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hen this year’s Spring Fling performers — Zedd and Tinashe — arrive at Penn, they’ll be carrying on a tradition that started 44 years ago, when Penn saw its very first Fling. Spring Fling has its roots in Skimmer Day, previously known as Callow Day — a festival to celebrate Penn’s rowing team. After Skimmer Day was suspended in 1963 due to alcohol policy violations, Spring Fling was first held 10 years later as a spiritual successor to the carnival. Spring of 1973 saw not only the first
Spring Fling, but the first handheld cellular call, the opening of the World Trade Center and the rise of the Watergate scandal. Songs like “Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree” by Tony Orlando and Dawn dominated the Billboard charts, along with “Time” by Pink Floyd, who had just released their award-winning album, “The Dark Side of the Moon.” The year would also see the release of songs like Elton John’s “Candle in the Wind,” Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On” and Aerosmith’s “Dream On.” “The Grateful Dead was very big then … it was just blasted all the time around campus,” 1977 College graduate Cynthia Orr said. “Everyone was so into music at that point … back then bands were really, really important, so I think people very
much enjoyed having music there.” Orr ended up having a surprisingly large role in Fling as a College freshman in 1974. Knowing that she drove a Volkswagen van, a friend who had helped book the year’s band, Aztec Two-Step, asked her to pick them up from the airport. That wasn’t Orr’s only contribution — as a classically trained flutist, she was invited to help open for the band. “Another friend was an incredibly talented bass guitar player, and he was asked to play as the opener,” Orr said. “And he asked me to improvise jazz, which ... I had no idea how to do it, but he was desperate and wanted someone.” Orr said the performance was the “most embarrassed [she] had ever been in [her] whole life, because [she] did a horrible
job.” She added with a laugh that the members of Aztec Two-Step told her “something along the lines of, ‘Don’t quit your day job.’” The first official large concert was held in 1976, starring blues artist Taj Mahal. Not everyone was thrilled; in a letter to the editor published in The Daily Pennsylvanian, three Wharton students complained that the performance was “lackluster,” saying that they would “like to see a band of better quality regardless of national experience.” The same editorial reveals that there is another Fling tradition with deep roots: drinking. The authors praised the event
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Penn seniors pledge to donate 1 percent of their salary
Why tuition increased by 3.9 percent again
One for the World is a charity initative founded by Wharton MBAs
Admin. credited ‘human-incentivized operations’ for hike
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OLIVIA SYLVESTER Staff Reporter
As Penn seniors leave Locust Walk behind and prepare for, hopefully, a lucrative career, two Wharton seniors are encouraging their classmates to set aside a portion of their starting salaries for those in need. Wharton senior Lauren D’Amore and Wharton and Engineering senior Shayna Fertig serve as co-presidents of Penn’s undergraduate branch of One for the World, an organization that asks graduates to pledge 1 percent of their income to charity. Founded three years ago by two 2014 Wharton MBA graduates, Kate Epstein and Josh McCann, One for the World has since spread to other business schools including Harvard Business School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management. The organization was founded primarily to target graduate students, but last year, Penn became the first school to establish an undergraduate chapter. “It’s been proven that the earlier you get involved and the sooner you start, the more like you are to [donate to charity] later in life as well,” D’Amore said. Students can pledge to donate on the organization’s website, and sure their support
In line with a multi-year trend, tuition has increased another 3.9 percent this year. Despite student pushback, Philadelphia accountant Jimmy Mo said this increase is “very reasonable.” Mo, a partner at Eisner Amper LLP, said universities increase tuition because costs also increase annually. Bonnie Gibson, vice president for
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budget and management analysis at Penn, confirmed this. She added that costs of higher education are primarily “human-incentivized operations,” which means schools need to increase faculty salaries and hire new faculty. Matthew Johnson, a lecturer in the Critical Writing Program, said “there’s usually a slight increase [in salary] based on years of service, but it’s been inconsistent over the years.” Four additional faculty members declined to comment to The Daily Pennsylvanian about their annual SEE TUITION PAGE 3
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as the “Penultimate experience,” spent “in a state of euphoric drunken stupor.” Another DP article from 1979 notes that one band’s choice of the Byrds song “Eight Miles High” was “particularly appropriate for the Fling crowd, who employed mass quantities of alcohol, whippets, and weed to augment their enjoyment of the proceedings.” In 1988, a new policy was enacted banning the consumption of drugs and alcohol on school grounds. From 1990, the University began checking students who entered the Quadrangle, warning that no students — regardless of age — would be permitted to bring alcohol into the Quad. While a task force appointed by the provost considered lifting the ban on alcohol in 1999, the committee eventually decided against modifying or lifting the ban. This stricter policy may have been motivated in part by the events of the 1988 Spring Fling, which led to nearly $7,000 of damage in the Quad. After a last-minute concert cancellation due to rain, students rushed into Irvine Auditorium to watch an “air band” competition, causing a stampede which led to the hospitalization of a security guard. The air band competition was first spearheaded in 1984 — another year where Fling was marked with trouble. Just before the event, the headliner act English band Madness dropped out, sending the Social Planning Events Committee
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for the movement by signing an online statement. “A lot of us talk about jobs we’re going into after school, but it would be great to also have people talk about the charities they want to donate to and the impact they want to make in the world,” Fertig added. Both seniors are quick to note that pledging to donate 1 percent is “a guideline, not a contract.” “The idea of giving 1 percent is pretty open,” Fertig said. “If you are making a salary next year when you graduate, that’s what we encourage students to do, but we
