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Residential programs advertise intellectual conversation, engaging events and, most importantly, a home. But for some, these promises fall short.

College freshman Eva Zhang is one of only three people who applied for her residential program. Like some Penn students, Zhang found that her residential program seemed more engaging on paper than it is in practice.

“It did not live up to my expectations,” Zhang said. “Reading the description, I thought there would be a lot more activities, a lot more sharing.”

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lmost six years after Penn initiated a plan to hire more minority faculty members, a report released last Tuesday by Penn administration shows a steady increase in diversity among some, but not

all, University departments.

Co-issued by Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price, the updated Faculty Inclusion Report — which was published in Penn’s Almanac — details the advancements made

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Allegro’s no longer open 24 hours a day

Penn’s Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity chapter was kicked off campus in 2012 ESHA INDANI Staff Reporter

Off-campus organization Skulls, known as Phi Kappa Sigma when it was an on-campus fraternity, is in the process of attempting to move back on campus both in name and into their old house.

The fraternity, which was founded at Penn, suspended the organization’s Penn charter and closed its Alpha chapter on Sept. 16, 2012 following the death of John Carroll University student Matthew Crozier.

Crozier was at the Skulls house on Locust Street for an unregistered New Year’s Eve party when, at around 3 a.m., he tripped while approaching a second flight of stairs in the house.

He fell 30 feet and died from his injuries on Jan. 5.

The chapter was evicted from its Locust Street house and the fraternity ceased to exist officially, and no members formed an off-campus organization at that time. In fall 2015, a group of freshmen decided to try to recolonize the fraternity’s chapter by establishing an off-campus group. They formed an interest group and reaching out to the fraternity’s national headquarters to begin the process of becoming an official chapter, and eventually moving back into their house on campus.

“I actually originally had a really close group of friends and the thing is that everybody was like when you join a new frat, you’re kind of blending in with a new group of people,” Wharton sophomore and Skulls President Garrison Xian said. “For us, it’s just like, instead of joining an old identity or trying to fit into someone else’s identity or another organization’s identity, why don’t we do something on our own?”

Xian said the group has gained the support of the national fraternity, which will start discussion with the University to start the process for the group to become the official campus chapter.

in the arena of faculty diversity since the launch of the University’s ”Action Plan for Faculty Diversity and Excellence" in June 2011.

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Students find that the change in hours has begun to affect the pizzeria’s status as a social gathering space.

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Staffing difficulties, quality concerns and sleepy drunk patrons are some of the reasons Allegro Pizza and Grill is no longer open 24/7.

The popular 40th Street pizzeria now shuts its doors at midnight from Sunday to Wednesday, and 4 a.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The restaurant had been open 24/7 until around two months ago, when it first established its new closing times.

Maria Francisci, a waitress at Allegro, said her managers had problems with staffing a restaurant that was open all night.

…cognitive dissonance is the compass that leads us along our own paths.”

“I think the issue, which I’ve been told, is trying to staff it from really, really early in the morning. I’d say like past 4 a.m., to like 9 in the morning was a nightmare,” Francisci said.

“And a lot of the managers were working overnight a lot, and they couldn’t keep up with it because they have so many shifts to begin with, and a lot of people refuse to work overnight. So we could just not staff [the restaurant].”

Manager Louie Kosmatos added that concerns about quality forced Allegro to close earlier.

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Why students say no to summer internships

Some freshmen are working as camp counselors LEXI LIEBERMAN Staff Reporter

Given Penn’s pre-professional atmosphere, you’d be hard-pressed to find a student not doing an internship, research or some other type of resume-boosting activity over the summer.

However, some students are doing jobs unrelated to their field of study.

Engineering freshman Petra Robertson will have two jobs this summer.

“My main job this summer is just working at the summer camp that my high school has,” she said.

“So I’m working with kids age three to six, and it’s just a regular day camp of various activities.”

Robertson will be working as a camp counselor for eight weeks, during the months of June and July.

When she returns home in May, she will start her weekend shifts working her second job at an Italian ice shop.

“I just think that especially since it’s the summer after my freshman year, I don’t really feel that much pressure to be doing anything that’s going to bulk my resume,” she said. “Especially since I did a lot of school work during the year, and I don’t really feel like doing more work over the summer.”

Wharton freshman Jill Rosenthal will also be spending her summer working as a camp counselor.

“I am working at a summer camp that I actually went to since I was seven,” she said. “This summer I will be a swim counselor.”

Rosenthal, who loved being a

camper for nine summers, is excited to come back to work as a counselor. She will be at the camp for the majority of her summer.

“The camp lasts seven weeks, but I have orientation and cleanup, so I’ll probably be there for 10 weeks total,” she said.

Rosenthal knew she wanted to spend the summer after her freshman year as a camp counselor, though she won’t return next year.

“I think for next summer I’ll have to be doing something more focused,” she said.

College freshman Levi Cooper will also be working at a summer camp, but one in a rural part of North Carolina.

“I’m working teaching boys from age six to 16 how to sail,” he said.

Cooper will use his sailing experience to teach the kids during the summer.

“These kids basically come in with no sailing knowledge whatsoever, and I teach them how to sail basically from day one. So there are instructors who teach kids the basics, the fundamentals of sailing, nomenclature of the boat, how to handle themselves in the water, how to steer, all that kind of stuff,” he said.

Cooper did not choose this summer job as a resume-booster.

Instead, he wanted to do something fun that he was passionate about.

“I chose to do it because it’s something I really, really enjoy, not something that I think will make me happy in the future,” he said.

“I feel like Penn is pretty competitive in that way,” he added.

“And I think freshman year, at least the summer, is your last chance to live a little. Do what you like to do.”

Nursing freshman Jessie Korducki knows that she will be spending the next several years of her life deeply involved in medical training and research for nursing, so she decided to do a different kind of job this summer. She will be working in a nursing home as a Certified Nurse Assistant.

Instead of more medical training and research, she will be assisting the elderly.

“This summer I think it’s important for me to go back home to Wisconsin, especially since in the future, it will probably be more beneficial to do something like an internship or research,” Korducki said.

While several freshmen have the relaxed mindset that Robertson, Rosenthal, Cooper and Korducki share, many students feel pressured to work or conduct research over the summer.

However, Wharton sophomore Victoria Yuan did not feel pressured to take on an internship her freshman summer and was still able to secure an internship for her sophomore summer.

“Last summer, I went back home and worked at my local public library,” Yuan said. “I really got a lot out of it because I built great relationships and was able to strengthen my interpersonal skills, which I think helped me land my internship for this upcoming summer.”

Yuan is excited about her upcoming internship.

“I was fortunate enough to land an internship at Capital One in product management, which I’m thrilled about,” she said. “And even though I didn’t have that professional internship last summer, all of my doors were kept open for sophomore year.”

Retailing center to help launch fashion careers

The Baker Retailing Center was founded in 2002 NINA SELIPSKY Staff Reporter

Penn’s Baker Retailing Center is helping launch students’ careers in fashion and merchandising.

Founded in 2002 by 1956 Wharton graduate Jay Baker and his wife Patty Baker, the center works closely with student clubs like the Wharton Retail Club and Penn Fashion Collective to plan Career Treks and speaker events.

“The goal of the Center is to connect three different groups of stakeholders: the industry people, the students and the faculty,” Barbara Kahn, director of the program, said.

Wharton freshman Jordan Williams is one of the students who works at the Baker Retailing Center.

Williams, who runs his own fashion line, says the center has given him a thorough introduction to the fashion industry.

He started his fashion career by making t-shirt designs for friends during high school, before turning his work into a full-on company.

Young Moguls, Williams’ brand, has adopted the slogan “Wear your story.”

“Our desire is for Young Moguls customers to be reminded of their story and their past experiences, but at the same time motivated for their future goals and aspirations,” Williams said.

He and his business partner are continuing the brand at their separate colleges this year — Penn

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“We spoke to nationals about it and nationals was super supportive because, of course, this is the Alpha chapter,” Xian added. “Nationals is backing us completely.”

The chapter’s support from its national organization was confirmed by Executive Director Timothy Schug.

“As you know, Phi Kappa Sigma was founded at Penn and there is always that desire to have an active chapter on campus, let alone because of the caliber of the institution,” Schug said. “The process for Phi Kappa Sigma’s return is ongoing as we work with the University, our own timetable and the resources necessary to ensure the long-term viability of a chapter with respect to Phi Kappa Sigma’s relationship with the University.”

