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Funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities and National Endowment for the Arts would be cut under Trumpʼs proposed budget – and Penn programs could suffer.

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Penn’s professors, libraries and museums have received millions of dollars of funding from the federal government over the last few decades — all of which could disappear under President Donald Trump’s proposed budget.

Trump recently announced plans to eliminate funding for the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. For a large research institution like Penn that has received funding from the federal government for humanities research, this policy could drastically change many of the University’s current programs.

Since 1977, Penn researchers have received approximately $23 million from NEH awards: $9.2 million in the 1980s, $8 million in the 1990s and $5.9 million from 2000 to date, a Penn administrator said, who asked to remain anonymous.

The NEA has also granted Penn researchers approximately $3.6 million since 1982: $1.8 million in the 1980s, $1.1 million in the 1990s and $683,000 from 2000 to date.

Bonnie Gibson, the vice president for budget and management analysis, said in 2016, Penn received $30,000 from the NEA and $50,400 from the NEH. She added that the

awards fluctuate annually. Over the past six years, the largest amount that the NEH has awarded Penn in one year was $800,000 and the lowest was $50,000.

With so much at stake, professors and administrators have been working to advocate against these potential budget cuts.

Religious Studies professor Steven Weitzman recently co-wrote a faculty petition denouncing Trump’s proposed budget signed by 191 Penn faculty from various departments.

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How Penn makes sure you don’t trip on Locust Walk

Wharton prof.’s course is notoriously hard to get into

Many hours of inspection go into its beautification and upkeep

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Locust Walk is the trademark walkway on Penn’s campus, but it can be a headache as well — Penn is legally responsible for injuries that happen on their sidewalks and pathways.

“In the city of Philadelphia, the sidewalks are the responsibility of the owners to maintain,” Penn Executive Director of Operations and Maintenance Faramarz Vakilizadeh said. “If you trip and fall in front of somebody’s house walking down the street, that house owner is liable.”

Making the Walk safe is time-intensive.

Vakilizadeh said many hours go into its beautification and upkeep, and the walk is under continuous inspection for safety and cleanliness.

During the winter months, Penn Maintenance uses a special salt and equipment to mitigate environmental impact and minimize damage.

“At the end of the day, we need to balance the safety of our pedestrians and the environmental impact of what we do,” Vakilizadeh said. “And [not] create bigger problems for ourselves by damaging [things] and then having to go fix them.”

Engineering freshman Nika Kunwar has seen multiple people take tumbles on Locust, as well as on other parts of campus.

“One woman literally fell in the middle of the street in front of the Quad and it was terrifying,” Kunwar said.

College freshman Isabella Pilotta has tripped on Locust herself, but thinks it is

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Wharton professor Adam Grant has frequently criticized Penn’s campus culture as “hyper-competitive,” yet denied 180 students the chance to take his course.

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Wharton’s youngest tenured and highest-rated professor, Adam Grant, has been an outspoken critic of Penn’s cutthroat environment — but also teaches a class that is unusually competitive to even get into.

The irony has not been lost on Penn students. Although most do not blame Grant for the difficulty of getting into the class, some students say that there could be alternative ways of getting

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access to the class material.

The class, “MGMT 238: Organizational Behavior,” examines individual, interpersonal and group effectiveness at work. There is an extensive application process to gain admission to the course, and students were notified via email whether or not they had been accepted.

According to the email sent out to applicants, over 250 people applied for only 70 spots.

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Engineering seniors’ gadget keeps refugees warm The inventors focused on making Ember affordable LEXI LIEBERMAN Staff Reporter

Four Penn undergraduate students have created a project that will have a tangible impact on refugees’ lives.

Engineering seniors Mazin Blaik, Stephen Michalowski, Justin Gonsalves and Kellen Sanna are the creators of Ember, a device that attaches to a heater and allows it to work more efficiently. In particular, it was designed to be attached to wood stoves used by Syrian refugees, specifically in Lebanon.

“This is an attachment that attaches onto the exhaust pipe of the wood burning stove, and it captures some of the heat that is being lost through the exhaust,” Sanna said. “So it doesn’t

generate its own heat; it just retains more of the heat from the fire, so the fire becomes more efficient through that manner.”

Blaik is of Lebanese origin, and his aunt works with Syrian refugees at the World Bank. He spoke with her about what type of humanitarian aid was needed; her answer was that Lebanon winters can get very cold, so a top priority was heat preservation.

“We wanted to do something humanitarian, something that helps people,” Blaik said. “It’s tough for refugees to stay warm, so we were wondering how they did that. And when we saw what they use — which is just a wood stove — we saw room for improvement. That’s where Ember comes in.”

Since the group does not have the capability to mass-produce Ember, they plan on keeping the

project on a small scale for now, continuing to run more experiments to refine the product.

And they said they don’t see the product being useful for a market beyond refugees.

“This technology does exist in large industrial scales,” Sanna said. “But there’s not really an audience for this product outside of refugees, because there are not many people living permanently in tents in cold areas.”

Sanna pointed out that longterm campers could benefit from Ember, but that the true intention behind their creation is to help refugees.

“They’re living in these conditions because they’re forced to,” he said. “Lebanon doesn’t have official refugee camps, so it’s just private landowners who are allowing them to basically squat on their land, and so that’s why this problem exists.”

Since all four team members are graduating this year, the future of Ember remains unclear.

As part of their mechanical engineering class, they need to publish their full project plan online, which leaves several possibilities for the future open.

“One option we have is to open it up for other organizations to continue our work,” Michalowski said. “The other option is for us to kind of continue this as a side project while we go our respective ways after graduation.”

Ideally, the group would refine the product by running more tests. During initial tests of the product, they experimented in Blaik’s backyard in West Philadelphia, running about 72 hours of tests.

“Based on the testing, Ember reduces fuel consumption by one third,” Blaik said. “So you can use a third less fuel with

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The seniors came up with the idea of Ember in a mechanical engineering class, but the project’s future remains unclear after they graduate.

Ember and still achieve the same amount of warmth.”

“We really focused on making Ember affordable,” Michalowski

added.

According to Michalowski, the retail cost of the product will be just $67.

Sotheby’s CEO among Penn Wharton China Summit panelists Summit included opportunitites for networking ADELAIDE POWELL Contributing Reporter

Back for its second year, the Penn Wharton China Summit brought leaders in technology, media, commercial real estate and fashion to Penn’s campus this weekend.

The theme “The World to China: Challenges in SupplySide Reform, China to the World: Integration in Globalization Strategy” guided the conference, which was held Friday through Sunday at various locations across campus.

More than 1,500 people attended the conference, including students from across the country and the globe as well as

volunteers and working professionals. The summit consisted of nine panels, opportunities for networking, recruitment sessions, social events and a career fair.

