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Financial aid changes limit student summers As a result of new SFS practices, at least 28 students have withrawn from studying abroad this summer BY JILL CASTELLANO Staff Writer

ome students cannot afford to participate in Penn’s summer programs this year as a result of changes in Student Financial Services’ summer aid practices. New SFS practices have resulted in fewer grants to students. As a result, many students — at least 28 already — have withdrawn from studying abroad with Penn this summer, and enrollment in Penn Summer Abroad programs is currently down by 18 percent from last year. Now, summer abroad coordinators are afraid these practices could result in major

changes — programs could move away from need-blind admissions and some of them are in danger of not running at all. This poses a unique challenge for the University. Penn is the only Ivy League school with an aid program that offers summer grants to undergraduates taking summer courses or studying abroad, Director of Financial Aid Joel Carstens said. “The intention of how we’re distributing aid is to get as much as possible to as many students as possible,” Carstens said. “We want to ensure that as many students that can be supported by Penn will be.”

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Former assistant history prof sues Coverage of SP2 student’s death gave Penn for gender incomplete timeline of University response discrimination Ongoing Investigation: Mental Health at Penn

BY LAUREN FEINER Staff Writer

n late March, the Huffington Post charged that students and faculty felt the University was not supportive and transparent to them and the general public about first year Social Policy & Practice student Alice Wiley’s death, keeping it “Under Wraps For Weeks.” However, emails supplied by Dean of SP2 Richard Gelles and interviews with students and fac-

ulty at the school tell a somewhat different story. First year SP2 student Alice Wiley died in her home state of Georgia on Dec. 27. According to emails sent from SP2 administrators to faculty, her death was a suicide. The University informed students of Wiley’s death on Jan. 15, the first in a chain of events which made first year SP2 student Thomas Bick feel “like it was very hush hush,” he told The Daily Pennsylvanian. “It felt like

no action.” He also wrote a March 28 opinion piece entitled “Left Unsupported in Our Grief” for the Huffington Post.

“Less emails, more contact” Students and administrators countered that the school was just respecting the family’s wishes and let students know soon after learning of Wiley’s death. SP2 was not notified of Wiley’s death until Jan. 13, by her mother. They noti-

SP2 administration emailed announcement of death to school community (all students, faculty and staff) that included list of resources/supports for students (also first day of classes)

Courtesy of Kristen Childers

Alice WIley dies in home state of Georgia

SP2 students return to campus from winter break for fieldwork

fied SP2 administrators, faculty and students two days later via email, Gelles said. “Everyone that I spoke with [at the University] was kind and gracious and extremely considerate and so sad,” Wiley’s mother, Susan, said. “They were just so sad.” The Jan. 15 email did not include Wiley’s manner of death, a decision Bick criticized in the Huffington Post. The family requested it be told to the commuSEE RESPONSE PAGE 7

Email sent to all students about session “Stress, Distress and Suicide” facilitated by faculty and staff Session 2 of “Stress, Distress and Suicide” facilitated by faculty and staff

Memorial service held

Former assistant history professor Kristen Stromberg Childers is suing Penn for alleged gender discrimination in her tenure decision.

Kristen Childers claims her maternity leave adversly affected her tenure application BY YUEQI YANG Staff Writer

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SP2 administration first learned of student’s death from mother

Former assistant history professor Kristen Stromberg Childers claims that she did not receive tenure because she took a leave of absence to give birth and take care of her children. Now, she is suing Penn for alleged gender discrimination. Childers, who taught at the History Department as an assistant professor from 2002-10, filed a complaint against the University on April 28, demand-

Jan. 29, 2014

Feb. 19, 2014

Dean of Students emailed all students, faculty, staff notice of memorial service 1/22; memorial service postponed to 1/29 due to snow storm (email notification to all school community)

Student’s mother told SP2 administrators the “unofficial” cause of death was suicide; SP2 administration called deceased student’s instructors to inform them of death and cause of death

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Feb. 26, 2014

April 2, 2014

Follow-up email sent to all standing and part-time faculty encouraging check-in and continued support of grieving students

Timeline of events

occuring after SP2 Suicide

The bike path to a world without homelessness College senior Nick Cernek plans to bike across the U.S. to break ‘social barriers to love’ BY EUNICE LIM Contributing Writer This summer, College senior Nick Cernek will set the (bicycle) wheels in motion to combat homelessness. Through his Living Without Walls trip, Cernek and his two friends Carter B. and Simon Skold will bike from Philadelphia to San Francisco over a span of two and a half to

three months, living off of $16.50 a day together and camping out in people’s backyards and on the streets when necessary. A long the way, they will buy meals for the homeless and hungry and share life stories, write music, keep a running blog on their progress and at the end, weave all the stories, music and experiences into a feature-length documentary. They will make stops in most of the big cities en route, including Pittsburgh, Chicago, Kansas City, Denver, Sacramento and San Francisco.

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For Cernek, the trip boils down to “breaking social barriers to love people.” Cernek said that his “mission is to spread God’s love. It’s why I exist, and I want to spread that love to anybody and everybody.” Another motivation for going on this trip is to break free from the 9-to-5, urban lifestyle. More than 3,500 miles is an extensive distance to travel on bicycle wheel, so the crew plans to travel light. “We’re only taking what we can carry, and I’ll probably pack a couple days’ worth of food, a camera, musical instruments, not a lot

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of clothing and some homemade soap, which should be fun,” Cernek said. Wanderlust and travel fantasies aside, an uncertain road realistically lies ahead for Cernek, Carter and Simon. “We’ll be at the mercy of whatever hits us,” Cernek noted, “and we’ll be relying on people’s generosity and friendliness, which isn’t always what we’ll meet.” Still, Cernek says that he is ready for the unplanned challenges, physical exhaustion and interpersonal conflicts that may arise. “I’m not going to be naïve, but overall I’m

just excited for the opportunity to bless people and live for that on a daily basis.” Many people — especially those at Philadelphia Bikesmith — have shown support for Cernek and his friends’ cause, but the three are still in the fundraising process. Currently, they have raised $1,754 of their $3,000 goal. Cernek plans to spend $1,500 buying food and $750 buying meals for the homeless — 75 meals at $10 each. The remaining $750 will support Project HOME , a SEE BIKING PAGE 10

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Penn resides in the 2nd Congressional District, which is currently represented by Chaka Fattah, who has held the seat since 1995. Two Penn faculty members are running for Congress in the 13th District, which includes Montgomery County. That district’s seat is currently held by Allyson Schwartz, who is running in the Democratic primary for governor. Marjorie Margolies, who is a senior fellow at the Fels Institute of Government, served in the House of Representatives for one term between 1993 and 1995. She made a name for herself fighting for women’s rights both in and out of Congress and is the current chair of the Women’s Campaign International. She wants to raise the minimum wage and strengthen workplace equality.

