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First black Greek org. celebrates centennial

They were prompted by barring of Amy Wax from teaching first-year course

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Flyers satirizing Penn Law School Dean Ted Ruger and Penn Law professor Amy Wax were circulated at Penn Law this morning.

The flyer, stylized like the website of The Daily Pennsylvanian, was titled “The Daily Goat” and included stories with headlines such as “Penn Law officially extends inclusion policy to racists” and “Dean Ruger’s Opinion: Don’t blame me, I literally have no spine.” A similar flyer was found at the school last weekend, with the “centerpiece story” headlined “Penn Law currently hoping this whole racist professor thing will blow over.”

In response to the flyers, Ruger said in an emailed statement, “I’m pleased that our students have a sense of humor to go along with their sense of justice.”

The flyers were circulated less than a week after Ruger announced that Wax will no longer be allowed to teach a mandatory first-year course after she claimed that black students have never graduated at the top of her class.

On March 13, Ruger said Wax would no longer be allowed to teach a mandatory first-year Penn Law course starting in the fall semester.

This decision comes in light of a video from last fall in which Wax said that she had never seen a black student graduate in the top quarter of the Penn Law class.

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Delta Sigma Theta, the University of Pennsylvania’s first black Greek organization, celebrated the 100th anniversary of its Penn chapter over the past weekend, with over 100 current sisters and alumni in attendance.

On Saturday morning, members of the sorority filed in a procession down Locust Walk with the chapter’s banner.

They also engaged in a range of community service projects as well as hosted a TED Talk-style event where influential alumni came to talk about their work related to the sorority’s “Five-Point Programmatic Thrust”: educational development, economic development, international awareness and involvement, physical and mental health, and political awareness and involvement.

In honor of the centennial, the chapter’s service initiative also decided to sponsor a reading room for a local recreation center.

The sorority was founded on Jan. 13, 1913 by 22 college women at Howard University. In that year, Penn student Sadie Alexander was contacted to charter a chapter, but the University did not have enough black women attending, said College senior and DST President Maramawit Abera.

Abera said she was “deeply humbled” at the chance to celebrate the centennial.

In 1918, the Gamma chapter at Penn was finally chartered. The chapter had only five members at the time: Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, Virginia

As University suspends normal operations Wednesday, some students still work to meet deadlines JAMES MEADOWS Staff Reporter

The fourth nor’easter of this month struck Philadelphia in two waves — first on Tuesday and second on Wednesday — and in response, many offices, schools, and businesses were forced to close.

The snow, which began falling Tuesday – the official first day of spring – accumulated throughout the

day Wednesday and continued into the evening. Forecasters indicated that the heaviest snow began to taper off at 8 p.m., stopping entirely in the early hours of Thursday morning, likely leaving behind between six and 12 inches of snow.

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Janet Yellen discusses leaving the Federal Reserve during visit 1,000 people heard Yellen talk at Zellerbach Theatre KATIE STEELE Contributing Reporter

Janet Yellen, who served as the chair of the Federal Reserve System from February 2014 to February 2018, discussed her tenure and education at the Annenberg Center’s Zellerbach Theatre on Monday. Her talk with Finance professor Jeremy Siegel drew nearly 1,000 attendees.

Yellen, who announced her resignation in November 2017, largely expressed fondness for her time in the role, but also noted a few drawbacks to working in such a highprofile position — specifically the required 24/7 security detail.

The hour-and-a-half conversation opened with an introduction from the Vice Dean and Director of Wharton Undergraduate Division Lori Rosenkopf and mainly consisted of Yellen answering questions posed either by Siegel or the attendees.

Each time she was asked a question, Yellen broke down her answers into measured and clear ideas — a talent for which she’s been lauded in the past and which appeared to draw upon her experience

as an educator.

Siegel’s first question concerned her experiences since stepping down as the chair of the Fed. “In some ways it’s a relief to have a bit more independence,” she said.

“It’s a wonderful group of people involved in protecting the Fed chair, but it also has a bit of a feeling of being in jail — with lovely jailers nevertheless.”

Siegel then launched a discussion into Yellen’s introduction to the field.

Yellen described how she discovered economics as a freshman at Brown University in the 1960s, saying it was “love at first sight.”

“Here was a subject that let me use my analytical skills … to contemplate questions that are of firstorder importance to society,” she said. “I loved that combination.”

She discussed her transition from Brown to Yale University, from which she eventually received her doctorate in economics in 1971.

Yellen briefly mentioned her time in academia when she worked as a faculty member at various institutions including Harvard University, the London School of Economics, and the University of California, Berkeley for several years.

Her discussion, however, fo-

cused largely on her subsequent experiences as the Fed chair after her appointment by former President Barack Obama in October 2014.

During the conversation, Yellen highlighted the fact that the United States’ unemployment rate decreased from 6.7 percent to 4.1 percent over the course of her tenure. She also noted that the Federal Reserve struggled to meet a target level of 2 percent inflation during her time there, and she believes the current board of governors is still pursuing the same goal.

Yellen also commented on her successor Jerome Powell, who was appointed by President Donald Trump, expressing optimism about his unique viewpoint and noting his background in finance.

Powell is a former lawyer and investment banker who has served on the Fed’s Board of Governors since 2012. Fed chairs have typically held doctorates in economics, which Powell does not.

Charles-Andre Guenette, an MBA candidate at the French business school INSEAD currently on an exchange program with the Wharton School, indicated that he is hopeful about the economy under Powell given Yellen’s optimism, especially considering the differences

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Yellen expressed enthusiasm about her new lower-stress environment. She said she plans to advise researchers and conduct her own economics research at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.

between the two chairs.

Since leaving the Fed, Yellen has begun working for the Brookings Institution, an American research group and public policy think tank based in Washington D.C. Penn’s Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program, which compiles a widelyknown annual index of think tanks, has listed Brookings as the “Top

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Think Tank in the World” every year since 2008.

Serving as a distinguished fellow in residence with the Brookings Economic Studies program, she plans to conduct research and use her experience to contribute to other projects. She also joins her predecessor Ben Bernanke, who served as Fed chair from 2006 to

2014, at Brookings.

Yellen, who was the first woman ever appointed to serve as Fed chair, also expressed hope for more female representation in economics despite some of the barriers that women currently face.

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Snow forces cancellation of some ‘teach-in’ events All Wednesday events were canceled or postponed HALEY SUH News Editor

As Penn’s campus joins the City of Philadelphia in shutting down operations on Wednesday, the Faculty Senate has, too, announced that all scheduled events for Wednesday’s teach-in would be canceled or postponed in light of the fourth Nor’easter to hit this

month.

“Penn has suspended normal operations. All scheduled teach-in events will be cancelled or rescheduled. See below for status updates,” the weather announcement for Wednesday on the teach-in website read.

The weather announcement on the website for Thursday indicated that “all events will proceed as scheduled.”

The last teach-in at Penn happened 49 years ago in 1969, and

the revival of the program, entitled “Production of Knowledge,” launched Sunday and was scheduled to last until March 22. Several lectures and events on a variety of relevant topics were planned, including some of the biggest names in city politics and on Penn’s campus.

One of the biggest events postponed from Wednesday is the “Immigration Town Hall: The Role of the University in Responding to and Shaping Immigration Law and

Policy.”

The new date has yet to be determined for the town hall, which was scheduled to include Miriam Enriquez, executive director of the Mayor’s Office for Immigrant Affairs, Sozi Pedro Tulante, who recently joined Penn Law after serving as city solicitor for the City of Philadelphia, two distinguished Penn professors, and a Penn Law graduate.

Other Wednesday events postponed without a set date are “2018

Evan C. Thompson Chair Lecture,” “Data Refuge Stories,” and “Developing a Culture of Health.”

“Post-Carbon Futures” was postponed to April 4, “’Young Frankenstein’ screening” was postponed to March 23, and “Lies, Pixels, Video Fakes” was postponed to March 23. “Thinking About Evolution” was canceled.

On Tuesday, the session “Nudging Women to Run,” was canceled.

In an email to The Daily Pennsylvanian, Faculty Senate Ex-

ecutive Assistant Patrick J. Walsh explained that, “Because the University has suspended normal operations today, the planned TeachIn events must also be postponed or cancelled at the discretion of the event organizers.”

“The Senate office continues to provide updated information as quickly and accurately as is possible. Please continue to monitor the Teach-In website or the UPenn Faculty Senate facebook [sic] page for updates,” Walsh added.

Penn’s teach-in opens with panel on race and knowledge

Penn professors discuss wellness at teach-in event

This is the first teach-in at Penn in nearly 50 years

They discussed how to address common stressors

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Penn’s Teach-In on the “production, dissemination, and use of knowledge” began on Monday at the Fitts Auditorium in the Penn Law School building with an interdisciplinary discussion and panel about knowledge and race with three Penn professors.