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 2017 scrambling. “There wasn’t anything we could do and we had to quickly try to come up with alternative headline entertainment, which was really crazy,” 1984 College graduate and co-chair of the 1984 Spring Fling Committee Lori Landew said. “[But] it ended up being a blessing in surprise because we moved the show that year out of the Palestra,” she said. “[We] got a great more local act to perform, we did it outside in the Quad — and it actually ended up being a lot better than it would have been in the Palestra.” Landew went on to co-chair the Spring Fling Committee after attending Fling her freshman year, when she enjoyed the experience so much that she became involved in the planning committee the following years. It quickly became a huge part of her life at Penn. “People … would decorate the tops of their graduation caps so their parents or friends could locate them and figure out who they were,” Landew said. “Because I was so connected to Spring Fling … I decided that I would identify myself through that as Ms. Fling.” Landew and her co-organizers worked throughout the year to get together volunteers and plan logistics. Spreading information was very different back in the 1980s, she said. “There was no social media, there was no Internet, no email — so it was not easy to get people on the same page,” she explained. Landew said that they relied on placing flyers
realize that not all students will be going straight into the working world, or will be making a significant income right off the bat.” “It’s not like the system goes and tracks you down and says, ‘You’re making this amount of money, you must be donating this amount.’” D’Amore said. “It’s totally up to you and open, so you can enter in whatever amount you feel comfortable with.” As D’Amore and Fertig prepare to begin careers in investment banking and consulting, they will pass on leadership of this initiative to Wharton sophomore Lindsey Li and College sophomore Lauren O’Mara. In an emailed statement, O’Mara expressed enthusiasm for
into mailboxes and marketing the concert on Locust Walk as a “more grassroots outreach” strategy. Despite these challenges, Landew remembers Fling fondly. “It was definitely something people looked forward too, and it was a great break from everything else that was going on and before you had to get into a mindset for finishing out the school year,” she explained. It’s been over 30 years since Landew graduated, and Spring Fling has seen many changes: the show this year will take place at Penn Park, a change from previous years where students packed into Franklin Field, Wynn Commons or Hill Field. Yet, much like in 1984, SPEC hopes that the change in venue will help the atmosphere of the concert by making it easier for concertgoers to move around freely. “Penn park and the open area of venue is definitely more festival-[like],” College senior and Social Planning and Events Committee Concerts Co-Chair Andrew Klimaszewski said. “It’s a more enjoyable experience than being squished in the stands.” Despite the many changes, Klimaszewski says he thinks Spring Fling plays the same kind of role today as it did so many decades ago. “Spring Fling as a weekend is a celebration of the year at Penn,” he said. “You can really enjoy yourself before the end of the semester and the end of the school year happens … It’s a really great way just to kind of not think about everything else at Penn during that weekend.”
her new role. “Lindsey and I work well together with our two different perspectives, hers from Wharton and mine from the College. I believe that our experience in different schools will help us to successfully spread the message of OFTW to the entire undergraduate population,” she said. One for the World has compiled a list of recommended charities including five “Top Picks” such as the Against Malaria Foundation and Population Services International. On Thursday, April 6, OFTW will unveil and explain these recommendations in Huntsman Hall room F50 at 12 p.m.
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Penn entrepreneurs target global sickness
All faiths are welcome at TableTalk discussion
Issues include cancer and cigaratte addiction
Topics included increased spirituality
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Improving cancer drugs, helping patients with chronic diseases and increasing access to health care are just some of the aims of this year’s semi-finalists at the ongoing Penn Wharton Entrepreneurship Startup Challenge. Participating groups compete for the grand prize of $30,000 and another $15,000 for legal and accounting services. These awards will be decided after finalist pitches and a startup showcase to be held at Huntsman Hall on April 28. The competition saw an uptick in the number of non-Wharton contestants after changing its name from “Wharton Business Plan Competition” to “Penn Wharton Entrepreneurship Startup Challenge” in 2016, Associate Director at Penn Wharton Entrepreneurship Ann Miller said. “We changed our name to Penn Wharton Entrepreneurship in order to show to the rest of Penn that we’re not just a Wharton resource, that we’re also a Penn resource,” Miller said. College sophomore Niyathi Chakrapani is the team leader and CEO of Amsterdam Fluidics — one of 14 groups that progressed to the semi-finals, out of 112 that entered the competition. Her startup has improved cancer drug
encapsulation technology, aiming to ensure that medication for cancer targets only cancerous cells, thus reducing the side-effects of treatment. “What we do is we put this layer of lipids, or fatty substances, around drugs to make sure they only hit cancer cells,” Chakrapani said. She added her company also aims to make the technology for cancer drug encapsulation more efficient. “Johnson & Johnson had to shut down their operations because they couldn’t keep up with it. They took 17 machines to encapsulate a single batch of drugs,” Chakrapani said. “What we did is we actually created a little chip, a nano-technological chip, that has the same capability as [Johnson & Johnson’s] entire factory.” College and Wharton sophomore Thomas Uhler is the team leader of Right Air, another semi-finalist company that has developed a product aiming to help patients suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. “A typical cause [of the disease] would be smoking. A lot of mucus builds up there and they won’t be able to use their muscles as effectively to draw in air and take it out,” Uhler said. “What our device does is it goes over someone’s chest and attaches to their hip in the back. It basically takes the pressure off of their muscles which are exhausted near their lungs and makes it easier for the lower respiratory muscles.”
