April 19, 2017

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Similar Ivy tuition increases raise questions

In other industries, similar increases would indicate possible price fixing JINAH KIM Senior Reporter

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Penn’s cost of attendance increased by 3.9 percent this year; that’s in line with the rest of the Ivies, which all saw their sticker prices increase within an incredibly thin margin — Brown University, Cornell University, Harvard University and Yale University all increased their tuition between 3.5 and 4 percent for the 2017-18 year.

Other elite schools also saw similar tuition hikes: The University of Chicago increased its cost of attendance by 2.5 percent and Stanford University went up by 3.6 percent. In terms of absolute figures, the numbers have a fairly narrow spread — the cheapest Ivy to attend, based on tuition and fees, will be Princeton University at $48,550, while the most expensive will likely be Columbia University, which had its tuition and fees set at $55,056 for the 201617 year.

While this trend in college costs may not raise many eyebrows, such a uniform set of price increases in any other sector would point to one issue: price fixing. And although expert agree that a similar increase in tuition across elite college does not technically fall under this legal issue, the collaboration and relatively consistent sticker prices across these institutions would attract attention in other industries.

But there are many explanations for steep increases in tuition across schools. For one thing, not all tuition raised goes to the university. Financial aid expert Mark Kantrowitz, who has been featured in newspapers such as The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, said that colleges often transfer some of this added tuition into raising financial aid. Bonnie Gibson, vice president for budget and management analysis at Penn, also called higher

The University has canceled three study-abroad programs in Europe and South America and notified students by email LEXI LIEBERMAN Staff Reporter

After being accepted to and enrolling in unique summer programs, many students were disappointed to learn that they no longer had summer plans.

Students who planned on participating in the Penn-in-Venice, Buenos Aires and Athens summer abroad programs were notified by email that the courses had been eliminated.

Penn-in-Venice was canceled on January 18, Penn-in-Buenos Aires on March 15 and Penn-in-Athens on March 22.

Executive Director of the College of Liberal and Professional Studies David Bieber said that the programs were canceled because not enough

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Ceremony will be held a day before Commencement Day NATALIE KAHN Staff Reporter

Clyde Kelly got his start writing poetry and has already debuted his first album NINA SELIPSKY Staff Reporter

Many Wharton MBA students go into consulting and startups. Wharton MBA student Clyde Kelly is no different, except for the fact that he is also a successful rapper.

Clyde Kelly Atkins, who uses his middle name as his stage name, spent two years in management consulting at McKinsey & Company before starting Wharton’s MBA program in the fall. Raised in Raleigh, N.C., he graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2014.

While passionate about work, he missed making music.

“I always really connected with music,” he said. “My mom will always say I danced before I walked. I would just hold myself up and dance.”

During his time at McKinsey, Kelly began

students had signed up.

“They were canceled [due to] lack of enrollment — low interest from the students,” he said.

The minimum enrollment varies as each program can function with a different number of students. “[The programs] all vary in size, anywhere from 35 or 40 down to 15 or 13,” Bieber said. “If there’s insufficient enrollment, that means that we don’t have tuition revenue that will cover the cost to run the program.”

Penn Summer Abroad is trying to accommodate students who still wish to participate after their program was

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This year’s speaker for the Baccalaureate Ceremony will be a Penn faculty member: Angela Duckworth, the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Psychology.

The Baccalaureate Ceremony which is part of graduation, is described as “a 50-minute interfaith program that features music, readings, prayers and a speaker.”

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Duckworth will speak at the Baccalaureate Ceremony held on May 14, a day before the Commencement Ceremony where Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) will take the stage. There will be two different ceremonies: one at 1:30 p.m. and another at 3 p.m. No tickets are required for the event.

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their regular “overlap” meeting in which several prestigious colleges in the Northeast would meet to discuss students who had gotten into more than one institution in the group.

Since then, schools have changed their policies regarding the sharing of financial information. Penn’s “Guidelines on Cooperative Exchanges of Certain University Information”

at meetings where there have been discussions sort of broadly along those lines — but overt setting of tuition I doubt is going on today.”

This kind of closeness between competitors, however, might garner more regulatory attention in another industry, he said.

“If Ford and [General Motors] and Toyota and Chrysler and so forth worked together and had a meeting to talk about things of interest,” he said, “people would be yelling and screaming and saying that’s an overt violation of antitrust laws — but it does go on in higher education.”

Price competition is much less prominent in higher education; for example, schools like Stanford or Penn do not offer marketing strategies like limited sales on tuition.

But there is an important aspect by which colleges can compete on price — through financial aid.

In response to the 1991 suit, Ivy League schools and MIT argued that colluding on financial aid offers was actually in the public interest, as similar tuition costs would make it easier for students to choose a school based on interest or personal fit rather than due to financial concerns. Competition using merit scholarships would also reduce the amount of financial aid money available to students from lower income brackets, they said.

Today, none of the Ivy League universities offer merit scholarships, as is the case with MIT and Stanford. Duke University and the University of Chicago, however, continue to do so.

It’s worth noting that the schools become less uniform if you look at net price, not sticker

education a “human-intensive operation” earlier this month, referencing how retaining faculty can be a costly undertaking.

Students may not be happy about it, but universities can point to concrete costs to show why tuition increases happen.

What’s less clear is how schools as diverse as Dartmouth University – located in rural Hanover, N.H. with an endowment of $4.5 billion — and Harvard — located in Cambridge, Mass., with an endowment of $37.6 billion — can regularly increase tuition at approximately the same rate.

- Mark Kantrowitz Price fixing is defined by the Federal Trade commission as “an agreement (written, verbal, or inferred from say “University officials must conduct) among competitors not participate in one-on-one or that raises, lowers, or stabiliz- round table discussions with repers prices or competitive terms.” resentatives of other institutions Not all simultaneous or similar about projected or anticipated price changes are examples of il- levels of tuition,” and that offilegal price fixing — pricing for cials can only reveal information commodities like wheat or oil is about policies, budget assumpalmost always uniform, and price- tions or tuition after they have matching is not considered illegal. been made public.

Public universities are someIn an email to The Daily times exempt from such laws. In Pennsylvanian, Gibson said the March, Inside Higher Ed reported University “does not consult on a federal appeals court that with our Ivy League peers about determined Edinboro University tuition, nor do we have any idea was an arm of the state acting in what their tuition increases will the public interest, and private an- be when we set our rate of intitrust concerns did not apply. crease.”

But this immunity isn’t uniBut it’s unclear to what degree versal. A document from the this policy plays out in practice.