The teach-in, hosted by the Faculty Senate and co-sponsored by the Undergraduate Assembly and the Student Committee on Undergraduate Education, is a four-day event that will feature lectures and panel discussions on the value of knowledge in the modern world. It is the first teach-in at Penn in nearly 50 years, with the last one held in 1969.

This year’s teach-in was spearheaded by the Faculty Senate, which was determined to revive the historic moment set in 1969.

Although the teach-in began with earlier sessions on Monday, the afternoon event, entitled “Knowledge Production, Communication & Impact in the 21st Century,” was the official opening program.

Tracey Matisak, a journalist who has worked with FOX Philadelphia, PBS, and National Public Radio, moderated a panel consisting of Penn professors Sarah Tishkoff, Dorothy Roberts, and John Jackson Jr. All of the speakers discussed their research in relation to the topic of race.

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Members of the Penn community braved the snowy weather and gathered at Van Pelt Library for the teach-in event “The Knowledge and Practice of Well-Being” on March 20.

The event was sponsored by Penn’s Positive Psychology Center and was a part of the week-long teach-in, which is the first of its kind to be held in 49 years. Guest speakers discussed how to address common stressors in college with practices of well-being and mindfulness. They also led interactive activities and thought experiments to spur participation from attendees.

Director of Education in the Positive Psychology Center James Pawelski first explained the many ways one can define, measure, and ultimately cultivate happiness.

Pawelski emphasized that each individual has their own sense of happiness and therefore has their own ways of accomplishing that happiness.

Another speaker, Penn Medicine professor and Director of the Penn Program for Mindfulness Michael J. Baime, spoke on practicing and achieving mindfulness. As he explained, mindfulness is a way of training and improving one’s attention capacity and working memory.

Baime urged the audience to bring their attention to the present moment. While this may seem like a bad idea in college with so many stressors present, he said the practice is ultimately helpful. Mindfulness “buffers” a stress reaction, so people can really process the source of stress, he added.

Finally, Penn Program for Flourishing co-founders Faisal

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Tracey Matisak, a journalist who has worked with National Public Radio and PBS, moderated a panel consisting of Penn professors.

ments in both the College of Arts and Sciences and the Perelman School of Medicine, spoke of her research on African genetic diversity, while Jackson, the dean of the School of Social Policy & Practice, spoke about the anthropological meaning of race.

Meanwhile, Roberts, who is a professor of law, sociology, civil rights, and Africana studies, discussed the intersection of the biological and social sciences in the discussion of race.

University Provost Wendell Pritchett gave the introductory remarks, stressing the importance of events like the teach-in and Penn’s role as a force for spreading knowledge.

“The teach-in in the events and programs planned for the week are going to seek to take a fresh look at a question that once seemed self-evident: What is the University for?” Pritchett spoke to the audience.

Lucas Manis, a graduate student studying economic policy analysis at University of Mary-

land-Baltimore County, came to Penn for the teach-in and said that he found the opening event to be “very engaging.”

“I really like what was said about knowledge being an ethical issue: sort of, what do we want to study and why and whether or not we should,” Manis said.

Teri Inverso is a mother of two Penn graduate students from Bucks County, Pa. who came to the teach-in for the full four days to take advantage of the lectures.

Inverso said that coming to the teach-in and having access to so much knowledge has been like a dream.

Nonetheless, Inverso added, she felt that events such as these reminded her of the big divide between the academic community and the rest of the American public.

“I feel a little sad that, it’s great that people are here but I feel that more people need to be educated on topics like this,” Inverso said.

“I can see that there is such a gap from the public.”

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Penn Medicine professor Michael J. Baime urged the audience to bring their attention to the present moment and practice mindfulness.

Khan and 2014 Arts and Sciences graduate Laura Taylor presented on how positive psychology-based programming can benefit students.

Khan, a 2011 Engineering and Wharton and 2017 Arts and Sciences graduate, explained that students have voiced a need for wellness initiatives. “Penn is, in many ways, the birthplace of positive psychology,” he said. “We also discovered that there is a need for this at Penn as well. Students expressed an interest to be in a safe place and a safe environment where they can develop and grow without any preconceived [negative] notions.”

Despite being one of the only Ivy League institutions with a Positive Psychology Center, Penn does not yet provide large-scale classes in the field to undergraduate students. At Harvard University and Yale University, a positive psychology class was their most popular class among students.

Taylor said the availability of the Penn Program for Flourishing to all Penn students addresses the importance of inclusion to wellness. “I think the exclusivity that happens in many of the programs at Penn can cultivate competition,” she told The Daily Pennsylvanian. “We are trying to find a way of creating a space that will promote a more collaborative mindset.”

To incorporate positive psychology in everyday life, Taylor said that starting small, first by focusing on one’s strengths, is the best path to “sustainable change” in one’s happiness.

Attendee and Engineering sophomore Sanjit Kalapatapu said the discussion on mindfulness really spoke to him. “It is something that I do not really think about that much,” he said. “I feel at Penn you kind of get swept into the swing of things. You do not get to really sit down and reflect.”

Arts and Sciences master’s student Noof Aljneibi, who is getting her master’s degree in Applied Positive Psychology, added that events like this one should be more commonplace on college campuses. “Having more sessions spreading awareness about wellbeing and human flourishing is really crucial,” she said, “not only at Penn but in every community.”

“The Knowledge and Practice of Well-Being” is just one of several events scheduled on campus for the teach-in initiative, which will also include several lectures on politics and Penn culture.

This is the first teach-in program since 1969. This revival of the program, titled “Production of Knowledge,” is scheduled to run through March 22.

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Students address gun violence at ‘walk-in’ discussion In the wake of the recent mass shootings and school walkouts across the country, national political organizations and Penn’s student groups convened to discuss nonpartisan actions regarding gun violence in the United States.

Penn’s chapter of Common Party, TableTalk Global, and Bridge USA hosted the event, which took place in Houston Hall on March 20. Other Penn co-sponsors included The Polybian Society, TableTalk Penn, UPenn College Republicans, Penn Democrats, and Penn in Washington.

College junior Nicole Rubin, one of the leaders of the Common Party, said with so many perspectives and controversial ideas that are involved with gun violence, it is important for people to debate and consider views from the opposing side. Common Party is an organization that

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stitute participated in a walkout last week.

College sophomore and College Republicans Communications Director Bob Bailey mentioned the urgency to “make personal safety a priority and a

tion of the school.

“As a scholar she is free to advocate her views, no matter how dramatically those views diverge from our institutional ethos and our considered practices,” Ruger wrote regarding his decision. “As a teacher, however, she is not free to transgress the policy that student grades are confidential, or to use her access to those Penn Law students who are required to be in her class to further her scholarly ends without students’ permission.”

The flyer also addressed Ruger’s previous statements supporting Wax’s right to free speech.

“Despite resistance from sane people, Ruger remains confident the blowback will settle once people realize that inac-

curate and belittling statements about black people are just part of a ‘robust dialogue,’” it said.

Wax surfaced to the spotlight last August following her controversial op-ed in The Philadelphia Inquirer that called for a return of “bourgeois” cultural values. Over the past year, various student groups and faculty campaigned for her removal as the professor of the mandatory first-year Penn Law course.

The flyer did not state its authors. However, it listed several email addresses of contact info for students and faculty.

“Are you a student who wants to help? Email us at: TheDailyGoatEmail@gmail.com,” it said. “Are you an angry member of this joke of an administration? Email us at SorryNotSorry@YoureTheWorst.com.”

Wax surfaced to the spotlight last August following her controversial op-ed that called for a return of “bourgeois” culture.

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Penn’s chapter of Common Party, TableTalk Global, Bridge USA, Penn College Republicans, Penn Democrats, Penn in Washington, and others brought students together to have a nonpartisan conversation.

topic of conversation on the national scale.” Bailey said “after tragedies like the Parkland shooting, we feel even more motivated to contribute our thoughts to the ongoing debate centered on enhancing the safety of American

citizens.”

Previously, Table Talk Global has hosted an event on allyship and discussed what it meant to be an ally on campus after black students were added to a racist GroupMe chat last year.

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graduate in the top quarter of the [Penn Law School] class and rarely, rarely in the top half,” Wax said in the lecture titled “The Downside to Social Uplift,” which was part of the series hosted by Brown University professor Glenn Loury. “I can think of one or two students who’ve graduated in the top half of my required first-year course.”

Her remarks sparked outrage among many student groups, as well as an online petition written by Penn Law students and alumni that called on Ruger to dismiss Wax’s claims and ideally remove Wax from teaching first-year courses and from committees involving the direc-

Students also discussed the media’s role in mass shootings and whether it has a negative or positive influence.

College sophomore Zoe Schwingel-Sauer felt some psychopaths may be more motivated by fame due to the increased media reportage of such events.

She also felt the situation was inevitable, as people need to know what is happening around them in order to discuss the problems in society.