The national chapter expressed interest in eventually having a future chapter move back into the on-campus house in 2014, but discussion regarding the move was not initiated until last fall. The process is still in the negotiation stage.

“Regardless of whether any national organization is interested in recolonization, no formal process has begun at Penn,” Director of Penn’s Office of Fraternity and

and Georgetown University. The two have meetings over FaceTime at least three times each week.

“Hopefully, we can expand our customer base even more because we’re at two big colleges,” Williams said.

The Baker Center often partners with the Fashion Institute of Technology to expose students to all aspects of the business. The Baker Invitational, which will take place this year in late April in partnership with FIT, allows Penn students to travel to the school’s New York City labs to learn about manufacturing.

“One time we made a fragrance, and another time they showed us how they make materials out of sustainable garden resources,” Kahn said.

Wharton senior Kaley Suero is also heading towards a career in retail and has worked for the center.

Suero was the 2016 president of the Undergraduate Retail Club, and has plans to work on the innovation team at Nordstrom’s Seattle headquarters after graduation. She had a deputy position with Baker beginning freshman year.

“Involvement with Baker is taking advantage of the events they put on and the speakers that they have,” Suero said.

Suero will attend the center’s Lunchtime Speaker Series on Apr. 17, marking her third appearance at the event.

“You’re sitting next to Jay Baker, or Terry Lundgren or the new CEO of Barneys,” Suero said. “It’s very impressive and exciting.”

Suero sees the Career Treks as

the center’s most significant benefit.

“I’m very interested in the retail and tech space, so I really enjoyed one where we visited Oak Labs, as well as Rent the Runway,” Suero said. Oak Labs is known for an interactive fitting room mirror, the Oak Mirror, that can scan through store inventory and give clothing recommendations.

Suero’s post-graduation job came to fruition indirectly through the center. She was nominated by the center for a scholarship that included an interview with a Nordstrom employee.

“Baker works very closely with the National Retail Federation (NRF), and they have a variety of scholarships for students,” Suero said. “I’ve been able to win quite a bit of money through them and with their help.”

What interests Suero most about retail is the fact that it is such an old industry.

“Buying and selling things has always taken place, and always will take place,” Suero said. “At the same time, how it takes place is going to continuously be changing.”

Suero added that retail has only really been impacted by the first generation of the internet and has a lot of room for further technological innovation.

The Baker Center’s resources are available to students in all of Penn’s undergraduate and graduate schools.

“Anything we do here is available to Penn students throughout the entire University,” the program’s coordinator, Keith Hardy-Merritt, said.

Sorority Life Eddie Banks-Crosson said.

Xian said that during initial talks with the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life in February last year, the organization warned the group of the lengthy procedure required for a chapter’s re-establishment on campus and told the members they were “way better off just joining [an existing] frat.”

Xian said he and his friends are undeterred, but said negotiations at this point were mainly between the national organization and OFSL. Current Skulls members are unaware of the progress of the talks.

“We know it’s going to be a difficult process but we still decided to go through with it,” Xian said.

“After that, they said they’re willing to have conversations about it this year and they want it to come from nationals instead of us because they need a lot of lawyers to negotiate this entire deal through.”

College junior and President of the Interfraternity Council Bradley Freeman said he was not aware of the recolonization discussions.

“I don’t have any information on Skulls moving back on campus,” Freeman said. “This is the first I’m hearing of this.”

OFSL, the national headquarters and the Penn chapter are currently unable to confirm

a timeline for when the chapter will officially be recognized as an on-campus fraternity and will be able to formally recruit again.

“At this time, I do not have an answer as to when the organization may begin recruiting students on Penn’s campus, despite the positive interest many students have shown when inquiring about our return,” Schug said.

Xian added that he does not see the chapter coming back on campus any time soon.

“Coming back on campus, I can’t see it happening in the next few months. I haven’t thought that far ahead honestly because I’m the current president and for me, I feel like I just want to take steps, one small step at a time,” Xian said. “I think that when that does come, it’ll be at that time that we look into how we can brand, how we can market to freshman.”

However, Xian remains optimistic about the future of the organization’s chapter at Penn.

“Honestly, I’m pretty excited about it,” Xian said. “In my opinion, I think, just based upon how receptive nationals has been and the fact that they are talking to the University about it and even the fact that you heard about it, I think that it’s definitely moving in the right direction and moving at a good pace.”

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point decrease in the number of URM faculty and a 9.4 percentage point decrease in the number of female faculty over the same period.

The original 2011 diversity action proposed two main goals: creating a “more diverse faculty” and fostering a “more inclusive campus community.”

The University allotted $50 million over the course of five years to create an Eminence and Diversity Fund. The initiative was created by the central adminis-

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Providing data on the five years between fall 2011 and fall 2016, the report breaks down the gains and losses concerning the percentage of minority and female faculty members on campus as a whole, within each school and within different departments.

The report distinguishes between minority and underrepresented minority faculty members. Minorities include H ispa n ic/ Lat i no, African American/Black, Native American/Alaskan Native, and Asian/Pacific Islander individuals. Underrepresented minorities include all groups except Asian/Pacific Islander individuals.

As of fall 2016, Penn re- - Stephen MacCarthy ported that 32.7 percent of the University faculty were female, 23.6 percent were mi- tration, but individual schools norities and 7.9 percent were are responsible for carrying out UR Ms. These percentages goals of the plan separately. represent a slow but steady inThe Penn administration crease in hiring across these is mostly pleased with the regroups — in 2011, 30.7 percent ported developments. of the faculty were female, 20.1 “The successes reflected in percent of the faculty were mi- the report would not have been norities and 6.2 percent of the possible without the strong partfaculty were underrepresented nership and advocacy of the 12 minorities. deans,” University spokesperThe School of Nursing saw son Stephen MacCarthy said great success. It experienced the in an emailed statement. “We greatest increase of all schools are pleased with the progress in underrepresented minority made, but recognize that there faculty, at 11 percentage points is more to be done and Penn since 2011, and the school has is committed to doing more. also experienced a 12 percent- The increasing diversity and age point increase in minority eminence of Penn’s faculty faculty. There was a 5.2 percent- is something of which we are age point decrease in female enormously proud.” faculty between 2011 and 2016, Laura Perna, professor and but women represented 86 per- chair in the Graduate School cent of the faculty in 2016. of Education and chair of the The report states that “the Faculty Senate, which has been Action Plan has succeeded in involved in the initiative, said increasing the eminence, di- that she is happy about the inversity, and inclusiveness of the creases, but that there is still Penn faculty.” work to be done.

But the gains are not consis“We’ve been engaged … tent among all departments. in conversation over time to While a majority of schools understand what’s happenhave demonstrated an increase ing in regard to this initiative in each category, some have and what’s happening around shown decline. The School of campus,” Perna said. “Part of Social Policy & Practice saw a what we can do is make sure 4.5 percentage point decrease in people are understanding the minority faculty between 2011 current status, understanding and 2016. The dental school the need for more progress and demonstrated a 6.2 percentage pushing on taking the steps that

are really going to continue to make even greater progress in the future.”

By school, women slightly outnumber male faculty in the School of Veterinary Medicine and the Graduate School of Education.

Minority faculty members make up the greatest percentage of the standing faculty, 38.1 percent, in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, but make up only 15 percent of the faculty of the School of Design. Underrepresented minorities account for 18 percent of faculty in the School of Nursing and 17.9 percent of the faculty in the Graduate School of Education.

“Cer tainly increasing the diversity of the faculty is a priority of the faculty senate, one that we have cared about over time,” Perna said. “I think it’s important to acknowledge the progress that has been made, but it’s also important to acknowledge the progress that’s needed, especially in some of the variation across schools.”

Fossil Free Penn members said Monday they remain hopeful even after a four-day sit-in at College Hall last week yielded no concrete agreement with the administration to move forward with divestment.

“We felt that, even though the administration did not move on our demands, that we really succeeded in mobilizing the campus in support of our cause and proving commitment to fossil fuel divestment and climate action,” FFP co-founder and College senior Peter Thacher said.

Over the week, FFP said over 200 total students gathered in College Hall to demonstrate support for their cause. One hundred and thirty students protested on Thursday, with 100 students staying past the building’s closing hours at 6 p.m. and with 69 students “voluntarily writing their own names” on the form that the Office of Student Affairs

distributed to document which students violated University rules.