The Daily Pennsylvanian compiled the candidates’ positions on several issues relevant to Penn students.

Armond James, a Temple University graduate and self-described educator and mentor, is the only candidate running for the 2nd Congressional District’s Republican primary. He is a fiscal conservative, according to his Facebook page, and has raised $0 in his campaign thus far, according to opensecrets.org.

Val Arkoosh is an anesthesiologist and a professor at the Perelman School of Medicine. She lobbied Congress during the healthcare reform debate and believes that the Affordable Care Act is “a step in the right direction,” even though she says more work needs to be done to improve patients’ access to health care. She believes that pre-K education should be expanded and that the government should take steps to help students avoid crippling debt.

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Beverly Plosa-Bowser is a 30 year veteran of the U.S. military who grew up in southeastern Pennsylvania. She believes that the Affordable Care Act went too far in putting government bureaucracy in between doctors and their patients and that the law must be completely overhauled in order to have comprehensive reform. She also believes in stricter border control and stricter enforcement of immigration laws.

Current congresswoman Allyson Schwartz has been the 13th district’s congresswoman for nine years. During that time she has served on the House Budget and Ways and Means Committees, both of which deal with fiscal issues. As a member of Congress, Schwartz has worked to expand Medicare and access to health services for American citizens, among other things.

Chaka Fattah, who has served in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1995, is the only candidate for the Democratic primary for the 2nd district. During his tenure, he has supported many pieces of legislation pertaining to education. He is currently working on the Student Bill of Rights, which expands the responsibility of states to provide an equal quality of education to all students, and legislation to provide tax credits to people who donate to qualifying scholarship programs. Fattah was also an early supporter of the Affordable Care Act.

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Carson Dee Adcock is a local businessman running on a platform of fiscal responsibility. He believes that the national debt needs to be payed off and taxes reduced in order for small businesses to thrive and create jobs. He would begin anew with health care reform, starting with liability protection for doctors and allowing the purchasing of insurance plans across state lines.

During his tenure as a state representative, Brendan Boyle fought cuts to education funding under the Corbett administration and introduced new legislation to allow students to attend state colleges tuition-free if they maintained above a 3.0 GPA. He supported the repeal of the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy and is in favor of non-discrimination legislation to protect LGBT individuals.

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NICK MONCY is a College sophomore from North Miami, Fla. His email address is nickmon@sas.upenn.edu.

Speaking of salaries

THE DEVIL’S ADVOCATE | ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ is a lousy policy if we want fair wages

he very first act President Obama signed into law was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which was designed to correct a failing of previous pay equality legislation that prevented women from filing anti-discrimination claims more than 180 days after the discriminatory decision had been made. To me, this provision seems fairly straightforward and uncontroversial, but the vote split along party lines with a very few exceptions. Why the opposition? Jump ahead to April 8, 2014, when National Equal Pay Day memorialized President Kennedy’s original signing of the Equal Pay Act of 1963. On this day earlier this month, Congress attempted to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act, which was intended to address potential causes of the national gender pay gap. The bill included provisions requiring employers to prove that wage discrepancies were based on

bona fide business interests rather than gender. Republicans in the Senate ultimately blocked the bill for the second time. I’ve never understood how someone can argue against this bill in sound mind or conscience. Some argue that the bill does more to help litigators than women in general, a poor argument which could apply equally to any anti-discrimination laws. Others say, leave it to the free market to set wages. Expressing a more extreme position, anti-feminist “family values” crusader Phyllis Schlafly argued in a Christian Post op-ed that since women apparently prefer to marry men who earn more than they do, “if [the pay gap were magically closed], simple arithmetic suggests that half of women would be unable to find what they regard as a suitable mate.” Thus, she apparently argues, fair pay for women would destroy whatever remained of the institu-

tion of marriage after the gays got to it. If anyone can provide me a more compelling problem with the legislation, I would love to hear it.

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We willingly abandon our privacy when it comes to relationships, hardships [and] hookups … yet we still show a reluctance to discuss salaries.” Until then, I’m more interested in a less advertised provision of the bill: a prohibition on “retaliation for inquiring about, discussing or disclosing the wages of the employee or another employee.” This brought to my attention an aspect of pay discrimina-

tion we rarely acknowledge: our silent complicity. Especially in North America, we have a deeply ingrained taboo against discussing salary with co-workers. The Internet is saturated with advice against sharing compensation details with anyone. But when it comes to the why, almost inevitably the justification for secrecy is you may inadvertently discover you make more or less than your neighbor. The argument goes that pay differences engender jealousy and strain workplace relationships, so best to keep it all to ourselves for the sake of civility. I disagree. When we deal with uncomfortable truths by actively avoiding evidence, that is a form of willful ignorance. I abhor willful ignorance out of principle, but this behavior also causes demonstrable harm to all participants. By discouraging sharing of salaries, we make discrimination much harder to discover. We are burying our

heads in the sand. Also, by not sharing this infor mation we hand icap ourselves when it comes to dealing with employers. Companies have a strong incentive to keep salaries secret in order to maintain an edge at the negotiation table. Employers have enough power without employees handing them more. I find it particularly perplexing that even millennials who grew up surrounded by social media still adhere to this classic prohibition. We willingly abandon our privacy when it comes to relationships, hardships, hookups and every inane inner thought we think should grace our Facebook and Twitter feeds, yet we still show a reluctance to discuss salaries. Why have we collectively determined that this one element of our lives deserves unique protection from prying eyes? I realize this taboo is not easy to overcome. In America, we unfortunately tie our sense

COLLIN BOOTS of self-worth and achievement into our work, so we often hold our salaries like a closely guarded personal secret. Sometimes we fear exposing our egos to damage when our neighbor out-earns us, while in more empathetic moods we wish to prevent our neighbors’ embarrassment when the roles are reversed. But for our own good, we need to move past this simplistic view of human worth as earning potential. We are so much more than what we make. COLLIN BOOTS is a master’s student studying robotics from Redwood Falls, Minn. Email him at cboots@seas.upenn.edu or follow him @LotofTinyRobots.

