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It had three scoring runs of double-digit points. It had a firsthalf scoring explosion for the ages. It had the Ivy League’s two co-champions playing a rubber match for the ages in their best game of the year yet.

And it has Penn men’s basketball going to March Madness for the first time in 11 years.

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Experts, students worry about longterm effects of Penn’s tuition hike

Cost of attendance will exceed $70,000 for first time next academic year YONI GUTENMACHER Staff Reporter

The announcement that Penn’s cost of attendance will increase by 3.8 percent has members of Penn’s community and admissions experts divided on the implications of the recent price hike.

Many say that while increasing cost of attendance and tuition is standard practice and likely will not have immediate repercussions, the constant increase in price could result in long term consequences.

On March 2, Penn’s Board of Trustees voted to increase under-

graduate tuition by 3.8 percent for the upcoming academic year. The total cost of attendance now will exceed $70,000 for the first time, increasing to $71,200 for the 2018-2019 academic year from the $68,600 for the 2017-2018 academic year.

Included in the cost of attendance, tuition will increase from $47,416 to $49,220, room and board from $15,066 to $15,616, and fees from $6,118 to $6,364.

The budget for financial aid will also increase by 5.25 percent, with Penn allocating a total of $237 million for financial aid purposes in the upcoming school year.

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ship game, both teams more than lived up to the hype in what will go down as an instant classic in Penn basketball history. Using a 24-0 run spanning both halves, the No. 2 Quakers overcame a 13-point first-half deficit and held on by the skin of their teeth to knock off No. 1 Harvard, 68-65, to clinch the conference’s automatic NCAA Tournament spot for the first time since 2007.

“That’s an unreal feeling, and I don’t think I’ve ever experienced anything like that before,” said sophomore forward AJ Brodeur, who finished with 16 points and 10 rebounds. “Being in the Palestra, with such an outstanding and amazing arena, winning an Ivy League Championship and having all these fans here to support you — the whole thing, it’s crazy, and we’re still in awe.”

Though he was held scoreless in the final 20 minutes, the first half was all about Penn senior guard Darnell Foreman, who single-handedly lit the Palestra to life with a superb individual effort in what could’ve been his final collegiate game. Getting to the rim at will time and time again, Foreman scored 11 of Penn’s first 13 points, helping the Quakers to an early 13-10 edge.

Soon after that came a 16-0 run from Harvard (18-13, 12-2 Ivy) over the span of seven minutes, one where the Quakers were as aggressive as usual attacking the rim but couldn’t get anything to fall.

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Amy Wax’s comments spur petition

Petition criticizes her comments on black students MADELEINE NGO Staff Reporter

An online petition has surfaced calling on Penn Law Dean Ted Ruger to take action against Professor Amy Wax for making derogatory comments about black students in a video lecture that surfaced from last fall.

In the video, Wax, who has been known to make controversial remarks in the past, said that she had never seen a black student graduate in the top quarter of the Penn Law class.

“Here’s a very inconvenient fact Glenn,” 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 don’t think I’ve ever seen a black student graduate in the top quarter of the [Penn Law School] class and rarely, rarely in the top half,” Wax said of her belief of the downside of affirmative action in universities.

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dents who’ve graduated in the top half of my required first year course.”

Wax added that she teaches a course of “89 to 95 students” each year, “so I’m going on that because a lot of this data is a closely guarded secret.”

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Created by Penn Law students and alumni, the petition demands that Ruger take action against Wax’s “false and deeply offensive claims.”

It calls for Ruger to dismiss Wax’s claims, state a course of action, ideally including the

removal of Wax from teaching first year courses and from committees involving the direction of the Law school.

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Penn Police discrimination case faces jury trial Officer says his race factored into his dismissal JAMES MEADOWS Staff Reporter

An ongoing discrimination lawsuit between a former police officer and the University has been allowed to continue to a jury trial, despite Penn’s efforts to dismiss the charges.

On Jan. 29, presiding Judge Gene Pratter of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania ruled in favor of some of Joseph Lewis’s claims allowing them to proceed to a jury trial.

Pratter allowed half of the claims to move forward and granted summary judgement on the other half for the University.

The claims that will be pursued in front of a jury include one of discrimination in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Lewis, a six-year veteran of the force, first sued the University in 2016 for racial discrimination.

He claimed his ultimate dismissal from the police force was motivated by his refusal to shave his facial hair, a task that is painful to do when suffering from a skin condition known as Pseudofolliculitis Barbae. The condition predominantly affects black men, including Lewis.