At that point, the group promptly exited at 7 p.m., leaving behind a document stating that “it has become clear that the administration of the University of Pennsylvania exhibits irrationality, hypocrisy, and immorality,” and calling on the administration to take three explicit actions by September of 2017 in order “to prevent another large-scale escalation.”

The sit-in demonstrated the depth of support for Fossil Free Penn’s movement, which has continued a years-long campaign pressuring the administration to divest from fossil fuels. In a referendum taken in March 2015, where 33 percent of undergraduate students voted, close to 88 percent of respondents supported divesting. Despite these results, the Board of Trustees announced in September 2016 that they would not divest.

Starting this week, FFP will be returning to their regular schedule of holding one weekly meeting for the nine students on

the coordinating committee and one weekly meeting for all of the 20 members of FFP. The group will focus on retaining the support from the student body that it garnered last week for the FFP sit-in.

FFP plans on sending a large delegation to the People’s Climate March in Washington, D.C. on April 29. In 2014, FFP sent 110 students to protest the United Nations Climate Summit in New York City, and Thacher said his goal is to match that with a delegation of 100-150 students marching in the D.C. later this month.

FFP plans on continuing to brainstorm ways of retaining their outreach to the Penn community, but members of the club are optimistic about the number of students that demonstrated their support of the cause and are optimistic about the future.

“It really puts a lot of pressure I think on the administration because they can no longer not even talk about it,” sit-in coordinator and College sophomore Zach Rissman said. “It was made relevant.”

We are pleased with the progress made, but recognize that there is more to be done.”

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The bittersweet need for cognitive dissonance STRANGER THAN FICTION | On facing our failures

TUESDAY APRIL 4, 2017 VOL. CXXXIII, NO. 42 133rd Year of Publication CARTER COUDRIET President DAN SPINELLI Executive Editor LUCIEN WANG Print Director ALEX GRAVES Digital Director ALESSANDRO VAN DEN BRINK Opinion Editor SYDNEY SCHAEDEL Senior News Editor WILL SNOW Senior Sports Editor CHRIS MURACCA Design Editor CAMILLE RAPAY Design Editor JULIA SCHORR Design Editor VIBHA KANNAN Enterprise Editor GENEVIEVE GLATSKY News Editor TOM NOWLAN News Editor ALLY JOHNSON Assignments Editor

Last week the winners of the President’s Engagement Prize were announced. I scrolled past the subject line in my inbox and clicked delete. I did not want to know who won; I did not want to think about the chance that I had forgone.

The President’s Engagement Prize is a competition for seniors at Penn to submit project proposals for nonprofit ventures. Winners are given a monetary prize to implement their idea during the year following their graduation.

To explain why the results of this competition matter to me, I have to rewind. When I was a junior I founded an organization on campus called “The Collctve” based on a need I saw for alternative social spaces and activities at Penn where good music and experiences would be a guarantee. So I brought together my friends and contacts who were DJs and music producers at Penn to form this club. After two years the group has become synonymous with the mission and a known organization on campus and across the country.

Midway through the fall of

this year, we had recruited a new class of members, held elections and handed over the leadership to a new executive board.

With The Collctve moving forward successfully, I now found myself in an existential dilemma. I asked myself, “What’s next?” What is my next big idea that will change things, that will help people? I spent hours in my room, talking with friends about this. This was inevitably linked with the question: What do I do when I graduate? Putting these two together, it was less of a dilemma and more of a despair to be completely honest.

Illustrator Christoph Niemann sums up this feeling perfectly.

“You measure yourself against a lucky moment and this is, really, really painful.

You had this one spark, like three years ago and a client asks you to do it again. And you think, I won the lottery then, how can you ask me to win the lottery again … under pressure, with a gun to my head? And this is something that, when I consciously thought about it, made me realize ‘oh god I’m miser-

able.’ ” I spent so much time ruminating over what I should do next, that I missed the opportunity that was right in front of me. By the time I even considered the President’s Engagement Prize as a viable option, I was out of time to fully construct a winning proposal. The in-

I argue it’s all because of cognitive dissonance.

According to this theory, we create a set of expectations about ourselves in our minds. These expectations, usually based on prior behaviors and other socially imposed ideologies, create attitudes and beliefs about these expectations. When

… evaluation of our actions and beliefs is crucial towards finding inner peace, growth and success — even if it means getting over our fear of failing by looking at those failures straight in the face.” spiration had arrived, but the opportunity was leaving the station and I was too slow to catch up.

So now, after the winners have been announced I still feel a certain pain in the pit of my stomach and the back of my mind. What is it that leads to this pain? From a psychological point of view,

our future behaviors or decisions don’t align with our attitudes about preset expectations, we feel bad. This battle with cognitive dissonance is one we all face as rational beings. It is what makes us feel guilt, shame and regret.

The expectations we create may come to haunt us when we don’t live up to

them. But we should not be trapped by cognitive dissonance. In the equation we have behavior and attitudes.

We can alter either one. We can change our behavior, and begin to live up to the expectations we set. Or we can change our attitudes and beliefs about these expectations.

This is a dilemma I know I am not alone in facing at Penn. Every decision we make as students stacks up on one side of the cognitive dissonance equation. The internships we get, the classes we take, the clubs we join and the people we form relationships with. College is a journey of discovering one’s self and cognitive dissonance is the compass that leads us along our own paths.

The failure I’ve felt from missing the deadline for the President’s Engagement Prize has made me even more conscious of the other opportunities to be engaged and create impact. Looking ahead, rather than letting my fear trap me in a bubble of rumination and wishful thinking, I use it as motivation to do and keep doing, knowing that the opportuni-

MIKE PALAMOUNTAIN ties I’m looking for will arise from proactively pursuing my passions.

Cognitive dissonance is the psychological thermometer that tells us when it’s time to reevaluate our priorities. Whether we end up changing our behaviors or our attitudes about ourselves and our actions, evaluation of our actions and beliefs is crucial towards finding inner peace, growth and success — even if it means getting over our fear of failing by looking at those failures straight in the face.

MIKE PALAMOUNTAIN is a College senior from Philadelphia, studying psychology. His email address is mpal@sas.upenn. edu. “Stranger Than Fiction” usually appears every other Tuesday.

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CUP O’JOE | Anonymity and accountability on the internet I spent a long time wondering what topic I should write on today. I found it very difficult to pick a stance on anything. At many points, I started outright thinking, “I don’t have any opinions right now.”

Of course, that is a lie. I have plenty of opinions on all sorts of things. What I meant to say is “I don’t have any opinions right now that I am completely confident in, willing to put in print and willing to stand by and attach my name and reputation to.”

There is something about having your name attached that makes you hesitant to say or do stupid things. This is usually a good thing, as it prevents you from violating social norms. I know that my name will be associated with anything I write in this newspaper forever, and therefore I try to be thoughtful about what I say.

However, there is one place where we are all granted anonymity — the internet. A den of harassers and hateful trolls and perverts.

The internet provides us with

dozens of platforms where we can disguise our identity behind screen names, where we have no permanent connection to anyone because in an instant we can either walk away or block them.

It will come as no surprise to anyone reading this that people behave very poorly online. People say extremely mean and spiteful things about others that they would never say in real life. You might be called fat or ugly or stupid or a Nazi or whatever else.

I’ve noticed this in my own behavior. I play a game called League of Legends, where (using a screen name) I am matched with four teammates whom I don’t know, against a team of five randomly chosen opponents.

Each person is given a distinct role and both teams have to work together in order to defeat the other and win the game.

This is a game that requires cooperation. Therefore, there is a strong incentive to be nice to each other and not treat your teammates

like dirt. However, the League of Legends player base is notorious for insulting, criticizing each other, calling teammates worthless or stupid or otherwise bad at the game.

I am part of that crowd, and I was literally banned for being such a toxic player.

have mostly reformed, although I have occasionally said nasty things and gotten warnings and mild disciplinary actions.

We have established that I am (or at least was) very badly behaved on this game.

However, I did notice one trend. Whenever I played

It’s easy to forget we are interacting with other human beings when we are staring into a computer screen, particularly on an anonymous platform.”

I was given many warnings, but I couldn’t stop and would regularly insult others — even though I was far from good myself. This apparently puts me in the top 1 percent of toxic players in their multimillion person user base. I created a new account and

a match with a friend that I knew in real life, who would call me “Joe” instead of my username, I never typed in a negative message during chat. I never got furiously angry and rage-quit or started harassing my teammates, calling them idiots

and losers. Why? Because if I did that, my friend wouldn’t think, “Wow that random player was a real jerk”. They would think “Joe Tharakan is a real jerk. I don’t want to hang out with him anymore.”