Rethinking sexual orientation

hen I w a s younger, my best f r iend and I decided to switch gender roles, simply because he had always been curious about the appearance of a woman and its apparent advantages. He wouldn’t mind putting on makeup and such for a party and would borrow my derby shoes because he wanted to add extravagance to his black and somber ensemble. In return, I borrowed his buttoned-down shirts and tied my hair back. People started asking questions. They didn’t wonder about me, but about him. Our friends started wondering whether he was gay, with his thin figure and his feminine facial features. They could not accept the fact that he would dress up differently

LINES OF PERSPECTIVE | There’s too much emphasis placed on a change in sexuality — love who you love from them just out of curiosity and would be different from them for some time. They automatica lly assumed that his cross-dressing def ined him sexually too. However, the situation is similar to when boys under the age of 10 put on their mothers’ dresses and walk in their heels in front of the mirror. This does not indicate anything other than curiosity and imitation. As children, we want to become like our parents because they are the people we see regularly and whom we attempt to model our lives after. Different events surrounding me, that do not affect my own person on any level, have made me think about sexual orientation a lot these past few weeks. I am not talking about setting up rules and reconsidering my own, but rethinking

the rules put on genders and ways we love. The norms of society have made it okay to be alarmed at the announcement of a change, but it shouldn’t be so.

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Coming out seems to have taken on a much more important stake than it’s supposed to.”

A f r i e n d r e c e nt l y a n nounced to her parents that she was in a relationship with a girl. She was stressing out about announcing it, acknowledging the fact that parents never accept change in their children right away, whether be it a different sense of style,

a new interest or acquired taste, a different path of studies or else. It is normal in the sense that parents have only seen and raised their children one way and it therefore takes them time to accept the fact that their children sometimes choose to live differently. It becomes not so normal when parents overthink it and wonder if they did something wrong, as if choosing to love someone of the same sex has a biological or mental aspect that is easily switched on and off. According to the Human Rights Campaign, “Sexual orientation is the preferred term used when referring to an individual’s physical and/ or emotional attraction to the same and/or opposite gender. A person’s sexual orientation is distinct from a person’s gender identity and expression.”

Some parents and other people forget that choosing to love someone of the same gender does not have anything to do with their own person or ideas. The person remains the same and will not start acting in another way. The ideas of my friend, her actions, her habits, her mind and her intellect remain the same. She simply decided to be with someone who shares the same gender. For me, deciding to like someone does not depend on gender, but on the interest you find in the other person, be it the way you feel around him or her, his or her mind, the mutual taste you both have and the like. Sometimes, a person puts you in the happiest state you’ve ever been simply because of the way he or she brings you attention, listens to you or functions

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DIANE BAYEUX as a human being. You cannot prevent yourself from feeling this way just because it is not considered normal to instantly change orientations. Coming out seems to have taken on a much more important stake than it’s supposed to. It’s not supposed to be that way. There is no one type of person that can bring you everything you need and want. There is no gender binary and no sexual constraint. Love who you love. DIANE BAYEUX is a College freshman from Paris. Her email address is dbayeux@sas.upenn. edu.

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Penn Vet partners with Homeland Security BY MAYA RAWAL Staff Writer

Penn Vet’s Working Dog Center announced a new partnership with the Department of Homeland Security on Monday. The center will continue t h e T r a n s p o r t at i o n a n d Security Administration’s explosive detection canine breeding program, which was shut down between the end of 2012 and the beginning of 2013 due to budget concerns. Penn Vet’s focus will be on scientific research rather than on field work. R ather than completely end i ng t he prog ra m a nd losing 10 years of research, the TSA gave existing canine research programs the DP File Photo/Yolanda Chen opportunity to apply for a Penn Police bomb detection dog Officer Socks was trained at the Working Dog cooperative research and Center. Socks will be bred, perhaps through the International Canine Semen Bank. development agreement to

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tigate the extent to which training can supplement a strong genetic background. “The genetics is huge because that’s what enables the next generation,” Otto said. ”[That’s what] really sets us up for success.” Many Penn students know Officer Socks, a bomb detection dog raised and trained through the Work ing Dog Center and now employed by Penn Police. Otto sees a lot of potential in Socks. She will be bred, possibly using the TSA semen bank. Penn Police will also eventually receive Zisa, one of the two TSA dogs. Zisa is currently pregnant in Texas. The dog will arrive on campus sometime in May or June. The TSA was not immediately available for comment.

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Family’s wishes were a guiding force behind SP2’s response RESPONSE from page 1 nity at a memorial service. A letter from Wiley’s mother that included her suspected cause of death was read at a Jan. 29 memorial service. A Feb. 19 email to faculty informed them that Wiley committed suicide and advised them to check in with their students. One of Wiley’s friends, a first year SP2 student who wished to remain anonymous, said, “I think there has been a bit of delay in how the University helped the cohort cope but they’re doing the best they could under the circumstances... We can’t bash the administration for trying to follow the family’s wishes.” Gelles also had concerns about telling students about a colleagues suicide via email. “I truly do not believe in hitting people cold with an email over an event like that,” he said. “There just isn’t a gentle way of sending that.” Many students were informed of Wiley’s suicide via social media platforms like Facebook. Bick said some students sought information regarding her death from one of her sisters on the site. A part-time SP2 student who recently issued a survey to SP2 students to assess their knowledge of mental health resources on campus also lamented the use of email to communicate Wiley’s death. “That’s the only area I feel not as happy with [how the school handled],” the student said. “I feel like it deserved more than an email, but I don’t know how you reach out to 300 students at once... I feel like we get a lot of emails and we need to get less emails and more contact.” The March 27 article in the Huffington Post also reported SP2 Professor Allan Irving saying he learned about Wiley’s death for the first time from a student. The article also said that multiple faculty sources had confirmed that the February email was the first time that faculty was informed of the death.

In an interview in mid-April, SP2 Dean Richard Gelles said that the professor “might want to read [his] email a bit more closely” and provided emails showing professors were informed of Wiley’s death three times in January. Gelles also said any student or faculty member that approached administrators who knew Wiley’s cause of death were told. “If you wanted to know, you had 14 days to come to me and then you would have known,” Gelles said. Irving did not respond to multiple requests for comment via email and phone.

“Unsupported” in their grief? A f ter the deaths of Elvis Hatcher and Madison Holleran, Counseling and Psychological Services, Student Intervention Services and the office of the Vice Provost of Undergraduate Life led the response. Although CAPS was notified of Wiley’s death through the Vice Provost of University Life shortly after SP2 was informed, Bill Alexander, director of CAPS said that the school told him they were handling it internally. Bick charged in his writings and an interview with The Daily Pennsylvanian that SP2 did not provide adequate support in the wake of the tragedy. He wrote that students told him CAPS did not appear to have been notified of Wiley’s death, which is incorrect. Alexander credited the small number of students who chose to visit CAPS regarding Wiley’s death to the school’s tactful handling of the situation. “After all, they are social workers,” he said. Some faculty and students in SP2 have criticized that SP2 professors are not included on the Task Force on Students’s Psychological Health and Welfare. Gelles was told SP2 would have representation on one of the Task Forces’s working groups.