Penn Police, like other police organizations, regulates various

aspects of employee appearance including facial hair. Directive 45 requires that beyond mustaches or side-burns, all 120 Penn officers be clean-shaven, unless they are given a special dispensation for a beard due to a special assignment or a medical concern.

Lewis claimed that he suffered various “adverse employment actions” due to his PFB including the department’s investigation into his license. Penn Police countered that none of these incidents constituted an ‘adverse employment action’ on their own.

“Penn Police is correct that none of these actions on its own is an adverse employment action; however, a reasonable jury could conclude that Penn Police took these actions for discriminatory reasons and, when viewed in the aggregate, that they affected the terms and conditions of Mr. Lewis’s employment,” Pratter wrote in her ruling. “Penn Police only began disciplining Mr. Lewis after he grew a beard and, subsequently, requested a waiver from shaving.”

Pratter noted that the best evidence for the link came from the second deposition of Maureen Rush, the vice president of the division of public safety and the superintendant of Penn Police, when she admitted that she began the department’s investigation into Lewis.

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According to Lewis, other officers aside from supervisors started “making jokes like calling [him] Taliban and things like that.”

off this whole disciplinary process, right,” Rush said during a deposition on Sept. 12, 2017.

In August 2015, Lewis requested a medical waiver to the requirement. Lewis’s lawyer, Timothy Creech, told The Daily Pennsylvanian in 2015, that at the time, his record had been exemplary.

Officers who request to sport a beard for medical reasons must present an updated certificate every 60 days for authorization and, if approved, must keep their facial hair trimmed to a quarter-inch in length.

“He complied with the requirements of the school and that just wasn’t good enough for them,”

Creech said in a recent interview with The Daily Pennsylvanian.

“I was well-respected, everyone in the community knew me, I had numerous awards, I was a training officer and elevated amongst my peers,” Lewis said.

This new legal decision comes after two years of legal struggles.

Lewis alleged that in early January 2016, his senior officers began to pressure him to shave and that his supervisors began to check his beard on a daily basis. “[The harassment] was mainly from the supervisors and the chain of command under Rush’s control; she kind of coordinated that with them,” Lewis said. “But some them also got some of other

officer’s involved, you know, and started making jokes like calling me Taliban and things like that.”

The Division of Public Safety said they could not comment on ongoing litigation.

At the time, according to court documents, Lewis was the only officer with an approved waiver.

However, two other officers had requested it in the past.

Craig Everage and Dwight Archer had previously each requested at least one waiver to Directive 45. Eventually, both officers said in separate depositions that they chose to shave their facial hair due to the inconvenience and cost of continually certifying a chronic condition and due to the perceived negative reception from colleagues.

According to court documents, Lewis visited Captain Joseph Fischer on Jan. 20 to complain about his commanders mistreating him due to his beard. Fischer accused him of lying about the harassment.

About a month later, officers gave Lewis written warnings stemming from three incidents, namely that he failed to get a new driver’s license within 60 days of moving to Delaware, that he improperly responded to an elevator entrapment call, and that he lied about being ordered to “shave or go home” by a commanding officer. Lewis disagreed with the department’s version of these events.

The situation culminated in a meeting on March 11, 2016, after Lewis submitted paperwork requesting medical leave from Mar. 14 to May 2. He was then summoned to a meeting with various superior officers including Rush.

“It was kind of like a lose-lose for both of us. You are losing this officer that you have all this time and money that you have invested into, and I am losing my seniority, my salary, they way I feed my family, all at one time.”

According to court documents, the details of the meeting are disputed by the two parties.

Lewis alleged that at some point, Rush yelled at him and ultimately said, “I’m tired of this, take his gun,” and ordered him to be escorted out of the building.

Lewis said he interpreted these events as the end of his employment at Penn and handed in his resignation 11 days later.

“We can’t explain their motives,” Creech said. “I can’t answer why they would allow something like this to toss out with all of the experience that Officer Lewis has is inexplicable.”

On Nov. 14, 2016, Lewis filed a legal complaint against the department.

Various hearings and depositions took place over the following months until June 30, 2017 when the University filed for a summary judgement.

Creech said a court date has yet to be set.

Penn launches LGBTQ group for first-generation students

No such student group exists at undergrad level GIANNA FERRARIN Staff Reporter

Currently, no student group exists solely for LGBTQ first-generation, low-income students at Penn. Now, however, one student from the Graduate School of Edu-

cation is trying to change that.

First-year GSE student Sarah Simi Cohen is working with Erin Cross, the director of the LGBT Center, to create a group for “FGLI-Q” undergraduates, graduates, and alumni.

