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University lifts hold on former Rhodes Scholar’s master’s degree The decision follows widespread public outcry regarding Penn’s handling of Fierceton’s investigation TORI SOUSA Senior Reporter

Penn has released its hold on a master of social work degree from Mackenzie Fierceton — the former Rhodes Scholarship recipient who filed a lawsuit against the University following its investigation into allegations that she falsified her status as a first-generation, low-income student and survivor of abuse.

University spokesperson Ron Ozio told The Daily Pennsylvanian on April 12 that School of Social Policy & Practice Dean Sara Bachman instructed the registrar to release the hold on Fierceton’s master’s degree. Ozio wrote that this decision was made following “a careful review of all materials, and considering the recommendations made to Dean Bachman by two SP2 faculty committees.”

Ozio declined to specify what the specific sanctions recommended by the SP2 faculty committees were, or which faculty members make up the committee.

Fierceton told the DP that she was first informed of Bachman’s decision to release the hold on her degree on Monday. She added that, while she will no longer be required to write a letter of apology, it is to her understanding that she will still have a “permanent mark” on her transcript.

“This was a very sudden and unexpected development, and I believe it is a result of the widespread public outcry and fierce organizing by students, faculty, the local community, and well-known advocates, as well as my refusal to issue an apology,” Fierceton wrote in a statement sent to the DP. Fierceton cited a recent open letter written by SP2 students and alumni regarding Fierceton’s situation, which was sent via email to a number of Penn administrators within SP2. The letter called for a See DEGREE, page 2

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The tenured Penn Law professor appeared on “Tucker Carlson Today” on April 8, 2022.

Amy Wax repeats racist rhetoric on national television amid ongoing University investigation

In an interview with Tucker Carlson, Wax claimed that Black Americans and “nonWestern groups” are resentful toward “Western people” JARED MITOVICH Senior Reporter

Tenured Penn Law professor Amy Wax — who is currently under a faculty investigation for her “increasing” promotion of white supremacy — reignited controversy, claiming that Black Americans and “non-Western groups” are resentful toward “Western people.”

In an April 8 interview with Fox News television personality Tucker Carlson on his show “Tucker Carlson Today,” Wax also criticized Indian immigrants to the United States for judging and expressing disapproval of the United States She claimed that she believes “at some level, their country is a shithole.”

“I think there is just a tremendous amount of resentment and shame of non-Western peoples against Western peoples for Western people’s outsized See WAX, page 2

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Penn community rallies in support of Mackenzie Fierceton Protesters demand Penn release list of faculty review members, remove sanction on Fierceton’s transcript KATE RATNER Staff Reporter

Approximately 150 members of the Penn community gathered at a campuswide walkout and rally outside of the School of Social Policy & Practice building today to stand in solidarity with Mackenzie Fierceton and other first-generation, low-income students and survivors of abuse.

The walkout — which took place from 10:45 a.m.

to 12 p.m. — was held in response to Fierceton’s two-year-long conflict with University administrators who questioned her status as a FGLI student and survivor of sexual abuse. On April 12, Penn released its hold on Fierceton’s master of social work degree from SP2.

At the walkout, protest organizers voiced several

demands for Penn’s administration and demanded a formal apology to Fierceton and other survivors of abuse at Penn. They also called for the removal of the permanent sanction on Fierceton’s transcript, the release of the faculty panel members who questioned See RALLY and her INTERVIEW, page 6

Penn tells students with COVID-19 to isolate in place as isolation housing nears capacity Penn is preparing an isolation housing portfolio expansion by using additional University-owned properties and apartments JONAH MILLER Senior Reporter

Penn will now require students with COVID-19 living on campus to isolate in place as designated University isolation housing approaches capacity.

In a Wednesday afternoon email to the Penn community, Chief Wellness Officer Benoit Dubé wrote that the arrangement is being conducted “under the supervision of” the University’s public security team. The announcement came hours after the University announced a return of indoor masking starting April 18.

Executive Director for Public Health and Wellbeing Ashlee Halbritter told The Daily Pennsylvanian that Penn is preparing an isolation housing portfolio expansion by using additional University-owned properties and apartments.

She added that the University is also currently utilizing rooms at The Mason on Chestnut Apartments and Axis Apartments as isolation spaces, and will continue to do so through the end of the academic year.

“The challenge now is simply that the case numbers are so high that even as we continue to find isolation space, it’s never going to be enough,” Halbritter said. “At least until we hit our peak and start on the downward trend.”

Chief Operating Officer for Wellness Services Erika Gross said that although Penn owns the

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Sheraton University City Hotel, the facility will not be converted into isolation housing to honor current visitors’ existing room reservations.

“There’s still a lot of people coming to campus, and the Sheraton is being used as a hotel,” Gross said, adding that when the Sheraton was being used as an isolation space for students earlier in the spring semester, there were no outside visitors.

Halbritter said the uptick in positive cases came from socialization during events held over Spring Fling. The environment of “continued partying and gathering” has exacerbated the COVID-19 case counts.

Students in college housing who have a roommate that tests positive for COVID-19 will have to isolate in place depending on their vaccination status.

If the student doesn’t test positive and is up-todate with COVID-19 vaccinations — which the University describes as being both fully vaccinated and boosted — they will not have to isolate and may continue living in the shared living space, while also attending classes and participating in University activities.

If the student is not up-to-date with COVID-19 See HOUSING, page 7

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Penn reinstates indoor mask mandate as COVID-19 cases surge on campus

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shorter period of time and that the University needs to be responsive to the changing data.

On-campus cases reflect rising positivity across Philadelphia County, which is now averaging 142 cases per day as of April 11. At Penn, a total of 385 community members tested positive for COVID-19 during the week from April 3 to April 9 — up 113 from the week before. Undergraduates comprised a majority of the new cases, with 214 positive tests.

According to research conducted by Penn Medicine in collaboration with Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and the the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, the BA.2 Omicron subvariant has become the dominant strain of COVID-19 found across the Delaware River Valley in recent weeks.

“We’ve known all along that BA.2 is far more transmissible, and I think we’re just seeing people engaging in normal social interactions, in close proximity to one another indoors, where food and drink are being shared,” Dubé said. “That’s the trifecta — the perfect conditions for people to be exposed and possibly infected.”

Dubé clarified that current on-campus cases have been mostly ones with mild symptoms.

“While there may be more people becoming infected, people are not more sick or more likely to become hospitalized,” Dubé said. “That’s a good sign.”

The citywide announcement was made during a press conference Monday afternoon by the Philadelphia Department of Public Health. The mandate will start to be enforced by the City on April 18 to give businesses a one-week “educational period” to adjust to the policy change.

Philadelphia Health Commissioner Cheryl Bettigole said that she hopes employers will utilize the one-week buffer time to notify staff and patrons about the reintroduced mask mandate.

“We hope that by having folks mask up whenever they’re in public indoor spaces, we can get ahead of the wave and keep it from reaching a peak like we saw in January with the Omicron variant,” Bettigole said.

“If we can do that, we can literally save the lives of vulnerable Philadelphians.”

Executive Director for Public Health and Wellbeing Ashlee Halbritter said that improving weather allows for more opportunities for students to take advantage of outdoor activities, where community members do not have to wear masks.

“This can be an opportunity to keep us all healthy as we try to finish out the semester,” Halbritter said, adding that at the end of the fall semester, the rise of the Omicron variant made many students sick — forcing them to potentially miss exams and deadlines.

achievements and contributions. I mean, it’s really unbearable,” Wax said in the interview. “I was actually, leaving aside American Blacks, who I think do feel that resentment and shame and envy, I mean it’s this unholy brew of sentiments.”

Penn Law Dean Ted Ruger and Penn Law spokesperson Meredith Rovine wrote to The Daily Pennsylvanian on April 11 that they will withhold public comment on the controversy until the faculty review process of Wax has concluded, in adherence to University policy.

Wax and Carlson also spoke about her December interview with Brown University professor Glenn Loury, where she ignited a national online firestorm by claiming that “the United States is better off with fewer Asians and less Asian immigration.”

Four weeks after those racist remarks, which she doubled down on in January, Ruger announced a formal faculty investigation to determine whether Wax’s public conduct has impacted her classroom teaching.

Ruger wrote in a Jan. 18 statement that Wax’s conduct has led to multiple complaints from University community members since at least 2017, which have cited Wax’s comments as a “cumulative and increasing” promotion of white supremacy.

Wax reiterated to Carlson that Asian, South Asian, and Indian doctors at Penn Medicine are “on the ramparts” of what she claimed are antiracism initiatives that denounce the United States as a racist country.

Penn Law third year Apratim Vidyarthi, a lead student organizer of efforts to have the University hold Wax accountable, said that Wax’s and Carlson’s recent remarks were “really upsetting” and contribute to a narrative that Black Americans and immigrants do not belong in the United States.

According to University policy, once a complaint against Wax is submitted to the Faculty Senate, the Senate will decide whether to hold a trial, where evidence against Wax would be presented and a panel of five faculty members would ultimately vote on whether to sanction Wax.

her FGLI identity on her application to Penn’s SP2.