National Association of College While overt discussion of policies and University Attorneys lists is not permitted, schools do not areas in higher education where seem to be entirely out of the loop antitrust issues could potentially on how their peers are doing. arise, including student housing, “Colleges and universities jointly establishing admissions routinely meet with each other to protocols and the sharing of in- discuss common issues,” said formation between peer-group Richard Vedder, director of institutions. the Center for College AffordIn 1991, the Justice Department ability and Productivity and brought a lawsuit against the Ivy professor emeritus at the Ohio League schools and the Massa- State University. chusetts Institute of Technology Vedder said that he didn’t for anti-competitive practices know whether the Ivy League in tuition. While the schools did schools and similar schools not acknowledge any price-fixing “literally talk tuition fees when behavior, they signed a consent they got together and meet.”

- Howard Langer decree with the Attorney General “I know they come close,” in which they agreed to end their he said. “I mean, they talk joint policy of offering only simi- about how much will fees go up price. While the average net price lar need-based aid and terminated next year and so on — I’ve been of attending Penn increased from

If Ford … and Chrysler and so forth worked together … people would be yelling and screaming.”

Tacit collusion is not usually illegal absent futher evidence.”

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2012-2015, the average net price of attending Princeton declined during the same time period.

But not all students receive financial aid, and the continued consistency within tuition increases at elite schools today is not all that different from in 1991, when The New York Times reported that “such collusion [had] been suspected for many years, because tuition increases for the Ivy League universities came in virtual lockstep.” At the time, the cost of attendance at most of them exceeded the high amount of

$20,000 a year.

“The fact that [schools] all raised tuitions at roughly the same time and the same amount would itself not be proof of an antitrust conspiracy,” Penn Law professor Howard Langer said.

Langer, who has taught antitrust law at Penn Law since 2001, said “Tacit collusion is not usually illegal absent further evidence.”

In 1991, schools had been holding meetings specifically to plan similar aid levels and were fairly open about any collusion taking place, which isn’t the case today.

“Unless you can find the presidents of the Ivy League schools,

or whoever is responsible for setting tuition, sitting down or emailing one another about tuition in a way that you could infer they had an agreement, it would be very hard to prove [an antitrust] case,” Langer said.

Vedder agreed that an explicit agreement among Ivy League schools to fix tuition increases isn’t likely.

“If there was [collusion] I would think some politician would seize upon this as a way to achieve notoriety or popularity and call for lawsuits or actions against the colleges,” he said. “And we haven’t seen that.”

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Trouble at Penn State has Penn greeks talking Penn State President considers banning greeks ESHA INDANI Staff Reporter

After the president of Pennsylvania State University published a letter suggesting that a fraternity member’s death might result in the banning of Greek life altogether at Penn State, Penn students maintain their support for Greek life at Penn.

Penn State president Eric J. Barron posted the open letter on his blog “Digging Deeper” April 10, just over two months after Penn State sophomore Timothy Piazza died from a fall at the Beta Theta Pi’s chapter house during his bid

party.

The student’s death has drawn national attention to the security risks involved in fraternity parties, which prompted Barron to weigh the positive effects of Greek life with the negative.

“The positive is well worth protecting — the value of brotherhood and sisterhood and the great service associated with Greek life.

But the stories cited above cannot continue,” Barron said in his letter. “If they do, I predict that we will see many empty houses and then the end of Greek life at Penn State.”

The Penn State Interfraternity Council responded to Barron’s letter in an open letter of their

own, criticizing the university’s president for not communicating directly with them.

“We are ready to change, but transformation cannot happen without partnership and a willingness to listen to and work with one another,” the letter said. “Instead of talking through open letters in the media — it’s disappointing we have to communicate in this manner — meet with us, work with us, and collaborate with us.”

Many Penn students don’t think banning Greek life on campus is the right way to address problems with fraternity events.

President of the Panhellenic Council and College junior Caroline Ohlson said that coordination

between the administration and the Greek student community is key to addressing issues in Greek life.

“I think that the best way [to problem-solve] is collaboratively between the admin and the Greek student body as a whole,” Ohlson said. “I think that the [Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life] that is currently at Penn is really strong, supportive of the community and really in touch with campus culture.”

Director of OFSL Eddie BanksCrosson did not respond to a request for comment by the time of publication.

In September of 2012, Penn’s Phi Kappa Sigma chapter saw a similar incident to the one at Penn

State. A non-Penn student attending an unregistered Phi Kappa Sigma party on New Year’s Eve died from injuries after he fell over a railing from the second floor to the first floor of the house. The death prompted the national organization to close Penn’s chapter and Penn closed the chapter house on Locust Walk.

Ohlson added that banning Greek life will only add to the security problems the community faces because they often will become off-campus fraternities, which the University cannot monitor.

“As we’ve seen with Penn’s chapters that’ve moved off-campus, they continue to function as

social groups,” Ohlson said. “They just do so with even more risk because the University isn’t holding them accountable.”

A College sophomore in an on-campus fraternity said that it would be unfair for an entire community to be punished for the mistakes of one group. The student requested anonymity because he said he did not want his comments to be connected to himself or his fraternity.

“I feel like it’s a silly policy idea just because one group messed it up,” the student said. “Just because one part of some group did something wrong, it doesn’t mean that every member of that community should suffer.”

Penn Law group mentors first-generation undergraduate students Org. started by three Penn Law students in January WESLEY SHEKER Staff Reporter

Three Penn Law School students are establishing a group called First Generation Professionals, which seeks to help students that come from similar backgrounds to connect and to mentor younger firstgeneration students.

The three law students, Chet Eckman, Akbar Hossain and Steven Miller, each a year apart, were connected by Penn Law Dean of Students Monica Monroe after each student separately approached Monroe with a similar idea. Together they co-founded the First Generation Professionals affinity group at Penn Law at the end of January.

The group held an event on April 13 for first-generation, low-income undergraduates who are potentially interested in applying to law school.

The group plans on holding similar

events in the future to help fulfill the mentorship aspect of their mission.

“By the time you get to law school, or any professional school, there’s the assumption that the playing field is even,” Hossain said.

“But I think what people forget is the experiences of a first-generation student — the experiences we come with, the stories that we bring — are completely different from the regular student that goes to law school.”

Eckman adds that first-generation students at Penn Law often have had different experiences than their peers have had.

He recalled when he brought his resume to Career Services at Penn and was asked about one line describing his job at a cup factory during his freshman summer in college.

“When the Career Services office looked at that, they said, ‘What is this? This is not something we normally see on a resume. Maybe you want to take it off as you apply to law firms.’”

But Eckman maintained that the job was a reflection of who he is and of what connects him to his background.

“It was a job that was a really hard job for me, and it showed me I was going to be the type of person who would make sure that I can accomplish my goals.”

Monroe has continued to work with the First Generation Professionals group after helping the students connect this January. She discussed her upbringing and work experience as a first-generation professional in the panel discussion last Thursday.

“I think that’s what led me to the work that I’m doing today,” she said.

“As dean of students, the last thing I want for any student — regardless of background — is to not have information that would benefit them. I’ve been drawn to this work because I want to be able to share what I’ve learned with other students in an effort to help them reach their maximum potential.”