“There is a clear need to talk more about first-generation, lowincome students, but oftentimes queer students are always left out

of that conversation completely,” Cohen said. “You have to pick and choose which identity is more pertinent at that time.”

The group’s creation connects to Cohen’s research thesis, which explores impact of higher education on the wellbeing of firstgeneration low-income “queer students.” Cohen said the group will provide a space for students

to talk about their experiences as well as access networking and job resources.

Erin Cross did not respond to request for comment.

“Typically, graduate students have forms of capital, like cultural or whatever it is, that undergrads do not,” Cohen said. “And then alums — even further. It’s sadly about the people that you

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Though no such student group exists at the undergraduate level, some student leaders say the financial policies of the 5B, a coalition of Penn’s largest diverse student groups on campus, make their events accessible for FGLI students in the LGBT community.

“That’s a huge contrast between 5B groups versus other organizations because we are funded by the various cultural centers while versus other organizations mostly their revenue stream comes from the members themselves,” Chair of the Lambda Alliance Julia Pan, a College junior, said.

College freshman Fisher Taylor, the vice chair of finance & development for the Lambda Alliance, said the group is able to secure funding because of the kind of events it organizes.

A FGLI student himself, Taylor noted many typical social events can place financial burden on some students who want to attend. He said Lambda Alliance uses funding sources such as the Intercultural Fund and T-Change so that everybody can attend.

“We always use the phrase ‘if you can’t afford it, come and talk

to me,’ but coming and talking to people is hard for students in that position,” Taylor said. “I guess that’s why Lambda has decided to upfront provide everybody with subsidization so everybody is on a fair playing field.”

Taylor, who is a general board member with the Intercultural Fund and T-Change, added that these funding groups have seen an increase in demand for funds, but that the budget has not changed significantly.

“But now, with an increase in interest, I would love to see an increase in the budget on the ICF and T-Change board,” Taylor said.

College sophomore Kamal Gill, vice chair of Penn’s Asian Pacific Student Coalition, said that APSC as a 5B group is “more conscious” of serving students with specific financial needs since many of the leaders “already have a marginalized identity.”

“Every event should have subsidization for first-generation college students,” Gill said. “If it’s not accessible by first-generation college students then they’re really picking and choosing who gets to participate and who doesn’t get to participate.

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Laurie Kopp Weingarten, CoFounder and director of One-Stop College Counseling, agreed that Penn’s planned tuition increase is standard practice in the Ivy League, but still expressed worry over the continued rate of tuition hikes.

“It looks like in the next five years it’s gonna be over almost $86,000 based on the traditional trajectories of these increases and then in ten years its gonna be over 100,000 - that is really scary,” Weingarten said.

Weingarten also said that the yearly increase of tuition by 3 to 4 percent ultimately harms applicants from one set of society-economic backgrounds. According to Weingarten, upper-middle class students who, although eligible for little financial aid, come from families who aren’t capable of paying for full tuition, suffer the most from these changes.

“The ‘super rich’ groan about but can afford it - it’s the upper-middle class that really gets squeezed with this stuff,” Weingarten said.

“The ones who really don’t think they can afford it but, according to Penn’s formula, they can afford it so they have to eat the entire tuition increase.”

Weingarten added that she wants to see tuition increases that simply match the inflation rates.

“This is real money to real people. It’s not theoretical. I think the fair thing would be to go up at the cost of inflation,” Weingarten said.

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Penn First Lyndsi Burcham said she does not expect the increase to have any impact on the first-generation low-income community at Penn right now. According to Burcham, since Penn’s financial aid is needbased, most FGLI students will be expected to pay the same amount next year as they do now.

Despite not directly affecting the college price-tag for FGLI students, the tuition increase could have long-term impacts on the FGLI community.

“It’s not really gonna hurt current or continuing Penn students but that raising number is probably gonna prevent FGLI high school students from applying to Penn or schools like it.”

Brian Taylor, director of the college counseling practice Ivy Coach, said that the yearly tuition increases are standard practice and normal procedures for any business.

Noting that the cost of attending Penn has increased by similar rates for the past several years, Taylor said that it is unlikely that next year’s increase will significantly affect students.

“The University of Pennsylvania, just like every other highlyselective college, is a business,” Taylor said. “When inflation is 2.8 percent, and there’s a tuition hike of 3.8 percent, that’s just not that consequential.”