Penn’s TableTalk Committee Chair and College freshman Eva Spier also mentioned the media’s role in polarizing people’s opinions on gun violence, especially on social media sites like Facebook.

This is not the first time members of the Penn community have come together to address gun violence. On Feb. 22, dozens of Penn students gathered by the LOVE statue in a nonpartisan demonstration, each holding a sign detailing a death due to mass shootings. In solidarity with students nationwide protesting gun violence, members of Penn Law and The Wistar In-

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hopes people can discuss ideas across the political spectrum.

Table Talk Global hoped the event could “provide a space on campus for students to put their minds together, outside of the classroom, to discuss what is going on in our country surrounding school safety and gun violence,” according to the organization’s founder and 2017 School of Arts and Sciences graduate Sophie Beren.

Students broke into small discussion groups, where they shared not only their feelings after the Parkland incident, but also discussed the possible causes and solutions for gun violence.

Collectively, students proposed stricter gun laws and the need for politicians to not let money influence politics or social policy making.

For instance, Rubin, also a former reporter of The Daily Pennsylvanian, said while money does play a large role in politics and influences legislation, she would have liked to see more willingness from politicians to listen to their constituents rather than be influenced by finances.

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OPINION Snarty in the USA DREIM JOURNAL | Penn came together for the snow day

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“Freedom! No rules!”

This was the rallying cry as I entered my first “snarty” (for those unfamiliar, that’s a “snowday party”). And it rang true. The rules I’m used to did not apply.

Parties which, by all normal practices, were fit to have doormen and impose the classic “who do you know here?” song and dance to potential guests, were instead open to all.

Typical barriers of Greek organizations, clubs, and majors were broken down in the simple interest of having a good day as Penn students. Walking down Locust between the snarties connected me with multiple groups I’d otherwise have no business associating with, and connected me to my peers in a way that could only come about here and now. We need a little more of that energy on this campus.

I spent a summer in Washington in a hall filled entirely with

students from the University of Michigan, and I was blown away by how well they got along simply because they went to the same school. I’ve been fortunate enough to be able to visit them a few times since that summer, and I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say that the Michigan prefootball-game tailgate atmosphere is rivaled only by Fling at Penn.

But there’s no reason that that should be the case.

Students by the thousands don the Maize and Blue and swarm the streets; unapologetic in their love for their university and their place in it. There are (so far as I’ve seen) no closed houses, no exclusive mixers, and no rigid divisions between students. There’s just Michigan and the spirit that comes with that identity.

That kindred spirit among all of the students making up one big, diverse, exciting, impassioned university is a hallmark of the col-

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lege experience; and one which should shine at Penn. There’s a reason we’re called the social Ivy. Former Daily Pennsylvanian Senior Sports Editor William Snow wrote an article suggesting

along Locust is something we all want a little more of.

Being a Penn student ought to mean something to all of us.

We’re Quakers before our majors, our schools, or our tax brackets.

We’re Quakers before our majors, our schools, or our tax brackets. That identity is something to be proud of, and something which unites us all.

Let’s indulge it.” mandatory attendance at Penn sporting events. He argued that “we need to make a concerted effort to deconstruct the ‘Penn Face’ that keeps us out of the Palestra and in Huntsman instead … there is so much more to college than worrying about the future.”

That’s what I saw today. We weren’t celebrating because we thought we were supposed to, we weren’t checking wristbands, and we weren’t concerned about the internal divisions Penn students have. It didn’t matter who you were or what you were doing with your life; we just wanted to make the best of a snow day on this campus.

Whether you’re excited for parties, the teach-in, or just your favorite class, the palpable energy

That identity is something to be proud of, and something which unites us all. Let’s indulge it.

As pre-professional and preparatory as Penn is, these are our college years. They should be creative, collaborative, and exploratory. I understand that we’re moving toward diverse careers and futures, but it’s important to remember that we define what Penn is.

I’m a nearly graduated senior who doesn’t have much longer to take ownership of the Penn experience, but those formative years are ones which I’ll carry with me forever – years that will bind me to Wharton undergrads and Penn Law students alike.

When we watch movies with time travel, we’re always afraid of

DYLAN REIM the butterfly effect. We worry that any small change in the past will have a dramatic effect on the future. Strangely, it seems we never consider what a significant effect our present actions have on the future we haven’t yet experienced.

Five, 10, 20, 50 years from now, you’ll talk about your time at Penn, and you won’t say who the treasurer of that exclusive club was. You’ll talk about what made us Quakers; what defined the experience above the clubs and the classes. Today, I had one of those experiences.

“Freedom! No rules!” If I can paraphrase: camaraderie; no divisions. This was just a snow day, but I hope we all carry the mindset of the importance of good fun and shared experience with us as we go forward. Whether it’s a snow day, a sports game, or the end of exam season: snarty on, Quakers.

Snarty on.

DYLAN REIM is a College senior from Princeton, N.J. studying philosophy and political science.

His email address is dreim@sas. upenn.edu.

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Penn students never fail to boast about our reputation as the “social Ivy.” What we’re less willing to admit is that we’re also a “safety Ivy,” stuck in the “middle tier” of rankings, somewhere in between Columbia and Cornell. But beyond our U.S. News & World Report ranking, at our core, we’re insecure.

A team of Penn psychologists conducted a study where they asked Penn and Harvard students write down seven terms to describe their school. While only 7 percent of Harvard students wrote “Ivy League,” nearly a third of Penn students did.

So what are we compensating for? And why do we feel so compelled to do so?

I’ve had lots of conversations with Penn students about college admissions. A good chunk of them won’t let you forget that they were waitlisted at Harvard or Yale.

What’s more, Wharton students have the incessant need to emphasize that they are in Wharton — the No. 1 undergraduate business school.

By now, I’ve gotten used to the raised eyebrows and forced nods and smiles when I introduce myself as an English major in the

“College of Arts and Crafts.”

I applied early decision because Penn was my first choice. Not because I’m a legacy or I didn’t have the grades to apply somewhere else, but because I wanted to go

People from my high school continuously make comments about our reputation as a “lower-tier” Ivy. But I thought that once I came to Penn, all of that would be trivial, because everyone would be happy

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here. And after I got in, I brushed off snide remarks from my peers about my choice not being good enough. And I still deal with it.

to be a student here.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for poking fun at Penn, as well as the individual reputations of its differ-

ent schools. But these jokes manifest themselves in the insecurity that permeates this campus, and that’s when we get ourselves in trouble.

A Penn education affords numerous privileges: networking opportunities, learning from renowned professors, incredible oncampus resources, and more. It’s our responsibility to take advantage of that. Penn might not be “the best” school in the Ivy League, but let me pose an important question: why does it matter? And why does it hurt our egos so much? Four years go by too quickly to walk around with chips on our shoulders.

We have to take Penn for what it is, and accept the fact that we go to school here — not Harvard, Yale, or Princeton. And Penn is a damn good school. Dwelling on the fact that we don’t go somewhere else only makes the difficult experience that is attending college unbearable.

I’ve met a lot of Penn students who want to transfer to other Ivies — the applications were due just a few weeks ago. But anyone who thinks there isn’t a pre-professional culture, toxic competition, and obnoxious wealthy students at ev-

ISABELLA SIMONETTI ery Ivy League school is kidding themselves. Because, let’s face it, Ivies are more similar than they are different.

Being at a school surrounded by people who think that they’re better than its reputation is frustrating.

It takes away from the experience of being a student here, and the ability to revel in the intelligent people surrounding us.

I might not be able to change the minds of people who wear “not Penn State” memorabilia and brag about their SAT scores from 11th grade. Still, I can urge you not to do so. Let’s not become the insecure Ivy. ISABELLA SIMONET TI is a College freshman from New York studying English. Her email address is simonetti@thedp.com.

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What Amy Wax’s critics get wrong TABA’S TAKE | I won’t join the witch hunt against her “I don’t think I’ve ever seen a black student graduate in the top quarter of the class, and rarely, rarely in the top half,” said Penn Law professor Amy Wax in a discussion about the downsides of affirmative action with Brown University economics professor Glenn Loury for his video blog. “I can think of maybe one or two students who scored in the top half of my required first year course.”

From this soundbite sprang a petition and a sweeping campaign to strip Wax of her teaching role of a mandatory first-year course.

A statement issued last week by

executioner to those too incensed

by Wax’s comments to bother contextualizing her statements or entertaining the faintest possibility of their validity.

The petition alleges that Wax’s comments violate Penn Law’s policy of keeping grades anonymous and private and states, “We would like to know upon what data Professor Wax relies.” However, just one minute after the offending remarks, Wax said in the same interview, “I haven’t done a survey, I haven’t done a systematic study … I have a big class of 89, 95 students every year. I have a big chunk of students,

scholarly ends,” as Ruger puts it, seems dishonest.