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advocacy is reflected in the goals of the new affinity group. Hossain said the First Generation Professionals group was founded with four purposes: networking, mentorship, a place for reflection and advocacy.

His ultimate vision for the group is to span across all of Penn’s professional schools to create a bridge for mentorship.

“We want to create a program where the end goal will be lawyers

are mentoring us, we are mentoring the undergrads, and the undergrads, in turn, are mentoring high school students,” he said. “We can create a bridge for students to understand what this process is like.”

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We shouldn’t need to say it — but free speech matters EDITORIAL BY THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN OPINION BOARD

WEDNESDAY APRIL 19, 2017 VOL. CXXXIII, NO. 51 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 AMANDA GEISER Copy Editor HARRY TRUSTMAN Copy Editor ANDREW FISCHER Director of Web Development DYLAN REIM Social Media Editor DAKSH CHHOKRA Analytics Editor ANANYA CHANDRA Photo Manager JOY LEE News Photo Editor ZACH SHELDON Sports Photo Editor LUCAS WEINER Video Producer JOYCE VARMA Podcast Editor BRANDON JOHNSON Business Manager MADDY OVERMOYER Advertising Manager SONIA KUMAR Business Analytics Manager MARK PARASKEVAS Circulation Manager HANNAH SHAKNOVICH Marketing Manager TANVI KAPUR Development Project Lead MEGHA AGARWAL Development Project Lead

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At Penn, it is not particularly dangerous to be a journalist. We, the staff of Penn’s student newspaper, are grateful for that. We are grateful that our opinion columnists may assume that if they air an unpopular or controversial viewpoint, they will not be physically assaulted. We are grateful that, when our reporters publish unflattering truths, they are not threatened with sanction or harm.

We feel entitled to rely on these assumptions because we do not do our work in Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Turkey or Vladimir Putin’s Russia, but on the campus of a prestigious American university, where, generally, liberal norms of peaceable dispute and nonviolence are, we believe, deeply ingrained.

It is therefore alarming to observe what seems to be the fraying of these norms on some American campuses. It is deeply concerning that, at least among

some fellow students at peer schools, the academic norm of resolving our ideological disputes with words instead of fists seems to be weakening.

In recent weeks, at the University of California at Berkeley and Middlebury College, students turned to physical violence to prevent speeches by guests whom they found objectionable.

Given the extensive prior coverage of and commentary on these events in other publications, we would ordinarily see no need to chime in. However, we have been specifically disappointed that some other student newspapers’ editorial boards are not standing up for the principles of free speech and dialogue on which student newspapers depend.

Following the riot on Berkeley’s campus, its student paper’s editorial stopped short of condemning those who engaged in it outright. Middlebury’s stu-

dent paper, The Middlebury Campus, said nothing after an attack on controversial scholar Charles Murray put the professor moderating his talk in the hospital. Faced with a controversy over the invitation of provocative

ized as “unqualified support of [free speech]” as “tonedeaf.”

Perhaps most alarmingly, The Wellesley News, with whom we collaborated on our election endorsement in November, went a

Even when we are firmly convinced that a speaker’s positions are motivated by hatred, to threaten or carry out physical aggression remains, always, an unacceptable response.”

Canadian scholar Jordan Peterson, whose positions on pronoun-usage many students view as hateful towards transgender individuals, to speak at Harvard University, The Crimson criticized what it character-

step further, appearing, in a frankly disturbing editorial, to endorse “hostility” against those who “refuse to adapt their beliefs.” Following closely as it did upon the heels of the events at Berkeley and Middlebury,

it requires an exceptionally charitable reading to interpret that remark as something other than a conditional endorsement of violence.

Amid these disappointments, we wish to clearly reaffirm some basic principles. Violence is never, under any circumstance whatsoever, an appropriate or acceptable response to the peaceable exchange of ideas, however hateful or otherwise reprehensible they might be. A speaker’s freedom from violence must be absolute. If individuals choose, as they did at Middlebury and Berkeley, to respond to speech with violence, the moral fault is theirs and theirs alone.

Speech is not violence. No misguided notion of self-defense can justify responding to the former with the latter.

The willingness to let someone speak on a college campus must not be confused with endorsement of the views expressed. Penn students have exemplified

A call to my fellow members of the liberal echo chamber GUEST COLUMN BY BEN GARGANO Consider three individuals: a terrorist, whose indoctrination and violent actions result from a constant reminder throughout his upbringing of Western injustices and transgressions; a slavery apologist, who lives in the antebellum South, and validates his ideals by the norms and conventions of the time; an American who supports gun control, Keynesian economics and a woman’s right to an abortion, but developed these beliefs solely through having friends and family affirm the “moral correctness” of these notions.

These narratives reflect radically different situations and consequences, but share a fundamental characteristic.

By no means am I suggesting that the third individual espouses an immoral ideology. But, like the first two scenarios, the final anecdote highlights opinions that dangerously formed as a result of homogenous bubbles.

And until recently, I could more or less be defined by these attributes. However, over time, I’ve realized that this mode of thinking yields three serious problems.

Firstly, a failure to challenge assumptions inhibits a society from moral improve-

ment. Adopting a phrase from abolitionist Theodore Parker, former President Obama often asserts, “The arc of moral history is long, but it bends towards justice.”

However, this statement cannot be true if we complacently uphold the norms of the period in which we live.

Can you imagine a world in which no one challenged the institution of slavery in 19th century America? Can you picture a society in which the use of duels to settle relatively innocuous arguments remained unquestioned? In order for moral history to approach justice, we must bend it that way ourselves.

This does not necessarily mean that modern conceptions of morality are incorrect. That being said, assessing their accuracy proves impossible without perpetual skepticism. The modern consensus on a certain moral issue is simply the most convincing claim and refutation to a previously held assertion that has come along so far.

Tomorrow, a new perspective may surface that shatters our previously held beliefs all over again.

Secondly, an inability to critically and thoughtfully defend against points that

yield alternative ideologies does a disservice to personal perspectives. Pundits like Tomi Lahren, Ben Shapiro and Milo Yiannopoulos highlight this problem.

Lahren has repeatedly conflated the Black Lives Matter movement with the Ku Klux Klan. Shapiro has vehemently denied the existence of white privilege in American society. And Milo (oh boy, here we go) has referred to

ter about being left on the shelf.”

While immediately writing off such viewpoints as disgusting remains tempting, a willingness to engage with them proves imperative.

These are all intelligent people, who substantiate their claims with facts and logical cogency. I’ve watched a debate in which Lahren and Shapiro decimate an educated liberal because of

You can always learn from those who disagree even if the primary lesson is a further confirmation of your own beliefs.” transgender individuals as mentally disabled, made comments rooted in antiSemitism, asserted that gay rights run counter to the development of humanity and even bizarrely described the recent remake of “Ghostbusters” starring females as “a movie to help lonely middle-aged women feel bet-

a previous unwillingness to engage with them, which inevitably results in an inability to anticipate their arguments. Even more tragic was the outbreak of violence that resulted from Milo’s scheduled speech at University of California at Berkeley. Such instances only empower and enhance ideologies that may

prove inherently close-minded and discriminatory.