The thought of my name and face being paired with such behavior was a strong enough disincentive, so I simply behaved better.

In a similar vein, sometimes I play pick-up basketball at Pottruck, with whoever happens to be there and interested in playing at the time. Usually I don’t know any of them. This is quite similar to how my League of Legends teammates and opponents are selected. Yet somehow I haven’t once called any of my teammates stupid or bad or anything else. The simple reason why is that my teammates and I can see each others’ faces.

Therefore, I would instead try to be a good teammate and avoid negative or toxic behavior.

People are so nasty online because they cannot be held accountable for their ac-

JOE THARAKAN tions, due to the decoupling of their name and face from their words and actions. This won’t go away anytime soon, but the least we can do is hold ourselves accountable.

It’s easy to forget we are interacting with other human beings when we are staring into a computer screen, particularly on an anonymous platform. Reminding ourselves of that fact might make the internet a better place for everyone.

JOE THARAKAN is a College senior from the Bronx, N.Y., studying biological basis of behavior. His email address is jthara@sas.upenn.edu. “Cup o’Joe” usually appears every other Tuesday.

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Mental Wellness Week expands with $2,000 fund this year This year’s aim is to reach more of Penn community SARAH FORTINSKY News Editor-elect

Mental Wellness Week, which started on Monday and continues until Saturday, may be just the antidote to your stressful week: a weeklong series of mental health-focused events, which include therapy dogs, stress balls and quizzo.

This annual week of programming, born out of a collaboration between Counseling and Psychological Services and a variety of groups such as Active Minds and the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, is now in its fourth year and ready to expand.

A $2,000 fund allocated by Penn Wellness facilitated the expansion of this year’s series and broadened its focus to different and more diverse areas of Penn, organizers said in a recent interview.

“In the past, [students] had to plan with funding in mind and also [had to] figure out creative ways to apply for funding,” CAPS Director of Outreach and Prevention

Meeta Kumar said. But now, “there’s this nice sort of support and structure for them, and it’s been really a huge help.”

Undergraduate Chair of the CAPS Student Advisory Board and Wharton senior Allie Baretta said the goal this year is to reach more student groups on campus that might not usually be involved in mental health issues.

“Among a lot of the mental wellness clubs, the same people are in all of the clubs,” Baretta said. “It’s great that there’s a powerful group of advocates, but we’re missing the connections to a diverse group of the student body, so I think that was reflected by the groups that we chose to be part of the board this year.”

Wharton cohorts are hosting rock paintings on Tuesday, alongside various other familiar mental wellness events, from spending time with therapy dogs to exercise classes and a film-watching session.

(This session, where students will watch the documentary “Unbroken Glass” and meet filmmaker Dinesh Sabu, replaces the typical keynote speaker event for this year’s event series.)

“It’s important when we talk about mental wellness week to really note how far we have come,” Kumar said, “from originally just being just one student group just trying to spread some awareness and de-stigmatize and have one evening that they spent a lot of time planning, to n`ow having such a jam-packed week with just so much happening.”

“It’s just really exciting to have come this far,” she added.

With the establishment of the umbrella group Penn Wellness over the past year, it has become easier to reach more students in a variety of different ways.

Chair of Penn Wellness, College jun ior Kat h r yn DeWitt, said she hopes Mental Wellness Week can be a conversation starter among students who are not generally involved in the mental health community.

“For people who are leaders and involved in mental wellness groups, this is often our lives,” she said. “But for the broader Penn community, some of them may not know what Penn Benjamins is or what [the Reach-a-Peer] line is and this is an opportunity for those individuals to realize that there are options out there for help.”

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Wharton senior Allie Baretta said the goal this year is to reach more student groups on campus that might not usually be involved in mental health issues.

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added. “I am really close with the other two [girls].”

Zhang emphasized that residential programs can be especially helpful within the first few months of freshmen year, a time that can be difficult and isolating.

“Content wise, I think it comes down to, [for] me personally, having meaningful conversations, and residential programs in the first few months can provide that,” she said.

College freshman Yasmina Ghadban is in the same residential program as Zhang and finds that many times they are used solely to get specific housing.

“They are really great if they are centered well, but what happens all the time is that people just apply to guarantee a spot,” Ghadban said. “They sometimes have no interest in the residential program itself.”

Given these concerns, some wonder what the future of

residential programs looks like.

Director of Four-Year Houses and Residential Programs Ryan Keytack detailed the specific goals that Penn has for its college houses and programs.

These include streamlining administrative policies, reinforcing the academic mission of college houses and enhancing the residential student’s learning experience.

“We would love to get all the programs to the point that they offer serious fun. The serious is the content, and the fun is the community,” Keytack said.

Residential programs are key to Penn’s mission and are organized at the college house level, he explained. Each house decides how much money it wants to allocate to specific house events. There is no specific residential program budget.

Keytack is working to provide a consistent assessment plan in order to gauge student satisfaction and participation.

He made clear that residential programs are here to stay.

“That is not about eliminating residential programs, it is about giving them the tools to be even more successful,” he said.

When asked about students using these programs solely to get specific housing, Keytack said, “I think that will always be the case. If someone is excited about being in a house, I think that is fantastic.”

Keytack said that any changes to the programs’ content will depend on house administrators and staff. For example, the New College House has created “collectives” — smaller communities available to the entire house — that have helped to bring residents together.

In terms of existing programs, Keytack has seen improvement in participation and interest.

“What I have seen over time and what I am getting from the houses is that we are getting more serious applicants.” Keytack said.

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ordering a sandwich at 12:00 p.m, say for lunch, or at 10:00 p.m. for dinner, and when you’re going to order something at 3:00 in the morning, especially when it’s very busy when the bars close.”

Liability was a factor as well.

Kosmatos worried that “there’s a lot

of extraordinary things that could be going on late at night,” which would put his staff and business at risk.

He also reported that the restaurant often lost money when patrons fell asleep after ordering late-night deliveries.

“A lot of times we take deliveries, people will call around 1:30, 2:00 in the morning, and they will be drunk, usually, and we’ll make the food

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Still, some students aren’t happy about Allegro’s new hours.

In an interview with 34th Street Magazine last week, College senior

Sophie Beren recalled how she and her friends “were extremely devastated” when they first heard that Allegro would no longer be open all night.

“My roommates and I were literally crying,” Beren said.

College sophomore Sinziana Bunea also ate at Allegro regularly before the change. She says the restaurant’s new schedule has already

impacted her daily routine.

“I’m pretty upset, because I live like a block from Allegro’s and it’s always been kind of my go-to, even on regular nights, not just on weekends,” Bunea said. “And at the beginning of the week I was going to get some food, and they were closing down and had like, only five slices of pizza left and it’s not even 12:00 yet.”

Bunea also sees the restaurant as a

place for social gatherings, and worries that status might be affected by shorter hours.

“For me, it’s very natural to go out and to come home after 3:00 and want to afterwards spend some time at Allegro’s with my friends,” Bunea said. “I feel like it’s also a social outlet, it’s a good place to like say hi to people, so I feel like it’s pretty horrible they’re closing it at 4:00.”

2017 s e n i o r H o n o r a w a r d e l e C t i o n s

Ashna Vijay Bhatia(WH) Co-Chair, Tangible-Change Funding Board; Finance Chair, Penn Association for Gender Equity; Freshman Liaison, Programming Chair, VP of External Affairs, South Asia Society; Organizer, South Asian Women’s Space; Fellow, Wharton Peer Advising Fellows; Teaching Assistantship, Negotiations & Conflict Resolution in Legal Studies Department; Campus Activities Chair, Centennial Chair, Chi Omega Women’s Fraternity; Senior Head Organizer, Penn Tech Trek; Work-Study, Wharton MBA Communication Department; Graduate, Asian Pacific American Leadership Initiative

Byrne Fahey(CAS) Executive Director, Penn Appétit; Creative Director, 34th Street Magazine; Marketing Director, Dance Mentor, CityStep; Business Staff Member, Bloomers; Digital Storytelling Assistant, Penn Office of Communications; Real Arts at Penn Internship and Grant Recipient; Candidate for Honors via English Thesis

Hannah Fagin(CAS) Outreach Director, Penn Democrats; Site Leader, Alternate Spring Break; Vagina Monologues; Presenter, Social Media Contributor, College Cognoscenti; History Undergraduate Advisory Board; Student Docent, Arthur Ross Gallery; Tutor, West Philadelphia Tutoring Project; Pi Delta Phi French National Honor Society; History Department Honors; CURF Summer Humanities Internship Award