Penn Education professor Jonathan Zimmerman, author of “Campus Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know,” told me that though he does not know enough about Penn Law’s policies to dismiss the breach of privacy argument, he suspects that it’s “really a stalking horse for something else.”

Zimmerman pointed out that, had Wax instead made a functionally equivalent yet more positive observation by stating that her black students are always at the top of their class, the same objec-

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Penn Law Dean Theodore Ruger announced that Penn Law will comply with this demand. Rather than upholding free discourse and rigorous debate as core institutional values, Ruger has chosen instead to delegate the role of judge, jury, and

so I’m going off that. Because a lot of it is of course closely guarded secret, as you can imagine.”

Wax’s general and anecdotal observations may be distasteful and impolitic, but equating them with a breach of privacy to further “her

tion ought to apply, yet “we almost certainly wouldn’t hear it.” Wax has long found herself in crosshairs for her unpopular stances, of which her criticism of affirmative action is just one example. Her contentious and inflammatory track record may

well be the “something else” Wax is truly being punished for.

Regardless of the credibility of the policy violation line of reasoning, the alleged inaccuracy of Wax’s statements is arguably a greater offense. Unfortunately, Dean Ruger provides absolutely no evidence backing this charge.

Wax’s statement is phrased as a subjective observation, not an ab-

Loury points out in an emailed statement to The Daily Pennsylvanian that, if the data would allow Ruger to expose to Wax and the world that those selected under preferential affirmative action policies perform every bit as well as their peers once they’re at Penn Law, “one suspects that Dean Ruger wouldn’t be so circumspect about revealing it.” The more likely —

Wax’s general and anecdotal observations may be distasteful and impolitic, but equating them with a breach of privacy to further ‘her scholarly ends,’ as Ruger puts it, seems dishonest.” solute fact. This largely insulates it against falsifiability. Of course, it is still worthwhile to determine if Wax’s recollection of black students’ performance is unreliable.

On this count, Ruger writes, “Penn Law does not permit the public disclosure of grades or class rankings, and we do not collect, sort, or publicize grade performance by racial group. The existence of these policies and practices, while constraining this response, is not an invitation to statements made with conscious indifference to their truth content.”

If Penn Law indeed does not collect or sort grade performance by racial group, Dean Ruger cannot possibly prove that Wax’s observations are ill-founded. The only statement made with conscious indifference to its truth content might be Ruger’s.

and distressing — possibility is that gaps in performance between racial groups might prevail at Penn Law, just as they do for key admissions criteria like undergraduate GPA or LSAT performance. If this inference is credible, discussing things openly would be an uncomfortable yet far more productive step than maintaining willful ignorance.

The discrediting of Wax is consciously ignorant of data and propped up purely on the emotional and moral outrage of an offended opposition more concerned with comfort than truth. In contrast, as Wax pointed out to me in an email, her observations are in line with data published in a Stanford Law Review study by University of California at Los Angeles law professor Richard Sander in 2005 which advances the same “mismatch hypothesis” of affirmative action in

MATEEN TABATABAEI law schools that Wax discusses in the Loury interview. Sander and other proponents of the mismatch hypothesis hold that affirmative action can do more harm than good by admitting students to schools that they are unprepared for, setting them up to perform badly.

“The mismatch theory is part of our discourse; indeed, it was invoked by Justice Scalia!” Zimmerman tells me. “That doesn’t make it right, but it makes it something that any law student should have to address and critique.” While he’s sympathetic toward those who Wax has offended, Zimmerman stressed that the degree of outrage does not constitute “a cogent reason to muzzle Amy Wax or her point of view.”

Being uncomfortable or offended is unequivocally unpleasant, and perhaps Wax ought to be more sensitive to this reality. Still, so long as we continue to “categorically reject” and condemn facts, viewpoints, and people that run against the leftward grain of campus orthodoxy, the thought-policing of Wax and her increasingly rare conservative peers in higher education becomes an inevitability that starves academic discourse for us all.

M AT E E N TA B ATA B A E I i s a College freshman from Newton, Mas s. His email addres s is mateen@sas.upenn.edu.

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SARAH KHAN is a College freshman from Lynn Haven, Fla. Her email address is skhan100@sas.upenn.edu.

Look ahead to where you want to be LETTER FROM OUTGOING CAPS DIRECTOR BILL ALEXANDER Dear Penn Students, I was a little nervous when, on the occasion of my retirement as Director of CAPS, Caroline Simon, Daily Pennsylvanian Opinion Board Chair, invited me to write something I would like on mental health. I thought of the many issues concerning student mental health and my tenure at Penn. Rather than contribute to the volumes of verbiage that already take up so much space, and having listened to you for so many years, I thought I would just tell a story.

I don’t know how many of you have ever had a lesson on how to ride a motorcycle. As part of the training, there is an interesting problem presented. You are riding comfortably in the middle lane of a big highway. In front of you is a large flatbed truck carrying refrigerators. Suddenly, without warning, one of the refrigerators falls off the truck and crashes in the center lane in front of you. What are you to do?

The answer is: DO NOT look at the refrigerator. If you look at the refrigerator you will hit the re-

frigerator. Look to one side or the other. You will go wherever you look. You will not hit the refrigerator. Look where you want to go!

Don’t think that you are pretending the refrigerator is not there. Trust me, you will always be aware of the refrigerator. It is very compelling. It is in the middle of your road. You cannot deny it. You cannot pretend it is not there. But right now, do not hit the refrigerator.

There will be lots of time to understand why the refrigerator fell off the truck and how it got in the road in front of you. You can become an expert in loading trucks with refrigerators and how to best secure them. You can fully explore and understand the problem. You may even examine why you were so close to the truck in the first place. But for now, look where you want to go.

I’m guessing not many of us have taken lessons on riding a motorcycle. But all of us have refrigerators, maybe a couple.

They come in all shapes and sizes. Sometimes they might just look like a little concern because you’re not really prepared for that

mid-term. Or maybe it could look like a conflict with a good friend or lover. It could be that disappointing feeling that you have let down your coach, or teammates, or worse, your parents. It might come as a depressed mood that you don’t understand or outright

panic over something you understand all too well. It might seem unavoidable. It might be nagging or it might be frightening. It can

intuitive to know where to look so you might want to practice.

If you’re feeling a little empty, feed someone else. If you’re feeling unprepared, show a friend how. If you fear you are faking it, support someone honestly. You get the idea. Look where you want to go.

This is not easy. Sometimes you might need help looking where you want to go so ask a friend, or counselor, or coach, or teacher, or parent, or mentor, or … just ask.

And if your refrigerator takes the shape of asking for help, then offer to help a friend.

They have refrigerators too.

One of the best places to look when confronting a refrigerator is at the supSAMMIE YOON | DESIGN ASSOCIATE port from your community, whatever that means to you. be very powerful. I don’t know That is often the safe place that what your refrigerator looks like. misses the refrigerator. We insure But I know you have one. And if the continued security of that safe some day, when you are not quite place by looking at it and seeing it. aware, it falls in front of you here It takes care of us and we take care is one thing you will remember: of it. Practice looking outside your look where you want to go. lane because there will occasionSometimes it is a little counter- ally be a refrigerator in front of

you. Look where you want to go even when there is no refrigerator.

Care for that space whether it be a place or a person or a family or a friend or an idea or a community.

Or all of the above.

One last thing. You will know that by looking where you want to go you do not hit the refrigerator. But also consider this: It is the refrigerator that reminds us about the safe places to look. Sometimes refrigerators have a way of introducing us and guiding us to the safer place. Ok, sometimes they force us. Do not be afraid of the refrigerators. We all have them.

They happen. And because we know what to do about them, they do not scare us. And we are much more secure and confident on our motorcycle.

Take care of each other out there.

Thanks for your stories.

BILL ALE X ANDER has been the director of Counseling and Psychological Services for 19 years. He will be retiring this August.

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Penn Global Seminars expands to 12 destinations New classes include two first-year writing seminars COURTNEY DAUB Contributing Reporter

With Advanced Registration under way, Penn students find themselves sifting through new course offerings to plan for the upcoming school year. And with the expansion of Penn Global Seminars, many

may find themselves abroad during school breaks.

According to the Penn Global website, Penn Global Seminars are semester-long courses that include a travel component during the winter, spring, or summer break and that seek to “deepen” and “contextualize” course content.

For the 2018-2019 academic year, Penn Global is offering 12 Global Seminars, three more than

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this year, and seven more than the 2016-2017 academic year, when it was conceived.

The most significant expansion to the upcoming school year involves the incorporation of two first-year writing seminars: “The City of Delhi: New, Old, and Unmapped” and “South Africa Rising: Past and Present in the New South Africa.”

The goal of Penn Global Seminars is to provide “greater access” to Penn students by increasing the number of students that can participate and the variety of locations offered, according to Penn Abroad Director Nigel Cossar.