One of Wiley’s friends, a first year SP2 student who wished to remain anonymous, visited CAPS for his regular appointment with a therapist he began seeing in October after her death. He said that as a whole, the school and mental health resources on campus did the best they could. The part-time SP2 student who recently issued the survey to SP2 students assessing their knowledge of mental health resources on campus is not entirely convinced that these resources are visible to graduate students. “As a grad student, you’re not as plugged in,” the part-time student said. “Libraries are visible, classrooms are visible... But CAPS is not.” “I had no idea CAPS existed,” the student added, acknowledging they are only on campus a few times per week. The student, who wished to remain anonymous so that the survey is not compromised, noted the survey is not complete Bick also wrote that he would have liked to see more public gatherings like “school meetings or assemblies.” “The lack of open communication about her suicide has left students feeling confused and angry,” he wrote in the Huffington Post article. The school hosted the memorial for Wiley, which was postponed because of a snowstorm, and also offered meditation sessions and “a conversation about stress, distress and suicide in the context of social work” on Feb. 26, according to an email sent to SP2 students, as well as a follow-up session on April 2. But to Bick, this should have been done earlier, as well as an earlier discussion in class. He said that the first time one of his professors brought up the subject in class was on Feb. 19, after the professor received an email from the administration encouraging them to check in with students. He said these conversations provide stu-

Campus Resources Counseling and Psychological Services 215-898-7021 215-349-5490 (Nights and weekends) University Chaplain’s Office 215-898-8456 Student Health Services 215-746-3535 Office of the Vice Provost for University Life 215-898-6081 dents with closure, something he says his textbooks recommend when someone leaves a group. In this case, he told The DP, “You have someone who’s not coming back ever and just nothing?” Wiley’s friend believes it is everyone’s job to look out for each other . “That mentality of being in an Ivy League institution that you should be able to deal with being here needs to go. That mentality is toxic,” Wiley’s friend said. Her friend referenced a blog post on Pennsive, a Tumblr created by the mental health awareness group Penn Active Minds and the CAPS student advisory board. In the post, a student dealing with mental health issues wrote that she had asked her friends to go for a walk with her and they all claimed to be too busy, leading her to the brink of suicide. The friend also recalled Wiley’s genuine care for others, remembering a time when a friend of theirs was criticizing their own body, and “without skipping a beat, [Wiley] said ‘All bodies are beautiful.’” “You are so much more than just Penn. You are an individual,” Wiley’s friend added.

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located at 3900-3902 Spruce Street, without permission at about 4:10 p.m. The suspect was arrested. April 21, 2014: At 4:10 a.m. police observed a person enter the girls’ locker room at the Hollenback Center, located at 3000 South Street, where he tampered with a stereo and removed items from lockers. The offender did not have permission to enter the building. The suspect, a 23-year-old unaffiliated male, was arrested. April 24, 2014: At 2:00 p.m. a 32-year-old affiliated female returned to her home, located at 212 S. 41st Street, to find that her apartment door had been forced open. A laptop and other personal property were removed from the apartment. April 24, 2014: At 9:00 a.m. a 26-year-old affiliated male retur ned to his home, lo cated at 212 S. 41st Street, to find that his apartment door had been forced open. Money was stolen from the property. Fire Incident: April 18, 2014: At 4:25 p.m. a 20-year-old affiliated male was using his laptop computer in the common area of Harnwell College House when the battery caught fire. The fire was extinguished and the Philadelphia Fire Depa r t ment responded , deeming the area safe. Theft: Bike theft: 4 Theft from building: 5 Theft from vehicle: 3 Arrests from theft: April 21, 2014: A 61-yearold unaf f iliated male was arrested in connection with a theft from building.

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SigEp to start mentorship with local high school The fraternity hopes to establish monthly mentorships next year BY MELISSA LAWFORD Staff Writer The brothers of Sigma Phi Epsilon have launched plans for a long-term mentorship program for students at West Philadelphia High School, in collaboration with the Netter Center for Community Partnerships. Following their first event on April 18, the fraternity hopes to establish a pro gram of monthly mentorship events next year, College junior and President Joseph

Pasteris said. For their first event, about 12 students from the school came to Penn to play basketball with SigEp brothers. After basketball, they went back to the chapter house for pizza and a question-and-answer session with a panel of brothers about the prospects of college. One of the fraternity’s key goals this year was to expand their community service work, Pasteris said. The fraternity would like a permanent system of regular mentorship events to become SigEp tradition, he added. SigEp had an “ex isting partnership” with the Netter Center, College junior

and Philanthropy Chair Andrew Shannon said, as the fraternity’s chapter house is occupied by Netter Center interns over the summer. In October, SigEp hosted a Haunted House event for children from the Henry C. Lea Elementary School. The event was “definitely a lot of fun,” Emerson fellow and 2013 College graduate Kristin Thomas said. “We were look ing to have a deeper impact,” however, she said, explaining the importance of the discussions that accompanied the basketball event. The program will “mesh [the] interests our house has with how we can help the community,” Shannon

said. West Philadelphia High School students currently participate in a monthly, informal basketball program at Pottruck, and this program will build on the shared interests of SigEp brothers and the local students. The new program will work with students from ninth to 12th grade and will focus on student prospects. “We’ve just been through it all,” Pasteris explained. “We know how valuable advice can be.” The prog ram w ill build on SigEp’s two principles of sound body and sound mind, he added. Future events will include features such as campus tours, and Thomas hopes to

arrange for the students to see a Penn basketball game, and possibly to meet the players. The goal would be to “show the students that basketball players are also at Penn,” she said, and to discuss how they find a balance between work and their sport. The prog ram aims to “build a whole narrative,” Shannon said, which runs from pre-college applications to college life and the possibilities beyond that. He outlined ideas for an informal career panel, where brothers talk to West Philadelphia students about what they are planning to do with their majors.

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it felt like a gap.” She sees a demand for a method to regulate social drinking and prevent alcoholism. “When people talk about or think about actively managing their alcohol consumption, their mind instantly jumps to ‘Do I have a problem? Am I an alcoholic? Do I want to quit [dr inking]?’ And if the answers to all those questions is no, they abandon the thought process entirely,” Daughety said. Daughety plans to position WELL as a prevention device. “With any healthcare problem, prevention is preferable to treatment,” she said. I n add it ion to t he app, WELL is also considering add i ng a physica l dev ice t hat would automatica l ly track blood alcohol content through the skin, eliminating the need for users to manually report each drink. Creating such a dev ice is no simple undertak ing. “Once you get into hardware and developing the technology, it’s a big capital investment. We’re looking for ways to test demand for that right now,” Daughety said. Currently, WELL is also developing its mobile app

and growing its team. Daughet y said that the app’s target market is 21- to 35-year-olds who are techsavvy and health conscious. “Undergrads and MBAs are logical customers, but I think young professionals will find it useful as well,” Daughety explained. The app will launch over the summer, but WELL already has active Twitter and Facebook pages. Both pages frequently share articles on health, wellness and alcohol consumption. Daughety and her team are developing a website to publish original content as a supplement.

