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Penn professors respond to Trump’s war on ‘fake news’ One professor wants to change the way people think about this trend HARI KUMAR Staff Reporter

With fake news stories abounding during the 2016 election cycle, it is no wonder that many Americans have become concerned over the validity of the media that they consume. Several Penn professors have been particularly outspoken in the war against fake news, aiming to do their part to ensure modern media is accurate. Kathleen Hall Jamieson, a professor in the Annenberg School for Communication, hopes to change the way that people view these false stories. Jamieson said that she prefers to think of fake news as “viral deception,” as this term better “captures how these stories are intentionally deceitful.” SEE FAKE NEWS PAGE 3

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2017 Spring Fling performers will be Zedd and Tinashe DANI BLUM 34th Street Managing Editor

he Spring Fling concert performers this year will be EDM DJ Zedd and R&B singer Tinashe, multiple sources and the Social Planning and Events Committee confirmed to 34th Street on Wednesday night. Zedd is known for “Clarity,” “Stay” and “True Colors.” Tinashe is an American singer, songwriter, producer, dancer and actress. She starred in Two

and a Half Men and The Polar Express. Musically, Tinashe is known for hits like “2 On” and “Flame.” SPEC Concerts co–director Rachel Erani said in a statement to Street, “Tinashe, our opener is a singer, but even more than that, she’s a performer. She also taps into multiple genres — her music blends R&B, hip hop and pop. And on top of that, she’s an amazing dancer! Zedd is a DJ with more mainstream appeal and everyone already knows a bunch of his songs. We want Fling to be the space where Penn students can not only be

entertained, but also be able sing and dance along to music they already love. We’re super excited about our lineup as a whole and cannot wait for the show!” The concert will be held at Penn Park. The first thousand tickets will go on sale on Monday, April 3 at 10 a.m. on Locust Walk. These tickets will be sold at an “early bird price” for $30. The limit for early bird tickets is two tickets per person. The show concert will be on Friday, April 21. Doors open at 7 p.m., and the show will start at 8 p.m.

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Meme group sparks online debate MARS rejection email raises questions about exclusivity

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As one of two applicants denied, Butkiewicz characterized MARS’ selection process as “absolutely ludicrous.”

A post on a Facebook group for Penn memes has garnered over 530 reactions — including 142 “angry” responses — and has sparked discussion about exclusivity and sexual assault. At approximately 8 p.m. on Tuesday night, College senior Will Butkiewicz posted a screenshot of a rejection email from Men Against Rape and Sexual Assault on the public Facebook group “Official Unofficial Penn Squirrel Catching Club.” Butkiewicz captioned the screenshot: “Tfw you’re a man against rape & sexual assault and you’re rejected from the group of men against rape & sexual assault #exclusive #leaveittopenn #eyeroll.” Butkiewicz said he applied to the group after attending an open house earlier in the semester, and received the rejection email from MARS after participating in an interview and waiting nearly a month and a half. “I said, well, that’s weird not to be accepted to this group that seemed like they should want more people to talk about rape and sexual assault,” Butkiewicz said. “So then — given that they’d taken so long and

everything else — I posted it on the Penn meme group not actually expecting a huge response.” As one of two applicants who was denied among the pool of 21 candidates, Butkiewicz characterized MARS’ selection process as “absolutely ludicrous.” “I posted it to show the hypocrisy of the situation, and a lot of people agreed with it,” Butkiewicz said. “I just think that the way they’re functioning isn’t the best way.” College junior Zeeshan Mallick — the president of MARS — said while the organization does not try to be exclusive, it deliberates on any concerns raised by its members about a particular applicant. Twothirds of MARS’ present members must vote for a candidate to gain acceptance into the group. “When we take people, it’s because we feel like they can be contributing members of the group and there have not been concerns raised about them,” Mallick said. “It’s not a thing where we’re looking to fill quotas in any way, shape or form.” Mallick said the group has been “constantly moving forward” and will continue to do so following the post of the rejection letter. He also noted that a lack of physical space for meetings was not a reason for the SEE MARS PAGE 2

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Temple U. raises cost of meal plans due to soda tax

At Penn, soda prices could increase incrementally CHRIS DOYLE Staff Reporter

Students at Temple University may have to swallow the cost of Philadelphia’s soda tax through an increased meal plan cost — but Penn has no plans to go a similar route. During a phone conference on March 14, Temple’s trustees proposed raising the cost of meal plans by an additional 6 percent, 4.8 percent of which will offset the 1.5 cents per ounce tax on beverage-sweeteners, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. Temple later promised to “reconsider” the fee after Mayor Kenney spokesperson and 2013 College graduate Lauren Hitt argued the tax was being used as a “scapegoat” for other expenses. Still, the possibility remains that Temple students will be shouldering the higher cost come next fall.

A soda tax fee isn’t something students should expect to see at Penn. Director of Business and Hospitality Services Pam Lampitt said Penn, like Temple, is now paying significantly more for the sweetened drinks available at dining halls. But Lampitt says the prospect of a raise in costs for students was never mentioned. “In the incorporating of our increases that the trustees allow us to increase incrementally, we did not factor in any additional plea to say ‘hey, we got this really big soda tax,’” Lampitt said. “We did not do that, we chose not to do that, and we would not do that.” Lampitt’s assurance does not mean students won’t encounter any additional soda-related costs. Penn Dining has allowed Bon Appetit —which oversees on-campus retailers like Frontera, Gourmet Grocer, Houston Market and Beefsteak — to raise the prices of sweetened drinks. “[Penn] has incrementally allowed Bon Appetit to increase

some of their pricing,” Lampitt said. “They’re not passing along a hundred percent of it [to students], but passing along some of it … based upon what’s happening in the immediate area.” Wakefern Food Corporation Vice President of Retail Marketing Karen Meleta had to raise the price of nearly 4,000 sweetened items when the tax was introduced this January. At the University City Fresh Grocer, which is a Wakefern subsidiary, prices on common goods like Silk almond milk, Minute Maid lemonade and Arizona iced tea cost about 30 percent, 45 percent and 50 percent more, respectively. College freshman Nicole Posadas is still occasionally stunned by the new costs. “I actually tried to buy a soda last weekend [from a vending machine], and I completely forgot there was a tax,” Posada said. “I ended up not buying the soda. The price went from like $1.25 [before the tax] to $2.05 now.”