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Penn profs sign letter against sexual assault policies Two profs denounce ‘believe the victim’ mentality MADELEINE NGO & SOPHIE XI Staff Reporter & Contributing Reporter

Two Penn professors signed a letter openly denouncing victimcentered approaches to university sexual assault and harassment investigations.

The letter argues that the “believe the victim” approach endangers the accused’s rights to due process, or fair treatment in determining the person’s guilt.

“The undersigned professors and legal experts write regarding the use of investigative ‘victim-centered’ practices that threaten to subvert the objective collection and presentation of evidence in administrative, civil, and criminal sexual assault proceedings,” the letter reads.

“These guilt-presuming methods include ‘victim-centered’ investigations, ‘trauma-informed’ theories, and the admonition to always ‘believe the victim.’”

The document is sponsored by

Stop Abusive and Violent Environments, also known as SAVE, a Maryland-based group. A total of 137 attorneys and professors signed the letter, including Penn Law School professor David Rudovsky and Alan Charles Kors, an emeritus Penn history professor.

“It’s outrageous to me that a charge so serious as rape or assault should be heard in a biased university hearing rather than in a court of law that provides people with protections of fairness and due process,” Kors said.

Rudovsky declined to comment.

The letter voiced its objection towards the credibility of traumainformed approach in sexual assault investigations, or the “believe the victim” approach. The approach has traditionally been an attempt to encourage victims of sexual assault to step forward.

Kors said he believes the University should not have a separate procedure for handling accusations of sexual assault and rape, and that students reporting sexual assault should have to press formal criminal charges.

Kors added that it was “absurd” for universities to handle cases surrounding sexual assault, comparing them to “witchcraft trials.”

“As you know, this University believes women,” Kors said. “The Office of Student Conduct is as feminist, as friendly to women, [and] as prepared to believe anything of which a man is accused.”

“Of course women are taken serious when they make rape accusations at a place like the University of Pennsylvania,” he continued.

Rudovsky is a well-known civil rights and criminal defense attorney.

He has been a Senior Fellow at Penn Law and taught several courses concerning criminal law since 1998.

Rudovsky won the University’s Lindback Award for Teaching Excellence in 1996. Kors was awarded the National Humanities Medal at the White House in 2005 and served as a Penn faculty member since 1968 before retiring last June.

Even without a criminal trial filed through the District Attorney’s office, many universities like Penn have implemented policies expelling students that have been found

guilty by an internal investigation of sexual assault or rape, without formal criminal proceedings.

Yet College sophomore Tanya Jain, the Programming Chair of the Penn Association for Gender Equality, said she thinks Penn has a responsibility to expel those found guilty of sexual assault.

“A lot of students don’t feel comfortable going through our justice system. I definitely think the University does have a place,” Jain said.

“Students should feel like they can rely on the University to make sure they feel safe on campus.”

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on the petition until they have “achieved victory.”

“I do not wish to paint a victim narrative of black students anymore than Amy Wax has already done,” BLSA President and third-year Law student Nick Hall wrote in an email to the Daily Pennsylvanian. “We’ll talk to you once we’ve achieved victory.”

The petition also states that Wax’s comments “compromise” the Law school’s assurance that students’ grades are kept private by the Registrar’s office. The students also call for Ruger to answer whether the school collects race-based data and to reveal the data Wax is basing her statements on.

Wax continues to stand by the statements she made in the video.

“I would emphasize that student performance is a matter of fact, not opinion. It is what it is,” Wax wrote in an email to The Daily Pennsylvanian.

Ruger and Penn Law Associate Dean and Registrar Claire Wallace were not immediately available for comment.

Haley Pilgrim, co-president of the Black Graduate and Professional Student Assembly and third-year Ph.D. student in Sociology, signed the petition. Pilgrim said she was “extremely disappointed” when she heard about Wax’s comments.

“We know Wax is liable to behave in racist ways and say racist things and the University didn’t do anything about it before,” Pilgrim said.

Wax is no stranger to controversy.

In August 2017, Wax coauthored an op-ed arguing for

the return to 1950s American cultural norms. In a subsequent interview with the DP, she said Anglo-Protestant cultural norms are superior.

After receiving wide spread backlash from students and faculty, Wax spoke at an event sponsored by Penn’s Federalist Society in October to criticize much of the reaction to her editorial. Last month, Wax published another op-ed bashing the lack of “civil discourse” on campus and claiming that Ruger asked her to step aside from her position.

A Penn spokesperson said Wax is still a member of Penn Law faculty “Penn Law desperately needs to convince its students that [they are] taking this seriously,” Pilgrim added. “I hope they explicitly speak against the lies and show that there is no proof to them.”