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The Hey Day picnic for the Class of 2015 will be held on Thursday, May 1st from 10:15am – 11:45am on the 40th Street Green (High Rise Field) in Hamilton Village. The class procession will depart Hamilton Village at approximately 11:45am. The Hey Day ceremony will take place at approximately 12:15pm in front of College Hall. No bottles, cans or containers will be allowed on the field during the picnic or in the procession down Locust Walk. Xiaoyan Zhu Kristin L. Zuhone Panarat Anamwathana Lana Yacoub Andoni Ji Yeon Bae Amanda Rose Bakowski Tyler Gregory Baldor Julie Berez Jessica Lynn Bergman Yosef Berlyand Elliott May Brooks Hayley Beth Brooks Tyler Edward Brown Davis Samuel Butner Nora Marie Castle Jenny Wenjie Chen Cheo Hock Keng, John Brian Michael Collopy Serena Covkin Sonya Davey Marisa Denker Alyssa Marie Dickinson Isabella Dominguez Zayas Christina Lynn Economy Allison Marie Ellman Arielle Sarine Fogel Robert Franco Chia-Hsuan Annie Fu Paul Gallagher Shelli Goldie Gimelstein Kate Jaron Goldenberg Dylan Glennon Gordan John Paul Gutman Sarah Ann Hendry Janice Hu Julia Anastasia Hurley Aleksandra Igdalova Ross Michael Karlan Colleen Alyssa Kase Arnav Vikas Kasliwal Lauren Shay Kaufmann Julia Elena Kelsoe Kate Emily Kerpen Gabriela Maria Kirk Victoria A. Koc Adriel Koschitzky Lauren Gail Kreps Lovemore Simbarashe Kuzomunhu Da Eun Lee Emily Anne Leven Michael-David Eugene Mangini Sarah Elizabeth Mann Danielle Jacqueline Marryshow Kelsey Leigh Matevish Shaj Mathew Suraj Mattai Jennifer Lauren Matte Marlena Mattei Jonathan A. Messing Sean Michalson Urja Mittal Emma F. Mlyniec Vihang V. Nakhate Benjamin Daniel Nicholas Layla Angela O’Kane Isabel Oliveres Tarragona Samantha Irene T. Osaki Arielle Lindsay Pardes Katherine Elizabeth Peck Eliezer H. Peltz Steven Jay Perez John Patrick Philbin Tamara Pier Benika J. Pinch Arazi Pinhas Mark Stephen Pyfer Megan Reilly Austin Chase Remington Laura Resnick Sarah Virginia Riblet Stephanie Lynn Rogers Olivia Lucy Rutigliano Julie Renata Sanchez Amanda Grace Savagian Yair Schiff Samuel Richard Schnittman Sara Schonfeld Marissa Rachel Schwartz David Rodwin Stahl Gabrielle Jennie Stoller Zachary Aaron Tabor Elizabeth Lynne Thom Tian Huifu Manon Vergerio Dominic Waltz Elissa K. Wolf Amanda Jane Wolkin Carson Fairfield Woodbury Winona W. Wu

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his summer, only students who are “high need” will have the opportunity to receive some grants, while all other students will receive only loans. A student is determined as “high need” for summer aid if his or her parents earn fewer than $60,000 per year and their “parental contribution” — how much parents are expected to pay — is $4,500 or under. This practice stems from SFS spending over its budget for summer financial aid for many years, said an SFS assistant director who wished to remain anonymous. The department is still feeling the effects of the recession, he said. Although SFS’ practices have changed, its policies have not. Penn’s “all grants no loans”

policy states that SFS will provide grants to families for the amount of tuition that families cannot afford to pay instead of making families take out loans to cover the cost. However, this policy only applies for eight semesters. For summer programs, loans can — and often are — given out. The change is that now the number of loans provided to students for summer programs is on the rise, and the number of grants offered is falling. Since Penn is required to meet all need during the school year with grants, this also limits the amount of money available for summer financial aid. With the goals of the PennCompact 2020 put forward, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Dennis DeTurck said, “We’re now admitting students from more diverse backgrounds, which creates an increased

financial burden during the school year.” Adjusting for inflation, the cost of tuition has gone down during the past 10 years, while University costs have risen. Part of the University’s increased expenses has been balanced out by the Making History Campaign, but the campaign hasn’t been able to make up for it all, DeTurck said. “The pressure on the budget has increased,” DeTurck explained. “Something had to give, and summer aid was it.” A decrease in the number of grants awarded to students could have a significant effect on academic courses offered over the summer. “If some students are dropping classes, that can affect our ability to offer classes, so it could affect other students as well,” DeTurck said. “And students are worrying whether they have aid late in the game. If they can’t commit to an alternative, they could be closed out of other things.”

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he change in the number of grants offered has already impacted Penn’s summer abroad programs, the least expensive of which is a 15-day trip to South Africa, which costs $4,789 in tuition and fees, with a suggested minimum “additional expenses” of $3,410, according to the Penn Abroad website. “We’ve seen it in the last couple of weeks,” said Kathryn McMahon, director of the PennIn-Tours, France program, which brings 32 to 34 Penn students to France for six weeks each summer. “It’s clear that they’re not giving grants ... Now well qualified students are unable to go on the program.”