Fierceton was initially also required to pay a $4,000 fine, a disciplinary action that was later withdrawn due to a regulation in the University’s charter that prohibits the imposition of financial restitution in cases concerning academic integrity, according to The New Yorker.

“My understanding is that the letter was intended to be a letter of apology for broadly misrepresenting myself. I feel very strongly that the only people who deserve an apology are the survivors of abuse and other FGLI students — period. So that’s how I feel about that,” Fierceton told the DP on April 7.

Penn First Plus, the University’s office for FGLI students on campus, defines “FGLI” broadly. Firstgeneration students, according to P1P’s website, could also include students whose parents did not attend an institution comparable to the “resources

and opportunities a Penn education provides.” It could also include students who have a “strained or limited relationship” with parents who hold degrees from institutions of higher education.

In the lawsuit filed on Dec. 21, Fierceton alleged that Penn is unjustly withholding her degree, as well as discrediting details about her upbringing.

After The Philadelphia Inquirer profiled Fierceton in November 2020 when she was awarded the Rhodes Scholarship, Penn and the Rhodes Trust received anonymous tips suggesting Fierceton had been dishonest about aspects of her past on her application.

Penn and the Rhodes Trust both launched separate investigations regarding Fierceton’s undergraduate and scholarship applications detailing her alleged experiences of abuse.

The University claimed that Fierceton’s narrative was “replete with falsities, including but not limited

to a fictitious account of abuse by her mother” in its legal response to Fierceton’s complaint issued earlier this month.

Fierceton previously told The Chronicle of Higher Education that she was questioned by administrators about her mother’s profession, family income, and foster history. She said that her mother pushed her down a flight of stairs in their home in 2014, which she testified about in a court hearing five years later.

That incident and other events that took place in her household, which she described as “physically, mentally & emotionally lethal,” placed Fierceton in foster care at the age of 17.

A campuswide walkout organized by students to support Fierceton — which aims to bring students together to stand in solidarity with survivors of abuse and FGLI students — took place on April 13 at 10:45 a.m.

Chief Wellness Officer Benoit Dubé said that the decision to reinstall the indoor mask mandate is simply a “response to a trend” JONAH MILLER Senior Reporter

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After nearly one month of optional indoor masking, Penn has reinstated required masking for all indoor public and shared campus spaces. The mandate will take effect on April 18.

In a Wednesday afternoon email to the Penn community, Interim President Wendell Pritchett, Interim Provost Beth Winkelstein, Senior Executive Vice President Craig Carnaroli, and Executive Vice President for the Health System J. Larry Jameson wrote that the decision to reverse the mask mandate lift was implemented in alignment with revised guidance from the City of Philadelphia.

Exceptions to the masking requirement include single occupancy offices and shared spaces where six-foot distancing can be respected.

“We thank you for your great partnership in our ongoing efforts to sustain our shared health and safety,” the administrators wrote.

Chief Wellness Officer Benoit Dubé told The Daily Pennsylvanian that the decision to reinstall the indoor mask mandate is simply a “response to a trend.”

“The City has a much larger lens than we have here on our campus,” Dubé said, adding that indoor masking is a temporary response that is not forever. “We’re good at this. We’ve done it before, and it’ll stop the trend from continuing to increase.”

Dubé said it’s a “small sacrifice” for a slightly

DEGREE, from front page release of Fierceton’s master of social work degree, an introduction of policies to protect survivors experiencing disciplinary processes, and the disclosure of the names of the faculty members of the SP2 panels that reviewed Fierceton’s case.

The University’s decision to release her master of social work degree comes as Fierceton re-enters the center of a national conversation about Penn’s handling of the investigation, which was documented in an investigative piece published in The New Yorker on March 28.

Fierceton said she was originally told by administrators that her degree would not be granted unless she submitted a letter of apology for misrepresenting

Penn has reinstated indoor masking for all indoor campus spaces.

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Carson Sheumaker, Alex Eapen Quad and Stouffer renovations to include accessible entrances, elevators, elected president, vice president of Undergraduate Assembly and ramps Students have faced accessibility challenges in campus buildings, calling for renovations and support for disabled students SEJAL SANGANI Staff Reporter

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Scaffolding is seen around the Quad on April 6.

Upcoming renovations to Stouffer College House and the Quad will include the construction of new accessibility features in each of the dormitories.

Two elevators and a Limited-Use-Limited-Application lift — a hybrid between a commercial elevator and wheelchair lift — will be installed in the Quad, and Stouffer will become newly accessible with reconstructed entrances, elevators, and ramps in and out of the dorm, according to Director of Residential Services Pat Killillee. Other internal accessibility-related renovations to the Quad include making bathrooms compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act. The Quad’s $29.8 million renovation will take place over six summers through 2027, and Stouffer will be closed from this May until fall 2023 to complete its $200 million renovation. Penn previously announced renovations to the buildings in February 2021, but details regarding the accessibility upgrades were not included in that announcement.

The two elevators in the Quad will be located in Thomas Penn and Memorial Tower and the LULA elevator will be in Provost Tower. The elevator in Thomas Penn will provide access to floors one through four in Thomas Penn and Graduate, and the LULA elevator will provide access to the Provost Tower Quiet Study via Graduate, according to an April 8 email from Director of Communication and External Relations for the Division of Business Services Barbara Lea-Kruger.

Lea-Kruger did not indicate which areas of the Quad the elevator in Memorial Tower would access.

Changes in the Quad generally will not be made to student rooms or hallways, but the renovations will make sure public spaces are accessible and that the new elevators create more connectivity throughout the building, Killillee said.

Stouffer is not currently ADA-accessible. The entrance to the building is on a patio, which can be accessed only via a staircase, and there are no elevators inside the building. An elevator will be installed that will provide access from the ground level to the Stouffer Patio. This elevator will be located near the entrance to Stouffer Commons, Killillee said.

In addition to installing an elevator, the existing staircases in Stouffer will be converted to ramps, and a lift will be installed from the first floor lobby to the dorm’s second floor. Stouffer student rooms will receive accessible doors and bathrooms will be remodeled to be ADA-compliant. Spiral staircases in the lounges will also be removed, Killillee said.

“The Stouffer project will actually be much more significant [than the Quad renovations] and make the building actually accessible because it isn’t now,” Killillee said.

He added that the Quad’s historic architecture makes it harder to renovate and update than Stouffer.

“The Quad is challenging [to renovate] because it’s multiple buildings built over 70 years, and there’s elevation changes and structural changes in terms of con-

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struction,” Killillee said. “So you’ve got late-1800s to mid-1900s technology and construction that you have to contend with.”

College sophomore Ellie McKeown, who has EhlersDanlos syndrome and sometimes walks with a cane, said that she was glad to hear of the renovations.

“I deeply appreciate meeting the ADA, and I wish that every building could meet and go above and beyond what is required of campus buildings,” McKeown said.

College junior Kruti Desai, who has a physical disability and is the co-founder of Disability Advocacy @ Penn, echoed these sentiments. She pointed out how the renovations would allow first-year students with disabilities to live in the Quad.

“It’s definitely important because I know a lot of [first years] that want to live in the Quad because it’s so much part of the [first-year] experience, but then can’t live in the Quad because it’s definitely not an accessible dorm,” Desai said.

However, Desai expressed concern that accessible rooms would be limited to certain portions of the Quad, as only two elevators and one LULA lift are being installed, but the Quad is a large dorm.

McKeown expressed concern about the Stouffer renovation affecting the Stouffer Commons basement, which is currently the only accessible entrance to Platt Performing Arts House. McKeown is a member of Bloomers, which rehearses in Platt.

Killillee said that Stouffer Commons would be largely unaffected by Stouffer’s renovation, and accommodations will be provided for accessible entrance to Platt.

Both Desai and McKeown emphasized that while the renovations are a great start, there is still more work to be done.

Students have also faced accessibility challenges with other buildings around campus, calling for renovations and further support for disabled students.

Desai pointed out that accessible entrances are often in secondary locations at the side or back of buildings, and they don’t lead into the main lobby of the building.

“When you’re putting in ramps and railings and elevators … I think it’s important to keep them somewhere that is easily visible and locatable,” Desai said. “I wish [accessible entrances] were a little easier to locate.”

Desai added that she understands that renovating buildings that already have accessible entrances is a large project, but some buildings could benefit from an additional accessible entrance near the main entrance.

She also expressed the need for increased awareness around accessible entrances, and for PennAccess — a site providing accessibility maps of the University — to be updated and published more as a resource.

“You don’t need to actually renovate any of the buildings because they already have the ramps and elevators that they’re supposed to have. But they’re just all in very inconvenient locations. That’s the main issue,” Desai said.

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Carson Sheumaker (left) and Alex Eapen (right).

College and Wharton junior Carson Sheumaker ther that mission, especially for the often overlooked and College sophomore Alex Eapen will serve as the members of our community, continuing to partner next president and vice president of the Undergradu- with these groups to ensure that their interests reate Assembly. main paramount in all University decisions.”