Engineering senior and team leader of Group K Diagnostics Brianna Wronkoalso hopes to address gaps in medical services. Her team is developing a diagnostic device that can test blood, urine and swab samples in the doctor’s office instead of sending them to a lab. The goal is to avoid the lag time of laboratory analysis. Another participant, College and Wharton senior Sumun Khetpal, leads Ride Health, a company that works to improve care for patients facing logistical barriers by allowing health care providers to request transportation for patients. “Twenty-five to 50 percent of no-shows [at the doctor’s] can be attributed to lack of transportation,” Khetpal said. “We want to show our community that we’re capable of merging Wharton and the medical school to solve this problem.” Moving forward, the teams are looking to compete for funding grants and cultivate a network of investors and fellow entrepreneurs. Uhler said he appreciates the opportunity to meet with judges as well as other students on campus who are “in the entrepreneurial space or just have that kind of mentality.” “It’s good to meet those people and see what’s going on also because they have other friends that are doing similar competitions, and it can be a good way to lead to other pathways that can help a company really get the little extra push it needs to get there,” he said.
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Bud d h i st , C h r i st i a n , Hindu, Jewish and Muslim students — and students who don’t identify with a religion — were all present at TableTalk’s first discussion about religion this year. The discussion, titled “Religion: Unlocking the Millennial Mindset,” was organized for students to learn from others in different religions and have discussions about being religious in college. “There is a lot more we can learn from each other’s religions and everyone’s experience with religion in college,” participant and College senior Jane Xiao said. She added that she learned a lot about religion even though she is not religious herself. The event, which was held in the basement of Harnwell College House, was completely discussionbased.
“At a certain point, you get bored of going to panel events,” TableTalk Co-Chair and College sophomore Sophia Simon said. “Penn students are so smart and have a lot to contribute, and they often can’t in panel events.” Event coordinator and College sophomore Julia Ba r r agreed, adding, “Maybe talking to people of other religions, you can figure out your relationship with your own religion.” The event was sponsored by the Jewish Renaissance Project, and organized in collaboration with Penn Muslim Students Association, Pen n PR ISM Interfaith, Penn Newman Catholic Community, Penn Hillel and Penn Buddhism Club. Participants were broken up into three circles of about ten people each. In discussions moderated by TableTalk members, participants shared their religious backgrounds and how the experience of transitioning into college had influenced their faith. Discussion topics included the relevance of religion in the 21st century, the differences between spirituality and religion, separation of church and
state and the lack of discussion about religion among Penn students. One group noted that students may not always be comfortable with all the positions taken by their religion and may choose which beliefs to accept. They also observed that society, in becoming less religious and more spiritual, is now less focused on institutionalized religion. TableTalk Penn encourages people who do not normally speak to one another to break barriers and engage in conversation. One way to do this, Simon said, is through interfaith conversations. “There are so many interfaith groups on campus,” she said. “We thought it would be meaningful for people of all different backgrounds to come together and have meaningful conversations about their identity, their relationship to religion and what that might mean today.” This event was held this week as part of student Interfaith group Penn PRISM’s Interfaith Week. PRISM is organizing several discussions and encouraging students to attend prayer services of other faiths.