Speakers at the panels included Chinese real estate developer and Chair of SOHO China Pan Shiyi, fashion icon Chen Man, Sotheby’s CEO Tad Smith and the Chinese Consulate General in New York Qiyue Zhang.

Yijing Liu, the internal director of the summit and a College and Wharton sophomore, said she was “most excited about the guest speakers’ speeches at panels because each of our speakers is a well-renowned expert at his or her field.”

At last year’s summit, panel speakers included the Chinese Ambassador to the United States

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The Penn Wharton China Summit featured well-known speakers such as fashion icon Chen Man, the Chinese Consulate General in New York Qiyue Zhang and offered recruitment sessions and social events.

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the Teachers College of Columbia University, volunteered as a translator for the conference.

Most of the panels were in Chinese, but headsets were available for English translation.

“During the panels, all of the professionals from the different fields were talking about cultural exchanges and being part of communities,” Su said. “You truly are a participating member

in a community when you experience the culture by visiting its museums and galleries,” she added.

Tinman Fung, a freshman at Penn State who is originally from Shenzhen, China, heard about the conference through the Chinese Student Association at his school. He knew about ten other Penn State students who came to the summit and said he was excited to explore Penn’s campus.

“I’ve attended all of the panels so far and I’ve been surprised by the spirit of the speakers here,” he said.

Fung said he was inspired by the ambition of the entrepreneurs on the panels who have attitudes of, “sticking with what you want to do until you get there.” He added that he hoped the summit would promote greater dialogue between the business communities in China and the U.S.

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Penn’s grad. student union campaign dates back a decade U. enlisted anti-union law firms to defeat GET-UP NATALIE KAHN Staff Reporter

In February 2003, Penn graduate students placed ballots in a box in Houston Hall. After two days, organizers sealed the box and sent it to the National Labor Relations Board so the votes could be counted.

To this day — 14 years later — no results have been released. No one knows if the student worker union in question would have been established.

The campaign among graduate students to unionize under the name Graduate Employees Together — University of Pennsylvania is not new. According to GET-UP’s website, the organization began in the fall of 2000 after the NLRB recognized New York University’s graduate students’ right to unionize as employees and thus set a new precedent in higher education.

Todd Wolfson, a 2009 College Ph.D. graduate and former member of GET-UP, said he and the members of the original GET-UP, known now as GET-UP 1.0, believed at that time that they would have been able to unionize, following NYU’s example.

But he explained that the problem was the political climate. NYU won their right under President Bill Clinton, who left office in 2001 and took his pro-labor views with him.

The GET-UP website says Penn was reticent to allow its graduate students to form a labor union in the early 2000s.

Not only did the administration enlist anti-union law firms to delay the initial election for more than a year, they also refused to recognize the election after it happened, instead seeking to “overturn the legal precedent that protected graduate students’ right to organize at private universities.”

In 2004, GET-UP’s website says President George W. Bush appointed new NLRB members who overturned the precedent from NYU. As a result, Wolfson said, the election was ruled invalid and the votes were impounded, never to be counted.

Wolfson called this “abominable.”

He said he thinks the results

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Although GET-UP has gained traction, the movement dates back to 2000 after the NLRB recognized NYU students rights to unionize.

of an exit poll that The Daily Pen nsylva n ia n conducted during the election support that the pro-union side would have won. According to the original article in the DP from March 2003, 60.4 percent of eligible voters in the election voted yes; 35 percent voted no, and 4.6 percent chose not to reveal their opinion to the pollers.

The article referred to Ed George, a Wharton statistics professor, who said that the results fell within “95 percent confidence intervals.”

Since the vote included those who would not be covered by the union in the form of “challenge ballots” — only to be counted in certain circumstances — the article explained that this opposition could have swayed the vote, but, since the votes were never counted, nobody will know.

Joe Wuest, a fourth-year School of Arts and Sciences Ph.D. student and a member of the current iteration of GETUP, said that he does not regard GET-UP 1.0’s effort as unsuccessful — although it may not have resulted in a union, it caused other changes on campus.

Joe Kable, a 2004 Perelman School of Medicine Ph.D. graduate and former GET-UP member, added that the union inspired more participation from graduate students across the University.

“It sort of energized them,” he said. “I think that there were

lots of positive effects even though not all the goals were achieved.”

Wolfson provided specifics — he explained that before GET-UP, doctoral students would come to Penn with funding packages that spanned from zero to five years and did not receive health care. Now, there are standardized funding packages by department — such as those from the School of Arts and Sciences that guarantee most students five academic years — and health care for everyone.

“These things would not have happened … without us organized,” he said. “It’s not like one day [former president] Judith Rodin or Amy Gutmann woke up and were like, ‘Oh, I’m really worried about graduates wanting health care.’”

Still, Wolfson, Kable and Wuest agree that there remains progress to be made. Although there were advances, there still does not exist a contract, Kable said.

Wuest worries that the current efforts could end in the same manner as the previous one due to the current conservative political climate.

“It’s really kind of sick, in some senses,” he said. “Amy Gutmann has named Trump a bad guy in terms of the ban and it’s great, but it is kind of strange that administrators are basically waiting for Trump to change the NLRB [so it] can take our right again.”

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in place to determine schedules — older students have preference.

But seniority wasn’t the primary factor Grant used to select the class members of MGMT 238. In an email sent to the applicants who failed to gain admission to the course, Grant explained how he went about forming the class.

“After aggregating the assessments, the ultimate decisions were not a reflection of individual merit,” he wrote. “The goal was to create a class with diverse interests, experiences, and viewpoints.”

Grant did not respond to a request for comment.

Wharton sophomore Audrey Goldberg was among the 70 who were admitted to the class. She said that was she happy to be in the class, but wished it could be more accessible.

“I didn’t interpret this as competitiveness, but I do wish there were more sections so more kids would have the opportunity to take it,” she said.

Goldberg added that she liked how this application had unique

writing prompts that left room for interpretation.

“It kind of reminded me of the college application process in that you don’t really know what they’re looking for, so you kind of just answer the best you can,” she said.

She also felt that the application process was more focused on picking a diverse class than on pitting students against each other.

Wharton senior Chris Hua agreed that there should be more sections of the class given the course’s high demand. He applied for the class in the fall but did not get in, and since he is a senior, he will never have the chance to take the class.

“It’s unreasonable for them to let everyone in, but it’s also surprising that he wouldn’t be willing to teach two sections of the class, especially when it’s clear there’s so much demand for it,” he said.

According to Hua, other popular classes in Wharton are more available to students who do not get into the course. He says in some courses, students can audit the class and watch lectures on Canvas even if they are not officially enrolled in the course — he

wishes Grant’s class had options like that.

Wharton sophomore Jillian Li, who was accepted into MGMT 238, recognized that Grant’s class was very difficult to get into.