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Phila. solicitor joins Penn Law as full-time lecturer Sozi Tulante has taught at Penn part time since 2012 KATIE STEELE Contributing Reporter

Philadelphia’s former chief lawyer will start working full time at Penn Law School this month.

Sozi Tulante has served for two years as city solicitor, a position that represents the city

in lawsuits and advises every department, agency, and commission of the city on legal matters.

Tulante left his post on March 9 and is joining Penn Law as a full-time advisor and lecturer on March 19. Tulante has been a part-time adjunct lecturer in prosecutorial ethics at the law school since 2012, teaching late classes that wouldn’t conflict with his “day

job.”

As the Philadelphia Inquirer reported, Tulante led the city in filing lawsuits against prescription opioid manufacturers accused of fueling Philadelphia’s opioid epidemic and Wells Fargo for discriminatory lending practices. He also successfully sued the United States Department of Justice for its decision to withhold funds from Philadelphia because of its “sanctu-

ary city” status.

Tulante said that the highstress and hectic environment causes a high turnover rate for city solicitors.

“There’s no typical day,” he said. “You’re essentially acting as a lawyer/firefighter on behalf of the city.”

Tulante’s path to the city solicitorship — and now to Penn Law — has been a winding one, which is something he hopes to emphasize to students he advises.

“I’ve been a prosecutor, I’ve been a defense attorney, and I’ve been solicitor,” Tulante said. “So I’ve worn many hats, and now I hope to use my experiences to educate and empower my students.”

Tulante grew up in Philadelphia as a first-generation American and political refugee born in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo), according to a Penn Law press release. After graduating from Harvard Law School in 2001, Tulante worked in private practice before moving to the public sector.

“There isn’t any one way to be a public service lawyer,” he said. “And in addition to that, you can do some of this work even if you’re in the private sector.”

At Penn, Tulante said he plans to continue teaching his upper-level prosecutorial ethics class, in which he uses current events and cases he finds in the news to “tease out some of the principles of prosecutorial discretion.”

The curriculum has examined cases like the State of Florida v. George Zimmerman trial and now U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the

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2016 U.S. elections. Tulante also brings in federal judges, former district attorneys, and defense attorneys to speak to his students.

Many of his students remember Tulante fondly and are eager for him to join Penn full time.

2017 School of Arts and Sciences and Penn Law graduate Jamil Favors, Penn Law Class of 2017’s president, took Tulante’s class and said he benefited from Tulante’s personal advice.

“While he was the city solicitor, he took the time out of his busy schedule to let me come down to his office and just like kind of run down my life plan with him for about 45 minutes to an hour,” Favors said. “He allowed me to ask a lot of really candid questions about why he made decisions in his career, and he’s very open about his answers. There are not a lot of people who do that.”

2015 Penn Law graduate Sophie Reid said she remembers Tulante as an incredible communicator and his class as “a schedule highlight.”

“He was teaching ... to a bunch of pretty cynical, exhausted law students on a Wednesday evening, [which] is an insanely tough gig for even the most agile, experienced faculty member,” Reid said.

“Sozi was just an adjunct and

he would just sort of breeze into class and make it look insanely easy.”

Tulante expressed enthusiasm about coming to Penn fulltime, and said that he thinks the current political climate in America is an “exciting time” for lawyers.

“We’re thinking through… how to divorce the political debates from the legal issues,” Tulante said. “I’m excited because people are more interested in those issues than they ever have been before.”

Though Tulante has not served in any official capacity as an advisor at Penn, he’s been mentoring prospective lawyers for years. Geneva Brown, who received a juris doctor degree from Penn Law in 2013, met Tulante in 2006, when she was considering attending law school.

“He volunteered to serve as a mentor,” she said. “So in that capacity, even before he was my professor, he shared a lot with me about his job as a lawyer and his path up until that point.”

Favors was also president of Penn’s Black Law Student Association and said that a group chat of alumni reacted positively when Tulante announced his move to work at Penn fulltime.

“I can speak for a ton of [alumni] that say he’s going to be a great addition to Penn,” Favors said. “For any student that wants to go into law, for any student that’s a first-generation American, for any student that didn’t come from a traditional background, his story is one that motivates and shows that no matter where you come from, these are things you can accomplish.”

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Penn Medicine has provided $5 million in seed funding for Tmunity Therapeutics, an emerging biotherapeutics company spearheaded by Penn faculty.

This contribution marks the first time the institution has ever invested in a company.

