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A look back at Class of 2019’s four years on campus Trump elected, Wynn Commons renamed JULIE COLEMAN Senior Reporter

As the Class of 2019 soon-to-be graduates don their caps and gowns and prepare to walk across the stage, they might reflect on how they have changed over the past four years, as well as how Penn has changed since they first set foot on Locust Walk.

Here are a few highlights since they first began their freshman fall semesters.

Politics at Penn This past fall, former President Barack Obama spoke at a rally to reelect United States Senator Bob Casey (D-Pa.) and Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf, as well as other Democratic candidates running in the midterm elections. Obama urged students and Philadelphia locals to “restore some sanity to our politics”

during his speech at the Dell Music Center.

In February 2017, former Vice President Joe Biden was named Penn’s Benjamin Franklin Presidential Practice Professor. Since then, Biden has made numerous appearances on campus to speak about international policy, the opioid crisis, and cancer treatment, among other topics. Biden announced his 2020 presidential campaign in April.

In 2016, 1968 Wharton graduate Donald Trump was elected president. The day after the election, the campus mourned and students marched in solidarity against the Penn alumnus.

Sports In February 2018, the Penn community celebrated with the rest of Philadelphia after the Eagles’ historic Super Bowl victory. Students flocked to Broad Street on the night of the big win and were met with

overturned cars, a collapsed hotel awning, superfans climbing lampposts, and unbridled revelry. One week later, Penn cancelled class as 700,000 people gathered to parade through Philadelphia and welcome back the winning team.

Controversies Though not named in the national college admissions scandals that broke in March 2019, Penn faced its own bribery admissions scandal involving former men’s basketball coach Jerome Allen. Allen pleaded guilty to taking more than $74,000 in bribes from businessman Philip Esformes to let his son get into Penn as a recruited player. In light of the nationwide scandals, Admissions Dean Furda said Penn would revisit admissions procedures.

In January 2018, after numerous allegations of sexual harassment surfaced against 1963 College graduate and major Penn donor Steve Wynn, Penn removed Wynn’s name

from “Wynn Commons” and rescinded his honorary degree.

Penn Law professor Amy Wax faced intense backlash after she published a controversial op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer in August 2017 that argued “not all cultures are created equal.” She was also removed from teaching a mandatory first-year law course after she made comments about the students’ grades in a public video.

Numerous controversial speakers on campus were met with student protests, including conservative activist Candace Owens, who spoke this past April, and critic of the Black Lives Matter movement Heather Mac Donald in September 2017.

Community Penn’s first-ever chief wellness officer, former psychiatry professor Benoit Dubé, began his term in September 2018. Dubé was charged with leading the University’s

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In February 2018, the Penn community celebrated with the rest of Philadelphia after the Eagles’ historic Super Bowl victory.

strategy on mental health and coordinating wellness initiatives across various departments on campus.

Dubé has held several iterations of “campus conversations” and is in the process of establishing a student wellness advisory group to advise him on wellness policies.

In 2017, Hill College House

reopened after contruction. Since fall 2015, the graduating class has seen new buildings open such as the Perry World House, the Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics, and New College House. In December 2018, contruction officially began on New College House West.

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2019 Honorary Sphinge: Laurie McCall, Director of the Platt Student Performing Arts House Under Laurie’s direction, Platt House is home to the Performing Arts Council, an umbrella organization for 46 student-run comedy, spoken word, dance, theatre, singing, and music organizations staging about 100 events each year. Platt House works to make arts engagement easily accessible for students through campus engagement, service to the community and learning opportunities. Laurie’s tireless efforts greatly enhance the lives of the thousands of students each year who participate in performing arts programs and attend performances. She is a fierce advocate for the arts community at Penn and the Sphinx Senior Society is proud to have her among our ranks.

2019 Paul Miller Award Winner: Soomin Shin As Chair of the Asian Pacific Student Coalition, Soomin played a major role in galvanizing five student minority coalitions, generating awareness around the goals, needs and interests of students of color to the University administration.

From promoting voter registration to supporting undocumented students, Soomin is a major advocate for a portion of the population that was marginalized and underserved, calling for a broader and more inclusive understanding of the term “Asian American.” Throughout her time at Penn, she elevated the discussion on the importance of knowledge, the significance of tolerance, and the fight against discrimination in the spirit of Paul Miller, dedicated to the highest standards of public service.

Penn President Amy Gutmann (second row, center) joins the Sphinx Class of 2019 making the “sign of Sphinx” on the staircase of her campus home.

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Finance, consulting, and tech remain top industries for Penn grads Plurality of 2018 grads work in finance GORDON HO Staff Reporter

As the Class of 2019 prepares to enter into the workforce, here is a look at the employment statistics from the Class of 2018.

Consulting, finance, and technology have consistently been ranked as the top three industries for Penn graduates throughout the past eight years of Career Services reports.

While students pursuing finance decreased over the years, the share of students working in the technology sector has doubled since 2011, jumping from 7% to 14%. The percentage of graduates employed in consulting remained relatively steady over the years, fluctuating within a 16 to 20 percent range.

Compared to numbers from 2017, the amount of students hired

by Google and Microsoft both decreased. Employment, however, has increased steadily over the years at Google for Penn grads. In 2014, 14 students were employed.

In 2018, 22 were hired.

Career Services did not report the amount of students hired by Amazon and IBM for 2018, and Barbara Hewitt, executive director of Career Services, said it is likely because both companies did not hire more than 12 stu-

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dents, the minimum number to stay on Penn’s Top Employers list. In years in which there is data, both companies have been hiring more Penn graduates since 2011. While Penn graduates employed by both companies was only in single-digits in 2011, the number rose to about 20 in 2017.

Hewitt said the numbers employed by different companies can fluctuate from year to year, but employment across industries remains relatively stable.

The preliminary Career Services report for the Class of 2018 in the College of Arts and Sciences indicated that the average salary was $63,889.

Among some of the top employers of the Class of 2018 are Boston

Consulting Group and Walmart’s eCommerce department, hiring 16 and 20 graduated seniors, respectively.

Within the finance sector, JP Morgan Chase & Co., Morgan Stanley, and Goldman Sachs were the top employers, respectively hiring 12, 11, and eight graduated seniors.

Among the four undergraduate schools, Engineering students earned the most after graduation with an average salary of $92,284, an increase of about 1.5% from 2017 and also the highest in history.

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an increase in their salaries. In 2017, the average salary was $63,986. In 2018, it was $69,692, an almost 9% increase and the highest in history.

Wharton students saw almost no change in average salary this year ($80,354) compared to 2017 ($80,566).

For Wharton students, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, and McKinsey & Company were the top employers, respectively hiring 20, 18, and 18 graduated seniors.

Hiring timelines can differ between different industries, Hewitt said. While the finance industry hires early and many seniors get

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The Career Services Office is open throughout the summer, and Hewitt said students are welcome to schedule sessions with the office to discuss career plans through the phone or via Skype.

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their return offer after their junior internship, non-profit or advertising companies hire when positions are open and seniors can work immediately, Hewitt added. For those in non-finance industries, it is normal to not have a job until senior spring

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SENIOR COLUMNS Take a big swing

FRIDAY MAY 17, 2019 VOL. CXXXV, NO. 29 135th Year of Publication JULIA SCHORR President SARAH FORTINSKY Executive Editor ALICE HEYEH Print Director BEN ZHAO Digital Director ISABELLA SIMONETTI Opinion Editor MADELEINE NGO Senior News Editor THEODOROS PAPAZEKOS Senior Sports Editor GILLIAN DIEBOLD Senior Design Editor JESS TAN Design Editor LUCY FERRY Design Editor TAMSYN BRANN Design Editor GIOVANNA PAZ News Editor MANLU LIU News Editor MAX COHEN News Editor DEENA ELUL Assignments Editor DANNY CHIARODIT Sports Editor MICHAEL LANDAU Sports Editor WILL DiGRANDE Sports Editor KATIE STEELE Copy Editor TAHIRA ISLAM Copy Editor DANIEL SALIB Director of Web Development

SENIOR COLUMN BY REBECCA TAN The Daily Pennsylvanian senior column is one fussy beast. The tradition calls on graduating editors to write a final column in the paper they toiled for at Penn in a way that is concise but conclusive, personal yet argumentative, and intimate but in a public way. Like I said: fussy.

In writing my own, I thought a lot about the editors who came before me. I wondered whether I should follow in the footsteps of those who stressed the importance of an independent college paper or do what a sports writer did in 1999 and just list every friend I made at Penn before adding in all-caps: “THANK YOU.” I considered going for a snappy listicle in the style of editors in the early ‘10s, and at some point, thought maybe I should share what it was like to be the company’s first international executive editor (I mispronounced Americanisms a lot and had to be persuaded that the Super Bowl is like, a thing).

Mostly though, as I trawled through the DP archives, a reporter attempting to research a personal essay into existence, I vexed over whether I had something — anything — valuable to say.

In the last four years, I stressed out over grades and summer gigs until I didn’t. I was lonely until I found the right friends and I had to lose bits of myself to a relationship to get a meaningful sense of who I am.

It was bad in the winter, and better in the spring, but never particularly remarkable. In other words, my time

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the caring that grinds you down, it’s the loneliness. This can be particularly potent at a place like Penn, where students preach the 80-20 rule like it’s dogma and wear their “chill” with the smug carelessness of a day-old party wristband. Under the pervasive pressure to plump up our resumes, the general philosophy is to only ever do enough to get by.

Investing too much of myself in the DP, in the person I was seeing and in this long, cursed list of things beyond my control was what brought on the toughest nights in my college career. And yet, in a way that seems too trite to print, it was precisely this caring, this caring too much, that helped me sink my feet into this campus. It gave me a repository of problems to spend my days on and let me feel like I genuinely earned the chances I got to rest and relax. It allowed me to skid by sophomore slump and sail into senior year with a full belly and no regrets.

The DP taught me most of what I know about journalism and leadership, but above all, it gave me something worth caring enough about to feel frustration, shame, and joy in equal turn. It gave me something to love.

So, at risk of breaking my own rule, here’s a suggestion for underclassmen still finding their way: if

Now though, for what feels like the first time, I’m not dragging my feet. I’m ready, heck, I’m excited to move on because I feel like I took a mighty swing at this college thing.” at 4 a.m. by phone calls and surviving on stale pizza was part of the gig.

What tested my resolve were those moments, rare but palpable, when I felt like I was doing this alone.

Don’t get me wrong — the 134 was an exceptional board filled with the most hard-working people on campus. The 134 was and is my family. All I mean is that when you care a lot about something, it’s not

REBECCA TAN you work obsessively on a project, it becomes a home for you that no one can take away. It’s hard to be genuinely self-assured in college, but an easy way to tune out any useless anxieties is to pour yourself into something. Take a big, embarrassing swing. In my experience, the elusive stuff like confidence, community and fulfillment — all that will follow.

To Julia, Sarah, Annabelle, and the rest of the 135: I know it’s hard, but I promise the work will add up to something. The long hours in this windowless office won’t just disappear once they’re over; bit by bit, they’ll pull you deeper into the history of this newsroom. 4015 Walnut has and will always belong to those who lock up at the end of the night.

So for as long as you can, keep caring way too much. The DP and Penn will be better for it — but so will you.

REBECCA TAN is a College senior from Singapore, studying English and History. She served as the Executive Editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian on the 134th board. .

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from me. I remember telling him that I was tired of caring so much more than other people did; that it felt unfair to have to keep trying.

He replied, “I get it. But this is who you are.”

For a while, I wore what he said like a condemnation — like I was destined to care too much about the things that other people care too little about. This was the part of the job I struggled with. I didn’t mind working 50 hours a week or having to slip out of class to edit breaking stories in the Williams stairwell. I knew, going in, that being woken up

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here hasn’t been so different from any of the other 2,000 graduating seniors. I’m not in any unique position to dispense advice, so as much as possible, I’ll avoid that.

Instead, I’ll share something weird about myself I realized this semester, namely, that I’m about to graduate college with no regrets.

Zero. Nada. This isn’t because I’m not the sort of person to have regrets.

Those people are either 1) liars or 2) insufferably well-adjusted, and I’m neither. Until this point, I’ve approached almost every turn in life apprehensively. I have a bad habit of lingering in airport departure gates, waiting at the back of the line to board because I never feel quite prepared to leave. Now though, for what feels like the first time, I’m not dragging my feet.

I’m ready, heck, I’m excited to move on because I feel like I took a mighty swing at this college thing.

As executive editor last year, I made it a point never to cry in front of those who worked for me. I broke that rule just once, after too many editors had skipped out on an important meeting and I found myself sobbing in the office, using a Mac screen to block my face from staffers laying out the paper. David, the DP’s president, and the only unfortunate person I let myself cry to, sat across

This semester, I was diagnosed with depression.

Realistically, this is something I’ve been struggling with since high school, but it is something that I’ve always managed to push to the side and avoid thinking about. The difference this semester was that I wasn’t on staff at The Daily Pennsylvanian.

The DP, contrary to the implications of the previous paragraph, was easily the best experience of my Penn career. My closest friends are people that I worked with during many long nights in our windowless office, people who share my passion for journalism and making a change on Penn’s campus. The DP shaped my interests and helped me understand that I want a career at the intersection of computer science and journalism.

But the DP was also, in a way, a coping mechanism. All throughout my life, I’ve actively avoided having free time. In high school, I played

two instruments, ran both track and cross country, held leadership roles on the newspaper, and took as many classes as I possibly could.

In college, I joined one of the DP’s

And this semester, I’ve had free time. Lots of it. In the beginning, I used my newfound free time to get into new TV shows, to spend time with friends who weren’t involved in

Although the DP helped me avoid my problems, it also provided me with the resources to start acknowledging them.”

most demanding departments as a first-semester freshman, and then was elected to the editorial board three years in a row, which entailed taking on a 30-hour-per-week commitment in addition to my demanding engineering course load.

the DP, and to explore Philadelphia.