Irtiqa Fazili(CAS) Vice President/Secretary, Muslim Students Association; Residential advisor (RA), Rodin College House; Executive Board, GlobeMed@Penn; Volunteer, United Community Clinic; Sphinx Senior Honor Society; Oracle Senior Honor Society; Asian Pacific American Leadership Initiative (APALI); Dean’s List; The F-Word: A Feminist Publication; Synapse

Isabella Auchus(CAS) Chair, Internal Chair, Abuse & Sexual Assault Prevention; Student Fellow, Evelyn Jacobs Ortner Center on Family Violence at Penn; Vice President, Medicine, Education & Development for Low-Income Families Everywhere; Volunteer Health Educator, Puentes de Salud Clinic; Clinical Research Assistant, CIRNA at Perelman School of Medicine; Dean’s Scholar Award; Dean’s List; Friars Senior Honor Society; Psi Chi, International Honor Society in Psychology; Sigma Delta Tau Sorority

Kat McKay(CAS) President, Treasurer, Committee Director, Undergraduate Assembly; Executive Board Member, Student Activities Council; Undergraduate Representative, Provost Selection Committee; Representative, Student Sustainability Association at Penn; Research Assistant, Penn Wharton Public Policy Initiative; Research Assistant, Political Science Professor Dan Hopkins; Women’s Political League; Dean’s List; Pi Sigma Alpha Honor Society; Tannenbaum Public Policy Fellow

Kate Samuelson(CAS) President, Penn Childhood Cancer Coalition; Research Assistant, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; Research Assistant, Penn School of Social Policy & Practice; President, Penn Women’s Political League; Vice President, External, Penn Synchronized Swimming; Co-Production Director, JStage Theatre Company; Dancer, Penn Yalla Middle Eastern Dance and Drum Troupe; Co-Editor-in-Chief, Sound Politicks, Journal of Political Science; Civic Scholars; Thouron Award

Megan Yan(CAS & WH) Chair, External Chair, Penn Association for Gender Equity; Vice President / Business Manager, Opinion Board Member, The Daily Pennsylvanian; Consultant, Wharton Small Business Development Center; Guest facilitator, Graduate, Asian Pacific American Leadership Initiative; Graduate, Spice Collective; Research Assistant, Finance Department; Dean’s List; Trustees’ Council of Penn Women Student Leadership; Sphinx Senior Honor Society; Oracle Senior Honor Society

Meredith Kline(CAS) President, Tour Guiding Coordinator, Kite and Key Society; Senior College Peer Advisor; Seniors for the Penn Fund; Clinical Research at HUP; Intern, Jewish Renaissance Project; Penn Israel Political Affairs Committee; Executive Board, Sigma Delta Tau; Sphinx Senior Honor Society; Omega Senior Honor Society; Dean’s List

Olivia Nelson(WH) VP of Information Sessions, VP of Media, President, Wharton Ambassadors; Hospitality Co-Chair, Co-Director, SPEC-TRUM (Social Planning and Events Committee To Represent Undergraduate Minorities); Treasurer, Onyx Senior Honor Society; Research Assistant, Wharton Marketing Department; Resident Advisor, Harrison College House; Wharton Peer Advising Fellow; Marketing Sub-Chair, SPEC Concerts; VP of Membership, Co-President, John Marshall Pre-Law Honor Society; Joseph Wharton Scholar; Student Caller, Red & Blue Calling Center

Pearl Lo(CAS) Administrative Assistant, Platt Student Performing Arts House; Community Service Chair, Performing Arts Council; Director, Penn’s V-Day Movement & The Vagina Monologues; Coordinator, After School Arts at Penn; Coordinator, PennArts Pre-Orientation Program; Technical Manager, University of Pennsylvania Glee Club; Vice Chair, Alumni Liaison, Cast Member, Stimulus Children’s Theater; Support Chair, Osiris Senior Honor Society; Oracle Senior Honor Society

Ramita RaviCAS) Dance Arts Council Chair, Performing Arts Council; Chair, Artistic Director, Costume Director, Arts House Dance Company; Speaker & Content Team, Marketing Team, TEDxPenn; Associate Member, Undergraduate Assembly Academic Affairs Committee; Founder, Penn Summer Dance Series; Leader, PennArts Pre-orientation Program; Vice Chair of Performing Arts, Seniors for the Penn Fund; Minister of Service, Friars Senior Honor Society; Oracle Senior Honor Society; Osiris Senior Honor Society

Sophie Beren(CAS) Founder and President, TableTalk Penn; Musical Director, Performance Manager, Marketing Manager, Penn Shabbatones; Music Teacher, Music and Social Change Program; President, Osiris Senior Honor Society; Friars Senior Honor Society; Social Media Manager, Penn Admissions; Marketing Chair, Penn Hillel; Marketing Chair, A Cappella Council; Pledge Class President, Sisterhood Liaison, Sigma Delta Tau Sorority; University Scholars Program

Temilola Ransome-Kuti(WH) Chair, Vice Chair, Financial Chair, United Minorities Council; Co-Founder, OFSL Diversity & Inclusion Board; Creator, OFSL Cultural Competence Workshop; Director of Alumni Relations, Onyx Senior Honor Society; Sphinx Senior Honor Society; Leader, PENNacle Pre-orientation Program; Fellow, Fellowship for Building Intercultural Communities; Board Member, Race Dialogue Project; Dean’s List; Vagina Monologues

Tunmise Fawole(CAS) Co-Chair, Political Chair, UMOJA; Social Justice Director, College Representative, Undergraduate Assembly; Academic Excellence Director, Onyx Senior Honor Society; Sphinx Senior Honor Society; External Vice President, alpha Kappa Delta Phi International Sorority, Inc.; College Peer Advising; Grace Covenant Church; Penn Undergraduate Research Mentorship; Treasurer, Penn African Students Association; Penn Faith and Action

Darren Tomasso(CAS) President, Class Board 2017; Personal Trainer and Group Fitness Instructor, Penn Campus Recreation; Director of Social Engagement, 180 Degrees Consulting; Club Tennis; Friars Senior Honor Society; Men Against Rape and Sexual Assault (MARS); Penn First; International Affairs Association; University Council Committee on Facilities; Varsity Fencing

David Scollan(CAS) Chair, Vice Chair for Nominations, Nominations & Elections Committee; Chief, Sphinx Senior Honor Society; President, Vice President, Penn Polo Club; Leader, Pennacle Pre-Orientation Program; Dean’s List; Pi Sigma Alpha Political Science Honor Society; Sandra Barnes Award for Distinction in African Studies; Founder, Penn African Studies Undergraduate Advisory; Tour Guide, Kite and Key; Penn Democrats

Eric Tepper(CAS)

Ian Jeong(NURS) Chair, Vice Chair of Internal Affairs, Lambda Alliance; Nurses PUSH; School of Nursing Diversity and Inclusivity Advisory Committee; School of Nursing Curriculum Development Committee; Assistant Producer, Alumni Liaison, African American Arts Alliance; Podcast Host, The Daily Pennsylvania; Nursing Representative, Undergraduate Assembly; Sphinx Senior Honor Society; Oracle Senior Honor Society; Carriage Senior Honor Society

Jeremy Cohen(CAS) Chair, Student Activities Council (SAC); Chair, Vice Chair, Treasurer, iNtuitons Experimental Theatre; Scribe, Treasurer, Archivist, Philomathean Society; Front Row Theatre Co.; PenNaatak Global Contemporary Theatre; Leader, PENNacle Pre-Orientation Program; Research Peer Advisor, CURF; Chair, Penn Undergraduate Humanities Forum; Phi Beta Kappa; Sphinx Senior Honor Society

Jonathan Muruako(CAS) Co-Director, SPEC-TRUM; President, Vice-President, and Freshmen Liaison, Minority Association for Pre-Health Students(MAPS); Undergraduate Research Assistant, Laboratory of Cognition and Neural Stimulation; Admissions Chair, UMOJA; Vice-President, Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Incorporated; Gates Millennium Scholar; Onyx Senior Honor Society; Friars Senior Honor Society

Kendall Finlay(CAS) Programming Chair, UMOJA; President, Black Pre-Law Association; Penn Mock Trial; The Excelano Project; Sphinx Senior Honor Society; V.P., Treasurer, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated; V.P., Intercultural Greek Council; Ware House Judiciary Council; Dean’s List; Black Wharton Undergraduate Association HEMM Conference Scholarship Winner