But she believes that he is not to blame for the competitiveness that surrounded gaining admission to the course.

“He’s only one person,” she said. “In terms of the demand of his class, there’s only so much he can do in terms of accommodating every single person.”

A Wharton junior who was rejected from the class was frustrated after he did not get in, especially because of his genuine interest in the subject matter.

He said he wished to remain anonymous because he was embarrassed after not getting in.

“I was planning on concentrating in Management — I can’t even get into a Management class, and I’m a junior. Priority should be going to rising seniors … like, I can’t even take a class in the concentration I want to pursue,” he said.

“It dawned on me afterwards that he [Grant] does talk a lot about how Penn has a very hypercompetitive culture … but his class is impossible to get into.”

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fairly well maintained.

“I have done it myself a couple of times, usually once a week, [on] the bricks that are well lodged into the ground, but are uneven.”

Va k ilizadeh noted that sometimes they are removed

by Penn students hoping to keep a memento of their college years.

“I don’t want to call it stealing, I think a lot of people decide to have one for memories,” Vakilizadeh said. “The brick does not just suddenly leave by itself, someone has taken it.”

Despite these instances, Vakilizadeh says missing bricks are “not a massive problem.”

“For us, the top priority is people’s safety,” he said.

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MONDAY APRIL 17, 2017 VOL. CXXXIII, NO. 49 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

The footage that came out of Syria last week is beyond description. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s chemical attack against his own people is nearly impossible to watch.

The realities of this act of war, as well as all of the atrocities of this six-year-long conflict, are unbearable. These are crimes against humanity — a holocaust.

So resonant were these particular images that they provoked a complete reversal of President Trump’s policies.

It took merely three months for an administration built on “America First” isolationist rhetoric to engage in unilaterally executed acts of war. Not only did the Trump administration launch 59 Tomahawk missiles into Syria, but it also escalated the 16-year-long conflict in Afghanistan, dropping the largest non-nuclear bomb in the American arsenal.

Make no mistake — this rapid turn towards heightened military involvement comes with no outright goals, no articulated long term strategy and no sense of limited intervention.

Once again, the United States is diving headfirst into a civil war it is in no way capable of suc-

cessfully maneuvering, from either a military or humanitarian perspective.

The Syrian Civil War is by no means clean cut. It began with 2011’s Arab Spring, when protests rose up against totalitarianism throughout the Arab world.

Assad responded to political dissention by committing war crimes against his own citizens.

Much of the conflict has dissolved into sectarianism, exacerbated by foreign intervention by the United States, Russia, Iran and Turkey, as well as by the Islamic State group.

As recently as two weeks ago, the outward aim of the Trump administration was to defeat IS in the region. This would, to a certain extent, necessitate that Assad, a murderous dictator, stay in power. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson decried that the Syrian people would decide the fate of Assad. United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley said removing Assad from power was “no longer a priority.”

Now the Trump administration has directly attacked Assad.

Does Trump know this is at odds with his reported goal of removing IS from the region?

Does he know that this would likely put him in direct conflict

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… action without a plan — and without answers to the relevant and necessary questions being asked — is extraordinarily dangerous.” cally worked to stymie the already far too small numbers of Syrian refugees permitted into the United States. And now, as Syrians attack other Syrians and the United States attacks the already war-torn region, our nation closes its borders. The administration cannot claim its mission is humanitarian if it is creating more death and more

Clinton — instead, the nation’s leader has shown his true colors to be far more of a hawk, without the respect for information, diplomacy and human dignity.

While crimes against humanity must have consequences, there are copious issues with what appears to a simply pathologically driven response to the footage of last week — a re-

sponse without a plan for future course of action.

This is not to say action need not be taken. Supporters on both sides of the aisle have been quick to reply to Trump’s action, saying that the crisis in Syria requires an international hand and input by Congress. Regardless of partisanship, such statements have merit, considering the longevity and horrific nature of the civil war in Syria. Yet, action without a plan — and without answers to the relevant and necessary questions being asked — is extraordinarily dangerous.

Was this simply a demonstration of American power? An attempt to raise Trump’s low favorability ratings by stirring America’s base instincts and love of war? Playing into the tendencies of cable news, so ready to describe war as beautiful for the sake of ratings? Will American intervention even help the situation at all?

Is the nation ready to dive head-first into another civil war, with aims oriented more towards military victory rather than humanitarian aid? Is the nation ready for another Iraq War? Another Vietnam War? These questions demand answers, and will likely not

The Penn College Republicans staunchly support this administration’s decisive action against tyranny and oppression.

We believe that such action will strongly dissuade Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from using chemical weapons against his own citizens.

After the atrocities of April 4, a proportional military response was the only reasonable choice for this administration. From the moment that the United States declared a red line against the use of chemical weapons, we committed ourselves to action.

Whether or not declaring a red line was the right move, President Barack Obama did declare one. As a result, President Donald Trump could not avoid a military response without damning repercussions.

In politics, as in life, you are only as good as your word.

Thus, strong words can replace the need for action, but only if they are backed by the willingness and capacity to act. When the president enforced the red line against chemical weapons, he sent a glaring message to the rest of the world that America will keep its word, that if you violate international law, you can expect consequences. A track record of strong military action replaces the need for future force.

It makes our red lines credible.

Admittedly, there is a risk in any action we take. But every lesson of history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement.

And despite cries promoting “pacifism,” in this situation, inaction meant appeasement. It is the same course that cowardly European leaders followed in the face of Adolf Hitler’s rise to power. It is the same course that a war-weary America followed during Saddam Hussein’s remilitarization. It is the same course that an apprehensive administration followed five years ago, when the Syrian government first used chemical weapons against an innocent populace.

In each of these situations, empty threats caused catastrophe. Hitler remilitarized, launched World War II and perpetrated the greatest crime against humanity in recorded history. Saddam Hussein remilitarized despite sanctions, terrorized his people and brought the United States into another war in Iraq. Bashar al-Assad discovered that America’s red line was meaningless and launched another chemical attack on civilians, bringing us to our current situation.

World peace depends on us keeping our word. Making empty threats leads our enemies to believe that they can get away with murder and oppres-

sion. Following through on our promises shows them that they cannot; action now stops future atrocities and limits the need for future action.

Beyond backing up our red lines, we support the declaration of these red lines in the first place. As the world’s super power, the United States has an obligation to its citizens and to the people of the world. Are we not still the country that promised to

the free world, whether we like it or not. And whether we like it or not, there are evil people out there and it is our moral responsibility to help stop them.

Assad’s regime has demonstrated clearly and emphatically that tyrants exist who will brutalize, terrorize and murder innocent civilians unless stopped by force.

