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Graduate students’ poor mental health 70 percent of grad. students reported feeling anxiety COURTNEY DAUB Contributing Reporter

Penn has more than 11,000 graduate students and according to a new survey, nearly half of them are struggling with feelings of depression.

The Graduate and Professional Student Assembly recently administered a survey that garnered 1,456 responses — about 12.5 percent of Penn’s total graduate student population. Forty-three percent of respondents reported being “so depressed it was difficult to function,” and 70 percent reported “feeling overwhelming anxiety.” The survey was sent out by GAPSA to every graduate and professional student last April and results were compiled this summer.

Many of the anonymous student comments in the survey cited unsupportive academic advisors, financial stress, and a toxic work culture at Penn as key challenges to their mental health on campus.

Chair of GAPSA’s Student Life Committee and Nursing doctoral candidate Matthew

Lee said these issues were relevant to students across all schools. Lee, who helped conduct the survey, added that he found the results “unnerving.”

“Some of the factors behind it are the greater social isolation,” Lee said. “The grad community is not as tightly knit as the undergrad community.”

The survey is helping to inform several ongoing mental health initiatives within the graduate student community, including the establishment of Penn Franklins, a graduate peer-counseling group.

Lee, along with GAPSA Deputy for Mental Health and candidate for a master’s degree in philosophy in education Mandy Lin, began organizing the peercounseling group Franklins in fall 2017. The group tentatively plans to open by the end of September for walk-in appointments in the Graduate Student Center on Mondays from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

The Franklins, modeled after the undergraduate peer-counseling group the Penn Benjamins, will consist of graduate students trained by CAPS and faculty to provide non-profes-

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More than 300 students indicated online that they planned to camp out in one of Huntsman Hall’s computer labs past 2 a.m. on Thursday morning to protest the change in the building’s hours. As of midnight, the entrance to Huntsman was relatively quiet, with students slowly trickling out to head home. Read The Dailly Pennsylvanian online for more updates.

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Penn defends Harvard in affirmative action lawsuit

Perry World House to host event with notable speakers

U.S. Justice Department supported the students

The colloquium will begin on Sept. 24

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The United States Justice Department sided against Harvard Thursday, arguing the university has failed to prove it does not unlawfully discriminate against Asian Americans in its admissions process. The statement was filed exactly one month after all of the Ivies backed Harvard in an amicus brief, which defended raceconscious admissions processes in order to preserve diversity and equal opportunity.

There’s a lot at stake for Penn. If the lawsuit prevails, affirmative action policies could be in jeopardy, and so could federal funding.

Penn Dean of Admissions Eric Furda has acknowledged what’s at risk, saying, “It’s incredible pressure; hang that over anyone’s head,” referring to the possibility of an investigation by departments in the Trump administration. Nonetheless, he said race-conscious admission policies are critical

Some of the sharpest minds in politics will convene at Penn later this month to discuss issues that pose threats to global order.

On Sept. 25, Joe Biden will join former National Security Advisors Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster and Susan Rice, and former U.K. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg at a Perry World House event titled, “Competing Visions for the Global Order.”

The colloquium will begin on Sept. 24 with a closeddoor conference and will be followed on Sept. 25 by a public event featuring panel discussions and speeches.

The two-day event will feature several other notable speakers as well.

“During the colloquium, Penn will be at the center of the most significant conversations about the competing visions for the future of the global order,” PWH Director

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If the lawsuit against Harvard prevails, affirmative action policies in universities could be in jeopardy, and so could federal funding.

in creating a diverse campus and learning environment.

“The framework [of Penn’s admission policy] is valuing a diverse educational environment and what that looks like,” Furda said. “To get then to that next piece, [the ques-

tion is] what policies do you need to have?”

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Joe Biden, Susan Rice, Nick Clegg, and Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster will all be attending the two-day event on Sept. 24 and 25.

William Burke-White, said.

“The Penn community will be able to engage with the people who have been shaping the future of the international system.”

The participants will grapple with issues of a changing

world order, of the evolving role of U.S. global leadership, and of whether there is space for cooperation between states in the current geopolitical environment.

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Suspect in Bernstein murder will stand trial Prosecution will add hate crime to listed charges MADELEINE LAMON News Editor

The man charged in connection to the murder of former Penn sophomore Blaze Bernstein will officially stand trial, a judge ruled Tuesday.

In a pre-trial hearing, an Orange County judge determined prosecutors had presented sufficient evidence to order Samuel Woodward to stand trial on murder and hate crime charges, US News & World Reports reported. Evidence included DNA results from blood stains and an abundance of homophobic and anti-Semitic messages on Woodward’s cell phone. Bernstein was gay and Jewish.

Woodward has pleaded not guilty. If convicted, however, he could face up to life in prison without the possibility of parole with the sentencing enhancement of a hate crime.

The evidence and testimonies presented in court provided the most vivid glimpse into the interactions and relationship between Woodward and Bernstein leading up to Bernstein’s death.

Throughout the one-day hearing, details emerged that Woodward and Bernstein had connected over Snapchat and Woodward picked up Bernstein from his home on the night he died.

A forensic scientist testified that it was nearly impossible for

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Blaze Bernstein was the rising managing editor of Penn Appetit, Penn’s food magazine, and a sophomore at the time of his death.

the blood stains found on a knife in Woodward’s bedroom, under his watch, and on the visor of Woodward’s car to come from anyone other than Bernstein.

Orange County Sheriff’s Department Investigator Craig Goldsmith also took the stand, saying Woodward’s phone con-

tained a host of homophobic content. An email was found detailing Woodward’s attempts to prank gay men on Grindr, an online app used to connect with other gay men. He would pretend to be “gay curious” to attract them and later would reveal the deception as a prank,

US News & World Report reported.

Woodward’s lawyer Edward Muñoz did not present any witnesses during the hearing and argued that Woodward was sexually confused, socially awkward, and had autism.

Woodward and Bernstein

were high school classmates at the Orange County School of the Arts. Bernstein went missing while home in California for winter break. His body was found a week after he was announced to be missing.

Woodward was charged with murder on Jan. 17, two weeks

after Bernstein disappeared.

A sealed affidavit obtained by the Orange County Register revealed Woodward told investigators that on the night of the murder Bernstein, who was gay, had tried to kiss him.

In August, prosecutors announced they had added a hate crime sentencing enhancement to the homicide charge. Woodward then denied the allegation during a brief court appearance.

Goldsmith also said Woodward had over 100 pieces of content relating to the white supremacist group Atomwaffen, including an image of the group’s insignia serving as his phone’s background, the Washington Post reported.

In January, ProPublica released a report showing that Woodward trained with the Neo-Nazi group.

When questioned in August about the hateful memes and messages Woodward allegedly posted online, Muñoz told reporters his client faced social burdens due to autism.

“They don’t formulate lasting personal relationships in their life,” Muñoz said to Buzzfeed News. “They’re very isolated people. That leads them to go where they’re accepted.”

He added that Woodward made social connections through race.

“He is a blonde, blue-eyed young man,” Muñoz said.

“There’s only going to be certain clubs he’s going to be allowed into.”

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that all Ivy League schools had coordinated a cap on Asian-American students admitted to the schools. The argument used the fact that Asian-American students represented relatively equivalent shares of the total student population at each school as evidence for the alleged unlawful discrimination. Harvard has rejected the allegation of such coordination among schools.

