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the elephant in the womb Grad students aren’t always fully funded

Some need more than five years to complete their degree NATALIE KAHN Staff Reporter

Lise Puyo, a Penn anthropology Ph.D. student, needs $30,000 to present to the United States Embassy in three years’ time. Otherwise, she won’t be able to

renew her visa — she’ll need to put aside the Ph.D. degree she’ll have spent five years working to finish and return to her home country of France. The Department of Anthropology in the Graduate Division of the School of Arts and Sciences guarantees tuition, health insurance and a $26,000 stipend for five academic years, as well as a $2,000

stipend for three summers. However, Puyo said she’ll need more than five years to complete the program’s requirements: three years of classes, two years as a teacher assistant, fieldwork and a dissertation. That’s why she has an Excel spreadsheet with details of every grant that she can apply for. The visa Puyo is on does not

allow her to seek employment outside of Penn. As an international student, she is also excluded from applying to many federal grants, which is why she is anxious and “saving like crazy,” she said. This is only her second year in the Ph.D program. SEE GRADUATE PAGE 7

What we know about Jon Huntsman Jr.’s time at Penn as a College student ALIZA OHNOUNA Senior Reporter

Jon Huntsman Jr., the 1987 College graduate whose father’s name adorns the headquarters of The Wharton School, will continue his unbroken streak of service to six presidents when he is formally nominated to be the United States Ambassador to Russia in a few weeks. Huntsman’s educational trajectory, however, has been less consistent. Little is known about Huntsman’s short time spent at Penn, despite his father’s famous name. There is also conflicting evidence about his activities before arriving on campus. After spending some time at the University of Utah, Huntsman eventually earned his bachelor of arts in political science with a concentration in international politics at Penn when he was 27 — by which time, he was already married and a father of two children, with a third on the way. Huntsman’s name is listed only in the 1985-1986 and 1986-1987 student directories, the latter of which lists his SEE HUNTSMAN PAGE 2

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How the Ivy League unveils its incoming classes

The only way to make them think twice is, simply, to stop going.” - Emily Hoeven on the need to boycott sexist fraternity parties PAGE 4

Each school differs on which stat. it chooses to show off BRIAN ZHONG Staff Reporter

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On Mar. 30, colleges highlighted their incoming classes through press releases that offered a glimpse into the Class of 2021.

On Mar. 30, tens of thousands of applicants anxiously opened their Ivy League admissions decisions. But colleges also had an objective that day — highlight their incoming classes through press releases that offered a glimpse into the Class of 2021. The announcements shared a baseline of statistics — the number of admitted students, the total size of the applicant pool and the target freshman class size. They also included metrics detailing the geographic and racial makeup of their admitted students. Cornell reported the highest number of U.S. admits who

identify as students of color — 52.5 percent — with Dartmouth and Harvard trailing by one percentage point. Cornell also surpassed the other Ivy League schools in the number of countries represented — 96 — followed closely by the 94 countries Penn’s Class of 2021 call home. Fifteen percent of Dartmouth and Harvard admitted students will be the first in their families to attend college, the highest among the Ivy League universities that reported this figure. Each press release contained at least one quote from the university’s dean of admissions, praising the incoming class for its talent and diversity. “As we got to know the applicants this year, we were truly SEE ADMISSIONS PAGE 7

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U. Council discusses Ph.D. funding and Pottruck access

Penn Med: adolescent stress linked to later depression risk

Students voiced concern over grad student support

Risk for perimenopausal depression is heightened

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Graduate student fees will now include access to Pottruck Health and Fitness Center and other fitness facilities, starting in the next fiscal year. The announcement came among an extended discussion of next year’s budget at a University Council meeting late last month. At the meeting on March 22, Bonnie Gibson, vice president for budget and management analysis, reviewed the budget for fiscal year 2017, potential changes for 2018 and statistics for the financial aid program. Following her presentation, members of the community voiced concerns about research funding and financial aid for graduate and international students. Gibson said there was $3.47 billion in revenue from the past fiscal year — $1.25 billion from tuition and fees, $928 million from sponsored programs or research and $1.3 billion from the endowment, giftsand other incomes, according to a transcript of the meeting provided by Penn’s Almanac. The expenditures budget was also $3.47 billion: 53 percent goes

toward compensation like salaries and benefits, 24 percent goes toward capital expenditures and 22 percent goes toward student aid. Gibson noted that these percentages add up to 99 percent due to rounding. Gibson also discussed the 3.9 percent increase in total undergraduate charges. The next fiscal year’s undergraduate aid budget is projected to increase by 4 percent to $224 million. Gibson noted that the financial aid budget has had an average growth rate of 8.3 percent annually, increasing by 122 percent in total since 2008. Gibson reported that 46 percent of undergraduate students receive financial aid packages, in which 47 percent of students on financial aid in the class of 2020 come from families whose income is under $100,000 and 30 percent come from families whose income is over $150,000. The average financial aid package for freshmen was $45,368 this year. Almost all of the 3,000 Ph.D. students will be fully funded for four to five years, with their funding including full access to Penn’s fitness centers. Gibson noted that tuition for graduate students will increase at the same rate as the undergraduate tuition will. Fol low i ng G i b s o n’s

presentation, physics and astronomy graduate student David Sliski said there was a gap between the number of years of guaranteed funding for graduate students and how long it takes to finish their degrees. He also suggested plans to explore other funding options — namely alumni gifts to the departments from which they graduated. “If there is no extra room [in the budget] to meet this gap between guaranteed years and time of completion, then why can’t we look for this money from people who specifically went through this experience,” Sliski said. Engineering junior Dhruv Agarwal also discussed how Penn is “need-aware” when looking at the applications of international students, which discourages them from applying for financial aid. David Smith, an associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care at Penn Medicine, asked how Penn was prepared to handle federal cutbacks in research support. Gibson said she is also concerned about the proposed cuts, but pointed out that roughly 85 percent of Penn’s grants are “inhand” already, meaning they are certain that the majority of funding for the budget is guaranteed.

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Almost all of the 3,000 Ph.D. students are fully funded for four to five years, and this funding will now include access to all of Penn’s health and fitness centers, as discussed at last month’s meeting.