Finally, the liberal echo chamber runs the risk of disparaging individuals, who have ostensibly toxic viewpoints but for understandable reasons. The brutal division brought on by Donald Trump’s candidacy highlights this phenomenon. During election season, many coastal liberals increasingly dismissed Trump supporters as racists and bigots or as Hillary Clinton asserted during her campaign, “a basket of deplorables.” How true is this proclamation though?

Testing it remains virtually impossible without a willingness to engage with Trump supporters. What has become widely considered the book of this past election, J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy describes the plight of the disaffected white working class. By no means are the characters in his work racists or bigots. They represent a group that believe American institutions work against them and seek deep systemic change as a result.

Individuals like these and their problems with governing structures can garner much sympathy from liberals across the board. Of course,

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this in their reactions to the homophobic “preachers” whose appearance on campus has now become something of a routine.

The term “hate speech” can be useful for the purpose of arguing that some speech ought not to be taken seriously. Subjectively applying the label, however, does not render the speech in question legally or ethically subject to violent or coercive suppression.

“Hate speech” is too flexible a concept to be used in this way. Even when we are firmly convinced that a speaker’s positions are motivated by hatred, to threaten or carry out physical aggression remains, always, an unacceptable response.

And so we say what we wish our peers would have the conviction to: Never perpetrate violence in the name of attacking hate speech, and shame on those who fail to condemn it. You do yourselves and the rest of us a great disservice.

This past week, I had the opportunity to attend an event titled “Exploring Masculinity” in the Women’s Center here at Penn. The program was designed encourage men on campus to think introspectively about their experiences along the lines of gender and assess the campus climate for furthering male engagement.

Working as a first step in a series of programmatic efforts to promote healthy attitudes about masculinity and how men can lead more fulfilling relationships with themselves and others, it was organized in coordination with the leadership of Vice Provost for University Life, Office of the Chaplain, Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life, Makuu, Pan-Asian American Community House and Penn Violence Prevention as part of continuing work on male engagement on campus.

During the event, I was surrounded by the members of Makuu, the Undergraduate Assembly, Greek Life, Men Against Rape and Sexual Assault, and others. After we were asked to describe our biggest fears, we were all given three Post-It notes and wrote down what masculinity

was for us growing up, what institutions contributed to our self-perception and how we define masculinity today.

While our answers reflected our social, cultural and even economic differences, what moved me was just how similar our answers were. For example, every fear that was mentioned during the event stemmed from an insecurity rooted in masculinity, whether it be a fear of mediocrity, of our own temper or the things in life we can’t control.

Whether intentionally or unintentionally, our communities, campus, nation and world teaches people of all genders toxic lessons about what “normal” gender expression is supposed to be and how they are supposed to mold themselves into what is acceptable. Because of those lessons, a vast majority of men are taught to hide their emotions, and I believe it’s an issue that has fallen unnoticed in our discussions around campus culture.

Looking back on my childhood, I can see why, like many men, I found accessing mental health and self-identity to feel impossible. As masculinity affirms ideals of self-reliance,

stoicism, sexual promiscuity and avoidance of dealing with insecurity, it leads to a culture of dominance over women that does not lend itself well to emotional vulnerability. On our campus, it has and continues to perpetuate issues such as sexual assault, a vast majority of men refusing to utilize

similar to almost every man on campus, I have lost count of the times I have heard parents of young boys diminish their own or other people’s sons for being “too sensitive,” “soft” or emotional. Therefore, acknowledging and addressing how we raise boys is vital in the discussion on

Rather intentionally or unintentionally, our communities, campus, nation and world teaches people of all genders toxic lessons about what ‘normal’ gender expression is supposed to be …” mental health resources and a misogynistic view of women on campus.

It’s important now more than ever to realize that toxic masculinity is not a culture that appears overnight. Rather, it is implanted into men from a young age. Personally,

masculinity.

This stigma towards sensitivity and emotion is a pattern that continues into Penn and many aspects of our campus culture. Whether it be men refusing to address their mental health issues due to fear of facing their emotions or the

patterns of emotional abuse that plague far too many relationships on campus, toxic masculinity is an uphill battle that dawns before we are even aware of it. We must not dismiss the role culture plays in how men view and approach mental health.

In September of 2015, nearly 1 of 4 women had reported being sexually assaulted since their arrival at Penn.

While the participation rate in the survey at Penn was only 27 percent, the numbers still present us with a convicting message; our University needs to have honest, constructive and open conversations about how toxic masculinity breeds disdain for women. But first, we need to admit that we have a serious problem. We need to stop blaming women for the sexual assault, trauma and sexism they experience and turn to each other as men and ask ourselves why we let masculinity force us into complacency when the blame is constantly placed on those who are victimized.

Angela Davis once said that “Radical simply means grasping things at the root.” While discussions around masculinity are hard and truthful con-

this concern can only be evoked through understanding and compassion, not vilification.

To overcome the echo chamber by which we are trapped, engagement and openness to differing perspectives remains paramount. For every New York Times article, read a piece from the Wall Street Journal.

For every Washington Post op-ed, read something from the National Review. Go out of your way to frequently engage with people who disagree on issues that remain important to you. (Mark Zuckerberg models this push in his new movement to meet someone from every state by the end of the year.) To the best of your ability, keep the conversation civil. You can always learn from those who disagree even if the primary lesson is a further confirmation of your own beliefs.

I sincerely hope that tactics like these become more wholeheartedly adopted at Penn. For, in so much of the discourse I encounter, echoes are all that I hear.

BEN GARGANO is a College junior from New York studying philosophy, politics, and economics.

CALVARY ROGERS clusions regarding its contribution can seem to be “too radical” and far-fetched for men on campus, we must remember that it seems that way because we are addressing the root of an overlooked dilemma on every college campus in America.

Toxic masculinity is a mask that every man has once lived in and impacts every community they’ve ever intersected with. If we are to ever take it off to make our campus an inclusive space for all, we must first acknowledge it exists.

CALVARY ROGERS is a College sophomore from Rochester, N.Y., studying political science.

His email address is calvary@ sas.upenn.edu. “Cal’s Corner” usually appears ever y Wednesday

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Glitch in the system: FAFSA affected by IRS hack

However, FAFSA may not be more difficult to fill out REBECCA LIEBERMAN Staff Reporter

Applying for financial aid often feels overwhelming to many Penn students — and it may have just gotten harder.

The Internal Revenue Service Data Retrieval Tool, an online resource that allows Americans to upload tax-return information without having to manually enter it, has been disabled until October due to security concerns.