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Now that the company has completed a successful round of financing, it’s poised to continue developing its landmark gene therapies and strengthen its company building activities. Specifically, it will continue clinical trials as it develops new treatments and staffs its management positions.

Carl June, one of Tmunity’s scientific founders who advised the company while also working to maintain a full-time faculty position at the Perelman School of Medicine, led a team that developed a cancer gene therapy that received FDA approval last year.

June said the funding would allow them to work on two current clinical trials that also make use of gene editing and a new biotechnological tool called CRISPR. Scientific founder and Penn

professor in cancer gene therapy Bruce Levine said that his research background translated to his work at Tmunity.

“What we are is a company based on technology, but also based on experience,” said Levine.

Tmunity’s scientific founders and senior faculty members have worked together for at least a decade, researching how to best engineer cells to serve as treatments for diseases like cancers and HIV. Tmunity’s success in the biotech sphere isn’t entirely unique in Philadelphia.

Several life science companies have sprung up in recent years, including Spark Therapeutics, which recently developed a drug that cures a rare form of blindness.

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along with Spark and other companies in the area,” Levine said.

“We have a huge amount of intellectual capital here that is being developed into companies.”

Tmunity was valued at an estimated $100 million before Series A financing. Mahoney expects that investments could grow by an additional $25 million by June, bringing the company’s valuation near a quarter of a billion dollars.

Penn Medicine does not expect to increase its investment in Tmunity, and the University remains cautious in its approach to sponsoring other ventures, said Mahoney.

“We have an ongoing conversation with the University on whether we should do more,” Mahoney said, but he also added that Penn Medicine has no current plans to invest in other companies.

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MBA student’s startup provides assistance to blind Yuja Chang started Aira as a side project in 2013 CHAE HAHN Staff Reporter

Wharton MBA student Yuja Chang co-founded a startup that connects blind or low-vision individuals to live-trained professionals to provide hands-free assistance to blind individuals.

By wearing camera-equipped glasses, users share what they see with human “visual interpreters” who are connected through a built-in wireless connection. The sighted person then describes the users’ surroundings and guides them through various tasks, however complicated.

The service, lauded by The New York Times as a “godsend” for visually impaired people, has received nearly $15 million in venture capital funding since its official launch in 2014.

Aira began as a side project between Chang, a 2017 Forbes 30 Under 30 finalist, and Suman Kanuganti in 2013. Together, they used Google Glass technology, which had just been released at the time. With the help of a friend and blind communications professional Matt Brock, the two began

to brainstorm how the technology could be utilized to best serve blind individuals.

“There were already a lot of mobile apps that leverage artificial intelligence to support blind people,” Chang said. “So we thought, what if we add a human element to this? Instead of having a computer give directions, actual human beings could assist them.”

After trying out the technology with Brock, Chang realized the benefits of having human agents went beyond helping users become more mobile and independent.

“Blind individuals have relatively small social circles due to a lack of opportunities to meet new people,” Chang said. “By connecting them to human assistants, we would also be giving them a chance to interact with more people.”

He pointed out that a major part of the interactions between the user and the agent involves conversations about their daily lives, even picking up on previous chats.

The service currently has more than a thousand users who are assisted by about 60 agents. It is available in three packages: $300 for 750 minutes, $1,000 for 3,000 minutes and $2,500 for 10,000 minutes.

The process of becoming an agent is “pretty rigorous” due to liability issues, according to Chang.

It involves a pre-screening, a phone interview, and a three-week training period.

Increasing accessibility to the service by partnering with various organizations is currently a priority for Aira, he said.

Aira is also partnering with major corporations. It is now an official partner of AT&T, which powers the hotspot network for users.

It has also partnered with multiple U.S airports, including in Seattle, San Diego, Boston, and Houston.

Recently, Aira partnered with Lyft to make transportation more accessible for visually impaired people.

Moving forward, Aira hopes to work with more public entities to support the service for even more blind individuals. Aira also works with schools like Harvard and Stanford to allow users to access the service for free within a given geo-fence. Penn is an organization Aira hopes to work with in the future as well.

“We are planning to reach out to the school, perhaps run a pilot and help create a more accessible campus for visually impaired students,” Chang said.

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Penn First votes not to condemn legacy admissions Another Penn FGLI group voted differently YONI GUTENMACHER Staff Reporter

Penn First, Penn’s largest first-generation, low-income student group voted against signing a letter denouncing legacy-based admissions policies while Seven|Eight, Penn’s FGLI group for Asian Americans made the decision to sign it.

Members within both organizations diverge over the merits of the letter and the implications of endorsing it.

