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LPS student, 37-year-old Abass Johnson, dies of cancer He was a student in the Master of Science in Applied Geosciences program OLIVIA SYLVESTER Staff Reporter

Abass Johnson, a student in the College of Liberal and Professional Studies, died on March 25 soon after discovering he had cancer, the University announced on Wednesday. A Penn official later clarified that Johnson died of cancer.

He was 37 and had a wife and three children.

Johnson was a student in the Master of Science in Applied Geosciences program and had last taken classes at Penn in spring 2016, according to a letter sent by Vice Provost for University Life Valarie Swain-Cade McCoullum and Vice Dean and Executive Director of LPS Nora Lewis.

He received his bachelor’s degree in biology in 2012 from Cheyney University of Pennsylvania, his master of public health degree in 2015 from La Salle University and was currently pursuing an MSAG in hydrogeology. Johnson was manager at Northwestern Human Services in Sharon Hill, Pa., where he had worked for over 10 years.

There will be a support group session for students and colleagues affected by Johnson’s death at 4 p.m. on Thursday in Room 256 of Hayden Hall.

New Class of 2021 admits are on campus for Quaker Days BRIAN ZHONG Staff Reporter

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Abass Johnson, a student in the College of Liberal and Professional Studies, died on Mar. 25 soon after discovering he had cancer.

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housands of students crowded ca mpus on Wednesday with red and blue lanyards, juggling brochures, schedules and Penn merchandise. The “baby quakers” are here.

Quaker Days, which take place on Wednesday and Thursday this week, attract over a thousand regular decision admits deciding which university to attend each year. The admissions office

organized a series of information sessions and activities designed to entice prospective freshmen to choose Penn.

Most of the admitted students interviewed by The Daily Pennsylvanian said they like the architecture on campus and characterized Penn students as “welcoming” and “eager to help.”

Prospective student Danielle MilesLangaigne said she found a community of like-minded students at Makuu, Penn’s Black Cultural Center.

“We were around people of color, and they were describing their experiences here and how they’ve worked

very hard to advocate for themselves and learn more about themselves through their major,” Miles-Langaigne said. “I saw myself being in that community.”

Admitted student Valentina Amate Perez arrived on campus a day early — on Tuesday — to participate in the Multicultural Scholars Program.

“We had the Multicultural Scholars Program first, so it was nice to see everyone that looked like me and people I’ve been around my entire life here before I get the culture shock,” Perez SEE QUAKER DAYS PAGE 5

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A look at federal funding for Ivies Ivy Leagues get more federal funding than some states CAROLINE SIMON Senior Reporter

A newly released report sheds light on enormous sums of money the federal government provides to Ivy League universities — and how that money is handled.

The report comes from Open the Books, an organization that aims to make public spending more transparent. It concluded that in the six fiscal years between 2010 and 2015, a full $41.59 billion of the Ivy League’s money could be traced back to taxpayer-funded payments and benefits.

To put that in perspective, the

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average amount of money that the eight Ivy League schools received annually over that time period — $4.31 billion — exceeds the amount of money received by 16 of the 50 states.

The report also examined Ivy League endowments, which are some of the largest in the country.

Penn’s endowment for 2015 was the fourth highest, at $10.1 billion.

In 2016, it climbed to $10.7 billion.

The Ivy League’s total endowment is around $120 billion, which amounts to about $2 million per undergraduate student. A sum of that size could give every Ivy League student a full ride for the next 51 years.

Penn’s endowment is invested in public equities, fixed income,

hedge funds, private equity, real estate and natural resources.

Though the endowment has grown consistently, that doesn’t translate directly to increases in spending — according to Penn’s Office of Investments website, University spending follows a formula developed by the Board of Trustees that “balances the desire for current income with the need to protect long-term purchasing power.”

Because Ivy League schools are nonprofit institutions, they don’t pay taxes on any investment gains their endowments might make — which saves them a lot of money.

Between the 2011 and 2015 fiscal years, the Ivies received a $9.6 billion tax break on the $27.3 billion growth of their collective

endowments.

At the same time, they receive money from the government for a number of purposes. Ivy League universities, which sponsor a wide variety of cutting-edge research, receive millions in federal grants for research projects.

Between 2010 and 2015, the eight schools received $23.89 billion in federal grants and $10.6 billion of which came from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the National Institutes of Health.

Other sources of grant money were the National Science Foundation, the Centers for Disease Control a nd P revention, the SEE MONEY PAGE 3

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Wharton Ph.D. popular among recent Penn grads These recent grads are already pursuing a Ph.D. NINA SELIPSKY Staff Reporter

Tanya Paul graduated from the Wharton School’s undergraduate program in spring 2015. By fall, she was already enrolled as a an accounting Ph.D. student in Wharton.

Paul is just one of many Penn undergraduates who go on to a Wharton doctoral program shortly — if not immediately — after graduation.

Paul’s interest in academia began during her freshman year at Wharton, when she served as

a research assistant to Andy Wu — then a first-year applied economics Ph.D. student and now a member of the Management Department at Harvard Business School. “[Wu] told me if I was interested in understanding things like implications of corporate decisions and their interaction with capital markets, then accounting might be the way to go,” Paul said.

After two years in the accounting Ph.D. program, Paul is clearer about the benefits and detriments of going immediately into a Ph.D. program — as she did — versus starting out in the working world.

“The pro of working beforehand is that you get a lot of real

world knowledge,” Paul said. “On the other hand, coming straight out of undergrad helped the transition into academia to be pretty smooth since I never actually left school.”

2014 Wharton graduate and first-year Wharton Ph.D. candidate Ellen Fu took a different path, spending two years after graduation working in the microeconomic studies function of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York before beginning Wharton’s applied economics Ph.D. program.

“Through those two years, I gained a lot of exposure to the research process,” Fu said. “It was my time at the Fed that compelled

me to apply for a Ph.D.” At the Fed, Fu worked on projects relating to student loans, college major choices and other microeconomic issues.