But over the past few months, I’ve spent an increasing amount of time struggling to motivate myself to do my school work, leaving gatherings with friends early because I simply didn’t have the energy to interact

with people, and, in my worst moments, crying more than I had in the past three years combined. By April, these became near-daily occurrences.

Needless to say, this was not how I hoped to spend my last semester in college.

Although the DP helped me avoid my problems, it also provided me with the resources to start acknowledging them. When I needed help, I was able to confide in and lean on the best friends I’d made during my time on board. Their support has been immensely valuable in putting me on the right track to address my depression.

Being a part of the DP was one of the most rewarding parts of my time at Penn; however, it was also a way for me to ignore my problems. Being incredibly passionate about an activity and pouring all of my energy into it was in some ways a positive thing, but it became a problem when I began using my

ALEX GRAVES involvement to distract from dealing with my issues. Doing things you love should never come at the expense of your mental health.

I will certainly look back on my time at Penn, and especially my time working on the DP, as an overwhelmingly positive experience.

Going forward, however, in addition to being extremely passionate about the work I’m doing, I will be sure to take time to care for myself and face my problems head-on.

ALEX GRAVES is an Engineering senior from Blue Bell, Pa., studying Digital Media Design. They were the Director of Web Development on the 134th board of The Daily Pennsylvanian.

Stories worth retelling SENIOR COLUMN BY ALLY JOHNSON

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I’ve learned so many things from people at The Daily Pennsylvanian over the past three and a half years.

One is that I have a bad habit of repeating myself.

I’d like to think part of this was in an effort to pass down stories from my first semesters at the DP to friends on later boards, turning over memories with the hope that a few of them would make it into the brief histories we tell each other during board transitions. But most of it was

just self-indulgent, and my fondest memories from the DP are the ones I always knew made the least sense retold. (Did you know there’s another Copa on South Street?) So, with the qualification that I’ve all but completely kicked that bad habit, I’m going to take this column as an opportunity to indulge in telling a few stories about my time at the DP. Some were repeated more than others.

I never wanted to go into

The DP taught me how deeply fulfilling it can be to devote yourself to something important, even without the dangling carrot of external validation from grades and other “objective” measures of success we obsess over on this campus.”

journalism. I came to 4015 Walnut for the first time in January of my freshman year, after four months of what felt like constant rejection — extracurricular, academic, social. I applied to the copy editing department. I was rejected. The assignments editor at the time told me the news department didn’t have a competitive application process.

I joined. A dozen or so rejections led me to the best decision I made freshman year — one that made this campus feel a bit more like the home I’d expected it to be when I first arrived.

Toward the end of my freshman year, a perfunctory email from Penn administrators announced the death by suicide of an upperclassman as an “accident,” in a manner that was disturbingly similar to the way a student suicide in my community had been handled just over a year earlier.

I didn’t know how to talk about how disillusioned I felt with Penn and how wrong it seemed to be disappointed in an institution I wanted so badly to love. Three semesters

later, I would struggle to articulate how cathartic it was to play a role in publishing a special issue devoted to campus mental health — the culmination of countless hours spent learning the value of criticizing an institution you care about in the service of making it better.

Over the past few years, I’ve often found myself having conversations about how easy it is to stay in the DP office unreasonably late into the night. Of course, it’s because the people make it hard to leave. But it’s also because there are (somewhat infamously) no windows, and the harsh fluorescent lighting makes it difficult to distinguish between 3 p.m. on Sunday afternoon and 3 a.m. on Monday morning. The DP inevitably added more stress to my life than I’d anticipated it would when I ran for the 133; still, at the end of an already-too-long production night, some combination of genuine friendship and artificial lighting made holing up in the office for an extra hour or two feel like a respite from the daily grind of life at Penn.

ALLY JOHNSON To the people who stuck around with me on those nights: Thank you.

You taught me how deeply fulfilling it can be to devote yourself to something important, even without the dangling carrot of external validation from grades and other “objective” measures of success we obsess over on this campus. You helped me figure out how to stay angry about the things that matter and brush off the things that don’t.

And you gave me plenty of stories worth retelling — if only once or twice.

ALLY JOHNSON is a College senior from Reston, Va., studying Political Science. She served as the Assignments Editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian on the 133rd board and the Podcast Editor on the 134th board. She most recently served as the Editorial Board Chair.

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SENIOR COLUMNS On class clownism SENIOR COLUMN BY ALESSANDRO CONSUELOS I was the class clown of 4015 Walnut Street. While my dear friends at the offices of The Daily Pennsylvanian Inc. were doing real jobs, I walked around the newsroom cracking jokes. My job as editorin-chief of Under the Button was to be funny (and perhaps achieve our business and editorial objectives), but I don’t view my time at UTB as a vanity project. Beyond scoring a few laughs and filling a few backpacks with chili, UTB became an outlet to explore the more subtle virtues of being a class clown.

While not at all part of the plan coming into school, journalism became the defining feature of my Penn career. At the risk of angry Slack messages from news editors, I will assert that comedy is a form of journalism and that complete fabrication can be as real as anything.

Fundamentally, journalism is the documentation of truth. All truly great humor is funny because it points to some shared emotional truth. Every day at UTB, I tried to tell the truth and carve out my own corner of the journalism world at Penn. Unlike my news colleagues,

my motivations weren’t to inform the public. I was driven largely by the need to cope and to help others cope. UTB became a space not only where I found my community at Penn, but where I could laugh about Penn and about myself and my own shortcomings.

Penn is an incredibly stressful and maddening place and the seemingly accelerating insanity of the world around it certainly doesn’t help any of us feel better. We spend years of our lives grinding ourselves down, racing breathlessly towards wealth or influence or whatever it is we think that we want out of our time at Penn. Despite our best efforts and intentions, things rarely pan out the way we want. Penn can be a wonderful and enriching experience. It can also be crushing.

Failure and the seeming fruitlessness of our efforts are important, if disheartening, aspects of life at Penn. Put simply, things can be downright terrible. Acknowledging the absurdity of the Penn experience and being willing to try to laugh it off is essential to our emotional wellbeing.

It’s not just the world around us that we need to find humor in, but also ourselves. Finding something to laugh about when things go wrong is an empathetic pursuit and we should seek to have empathy for our own individual situations.

While being a serious person is

go your way. Learning to laugh at yourself and your own failures is not only an emotional insurance policy, but it demonstrates a greater sense of perspective.

Granted, this is easier said than done. At times it seems like there’s not a ton to laugh about. Failed

Fundamentally, journalism is the documentation of truth.

All truly great humor is funny because it points to some shared emotional truth.” a good thing, taking yourself too seriously may not be. It’s easy to be high-strung and single-minded about your future and your selfimage. If you take yourself too seriously, you run the risk of shattering completely when things don’t

midterms, job rejections, and presidential elections can really stick us in the eye. In the early morning hours of Nov. 9, 2016, I was sitting in the newsroom, reporting on the election. I called my editor and asked him what he thought I should

do. “Nothing,” he replied. “There’s nothing funny about what’s happened tonight.”

In that moment, he was right. For me and for many other students, the election was a waking nightmare.

But looking back, I’m not sure we did the right thing. There was a shared experience that we declined to consider in a potentially therapeutic way. Resigning ourselves to a void of humor is resigning ourselves to hopelessness. In our darkest times at Penn we must try to find something to laugh about.

I was incredibly privileged to serve as editor-in-chief of Under the Button. I deeply love the people I worked with and I am proud of what we accomplished during my time at Penn. UTB defined my college years and helped me maintain my sanity. But my biggest hope goes beyond my own well-being.

I hope that our work touched people here. I hope that there was at least someone who read one of our pieces and understood that they weren’t alone in their struggles.

Our mission was always to angle the difficulties of everyday life in a

ALESSANDRO CONSUELOS subversive and funny way, and not just because we’re class clowns desperate for laughs.

Class clownism goes beyond evoking a reaction. Yes, it’s fun to be funny, but humor shouldn’t be about validation. Humor is a language of empathy that communicates to those around us that we share experiences, and while those experiences may not be good, we can at least laugh about them together. As long as there are class clowns, everything just might be alright.

ALESSANDRO CONSUELOS is a Wharton senior from Allentown, Pa., studying Behavioral Economics and Cinema and Media Studies. He served as editor-in-chief of Under the Button on the 134th board.

Why I never belonged at Penn SENIOR COLUMN BY WILLIAM SNOW I can’t remember the exact moment I realized I didn’t belong at Penn.

Maybe it was when I read The New York Times exposé on the economic inequality at America’s top schools.

It revealed that Penn has more students in the top 1% of the United States income bracket than the bottom 60%. Almost three-quarters of students come from rich families in the top 20% in terms of income.

The statistics gave voice to a million smaller, silent moments: downtown tickets haphazardly bought without hesitation, flocks of Canada geese flowing down Locust Walk the day the first leaf fell, long weekend trips to Europe — none of which I could enjoy — if I even wanted to — as a first-generation, low-income student from outside the Northeast.

I was lucky enough to find my time and place outside of these moments. Though I’ve realized I never belonged here at large, I was still lucky enough to find little pockets filled with the most delightful people I’ve had the pleasure of knowing. In little corners, I found so much potential, hope, and love. It’s very possible to get through four years living in these corners, as I was so happy to do, but the issue is that they were merely pockets. We didn’t belong in the body at large.

It definitely came before the moment last month in class when my professor asked a room full of 90 students, mostly freshmen and

sophomores, who had a LinkedIn. I think I might have been the only person who didn’t raise their hand. At Penn, the packaging and commodification of the self is not only the norm, but it’s also expected of students, regardless of their major from their first year on campus.

I guess it truly hit me the moment I was talking with a pair of my good friends over lunch last semester. We had just been talking about a column I wrote criticizing the well-established and over-used pipeline that funnels Penn students into finance, investment banking, and management consulting. They attempted to articulate why they themselves had stepped into the funnel.

Spending a few years after graduation in the financial industry made sense to them because it allows students the chance to make a lot of money while buying themselves more time to think about their broader purpose in life. It’s hard to blame them for that logic; few 21-year-olds know what their life’s mission is.

Yet, no one can construct their life’s meaning amid 80-hour work weeks when there isn’t time to sleep, let alone think and reflect. No one can discover their life’s meaning when they don’t try. Purpose isn’t something stumbled upon — it’s something to be pursued.

Of course, not everyone at Penn has the privilege or security to think about purpose when they need to focus on survival. But I certainly

expected far more people to be exploring themselves through four years at a school filled with nearlimitless opportunity. With such a high average level of wealth and subsequent privilege, why are people spending so much time thinking about what they want to be, instead of who?

It’s difficult to slow down when there is so much momentum surrounding us, driving us to endless success: from APs and SATs in high school to perpetual research positions and internships in college until the MCATs or the LSATs or OCR roll around, it can feel impossible to slow down. But I always thought that’s what college was supposed to be about. We’ve been jumping through all these hoops because it’s what we’re told to do, but did we ever stop and ask ourselves what for?

The reason I never truly belonged at Penn was this: I’ve never been quite as concerned with the question of what I want to be. I want to be a good person with a good life. Everything else will fall in place around that. Having that faith is imperative to focusing on the questions that really matter.

Penn perpetuates a culture that allows students to go through four years of college without asking themselves the hard questions that cultivate the formation of an identity, a strong moral compass, and a sense of direction.

This culture funnels students into industries where those questions

and these qualities are not central to success. Instead, a yearly flow of brilliant students jump through another hoop, a system that capitalizes on their lack of strong answers and their subsequent preference of a pretty paycheck. Those industries are the ones that create — or at least perpetuate — the moral and ethical headaches that require so much of academia’s attention in the first place.

Not everyone can be an academic, and not everyone can be a public servant. But it always saddened me that a place as privileged as Penn produces so few, given how much potential there is to do so.

Instead, Penn seems to take our wealthiest and most privileged and give them the tools to go into the world and create the next generation of wealthiest and most privileged.

I witnessed this every year in my reporting for The Daily Pennsylvanian, and it started at the very top with a corporate administration that prioritizes ethics second. We witnessed Penn’s athletic director give her husband a head coaching position in Penn Athletics without any real questioning, to name but one example. I don’t even need to speak of all the emails from career services about cool new consulting positions to recruit for. And I will always remember the moment freshman year when we found out the candidates with the Rolexes and the last names everyone already knew were the ones chosen to represent our class from the start.

Virtually every signal sent from the

top was another whisper, a warning, a statement that I was unwelcome, or at the very least, unrepresented.

To whom much is given, much is required. The notion is as old as time, yet Penn’s ostensible amnesia on the concept exemplifies the problem this university poses to society. Time after time, I watched students squander their privilege on a new dress for every formal or a yearly trip to Coachella rather than return the favor life gave them in the first place.

I gained so much from this school.

I got to work at one of the best college newspapers in the country. I got to study and practice public service thanks to a brilliant program in Annenberg that only 10 or so students each year actually take advantage of.

I got to research and write speeches for the man who may become the next president, thanks only to Penn Biden Center.

In spite of my lack of love for the institution, Penn gave me more opportunities than I could have ever imagined. These opportunities could only be found at an elite school like this, making my feelings toward the place much more complex than either sheer gratitude or resentment.

To whom much is given, much is required. Because of all I received at Penn, I gave my time here to public service — telling important stories for the DP, mentoring younger students, leading people on their quests to make memories and enjoy their college lives — and I’m giving my next stage in life to public service by

WILLIAM SNOW working in the federal government.

But this place doesn’t encourage that enough.

Penn wasn’t made for public servants, or FGLI students, or humanists, or idealists. Penn today flies in the face of its motto that laws without morals are useless. It cannot say that it’s making the world a better place until it fixes that.