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A new Penn Medicine study reports that women who experience emotional trauma and stress during their teen years are “twice as likely” to suffer from depression in the years leading up to the onset of menopause. While it is fairly common for women to experience depression in the years leading up to menopause, Penn’s study was the first to demonstrate that the number of traumatic events experienced during childhood and adolescence can significantly increase the risk of depression during the transition to menopause, known as

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school address as apartment 909 in 2400 Chestnut Street, the same luxury apartment building that stands there today. In the 1985-1986 directory, only his Utah home address is listed. The fact that Huntsman eventually joined the Class of 1985 came as a surprise to many of the more than 100 of his classmates The Daily Pennsylvanian reached out to. Most of these alumni were international relations or political science majors, and a handful were Sigma Chi brothers, a fraternity that Huntsman was a part of while a student at the University of Utah. He is not listed as a member of Sigma Chi in Penn’s 1987 yearbook, and none of the brothers who responded recall knowing him. Huntsman’s father, Jon Huntsman Sr., was an active member of Sigma Chi while an undergraduate at Wharton, and paid a visit to Penn’s Sigma Chi chapter in late 2014. Only one of the members of the Class of 1987 contacted for this article, Jeffrey Brenner, now a partner at law firm Nixon Peabody, recalled knowing Huntsman, but not well enough to comment. Another 1987 College graduate, Deanna Kaplan, did not know Huntsman, but knew his younger brother, David. She said in an email that his wife, Michelle, worked as her babysitter while she attended Penn Law School, and described them as “lovely people.” The DP also reached out to formerly active members of the Church of Jesus Christ of LatterDay Saints frequented by Penn Mormons in the 1980s, located at 3913 Chestnut Street. Jonathan Stephenson, a 1975 College graduate and bishop who led the congregation from 1984 to 1989, recalled Huntsman being a regular attendee of the church. Huntsman and his wife Mary Katherine Huntsman, completed volunteer work for the church, Stephenson said, though he could not remember the nature of the work. Stephenson added that he remembers Huntsman struggling to figure out the career he wanted to pursue and would often discuss potential paths with him. They went over many options, though the soon-tobe foreign ambassador had not

perimenopause. Mary Sammel, professor of biostatistics and a co-author of the report, said that “neglect, emotional and/or physical abuse, household dysfunction, parents’ divorce, alcohol and drug abuse” are all examples of traumatic adolescent experiences that can be linked to perimenopausal depression. “We were trying to see how these things were related to depression in midlife in women,” Sammel said. “And what we found was that the number of adverse life events, is associated with having depression later on in life.” According to the report, even women who have never before had depression could suffer from major depressive disorder during menopause as a result of suffering such traumatic experiences during

adolescence. “This suggests that not only does early life stress have significant and long-lasting effects on the development and function of the regions of the brain responsible for emotions, mood and memory, but the timing of when the event occurs may be equally as important,” C. Neill Epperson, professor of psychiatry and lead author of the paper, said in a Penn Med press release. The study was part of a larger report started almost two decades ago by Ellen Freeman, research professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Penn Med, whose aim was to observe various symptoms and hormonal changes of women going through menopause. The study followed the same cohort of women from the greater Philadelphia area for more than 14 years.

decided on government service at the time. By the time he was at Penn, Huntsman was fluent in Chinese, having picked it up during his Mormon mission trip. This was a skill that Huntsman was proud of and wanted to use, Stephenson said. True to form, Huntsman often highlighted his fluency in Chinese during his 2012 bid for the U.S. presidency. When contacted for this story, Huntsman declined to comment, saying he wished to wait until after his formal nomination to speak to the DP. Huntsman has had an illustrious career in foreign affairs. After serving as the U.S. ambassador to Singapore under Presidents George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton, he was appointed to be the deputy trade representative by President George W. Bush and later assumed the ambassadorship to China under President Barack Obama. In between his later diplomatic posts, he also served as governor of Utah from 20052009. He has been outspoken on political issues in recent years, especially during the 2016 presidential campaign. After initially urging the Republican Party to unify around Trump, Huntsman called on the then-nominee to drop out of the race after a tape was released of Trump making sexually suggestive comments about women. Prior to Penn, Huntsman left high school during his senior year to pursue a music career with his band called Wizard, according to a June 2011 profile of him in The Salt Lake Tribune. The band floundered, and in 1979, Huntsman went to Taiwan for two years on a Mormon mission trip. There are conflicting reports about the timeline of his education after he returned from his trip. While CNN reports that Huntsman was at the University of Utah from 1978 to 1980, The Salt Lake Tribune’s profile on him from June 2011 states that he only attended college in Utah after returning from his mission trip in 1981. This second account seems more likely since Huntsman was on his missionary trip until 1981, and probably attended the University of Utah only after this trip ended. Huntsman began his political career as a staff assistant to former President Ronald Reagan

— once again, there are mixed reports from sources about the timeline of this position. The Dartmouth News and The New York Times state that he was a staff assistant in the White House in 1983, but CNN pinned him working there earlier from 1982 to 1983. According to the The Salt Lake Tribune, Huntsman helped plan a visit by President Reagan to Arizona, suggesting that he was on the president’s staff in 1982. Outside of his presidential bid, Huntsman is known on campus for delivering the commencement address at Penn in 2010. In his speech, he referenced two Penn professors, Alvin Rubinstein and Allyn Rickett, whose lectures helped him to find his passion. Rickett, now 95 and a professor emeritus in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, said in an emailed statement that he did not recall having Huntsman as a student. The University’s academic bulletin from 1985-1987, which includes a course directory, indicates that Huntsman probably took Rickett’s survey course called “East Asia,” which was about Japanese and Chinese society from prehistoric times to the present. Rubinstein died in 2001. He taught in Penn’s Political Science Department, where he specialized in Russian foreign policy. The DP contacted other political science and international relations professors from the 1980s, none of whom recall having Huntsman as a student. Like the president he will soon begin to serve, Huntsman’s involvement with the University was most notable after he graduated. His father’s $40 million donation that would go towards building Huntsman Hall came in 1998, just over a decade after the younger Huntsman earned his degree. Huntsman, Jr. became a University trustee from 1996 to 2001 and is now listed as a trustee emeritus. At a recent Board of Trustees meeting, he even cracked a joke at his future boss’s expense. “I remember sitting in this meeting twenty years ago, and the great lament was, ‘We don’t have enough Penn people running for politics at the highest level,’” he said. The rest of the trustees drowned him out with laughter.

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Princeton tries to keep admissions files from being released The university has sued the Department of Education

bias against Asian applicants. A previous, undisclosed independent investigation by the DOE found that no such discrimination existed at Princeton. 1986 Wharton graduate Laurie Kopp Weingarten, co-founder and director of One-Stop College Counseling, works with a significant number of Asian applicants and, in her experience, has not witnessed such discrimination. “I personally have not noticed discrimination against Asian Americans in my practice,” she said. Weingarten noted that many of her Asian students have higher test scores than her non-Asian students. “I think that contributes to the misunderstanding about discrimination,” she said. “Test scores are only one factor in the holistic process that highly competitive colleges employ.” Weingarten believes that test scores are not the most important criteria in the admissions process and that other factors, such as talents or accomplishments, may cause one

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Princeton University attempts to block its admissions data from being released in the midst of questions about possible racial discrimination against Asian applicants. Princeton sued the Department of Education to prevent it from releasing the sensitive admissions data, Buzzfeed News reported. The admission documents include student files and information on how the university chooses its incoming freshman class. These documents could potentially expose the admissions practices of elite universities and, some argue, could hinder efforts towards affirmative action. Students for Fair Admissions, an anti-affirmative action organization, is pressuring the Department of Education to release the information, which it believes will reveal

