February 26, 2018

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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2018 VOL. CXXXIV NO. 14

THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

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CHASE SUTTON | SPORTS PHOTO EDITOR BEN ZHAO | DESIGN EDITOR

M. LAX | Red and Blue knock off national No. 1 Duke for first time in team history JOSH STONBERG Sports Reporter

Bounce-back win after a tough loss? Check. Comeback win after trailing in the fourth quarter? Check. Taking down the No. 1 program in the sport? Check. Biggest win in program history? Check. Penn lacrosse’s victory over No. 1 Duke on Saturday, a 10-9 thriller in which the Quakers scored the last four goals of the game, checked all the boxes. An evenly played first quarter saw the teams exchange goals.

Duke led 2-1 for much of the frame, but Penn’s Adam Goldner tied the game up with 14 seconds left, the first of two late-quarter goals scored by the Quakers (21) that would come back to haunt Duke. The second quarter belonged to the Blue Devils (4-1), who opened up a 6-2 lead with five minutes left to play until halftime. The game looked like it would be SEE M. LACROSSE BACK PAGE

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TRACK | Red and Blue women win first Ivy title in 22 years while men claim second

M. HOOPS | Quakers claim sole possession of first place after avenging prior Harvard loss JACOB ADLER Associate Sports Editor

The second 2018 matchup between Penn men’s basketball and Harvard was billed as a battle between the Ivy League’s top two teams. And did it ever live up to the hype. The Quakers took down the Crimson, 74-71, at the Palestra, getting revenge for Harvard’s 7667 win two weeks ago in Cam-

bridge, Mass. The Red and Blue (21-7, 11-1 Ivy) regained sole possession of first place in the Ivy League in what could set the stage for a rematch in the Ivy League Tournament. Harvard (15-12, 10-2) held a small lead for much of SEE M. BASKETBALL PAGE 9

GRACE HYLINSKI Contributing Reporter

Penn women’s track and field returned to the Ivy League throne on Sunday after a 22-year drought, winning the Ivy League Indoor Heptagonal Championships to end the indoor track and field season. The men made history of their own, posting a momentous second-place finish, their highest since 2002. For the first time since 1996, women’s track and field placed first at Indoor Heps, and in dominating fashion, setting a Heps

program record 137 points. Harvard, who won this meet for the past five years, came in second with 105 points. Additionally, the Penn women procured six individual championships over the two-day meet held at Dartmouth. It was the program’s most individual wins since 1988. Coach Steve Dolan noted that it was one of the most sensational SEE TRACK AND FIELD PAGE 9

Report uncovers internal messages from neo-Nazi group on murder of Bernstein

GET-UP stalls unionization vote

Alleged killer is reportedly a member of Atomwaffen

They voted to withdraw the petition on Feb. 15

JAMES MEADOWS Staff Reporter

The neo-Nazi group linked to Samuel Woodward celebrated his alleged involvement in the homicide of College sophomore Blaze Bernstein, a report says. A month ago, the nonprofit news organization ProPublica reported that Woodward was a member of the Atomwaffen Division, a group classified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as an active hate crime group. Now, ProPublica has obtained roughly 250,000 encrypted messages from the group through Discord — an online service designed for video gamer communication — over a six-month period. The messages reveal the internal dialogue of Atomwaffen members across the nation. “I love this,” one member wrote of the Bernstein’s death. Other members expressed hope

for growing the group’s agenda as news of the murder and Woodward’s alleged connection were publicized. “We’re only going to inspire more ‘copycat crimes’ in the name of AWD. All we have to do is spread our image and our propaganda,” wrote Sean Michael Fernandez, who has been identified by ProPublica as one of the group’s leaders in Texas. According to the Anti-Defamation League, the hate group formed in 2016 in preparation of an perceived impeding “race war.” The New York Times reported that it has since been connected to suspects in at least five homicides in the United States. According to ProPublica, Woodward frequently posted in the group’s online threads, initially under the screen name ‘Saboteur’ and then as ‘Arn.’ He wrote about his television preferences and his desire for a girlfriend, and lauded “Mein Kampf,” the manifesto of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.

Woodward also reportedly attended one of the group’s violent trainings and wrote about meeting a neo-Nazi activist, James Mason. Bernstein went missing on Jan. 2, just days before he was supposed to return to campus. He was discovered dead near the perimeter of Borrego Park in Orange County, Calif. a week later. Woodward, who attended high school with Bernstein at the Orange County School of the Arts, was charged with the murder of the Penn student on Jan. 17. According to a sealed affidavit obtained by the Orange County Register, he told investigators that on the night of the murder, Bernstein, who was gay, had tried to kiss him. Following Woodward’s arrest, there have been reports that the homicide was a hate crime targeted specifically against Bernstein’s sexuality. Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas said at a press conference on Jan. 17 that investigators had yet to establish a motive, but that they were “open to

OPINION | When the liberal bubble is justified “Racial affairs is not an issue where the left and right can sit in a room, pour tea, munch crackers, and has out a great societal outcome.”-Lucy Hu PAGE 4

SPORTS | Women’s lacrosse stays perfect

The men weren’t the only lacrosse team on campus to beat a national blue-blood in thrilling fashion. The women defeated Johns Hopkins thanks to a last minute goal from freshman Zoe Belodeau. BACKPAGE FOLLOW US @DAILYPENN FOR THE LATEST UPDATES ONLINE AT THEDP.COM

NAOMI ELEGANT Staff Reporter

PHOTO FROM ORANGE COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT TWITTER

all evidence.” “The question of a hate crime is one question that we have about the possibility of special circumstances,” Rackauckas said at the time. This is not the first time that the Penn community has been affected by the Atomwaffen Division. In 2017, a member of the group allegedly posted fliers around campus that read “stop the blacks” and “join your local Nazis.”

Days after GET-UP, Penn’s pro-union graduate student group, withdrew its petition to represent graduate and professional students at Penn, members of the group have spoken out to explain the decision and to reaffirm their commitment to eventually unionize. The decision comes just two months after the National Labor Relations Board gave GET-UP the right to hold an election on whether to unionize. It mirrors the decisions of unions schools like Yale University, University of Chicago, and Boston College have made out of fear that the NLRB may rescind an important precedent established under the Obama Administration that guaranteed Columbia University students the right to unionize.

NEWS Penn Prof. denounces gun violence in op-ed

NEWS PennFems weighs in on the #MeToo movement

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Before GET-UP members voted to withdraw the petition on Feb. 15, Penn administrators had sent multiple emails to Penn’s graduate students urging them to vote against unionizing. The student-wide election had been planned for sometime later in the spring, but will now not occur. GET-UP’s decision is the latest in a string of similar moves at other colleges, where unionizing efforts have stalled, members say, due to the likelihood that a Republican majority will soon take over the NLRB and dismantle the Columbia precedent. President Donald Trump’s latest nominee for the NLRB, John Ring, is scheduled to appear before the Senate Labor Committee on March 1. If confirmed, Ring would restore a 3-2 Republican majority. GET-UP member and English Ph.D. student Aaron BartelsSwindells said GET-UP made the SEE GET UP PAGE 3

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