Furda said that while there may be other strategies to circumvent current policies and achieve racial diversity, other policy proposals will ultimately draw on racial and ethnic differences as well.

Without the race-conscious admission policies, he said, “[Penn] wouldn’t be intellectually, socially, or in any way as compelling a place to attend.”

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Biden will conduct a “Leader’s Dialogue” with Clegg, Global Order Program Manager John Gans said. Rice and McMaster will also both speak on stage at the colloquium.

A panel will be held the morning of Sept. 25 and will feature former Mexican President Felipe Calderon, former U.S. Ambassador to India Richard Verma, and former British diplomat Catherine Ashton. National Public Radio journalist Deborah Amos will facilitate the panel.

Many of the speakers are among the 13 fellows PWH announced for the 2018-19 academic year last week, including Rice, McMaster, and Calderon.

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Colleges that have come to Harvard’s aid have mirrored Furda’s sentiment, but schools have not addressed the specific evidence suggesting that Asian-American students were held to a higher standard in the admissions process, the New York Times reported.

“Penn Admissions considers many individual factors in the decision process including high school courses, grades, test scores, recommendations, personal essays, alumni interviews, background and experiences, and accomplishments. In the process, we do not discriminate against any racial, religious, ethnic or other group of applicants,” Furda wrote in a written statement in response to a request to comment on whether AsianAmerican applicants were held to a higher standard.

The case against Harvard comes at a time when the Trump administration has already decided to roll back on

Obama-era affirmative action policies. Universities that choose to continue race-conscious policies are at risk of a DOJ investigation and face a loss of federal funding from the Department of Education.

Penn, along with the rest of the Ivy League, receives significant federal funding. The Ivies draw billions of dollars from the federal government each year for research.

Between 2010 and 2015, the eight universities received nearly $41.59 billion from taxpayer-funded payments and benefits.

Furda remained steadfast in the University’s position that affirmative action is beneficial to the school community and learning experience.

“I think more than anything,” Furda said, “if you’re going to stand up for your values, you need to stand up for your values regardless of what those consequences are. Nelson Mandela went to prison.”

to speak and spend the day at Penn, which is great,” Gans said. “It is a big moment, it shows the University of Pennsylvania is the place to be to have a conversation about the global order.”

Past PWH events on political issues have included North Korea, the refugee crisis, and the state of American democracy.

“It’s a great thing for students, whether they are freshmen or graduate students, to be able to engage with,” Gans said. “It’s a sign that Perry World House is becoming the home for this conversation both on Penn’s campus, but also nationally and even internationally.”

“There are so many different events that Perry World House hosts, I find that a lot of people have gone to Perry World House for one reason

or another, regardless of what kind of major they are in,” College senior and incoming Perry World House student fellow Lauren Kahn said.

Gans and Burke-White are currently traveling to Beijing to kick off the month-long conversation on global order at the Penn Wharton China Center. At the workshop this Friday, American academics and policy makers will meet with Chinese academics in order to discuss China’s goals and how the U.S. will react, Gans said.

“It’s all tied together: A month-long conversation that will then be built upon in the year ahead,” Gan said. “We have a research team on the future of the global order, and this is the conversation.”

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sional, walk-in counseling.

Students can use the service as much as they want as long as they don’t see the same counselor more than twice in a row — a caveat intended to keep the relationships nonprofessional and short term, Lin said.

After each counseling session, peer-counselors will compile a list of helpful resources for the student they spoke with.

“The resources are there, but they’re not targeted at grads,” said Lee. “People expect them to know what exists because they’re no longer undergrads.”

According to Lin, the Franklins is not intended to replace longer-term professional counseling, and is instead

meant to “guide [graduates] in the right direction.”

Marketing Manager for Penn Benjamins and College senior Elisabeth Hyde described peer-counseling as a way for students to speak with peers and de-stigmatize mental issues.

“Sometimes people feel like they can’t go to their parents or friends,” Hyde said. “The counseling is for that in-between space where you want to get something off your chest.”

Co-President of Active Minds and College senior Megha Nagaswami said there is also potential for undergraduate and graduate collaboration through umbrella organizations such as Penn Wellness. As part of the Reach-a-Peer confidential helpline, she added that more peer-support can come in dif-

ferent forms, such as phone, text, and online letter support.

“Peer support is something that we don’t often think of as a form of wellness,” Nagaswami said, adding that it’s important to connect to someone with similar experiences.

Penn has also made an effort to address graduate mental health. In spring 2017, Counseling and Psychological Services announced the hiring of four new CAPS staff members to be appointed to work in private offices within the School of Veterinary Medicine, the Perelman School of Medicine, the School of Dental Medicine, and Penn Law. Among graduate students, CAPS reported an over five percent increase in the use of CAPS services from the 20162017 academic year to the following year when the clinicians were operating.

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The Graduate and Professional Student Assembly recently administered a mental health survey that garnered 1,456 responses ­— around 12.5 percent of Penn’s total graduate student population.

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THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 6, 2018 VOL. CXXXIV, NO. 36 134th Year of Publication DAVID AKST President REBECCA TAN Executive Editor CHRIS MURACCA Print Director

Don’t be afraid to ‘friend zone’

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THE OXFORD C’MON | You don’t owe someone more than you’re willing to give

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ver the past few weeks, I have read countless headlines and declarations expressing grief and outrage at the death of Mollie Tibbets, who was studying psychology at the University of Iowa. It is understood that Cristhian Ba-

grant, and used this tragedy as a platform for their political parade preaching the end to all undocumented residencies in the United States.

Not only does this tunnelvision perspective of an awful situation completely bulldoze over the horror of a 20-year-old

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Women — or anyone for that matter — shouldn’t need to lug around the constant and heavy fear that rejecting people will cause them personal harm. ” hena Rivera followed Tibbets and killed her after she rebuffed his advances and threatened to call the police. Many accounts focused on the fact that Rivera was an undocumented immi-

being murdered, but it ignores the very real and current threat women who do not reciprocate emotions or attention face every day in the real world.

Murder is an extreme example

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SOPHIA DUROSE can be in a relationship with them. A person should be valued because they are a person,

A person should be valued because they are a person, and not because you think they could be your person.” who murdered a number of people in 2014 on the University of California at Santa Barbara campus. Why wouldn’t women be scared of such communities?

This doesn’t mean you owe your friends more than you’re willing to give them. It means the conversation surrounding the friend zone needs to be altered. Putting someone in the friend zone is a sign of honesty, not hatred, and should be coupled with respect, not violence.

Human worth doesn’t grow on the basis of whether or not you

and not because you think they could be your person.

Retaliations to rejection range from the abandonment of a friendship to the violent and cruel acts I mentioned above.

The fear of these consequences needs to be eradicated, and that starts with dropping the assumption that people owe you what you want from them.

SOPHIA DUROSE is a College sophomore from Orlando, Fla. studying English. Her email is sdurose@sas.upenn.edu

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR BY YOUNG LEE ear Jessica Li,

Nice article! I’ve read many opinions about this issue and I am still not completely sure what the right answer is. Affirmative action has

show that you are more likely to get in as a non-Asian American?

Is it fair if this difference is statistically significant?