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The Department of Education completed an investigation, finding no evidence of racial discrimination in Princeton’s admissions process.

student to be admitted over another. “When an Asian student with a 1600 SAT or 36 ACT is denied, and a non-Asian student with a 1500 SAT or 34 ACT is accepted, sometimes people assume that is discrimination,” she said. Weingarten added that she has

seen colleges throughout the country make great efforts to recruit Asian-American applicants. “Colleges value diversity in their student body,” she said. “So at a school where the Asian population is low, there have been increased efforts to seek out competitive

Asian-American applicants.” Penn’s Admissions Office did not respond to requests for comment for this story. Some students support Students for Fair Admissions’ movement to reveal the admissions process to the public. Nursing freshman Annie Koo said that she thinks Princeton’s efforts to prevent the release of the admissions data is “sketchy.” “It makes it seem like they have something to hide,” she said. “If it is actually harder for Asians to get into schools, I think that’s discriminatory.” Wharton sophomore Victoria Yuan said she recognizes the potential of affirmative action to increase diversity, but believes it can lead to discrimination. “Affirmative action has allowed Penn and other schools to embrace and increase diversity in their student population,” she said. “But the idea of using affirmative action to discriminate against someone because of their race is simply racism.”

Weingarten feels that the perceived issue stems from the decreasing acceptance rates of elite universities, which she believes affects all students, not just Asian applicants. “What I am seeing is that admission to highly selective colleges is simply extremely difficult for everyone,” she said. Weingarten noted that a large number of her Asian students have been accepted to Penn, as well as to other Ivy League schools and peer institutions. “Just like my students of other races, the Asian-American applicants that have the complete package, that I believe will be reviewed favorably in a holistic process, have seen terrific results,” Weingarten said. Princeton believes that releasing the admissions data would be harmful to its image. The DOE, however, completed its investigation and concluded that Princeton did not discriminate against students of any specific race.

Penn graduate dies in avalanche while snowshoeing in Canada

Lauren Zeitels is remembered for her compassion ESHA INDANI Staff Reporter

Lauren Rachel Zeitels, a 2006 College graduate who was one of the two victims of a deadly avalanche in Alberta, Canada, was remembered by friends and family as utterly brilliant. Zeitels and Victor Federov, another doctor in residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, were snowshoeing at Banff National Park when they were caught in an avalanche that is believed to have occurred on March 12, according to a report in the Boston Globe. Their bodies were found on March 17. Zeitels was 32 years old and in her second year of the Massachusetts General Hospital internal residency program. The New Jersey native graduated as valedictorian from Watchung Hills Regional High School and continued to find academic success during her time at Penn, where she graduated summa cum laude from the College of Arts and Sciences as part of the Roy and Diana Vagelos Scholars Program in Molecular Life Sciences. She also graduated with Phi Beta Kappa honors and a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry, as well as a master of science degree in chemistry. Friends and family said they admired her intellectual capabilities and loved her caring, vivacious personality. Jason Beiger, a 2006 Penn graduate who also was a member of the Vagelos program, said he looked up to Zeitels, describing her as always “one step ahead of the rest of us.” “She impacted the lives of so many people in so many places, as the turnout at her memorial service in NYC showed this past weekend,” Beiger said in an emailed statement to The Daily Pennsylvanian. “This world lost an amazing person and an exceptional doctor-scholar. We grieve for her loss, not only for who she was and what she had already accomplished, but also for whom she was growing to be and the many more lives she could have positively impacted.” At Penn, Zeitels was co-president of Penn’s chapter of Habitat for Humanity, helping three Philadelphia universities raise $40,000 to sponsor a house. She also took charge of the coordination of more than 250 volunteers for projects in

New Jersey and Philadelphia, according to her LinkedIn profile. Zeitels won numerous awards during her time at Penn — a testament to her academic skill. She was a Benjamin Franklin Scholar and the recipient of the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship in 2004, the Dean’s Scholars award in 2004 and the Roy and Diana Vagelos Challenge Award in 2005. She was also the 14th Penn student and one of 40 university students in the country to be awarded the Gates Cambridge Scholarship during her senior year of undergraduate study, through which she pursued a master’s degree in medical science at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. The founding Director of the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships Arthur Casciato, a former Penn faculty member, worked closely with Zeitels when she was preparing her application for the Gates Cambridge Scholarship. Casciato, who currently serves as the director of the Office of Distinguished Fellowships at Rutgers University, said that although it has been 10 years since he left Penn, he has not gone a single year without telling the story of how Zeitels’ answer to a question during a mock interview for the scholarship convinced him that she would win it. During this interview, Casciato grilled Zeitels on her work with Habitat for Humanity by criticizing the group as a publicity stunt for politicians. “In the face of this kind of pressure, students often either capitulate to the interviewer or become too entrenched in their own views. Not Lauren,” Casciato said in an emailed statement. Instead, Zeitels “responded like a seasoned rhetorician.” After acknowledging Casciato’s criticisms and citing several examples supporting them, she pointed out the ways that Habitat for Humanity nonetheless provided affordable housing to those in need “in the most statistical specificity that one can imagine,” Casciato said. “It was quite a performance, one I’ll never forget,” he added. Jerrold Zeitels, Lauren’s father, said his daughter loved Penn and the community she found here. He added that she was especially attracted to the Vagelos program and had always shown a passion for medicine. “Medicine was a perfect fit for

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her because not only was she brilliant as far as science comes, but she was a compassionate individual,” Jerrold Zeitels said. “She was always looking to help other people.” Laura Cappelli, another classmate in the Vagelos program, became friends with Zeitels in 2002, attending both college and

medical school with her. She said what made Zeitels unique was her kindness and sincerity towards those around her. “She took interest in her classmates, colleagues and community. She encouraged people to be their best selves,” Cappelli said in an email where she quoted from her eulogy at Zeitels’ funeral. “She

believed in my abilities, often more than I did, and encouraged me to take risks. There will never be anyone with whom I am so bonded both in friendship and academically as I was with her.” Jake Chanin, another classmate, made similar remarks, describing Zeitels as someone who always enjoyed life.

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THIRD PLACE: The Seagull ( Justin Lee, 2017)

“If she could give one piece of advice to incoming freshman, it would be take advantage of every little bit and every aspect of college that you can,” Chanin said. “Make sure to excel in your academic activities, but at the same time find what you’re passionate about as well. She was a really wonderful person. It’s a sad loss for all of us.”