Thankfully, we can employ such force quickly, brutally and

Many of us have clearly forgotten why we have a military. It is not to promote war, it is to prevent it.” “pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty?” There is a reason that through our military spending, we front the defense budget for all of our allies. Despite foreign rhetoric to the contrary, when push comes to shove, the rest of the world turns to us in times of crisis.

In short, we are the leaders of

without putting American lives at risk. In his statement on the strikes, Secretary of Defense James Mattis reported that launching the 59 Tomahawk missiles took out 20 percent of Syria’s operational aircraft.

Without involving any ground troops, the United States prevented future chemical assaults, both by decreasing Syria’s present capacity to do so and by deterring future attacks. As

Secretary Mattis pointed out, “the Syrian government would be ill-advised ever again to use chemical weapons.”

Resistance groups in Syria echoed the praise for the military response, saying that “the armed opposition welcomes any U.S. intervention through surgical strikes that would deter the Assad regime’s capabilities to kill civilians.”

Many of us have clearly forgotten why we have a military. It is not to promote war, it is to prevent it. In the words of President John F. Kennedy, “only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.” By exhibiting his willingness and capacity to forcefully punish a mass murderer, President Trump deterred future atrocities.

Therefore, critiques of the strike that warn against military entanglements are misguided, short sighted and ultimately false. These strikes neither constitute nor predict military intervention. This was a surgical bombing on strategic military assets that did not involve American ground troops. Furthermore, by disincentivizing future atrocities that would necessitate foreign intervention, the strikes actually reduce the probability that American troops get sent

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destruction while limiting safe havens for the civilians fleeing death and destruction.

These policies echo some of the worst military and foreign policy mistakes in American history. A thoughtless attack paired with a guttural, immature fear of the desperate men, women and children waiting at our shores. This is the ultimate show of cowardice.

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with the Russians, who align themselves with Assad? Has he even begun to grasp the complexities of the Kurdish involvement in this war, and the conflict between the Kurds and Turkey?

More hypocritical than this reversal in policy, however, is the Trump administration’s horrendous claim that this intervention is rooted in humanitarian need. The Trump administration has systemati-

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The motto of the Strategic Air Command says it all: “Peace is our profession.” Ironic as it may seem at first glance, our military is a force for world peace. When we display it, our military strength cowers the criminal. Through its commitment to back up our threats, this administration has lessened the likelihood of future violence, be it American ground presence or a chemical attack against Syrian civilians.

TOE THE LINE examines issues from two different sides. Both Penn Democrats and College Republicans argue why their collective positions on major political issues is best for the country.

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Penn Monologues address mental health and Trump This marks the eighth annual production COLLEEN O’MALLEY Staff Reporter

This weekend, 10 Penn students took the stage in ARCH Auditorium to perform original monologues as part of Penn Monologues’ eighth annual production.

Titled “The Space Between,” the performance included student written monologues on a variety of topics including mental illness, sexual assault and the impact of Trump’s presidency on students’ lives.

During the event, laughter rang throughout the audience as students shared memories of music festivals and little league. The laughs died down during more serious pieces, which touched on issues such as anorexia and Penn’s history with suicide — 12 students have died by suicide since February 2013.

While most of the monologues were read by their original authors, some writers chose to remain anonymous and had their works performed by another

student.

One anonymous piece, read

by College junior and 34th Street Magazine staffer Claire Schmidt, described a Penn student’s experience of being raped by her high school boyfriend. The writer talked about her trauma, and later, her disappointment with the way voters in the United States had chosen a president who had bragged about assaulting women.

College junior Dalton Noakes, producer of Penn Monologues, has been involved with the production since his freshman year.

He stressed the importance of addressing “Penn Face” — the tendency for students at Penn to act self-assured despite internal struggles.

“I know our show isn’t going to end ‘Penn Face’ by itself, but I think it’s an important step in the right direction,” Noakes said. He added that he believes the show “possesses the ability to help people feel less out of place and alone.”

Penn Monologues has increased its following since its inception eight years ago. Students in the audience, including College senior

Hannah Fagin, have attended multiple shows from the group.

“I remember hearing older people talking about their Penn experience and I just kept coming back,” Fagin said. She first watched the show as a freshman.

This year, Penn Monologues added a philanthropic element to their show by donating proceeds from the show to Galaei, a “queer Latin@ social justice organization” in Philadelphia.

“If you look at the constitution of Penn Monologues, it says that we believe in disclosure as a means of connection, the equality of all individuals and the end to violence,” Noakes said. He added that he believes the show’s philanthropic component better allows the organization to pursue its goals.

Schmidt said that the event was also rewarding for participants.

She said that prior to the show, she and other performers found it difficult to find an outlet for expressing themselves.

“I felt like there was something I wanted to share, but that there wasn’t a venue for it,” she explained. “But then I found it.”

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“Things will start to disappear.”

Professors NEH and NEA are critical in funding professors’ research — and resources would that be reduced under Trump’s budget proposal.

Weitzman said it is already difficult to make progress in research while teaching. Knight added that an “astounding” number of professors apply for NEH grants and private foundations cannot substitute for funding. This funding enables professors to take paid time away from teaching to work on their personal research.

“For faculty to write books or create exhibitions or undertake special research projects, they usually need some time away to travel to the country that they’re studying or visit archives or take the time they need to write,” Weitzman said. “The research productivity of scholars in the hu-

He said that the loss in funding would be a “real blow to the humanities at Penn and to the larger community that Penn serves.”

The Penn administration also released a statement last month expressing concern about the budget proposal. The statement was signed by Penn President Amy Gutmann, Provost Vincent Price, Executive Vice President Craig Carnaroli and Executive Vice President of the Penn Health System and Dean of the Perelman School of Medicine Larry Jameson.

According to the statement, Penn’s Office of Government and Community Affairs is engaged in direct meetings with the office of Penn’s local Congressional delegation to “[advance] Penn’s interests.”

Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences Steven Fluharty also released a statement acknowledging the direct and indirect support Penn receives from the NEH. This statement also writes that SAS has been in contact with Penn’s governmental affairs office in Washington D.C. and will “ramp up our efforts - Jim English in the coming weeks.” The statement added that Penn is a member of the National Humanities Alliance, which has manities will really be impacted been engaged in its own advocacy by the loss of that kind of time and efforts. opportunity.”

English professor Jim English, He added that Penn faculty another co-writer of the faculty intend to work with the University petition and the faculty director to advocate for the importance of of Penn Humanities Forum and the NEH and NEA. PriceLab for the Digital Humani“It will have an impact on the ties, said the NEA and NEH are research quality of the University able to fund “fairly long-term, and that will have an effect on the multi-year, [and] not very glam- kind of faculty the University can orous projects” — meaning it is draw, which will eventually have harder to find funding for them an impact on students in the classthrough private donors. room,” Weitzman said.

