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DORM ROOM FUND ANNOUNCES FOUR NEW STUDENT INVESTORS The student-run venture capital firm invests in local student-led startups

BY COREY STERN CONTRIBUTING WRITER GRAPHIC BY SOPHIA LEE The Philly Dorm Room Fund is taking its largest set of new student investors since its founding.

The fund, which is backed by First Round Capital, is adding Engineering and Wharton sophomores Nilesh Kavthekar, Tim Miller and Lauren Reeder, as well as College junior Matt Gibstein to its squad.

These student investors will be exposed to the world of venture capital as they invest in student-led startups from across Philadelphia.

All four expressed their anticipation to join the team of student investors, in what they all believe will be an invaluable learning experience.

“The Doom Room Fund presents a tremendous 360-degree learning opportunity,” Gibstein said. “I’m extremely excited to learn from my fellow investment team members, hear from student entrepreneurs about the challenges they’re tackling in innovative capacities and ultimately, gain a better understanding of venture capital from the investment side."

At the same time, the new members expressed their enthusiasm about helping others get their ideas off the ground.

“It will be really awesome to see what students in Philly come up with, and it will be really nice to help them achieve success," Reeder said. “We have the experience to give these startups the proper advice and resources to make sure they succeed in their current venture.”

The Daily Pennsylvanian sat down with all four new student investors to talk about startups, venture capital and their eagerness about joining the Philly Dorm Room Fund.

Students struggle to open up about mental illness at Penn

BY JILL CASTELLANO Staff Writer

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Ongoing Investigation: Mental Health at Penn

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t took five suicides in 12 months for students to start speaking out about their experiences with mental illness. In blog posts, Daily Pennsylvanian op-eds, student groups, UA committee meetings and more, students made it obvious that mental health is an important and

widespread concern.

But the movement only began in the wake of the student deaths — beforehand, few people were sharing stories of mental illness in an open forum.

Although each person’s experience with mental illness is unique, many tend to have one thing in common: a fear that they are not living up to

the expectations set by themselves and others. For many, the journey to recovery involves finding the people who will support them — whether those people be family, friends or mental health professionals — even through the most difficult times.

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Local cemetery seeks input on renovations

New student group to provide mentorship, access to resources A book by Makuu Director Brian Peterson inspired the student group

BY LAURA ANTHONY Deputy News Editor FOCUS, a new student group, aims to consolidate access to campus resources and provide underclassmen with a support system so they can adjust to life at Penn and thrive both academically and culturally.

“Our purpose is not to make new resources available but to bring all the resources that are currently on this campus for every student ... together in one place,” College freshman and FOCUS Leadership Team member Athena Buell Becerra said.

The idea for the group stems from “Higher Learning,” a 2010 book by Makuu Black Cultural Center Director Brian Peterson. Peterson described a concept for a student organization that Peterson termed FOCUS — Fundamentals of Collective Undergraduate

Success.

The idea was to find a way to bring together students of all backgrounds to create a “community of trust” that would foster diversity and help students adjust to and succeed in college.

“We’re all having the same struggles, but we’re not talking about it,” Peterson said.

The five members of the FOCUS Leadership Team — Pinkney, Buell Becerra, College junior Jonathan Paz, SEE FOCUS PAGE 2

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The Woodlands Cemetery, located at 40th Street and Woodland Avenue, was founded in 1770 by Alexander Hamilton’s grandson William Hamilton, and became a cemetery in 1840.

The Woodlands Cemetery is asking neighborhood residents how it should spend $300,000

BY CLAIRE COHEN Deputy News Editor The Woodlands Cemetery, located at 40th Street and Woodland Avenue, is currently surveying the community on how to spend a $300,000 grant.

The 54-acre cemetery, which also operates as a public park, received the grant from the William Penn Foundation under the theme of “great public spaces” in August 2013. The organization hopes that the survey will inform the foundation on how the public uses the space.

“We really want to know how people use the space and how to align our mission with preservation of the property,” Woodlands Program and Communications Coordinator Erica Maust said. “But we also want to make it a place people want to be and want to visit

and make it a viable space in the middle of a diverse neighborhood.”

The survey received over 300 responses and will be available online through the end of May. After receiving community input, Woodlands will design a master plan, which it will unveil in fall 2014.

Potential changes to the space could include finding new uses for existing buildings, new plans for future tree planting and new ways to keep new greenery within the historic context of the property. Woodlands Executive Director Jessica Baumert added that maybe the most important thing is finding ways to improve entryways for pedestrians, especially with the upcoming construction on the 40th Street trolley station.

While plans from the grant won’t

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FOCUS also worked with admins FOCUS from page 1 College sophomore Javellys Polanco and Wharton junior Andrea Cuartero — have created the real thing on campus. This semester, FOCUS took off as a “student-run resource engagement team of all backgrounds,” Pinkney said.

“This is honestly us manifesting Brian’s original notion of a way to improve Penn,” Pinkney said.

Paz was the first one to get excited about Peterson’s idea.

He read Peterson’s book and approached him about starting the group on campus. But now that the group has taken off, Peterson said he has taken more of an advisory role, preferring to sit back and let the students run with the idea.

“I really want them to design something that they think is going to fit the current Penn undergraduate,” he said. “They are the current Penn undergraduates. So if they take ownership of it, that’s beautiful.”

FOCUS is built on their three core pillars: academic enrichment, individual support systems and multicultural praxis — the implementation of theories. FOCUS is also divided into two main components. FOCUS enrichment is the “lifestyle” component of the organization that intends to build community among participants through events and FOCUS apparel, College senior Azani Pinkney said.

It is already active on campus.

The second component, the FOCUS program that focuses on mentorship, will be launched in the fall. FOCUS leadership hopes to have 20 upperclassman mentors to work with 50 underclassman participants to make sure they’re settling into Penn and that they continue to be successful.

The group also wants to change Penn culture to focus on collective rather than individ-

ual success. “We need to build each other up as a group,” Buell Becerra said.

Since October, the FOCUS leadership team has been working with administration to help develop and implement their concept. They’ve been in contact with the leaders of the cultural resource centers, as well as administrators who work with preexisting resources with similar goals to FOCUS. Reverend William Gipson, associate vice provost for equity and access, has been active in advising the students, suggesting ideas like hosting a retreat to help solidify their goals and plans for the group.

“We wanted them to see for themselves and feel for themselves what would it look like actually if they were to undertake this idea,” he said.

Gipson said it was logical for the FOCUS leaders to seek his support and guidance since his office already offers similar resources like PennCAP — Pennsylvania College Achievement Program — which matches peer counselors with incoming students to support them throughout their transition to and time at Penn.

But whereas PennCAP works with primarily low-income and first-generation college students, FOCUS seeks to have a broader target audience.

“The difference here is that these students have come raising very important questions about the process of education itself at the college level,” Gipson said.

“It’s about creating this mix [of students from all backgrounds] but then creating a community of trust where we can talk about some of these issues that we experience that we may not have a space to talk about,” Peterson added.

Pinkney said that regardless of a student’s background, everyone will need support entering college, and that’s a need that FOCUS intends to address.

“In terms of a group that is consolidating resources and promoting success in a way that is all-inclusive, we do feel like there is nothing like this now at Penn,” he said.

NEC chair-elect plans to boost engagement, awareness Q&A | Wharton sophomore Devin Grossman to lead NEC

What were your thoughts going through the process?

DG: Like I was saying, we have a pretty standard process, so that was no different from any other year. We had a lot of interesting candidates, which was really exciting because it let more people get involved. In terms of the results themselves, those are on our website, and we don’t really have any comments or opinions on those. But I think overall it was a very interesting election cycle, and we saw that just with increased interest in everything that was happening.

BY KRISTEN GRABARZ Staff Writer Even the branch of student government responsible for overseeing elections has to choose leaders within its own ranks. Earlier this month, the Nominations and Elections Committee held internal elections to determine the new executive board.