The Nominations & Elections Committee anThe NEC oversees the UA and Class Board elecnounced the results of the election on April 9. Sheu- tions and maintains communication between the six maker and Eapen both ran unopposed. Sheumaker branches of Penn’s student government. The comgarnered 885 votes, and Eapen, an opinion colum- mittee consists of 40 Penn students selected by the nist at The Daily Pennsylvanian, received 855 votes. NEC executive board to serve for the remainder of The two ran on a five-point platform of improving their undergraduate careers. student campus life, wellness, diversity and incluNEC Vice Chair of Elections and College sophosion, academic experience, and accountability of more Mohammad Abunimeh said that although he University administrators. wishes more candidates ran, he believes that many Both Sheumaker and Eapen have served in roles students were preoccupied with readjusting to life on within the UA prior to this election. Sheumaker campus throughout the election season. has served as UA speaker and secretary, and Eapen “For the sake of elections, obviously variety is alserved as UA director of equity and inclusion. They ways a good thing, and I do wish there were more did not participate in debates during this election candidates,” Abunimeh said. “Although, after talking given their unopposed status. to a lot of people within NEC and within the elections The UA speaker is meant to be an “unbiased ar- realm, I think it was just a very stressful time of year. bitrator” in leading UA meetings and conducting Students were adjusting to sort of the first real semesinternal and external communications. Sheumaker ter that it’s essentially everything is ‘back to normal,’ said that though the UA speaker and president posi- whatever that is supposed to mean.” tions are different from one another, he learned valuThough the University returned to an in-person able skills in his position that he plans to carry into classroom format on Jan. 24, this UA election cycle his presidency. remained virtual. This election represents UA’s third “Over the next year, I hope to amplify the voices virtual general election, following the fall 2020 and and concerns of Penn students,” Sheumaker said. spring 2021 elections.

“Whether it be changes in student campus life, wellThe results for all UA and Class Board elections ness, diversity and inclusion, academic experience, were released after the eight-day voting period that or accountability of University administrators, I began on April 1 at 12 a.m. and closed on April 8 want the day-to-day experiences of students to be at 5 p.m. made easier in terms of increased opportunities for Wharton junior Derek Nhieu was re-elected as and reduced barriers to success, whatever that may president of the 2023 Class Board, and Wharton and look like for each individual.”

Engineering sophomore Toyosi Abu was re-elected Eapen echoed Sheumaker’s sentiments regarding as the president of the 2024 Class Board after runhis hope to create change in the Penn community, ning unopposed. Will “From Hill” Krasnow, who highlighting that he hopes to ensure that the needs of won by over 300 votes, will continue to serve as the marginalized groups on Penn’s campus are account- president of the 2025 Class Board. ed for in all University decision-making processes.

“I wish [the elects] the best of success, and I “With recent changes to University leadership and believe that they will fulfill the roles amazingly,” the varying levels of impact they have had on the Abunimeh said. undergraduate student body and the greater Penn community, the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Montgomery. NOTICE IS HEREBY University is in a rare and unique GIVEN that the Petition for the Change of Name has been filed in the above named Court, praying for a Decree to change the name of James Green to James Davis. The position to implement lasting Court has fixed the 18 day of May, 2022 at 9:30 A.M., in Court Room No. 16, change,” Eapen said. “I hope to be Montgomery County Courthouse, Norristown, PA, as the time and place for the able to use the more student-fac- hearing of said Petitioner, when and where all persons interested may appear and ing role of vice president to fur- show cause, is any they have, why the prayer of said Petition should not be granted.

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Undergraduates are not landlords — Penn, help Greek life housing ISABELLA’S IMPRESSIONS | Penn should cover the cost of underfilled Greek life houses

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nce upon a time at Penn, sophomores did not have to live on campus. Now that Penn mandates sophomores to live on campus, the future of Greek life housing is a tumultuous vortex of financial burdens and stress for house managers and executive board members, as they search, and often fail, to find juniors and seniors willing to live in their housing. Penn created this policy, so Penn should provide the much-needed financial assistance to cover the costs imposed on Greek chapters who are unable to reach capacity in their homes.

Greek life housing is unique at Penn, grouped with either on-campus or offcampus housing depending on the situation. When all on-campus housing was closed due to COVID-19, so were the Greek life homes. This left many, including myself, without housing for the fall of 2020. Following this line of reasoning, one might assume that Greek housing is considered to be on-campus housing.

However, it is not. Sophomore students, who were typically the primary residents of chapter homes, are not permitted to live in chapter houses, because Penn considers them to be off campus.

The problem is then that chapters are struggling to fill their chapter homes because of Penn’s change in policy. Depending on the individualized configurations of each home, the issue is exacerbated. While some offer only single-occupancy rooms, others have doubles and even triples, begging the question of why juniors and seniors who have already been living in highly communal and tight-knit spaces on campus would

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willingly choose to live in those same conditions as upperclassmen. While many do live with their sorority sisters and fraternity brothers, they choose to do so off campus, avoiding the risk of personal complications arising from sharing a room.

This leaves house managers or executive board members, depending on who chapters assigned to such a task, with the job of filling the house. The system many house managers report using at house manager meetings, of which I have attended, is a lottery system, put in place when homes are unable to find enough volunteers to live there, requiring all chapter members to send in leases or risk getting drawn to live in the chapter home. When these lotteries fail to draw enough people

to fill the house, these house managers or executive board members are left with the stress of finding a solution. In both personal experience and conversation with executive board members across the Penn Greek life community, the Office of Fraternity & Sorority Life provides little guidance in this realm, often pinning the problem on the decision made by Penn.

While they too might be powerless, it is unreasonable to expect undergraduate students to play landlord.

The consequences of not filling the chapter home is a major financial burden for chapters. For every vacant room, chapters are responsible for paying what a resident would normally pay had the room been occupied. This is because national repre-

sentatives for the respective sororities and fraternities, whose homes are owned by the University, signed contracts promising that chapters would make up any costs. Some of these contracts were signed as early as the 1920s, but all were before the sophomore on-campus housing rule was put into effect.

The cost chapters will be required to make up per room, according to next year’s housing agreements with the OFSL, will be upward of $12,326 for the full year, depending on the room size. Being a part of Greek life is already expensive — dues for Interfraternity Council fraternities range from $200 to $1,000 a semester for current members, while dues for current Panhellenic Council sorority members range from $250 to $709 a semester. To make up the cost of partially vacant chapter homes, these already expensive dues will have to increase, placing an additional financial burden on many members.

The culture at Penn is still not entirely acclimated to the sophomore on-campus housing rule. These next few years are transitional. While Greek life organizations and members adjust to the fact that homes must be filled by upperclassmen, Penn should not place an extra financial burden on students, and instead should cover the costs of the homes that were unable to reach capacity, so long as they demonstrate having made an honest effort to fill their homes.

ISABELLA GLASSMAN is a College junior studying philosophy, politics, and economics from Suffern, N.Y. Her email is iglass@sas.upenn.edu.

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quick glance while walking down Locust, if one ignores the masks being worn, will reveal the plethora of diverse students the University of Pennsylvania calls its own. According to Penn’s website, over 13% of 2021 first-year students were classified as “international” — students who do not call the United States home. In total, Penn states that there are 6,392 international students enrolled as of fall 2021. This means that nearly one in every five people you meet at Penn is likely to have lived or been born outside of the United States.

Penn’s undergraduate racial diversity, while less impressive, accounts for 36% white, 11% Latinx, 8% Black, and 25% Asian — providing a good picture of the plethora of experiences lived by our student body. Diversity in a student body has been repeatedly proven to be beneficial to an academic experience. No wonder that the academic world is pushing for further developing this positive trend.

Unfortunately, however, diversity within the teaching faculty of the University is not only underrepresented, but it is undervalued.

What value does diversity provide for students? It’s simple: a wider range of experiences to learn from.

Without getting too far into the cliche about globalism, it is important to recognize that our world is more interconnected than ever before. For example, the study of history is no longer confined to a dusty textbook that drones on about the Navigation Acts of the 18th century. Instead, many humanities have begun to explore the wealth of information that goes beyond the shores of New England.

Oftentimes, however, topics are taught by American academics, a natural occurrence considering that Penn is, in fact, in America.

To be clear, there is no issue with this — nationality is by no means a prerequisite for expertise. However, growing up in another country, with a different culture, separate traditions, and unique societal norms, offers students a unique learning experience. Even if one spends a lifetime learning about apartheid in South Africa, it is nearly impossible to replicate the experience of a South African. While respecting that there is a duty to remain objective within academics, students should learn to take in several interpretations of subjects, with the intention of learning from each.

Dr. Fernando Arteaga, an Economics professor, spoke to me about his experience as a Mexican academic at Penn. Growing up near Tijuana in northern Mexico, Arteaga noted

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that much of the local culture is similar to that of the southern United States. However, having studied at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Arteaga recalled that he was exposed to a unique learning experience. “A lot of my professors in university [had] studied in Eastern Europe … for example, our math library contained books written in Russian instead of Spanish.” As a result, Arteaga’s classes focused much more on Marxian economics and planned economies, in place of more conventional mainstream economic thought.