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salary and benefit raises. “This is my personal opinion, but when I see companies with salary freezes, that tells me there is more cause for concern,” Mo said. “3 percent is fairly standard for a typical [salary] raise year after year.” He said the increase is reasonable because faculty members need to have their quality of life met yearly. However, Mo admitted that as a student his “biggest concern would be tuition increase.” Jim English, English professor, director of the Penn Humanities Forum and founding director of the Price Lab for Digital Humanities, said universities spend money on increasing benefits for faculty and staff in addition to salary. He noted that that the growth of administrations in higher education over the last forty years could also be driving these increases in costs. “When I was in college, we didn’t have three-quarters or more of the administrative offices that we take for granted now — the people who work, say, in the Office of Disability, the mental health people, the many sub-Deans and the counseling service,” English said. “That has driven a lot of the growth.” He said “retention battles” could also push tuition upward. Penn may have to offer a higher salary to a faculty member it is recruiting from another university, or to a current Penn faculty member who has been offered an appealing job at a rival institution. “In my department, every year a number of faculty receive offers
from Berkeley, or Yale, or Harvard, or Colombiano comma or somewhere else that offers them a big raise and says ‘Come work for us instead,’” English said. “Penn does not want to lose all the faculty that they are dependent on for their reputation and for much of the work that is done here.” College senior and Undergraduate Assembly President Kat McKay acknowledged that students don’t see these benefits — they only see a higher tuition bill. Although the 3.9 percent increase is on pace with higher education trends, she said it doesn’t match the annual average increase in an American family’s net wealth or students’ abilities pay tuition on a year-to-year basis. McKay added that this is the “main driver” behind student dissatisfaction. “[The rate of tuition increase] is higher than these metrics that students actually use, like inflation, that students feel and use to account for how they pay for Penn,” McKay said. College senior Eric Tepper also noted that there is an information gap between students and administrators on budgeting and tuition. The University needs to communicate budgeting decisions to students with more readable documents like an annotated budget, he said. “3.9 percent isn’t just a number they choose,” Tepper said. “It is well-thought-out, which is something that Bonnie [Gibson] and other administrators have communicated to Kat and I but is not communicated as often and as clearly to the rest of the student population.” Gibson added that Penn must
Students of all faiths including Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism and Islam, as well as students do not identify with any religion gathered to discuss how to reconcile religion with college life.
fund a much larger portion of its budget with tuition than its peer institutions do. In the 2015 fiscal year, Princeton’s endowment supported 54 percent of its total budget, while Penn’s endowment supported 11 percent of its budget.
The Delta Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa Announces Two Annual Phi Beta Kappa
Prizes for Honors Theses Two Phi Beta Kappa Theses Prizes of $1000 each and the
Frederick W. Meier, Jr. Thesis Prize of $1000 The competition will be conducted by the Executive Committee and Electorial Board of Phi Beta Kappa, with judging by ad hoc committees. Essays may be submitted for consideration by faculty or by student authors. A written evaluation by the thesis advisor must be included with the nomination. Students must submit two (2) copies of their thesis for review.
One need not be a member of Phi Beta Kappa to submit an entry.
The Delta Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa will award the
Elmaleh Prize for an undergraduate essay in the Social Sciences, and the
Humanities Prize for an undergraduate essay in the Humanities. The competition will be conducted by the Executive Committee and Electorial Board of Phi Beta Kappa, with judging by ad hoc committees. Essays, which can not be senior theses, may be submitted for consideration by faculty or by student authors. The ad hoc committee may seek the opinion of other members of the faculty in evaluating entries.
One need not be a member of Phi Beta Kappa to submit an entry. Each award will carry an
Honorarium of $150
The deadline for submission is
The deadline for submission is
Friday April 28th
Friday April 28th
Essays should be submitted to:
Essays should be submitted to:
The College Office
The College Office
120 Claudia Cohen Hall, 249 South 36th Street
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WEDNESDAY APRIL 5, 2017 VOL. CXXXIII, NO. 43 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 LUCY FERRY Design Editor VIBHA KANNAN Enterprise Editor GENEVIEVE GLATSKY News Editor TOM NOWLAN News Editor ALLY JOHNSON Assignments Editor
In December of 1885, The Daily Pennsylvanian published Vol. 1, No. 1. For $2 a year, readers could receive what our founders referred to as “essentially and thoroughly, the college paper.” Since then, remaining “essential” and “thorough” has demanded that the definition of “college paper” change. Today, the DP is a multi-million dollar media organization and is completely independent editorially from the University. We have grown since the 19th century, and we continue to grow now. This past year, we have been working harder than ever to engage with campus leaders to ensure that our coverage captures the diverse array of perspectives on campus — and while we have a long way to go, I’m proud of the work our staff has done thus far. On top of that, our website is fresher, our social media updates more frequently and our three publications produce
more content, including podcasts and videos. Our readers are spending more time online, and so are we. Next academic year, we will take another leap toward improving our journalism and reaching our readers. Beginning in the fall, The Daily Pennsylvanian will be printed on Mondays and Thursdays, and 34th Street Magazine will be printed on Wednesdays. By printing the newspaper two days a week, we will be able to accomplish three huge goals: freeing up time for our staff to pursue better journalism, expanding our digital content and enabling us to make each newspaper something special and dynamic. Given the current state of the media industry, we believe in dedicating the majority of our energy and resources to bettering the stories we tell. Our editors and award-winning design team dedicate an incredible amount of time to crafting the print edition most