Wharton sophomore Devin Grossman was elected chair.

The Daily Pennsylvanian sat down with Grossman to discuss his plans for the next year.

Da ily Pennsylva nia n: What are your major initiatives for the next year?

Devin Grossman: Every year we go through same general process in terms of how we run our nominations and elections processes — so it’s definitely about continuing those; that’s really a sustained mission that we’re always working toward. Additionally, we’re in charge of general education, which we look at in terms of getting people involved in student government as a whole and interested in the initiatives that we’re working on.

DP: Do you have any specific plans for getting people involved?

DG: First it’s about increasing general awareness of Penn student government.

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Devin Grossman, a Wharton sophomore, will take over from ​College senior Frank Colleluori as chair of the Nominations and Elections Committee. ing more coherent messaging, but also reaching out to groups that don’t traditionally get involved with student government and aren’t traditionally engaged. Those are things like cultural, political and religious minorities, but also large groups of campus that we’re just not targeting, from whom we just don’t see involvement in terms of people not running for elections or people just not being interested in applying to committees. So just in general, I’m hoping to tap into those communities.

DP: The NEC has standard processes each year.

How are you going to differentiate your chairmanship?

DG: The way we start is by getting more people involved.

I think this year we saw a very diverse group of candidates, so I think that’s something we definitely want to continue as far as that relates to the UA elections. I would like to see us move even more in that direction, and to really improve our outreach so that we get really competitive races and compelling races from huge disparities across campus. We want everyone to get involved and feel like there’s someone on student government or running for student government who represents them and their interests.

DP: This past election season was pretty eventful.

DP: Are there any specific challenges facing the NEC over the next year?

DG: I think the first part is that a lot of people don’t know what the NEC is or just assume that we’re so bureaucratic that we’re impossible to reach, when in reality our goal is just the opposite. We want people to contact us about elections related issues, and we want people to think they can apply to committees and that committees are relevant to them.

DP: What’s your favorite part of being on the NEC? DG: It’s really about being advocates for students.

That’s something we also underplay a bit. Our role is really to get students involved in everything that is happening on campus — I mean that’s what we do when we nominate students to committees.

We want them to be playing an active role, and we really fight for students in a sense to make sure they’re being heard on committees where there a lot of administrators, which can be very bureaucratic.

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Q&A

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What got you interested in venture capital?

Last summer I interned at CB Insights, a small data company based in New York founded by two Penn alumni. I was basically in charge of tracking all the activity within the venture capital industry. I was able to look at all the cool different companies that were trying to solve different problems, and I saw that this was an amazing industry where people can help others build their ideas.

— Miller I was first interested in the start-up side of the field. From there, my interest broadened into other projects, and eventually that led to an even broader interest in venture capital and helping others with their projects.

— Reeder

I was fortunate enough to intern for Square and Uber, both of which are First Round Capital portfolio companies. That fact spurred me to reach out to their [vice president] of platform, and I ended up spending all of last school year interning at the firm. … Ultimately, I’d say it was my interest in tech that drew me to the DRF in the first place, but my experience at First Round that made me want to learn more.

— Gibstein

Matt Gibstein C’15

Major: Science Technology and Society From: Miami, Florida FYI: Spent fall semester abroad in Barcelona Favorite startup: AirBnB Experience: Apple Store, New York Times, Google, First Round Capital

I grew up reading technology and gadget blogs. I remember hearing about internet companies … and I wondered where they got their credibility from. At the time the iPhone started taking off, a company called Kleiner, Perkins, [Caufield & Byers] launched the iFund, specifically investing in iOS apps at the time, and I just thought that it was such an interesting model that an external group was funding these apps and expecting to make a good return on them.

— Kavthekar

Major: Finance and Material Science Engineering From: Glen Rock, New Jersey FYI: Travelled to 30+ countries and territories with family Favorite startup: Unequal Experience: CB Insights, Melinger Products and Intelligent Concrete (all startups)

Through PennVention and Weiss Tech House, I’ve been exposed to the life cycle of start-ups.

I know how that process works, and I can bring that understanding and leverage it to help start-ups perform better in their early stages.

— Kavthekar

I offer a perspective from a multitude of backgrounds. Since I’m in Wharton and the School of Engineering, I understand the fusion of the tech side and business side of things. I believe my strengths are in company analysis and business development.

— Miller

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Nilesh Kavthekar Eng., Wh.’16

Major: Computer Engineering and Entrepreneurial Management From: Naperville, Illinois FYI: Has moved nine times throughout the U.S. Favorite startup: Zappos Experience: Global Genomics (digital health startup), organized PennVention competition

Tim Miller Eng., Wh.’16

What do you think you offer to the Dorm Room Fund?

On one hand, I hope that I can provide the investment team with an interesting perspective after having the chance to work in both the consumer and enterprise spaces. I’m equally as eager … to provide portfolio companies with sound advice, whether it be aiding with business development, ops, marketing, content strategy, etc.

— Gibstein

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Lauren Reeder Eng., Wh.’16

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After being involved with a start-up myself and seeing so many businesses come through the Innovation Fund, I’ve been able to learn a lot about the process of building a company. This broad range of experiences will lend itself to being able to help other companies achieve success.

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Through the Dorm Room Fund, we get the opportunity to run our own venture capital fund, which is something that I find fascinating and would definitely be interested in as a future career. Beyond this, the experience that we gain from interacting with our portfolio companies would also be valuable if I were to start a venture of my own.

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READERS RESPOND… to a 34th Street shoutout (see 34st.com)

To the Penn nurses: A two-year associates degree will get you the same job. But keep talking about those clinicals like they mean something.

Clinicals: To me, they mean everything

GUEST COLUMN BY JENNIFER TOTH Last Thursday, like thousands of other people on campus, I looked forward to reading 34th Street’s spring shoutouts. Unlike most other students on campus, though, I did so after a 12-hour-long day of clinical — physically and emotionally exhausted but proud of the work I had done. So you can imagine my surprise and disappointment when I read: “To the Penn nurses: A two–year associates degree will get you the same job. But keep talking about those clinicals like they mean something.”

Let me start by saying that I don’t need your recognition or affirmation to feel fulfilled by the work that I’ve chosen to pursue. I also know, though, that you’re not the only one who misunderstands what we do as nursing students, so on behalf of all of my fellow nursing students I’d like to address the two parts of your criticism: that we’d be just as well off in an associate degree program and that our clinical experiences are meaningless.

F i r st , a s s o c i at e ’s d e grees and bachelor ’s degrees are not equivalent in any field, nursing included.

The emphasis on research, ev idence-based care and nursing leadership in the curriculum here at Penn simply cannot be found in an associate degree program. A 2010 report from the Institute of Medicine and

the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation recommended increasing the percentage of bachelors-prepared nurses from 50 percent to 80 percent by the year 2020.

This recommendation is based on research showing that BSN nurses have more proficient assessment abilities, better research

tics aside, it was the second part of your criticism that grabbed my attention and stung more: that our clinical experiences are meaningless. Unless you’ve spent 12-hour shif ts car ing for critically ill patients or have yourself been one of those patients, I would ask you not to jump to that conclusion.

Teaching parents how to care for a four-week-old baby

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Unless you’ve spent 12-hour shifts caring for critically ill patients or have yourself been one of those patients, I would ask you not to jump to [the conclusion that our clinical experiences are meaningless.]” and evaluation skills and improved patient outcomes, i nclud i ng lower mor t a lity rates, than RNs without bachelor’s degrees. For this reason, many hospitals no longer hire RNs without a bachelor’s degree.

Additionally, a large percentage of our class will go on to get master’s and doctoral degrees, working as nurse practitioners, nurse anesthetists and nurse rese a r cher s. A bachelor ’s degree is preparing us for those careers by teaching us to think critically and act confidently in patient care situations.