He added that the greatest Timothy Powell, a religious impact of these budget cuts will be studies professor and director of seen in “smaller cultural heritage Educational Partnerships with institutions” rather than research Indigenous Communities, has institutions, but they could still received six NEH grants over the mean fewer opportunities for past 10 years totaling more than Penn students studying the hu- $1 million. His work involves manities. making digital copies of indig“It will shrink the range of enous documents, photographs opportunities, especially for hu- and audio recordings, which he manities majors,” English said. then sends back to the indigenous

It will shrink the range of opportunitites, especially for humanities majors.

communities that they came from.

Powell wrote in an email that the digitized copies helped save otherwise endangered languages and traditions for over 150 indigenous communities throughout North and Central America.

“Songs, languages, and stories we thought were lost forever, are coming back to life because of NEH grants like the ones I’ve received,” Powell said.

Libraries Over the past 10 years, the NEH has awarded the University libraries over $1 million, said William Noel, the director of the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscript.

With the help of the NEH, Penn’s libraries have been able to digitize their collections to make the information more globally available in a way that was impossible before, said Noel.

The Kislak Center has received includes two active grants from the NEH: one for a project to digitize a collection of manuscripts in the Indic language and another for a project to rebuild the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts, a database of publicly accessible medieval manuscripts from before 1600.

Noel explained that the application process to receive an NEH grant sets the “best standards across the community.”

Academics and specialists, including Noel, sit on NEH panels, and arbitrate who receives the grants, creating an atmosphere of “fierce competition” that incentivizes the best practices to win a grant.

“It is a great mark of success,” he said.

Noel also emphasized the importance of the “peer-review mechanism” in acquiring funding from the NEH as well as from the administration. He said the University participates in match-grants, where it matches the amount given by the NEH, because it respects the rigorous application process.

“Without the NEH, we are going to lack the wisdom and the vetting process of the community at-large,” Noel said.

David McKnight, the director of the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, added that the library’s

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cataloguing efforts would be especially “hard to imagine … without government funding,” citing a project that catalogued the papers of celebrated American opera singer Marian Anderson through NEH funds.

McKnight said that while the library comes up with many of its own funds, the NEH helps to pay the salaries of researchers and research assistants. The Indic manuscript project alone hired a part-time cataloguer, a part-time conservation technician and a graduate student in religious studies.

For this reason, the cuts could result in less part-time work for graduate students, he said.

Museums The first NEH grant received by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology was in 1967 for an intern program. The museum has since received funds for various excavations and temporary exhibitions, Museum Director Julian Siggers said. He noted that the museum usually has at least one NEH grant at any given time, but currently holds three: $250,000 for the new Middle East Galleries, $245,000 for associate curator Grant Frame’s research and $400,000 for a traveling museum exhibit.

Siggers said the one project that comes to his mind when thinking about the NEH’s impact on the museum is the Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary — “the only dictionary in the world of the world’s earliest writings.” The museum has over 30,000 clay tablets inscribed with Sumerian, the world’s oldest written language.

“NEH money was really instrumental in helping us set up this huge project that is going to be the first [Sumerian] dictionary,” Siggers said.

According to Pam Kosty, the public relations director of the Penn Museum, the NEH has also provided funding for multiple permanent galleries including Mummies: Secrets, Science Gallery, and Southwest Gallery. It granted the museum $400,000 in 2012 for the travelling exhibit, “MAYA 2012: Lords of Time.” It also granted the museum $700,000 to rehouse

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President Donald Trump’s proposed budget cuts considerable funds from the NEA and NEH, which many Penn programs rely on.

the collections of the Mainwaring Wing while it was under construction.

Associate curator Grant Frame’s research is in the middle of its third two-year NEH grant, each one totaling approximately $250,000. His current grant lasts until the end of April, and he has also applied for one more grant to finish out the nine-year long project. His project aims to preserve Iraqi heritage through royal inscriptions from the Neo-Assyrian Empire over 2,600 years ago.

Frame said NEH funding is “vital” for many important projects to advance knowledge, noting that Penn has a “great tradition” of receiving grants. He added that its “abolition would be very sad” because the selectivity of the NEH grants advances U.S. scholarship.

“The NEH is a very important program for people carrying out research and scholarship in the humanities,” Frame said. “They fund so many important projects from the ancient world to modern times to access in museums to educational programs for learning about local history.”

NEA The NEA has also funded Penn programs on campus, in places like the Penn Museum and the Annenberg Center.

Most recently, the Penn Museum was given $20,000 in 2015 for “Unpacking the Past” — a program that allows middle schoolers in Philadelphia studying

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The NEA awarded the museum a grant from 2009-2013 for publication on an archaeological illustrator of Mayan pottery, as well as a residency for cataloguing and publication preparation from 2008-2010 for a collection of traditionally woven indigenous baskets.

In addition to the museum, Christopher Gruits, the executive and artistic director of the Annenberg Center, said the center also receives some federal funding, mostly through the Mid Atlantic Foundation, which receives funding from the NEA. Currently their blues series and jazz program are funded by the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, and next year their film series and some of the world music will be subsidized by the Mid Atlantic Foundation as well.

Gruits added that NEA funding serves as a way to “mitigate risk” for arts and culture organizations because with the funding, they can take risks on artists that they wouldn’t be able to feature otherwise. “[The loss of the NEA] will have a negative effect nationally because it is going to reduce these key programs,” Gruits said. “It’s really a quality of life issue … It has been proven time and time again that if arts and culture are in cities or rural areas, they are typically enriching those communities for the better.”

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MONDAY, APRIL 17, 2017

Softball swept by Princeton, tumbles in Ivy League standings

With four losses, Penn falls from 3rd to 6th JONATHAN POLLACK Sports Editor

This one hurts.

Penn softball entered this weekend’s four-game set with Princeton on the upswing, winners of four of their last five, and in prime striking distance, just one game back from the Tigers in the Ivy South Division.

But now, it’s all but over.

The Quakers dropped all four games to their Ivy rivals, and in doing so, saw their chances at winning the division and competing for the Ivy title vanish before their eyes. Penn dropped both Saturday games by the scores of 4-2 and 3-2, then fell on Sunday by the scores of a 4-2 and 12-8.

The Red and Blue (15-16, 5-7 Ivy) drop to five games behind Princeton (18-13, 10-2) with just four Ivy games remaining, meaning that they are eliminated from playoff contention for the second straight year.

“We can’t bow down,” senior centerfielder Leah Allen. “We

can’t just let other people run over us.”

Day one of the weekend set saw two disappointing losses for Penn as there were ample opportunities for the Quakers to pull even with their foes. The squad left a combined 15 runners on base across the two games and had multiple runners on base in the final inning of both contests. Errors also cost Penn dearly, as all three runs given up in the second game were unearned.

“I think we put too much pressure on ourselves,” Allen said.