Hackers attempted to use personal information from the tool to file fraudulent tax returns, according to The Washington Post.

College senior Sam Murray, the undergraduate chair of the Student Financial Services Advisory Board, said that the aid application process will likely be less streamlined as a result of the tool being out of service.

However, Murray feels that the Department of Education and the IRS’s decision to take the tool down completely was

“probably well-advised, given the circumstances.”

“Obviously we’re not happy that they couldn’t have been more proactive about getting it back up sooner or knowing that this data breach could have happened earlier,” he said.

Murray added that Student Registration and Financial Services is working to make sure everyone is aware of the tool’s disablement.

“Hopefully we won’t let this affect people negatively. There will be some issues for certain, but I think that we’re prepared to deal with them.”

University Director of Financial Aid Elaine Papas Varas said she feels the disablement of the IRS tool will not make applying for financial aid any harder for families.

“We’ve only had the DRT service available to us for the last two years,” she said. “So before that, families didn’t have the ability to tap into the IRS.” Papas Varas said SRFS will go back to the way it processed funding in the past, which

involved “families filling out the FAFSA, filling out their profiles, putting either estimated or actual on the tax returns on their form, and submitting tax returns.”

“The federal government was very resistant to allow the Department of Education to tap into the IRS — you can imagine why. Because the IRS is very protective of their data, obviously,” she said.

Papas Varas noted that since the DOE was able to establish a secure link with the IRS two years ago, “we have had nothing but trouble.”

“The IRS got hacked last year,” she said. “[The data retrieval tool] is new, and it probably doesn’t have all the bugs out of it yet.”

Papas Varas advised families to try to submit their tax information to the IRS as early as possible and said that families should keep copies of their tax returns.

She said she believes that while the tool was useful for all students, it will not be any more

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recording on the weekends and writing songs on many of his flights to visit clients.

“I really missed it, and I felt like there was a side of me that was being repressed.”

During college, freestyling with his roommates became an everyday activity. He became focused on musical lyricism in a freshman year poetry class after suffering a great personal loss.

“Poetry became an outlet for me that year when my dad passed away,” Kelly said. “It became a big thing I would use to bring myself back into the moment.”

A self-descr ibed music addict, he began releasing songs last summer leading up to the launch of his debut album, “Not Rich Yet,” last November.

“You can hear the hunger in the title,” Kelly said. “It was about making an entrance and saying, ‘Look, I’m here.’”

He described his next album, ”Love Rx” (out May 18), as a more organic, pop-electronic sound with a strong element of hip-hop.

“Love Rx” is also completely clean — no explicit lyrics whatsoever.

“My mom was very happy about that,” he said. “There was also an element of me that was thinking about the business side of it and knowing that if you put out a clean track, the radio can just grab it and put it in rotation.

If you only have the explicit versions out, they can’t.”

Kelly tries to create a balance between school and music, going home to write songs after class and thinking of hip-hop as a complement to his Wharton experience.

“I treat [music] as my entrepreneurial endeavor that I’m taking on here at Wharton,” Kelly said. “A lot of people have that, and I definitely look at it as, ‘This is my startup.’”

He met h is ma nager, fellow Wharton MBA student

Emmanuel Chimezie, on the first day of Wharton orientation. Chimezie, now editor of the Wharton Journal, wrote an article about Kelly that spurred their business partnership.

“I’m super passionate about music,” Chimezie said. “I can’t create music — we tried to do that once and that was a fun experience — but I do love music, primarily jazz, rap and R&B.” Chimezie and Kelly are planning to tour this summer and throughout the fall. Penn students may also see Kelly perform on campus in the near future.

“We’re in talks with a few fraternities on campus about doing shows here,” Chimezie said.

After graduating from Wharton, Kelly plans to go back to consulting.

“The plan is to go back to McKinsey, unless I get a million dollar signing bonus before Wharton ends,” he said.

He hopes to transfer to McKinsey’s Los Angeles office, get

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involved in the music business as a consultant and continue releasing his own music and writing for other artists.

Kelly, who has adopted the moniker, “Genre Killer,” plans to keep listeners on their toes, switching between “incisive rap

verses,” softer pop and completely new sounds.

“I don’t want to conform to any one archetype of what music sounds like. That’s why I’m going to keep spreading my wings and trying new things.”

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book, “Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance,” was a New York Times bestseller.

After graduating magna cum laude from Harvard College, Duckworth first worked as a management consultant before leaving to teach math to seventh graders in New York City’s public schools, where her curiosity about hard work and grit sparked. She then entered the Ph.D program in psychology at Penn, where she has been a faculty member since 2007.

Duckworth was awarded the MacArthur “genius” fellowship in 2013 and has previously advised the White House, the World Bank, NBA and NFL teams and Fortune 500 CEOs.

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Meet the College freshman who is running for his hometown school board He has not received any major party endorsements SKYLER PALATNICK Contributing Reporter

A College freshman is running for a position on his hometown’s school board.

If successful, College freshman Harrison Meyer will become youngest ever member of the school board for Lower Merion School District, located in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

Meyer said he decided to run because the current board is dismissive of the issues their constituents care about.

“Definitely not students, but even the community members that come in and voice their concerns — they’re often kind of shrugged off,” he said.

The 18-yea r-old Lower Merion High School alumnus is significantly younger than each of the nine other candidates

running for positions on the school board — but he sees several advantages in his youth.

“I’m closer to the student body,” Meyer said. “You know, I can understand them more easily than the current board — the current board makes very little effort to reach out to the students.”

Meyer said he believes other candidates seem to have taken him less seriously because of his age.

The Democratic Committee of Lower Merion and Narberth nominated Ben Driscoll, Laurie Actman, Debra Finger and Melissa Gilbert, according to its endorsement meeting report.

Other candidates running for school board are Meyer, Mary Brown, Tannia Schrieber, Adrian Seltzer and David Yavil.

While Meyer did not receive any party endorsements, he said he did receive the support of Narberth mayoral candidate Davis Burton.

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M e ye r a c k n ow l e d g e d the disadvantage of not having a Democratic Comm ittee endorsement, but nonetheless remained confident in his chances.

The primary election is scheduled for May 16 and the general election will take place Nov. 7. Elections are being held for a range of local administrative positions, including four seats on the school board.

“I think I got a good chance of winning,” Meyer said. “The other candidates don’t seem to be coming at it the same way; not trying to reach out to the community as much in their campaigning process.”

If Meyer does get elected, he intends to push a platform that emphasizes students’ concerns and tackles problems which have not been addressed by previous boards. These include pushing back start times of schools, increasing support for mental health programs and

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adapting to increases in enrollment.

If elected, Meyer will serve for a term of four years beginning December 2017.

According to Run For Office, a data website for elected officials in the U.S., Lower Merion School District school board members “attend meetings, and participate in official school ceremonies and school functions,” as well as “create procedures and policies for the school district’s organization and operation.”