“It was really useful to understand what issues are important in the real world,” she said. “It made me sure I wanted to pursue this path, because it is a long-term commitment. You don’t want to start it and halfway through realize you don’t like the lifestyle or the nature of the work.”

When deciding whether to pursue her Ph.D. at a business school or a traditional university, Fu was drawn to the small cohort size of programs at Wharton.

“In my class, they only

admitted five people total [to the applied economics program], versus a traditional school which has 20 to 25 students per class,” she said.

And for Wharton Ph.D. students, Penn is the single biggest feeder university.

Vice Dean of Wharton Doctoral Programs Catherine Schrand said this is likely due to Penn students’ familiarity with the school.

“Other students might choose to apply to a traditional school’s [economics] or psychology Ph.D. department, not understanding that our marketing and management departments do a lot of psychology-based research,” Schrand said. “If you’re not at a

school like Penn where you’ve got a top business school right there on the same property, I’m not sure you would know that as an undergrad student.”

Schrand also acknowledged that Penn undergraduates tend to have a leg up in the admissions process.

“We see the classes they took and we know what those grades mean,” she said. “We’re not just picking them because they’re from Penn, but when we look at two applications and one has reference letters from people we don’t know and another has a reference letter from someone down the hallway, it’s just easier to say yes.”

Wharton research team calls for better voting technology

Penn prof. studies connection between arts and well-being

Many voters doubt the accuracy of voting tabulation

Pawelski received a $2.5 million grant for this work

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In a world where technology seems to be constantly expanding, the voting technology that facilitates the election of public officials somehow has not changed a bit.

In March this year, Wharton professor Lorin Hitt and a team of six Wharton undergraduate students — five who graduated in 2016 — published a report titled “The Business of Voting, Market Structure and Innovation in the Election Technology Industry.” The report claims that the current voting technology is outdated and called for the development of more reliable and advanced machinery.

The report examines barriers to innovation often faced in the industry and offers

solutions.

2016 W ha r ton graduate and current Wharton graduate student Matthew Caulfield emphasized the importance of making election technology a “salient issue.”

“Policymakers should be aware of the ‘crisis,’ and should seek advice and support from the variety of organizations out there who work in this space,” he said.

Aside from policymakers, student author and Wharton MBA student Michael Windle said it is imperative that voting technology be improved in order to ensure more Americans vote and feel comfortable in the system in place.

“Everything we can do to make the voting experience more trustworthy and more efficient is a step towards ensuring higher participation in our democratic processes,” he said.

The report cited a survey of

voters conducted in relation to the 2016 election, which found one in five Americans who voted in the presidential election reportedly did not trust that the national election results were “accurately tabulated.”

Smartmatic, a company specializing in technology solutions, released a survey in 2016 that found eight in 10 voters and nearly 90 percent of poll workers believe that more advanced technology could restore faith in the U.S. voting system.

The long-ter m solution to the crisis of the election tech nology industr y will not be achieved until policymakers acknowledge the business issues and take action in changing the inherent structure of this industry, Caulfield said. “ I n novat ion ne e d s t o happen,” he added. “I don’t think we really have a choice.”

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When religious studies professor James Pawelski was a college student, he found himself caught between his love for problem solving as a math major and his natural gravitation toward courses in humanities, where answers are less definite.

As the Director of Education and Senior Scholar in the Positive Psychology Center, Pawelski no longer has to choose. Working in the field of positive psychology lets him tackle questions in the humanities while using scientific approaches. Pawelski said he is particularly fascinated with the impact of arts and on wellbeing.

Thanks to a three-year, $2.5 million grant from Templeton Religion Trust, Pawelski will able to continue this research in this area, he said.

“I really valued the power and precision of STEM and I really valued the meaning I was able to investigate with the arts and humanities,”

Pawelski said. “I thought if there was some way to bring these things together it would be really great.”

Pawelski will work with Purdue University psychology professor Louis Tay. The two have created a model to “operationalize” the arts and humanities. They hope to generate measures which will enable them to assess the wellbeing value of the arts and humanities.

“If we think about our lives without music or movies or art or literature in any way,” Pawelski said, “what kind of a hit will our well-being take? We don’t have way yet to quantify that.”

Pawelski and Tay will continue to develop their model th rough the gra nt which kickstarts the first part of a three-phase operation, Pawelski said.

The first phase will bring together 80 experts from various disciplines of arts and huma nities to pa r ticipate in discussions mediated by Pawelski. These disciplines include: philosophy, theology/ religious studies, history, literature, music, art, theater and film. After three years, they

hope to produce eight anthologies, one for each discipline.

These anthologies, which will assess the value and effect of their respective disciplines on human life, will be used to ”[develop] a toolkit of empirical measures.”

By the end of phase one, this toolkit of measures will be available online for free.

Phase two will use the toolkit to run large-scale, in-depth studies “to look for valuable new knowledge about the various ways the arts and humanities affect well-being,” Pawelski told Penn News.

Phase three will focus on applying what was learned both to formal settings, such as the classroom, and to informal settings, such as museums and concert halls. This last phase will also focus on working with organizations in New York, Boston and Washington, D.C. Pawelski said he does not expect to conclude that “the humanities and the arts are good for everything,” because “different ways of engaging in the arts and humanities for different people will likely have different kinds of outcomes.”

SEPTA police body cameras decrease number of complaints The program has seen success since its start last year SKYLER PALATNICK Contributing Reporter

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The report, by Wharton professor Lorin Hitt and a team of six undergraduates, claims that the current voting technology is outdated and called for the development of more reliable and advanced machinery.

SEPTA’s police body camera program has proven its worth — complaints are down 25 percent, NewsWorks reported.

The entire SEPTA police

force has been outfitted with video and audio recording body cameras, which are activated when the police respond to police radio calls or engage with the public.

The program’s first audit, covering the six months after the initiative began in January 2016, showed that complaints against officers decreased, and both officer and offender injuries decreased as well, by 30 percent and 20 percent respectively.

SEPTA Police Chief Thomas Nestel said in a statement that the program was launched to ”strengthen relationships with the public by showing them the extra checks and balances this new technology provides.”