There is room for hope. Resources for FGLI and minority students are expanding, at frustratingly slow speeds though sure enough. Breakthroughs in our understanding of mental health through fields like positive psychology can teach new students better coping mechanisms than I was ever afforded. If Penn’s administration chooses to take the plight of its underprivileged seriously enough and if overlooked communities band together, then we can make sure that fewer students pass through their time here with experiences like mine.

I just wish I had come here once these issues were addressed.

WILLIAM SNOW is a College senior from Nashville, Tenn., studying Communication & Public Service and Political Science. He served as the Senior Sports Editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian on the 133rd board.

It’s good to be weak SENIOR COLUMN BY SOPHIE TROTTO I used to take pride in the fact that I would always try to tough it out whenever I got hurt growing up. I wouldn’t cry when I got fouled by someone playing soccer, or when I fell off my bike, or when this girl freaking nailed a lacrosse ball at the back of my head in eighth grade, or when my little sister put Go-Gurt in my hair. I mean, don’t get me wrong — I have certainly cried before. I’m not a total psychopath. Nonetheless, my parents or my coaches were always proud of the fact that I was a tough cookie.

But as I have learned at my time at Penn, and especially in the last year and a half, being “tough” on the outside isn’t always rewarding. In fact, it can make things a whole lot worse.

I didn’t know this was going to be the case, but my time on the 134th board of The Daily Pennsylvanian was without a doubt

the worst year of my life. Or, more precisely, it coincided with the worst year of my life.

I’ve struggled with depression for years, but it started to get much worse towards the end of my junior year at Penn. I fell down the stairs because I was checking myself out in a window (I know) and it was hard to walk for six months. I was also diagnosed with the second-least sexy disease after gonorrhea: irritable bowel syndrome. I was sad, and I didn’t know what was wrong with me. I wanted to kill myself, but I didn’t tell anyone.

I stopped taking care of myself. My friends and my roommates didn’t see me or hear from me for weeks. I didn’t answer texts. I stayed inside Starbucks during Fling, doing homework. I slept through Hey Day, intentionally.

At the same time, I loved

being Under the Button’s Managing Editor. I loved the fact that I could make other people happy, even if I couldn’t be. Out of all the things that were going wrong with my life, UTB was the one thing that I could consistently do right, do pretty well, and do with purpose.

In the fall, some things went worse, but a lot of things went better.

I made an appointment at Counseling and Psychological Services as soon as I got back to campus. Apparently, I am not really good at this “opening up to people” thing, as my therapist pointed out (which is maybe why I gave up on writing this column several different times). Every time I cried in his office — even the smallest amount — I began to needlessly apologize out of embarrassment.

I started to respond to texts,

actually initiate texting people, and make plans. I wanted to have fun, at least in my senior year.

Still, I didn’t open up about everything. No one, except my therapists and my professor, has known about the fact that I spent all of last semester in a small seminar with someone that assaulted me, because I needed to take the class to graduate. I barely passed, and only did so because I spent an afternoon begging and crying in the professor’s office at the end of the year.

Don’t always be a tough cookie. The best cookies are the soft, gooey, slightly undercooked kinds, anyway. It’s so difficult to do at first, but being vulnerable on the outside feels so much better than being tough. You don’t have to go out of your way to hide as much of what you’re feeling. And it’s really validating to know that other people

generally understand and often know exactly what you’re going through.

That being said, I’m not telling you to completely overshare about your life. Don’t be that dude who tells everyone about that massive dump they just took.

Please … please.

And things are much better for me now. Hey Day was bittersweet. I’m spending the summer hiking half the Appalachian Trail because I’ve wanted to do it since 11th grade. I just spent $9.99 on Justin’s Chocolate Hazelnut & Almond Butter and, honestly, I expected it to taste better. I don’t feel sad.

Being a part of UTB and the DP has allowed me to write about and publish what I think is important and funny in a meaningful way. It’s a good thing I’m going to be the

SOPHIE TROTTO longest-tenured UTB writer in history and can keep going at it next fall. Thank you especially to David (who has never stopped checking in on me), Alec (my work husband), Reb (my work mom), Harry, Figgy, and Jonathan.

SOPHIE TROTTO is a College senior from Yardley, Pa., studying mathematics and philosophy. She served as the Managing Editor of Under the Button on the 134th board.

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SENIOR COLUMNS Embracing the awkwardness SENIOR COLUMN BY ANANYA CHANDRA I can’t remember my first day of college classes. Not really anyways.

Awkwardly knocking on doors in my freshman hall with my roommate?

Taking a first day of school picture with the people on my floor? Uncomfortable encounters in the freshman hall bathroom? Sure. But my first day of classes? First thing I learned? First homework assignment that I (probably over-enthusiastically) completed?

Honestly, I can’t remember a thing.

There are images, snapshots, in my mind of what happened during that first week. But not much more than that. Maybe this is because my mind works like a camera — in a series of

snapshots that are pieced together into a story later on. But it is also an indication of how college as a whole has been.

Like many other students, I entered Penn with a combination of high expectations for myself mixed with the apprehension of the four years to come. While I didn’t think it would be the same as high school, I was also convinced that I would succeed if I did the same things: studied hard and stayed the course. When I stumbled into The Daily Pennsylvanian’s office four years ago, I was a naive, awkward freshman hoping to find my place on campus and do the

Even though it seemed spontaneous at the time, I came to photo because I wanted to find a new way to be creative.”

things that college advertises and promises: “find yourself”, “discover new hobbies,” “figure out who you really are.” I’m not really sure I figured out my sole purpose in life, but I discovered a new passion of mine.

There have been a lot of people who have asked me why I chose to devote a large portion of my time at Penn to photography and the newspaper. “You know you want to go to medical school — why deviate from that path?” The job required 30 or more hours a week in the office — time that other pre-meds were spending at the library, furthering their research, starting new clubs, and ultimately becoming better applicants to medical school.

I was constantly struggling with the uncomfortable idea that what I was doing wouldn’t help me in the future — that I was wasting my time. Furthermore, I had just started photography at the time, and barely knew what I was doing. During my first sports photo assignment for the DP, I got lost trying to find the soccer stadium (it’s past the University City train stop by the hospital, for those

of you who don’t know), and by the time I got there, Penn had scored five goals, taken their best players out of the game, and I was still trying to figure out what shutter speed was.

I was clueless. With the help of my good friend Google and the upperclassman photo editors, I eventually learned how to use a camera without the automatic setting and eventually became an editor myself.

Even though it seemed spontaneous at the time, I came to photo because I wanted to find a new way to be creative. I stayed because of the community I found and the skills I gained. Working as a photo editor was not necessarily what was traditionally best for my resumé (as I was told many times), but I think it was best for me as an individual. I learned to work with a group of phenomenally talented editors, lead photo staff meetings, and discovered how to be creative under the pressure of looming deadlines. All of these are skills that I will be able to apply to my future profession. The people I met were one of my biggest support systems (outside of my family) through

the daily hurdles that college placed in my way.

Being a photographer is full of awkward situations that are (at least partially) diffused by the fact you have a camera in your hand. Being in the newspaper community, where most people don’t understand the struggles of pre-med life and wonder what you’re doing there, created more awkwardness. But if there’s anything I’ve learned over the past four years, it’s that college is full of these uncomfortable encounters. And putting yourself in those situations and allowing them to occur only helps you grow.

Replaying the images from the last four years in my mind, there are many moments at Penn I don’t think I’ll ever forget (and many that are already forgotten). And for the most part, these moments aren’t the planned ones. They aren’t the ones that I came into college expecting to have because I thought I knew the path I would take when I got here.

Spending a majority of my time at Penn developing my photography skills or working towards my

ANANYA CHANDRA computer science minor (“that’s too much time away from your pre-med classes, Ananya!”) were some of the most fruitful parts of my college experience. These were the what-ifs.

And that is the biggest lesson Penn has taught me. Shoot your shot.

Break from what is “traditional” or expected. Embrace the awkwardness. Because those are the memories I am most thankful for.

ANANYA CHANDRA is a College senior from Pennsylvania, studying Biological Basis of Behavior with a minor in Computer Science. She served as the Senior Photo Editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian on the 133rd board

Learn to embrace the tough times SENIOR COLUMN BY COLE JACOBSON I know what you’re thinking; there’s no way this column is about something besides sports. To be honest, I was pretty close to using this space for my own take on the “college athletes being paid” debate, but there have been enough DP columnists to weigh in on that over the past few months. As the time until Commencement Day ticks down, it’s more appropriate to reflect on what Penn has taught me, both on — and yes, even off — the field.

And though there are countless lessons that have emerged over these past four years, there’s one that sticks out the most: grit. Even though that phrase is often ambiguously defined, there’s an essence of learning to “roll with the punches” that is inevitable across campus.

Make no mistake: There are certain days at Penn that have sucked. A lot. Like when you’re up past 4 a.m.

chipping away at statistics homework assignments that you still don’t fully understand even after they’re turned in. Or you’re evicted from an off-campus house by a horrendous landlord and have to scramble to find new living arrangements three days before a semester starts. Or you’re dropped by your girlfriend of more than a year. Or your sprint football team gets eliminated from championship contention on Senior Night in a game you were one fluky deflected pick-six away from winning.

Though these are all specific to me, we’ve all had days that have put us in similar moods. But no matter how frustrating or saddening situations can be, there’s always one factor of salvation. When you think about why you’re upset about something, the bigger picture comes into play.

Grinding away at high-level homework is difficult, but you’re only in that spot because you were blessed enough to get into — and your family somehow scraped together a way to pay for — a school that can challenge you like that.

Dealing with eviction isn’t easy, but you were only in that house at all because of the amazing group of fraternity brothers you’ve built at Penn.

Being dumped stings, but if you loved a person enough for it to sting that badly, it’s really a net positive.

Losing arguably the most important game of your life is hard to swallow, but you were only even in that game because you were granted the opportunity to walk on to a varsity sports team after you graduated high school thinking you’d never touch a pair of pads again.

Again, these aren’t the specific scenarios that anyone else is in. But

the general principles can apply to us all. Even when an experience is overwhelming or disappointing in the moment, the opportunity we’ve been given to be in that position at all is often a blessing in disguise, one which is an incredible motivator to push through the hardest times.

And when it comes to opportunity, there are few, if any, places that can match Penn. I walked on to the club rugby team this semester, and as I was eating with two younger teammates after the Ivy League rugby tournament, they asked me how to make the most of their time in college. I told them they were doing the right things simply by being where they were: doing something they'd never get the chance to once their time in school is done.

In what other setting could one screw around and walk on to a club team in a sport he’s never played

before, meet a new group of teammates, and get playing time in an Ivy League tournament in one semester? Of course, rugby won’t be the group that defines my time at Penn when I look back on it in 30-plus years. But the fact that those three months happened at all personified what this school does best: giving its students a chance to jump into something they never viewed as possible.

To clarify, I’m not saying that students should unnaturally force themselves to enjoy Penn. There are countless people that have either transferred, or taken leaves of absences, or generally not loved their time here, and their reasonings are 100% valid. Like any other school, Penn has its legitimate flaws, and when a person finds themself seriously unhappy at the school, there’s no shame in making a change.

But for those of us who have

COLE JACOBSON decided we’re indeed in the right place for ourselves, take advantage of not just the good, but also the bad, moments. Obstacles will appear throughout your time here, but the grit we learn from getting past them is invaluable. And no matter where we go, that’s a lesson that will stick with us for the rest of our lives.

COLE JACOBSON is a College senior from Los Angeles, studying mathematics. He served a Sports Editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian on the 133rd and 134th boards

A reflection SENIOR COLUMN BY DAVID FIGURELLI I’ve been thinking about getting to this moment so much for the past four years that it’s hard to believe that it’s actually here.

Soon, I’ll be walking down Locust with the rest of the class of 2019 to Franklin Field for Commencement, where Amy Gutmann will reaffirm the incredible futures we have ahead of us before we throw our caps in the air for one final “hurrah.”

Most importantly, I had thought for a while, today would mark the day that I would finally be finished with college — a modern rite of passage into adulthood for those privileged enough to attend, and a rite that I’ve spent most of the past four years regarding as a kind of torture.

Surely, this notion seems ludicrous. I was blessed enough to attend a world-renowned school without many financial difficulties and with supportive family and friends by my side — I had every advantage I could think of coming in to Penn.

And yet, I would not call the majority of my time here happy. In fact, I’d call the vast majority of it actively unhappy — unhappy with school, unhappy with my social life, and deeply unhappy with myself. Penn is not the easiest place for an awkward and naïve 18-year-old to grow up into a real adult, and I had a challenging time balancing the growing up part with the coursework and activities I had been so excited to start coming in to college.

I definitely bought into the whole “best four years” trope. I was a really stupid freshman, and it’s true; I pretty much thought Penn was going to be unicorns and rainbows for four years.

I worked hard in high school, got into

a “good” college, and I was ready to experience life-changing academics, meet the best friends I’d ever have, and pursue whatever dreams I had in mind.

Of course, as anyone with a firm grip on reality can attest, nothing works out in such a picture-perfect way. After the excitement of shitty fraternity parties wore off post-NSO, I struggled to find myself as happy as I had been expecting. I found many of my classes to be the wrong blend of time-consuming, difficult and uninteresting, and felt increasingly out of place on a campus where it felt like everyone already had everything — academics, social life, career goals — figured out. This was probably totally unreasonable: Many (if not most) freshmen struggle with feelings like this, at least at some point.

But somehow, I never felt like I grew out of this adjustment phase. Not during freshman year, not during sophomore year, not during junior year. Each new semester brought its own unique challenges, but one constant was the ever-present feeling that I just don’t belong here.

And so, I began coping with this sadness by falling into a habit I developed in high school: find more work.