Wharton professor Benjamin Lockwood says these price increases could result in an overall social benefit. Despite dampened sales causing companies like Pepsi to lay off workers, early data suggest the tax has reduced how many sugary beverages people are drinking. “There have been some reports that consumption has decreased, some of them saying by pretty substantial amounts. I’ve seen blog posts and news articles saying in the order of 25 or 30 percent,” Lockwood said. “A policy maker would say, ‘yes, it’s very unfortunate for those people who no longer have jobs, but that cost to them is outweighed by … the predictable health benefits of reduced soda consumption.’” The tax seems to be having at least a mild influence on Penn students. Posadas, for one, has made some adjustments. “I never drank that much soda, Posada said. “But now I’m drinking even less soda knowing that there’s the tax.”

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Temple’s trustees proposed raising the cost of meal plans by an additional 6 percent, 4.8 percent of which will offset the 1.5 cents per ounce tax.

Penn administrators respond to alleged assault at Northwestern

Penn’s 3.9 percent tuition increase expands financial aid

SAE at Northwestern is now under investigation

How will middle-class students be affected?

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On Feb. 7, Northwestern University issued a statement announcing an investigation after four students alleged they were given date rape drugs and two alleged sexual assaults at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house. The press release included several details pertaining to its ongoing investigation, including the name of the fraternity allegedly involved in the incident and a timeline of the investigation. “On February 2, 2017, the Sexual Harassment Prevention Office received a report that on January 21, 2017, four female students attending an event at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house in Evanston were possibly given a date-rape drug,” the Northwestern announcement read. “The report alleges that two of the students believe they were also sexually assaulted.” The statement garnered swift reactions from students and the national headquarters for Sigma Alpha Epsilon. The Chicago Tribune reported that SAE at Northwestern University has been suspended by the fraternity’s national organization, and the university’s Interfraternity Council has halted the social activities of all fraternities. Northwestern students also signed a petition advocating for someone in the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life to supervise the fraternity while it underwent suspension and for SAE to be dissolved if any of its members were found culpable for the alleged crimes, according to The Daily Northwestern. That’s what happened at Northwestern. But what would happen if Penn were to find itself in such a circumstance?

Penn has announced that it will increase the cost of attendance by 3.9 percent for the 2017-2018 school year, while increasing its undergraduate financial aid budget by $9.4 million. Un iversity Di rector of Financial Aid Elaine PapasVaras said Student Registration and Financial Services tries to use the increased funds to provide aid for more students when tuition costs rise. “The goal is that more students will qualify for financial aid,” she said. “As we continue to look at the range of our population of students and the income and the expected family contribution, the goal here and what we’re excited about is that the pool of students can continue to grow.” SRFS spokesperson Karen Hamilton said SRFS does not yet know how many more students will potentially qualify for aid with the increase in financial aid amount, or how much more aid will be granted, as the Class of 2021 is still being formed. “We commit to meeting need 100 percent without loans,” Hamilton added. “That is the motivation behind the increase in the financial aid budget. The University has a commitment to make sure that any student that is admitted, no matter what their need is, will be met by Penn with a needbased package.” Still, The Daily Pennsylvanian has previously reported that many Penn students take out loans, especially students from middle-class families. Vice President of the UA and College senior Sola Park feels that SRFS can work to minimize “hidden costs” associated with attending Penn, such as the costs of textbooks, housing, dining and field trips.

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University spokesperson Stephen MacCarthy said that if placed in a similar situation as Northwestern, Penn would value the privacy of the alleged perpetrators when determining what information to release to the public.

In an emailed statement to The Daily Pennsylvanian, University spokesperson Stephen MacCarthy said Penn values the privacy of the alleged perpetrators when determining what information to release to the public, especially when an investigation has not concluded. “The University uses all reasonable and appropriate strategies to investigate complaints of sexual violence, whether the allegations involve individuals or groups,” MacCarthy said. “All parties to a complaint have privacy interests of which we are respectful — especially during an investigation in which there has not been a finding of responsibility for violating University policy.” MacCarthy highlighted the breadth of resources available to victims of sexual assault. “Penn has a robust set of educational initiatives in place to inform students, faculty, and

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staff of the resources available to provide information and support or to investigate complaints of sexual violence, relationship violence or stalking,” MacCarthy said. “We urge anyone with questions or concerns to contact one of the University’s confidential resources if they have questions or concerns, or the University’s Title IX Officer.” Director of Sexual Violence Prevention Jessica Mertz cannot recall an incident at Penn like the one that occurred at Northwestern. If placed in a similar situation, Mertz said she would focus on engaging students in conversation about the incident and sexual assault prevention. “The role we might play is being there to help offer space to facilitate discussion if there’s anything that students want to talk about or if there’s questions that come up,” Mertz said. “We can try and partner with other groups on campus to offer opportunities. Firstly, to talk about what’s happening, how they’re feeling, what it means for them both in terms of prevention and response.” Mertz hopes that the entire community becomes involved in stopping sexual assault so that an incident like the one at Northwestern doesn’t happen on Penn’s campus. “There’s not necessarily just a perpetrator and survivor in the scenario,” Mertz said. “There’s other people who may witness an incident, but they also are in a position to support a survivor afterward.” “We want to broaden the conversation and get students to recognize that it’s a cultural problem or community problem that needs a community solution,” she said.