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Never leaving Makuu: The power of cultural centers SPILLING THE REAL TEA | Penn students should not miss out on the cultural centers

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I remember visiting Makuu Black Cultural Center during Quaker days in the spring of my senior year of high school. I was so nervous because I did not know anybody, but I still mustered up the strength to talk to people and socialize. Surprisingly, I was met with open arms as everyone in the space said hello to me and talked to me about the ins and outs of Penn’s campus. Who would have thought that this encounter would have led me to go to Makuu almost every day from the beginning of my freshman year to now? I honestly thought that I would have gotten tired of going to Makuu, but I guess something inside me just stuck. Maybe it was the broader community of black folks that I was able to meet, or maybe it was the deep conversations about life that I had with Makuu’s Director Brian Peterson. All I am certain of is the fact that Makuu played an integral role in the formation of my identity at Penn, and I encourage anyone who has not been inside yet to check it out, along

with any of the five other cultural centers on campus. Going to the cultural centers in my opinion is a great experience that not a lot of Penn students take advantage of. By not going to these cultural centers, students are missing out on an opportunity to get connected to the broader Penn community and meet people with diverse cultural identities. Taking the time to visit any of these cultural centers allows students at Penn to learn more about the perspectives of a wider range of people. Makuu Black cultural center has not only allowed me to meet students with diverse backgrounds, but it has also helped me network and stay connected to the broader campus community. Before coming to Makuu, I thought that the black community was so small and homogenous. But after meeting students from fraternities, Wharton, Nursing and Engineering, I understood that not every black person is the same, and that every person that I talked to is

connected to some other facet of the Penn community that I did not know about. Also, after becoming a member of the Makuu community, I began to learn about other resources that Makuu provides for black students at Penn. Because of my asso-

black freshman students during their time at Penn and provide them with the resources they need to survive on Penn’s campus. In addition to the experiences I gained within the Makuu community, being at Makuu allowed me to con-

By not going to these cultural centers, students are missing out on an opportunity to get connected to the broader Penn community, and meet people with diverse cultural identities.” ciation with Makuu and Brian Peterson, I was able to know about the Robeson Cooper Scholars program. This is a program that meets once a week and is facilitated by Brian and Makuu’s Associate Director Michelle Gillard. It is designed to track

nect with other cultural centers. The beauty of La Casa Latina, Makuu and PAACH being so close to each other in the ARCH is that I am able to go to all three cultural centers and hang out with the members of those communities. Even this past week, I think I

travelled to La Casa Latina’s cultural house more times than Makuu. And information about the cultural centers is not just limited to the ARCH. All the cultural centers are connected because they share and disseminate information across all of the different cultural groups, which means that at any given time, students can get information about events that are happening at Greenfield Intercultural Center, Penn’s Women’s Center and at the LGBT Center. Stabilizing yourself in one cultural center will allow you to visit other cultural centers, no matter which one you start with. With that being said, I do wish that I had the time to visit more of the cultural centers on the other side of campus like Greenfield or the LGBT center. Therefore, I am making conscious efforts to get out of the ARCH sometimes and explore all the things that the other centers have to offer. Overall, Makuu is a great environment at Penn. Whether it be the impromptu spades

JAMES FISHER matches on a wobbly table, the late afternoon jam sessions where people fight over the aux cord or just a time to talk about things we saw in the various Black Penn GroupMe’s, Makuu has become a home for people like me. And even though things may happen and people may get into arguments, we are still drawn back to the space because, realistically, what family doesn’t get into a fight here and there? JAMES FISHER is a College sophomore from the Bronx, N.Y., studying communications. His email address is jafish@sas. upenn.edu. “Spilling the Real Tea” usually appears every other Thursday.

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In my Africana Studies class, we talk a lot about perspective: how things that seem acceptable or normal to a society at a given point in history can often seem incomprehensible to that same society several generations later. Oftentimes, the professor asks us to think about things that we take for granted about our own way of life, things that we do without ever really stopping to consider why we do them in the first place. She asks us to think about the fact that these might be the very things that, 50 or 100 years from now, people will learn about in their classes or hear about in stories and say, “Wow. How was that still going on in 2017?” There are many things still happening in 2017 that are incomprehensible and unbelievable and, when looked at closely, insidious. And one of the most glaring instances that I see on our campus is what I call the standard fraternity party. While this may not happen at all frats, the standard fraternity party goes something like this: You approach a frat house that has people milling

about outside, often clamoring about to get in. Some guy you might vaguely recognize from your freshman seminar stands in front of the door and surveys you. He’ll let you in if you’re with a group that meets the required ratio: three girls to every guy; or if you’re what he deems “a really hot chick”; or if you happen to be on the guest list; or if you can recite the names of some members of the fraternity. You have to, of course, prove that you’re worthy to enter. When you actually get inside, you can barely see anything because all the lights are turned off. People are dancing and groping each other and smoking and spilling alcohol all over each other and the floor. A couple of frat brothers are mixing and disseminating alcohol from behind a bar. Hopefully they know what they’re doing — well, maybe not. After all, it is called jungle juice. I’m going to be radical — I’m going to put my social status on the line — and say that fraternity parties are both covertly and overtly sexist. And what’s even

worse is that this sexism has become so normalized that we don’t even think about it anymore. You want me to be part of a ratio? Oh, sure, whatever you say! You want me to come dressed up as a Playboy Bunny or a VictoriOZ’s Secret model? Wow, what an inventive theme! But why not — I’m just so honored to be invited to your party. The fraternities have no

kick back and have fun — you are inherently acquiescing and contributing to the perpetuation of a system of sexism. And that’s not fair. My grandmother began college at the University of Arizona in 1960. She, and all other women at the U of A, were prohibited from leaving their dorms past 10 p.m. When I asked her if male students had a curfew, she looked surprised and

The fraternities have no reason to recognize their parties are sexist because people keep going to them.” incentive to get rid of their sexism because people keep going to their parties. The fraternities have no reason to recognize their parties are sexist because people keep going to them. The only way to make them think twice is, simply, to stop going. Because if you continue to go — even if your only intention is to

said no. “The point was to keep the women safe,” she explained. If that makes you cringe, don’t worry. We’ve moved past that. We’ve progressed. My grandmother and my mother were both in sororities in college, and this is how their sororities interacted with the fraternities. The fraternities hosted the

parties. The fraternities controlled the alcohol and the atmosphere and the space. They controlled who entered and sometimes who exited their parties. And all the women could really say was, “Well, at least our dues don’t go to alcohol. And at least our houses don’t get trashed.” Isn’t that what we’re still saying, in 2017? Are frat parties really so fun that it’s worth having that guy in your freshman seminar refer to you as a part of a ratio every Friday night? So fun that you look past the lyrics of “Or Nah” when they blast it on the dance floor? So fun that maybe it’s worth it to keep going to OZ parties, even after that one email they sent? These parties must be so fun that it’s not even worth it trying to throw your own party — or attempting to redefine what a fun party even is — because their parties are so fun that no one would ever dream of coming to yours! Why make a big fuss over wanting to change things, when things work so well the way they are now? If we never protest the

EMILY HOEVEN ratio, if we never think about the implications of the fraternities controlling all the party variables — physical space, alcohol and the people present — if we keep going to frat parties as they are, things will never change. If we don’t stop going, if we don’t take a moment to think about what’s really happening when we present ourselves for inspection at the door of a frat house (because that’s what it is: inspection), our daughters will be doing the same thing 30 years from now and our sons will be standing on the front porch of the house, arbiters of it all. EMILY HOEVEN is a College senior from Fremont, Calif., studying English. Her email address is ehoeven@sas.upenn. edu. “Growing Pains” usually appears every other Tuesday.