He added that the definition of “access” is multi-faceted, as it provides access to students with time or financial restraint, while also offering study abroad opportunities in fields that don’t traditionally offer them, and to places that Penn students don’t traditionally travel.

While many semester-abroad programs take place in Western Europe, next year’s Global Seminars will take students to Uganda, Iceland, Ghana, South Africa, Jamaica, and the Czech Republic.

The changes come as part of a continual expansion. While the original Global Seminars included an Engineering course, this year saw an expansion of Penn Global Seminars to include fields outside of the humanities, such as Nursing, Legal Studies, Earth and Environmental Science, linguistics, and Operations, Information and Decisions.

Professor Sara Byala, who will be teaching the writing seminar traveling to South Africa in the spring of 2019, said that traveling to a place “makes perfect sense after a semester of digging into a topic.” While work for a writing seminar may not always be “easy or fun,” Byala said students will appreciate the content

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to emulate her unwavering dedication to excellence, her exemplary service, and her resolute determination to knock doors down!”

Alexander was also the first black woman admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar in 1927. Anna Johnson Julian, the sorority’s fourth national president, became the first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in sociology from Penn.

“Really recognizing the history and presence of Gamma has allowed me to witness just the profound importance of a black sorority,” Abera said. She noted that Gamma has “been a weapon” against racism, sexism, and social isolation.

“If you look at the list of the people that walked through the chapter, they don’t necessarily get the recognition that other University of Pennsylvania alum[ni] get on a regular basis,” Abera added.

Currently, DST has over 200,000 members at 1,000 collegiate and alumni chapters worldwide.

“It’s an honor to be able to say that I’m a part of that legacy and it really allows you to reflect on not

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Margaret Alexander, Esther Butler King, Julia Mae Polk, and Pauline Alice Young.

Gamma was the third chapter of DST established. Aside from being the first DST chapter at an Ivy League institution, the Gamma chapter was also the first one to be founded at a predominantly white university.

Alexander served as president of the Gamma chapter and was the sorority’s first national president. She was the first black woman to graduate from Penn College for Women, and graduated with honors in just three years.

Another notable alumna of DST is Vice Provost for University Life Valerie Swain-Cade McCoullum.

“Dr. Sadie T. M. Alexander was an extraordinary woman and a phenomenal role model,” McCoullum wrote in an emailed statement to The Daily Pennsylvanian. “Those of us who have had the privilege and pleasure of following in her footsteps have done our very best

knowledge they will develop when seeing the subject in real life.

Professor Fayyaz Vellani, who will be teaching the other new writing seminar traveling to Delhi, said that, as a geographer, “actually going to the place adds another level of understanding and experience to how you study that place.”

Unlike most courses, Penn Global Seminars require an application that includes both a written portion and an interview. For courses with high demand, there may be a waitlist.

This semester’s Global Seminar offerings included “Sufis and Gods: Temples and Shrines of Southeast Asia,” a religious studies course that traveled to Singapore and Malaysia.

Among the students traveling were College junior Shiv Nadkarni and College sophomore Gabe Brodsky.

Brodsky said he was encouraged to take the course by a professor. “It really struck my interest because

I’ve always been hesitant to leave Penn for a whole semester,” he added.

Shiv added that global seminars are a unique Penn experience as opposed to other study abroad options because students get to experience people and places outside their course of study. Because students of a variety of disciplines converge to take a seminar, Shiv said, “it forces students to keep an open mind in discussions with their peers and even allows us to open our social circles to bring unexpected friends into the fold.”

Shiv described the seminar as “amazing” because of how it enriched the course material.

“It’s easy to forget a timeline of building an architectural masterpiece like the Batu Caves written on paper, but a lot harder to forget physically climbing the stairs … and standing under the grandeur of the temple itself,” he said.

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Currently, DST has over 200,000 members at 1,000 collegiate and alumni chapters worldwide. Gamma was the third chapter of DST established.

only the rich history but also understand the true value of compassion, service, academic excellence, the black hunger for education, [and] the black hunger for absolute excellence just in the context of existing at a predominately white institution,” Abera said.

DST has also always had an impact on Wharton junior and member of DST Victoria Brown.

“Growing up, my mom was really involved, and a lot of my mentors growing up were really involved,” Brown said.

For many sorors, membership lasts a lifetime.

Brown noted that this was a “really historic” moment for the University, the sorority, and the chapter. “[It’s] amazing to be a part of something larger,” she added.

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[international meetings of] financial ministers and bank governors there are precious few women,” she said.

“This is also true in the private sector.”

She added that she feels that if more women were represented in economics and at higher levels, it would make a difference in the work that economists do.

Yellen also fielded a question from a student concerning whether central banks have begun to examine the burgeoning role of cryptocurrency in the global market.

She responded stating that the “general view” concerning cryptocurrency in central banking is to be “very cautious.”

Several attendees expressed admiration for Yellen and her knowledge of the field.

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Academic institutions extending beyond the city, including Penn, Drexel University, Temple University, Lehigh University, and Villanova University, suspended normal operations on Wednesday. The Philadelphia School District also shut down for the day.

Various businesses on campus like Metropolitan Bakery closed for the day, while some like the CVS at 3401 Walnut St. closed early in light of the weather.

At Penn, students, faculty, and staff largely stayed home, as the University suspended normal operations on Wednesday. But aside from “essential University staff and all UPHS physicians and staff,” who were required to report to work according to Penn’s announcement, there were students still hard at work, needing to make assignment deadlines, and some needing to take midterms.

For College freshman Luis Ortiz Juarez and the other three students in “Religion and Evolution,” the snow day did little to effect their exam schedule. Rather than postpone the midterm sched-

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Wharton sophomore Eliza Reinisch cited Yellen as an inspiration. “I’ve been obsessed with [Yellen] for a long time,” Reinisch said.

Salma Ali, another INSEAD MBA candidate currently at Wharton, said she was impressed

by Yellen’s delivery and felt pushed to consider economic concepts in new ways.

“I think she did such a good job simplifying [these concepts] in these two hours,” Ali said. “I don’t think you could do it better than that.”

Only one month into her new job, Yellen expressed enthusiasm about her new lower-stress environment. For now, she said she plans to advise researchers and conduct her own economics research at Brookings, and she hinted at a possible book in the near future.

uled for Wednesday, Juarez said his professor asked them to take the exam online.

“Our professor told us essentially ‘don’t cheat and do it’ so we can move on from the material,” Jaurez said. “It was a little annoying because he told us to take it between noon and 1 [p.m.] and I wanted to have lunch at that time, but I am happy to get it over with.”

Many students had assignments still due today as well.

Wharton senior Daniel Yan said his weekly statistics problem set was still due today despite the snowy conditions outside.

“It’s understandable since it’s an electronic assignment, but if it had been pushed a day that would have been awesome,” Yan said.

Although she had a quiz rescheduled until tomorrow, Nursing freshman Sophie Caplan was similarly required to electronically submit her weekly assignment for her anatomy course.

“It’s definitely annoying, but our curriculum is pretty straightforward and rigid, so I am not surprised,” Caplan said.

College junior Natalie Breuel said that her professor requested

Penn students protested on Locust Walk on Feb. 22 SETH SCHUSTER Staff Reporter

In response to the mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Fla., student protests for increased gun control have occurred across the nation. Students at Penn and at nearby universities, too, have mobilized in the past four weeks to make their voices heard as they prepare for the national March for Our Lives on March 24.

At Penn, over 150 students took to Locust Walk to protest gun violence on Feb. 22 by standing in solidarity and holding signs that represented the 317 mass shootings that had taken place since Jan. 1, 2017. On March 14, the day of the National School Walkout to Protest Gun Violence, over 30 Penn Law students and 150 employees of the Wistar Institute participated in walkouts.

Outside of the Penn bubble, other Philadelphia universities have contributed to the movement.

In support of the “#Enough” National School Walkout to Protest Gun Violence on March 14, students at Drexel University, Temple University, and Villanova University staged walkouts of their own.

Many of these students continue to participate in the movement.

Drexel senior Adam Raifsnider organized the Drexel University Walkout to Protest Gun Violence and explained that the motivation to mobilize stems from a desire to combat inaction and desensitiza-

that her class “watch a few videos” in light of her mythology lecture being cancelled for the day. As a joke, she posted a photo in Penn’s notorious Facebook group, Official Unofficial Penn Squirrel Catching Club, reacting to an e-mail from her professor titled “snow day assignment.”

“I just made a dumb meme about it because it is a snow day,” she wrote in a message to The

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“We see this never-ending cycle of shootings, leading to hollow mantras of ‘thoughts and prayers,’ ultimately leading to silence over and over again, and [students] are fed up,” Raifsnider said. “Now is a critical time in our nation’s history, as we are truly beginning to feel exactly how powerful an organized group of like-minded young people can be.”