“I think it’s really important for SRFS to get more involved with helping cover costs,” Park said. Papas-Varas concedes that paying for a Penn education can be difficult for the middle

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group’s rejection of applicants. “We could use rooms in Penn Violence Prevention as well, which would allow us to reach a much broader audience, because that’s really what we want,” Mallick said. “We want to bring as many people into the fold as possible.” Among the 40 individuals who responded to the original post, 2016 College and

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SRFS, whose office is located in the Franklin Building, does not yet know how many more students will potentially qualify with the increase in financial aid, or how much more aid will be granted.

class. “It’s a topic that nationally, financial aid offices have started to talk about,” she said. “The middle class is growing, and the middle class is getting crunched by the cost of education and their ability to pay for education.” She added that it’s “also the federal government’s responsibility” to contribute solutions for this group of students. “What are we offering to the middle-range student, the student that can afford to pay some money towards education, but not enough to cover the full bill?” she asked. “Does that mean loans for a middleincome student?” She also noted that the pool of middle-class students is growing. "While we may not be able to say to you right now, we are doing this, this, this and this, what I can say is that there is a lot more conversation happening about this group,” Papas-Varas said. College senior Sam Murray, the undergraduate chair of the Student Financial Services Advisory Board, said SRFS has been able to provide more aid for students over time, even if the reduction in cost has been relatively modest. “The average net cost for students receiving aid is about almost $3,000 less than it was about 10 years ago,” Murray said. “So although tuition increases may not be ideal, the Trustees work hard to keep them as low as possible.” Hamilton added that Penn has made efforts to avoid unnecessary tuition increases. “[Increase is] always under

the 4 percent mark, and correlating to that, the aid budget has increased at a rate of almost double that, so I think that’s an important factor to look at,” she said. Papas-Varas explained that the tuition increase will help with the costs of faculty salaries, the development of new programs and basic facilities. “I’ve been to a number of different schools, and I really appreciate Penn’s approach to increasing tuition,” PapasVaras said. “While there’ll be schools that may be looking for that to be revenue, we’re looking to make sure we can manage the continued growth, continued development, improvement of faculty and maintenance of our facilities.” President of the Undergraduate Assembly and College senior Kat McKay feels that while SRFS works hard to meet the needs of students, there is still an information gap that needs bridging. “Students don’t necessarily know all the different ways that SRFS can support them financially,” she said. “And then also SRFS doesn’t necessarily know every sort of issue that students who need aid face in their day to day lives.” McKay added that students who want to study abroad typically struggle when faced with additional fees that are not covered by SRFS. “Students who come from higher socioeconomic backgrounds don’t have the same barriers for writing a check for $1000 or whatever it may be that students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds do have,” she said.

Wharton graduate and former Daily Pennsylvanian Business Manager Megan Yan expressed in a comment that the work involved in combating rape and sexual assault on campus far transcends participation in any one student group. “People too often feel that I’m a good person and I would never do this,” Yan said in an interview. “It’s easy to see yourself like that, but it’s far bigger than the individual.” Ya n ho p e s t h a t t h e

discussion will engender a more concerted effort by the Penn community to integrate the fight against rape and sexual assault into their daily lives. “You don’t need to have a formal title or be part of a formal group to be truly committed to working on this issue,” Yan said. “It’s not that I have nailed it or figured it out, but we can all work together and really start to do so more in our personal lives.”

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Meet the Penn grads who serve on Phila. City Council These three Penn alumni remained in Philadelphia HARI KUMAR Staff Reporter

After graduating from Penn, some alumni choose not to venture far from their alma mater, opting to remain in Philadelphia, working in the city’s government. Three Penn a lum ni a re currently members of the Philadelphia City Council. Here’s a brief introduction to each one of them. City Council member AtLarge Helen Gym, 1993 College graduate and 1996 Graduate School of Education graduate: After spending seven years at Penn, Helen Gym became the first Asian-American to serve on the Philadelphia City

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Council. She received a major in history and stayed at Penn to receive a master’s degree from the Graduate School of Education. While an undergraduate, Gym was an editor for The Daily Pennsylvanian and 34th Street. “My time at Penn motivated me to care about issues that affect all communities. Especially minorities,” Gym said. The Penn Democrats hosted Gym at a general body meeting on Jan. 25 to speak about political activism in the wake of the 2016 election. At that meeting, Gym stated that she “felt emotionally distraught” after the election, spending a full week lamenting the results. But after that brief period of latency, she said she was ready to influence change again. “It just took some time to get over [Hillary Clinton’s] loss,” she said. “I needed time to figure out [my] next steps.”

On the Philadelphia City Council, Gym focuses on improving public education and mitigating poverty. She said that these issues motivate her “to get out of bed every morning.”

to “deliberately report lies” in order to cause a public stir. Jamieson was especially critical of President Trump’s contentious attitude toward the mainstream media, which he has labeled “fake news” on several occasions, using the term

to refer to disparaging or misreported information rather than manifestly false stories. On CNN’s “Reliable Sources” on March 5, Jamieson told host Brian Stelter that Trump “creates a dilemma for journalists ... [by always] shifting the

District Two Council member Kenyatta Johnson, 2001 Fels Institute of Government graduate: Kenyat t a Joh nson, who graduated with a master’s degree from the Fels Institute of Government, has served on the Philadelphia City Council since 2012. Gun regulation efforts defined the early part of his political career, in which he started as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 2009. After his cousin was murdered, Johnson founded Peace Not Guns, an organization that aims to

reduce gun violence through city-wide education efforts. His district encompasses Center City, southwest Philadelphia and the Philadelphia International Airport. Although Johnson was unavailable to comment, his Special Events Coordinator Tiphanie White commented on the councilman’s current work. “[Councilman] Johnson is working on a lot of different public relations events and communication projects now,” White said. W h ite a lso note d t hat Johnson is the Chair of the Committee on Transportation and Public Utilities and the Legislative Oversight Committee.