FGLI organizations at 12 other top-tier universities, including the Harvard Legacy Project, Yale Students Unite Now, Princeton Hidden Minority Council, and the Socioeconomic Diversity Alliance at the University of Chicago signed the letter.

Penn First voted on the decision late November, but the letter was only publicly released on Feb. 14.

The topic of legacy admissions is particularly relevant at Penn, where 16 percent of undergraduate students are considered legacy students. In 2017, The New York Times

published an interactive data set that revealed 71 percent of Penn students came from families that are financially in the top 20 percent, while only 3.3 percent came from the bottom 20 percent.

Penn Admissions Office spokesperson Kathryn Bezella wrote in a written statement that they became aware of the letter when it was released, “but haven’t yet had time to respond given that we’re in the height of our admissions selection process.”

The letter entitled “#FullDisclosure Letter” is a google document created by EdMobilizer Coalition that calls for colleges to “reevalute the purpose behind as well as the extent to which legacy preferences play a role in the college admissions process.”

“At this time, Penn First does not have a comment to share regarding this topic. We realize this is a contentious topic with various valid points in opposition and support of legacy admissions, and we do not wish to ignore or isolate students that may not share the same views as board members of Penn First,” the organization wrote in an emailed statement to The Daily Pennsylvanian.

College junior and Penn First Secretary Lyndsi Burcham said she supported the decision not to sign and that, to her, it seemed like the wrong move for the FGLI community at Penn to sign the #FullDisclosure letter.

Burcham said she had two main concerns with the #FullDisclosure letter. First, she worried that eliminating legacy consideration might lead to an admission system that is completely merit-based, which could potentially be harmful to the admissions of FGLI students.

Burcham also mentioned that there is value to legacy policies, even for FGLI students.

“Why would I have gone through all of this and made the step to change the position of my family within the socioeconomic ladder if my kids won’t get to benefit from this someday,” Burcham said. “At some point somebody did a lot of work to get your family to where it’s at.”

Unlike Penn First, Seven|Eight did sign the letter. College senior David Thai, one of the founders of Seven|Eight, said he decided to sign the letter on behalf of the club because they agree that legacy admissions hurt FGLI applicants.

“Legacy admissions hinders social mobility for students who don’t come from those types of background,” Thai said.

As Penn First acknowledged, the issue of legacy admissions and the decision not to sign is a contentious one, and even members of Penn First and others in the FGLI community at Penn support the letter’s written goals and disagree with Penn First’s decision not to sign.

College junior Alexandra Tolhurst, an active member of Penn First and of Quest Scholars at Penn, said that while the administration has been working hard to enhance the lifestyles of FGLI students, they need to remove the “final barrier,” referring to legacy admissions.

“We go to a school that is supposed to be a bastion in coming out and helping first generation students be the ones to break through — even our president is a first-generation student,” Tolhurst said. “But then the policy is allowing us to not make the number as high as it should be.”

College freshman Ricky Ayala, a member of Questbridge Scholars at Penn — a

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The letter by EdMobilizer Coalition calls for colleges to “reevaluate the purpose” of legacy preferences in the college admissions process.

club of undergraduate students awarded the Questbridge scholarships — said he recognized every point in the letter to be valid.

Ayala also said that he wants to see more transparency in the way legacy admissions functions at Penn.

“It’s a very interesting dynamic because you have complete polar opposites in terms of admissions, social stand-

ing, and wealth,” Ayala said.

“Legacy students have the road paved for them. FGLI students — there’s like a dirt trail or something.”

The Atlantic and US News also reported on the letter when it was released, noting the shift of conversation in the admissions world from focusing on affirmative action policies to focusing on legacy-based policies.

Following Parkland shooting, Cinemark restricts bag size

Phila. named one of ‘coolest cities to visit’ by Forbes

Theater chain reserves right to inspect all bags

Forbes highlights the Eagles’ Super Bowl win

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Cinemark movie theaters nationwide have implemented new policies that restrict bag sizes allowed into movie theaters, just one week after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting on Feb. 14.

The policy has been implemented at Penn’s local Cinemark movie theater as well.

Cinemark 6 on 40th and Walnut streets now posted a sign on its doors that states this new policy and adds that “the company reserves the right to inspect all bags and packages entering its theaters.”

The policy has been enforced since Feb. 22, which states that bags larger than 12”x12”x6” will no longer be permitted into theaters, “in an effort to enhance the safety and security of our guests and employees,” Cinemark announced on its official website.

This announcement from

Philadelphia was named one of the ten “places to go now,” according to the recent Forbes’ list of ‘must-see cities’ published on Feb. 26.