This has been my coping strategy for almost everything at Penn. The times where I most felt like myself — or at least, was most able to fend off the creeping feelings of crisis — were the days when I had something scheduled on my calendar from the time I woke up until the time I went to bed: class, homework, my tutoring job, project meetings at The Daily Pennsylvanian, playing the drums for my jazz combo. It was easy to

forget why I was feeling so unhappy when I literally didn’t have the time to remember. But after a while, these activities felt draining too, and I was profoundly confused about why the things I used to be so interested in no longer brought me the same joy they had in the past. And so, I developed other habits to cope. I found time for anything that would keep me occupied from sincerely reflecting on the source of my persistent unhappiness, not realizing that this was exacerbating the problem, allowing it to fester.

I conducted myself this way during my whole time at Penn, burying myself and my emotional well-being beneath different activities and routines. Living as such and loathing many aspects of myself, I began to loathe the things around me as well: the work, the people, the opportunities for growth. For all the internal turmoil I was feeling, I still never let anyone on to what was going on inside my head.

I didn’t tell my parents. I complained a lot about work and people with my roommates, but not much more. Occasionally, I would vent to friends from high school about how much I hated being here.

But I was careful to not reveal to a soul how truly lonely and sad I felt. Again, this only exacerbated the problem. Since I was living my life behind such a bifurcated mask, I felt, how could anyone else not be? How could anyone be genuinely growing and enjoying themselves right now when everything is going wrong around them? Such thinking would beget vicious cycles of isolation and depression, and I would find myself thanking whatever powers that be at

the end of every semester for just letting it be over.

But as I come to the end of my college career, I’m hesitant to allow my perception of the past four years to be colored so negatively. There were plenty of lows over the years, but I’m finally beginning to see the value in having had the experience I did, and I’m beginning to feel a renewed agency over my emotions that I haven’t felt in quite some time.

I realize now that I’ve only ever allowed myself to be happy due to external validation — doing well in school, being recognized for some achievement, performing well in a show; I had never taken the time before college to develop my own values or my own definition of success. When school and activities no longer provided the same validation that they had in the past, my initial reaction was to double down and dig deeper, sure that the reason why these things had not satisfied me was because I wasn’t trying hard enough.

The idea of exploring a new major or dropping extracurriculars or taking time off to find myself seemed anathema — if I got behind, I would never be able to catch up, and all the work I had done to simultaneously do well in school and keep myself from having a total breakdown would be lost if I gave up the façade.

Little did I know how valuable taking time for yourself could be.

This semester, for the first time in a while, I have a pretty light daily schedule. I take four classes, I’ve finished all of my extracurricular commitments, and I quit my job. I have so much more time than I’ve ever had before, and yet this semester

has been among the most volatile of my Penn career. A lot of my struggles have come to a head, but things are beginning to change. Rather than bury myself in work as I have in the past, I’ve finally decided to take some time for myself to actively and constructively find what makes me happy. Many might think that the end of college is supposed to be a tumultuous time, with everyone getting ready to transition to the next big step in their lives, but it has honestly brought the most peace I’ve felt in a long time. I’m finally gaining the maturity to do things for myself rather than in service of some predetermined narrative.

Importantly, I’ve finally begun to realize that all of the things I sought at Penn — a perspective-changing education, close friends, and a foundation for future opportunities to do something I love — are in fact things I’ve gained over the last four years, and have been right in front of me this entire time if I had only been willing to open my eyes to them. Perhaps I could have realized this much sooner if I had taken some time to make sure I was healthy before loading up my plate with the many challenging and exciting opportunities Penn has to offer.

So, as I end this all-too-long-andrevealing column, I suppose I should sign off with some sort of takeaway for anyone who has bothered to read this far: Prioritize your own happiness during this time of immense growth. Thinking back on the negativity I’ve felt for the past four years, I understand that now that it manifests because I deprioritized my own happiness for so long. You can have

DAVID FIGURELLI a life-changing educational experience here, you can live a healthy and balanced lifestyle, and you can meet authentic people that you are genuinely close with. But it will be so, so much harder to experience any of these things at a place like Penn without first paying attention to your own well-being, something I fear is all too uncommon among us.

To The Daily Pennsylvanian and especially the 134 and professional staff: It was an absolute pleasure getting to know all of you during my time here. I had the privilege of working with almost all of you in some capacity, and day in and day out I learned so much from you all. Thank you for showing me many of the best parts of the Penn community during our time together.

It may not have been the prettiest four years, but I can still walk today knowing that my experience here has left an indelible and irreplaceable influence on me that I will appreciate well after my time on this campus.

Finally, congratulations to the Class of 2019!

DAVID FIGURELLI is a College senior from New Jersey, studying Economics.

He served as the Director of Analytics of The Daily Pennsylvanian on the 134th board.

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Richard Lugar to receive honorary degree posthumously Lugar, who died at 87, was a former Senator DEENA ELUL News Edtior

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Prospective honorary degree recipient Richard Lugar died April 28 at age 87.

Lugar, a former Republican senator from Indiana, was slated to receive an honorary doctor of laws degree at Penn’s Commencement ceremony on May

20. University spokesperson Stephen MacCarthy wrote in an email to The Daily Pennsylvanian that the University will award Lugar’s degree despite his death.

“We were deeply saddened to learn of Richard Lugar’s passing,” MacCarthy wrote. “We plan to award his honorary degree posthumously.”

According to a press release from the Lugar Center, a Washington think tank founded by the former senator, Lugar died early Sunday morning at the Inova Fairfax Heart and Vascular Institute in Virginia. His death followed complications from chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, a rare neurological disorder.

Lugar served two terms as mayor of Indianapolis and spent 36 years representing Indiana in the United States Senate, The

New York Times reported. He is best known for his work as chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, where he co-sponsored a program which provided U.S. funds to support former Soviet states’ nuclear disarmament. Lugar, known for his bipartisanship and foreign policy knowledge, also helped institute U.S. sanctions against the apartheid government in South Africa by overriding former President Ronald Reagan’s veto. He was awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom from former President Barack Obama in 2013.

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Astronomer, architect, and dean to receive honorary degrees Eight figures will get honorary degrees on May 20 CAMI DOO Staff Reporter

Each year, Penn celebrates the accomplishments of a select few by giving them honorary degrees during commencement.

This year’s cohort of recipients includes singer Jon Bon Jovi, Nobel Prize-winning doctor Denis Mukwege, animal rights and autism advocate Temple Grandin, astronomer Jill Tarter, and Senator Richard Lugar, who died recently.

Two recipients are closer to the Penn community, with Landscape Architecture Professor Emeritus Laurie Olin and former interim Dean of the School of Nursing Neville Strumpf set to receive honorary degrees.

The Daily Pennsylvanian talked with three of the honorary degree

recipients about their careers and their reactions to the recognition.

Olin has a distinguished pedigree in designing projects at some of the most prominent locations in the United States, such as Apple Park in Cupertino, Calif., the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, and Bryant Park in New York City.

Olin recalls that the notification from Gutmann’s office “came out of the blue,” and he had to keep the news confidential.

“It’s nice when people value what you’ve done,” Olin said. “But it also makes you feel humble because there’s all these other wonderful people who don’t get such honors.”

Strumpf said the wide range of recipients made her “proud to be among [them] because it shows that Penn understands that a very broad range of contributions are important to society.”

Strumpf came to Penn in 1982, when she served in several

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Landscape Architecture professor emeritus Laurie Olin has designed projects at Apple Park and in New York City’s Bryant Park.

leadership roles like chair of the University Faculty Senate and division chair for the Nursing School. Along with supervising doctoral students, she developed an innovative gerontology program, which is the study of aging and the elderly.

Although Strumpf is officially retired, she is still involved with Penn through her guest lectures.

“I just love Penn,” Strumpf said.

“But more fundamentally, I want to stay involved. I want to be engaged.

I’d like to give back.”

Strumpf cited her proudest accomplishment as her work to reduce the use of physical restraints in hospitals and nursing homes. By demonstrating how harmful the practice was, she said she was able to enact “a very profound change in the way we take care of older people in this country.”

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Tarter serves as the emeritus chair for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute and has delivered major contributions to the field of astronomy. She was the only woman in her class of 300 engineering Cornell students, which she described as a tough experience.

“Socially, these were difficult experiences, and they were inequalities that we need to remove,” Tarter said. “We can’t waste half the world’s brains.”

Tarter, who is a former chief scientist of NASA, has spent her life exploring the question: “Are we alone?”

“I like to tell young people that one of the best things about being a scientist is if you never have to grow up, you really never have to stop asking why,” Tarter said.

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Similar to Strumpf, Olin is officially retired after more than 40 years of teaching but stays involved with Penn. He currently teaches a graduate studio and a lecture course in landscape architecture.

Olin’s studios have included locations in Lebanon, the Navajo Nation in New Mexico, and the Czech Republic.

“Our students are from around the world,” Olin said. “I didn’t think we should be doing just little American projects.”

Olin added he was most proud of designing places for people that have changed their lives, such as Bryant Park and the J. Paul Getty Center in Los Angeles.

“You really are helping shape an environment,” Olin said. “And you want the world to be healthier, and

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Commencement speakers across the Ivies Speakers include famous actors, politicians, and authors AMY KAPLAN Staff Reporter

The slate of 2019 Ivy League commencement speakers includes everyone from politicians and world leaders to TV stars and musicians.

Students praised the University’s choice of human rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson as Penn’s 2019 commencement speaker, citing his background in social justice but lack of strong political leanings.

Stevenson is noted for his prison reform advocacy and has won

a United States Supreme Court Case barring mandatory life-without-parole prison sentences for children 17 and younger.

“To choose someone who is such a social justice activist and has done so much for marginalized people, for the poor, for people of color, and for children of color, it’s a powerful statement,” Graduate and Professional Student Assembly President and fourth-year sociology Ph.D. candidate Haley Pilgrim told The Daily Pennsylvanian.

Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel was announced in December as Harvard University’s commencement speaker this year.

She will be the fourth German chancellor to speak at a Harvard commencement ceremony.

While Merkel announced that she will not seek a fifth term as chancellor in 2021, she has been called the “de facto leader of Europe” and is the longest-serving government head in the European Union.

At Columbia University, the university president traditionally speaks at the University Commencement ceremony. However, the four undergraduate schools — Columbia College, Barnard College, The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, and the School

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Viola Davis will be the keynote speaker at Barnard’s 2019 commencement ceremony. She starred in the television show “How to Get Away with Murder,” which takes place on a campus loosely based on Penn’s, and several notable films, including “Fences,” for which she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

She is also the first black actress to have won the “triple crown of acting”: an Academy Award, an Emmy Award, and a Tony Award in acting.

Bill Nye will speak at Cornell University’s Senior Convocation this year. Popularly known as “Bill Nye the Science Guy,” Nye is a science educator, engineer, and comedian. He received his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering at Cornell in 1977 and served as a visiting professor there from 2001 to 2005.

Yo-Yo Ma, a world-renowned cellist, will speak at Dartmouth College’s commencement on June 9, The Dartmouth reported. Ma has released more than 90 albums and has won 19 Grammy awards.

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Like Columbia, Princeton University reserves the role of commencement speaker for the university president. Christopher Eisgruber, who has served as Princeton’s President since 2013, will deliver the address.

However, Princeton presents a keynote speaker each year on the university’s Class Day, which takes place the day before graduation.

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Salutes its graduating seniors David Akst Nicholas Akst Jami Alamar Maryam Alausa Zoe Albano-Oritt Candy Alfaro Simran Arora Rhea Aurora Misan Aviomoh Jeffrey Bai Esha Bansal Cole Bauer Meaghan Baus Andrea Begleiter Jackie Bein Julia Bell Dillon Bergin Nadira Berman Veena Bhagavathi Ashley Bido Tyler Bird Drew Boyette Justin Burdge Isabella Caito Conner Cameron Caroline Carballeira John Carlson Brian Carr Perren Carrillo George Cary Nick Castoria Ananya Chandra Sienna Chapman Ciel Chen Cindy Chen Ker-Cheng Chen Xinyi Chen Chloe Cheng Chen-Feng Chou Kevin Chou Sharon Christner

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THE DEPARTMENT OF SOUTH ASIA STUDIES Congratulates the Class of 2019!

Rama Godse Akash Halagur Shilpa Saravanan and our 22 minors We are proud of all your hard work and excited to see where your paths lead, from the State Department to medical school!

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Congratulations!

Austin Zhu, Co-President

Congratulates Our Graduating Seniors:

Nithya Kasi, Co-President

Elana M. Burack

Hersh Solanki

Adam Weiss

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Jillian Li

Matthew Chalmers Thessalonica D. Goodine Emily C. Hancin Junney Kang Gabriella Morace Deborah N. Rabinovich Francesca Reznik Hannah E. Sweeney Jeremy P. Wilson

Peter Hissey Peter Ojo Sabrina Sidhu Shivani Komma Uswah Shabbir Yasmin Mulla

French and Francophone Studies Congratulates the 2019 Graduates Fe॔licitations!

Brianna E. Arscott Grant Saagar S. Asnani Tracy Gelbe Auerbach Perren Jemilio Carillo Camille L. Cassard Heavyn A. Dreher

Nana K. Acquah Sydney N. Acquaye Leighann G. Adelizzi Kimia S. Ahamadi Ava Barzegar Veena Bhagavathi Frederick Chang Adriana S. Dropulic Katherine V. French Sophie R. Germ Amleset Girmay Pablo Golac Seth E. Goldstein Alex Graves Gustavo A. Hachenburg Colon

Majors

Yasmeen S. Duncan James U. Fisher Simran Kashyap Madeleine Lamon Kimberly E. Lantigua

Minors

Julia P. Hansen Leslie S. Hicks Elisabeth G. Hyde Summer C. Kollie Sarah A. Lentz Gary Li Mark Kate Lindner David M. Lucente Devi G. Majeske Paola A. Martorell Catherine N. Monk Malcolm Palley Nadia C. Park Santiago P. Pereira Keneally E. Phelan

Jose A. Lopez Meredith M. Mitchell Elizabeth S. Peartree Joseph I. Pelham Allison Mae Sparrow Derek J. Willie

Amy S. Qu Morgan L. Rees Chloe L. Reum Carlo R. Salas Salinas Bernardo G. Sarti Morgan E. Savige Bryan J. Seethor Caroline B. Sheehey Tiancheng Z. Sun Shiv-Louis Van de Ven Manxi Wang John Linehan Welde Thomas P. Wiig

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As a Penn graduate, you have instant access to academic programs and courses that can advance your personal and professional goals. We invite you to consider one of our many innovative professional master’s degrees. You can also work directly with an advisor to design your own career-enhancing post-baccalaureate program.