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Nine students have withdrawn from this summer’s Tours program due to their financial aid packages, compared to zero or one student withdrawing for financial aid concerns in past years, McMahon said. McMahon said that students had written emails expressing how disappointed they were that they wouldn’t be able to attend. “We didn’t know what to tell students ... It’s hard because those financial aid students haven’t had these opportunities in the past,” McMahon said. “This is saddening.” The Tours program has faced additional stress because it has been unable to fill the spots lost by the students who withdrew, even though it received around 70 applications for 35 spots and put many students on a wait-list for the program. McMahon said that the program could be significantly changed in future years, and might need stop accepting students on a need-blind basis. “I don’t see how we can if financial aid is decided so late and the policy stays the same,” she said. If the program continues to be smaller than it has been in the past, students might also have fewer opportunities for the historic visits, wine tastings and other extracurriculars that are a part of the program. “We are running the risk that the ‘internationalization’ [becomes] a social and economic privilege, not a mission for the entire collectivity of our students,” Fabio Finotti, director of Penn-in-Venice, said in an email. Last year, the Venice program had 39 students, while this year there are only 29 currently enrolled. Many students didn’t apply because of the new financial aid practice, Finotti said, and approximately six or seven dropped out after admission. 13 of the 55 initially accepted students to the Penn-in-Madrid program declined to attend this summer, repeatedly mentioning financial aid packages as the

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reason they needed to withdraw, program director Ignacio Lopez said in an email. The program to Buenos Aires has also seen multiple students decline due to financial reasons, he added. Carol Muller, the program coordinator of Penn-in-Grahamstown, which has brought between nine and 13 students to a 10-day long festival in South Africa at the end of June, following a two-week long online course on South African music and culture, said the experience is transformative. After the 10-day festival, students spend two days traveling through a local township with a community guide. Last year, one of the stops was at the house of a woman who raises abandoned children, taking in new ones when they leave — a sight that brought tears to the eyes of the Penn students. Muller, whose program draws in many Penn students from diverse backgrounds like the Caribbean, Africa and Beijing, said her students have been particularly affected by changes to financial aid. Although more students have registered for the class than have in previous years, Muller said her students don’t have the financial support to come. If she is unable to enroll more students, the program will not have enough money to run this summer.

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his year’s summer aid practice follows a change in SFS practices last summer that required students to meet criteria for “academic need” in addition to financial need in order to receive grants for summer programs. Financial aid officers were explicitly told not to tell students about the change, the SFS assistant director said, because it would “confuse students.” “That was always strange to me, because I thought not telling students would just confuse them more,” he said. “They would ask us why they didn’t get the grants they thought they would and we weren’t supposed to say anything, and then they would ask their academic advisors, who wouldn’t know. The information wasn’t published anywhere, so students just got the run around.” Some students who had received grants over previous

summers expected that 2013 would be similar, the assistant director said, but they didn’t find out that they would receive loans instead of grants until after the add-drop period for the class. “Then suddenly they were on the hook for several thousand dollars,” he said. With the change, many students who had previously been on financial aid no longer met the criteria, including some students with families in the lowest income brackets. SFS would calculate the grant money a student would receive, and then academic advisors in each applicant’s respective school would evaluate academic need. If academic need was met, students would receive their grants, which families do not pay back to the University. If the academic standards were not met, even if SFS determined they needed grants financially, students would receive loans instead, which they need to pay back to the University over time, the assistant director said. “The relevance of academic need was not something that we wanted students to be going back and forth between advising and SFS [about],” Carstens said. “That’s not a dynamic a student should be in ... Students are getting caught in the gears of machinery at that point.” SFS is no longer considering academic need for summer financial aid applicants — only if the student is “high need.” “I think last year’s fiasco was a wake up call,” the assistant director said. “Now we’re headed in a much better direction in terms of impact on the highest need students.” Despite the changes in financial aid practices this summer, program directors and University administrators understand that the money for summer aid just isn’t available. “Penn has the funds that they have, and thinking through summer programs hasn’t been at the forefront of the plan ... I think there are unforeseen consequences,” Muller said. “This is a good moment to reflect and to say, ‘Well we stand good here, this is what the limitations are, now we need to figure out how to solve this problem.’” On the website for the Muller’s program, big red letters flash across the top of the page: “Penn-in-Grahamstown is currently still accepting applications for Summer 2014.”

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hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no question that Penn baseball and its counter par ts from Columbia are the two most evenly matched squads in the Ivy League this year. After all, through 18 conference games, both teams boast identical 14-4 records in Ancient Eight play. The Lions and Quakers split their four head-to-head matchups last weekend, and though Penn has one more nonconference win than Columbia, the trajectory of each teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s season mirrors the other. At points throughout the 2014 campaign, both teams st r ug g led m ig ht i ly. Pen n dropped its first six games of the season and nine of its first eleven before rebounding with 11 straight wins and an undefeated 8-0 start to Ivy play. In the Empire State, the Lions kicked off this season with a mediocre 4-4 record through eight games before losing eight of their next nine. Yet, like the Red

and Blue, Columbia bounced back down the stretch, and entered last weekendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s doubleheader on a 14-game winning streak. The two squadsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; similar paths and experiences from this season have illustrated one thing quite clearly: all roads led to Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one-game playoff at Meiklejohn Stadium, and this weekendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s contest should be a matchup for the ages. With Connor Cuff likely to pitch for the Quakers and David Speer confirmed to take the hill for the reigning Ivy champions, Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s game already resembles last weekendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s series opener significantly. And in the spirit of duplicating that win, the Lions will presumably employ a similar starting lineup to the one that teed off on Cuff for five runs in the first three innings on Friday. With Sheerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pure dominance and Columbiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wins from last weekend in mind, if the Quakers hope to ride their magical season into the Ivy League Championship Series â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and further into postseason play thereafter â&#x20AC;&#x201D; they are going to need to count on the top half of their lineup to produce. Everything starts for Penn with Brandon Engelhardt. In last weekendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s series opener, coach John Yurkow had the

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A staple batting leadoff for Penn baseball, senior outfielder Brandon Engelhardt will be key for the Quakers in their one-game playoff with Columbia on Saturday. senior outfielder hitting ninth instead of his customary leadoff slot. It was the first time since March 12 against Cornell â&#x20AC;&#x201D; another Penn shutout loss â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that Engelhardt didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t bat leadoff. Between Engelhardt and junior catcher Austin Bossart â&#x20AC;&#x201D; who features a .391 on-base percentage, the highest mark on the team â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Penn has two reliable hitters who can get on base for the heart of the squadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lineup. In the last three games of last weekendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s series, Engelhardt

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combined to go 5-for-13 with an RBI and three runs scored. Bossart also had a crucial RBI in Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first game, a win that clinched at least a share of the Gehrig Division title for the Quakers. The middle of Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lineup has been in good hands this season, as a variety of combinations of outfielders Rick Brebner and Matt Greskoff, as well as first baseman Jeff McGarry, have helped the Quakers score 212 runs this season, which is 32 more than Columbia. McGarry and Greskoff have notched .324 and .306 batting averages, respectively, to lead the team this season. As Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s matchup approaches, Penn shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be expecting Cuff to throw a shutout. The Lions lineup, led by Jordan Serena and Will Savage, is too good to be shut down entirely. That being said, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s impossible to expect Sheer to continue his mastery over the Quakers. Columbia may be the defending Ivy champions, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to give this Penn lineup some credit as well. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a reason the combined score from last weekendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s four-game set was 17-17. Therefore, as the Red and Blue prep for the biggest game of their season, the goal should be clear: early success from the top of its lineup and Penn will be postseason bound.