Wharton freshman Aaron Diamond-Reivich, a friend of Meyer’s who is involved with social media outreach for the campaign, said he is optimistic about Meyer’s chances and feels he stands out from the other candidates.

“He’s definitely a breath of fresh air from all these adult people running,” he said, “so I think people might resonate with him.”

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“We encourage students to look at the portfolio of offerings and see if there is something else that they might be interested in,” Bieber said. “And since they’ve already gone through the application process, we can facilitate their review.”

College sophomore Rachel Pestername okay, however, was only interested in the Penn-inVenice program.

“Kind of the whole point for me applying to Penn-in-Venice was that I take Italian as my language at Penn, and I still have two more semesters of it to take,” she said.

“So that would have been nice to a) immerse myself in the language and get better at Italian, and b) knock out my Italian requirement for the College.”

Pester also saw this as her only opportunity to study abroad at Penn, which made the cancellation more upsetting.

“Because I’m a transfer student, I can’t study abroad and finish all of the credits that I want to, if I want to get the two minors that I want to get,” she said. “I hadn’t completely set my mind on it, but I definitely was upset that they

canceled the program.”

College sophomore Hannah Sandersname okay, who was originally enrolled in Penn-inBuenos Aires, decided to switch to the Penn-in-Madrid program after the unexpected cancellation.

Since she would be taking Spanish classes in either program, the transition was rather simple from a logistical perspective.

“They offered to transfer our applications to the Madrid program,” she said.

While the decision wasn’t an automatic one for Sanders, she decided to enroll in the Madrid program anyway.

“I’ve been taking Spanish since I was in eighth grade, and I’ve always had the idea that study abroad or immersion is the best way to solidify all of your knowledge,” she said.

Both programs would allow her to complete her certificate in Spanish. Nevertheless, Sanders would have been happier studying in Argentina rather than in Spain.

“I wasn’t as excited about Madrid as I was about Buenos Aires,” she said.

The uncertain ordeal caused her anxiety about what to do with her summer.

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You never stop learning leadership, nor should you LAINE HIGGINS

They say that you learn everything you need to know in life in kindergarten. Treat others as you want to be treated, play fair, clean up your own mess, naps are good — the list goes on.

Beyond calculus and chemistry, however, one skill stands out to me as something I didn’t learn when I was five — something I’m still trying to wrap my head around. It’s a nebulous concept, one that is hard to pinpoint in writing but easy to identify by experience. That concept is leadership.

From a young age, we’re taught to “follow the leader.� But there’s no explicit lesson for how to become a leader, much less one that merits followers.

Within the athletic sphere, leadership takes many forms, whether it is bestowed upon us through years of experience and seniority, with titles of captainship, or by embodying grit and being resilient. I think any student-athlete at Penn would agree that without some semblance of leadership outside of the coaching staff, a season’s goals would be for naught and practice would be little more than going through the motions.

That is why it is crucial for student-athletes to learn how to lead — and how to follow. Luckily for us Quakers, we have an Athletic Department that is keenly aware of this need.

As announced on March 21,

2017, the University is launching a Penn Athletics Wharton Leadership Academy in partnership with the Anne and John McNulty Leadership Program at the Wharton School that will provide leadership training to all studentathletes at Penn.

Penn Athletics ran a pilot program for the Leadership Academy in May 2016 that was attended by all of Penn’s varsity sports captains and administered

by Jeff Klein, the executive director of the McNulty Leadership Program, Anne Greenhalgh, a professor of management and Klein’s deputy director, and John Kanengieter, a Director for Leadership at the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS).

After receiving overwhelmingly positive feedback from the participating captains, Penn Athletics sought to expand the program. “We’re trying to do that now for everybody,� explained Lauren Caminiti, Penn Athletics’ Student Development Coordinator. “It’s happening next year. It’s going to start with the freshman class and then try to move them through and slowly add people to that.�

The initiative was made possible through two substantial monetary gifts, one of $1 million dollars from David S. Pottruck, a decorated wrestler and football player during his years at Penn and former C.E.O. of Charles Schwab, and another of $500,000 from Benjamin Breier, a Penn baseball alum and current president of Kindred Healthcare. It is telling that two former studentathletes fund the program, for they understand the difference

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Leadership is a skill that must be learned and then refined over the course of one’s life, something Penn Athletics realized when it announced and ran a pilot program for the Leadershp Academy last May.

great leaders can make on the playing field. “Leadership is a quality that can, and should, be taught,� Pottruck said in a press release made by the University. “The combined stamina, discipline and team spirit that Penn’s athletes show so consistently demonstrates their enormous potential as world leaders.�

When I first heard the news about the Leadership Academy I was thrilled, as I attended the guinea pig session last May that was held in Steinberg-Dietrich Hall.

The so-called “captains training� began with an exercise on values led by Klein and Greenhalgh. Each of the

student-athletes in the room was presented with a deck of about 50 cards, each with a different term, such as “family,� “integrity,� and “discipline.� We were told to pick just three and then justify our choice to other captains in small groups. Everyone I spoke with had picked a different set of three cards, and yet there were still shared undercurrents of respect for hard work and investing in relationships.

Next, the captains migrated downstairs to a room with two perpendicular rope lines laid out on the floor. As we walked into the room, Kanengieter explained that we would be doing an interactive exercise. He would define the rope axis, ask us a question

and then wait while we placed ourselves in the room based on our answer.

The tone of the first series of questions was light – are you a morning person? What kind of music pumps you up? Gradually, Kanengieter moved towards more serious questions that poked at our leadership tendencies. By the end of the session we were scattered across the room upon axes based on how rational vs. emotional and introverted vs. extroverted we were.

Kanengieter then explained how people in each of the quadrants react to crisis situations.

It was fascinating to see what coordinates my co-captians occupied on that imaginary plane.

Without that exercise, I don’t think I would have had as firm a grasp on my own strengths and weaknesses as a leader, nor those of my teammates. Countless times over the course of the swim season I found myself going back to that room, and using Kanengieter’s lessons as a basis for when to defer to my co-captains and when to take on a larger role.

Afterwards, Klein led the captains through a debriefing session when we set goals for our teams and ourselves for the upcoming year. From the six hours we spent at the training session, I learned more about myself than I have from almost a decade in the pool.

The Leadership Academy is something I think all Penn student-athletes will benefit from, whether they are expected to take on a leadership role as upperclassmen, or still learning the ropes of how to be a student-athlete at an Ivy League school and largely following the example of their teammates.

While the exact lesson plans for Penn Athletics’ Wharton Leadership Academy have yet to be finalized, I sincerely hope that it includes an exercise similar to the one Kanengieter led in May. If I learned one thing at the captains training last year, it is that leadership is a skill that never ceases to need refinement.

And something tells me my kindergarten mind wouldn’t have quite grasped that concept.

LAINE HIGGINS is a College senior from Wayzata, Minn., and is an associate sports editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian. She can be reached at dpsports@thedp.com.