With flexible class schedules and diverse academic offerings, there are more ways than ever to pursue your passion at Penn. We look forward to seeing you back on campus!

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Kusum Soin, first staff member at PAACH, retires after 18 years Soin will receive an award to honor her work ASHLEY AHN Staff Reporter

When her husband was studying architecture at Penn School of Design in the early 1990s, Kusum Soin spent nights sitting on the benches in front of Van Pelt, bringing her children to play next to the Button.

“I used to watch all these [students] with their backpacks, so compassionate, so intelligent, and I used to sit there and think — can I become part of this community?

How can I become part of this community? All my friends who are here have Ph.D.s, master’s [degrees], and I only have a diploma in architecture,” Soin said.

Now having worked in the Penn community for more than 18 years, Soin is retiring from

her position as office coordinator at the Pan-Asian American Community House at the end of the semester. Soin — well loved by staff and students alike, who cheerfully call out her name when they see her in the hallways of ARCH is “the face of PAACH,” 2009 College graduate Monica Chen said.

“While one might expect the director of the organization to be its most recognizable representative, I would say Kusum has definitely been the face of PAACH for nearly two decades,” Chen said.

On any day of the week, you might find Soin sitting at her desk organizing budget and expense work or organizing events such as the annual Asian Pacific American Heritage Week. When PAACH moved to the ground floor of the ARCH in Spring 2014, Soin purposely oriented her

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Described as “the face of PAACH for nearly two decades” Kusum Soir (pictured above) will retire this semester from her position of office coordinator at the Pan-Asian American Community House

desk to face the current PAACH common area so that she could easily welcome visitors in when

The Department of Romance Languages Congratulates the

2019 Hispanic Studies Graduates

Majors

Boldale O. Babalakin Horatio Calin Peren Jemilio Carillo Rebecca G. Li Sarah J. Marron Erin N. Moore Shaisa T. Pittman Jacob K. Schneiderman Matthew H. Schofield Yezta Johnson Wiggins

Minors

Chigozie T. Amonu Marco A. Aranda Esha Bansal Jacqueline L. Bein Nadira I. Berman Djavaneh L. Bierwirth Adoma Boateng Elana M. Burack Lyndsi N. Burcham

Francesca I. Catania Lydia S. Chen Osiris E. Childs Lynn E. Dankner Julia Chaves Dasilva Dana N. Demnitz Hannah M. Deutsch Jonathan C. Dorf Alisia R. Escobar Andre S. Festekjian Tatian Gedeon Jamie C. Gobreski Benjamin M. Goodman Bonnie Gould Lena V. Greenberg Alicia Y. Hariri Cecilia S. Heard Cameron P. Hellerman James Hiebert Nadine M. Hirt Clarissa Mae Holley Lynn Hur Deja C. Jackson Maria E. Jardeleza

Vivek Kai-Wen Alexander S. Kalvar Aleksandra K. Kusiak Teddie D. Levenfiche Leyla M. Lewenec Miriam E. Linaugh Colin M. Lodewick Lindsay E. Mangines Matthew R. Marvin Katherine Perry Milholin Dahlia G. Musallam Alexandre Mustier Nicholas D. Navarro Lauren K. Olenick Sarah F. Parks Ruhy B. Patel George J. Pennacchi Sofia G. Price Cole S. Purdy Katie A. Ramirez Victoria T. Rio Emma J. Rodney Zeba R. Shah Morgan Marie Shick

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they arrive. At her retirement party on April 23, more than 60 students, staff, and alumni held

paper cutouts of Soin’s face to honor her legacy at PAACH. Over the past two decades,

Soin attributed her interactions with students as what made her work at PAACH an “unforgettable journey.” Yet, students said it’s the love and care she has shown them that has made the lasting impact at Penn.

College senior Rudmila Rashid, a frequent PAACH visitor, said Soin always offered her words of encouragement, especially as she was going through the “disheartening and emotionally taxing” medical school application process this past year.

“Every single time she’d be like ‘Rudmila, I know you, you know you. You have to have faith in yourself. You have to believe in your capabilities,’” Rashid said.

College senior Annie Batsaikhan, who worked as a PAACH intern last year, said as a way to comfort her from missing SEE KUSUM PAGE 14

INSIGNEM LAVDEM MERETVR COHORS ANNI BIS MILLESIMI NONI DECIMI! The Department of Classical Studies congratulates this year’s (2019) majors and minors in Classical Studies and Ancient History: MAJORS Peter Carzis William D’Angelo Vassilios Fassas

Michael Kleiman Victoria Greene Catherine McNally Laurie Ellen Moore

Ryan Sobel Nancy Yuan Rachel Zachian

MINORS Claire Ball Nicole Bohn Catarina Conran Alexandra Ham Kristy Hsi Grace Johnson

Reina Kern Aadir Khan Elizabeth Kraeutler Abigail Lee Sarah Murray Megha Nagaswami John Odera

Carly Ragozzino Emily Rush Abhinav Suri William Trang Elisabeth Villani Yuefeng Wu

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR 2019 COMMUNICATION MA JOR GRADUATES!

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CONGRATULATES OUR GRADUATING

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Wishing you great success as you embark on the next chapter of your careers.

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her parents, Soin offered to cook Batsaikhan’s favorite Thai curry, which her mother cooks for her at home.

“No one has offered that to me,” Batsaikhan said. “No faculty [member] at Penn has been like ‘I’ll cook for you and I’ll make this for you.’”

“She has this way of keeping students grounded in a way that a lot of other administrators don’t, and I think it’s because in her position, she interacts with students daily from the time she walks into PAACH and the time she leaves PAACH,” College junior and Asian Pacific Student Coalition Chair Kamal Gill said.

Growing up, Soin lived in a small, two-bedroom apartment in India. Her apartment was cozied by a large, bustling family: Soin lived with her parents, three younger siblings, aunt, and cousin. In addition to being the only source of income for her extended family, Soin’s father

MAY 17, 2019 - GRADUATION ISSUE volunteered his time to tutor schoolchildren in math in the evenings and donated money to a local blind school every month.

Soin said her dad was the first person to teach her the importance of community service.

“He always mentioned to us always look to people who only get one meal a day and help them,” Soin said.

In 1980, Kusum and her husband, Devinder, moved to Kuwait, where her two daughters were born. Her daughters would go on to attend Penn, one studying biology and the other studying fine arts. Soin’s family made plans to fly to America in September 1990 after Devinder was accepted to Penn’s School of Design to pursue a master’s degree in architecture.

Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in August 1990 complicated their plans. Food was rationed, banks and airports were closed, and Soin’s family had no money or means to leave the country. A month later, Soin’s family took a taxi to Baghdad, then relocated to

Amman, Jordan, and was able to fly to West Philadelphia.

In the United States, Soin held a part time job at a grocery store and sold jewelry at local flea markets, the main source of income for her family while Devinder

After encouragement from Greenfield Intercultural Center Director Valerie De Cruz, Soin attended PAACH’s opening in November 2000 and then applied for the office coordinator position. When Soin first joined

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was in school. She began volunteering at her children’s school and became chair of the Home and School Association there.

Soin also helped immigrants who lacked proficiency in English gain citizenship as chair of the Association of Indians in America.

PAACH in January 2001, she was shy and could not bring herself to talk to many students.

“I was afraid to talk to students because of my accent and [thought], ‘If I say something, maybe they will laugh at me,’” Soin said.

THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN | THEDP.COM Soin slowly broke through her shell and decided interacting with students was key to creating the PAACH community.

“First thing I said, I’m going to make a community here,” Soin said. “I will greet everyone who will come. Ask them how their morning was, what did you do last night — like these small talks.

Students also started opening up to me.”

Soin never thought she would retire from PAACH because of the joy students brought her. She smiled as she recounted how students were willing to teach her how to use Microsoft Excel, Word, and social media and show her the latest YouTube videos.

After considering retirement for the past five years, Soin now looks forward to making pottery as she has done for the last seven years and volunteer for the benefit of first-generation students and schools in Philadelphia.

PAACH Director Peter Van Do calls Soin “the PAACH mom” and said it has always been a pleasure working with her during his

seven years at PAACH. Soin will be recognized at the Governor’s Advisory Commission on Asian Pacific American Affairs’ APA Heritage Month Reception on May 28 for her service in the Asian American Pacific Islander community. She was nominated by two members of the commission including Asian American Studies Program Associate Director Fariha Khan.

“She’s been an incredible support to me on a personal level and I always seek her counsel on a variety of things, like how to manage particular issues with my own kids applying to college,” Khan said. “She is always willing to listen not in terms of work but also personally. I really value her.”

Soin hopes to use what she learned from her time at PAACH to help other communities in need.

“Students brought so much brightness and love to me,” she said. “That’s unforgettable. How many times I will give it to them, that’s not enough.”

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Head strength coach Walts fires nearly entire staff after a month The three coaches spent a combined 25 years at Penn THEODOROS PAPAZEKOS Senior Sports Editor

On May 6, just over a month after he was hired, Penn Director of Strength and Conditioning Cory Walts announced that he will replace nearly his entire staff.

“I have been given the opportunity to bring in and develop a team which I believe will be most optimal to lead the Strength and Conditioning program into the future. After careful consideration and deliberation, I have decided that it is best to conduct a full-scale national search to find the optimal team to accomplish that vision,” Walts wrote in an email sent to all Penn student-athletes.

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es, including both current athletes and Penn Athletics staff, all three of Penn’s full-time strength and conditioning coaches, Stephen Brindle, Tracy Zimmer, and Cristi Bartlett, were fired in an early Monday morning meeting. Combined, the three have coached at Penn for 25 years; each has spent at least the last seven years working in Penn’s weight room. All three have master’s degrees.

This left Walts and one parttime strength coach, Pat Dolan, to work with the seven teams that are continuing to compete this spring.

Zimmer, Bartlett, Brindle, and Dolan declined to comment.

“The Strength and Conditioning program is integral in helping Penn student-athletes reach their highest potential both physically and mentally. In order to carry out my vision of holistic growth and collaboration,

Cory Walts announced that he will replace nearly his entire staff just over a month after he became the Penn Director of Strength and Conditioning.

I felt that it was best to bring in and develop an optimal team that is committed to leading the program into the future,” Walts

wrote in an emailed comment through Penn Athletics.

“The Strength and Conditioning team will be aligned on key

Women’s lacrosse falls in double overtime to Georgetown in first round of NCAA Tournament

attributes which include positive energy, a growth mindset and relationship-building while having a diverse skill-set and perspective. My immediate priority is to find amazing individuals to be a part of this dynamic team committed to excellence and the growth of Penn Athletics.

“This team will be in place and ready to go for the fall semester.”

The move comes after former head strength coach Jim Steel resigned from Penn Athletics after 20 years in January. In a statement to The Daily Pennsylvanian, Steel indicated that his resignation was a result of an ongoing dispute with the Penn Athletics administration.

“Exactly what happened is that the Sports Performance administration and I didn’t see eye-to-eye on the best way to run the strength and condition-

ing program,” he wrote. “I really love the athletes at Penn and will miss them.”

Upon leaving, Steel expressed frustration over the intrusive role that coaches and administrators played in the strength and conditioning program in a post on his personal blog, Bas’ Barbell.

Steel, several current Penn Athletics sports performance staffers, and several athletes, including women’s rowers Sophia Poersch and Leila Ashtaryeh, expressed confusion at the decision and its timing.

“It’s tough to justify why you would let people go, when just about everybody wins and injuries are way, way down — and the athletes are happy. So what would be the reason? It doesn’t make much sense,” Steel said.

“The biggest problem my SEE STRENGTH PAGE 20

Penn wins Ivy Heps to complete sweep

Sophomore Elyse Decker led the Quakers with five goals

TRACK | Women won both Freshmen Ellen Byrnes and Caroline O’Sullivan and sophoIndoor and Outdoor Heps

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Sixty minutes weren’t enough to decide this one. As Penn women’s lacrosse battled for victory with Georgetown into the depths of overtime, any onlooker knew that a win would be that much more satisfying and that a loss would be equally as heartbreaking.

Things didn’t end in the Quakers’ favor on May 10 in Syracuse, N.Y., in the first round of the NCAA Division I Women’s Lacrosse Tournament, where the Hoyas clinched a 13-12 victory over the Red and Blue in double overtime.

The close contest was nothing new, since the two teams met earlier this season in March, when the Quakers (12-6, 6-3 Ivy) eked out an 8-7 victory against the visiting Hoyas (12-8, 5-2 Big East) at Franklin Field.

Junior defender Chelsea Kibler began the game with an opening draw win, and Penn held possession in Georgetown’s end of the

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Sophomore midfielder Elyse Decker torched the Georgetown defense with five goals, but it wasn’t enough to outlast the Hoyas in a double-overtime loss. The Red and Blue had beaten the Hoyas at home in March.

field until the Hoyas surrendered a free position shot. Less than a minute into the contest, sophomore midfielder Elyse Decker took advantage of the scoring opportunity to give the Quakers an early 1-0 lead with her 17th goal of the year.

Despite the early success and another win by Kibler on the ensuing draw, the Red and Blue struggled with their shooting accuracy

for the first 15 minutes of the half.

During that time, Georgetown embarked on a 4-0 run to take a threegoal lead with 18:56 remaining in the first period.