Arteaga was conflicted about this experience, but he did say that learning about planned economies allowed him to better argue against them. This enriched his ability to objectively compare his personal leanings toward market economies to the Marxian economics he studied in school.

This sort of experience is precisely why hiring faculty from outside the United States is valuable. Not only do international faculty members bring their own experiences to students, but they also potentially offer new outlooks on what may be seen as commonplace in the United States.

Of course, this is not an article that is here to argue that all University faculty should be from outside the country, but rather that having a diverse faculty is a strength that students should take advantage of. Recognize the benefits of learning from a different experience. Use this to analyze the multitude of viewpoints that exist around the world today. This applies to faculty as well. Professors should strive to remain objective in their teachings, but should by no means be afraid to explain their own perspectives on a particular subject as a result of their background.

Next time you’re in class, try and engage the professor and your classmates on their experiences. Understand the benefit of learning and listening to people who have different viewpoints than you. Take in as much information as you can, and push yourself to engage with what you’ve learned critically. Finally, speak out and let people hear your own experiences and do not shy away from giving your class a new perspective. You never know what value you yourself may bring to others’ learning.

OTTO PIASECKI is a College junior studying economics and diplomacy from New York. His email is oabp@ sas.upenn.edu.

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ournaling is a habit I hope to keep for the rest of my life. Putting pen to paper helps me process whatever I am thinking and feeling as well as document my life in a meaningful way. My journal has been an indispensable tool in navigating uncertain times in my life, which is why I want to share my experiences to hopefully convince you to try journaling.

Journaling can be beneficial for one’s mental health, including managing anxiety, stress, and depressive symptoms. Journaling can also be a helpful way to understand how you are feeling by putting it into words.

As I have remarked in a past column, I started a gratitude journal in January 2018.

After my parents separated and divorced that summer, I expanded my journal to write more about my thoughts and feelings.

I kept journaling throughout my first two years of college.

Then COVID-19 hit. Many people — including myself — turned to journaling to document their pandemic experiences, tend to their mental health, or have agency over something. I am grateful that I have kept a journal during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic because I have been able to process what I saw, what I lost, and what I gained over time.

I am not only keeping a journal for myself.

I am documenting my life for posterity, especially for my family descendants. I wonder what they will think of my thoughts and feelings, just like I wonder what my ancestors were thinking as they encountered big changes in their lives.

I wonder what my ancestors were thinking when they migrated to America before settling in Montreal and Chicago. What was my French Canadian ancestor Urbain Tessier dit Lavigne thinking when he was captured by Native Americans? What was on my late paternal grandfather’s mind when he was a child during World War II and a new parent during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

What did my ancestors want and what did they fear? How did they feel when lifealtering events happened, whether it be a wedding or a war? How did they search for meaning in their lives? Unfortunately, I am unable to ask these questions directly to my ancestors who have perished. I hope that my journal entries can answer at least some of my descendants’ questions.

Someone may object and say that social

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media is all they need to document their life.

I would respond that journaling provides a unique outlet for private self-reflection where you can write whatever is on your mind. Social media is made for an audience, and not everything is meant to be shared with others. In my journal, I feel I can explore my thoughts and feelings that I would not feel comfortable posting online.

Keeping a journal can also keep an accurate log of how our past selves made important decisions. For instance, I’ve been second guessing myself about my decision to take a gap year to work before applying to law school. Recently, I’ve looked back at my journal entries about why I wanted to pursue law school and why I decided to take a gap year, which has given me more clarity about why I made that decision last fall.

Paradoxically, I am both excited about my future possibilities and worried about not receiving any job offers. Writing about my mixed emotions can be helpful, even in brief snippets.

Here’s an example of something I wrote before my moral psychology class recently: “I feel anxious & afraid about postgrad plans. How can I convert this angst into energy? My mind feels empty and my motivation depleted. I’ll figure this out.” After this entry, I wrote responses to some real-time resilience prompts, such as framing a more productive way that I can see my uncertainty.

I understand that I am not alone in feeling stressed about post-commencement life, yet I feel that there are very few outlets to express my anxiety without constraints.

Luckily, journaling has been one of those outlets for me.

While I cannot predict my future, I can shape it, which is one reason I find journaling so empowering. It is an activity where I can communicate whatever is on my mind, whether I am creating a checklist of goals for the day or checking in with myself when I am feeling down.

If you haven’t taken up journaling before, I hope you will try it out. We all have a story; I hope you will write yours.

JADEN CLOOBECK is a College fourth year from Laguna Beach, Calif. studying psychology. His email address is jaden@sas.upenn.edu.

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White Boys’ Town QUIRKY QUAKER | The Daily Pennsylvanian’s exclusionary history and ongoing diversity efforts

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told all my Black friends about [how] ‘I’m gonna go write for the DP’ and they all say, ‘Oh man, they’re not gonna let you do that. That’s a white boys’ town,” 1974 College graduate Gerald Early said.

During his time at Penn, Early was the only Black person and the only student of color writing for The Daily Pennsylvanian. He was also the only Black columnist in the DP’s opinion department.

Nearly 50 years later, so am I. When I was asked to declare my brand as a columnist at the beginning of this semester, I struggled. On the one hand, I enjoyed writing about race. On the other hand, I didn’t want to be defined or limited by it. But if I didn’t write about race, who would?

I felt a clashing sense of responsibility and pressure.

When I wrote my first column about Penn’s racialized party scene, the outpour of support from other Black students was incredibly rewarding.

By sharing my voice, they had also been heard. I was proud to represent the collective experiences of Black students. But that shouldn’t be my job.

Besides, Black students at Penn aren’t all the same.

Two years ago, Emilia Onuonga was a College first-year and an opinion columnist at the DP. That summer, George Floyd was murdered and protests ensued. Onuonga said she immediately felt an internal pressure to write about race, thinking to herself, “Oh my gosh. No one is writing about this.

I’m the only voice on this staff to write about it.”

When that pressure came from others, she left the DP.

“At times, it’s a sort of emotional labor to be a Black writer,” Onuonga said about her struggle to process what was happening in the country while feeling pressure to simultaneously write about it.

Nearly 50 years prior, Early also felt that white staffers and editors wanted him to write about race.

“After a while, I felt a little bit of a burden being the only Black person who was doing this,” he said.

According to an internal staff demographics survey conducted in March 2022, which received 223 responses out of 435 total staff members, there are 12 Black staffers — 5.4% of respondents — at The Daily Pennsylvanian, Inc.’s three publications: The Daily Pennsylvanian, 34th Street Magazine, and Under the Button. As of 2020, about 7.7% of Penn students are Black.

Lack of diversity is an issue facing the broader journalism industry — not just the DP. A study done by Pew Research Center found that newsroom employees are less diverse than United States workers overall. Given this, major newspapers are making efforts to increase diversity, like changing hiring procedures and creating training programs.

The broader issue is often a question of whose stories we find valuable, however, and who deserves to tell those stories.

In the 1970s, “[Diversity] wasn’t something that people were consciously thinking about back then.

I think they were glad to have a Black person doing what I was doing,” Early explained. “But, I also think that they weren’t particularly concerned about not having one.”

The DP now has two co-diversity and inclusion

coordinators, an official board position created in spring 2022, as well as a diversity committee and a fellows program for underrepresented students created two years ago. But the numbers don’t lie: The DP has actually gotten less diverse since 2018 with 1.2% fewer Black staffers and 4.9% fewer Latinx staffers.

As a member of the diversity committee, we each pick a project to be involved with throughout the semester. Some of the initiatives include maintaining a newly created community guide, updating the diversity copy style guide, creating an institutional memory project, and news source tracking.

Attendance at committee meetings is often low, so most of the projects only have one to two editors and staffers consistently working on them. This leaves most of the burden on the diversity chairs.

Hadriana Lowenkron, College senior and former editor-in-chief of the DP, was involved in the early days of the diversity committee, working on the first diversity style guide. “It’s important that we don’t just say we have a diversity committee, diversity chair, just to save face, it has to be deeper than that,” she said.

Lowenkron also described the extra pressure she felt from herself to make sure articles the DP published were accurate, respectful, and objectively reported. “So that I don’t have people in my community saying, ‘Well, what’s up with this article?

Why aren’t you doing better? I thought the whole purpose of you being the Black editor-in-chief is to do XYZ.’” Even at the DP, the 12 Black staffers don’t

necessarily interact with one another. We’re scattered across different departments and publications, which contributes to a DP culture where Black students don’t always feel welcome. “[The DP] seemed like a clique, and I wasn’t really in that clique,” echoed Early. “I just happened to be somebody who was doing something they found useful.”

Our experiences aren’t the same, but Early, Lowenkron, Onuonga, and I all faced similar challenges and were ultimately united by one thing — a hope that, one day, the DP would be better. “I think that I see progress. I think there could always be more. I think equity is the word we’re looking for, not equality. And that’s always something that I think could be better, it could be a stronger fight,” Lowenkron told me.