Michael Karam(CAS)

Ray Clark(CAS) Vice President, Undergraduate Assembly; CoChair, UMOJA; Student Representative, University Council; Outreach Chair, Penn Democrats; Political Chair, Penn NAACP

Riad Hamade(CAS & SEAS) Speaker, Undergraduate Assembly; Communications Director, Student Activities Council; Founding President, Lebanese Club; President, Technology Entrepreneurship Club; President, Engineering Council; Volunteer, Upstander Initiative @ Penn Hillel; United Minorities Council; Treasurer, Penn Arab Students Society; Committee of Undergraduate Assembly Debates, Nominations and Elections Committee; Volunteer, Rwanda Gashora Program

Richard Chaudhary(CAS) President, Vice President of Internal Affairs, Political Chair, UPenn South Asia Society; President, Friars Senior Honor Society; Oracle Senior Honor Society; Clinical Volunteer, United Community Clinic; Board of Advisors, Pan-Asian American Community House; Teaching Assistant, South Asia Studies Department; Undergraduate Advisory Board, South Asia Studies Department; Research Assistant, Perelman School of Medicine; Undergraduate Advisory Board, Asian American Studies Program; Graduate, Asian Pacific American Leadership Initiative

Spencer Winson(CAS) President, Vice President, Sound Director, Social Planning and Events Committee; Stage Manager, Mask and Wig; Lead Lighting Designer, Strictly Funk; Men Against Rape and Sexual Assault(MARS); Friars Senior Honor Society; Lowbrow Beat, 34th Street Magazine; LGBT Center Advisory Board; Dean’s List

Theodore Caputi(CAS & WH) President & Founder, Penn Leadership Training Institute; President & Founder, Penn Drug and Alcohol Peer Advisers; Teaching Assistant, Mathematics; Teaching Assistant, Finance; Research Assistant, The White House; George J. Mitchell Scholarship; Finalist, Rhodes Scholarship; Finalist, Marshall Scholarship; Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics Undergraduate Research Prize; Eight Sole or First Authored Peer-Reviewed Publications

Werner Glass(CAS) Co-Chair, Seniors for The Penn Fund; President, The Penn Red & Blue Crew; SAS Chair, Class Board 2017; Corporate Chair, University Chair, Wharton Latino; Vice President, Sigma Phi Epsilon; University Council, Campus & Community Life; The Benjamin Franklin Society; Parliamentarian, The Penn Political Union; Director, The Government & Politics Association; Penn Traditions Alumni Engagement Fund Committee

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Speaker, Social Justice Committee, Communications Team, Undergraduate Assembly; Vice Chair, United Minorities Council; President, Co-Founder, Association of Queer International Students; Chief of Staff, Conference Coordinator, Co-Director of Content, Assistant Director of Content and Business, International Affairs Association: Communication Outreach and Engagement; Vice President of Finance, International Mentorship and Orientation Committee, International Mentor, Assembly of International Students; Steering Committee Member, Penn Undergraduate Humanities Forum on Translation; NSO Coordinator, iPHINS Coordinator, iPHINS, Peers Helping Incoming New Students; Oracle Senior Honor Society; Big Brothers Big Sisters; Philly Fish Fry Chair, West Philly Swingers

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Facilitator, Asian Pacific American Leadership Initiative; President, External VP, Cultural Logistics/Internal Chair, Penn Taiwanese Society; Political Chair, United Minorities Council; National Conference Liaison Director, Tri-State District Governor, 2015 East Coast Conference Logistics Coordinator, Intercollegiate Taiwanese American Students Association; Secretary Treasurer, Founding Member, Life Sciences & Management Student Advisory Board; Founding Member, Asian American Men’s Coalition; Sphinx Senior Honor Society; Minister of Boisterousness, Oracle Senior Honor Society; Benjamin Franklin Scholar; Joseph Wharton Scholar

These are the finalists for the Class of 2017 Senior Honor Awards (Hottel Shield, Harnwell Flag, Goddard Loving Cup and Brownlee Skimmer Hat for women; and Spoon, Bowl, Cane and Spade for men). These awards recognize outstanding campus leadership. Nominations were solicited from the faculty, staff and students. A committee of administrators and the senior class board then narrowed the list to these finalists. The senior class will choose the final eight award recipients in an online election. Voting will be accessible online from April 4th - April 7th at https://medley.isc-seo.upenn.edu/studentElections/jsp/fast.do Winners will be announced on April 26th. The awards will be presented at the Ivy Day ceremony on Saturday, May 13th.

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Meyer earned third-team All American status in 2014 while McMahon, a former first team All-Ivy selection, is currently a member of Major League Lacrosse’s Ohio Machine.

Senior defenseman Kevin McDonough, who entered Penn alongside Gayhardt, expanded on the influence of the defense’s older generation. “Maxx Meyer really made a lot of things happen freshman year. He was a big reason for our success. The whole senior class when we were freshmen showed us how to work everyday and really set the tone for the culture.�

But it is Gayhardt’s own leadership that truly helped him outpace the rest of his peers and enter the same echelon as Meyer and McMahon. The senior not only provides an imposing physical presence for opponent

attackmen but also uses his voice to command the field. In a sport which requires constant movement and defensive switches, much like basketball, a defensive anchor yelling out instruction and strategy is a must-have. “I haven’t always been a great communicator on the field, and Kevin has definitely helped me in my role. If I’m not the voice that’s being heard, you’ll always hear him,� sophomore goalie Reed Junkin said. “He’s the main commander and leader, he tells everyone where to go and he helps my job a lot more.� “He’s the heart and soul of the defense,� McDonough added. “He has been for a couple of years now. He’s really good at firing guys up. I remember our sophomore year, we were down pretty big to Saint Joe’s and he brought us in and gave a fiery speech that got us going. He’s not afraid to be the bad guy in practice when our defense isn’t playing very well.�

As the most decorated member of the senior class, Gayhardt has also cemented himself as the team’s strongest leader off the field and in the locker room. “We do this thing called ‘The Program’ every year when these Navy officers come in and teach us about leadership. Kevin Gayhardt is always the leader in that program and emulates as best he can what those leaders of our country are doing,� Junkin said.

Gayhardt’s qualitative skills have translated directly to tangible statistical success. In earning a second-team All-Ivy selection his junior year, he led the team in turnovers caused, successfully limited some of the best attackmen in college lacrosse and led one of the top defenses in the country in goals allowed per game (GPG).

It is also up to Gayhardt, however, to overcome significant obstacles this season after disappointing results in early Ivy play. A miraculous comeback

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was needed to defeat Ivy doormat Cornell, a win which was sandwiched by a blowout loss to Princeton and a deceptively close defeat against Yale.

Both of those games, which place Penn fourth among Ivies in GPG, saw slippages on the defensive end, as Gayhardt and his crew look to reclaim the fundamental skills that propelled them to wins against Navy and Virginia, a match which Gayhardt pointed to as a highlight of his career.

Gayhardt, however, seems prepared for the tough road ahead.

When asked to reflect on his time at Penn, he instead preferred to focus on the immediate future. “I think back to the pinnacle years, when we won the Ivy Tournament [in 2014]. That was such a great run. I think back to last season when we beat Harvard in overtime which was a great win,�

Gayhardt said. “But honestly I’m hoping that the best moments are still ahead of us.�

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Though the boxscore may not reflect his accomplishments, Kevin Gayhardt’s impact is reminiscent of the Penn greats who ushered him in.

Penn student-athletes balance sports with Teaching Assistant spots Some athletes T.A. for classes ranging from into to 200-level courses MOSES NSEREKO Associate Sports Editor

Stars on the field, stars in the classrooms.

For Penn’s student-athletes, excellence never seems to stop after time is called and the game is done. In the great balancing act that is being a student-athlete, not only do most athletes thrive, but they push their engagement beyond what is expected. This is the case for the student-athletes who not only take a full courseload while playing for the Red and Blue, but teach for the school as well.