Like Johnson, Parker attended the Fels Institute of Government, graduating with a master’s degree in public administration in 2016. “[Going to the Fels Institute] was by far the most valuable investment I made for my professional career,” Parker said. Parker has served on the Philadelphia City Council since 2015, before which she was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for 10 years. She decided to attend Penn while still serving

District Nine Council member Cherelle Parker, 2016 Fels Institute of Government graduate:

burden of proof.” She noted that this makes it challenging for journalists to allege anything against Trump without him calling their legitimacy into question. Pinar Yildirim, a marketing professor in the Wharton School, said the rise of social media usage has contributed to the rise of fake news. “Everyone is on Facebook and Twitter now, and [these sites] can’t filter out all of the information people see,” Yildirim said. “Fake news now just naturally falls into people’s feeds.” For this reason, Yildirim

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noted that newspapers have an “especially important responsibility to make sure their content is accurate.” Factcheck.org, a political fact checking website that is part of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, recently partnered with Facebook to check specific fake news articles that users flag. On Jan. 31, Wharton Dean Geoffrey Garrett moderated a panel discussion with three Penn professors on the state of fake news during the Trump administration. “In a world of fake news, alternative facts, ‘truthiness,’

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in the House and also campaigning for City Council. Parker said that, although it was challenging to balance school, work, campaigning and family obligations, support from her community allowed her to successfully juggle her many responsibilities. “My time at Penn taught me to ask the right questions,” Parker said. “I can be more confident and knowledgeable in my work [because I learned] real-world technical skills to implement policies.”

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where the currency seems to be ever more outrage, what we all want to do is to ... be authoritative, to be analytical, and to back up opinions with facts and analysis,” Garrett said at the discussion’s opening. Mau r ice Schweit z er, a professor of Operations, Information and Decisions at Wharton, added that Penn students should “be suspicious of reports that strain credibility — especially if the source is odd.” “Some [entrepreneurs] have figured out how to make money by attracting attention with fake news,” Schweitzer said.

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Anti-intellectualism against divestment is dangerous GUEST COLUMN BY THOMAS LEE

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The exchange of ideas, through testing assumptions and addressing conflicting evidence, is the intellectual core of Penn’s academic mission. In The Daily Pennsylvanian, Taylor Becker extols “free speech and the competition of ideas” along with “intellectual rigor” as crucial to the University. Yet, as Julia Lesko explained in her Feb. 28 column, the University Board of Trustees attempted to extinguish this competition of ideas by rejecting fossil fuel divestment on the basis of a 19word claim sans data and analysis. More than fundamentally contradicting Penn’s academic stature, this anti-intellectualism by the Board of Trustees has harmed the endowment’s financial returns. Critics often claim divestment hurts performance. How would Penn’s endowment have performed if it divested fossil fuels? Divestment’s impact can be quantified by comparing a market index with its counterpart excluding companies holding fossil fuel reserves. The Bloomberg data show that from June 30, 2013 to March 23, 2017, divestment would have generated higher returns with lower risk. Using All Country World In-

dex (global), we find: Total returns: 35.2 percent. Annualized volatility: 10.88 percent. Fossil-free returns: 39.7 percent. Fossil-free volatility: 10.67 percent. Using Standard & Poor’s 500 (domestic), we find: Total returns: 58.0 percent. Annualized volatility: 12.67 percent. Fossil-free returns: 63.7 percent. Fossil-free volatility: 12.58 percent. Moreover, the fossil-free returns less the non-divested returns have a negative beta against the market (-2.2 percent for ACWI and -1.0 percent for S&P), meaning these superior returns are not at the expense of higher market exposure or lowered diversification. These improvements to risk-adjusted returns for both markets still hold over June 30, 2016 to present — implying divestment’s financial benefits continue under recent favorable oil prices as well as President Donald Trump. Had Penn divested in June 2013, after 2015 College graduate Sara Allan first advocated fossil fuel divestment at University Council Open Forum, we would have made

an extra $73.2 million; had Penn divested in June 2016, we would have made $8.9 million extra (all with lower risk). These values are based on conservatively applying the above returns improvements to just Level 1 equity, i.e. liquid and readily sellable, from Penn’s financial reports. In context, the $8.9 million that Penn lost over less than a year by not divesting

nancial Case for Divestment of Fossil Fuel Companies by Endowment Fiduciaries" that fossil fuel proven reserves of coal, oil and natural gas vastly exceed the greenhouse gas budget for limiting warming to two degrees Celsius. Effectively limiting climate change contradicts the business model of fossil fuel extraction companies, so Longstreth views fossil fuel

Penn ought to prioritize people over profits; even ignoring the former, Penn ought to divest solely in the interest of fiduciary duty.” fossil fuels would have paid for undergraduate student government’s 2016-2017 budget 3.8 times. Beyond historical performance, fossil fuel divestment is wise for the future. Bevis Longstreth, former commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission appointed by President Ronald Reagan, explains in “The Fi-

divestment as “both the prudent course to follow and ethical thing to do.” The carbon bubble is also identified by Robert Litterman, who during his 23-year tenure at Goldman Sachs in quantitative strategies co-developed the Black-Litterman model with Fischer Black. Litterman urges that “[h]igher-education institutions that don’t divest

fossil fuel companies because it’s the right thing to do should divest ‘stranded assets’ because it makes financial sense.” Under Litterman’s guidance, the World Wildlife Fund has divested exposure to coal and tar sands, increasing market-uncorrelated risk-adjusted returns reinforcing the above calculations. Critics may disbelieve the carbon bubble by citing the efficient market hypothesis (Dillon Weber, member of the ad hoc committee rejecting divestment, has publicly made this argument). However, as 1989 Wharton MBA graduate Bradford Goz explained at an open forum in December 2015, the carbon bubble can exist because markets are not universally efficient — supported by extensive economics research by Sanford Grossman and Joseph Stiglitz and Robert Shiller — the first taught at the Wharton School and the latter two won Nobel Prizes. Fossil fuel valuations suffer from behavioral and institutional biases, by assuming proven reserves deplete completely and insufficiently incorporating long-term risks. Despite reserves already exceeding the carbon budget, fossil fuel managers continually