I think realistically speaking, the majority of supporters of this lawsuit are probably just upset

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When internet communities rife with hatred turn toward misogyny and cyclical reinforcement of their own spiteful ideologies, the fear of rejecting even your own friends can be enough to silence you into passivity.

Incel communities are starkly different from other frustrated people. These online communities start with a spark and then continue adding fodder until the flames of their detestation turn violent, sometimes canonizing figures such as Elliot Rodger,

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of the consequences women are forced to shoulder when they do not requite feelings that a man has for them. Every day, friendships are folded into darts that people throw in their crushes’ faces when their feelings balloon into more. The expectation that women should be grateful for a greater development of feelings isn’t a new concept, but the consequences raining down on us hasn’t slowed. In fact, the internet has facilitated this expectation of more, and groups such as incel communities (incel standing for “involuntary celibate”) only further perpetuate entitlement, feeding off media coverage like flies scavenging the remains of a picnic.

Even the very concept of a “friend zone” is born out of bitterness. The term, whether applied to a man, woman, or non-binary person, is steeped in presumption and assumed license. The fact that we need a word to explain the phenomenon of placing someone inside an imaginary concept enforces the idea of expected reciprocity.

Human connection shouldn’t be solely valued by the possibility of more.

It is understandable to have feelings for a person who doesn’t have those feelings back for you. We’re all human after all and attraction is involuntary.

However, women — or anyone for that matter — shouldn’t need to lug around the constant and heavy fear that rejecting people will cause them personal harm.

I think it is completely true that people probably shouldn’t sue a school purely based off the fact that they feel entitled to an acceptance letter.” historically been a polarizing topic and a discrimination case by one minority group against others makes things even messier.

I think it’s great that people like you are stirring discussion and attempting to answer the questions at hand.

I think it is completely true that people probably shouldn’t sue a school purely based off the fact that they feel entitled to an acceptance letter. That said, from what I’ve read so far (granted it’s not much), I feel like the lawsuit represents more than just a personal grudge against a school; it asks a question of principle: Is it fair that when you have an Asian American and a non-Asian American with an almost identical profile, the data appears to

Asian-American families whose kids did not get into Harvard despite having stellar grades and extracurriculars. Nevertheless, I feel like that is the angle a lot of people focus on — almost too much — when building an argument that this lawsuit is attacking the affirmative action system in place. I think it’s easy to forget about the principle argument aforementioned and turn it into a debate about who has more privilege or whether it’s bad that this lawsuit is pitting minorities against one another.

While I wholeheartedly agree that affirmative action is a great thing on the most part, I also wonder sometimes about the alleged benefits of diversity as part of college life. Personally, I find

the greatest impact of affirmative action the idea that we are giving historically underprivileged groups to chance to attend greater education and get themselves out of the cycle of poverty/lower socioeconomic status. That should be reason enough to support affirmative action, and not the “Wow, our school is so diverse, our education will be great!” angle. I mention this because I think the latter argument — while probably true — when used as the main argument justifying affirmative action, becomes an easier argument for someone to question when building a case saying affirmative action is unnecessary in colleges.

To put it all together: I think this case is polarizing because it assumes affirmative action is the cause of the discrimination, and puts the two in an almost mutually exclusive light. Parties on both sides argue each of their respective policies should be maintained/changed in order to advance minority groups’ statuses in America. Affirmative action becomes especially looked down upon by lawsuit supporters because people focus too much on the benefits of diversity, rather than the (arguably more important) benefits of giving disadvantaged groups a chance to attend higher education.

Conversely, this case also is looked down upon by affirmative action supporters because it comes off like its motive is to

trash affirmative action, but its true motive (or at least, what their motive should be) is to remove what seems like statistically significant discrepancies in admis-

these points, so please feel free to correct me; I am still learning more about this issue and these are simply my thoughts so far.

Lastly, I hope you ignore (or at

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sion rates when sorted by race (which may or may not have been caused by affirmative action).

I think the ideal solution is a compromise where affirmative action isn’t completely dismantled, but instead admissions officers stop making these subconsciously biased decisions when it comes to Asian-American applicants, and remove that statistical discrepancy. Obviously, that’s not something the law can easily control/implement, so the case goes for the simpler solution of ending race-based admissions entirely. I don’t think that’s ideal at all, but I think this practicality issue is why the case is targeting affirmative action as such.

Maybe I’m wrong on some of

least, attempt to make productive discussion) with the other commenters. It always pains me to see random people attack/come off completely dismissive and condescending to poor authors like you at The Daily Pennsylvanian instead of actually trying to facilitate discussion and have fruitful debate, like an opinion column should be doing. You’re doing great and I hope to read more from you in the future!

YOUNG LEE is an Engineering junior from Vancouver, B.C. studying computer and information science. His email address is leejaeyo@seas.upenn. edu. He is a former Under the Button video staffer.

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No one is impressed by your coke habit SIMONETTI SAYS | Penn is not immune to the opioid crisis

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t’s a Friday night at a Temple University frat party. It smells like sweat and beer, the humidity leaves stains on black crop tops, and everyone’s downing shots of Bankers. There’s a 10-minute line by the bathroom because inside, girls are snorting cocaine off the sink.

Gabe Logrono, a Temple sophomore, explained that this is what a typical night out looks like. But now, there’s a danger that wasn’t present before. A nightmare that’s plaguing the nation and all of Philadelphia, and many students ignore it: the opioid crisis.

We have to face the facts when it comes to recreational use of lifestyle drugs. Cocaine was never really cool to begin

thing like an opioid crisis.”

In early May, just a few weeks after Penn’s Spring Fling, the University sent an advisory email to students indicating that there was evidence of counterfeit oxycodone and cocaine that had been laced with fentanyl — a highly addictive painkiller — in the Philadelphia region.

“Lacing or contamination is a risk at all times with any use of illegal drugs, or with the use of pharmaceutical medications not obtained with a prescription from a pharmacy.” Noelle Melartin, the Director of the Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Program Initiatives elaborated in an emailed statement.

“It’s important to understand that there is no immunity from

Highly addictive painkillers are making their way into drugs that Penn students frequently use.

Drugs at Penn are far more unsafe than they were before.” with, but now it’s more deadly than ever.

“I just feel like people think of college students [as], you know, you party and you do drugs and you experiment,” Logrono said. “I don’t really think people identify some-

that risk.”

Logrono noted that some of his friends have done cocaine that was laced, and nearly overdosed. Temple is only three miles away from our own campus. In other words, Penn isn’t immune to the opioid crisis.

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Fortunately, the administration has taken some steps to avoid opioid-related deaths on campus. Penn’s Medical Emergency Response Team is now in possession of Narcan, a drug that can treat narcotic overdose.

The University also offers a variety of other resources, including a Medical Amnesty Policy, which allows students to seek treatment for excess alcohol or drug consumption without legal consequences.

Cocaine culture — selling, using, and distributing — is quite prominent at Penn, particularly in wealthy social circles.

And at a school where more students come from the top 1 percent of wealth than the bot-

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tom 60, lifestyle drugs are all too common. Some are reliant on drugs to stay focused, and

person sells opioids.”

In an interview with The New York Times, the Phila-

You aren’t doing your friends any favors by ignoring their dangerous behavior. Staying away from lifestyle drugs and encouraging your friends to do the same is the only sensible choice. others use them recreationally.