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Yet, the next time he threw would prove to be his last as a member of the Red and Blue.

After his third tune-up session, Wilpon came off the mound unable to feel his right leg. “It was sort of a point of reflection, because I grew up loving playing the game, but once your body starts failing you and you’re not able to perform at the level that you used to be able to perform at, it’s tough to continue playing,�

Wilpon said.

The pitcher made the decision to leave the team this past February. “If I felt like I couldn’t be at the level I wanted to perform at, I didn’t want to be a hindrance to anyone else on the team by coming to practice with any sort of negative attitude,� Wilpon said.

Now that Wilpon is no longer a student-athlete, he has found that he’s been able to use his newfound free time to explore elements of Penn that he previously could not. “As an athlete, sometimes you miss out on other aspects of school life, whether it be meeting with a professor, or joining a club,�

Wilpon said. “You can do it, but you can’t really get fully involved in the other extracurriculars that

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Princeton Invitational, witnessing only the set up and breakdown of the festivities each year. Track and field always competes at an all-day meet and doesn’t get back until late Saturday night.

Women’s rowing always races at Clemson University, forcing them to miss Fling altogether.

There are other ways to simulate the Spring Fling experience, however.

The women’s tennis team, for example, missed Kygo and Kesha two years ago thanks to a match at Cornell. But they blasted both acts’ music and hilariously declared, “We’re listening to the same music — and we didn’t even

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Former MLB draft pick and Penn baseball player Bradley Wilpon walked away from the game he loved after numerous injuries plagued his career.

the school really has to offer.�

Wilpon, a finance and real estate concentrator in Wharton, was able to secure an internship at Allen & Co., an investment bank specializing in technology and media mergers and acquisitions.

The bank sometimes advises regional sports television networks on the multimillion dollar deals they conduct for the right to televise professional teams’ games, which Wilpon sees as a segue between his interests in sports and finance.

Beyond that, though, Wilpon is not sure what the future holds, and doesn’t know whether he will follow his father and grandfather into the front office of an MLB team. However, he does know his attitude towards the game hasn’t changed. “Just because I stopped playing the game doesn’t mean I’m going to be any less involved or follow the game any less,� Wilpon said. “I have a great passion for baseball, and I think that will always be there.�

have to pay for it!�

Some teams, like baseball and softball or men’s and women’s tennis, can get lucky and stay in town during Spring Fling due to the weekend series nature of their sport. But they often don’t get to participate fully, even if they are in town.

Having games on Friday-Saturday or Saturday-Sunday means the athletes are at practice until those games or matches. With the responsibility of practice and competitions looming, athletes who are at Penn during Fling are grounded — left wishing they could partake in the festivities.

As one of my athlete friends told me, “It’s hard to watch all of your friends on other teams have a lot of fun and you’re just stuck

watching everything.�

I would love to go to Spring Fling — and many other athletes who haven’t gone feel the same way.

One athlete who has never attended Fling but wishes she could said, “I feel like I’m missing out on a Penn tradition.�

I’ve come to the conclusion that I’ll probably never attend a Fling concert — and that’s okay. I’m not bitter, I promise.

But if I somehow get to go, I’ll be the first one to buy a ticket.

CARTER THOMPSON is a College junior from Tallahassee, Fla., and is a sports reporter for The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at dpsports@thedp.com.

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a chance to win. We put the ball in play a lot and nothing fell for us today; that’s baseball.”

Holcomb seemed to be only getting stronger as the game went on, striking out a combined five batters in the sixth and seventh innings without allowing a hit in either frame.

But with the rookie never having exceeded seven innings in his college career, coach John Yurkow made the call to the bullpen to bring in middle reliever and fellow freshman Christian Scafidi to start the eighth.

The decision, though justifiable at the time, would come to bite the Red and Blue.

Facing the heart of the La Salle order, Scafidi walked Kevin MacGowan, putting the tying run on. Immediately after,

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Faso provided his late-game heroics with a huge drive over the left-center field fence, emotionally crushing the Red and Blue as one-run lead turned into a one-run deficit in the blink of an eye.

“You know, if they asked me to do another one, I would’ve gone,” Holcomb said. “But I was glad to give somebody else a chance.”

Though Tom my Pellis reached with an infield single in the top of the ninth, that would be all Penn could muster, as La Salle closer Austin Constantini sent the Quakers home emptyhanded to give the Explorers their first Liberty Bell Classic title since 2006.

As frustrating as the loss is for the Red and Blue, it goes without saying that there’s a different championship out for the taking that serves as a bigger concern for them. And after sweeping

Princeton to move to first place in the Ivy League Lou Gehrig Division, the team still is in fantastic shape to win the Ancient Eight title for the first time since 1995.

Next up in that quest, Penn will travel to Cornell in a fourgame set that should prove pivotal for both team’s title hopes. After finishing in last place in the Gehrig Division in 2016 and being almost universally predicted to do the same this season, the second-place Big Red (17-12, 6-6) have served as a solid surprise story, led by power-hitting first baseman Cole Rutherford and his leagueleading seven home runs.

So while Penn is understandably disappointed at Tuesday’s loss, there’s solace in this — another championship is ripe for the taking, and the Red and Blue will get a second chance to make history.

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Penn baseball senior Tim Graul drove in the Quakers’ only run in the Liberty Bell Classic at Citizens Bank Park — but that RBI wasn’t enough to drive Penn to victory on Tuesday, as they fell to La Salle, 2-1.

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March Madness is returning to Philadelphia — and Penn is hosting it.

In 2022, that is, after the NCAA announced that the University of Pennsylvania would host the East Regional games at the Wells Fargo Center downtown.

It’s been 60 years since Penn last hosted the East Regionals in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, when the Palestra saw March Madness played out under its roof for four straight years in 195457. The Palestra also hosted the regional one other time in 1939.

That being said, the East Regional in 2022 will be held at the Wells Fargo Center, as the demand for tickets will far exceed the 8,700 seats in the Palestra. The Wells Fargo Center can hold 21,600 people for basketball games.

“The University of Pennsylvania is delighted to partner with the NCAA, PHL Sports and the Wells Fargo Center to bring March Madness back to Philadelphia,” Penn’s Director of Athletics, Dr. M. Grace Calhoun, said in a press release. “Community matters is a core value of Penn Athletics, and hosting events like this, along with the Penn Relays and the inaugural Ivy League Basketball Tournaments, provides the opportunity to bring sports fans together in Philadelphia. We look forward to hosting a first-class event in 2022.”

Previously, the Wells Fargo Center has hosted a number of NCAA Tournament games,

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including the 2016 East Regionals, so the administration of the arena will be happy that the wait won’t be long to see March Madness come back.