“The hope is that the need for physical force by the police will

diminish, and false allegations lodged by citizens against the police will be reduced,” Nestel said. “The cameras also serve as an added deterrent to abuse of authority.”

Although the body camera initiative seems to be effective, its implementation has had hiccups. Not all officers announced that audio recording was occurring, and more than 20 percent of randomly selected encounters didn’t have the required corresponding video.

SEPTA police said three transit police officers have been disciplined because of footage captured by their body cameras.

Nestel launched a pilot program in 2014, which involved three officers wearing body cameras.

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Rocky Steps are closed in preparation for NFL Draft The 2017 NFL draft will take place April 27-19 OLIVIA SYLVESTER Staff Reporter

As exciting as it may be that the NFL Draft will take place in Philadelphia from April 27 to 29, it doesn’t come without a price — namely, limited access to the Rocky Steps and road closures.

According to Philadelphia Magazine, the iconic steps leading

to the Philadelphia Museum of Art are now closed off due to construction of the outdoor theater for the upcoming 2017 NFL Draft.

Next week, Philadelphia will begin closing roads to prepare for the approximately 200,000 people expected to attend the draft.

Some roads will remain closed as late as May 8.

Philly.com reported that there will be a free festival on part of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway during the days of the draft that

will include attractions like the Vince Lombardi Trophy, a 100yard zip line and virtual reality exhibits.

In a separate article, Philly.com reported that tourists are “disappointed” by their inability to run up the famous Rocky Steps. In an interview with Mari Schaefer of The Philadelphia Inquirer, English tourist Shaun Kelliher said that he and his family “specifically stopped [in Philly] for a day to do the Rocky Steps.”

Penn Association of Senior & Emeritus Faculty Annual Spring Lecture 2017

David Rudovsky Senior Fellow at Penn Law

Criminal Justice Reform and Civil Rights 3:00 – 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 19, 2017 Tanenbaum 145, Penn Law School 3501 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA The lecture will be followed by a reception in the Clock Lounge.

Department of Defense and the Department of Energy.

The report broke down $10 million in federal funding that went towards sex-related research, which included Penn projects ranging from “Injury in Latina Women: Variability in Anal, Genital & Oral Injury in Women – Consensual Sex” to “ Skin Elasticity and Skin Color: Understanding Health Disparity in Sexual Assault.”

Research grants and contracts weren’t the only forms of government support for Ivy League schools. The government also provides various forms of aid grants to colleges

— in the six-year period the report investigated, Penn received $20,362,715 for the federal work-study program and $33,155,056 in Pell Grants.

The report also showed the comparatively low state funding Penn receives. W hile Cornell received $98.91 million from New York in 2015, Penn received just $19,233.

However, Penn spends the most on lobbying out of any Ivy League university — $5.3 million, a full 29 percent of the total Ivy expenditure on lobbying.

Penn also comes out at the top in total compensation paid to faculty and staff. Between fiscal years 2010 and 2014, Penn paid its employees

$13,822,616,999. Penn also had the most employees with compensations higher than $1 million — 23.

Penn President Amy Gutmann, who earned $13,134,942 between 2010 and 2014, was highlighted in the report as part of a case study in highly paid university administrators.

“Ivy League affiliations run deep for University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann, who graduated from Harvard University’s Radcliffe College before teaching and serving as provost at Princeton University, marrying a Columbia University law professor and raising a daughter who would go on to teach chemistry at Princeton,” the report said.

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What potential Quakers need to know EDITORIAL BY THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN OPINION BOARD

THURSDAY APRIL 13, 2017 VOL. CXXXIII, NO. 48 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 COLE JACOBSON Sports Editor JONATHAN POLLACK Sports Editor TOMMY ROTHMAN Sports Editor

Last month, more than two thousand applicants around the world received the news that they had been accepted for enrollment at the University of Pennsylvania. If you are one of the few thousand applicants that were accepted, we at The Daily Pennsylvanian congratulate you.

The moment we opened our emails and heard “The Red and the Blue” was one of the most exciting of our lives, so enjoy it to the fullest.

Now, you have a month to make a choice. We hope that you will seriously consider joining us in Philadelphia, and by May 1 we will be proud to call many of you our fellow Quakers. However, while each of the schools you visit will tell you that you are a perfect fit for their perfect communities, we offer this word of advice: Take a deep breath. Think critically.

Wise decision-making generally involves a sober consideration of the advantages and disadvantages of each possible option. Colleges, however, are often less effective at conveying this information than at generating hype and buzz among prospective undergraduates.

When you receive a tour or a glossy brochure from a school seeking your signature

on an enrollment contract, consider this: You are being sold a project. The school’s interests may not match your own. Indeed, there is, in all likelihood, information you need which you are deliberately not being given. Penn is by no means the only school which exhibits this phenomenon, but it is certainly no exception.

Your ability to make a wise decision, and consequently, your happiness with your ultimate choice will depend on your ability to obtain and evaluate this information.

In an effort to help you with this task, we asked our staff to tell us what they would have told themselves when they were choosing Penn. Among the responses we received, one from one of our freshman editors rang particularly true: “Not everything that you hear initially about Penn is true. Take time to reach out to students and faculty to form your own opinion, not one that is based on the pressures of your parents, friends, or community.”

Accepted students will have been told that Penn is a “large urban research university” which will provide them myriad opportunities to get involved with advanced projects in innumerable

fields and subjects. They will not have been told that the school’s focus on research means that undergraduate education is, in many instances, a lesser priority in the eyes of faculty and administrators.

At the end of the day, providing what incoming students are likely to be thinking of as their “college experience” is only one comparatively small part of what Penn does, and that will be reflected in their

know how to chill.” This is often a great part of Penn culture, as we are a community that constantly pushes itself to be better. If you are an inherently competitive person, Penn’s environment is more likely to be a great one for you.