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humanities students average at least an extra three semesters past the standard five-year funding package, and often also exceed the median graduation time of 5.75 years for all Ph.D. students, Sliski said. Other Penn graduate schools face similar difficulties — nursing students average 4.75 years to complete their degrees and receive three years of funding, Winkelstein said. Sixth-year Graduate School of Education Ph.D. student Miranda Weinberg noted that the GSE does not have steady revenue due to the lack of undergraduate tuition and alumni contributions. She is receiving only four years of funding for her educational linguistics program, which has a standard

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A funding gap Astronomy Ph.D. student David Sliski said similar concerns have been voiced by other students to the Research Council, the body within the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly that represents Ph.D. students. Sliski, who serves as the council chair added that these complaints exist across many universities and are not specific to Penn. At Penn, each graduate school provides its own funding packages, Vice Provost for Education Beth Winkelstein said. For instance, Biomedical Graduate Studies and Graduate Studies in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences usually fund students until the completion of their degrees, Sliski said. BGS stipends are $32,000 per year, higher than those of the Graduate Division of SAS. Funding in SAS however, varies by department — while many scientific subjects and economics win government grants that - Beth Winkelstein fund students for longer, many humanities areas lack the same direct revenue. Those completion time of six to seven departments rely on funds from years. Penn’s endowment and tuition, As Weinberg did not win which are not as comprehen- any of the grants she applied sive. for this year, she has been Most SAS humanities de- teaching GSE classes and servpartments fund students for ing as an adjunct professor at five years and three summers, Temple University to support whereas others, such as the herself. She has spent so much Department of East Asian Lan- time working and looking for guages and Civilizations, fund funding that she now needs an for four years and two sum- additional semester at Penn to mers. finish her degree. The problem is that SAS Weinberg said she knew she

would not have enough funding when she was admitted, but was led to believe during her interview weekend that finding money would be less of a burden. Winkelstein said many programs have sufficient funding, as almost every division and Ph.D. school has a similar median graduation time to the overall figure of 5.75 years. “I actually think it’s quite supportive that we give five years of funding to a majority of our students,” Winkelstein said. Graduate school has other expenses as well, such as attending conferences for which neither of their departments provide funding. Ph.D. students pay to attend conferences and apply to GAPSA as well as their respective graduate schools for potential — though usually not full — reimbursement, Weinberg said. She added that at a recent conference, a friend from the University of Virginia was “shocked” to find out that she was not funded to attend. “Doing the things that are necessary to do your research have to come out of your own pocket,” she said. “It’s harmful to the work we’re trying to do.” Forcing students to pay for research expenses, and sometimes tuition, limits the pool of potential students who can receive a graduate degree from Penn to those with financial stability, Weinberg added. What students are asking for Some peer institutions are granting more funding to Ph.D.

students. Columbia Univer- fund all SAS students for six to sity has a new program that seven years without drastically qualifies some students for reducing the program size. seven-year funding. HumaniSliski holds that there must ties Ph.D. s““tudents at Yale exist an “in-between” — a way have been guaranteed, in most for the University to allocate at circumstances, a funded sixth year. Penn does offer some options past the average five-year SAS package. One example is a dissertation completion scholarship for students past the funding period, Troutt Powell said. She receives about 75-80 applications for this and can fund 30-35 of them. This semester, Sliski and the research council drafted a resolution that they presented to Winkelstein and - Miranda Weinberg Provost Vincent Price, to ask that the University fund all Ph.D. students who complete their degree in the 75th least some additional funding to percentile of the school’s aver- Ph.D. students. age completion time. “There are some things I Sliski explained that funding think we can do,” Troutt Powell 75 percent would allow advis- said. “I hope the graduate stuers to spend more time with dents feel like they’re being those in the ‘25 percent’ group, heard.” helping them to complete their She suggested extending degrees faster. He also men- summer funding to five years in tioned that advisers would have SAS as a potential option. fewer recommendations to For Puyo, summers are critiwrite and forms to fill out for cal times for research. As her their students’ grant applica- work mandates travel to histions. torical sites in Canada and “This is not a small ask of the upstate New York to interact University,” Sliski admitted, as with Native American artifacts it would require redistribution — not a feasible task during the of the University budget. academic year — Puyo would Penn has also been working welcome reduced financial to reduce the time it takes for pressure during the summers. Ph.D. students to finish their However, no institutional degrees, which would alleviate change can happen without many funding-related issues, supporting data, which Penn Winkelstein said. has not made available. WithTroutt Powell said that al- out concrete information, it is though Sliski’s appeal is “not difficult to tell if the graduate illogical,” it is not feasible to students’ qualms have factual

announcements in that the Un iversity touted the 225 adm itted students who a re members of community-based organizations, such as Chicago Scholars, College Track and Say Yes to Education. Dartmouth incorporated its admitted students’ academic prowess into its annou nc em e nt , h ig h l ig ht i ng the record-high 547 admitted students who currently stand as the valedictorian or salutatorian in their high schools. It also listed the mean SAT and ACT scores — 1495 and 33, respectively — of its incoming class. While the target class sizes

of most Ivy League universities remained stagnant, Yale announced that the projected enrollment of its Class of 2021 will increase by 15 percent, from 1373 to 1550 students, spurred by the opening of two new residential colleges this fall. “This expansion touches on every aspect of learning, including teaching, facilities, and financial aid,” Dean of Yale College Jonathan Holloway said in the school’s press release. “It also provides a historic opportunity to engage the community in asking what it means to receive an education from Yale.”

“I actually think it’s quite supportive that we give five years of funding to a majority of our students.”

