus, the unofficial best-of-five series will head to a fifth game, that will be settled on Columbiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s home turf in New York. Despite the lack of home-field advantage, Bossart is insistent that a laid-back mentality is the key for the Quakers this weekend. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We just need to make sure everyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just relaxed and calm going into it, honestly,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really excited for this game, and they want to go out there and play their best. But being

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Senior southpaw Ronnie Glenn will get the nod and make the most important start of his collegiate career against Columbia on Saturday.

calm is really the biggest thing for us.â&#x20AC;? This year, the Quakers have been led on the mound by the twoheaded monster of senior hurlers Cuff and Glenn. For a variety of reasons â&#x20AC;&#x201D; including Cuffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s abysmal performance allowing three runs in less than an inning against the Lions last Saturday â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Glenn will be the one getting the nod for the Red and Blue in Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s allimportant showdown. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a blessing, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just like any other game,â&#x20AC;? Glenn said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just an opportunity to go out there and play my game and have fun with it.â&#x20AC;? Although Penn has largely

dominated their opposition thus far â&#x20AC;&#x201D; their .324 average in league play leads the Ancient Eight â&#x20AC;&#x201D; their season will come down to a single nine-inning affair, a tilt in which they came out on the wrong side just a year ago. Still, Yurkow is fully confident that his squad will be completely prepared for the biggest game of its season. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At this point in the year, it shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be that hard to get ready to play.â&#x20AC;? So, ready or not, the Quakers will be coming to the city that never sleeps this weekend. And the Red and Blue hope that the past is anything but prologue.

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Two Red and Blue seniors clinch year end Ivy League honors COLIN HENDERSON From The Daily Pennsylvanian’s sports blog, THE BUZZ

For the past decade, the athletes of Penn women’s lacrosse have collectively been the stars of the Ivy League. So it should come as no surprise that this year, the Quakers’ two biggest leaders got officially recognized as such. This week, Penn seniors Tory Bensen and Meg Markham were named Ivy League Attacker and Defender of the Year, respectively. Coming off of a breakout campaign last season, Bensen has stepped up her game even more throughout the 2015 campaign. Bensen has been a dominant force with her scoring all season, leading the Quakers

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“The challenges are both teams know each other really well,” coach Leslie King said. “We’ve played a lot against one another — there’s no secrets.” Dartmouth’s recent dominance in Ancient Eight softball is also no secret — the reigning conference champions have either competed in or won the Ivy League title series in two of the past three years. Heading into the 2015 Championship Series, the Big Green (23-16, 16-4) have a lot of expectations riding on their performance. “Being the underdog might be a little to our advantage,” King said. “The pressure is on Dartmouth, being on paper the favorite.” No doubt, nearly every pundit in the Ivy League expects the Big

with 46 goals. That mark is 20 more than that of the next closest Penn goal scorer, junior Iris Williamson. And she has done it efficiently, notching goals on an impressive 51.1 percent of her total shots. It is the first time in the program’s history that a Penn attacker has taken home the year-end honor. It also signals a shift in the Quakers’ play style, from one that has been purely defensive in past years to one that values pace and explosive scoring. While it was Bensen’s first time receiving such high recognition, it was the second consecutive year that Markham took home Defender of the Year honors. A preseason AllAmerican selection, Markham’s recognition should come as no surprise. Mark ham led P e n n’s

Green to repeat their championship performance from 2014. But Dartmouth’s advantage might not be as pronounced as it seems. The teams are nearly identical in every measurable softball metric. Dartmouth’s team batting average comes in at .291 to Penn’s .290. The Big Green slug .461 to the Quakers’ .460. Dartmouth has scored 176 runs this season; Penn has tallied 175. The only category where the North Division champions dominate — not just Penn, but the entire Ivy League — is in homeruns. The Big Green bats have pounded 35 home runs in 2015, 12 more than the Ancient Eight’s runner-up in the category — Harvard — and over double Penn’s season total of 16. What the Quakers may lack in efficiency behind the plate, it makes up for in stealth while running the bases. Thanks to the speed of

traditionally dominant defensive unit throughout the season, leading the Ancient Eight in turnovers with 40 (more than double the second-best total of 19). She has also provided a strong presence with her ability to win draws and pick up loose balls. 2015 marks the third consecutive year in which Markham was named first team All-Ivy after having done so each of the previous two seasons. Bensen and Markham join teammates Lucy Ferguson, Nina Corcoran, Lely DeSimone and Taylor Foussadier as Penn’s AllIvy selections for the year. The awards continue the onslaught off end-of-the-year honors for Penn Athletics. Following the men’s golf’s team’s thrilling one-stroke victory in the Ivy League Championships last weekend, Quakers’ coach

outfielders sophomore Leah Allen and senior Sydney Turchin — who lead the team with 12 and 10 stolen bases — respectively, the Quakers have racked up 46 stolen bases on the season, trumping Dartmouth’s 26. But no matter what the numbers may predict, the Ivy Championship crown is still very much up for grabs. “I think the teams that get a few breaks, a little bit of good luck, some clutch hitting, some good defensive plays — that is the team that’s going to take it,” King said. That is not to say that the Red and Blue are staring down the weekend without a clear game plan in mind. More or less, the entire 2014-15 campaign has amounted to this series. But this series is not just another shot at glory — it is a shot at redemption. So what’s Penn’s strategy? “That’s top secret!”