One of our juniors writes that, “The baseline social scene at Penn is fun and reasonably accessible, but the more time you spend here,

… while each of the schools you visit will tell you that you are a perfect fit for their perfect communities, we offer this word of advice: Take a deep breath. Think critically.” day-to-day lives should they choose to attend.

As another one of our freshmen wrote, “No one warns you that applying to clubs is really hard.” This is true from a general sense: Competition is a major part of almost everything at Penn.

Put differently by a writer for 34th Street (the DP’s arts and culture magazine), “Face it: A lot of Penn students don’t

the more money you realize you need to spend.” The University itself does a reasonably good job of offering freshmen free or affordable opportunities to explore Philadelphia or have otherwise diverse and enjoyable experiences. However, participating in many social scenes at Penn requires spending more money than you would expect, and this should be taken

into consideration.

Along the same vein, life here demands a significant degree of self-sufficiency.

This is not to say that Penn does not provide resources for its students; as a sophomore writes, “Academically, take advantage of the resources Penn affords you.

Check out books, go to office hours, schedule lunches with your professors.” There exist many avenues for support inside and outside the classroom, from faculty to friends, but connecting with them usually requires individual initiative and effort.

Here, as a rule, you find little that you do not seek.

This is in large part a product of scale. You should understand that a large school like Penn simply cannot guarantee the communal intimacy that some see as essential to their expectations of a college experience. You will not necessarily see somebody you know every time you walk through campus, as you may at a small liberal arts school.

But Penn also lacks the intense school spirit that defines life at many larger universities. Despite our teams’ championships and tournament appearances, sports fandom does not exert any

significant influence on undergraduate culture. While school spirit certainly exists here, it is splintered by club, fraternity, a cappella group and team — people love their group or circle, but don’t necessarily bleed red and blue.

In many ways, life at Penn can more closely resemble independent life in a major metropolis than the cozy, communal experience familiar to the silver screen.

This fact carries no negative inherent value — your life isn’t a movie — but it is different than what you may be expecting or looking for. Indeed, many students find that they thrive in such an atmosphere; others, however, find it dismaying.

Ultimately, regardless of which school you choose, it will be up to you to get as much out of your college experience as possible. Think holistically about this choice, but ultimately, heed the advice of one of our freshman staffers: “Don’t put too much pressure on yourself to make the right decisions. Eventually, it will all work out.”

We hope that the right decision for you will be Penn.

As a freshman put it, “You should probably come to Penn. It rocks.”

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Why Penn is the ideal place to start a startup COMMON SENSE | And why everyone should build something here

When you hear “Silicon Valley types” discuss the colleges that produce the best and brightest of the startup world, Penn’s name is certainly mentioned. The real question is, why is it not on top of the list?

Granted, Stanford’s proximity to Silicon Valley gives it a leg-up, but why should Harvard or MIT usurp us in the race for the definitive east coast equivalent?

On both Business Insider’s and BestColleges. com’s rankings of the most entrepreneurial schools in the nation, which employed different criteria, Penn finished fifth. Impressive, but that’s not where you would find it on the list of schools that produce the most investment bankers.

Which is quite curious, considering how great Penn really is for starting startups.

William Fry, a senior in the College and Wharton and the founder of SolutionLoft, was awarded the 2017 President’s Innovation Prize by the University. SolutionLoft’s stated goal is to bring the power of software creation to everyone with a proprietary code engine that enables code to be re-used,

making the development process simpler and more accessible.

The prize awards his business $100,000 in funding and $50,000 as a living stipend.

Fry told me, “At Penn, you have the best resources in the world for free. You literally have experts in every field. From professors to Ph.D. students, even other undergrads. The financial resources are also a big plus. We’ve gotten $18,000 in equity-free grants and the $150,000 prize.”

Additionally, Fry is being mentored by Professor Jeffrey Babin, who teaches engineering entrepreneurship in the Engineering School.

On this academic front, Penn also has an edge.

The engineering entrepreneurship program is led

by Professor Tom Cassel, whose class I’m in right now — as in, this semester; I’m not writing this article in class, I promise.

The class is very interesting and provides a number of excellent speakers, such as Ted Schlein of venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins and Iqram Magdon-Ismail, co-founder of Venmo, who came to class on Monday.

Magdon-Ismail, interestingly, took the class himself.

It is certain to pique the interest of, if not outright inspire, any potential entrepreneurs.

But in order to really find out what makes Penn such a great school for startups, I

backseats our drivers’ cars.

Then, you just order the items you want, the nearest Pronto driver gets to you and delivers your items. If we’re ever late, for every second that we take beyond five minutes we donate a cent to charity on behalf of our customer, so if it’s a

… to push Penn to the pinnacle of the collegiate startup charts, more students have to be helping co-found companies.” founded one myself.

Stemming from my boiling anger at the slowness of traditional delivery apps, I decided to start a new one here in University City that promises to deliver snacks, drinks, beauty products, home essentials, medicines and more in under five minutes.

We call it Pronto. We do it by putting together a container of almost 100 items and storing them on the

minute late, that’s 60 cents.

After working on it for six months, we now have a team of eight and have been live for two and a half weeks, and we have successfully made 90 percent of our deliveries in under five minutes.

I couldn’t possibly think of a better place to start Pronto. When we needed to bring in a new team member to help us with logistics and organizing the driv-

ers, we were able to find a very smart undergraduate through the Wharton Supply Chain Organization.

When it came to finding customers, Penn is also an ideal place for several reasons: First, students here are not particularly fond of wasting their time. The average Penn student does not have much time to spend waiting around for their order to arrive, and so it makes them a natural fit for our product.

But even more to the point, Penn students are willing to try new startups, because they’re innovative and open to new ideas and ways of doing things. That makes them the ideal first customers for any consumer-facing startup launching on a college campus.

For students who may fear that they lack the resources to help start a business here, Fry notes that there are “tons of organizations that act as on-campus accelerators to push you along with a cohort of other student entrepreneurs, from VIP-X to PennApps Accelerator to Weiss Tech House.”

This is why everyone should help start something at Penn.

REID JACKSON As Fry said, “You have little to no downside and almost no opportunity cost.