Often, the opioid epidemic is thought of as a problem limited to people of low-income backgrounds. But now, these highly addictive painkillers are making their way into drugs that Penn students frequently use.

Drugs at Penn are far more unsafe than they were before.

“I would say because the same people that use coke use, at least in my experience, Adderall, Xans, Molly, Percocets -- every every kind of thing you can imagine,” Logrono said. “I know people that sell all those things. You know if you’re looking to buy coke from someone, odds are, that

delphia Health Commissioner Tom Farley put the statistics on this issue into context: “We had an estimated 1,200 overdose deaths in Philly in 2017,” he said. “To put that in perspective, AIDS deaths at the worst of the epidemic were 935. We have the highest overdose rate by far of any of the 10 biggest cities in America.”

What people are less likely to recognize is the impact that this National Public Health Emergency might have on college students in the Philadelphia area. Just last year, two Temple students died from unidentified drug overdoses. Yet, despite the rapidly changing

drug culture, many have persisted in use of stimulants that may be laced.

We all know that college is the ideal time to experiment and try new things; however, you have to face the facts of the world that we’re living in today. After all, this isn’t our parents’ Penn.

Party drugs can serve as a status symbol, but they don’t make you any more interesting.

As much as we joke about the “scene,” nobody is impressed by your coke habit. Now it might have even more serious, life-threatening consequences.

Even if you yourself aren’t a drug user, one of Penn’s biggest issues is blind complacency with elements of its toxic culture. You aren’t doing your friends any favors by ignoring their dangerous behavior. Staying away from lifestyle drugs and encouraging your friends to do the same is the only sensible choice. We must acknowledge that the opioid epidemic isn’t far from us at all. In fact, we’re living in it.

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Penn students must rethink the college-to-consulting pipeline GUEST COLUMN BY WILLIAM SNOW

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t’s senior year for my classmates and me. A great deal of us, and many in years younger, are fretting over the future that looms past graduation. Rightly so: A vast wilderness of unknown twists and turns lies ahead, and no one knows exactly where it will lead, giving even the most headstrong among us some doubt.

It’s scary. The ultimate goal of “making it” — however that may look — is not guaranteed.

That’s something that weighs on me, as I’m sure it does many others.

But what has deeply frustrated me recently is this: Most of the best and the brightest people I’ve had the extreme privilege of knowing in our time here have wandered away from their hopes and dreams of making the world a better place in exchange for the certainty of what Penn’s toxic culture defines as “success.”

Frustrating as it is, I find myself unable to blame them completely. For international students hoping to stay in the United States after graduation, large multinational firms are sometimes the only companies to sponsor H-1B visas.

The world’s largest firms swoop onto campus every year and promise six-figure salaries as well as some vague notion of bettering the world through social impact — not to mention the certainty of steady employment many months before graduation even comes around. Especially for students with hefty loans or other large financial aid packag-

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es (of which I am one), the offer has to be enticing.

But what is it all for?

As former New York Times journalist, Henry Crown fellow of the Aspen Institute, and, yes, former McKinsey analyst Anand Giridharadas wrote in his new book, “Winners Take All,” the skills taught and values preached at large firms do not help employees leave the industry and make the world a better place. In fact, they often do the opposite.

“Do more good,” Giridharadas says, is the policy of firms’ philanthropy wings. Never do they say: “Do less harm.” He says they preach to give back, but never to give up the hegemony that stabilizes their place in the status quo that perpetuates

the problems they claim they seek to fix.

Firms like McKinsey and Goldman Sachs engage in so-

up for the gaping wounds in the society from which these same firms have generated astronomical profits.

Why are juniors and seniors spending 90 percent of their free time casing and networking and attending info sessions?” cial impact by mentoring women in private sector leadership or building hospital systems in developing countries. But we can’t act like those bandages make

Yet, because they offer students nearing the specter of graduation job security and hundreds of thousands of dollars, they continue to scalp the top tal-

ent that the American education system produces year after year.

The public sector and industries earnestly seeking a just and better world are robbed as a result.

Why are juniors and seniors spending 90 percent of their free time casing and networking and attending info sessions? Why aren’t we contemplating what we really want out of life, and how we can achieve it?

Why is it not expected of us to give back in greater ways than we do? So much has been given to us; so much should be required in turn.

Why doesn’t Penn make a more concerted effort to encourage more singular career paths, or to present clear alternatives to the on-campus recruiting that snaps up students so soon, whether they like it or -- as often happens -- not? Is Penn content with its degrees being marketed as a means to make oneself richer, rather than seeking selfenrichment?

Some of the classmates I’m proudest of are those doing Teach For America, or postgraduate fellowships, or working abroad with refugees. They might not be affecting the world on a macro-level — at least not immediately — but they will be picking up the necessary experience to do so in the long run, should they choose. In the meantime, they’ll be doing work that would allow even the most restless insomniac to sleep at night.

I won’t be quite as noble, but next May I plan to take to the campaign trail and work on be-

WILLIAM SNOW half of people and causes that I believe will make the world a better place. Sure, I’ll hopefully end up in law school one day, but it’s more important for me to make an impact in the real world while I can.

It requires a high level of idealism to think one Penn grad can make a difference in the grand scheme of things. Many might say it requires a high level of naivete.

But consider this: Penn has produced an eye-popping number of CEOs. Many of them are not known for admirable reasons.

Penn has produced one president. I need not say the same.

Penn’s alumni network has become notorious in recent years.

Its reputation won’t improve by adding more financial analysts to the system. That can only start when we step into the unknown bravely and confidently that we can do better.

WILLIAM SNOW is a College senior from Nashville Tenn. studying political science and communication. His email address is snow@thedp.com. He served as Senior Sports Editor of the 133rd Board of The Daily Pennsylvanian.

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Penn appoints the first-ever associate VPUL Sharon Smith assumed the position in June YONI GUTENMACHER Deputy News Editor

As the spring semester came to a close, Vice Provost for University Life Valarie Swain-Cade McCoullum had several new positions to fill. Just a few weeks earlier, the new position of chief operating officer of wellness had been announced and over the summer, the position of associate vice provost for student affairs also had vacated. McCoullum found herself helping cover for both positions, while simultaneously leading all of VPUL. McCoullum recounted that Penn

President Amy Gutmann and Provost Wendell Pritchett reached out to her.

“At some point, the president and the provost said ‘Val! Is there anything we can do?’” McCoullum said. “And I thought it would be a terrific idea to put in someone who knew the 12 schools really, really well.”

McCoullum said it was clear to her who she would want as her second-in-command to help oversee University Life and to take on the brand new role in VPUL: Sharon Smith.

“All the deans were saying, ‘We have Sharon on speed dial,’” McCoullum said.

Smith has served as the director

of Student Intervention Services since the department launched in 2002 and now has officially become the first associate vice provost for University Life this past June. Now, she will work side-by-side with McCoullum on everything from generating new wellness projects to supporting first-generation, lowincome students on campus — two initiatives VPUL has focused on promoting in recent months.

In her new role, Smith will still directly oversee SIS, the department tasked with handling all emergencies related to students in the community. In the past few years, the high number of student deaths, many by suicide, has made Smith’s old job leading SIS even more

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Sharon Smith has served as the director of Student Intervention Services since the department launched in 2002 and will now work side-by-side with current Vice Provost for University Life Valarie Swain-Cade McCollum.