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humbled,” Dean of Admissions Eric Furda said in Penn’s announcement. “T he breadth of their academic achievement was exciting, as was the honesty with which they communicated their own strengths a nd exper iences. St udents shared their desire to create positive change in their communities, referencing Penn’s commitment to civic engagement. We also saw incredible passion for the arts and humanities.” Though the press releases contained a sim ila r set of

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statistics, they differed in the amount of detail they disclosed. Brown, Da r tmouth and Ha r va rd, for example, specified the most popular concentrations of their admitted students. Brown also broke down the number of applications and acceptance rates to its specialized academic programs — the Brown-R ISD DualDegree Program and Program in Liberal Medical Education — unlike Penn, which did not specify the number of admits by school or dual-degree program. Penn’s press release distinguishes itself from other

backing or are simply based on perception. Winkelstein recently shared some data with the Research Council, figures which she released early this week. Among other general statistics, the data includes information on the time to degree and completion rates for Ph.D. students. Slisk i hopes they soon release data on individual schools, as Princeton University has done for completion rates and time to degree. Now more than ever, Ph.D. students are dedicated to solidifying their f unding, as P resident Donald Trump has proposed various budget cuts to departments that often provide federal grants for graduate students — for example, the National Institutes of Health, the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Winkelstein called this a “definite national concern,” and both she and Troutt Powell have noted increased stress among students and faculty. Puyo added that although she cannot receive many federal funds as an international student, these cuts still affect her because more domestic students will apply to non-federal grants, increasing her competition. “If I don’t get the grant, I have to rethink my entire project,” Puyo said. Troutt Powell said the entire University community is worried. “Everyone is trying to figure out how to respond to what looks like a dangerous financial world.”

“Doing the things that are necessary to do your research have to come out of your own pocket. It’s harmful to the work we’re trying to do.”

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from the All-American committee as an honorable mention. Now an upperclassman, Keating knows that he must be a model of consistency in midfield if the Quakers are to see success. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just try to come out to practice every day and follow our game plan, and stick to what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been preparing throughout the week,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I go out and play as hard as I can, and whatever happens, happens.â&#x20AC;? One thing that no one can deny is that this team has heart. After being down by a score of 13-6 to Yale with nine minutes remaining in the game, the Quakers were able to score six goals in rapid succession while

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best quality shots, outside the hashmarks and preferably lowangle shots,â&#x20AC;? Keating added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be about winning our matchups and forcing those bad shots.â&#x20AC;? Keating has been one of the most consistent performers for the Quakers so far this season, leading the team with 33 ground balls as well as adding eight goals on the offensive end. His 17 points as a sophomore last season (13 goals, four assists) led the nation in long-stick scoring, and garnered him first team All-Ivy honors as well as a nod

giving up just one goal in between. This sort of resolve has been a hallmark of the program, and the team believes that this mental toughness combined with improved consistency across the field will make them hard to handle for any opponent. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Being down that many goals and to still be tough enough and come back, even though we came a little short, we did show a lot of heart at the end,â&#x20AC;? Keating said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If we can kind of master that heart in the beginning of the game and keep that going throughout, then we could put on a dominating performance.â&#x20AC;?

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play in a big-league ballpark; the Red and Blue have played in the Liberty Bell Championship game only once before in their history and have never won the title. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an awesome experience, to go over and play in that environment,â&#x20AC;? the third-year coach said of the game, which will take place versus La Salle, likely on April 18. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking forward to for sure.â&#x20AC;? Sophomore third baseman Matt McGeagh continued his recent hot streak, going 2-for-5 with three RBI in the contest. The California native boats a .329 batting average on the season and leads the Quakers with three home runs. McGeagh is also the defending Ivy League and Big 5 Player of the Week, having hit .471 in the five games preceding Tuesday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s seeing the ball really well right now â&#x20AC;&#x201D; heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s made some adjustments in his swing, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shortened it up,â&#x20AC;? Yurkow said of his breakout star. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hot right now. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good to see.â&#x20AC;? The Red and Blueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 3-1 mark in Ivy play â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a result of impressive showings versus

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Penn baseball has been on a roll as of late. This weekend, Red and Blue fans will find out just how legit the team really is. The Quakers (13-10, 3-1 Ivy), fresh off a 11-2 shellacking of Big 5 rival Villanova Tuesday, will dive back into conference play this weekend as they travel north for a four-game series, playing Brown and Yale twice apiece. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re obviously playing a lot more confident. Winning really helps that,â&#x20AC;? Penn coach John Yurkow said of his squad, which has gone 11-1 in its last 12 games. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still pretty early in the Ivy seasonâ&#x20AC;Ś hopefully we can keep it rolling.â&#x20AC;? The Quakers dominated their contest versus Villanova (3-16) Tuesday, putting up seven runs in the first inning before riding seven innings of one-run ball from freshman hurler Mitchell Holcomb en route to the blowout win. The game, a semifinal of the Liberty Bell Classic, advanced the Quakers to the seriesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; championship, which will take place at Citizenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bank Park. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our bullpen was really taxed, so for [Holcomb] to go that deep into the game really helped,â&#x20AC;? Yurkow said, mentioning that the game was the Quakersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; fifth in three days. â&#x20AC;&#x153;His fastball command was really good. He kept the ball down and got some ground balls.â&#x20AC;? Yurkow was also excited that his team will get the chance to

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Previewing a busy weekend for the Red and Blue Golfers, runners, rowers will be in action BREVIN FLEISCHER Sports Editor-elect

Men’s and women’s track and field After splitting up and spreading out across the country last weekend, Penn track and field is ready to get the band back together and head to Virginia to compete in the Virginia Quad Meet. Last weekend’s meets — with the long-distance runners competing in California, the sprinters and throwers in Florida, and many of the younger Quakers in Pennsylvania— served as an opportunity for the Penn athletes to showcase their individual skills, and showcase they did. Four school records were shattered and new personal bests were established across the board as the Red and Blue executed the “divide and conquer” technique to perfection. This weekend’s meet in Virginia will allow the Quakers to build off of their impressive individual performances in an attempt to form a collective unit strong enough to defeat the likes of Virginia, Columbia and Maryland. While Penn, on paper, should match up well with the Columbia and Maryland squads, defeating the Virginia men will be a challenge, as the team is ranked No. 9 nationally according to the USTFCCCA. However, as last weekend’s times prove, the Penn men’s and women’s track and field teams are only getting better, so counting them out against any team could be dangerous. Men’s golf It’s been two weeks since Penn men’s golf has last competed, leaving the Quakers rested and ready for this weekend’s invitational, hosted by arch rival Princeton. At Towson, the venue of the