The downside of failing is limited and you learn a ton.”

He’s absolutely right, but to push Penn to the pinnacle of the collegiate startup charts, more students have to be helping co-found companies. At Pronto, we’re always looking for more people to jump on board with smart ideas and suggestions.

This is the time to test your smartest ideas.

I hope everyone gives it a go.

REID JACKSON is a College junior from New York, and London, studying political science. His email address is reja@sas.upenn.edu. “Common Sense” usually appears every other Thursday.

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Why sorority houses aren’t allowed to have alcohol Some members don’t want this policy to change ESHA INDANI Staff Reporter

Sororities must keep their houses alcohol-free, a far cry from the rules regulating fraternities. But not all sorority members think this needs to changed.

The National Panhellenic Conference mandates in its “Policies and Best Practices” document that Panhellenic funds cannot be spent on “alcoholic beverages for any purpose.” Fraternities face no such regulation from the North-American Interfraternity Conference.

Executive Director of NPC Dani Weatherford added that this rule only applies to the organizations’ “living units.”

Sororities can host social events

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said.

High school senior Jessica Moore, who arrived on Penn’s campus Wednesday morning, said she already feels a part of the family at Penn.

“I just remember seeing one of my friends from a summer program that I did a while back,” Moore said. “I saw her and we just ran towards each other and hugged and were like ‘Are you committed?’ ‘I’m committed!’ and we’re going to be here for four years. This is the place for me.”

Class of 2021 admit Neelu Paleti said she’s impressed with the passion that Penn students have towards their studies.

“I went over to the physics table, and I’m not even interested in physics,” Paleti said.

“But seeing their enthusiasm really made me want to do something in that field.”

Prospective Quakers Lauren Payton and Alicia Lu both took

at off-campus venues or through third parties.

College junior and Panhellenic Council President Caroline Ohlson said many chapter members are unperturbed by this difference in regulations.

“This is definitely something that I have talked to leaders in every sorority in our campus about and the consensus that I’ve gotten unanimously from chapter members is that sororities would not want to host parties,” Ohlson said. “They don’t want to deal with costs associated, risk management or the damage it could create.”

However, College sophomore and Chi Omega member Jamie McCann said she feels the difference in rules regarding alcohol use in chapter houses gives fraternities a degree of social power.

“I, for one, don’t want to have to deal with parties at my house,”

part in College Palooza on Wednesday afternoon, where nearly 50 academic departments set up booths on College Green and informed the students about their respective disciplines.

“It was nice to have those people right in front of me so I could ask them direct questions and not have any ambiguity about what it would be like,” Payton said.

“Being here at College Palooza really helped me expand my interests, because I went to so many different booths,” Lu said. “Everybody talked about what was interesting about their major and how that might be something I’d be interested in.”

While Quaker Days ends today, admitted students still have items they want to cross off their bucket lists while they’re here.

“I’m also a jazz musician, so I’m looking forward to the jazz concert tomorrow,” Class of 2021 admit Vincent Le said.

McCann said. “But it also places us in an uncomfortable position where we have to rely on boys for parties and alcohol and that can definitely create an uncomfortable power dynamic.”

College sophomore and member of off-campus organization OAX Abby McGuckin agreed, adding she thinks people who go to fraternity parties feel a sense of debt towards the house hosting the event.

“The brothers host this party and it’s free, but its transactional,” McGuckin said. “I have a feeling that you have to pay something back. There is definitely a cost associated with it.”

Weatherford said these rules for sororities stem from the context in which sororities were founded — a time when restrictions for women were more stringent.

An NPC document on the

history of the organization said sororities were founded during a time of “restrictive social customs, unequal status under the law and the underlying presumption that they were less able than men.”

“Sororities were founded at a time when women on college campuses were, at best, only grudgingly accepted by their male peers,” Weatherford said in an email statement. “As a result, our primary purpose was to equip our members to persevere in an environment that was anything but welcoming.”

Widespread social change in the 1960s and 1970s meant that universities were no longer expected to act “in loco parentis” — establishing curfews and other policies — but instead take a more hands-off approach to monitoring student behavior. In response, fraternities and

sororities had to search for new ways to encourage students to make responsible choices.

In 1975 the NPC banned alcohol and the participation of men in the recruitment process.

This continued into the 1990s with resolutions adopted at its 1997, 1998 and 2001 sessions to encourage alcohol-free social events.

Weatherford defended the policies that ban alcohol from chapter houses.

“Those policies are not only national best practices, but they mirror countless university policies already in place nationwide,” Weatherford said in an email statement to The Daily Pennsylvanian. “For social functions, our member groups’ goals are simple: to make sure that they create an environment that is safe – particularly if alcohol is present.”

The NIC places no regulations

on member fraternities mandating them to keep their chapter houses substance-free. However, they are prohibited from “alcohol and drug use at any formal, informal and summer/break recruitment activities” according to the NIC’s position statement on recruitment.

The NIC did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

The Interfraternity Council did not respond to requests for comment.

Ohlson said that although no chapter member has yet questioned the validity of the substance-free policy, should any member want to, she would be open to discuss it with them.

“I think they should feel empowered to do so,” Ohlson said.

“I definitely encourage them to voice that opinion and I would be happy to help if that’s something people want.”

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After coming up short, Penn golf and crew look for improvement

Quakers prep for more Ivy League challenges PAUL HARRYHILL Sports Reporter

As Penn men’s golf looks to respond from a frustrating finish at last week’s Princeton Invitational, the Quakers will get another chance to face Ivy competition when they travel to New Haven for the Yale Spring Invitational on Saturday. Here are three things to watch as the Red and Blue seek redemption: Forget last week’s 11th-place finish, the Quakers are in a much better place than they were at the beginning of this semester In an interview just after spring break, sophomore Josh Goldenberg said that the team’s last-place finish at the Colleton River Collegiate was “absolutely not� indicative of what the team is actually capable of. He stated that the team’s combined score of +81 over the 54-hole tournament was partially due to the long break from competitive play and the rust from that. Junior Amay Poria asserted that, “it’s definitely not a representation of how we’re going to play the rest of the spring.�

They were right.