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Smith’s new role is also a part of an overall effort to organize the various departments under VPUL as new positions are created. The vice provost for University Life is the vice provost most relevant to students, as the position oversees departments that fall into categories of wellness, equity and access, student affairs, administrative and financial affairs, and communications.

Departments ranging from Student Health Services and Technology Services to the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life and the LGBT Center are housed in VPUL. Smith first began working at Penn more than 30 years ago in 1987. Since then, she has led New Student Orientation, the first-generation, low-income student support

group known as PENNCAP, and other projects in VPUL. “I’m really very honored to step up and be a part of the changes, the vision that are taking place here,” Smith said.

Most specifically, she spoke about VPUL’s recent consolidation of all wellness-related organizations, forming one new branch which falls under the leadership of newly appointed Chief Wellness Officer Benoit Dubé, a psychiatry professor.

“I’m really excited about the coordination between Student Intervention Services, my office, and CAPS,” she said. “I’m looking forward to how they’re grouped together [with] new initiatives and existing programs.”

Lauren Rudick, the former SIS associate director, began serving as the interim director of SIS over the summer.

Smith plans on meeting with

student leaders and groups over the next few months to get a sense of what student life on campus needs most right now.

“I think students need to have a direction, a place where they can go, where they can talk and present ideas and know that those ideas will be taken seriously,” Smith said.

Smith will also act as the interim senior associate vice provost for Student Affairs, overseeing departments like Career Services, Civic House, and the Penn Tutoring Center. McCoullum noted that VPUL is actively looking to appoint a permanent director to the position.

VPUL currently has a number of leadership roles awaiting permanent appointments including the director of Penn’s Women Center, as well as three currently vacant roles: the executive director of Penn First Plus, chief operating officer of Wellness, and the executive director of Counseling and Psychological Services.

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Graduate students push for central diversity office The office would help to combat different issues AMY LIU Deputy News Editor

Graduate students have spent more than a year campaigning for a central diversity office, and they only plan to continue pushing forward this semester. In the face of slow progress, student leaders said they intend to expand their support base by engaging undergraduate students and finding further evidence to support the need for this office at Penn.

Helmed by the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, the campaign first began in February 2017 when the group voted unanimously to establish an office with full-time staff to help “underrepresented students” at Penn. The same resolution, which was drafted by GAPSA’s Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Access and Leadership Council, included a call for an online bias reporting form, which was successfully imple-

mented this semester.

Betsy Sneller, former GAPSA Equity and Access chair, who graduated with a Ph.D. in linguistics in 2018, said the yearlong campaign for this office has been a “grassroots push” from students and faculty and has been met with “a much slower process within the administration.”

“It took quite a long time and quite a lot of conversations for [this need] to be seen [by the administration],” Sneller said. “People have been asking for this for a very long time.”

In an October 2017 statement to The Daily Pennsylvanian, Joann Mitchell, Penn’s chief diversity officer and senior vice president for institutional affairs, wrote that the University had no plans to introduce a physical office. Earlier this year, she seemingly diverged from her original position, indicating that Penn had begun researching the feasibility of a central diversity office.

GAPSA leaders said they met with an equity and diversity consultant hired by the Uni-

versity to assess the need for a centralized office in April, but have yet to hear back from the results of this review.

IDEAL Council Chair Francisco Saldaña, who is pursuing a master’s degree in nanotechnology, noted that since the initial meeting with the consultant, he has not received additional information on the process from Mitchell or the consultant.

“I think that both transparency and communication need to be better structured,” he said.

University spokesman Steve MacCarthy said Mitchell was not immediately available for comment.

GAPSA leaders argue that the implementation of a central diversity office would help to combat a number of issues like decentralization across Penn’s 12 schools.

“Many people don’t know their school has a diversity dean, and if they do any work related to diversity at all,” GAPSA President and sociology Ph.D. candidate Haley Pil-

grim said. “There are people who are theoretically in title to do the work, but would you be able to find them or interview them? You’d probably have a difficult time. So how would we expect the students to know?”

Saldaña agreed, adding that the office could provide better orientation and training for faculty and student leaders, budget resources across student diversity groups, and encourage accountability.

Pilgrim also noted that an office would promote more intersectionality on campus and help the cultural centers reach out to graduate students.

“There’s not a place on campus for people to learn if they want to be allies, there’s not a place on campus for white folks when they see bias go on with their coworkers or colleagues,” she said. “It’s a resource for everyone on this campus in a way we don’t currently have. The cultural centers are great resources, but in terms of intersectionality, a CDO would be much more

PHOTO FROM HALEY PILGRIM

GAPSA’s Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Access and Leadership (IDEAL) Council’s advocacy committee plans to continue to push for the office.

helpful.”

Moving forward, IDEAL’s advocacy committee plans to push for the office by partnering with undergraduate students through various events.

They also plan to present data to the Office of the Provost, showing how central diversity offices have proved effective in other Ivy Leagues and peer institutions.

NYU medical school is first top-rated school to go tuition-free The decision was announced on Aug. 16 AMANPREET SINGH Contributing Reporter

The New York University School of Medicine has become the first top 10-ranked medical school to make tuition free for all students regardless of financial need. The decision was announced on Aug. 16 at the annual “White Coat Ceremony” hosted for new students and families.

Penn Medicine has yet to take such drastic steps to alleviate the cost of tuition, but Perelman Senior Vice Dean for Medical Education Suzanne Rose assured students that the University is still working to address “the rising cost of medical education.” The average debt of Perelman graduates in 2017 was $119,000, Rose said, adding that was lower than the median debt reported by AAMC. NYU has been raising funds for 11 years to raise over $450 million for tuition, Business Insider reported. The school esti-

mates that it will need a $600 million endowment to cover tuition in perpetuity.

NYU set medical school tuition at $55,018 for the 20182019 academic year, which is now fully covered by the university. Medical students will now only be responsible for fees like housing and books, which can add up to about $28,000 per year. Before, students would pay the fees in addition to tuition.

In nation-wide Association of American Medical Colleges surveys, 75 percent of 2017 graduates reported that they had medical school debt, with a median debt of $180,000. A growing number of medical schools are seeking to alleviate this burden on students.

Well-known Penn donors Roy and Diana Vagelos donated $250 million last year to Columbia University’s Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, and the school this year announced plans to grant fulltuition scholarships for those with greatest financial need and eliminate loans for others. On

the west coast, UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine covers the entire cost of attendance for the 20 percent of students that receive merit scholarships.

Rose, a 1977 College graduate and 1978 Graduate School of Education graduate, said the school is working on expanding financial aid through partnerships with alumni and donors. She did not comment on whether Perelman will consider incentives like NYU’s decision to go tuition-free or Columbia’s loan-free policy.

2017 College graduate Edward Gomes said he considered both the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine and the NYU School of Medicine before deciding on Perelman. He received $60,000 from Perelman, which virtually covered the $63,137 tuition.

But at the time, if he had wanted to attend NYU, he would need $20,000 in loans to cover the tuition and other living expenses, he said.