“With runners on, especially in those situations, it’s their backs against the wall, not us. We put too much pressure on ourselves when it should be on them.”

Game three saw more offensive struggles for the Quakers, as they only scratched across two runs on six hits. Once again, the team put the tying runners on in the last inning of the first game and failed to capitalize.

While the first three games might have been pitchers’ duels with a few big hits interspersed, the final game was an offensive slugfest, as the bats came alive for both sides. The Red and Blue

struck first in the bottom of the first frame with a three-run blast from senior centerfielder Leah Allen. Still, the Quakers didn’t fully capitalize, leaving the bases loaded.

It didn’t take long for the Tigers to respond, as they combined for two home runs to tie the game in the top of the second. But while Penn came right back with three more of their own in the bottom half of the inning, the Tigers kept piling on, with a huge six-run third that saw them take the lead for good.

The lone bright spot from the weekend was Allen’s offensive explosion. With a three home run, seven RBI performance on Sunday, the senior moved within one RBI of the program record.

“I just felt like I was seeing it well and things were finally coming together, and I took everything from the cages on to the field and it just worked out,” Allen said.

So while this weekend will sting for the next few days, the Quakers still have some work left to do this year. With five more games left on the schedule, Penn will look to end the year on a high note.

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Against Yale and Brown, women sweep, men split

face the best talent a school has to offer. The matches are guaranteed to be physical and the rallies are sure to be of high quality. The pressure of playing at the top of the lineup is high enough as it is.

For Kyle Mautner, that pressure was magnified by the fact that his match against Brown would yield the deciding point for the tie.

In an all-lefty matchup against Bear’s junior Jack Haworth, Mautner endured a lengthy three set battle to secure Penn it’s second Ivy win of the season.

After losing the doubles point and the first two completed singles matches, the Quakers could not lose in order to secure the win against the Bears. But as the trio of Josh Pompan, Max Cancilla, and Marshall Sharp secured wins to draw the Quakers level in the tie, it would come down to Mautner to deliver the win.

After dropping a 7-5 second set to his opponent, the challenge for Mautner was to refresh in the third. So often when tennis players are two games away from securing a simple straight sets win, they collapse in the third set and give away the match. This

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Advantage, Penn tennis.

As both Penn tennis teams near the end of the season, each weekend is even more pivotal than the last. And in the penultimate conference doubleheader weekend, the Quakers gained important momentum. The women’s squad (10-8, 3-2 Ivy) rebounded from a 0-2 start in Ivy play and roared into impressive form, with a weekend sweep of Brown and Yale leading them to three straight wins. The men (14-9, 1-3) responded to a 3-0 deficit against Brown to complete an impressive 4-3 comeback. With this weekend producing some of the Red and Blue’s best tennis, it seems right to highlight some of the stars on the court this weekend.

Kyle Mautner It is always the most difficult to play at the top of the lineup.

As the No. 1 singles player, you

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Junior Lina Qostal starred for Penn women’s tennis this weekend, winning both of her singles matches and taking a doubles win against Brown, too, to power Penn to a pair of important Ivy League victories.

was not the case for Mautner. He stayed engaged, using his lefty forehand to pull his opponent off the court. Lefty tennis players don’t see other lefties play very often, and aren’t used to the

opposite spins, a fact that Mautner used to his advantage en route to a 6-3 final set and the win.

Lina Qostal There is nothing more valuable in a lineup than having a reliable

competitor, and in her junior season, Lina Qostal is turned into exactly that. The Morocco native won both her singles matches on the weekend and turned in a strong doubles showing with

fellow junior Ria Vaidya to win against Brown.

For Qostal, consistency and spin anchor her all-court game.

The Rabat resident translates a game tailor-made for the red clay onto the quicker, lower bouncing hardcourts. Playing No. 4 singles, she often uses height and placement to get shorter responses, and uses strong court positioning to finish points at the net.

Against Brown freshman Devon Jack, Qostal used this tactic to discombobulate her opponent and take away Jack’s time on court. And in the pivotal moments, Jack was uncomfortable with Qostal’s ball, as the Quaker came out on top with a 7-6(5) third set. In the same weekend, when against a bigger, flatter hitter like Yale’s Elizabeth Zordani, Qostal used a heavier, more consistent ball to break down her opponent’s shots and draw errors.

In another three-set match, Qostal triumphed with a 1-6, 6-2, 6-3 victory. The combination makes her a tricky opponent and gives her options to bring home the win against a variety of playing styles.

Penn rowing tallies three second-place finishes at Blackwell Cup Lightweights narrowly lose to No. 1 Yale team

deeper into the results shows that Penn was simply outclassed in both races by stronger Yale boats.

The first race of the day was the Varsity 8. They faced the unenviable task of defeating the No. 3 ranked Bulldogs while also trying to hold off a pesky No. 16 ranked Columbia boat. After coming within three seconds of beating Princeton at the Childs Cup, the rowers of Varsity 8 expected to stay stroke for stroke with Yale.

However, Yale defeated Penn by a convincing ten seconds.

Luckily for Penn it still held Columbia at arms’ length defeating the No. 16 Lions by six seconds.

Penn’s losing to Yale is not surprising, but the margin of victory is perplexing. “Practices were going well,� freshman Jay Hofmeister noted. “Everyone was confident going

MARC MARGOLIS Sports Reporter

It was just one of those days.

That’s all that needs to be said to describe Penn rowing’s performances this weekend. The women’s, men’s heavyweight and men’s lightweight squads all took encouraging — yet frustrating — second-place finishes in their respective regattas, putting their potential on display but leaving the Red and Blue searching for more.

Just looking at the final standings, one would assume the No. 10 Penn heavyweights should be satisfied with a second-place finish in the Varsity and Second Varsity 8 Races. However, diving a little

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The story was eerily similar with Penn women’s rowing, which was also in a three-team competition and also found itself unable to best its rivals from New Haven.

Though no races were as tight as the lightweights’ Varsity 8 battle, the Red and Blue women had essentially the same end results

— besting a third party (Dartmouth, in their case) across the board but unable to pull off the upset over the juggernaut No. 7 Bulldogs.

Still, good teams always finds silver linings in losses. This week was an excellent test for Penn and although they came up short, the season still provides a lot of opportunity for the young Quakers to wreak havoc in collegiate rowing.

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The next race of the day was the Second Varsity 8. This race was even more lopsided as Yale smacked Penn by 11 seconds. Like the race prior, the Second Varsity 8 stayed ahead of Columbia. Still neither team came close to dethroning Yale on its home water.

Both boats need to bounce back with Penn hosting the Adams Cup on the Schuylkill next weekend.