While the Quakers certainly struggled early on, Decker was determined to keep her team in the game. Her second goal of the game at 14:19 ended Georgetown’s run, and she got her hat-trick just over two minutes later to cut the deficit

to one.

“Our attack was moving the ball well and they were finding [Decker],” coach Karin Corbett said. “She had a great day finishing today, so there were a lot of great things from younger kids.”

With 9:23 left in the half, junior midfielder Erin Barry, SEE W. LACROSSE PAGE 23

Well that looked familiar.

On May 4-5, Penn women’s track captured its second consecutive Ivy League Outdoor Heptagonal Championship, the first time the team has gone back-to-back in the competition since 1985-86. Also for the second straight season, the men’s team finished the meet in second place.

It was the usual suspects who led the Red and Blue in rainy Princeton, N.J. For the women, five athletes came in first place individually, and three different relay teams took the top spot.

Junior Nia Akins made history by becoming the third Quaker in program history to win the Most Outstanding Female Track Athlete award. The honor came after she posted a time of 2:04.86 seconds in the 800-meters, which was good for first place and is the second fastest time in Ivy Heps history. Akins also anchored the 4x800 relay team to victory, as the group ran the event in 8:45.48.

more Melissa Tanaka joined Akins on the 4x800 team.

Tanaka was also with Akins on the podium in the 800 after finishing third in the event with a time of 2:08.57.

The 4x800 group wasn’t the only Penn relay team to take the top spot. In the 4x400, juniors Elena Brown-Soler and Cecil Ene, along with freshman Skyla Wilson and sophomore Uchechi Nwogwugwu, blew past the rest of the field with a 3:41.51 mark.

The Penn quartet also finished first in the 4x440-yard relay at the Ivy League Indoor Heps in February.

For the second straight year, Nwogwugwu took the crown in the 400 with a 54.24 time. Ene finished right behind her in the race, while also coming in second in the 200.

Perhaps more surprisingly, the Quakers’ 4x100 team of senior Imani Solan, BrownSoler, freshman Mia Knight, and sophomore Camille Dickson also had the best time in the event. The victory was Penn’s first 4x100 title since 1988 and the fourth in program history at the Outdoor Heps.

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Quakers outlast No. 2 Yale to win Ivy League Tournament Penn earned an automatic bid to NCAA Tournament TYIRA BUNCHE Associate Sports Editor

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The Quakers are Ivy League Tournament champions.

Two of the best teams in the nation went to battle in New York City, and Penn men’s lacrosse came out on top in a nail-biting 12-11 victory over Yale. Five Quakers were selected to the AllTournament team including senior attackman Simon Mathias, junior face-off specialist Kyle Gallagher, junior attackman Adam Goldner, freshman defenseman BJ Farrare, and senior goalie Reed Junkin.

Junkin was also awarded the Most Outstanding Player after tallying

32 saves over the two games.

The teams went back and forth all game, trading goals throughout the contest. After the Quakers (113, 6-0 Ivy) jumped ahead, 4-1, in the first period, Yale (12-3, 5-1) opened the second period with three goals in just under two minutes. It seemed like the momentum had switched over to the Elis, until Penn responded with three goals of their own. A goal by Mathias with six seconds left in the half put the Quakers up, 8-6, heading into the locker room.

The second half would be aggressive on both sides with the teams following each other’s goals with scores of their own. With 8:48 left in the game, the Bulldogs tied the game at 11, but the Red and Blue’s defense took over, and they held Yale scoreless for the rest of the game. Ultimately, it would come down to a goal from sophomore attackman Sean Lulley with 4:52 left in the final period to seal the win.

The Quakers’ defense was a big part of their win, especially in the fourth period. The final marked the first time in 44 games that Yale did not have a lead in a game. The senior Junkin totaled 16 saves from 27 shots on goal.

“The coaches were trusting me, and I was also trusting the defenders to play well,” Junkin said. “Our defense did a great job of transitioning between zone [defense] and man-to-man, so credit to them.”

On the offensive side, the Quakers were led by three goals each from Lulley and Goldner. Mathias continued his dominance from Friday with two goals and two assists against the Elis.

“Our mentality was just to share the ball, play some selfless lacrosse; we’ve been doing that all year,” Mathias said. “We’re just sharing the ball and no one really cares who’s scoring.”

Against the nation’s best face-off specialist, Yale’s TD Ierlan, Penn junior Kyle Gallagher won 15-of-

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26 from the X. These valuable possessions helped the Red and Blue keep the ball out of the Bulldogs’ hands as much as possible.

“That was obviously a big part of this game. Anytime you’ve got a one-goal game, everything matters, the possession totals matter,” coach Mike Murphy said.

After an 0-3 start to the year, the Quakers dominated the rest of the season and have seen all their work and consistency pay off.

“Our ability to try to get better every single day, and every single week has put us in a position to win a bunch of games in a row and win a couple of championships,” Mathias said. “I’m incredibly proud as a senior, and as a captain. These guys make my job easy because they’re willing to come and show up every day and work so hard.”

“This is a very big game for our team, our program, and our alumni that have laid the ground-

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Top-seeded Penn won the Ivy Tournament after beating No. 2 Yale by a 12-11 score. Sophomore Sean Lulley scored the game-winning goal.

work for this,” Murphy said. “We have three goals: to win the Ivy Championship, to go to the Final Four, and to win the national championship.”

The win on Sunday guaranteed

the team an already likely trip to the NCAA Tournament. The Quakers are the No. 4 seed in the Tournament and take on Army in the first round at Franklin Field on May 11.

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Some Penn student-athletes miss graduation for team competition Rowing teams will not be attending Baccalaureate EMILY CONDON Sports Reporter

For most of Penn’s seniors, the end of the year is a time for winding down and festivities to commemorate their four years on campus. For many student athletes, though, this celebration must take a back seat to athletic competition.

This year, all three of Penn’s rowing teams will compete during graduation activities set for the Class of 2019.

Men’s heavy and lightweight rowing will travel to Worcester, Mass. for the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges Sprints on May 19, while the women’s team will row in the Ivy League Championship in

Cherry Hill, N.J. that same day.

May 19 is also when the Baccalaureate services for the Class of 2019 are scheduled, followed by Commencement the following day at Franklin Field.

Missing graduation activities is not uncommon for Penn athletes. Rowing consistently misses Baccalaureate, and track, women’s lacrosse, and baseball all missed Baccalaureate in 2018 for competitions of their own.

“Freshman year, I already knew I would be missing [Baccalaureate] as a rower, and so when it was my senior year, even if we were a little sad we’d be missing it, we’d already made peace with it,” said Casey Howshall, a men’s lightweight rower who graduated in 2017.

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Being a student athlete comes with academic, social, and personal sacrifices, and Penn works hard to promote a sense of family within the athletic community.

“One of the greatest experiences I had at Penn was being on a sports team. The environment that it created felt like a family,” said Taylor Hojnacki, a 2018 Penn graduate and former member of women’s track.

“We spent so much time together, and we were all able to connect with each other. We were experiencing the same things with rigorous classes, hard training, and long seasons.”

The tightness of these team communities, with many types of support — including academic — helps students juggle the responsibilities associated with being an elite student and an elite athlete at the same time, all while enjoying Penn’s college experience.

“The team really became my first friends at Penn, and it made the transition to Penn at lot easier,” Howshall said.

“Being an athlete really enhanced my Penn experience.”

Athletes often must miss other traditions and celebrations at Penn, or at least alter their level of participation.

Last year, Penn track athletes missed Hey Day celebrations because they overlapped with the Penn Relays. Hey Day is the day when the junior class rises as the incoming senior class, full with brunch, symbolic costumes, and a celebratory march around campus.

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Each of Penn’s three rowing teams has historically missed some part of graduation weekend because of competition. This year, rowers will miss Baccalaureate to compete in postseason races.

“I missed Hey Day my junior year, but that’s something I don’t regret at all. I actually did get my shirt and hat and everything and went down to the field to celebrate with my team and my coach during the meet,” Hojnacki said.

Athletes in competition also miss out on full participation in Spring Fling, a weekend-

I didn’t mind that I was missing the Baccalaureate because I was having a great time competing with my teammates.”

- Taylor Hojnacki

long tradition with a concert in Penn Park and various events over the course of the weekend.

“For Spring Fling, we missed some of the celebrations for races some years,” Howshall said. “That was during our in-season so we couldn’t participate in everything. We had to make sure we were staying on top of the athletics too.”

Penn is not alone in this issue of student athletes needing to miss parts of graduation or other ceremonies for sports competition. This year, Yale’s women’s rowers will also miss their Baccalaureate services on May 19 for the Ivy League Championship. But ultimately, competition can make up for the events the athletes miss

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“With athletics, your dedication to the sport and love for competing happen to coincide with sacrifices, but those are sacrifices you’re willing to make for your love of the sport,” Hojnacki said. “I didn’t mind that I was missing the Baccalaureate because I was having a great time competing with my teammates.”

This year, the three rowing teams who will miss these festivities hope to make their absence from Baccalaureate worthwhile at their respective competitions. After they’re finished, they will rush back to campus, get in their caps and gowns, and join their fellow classmates in the celebration of their commencement on May 20.

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team had with it is that we have two weeks left in our season. I know that my team has the longest season that goes the latest, but it’s kind of abrupt and not the greatest timing. Two weeks before our conference championships to fire a coach and make her leave? It probably would have been more convenient at the end of the season,” Ashtaryeh said.

“None of us thought there was a problem with the [old] strength and conditioning coaches, we loved our coach [Zimmer] so much. We saw her as one of the few people in the corner of the athletes that was trying to advocate for us.”

“I really don’t know why [they would do it now.] It really doesn’t take into consideration how the athletes see it,” Steel said. “Why wouldn’t a coach say ‘Hey, wait a minute, we’re winning here. Can we wait a while for us to finish the season,

MAY 17, 2019 - GRADUATION ISSUE because, you know, we’re No. 3 in the country,’ which men’s lacrosse is. Who knows?”

One potential reason for the timing could be to accommodate the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association national conference.

The CSCCA is among the premier strength and conditioning coaching associations, and the national conference, held from May 8-10, would give the newly fired coaches a chance to network and Penn Athletics a chance to start its “national search.”

Steel suggested that the decision came at least in part from Associate Athletic Director for Sports Performance Andrea Wieland. He cited philosophical and personal differences as the reasons why he left and why the rest of the strength coaches were fired.

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titude didn’t mesh well with that of the administrators, including Wieland, who, according to Steel, are more interested in gimmicks and meetings.

“I would say [there was a personality conflict] between my

cut and dry people in the whole department was us.”

Several current Penn Athletics sports performance staffers and several athletes have confirmed that characterization of the strength coaches. The ath-

I’m happy, in a way, that [the strength coaches] are out of that toxic environment.”

- Former head strength coach Jim Steel staff and the new hires and the administration — no question,” Steel said. “Because we would be like, ‘No, that’s not right.’

‘We’ve already been doing that for 10 years.’ My staff doesn’t take any shit, they’ll tell you if it’s wrong, but if they’re wrong, they will say ‘Good point.’

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letes say that the strength coaches were honest and caring even when their team coaches weren’t.

“Tracy [Zimmer] seemed to actually care, and that resonates with a lot of people. She’s a fun person to be around. She’s very serious and like ‘Get your work done’ sort of like in a joking way. We appreciated that,” Ashtaryeh said.

THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN | THEDP.COM The popularity of the strength coaches was unanimous among the athletes interviewed for this story. One women’s rower even went as far as to write a letter of recommendation on Zimmer’s behalf for a job she had applied to months ago.

“They’re looking for a fresh start? Why? They’re looking for a fresh start from what? Because it wasn’t good? Because what — a personality conflict? I thought we were there for results,” Steel said. “I think the ultimate plan and goal is to get people who agree with everything that they say. Some people don’t like to be challenged. They take it as a personal affront.”

For the teams still preparing for competition this spring — the three rowing teams, men’s and women’s lacrosse, and men’s and women’s track — the change has meant an adjustment to routine during a crucial part of the season. Lacrosse and track are in the postseason, while rowing has only two weeks before their conference

championships.

“Now our lifts are completely different. It’s kind of a waste of time now because [Walts] been spending all of lift on these exercises we’ve never done before, which seems kind of silly to me,” Ashtaryeh said.

“It seems like Cory Walts has come in and doesn’t really know us. He hasn’t tried to learn our names while he’s coaching us, and it’s all very abrupt. It feels kind of disrespectful, not just to us but to the strength and conditioning coaches.”

“I’m happy, in a way, that [the strength coaches] are out of that toxic environment,” Steel said. “They need to get to a place where they’re appreciated, where they can at least make money where they can live — they’re making [about] $40,000 a year. They have their master’s [degrees] and 10 years of experience. So it’s better — it forces them to find a place where they’re loved and appreciated.”

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The last hurrah: closing out my college career at Penn All jokes aside, transferring asked me why I wanted to write. to Penn was the best decision I I didn’t have a true answer then, CARTER have made in my life. Being an but I think I do now.

THOMPSON athlete here provided me with When you play a sport, you an exceptional education (even know how much time, effort, if people still think I’m about and passion go into it. On the flip to graduate from Penn State), side, you also know how many While most people that know friends from all walks of life people think you just show up me know this, my collegiate golf (shout out to my Fries!), and and play. There are few people career began at Florida State. I countless other opportunities who realize what goes on in the transferred to Penn after my that otherwise wouldn’t have day-to-day, hour-to-hour, and freshman year and spent the next been possible. minute-to-minute preparation of four years playing golf for the One of those opportunities being a Division I athlete. That Red and Blue. Before you mar- came when I decided to write is why I wanted to write. I wantvel at the seemingly impressive about sports for the DP. When ed to hold the megaphone up for athletic feat of being an athlete I walked into the sports office my fellow athletes to talk about at a Power Five school, I’ll re- my sophomore year, then-Se- the great and amazing things The New York Times Syndication Sales Corporation mind you golf really isn’t a sport620nior Sports Editor Eighth Avenue, New(now York, one N.Y. of 10018they were doing in their sport. anyway. myInformation best friends) Snow While that certainly entailed For Call:William 1-800-972-3550 For Release Friday, May 17, 2019

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highlighting their exceptional athletic performances, I found it much more gratifying to showcase how they were such exceptional people.