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who has already undergone multiple open-heart surgeries and has never left the hospital? Definitely meaningful. Talking to an elderly cancer patient about his fears of dying while also administering the antibiotics he needs to stay alive? Not a waste of time. Teaching a homeless woman about the importance of her medications and collaborating with her social worker to ensure that she can actually afford to buy them? I hope you don’t actually think that is meaningless. I can’t think of anything I’d rather spend my time doing. As someone who personally spent months in

and out of the hospital for cancer treatment as a kid, I can assure you that nurses are in a unique position to support families during the worst times of their lives and that they have a lifelong impact on their patients.

Now I’m not saying that nursing is more valuable than the many other discipl i nes t hat people a re studying at Penn. I couldn’t do my job without the work of engineers who have designed the high-tech medical equipment I use to care for my patients, without the researchers who have explained the psychology of development in a hospitalized child or without the business people who make it possible for a hospital to operate in the first place. Just as I recognize the importance of those disciplines, I hope that you would be able to do the same for nursing.

I pray that you reading this never find yourself in one of the hospitals, clinics or rehab centers where my classmates and I spend our days. But I certainly hope that if you do, you will have nurses — Penn grads or not — who will care for you with the sk ill and compassion that we as students strive to learn at clinical every week.

Jennifer Toth is a Nursing junior from Vienna, Va. Her email address is jentoth@sas.upenn.edu.

YOUR VOICE To the Penn community: We don’t mean to complain. Just because we are kind, caring people that have dedicated our lives to ser ving others in their greatest time of need doesn’t mean that we don’t have a sense of humor. We can take a joke.

But the recent shoutout about us (“To the Penn nurses: A two-year associates degree will get you the same job. But keep talking about those clinicals like they mean something”) hurt our feelings a little more than usual. It was, as they say, the final straw. As the senior class, we’ve been picked on for four years now, and we’re over it. We feel we have a responsibility to speak up, and now is our last chance.

First, a little education, since it appears that Penn didn’t cover ever ything for you: Education is just one of the many things t h at nu r s e s d o w he n they’re not doing nothing.

It is quite clear that most college students have no idea what it is nurses do, which means that you and your family are fortunate enough to have avoided serious illness. Congratulations! We’re very proud of you.

Unfortunately, the day will come when you or your loved ones will be seriously ill. They will be admitted to a hospital where

all of your pre-med friends who became physicians won’t pay any attention to you. That means that someone like the lowly nurse will have to answer your questions, attend to all your needs — and we know you guys sure are needy! — and help you maintain an ounce of dignity when you soil the bed and we are the ones cleaning you up.

We will do all of those

tain necessary medication therapies. We will control dialysis machines that filter the contents of your blood and then retur n them back to you when your kidneys don’t work.

We will insert nasogastric tubes down your nose and into your stomach when you drink so much alcohol that it has to be removed from your body or when your gastrointestinal system is not functioning and

about your life before you were sick.

Of course, if you had no idea what a nurse did, we can’t expect you to know what a nursing curriculum is like, either. Let us enlighten you. We took chemistry, microbiology, anatomy and physiology, hu ma n development , research methodolog y, medical-surgical, geriatric, pediatric and women’s health nursing — to name

nursing besides a sexy Halloween costume. What you didn’t research is anything else — like the fact that BSN nurses have better patient outcomes than AD nurses (that research was done by Penn Nursing scholars, by the way), how more hospitals are requiring their nurses to get bachelor’s degrees or the importance of advanced practice nursing in health c a r e t o d ay (w ho pr e -

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You can make every inappropriate nurse joke out there — we’ve heard them all — but please do not disrespect our clinical experiences, which are undeniably more profound than any average undergraduate education.” things, and then some.

We will administer lots of medications and explain what they are for, what the side effects are and make sure you can take them as prescribed. If the medication is something like a chemotherapy drug, we will get specially certified to administer it because of its toxicity and specific administration guidelines. We will monitor the electrical activity in your heart so that when you suddenly go into an unstable rhythm, we can assess why and intervene. We will insert peripheral and central intravenous lines into your veins so that you can ob-

you must be fed formula through a tube. We will clean out your wounds — so deep you can see the bone — pack them with gau ze a nd t hen cover them up nicely so you don’t have to see. We will listen to your lungs with our stethoscopes and tell your doctors that you have crackles throughout, and we suspect an aspiration pneumonia: We will be right. We will help you get out of bed and stand up, when moving seems impossible. We will hold your hand when you are in pain and you have no friends or family there to comfort you. We will listen to you when you want to tell us

a few — and then all of the same sector requirements everyone else has (yes, we took a writing seminar, and a math and an arts and letters, etc.). We took exams like ever y other student, we wrote papers like every other student, we did presentations like every other student and we had labs like every other (science) student. We also had anywhere from six to 16 hours of clinical per week in addition to regular classes.

It is true that you can become a reg istered nurse with an associate’s degree or a bachelor ’s degree. We’re glad you Googled something about

scribes your birth control at student health?), which is limited to RNs who have a BSN and then go on to get a master ’s degree, Ph.D. or DNP (Doctorate of Nursing Practice).

You can make ever y inappropriate nurse joke out there — we’ve heard them all — but please do not disrespect our clinical experiences, which are undeniably more profound than any average undergraduate education.

Perhaps you think that we simply want to complain about waking up early in the morning. Well sometimes we do, because it is difficult to listen to you talk about your “early” 9

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a.m. class when we have been up since 5:30 a.m.

But usually we just want to convey what our day was like while we were at clinical and you were sleeping in.

We want to tell you what it feels like to hug the spouse of a dying patient or to watch a mother try to comfort a sick child in pain. You cannot compare your academic stresses to the kind of suffering we are exposed to on a weekly basis.

You should be so lucky as to encounter and be cared for by one of us. After all, we have received the same Ivy League education as you and worked just as hard to get through it. We will be experts in our field, just like you will be in yours. Next time you meet a nursing student, or a nurse, ask them about what they do, and ask yourself if you could do that for a living. If you think you could, maybe you should spend a day with us and reconsider your major. We’re not the most trusted profession year after year for nothing. We’re just better people than you are (oops, we said it).

Yours in sickness and in health, Nora Casper and members of the Penn Nursing Class of 2014

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MENTAL HEALTH from page 1

Many benefit from support of friends and family ‘We don’t talk about certain things’

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n t he su m mer a f t er h e r f r e s h m a n y e a r, Marlene’s dinner often consisted of the f ree granola bars she took from the place she worked. She paid her own rent and knew each dollar she made was essential.

“When I was a freshman, I really wanted to rush for a sorority, but I had to pay dues, which I couldn’t afford,” said Marlene, whose name has been changed for confidentiality — as have the names of others who are referred to by a first name in this article. “So I had to completely cut that option out of my life.”

Marlene found herself cutting many options out of her life — an act that she now realizes contributed to her loneliness and depression.

A major factor associated

where we don’t talk about certain things. When I say, ‘I can’t go because of money,’ it comes off as whiny. I don’t want them to judge me.”

O n ly a f ew of M a rlene’s friends know about her financial stress, because she feels t o o u nc om f or t able t a l k i ng about it, and even fewer know about her resulting depression.

“I’m afraid they’ll make a comment that isn’t supportive,” she said.

Many students worry about being judged by their friends and family for speak ing up about their mental illness. Alex, a College freshman, has also had a difficult time trying to reach out about her depression.

Late in her first semester at Penn, Alex’s grandmother was diagnosed with cancer — the disease that had taken so many of her family members, including her mother when Alex was only 12 years old. Since her

“At Penn, there’s such a conception that you need to be perfect in every way, but we’re not all OK. Actually, most of us aren’t.”

-Bethany Cam, College junior with depression is a feeling of isolation, which can make it difficult for some to reach out about the problems they face. Bethany Cam, a College junior, has felt that isolation since one of her closest friends died from cancer her freshman year — the same disease that killed her father when she was 14 years old.

“From then on, I was a little afraid of getting close to people,” she said. “I was a lot more negative, I stopped hanging out with people, and I just hated the way that I was and the way that I looked.”