We all agreed the DP can do a better job of trying to recruit Black students. Onuonga pointed to Makuu: The Black Cultural Center, Robeson Cooper Scholars, and Du Bois College House as places to reach out. “Say, ‘We want to hear your voice, your opinion.’”

The DP can also make its coverage more inclusive of Black students and make a better working environment for the students already there. These are just a few ideas, but it isn’t the burden of Black staffers to improve the DP. We all have to.

YOMI ABDI is a Wharton first year studying finance from Chicago. Her email is yomiabdi@ wharton.upenn.edu.

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Inside Mackenzie Fierceton’s ongoing legal battle with the University administration treating Fierceton in a way that lacked compassion, transparency, sensitivity to trauma victims, and respect for the protections granted to students in the University Charter.

“I am profoundly disappointed in the conduct of Penn officials whom I have previously admired, and I am profoundly impressed with the courage, resiliency, and fundamental human decency of Mackenzie Fierceton,” Smith wrote in an emailed statement sent to the DP. Fierceton said her immediate next steps will be to finish her remaining two years of schooling for her Ph.D. at the University of Oxford, where she studies the relationship between the foster care system in England and the United States.

Although Fierceton lost her funding for her doctoral education when she withdrew from the Rhodes Scholarship, she said that a Penn professor who requested anonymity offered to pay her first year’s tuition, allowing her to attend.

“In terms of my educational experience being impacted, I’m really lucky,” Fierceton said. “[Oxford] has been exceptionally supportive and has really had my back and every step of the way, which is obviously night-and-day to my experience at Penn.”

She added that she has been overwhelmed by the amount of support she has received from her former classmates at Penn, adding that she has received messages from Penn students she has met.

“The most meaningful part of the outreach I’ve received has been the hundreds or thousands of messages from survivors — including other students, and FGLI students who will say things like, ‘I’ve thought it was just me. I didn’t think anyone else had a similar story.’ And this makes me feel less crazy and more seen,” Fierceton said. “I’ve even gotten emails titled ‘I am Mackenzie.’ It has been so powerful to see that other people feel that way.”

Fierceton said that she hopes her story will inspire other FGLI alumni at Penn to share their own

In an interview with the DP, the former Rhodes Scholar discussed what she hopes to achieve in sharing her story TORI SOUSA Senior Reporter

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enn graduate and Rhodes Scholar Mackenzie Fierceton spoke to The Daily Pennsylvanian about her feature in The New Yorker, the Penn administration’s response, and what she hopes to accomplish by sharing her story — on Penn’s campus and beyond.

Fierceton recently re-emerged in the national spotlight when a feature in The New Yorker by Rachel Aviv was published on March 28, detailing the story of her history of abuse at the hands of her mother, journey to Penn, receiving of the Rhodes Scholarship, and the subsequent investigation by Penn and the Rhodes Trust that would change her life forever.

In December 2021, Fierceton filed a lawsuit against the University following its investigation into allegations that questioned her status as a firstgeneration, low-income student and survivor of abuse. In the lawsuit, she alleged that Penn unjustly withheld her master of social work degree from Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice. The University announced on April 12 that it would no longer withhold her master’s degree.

In an emailed statement sent to the DP on April 4, Interim President Wendell Pritchett said that The New Yorker article “did not accurately reflect” the University’s investigation into the questions raised by the prior findings of the Rhodes Trust.

“It is our mission to do everything possible to support all our students and to ensure that under-resourced students have access to Penn’s world-class educational opportunities. We have always recognized that this particular situation involves a painful family experience, and we have consistently approached it with empathy and a thoughtful

“The most meaningful part of the outreach I’ve received has been the hundreds or thousands of messages from survivors — including other students, and FGLI students who will say things like, ‘I’ve thought it was just me.’”

“Something that I am really hoping will not get lost is that obviously, this story is specifically about myself, but it’s also so much bigger than that.”

Mackenzie Fierceton

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consideration of all of the facts available to us,” Pritchett wrote.

He added that Penn cannot ignore “clear violations of our principles and ethical code” given the University’s responsibility to provide “fair and honest access to opportunities” to all members of the Penn community.

Fierceton said that Penn’s questioning of The New Yorker’s journalistic integrity is an indication of the University’s “vulnerability and desperation” in handling the situation. She added that the March 28 article had taken eight months of work until it could be published.

“I really find it unacceptable because that was eight months of work by [The New Yorker], and they had the most incredible moral compass throughout their reporting. I was honestly a little shocked by how robust their fact-checking process was,” Fierceton said.

Penn Political Science professors Anne Norton and Rogers Smith have supported Fierceton from the start, and they expressed in a Jan. 7 article by The Chronicle of Higher Education that they disapproved of Penn’s treatment of Fierceton.

Smith told the DP that he believes the Penn administration “decided prior to any formal investigation” that Fierceton had falsely accused her biological mother and had self-inflicted injuries in order to get herself put into foster care and then “cynically employed” Penn’s broad definitions of FGLI students to enhance her chances at success.

He said that the premise that Penn based its evaluation of Fierceton on resulted in the Penn

RALLY, from front page Fierceton’s abuse, the creation of policies to protect survivors, and the renovation of the SP2 Caster Building — where a graduate student died in 2018.

Protesters held signs that read “We Believe You.” During a march from the Caster Building to Interim Provost Beth Winkelstein’s office at College Hall, protesters participated in chants, including “SP2, shame on you” and “Winkelstein has got to go.”

Winkelstein led the University’s inquiry into Fierceton’s upbringing in fall 2020 after receiving an anonymous tip that Fierceton was dishonest about her history of abuse and FGLI status.

Winkelstein also sent a letter to the Rhodes Trust questioning whether Fierceton was honest in her application for the Rhodes Scholarship, which

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was awarded to her in 2021.

Seven Penn students and alumni, including Fierceton, delivered speeches about Penn’s history of abuse to its survivor and FGLI populations.

Kay McGuffin, a 2019 SP2 alumna and organizer of the walkout, condemned the University for using its power against its most vulnerable student populations.

“Once you do something that the University sees as undermining its quest for power and prestige, it will not think twice about discarding you, humiliating you, and retaliating against you, which is exactly what they did,” McGuffin said.

Fierceton thanked protesters for showing up and demanding justice at the end of the rally. She called on Penn’s administration to advocate and accommodate for all FGLI students, particularly communities of color; however, she said the rally’s purpose is intended to span far beyond Penn’s campus.

“My point of sharing my story is that it’s so

much bigger than me,” Fierceton said. “This is what it looks like when institutions abuse and silence and try to shame survivors. This happens in industries, universities, societies, and countries, and I don’t want that to get lost in one sad story and one bad school.”

Other speakers at the walkout included 2019 College graduate Aiden Omar CastellanosPedroza, master in social work candidate Sarah Pallivalapil-Karerat, and fourth-year Nursing BSN-Ph.D. candidate Candy Greczylo who said they have been directly impacted by Penn’s poor treatment of FGLI students.

Castellanos-Pedrosa shared their experiences with Penn’s harmful treatment of FGLI students, recounting his first weeks at Penn as a pre-first year.

They described their experience at a “privilege walk” activity at a pre-orientation program, in which students were instructed to keep their eyes closed while they listened to privileges being called out. Students took a step forward when a

stories, so that current FGLI students feel heard and seen on Penn’s campus.

“Some of the messages I’ve received from current FGLI students have said, ‘Thank you so much for sharing. I’m grateful because I feel scared to speak up because [administrators] can take everything away from me.’ And that is so heartbreaking, but it’s also so true,” Fierceton said.

Fierceton said that her story represents a tragic narrative that spans far beyond Penn’s campus.

“Something that I am really hoping will not get lost is that obviously, this story is specifically about myself, but it’s also so much bigger than that. This happens everywhere. It’s not a story of one bad institution. This is something that happens across the country, and across the world,” Fierceton said.

A walkout and rally in solidarity with Fierceton, survivors of abuse, and FGLI students took place earlier this morning in front of the Caster Building, which was built in 1966 and serves as the home to SP2.

Fierceton said that she hopes for change at Penn and that incoming Penn President Liz Magill, who will assume the office on July 1, will listen to and believe the stories of student survivors of abuse and FGLI students.

“At the end of the day, the University administrators have the power to make changes,” Fierceton said. “I hope that [Magill] will make the decision to start her tenure by making changes — listening to survivors and other marginalized communities.

This is an inhumane and devastating situation, again, not just for me, but everyone who’s involved in these marginalized communities.” privilege they had was called out, and they took a step back when it was a privilege they did not.

“It didn’t matter to me, honestly, whether or not I took a step up or back because at the end of it, I was still the only person all the way at the far f**king back,” Castellanos-Pedrosa said.

“Afterwards, the rich white student leaders, the people who had organized [the activity] in the first place, had the audacity to congratulate me for being there.”

McGuffin advised current Penn students to join organizations that fight for the justice they wish to see in their communities. She urged protesters to continue organizing for Fierceton, FGLI students, and underrepresented communities at Penn, in West Philadelphia, and in the greater Philadelphia area.