Every athlete on this campus has a story or something that makes them special. Hearing their stories of success made me that much more excited and motivated to do what I was doing at the highest possible level. It also helped shape my view of college sports in a slightly different way.

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who earned Ivy League Midfielder of the Year honors, found freshman attacker Taylyn Stadler for a top-shelf goal that tied the score at 4-4.

Georgetown responded quickly, however, and junior attacker Michaela Bruno ended the Hoyas’ 10-minute scoring drought with 8:35 left in the first half to make it 5-4. The score became 6-4 only a minute later when senior attacker Taylor Gebhardt found the back of the net after a shot fake that fooled Cheeseman. After Georgetown’s sixth score, freshman goalie Krissy Kowalski, who is also a DP staffer, took Cheeseman’s place in goal.

After Georgetown’s Mollie Miller was issued a yellow card for a stick check to the head of junior attacker Gabby Rosenzweig, the Quakers immediately capitalized on their man-up opportunity with a goal from freshman attacker Madison Jiranek to make it 6-5 with 4:35 left in the half.

With under three minutes remaining, Kowalski made her mark on the game with a huge save on a close-range attempt by Georgetown’s junior midfielder Liza Liotta to preserve the one-goal deficit. “[Krissy] did a great job and ac-

tually had some tremendous saves today,” Corbett said. “We’re really proud of her.”

On the following possession with under a minute left in the half, Decker was again a thorn in the Hoyas’ side. The sophomore tied the game at six goals apiece with her fourth score of the game and 20th of the year.

Georgetown couldn’t manage to score as it ran down the clock to end the half, and Kowalski made her second save of the game to preserve the tie.

The first half was one of runs, but neither team managed to gain a significant edge in the second, as the rivals traded goals throughout the half.

After sophomore attacker Zoe Belodeau made it 9-8 in Penn’s favor with 22:14 remaining, the back-and-forth trend continued when Bruno tied the game 9-9 on a free position shot that snuck past Kowalski. Minutes later, a Bruno yellow card gave the Quakers a man-up opportunity, during which Belodeau hit both posts of the Georgetown goal with one free position shot.

Despite the miss, the Red and Blue reclaimed the lead when Barry scored on a diving shot with 13:00 left on the clock. The lead finally grew to two goals when Belodeau scored from a Rosenzweig

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Georgetown was not done, though, and Gebhardt scored three straight goals to make it 12-11 with 6:19 remaining. For nearly two minutes, neither team could add to the score until Belodeau tied it at 12. The score stayed 1212 throughout the remaining 2:39, though, and sudden-death overtime ensued.

After one overtime period, the score remained tied at a dozen apiece. It looked as though the second overtime would end in the same manner, but with five minutes and 58 seconds of the six-minute overtime elapsed, Gebhardt again put her name on the scoresheet with a game-winning seventh goal to bring the Quakers’ year to an abrupt and disappointing end.

“I’m really proud of our seniors and their leadership this year, and this is a tough way to go out,” Corbett said. “It’s tough to see [the seniors] so upset and their careers over, but they’ve given so much to this program. … They’ve given us four years and we can’t thank them enough for all that they’ve done.”

With Penn’s season now over, the team will return home, while Georgetown advances to the second round to take on No. 5 Syracuse on May 12.

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Sophomore Zoe Belodeau scored three goals and notched two assists in the losing effort. Belodeau’s final goal tied the score at 12 apiece with a little over two minutes to play to send the contest to overtime.

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Frank A g uilar

Letter from the President To the Great Class of 2019: Way back in September 2015, I welcomed you to Penn at Convocation by describing how mapmakers of old labeled unsurveyed regions terra incognita -- the unknown land. You were, I said, embarking on your own age of discovery and would get to define the map of your world over the course of your time at Penn.

How quickly the years can pass! And how differently you know the world, and yourselves, today. This has been a voyage of surprises great and small, of long study, deliberate analysis, careful construction, and sudden insights. The world has changed over the course of four years, but your understanding of it - richer, deeper, more insightful and nuanced - has changed even more profoundly still. You are prepared not just to engage with the present reality, but to embrace it, enlarge it, and make it better.

The connections you’ve made here and the lessons you’ve learned during your time at Penn will only grow in impmiance in the years ahead. Your peers, professors, coaches, and staff mentors have helped you see the world more broadly and in entirely new ways. They have helped you better know yourself. Along the way, you have pursued interdisciplinary study, arts and culture, original research, athletics, and engagement at home and abroad.

These are relationships and experiences that last and emich a lifetime.

C ong ratulations, Frank!

Y our ha rd w ork ha s w on you the success. Y ou a re a g ra dua te. Y ou ha v e done us proud.

Love, Mom, Dad & David

Dav id A kst

It has been my pleasure to get to know you over the past four years. I say with absolute confidence-and with no small measure of pride-that your unique insights, your unsurpassed energy, and your optimism are exactly what our world needs right now. Nothing gives me greater hope for the future than knowing a new generation of Penn graduates is on its way to tackle our world’s toughest challenges. Remember us always, visit us often, and do good work. Penn is immensely proud of you and we will cherish this connection always.

With hearty congratulations,

Amy Gutmann

N ick A kst

C ong ratulations, N ick!

Y ou’ v e b roug ht j ustice to the sta g e; credit to the U niv ersity!

We love you, Mom & Dad

J onah A rnh eim

H urrah ! H ere’ s a toast to y ou, J onah !

We love you, Mom, Dad & Julian

T w o th um b s up , Dav id!

Y ou ha v e w a lk ed in the w a y of honor, serv ed in the lig ht of truth!

We love you, Mom & Dad

Z oe A lb ano- O ritt

“ W herev er you g o, g o w ith a ll your hea rt.”

– Conf ucius Cong ra tula tions, Z oe! W e a re so proud of you!

All our love, Mom & Dad xoxo

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E th an A rb ess

C ong ratulation, E th an!

W e a re so proud of you! W ishing you much success a nd ha ppiness. W e lov e you so much!

Love, Mom, Dad, Matt, Sophia, Grandma, Grandpa, Baboo, Pa & Fawers

C aroline A tkinson

C ong ratulations, C ris!

C ong ratulations!

N ow tha t a ll your ha rd w ork ha s pa id of f , w e’ re celeb ra ting your success. T his is j ust the b eg inning !

Y ou a re on your w a y to doing ex a ctly w ha t you ha v e pla nned a nd w ork ed f or. S o proud of you!

So proud of you, Mami y Papi

With love, Mom & Dad

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M ich ael B eav ers

C ong ratulations, M ich ael!

W e’ re proud to see you g ra dua te f rom P enn, b ut ev en prouder to see the ma n you ha v e b ecome.

We love you so much!!

Mom & Dad

Dev on B ell

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A ndrea B eg leiter

C ong ratulations!

W e a re so proud of you.

Besos y Abrazos, Mami, Dad, Raquel & Gabriella

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B rooke B eh rb aum

C ong ratulations, y ou did it! !

S o ha ppy to sha re in the ex citement of your g ra dua tion, a nd so v ery proud of you!

Love, Mom, Dad, Kelly, Grandma & Grandpa

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C ong ratulations, Daniel!

C ong ratulations, C laire!

Y ou did it! ! Cong ra tula tions to our little schola r! W e a re so v ery proud of you!

W e a re enormously proud a nd impressed b y you a nd your a ccomplishments!

L ong da ys, f a st yea rs. W e ca n’ t w a it to see w ha t you do nex t!

Love, Mom & Mark

Love always, Dad, Mom & Crys

Love, Mom & Dad

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C ong ratulations, I sab ella! !

W e’ re so proud of you, a nd you continue to a ma z e us.

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We love you, Mom, Dad & Vincent

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C ong ratulations, Daniella!

Love, Mom & Dad

Love, Mom, Dad & Grammy

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LOVE, MOM, DAD, PRANJAL & BUDDY

Love, Mom & Dad

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W e a re proud of you! Y ou’ v e come a long w a y w ith more a dv entures to come.

A nany a C h andra

L et your w ing s ta k e f lig ht! W e lov e you!

W ith pride a nd j oy, a lw a ys a nd f orev er.

E duardo C occaro

Dú q uerido, P a ra b é ns f ilho, esta mos org ulhosos de v ocê !

Continue sendo essa pessoa incrí v el. E sta remos sempre a seu la do. S ucesso!

Com muito amor, Mamãe e Papai

C ong ratulations, Daniella, PJ & M uriel!

T hree g rea t students, f riends f rom da y one, tra v el b uddies, a nd f a mily f or lif e.

Love, Mr. & Mrs. C

K iana C om iz io

W e k new it f rom the sta rt, you w ere a lw a ys b ea utif ul a nd sma rt! K ia na Comiz io, w e a re so proud of you!

Love, Mom, Dad, Nikaela, Tysen & Kobe

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C atarina C onran

C ong ratulations, C at!

W e lov e you a nd a re so proud of you. M a y G od b less you a nd g uide you, a lw a ys.

Love you to the moon (and back), Mom & Dad

S tep h en Dam ianos

C ong ratulations, S tep h en!

Y ou a re a n inspira tion to a ll of us. S o proud of you a nd a ll tha t you’ v e a ccomplished!

Love you, Mom, Dad, John & Nicholas

A driana Drop ulic

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B ow m an C oop er

W ay to g o, B ow !

Cong ra ts on ea rning your f irst deg ree.

Love, Mom & Dad

C h arlotte de V aulx

C ong ratulations, C h arlotte!

With love and pride today and always, Mom & Papa

E th an Daly

“ T o rea ch a port, w e must sa il - sa il, not tie a t a nchor - sa il, not drif t.” – F ra nk lin D . R oosev elt Let your dreams set sail Ethan!

Love, Mom & Dad

R y an Dim entb erg

H ap p y g rad, R y !

P roud of you a lw a ys.

I love you, Lea

N astasia E frem kina

E m ily E lenio

Dearest A driana,

C ong ratulations, N astasia!

C ong ratulations, E m ily !

W e a re so proud of you! Y ou ha v e done a n outsta nding j ob . B est w ishes in g ra d school!

W ha t a n impressiv e a chiev ement! W e j ust couldn’ t b e ha ppier f or you!

A ll your ha rd w ork a nd dedica tion pa id of f ! W e a re proud of you! N ow , g o cha ng e the w orld!

Love, Mama, Dad, Christina & Luke

Love, Mom, Dad, Artem & Grandma

Love, Mom & Dad

S tev en Farrell

C ong ratulations, S tev en! ! !

Y our ha rd w ork prov es you g et out w ha t you put in, a nd j ust look a t you son.

Couldn’t be prouder of my idol, my son.

Love, DAD

Dav id Fig urelli

C O N GR A T U LA T I O N S , DA V I D! ! !

W e a re a ll so v ery proud of Y O U ! Celeb ra te this moment – you def initely deserv e it! !

Love, Dad, Mom, Jillian, Stephanie, Bryan, Cameron & Natalie

J ake Friedm an

“ D if f erent roa ds sometimes lea d to the sa me ca stle.” P roud of your choices a nd j ourney.

Cong ra ts, w e lov e you!

Mom, Dad & Seth

A ndrea Frost

Daniel Fradin

C ong ratulations, Daniel!

W e a re so v ery proud! W ishes f or a b rig ht a nd ha ppy f uture!

We love you, Mom, Dad & Noah

Patrik Garren

A ndrea,

C ong ratulations, Patrik!

W e a re so proud of you! Y ou a re a true Q ua k er!

H urra h, hurra h P ennsylv a nia !

Y ou did it! W e a re so v ery proud of you! W e lov e you!

We love you, Mom, Dad, Danielle & Steven

Love, Mom, Dad, Bailey, Connor & Kascidy

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A m anda Geiser

C ong ratulations, A m anda!

W e a re so proud of you! L ook ing f orw a rd to w ha t comes nex t!

Love, Mom & Dad

A riel Goldfine

Dear A riel, W e’ re so proud of your determina tion a nd impressiv e a ccomplishments! N ow ta k e some risk s in pursuit of your drea ms!

With much love, Mom, Dad & Jonah

S h iri Gross

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B riarR ose Ginn

W ay to g o, M onk M onk!

N ow let’ s sta rt mov ing mounta ins!

“ T here is no one w ho compa res w ith you...”

Love, Your family

Love, Uncle Wes

Z ach ary Goldstein

C ong ratulations, Z ! ! !

W e a re so proud of you a nd lov e you lots! !

Love you, Mommy, Papa, Becca, Aaron, Bubbe, Poppop & Nana

Cong ra tula tions on your ha rd w ork a nd pa ssion tha t ha v e led to a ma z ing a ca demic a nd a rtistic a chiev ements.

W e’ re so ha ppy tha t you’ v e a chiev ed this g rea t milestone! W e w ish you continued success on your nex t endea v or.

Love, Mama

Love always, Mom, Dad, Lauren & Bryn

C ong ratulations, T ab ath a!

Love, Mom, Dad, Sarah & Israel

Love you!

Mommy, Daddy & Miller

W e’ re so proud of a ll tha t you’ v e a ccomplished a nd of the w onderf ul young ma n you’ v e b ecome.

Ca rpe D iem!

Lots of love, Mom, Dad & Dylan

H a rd w ork a nd dedica tion ha s lea d you to this da y!

W e could not b e more proud. Cong ra tula tions, G O A T !!