Raifsnider stressed that the #Enough movement is more than just leaving class to “sing Kumbaya so the legislators pass the laws we want.” Rather, it is intended to be a “signal and rallying cry” that exhibits the sheer volume of support behind this cause to ensure that the shooting in Parkland will be the last of its kind.

Despite the symbolic nature of these protests, Raifsnider said that the gun control movement at Drexel has a list of specific policy goals participants would like to see enacted. These goals include higher taxation on firearms and ammunition, increased age restrictions, cyclically-renewed licensure, mental health-oriented background checks, and a ban on all assault weaponry.

Students at Villanova said that their campus has also begun to talk about previously-taboo topics through the “Get Woke Nova” campaign. The campaign aspires to shed a more comprehensive light on the injustices faced by students and raise issues normally not spoken about. “[Shootings happen] so frequently, and I think people need

Daily Pennsylvanian. “The assignment was actually very reasonable.”

The storm also coincided with a multitude of “Teach-In” events that were organized across campus during the week. All of the events scheduled for Wednesday were either canceled or postponed to a later date. According to the teach-in website, all Thursday events are still on.

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On the day of the National School Walkout to Protest Gun Violence, Penn Law students and Wistar employees participated in walkouts.

to be aware of it and realize there is something we can do to try to change it,” Villanova sophomore Gabriela Ramirez, who attended the Villanova protest, said.

Ramirez explained that although she believes “Get Woke Nova” and the walkout are “steps in the right direction,” Villanova as a whole is rather apolitical and she feels the window for student activism on campus may be closing.

At Temple, more than 30 students participated in an organized walkout on March 14.

Temple junior Karina Roman said that she did not attend the first walkout and initially did not know how to get involved. After witnessing the activism of high schoolers in response to the recent tragedy, she decided to help organize an-

In the below-freezing conditions, the City of Philadelphia also stripped down to essential staff and implemented an emergency protocol – known as “Code Blue” – taking special measures to transport people who are homeless to safe indoor spaces.

The regional transportation authority, SEPTA, issued a warning against unnecessary travel

other walkout on April 20.

“My two organizing members and I decided to begin organizing this event in advance, so we could make sure we had the time to plan every detail,” Roman said. “This event is really important to all of us, we want it to be perfect.”

As Philadelphia’s own March for Our Lives occurs this weekend, leaders such as Raifsnider are optimistic about the possibility for change.

“There’s obviously no shortage of passion for gun control reform within this community and with the power of modern technology, organizing was incredibly easy,” Raifsnider said. “This world is now being crafted and shaped by fiery, excited, and relentlessly hopeful young people before our eyes.”

starting late Tuesday afternoon and lasting throughout Wednesday. SEPTA’s Regional Rail is also operating in accordance with the “Severe Storm Schedule” on Wednesday.

The Philadelphia School District announced that schools would have a delayed opening on Thursday. The city will remain under a winter storm warning until 2 a.m. Thursday morning.

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Quakers retool after losing a record four players to the MLB draft COLE JACOBSON Sports Editor

It’s perhaps the most universal constant in the college sports world: roster turnover.

But for Penn baseball, this year takes it to a new level.

Fresh off their first appearance in the Ivy League Championship Series since 2007, the Quakers will have an uphill battle to get back there. But even after losing a program-record

three players to the professional ranks, not to mention two more former first team All-Ivy picks who didn’t hear their names called, Penn is dead set on reloading rather than rebuilding.

“We have a lot of young guys who are talented in their own right, and the idea that they have to try to make up for what we lost isn’t true,” senior pitcher Gabe Kleiman said. “People are sleeping on us a little bit, and it just gives us a little bit more drive to prove all those people wrong.”

It looked like 2017 would finally be the year for Penn to break its 22year conference title drought, when the Quakers won the now-defunct Lou

Gehrig Division over Columbia.

But senior stars like Tim Graul, Jake Cousins, and Mike Reitcheck couldn’t prevent Penn from being swept by Yale in the Ivy title series, forcing the Quakers to another offseason of agony.

“We used it as fuel, because we went into that series thinking that we definitely could beat Yale,” sophomore first baseman Chris Adams said.

“So we want to earn our way back there, and when we earn our way back there, we’re not gonna let it get away from us again.”

Penn’s offense returns all but one starting position player from 2017,

but that one was 2016 Ivy League Player of the Year Tim Graul. In 20 Ivy League games last season, Graul led the conference in batting average (.468) and total bases (60), with a ridiculous on-base plus slugging of 1.296.

As talented as Graul was, it’s on the other side of the ball where the Quakers’ losses might prove most difficult to overcome.

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After a record-setting four years with Penn football, wide receiver Justin Watson is trying to take his game to the pros. And Monday was a big step towards that.

Watson shined in his pro day, which was attended by scouts from at least 20 NFL teams. Scouts clocked Watson’s 40-yard dash between 4.35 and the mid-4.4s, with the consensus around 4.41 and 4.42. He also completed 20 reps in the 225-pound bench press, which would have been good for fourth among receivers at the NFL Combine, and posted a 40-inch vertical jump.

Joe Linta, Watson’s agent, was pleased with Watson’s performance.

“Justin had one of the more amazing days in recent memory.

Very few WR’s have ever had a 40-inch vertical, do 20 reps at 225 and run in the 4.3’s,” Linta said via text message. “More importantly, he is an exemplary person who you would want to marry your daughter.”

Watson worked with XPE Training in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.,

A new Ivy League format could be the start of something new for Penn Baseball.

For the 2018 season, Ivy League baseball has created a new schedule format, much simplified from its original organization. The divisional system has been disbanded, replaced by a single, conference-wide pool of teams.

The new 2018 schedule format is similar to the way other Ivy League sports compete.

Each team will play every other Ivy team in a three-game series, with one doubleheader on a Saturday, followed by one game on Sunday. Therefore, each team will play 21 league games. Come season’s end on May 19-20, the top two teams in the Ivy League will play in the Ivy Championship Series in a best-of-three contest.

Previously, the divisions divided the Ivy teams into two groups of four. The Red Rolfe (North) Division consisted of Brown, Dartmouth, Harvard, and Yale, while the Lou Geh-

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Senior wide reciever Justin Watson tore up the Penn and Ivy League record books over his four-year career as a Quaker.

at first to prepare for the East-West Shrine Game and the Senior Bowl, before spending five weeks dedicated to the 40-yard dash and other pro day training. He returned to campus a week-and-a-half ago to train at Penn’s “bubble” facility at Penn Park, where the pro day took place. He said his 40-yard dash time was in line with his training times and was proud to have caught every pass thrown to him when running routes with a quarterback.

Coach Ray Priore was similarly impressed, and hopes NFL teams will see what he sees in his former star receiver.

“He’s the complete package.

He’s proven himself on the field, off the field, his character, his football knowledge, he’s been asked to play and perform in those allstar games and he did a fine job,” Priore said. “In my time here, he’s in that small percentage of guys I feel has a really great opportunity to take it to the next step.”

Watson’s 4.42 40-yard dash time would rank very highly among the receivers that were invited to the Combine. Only two receivers at the Combine ran faster than 4.41, with seven receivers beSEE WATSON PAGE 10

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Another strong freshman class makes an impact The secret to Penn baseball’s success in recent years — good recruiting and baptism by fire.

Throughout his tenure with the Quakers (4-11), coach John Yurkow has been focused on growing the program with strong recruiting.

Each season, the program recruits players who can fill voids in the lineup and contribute right away, and Yurkow works with them as soon as they arrive on campus. He has also shown he is not afraid to test the younger players and give them opportunities to prove themselves early in the season.

“We recruit kids that want to play, and we specifically look for guys that want to compete for starting spots and that confidence is not only great for them, but it also

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tween 4.41 and 4.43.

According to researchers like RotoViz.com’s Anthony Amico and PlayerProfiler.com’s Matt Kelley, 40-yard dash times at pro days tend to approximately 0.03 to 0.05 seconds faster than those seen at the NFL Combine due to different timing measurements.

Either way, Watson’s time is still impressive. Kelley said that Watson’s “Speed Score,” a metric which adjusts for both height and weight, will end up around the 90th percentile for wide receivers.

Amico and Kelley were both excited by Watson’s day overall.

Though both admitted that the wideout’s agility metrics were slightly below-average, Kelley specified that Watson may have above-average agility if one adjusts for size and compares him to the

freshman year. He started in 39 of the Quakers’ 40 games in his first year with the team, finishing the campaign with a .230 batting average, three home runs, and 17 RBIs. “The combination of adapting to life on campus while figuring out the collegiate game is very difficult,” Phelan said. “Personally, I struggled my freshman year because it’s definitely a hard adjustment as the game is faster at the collegiate level and you need to prepare yourself mentally as a freshman as well” With a season under his belt, Phelan rebounded his sophomore season, starting 45 games and finishing the season with a .323 batting average while knocking in 31 runs. Now, in his junior year, Phelan continues to impress with three home runs and nine RBIs through 14 games this year.