“What the school, what the [administration] actually cares about is masses of students demanding things, and the best way to do that is get organized, find your people, come together, and demand stuff,” McGuffin said.

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Admitted students flock to campus this week as Quaker Days return Campus visits are taking place on five days, each including an information session and a campus tour JASPER TAYLOR Staff Reporter

Hundreds of newly admitted first-year students will be able to visit Penn’s campus for Quaker Days for the first time in two years.

Quaker Days features sessions for admitted students on five days between April 11 and 19 with morning and afternoon session options. Each campus visit consists of an information session, a campus tour led by the Kite and Key Society, and scheduled time for admitted students to connect with each other. The first of the five Quaker Days began on Monday, April 11, followed by April 12, 14, 16, and 19.

In past years, Quaker Days attendees had the opportunity to stay overnight in student housing. Sara Cohen, senior associate director in the Office of Undergraduate Admissions, wrote in a written statement to The Daily Pennsylvanian that there will be no overnight stay option and only limited access to classrooms and campus spaces to comply with ongoing COVID-19 precautionary measures.

College senior and Kite and Key President Steven Wren said that tours will follow usual campus tour routes, but tour guides will place special emphasis on “the things they’re going to experience and [be able] to look forward [to], whether it’s New Student Orientation, or throwing toast, or senior events.”

Visiting admitted students are permitted one guest who must be registered. The University “strongly encourages” visitors to be vaccinated against COVID-19 and wear masks in indoor public spaces during their visit. All visitors must complete a PennOpen Campus prescreening and show a Green Pass upon request.

Admitted students said they are eager to visit Penn’s campus after not having the opportunity to tour in person. Incoming Wharton first year Nikhil Sheth said he is excited to meet his possible future classmates.

“The reason I want to go [to Quaker Days] is to just meet some of the people there. I think just getting an early start on meeting some of the students that I’m

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Quaker Days will take place for the first time in two years.

going to be working with is going to be really cool,” Sheth said.

Penn Admissions has also planned online events throughout April to allow students who cannot come in person to learn about Penn’s resources and opportunities, such as the four undergraduate schools, oncampus housing and dining, and research at Penn. It will also have programming with perspectives from students of color and resources for first-generation and/or low-income students, according to Cohen.

Some international students said they cannot attend Quaker Days due to the distance to travel but are looking forward to hearing about Penn through the online programs.

Incoming Wharton first year Martina Bulgarelli,

who is from Verona, Italy, said she wants to learn more about Penn’s social environment which is different from Italian universities.

“When you go to university [in Italy], you’re very detached from the university itself. If you’re Italian, you won’t go into a dorm. You buy your own apartment and then [live] with friends you already made in high school,” Bulgarelli said. “They do not have rituals related to the universities. I really love Penn with all of its traditions.”

Current Penn students recounted that their Quaker Days experience helped them make the decision to attend and transition to college. Wharton senior Chris-Lewis Da Cruz said he attended Quaker Days in spring of 2018 before committing to Penn and said

Penn Medicine immunotherapy technique could reduce cost of cancer treatment

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The Penn Medicine scientists reduced the time it takes to train the body’s immune cells to find and fight cancer SARA FORASTIERI Staff Reporter

Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine discovered a new approach to a type of immunotherapy that could significantly increase the accessibility of the cancer treatment by reducing the time it takes to process cancerfighting cells.

The immunotherapy technique — CAR T cell therapy — was originally pioneered at Penn. The study published in “Nature Biomedical Engineering” showed that scientists were able to reduce the time it takes to train the body’s immune cells to find and fight cancer from approximately 9 to 14 days to just 24 hours.

The results of this study, which began in 2018, have the potential to not only reduce the time it takes to develop the treatment but also the cost, materials, and labor required to generate the immune cells. This can be beneficial to patients in resource-poor health care environments and who have rapidly progressive cancer.

“By simplifying the whole process, then this can happen anywhere, and any hospital can process it even in the most resource constrained area

he believed it helped him smoothly transition into his first year.

“There are still people I see a lot, and the one really good friend I made during Quaker Days — who I don’t talk to as much now — introduced me to my best friends that I still talk to,” Da Cruz said.

Admitted students will also have the opportunity to connect with their peers on the Penn Admitted Student Network, managed by the admissions office.

“All of these programmatic offerings will give admitted students an opportunity to celebrate with their future classmates, hear from current Penn students, learn more about Penn, and start to envision their life at Penn,” Cohen wrote.

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or any country,” lead researcher and research assistant professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Saba Ghassemi told The Daily Pennsylvanian. She added that by shortening the process, patients could have access to the therapy in their local hospitals, thereby making it unnecessary to travel to receive the therapy, which also relieves the financial burden.

The CART cell therapy technique is used to fight cancer using a patient’s own altered immune cells that are taken from their blood. The cells are altered in the lab by adding a gene for a receptor and then infused back into the patient’s body to locate and destroy cancer cells, according to Penn Medicine.

The shortened process that the Penn Medicine researchers discovered ensures that the cells are of higher quality. When the cells are removed for too long, they can lose their ability to replicate, which is essential to the effectiveness of the treatment. In their study, the researchers learned

that the quality rather than the quantity of the CAR T cell product is an important factor for the success of the therapy.

Penn has been a leader in CAR T cell research and development. In 2017, the first therapy was approved by the FDA for treatment of pediatric and young adult patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Ghassemi said the researchers now hope to optimize the process and make it as effective as possible.

“The more we optimize the process, the more we can get higher transaction efficiency,” she said.

“Building on our research from 2018 that reduced the standard manufacturing approach to three days, and now to less than 24 hours, the manufacturing method reported in this study is a testament to the potential to innovate and improve the production of CAR T cell therapies for the benefit of more patients,” Michael Milone, lead researcher and professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, said in a press release on March 29.

vaccinations, the student must quarantine in place in accordance with Penn’s public health guidance.

All eligible students must upload their booster information into their Student Health Portal if they have not done so already.

All students are encouraged by the University to utilize PennOpen Pass to not only report symptoms but to report themselves as a close contact or roommate of a positive case. Gross said that PennOpen Pass provides “expedited access” to information and guidance when questions come up concerning isolation and quarantine protocols.

Gross said that when it comes to these questions, the information and easy access to people that can help may be found by utilizing PennOpen Pass.

Vulnerable student populations on campus who might require additional assistance are being provided with extra help by the Wellness team.

Halbritter said that Public Health and Wellbeing continues to work closely with the Office of Environmental Health and Radiation Safety, in addition to Penn’s Maintenance and Housekeeping Department to ensure the cleanliness of College House facilities.

Bathrooms are cleaned twice each day, Halbritter said, which is “above and beyond the CDC recommendation but continues to be Penn’s request.” For students in suites who share bathrooms, Halbritter said it boils down to personal behaviors.

“It is a great idea to wipe down the kitchen or the bathroom before and after you use it,” Halbritter said. “People have to take ownership, and roommates should talk to each other and have a plan or communicate expectations.”

In terms of academics, Halbritter said that it is Public Health and Wellbeing’s goal to keep students in classes.

“We know that April is a really fun time on college campuses, and there is a lot of fun stuff that happens,” Halbritter said. “We want people to finish out the year, finish out their academic coursework, and be able to go home when they’re ready to go home.”

Four Penn professors awarded 2022 Guggenheim Fellowships The faculty members were among 180 scientists, writers, scholars, and artists selected from a pool of 2,500 applicants SOPHIA POWELL Contributing Reporter

Four Penn professors have been named 2022 Guggenheim Fellows.

The faculty members — professor of Architecture Daniel Barber, Classical Studies professor Kimberly Bowes, Professor Emeritus of Music Guthrie Ramsey, and English professor Paul Saint-Amour — were among the 180 scientists, writers, scholars, and artists selected from a pool of 2,500 applicants.

The fellowship has been awarded annually by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation since 1925. It provides funding for academics and artists across the United States and Canada, with the goal of aiding recipients’ development and enabling them to conduct research “under the freest possible conditions.”

Barber, who specializes in the environmental histories of architecture at the Weitzman School of Design, is one of the two fellows the foundation selected for the category of architecture, planning, & design.

His Guggenheim project, “Thermal Practices,” is focused on how to live in buildings after fossilfuel energy sources are no longer socially viable, according to Penn Today. He is currently on leave from Penn to work as a senior research fellow at the Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies at Universität Heidelberg in Germany.

Professor Bowes is the sole fellowship recipient of the fellowship in the classics category. Bowes researches the archaeology and material culture of the

(Clockwise from top left) Professor of Architecture Daniel Barber, Classical Studies professor Kimberly Bowes, Professor Emeritus of Music Guthrie Ramsey, and English professor Paul Saint-Amour.

Roman world, centering around the working poor.

She was the editor and primary writer of a two-volume book published in 2021, “The Roman Peasant Project 2009-2015: Excavating the Roman Rural Poor,” documenting the six-year archaeological excavation that Bowes co-directed.

One of two fellows selected in the category of music research, Ramsey is a music historian, pianist, and composer. He has also authored, coauthored, or edited four music history books and biographies.