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A switch to more studentrun practices rather than sessions driven by a coach with a more varsity flavor has also helped the team retain more players. With less pressure, more players feel that the experience is fun and more lacrosse-centric rather than being full of sprints. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Being on a team and playing a sport was something I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to give up, and this was the perfect opportunity to continue,â&#x20AC;? Berlinski said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For a lot of us this bridged the gap between going to the school we wanted to go to and still being able to play lacrosse.â&#x20AC;? With strong leadership in place, the Quakers donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t intend to slide back to the state of the program three years ago. But before they even think about the future of the program, their minds are focused on this weekendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s game against Navy. The last time Penn faced the Midshipmen was five years ago, and the Red and Blue were crushed. But that was then, and this is now. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It will be a tough test,â&#x20AC;? Berlinski said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But what we may not have realized going into the season â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve come to realize â&#x20AC;&#x201D; is from our experience at Beltway and success we had in our regular season and now beating Salisbury is that we can play with anyone in the country.â&#x20AC;?

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With senior mainstay Stephanie Do leaving the program, the Quakers will need to search for new leadership and stability in their lineup for next season.

Penn hitters strike out 11 times SOFTBALL from page 16 man Natalia Segovia which allowed both Villanova runners to score. Cuzick would give up her first earned run of the game in the bottom of the second when freshman Lauren Herschberg hit an RBI single to right field, which brought in the third Wildcats run of the afternoon. T he Qua ker s had t hei r chances to rally, though. Junior Sydney Turchin led off the bottom of the third by singling up the middle, which Datan followed up by singling to left. The Quakers then loaded the bases with no outs when senior Elysse Gorney drew a walk. However, Poppe was able to work out of the jam and strand all three runners after forcing freshman Leah Allen to hit into a fielder’s choice and striking out the next two batters. The Quakers would get their

Benvenuti has found support everywhere BENVENUTI from page 16 never mind to maintain and pursue in the face of adversity and distraction. And that is the daily challenge of a Penn student-athlete. Playing a Division 1 sport and attending one of the world’s top academic institutions is no task for the weary. Yes, everybody faces challenges. Yes, these challenges can define you. And yes, nobody at Penn comes here for a walk in the park and an easy college degree. But in order to excel as a student-athlete at Penn, it takes more than just raw athletic talent and a little bit of brains. The loyalty, dedication, sacrifice and inspiration that are demanded in all aspects of life are exceeded by nothing else a normal 21-year-old encounters. Immediately following the realization of the magnitude of my injur y, the suppor t I received from people was

final two hits of the day in the bottom of the sixth inning, but were again unable to turn those baserunners into runs, as Penn left the bases loaded for the second time. Offensively it was not the type of day Penn was looking for in order to gear themselves up for the Ivy League Championship Series against Da r t mout h, wh ich beg i ns S a t u r d a y. T h e Q u a k e r s struck out a total of 11 times on Tuesday. On the upside, Penn did give several of its pitchers some valuable time on the mound, which could become crucial to the Quakers’ success in the upcoming series. In addition to Cuzick, freshman Alexis Sargent pitched two shutout innings and sophomore Lauren Li added two innings of her own, allowing one run and on hit. W hile Penn would have liked to enter this weekend’s game in Hanover with a win, the Quakers are unlikely to allow this loss to linger in their minds for too long. With an Ivy League title to defend, it’s hard to imagine that the team’s thoughts are focused on anything other than Dartmouth.

unmatched. Friends, teammates and friends of teammates reached out to offer a kind word, a ride to class or an open shoulder to carry my bag regardless of whether or not I knew them personally. The competition that is so salient at Penn dissipated in the blink of an eye. A friendly hello from a fellow athlete in class has developed into a close friendship. A warm smile and hug from another athlete on Locust still makes my day. And an honest conversation with another keeps me grounded and focused. All this is two years after retiring from the field. Penn Athletics is more than a collection of smart athletes or athletic nerds. It is a community that supports its own — whether that be a current athlete, an injured reserve or an avid fan. There is no one more deserving of respect than these young men and women. I am proud to have been a part of the legacy and tradition that is Penn Athletics.

CHRISTINA BENVENUTI is a College senior from Morristown, N.J., and is a former Penn field hockey player. She can be reached at dpsports@thedp.com.

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Penn women’s tennis has had a troubled year, but at least it had a dependable captain and a strong anchor to navigate it through its darkest storms and its testiest waters. A fter finishing off an injury-plagued nonconference schedule with a formidable 7- 4 record , t he Qua kers couldn’t keep up the tempo. Penn fizzled out during Ivy play, suffering six straight losses — the last of which was an obliteration at the hands of Columbia. But in its only conference win of the year in the team’s last match, the squad counted directly on the heroic play of its departing seniors, Jaime Yapp-Shing and Stephanie Do, to tip the scale in Penn’s favor and defeat Cornell, 5-2. It was the Senior Day swan song the Red and Blue were hoping for, ending with a bit-

tersweet celebration for the seniors, exchanges of grateful tears and teammates leaping into each other’s arms. Not even coach Sanela Kunovac “[would] have scripted it any differently.” Now, with Do and YappShing leaving, the Quakers will brace themselves for a major upheaval. Yapp-Shing has been an anchor in the roster and a veritable force to be reckoned with. Though injuries have punctuated her play, the Florida native competed well at the No. 4 position in singles play, and she wreaked havoc at the No. 2 spot in the doubles lineup, finishing with a 10-4 record. Meanwhile, Do has been a mainstay on the team for four years, earning second- team All-Ivy honors as a sophomore. Rounding out the singles lineup at No. 6 and playing at the No. 3 spot in doubles play, she boasted 9-9 and 8-8 final year records, respectively. Depending on the freshmen next season brings and where star junior Sol Eskenazi’s potential takes her, the Quakers won’t necessarily suffer devastating setbacks in talent or production on the court.