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2016 College graduate Ipsita Subudhi will enter an M.D./ Ph.D. program at NYU’s medical school this fall. While her tuition is already covered by the National Institute of Health, she said she thinks this policy for the M.D. program is positive but “slightly overdue.”

Subudhi believes students will now be able to “pursue things that are meaningful to them” instead of “grappling” with debt.

NYU administrators hopes that this decision will allow

students to pursue their passions rather than hunt for jobs in lucrative fields, Fortune reported. Increasing tuition and loan debts are contributing to a shortage of researchers and primary care physicians. The AAMC predicts that fields related to American health care needs, like primary care physicians, will face a shortage of 42,600 to 121,300 physicians by 2030.

Rafael Rivera, NYU School of Medicine’s associate dean for Admission and Financial Aid, said to the Wall Street Journal that reducing debt for students was a “moral imperative.”

Gomes and Subudhi expect that NYU’s announcement will encourage other schools to increase financial aid efforts.

Gomes thinks other top medical schools will become more competitive as NYU’s decision could “push them to be more generous with their financial aid, if not go tuition-free.”

“A lot of top med. schools have the opportunity to do something like this,” Subudhi said. “Maybe seeing NYU and seeing how they have gone on to make this happen will encourage them to look more closely at their own schools and how they can also better serve their students.”

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M. SOCCER | Penn ties Drexel in Battle for 33rd St. TEIA ROSS Sports Reporter

Soccer’s version of the Battle of 33rd Street ended in a stalemate.

After 110 minutes of pushing and pulling from both sides, neither Penn men’s soccer nor Drexel managed a goal in a 0-0 tie.

As one would expect of a neighborhood derby, the competition included spurts of dominance from either side. The Dragons (3-0-1) appeared to take control of the match early on, but it was the Quakers (1-0-1) who came away with eight shots, compared to Drexel’s two, in the first half.

Much of that performance came towards the end of the half, when the Red and Blue won a series of corners but failed to apply the finish.

Despite the scoreline, the Quakers were not without their chances. In the 51st minute, freshman midfielder Ben Stitz hit the

crossbar, and followed his shot by heading the rebound on right at Drexel goalkeeper Stephen Kopsachilis. Sophomore defender RC Williams found the woodwork a few minutes later.

Senior Scott Forbes finished with four saves in a strong performance in net, including two dramatic stops in the last two minutes of play to salvage the draw. “When you get to that point, it’s one goal [and] it’s over so you try to do everything you can to give the team the chance to win,�

Forbes said. “Unfortunately, we didn’t pull it off today, but I mean I think it was a good performance all around.�

Despite his team’s inability to finish in front of goal, first-year coach Brian Gill took away several positives from the draw. “With these games, like a crosstown rivalry like this, there’s a lot of hype and expectation going into [it],� Gill said. “Even though we didn’t score tonight, I think we’re taking steps as a team. The shape of the team is taking place, so we’re starting to see who’s going to do what.

“Scott had to make some pretty important saves for us in the second half of overtime. [midfielder Brandon] Bartel’s just doing a lot of the dirty work which is really important, and I just want to see us continue with our front guys to have the confidence to go and try to score goals against good teams.�

Some of these front guys include freshmen Isaac McGinnis, Anthony Rovito and Ben Stitz, along with sophomores Alex Touche, Joey Bhangdia, Jake Kohlbrenner. Both Touche and Kohlbrenner were named SecondTeam All-Ivy last year, combining for four goals. Bhangdia is returning from an injury suffered last year and is already making an impact on the field. “I thought the young guys really did well today and showed a lot of maturity for them to come in and step up for the team, so I’m excited for the year,� Bartel said.

The Quakers will have only three days to prepare for their next test, a visit to undefeated Big East foe Marquette (2-0) in Milwaukee on Friday.

14 of Penn’s 30 players come from Golden State SAM MITCHELL Associate Sports Editor

Students from all around the world travel to Penn to study in Philadelphia and carve out a home away from home. For some members of the women’s soccer team, though, a little bit of home has followed them here.

Coach Nicole Van Dyke and the Quakers began their season in August, marking the start of her fourth season with the team.

When she took over in 2015, the team was full of recruits brought in by the previous coaching staff, but now she’s had the opportunity to make the team her own.

Part of how she’s been able to do that has been through her strong personal and athletic connection to the state of California. “Originally when I took over the program, it was so late that junior class were all kids that we had relationships with ‌ and that we had known from the area, and we kind of just continued that trend,â€? Van Dyke said. “California’s a really big state, and it’s known as being a hotbed for women’s soccer. So we try to just use those relationships and find the top talent that we can bring to Penn.â€?

Van Dyke grew up in the Golden State and held several coaching jobs there before traveling east to lead the program at Penn. Most recently, she was an assistant coach at Stanford, where she helped guide the Cardinal to three NCAA College Cup berths and contributed to bringing in the No. 1 ranked recruiting class in the country in 2015.

Although Penn women’s soc-

cer isn’t historically as strong of a program as Stanford, Van Dyke’s priorities didn’t change when she switched from the Pac-12 to the Ivy League. She still wanted the best players possible, scouting national teams and elite clubs around the country. The best soccer players can come from anywhere, but a big part of recruiting is relationships. “We just have relationships with club coaches and people that you trust, and so it just continues on from there,� Van Dyke said. “When I was at Cal State Bakersfield, we recruited a lot of Southern California kids and so [I] still have relationships with a lot of those club coaches.�

The team as a whole has 14 players from California and 16 from the rest of the world combined. The new freshman class is split almost down the middle: four from California and three not.

This culture permeates even further into the team’s DNA. Like many college coaches, Van Dyke had the opportunity to bring players and coaches she’d worked with in the past onto her staff at Penn. It should come as no surprise, then, that someone who has spent so long coaching on the west coast has a lot of connections out there.

Assistant coach Lizzy Johnson comes to Penn after coaching youth soccer in NorCal for six years, although her alma mater is Vanderbilt. Assistant coach Melissa Phillips’ connection runs even deeper – she played for Van Dyke at Cal State Stanislaus, coached under her at Cal State Bakersfield, and assumed the head coaching position at Cal State Bakersfield when Van Dyke left for Stanford.

Now, they’re all in Philadelphia, and they know a thing or two about making the long trip.

“It’s always hard to leave home, especially when it’s 3,000 miles away,� senior captain and Burbank native Camillia Nwokedi said. “Philly has really become like a home away from home, and because we do have so many girls from California, it’s really our priority to make sure freshmen don’t have to worry about taking out the gear that they’re worried about getting settled in their classes and that we’re showing them the ropes.�

However, don’t make the mistake of thinking every last player on the Red and Blue was born by the sandy beaches of Los Angeles or the foggy bay of San Francisco.

For some, going home for break is just a SEPTA ride away.

Penn is fortunate that it has the resources to recruit a team from all corners of the world, and the women’s soccer program knows that it can’t just build a team from a single state. Not only does looking far and wide for soccer players ensure that the coaches can build the strongest team possible, but it also introduces different perspectives and key diversity that helps teams promote a positive culture and mindset. “We always look locally, always try to get the top players to stay in the Philadelphia area, and I think now we’ve branched out a little more south,� Van Dyke said. “We try to obviously make it eclectic and recruit from all over the country, but I still think occasionally you have to have one or two or three kids from California coming in, and I’m sure that will probably continue on.�

The team doesn’t have any away games in California this season, but when it eventually does make the trek out west, its hosts had better be prepared, because the Quakers will be home.