Additionally, Ramsey serves as the founding

editor of the blog MusiQology.com, hosts a podcast, and has started a community arts initiative for underserved communities, called MusiQology Rx. He is also a producer, label head, and leader of the band Dr. Guy’s MusiQology, where he has multiple recording projects and has performed at multiple venues.

Saint-Amour was selected in the literary criticism category, and studies 19th- and 20th-century British literature. His 2015 book, “Tense Future: Modernism, Total War, Encyclopedic Form,” won the Modernist Studies Association Book Prize and the Modern Language Association’s first Matei Calinescu Prize, Penn Today reported.

He is currently working on two projects: a personal essay series called “Attack Decay Sustain Release,” and a study titled “Does a Cliff Have a Face?” which explores the idea of obligation to the nonhuman.

Saint-Amour also serves as a trustee of the International James Joyce Foundation, sits on the faculty editorial board of the University of Pennsylvania Press, and holds a position on the supervising committee of the English Institute.

In 2021, Penn had only one professor named a Guggenheim Fellow, Julie Nelson Davis. Davis, an Art History professor, earned the fellowship for her work in 1770 to 1820 Japanese print culture and “Ukiyo-e,” artwork that depicts the “floating world.”

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— Princeton has committed 43 errors, the most in the Ivy League.

Stats and Spite: Princeton’s nine errors committed against Columbia on April 3 is tied for third-most errors in a game in program history — and that’s a long history, because the Tigers have been playing since 1864.

7. Cornell (7-15, 3-6 Ivy) The Big Red has been over-performing its mediocrity. Cornell has given up 233 runs and only scored 134 for a Pythagorean expected win percentage (essentially determining team performance based on runs scored and allowed) of .249, compared to its actual win percentage of .333.

Cornell has great hitters in junior outfielder Sam Kaplan and sophomore catcher Nathan Waugh, but that’s not really enough when you also have the worst pitching in the league by ERA, FIP, and wOBA allowed.

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Notable alumni of the league include Barry Bonds, Randy Johnson, Paul Goldschmidt, and Aaron Judge — and now, Luke Yakinich.

6. Brown (7-17, 2-7 Ivy) Brown has adequate pitching, but its batters lead the Ivy League in striking out (266). Individually, five of the top seven in strikeouts in the Ivy League are on Brown’s roster. And when they do get on base, the Bears have been caught stealing more than any other team in the Ancient Eight, having been hosed down 12 times.

While the Bears’ pitching ranks fourth in ERA and wOBA, they rank second in

5. Yale (14-10, 5-4 Ivy) Yale swept the Ivy League weekly awards after its first series win against Princeton, but ever since, Yale has lost both of its series against Dartmouth and Cornell. And despite its 5-4 record, the Bulldogs have yet to face an Ivy League opponent that’s above .500.

Two-way player Jimmy Chatfield highlights Yale’s roster, boasting a 1.076 OPS and ranking fourth in the conference in wOBA (.463) as a rookie, albeit a junior one. On the mound, Chatfield posted eight strikeouts and surrendered only one hit through five innings of work.

Stats, Vibes, and Spite: Mike Walsh hit five batters in a February game against Auburn and has since gone on to hit 10 more to claim the league lead.

4. Dartmouth (13-13, 5-4 Ivy) The Big Green stands middle of the pack in almost every statistical category. But its past week has been particularly impressive, headlined by Ivy League Rookie of the Week and Pitcher of the Week awards followed by a series win against Yale.

Cox is batting .410 with a .966 OPS and .423 wOBA. Left-handed pitcher Trystan Sarcone held Penn to only one run in 7.1 innings, and ranks seventh in the Ivy League with a 4.88 ERA. Dartmouth’s hitting isn’t extraordinary, but its offense is well-rounded. Four of its batters rank top-20 in the Ivy League in wOBA. But it has yet to face two

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The following day, the Red and Blue faced the Bulldogs in the neighboring state, this time coming in as the underdogs. Yale came into the matchup ranked No. 62 in women’s collegiate tennis, while Penn was unranked.

Opening the doubles matches, Rutlauka and Wang took down their opponents 6-1, but junior Amanda Chan and sophomore Ekaterina Vinnik fell short after a tough 7-5 set. Curnic and Bryzgalova, who rank at No. 81 on the ITA women’s collegiate doubles rankings, appeared last and defeated their opponents 6-4, claiming the doubles point for the team.

In the singles matches shortly afterward, Rutlauka secured a point for the Quakers with 6-1 and 6-2 sets. Curnic and Smith each won their

respective matches, securing the victory for the Red and Blue. Yale’s Vivian Cheng outplayed Roshkoff 6-3, 6-2, gaining the only point for the Bulldogs. The team left New Haven triumphantly with a 4-1 win.

Penn will play four more matches to conclude the season in the coming two weeks. Up next, the Quakers will return to their home courts after three consecutive away matches, as they’ll take on Dartmouth this Saturday at 1 p.m. and then Harvard on Sunday at 1 p.m.

“We are in the hunt for the Ivy title,” Kunovac said, “but there are also dangers, especially the matches this weekend.”

Currently, the team is tied for second in the Ivy League standings behind the Crimson, and the matches on Sunday will be crucial to see if the Quakers can make up the half-game difference.

3. Harvard (13-13, 5-3 Ivy) The Crimson swept Cornell and took two of three from Brown, but got hit hard by Penn in a series that was shortened to two games. Entering the series against the Quakers, Harvard pitchers had a collective 4.88 ERA — afterward, that stat ballooned to 5.81.

Despite struggles with control, right-handed pitcher Jaren Zinn stands out for the Crimson. He leads the league in wild pitches (15) and is tied for the league in strikeouts (49), and held Penn to just one run in the second game before the bullpen blew the game open. Catcher Zach Brown also caught three Quakers stealing.

Stats, Vibes, and Spite: If Penn-Harvard were an NCAA softball series, the first game would have ended by mercy rule after Penn held a 17-3 lead at the end of the fifth inning. Instead, the game went on to end 27-6.

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2. Columbia (15-13, 7-2 Ivy) Despite not having a batter in the top 10 in OPS, the Lions have seven batters with an OPS above .800. Their wOBA of .357, second in the Ivy League, reflects the well-roundedness of their lineup. Similarly, Columbia has few pitching standouts, but the entire staff’s ERA is second in the conference (5.61).

The main knock against Columbia would be its strength of schedule thus far. The Lions swept Princeton and Brown, scoring over 10 runs in five of the six games, but lost their only series to an opponent above .500 (that opponent being Penn).

Stats: Despite only having a batting average of .271, which ranks 37th, infielder Andy Blake has a wOBA of .390, good for 15th in the Ivy League.

1. Penn (19-9, 6-2 Ivy) Penn first turned heads when it won its seasonopening series against Texas A&M and has since dominated conference play, leading in most hitting and pitching metrics. This pick might scream homerism, but it’s difficult to justify ranking Penn any lower than first.

Penn leads the league in batting average (.308), OBP (.394), slugging (.478), and ERA (4.56). By more advanced stats: Penn leads the league in wOBA (.382), FIP (5.43), and wOBA allowed (.316), and it’s not a fluke — Penn’s win percentage of .704 is actually just under their Pythagorean expected win percentage of .712.

The Quakers have won every Ivy League series they’ve played so far. They broke their streak of losing the second game of every three-game series with two straight wins against Harvard, featuring 27 runs over the course of one game and a daylong weather delay.

Senior starters Kevin Eaise and Joe Miller have been consistently hard to hit on the mound, with ERAs of 3.99 and 4.38, respectively. Junior reliever Owen Coady is arguably the best pitcher in the Ivy League this year with an ERA of 2.94. Sophomore third baseman Wyatt Henseler and junior catcher Jackson Appel both have an OPS above 1.000 on the season — Appel is also a switch hitter, and is riding a 20-game on-base streak.

All of this, and they’ve yet to face Princeton, Cornell, or Brown, who have the worst records in the Ivy League.

It might be hard to accept for a school that hasn’t won a baseball championship since 1995, but it’s time to get used to it: For Penn, it’s Ivy League Championship or bust.

Stats, Vibes, and (Apparent) Spite: Sophomore third baseman Wyatt Henseler has been hit by a pitch 11 times so far this season, leading the Ivy League by three and accounting for almost half of Penn’s HBPs (23).

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fielding-independent pitching, or FIP (5.59). Assuming that they can get luckier (or at least get their feet under them defensively — Brown has the third-worst fielding percentage in the league at 0.959), they might see their on-field results tick higher.

Brown pitcher Tobey McDonough highlights the pitching rotation. The junior right-hander ranks second in the Ivy League in ERA (3.12) through 40.1 innings so far this season.

Vibes: On April 5, four Brown pitchers combined for the program’s first no-hitter in a 3-0 victory over Holy Cross.

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10 questions with Keeley Block, a women’s lacrosse freshman

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Freshman attacker Keeley Block during the game against Northwestern at Penn Park on April 3.