B y her so phomor e ye a r, Cam’s weight had dropped to 95 pounds, a result of the anorexia she developed at Penn.

Then, following a sexual assault, she fell into a severe depression. Her grades dropped dramatically, and she almost had to take a leave of absence because of the two F’s on her report card.

Although many factors inf luenced Cam’s feelings and actions at the time, she spoke extensively about the effects that feeling isolated had on her.

“I felt alone even with my friends and family around me,” she said. “I felt so worthless that some nights I cried myself to sleep.”

During her sophomore year, Cam tried to commit suicide.

“When I swallowed the pills, I felt this sense of relief that I didn’t have to deal with this anymore. But my body didn’t take it — I threw them up, and I was going to live,” Cam said.

“That’s when it dawned on me that things weren’t as bad as I thought they were.”

For some people, isolation can begin by being cut off from the world — by losing loved ones or having no support networks in stressful situations — but loneliness can continue to grow as people worry about the consequences of sharing the way they feel with others.

Even though Cam wanted to feel better, she said, she tried to keep her friends from seeing that she needed help. “At Penn, there’s such a conception that you need to be perfect in every way, but we’re not all OK. Actually, most of us aren’t,” she said. “So I continued smiling and laughing and trying to act like everything was fine when it wasn’t.”

This made Cam feel even more lonely and depressed, she said, contributing to her ultimate decision to attempt suicide.

Like Cam, Marlene found it difficult to explain her depression — spurred by financial stress — to her friends. She was embarrassed to admit that she had any financial trouble at all.

“When other people want to go out or do something that I can’t afford, I’ll usually lie or make up an excuse, like, ‘I can’t go. I have work that night,’” she said. “We have this culture

mother’s death, Alex has been struggling on and off with depression, something that only a few of her family members k new about by the time the school year started.

“I felt like I had to be the stronger one for my family, since I didn’t want to be dark or upset or let people see that I was sad,” Alex said. “I think that’s how it started growing.”

At Penn, Alex was in a constant struggle between devoting her time to her schoolwork and thinking about her family. As badly as she wanted to go home, she didn’t want to neglect her responsibilities at Penn.

Alex’s friends kept asking her questions about the way she was acting, wondering why she wasn’t her “normal, happy-golucky self,” Alex said.

“That’s so hard to hear. I felt like I was letting someone down — like I’m not this image of what I was going to be or what I was supposed to become,” Alex said. “I felt so guilty for showing them that I’m not this person all the time.”

Facing the emotional demons

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or many, the ultimate path to recove r y f r o m m e nt a l illness involves taking the step to open up to others, no matter how difficult that process can be.

For Ben Wieder, the process began by first admitting to himself that he had problems he needed to work on.

Wieder, a 2009 College graduate and current Ph.D. candidate in physics, didn’t wash his sheets for four months during his junior year at Penn.

He would stay up until 5 in the morning playing video games, sleeping through the day and missing class.

“I used to brush my teeth every time I thought I’d meet a girl, so I brushed my teeth nine times a day and I actually eroded my gums,” Wieder said. “I had to get gum surgery this year just to fix it.”

ism and a need for orderliness. “ T h at ’s w he n I r e a l i z e d some of t hese t h i ngs were actually unhealthy,” Wieder said. “Somehow along the way I realized that I had been wearing the same undershirt and hadn’t left my room for two months.”

Wieder went to CAPS for the rest of his time as a Penn undergraduate. With help from his counselor, he was able to graduate with a double major in physics and biochemistr y and bring his fencing team to its only sole-possession Iv y League championship win in over 20 years as the captain.

Despit e t he problems he faced, Wieder said he would never have gone to CAPS on his own. “I didn’t know I had a real mental health issue ...

I wouldn’t have known where to go or what to do or exactly how to approach the situation,” he said. “It seemed like a lastditch emergency situation to go there, so I think it was good [my friends] knew what they were doing and exactly the path of least resistance to getting me there.”

Many students hold the same perspective. Alex said she was happy that her friends made themselves available in case she needed help, but didn’t push her to talk.

Alex said she took a couple of friends out to lunch to explain she was going through a rough time, but didn’t want to talk about it. “They completely understood,” Alex said. “Because of that, I was more open with them over time.”

Alex’s friends helped her by keeping her busy. They brought her to coffee shops and to dinner, making sure she was up and out of her room.

“It can really help a lot.” Alex said. “When you’re alone, that’s when you have to face the voices in your head that are telling you something’s wrong with you or something’s going on.”

A lex’s sister — one of the few people that she had opened up to in the past — could tell t hat somet h i ng was w rong after Alex heard the news of her grandmother’s illness. She pushed Alex to see a therapist — someone who wouldn’t judge her for talking about her problems.

“I [ have] realized I don’t want to go through the next three years being upset all the time or being in this constant fight with myself,” Alex said.

“So I‘m trying really hard to face the emotional demons and deal with them.” Following her sister’s advice, Alex decided to see a CAPS therapist, whom she continues to see now.

Lee, a College senior, only began seeing a CAPS therapist after his friends made an appointment on his behalf, concerned with what he told them about his depression.

While staying at Penn to do research last summer, he continued seeing his CAPS therapist. But when Lee started gat her i ng suppl ies t hat he could use to take his own life, his CA PS therapist became worried.

“I went to CAPS, and I expr e sse d my c onc er n s t h at I didn’t think I could make it through the day,” he said.

“They insisted that I had to go to the hospital.”

Lee was taken to a psychiat-

“When you’re alone, that’s when you have to face the voices in your head that are telling you something’s wrong with you or something’s going on.”

-Alex, College freshman When Wieder would go out to parties or pre-games, he said, the anxiety was so unbearable that he would sweat through his shirts and had to go back to his room to change.

W i e d e r ’s r o o m m at e a n d his roommate’s girlfriend arranged a meeting for him at CAPS because they were concerned about his behavior. A CAPS therapist diagnosed Wieder with Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder, a mental illness that involves perfection-

ric ward in a hospital in Center City, where he was to stay indefinitely.

“Honestly, that was probably the worst experience of my life,” Lee said. “I was alone, I was more depressed than ever, I couldn’t kill myself because they took away ever ything I could use to hurt myself and I was locked in there.”

During his stay, Lee was diagnosed with severe clinical depression. He began taking antidepressants, but the medi-

cine didn’t seem to help his symptoms. Lee started to fake feeling better in order to be released, and within a week he was sent home.

‘It’s OK not to be OK’

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or some, the f inal decision to open up about mental illness ends in relief and, ultimately, provides a path for healing.

A fter her suicide attempt, Cam is now on her way to recovery — a process made easier with her mother by her side.

Cam’s mother had depression when she was younger, and Cam was unsure how she’d react to Cam’s own experiences. “I was scared to tell her because I was afraid she’d say, ‘ You’re overreacting, you’re stressed,’ but I told her and she broke down and cried,” Cam said. “She said, ‘I just never want you to feel the way that I felt.’”

Cam’s mother gave her advice on how to cope with her depression and anorexia. “If anything, she was better than any psychologist. She was definitely a light for me, and I am so very fortunate to have her,” Cam said. “She was there for me every step of the way.”

With the support of her mother, Cam realized she didn’t have to hide anymore. She wanted to make everyone in her life aware of the way she felt, so she posted a Facebook status explaining everything — her depression, anorexia and suicide attempt — for all of her Facebook friends to see.

“I was scared — very scared of posting the status. I actually wrote it out, and then I almost clicked post but I got scared and I deleted it, and I went through that process a few times,” Cam said. “I was scared that people thought I was trying to get pity, and I didn’t want people to feel bad for me.”

“There’s so much that people at Penn have to offer,” A lex said. “It’s OK to be vulnerable, and it’s OK to open up to these people at Penn. You’re going to find that there are a lot of similarities. They’re all questioning their self-confidence.”