use shareholder resources to expand more reserves in what the Harvard Business Review calls an “overvaluation trap.” The Board of Trustees, understandably well-meaning to protect University resources, have ironically worsened our risk-adjusted returns. They simultaneously ignored Penn’s exciting opportunity to be a leader in impact investing. Given a $5.7 trillion green infrastructure funding gap and growing public sector deficits, MBA student Yann Manibog writes in a Kleinman Center article that private investors who provide capital to scale up existing and affordable clean energy sources can “make a fortune while doing some good for the world.” Fossil Free Penn activists strive for climate justice; they are also defenders of rationality and empiricism. Penn ought to prioritize people over profits; even ignoring the former, Penn ought to divest solely in the interest of fiduciary duty. THOMAS LEE is a Wharton and Engineering senior from Taipei, Taiwan studying finance, computer science and systems engineering. His email address is thomlee@wharton.upenn.edu.

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CAMBRIDGE, U.K. — When I first arrived in Cambridge, I thought I would immediately integrate. I thought that I would make many British friends and that I would excel at every stereotypically British task I tried. Rowing, figure drawing, formal dinners with gowns — no problem, I spoke the language and was acquainted with the culture. Fast forward three months: I hang out exclusively with other Americans from the exchange program, I rarely speak to other people in my classes and I feel nearly as foreign as the day I came here. By all outward standards, I appear assimilated. I row. I am comfortable with saying “take-away” instead of “take-out.” I even add x’s to the ends of my texts now. But I don’t feel as if I am a part of the British culture. I feel as if I am a mirror, reflecting the reality around me but being only a pale imitation of it myself. As a result, I stay with the other Americans because

the bond between us feels more substantial. We share similar backgrounds and are currently experiencing the same things, and that forges a deeper understanding. Most of us often judge outsiders for not being able to integrate with people of our own culture. We look down on them for sticking to “their kind” because we do not recognize the validity of their discomfort. Before we ever experience being outsiders, we believe integration is easy. We think that it is merely a matter of adapting to another culture’s customs — of taking on their sayings, eating their food, dressing in their styles. Somehow, actually belonging with people of that other culture will naturally follow. But we never realize that integration is the result of more than just external behavior. It requires a feeling that stretches to the heart and mind. We can do everything necessary to belong and still feel like foreigners. We can

use the right slang, walk the right walk, but we will always think slightly differently and react in slightly different ways. This is just the result of years of conditioning to behave a certain way. And because we grow

how I only seemed to hang out with the other Americans. I feared that I wasn’t trying hard enough or that it somehow reflected poorly on me. But lacking incredibly close friendships with actual Cambridge students does

Living in a foreign place means never fully feeling like we belong. But maybe there is something good about always feeling a little misplaced.” tired of feeling like we don’t belong — or of trying and failing to fit in — we fall back on what we know: those like us. Instead of condemning or blaming ourselves, we should give ourselves more leeway. It is natural to prefer what makes us feel comfortable. I used to voice concerns to my father about

not indicate any sort of personal flaw on my part. It is only a self-centered worldview that says that someone who fails to fit into a different culture is at fault, rather than acknowledging that he or she never had to conform in the first place. Moreover, we should recognize that the responsibility for a lack of integration

lies on both sides. We often shift the story to focus on “the other.” It becomes a sort of “us versus them.” It is their responsibility to fit into our culture, and if they don’t, they are the odd ones. Why can’t they, since the rules of our culture appear so obvious to everyone? We forget that our social rules only seem so clear because we have been raised with them. Our customs are as strange to them as theirs are to us. In lacking an empathetic perspective, we increase the distance between us and minimize the opportunity others have to integrate. They don’t feel as comfortable to try because there is the shadow of rejection. Living in a foreign place means never fully feeling like we belong. But maybe there is something good about always feeling a little misplaced. We come to realize that there are no dominant rules or standards, and that many of the habits and customs we enforce on ourselves are

AMY CHAN relative. We develop a sense of independence from the places and societies we visit that withstands the test of arbitrary change. And we never see more objectively than when we are on the outside looking in. That’s why we should appreciate our outsider status and view it as a chance to grow and to observe, rather than focus on it as our personal rejection. AMY CHAN is a College junior from Augusta, Ga., studying classics and English. Her email address is chanamy@ sas.upenn.edu. “Chances Are” usually appears every other Thursday.

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Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tennis On February 27th, Penn womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tennis was nearly swept by the University of Maryland to have its record fall to a shoddy 1-5. Oh, how the tables have turned. Since then, the Quakers have been near-unstoppable, winning six of their last seven matches, including a 5-2 thrashing of then-No. 36 Florida State. A commitment to the fundamentals and better team chemistry were the key factors in this remarkable turnaround, according to star senior Kana Daniel. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We kept trusting our training and kept trying to find things to work on individually and as a team,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;During spring break, we got a lot closer as a team, so that brought up the team spirit a lot more and made the energy better.â&#x20AC;? The Red and Blue now take this red-hot form into the Ivy League season, which kicks off

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to work on our transition game, and definitely do a lot of shooting this week,â&#x20AC;? she added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Personally, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not worried, because we typically go out on the attacking front and really go after teams, and I have no doubt we will do something like that.â&#x20AC;?