Bob Heintz was named the Ancient Eight’s Coach of the Year for the first time. Add itiona l ly, cont i nui ng the trend of dominant seniors, Austin Powell captured Ivy Player of the Year honors, joining Markham and Bensen on the Ivy’s honor roll. Now, despite the women’s lacrosse team’s impressive depth and bredth of talent, the Quakers’ road to another Ivy tournament title will not be an easy one. Having already lost to No. 1-seed Princeton, the Quakers enter the tourney as a No. 2-seed despite their copious year end Ivy awards. The Red and Blue will likely get their chance to avenge their loss to the Tigers at the tournament, which starts this Friday. However, in order to get their rematch with Princeton, they will need to defeat No. 3 Cornell this Friday afternoon. Penn faced

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Senior Tory Bensen was named Ivy League Attacker of the Year this week after notching 46 girls throughout the regular season.

the Big Red on Senior Day over the weekend, taking them down, 10-9, off the strength of a lategame goal appropriately scored by Bensen. And if the Quakers expect to take home the Ivy title, they will

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THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 2015

The State of Penn Athletics

RILEY STEELE | SENIOR SPORTS EDITOR

The 2014-15 academic year was kind to Penn Athletics, and though the program’s state is not currently as strong as it could be, it is on the rise. With new Athletic Director Grace Calhoun at the helm, Penn took strides in a variety of sports this year, including men’s golf, women’s squash and gymnastics. While the program’s marquee sports, including basketball, did not live up to standard, the foundation for a successful future is there.

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The state of Penn Athletics is not strong. Yet. As the 2014-15 academic year draws to a close, so too do the seasons for Penn Athletics’ spring sports. Within the next week or two, all will be quiet on the Red and Blue front, kicking off a long wait for the fall to roll around, a period in which preparation and training is the closest any team comes to seeing live action. That the end is near is a damn shame. Because if Penn’s late-winter and spring

seasons were a glimpse into teams have captured Ivy titles, the University’s athletic a total matching or higher future, what comes next for than the output from each of the Quakers the final three cannot arrive sea sons of soon enough. former AthOver t he letic Director course of less Steve Bilsky’s t ha n t h re e tenure. We know that m o nt h s , a A worst-towe need to ha nd f u l of first transition modernize to teams have under coach move forward ... demonstrated Bob Heintz that the state placed men’s progress means of Penn Athin the having change. ” golf letics is, if not winner’s circle strong, well — for the first - Grace Calhoun on its way to Penn Athletic Director t i me si nce holistically re2012 — at the asserting Penn Ivy League as a dominant force in the Ivy Championships last weekLeague. end, while the oft-overlooked Since mid-February, three gymnastics squad clinched the

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Imagine it’s the bottom of the sixth inning in the rubber match of the Ivy League Championship series. Your team is up 3-2, and only three outs separate you from an Ancient Eight crown, an NCAA berth and a chance at glory. Then, the opposing team drills in five run and gains control of the lead in punishing fashion. And all of that glory slips away. Penn softball doesn’t have to imagine. That series of

unfortunate events was how the Red and Blue were robbed of a win in game three of the 2014 Ivy League Championship Series and a chance at defending their 2013 conference title. But that was then, and this is now. The 2014 Quakers dominated by freshmen — 10 of the team’s 21-woman roster hail from the Class of 2017 — are one year older and one year wiser. They’ve already seen action in a championship environment against Dartmouth — the same team that did them in last year — on the Big Green’s home field in Hanover, N.H. That experience, though crucial for calming nerves and finessing strategy, might actually be one of the biggest hurdles for the Quakers (22-18, 13-7 Ivy) as they head into the weekend series in Hanover. SEE SOFTBALL PAGE 13

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Ivy Classic title at the Palestra in late February. All of this came on the heels of women’s squash’s dazzling campaign, one in which the Quakers finished undefeated in the Ancient Eight, reached as high as No. 2 in the nation and lost only three matches ... by a total of three measly points. With five teams still in the hunt for Ivy titles heading into the weekend, not to mention a strong core of rowers poised to make waves (pun intended) at the IRA Championships at the end of May, that total could still rise. It would come as no surprise if Tory Bensen and Meg Markham — the Ivy League’s Attacker and

Look, if you had one shot, one opportunity, to seize everything you ever wanted, would you capture it or just let it slip? That is the question currently facing Penn baseball,

which will travel to Columbia this weekend to play a onegame playoff that will decide the victor of the Lou Gehrig Division. The winner of the game will head on to the Ivy League Championship Series, where it will take on Red Rolfe Division champion Dartmouth. Penn (22-14, 16-4 Ivy) has been largely dominant in Ivy play thus far, as the pitching of Ronnie Glenn and Connor Cuff has allowed the Quakers to shut down opposing offenses. Meanwhile, the offensive pop provided by Austin SEE BASEBALL PAGE 12 CONTACT US: 215-422-4640