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because there’s nowhere to go after,” she stated. “It’s about leaving it all out there and building on what we’ve done all year.” What the Red and Blue have to build on is a rock-solid foundation. On one hand, the team has quite a few quantifiable accomplishments to hang its hat on from this season. Numerous school records fell — particularly on the bars — and on more than one

team’s last outing, the Red and Blue played solidly, finishing eighth in a field of 22 teams. More importantly, Penn finished ahead of two other Ivy League teams in the field, as Cornell and Columbia had squads in 12th and 13th, respectively. The Quakers were led by junior Carter Thompson, a sports reporter for the Daily Pennsylvanian, who individually finished 12th out of 120 golfers. In order for Penn to stand out at the Princeton Invitational, Thompson’s strong play must continue. Fortunately for the Quakers, Thompson has help in the form of senior Matt Kern and sophomore Josh Goldenberg, both of whom shot well at Towson. Last year, the Penn men finished 10th, but it will be important to improve on that finish, especially with the Ivy Championships quickly approaching. Women’s golf While the men’s team enters the weekend with moderate, if any, fanfare, the women’s team is on fire, flushed with momentum after a strong performance at the Harvard Invitational last weekend. Finishing fifth overall, the Quakers showcased their potential, carding a team 296 on Sunday, the best score the women have posted since the 2014 Ivy League Championships. Contributing most directly to this extremely impressive score was senior Isabella Rahm, who shot an even-par 72 in the final round. Heading into the 54-hole Hoya Invitational this weekend, Rahm and her teammates should be overflowing with confidence, ready to take on all comers in the last tuneup before the Ivy League Championships. Men’s heavyweight rowing The weather has not been kind to Penn men’s heavyweight rowing. Severe storms in New England prevented the team from opening its spring season at the expected date, as Boston’s Burk Cup was

occasion, the Quakers were just a small margin away from outright victories at quad meets. But perhaps more importantly, the gymnasts carry a fierce, neversay-die mentality with them. “One thing that stood out about this group of girls this year was that we never stopped fighting,” Moore said. “Each week, we went in, and we just always gave it our all.” “Everyone’s very eager ... and we were very motivated the whole season,” Levi added, echoing this sentiment.

cancelled. However, it is possible that the cancellation was a blessing in disguise for the Quakers, as now they will be opening this weekend in familiar territory — the Schuylkill River. Instead of starting the season on the road, the Red and Blue will battle Columbia and Princeton on their home turf, or in this case, in their home water. Men’s lightweight rowing Like its heavyweight brethren, the lightweight squad will also make its spring debut, being thrown right into the mix of Ivy competition with a showdown against Cornell and Harvard. Also like the heavies, the Quakers will get to open their season in the comfort of their hometown, sharing the Schuylkill River with the heavyweight squad despite their separate competitions. Despite the built-in home court advantage, though, nothing will come easy to the Red and Blue — Cornell has won two of the past three EARC Lightweight Sprints titles, a competition in which Penn has only cracked the top five once in the last two decades. Women’s rowing Though their counterparts on the men’s side are forced to deal with some rust, Penn women’s rowing has no such issue entering the weekend, as the Quakers are coming off two stellar performances at the Murphy Cup (including three champion boats) and the Doc Hosea Invitational, where Penn took third of nine teams. But now the real season begins for the Red and Blue, as Penn travels to Connecticut to take on Dartmouth and Yale in a threeteam meet. As impressive as the early spring season has been for the Quakers, these Ivy foes may be their biggest test yet, as Penn hasn’t finished in the top half of the Ancient Eight since the league began its own championship system in 2012.

Last season, of the ten gymnasts who qualified for the USAG Prelims, only now-senior Rachel Graham made it to the individual finals, doing so in the floor event. This year’s group of qualifiers are optimistic that they can improve upon that. “We’ve been training so hard all preseason, and throughout the season as well, so we’re all very strong right now,” Moore said. “It’s just going to take that one last routine to just put it all out there and show what we’ve been working at for so long.”

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NCAA. Podesta had not won enough money to violate his amateur status, but he still had to document all his winnings and convince the NCAA that he wasn’t playing professionally anymore. And despite only beginning to consider coming back to Penn at the end of 2016, Podesta made his first appearance in Penn’s February 26th doubleheader against Old Dominion and Navy. The match completed

Podesta’s rollercoaster of a journey to playing again for Penn and the team was more than happy to have him back. “He’s a great player. He’s always been a great player. He hasn’t changed since his freshman year really,” Geatz said. “We’re a better team with Nicolas on the team.” Podesta also has high hopes for what his return can help the team accomplish this season. “I can’t really speak for how the other teams are playing right now, but we have a really, really good team,” Podesta said.

“I can’t say we expect to win, but it’s definitely a possibility.” As for what’s next for Podesta, his ultimate goal is still to play professionally, but for now, he’s focused on making the most of his time at Penn. “I want to finish my degree and finish the last couple of years that I have eligible here,” Podesta said. Two years ago, few would have ever predicted that Podesta would be a Quaker again, but now here he is. And despite all that Podesta’s been through, his story’s just beginning.

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“He’s a great player. He’s always been a great player. He hasn’t changed since his freshman year really,” Penn coach David Geatz said of his returned star. “We’re a better team with Nicolas on the team.”

The weather may be turning nice, but for Penn tennis, there’s a storm brewing this weekend. Both Red and Blue teams will have their hands full with their first Ivy League doubleheader weekends of the season. For the men (13-6), Friday’s match at Columbia will mark the beginning of Ancient Eight competition, and a day’s rest is all the team can afford before it hosts Cornell back in Philadelphia on Sunday. The Penn women (7-7, 0-1 Ivy) have the same opponents on deck, but they’ll face the Lions at home before making the long trek north to Ithaca on Sunday to take on the Big Red. Whereas this is the first conference action for the men’s team, the women opened up their Ivy League slate last weekend with a 5-2 loss to Princeton at home – a tough pill to swallow for the Quakers. Coach Sanela Kunovac’s side had been in great form ever since their spring break trip to Florida, but the loss to the league’s defending champions put an end to the Red and Blue’s three-match win streak, which included a 5-2 win over then-No. 36 Florida State. Friday’s meeting with Columbia (4-11, 0-1) could provide just what the Red and Blue need to return to their winning ways. At the moment, the Lions hold the worst record in the league, as they are one of two teams with a winning rate under .500. Ivy play, in particular, has not boded well for Columbia in the early going. The Lions were swept 7-0 by the Big Red (11-4, 1-0) last week. While the Red and Blue might be favored on Friday against the Lions, Cornell will certainly

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Though senior Kana Daniel has already established herself as an elite player, she’ll need her teammates to step up as Ivy play heats up.

give the team something to think about during Sunday’s long drive. The only thing that seems certain is another dominant performance from senior captain Kana Daniel, who is the only ITA ranked singles player in the Ancient Eight at No. 89. On the men’s side, the weekend will be a trial by fire for Penn as they open conference play with the two best teams in the league. Columbia checks in at No. 22 nationally while Cornell is not far behind at No. 24. The two are the only Ancient Eight teams to be ranked in the top-50 by the ITA. “I don’t know if there’s ever been a time where I can remember two Ivy League teams being ranked in the top-25,” coach David Geatz said. “One year you could win the Ivy League with a team that’s No. 44 in the country and now you can’t.” Although spirits will be high after an inspiring 4-3 win over Penn State two weeks ago, the Red and Blue have not done too

well when pitted against highly ranked teams. In the middle of their trip to Louisiana almost a month ago, Geatz’s side failed to grab a win against then-No. 25 Tulane, losing 7-0 in New Orleans. With the team returning to full health, however, Penn has chosen the best time to take on the league’s on-paper leaders. Injuries have plagued the team in the nonconference portion of the season, but there’s clear recognition that these are the important weeks of the season, and a fullstrength Red and Blue team will certainly give any Ivy opponent something to worry about. “These are the two favorites for the Ivy League title this season,” senior Matt Nardella said. “So it’s going to be a tough weekend, but it’s a good opportunity for us to take out the top two teams and control our own destiny the rest of the way.” “I think we’ve got enough talent to do it. If we win close games, if we win close matches we’ll win,” Geatz added.