over the weekend with a home match against Princeton. The Tigers, current three-time defending league champions, will have their work cut out for them this weekend against the inspired Quakers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The nerves are definitely thereâ&#x20AC;Ś but theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re positive nerves,â&#x20AC;? Daniel stated. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I feel really confident that we can beat Princeton this weekend.â&#x20AC;? Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Heavyweight Crew The strong freshman and sophomore menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heavyweight classes figure to play a key role in bringing the Burk Cup back from Northeastern to University City this weekend. The cup was elusive for quite some time, but in the spring of 2013 the Quakers finally broke Northeasternâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nine-year winning streak, and retained the cup up until last season. The Red and Blue might have lost, but Coach Geoff Bond believes that his team put in a stellar performance nonetheless. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nothing went wrong last year,â&#x20AC;? said Coach Bond. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The classes that graduated [in 2015] were quite strong, and we had a very young group.â&#x20AC;? Bond believes that the most important takeaway from the

early season races is not the hardware that accompanies a victory, but rather the rowersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; development and the chance to further refine the boat combinations. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You use the regular season to improve, to build your fitness level, and your racing ability,â&#x20AC;? he stated. Still, a victory to bring the cup back is still very much the goal of this coming weekendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s duel on the Schuylkill. The younger classes will lead the way, but excellence across the board will be necessary. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of talent in that younger group, but with that said, everyone is needed,â&#x20AC;? Bond said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We need everyone at their best.â&#x20AC;? Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Golf After an almost five-month break from competitive play, womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s golf returned to the course early this week at the Kingsmill Collegiate. Unfortunately, the rust showed. According to Golfstat.com, the Quakers were the third-best team in the field of 22 coming into the tournament; however, they ended up finishing in 17th place in the 54-hole competition. As tough as the result was, the stats show that there is no reason to have a bleak outlook on the

In order to take down the Wildcats (5-5, 1-0 Big Ten), Penn will certainly have to be at the top of its game. No. 16 Northwestern has already picked off No. 12 Notre Dame, taken No. 8 USC into overtime and is still unbeaten at home. Perhaps the Wildcatsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; mid-week contest with Johns Hopkins will give Penn a bit of an edge, but the Quakers are still thoroughly

tested in their own right. Discussing the keys to the pivotal game, with this being the last fixture before the full slate of Ivy League matches, Junior explained her teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s outlook. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It comes down to focus. We go into every game with an idea of what the opposing players will try to do,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The preparation is key, and

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Aided by the strong leadership of senior Kana Daniel, red-hot Penn womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tennis looks primed to pull off the upset against defending Ivy champion and chief rival Princeton when the sides meet on Saturday.

teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s future. On the first 18, the five golfers representing the Red and Blue averaged 81.2, but on the last round, the average was more than a full stroke lower, at 80.0. Senior Isabella Rahm

notched a top-25 finish, shooting +12 on the tournament, and senior Erin Lo and junior Allison Wong both improved dramatically from their first round to their third.

The Quakers jump right back into action this weekend to compete in the Harvard Invitational, which bodes well considering the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recent signs of improvement.

thankfully we have a full week to prepare for Northwestern. They are a really good team, so hopefully we can stay focused and come out as hard as we did today.â&#x20AC;? If Penn can shut the door on defense like the Quakers did in keeping Brown to only seven shots on goal, the team should have more than a fair shot on Sunday. However, the black

mark of eighteen turnovers in that last contest will need to get remedied by game time, as any mistake against the highpowered Northwestern offense could be costly. With half of the season already in the rearview mirror, now is the time for Penn to make its mark and prove itself worthy of an NCAA Tournament bid. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Looking into the latter end

of the season, we have a lot of games in front of us,â&#x20AC;? Brown said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our overall goal is to win a national championship, and all these games and practices are preparing us for that.â&#x20AC;? When taking to the road this weekend, the Quakers will have to get going in high gear, as this last tune-up match will take them right into the Ivy League title chase.

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If only Penn could play Lafayette every game. After a disappointing 2-9 start to the season, Penn baseball has rattled off seven straight wins, thanks in large part to a five-game stretch against the Leopards. Tuesdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 9-8 win was technically not a part of the previous four-game weekend series, but part of Philadelphiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Liberty Bell Classic, a tournament pitting local universities against each other with the chance to play at the Philliesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Citizens Bank Park. The Quakers (9-9) got one step closer to that goal thanks to a massive first inning and some bend-donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t-break defense. The opening frame began with a leadoff single from junior centerfielder Andrew Murnane that extended his hit streak to seven games. A hit parade followed from there; the next six batters reached base. The highlight of the hit train was sophomore Matt McGeaghâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first of two doubles; a two RBI shot that made it 4-0. When the dust settled, Penn held a 6-0 lead and still managed to strand two runners in scoring position. Murnane was one of them â&#x20AC;&#x201C; after his opening single,

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games that really matter for us.â&#x20AC;? Conference play begins this weekend with doubleheaders against perennial powerhouses Dartmouth and Harvard. The good news is these four games are at Meikeljohn Stadium, where the Quakers are 5-0 this year. The weekend will be a good test for the Red and Blue in determining how serious their conference title aspirations are. Dartmouth and Harvard are the two likeliest teams to win the Ivy Leagueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Red Rolfe division. Dartmouth leads the conference in team batting average (.306) and has one of the leagueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best bullpens, led by senior closer Chris Burkholder. Both Penn and Dartmouth are extremely balanced and veteran teams with good pitching and consistent batting. It will be interesting to see how Penn coach John Yurkow will handle his pitching staff. A day after the Dartmouth doubleheader, Penn hosts a dangerous Harvard team. The Crimson boast arguably the best batter in the Ivy League in freshman Patrick Robinson, who leads the conference with a ridiculous .426 batting average. Robinson is also second in the league in RBIs. This weekend will likely set the tone for Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s season, and they are in perfect position to take advantage, even if they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get to play Lafayette again.

said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thankfully, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got our guy in Kevin Gayhardt who did a great job on him last year, so thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be his matchup again this week. But weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to have to be ready to support him out there as well with the rest of our guys. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re never going to be able to shut him out, but if we can keep him from scoring four goals and three assists, that will certainly improve our chances.â&#x20AC;? Despite the obstacles, the Quakers are confident in their ability to pull off the win. Even after hitting some bumps recently, coach Murphy praised the young Penn offense and honed in on some of the problem areas that Penn will be looking to fix up before the game against the Elis.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of the improvement is going to come from the face-off, ironically. A lot of those turnovers were actually face-off turnovers, so weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to do a better job of cleaning some things up there,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yale is an aggressive riding team, so weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to be ready to take care of the ball in the clearing game. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The difference between last year and this year is that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a lot more mature offensively,â&#x20AC;? he added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had a good freshman class last year, and those guys are now sophomores, so everybodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a year older. We have everyone besides Nick Doktor back, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a lot more comfortable in our offense and with what coach [Patrick] Myers is teaching.â&#x20AC;?