Never underestimate the rookie, especially if she’s the one leading the team in goals KRISTEL RAMBAUD Sports Reporter

With 17 goals and two assists, freshman attacker Keeley Block leads the team in goals scored, and is only behind senior captain Niki Miles in points. But off the field, she values the relationships that help her grow into the best version of herself as both a student and an athlete. We sat down with Block and asked her 15 questions about her sport, career, and her life at Penn so far.

1. How did you start playing lacrosse?

Both of my parents were collegiate athletes.

They went to Salisbury University. My dad played lacrosse in college, so that’s how I got into it.

2. What’s your favorite memory so far of playing lacrosse?

LACROSSE, from page 10 all times,” Bedard said. “He was just the kid that came into the locker room every day with a smile on his face. If you walked into that locker room and you didn’t have a smile on your face, he’d be the first person to put his arm around you and ask, ‘Hey, what’s going on?’”

I would say all the relationships that lacrosse has brought me. My club team was super close, so having that family behind you — not only as a team, but [also] out of lacrosse — was something that I really cherished.

3. How have the upperclassmen been helpful in showing you the ropes of Penn and the team?

One person that comes to mind is Taylyn Stadler. She’s a senior attacker. She’s insane.

She was on the Tewaa raton Watch List.

She is one of my biggest role models on the team. She’s helped me throughout the entire season, getting better, telling me what I need to work on. She’s just one of the many.

most of my time on the field. It’s a lot of fun.

5. You say before every game, the team listens to songs. What’s your favorite song to listen to before a game?

That’s a hard one. My favorite song to listen to before a game … I don’t think I have [one]. Anything by Tee Grizzley. He gets me pumped up.

8. What’s your favorite Philly outing that you’ve done so far — whether it be an activity or a restaurant you really liked?

We had a team father-daughter bowling night. I’m not sure what the bowling alley was called, but we all went and it was so much fun.

6. Outside of lacrosse, what do you like to do for fun?

I loved to play f ield hockey in h igh school, something I sadly can’t do anymore. That was another sport that I really loved to play, so I think that would be something fun besides lacrosse that I love to do.

9. How do you remember that moment of spending time with the team and your father?

It’s such an experience. I just want to make him proud with every game I play, with every play I make. So it’s awesome to see the results of all the years of hard work that I put into lacrosse and that he’s put into me. So just enjoying those games [is] really special to me.

4. You’ve been getting incredible minutes as a freshman, and you’re one of the leaders in goals scored. What has it been like coming in your first season and getting to make those big impact plays?

It’s been great, I’m really thankful for the trust the coaches put in me — my teammates as well. I just go out there and try to make the

7. What’s the biggest difference you’ve found between living in Maryland and being here in Philly?

There [are] some big ones. So I’m from Eastern Shore Maryland, which is very country and farm with the beach, so I’m not very used to the city life. But the city life is so much fun.

There’s never a boring moment here. I love it.

10. What is something else that you’re really grateful for?

I’m so grateful for the opportunity I have to be here. I know that I’m living some girl’s dream out there, so being able to live that out to my biggest capability is crazy to me. And I’m so grateful to be at one of the best colleges in the world.

The Farrell name will be remembered in the soon-to-be-annual matchup between Villanova and Penn, the Farrell Cup, bringing together the brothers’ alma maters with a shared opportunity of remembrance and celebration on the field.

The idea for the Farrell Cup was spearheaded

by Daniel Keating, father of Connor Keating, who had been on the Penn men’s lacrosse team with Farrell since they were both freshmen.

Daniel took initiative by working with both schools to make the match a reality, and the

inagural game took place on March 13.

“Every time we do something for him or around his name, I think it brings an element of positivity, even though we miss him a lot,” Murphy said.

Penn claimed the win in the first Farrell Cup with a last-second goal by senior attacker Dylan Gergar. But the most memorable moment was when the team hoisted the trophy inscribed with the quote: “An Annual tradition Honoring the unconditional love of Family, Friendship and

the spirit of competition and commitment to team.”

“For us to get to hold that trophy in the end, for it to still be in our locker room, is really special,” Bedard said.

The Farrell brothers’ joyous personalities live on through the people who remember their passion for life, those fortunate to have encountered their compassionate spirit and self less care firsthand.

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Graduate student midfielder Ben Bedard (right) and junior defender Edward Arnold (left) changed their jersey numbers to honor the legacies of former team captain James Farrell and his brother Michael.

Men’s lacrosse teammates honor late captain James Farrell with jersey numbers Remembered for his selfless care and dedication to the team, Penn men’s lacrosse continues the legacy of its former captain KRISTEL RAMBAUD Sports Reporter

James Farrell and his brother Michael Farrell always had bright smiles on their faces, ref lecting their profound warmth and care toward others. And it is how the people they encountered — from residents of their hometown Manhasset, N.Y., to James’ fellow graduates of the Class of 2018, to the alumni of Penn men’s lacrosse — remember the brothers most fondly.

“I just always think of their smiles,” junior

defender Edward Arnold said. “Because it seems like everywhere I went, it was just glaring perfect smiles. It was infectious. [They were] just super charismatic people that I always knew would be influential to everyone around them.”

James played for Penn men’s lacrosse from 2015 to 2018 and helmed the captaincy during his senior season. He tragically passed away on July 26, 2021, in a car crash along with his brother Michael, who was enrolled in the Villanova School of Business.

“It shook the entire community because if you ask anyone, they were the happiest kids alive,” Arnold said. “They knew them as the life at the party, the life of the town.”

Arnold’s connection with the Farrell brothers began prior to arriving at Penn in their hometown of Manhasset, where they grew up with each other as best friends.

In honor of his late friend, Arnold changed his jersey number to 4, picking up the reigns of continuing Michael’s legacy on the field.

“That was his number, from football to lacrosse, you name it. He was always wearing 4,” Arnold said. “I wanted to be able to preserve his own legacy, being that I was so close to him.”

Graduate student midfielder Ben Bedard also honors the legacy and memory of the former team captain every time he steps out onto the lacrosse field. He, too, did so by changing his jersey number to the one that once belonged to James. Now every time Bedard takes to the field, he bears the number 19, as well as the memories of the former captain, across his shoulders.

“The guys in [James’] class came up to me and asked me if I would wear it,” Bedard explained. “For them to trust me with that is

special and something I don’t take lightly.”

James’ selfless and hardworking attitude was the perfect fit for captaincy. He made sacrifices not asked of him, sometimes picking up the long stick to help the team.

“The reason why he was voted and named captain was because of the kind of person he was,” coach Mike Murphy said. “He was always so selfless and so positive.”

James shared his compassion with constant involvement in Young Quakers, the youth sports program started by Murphy in 2012 in conjunction with the Netter Center for Community Partnerships, which James greatly enjoyed.

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From Rhode Island to Connecticut, women’s tennis wins back to back

Stats, Vibes, and Spite: Ivy League baseball review

The Quakers returned with a win against Brown and an upset over Yale

The table is set for Penn baseball to compete for its first Ivy title since 1995, and the Quakers are ready to dine

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Through yet another tough weekend on the road, the Penn women’s tennis team juggled through uncertainty and emerged with two conference victories against Brown and Yale.

“The temperature was between playing indoors and outdoors, and we didn’t know where we would play until 45 minutes beforehand,” head coach Sanela Kunovac said, “but the girls played beautifully. From the practice on [last] Monday, I knew that they were going to do great.

I’m very proud of them.”

The Quakers (12-8, 2-1 Ivy) traveled to Providence, R.I. on Saturday to face Brown (6-12, 0-3) and then ventured to New Haven, Conn. to take on Yale (11-8, 2-1) on Sunday. The Quakers shined both match days with dominating performances in singles and doubles.

Although the freshman duo Gavriella Smith and Saige Roshkoff suffered a 6-2 defeat to open the match day at Brown, the Quakers made a strong comeback, as the other two doubles pairs — graduate student Marija Curnic and senior Yulia Bryzgalova and freshmen Eileen Wang and Sabine Rutlauka — claimed wins and secured the doubles point.

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Midway through the season and armed with hindsight, game footage, and advanced stats calculated from the Ivy League’s (questionably structured) stats pages, we are here to evaluate the strength of the league.

These are our power rankings for Ivy League baseball through April 10, 2022.

PHOTO BY BORNA SAEEDNIA

Senior Yulia Bryzgalova competes in a doubles matchup against the University of Maryland at Hamlin Tennis Center on March 22.

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8. Princeton (4-21, 2-7 Ivy) It took Princeton 12 straight losses to start the season before its first victory, and the Tigers have much resembled prey at the bottom of the Ivy pyramid. The Tigers currently have the worst record in the conference, despite the best efforts of junior outfielder Nadir Lewis, who paces the Ivy League in weighted on-base percentage, or wOBA (.532), slugging percentage (.774), OPS (1.282), home runs (9), and walks (22).

Though the Tigers are tied for the third-best wOBA in the Ivy League at 0.346, their pitching ranks second to last in both ERA (7.81) and wOBA allowed (.400). The fielding isn’t much better See BASEBALL, page 8 CONTACT US: 215-422-4640