Rather, it will be the veteran voices that Yapp-Shing and Do have provided to steady the team through turbulent times that will be sorely missed. “ We w ill def initely miss their leadership,” assistant coach Filip Kricka said. “The work ethic they put in every practice, the level of commitment, the pride they show for Penn Tennis day in and day out — you would want every Penn athlete to have these qualities.” With Do serving as team captain in her junior year and Yapp - Shing as a team represent at ive, t hey have been the face and emotional core of the resilient squad and, more impor tantly, an extended voice of the coaching crew for rookies. “ They always ser ved as an example to the rest of the team,” Kricka said. “It was easy for me to say to an underclassman: ‘Talk to Stephanie or Jaime. They have lots of experience. They will be able to give you the best answer.’ “And they always did.” Employers will be lucky to have these Wharton grads as leaders in their offices. This summer, Do will pack

her bags and return to her hometown of Dallas, where she’ll work as a consultant for Bain Capital, while YappShing will return to Philadelphia this fall to finish up her degree before setting sail for a career abroad. For now, they’ll reminisce about the times shared with their teammates. “At the end of the day and at the end of it all, there is the immense satisfaction, the hundreds of memories and the incredible people you meet along the way,” Do said in an email. “My team is my family … No one can just be my teammate. Anyone can be my friend and anyone can stop being my friend. But sorry, my teammates will always be my teammates.” But, true to form, they’ll have to impart some wisdom to their successors before they part. “Without a doubt, I did not achieve every goal that I set for myself or those that I set with our coaches and we did as a team,” Do said. “But I sure as hell enjoyed the ride and define my experience and myself by all of those moments.”

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CONQUERING THE CANE

CHRISTINA BENVENUTI

he clock was set and the stakes were high. The Senior Day ceremonies were over. My sister — a sopho-

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more standout for Princeton — had returned to her bench and the Ivy League championship game was about to begin. All of those 5-hour turn-arounds between late night bus rides and morning trainings, grueling lifts and tedious film sessions had come to this. Stick in hand, this seemed like a dream come true. The only difference is that a cane had replaced my field hockey stick. For my team, those bus rides were from rival schools, and training was practice and conditioning. For me, it was car rides from out-of-state doc-

tor’s appointments and training was early morning and late night physical therapy. When I committed to Penn as a senior in high school, I could have never predicted how the next four years would unfold. Like every other student-athlete at Penn, I was fortunate enough to have found my passion at a young age. Ten years later and this passion was still consuming my life. I was living the dream. The day of my injur y, my life changed. While competing for Penn, I painfully reinjured my back which resulted in permanent damage to the

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lumbar region of my spine and subsequent nerve impingement. My dream came to a crashing halt and quickly turned into my worst nightmare. In a matter of seconds, I lost what had become my identity. This presented a crucial juncture in my life — I could dwell on the misery of the injury or take the situation at face value. When laid out on paper, it seems like an obvious choice: hang up the cleats and move on with my life. Anybody who has found her passion knows that this is much harder said than done. I tried to put on a

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smile, but even this became a chore. The passion I once felt was sadly becoming a memory of the past. I had lost a part of me. The goal of playing had been replaced by the goal of maintaining my ability to sit and walk. This had become my reality, and my survival of the next few years with this condition can be attributed in a large part to the people associated with Penn Athletics and the friends of Penn athletes. True passion is difficult to find,

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For Penn, Elite Eight is just great

the trends behind

Penn Baseball's

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Once unheralded, the men’s club lacrosse squad has gained a new sense of direction and purpose

resurgence

BY ALEXIS ZIEBELMAN Associate Sports Editor

2013

2014

BATTING AVERAGE

.266

.276

SLUGGING PERCENTAGE

.382

.423

ON-BASE + SLUGGING PERCENTAGE (OPS)

.725

.785

RUNS

207

229

RUNNERS LEFT ON BASE

315

300

2 PLAYERS - 4

RICK BREBNER - 8

HOME RUNS LEADER VICTORIES BY 3+ RUNS

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Penn gets shut out in its final tuneup

SOFTBALL | With Ivy League Championship Series coming up, Quakers can’t get offense going vs. ‘Nova BY SAM ALTLAND Staff Writer

Nonconference games have just not been kind to Penn softball this season. In what was the team’s final game before the all important Ivy League Championship Series, Penn, fell to Big Five rival Villanova, on a rainy Tuesday afternoon, 4-0. The struggling Wildcats(18-31) put on an impressive defensive display behind sophomore pitcher Kate Poppe , who threw six solid innings and allowed the Quakers (18-20-1) to pick up only four hits on the afternoon. This marked the first time Penn had failed to get a run since the

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at Villanova Quakers were shut out, 9-0, in five innings against Cornell on April 12. The game did not start off in especially auspicious fashion for Penn. After sophomore Kanani Datan stole second base with one out, Poppe proceeded to strike out the next two batters she faced, leaving Datan stranded in scoring position. The Quakers would leave 10 runners on base over the course of the game. The Wildcats picked up their first two runs of the game in the bottom of the first inning against freshman pitcher Courtney Cuzick . With runners on second and third and two outs, the Quakers committed two fielding errors on a ball hit by fresh-

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Freshman pitcher Courtney Cuzick picked up her fifth loss of the season against Villanova on Tuesday despite striking out five Wildcats in only two innings pitched.

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As the smell of fresh barbecue wafted over Penn Park, the Penn men’s club lacrosse team finished the last few minutes of the first round of the NCLL tournament. Penn crushed Salisbury, 12-9, to advance to the Elite Eight while supporters happily tailgated. This weekend, Penn travels to neighbor Rutgers to take on Navy in the next round, unchartered territory for the Quakers. “This is a place our program has never been to,” senior captain Zander Berlinski said. “This is the highest we’ve ever been ranked in the history of the program. We are sixth in the country. “We are in the Elite Eight, and Salisbury had made the Elite Eight 10 years in a row, and we beat them.” Penn might have been the underdog, but it dominated the game. The Quakers were up four goals before the Sea Gulls even got a point on the board. “We were expecting them to blow us out of the water, and so we [were] up 4-0 and kind of looking at each other like, ‘Is this really happening?’” junior captain Jack Lally said. “I think it was a bit of a surprise that we realized we could play with the best.” Leading 10-2 at the half, the Quakers were able to hold on and withstand a late Salisbury rally. “Brendan Dale does the faceoffs and he was a huge help because we were able to score three or four goals before they were even able to touch the ball on offense because he just kept winning [faceoffs],” Lally said. Coming off the varsity team last year, Dale is one of the Quakers’ key assets. Another is sophomore attack Tim Miller, who scored five of the Red and Blue’s 12 goals on Sunday. This victory was one of the Quakers’ nine home games this season, which mostly occur at Penn Park but are sometimes at Franklin Field. “Since we have such nice fields and we are in a central spot, a lot of teams are willing to come here [for games],” Lally said. “Penn Rec does a really good job at getting us field time,” Berlinski added. “A lot of clubs don’t get the same availability that we do, and we have beautiful facilities so they travel to us.” While some of the team’s veterans expected the Quakers to have a successful season, the program was in a very different state when the seniors joined the team in the fall of 2010. “ F r om [sen ior c apt a i n] Kyle [O’Connor’s] and my freshman year, it wasn’t much of a team,” Berlinski said. “It was more of a culture is-

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