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It’s the last hurrah for Penn gymnastics’ 2017 season. This weekend, 12 members of the team will travel to Seattle, Wash., to compete in the USAG Women’s Collegiate Championships. And despite the young team’s underwhelming sixth-place showing at last month’s ECAC Championships, individual morale is high. “I have a really good feeling about this

weekend,” sophomore Caroline Moore said. Moore, a team captain, has played an instrumental role in the Quakers’ success this season, holding the team’s top score in the vault (9.850), beam (9.875), and floor (9.875). But even though she is an undeniably elite talent, this will be her Nationals debut — a testament to both her rapid improvement from an injuryplagued 2016 and the upperclassmen-heavy dynamic of last year’s squad. Junior Kyra Levi noted that the most important goal of this season was to cultivate the new, young talent that the team is now flush with. “Overall, it was a huge building year,” the fellow captain said. “It was about getting ourselves ready for another season that is going to

be even better than this one.” Judging by who is making the trip across the country, this goal was not only met, but exceeded. Five of this year’s 12 Nationals competitors are freshmen, while last year’s group of USAG qualifiers featured zero first-year students. The experience that many members of the team lack on this stage makes upperclassmen leadership this weekend all the more valuable. Levi, making her third straight Nationals appearance, believes that the key is “not overhyping the meet.” “It’s really not a super high pressure event SEE GYMNASTICS PAGE 9

After falling just short of pulling off a seven-goal comeback against Ivy rival Yale, Penn men’s lacrosse will face another tough test this weekend against conference foe and defending national semifinalist Brown on Saturday. The Quakers (4-4, 1-2 Ivy) will travel up to Providence to take on the Bears (4-4, 1-1), looking to play themselves back into an Ivy League tournament spot with a win as well as to redeem themselves from a 17-6 loss to Brown at Franklin Field last season. The win will not come easily for the Red and Blue; the Bears, reaching the semifinals of the NCAA Tournament last season, boast defending Tewaaraton winner Dylan Molloy as their primary weapon on attack. The Setauket, N.Y. native absolutely torched the Quakers last season, putting up a whopping eight goals while adding three assists for a total of 11 points, good for seventh all-time in the Ivy League for points by a player in a single game. He finished his historic 2016 season with a total of 62 goals and 54 assists. “We have to address him differently than we did with [Yale attackman Ben Reeves] last week,” Penn coach Mike Murphy said. “Reeves is more of a skilled, speed dodger while Molloy is a lot more physical. Molloy is such a good feeder, and he tends to dodge with reckless abandon, so you never really know what’s going to happen.” Luckily for the Quakers, much of the supporting cast that facilitated Molloy’s explosive offense last year has moved on. The next five leading scorers for Brown from the 2016 season, including Kylor Bellistri and Henry Blynn, were seniors who have since graduated. Just as well, former Bears head coach Lars Tiffany surprisingly left his alma mater for greener pastures at Virginia, so the Bears have had to spend much of this year learning and implementing a new scheme under new head coach Mike Daly. Even with these changes, Penn will still need to be in top shape on the defensive end and in goal in order to come away with a victory against a team that averages nearly 47 shots per game. Players like junior long-stick midfielder Connor Keating will be a key part of the Quakers’ plan to keep Brown from having too much possession time by controlling the midfield on face-offs and in transition. “Last week, for both teams, face-offs were critical. Both of those runs, for and against, were sparked by faceoff wins,” said Murphy. “Yale is very much a six-on-six game, whereas Brown wants to attack early and often.” “We know that they have good shooters, so we’re just going to have to make sure that our goalie is seeing the SEE M.LAX PAGE 8

After two years away, Penn men’s tennis’ star comes back Podesta burst onto scene before departure YOSEF WEITZMAN Sports Editor-elect

In sports, records and statistics are often used to tell stories about a player’s journey. For Penn men’s tennis player Nicolas Podesta, his 4-0 record in singles this year certainly tells one story, but it leaves out the incredible journey that brought him to this stage. Two years ago, Podesta was right where he is now. Playing as the team’s No. 1 singles player, Podesta was a star freshman with superstar potential. Heading into Ivy League play, Podesta still remained undefeated and his team was not far behind with a 14-3 record. Everything was going Podesta’s way. But then, a bump in the road. Despite all the non-conference success, Podesta and the Red and Blue were defeated in the first two Ivy matches of the

year against Princeton and Yale. And then, even move quickly than he had ascended to college tennis stardom, Podesta was gone. In the middle of the season, without any warning or explanation, he suddenly stopped competing with the team. After several days of mystery and speculation, coach David Geatz confirmed that Podesta had left the team to play professionally. “He thinks his options are better to train with his private coaches. He wants to get out on the pro circuit, and he has some unbelievable opportunities to train with guys like Novak Djokovic and John McEnroe,” Geatz said at the time. While Podesta’s departure proved to be detrimental for the team, as Penn failed to win a single Ivy match that season, the decision seemed to pay off for Podesta. Within his first year of going pro, Podesta had not only already earned some money, but

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Nicolas Podesta was dominant as a freshman for Penn men’s tennis two years ago, but suddenly left the program and turned pro. Now he’s back with the team, and looking to make up for lost time.

he had also defeated a top 250 player in the world. Podesta’s future was looking very bright. But then, another bump in the

road. Podesta was diagnosed with a serious case of mononucleosis. “I thought I was in good

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general health, but then 4 or 5 months later, I couldn’t leave bed,” Podesta said. The illness was so severe

that Podesta wasn’t able to play tennis for the better part of a year. That’s when Geatz stepped in. “I reached out to Nicolas’ father and I just said, ‘Hey, I just wanted to see how Nicolas is doing and if he wants to sign up for the mentor program or hit a few balls with the team,’” Geatz said. At first, Geatz didn’t hear anything. Podesta’s father told his son of the call though, and Podesta decided to call Geatz back. “Come October or November of last year [2016], I heard that coach had spoke to my dad, and I really missed playing so I ended up coming out, and then it kind of just spiraled to me coming back onto the team and me competing now and everything,” Podesta said. As much as Podesta wanted to start playing with the team again immediately, he still had to clear his eligibility with the SEE PODESTA PAGE 9