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Senior goalkeeper Scott Forbes, who has a total of 10 saves on the year, made two huge stops during overtime to keep the Quakers level in Tuesday’s game versus Drexel.

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While Qu was looking at colleges for soccer, she fell in love with Penn and the program. She abruptly cut short her prospective visits just after her trip to Philadelphia, certain she had found the perfect match. “She came out to Penn and she was originally scheduled to go to Columbia after she met with us, but she called me that night after her visit and said, ‘I’m not going to Columbia. I want to come to Penn,’� Van Dyke recalled.

It was not just the quality of the

program that attracted Qu, but the spirit of the team and how close everyone was with each other. “The camaraderie is one of the things that stands out a lot to me,� she said. “I live with basically my entire class, and soccer is fun, but it’s even more fun when you’re doing it with your best friends.�

If there’s one thing about Qu that has changed since her time as a freshman, it’s her will to be a leader on and off the field.

As one of the team’s youngest members a few years ago, it was difficult to have the commanding presence she has today. As she got older, Qu has stepped into more of

a powerful role on the team. “Where I’m the most proud is her leadership skills; she’s not a natural, outspoken person,� Van Dyke said. “But we had a conversation in the spring where she said, ‘Help me with those leadership moments if I don’t recognize them,’ and we’ve done that.�

A reliable force between the goalposts, Kitty Qu has only changed Penn women’s soccer for the better since her arrival on campus two years ago. Many would have faltered after being thrown into the spotlight right away, but for Qu, it was a sign of the greatness to come.

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Ranking the top Ivy League teams of this decade SPORTS | Multiple Ivy teams have won national titles COLE JACOBSON Senior Sports Reporter

Over the past few weeks, our studies of the Ivy League’s recent athletic history have ranged from which schools had the best athletic programs to which individual teams had the best 10-year runs. However, there’s one natural question that pops up from that last one: even if we know which teams were the best over a decade-long span, which teams actually had the most impressive individual years?

In this article, we explore the regular season and postseason runs that have truly been the most spectacular across the Ancient Eight. The Ivy League has more than its fair share of national championships, but how do you compare a deep playoff run in a sport dominated by powerconference teams like basketball or soccer to a title in an Ivydominated sport like squash or rowing? Find our answers to that question below.

No. 10 — Columbia baseball, 2015 At first glance, only finishing as one of the nation’s 32 best teams may seem like nothing special.

But in baseball, the Ivy League is supposed to be a pushover once the postseason rolls around. In fact, the 2015 Lions are the only team to win three games in a single NCAA Tournament since Harvard made it to the College World Series in 1974. The most impressive of Columbia’s postseason wins was a 3-0 defeat of regional No. 1 seed Miami in the first game of the Regional Final, where freshman starter Bryce Barr helped shut out the Hurricanes for the only time all season. This incredible run came after Columbia nearly missed the NCAA’s, needing to beat fellow 16-4 Ivy finisher Penn in a onegame playoff.

No. 9 — Brown women’s rowing, 2011 Rowing is often stereotyped as a very “Ivy League” sport, and for the men’s side it’s true. But NCAA women’s rowing actually hasn’t seen a national champion come from outside the ACC, Big Ten, or Pac-12 since the Bears pulled off the feat seven years ago. This was no Cinderella run, but the end of a dynasty. Brown’s title was its seventh in a 13-year span, which still stands as the most championships for any women’s rowing team.

No. 8 — Cornell wrestling, 2011-2012 What makes this Cornell team any more special than the teams of 2011 and 2010, which each finished in second place nationally, tied for the best-ever finish for an Ivy wrestling team? Even though it resulted in a lower national finish, the 2012 edition of Cornell wrestling had something no other Ivy team has ever had in the sport: three individual national champs. The most notable of the three was then-junior Kyle Dake at 157 pounds, who proceeded to become the only NCAA wrestler

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tween academics and D-I soccer is what made Penn so attractive,” she said. “You don’t find this very often. The opportunity to study at an Ivy League school while playing the highest level of soccer is just unmatched.”

Three games into this season, the Quakers are 2-1. Despite the tight loss to No. 13 North Caro-

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unmatched”, senior forward Sasha Stephens said. “I don’t think any other team can match the way we get along with each other on the field. We have excellent chemistry on the field and that’s all conducive to finding great success.”

The Quakers’ early season slate has been highlighted by junior goalkeeper Kitty Qu. Qu now has two shutouts through three games with eight saves on the season, continuing her excel-

ever to win four national titles in four different weight classes after finishing off the four-peat in 2013. The other two champions were first-time winners in Steve Bosak at 184 and Cam Simaz at 197.

No. 7 — Cornell men’s basketball, 2009-2010 The Ivy League isn’t supposed to compete with the best of the best in the nation’s premier sports, but this Cornell squad was different. Led by current Penn coach Steve Donahue, Cornell’s 27-4 regular season was impressive even during its rare losses, such as a thrilling 71-66 defeat on the road against then-No. 1 Kansas. But it was in the postseason where the real magic happened.

Donahue’s team, as a No. 12 seed, took down No. 5 seed Temple and No. 4 Wisconsin by a combined 33 points, before finally falling to a Kentucky squad featuring John Wall, Patrick Patterson, DeMarcus Cousins, and Eric Bledsoe.

Cornell was the first Ivy team to win multiple March Madness games since 1979, when Penn faced off against a Magic Johnson-led Michigan State team in the final four.

No. 6 — Princeton women’s soccer, 2017 Like in men’s basketball, Ivies just aren’t supposed to hang with top-tier teams in women’s soccer. In the past 10 years, the Ivy League has combined to win six NCAA Tournament games. Five of those six are from Princeton.

Three of those five came in 2017, after an impressive regular season in which the Tigers beat two top-20 teams. In the Round of 32, Princeton needed penalty kicks to get by No. 21 NC State, and then it stunned No. 2 UNC in extra time in the Round of 16. The Tigers still stand as the second furthest-advancing Ivy team in any of the nine sports with a 64team playoff bracket, behind only 2004 Princeton women’s soccer’s run to the Final Four.

No. 5 — Harvard women’s squash, 2017-2018 When a team has won seven national titles in the past 10 years, what makes any single one of them that special? The 2018 version of Harvard women’s squash wasn’t just the country’s best team — it was the country’s best team by a historic margin. Going 15-0 in team competition, the Crimson went a ridiculous 131-4 in individual matches, with their closest margin of victory being 8-1. Incredibly, Harvard swept the entire postseason with three straight 9-0 wins against the other best teams in the country. Harvard was likely the best college women’s squash team in history, and the scariest part is that next year’s team should be even better.

No. 4 — Princeton women’s basketball, 2014-2015 This is a case where the numbers should speak for themselves: 30-0 regular seasons don’t happen often for anyone, let alone Ivy League teams. But even after Princeton became the first Ivy men’s or women’s basketball team with a perfect regular season since Penn’s men in 1971, those numbers didn’t speak very loudly to the NCAA selection

committee. Princeton was given a No. 8 seed, despite the Tigers being ranked No. 13 in the AP and Coaches’ polls and No. 12 in RPI. It was the worst seed for any unbeaten men’s or women’s Division I team since 1998, and Princeton made national headlines due to its snub. But despite facing a far more difficult road than it deserved, it still became the first Ivy women’s team in 17 years to win an NCAA Tournament game.