The current sophomores also showed signs of brilliance in their rookie seasons and have built off that strong start with strong 2018 campaigns.

Holcomb started eight games a

year ago, finishing with a record of 1-1 while posting an ERA of 4.60 and striking out 26 batters. He has continued to grow this season, lowering his ERA to a mere 2.05 and striking out 25 batters thus far through four starts.

Sophomore second baseman Chris Adams started 43 games a year ago for the Red and Blue and had an impressive rookie season in his own right. Adams finished the year with a .292 batting average, one home run, and 20 RBIs. Like Holcomb, Adams has picked up right where he left off, maintaining a .333 batting average this season and knocking in eight runs.

Freshman year does have its challenges, however, and the transition from high school to the collegiate level is a daunting test for the players to overcome. Fortunately, the Quakers have over half of the school year to prepare before finally taking the field in late February, and the coaches devote that time to helping the freshmen adjust to college life on and off the field.

“The hitters at the collegiate

level are so much better than those in high school so your game has to be more complete and you have to make fewer mistakes and just can’t take pitches off,” Holcomb said.

“It’s great that we have the time to work with our guys in the weight room, build individual skills, and get guys into the flow of the pro-

gram and the collegiate game,” Yurkow said.

Penn may have started slow out of the gate, but the Quakers have what it takes to return to the Ivy League Championship Series this year and for years to come with their strong recruiting and playerdevelopment.

bigger receivers in his cohort. And he maintains that today was a big win for Watson.

“It’s incredibly important that Justin Watson demonstrated this upper-percentile athleticism because now you can look at his college production differently and with a much higher level of certainty say his game is going to translate,” Kelley said.

One of the questions that has surrounded Watson as draft season approaches is whether he will be able to get free from NFL cornerbacks as opposed to Ivy League cornerbacks.

Watson providing concrete evidence of his athleticism helps, and he had the opportunity to face elite FBS cornerbacks at the East-West Shrine Game and Senior Bowl.

“It was cool being at the EastWest Shrine Game, and honestly I thought the difference that everyone talks about between the Ivy League and [Division] I-A was overestimat-

ed,” Watson said. “And to be at that [Senior Bowl] that I watched every year growing up as a kid and playing on that field was awesome, and catching balls from Josh Allen and Baker Mayfield.”

Since Watson figures to be a mid-to-late draft pick, or possibly an undrafted free agent, he understands the importance of playing special teams to provide value to a team. He did not play special teams at Penn, as coaches did not want to risk injuring the star receiver.

“First meeting for the East-West Shrine Game I went right up to the special teams coordinator ... and said ‘hey, I want to play on all four special teams,’ and he did right away,” Watson said. “When other guys were dropping out, I picked up every spot I could.”

Watson professed his willingness to secure a roster spot through special teams contributions while making clear his ultimate goal is to be a

pass-catcher in the NFL. He says he aims to crack the No. 3 receiver spot for whichever team he ends up with by the end of his rookie year.

One reason Kelley finds Watson an intriguing NFL prospect — he says he personally thinks Watson could be as high as the third-most impressive wide receiver prospect — is his “Dominator Rating”, a metric which tells the extent to which a player accounted for his college offense’s passing yards and touchdowns.

PlayerProfiler.com listed Watson with a 60.3% Dominator Rating, which is in the 98th percentile of wide receivers in Kelley’s database, which dates back more than a decade.

“To account for 60% of the passing offense, which is what he was, the easiest way to do that is to dominate opponents with athleticism — to be able to jump higher, run faster, and make explosive plays both be-

fore the catch and after the catch — so it doesn’t surprise me that he’s also an exceptional athlete,” Kelley said.

Kelley disagrees with some of the NFL comparisons he has seen made to Watson, including Chris Hogan of the New England Patriots and Adam Thielen of the Minnesota Vikings. He says Watson dwarfs them in college production, size, and athleticism.

Considering that Watson’s vertical and broad jumps place him in the 95th percentile in Kelley’s “Burst Score”, Kelley finds threetime Pro Bowl selection Vincent Jackson or newly-signed Jacksonville Jaguar Donte Moncrief a more appropriate comparison.

“A guy that stands at least 6-foot2, a guy that’s 220 pounds, and runs a sub-4.5 40 with explosiveness that is pretty rare,” Kelley said. “[Jackson] went to Northern Colorado, a small school, posted a 70% Domi-

nator Rating and ended up being super explosive when he was tested.

Without running an algorithm yet on his comparisons, just the eye test, he looks more like a Vincent Jackson than an Adam Thielen.”

Amico says that Watson has the upside of a true number one receiver, but considering his Combine snub and a likely low draft selection, he thinks it is more likely that Watson turns into a strong number two receiver.

“My NFL comp for him right now would be Jordan Matthews.

That may seem like a slight, but Matthews was an outstanding college prospect, who stepped right onto the scene and produced at the next level,” Amico said. “He has been dinged up and not in a great passing environment the last couple of seasons, but overall reminds me a lot of Watson. Both were dominant college players, and have similar athletic profiles.”

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For Penn baseball, it’s more than just a game.

For the past five years, the team has been working with the Vs. Cancer Foundation, shaving their heads annually in order to gain support and fundraising for childhood cancer research. Penn was one of the first schools to get involved with the organization, but the tradition has spread across the nation and positively impacted many lives.

Vs. Cancer is unique in that the funds raised by the haircuts go to both national cancer research and local hospitals.

In the baseball team’s case, 50 percent of their proceeds are given to the pediatric oncology unit at the Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania, which is just a short walk away from Penn’s campus, while the other half will be given to the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation. “To be able to take those funds and direct them right to CHOP, which is right across the street, it’s a really cool opportunity for our kids to get involved,� coach John Yurkow said.

Many upperclassmen on the team can recall how this philanthropy event influenced their lives as well as the lives of their teammates. “One of our previous captains, [2015 graduate] Ronnie Glenn, was really involved with it. He would go to CHOP and see the kids,� junior infielder Matt McGeah said.

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One former Penn football star is getting ready for life in the NFL, but the career of another ex-Quaker just got a big boost.

On Monday, it was announced that former Penn football linebacker and 2013 graduate Brandon Copeland signed with the New York Jets.

Copeland played all 16 games of the 2015 and 2016 seasons for the Detroit Lions’, during which time he registered 30 tackles and a forced fumble.

During last year’s preseason, though, he suffered a pectoral tear and was ruled out for the entire season.

The Sykesville, Md. native was a standout at Penn, captaining the 2012 Penn football team to an Ivy League title. His many accolades included being named to the All-Ivy first team three times in his four years with the Red and Blue.

After his career as a Quaker, Copeland declared for the 2013 NFL Draft and subsequently

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will never forget. “It’s not an easy thing to do,� junior first baseman Sean Phelan said, but he doesn’t believe the tradition will end anytime soon.

Vs. Cancer was founded by Chase Jones, a former baseball player at the University of North Carolina, who was diagnosed with a stage IV brain tumor his freshman year of college. The Quakers got a chance to listen to and speak with Jones, allowing them to more completely realize the benefits of their efforts.

Jones created Vs. Cancer primarily to assist in the treat-

ment of childhood cancer but to also give athletes an opportunity to make a change in their community apart from wins and losses. Since starting the foundation, Jones and his colleagues have raised over $4.2 million thanks to contributions from teams like the Quakers.

The team is scheduled to honor its 2018 donation of $29,000 (and counting) on March 25 during its home game against Brown.

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Women’s lacrosse takes on reigning national champs No. 7 Penn is still undefeated ahead of Maryland matchup PARKER JONES Sports Reporter

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On Thursday at 3 p.m., Penn women’s lacrosse is taking on defending NCAA Champion and No. 4 Maryland at Franklin Field.

Coming off of a huge win against No. 19 Duke (6-3, 1-1 ACC), the Quakers are looking to keep their seven-same winning streak alive against Maryland (61, 1-0 Big Ten).

Off to its best seven-game start since 2009, No. 7 Penn (7-0, 1-0 Ivy) has a high-powered offense that the team is looking towards to help it this Thursday against the Terrapins.

Freshman Zoe Belodeau has burst onto the scene with 17 goals so far this season, making her one of the top scorers on the team.

Sophomore Gabby Rosenzweig has a whopping team-leading 25 goals to herself, and longtime stars and seniors Alex Condon and Caroline Cummings provide further support.

Defensively, Penn will have its hands full with a stacked Mary-

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the end of the 2016 season, he will look to make an impact right away for the Jets, who are coming off a disappointing 5-11 record last season and a last place finish in the AFC East.

Copeland is one of four exQuakers currently on an NFL roster, in addition to Ryan O’Malley of the Giants, Alek Torgersen of the Lions, and Greg Van Roten of the Panthers.