Love, Mamma, Papa, Nonno, Nonna, Zia Tricia & Diana

S op h ia H eiser

W e are p roud of y ou, S op h ia.

Y ou persev ered a nd ov erca me a dv ersity. N ow you’ re of f to g rea t pla ces. Cong ra tula tions! !

Love, Mom, Dad & Adam

T ab ath a H ickm an

W e a re incredib ly proud of a ll your a ccomplishments a nd w e ca nnot w a it to see how f a r you’ ll continue to g o.

C ong ratulations, A lex !

Gianluca Gross

J ulia H ansen

C ong ratulations, J ulia!

A lex I ng erm an

B riarR ose Ginn

C ong rats!

S h iri,

S am anth a H ernandez

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Y ou a re our D isney P rincess. W e a re so proud of you, toda y a nd a lw a ys.

A p ril H uang

Dear A p ril, W e’ re so proud of you a nd b est w ishes to your new lif e. W e’ ll a lw a ys b e there f or you!

Love, Dad, Mom, Daryn, Grandpa, Grandma, Mango & Mochi

A lly J oh nson

C ong ratulations, A lly !

N ick J oy ner

C ong ratulations, N ick & th e C lass of 2 0 1 9 !

W e a re so proud of you. W ishing you much ha ppiness a nd success — you deserv e it!

S o proud of you!

Love, Mom, Dad & Katie

Love you, Mom

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J osh K adish

Y ay , J osh ! !

Cong ra ts — you did it! ! W e a re soooo proud of you a nd w e lov e you! !

Love, Mom, Dad & Zack

R ah ul K oov erj ee

Dearest R ah ul, O ur S upersta r. Cong ra ts! ! ! W e a re soo proud of you. “ T o inf inity a nd b eyond.” “ Y ou did g ood silly ra .”

Loads of love and bestest wishes, Mum, Dad & Kid

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B rianna K arp ow icz

R ah ul K oov erj ee

G o conf idently in the direction of your drea ms. L iv e the lif e you ha v e ima g ined.

A time to rememb er a nd a time to celeb ra te. L et’ s g et this pa rty sta rted! CO N G R A T S , R A H U L !

We love you, Mom, Dad, Xander & Nick

Hugs from, Tisha, Nay, Taran & Jhia

Danielle K ram er

Y eah ! ! ! ! Y ou did it, Danielle!

A toa st to you a nd dea r old P enn! W e a re so proud of you!

Love, Mom, Dad & Nicole

H unter Lig h tm an

Danny Leap m an

W e couldn’ t b e more proud of you. Y ou a re the b est son a ny pa rent could a sk f or!

Love, Mom & Dad

E tan M ab ourakh

education noun | ed·u·ca·tion

Y ou’ re of f to g rea t pla ces! T oda y is your da y! Y our mounta in( v iew ) is w a iting . S o...G et on your w a y!

– D r. S euss Cong ra tula tions!

: the a ction or process of tea ching someone especia lly in a school, colleg e, or univ ersity : the k now ledg e, sk ill, a nd understa nding tha t you g et f rom a ttending a school, colleg e, or univ ersity

C ong ratulations, A nush ka!

Y ou did it ! S o proud of you. W ishing you a lif e of your drea ms & b eyond.

Love, Mom, Dad, Ash, Trixy & the rest of the family

J am ie M cC ann

Y ou ma k e us v ery proud a nd w e ca n’ t w a it to see w ha t the f uture holds.

Love you, Mom & Dad

Love you to the moon & back!

Mom, Dad & Jake

A nush ka M akh ij a

Dear E tan,

A nna Pey ton M aliz ia

E liz ab eth A nne M artinez

W e a re in a w e of your f ocus a nd pa ssion.

W e lov e you dea rly a nd a re so proud of your a ccomplishments.

Y ou inspire us w ith your w ork ethic, your commitment to ex cellence a nd your “ w ill do” a ttitude. Y ou a lw a ys a ma z e! CO N G R A T U L A T I O N S !

We love you, Dad, Mom, Cole, Kent & Maggie

We love you!

Mom, Dad, Nick, Ben & Chris

B rig it A nne M cDerm ott

C ong ratulations, J am ie! !

C ong ratulations, B rig it!

Y ou did it! ! L ittle E ddie, R ya n, L uk e a nd I a re a ll so proud of you!

Y ou did it! ! ! W e lov e you a nd a re so proud of a ll tha t you ha v e a ccomplished!

Love you!

Mom & Dad

Love, Mom, Dad, Catie & Joe

C ollin M cM anus

C ong ratulations!

W e’ re so proud of you!

Love, Mom & Dad

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C aroline M iller

C ong ratulations, C aroline! !

W e a re so proud of you! K eep f ollow ing your pa ssions a nd sta y true to yourself . Cheers to you!

Love, Mom, Dad, Claire & Rondo

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R eg inal M urp h y I I

C ong ratulations, R eg !

Y ou did it! ! I a m so proud of you!

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K arish m a N anw ani

C ong ratulations, K arish m a!

W e a re so v ery proud of you! D rea m b ig , f ollow your pa ssion, persev ere a nd ma k e your ma rk .

We love you.

Love, Mom & Dad

I love you, Mom

C arlie O strom

A sp y n Palatnick

p ride

noun | pride

Y O U ’ R E T R U L Y I N S P I R A T I O N A L ! Y ou’ v e b een think ing a b out this da y since you w ere a sma ll child. Cong ra tula tions on ma k ing it ha ppen!

Love, Mama

E liz ab eth Peartree

C ong ratulations, E liz ab eth !

T hou ma yest a nd thou didst. W ell done.

With boundless love, pride, and admiration, Mom, Dad, Annie & Winnie

T am era Prab h akar

C ong ratulations, T am era!

W e a re proud of you! T he b est is yet to come!

Love, Mom & Devan

J ennifer R eiss

C ong ratulations, J en!

W e a re so v ery proud of you! W e lov e you!

Love, Mom, Dad, Spencer & Michael

: a f eeling tha t you respect yourself a nd deserv e to b e respected b y other people : a f eeling of ha ppiness tha t you g et w hen you or someone you k now does something g ood, difficult, etc.

J onath an Pollack

C ong ratulations, J onath an!

W e w ish you a lif etime of success a nd ha ppiness.

W e a re proud of you a nd w e lov e you! ! !

Love, Mom, Dad & Brian

E lena Prieto

C ong ratulations, E lena!

W e lov e you a nd look f orw a rd to the nex t steps in your lif e a nd ca reer.

Love, Mom, Richard, Sam, Sophia & Josh

S am

R ice

Y our spa rk le, your smile, determina tion a nd driv e.

T he f un- lov ing w a y, you liv e ea ch da y.

A uthentic, k ind, a lw a ys others in mind.

We could not be prouder of you, Luv-u-so-much, M&D

O ur hea rts a re b ursting w ith lov e a nd pride!

XOXOXOXO, Mom, Dad, Sky, Flopper & Vandoogle

M org an Potts

Y ou a re B R A V E R tha n you b eliev e, S T R O N G E R tha n you seem, S M A R T E R tha n you think , a nd L O V E D more tha n you k now .

Congratulations!

With all our love and pride, Mom & Dad

C am ille R ap ay

C ong ratulations, C am ille!

Y ou a re a - one- of - a - k ind da ug hter & sister w ho’ s ma de our f a mily v ery proud. W e lov e you! W a y to g o!

Love you much, Mom, Dad & Gino

C alv ary R og ers

C ong ratulations, C alv ary !

W e a re proud of you f or a ll your a ccomplishments on a nd of f the tra ck f ield. G odspeed!

Love, Glamma & Aunt Chelsea

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C alv ary R og ers

B rooke R osenth al

C A LV A R Y M I C H A E L R O GE R S ! !

Dear B rooke,

B est son & b rother! Y ou nev er cea se to a ma z e us, ma k e us la ug h a nd ref lect. Cong ra tula tions! ! ! !

W e a re so incredib ly proud of a ll you ha v e a chiev ed. T he f uture b elong s to you!

Roger That!

Dad, Mom, your sisters & Grandma Rogers

Love, Mom, Dad, Miles, Tess, Striker & Rosie

E m ily R ush

T he G la dw yne R ushes, the B looming G len R ushes, the W est Chester Z a ndis, the T ehera n Z a ndis ( summa ry: ev eryone) is proud of you.

Congratulations.

Love, Mom and Dad

W illiam

Love, Mommy, Daddy, Catherine, Alex, Emma, Abbey & Nana

M ax w ell A . R oth sch ild

“ I a m more proud of the ma n tha t you ha v e b ecome tha n the b a sk etb a ll pla yer you a re. Y ou a re b ig g er tha n b a sk etb a ll.” – J olinda W a de Love, Douglas R. & Clare K. Rothschild

J am ie S ch w artz

K atrina S ey kora

W e a re so proud of you...f or ev erything you’ v e a ccomplished — a nd ev en more — f or the person you’ v e b ecome! Cong ra tula tions! X O X O

C ong ratulations, K atrina!

LYTM, Mommy & Daddy

We love you!

Mom & Dad

S now

W e a re a ll so proud of w ha t you’ v e a ccomplished a nd look f orw a rd to w ha t you do nex t!

Cong ra tula tions!

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F rom your f irst da y of nursery school to your colleg e g ra dua tion, w e ha v e b een so proud of you!

J acob S ny der

Paul ( PJ ) S ov a

J acob ,

C ong ratulations, PJ !

Cong ra tula tions on your g ra dua tion! Y ou w ork ed so ha rd a nd w e couldn’ t b e prouder of you a nd your a chiev ement!

W e a re so proud of you a nd your a chiev ement f rom W ha rton. W ishing you continued success a nd ha ppiness a lw a ys!

Love, Mom, Dad, Rebecca & Matthew

We love you, Mom, Dad & Zak

Diana S tettner

Gab rielle S tone

ach iev e verb | a·chieve

: to g et or rea ch ( something ) b y w ork ing ha rd : to b ecome successf ul : to rea ch a g oa l

Diana,

C O N GR A T U LA T I O N S , GA B R I E LLE !

W e a re so proud of you a nd ca n’ t w a it to see w ha t the f uture b ring s f or you! Cong ra ts!

W e a re so proud of w ha t you ha v e a ccomplished.

W e ea g erly a w a it the nex t cha pter in your lif e!

With much love, Mom, Dad & Abby

Love, Mom & Dad

N icole S w irb alus

W e are so p roud of y ou, N icole!

Cong ra tula tions on your a ma z ing a ccomplishments a t P enn. Y ou g ot this!

We love you, Mom, Dad, Michael, TJ & Matty

B randon J arrett T ep p er

A nna T h om p son

W e’ re so proud of you. T he b est is yet to come.

T hose doors w ill k eep opening if you k eep k nock ing !

A nna,

We love you, Mom, Dad & Justin

Love, Mom & Dad

S o proud of w ho you a re a nd so thrilled you a re poised to b eg in a new a dv enture! Cong ra tula tions!

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Dem etrius T h orn

K eep b eliev ing in yourself , the rest w ill f a ll in pla ce.

Love your biggest cheerleader, Mom

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Dem etrius T h orn

Cong ra tula tions a nd b est w ishes in A L L your a ccomplishments a nd ma k ing me one proud g ra ndmom. I pra y f or your continued success.

Loads of love for you Quise.

From, Grandmom

E lena T om linson

C ong ratulations, T om !

Loads of love, Mom, Dad, Henry & Charlie

Love, Mom, Dad & all your family and friends

W e’ re a ll so v ery proud of you.

E th an B . V olk

W ords ca nnot a deq ua tely describ e how incredib ly proud w e a re of you. W e lov e you dea rly!

Love, Mom, Dad, Brian & Amanda

J ianing W ang

C ong ratulations, J ianing !

W e a re proud of you. M a y G od’ s g ra ces b e w ith you a s you step a hea d tow a rds your drea ms.

Dad, Mom & John

N ich olas W eh b eh

C ong ratulations, N ich olas!

Y our ha rd w ork ha s w on you the success you deserv e. M a y you see success in a ll your endea v ors!

With love and pride today and always, Mom & Dad

M ich aela W h ite

M ich aela, W e a re so incredib ly proud of a ll you ha v e a ccomplished! W e lov e you so v ery much! ! ! ! ! O ur b a b y g irl! ! ! ! !

Love, Mom, Dad, Tyler, Zachary, Nana & Uncle Adam

M ich aela Leig h T inkey

C h eers & cong rats, M ich aela!

Y ou’ re truly one of a k ind, a nd w e a re so v ery proud of you!

Love, Mom & Dad

T h om as U h ler

“ L et the b ea uty of w ha t you lov e b e w ha t you do.”

– R umi S o proud of you, L a nes! Cong ra tula tions!

H urrah , H urrah ...E th an!

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S im one U nw alla

S im one, Cong ra tula tions! ! ! Y ou ha v e b ecome such b ea utif ul person inside a nd out! Ca n’ t w a it to see w ha t you do nex t!

Love you SO MUCH, Mom, Dad, Alexis & Porkchop

A sh ley W arner

O M G ! ! A shley’ s g ra dua ting f rom P enn! W e a re so proud of you! !

All our love, Mom, Dad & Gillian

V anessa W eir

Cong ra tula tions on the completion of your deg ree.

M a y you enj oy continued success in the yea rs tha t lie a hea d.

Love, Mom & Cassie

Greg ory W h iteh orn

Greg ory , Cong ra tula tions! W e a re so proud of you a nd a dmire a ll of your ha rd w ork a nd a ccomplishments!

Love, Mom & Dad

J ake W elde

Dear J ake, Cong ra tula tions f rom your b ig g est f a n! ! ! I ’ m so proud of you! W ishing you a ll the v ery b est f uture success! !

Love always and forever, :) Mommy XO

M icah Z irn

W e lov e ‘ O ur G uy’ . A lw a ys a K ing to us.

Cong ra tula tions.

With so much love, Juliet, Nico, Mom & Dad