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table for freshman Chris Adams who couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take advantage. The offensive production in the first inning, totaling six runs and seven hits on 11 plate appearances, would be all the Quakers would get until the fifth. In the meantime, Lafayette (2-23) fought back, posting a fourrun inning of their own in the second and putting a fifth across in the third, chasing Penn starter Mitchell Holcomb in the process. The rest of the game was a series of close calls, as Lafayette came a swing away from taking the lead in the fifth, sixth, eighth and ninth innings. In the end, the Quaker bullpen held, getting some clutch outs to escape jams and keep the win streak alive. Junior reliever Billy Lescher (1-1) had perhaps the narrowest of escapes, coming on in a tie game with one out and the bases loaded in the fifth and forcing an inning-ending double play. Sophomore Grant Guillory narrowly avoided surrendering the lead in a similar bases loaded jam in the eighth but managed to force an inning-ending line out. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Winning five straight against Lafayette was obviously huge for us going into Dartmouth and Harvard,â&#x20AC;? McGeagh said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re taking it one game at a time right now. Obviously as we get into conference play, those are the only

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turnovers in the process. A win is a win, but those stats wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be sustainable for Penn in the future. Another worry for Penn comes in the form of Yaleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ben Reeves, a member of the Tewaaraton watchlist as the top player in NCAA lacrosse. The junior attackman has racked up 15 goals and 14 assists in just seven games this season, good for tenth in the country for points per game. He had seven points in two games against Penn last season, and will certainly be looking for more this year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s excellent, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s as good an attackman as there is in the country,â&#x20AC;? Penn coach Mike Murphy.

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A lot can change in the Ivy League from year to year, and with last year’s league leaders coming to town, it looks like Penn softball is on the better side of the new Ancient Eight order. The Quakers begin conference play with contests against Harvard and Dartmouth this weekend. The Red and Blue (9-8) host the Crimson (8-9) in a doubleheader on Friday before taking on the Big Green (1-18-1) in another doubleheader the next day. Penn was scheduled to play Lehigh this past Tuesday, but the game was cancelled because of inclement weather. As such, the Quakers will look to use the extra rest to their advantage this

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to be hot — just the way the sprinters like it. The meet’s propensity to produce blazing fast times not only attracts the best collegiate competition but also is known to bring out a respectable showing of post-collegiate talent as well. “I’m excited to go up against some really good competition. Some of the people there are professional athletes,” junior Taylor McCorkle said. “So I’m hoping they can bring the best out of me and get me to a PR.” It’s not uncommon to see professional athletes and former Olympians show up at the Stanford Invite or the Florida Relays. Last year, the great conditions found Justin Gatlin competing alongside Penn’s athletes. “You’ve got a collegiate national-level group that goes there, and then you’ve got a lot of post-collegiate people that

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Coming into this weekend’s Ivy opener, sophomore infielder Sarah Cwiertnia has been on a major tear all season. She currently leads the Ivy League in runs batted in with 18 and ranks fifth in batting average.

missed last year for the first time in five seasons. So far this season, Penn’s pitching has led the way to its strong start. Senior pitcher Alexis Sargent, recently named Ivy League Player of the Week, has continued her dominance from the last campaign with a league-best five wins and sixty strikeouts – including backto-back ten-strikeout performances against Iona and Rider last week. Sargent and fellow senior Courtney Cuzick each have sub-2.50 ERAs for the Red and Blue this season. On the other side of the plate, senior outfielder Leah Allen has notched a league-best twelve runs scored and nine stolen bases leading off, while sophomore infielder Sarah Cwiertnia has heated up recently with a .436 batting average, five runs, eight RBIs and a home run in the last seven games. She now leads the Ivy League with 18 RBIs. Looking to Friday, Harvard, the

defending Ivy League runner-up, has been up-and-down so far this season in non-conference play. The Crimson have lost seven of their last eight games after winning five contests in a row. Like the Quakers, the Crimson had their last scheduled game postponed and will come into the meeting having had ample time to rest, as their last game took place on March 18th in a 5-4 loss to Connecticut. Despite having won two of the past three Ivy League titles, Dartmouth has also played poorly so far this season. The Big Green just earned their first win of the season this past Saturday visiting the University of California Riverside but then fell to UCLA on Sunday. The Quakers are anxious to get off to the right start in conference play, but even though the visitors aren’t at their best, Penn will still have to beat last year’s Ivy leaders to have the weekend they’re hoping for.

weekend, while also keeping up momentum from their victories in both games against Rider last Sunday.

Heading into Ancient Eight competition, Penn is the only Ivy League team holding a record above .500. With this show of

strength over the competition, the Quakers are justifiably optimistic for a return to the Ivy League Championship Series, which they

go there as well, like Olympic Trials-type people, so there’s always just a really good competitive atmosphere there,” Dolan said. “That mix of top college and pro runners is pretty unique at both these meets.” Many will be watching to see if McCorkle and the women’s 4x100 meter team will be able to break its own school record that it set last week during the Penn challenge, and perhaps even put down a regional-qualifying time in the process. We’ll get to see sophomore Calvary Rogers competing among a very talented pool of the best 200-meter runners from around the country, and we’ll get to see freshmen like Mikayla Schneider, who finished first in the 400-meter dash at the Penn Challenge, benefit from heightened competition as well. Doubling with individual and relay events amidst such a field, however, could pose a new challenge to the new class of sprinters.