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to reflect the diversity of viewpoints on campus. The most exciting upgrades will come to 34th Street. Nearly 50 years ago, 34th Street was founded as a weekly insert in the DP. Now, the magazine has its own day and will be printing more issues than be-
At the end of the day, our simple mission drives us: inform our community in a credible way, and prepare our staff to excel beyond Penn.” the DP’s journalists. Our readers deserve thorough and relevant print editions, and we are making changes to all of our products to make sure we are delivering quality newspapers. The DP’s front page will get a makeover: Our opinion section will expand
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A silent war: substance abuse and its interference with wellness CAL’S CORNER | How substance abuse is forgotten when we discuss mental health
Mental health. Two words every Penn student has heard before they set foot on Locust Walk. We all know just how prevalent conversations about mental health have become and its relation to tragedy, campus culture and the administration. However, I believe that we all have a hard time addressing overlooked topics that contribute to the stress, anxiety and restlessness that Penn unfortunately perpetuates. Throughout social media, the past student government election, DP columns and even the newly implemented task force, I’ve found one issue to be extremely overlooked: substance abuse. Functioning as a forgotten struggle across students at Penn, I’ve seen substance abuse touch every single fragment of our campus, whether it be cultural groups, athletes, Greek life or those involved in performing arts. Across the country, 22.9 percent of college students meet the criteria for drug or alcohol dependence or abuse. And when it comes to stimulants, studies show that roughly 62 percent of students with a valid prescription for ADHD medication have di-
verted it to students without prescriptions or gone on to abuse it themselves to focus on their work. While treating addiction is an extremely complex and uphill battle, I believe that the first step towards facing it is simple: recognizing it as a chronic disease that confuses our dialogue and action towards mental wellness. Students can’t simply stop using drugs for a few days and be cured. Hence, most students need longterm or repeated care to stop using them completely and recover. The second step, which more than often proves to be the hardest, is creating an environment that helps students become comfortable with discussing substance abuse. In many respects, Penn has taken that step through the Vice Provost for University Life. For example, First Step is a harm-reduction program through the Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Program Initiatives on campus. They even provide brief alcohol and drug intervention services for students who are experiencing negative results due to alcohol and other substance abuse. Most
notably, “the program understands that students use and abuse alcohol and other drugs as a way to cope with stress, unwanted or uncomfortable feeling, social tensions, and low self-esteem.” By offering students a safe space to begin exploring why students fall into addiction, First Step is able to ex-
dent body as it is composed of student leaders, athletes, members of Greek life and those in-between in order to talk about high risk behaviors that impact them as students and as people. Like First Step, DAPA promotes understanding and rehabilitation. Despite having simplistic
… if we are to serve as a resource to each other — faculty, staff, administration and every person that intersects with our campus — our discussion of addiction must be rehabilitative rather than punishing.” amine how to get them out. Furthermore, Penn has also set up a mentorship program through an organization known as Drug and Alcohol Peer Advisors. Functioning as Penn’s student peer education group around issues relating to alcohol and other drugs, its members reflect the stu-
access to these resources, what I have found is that most students who deal with addiction are unaware of the resources around them and fail to see what they are going through as a problem that hinders their mental wellness. For some reason, when we discuss mental health at Penn, the
only administrative resource we mention is Counseling and Psychological Services — and I think it’s time that we ask ourselves why that is. Substance abuse works as a knife stabbing our efforts towards mental wellness on campus in the back. What saddens me is that we haven’t even acknowledged it exists, pulled the knife out or — better yet — bothered treating the wound. In part, I believe that there is not just a need for students to recognize substance abuse as a problem, but also for student powerhouses to effectively collaborate in and outside of the administration to tackle the issue in a rehabilitatory way. As a member of student government, I’ll take the blame for that. Most students will admit that mental health and substance abuse go hand-inhand. Therefore, if we are to serve as a resource to each other — faculty, staff administration and every person who intersects with our campus — our discussion of addiction must be rehabilitative rather than punishing. We are all at Penn to promote academic achievement
CALVARY ROGERS and personal growth through a healthy learning environment — to enhance academic productivity and personal wellbeing by encouraging healthy behaviors and lifestyle choices. Thus, to help each other reach academic and personal goals, we must spark hard conversations rather than hide them. If we are truly concerned about mental wellness on campus, we must combat every form of campus life that hinders it through collaboration, administrative transparency and an understanding that gleams of restoration. CALVARY ROGERS is a College sophomore from Rochester, N.Y., studying political science. His email address is calvary@ sas.upenn.edu. “Cal’s Corner” usually appears ever y Wednesday.
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Monumental works: Penn profs. contribute to Phila. public art project
The project will handle issues of representation in art WESLEY SHEKER Staff Reporter
The la rgest outdoors a r t project in Philadelphia’s history is coming to the city in fall 2017, and Penn students have the opportunity to be a part of it. The upcoming Monument Lab project will feature temporary monuments at 10 sites around the city designed by an array of 22 artists from around the globe. Penn Design professors David Hartt and Sharon Hayes will both be featured, as well as world-renowned Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei. Penn professor and Chair of the Fine Arts Department Ken Lum said at the March 22 University Council meeting that most or all of the artists have some kind of connection to Philadelphia. They will each address one question: What is an appropriate monument for the current city?