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If Penn wants to pull off the upset against No. 4 Maryland, junior Katy Junior and the rest of the defense need to be on top of their game.

land offense averaging 17.1 goals per game, good for third in the country. The Quakers will have to ward off Maryland’s main scorers, senior Megan Whittle and junior Caroline Steele, who have combined to provide 49 of the team’s 120 goals.

Last year, the Quakers were up to the task. While Penn fell, 117, to a Maryland team that would finish the season undefeated, the Red and Blue held the Terps to their lowest goal total of the season.

That effort came with thensenior and program legend Britt Brown in goal, but this season, the Quakers’ defensive personnel looks a bit different.

After recently earning the starting job, sophomore Mikaila Cheeseman will work to protect the goal like her predecessor in this upcoming match. So far this season, Cheeseman is sixth in the

nation with an impressive 55.6 save percentage of shots on goal — which compares favorably to Maryland’s goalie, reigning IWLCA Goalie of the Year and junior Megan Taylor, at 42.6 percent.

Maryland crushed Johns Hopkins this past Saturday by a score of 15-5. When the Quakers played the Blue Jays back in February, they barely snagged a 12-11 win.

The Red and Blue have come a long way since then, however. As the new-look offense has jelled, Penn’s shooting percentage has risen from the 39.5 percent mark it had when it previously played Johns Hopkins to 45.2 percent after defeating Duke.

The Quakers are eager for a win this week, but they have their work cut out for them — not only in facing another winter storm, but also in the challenge of taking down the reigning champs.

mented by increasing success in the classroom. “Personally I’m a fan of changing to three games. Last year, with four games, two double headers, by the end of the weekend your body was pretty destroyed. It’ll be easier on a level to focus and on a physical level for your body,� junior first baseman Sean Phelan said.

Both players and coaches agree that there will be increased potential for academics with upcoming Ivy play.

The Ivy League prides itself on the dual role of its studentathletes, and the new Ivy League format allows Penn baseball to better cope with their schoolwork in season. “It really frees up your weekend, it can get kind of tough with playing four games, with homework and things you need to get done.

It’s not like teachers are going to give you passes on that kind of stuff,� sophomore pitcher

Mitchell Holcomb said. “From a student athlete standpoint, as far as quality of life is better for everybody. A good example is if you’re away and only playing a single game, we’re getting our guys back to campus at a reasonable hour ‌ [to] help prepare themselves to have a good week in the classroom as well,â€? Yurkow said.

Defending champion Yale is the current favorite to win the Ivy League this year according to preseason polls. Penn is projected to finish fourth, behind Dartmouth and Columbia.

Wednesday, March 21 should have been the Quakers’ first home game of the year, set against Lehigh University, but has been postponed indefinitely due to inclement weather. The Red and Blue will simultaneously open Ivy play and host their first home game against Brown on Saturday, March 24 at 11:30 am.

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Under the previous format in 2017, the Quakers won the Gehrig Division playoff in a single game against Columbia.

Unfortunately for the Red and Blue, they went on to quickly drop the first two games of the Ivy Championship in a matchup against Yale. “I think it’s good for the league. When you look at the big picture, you want the best team in the Ivy league to represent the Ivy league in the NCAA tournament,� coach John Yurkow said. “If you definitely have the two best teams playing in the championship, there’s a greater chance that that will happen.�

Penn hopes to top the standings and avenge its 2017 championship series loss to Yale. With the changes in scheduling, the Quakers feel that their ability to succeed on the diamond will be comple-

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“It’s tough losing guys like that. But every year we’ve seen it, and the next year somebody’s stepped up,” junior first baseman Sean Phelan said. “We find a way to get it done and win games. And I’m not too concerned it’ll be different this year.”

Ultimately, though the depth chart has changed for the Red and Blue, the mentality hasn’t.

Penn still has motivation of ending the conference’s longest active championship drought and the confidence of knowing

how close it was to doing so.

And that combination might be enough for the Quakers to make history.

“We have a sign in our locker room that says how many days there are to the Ivy championship, and that gets us going every day,” Holcomb said. “After it got taken away from us last year, that hurts for a lot of our guys; that title is something that a lot of our guys want bad, and it’s something that a lot of guys need.”

Our take: Penn won’t fall off too far, if at all, from where it’s

been. There’s too much veteran talent on the offensive side, pitchers Kleiman and Holcomb are more than capable of leading a solid staff, and the drive is as high as ever after last year’s finish. But around the league, there might just be too much returning talent; Yale and Columbia each return six All-Ivy selections to Penn’s two, and the Lions only graduated three total players. We have the Quakers finishing in third place, though a few lucky bounces can have the Quakers right there with anyone they face.

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an all-time school record with 350 strikeouts in 45 games, giving this year’s cast a tall order.

But one sign of hope comes in the emergence of sophomore pitcher Mitchell Holcomb, who has had no issue sliding into the spotlight after the departure of his former mentors. After primarily starting non-Ivy contests last season, Holcomb holds a 2.05 ERA so far and already has won two Ivy League Pitcher of the Week awards.

“When I came to Penn, I got some advice; it was, ‘find the best guy on the staff and then do what he does,’ and I was able to kind of do that four times over,” Holcomb said. “This year, I kind of had to develop my own stuff to evolve into someone that can lead people and own that role.”

Another reason of optimism comes from the Quakers’ recent past. The Quakers own a 53-27 record in Ivy play in coach John Yurkow’s tenure, having finished in the top half of the conference in all four seasons. And players see no reason to stop that

Quakers make a second consecutive appearance in the Ivy League Championship Series, where they lost to Yale last season. For now, though, all of the focus is on Brown, as Penn cannot afford many early-season slips ups.

The heart of the season is officially here and the Red and Blue are ready to roll.

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another three times, Yurkow said the goal for his team is to win every series, which would put them in a great position late in the season.

Looking ahead, the final two conference series against Columbia and Yale, who rank second and first, respectively, in the Ivy preseason poll, could decide whether or not the

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a rotation that has lost three solid pitchers to graduation.

Holcomb has a phenomenal 2.05 ERA, while Gabe Kleiman holds a 4.44 ERA with 23 strikeouts entering conference play.

With this season’s new Ivy League scheduling rules, which eliminated the two divisions and have each team play one

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Junior third baseman Matt McGeagh leads the Quakers with 10 runs batted in on the season, and will be a crucial part of the offense during Ivy play, which starts this weekend against Brown.

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The Quakers are finally coming home, and it couldn’t happen soon enough.

Penn baseball is scheduled to open up Ivy League play with a three-game series this weekend against Brown, marking the first set of home games for the Red and Blue (4-11) this year. Depending on the weather conditions, the teams will play a Saturday double-header, beginning at 11:30 a.m., and finish the series with a 1:00 p.m. matchup on Sunday.

Penn is set to return to Meiklejohn Stadium following a 15-game roadtrip in the South to start the season, during which it faced several tough non-conference opponents. The team expects the experience gained from the slew of nonconference road games to ultimately pay dividends.

“The hope is that you play a challenging schedule early in the year,” said coach John Yurkow, now in his fifth year as the Red and Blue skipper.

“You hope that you benefit

weekend.”

Among the standouts for Brown are junior catcher Mark Sluys (.368 batting average) and sophomore infielder Rich Ciufo (.318 BA). Additionally, sophomore Garrett Delano has been getting it done both on the mound, with a 1.93 earned run average, and at the plate, hitting .279 with two home runs.

On the other side, Penn will come into the series with some firepower of its own. The Quakers bring back eight of their nine starters in the batting order, losing a key player in 2016 Ivy League Player of the Year Tim Graul.

Of the returning starters, a trio of infielders have led the way thus far. Sophomore second baseman Chris Adams has team-highs in batting average (.333), stolen bases (4), and is tied for third on the team with eight runs batted in. First baseman Sean Phelan and third baseman Matt McGeagh, both of whom are juniors, lead the Quakers with three home runs apiece. McGeagh has a teamhigh 10 RBIs while Phelan barely trails him with nine of his own.

On the bump, sophomore Mitchell Holcomb and senior Gabe Kleiman have led

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from that by playing teams that are balanced, that are really well-coached, that have played more games than we have at that point in the season.”

With the Quakers now more than ready to begin conference play, their first challenge comes against Brown (4-7).

The Bears are ranked last in the Ivy League Preseason Media Poll, while Penn stands in the middle of the pack at fourth.

Both teams know, though, that the preseason rankings are meaningless once the games start and that anything can happen in Ancient Eight baseball.

Last year, these teams split their two-game series played at Brown, both of which were close affairs. Despite the Bears losing three first-team All-Ivy selections from last season, Yurkow doesn’t want his group to take this year’s Brown team lightly.

“I think pitching-wise, they’re pitching it a little bit better than they had in the past,” the two-time Big Five Coach of the Year said. “They have a couple hitters that have a little bit of juice that can hurt you, so we’re gonna have to do a good job just coming out and really maintaining that energy through all 27 innings of the

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