Among Penn’s student-athlete TAs is senior epee fencer Alejandra Trumble, who serves as a TA for Anthropology 276, titled Ethnographic Approaches to Urban Athletics. As ANTH 276 is an Academically Based

Community Service course (ABCS), Trumble’s primary job consists of helping her students prepare for a semester-long project involving the Young Quakers Community Athletics program. As an athlete aspiring to teach, the concept of community-involved learning seemed tailor-made for the epee squad captain. “As a n at h lete, You ng Quaker Community Athletics is appealing,� the fencer said. “It’s a way of getting involved in West Philadelphia and getting out of University City, because we’re so often isolated from Philly. Not to mention, it’s great to engage in your sport in a way that is not stressful.�

Also, serving as a TA is senior breaststroke specialist Cole Hurwitz, who is serving his second semester as a Math 104 TA. For the swimmer, it was the realization of being responsible for other students that drives him to maintain both his academic and athletic commitments.

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One Penn student-athletes who also spends time as a T.A. is senior fencing captain Alejandra Trumble. She helps out with ANTH 276.

“As an individual sometimes you can let an assignment slip because of you’re focusing on other [priorities],� the Oregon native said. “But as a TA, you can’t really let your recitation slip or not grade stuff. It’s not just you anymore, it’s 20-40 students who are relying on you.�

For athletes looking to TA in upcoming semesters, Hurwitz

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play. “Alex scored a lot of goals last year and a big question for everybody was, with Nina gone, our true feeder, ‘how was Alex going to do?’� Corbett said. “Obviously she’s shown that she can get open and win 1-on-1s and create for herself.�

The team is scoring around the same as it did last year, but Condon is shooting more, scoring more, and assisting more on a per-game basis in 2017. The midfielder attributes that development to the freedom that her coaches have given her this season, among other things.

There is far more to being a strong midfielder than shooting and scoring. What makes Condon such a difficult talent to game-plan against is her ability to play the entire field. She is on pace to set highs in ground balls, caused turnovers, and close in on her personal best in draw controls — previously 12. All three of those are signs of a player who puts team play first over her own accolades.

One challenge for Condon, and midfielders in general, is the task of leading the team in-game. As

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an athlete,� the swimmer said. “You have a lot more time in a day than you think. Even with these 20-plus hours of athletic commitments every week, you have these hours in a day that you are not necessarily working where you can schedule things.�

You could say easier said than done, but he’s doing it too.

As graduation approaches for this pair of senior standouts, their achievements as Quakers carry them to more than promising post-graduate prospects.

Hurwitz received a fellowship to head to Scotland to receive his PhD in machine learning, and neuroscience at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

Trumble is currently weighing several offers with the intention of teaching English to middle school students, hopefully in the West Philly area.

One thing is for sure: no matter where they go from here, these athletes aren’t just at the top of their games, they’re at the top of their class as well.

Corbett recognizes, midfielders tend to be gassed over the course of play and may not have the needed energy or stamina to rally the troops. Condon, naturally a quiet player, is looking to become a more vocal leader. “It’s really hard for a midfielder to be the general, because they’re tired. What she is doing well is in the huddle she’s talking more, she’s taking the middies under her wing and helping them adjust to the game,� Corbett said. “She’s a quiet person naturally, so it’s not that comfortable for her, but I think she’s really trying to do what we need as a team and get out of her comfort zone to not just be a leader by example but vocalize more what she sees because she has such great game sense and great vision.�

Given that she has not even finished her third season, Condon’s rise to stardom has been impressive.

If she continues her current scoring pace, Condon will go down as one of the top goal-scorers in program history. “I’ve never coached a kid with the hands she has, and, to be quite honest, how efficient she is,� Corbett said.

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have top-end speed or stamina, Condon’s calling is her efficiency.

Her ability to work in tight spaces and create plays out of nothing are second to none.

This is not to say that this year’s team is strictly the Condon show.

Several players — including Emily Rogers-Healion, Caroline Cummings, Britt Brown, Maddy Rosenzweig and Erin Barry — are having career years and have made the transition from the Corcoran era less troublesome than expected.

Condon having a career year helps matters, but the junior midfielder is not singlehandedly carrying the load. “We can’t be a one-person show and in the last couple games we’ve shown we have a lot of kids who can put points on the board,� Corbett said. “[Alex] doesn’t want to be that superstar, but she feels a lot of weight on her shoulders when she doesn’t score.�

As the season continues, the Quakers will look for contributions from their entire lineup. If that happens, Condon can stick to being a ballhawk that can control the midfield, and the team can ultimately try to improve on last year’s early exit from the NCAA Tournament.

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and Trumble prove that there is no limit to the type of class where an athlete can feasibly serve as a TA. Trumble’s duties for her anthropology class are vastly different than those of Hurwitz’s math class. Where Hurwitz conducts four recitation sections a week for around sixty math students, Trumble has no recitations and serves as the lone TA for a class of 10

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TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 2017

Quakers use walk-off heroics to salvage split with Dartmouth SOFTBALL | Penn to take

effort,” Joyner said.

It truly was a team effort, with multiple players on the team coming up with big performances.

Penn’s offense was led by Sarah Cwiertnia, Leah Allen, and Jess England. All three played a

significant role, with Allen and England scoring four times each, and Cwiertnia raising her RBI total to 23 this season.

With the squad trailing behind Dartmouth (2-22-1, 1-3) in the second game of their doubleheader,

Penn needed some leaders to step up and to turn the game around.

“There were so many contributions. Jessica England had one of the best days of her life, defensively and offensively. Sarah Cwiertnia has been on fire since the season

started, and Sargent pitching,” Joyner said. “They’ve all been really consistent.”

Those key players along with the entire squad seized the opportunity that was presented after Joyner’s big move. With everyone’s heads and hearts in the same direction, there was no turning back, and the Red and Blue defeated Dartmouth 8-7 in the ninth inning.

While this win was an important way to end the weekend, the Quakers must look forward and use this past weekend’s games as a learning opportunity for the rest of their Ivy matchups that liwe ahead. Next weekend they will face Yale and Brown, and the weekend after that Princeton, with their final regular season game against Cornell.

“Moving forward we just need to play that way that we know how to play,” Joyner said. “There are some times where we get nervous, but I have so much confidence in this team. If we play the way we know how to, this is ours.”

The Red and Blue will carry over their momentum from the weekend as they look to defeat Villanova this Tuesday at Penn Park in a doubleheader against the Wildcats (16-12).

Another two-game set will

dynamics inherent in sports.

“Athletics can be an environment that historically has bred a very heteronormative hypermasculine environment. Doing so, issues of sexual violence have largely been swept under the rug,” she said. “And that’s not okay.”

Marcus’s first goal was to get Penn Athletics to sign the “It’s On Us” pledge.

“I decided that Penn should be a leader and step up and stand against sexual violence as something that is unacceptable,” she said. “Here at Penn Athletics we as

student-athletes recognize that we have the power to make a change here.”

To make her goal a reality, Marcus approached Rachel Hiller, the Director of Compliance and Student-Athlete Advisory Committee coordinator, and Lauren Caminiti, the Student Development Coordinator, about the pledge. The duo quickly approved the idea and encouraged Marcus to consider making a video to enter in the “It’s On Us” video contest.

Over the course of the winter,

Marcus wrote a script and helped produce a video with Kevin Clark, the assistant director of video content for Penn Sports Network, that features athletes from 17 of Penn’s 33 varsity programs.

“I’m hoping that it will spark conversation around other Ivy League campuses to get involved,” Marcus said.

The video Marcus helped to produce launched on Monday, April 3, to kick off a “Week of Awareness” that coincides with the beginning of Sexual Assault Awareness Month. In addition

to promoting the video on social media, Penn Athletics will sponsor a booth on Locust Walk over the course of the week and at the women’s lacrosse game against Dartmouth on Saturday, April 8, where passersby can get information about campus resources and take the “It’s On Us” pledge.

“This isn’t something where we’re just going to be putting the video out there, and then it’s done,” Marcus said.

Penn Athletics already requires all teams to attend annual sexual violence prevention training

on Villanova Tuesday CARTER THOMPSON & REINA KERN Sports Reporters

Penn softball had a busy weekend with split doubleheaders against Harvard on Saturday and Dartmouth on Sunday, but its work is not yet done, as the Quakers will face Villanova on Tuesday evening.

Coming from behind against the Big Green in its second game last weekend, the squad ended the game with a ninth-inning walk-off to secure the victory. With that, Penn earned an 8-7 win over its Ivy League rival. Dartmouth had previously pulled off the first win against the Quakers, 8-5.

In game two, with the team down 6-5 and two outs in the seventh, Jurie Joyner hit a home run to bring the game into extra innings. This completely changed the game’s momentum as the Quakers (11-10, 2-2 Ivy) took back control of the game.