As for the lightweights, No. 6 Penn displayed even more potential, with the Quakers’ Varsity 8 boat going toe-to-toe with the national No. 1 group from Yale. But despite Penn’s upset efforts, the top-ranked Bulldogs closed out to top the Red and Blue by a mere two seconds over the 2,000-meter course, pushing Penn to an agonizing second place finish ahead of Columbia. The remainder of the competition held a similar

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will get only four days off before hosting No. 7 Princeton (10-2, 4-0) in yet-another must-win to keep up with the Tigers and the No. 8 Big Red (10-2, 5-0). “That Cornell game was a big turning point for us,� Corbett said. “We did not play very well and Cornell is a very good team, and you know, it was kind of a wakeup call us that we have to play better and we have to grow more each week, and I think that we’ve been able to do that.�

And though Penn still needs the Big Red to slip up at some point in its next two games in order to have a shot at conference glory, there’s no doubt Red and Blue will roll the mentality with what’s worked for the past month now — worrying about nothing but the 12 women across from them.

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Senior Emily Rogers-Healion certainly did her part this weekend, with five goals and one assist in a 17-7 trouncing of Columbia.

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Penn Athletics Weekend MVP: Tim Graul, Baseball Hero Graul had walk-off hit, went 10-17 vs. Princeton COLE JACOBSON Sports Editor

To pick just one star from Penn baseball’s four-game demolition of bitter rival and defending Ivy League champion Princeton — a series that saw the Quakers take four wins by a combined score of 35-12 — seems like it’d be a crime.

But even in a weekend full of standout performances, the consistent offensive dominance from senior outfielder Tim Graul stood out from the pack.

With the Quakers trailing the first-place Tigers by only one game in the Lou Gehrig Division standings entering the weekend, every contest would be crucial as these longtime foes battled for that top spot.

Graul wasted no time making a

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Starting pitcher Adam Bleday put in a masterful performance, pitching a complete game while allowing just five hits and one run.

While by no means an offensive showcase from Penn, the hitting came through when they needed it, pushing across two runs in the eighth inning to break a tie and win the game, 3-1.

After Saturday’s pair of wins, coach John Yurkow knew there was no time to celebrate.

“It was great to get two wins on Saturday,” Yurkow said. “But we knew we had to fight just as much, if not more, to get two more on Sunday.”

If viewers expected more of the same pitching dominance on Sunday, they would be sorely mistaken. Well, at least on Princeton’s part.

Penn’s offense exploded on Sunday, scoring 27 runs over the two games and putting in an

major impact in each and every game.

In the series opener, the senior produced his most clutch effort of the year in a instant classic game, poking a walk-off RBI single in the ninth inning of what was initially planned to be a seven-inning game as part of a 2-for-5 effort in a crazy 5-4 win. The second Saturday contest saw an eerily similar stat line — though there were no walk-off heroics, Graul did go 2-for-4 at the plate, scoring two of his team’s three runs in a tight 3-1 victory that gave Penn sole possession of first place.

As for Sunday’s games? With Penn winning the two contests by a combined 20 runs, Graul’s offensive output wasn’t quite as necessary, but that doesn’t make it any less impressive.

The first game saw the defending Ivy League Player of the Year reach base four times in five plate appearances (two

hits, a walk, and a hit-by-pitch) en route to a three-run, two-RBI effort.

In the series finale going up against Princeton star Ben Gross, who led the Ivy League in ERA entering the afternoon, Graul spearheaded a fantastic team offensive effort that bounced the Tigers’ ace from the game after not even three innings. The senior’s stat line: 4-for-5, three runs, three RBI, a double and a triple, as he saved the best for last in a 10-2 win.

For those too lazy to do the math, here are his numbers for the weekend: 10-for-17 at the plate, a .632 on-base percentage, six RBI, eight runs and, most importantly, four wins.

Thanks to Graul’s heroics, the Red and Blue find themselves with a two-game lead over Cornell in prime position to take their first Ivy League title in 22 years — and for that, he’s the Penn Athletics Weekend MVP.

offensive display for the ages.

Big days from sophomore Sean Phelan, junior Daniel Havely, and of course Graul (among others) led the way for the Red and Blue.

All the while, Penn’s starters — junior Gabe Kleiman and senior Mike Reitcheck — tossed solid games. In the end, a pair of emphatic 17-5 and 10-2 wins capped a wildly successful weekend for the Quakers.

The weekend sweep puts the Quakers in prime position to challenge for the division title, although a tricky trip to Cornell this upcoming weekend may be even more telling.

Despite the tough tests ahead, Yurkow remains confident that his team is peaking at the right time.

“It’s always good to win four games, and it’s even nicer to be controlling your own destiny,” Yurkow said. “Cornell will be a tough test for us, but I think this weekend showed that we’re ready to compete with anybody.”

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working from the left wing, as he was consistently able to roll underneath his defender to gain inside leverage.

Everything seemed to be working for Mathias. Even when he airmailed a pass to a cutter on the crease, it wound up in the stick of freshman Adam Goldner who exhibited great hands and concentration as he caught the ball at his feet and whipped his body around to finish from the high crease.

Adding to the Quakers’ goal scoring output were Tyler Dunn with two and Joe Licciardi, JJ McBride, and Reilly Hupfeldt with one each. All in all, ten players scored at least once, as the Red and Blue showed off impressive scoring depth.

Even though the final Ivy matchup of the season is against lowly Dartmouth (2-9, 0-4), the Quakers cannot afford to take the Big Green lightly. Despite

the strong offensive game against Harvard, Penn still exhibited vulnerabilities.

After a great game against Brown, sophomore goalie Reed Junkin appeared to revert to the form that got him benched briefly two weeks ago, allowing 10 goals while only stopping four shots.

While many of those goals were scored from right in front of the goal, several others zoomed by Junkin from the outside. In order to beat Dartmouth and enter the Ivy Tournament, Junkin will need to become more consistent in cage.

Additionally, while faceoff play was excellent today, SantanPRANAY VEMULAMADA | ASSOCIATE PHOTO EDITOR gelo and company must continue to work at it, as Harvard’s strug- Junior Kevin McGeary catalyzed a 5-0 game-ending run to push gles in that department will not be Penn men’s lacrosse to a crucial 14-10 win at Harvard on Saturday. shared by the rest of the Quakers’ competition. keeps them alive. While not fully tiebreaker against both Harvard Still, a win’s a win, and this win in control of their own destiny, an- and Cornell. was crucial to Penn’s season. A other victory against Dartmouth It appears that the Red and loss would have all but knocked should be enough to grant the Blue have finally hit their stride. the Quakers out of playoff con- Quakers admission into the Ivy If that’s the case, the rest of the Ivy tention, while the win more than Tournament, as they now own the League better be wary.

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Quakers can clinch Ivy touney spot with win over Dartmouth BREVIN FLEISCHER Sports Reporter

Talk about living up to the moment.