Alex now understands that she has to confront her emotions, she said, and she can’t do it without support from the people around her.

“When I was 12, when my mom passed, I wish that I could have understood that fact — that relationships are so important — because it’s hard to just rely on yourself,” Alex said. “ You don’t realize how much someone else can impact your life.”

For Cam and Alex, the love a nd devotion of fa mily a nd friends has helped them seek out treatment and work toward recovery. But for some people, like Lee, taking the step to talk about mental illness has led to more trouble.

“After getting out of the hospital, I figured that I had hit rock bottom. It was going to be nowhere but up from now — I had my bad experience,” Lee said. “But a few weeks after getting out of the hospital, I was getting more depressed again and more suicidal again, and I couldn’t really stop it and I couldn’t control it.”

Lee’s CA PS therapist was still concerned about his wellbeing. Toward the end of the summer, she told him that he should go to the hospital again.

When she said that the police would have to escort him involuntarily to the hospital as a last resort, Lee stormed out of the office. That was the last time Lee ever set foot in CAPS, and he hasn’t seen a therapist since.

“I didn’t want to go through it again,” Lee said. “If they just take you and lock you in a room, that doesn’t make you

If there’s a rational way I could solve depression I would’ve done it already. Depression is fundamentally irrational.

-Lee, College senior When Cam finally posted her status, it received over 40 0 likes.

“I have been surprised with the amount of people who have come up to me after my Facebook status, telling me that they suffered from the same things as I did or they lost their father like I did,” Cam said.

“I’m glad that me being able to create a voice made other people realize that it’s OK not to be OK.” By posting her status, Cam said, she realized the importance of paying attention to the mental health of her friends and family.

“I want to be an advocate for students that things get better — I’m someone who has gone through it and survived it,” Cam said. “And I’ve come to the realization that maybe that’s the reason why I lived.”

Cam was part of the Spread the Love campaign earlier this semester, when a group of Penn students stood on Locust Walk handing out candy and asking people if they wanted hugs. She did it, she said, because she wanted to brighten the mood on campus after the recent suicides.

“Be there for your friends, ask if they’re OK, call them and tell them you love them,” Cam said. “Show your love and appreciation, because at the end of the day, they’re the reason why you’re sane.”

With the support of Alex’s therapist and her sister, Alex has come to a similar conclusion as Cam. “Your relationships are the most important thing — your relationship w ith your family, with your friends and with yourself,” Alex said. “People don’t realize that.”

Alex has now begun to build her “Penn family” — her home away from home — which can fill in for the loved ones in her life who she can’t be with while she’s at school.

feel better. You can’t hide from depression. You can put somebody in a room for a week, a month, however long — they’re going to feel the same way, if not worse.”

Lee said from then on he wa nted not h i ng to do w it h CAPS or other administrators who tried to keep in touch with him periodically after he refused to return to treatment.

He told them repeatedly that he was doing well, even though he wasn’t, until eventually they stopped checking in.

His situation with his friends is not much different, Lee said.

When he talks about the way he feels, all his friends can do is encourage him to seek more help from a professional. “It felt like as soon as I really opened up about how I felt, everybody just wanted me to go to the hospital,” Lee said.

Lee continues to hurt himself, feel depressed and have suicidal thoughts and plans, but he now tries to keep them to himself as much as possible. He believes that as much as others try to help him, nothing they do can have an effect on the mental illness that has taken over his life.

“If there’s a rational way I cou ld solve depr ession I would’ve done it already,” Lee said. “Depression is f undamentally irrational. It exists despite ever y other reason that it shouldn’t be there, and it doesn’t care what your reasons are and what your logic is — your flawless plan of getting better. It’s something that just gets into your head and stays there regardless.”

Lee said he doesn’t expect to see much improvement in his condition, but some times are better than others.

“I’ll probably be hurting myself for the rest of my life or end up committing suicide, and there’s not much I can do to stop that,” Lee said. “It’s just something I have to live with.”

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Woodlands also renovates cryptoporticus CEMETERY from page 1 take shape for a few months, Woodlands plans to break ground on another $1.5 million development project this year.

Woodlands is preparing to renovate its cryptoporticus — an underground passageway which runs the length of the front terrace of the cemetery’s mansion. Once construction is complete, Woodlands will begin tours of the passageway.

T h e Wo o d l a n d s w a s founded in 1770 by Alexander Hamilton’s grandson William Hamilton. The younger Hamilton was educated at the College of Philadelphia, which later became Penn. The property has been an operating cemetery since 1840, when a group formed the Woodlands Cemetery Company as a preservation effort and economic movement.

Woodlands leaders hope the changes will help maintain connections to Philadelphia.

“Hopefully it, as we make improvements and more people discover us, [will] become a place people know about,” Baument said. “We want to become part of the cultural fabric of the city.”

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Swimming toward opportunity The founders of We Can Swim! are giving lessons to West Phila. youth

BY GEORGE ROSA Contributing Writer In his own words, environmental studies graduate student Da niel Schupsk y “cannot remember not being able to swim.”

“I learned to swim before I learned to walk,” he said.

College senior Clar issa Palmer believes “swimming taught me values that led me to Penn.”

The importance of swimming is what brought Palmer, Schupsky and Marc Christian, who is getting a master’s degree in education, together to found We Can Swim!, a nonprofit group that provides swimming education for underserved children in West Philadelphia.

The group offered its first lesson on March 16, 2013, to Henr y C. Lea Elementar y School students. Over the past year, We Can Sw im! also began offering lessons to other local public school students from Benjamin B Comegys Elementary School a nd t he S a muel B Huey School.

Schupsk y, a n assist a nt coach for the men’s and women’s swimming teams and an aquatics coordinator at Pottruck, said that his drive to help start We Can Swim! came from his research into the possibility of developing a community pool.

He noticed from statistics he read that black and latino groups had higher drowning rates than other populations, and he felt that was something that needed to be changed.

“This population is really vulnerable,” he said, but added that We Can Swim! provides “the opportunity to change culture and potential-

Philadelphia has the nation’s 4th highest drowning rate among children.

Drowning ranks as the 5th leading cause of unintentional death in the US, leading cause among children 1 – 4 years of age.

Fatal drowning for African American children is three times higher when compared to white children, mostly due to lack of access.

Boys are 80% more likely to be labeled as “at risk” (unable to swim comfortably) compared to girls of the same age and ethnic groups.

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ly save someone’s life” — like he once did as a child.

At the age of six, he jumped into his neighbor’s pool and saved a three-year-old child from drowning. “I really remember this kid just sinking to the bottom,” Schupsky said. That inter vention is the oldest memory he has of swimming.

Schupsk y tells the ado lescent learners of We Can Swim! that they, too, can save the life of a younger sibling or friend.

“Kids drowned last summer in Philly. They don’t know how to swim because their parents don’t know how to sw im,” Schupsk y said.

“They are underserved. They lack access to facilities and instruction.”

In the first year of We Can Swim!, “there was a child who jumped in on the first day and immediately began drowning. He had zero swim skill,” Palmer said. By the program’s eighth week, the child pushed off from the wall and was “essentially swimming all by himself.”

Unlike her cousins, Palmer was fortunate enough to learn how to swim because, for her parents, there was “no question” about the matter.

“Now I want to give back to kids in West Philly,” Palmer said. “Maybe we can inspire kids to go on to a college they would never expect to get into, or become an Olympian.”

Palmer will be attending Brooklyn Law School next

fall. She hopes to continue working with nonprofits and underprivileged urban youth.

As for Schupsky, he’s “not in a rush to leave Penn” because of opportunities for community service such as We Can Swim!

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We Can Swim! volunteers gave swimming lessons to West Philadelphia children at Pottruck this past Saturday. The event was co-sponsored by Onyx Senior Honor Society. Seventy percent of African American children do not know how to swim.