In the Colleton River Collegiate, the five players posted an average combined score of 315 over three rounds. In late March at the Towson Spring

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weekend was that we got everybody in. We have a lot of kids on this team that don’t have that opportunity to get into a game,�

Penn coach Karin Corbett said. “It’s a long season, and they work hard and prepare us every day, so to have that opportunity to take control of a game and get them in is always a goal of the coaching staff. It makes them feel like they are even more of a part of the team because they were on the field for that win.�

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Invitational, the average was 304. Last weekend, it was all the way down to 299.

The course at Yale does not treat the Red and Blue well.

Last spring, the men’s golf team’s worst performance came at this very meet. The best performing Quaker, Poria, was tied for 45th place, and the team finished a combined +73 over the 36 holes of play — last place in the 13-team field.

At the same course this fall, the Red and Blue put in a similarly uninspiring performance.

This season, the combined score was brought down to a more respectable +46, but the team still finished close to the bottom (13th of 15).

The course is undeniably challenging, as evidenced by its 132 slope rating, a common measure of difficulty in a course (for comparison, the Old Course at St. Andrew’s, which hosted the British Open in 2015, also has a 132 rating). Nonetheless, the Quakers need to get over their run of poor play at the New Havenbased course in order to contend.

The team is at its best when Matt Kern is at his best Arguably the team’s two best performances this season — the fourth-place finish (of 15 teams) at the Quechee Club Collegiate Challenge, and the eighth-place finish (of 22 teams) at the Towson Spring Invitational — were both accompanied by stellar performances from senior

Matt Kern. At the Quechee Challenge, he shot 74 and 71 in the two rounds, which tied him for the best on the team and was good for seventh place overall.

In the Towson Invitational, he totaled +7 over 36 holes of play, which was the second lowest Penn score behind junior Carter Thompson and secured him a tie for 30th place in the massive field. As Kern goes, the Quakers follow.

But Penn men’s golf isn’t the only team looking to respond from a tough weekend, as both men’s heavyweight crew and lightweight crew also came up short last weekend in Ivy League competitions. Fortunately, both teams have a quick turnaround and another chance to win some hardware this Saturday.

Due to the large amounts of rainfall, all competitions last weekend were moved from the Schuylkill River to Princeton, which may have played a part in the Quakers’ inability to top the leaderboard.

For the lightweight side, last weekend’s Matthews TrophyLeonard Cup was its first taste of competitive rowing since October. Competing with the Red and Blue were Cornell and Harvard, and it was the Big Red who asserted themselves. Cornell’s Varsity 8 covered 2,000 meters in 6:16.9, with the Crimson and Quakers following closely behind with times of 6:19.2 and 6:22.8, respectively.

going into this matchup is the strength of the Penn defense, which has kept opposing teams to single digits on the scoreboard in each of the past three outings.

Moreover, on average, the Red and Blue have been locking down the crease, conceding only 7.27 goals per game in all competitions.

Senior defender Megan Kelly feels that her crew will only improve on that stat going forward. “We’re working together to strengthen our zone the best it can be. And in games and practices, we’re working out the kinks as we go along,� Kelly

said.

This weekend’s hosts will likely test that assertion, as Columbia is looking to build upon its latest Ivy victory over Yale last Saturday, a 15-14 shootout. Right now, the Lions sit right behind the Quakers in the standings at fifth place and fourth place, respectively, so this contest means a tremendous amount to both sides. Having also crushed Dartmouth by netting 17 times, there’s no question this Columbia team has the skill to ruffle some feathers of heavyweight teams.

Noting their recent triumphs,

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After securing the Red and Blue’s top-place finish in the team’s 11th place finish last time out, sophomore Josh Goldenberg will need some help if the Quakers are to improve this weekend in New Haven.

The heavyweights fared better in their first Ivy League race, but were unable to overcome the Princeton Varsity 8’s time of 6:18.9 to win the Childs Cup. Their time of 6:21.4 was good for second place, finishing almost 14 seconds in front of last-place Columbia.

This weekend, the lightweight team will travel to New Haven to participate in the Dodge Cup,

where it will compete against Ivy League foes Columbia and Yale.

Expect the team to challenge for the top after getting the rust off last week.

The heavyweights will follow them up to Yale to also square off against Columbia and Yale but for the Blackwell Cup. Coach Geoff Bond did not shy away from emphasizing the importance of Ivy League showdowns

like this, but he feels that the team is in a good position to succeed after the extensive finetuning the team did earlier this spring. “[The cup races] provide opportunities for you to work out lineups, look at combinations and so forth,� he said. “They’re very much about development ... but the big show is at the end of the season.�

Corbett is keenly aware of the Lions’ ability and is prepping her team accordingly. “They are a good team and we have to prepare for them just as we would prepare for any other on our schedule,� she said. “They are the best Columbia team we’ve seen in a long time. They have two wins already in the league, so we have to come to play.�

Assuming the Penn defense is no-nonsense as per usual, the question remains about the productivity of the offense. Despite last week’s goal extravaganza, this team has struggled of late to consistently find the back of the

net.

Discussing the mentality shift after the Dartmouth win, Kelly explained, “We have some really great attackers and midfielders, so everyone can score. It’s just about helping each other on the attack and supporting the unit.�

This weekend is particularly crucial for Penn, seeing as the league leaders Cornell, Princeton, and Harvard will face bottom-feeders Dartmouth, Yale, and Brown, respectively. While anything is possible, it’s quite unlikely that they will cede any ground to Penn from these contests, placing added pressure on

the Quakers.

With a good chunk of the season in the rearview mirror, Kelly and company are looking ahead to tournament season with high hopes. “We’ve been talking about it since the beginning of the season. The goal is a national championship, so we need to play our best every game,� Kelly said. “It’s not enough just to get by with a win.�

Once again, the Quakers will have something to prove when they take the field in Morningside Heights, with the weight of a title chase hanging over them.