Lum initially conceived of the Monument Lab after he moved to Philadelphia in 2012. He was inspired by the city’s history but felt the art didn’t reflect the contributions of some of Philadelphia’s greatest artists and musicians. “I was struck by the very complicated layers of history that are kind of signaled by the various markers throughout the city,” he said. “I was also struck by the discrepancy in terms of who gets represented in art and who doesn’t, and the kind of hierarchies that don’t make sense in terms of the respective contributions of these figures to history.” Lum discussed a story of when he noticed a plaque dedicated to jazz musician Billie Holiday on the grounds of City Hall, near a large statue of businessman and public servant John Wanamaker. “That question in ter ms of who gets represented and who doesn’t get represented was the spur to the idea,” he explained. “What if it was an exercise where members of the
The finished monuments will be accompanied by socia lly interactive “pop -up laboratories” that will feature speakers addressing city and nationwide issues. The project also provides an opportunity for students to get involved. At the University Council meeting Lum said that one or two students will be involved at every site. Anita Allen, chair of the Provost’s Arts Advisory Council, called the Monument Lab “a splendid example of arts leadership at Penn.” College senior Sofia Demopolos was involved in the Monument Lab pilot in the summer of 2015. “[Co-curator] Paul Farber would always stress to me and the other interns that we should not ask people what the best monument to the city of Philadelphia was, but what the most appropriate monument to the city of Philadelphia was,” she said. “It did not need to be a celebration of some achievement, but was more about what needed to be talked about.”
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The work of renowned Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei (pictured) will be featured in Philadelphia’s upcoming Monument Lab. Penn Design professors David Hartt and Sharon Hayes are also included.
public were asked their voice in terms of who or what should be recognized in the form of a monument. Monument Lab came around as a consequence of that.” In a small pilot launch of
the Monument Lab, Lum and his two co-curators designed a pop-up classroom exhibit in the courtyard of City Hall. During the exhibit, on display from May 15 to June 7, 2015, the Monument Lab team collected
over 450 proposals from Philadelphians for monuments around the city. The responses and the initial Monument Lab have now inspired a city-wide project with a budget of over $2 million.
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she said. “Just controlling the tempo a little better, especially when things aren’t going well.” This weekend is the second and final weekend of intradivision play. The Quakers again have two doubleheaders, the first at Yale on Friday and the second the next day at Brown. The four games are the last against North Division foes before the Ivy League schedule transitions to intra-divisional play. Penn is under no illusion regarding the importance of these next games. The Quakers are 2-2 and sit in third-place in the South Division behind undefeated Princeton and Columbia. Head-to head matchups with both of these teams still loom on the schedule, but Penn can ill-afford to lose any more ground. All that said, King is still confident entering the weekend. When asked which Yale or Brown player poses the biggest threat to the Quakers she dismissed the thought, saying, “I have no fear.” It’s up to her players to prove her right.
The players qualified for Nationals at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Tournament, which took place in Morrisville, N.C. on February 25. Penn sent six players to compete — two from the co-ed team and four from the women’s squad. At that tournament, the women’s team dominated, finishing in first place overall. They also had impressive individual results, as women’s captain and freshman Lucy Ma led the Red and Blue with a second-place finish and senior Zi Xin Lee took fourth place. “I think that was really cool for us because this was the first time the women’s team has done pretty well and sent a team to Nationals,” Ma said. “It was also cool because this is the first time we’ve ever played together, so it
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was nice to see the whole team coming together and cheering for each other, as well as our co-ed team members.” The co-ed team also performed well, earning a fourthplace finish. Co-ed team captain and senior Sho Hashizume led Penn with a finish in the round of eight, good enough to qualify him for this weekend’s tournament. Heading into Nationals, the women’s team is ranked eighth out of the 16 competing teams. Ma earns the highest individual seed, entering the tournament as the No. 16 singles seed. Lee also earned a No. 36 singles seed, and two other Quakers, Liwang Huang and Peng Yue enter the weekend unseeded. Ma and Lee also compete together in doubles, and they earned the No. 10 doubles seed. Hashizume, Penn’s lone co-ed
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As the end of the school year approaches, most Penn Athletics spring squads are approaching crunch time in their respective seasons, with almost all of them having entered the thick of Ivy League play. With women’s lacrosse ranked in the top 10 nationally, track and field seeing school records fall left and right, baseball having won ten of its last 11 games and more, the season has seen some supreme successes already — but only one athlete can stand out as the best. Our sports editors take to the roundtable to debate: Who is the Penn Athletics spring season MVP so far? Cole Jacobson, Sports Editor: In sports, “value� doesn’t just refer to one’s talent — it refers to his or her team’s thorough reliance on that player in all facets of the game. And there’s nobody who does more for his or her squad right now than Penn softball do-it-all senior Alexis Sargent. To start with her contributions on the mound — she is listed as a pitcher, after all — Sargent, in terms of both quality and quantity, has been as dominant as ever. Entering Tuesday evening’s showdown with Villanova, the senior has already tossed 72.1 innings, meaning