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In media, the transition to digital challenges and inspires

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When you outgrow your favorite t-shirt, turn it into a laptop case College senior Yi Wang founded start-up ReBag earlier this year

BY YING PAN Contributing Writer

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Lindsey Palmer, a 2005 College alum, read from her new book about the magazine industry Pretty in Ink at the Kelly Writers House’s Arts Cafe on April 22. Palmer left the industry and now works as a teacher in addition to her writing.

BY CASSIDY LIZ Staff Writer Drama can be made out of a desk job.

Lindsey Palmer, a 2005 College graduate, is preparing for the publication of her novel “Pretty in Ink,” which is based on her seven years in the publication industry follow ing her graduation from Penn.

“There’s an interesting story to be told about this world that’s struggling — maga zines have a lready taken a hit with all this competition with blogs and websites,” Palmer said.

“It’s work that’s sort of fun and glamorous,” she added.

During her time in the industr y, Palmer worked at publications including Glamour, Redbook and Self. She experienced the emergence of the internet age firsthand.

That served as inspiration for her novel, in which the editor of the fictional Hers magazine is ousted in light of extremely poor sales.

The new editor causes a stir as he plans to reroute the magazine entirely to better attract readers.

These days, it’s hard to deny the importance of digital media in publishing. Even The New York Times was heavily bolstered by its digital readership in 2012. Some 600,000 digital subscriptions raised its circulation by 40 percent when the Alliance for Audited Media included digital subscriptions in its count for the first time.

M a rga r et Lu h , a 19 9 0 Wharton graduate, previously worked at Thomson R eut er s , T he New York Times and News Corporation, which owns Fox and the Wall Street Journal, before taking on the role of global corporate strategist at Razorfish, a digital agency.

“The challenge before was finding the information. The value [in publishing] now is in curating that information and presenting it in a format that is useful and usable,” Luh said.

T hat shou ld hopef u l ly lead to customer loyalty, which has the ability to keep brands alive, she added.

“When I started out in publishing, [readers] were just subscribers,” she said. “Now there are opportunities to monetize these captive, loyal consumers who already believe in your brand.”

Rachel Gogel, a 2009 College graduate who recently participated in a Penn Traditions’ panel on careers for liberal arts graduates, now serves as the creative director at The New York Times.

Gogel, who has previously worked with Travel + Leisure and GQ, believes that the print industr y is benefiting from the digital age, rather than dying.

“Now the publishing industry is in a period of complete digital disruption,” she said. “I actually think this is a very profitable time to be in magazine media. With growing consumer demand, magazines and newspapers — t y pically a nchored in print — are not being replaced; they are expanding to deliver enhanced content to engage readers across multiple distribution chan-

nels.”

It is also harder than ever to find work in the publishing industry, she added. “I am where I am today as a result of freelancing, working hard and being openminded about taking on all sorts of projects in order to build my portfolio,” she said. “Being in the publishing industry doesn’t mean what it used to — you’re expected to know about print, digital, mobile, tablet, social media. It’s no longer one-dimensional. Having a diverse range of experiences will set you apart.”

This distinction, in particular, was what gave Palmer the tools to write her novel.

“I think people going into publishing hopefully have a very different idea than I did 10 years ago or someone else did 20 years ago,” Palmer said. “If you’re going to work at a traditional magazine now, you have to think about writing for a different media — how are you writing for the web, how are you thinking about the brand and social media?”

Palmer left publishing and is now a high school English teacher.

Store your computer in your pants. Or your wallet in your pajamas.

With ReBag, a studentfounded startup that refashions personal apparel into functional accessories like bags and laptop cases, you can. ReBag was founded this year by College senior Yi Wang.

ReBag, according to Wang, is more than a traditional recycling project. The company’s mission is to help customers retain memories. “ R eB ag i s act u a l ly i nspi r e d by my mom , who keeps all my baby clothes,” Wang said, recalling a blue b a b y j u m p e r t h at s t a y s folded in a drawer at home.

“Clothes are so power f ul that they witness our growing moments and connect people who we love and love us,” Wang explained. “They shouldn’t be left alone in the wardrobe.”

Right now, customers can screen pre-made samples

online, select their preferences and then send their clothes out for refashioning.

The online platform will automatically distribute the orders to different contract workers, who are stay-athome moms and people with physical disabilities. Wang hopes to empower the cont ractor s emot iona l ly a nd economically.

“People tend to think business is purely profit-driven and NGOs or nonprofits are too moral-driven to achieve f inancial sust ainabilit y and cost-effective service,” Wang said, explaining that she wants ReBag to benefit its customers materially but also to be “altruistic.”

Wang is working with Career Wardrobe, a professional development organization for women, to sell ReBag’s products off line at Career Wardrobe Boutique, a physical store in Philadelphia that sells second ha nd clothes from donation from both in-

dividuals and corporations.

The Wharton Innovation Fund gave ReBag some early financial support last December. “A thousand dollars isn’t a lot for a startup, but it was enough to carry out initial prototy ping,” Wang said. “I received so much help from the Penn community.” She noted that a social entrepreneurship class also helped her refine her idea.

Wang is actively marketing ReBag to the graduating seniors to help them hold on to Penn memories. College senior Qiao Ding had her blazer turned into a laptop cover by R eBag. “This is very cool and meaningful,” Ding said. “I will definitely carry it to my full time job.”

ReBag just launched its one-month long fundraising campaign on K ickstar ter.

The goal is to raise $2,400 dollars to fund further prototyping and marketing. Backers can received customized ReBag products.

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Red and Blue beat St. John’s for sixth straight win

M. LACROSSE | In Penn’s final regular season game, 11 different players scored

BY STEVEN JAFFE Senior Staff Writer

vs. St. John’s The Quakers took the end of the season by storm — literally.

On Friday, No. 10 Penn men’s lacrosse finished off its regular season at the Katie Samson Lacrosse Festival by defeating St. John’s in Radnor, Pa., in the first meeting ever between the two squads. The festival is held annually to raise money for spinal chord injury research, and has raised over $1.5 million since it was first held in 2000.

Penn was quick to ensure it would finish the regular season on a high note, breaking the game open in the first half.

Sophomore Nick Doktor opened up the scoring just over one minute in.

Doktor eventually completed a hat trick and added three assists, finishing the regular season with a team-high 32 points.

The Red Storm equalized soon after Doktor’s first goal,

Big Red took lead but faltered W. LACROSSE from page 10 The Quakers (10-4, 6-1 Ivy) rebounded from a slow start and held off a late surge from Cornell (7-8, 4-3) on their way to a 10-8 victory. The win also ensured Penn of the No. 2 seed in the Ivy League tournament, which will be hosted by co-Ivy League champion Princeton next weekend.

The Red and Blue opened up

Professionals headline Sat. at Penn Relays RELAYS from page 10 momentum into the Penn record books, including senior Kersie Jhabvala and freshman Brendan Shearn in the 10,000-meter race and freshman Cleo Whiting in the 3000m.

Friday was a relatively slow day for Penn’s athletes, but the Quakers certainly went out in

but the Quakers responded by rattling off three straight goals to finish the opening quarter.

The Red and Blue continued the offensive onslaught, outscoring St. John’s 6-2 in the second quarter to go up 10-4 by halftime. “We went up 6-2 and they called time-out, and I just said to our team, we’ve been in this position before and almost every time we let teams back in it,� coach Mike Murphy said. “So let’s put a firm gap here and win the next five, 10 minutes and sure enough we did that.�

The two teams fought evenly throughout the last 30 minutes, and Penn was able to ride out the time for a 17-10 win. “I thought that was significant progress for us too,� Murphy said. “The fact that we could create a lead, extend the lead and sustain that throughout the second half was something we hadn’t really done before.�

While the 17 goals marked the Red and Blue’s largest offensive output since 2006 when they took down Robert Morris, 18-4. They also allowed more goals than they have since they gave up 17 to Cornell back in March — the team’s most recent loss.