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ANDREW ZHENG Associate Sports Editor

The Ivy season may not even be halfway done, but Penn tennis is starting to see its positions in the league become clearer.

Last weekend, the men dropped their opening matches to the daunting duo of Columbia and Cornell, both of which are ranked in the top-25.

At the same time, the women fell to Columbia on Friday before upsetting first-place Cornell in a 4-3 nailbiter.

With these results, the men (13-8, 0-2 Ivy) are tied for sixth with Brown and Princeton, while the women (8-8, 1-2) sit in fifth ZACH SHELDON | SPORTS PHOTO EDITOR alongside Dartmouth and Columbia. As they stand, both standings For Penn to get on the board in Ivy League play, sophomore star Kyle in Ancient Eight tennis look pretty Mautner will need to bring another trademark performance this weekend. similar, but the general sentiments across both teams seem to differ win in conference play.

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In her final season, Kana Daniel a strong note – or ideally five.

When the Dartmouth women is still hungry for that Ivy League “I think everyone’s goal is to (11-6, 2-1) come to Philadelphia, title, but the No. 90 nationally run the table for the rest of the the Quakers will certainly be ranked singles player and her year,” Geatz said. looking to move up the standings team acknowledge that they can’t Sophomore Kyle Mautner idenand make a run at Harvard, who control the results of other teams, tified grabbing the doubles point are the league’s only undefeated especially in a league that has as being crucial to the team’s efteam in conference play. At the demonstrated so much parity this forts to string five wins together. same time, with two losses in season.

“We were right there with two hand, women’s head coach Sanela Last year’s finish was somewhat top-25 teams. The score doesn’t Kunovac is just as concerned with of an anomaly with Princeton win- really reflect how close the the team’s development. ning the league outright with a 5-2 matches really were,” Mautner “The points, the wins and losses record and a number of teams said. are no longer going to be our standing close behind at 4-3. KuEven with some of the posifocus,” Kunovac said. “The focus novac believes this season might tives that can be taken from last is going to be the process of trust- fall into a similar pattern, leading weekend, there’s no such thing as ing our training and doing what the Red and Blue to conduct their an easy Ivy League match. Brown we’ve done up to this point. business without too much con- (11-7, 0-2) and Yale (15-6, 1-2) will “If we’ve trained enough, and cern for results across the league. be no pushovers.

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Penn men’s lacrosse will be headed up to Harvard this weekend in what is likely a must-win game for both teams if they hope to make it to the Ivy Tournament for a chance at an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament in May. The Quakers (4-5, 1-3 Ivy) currently sit at sixth place in the Ivy League standings, while the Crimson (5-5, 1-2) are one spot ahead at number five. Having already accumulated three losses in the conference, Penn will likely need to win out and get further help from other teams in the conference to keep Harvard and Cornell (currently holding the fourth and final Ivy Tournament spot) from making it to the playoffs.

Luckily for the Red and Blue, they have a relatively easy schedule remaining in the conference; after this weekend, their sole remaining Ivy foe will be the basement-dwelling Big Green of Dartmouth, a team that has yet to register a win in the conference.

That being said, the Quakers know they will have to make adjustments to their game if they hope to sneak into the tourney.

“It’s pretty simple actually: we’ve got to win faceoffs,” Penn coach Mike Murphy said.

“Against a team like Brown, if you have ten less possessions, it’s hard to overcome the disparity in the number of opportunities. We’re going to have to execute better all over the field, but the possession part is really significant.”

One positive note for the

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If the Red and Blue are going to put a stop to Harvard’s attack, senior defenseman Kevin Gayhardt will have to make his presence felt.

Quakers is that sophomore goalie Reed Junkin returned to peak form against one of the nation’s most prolific offenses last week, tying a career-high by making an astounding 17 saves. Junkin hit a bit of a sophomore slump in the weeks leading up to that, posting lower figures for save percentage and saves per game this year than he had last year.

But to his credit, he was able to bounce back with an all-star performance against the powerful Brown offense at just the right time for the Quakers. They will need him to step up again this week, as Harvard attackman Morgan Cheek averages 2.9 goals per game, good for tenth in the nation.

However, the team knows it will take more than just one player to propel them into the Ivy League tournament. The upperclassmen and captains will have to rely on their wisdom and maturity to play up to their potential while also making sure that the players around them are playing their best games.

“More than anything, we’re just trying to be positive with everyone,” senior captain Tyler Earley said. “Obviously an important game, but the season is still completely in our destiny for the most part, and it’s never good to get caught up in looking ahead.

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moment. We’ve been playing really good lacrosse at certain points in the season, but right now we’re just really trying to focus on details within the system and getting better at those.”

It’s a long road ahead, but if the Quakers catch their stride at the right time, they have a good chance to not only make the tournament, but to win it; excluding the game against Princeton, the average margin of victory in the Ivy games Penn has played so far has been just two goals. Its 1-3 record doesn’t tell the full story.

While the chances of getting an at-large bid to the NCAA tourney are slim, a string of quality wins against Ivy teams could garner the Quakers an automatic bid into bracket, where they haven’t made an appearance since 2014, when players like Earley were just freshmen.

“It would mean everything [to make the NCAA Tournament].

Our goal, especially this year, is always to win a national championship,” Earley said. “For every class that comes through Penn, the goal is to leave the program better than you found it. We came here and we were lucky enough to be part of a great team right off the bat, so leaving the program better than we found it would mean going even further in the NCAA Tournament, and we believe we can do it.”

VARSITY TENNIS

WIN OR GO HOME

While club tennis has a huge weekend, men’s and women’s varsity have a big one of their own

Down in the Ivy League, Penn men’s lacrosse faces a do-or-die game against Harvard

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Columbia (7-5, 2-2 Ivy)

No. 10 Penn (9-2, 2-1 Ivy) New York, N.Y.

Penn club tennis readies for biggest stage of year

One of Penn’s top club teams heads down to Florida for club national tournament SARA YOUNG Sports Reporter

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seek to close gap in Ivy League

GREG ROBINOV Sports Reporter

It’s on to the next one.