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five goals was contributed by a different player, with one even coming from the defensive unit. Supporting the unrelenting Penn defense, sophomore Katy Junior is ready for this weekend’s battle. “I think we go into every game with the same mentality, to allow as few shots as possible. These games matter more because they are for the Ivy League title and where the
she single-handedly accounts for a ridiculous 49 percent of the team’s total innings thus far. Clearly, fatigue does not exist in Sargent’s dictionary, with the reigning first team All-Ivy selection having appeared in 12 of the Quakers’ 21 contests — seven of those 12 going for complete games. And it’s not like the historically heavy workload is making her perform any worse. As a matter of fact, the senior leads the Ivy League with seven wins (out of the team’s 11), 66 strikeouts and a stellar 2.26 ERA, putting in her position to make history and pull off the coveted Triple Crown. The knock on pitchers in baseball and softball when it comes to MVP conversations is often that they don’t contribute every day, but Sargent puts that myth to bed. Even when she doesn’t sport the mound for Penn — a pretty rare occasion — she decides to dominate on the other side of the ball for good measure, sporting a fine .306 batting average and ranking fourth on the team in hits. Overall, her dominance on both offense and defense is unmatched by anyone else across Penn Athletics, making her the spring MVP. Tommy Rothman, Sports Editor: Britt Brown is the Spring MVP up to this point. The
women’s lacrosse goalie has been absolutely dominant. She has spent every minute of every game this season in the net for the Quakers, and hasn’t made many mistakes in that time. The senior is second in the league and third in the entire nation with a save percentage of 57.5. By allowing just 7.4 goals per game, she gives the Red and
Blue an excellent chance to win every night, and they haven’t squandered many of those chances. Penn would never be 8-2 without Brown’s excellence in the net. That being said, Brown isn’t doing this all by herself, even if she is the only Quaker having shots fired at (but rarely past) her. Much of the credit
for Penn’s stingy goals-against total must go to the team’s defense, which limits the amount of grade-A chances Brown must face. But that’s a two-way street. The defense can play much more confidently— and the offense can take more risks — knowing Brown is there as a very, very formidable final line of defense should everything else go astray.
Jacob Snyder, Associate Sports Editor: The most impactful Penn athlete this season so far has definitely been baseball’s Matt McGeagh. After a solid but unspectacular rookie year, McGeagh has exploded on the scene, becoming one of Penn’s most dynamic hitters this campaign. Consider this — in 124 at-bats last season, McGeagh notched two home runs. So far this season, in just 65 at-bats, he already has smacked three, half of the team’s total output of six. Somewhat surprisingly (considering some of the other power bats the Quakers have), McGeagh has become the most prolific power hitter in the lineup, posting an ungodly slugging percentage of .615, over 150 points better than the next highest on the team and pointedly above .366, the team average. But McGeagh’s bat is as reliable as it is powerful. Going into this weekend’s road trip, the sophomore has hit safely in nine consecutive games, with the Quakers winning eight of nine games over that stretch. With the help of McGeagh’s breakout season, the heart of the Penn batting order looks as menacing as ever; Chris Adams, Tim Graul, Sean Phelan, and McGeagh routinely terrorize opposing pitchers and provide clutch offense for the Quakers.
Moreover, there will be some bitter memories for the Penn veterans, who will remember a disappointing 10-9 loss at Hannover last season. Despite coming in with a head of steam, a major question mark for the Quakers this weekend sur rounds the offensive production. The past two victories can mostly be attributed to unfaltering performances by the back line, holding the opponents to seven and two goals. On the season, the team is merely averaging 10.5 goals a game, with nearly
that many saves per contest as well. For coach Karin Corbett, this trend needs to be bucked immediately. “I think we’ve had some games where we’ve been able to put more points on the board, but you need to score more than ten goals,� Corbett said. “It’s hard for a defense to continually keep a team under 10, and we’ve been able to do that, but we do need score more goals and generate more from our possessions. I want to see more of that this weekend.� This week’s practice certainly was tailored to this objective, with an emphasis on
shooting, free-position shots and individual skills. With a more consistent and polished offense, there’s no telling how far this squad can go. W it h o n ly c o n fe r e n c e matches remaining, Penn will essentially have to pick up a “W� every time it takes the field. Having already dropped a contest to Cornell, the Quakers cannot cede any more ground should they have a chance at a title and preferred tournament seed. It’s worth noting is that none of that the current Ivy League leaders, Cornell, Harvard and Princeton, have yet played each other, so the standings are sure to be
shaken up. For junior Caroline Cummings, the team is ready for the road ahead. “We are going to take this momentum and run with it throughout the rest of the season because we have so ma ny Iv y L eag ue ga mes coming up,� Cummings said. “We’re just taking one game at a time, and taking nothing for granted. We need to put everything in for that one game, and just take it from there.� With so much riding on every game from here on out, the Quakers will have to assert themselves at home this weekend to keep their dreams alive.