The Quakers will need to shore up any defensive holes that were present on Friday in the immediate future. On Sunday, Penn learned that it will face

Cornell again in the Ivy League Tournament semifinals this coming Friday in Cambridge, Mass. “They’ve dominated the Ivy League for years,� said senior Zack Losco, who also notched a hat trick on Friday. “But we have a six-game win streak, so we just need to focus on what we’ve been doing ... and hopefully that’ll get the job done.�

Indeed, Cornell hasn’t lost to Penn in the regular season since 2006, but the Big Red have shown some weakness since playing the Quakers earlier in the year, losing three of their last five games. Cornell has also sunk down to No. 11 in the coaches rankings, one spot behind Penn.

With the victory on Friday, the Quakers have tied their longest

win streak since the beginning of the 2006 season.

And perhaps going into Friday with that momentum will help the Quakers overcome an Ivy rival that’s foiled them consistently in recent years. “Every game could potentially be my last,� Losco said. “That do or die mentality has really trickled down to every member on the team.�

the game with a sluggish performance, allowing a few quick goals from the Big Red, who grabbed a 3-1 lead through the first six minutes. However, as they have all season, the Quakers responded. “The thing that’s been working for us, why we’ve had some good halves or parts of games, is when our attack is really moving at a fast pace and creating a lot of havoc,� Corbett said. “It was a complete team effort. “There were a number of people who finished well this weekend, but I think it has a lot to do with ... the speed at which we play.�

After a seven-goal run, Penn found itself ahead 8-3 and ma-

neuvered into halftime with a four-goal lead following a late Cornell score. The Quakers continued their hot play during the first few minutes of the second half and claimed a 10-4 lead.

And though Cornell scored four goals late in the second half, the Big Red were unable to overcome the insurmountable lead despite their best efforts. “I feel like we started off a little bit slow, made some mistakes off the bat, got into a groove on attack,� Corbett said. “And then after the goals in the second half, we talked about looking for good opportunities, and unfortunately we didn’t do that.

The second half wasn’t a great

defensive game for us either.�

The win clinched a share of the eighth consecutive Ivy League championship for the program, breaking Harvard’s previous record for consecutive Ivy League women’s lacrosse titles, which included seven titles from 1987-93. The title also matches Penn’s school record for consecutive Ivy League championships with the men’s fencing squad that captured eight championships from 197576 to 1982-83. “This team really set out from the beginning to make history,�

Corbett said. “It was our goal to win an eighth consecutive championship that no other team had ever done in lacrosse.�

Senior midfield Tory Bensen continued her recent hot streak, notching four goals and an assist in the game. Meanwhile, freshman attack Sarah Barcia scored her second hat trick of the season, all three of which came during the Quakers’ late first-half streak.

Moving into the Ivy League tournament, the team has its sights set on the more distant future, securing an NCAA tournament berth. “There isn’t really a pressure to repeat, that’s how we’ve played all season,� Corbett said. “This is just ‘We want to play in the NCAAs’, we’ve got to play well to win on Friday to have a chance at an at-large.�

style on Saturday.

Sophomore distance-runner Thomas Awad was victorious in the Olympic development mile, posting a time of 3:58.34 and becoming only the second athlete in school history to break the four-minute mile.

Meanwhile, off the track, senior Maalik Reynolds won the high-jump for the second time in his career with an outdoor season best leap of 2.19m. He is the first Penn athlete to win multiple events at the Relays in 107 years.

The stars carried the day for the Red and Blue, as this year marks the first time since 1922

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that Penn won three individual event titles at the Relays.

And the Quakers very nearly gained a fourth individual victory, as sophomore Sam Mattis led a much-improved throwing team with a runner-up finish in the discus championships.

The most impressive collegiate performer of the meet very well may have been Edwa rd Cheserek , Oregon’s freshman distance-r unner sensation who led both his distance medley relay and 4x1600m teams to victory.

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Another highlight for the U.S. men’s national team came in the distance medley relay, in which reigning Olympic 1500m silver medalist Leo Manzano ran an incredibly tactical final leg to secure an American victory over Australia.

While the Relays may be over, the track and field season is far from done for the Quakers.

Moving forward, the Quakers will prepare for postseason competition, starting with the outdoor Heptagonal championships in two weekends.

In the 4x100m relay, the U.S. men’s team — featuring Olympians Justin Gatlin and Walter Dix — fell significantly behind to a Usain Bolt-less Jamaican squad following a shaky first exchange. But the U.S. would battle back, gaining ground on the Jamaicans and forcing a photo finish.

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On Saturday morning Penn headed to New York to finish up the series. The Quakers won their first bout of the day 3-1 but battled through a tough 6-5 loss in the final game.

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Women placed fifth and men eighth at Ivies GOLF | The men’s last place finish comes after a third place finish last season

BY DANIEL RICH Staff Writer The Penn men’s and women’s golf teams traveled to Springf ield, N. J., over the weekend to participate in the Ivy League Championships at Baltusrol Golf Club.

The men’s team played the par-70 lower course while the women’s team played the par72 upper course in a 54-hole tournament to determine this season’s Ivy League champions.

Over the course of a roller coaster weekend, the men’s team finished in eighth place with a total score of 77-over par, while the women’s team claimed fifth place with a total score of 76-over-par.

The men’s team shot combined scores of 302, 310 and 305 to finish just three strokes behind seventh-place Cornell and four strokes behind sixthplace Dartmouth. On the other side, the women’s team posted rounds of 320, 295 and 325 to finish ten strokes behind fourth-place Yale.

Junior Ben Cooley led the men’s team in all three rounds, shooting 73 and two 74s to finish 11-over-par. Individually, Cooley placed seventh overall in the field. Freshman Dane Walton tied for 18th individually with his 18-over-par 228 final score.

Sophomore Patrick O’Leary finished two strokes behind Walton in 21st place, while juniors Austin Powell and Tomas Agrest finished tied for 35th and 39th, respectively.

Columbia posted combined rounds of 302, 276 and 303 to claim the Iv y League title at 41-over-par. Yale, whose 5 3 - over - pa r was just t wo strokes behind the champions, finished in second. Four strokes behind the leaders at 55-over-par, Harvard claimed third place.

Brown’s Nelson Hargrove and Harvard’s Theodore Lederhausen finished tied for first place individually at five over, while Cornell’s Carl Schi-

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menti came in third at 6-overpar.

With Cooley and Walton leading the way, the team ended the first round in fourth place, but a difficult second round on Saturday saw the Quakers drop to the bottom of the leaderboard heading into Sunday.

Unable to gain much ground on day three, Penn came close to advancing up the standings but ultimately finished where it had started the day.

The team’s last-place finish comes on the heels of a thirdplace showing in last season’s Championships. The team won the title outright in 2012 as well.

On the women’s side, freshman Erin Lo led the team as she tied for seventh place overall with a 14-over-par score of 230. Junior Amanda Chin shot a 17-over-par 233, including a strong 70 in the second round of play, to finish tied for 11th place individually.

Freshman Marissa Kay also posted an outstanding score in the second round, shooting one -over-par to help catapult her into a tie for 14th overall, one stroke behind Chin. Freshmen Isabella Rahm and Sophia Chen also tied for 25th and 27th, respectively.

H a r va r d post ed r ou nd s of 297, 297 and 306 to claim the Iv y League title at 33over. Princeton finished 21 strokes behind Har vard in second , wh i le Colu mbia’s 62-over claimed third place.

Har vard’s Anne Cheng finished first overall individually with a one-over-par 217, while Princeton’s Kelly Shon’s six-over and Yale’s Elisabeth Bernabe’s 10-over were good enough for second and third place, respectively.

Led by Lo, Chin and Kay, the Quakers ended the first round in fifth place but mounted a comeback to move into fourth place heading into Sunday.

However, the team was unable to break through once more in the final round to advance up the leaderboard and fell back to fifth place to close out the tournament.

The Quakers’ result matches the team’s finish in the Championships last season. Penn also won the tournament outright in 2010 while finishing second in 2012.