That’s the mentality for Penn women’s lacrosse as it prepares to take on Columbia this weekend in New York.

Saturday’s afternoon battle represents another hurdle for the No. 10 Quakers (9-2, 2-1 Ivy) in their quest to secure a piece of the Ancient Eight title.

Now in the final stretch of the season, the remaining conference games are essentially all must-wins, and the Lions (7-5, 2-2) won’t be making that easy.

Luckily, Penn will head north with confidence running high after dispatching Dartmouth by a score of 17-6 this past weekend at Franklin Field. This decisive victory featured the hosts putting seven different names on the score sheet, doubling the visitor’s shot tally, and forcing 16 turnovers.

The box score included a more diverse list of names than usual, with 21 Quakers finding themselves minutes during the contest.

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Of the many club sports teams at Penn, club tennis can always count itself among the most successful in comparison to its yearly competition. A highly competitive club with a notoriously cutthroat tryout process, club tennis has a knack for attracting skilled talent from across campus and is therefore awarded the opportunity to be as selective as it pleases.

Only the best are allowed the privilege to compete, as the tryout process trims the team down to an elite group — a group which surprised no one when it announced that it’ll be headed to the USTA Tennis On Campus National Championship this week.

Joined by over 64 college and university co-ed teams, Penn will compete for bragging rights and the distinguished title of National Champion from April 13th-15th in Orlando, Florida.

Previous championships have been dominated by California teams such as UC Berkeley, UCLA, and University of California, and by Texas A&M in the earlier 2000’s. Penn hasn’t been able to capture a title in the past 16 years, but the exponential rise in the group’s intensity and dedication gives them a better shot at the title with each passing year.

“They [USTA] have 4 teams from our section going, and we’re the first-seeded team. We got that seed because we won the sectional championship in the fall, which is huge because we’ve been to nationals at least the last five years, but we haven’t been the first seed since I’ve been here,” senior Ashley Berg said.

A top player and a former team captain, Berg projected optimism and enthusiasm about the team’s prospects in the sunshine state despite their placement in a competitive pool alongside defending national champion Auburn.

“When we’re there, we do have a tough pool,” she said.

“Auburn is the reigning national champion and they’re a No. 2 seed in our pool, but we did get to watch them last year and I think we have a pretty good chance of beating them.”

As the Quakers edge closer and closer to their desired standing in the national rankings, specific goals begin to emerge and encourage the squad to work harder and reach higher to earn the status they deserve.

“In the past we’ve ranked around 20th to 25th in the nation after going through nationals, so I think trying to beat that and getting top 20 would be really awesome for our team,” Berg said. “We have a lot of returning players — a lot of really good players — so I think we’re going to do pretty well there this year.”

Although the Red and Blue focus heavily on victory and take no match lightly, the team-wide emphasis on a good time and a culture of fun and inclusion cannot go unnoticed.

“We do a lot of social events; we’ll do team dinners, team BYO’s, and it’s interesting because we’re a co-ed team while a lot of teams are single-sex,” Berg commented on the team’s unique and easy-going culture. “We’ll do things like club tennis formal, and most of our tournaments don’t depend on how good you are or how you’re ranked on the team, so that definitely keeps things a bit lighter.”

As the recent sun and elevated temperatures in Philadelphia prepare the Quakers for the heat of Orlando, we’ll be waiting eagerly to see just how well the squad of ten can balance the fervor of competition and this light-hearted attitude of club play to earn a top spot in the nation.

Oxford, Cambridge visit for Saturday showdown

TRACK | Cornell will also

join at Transatlantic Meet

WILL SNOW Senior Sports Editor

With the arrival of Quaker Days, students from all over the world have come to Penn this week to see what the University has to offer. This weekend, we’ll be getting even more.

Penn track and field’s annual Transatlantic Meet will take place at Franklin Field on Saturday, with Ivy League heavyweights Cornell coming to Philadelphia along with a pair of English powerhouses in Oxford and Cambridge.

The quad meet should showcase the best and brightest from both sides of the pond — and that opportunity is one Penn coach Steve Dolan respects greatly.

“It’s a very long-standing tradition: it’s got some great

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Junior sprinter Taylor McCorkle is looking forward to hosting her counterparts from across the pond — but the Ivy League’s second-seeded 100m dash runner will have to focus first on pursuing new personal bests.

history,” Dolan said of the now 50-year old meet. “It’s pretty amazing.”

As Penn plays this year’s host, the athletes will get to enjoy the

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experience of showing their British visitors a good time. In an act of hospitality, the Quakers will shack up the athletes from Oxford and Cambridge in their

own dorms and houses, and the captains of the team will even take their visitors out for dinner on Saturday night.

The chance to host such

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esteemed visitors appealed to team captain Taylor McCorkle.

“I’m sure we’ll all have a bonding experience,” the junior sprinter said. “I’m not so much nervous as I am excited to be around them. Because they’re very smart people.”

But on Saturday morning, there will be no room for friendship, as many of the Quakers continue to seek out personal bests and NCAA qualificationworthy marks, with the season building up to a peak.

The countdown to Penn Relays is at just over two weeks, while the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships take place the following weekend. Obtaining good seeding for those meets is crucial, making the next pair of events all the more important.

McCorkle will look to better what has already been an historic season for her. Having broken the school record for the 100meter dash as well as the 4x100m

relay with three of her teammates, the junior now has her eyes set on Ivy League glory. She is currently seeded second in the 100m and fourth in the 200.

“I’m just really happy for her,” Dolan said of the captain. “She’s had up to this point — knock on wood — a very healthy season, and a successful season, indoors and outdoors. After all, she’s a team captain. The team elected her captain because she has such a great work ethic, and attitude as well.”

As for the whole team, it’s no surprise what Dolan is looking for.

“We want to keep progressing.”

With a number of records already shattered so far this season, the Quakers will see if they can continue to progress on Saturday. If they can, then maybe dinner with their English colleagues will be a little extra enjoyable.

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