“We are thrilled to be hosting the 2022 NCAA Men’s East Regional at the Wells Fargo Center,” Comcast Spectacor’s John Page, President of the Wells Fargo Complex said in a press release. “The arena was designed to lure big-time events to Philadelphia and it continues to live up to its reputation. We have an outstanding history with the NCAA and we’re excited that we’ll be able to continue creating memories for the student athletes, their fans and the city of Philadelphia.

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the NCAA in making the 2022 Men’s East Regional a great event for everyone.”

Having more March Madness in Philadelphia can hardly hurt, with the successful advent of the Ivy League Basketball Tournaments last month proving that the city is ready for more basketball.

Penn men’s basketball lost to eventual NCAA Tournament contestants Princeton in an overtime heartbreaker, denying them the chance to make it to the Big Dance for the first time since 2007.

But with a potential home cour t advantage dangling in front of them in 2022, if they haven’t made it back to the tourney by then, it just might be the carrot they need to make their long-awaited return.

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Ex-MLB pick walks away from baseball

Injuries force Bradley Wilpon to leave Penn baseball after two seasons STEVEN JACOBSON Sports Reporter

CARTER THOMPSON

Ah yes, Spring Fling.

Or, as it’s better known to me, “That thing that seems really fun, but that I can never go to.”

Such is the struggle for in-season spring athletes during Fling weekend. For me and my fellow athletes, Spring Fling goes one of two ways: You’re either in town constantly turning down invitations to darties, or you’re not in town and are forced to live vicariously through your friend’s drunk snapchat stories.

For all of us, missing something in favor of

our sport is nothing new. We’ve all had to miss a friend’s birthday party or school dance to reach the skill level where we could compete for a school like Penn.

But missing Spring Fling is such a bummer since it’s the most popular and talked-about event on campus all year. It’s simply unavoidable in day-to-day conversation as soon as they announce who’s performing.

“Do you have Fling plans?” “What are you doing for Fling?” “Do you want to come to our house after the concert?” These are all answered with the same “Can’t, I’ll be at a game.”

A team’s Fling fate can be sealed differently.

Some historically never have a chance to attend.

My golf teammates and I are always at the

Wharton junior Bradley Wilpon experienced the dream of every young baseball player when he heard his name called in the Major League Baseball draft as rising freshman.

Yet, two and a half years after being selected by the Boston Red Sox in the 36th round of the 2014 first-year player draft before committing to pitch for the Quakers, Wilpon found himself walking away from the game for good.

Wilpon’s decision to leave baseball behind was not an easy one, especially given the passion for the game that he holds that runs in his family. Wilpon’s grandfather, Fred, is the principal owner of the New York Mets, and his father, Jeff, is the team’s chief operating officer. Just as Bradley did, both men played collegiate baseball at Division I schools.

“Baseball runs in my family,” Wilpon said. “We all have that special bond. We all understand the game, and we’ve all played the game at a pretty high level. It’s just part of the family culture.”

Bradley first began to show his own baseball talent while pitching for Brunswick School in Greenwich, Conn., where he tossed a no-hitter in his first start as a high school freshman. By the summer between his junior and senior years, he had committed to play for Penn. Wilpon capped off his prep career by pitching to a 5-1 record with a 1.50 ERA in his senior season.

These gaudy stats, in addition to his upper-80s fastball, began to draw the attention of professional scouts.

“There were definitely some scouts at some of my [high school] games,” Wilpon said. “But I wasn’t expecting anything at all, and it came as a humbling surprise. But I never considered signing.

“It was an honor to be drafted, and something I’ll remember for the rest of my life, but I always wanted to come to school at Penn.”

However, trouble beset Wilpon’s pitching career even before he ever donned the Red and Blue.

In the summer of 2014, just after he had graduated high school and just before he would matriculate to Penn, Wilpon sustained a concussion while playing in a collegiate summer league game, and consequently lost a few miles per hour off his fastball. Simultaneously, the right-hander’s hip, which had always troubled him, began to hurt even more, necessitating some time off from the mound.

“I got to Penn, and I was sort of behind the eight ball, because I hadn’t thrown in a while,” Wilpon said.

Wilpon battled his hip injury through his freshman and sophomore years, pitching a combined six innings of relief during those two seasons. Despite the limited action, Wilpon saw his experience on the team as invaluable.

“I loved the team. I really enjoyed being a part of the Penn baseball program,” Wilpon said, delivering praise for everyone from his coaches to his teammates to the strength and conditioning staff.

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It was a big-time stage for a big-time game — but by the slimmest of possible margins, Penn baseball couldn’t get the big-time win it’d been seeking for decades.

Despite leading almost wireto-wire in the championship game of the Liberty Bell Classic, one timely swing of the bat from La Salle’s Ben Faso proved to be the difference, as his eighthinning dinger accounted for both the Explorers’ runs in a 2-1 victory that prevented the Quakers from winning their first championship in the local tournament’s 26-year history.

As such, the Red and Blue remain the only Division I program to have ever competed in the Liberty Bell Classic not to have won it yet, forcing the Quakers to wait until next year once

again.

“Absolutely, it’s a tough loss,” freshman pitcher Mitchell Holcomb said. “But you come back, and you go for a good win on the weekend, and you hope that the guys turn it around quick.”

The loss was certainly no fault of Holcomb, who stepped in as the starting pitcher after each of Penn’s four regular starters were burned in last weekend’s sweep of Princeton and performed even better than he could’ve imagined.

After a career-best effort in the tournament’s semifinal against Villanova — an 11-2 Penn win in which the rookie threw a careerhigh seven innings with only six hits and one run allowed — Holcomb was even more dominant under the bright lights of Citizens Bank Park on Tuesday night.

Though he did get into a bit of trouble in the second inning, getting into a bases-loaded, one-out jam before retiring the next two batters, the freshman’s overall line for the night included four hits allowed, two walks and nine

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Penn baseball’s starting pitcher Mitch Holcomb tossed seven solid innings against La Salle, shutting out the Explorers until he left the game, when his reliever gave up two runs and Penn lost its lead.

strikeouts in seven innings of shutout ball in what was unquestionably the finest effort of his

young career.

“I got a great group of guys around me, they support me

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really well,” Holcomb said. “You know, my faith is a big one, and you just have to make sure to keep

your head in the game the whole time you’re in there, fighting for every out.”

The Red and Blue (18-15, 8-4 Ivy) came out firing in the top of the first on Tuesday, with Tim Graul doubling and being knocked in by a Matt O’Neill sacrifice fly.

It was only one run — but for nearly the entire night, it looked like all the Quakers would need.

With just about every type of pitch working, Holcomb ran through the Explorers’ lineup inning after inning, keeping the Red and Blue afloat as La Salle (7-27, 1-8 Atlantic 10) ace and fellow freshman Matt Holt had his very own impressive effort in a thrilling pitchers’ duel of rookies.

“You know I really wanted to help the team; they put up one in the first and I really wanted to do it for the ballclub,” Holcomb said.

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