Additionally, we’ll see Penn’s best throwers and jumpers down in Florida this week. Field athletes like Bianca Donadio, Rachel Wilson and Isis Trotman, all of whom are climbing Penn’s all-time hammer throw rankings, Anna Payton Malizia in the high jump, and Maura Kimmel, who already tops the list for discus, will be looking to capitalize on the excellent conditions. On the men’s side, Noah Kennedy-White’s throws will likely be even more explosive in the hot weather as he sets his sights on an hitting an NCAA qualifying mark before the end of his senior year. Freshman pole vault phenom Sean Clarke is likely thinking the same thing. With Penn’s best athletes positioned in environments that should be highly conducive to success in their respective events, there’s nothing stopping the team from laying down some impressive performances across the board this weekend.

After dominating the field at the Penn Challenge with victories in the 100 and 200-meter, junior sprinter Taylor McCorkle could do some even bigger things against a strong group in Florida this weekend.

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ne goal. That was the margin of defeat for Penn men’s lacrosse in both of their games against Yale in 2016, including an 11-10 overtime defeat in the regular season and a heartbreaking 7-6 loss in the Ivy League tournament. On Saturday, the Quakers (4-3, 1-1 Ivy) will have an opportunity to avenge those losses against the No. 19 Bulldogs (4-3, 2-0) and raise themselves from the middle of the standings to the top of the pack in the Ivy League. A loss, however, would give the team a 1-2 record in the conference with games remaining against the likes of Harvard and defending regular season champion Brown, a precarious spot to be in for the Ivy

tournament and the possibility of an NCAA at-large bid. That said, the team will be handling this game just like any other. “I wouldn’t say it’s do or die, but it’s definitely a big game, especially with some of the history behind Penn and Yale in the past,” said sophomore goaltender Reed Junkin. “They’ve been one of our major games every year. This win would bring us to 2-1 in the Ivy which would be big, but we’ve still got the rest of the season to go, so we’re just going to prepare as well as we can to get a victory on Saturday.” If the Quakers hope to win, however, they will need to clean up their game considerably from last week’s game against Cornell. Though they were able to engineer a 10-9 win, the Red and Blue went a pedestrian 10-for-23 from the face-off spot and failed to clear the ball five times throughout the game. The Quakers were also outshot, picked up fewer ground balls, and committed 13 SEE M.LAX PAGE 6

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Sometimes you need a change of scenery. For Penn women’s lacrosse, the team will be trading the City of Brotherly Love for the Windy City to take on a strong Northwestern side this weekend. The No. 11 Quakers will be coming in with serious momentum coming off an essential Ancient Eight win and having dropped only a single non-conference matchup to No. 1 Maryland in their last five contests. While at Brown this past weekend, the Red and Blue (7-2, 1-1 Ivy) managed to hold the Bears to only two goals. Their success did not go unnoticed as the awards piled in, with junior Caroline Cummings racking up her second Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week award and sophomore Katy Junior snagging the defensive version. Both were very well deserved, as Cummings netted seven goals in just two games, putting her at 22 this season, and Junior recorded six caused turnovers in that time, bringing her to an Ivy-leading tally of 23. However, there is still plenty of room for improvement, as there was some consensus that the Brown game was not truly up to par. “We just didn’t play with a lot of

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Senior goalie Britt Brown and the Penn defesne played exceptionally against Brown, saving five of the seven shots that came her way.

speed or fight, which has kind of shown in our last couple of games, so we have to clean that all up for Northwestern,” coach Karin Corbett said. “We need to focus on simple catching and throwing, and decision-making for whether people are open. We need to play a lot crisper on the attack than we did [at Brown].” Senior Britt Brown, who has established herself in the cage

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with 82 saves thus far, echoed that sentiment, giving insight into the preparation objectives for the team. “It wasn’t necessarily one of our best games, but it’s always great to have our first Ivy League win under our belts,” she said. “Defensively it was great; only allowing two goals was a huge statement.” SEE W.LAX PAGE 6 ONLINE AT THEDP.COM

Penn track and field is going places this weekend. You’ll be able to find Quakers across the country: distance runners will be at the Stanford Invitational out west, sprinters, jumpers and throwers will be at the Florida Relays down south, and developing athletes will be back east here, at the Danny Curran Invitational at Chester, Pennsylvania. “We’re just trying to put our best athletes in the best competitive situations,” coach Steve Dolan said. “Usually we like to stay together in general, but [Stanford and Florida] this weekend are the two best meets for these events.” At Stanford, all the focus is all on the long races. Penn’s elite distance core leaves for California tomorrow, and with a team consisting of names like Nick Tuck, Ashley Montgomery, Chris Hatler and Cleo and Clarissa Whiting, it feels almost as if we’re back in cross country season. “Stanford’s the best. It’s a really high quality meet; it’s pretty much one of the best meets in the country,” senior Brendan Shearn raved. “And to have a meet where that’s super distance-focused like this is ideal.” First held in 1975, the Stanford Invite is perfect for distance runners: it’s always smoothly run and very well attended. Not to mention how much Penn’s runners, who’ve endured practice in the Philadelphia sleet these past few weeks, appreciate the change in climate. Palo Alto will be warm, but not too warm this time of year. It’s the kind of weather that caters especially well to personal bests in endurance races. One major focus all the runners have this weekend is striving for NCAA

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Freshman pole vaulter Sean Clarke will be in Florida, but other Quakers will be at Stanford.

regional qualifying times, and this is certainly the meet at which to do it. Look for especially fast times out of the 10,000meter race, in which some of Penn’s most talented distance runners, such as Chris Luciano, Kevin Monogue and Shearn are gunning for the elusive sub-29 minute run. What’s more, the level of competition will likely allow runners to forget about the clock altogether and simply focus on racing hard to produce the times they’re after. “We’re always going out there to race. You don’t enter a race unless you want to win,” insisted Shearn. “But Stanford’s a really big meet for trying to qualify for regionals; especially in the 10k, it’s one of the fastest in the country.” The weather this weekend in Gainesville, Florida, on the other hand, is going SEE TRAVEL PAGE 7 CONTACT US: 215-422-4640