No. 3 — Yale men’s lacrosse, 2018 Ivy League lacrosse has been nationally elite for a long time; in five of the past 10 seasons, an Ivy men’s program has at least made a national semifinal. But until Yale, none had put it together to win it all since 2001.

Led by Tewaaraton Award winner Ben Reeves, Yale dominated the Ancient Eight all year long and gained the national No. 3 seed entering the NCAA Tournament.

Once there, the Bulldogs picked it up even further. In the semifinals, Yale jumped out to a 7-0 lead en route to a surprising blowout of No. 2 Albany. And in the championship game, facing a Duke team that had won three titles in this decade alone, the Elis never trailed en route to their first-ever NCAA Championship.

No. 2 — Yale men’s ice hockey, 2012-2013 As far as Cinderella stories go, Yale’s got the best one of all. After a good but unspectacular regular season, the Bulldogs snuck into the 16-team NCAA Tournament as the No. 15 seed. The Bulldogs then upset No. 2 Minnesota in overtime in the first round — and that was just the start.

After another overtime win over No. 3 UMass Lowell in the semifinals, Yale faced a title match with in-state and fellow ECAC rival, No. 1 Quinnipiac. Despite being blown out in three regular season matchups, Yale triumphed when it mattered most, stunning Quinnipiac, 4-0, with three thirdperiod goals. Yale became the only men’s hockey team to ever beat each of the top three seeds in the same tournament, and stands as the lowest-seeded team to ever win the NCAA men’s hockey title.

No. 1 — Princeton field hockey, 2012 Princeton might not have the same “wow” factor that Yale ice hockey’s run had, but that’s simply because the Tigers were a juggernaut all season. Led by three players who would proceed to compete in the 2016 Olympics, the Tigers dominated their regular season, outscoring Ivy opponents 45-1 in seven games and earning the NCAA’s No. 2 overall seed. After handling business in its first three games, Princeton took on No. 1 UNC, winners of six national titles. Despite trailing 2-1 in the second half, Princeton took a lead on a penalty stroke with 10 minutes left and held on to bring home the title. Not only was Princeton the first team outside the ACC to win since 2001 — the Tigers made history by bringing home the Ivy League’s only field hockey national championship, ever.

lina State, the team is showing promise, both on offense and in the back line.

“We’re only a couple games in, but the chemistry we already have is apparent,” Woodard said. “We almost have as many goals as we had last year, so it’s clear that the team this year has that connection on the field.”

Woodard believes that this early success could be indicative of the rest of the season if the team

continues to learn from every game and practice. She and the rest of the squad have their sights set on a high mark.

“I see us going for an Ivy League championship,” Woodard said.

“Everyone is going to say that, but I really see it in this team. We learned a lot from the NC State game, and tough games like that are going to help us to keep growing throughout the season.”

lent play from last season.

The only major concern for the Red and Blue thus far has been slow starts to games. Penn has zero first half goals compared to six second half goals scored. Additionally, the Quakers have yet to concede a goal in the second half.

“We want to come out a little bit faster,” Van Dyke said. “If that can be the fifth gear in the second [half], and we can start the game hot, that’s what we’re looking to do.”

The next step for Penn will be to continue to improve on this

start each and every week in preparation for Ivy League play.

“Every year we hope [for] an Ivy League championship, and that’s the only place I see us [going],” Stephens said. “We can just strap in, hold on, and see how we handle the season.”

The last time the Quakers hoisted the Ivy League trophy was in 2010.

However, with more reliable scoring and a solid defense anchored by one of the nations best goalies, this could be the year Penn breaks their championship dry spell.

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10 goals in 16 games.

Those numbers paint the picture of how much Penn women’s soccer struggled to find the back of the net last season, resulting in a pedestrian 5-8-3 record and a 5th-place finish in the Ivy League.

But this year is different — or at least seems different so far.

The Red and Blue have already tallied six goals through three games. On pace to score 32 goals this season, the Quakers (2-1-0, 0-0 Ivy) look primed to shatter their previous amount from last season.

“The players are pushing the level, increasing the competitiveness, the determination, the resilience. From that, I think we’re in a great place,” coach Nicole Van Dyke said. “Where we finish in the spring is where we want to start off and people got better this summer. It’s putting it all together.”

Through three games so far, Penn has played a new brand of soccer. This year is Van Dyke’s first year with a lineup comprised entirely of players she recruited. She believes the combination of new players and returning leadership gives this Penn squad the unique opportunity to try new systems and play multiple styles on the pitch.

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Junior goalkeeper Kitty Qu gives Penn a wall between the pipes

Transfer from the SEC makes instant impact for Quakers

Qu has given up just 18 goals in 33 games for Penn

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Twelve minutes into the 2016 Penn women’s soccer season.

That’s all it took for Maryland to send two quick goals past the Red and Blue’s (2-1-0) thensenior starting goalkeeper Carrie Crook before then-freshman Kitty Qu got her break and never looked back.

Now a junior, Qu has been a brick wall in goal for the Quakers ever since that day over two years ago, starting in every game

the team has played while garnering conference-wide awards and attention from across the country.

Giving up only 18 goals in 33 total games played, the California native averages just under one goal allowed every two games. Additionally, Qu topped the Ivy League in save percentage last season at 0.890, which was good for seventh among all NCAA Division I goalies and second all-time in the program’s history.

The impressive stats behind her certainly help, but that’s not what Qu concentrates on.

“I actually didn’t know that until the end of the season,” she

said. “It gives you confidence, but it’s not something you really think about because you want to focus on the team.”

While Qu has been the starting goalie for a few seasons, she is constantly motivated to play at her best by her backups, senior Kiera Towell and sophomore Ashley Gabor.

“She’s being pushed by two great goalkeepers,” Van Dyke said. “Kira and Ashley can play on a lot of different teams in the country, but they choose to be here at Penn, and every day they make our forwards better and they make Kitty better.”

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Penn women’s soccer is just three games into its 2018 season, but sophomore transfer Breukelen Woodard is already making her mark on the program.

The midfielder, who played her freshman year at South Carolina, already has a goal, an assist, and 239 minutes of playing time under her belt with the Quakers.

Clearly, Woodard is adjusting

well to both personal life and soccer in Philadelphia.

“Overall, it’s been a great experience. This has been my dream school since high school, and I wasn’t able to get in to Penn the first time around,” Woodard said. “So I took a year at South Carolina and then Coach Nicole [Van Dyke] presented me with another opportunity that I knew I had to take right away.

“Everyone has been really sweet to me on the team. Teammates are introducing me to their friends and now I feel like I know plenty of people on campus.”

Woodard’s reason for transferring was partially about the

role she wanted to play as a leader on the pitch. At Penn, she has quickly found that age does not hinder her ability to lead.

“That’s one of the things I’ve loved so far about being here. I feel like I’m more valued here and I got to come in as a leader,” Woodard said. “At South Carolina, I was pushed to the bottom of the totem pole. Here, anyone can be a leader. It just depends on whether you are able to step up or not.”

From an academic standpoint, Woodard could not resist the Ivy League allure.

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