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Leading the Ivy League in wins, strikeout and ERA, senior pitcher Alexis Sargent has been dominant yet again for the Quakers, and is certainly in the conversation for the Penn Athletics spring season MVP.
tournament will be hosted,� she said. “It’s really important that we come focused to practice. It’s easy at this point in the season, after playing 10 games, to be tired and let that get in the way of things, so we have to stay mentally sharp.� The offense for the Big Green (5-4, 0-3) will be looking to test Junior and company, as it aims to secure a first Ivy League win. Despite a couple of subpar outcomes, the visitors cannot be overlooked, as they are still averaging 13 goals on 34 shots per game.
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SPRING SPORTS IN FULL BLOOM The spring sports season has seen a host of successes so far in 2017, with women’s lacrosse ranked in the top 10 nationally, track and field breaking various school records, and baseball winning ten of its last 11 games.
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Club ping pong prepares for national title challenge this weekend
o many college students, ping pong balls are an essential part of social life, used exclusively for beer games. But for some Penn students, ping pong balls are actually for ping pong. Penn Club Ping Pong is in the midst of a historic season, finding more success than they have in recent years. The Quakers will send five players to Eau Claire, Wis., to compete in the TMS College Table Tennis Championships this coming weekend. The total of five players marks the most that the team has sent to the three-day tournament in the past six years. Penn will be sending four players on the women’s side and one from the co-ed team. The three-day tournament takes place in several stages, each happening on a different day. First, the opening day consists of group play, as each player will face three other opponents in their group. The top two players from each group then advance to a single elimination bracket of 32 on Saturday, with the championship on Sunday. A consolation single-elimination bracket also exists for the players who qualified for the event, but are not ranked high enough to compete in the main bracket. These rankings are determined by the results of players throughout the year and before, and are constantly updated based on a formula that factors in strength of opponents. SEE PING PONG PAGE 9
No. 9 Quakers look to Softball struggles against close gap in Ivy League Wildcats in Big 5 battle VILLANOVA 8
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Zero. That’s the margin of error for Penn women’s lacrosse as it now heads into the Ivy League home stretch. This grueling test begins Saturday at Franklin Field, where the No. 9 Quakers (8-2, 1-1 Ivy) will host a Dartmouth team looking to spoil the party. For Penn, this contest, and the four to follow it, are must-wins for the side seeking a share of the Ancient Eight title as well as home-field advantage come the NCAA Tournament. The Red and Blue will have plenty of momentum, coming in on the heels of some lastminute heroics to take down
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With a crucial can’t-lose game against Dartmouth this weekend, Penn women’s lacrosse is focused and ready to finish the season strong.
No. 16 Northwestern, a perennial powerhouse, in Evanston. With 17 minutes remaining, Penn managed to overcome a 7-5 deficit by netting five
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times, all while not yielding once to the Wildcats’ offense. Interestingly, each of the final SEE W. LAX PAGE 10
When it rains, it pours. Penn softball, like the thunderstorm that loomed overhead, couldn’t get anything going in a demoralizing 8-1 loss to Villanova. The results last weekend showed the Quakers (11-11, 2-2 Ivy) can come back from a deficit late, but this game was over in a hurry. The Wildcats (17-12, 2-4 Big East) took an early 2-0 lead in the first inning and finished the damage in the third when they poured on five more. Penn starting pitcher Jennifer Brann (2-1) lasted only two innings, getting pulled after hitting her third batter to load the bases with none out in the third. She took the loss after giving up five runs on four hits. Penn’s lone run came in the bottom of the fourth when three singles and a fielder’s choice
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brought home sophomore second baseman Sam Pederson. The inning ended before the Quakers could capitalize with runners in scoring position. That was a recurring theme – despite the shocking scoreline, the Quakers were only outhit 11-8. The problem was leaving nine runners on base, often in scoring position. The Quakers have already shown their potential. Entering the game Tuesday, the Red and Blue were both the best batting team (.283 avg) and the second-best pitching squad (3.14 ERA) in the conference. They have contenders for conference Player of the Year and Pitcher of the Year in seniors Leah Allen and Alexis Sargent, respectively. None of that means anything if the Quakers don’t execute. “We didn’t play up to our own standards,” coach Leslie King said. “I’m not making excuses, we have to show up and play the game.” The excuses are there for the Quakers. Perhaps part of the
struggle was due to Penn’s extremely young lineup: eight of their ten starters were freshmen or sophomores. For King however, the depth of her team is an asset that allows her flexibility throughout the lineup. It was also Penn’s fifth game in three days. “[The schedule] makes it challenging to maintain that intensity level. We just have to be mentally strong,” King said. Baseball and softball are notorious for the importance of mental strength. Coaches at all levels preach short-term memory – forget the bad game and immediately start preparing for the next one. In only a couple of days, the Quakers will have to do it all over again. The results will largely hinge on their mental strength – their ability to bounce back. It’s no coincidence that King identified smaller mental parts of the game as places to improve on. “I think our communication on the field could be sharper,” SEE SOFTBALL PAGE 9 CONTACT US: 215-422-4640