“We did really well at being resilient and we were definitely nervous going into our first Ivy weekend, so once we got the jitters out we really played how we could. It was a team

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affected by sexual violence and have done a lot of work, in Florida specifically, with sexual violence legislation,” she explained. “That intersection between my passion for sexual violence prevention education and my identity as a student athlete just really made sense in terms of bringing these things together.”

According to the junior, it was important that Penn take a stand against sexual violence given the

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Aided by a trademark strong offensive performance from senior outfielder Leah Allen, Penn softball salvaged a series split against Dartmouth to stay at .500 in Ivy play with Villanova up next on Tuesday.

provide the opportunity for the Red and Blue to sweep a series, a feat they have only accomplished against lesser foes, Lafayette and Rider.

However, one thing is evident about this team: the Quakers are gritty.

They already have three walk-off wins — courtesy of three different players — and show poise when they get down early, knowing they can score runs and come back.

That toughness will help this team against the Wildcats, but also as they move deeper into conference play.

Villanova is led at the mound

by Brette Lawrence, who owns a 2.75 ERA, a 11-7 record, and 101 strikeouts on the year. The Wildcats also hit for power — they have 17 home runs as a team — and are led by Nikki Alden, who is hitting a commanding .424 with seven home runs.

The contrast in style — Villanova’s power vs. the Red and Blue’s ability to manufacture runs — will make for a great match up.

Hopefully the Quakers can take advantage of their last home stand and build some momentum before hitting the road next weekend.

sessions hosted by PAVE, many of which Marcus administered to her student-athlete peers in the fall.

In the coming 2017-18 academic year, Marcus is hoping to expand those discussions and facilitate even more conversation within the athletic community as a whole and on each team about sexual violence prevention.

“We’re not exempt, we’re not above other universities,” Marcus said.

“So let’s have this conversation, let’s do something, let’s get out there and better our community.”

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TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 2017

Gayhardt’s impact goes beyond the stat sheet M. LAX | Senior All-Ivy defenseman acts as the Quaker’s vocal leader SANJAY DURESETI Sports Reporter

The first thing one notices about Kevin Gayhardt is his height.

At 6-foot-6, the senior men’s lacrosse defenseman towers above his own teammates and makes the average observer wonder if lacrosse is the right sport for him.

It fact, Gayhardt himself had difficulty choosing a singular athletic pursuit before arriving at Penn.

In high school, the defenseman was a multi-sport athlete, also excelling in football and basketball for Episcopal Academy, one of the selective Main Line private high schools that serves as a breeding ground for Penn athletes across all disciplines.

But when Quakers coach Mike Murphy made his customary recruiting calls to these feeder schools, Gayhardt, quite literally, stood out amongst the fray.

“Number one, his size [was important]. He wasn’t 6-foot-6 then, he was around 6-foot-3 as a sophomore or junior in high school. And I think his communication skills, his game sense [were good], and he was certainly athletic for his size. We recruited him more as an off-ball defender, whereas now he’s really evolved in a lot of ways.”

On the defensive end, where fundamentals reign supreme, developing stick skills or fancy footwork is not necessarily a priority. Gayhardt’s evolution, as Murphy puts it, is a product of relentless work. Improvements in agility, speed and strength, achieved through both natural physical growth and extensive conditioning, have placed the senior in the tier of the same defensemen who mentored him during his years as an underclassman.

When he first became a Quaker, the unique challenges of the collegiate game proved difficult for Gayhardt.

“One of the biggest adjustments for me was that in high school, offenses center around one guy and in college, there are six guys who can really hurt you. I think the thing I’ve improved on the most is playing in a team defense,” Gayhardt said.

Gayhardt’s understanding of the nuances of a cohesive defense, built around strategy rather than containment of a single offensive player, came only after observing the elite play of his predecessors.

“When I came, it was similar to this year, and we had an upperclassman-laden defense,” Gayhardt said.

“We had Maxx Meyer, who was a two-year captain and a senior. He was really helpful for me, teaching me not just how we play defense, but also how to act as a Penn lacrosse player. Matt McMahon was also really helpful. I developed a good relationship with him since we play similar styles. I owe a lot to those guys.”

Penn becomes the first Ivy League university to sign the “It’s On Us” pledge LAINE HIGGINS

Associate Sports Editor

Perhaps the most significant achievement Penn claims is being the first university in America. While that is no small feat, Penn Athletics is reaching another milestone this week.

On Monday, Penn Athletics became the first Ivy League athletic program to take the “It’s On Us” pledge against sexual violence, an awareness campaign launched in September 2014 by President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden to help end sexual assault on American college campuses.

The NCAA and 11 major athletic conferences have all taken the “It’s On Us” pledge; however, the Ivy League is not among them. Until Penn, not a single Ancient Eight athletic program had spoken out against sexual assault in such a public manner.

The University of Pennsylvania signed the pledge and launched its own “It’s On Us” campaign in partnership with Penn Violence Prevention in September 2015, a move that coincided with the release of findings from the Association

of American Universities’ Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Assault and Sexual Misconduct.

According to the survey, 27 percent of Penn undergraduate women reported nonconsensual penetration or sexual touching since entering college. Additionally, just 12.6 percent of Penn’s student body knew where to report a sexual assault.

Although the AAU survey did not give specific statistics for how sexual violence affects the athletic community, recent incidents involving Harvard men’s soccer, Princeton men’s swimming and Columbia wrestling prove its prevalence in Ivy League sports. After seeing team after team face consequences for detrimental behavior, Ashley Marcus, a junior on the women’s fencing team and member of Penn Anti-Violence Educations (PAVE), was motivated to act.

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Alex Condon proves past success was no fluke

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key to Quakers’ attack

WILL AGATHIS Associate Sports Editor

There are few constants in Penn Athletics over the years, but perhaps the most prominent one is the play of the women’s lacrosse team. Year after year, the program churns out some of the nation’s elite lacrosse players while maintaining good standing in the NCAA rankings.

Impressively, despite the revolving door of college sports, the Quakers have had a constant influx of stars. The newest one is junior Alex Condon, who has become a go-to player in the midfield.

As a freshman, the Virginia native saw limited in-game action but was one of the better talents on the draw. Her 12 draw controls were 12th most on the team in 2015, but tied for first among non-starters.

With a talented senior class leaving the fold that season, Condon was moving up the pecking order for playing time.

Condon would see the field far

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It was always going to be difficult for Penn women’s lacrosse to build off the loss of Nina Corcoran, but junior midfielder Alex Condon has stepped up her game to keep the Red and Blue near the top.

more often in 2016. For the first dozen or so games, she was one of the team’s first subs and would sometimes be sent in immediately after the opening draw. This uptick in on-field action helped Condon raise her game, as she knew that

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every in-game opportunity carried weight in future lineup decisions.

“I definitely think not starting those games but getting in to play was a motivation because I knew my coaches saw potential in me to be on the field and I just needed to

work that much harder to secure a starting spot [rather than] subbing in and out on the fly,” Condon said.

The tides began to turn when Condon strung together a run of hat tricks. In her last 12 games of 2016, the quick-shooting midfielder

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had nine performances with three or more goals. If that sounds like a lot, that’s because it is — Condon’s play progressed from a pretty good early season to an elite performance down the stretch. When all was said and done, her 41 goals that year were the sixth-most in program history.

However, neither Condon nor the team was able to put its best foot forward in the NCAA Tournament, as the Quakers were taken down by Penn State in the quarterfinals. In that game, Condon failed to score in her only shot on goal and had to watch her Quakers get bounced in an 8-4 loss. As Condon sees it, that result has helped her raise her play to new heights.

“They were able to stop my cuts and [left] me not knowing what else to do on the attack to contribute and help us win that game.”

Condon would go on to selfreflect and address her play in conversations with the coaches.

She put in work over the summer to improve her feeding and dodging, which would in turn make her a much tougher talent to defend.

Coach Karin Corbett saw these

alterations from the season’s onset.

“Alex came back this year ready to not be just a cutter. It’s something she stated pretty early,” Corbett said. “She wanted to be a player who could have an impact on the field in any way to help the team win.”

After Condon’s highly impressive 2016 campaign — which included first team All-Ivy, first team all-region, and third team AllAmerican honors — it seemed a foregone conclusion that she would be the one to drive the offense in 2017. Adding to that pressure was the loss of program great Nina Corcoran.

Breaking the school and Ivy League records for career assists, Corcoran graduated in 2016, thus ending the lethal on-field duo she formed with Condon. The two connected time after time last season, with Corcoran feeding the midfielder for several of her goals.

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