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After the Red and Blue lost their first game of the weekend, sophomore outfielder Matt Greskoff stepped up in a big way. The right fielder threw out the go-ahead runner at the plate in the fourth inning on Friday before unleashing a three-run, bases-clearing double that helped pave the way for an important Penn win.

Quakers split, playoff upcoming

BASEBALL | After going 2-2 vs. Columbia, Penn and Lions heading to one-game playoff

BY SEAMUS POWERS Staff Writer

Penn baseball’s thrilling run isn’t over yet.

With the Gehrig Division title on the line, the Red and Blue split their four game series with Columbia to remain tied atop the standings and force a deciding one-game playoff next weekend.

After getting shut down 6-0 in the series opener, the Quakers (24-16, 15-5 Ivy) bounced back by taking the middle pair of games by scores of 12-4 and 3-2 before falling in the finale, 5-2.

“It’s a great series,” Penn coach John Yurkow said. “Nobody wants to give in, and that’s why we’re going to a game five.”

Game one was all Columbia (24-17, 15-5), as the Lions used a dominant pitching performance by senior lefty David Speer to grab their 15th straight victory.

The Lions were able to jump on Penn starter Connor Cuff and take advantage of several Penn miscues early to score five runs in the first three innings of the opener.

Columbia pushed a run across in each of the first two frames, then broke it open in the third with three runs to make the contest 5-0.

Speer, who went the distance with seven strikeouts for his second straight shutout, limited Penn to only three

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hits in the first six innings and helf the Quakers in check throughout.

A crucial game two pitted a pair of undefeated righties in Penn’s Jake Cousins and Columbia’s George Thanopoulos against each other on the mound.

Despite getting into tough situations early on, Cousins surrendered only one run in the first two innings.

In the bottom of the second, the Red and Blue found themselves with runners on second and third after a hit batter, a single and a balk.

Sophomore infielder Mike Vilardo then drove in junior first baseman Jeff McGarry to tie the game with his team leading 18th RBI in conference play before Matt McKinnon plated sophomore outfielder Matt Greskoff with a single.

But the Lions would charge right back.

An error from sophomore Ryan Mincher gave Columbia runners at first and second, which set the stage for a deep drive to right field by first baseman Nick Maguire.

The Penn miscues continued, as Matt Greskoff dropped the towering ball just short of the fence, allowing two Columbia runs to score.

The Lions threatened to take the lead on a single to right, but Greskoff bounced

back by gunning down Maguire at the plate.

The Quakers quickly regained a 4-3 lead in the bottom of the third when Matt McKinnon drove in Vilardo with a RBI single.

But the big blow came from Greskoff, who more than redeemed his earlier miscue with a bases-clearing double that just made it over Jordan Serena’s head in centerfield.

Up 7-3, McKinnon kept the runs coming in the fourth with an RBI single that scored two and extended Penn’s lead to 9-3.

Freshman Mitchell Hammonds entered the game for Cousins in the fifth and gave up a run in his first inning of work before settling in and ultimately grabbing the win with five innings of relief.

The Penn bats refused to quiet down, however, as a bases-loaded double from McGarry in the bottom of the fifth gave the Red and Blue three more runs of insurance, effectively sealing the game.

“We came out with our backs up against the wall and responded really well,” Yurkow said of his team’s game two performance.

Game three proved to be the most dramatic contest of the series, with Penn holding off a seventh inning charge by the Lions to secure a 3-2 win

and go ahead in the series two games to one.

The Red and Blue took a 1-0 lead in the second inning when third baseman Mitch Montaldo doubled off sophomore Kevin Roy to score Ryan Mincher.

With lefty Ronnie Glenn throwing another gem for the Quakers, Penn’s offense quieted down until the late innings.

In the sixth, Greskoff roped his second RBI double of the weekend to push the Penn lead to two and junior catcher Austin Bossart followed an inning later with a RBI single.

Looking for his first complete game of the season, Glenn gave up four singles and two runs before forcing a game-sealing groundout with the tying run on third base.

In the series’ final game, the Quakers’ bats fell quiet after giving Penn a 1-0 first-inning lead.

Penn junior pitcher Dan Gautieri gave up a run in the second and two more in the fourth before he was pulled and replaced by Cody Thompson, to whom he handed a 3-1 deficit.

Columbia responded quickly to the change, adding two more runs in the fifth to make the score 5-1.

The Red and Blue got a run back in the seventh on a grounder by Vilardo, but would score no more.

The two teams will now play a one-game playoff in the next week, with the starters presumably the same as Friday’s game one – Speer vs. Cuff. The game will be played at Penn’s Meiklejohn Stadium, but a date and time are to be determined.

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Penn Relays and the weekend it was Penn track and field came up with three individual victories at this year’s Relays

BY COLIN HENDERSON Associate Sports Editor Anyone associated with Penn — at least anyone who doesn’t live in a hole — should know that the 120th running of the prestigious Penn Relays took place at Franklin Field this weekend.

So how do you approach looking back on one of the world’s largest track meets?

Boasting hundreds of different track and field events watched by over 100,000 spectators, the Relays certainly yielded a lot of moments to look back upon.

For Penn’s athletes, the first noteworthy moment came soon after the Relays started.

Freshman Noel Jancewicz got the Red and Blue off to an incredible start, winning the heptathlon over the course of Tuesday and Wednesday with the third-highest score in school history — 5035.

In doing so, the rookie became only the third Penn athlete in history to win the event.

“It was a big start to the Relays for Penn,” coach Steve Dolan said. “And it did give us some momentum going into [Thursday].”

On Thursday, several Quakers rode that

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Penn clinches share of Ivy title for eighth straight year W. LACROSSE | After beating the Big Red on Saturday, the Quakers tied with Princeton for the title

BY HOLDEN MCGINNIS Associate Sports Editor Not one. Not two. Not three. But eight championships.

With a win on Saturday, No. 15 Penn women’s lacrosse clinched a share of its eighth consecutive Ivy League title in its final regular season contest against Cornell.

at Cornell “After our loss to Princeton, we turned it on the next couple games and there was a lot of pressure and in the end we pulled through and fought,” coach Karin Brower Corbett said. “This team really battled a lot of things both on and off the field.

“I’m really proud of them. They really did something tremendous this year.”

Quakers win another Ivy South title SOFTBALL | Penn celebrates seniors, takes three from Lions to move on to postseason play

BY LAINE HIGGINS Staff Writer

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Against Cornell in Penn women’s lacrosse’s final regular season matchup, senior attack Tory Bensen notched four goals and an assist to help the Quakers clinch the win and their eighth straight Ivy title.

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For Penn softball, winning the Ivy South was easy as one-two-three.

The Quakers silenced Columbia with three consecutive resounding victories to clinch the South Division title and an Ivy League Championship berth.

Penn (18-19, 13-6 Ivy) kicked off its last South Division series of the season with a doubleheader at Penn Park on Friday.

The day was especially emotional for the Quakers given that it was the last time the team’s three seniors – outfielder Kristen Johnson, catcher Elysse Gorney and third baseman Kayla Dahlerbruch – played a doubleheader in Penn Park.

The Quakers came out guns-ablazing, scoring 19 runs in just 10

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Freshman outfielder Leah Allen added to her Ivy League-leading home run total as she hit a grand slam to help Penn to its first win of the weekend, helping the Quakers clinch the Ivy South. innings. The Quakers invoked the mercy rule on the Lions (22-22, 9-11) in both games, winning 10-0 and 9-1.

The hitting brigade was led by standout freshman outfielder Leah Allen. In just three trips to the batter’s box, Allen hit one homerun and knocked in four runs.

Johnson provided the most meaningful hit of the game though. Lead-

ing off the top of the second inning, she launched a blast clear past the fence, earning her first homerun of the season.

Penn’s bats stayed hot throughout the second game, scoring four runs in the bottom of the first inning alone. In freshman pitcher

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