With its back against the wall and the Ivy League Tournament on the line, Penn men’s lacrosse recovered its early season form just in time, defeating Harvard 14-10.

In a must-win game for both teams, the Quakers (5-5, 2-3 Ivy) displayed a resiliency and maturity

that had been noticeably absent in prior Ivy tilts, as they battled back from deficit after deficit to eventually secure the victory with a five-goal fourth quarter run.

Leading that charge for the Red and Blue was the inspired play of faceoff specialist Chris Santangelo. Winning a meager 43 percent of his draws coming into the game, Santangelo exploded against Harvard (5-6, 1-3), securing 22 out of 28 draws for his team. Not only did the junior dominate his matchup against the worst faceoff team in the Ivy League, but he also scored a goal of his own and moved the ball upfield quickly and effectively to spark several others.

Aiding Santangelo in the faceoff game was junior Connor Keating. The star long stick midfielder was first to every loose ball off the wing, scooping up an incredible 11 grounders on the day. Always a threat offensively as well, Keating contributed a goal and an assist. His ten goals on the season place him in great position to be the leading long stick middie goal scorer in the country for the second year in a row.

Joining his fellow non-offensive midfielders in the scoring column was senior Austin Kreinz, who bullied his way to the game-icing goal with four minutes remaining.

Not all of the production came from the

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Penn baseball pitcher Adam Bleday pitched a masterful game on Saturday, allowing just five hits and one run in a 3-1 win over Princeton.

The Red and Blue senior slugger came to bat in the bottom of the ninth with the winning run on third base, 90 feet from victory.

After falling behind two strikes, Graul grounded a base hit through a drawn-in Princeton infield to earn Penn a dramatic walk-off win.

“I love situations like that, I think every hitter does,” Graul said. “With the infield in, you know you just have to hit it hard and it’ll probably find a hole somewhere. Even down two strikes, my mindset was just to make hard contact.”

The game-winner was Graul’s second hit of the game and was an indication of spectacular things to

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come from Graul the remainder of the weekend. When the dust settled Sunday evening, Graul would be 10-17 on the weekend, raising his season batting average to .387, a number that surpasses even the tremendous clip he hit at last season.

“I still don’t think I’m seeing the ball as well as I did last year,” Graul said. “It’s hard to explain, but I definitely think I can be doing even better.”

If this is not Graul at his best, teams should be afraid of what that best can be.

In game two, a pitcher’s duel went the way of the Quakers.

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Penn stays one game behind league leaders Cornell

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What a difference a year can make.

At this time last year, Penn baseball was looking up at Princeton in the Ivy League standings after dropping three of four games away in New Jersey. Now, a year later, the Quakers celebrated enthusiastically in their dugout following a massive four-game home sweep of their bitterest rivals.

Princeton surprised many pundits by winning the Ancient Eight in 2016, but the Tigers (9-22, 5-7) had spent the 2017 Ivy season proving that it was no fluke. Heading into the weekend, they sat atop the Lou Gehrig Division with a 5-3 record, while Penn sat just behind them at 4-4.

In game one on Saturday, fans got to witness an instant classic.

Princeton grabbed an early lead with a run in the first inning, only for Penn (18-14, 8-4 Ivy) to snatch the lead back in the fourth with three runs of their own on a triple from junior outfielder Andrew Murnane. The game continued to go back and forth, with Princeton tying the score, Penn retaking the lead, and Princeton tying the game again.

The game eventually eked towards extra innings knotted at four runs apiece, with the game just begging for a player to step up and be a hero.

Enter Tim Graul.

two-way midfielders, however.

The Quaker attackmen were active and electric in their own right. Kevin McGeary, in particular, was hugely important during Penn’s game-winning fourth quarter run. The junior ripped home two outside shots in the span of six seconds to give the Red and Blue the lead and then to expand that lead to two.

While McGeary recorded a hat trick, fellow star attackman Simon Mathias operated as a feeder, dishing out four assists while netting two goals of his own. The sophomore was especially effective

Having been on the brink of elimination from its tenth regular season conference championship in 11 years for more than a month, there’s been only one focus for Penn women’s lacrosse — staying alive.

And behind a tremendously balanced offensive effort featuring a combined nine goals from senior Emily Rogers-Healion and freshman Gabby Rosenzweig, the Red and Blue did just that yet again, using a game-ending 10-2 run to blow out Columbia 17-7 and remain one game behind first-place Cornell.

“I was very pleased with it, I think we had a good day,” Penn coach Karin Corbett said.

“I think that we attacked well late, we closed down defensively, and we took care of the ball a little bit better than we did in the first half.”

With the Lions (7-6, 2-3 Ivy) entering the showdown never having beaten Penn in Columbia’s 21 years of having a varsity program, history suggested Saturday afternoon might have been somewhat of walkover for the Quakers — but the Lions came to play early on.

Taking advantage of some early sloppy offensive play from Penn and working their own transition game to perfection behind senior attacker Taylor Quinn, the Lions jumped out to a surprising 3-2 lead ten minutes in.

“We know that they are getting better each year, and they have a lot of speed on their team, a lot of talented young players, and we knew that we’d have to play well today,” Corbett said of a Columbia squad that was 5-135 alltime in Ivy League play until this season. “We just made a couple of mental mistakes off the draw and they were wide open, they got the ball

inside and we didn’t collapse well enough.”

But despite its early struggles, the firepower from No. 9 Penn (10-2, 3-1) would quickly prove to be too much for the upstart Lions. Even with a troubling ten first-half turnovers, three Quakers had multiple first-half goals, and as superstar goalie Britt Brown began to settle in after a tough beginning, Penn took back control en route to a 7-4 halftime edge.

Yet another transition goal right after a faceoff — Quinn’s 41st of the season — brought Columbia back to within two, but that would be as close as the Lions would get.

After both scoring two first-half goals, the tandem of Rosenzweig and Rogers-Healion would only heat up further in the closing minutes, with the freshman’s stellar outside shooting and the senior’s ability to penetrate proving too much for the overwhelmed Columbia side.

When all was said and done, Rogers-Healion had a career-high five goals, Rosenzweig had a career-high four, and the Quakers tied their season-high scoring output for the second straight week.

On the other side of the ball, Penn’s stellar defense came up big yet again down the stretch, limiting the Lions to 13 shots on goal compared to the Quakers’ 29, as the Red and Blue were able to turn what was a close game into a laugher.

“I was really excited at how Gabby played. …

I don’t think they had an answer for her today,” Corbett said. “And Emily had a career day, had some great plays attacking — she was great off the catch, and that makes it difficult when we have so many people that can get her the ball.”

As the Red and Blue continue to stay alive in the title race, the intensity will only keep building. Now having won three straight Ivy contests since being blown out by Cornell, the Quakers SEE W. LAX PAGE 8 CONTACT US: 215-422-4640