Forbes compiled a list of ten cities based on reviews from “high-end travel designers.”

The list includes Louisville, Philadelphia, Detroit, Savannah, Portland, Columbus, Richmond, Lancaster, Baltimore, and San Antonio.

For Philadelphia, the magazine highlights museums, restaurants, the opening of a new Four Seasons hotel as well as the recent Eagles’ Super Bowl win as reasons to visit the city.

According to Forbes, the list for 2018 comprises cities that are now being recognized “thanks to grassroots and civic revitalization projects, creative types taking advantage of cheap real estate, and the realization that small can be beautiful.”

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Penn’s local Cinemark theater on 40th and Walnut streets posted a sign informing moviegoers of its stricter bag and parcel policies.

Cinemark comes six years after the Cinemark shooting in Aurora, Ohio, which took twelve lives.

Penn’s own public safety policies state that visitors and members of the University community may not possess

or use dangerous articles such as “air rifles, pistols, firearms, weapons, ammunition, gunpowder, fireworks, explosives, gasoline and other dangerous articles and substances in University buildings or on University property.”

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Philadelphia was named alongside Detroit, Portland, and Baltimore based on the reviews from “high-end travel designers.”

The city hasn’t always been known to be ‘cool’.

As recent as 2016, Philadelphia was described as “a city that sleeps.” As opposed to cities with the opposing reputation like New York City, Philadelphia has few restaurants open 24-hours, Wawa being a main exception, and is largely a 9 a.m to 5 p.m city, due in part to the small population, as a large majority of workers commute back to their suburban home instead of living in the city.

More recently, Philadelphia was declared the second smoggiest city in the Northeast, by environmental advocacy group PennEnvironment at a press conference in 2017.

The city has received positive recognition lately. Earlier this month, Philadelphia was rated the fourth most romantic city in the country by Instacart.

Philadelphia has not been in previous Forbes’ lists, but this year the magazine says the city “should be on everyone’s radar.”

Sudden winter storm uproots students’ spring break plans Students were left waiting for trains and flights MADELEINE NGO Staff Reporter

The intense storm that took over Philadelphia and the Northeast region left students leaving for spring break with disrupted trip plans and flight delays.

While the worst of the storm had passed by the morning of March 3, many Penn students continued to grapple with the repercussions of the heavy precipitation and unfortunate conditions. Many scrambled to sort out their travel plans while others got stuck on commutes home.

Over 540 flights departing from and arriving to Philadelphia International Airport were canceled on that Friday, March 2. All Amtrak service between Washington, D.C. and Boston was also shut down that same day, along with most SEPTA Regional Rail lines, reported The Philadelphia Inquirer. The storm also wreaked havoc across the city as travelers were left stranded at terminals and train stations.

Wharton junior Michael Li was about to catch a train to John F. Kennedy International Airport from Penn Station when he received an email from American Airlines that his flight to London

was canceled. Because the airline did not give him any additional details on alternative plans, Li said that he had to stay up all night calling customer service and was put on hold for 50 minutes at one point.

While Li was able to reschedule his flight to Sunday morning, he said that the delay disrupted the rest of his travel plans.

“I had a connecting flight to Amsterdam before London and was planning on staying there for the weekend,” Li said. “I felt kind of helpless because there was a lack of communication and sometimes the only person you could get a hold of couldn’t even help you.”

College juniors Brendan Lilley, Tom Console, and Sam Smallzman planned to fly to Nassau, Bahamas Saturday morning when their flight from New York City was also canceled. Lilley said the airline agency JetBlue notified them of the cancellation while they were on the way to JFK. “They didn’t give us any notification or warning that the flight might get canceled until an hour before,” Console said.

While the group had originally planned to arrive in the Bahamas on Saturday with a group of 20 students in their fraternity, Delta Kappa Epsilon, they were left to

find an alternative route to get to their destination.

Because their original flight was rescheduled to Tuesday, Lilley, Console, and Smallzman decided to leave for Boston on Saturday morning and then get on a plane to Orlando, Fla., in order to take connecting flight there to the Bahamas the next day.

Students traveling internationally were not the only ones affected.

Returning home to New Jersey, College sophomore Michelle Lu had planned to take the SEPTA Trenton line late in the afternoon of March 2 when she was told the train was shut down. She waited for another 40 minutes until she realized the line would likely be closed for the entire night and returned to campus.

Lu chose to take a bus instead the next morning, allowing her to return home.

In hindsight, Lu said that the train delay did not affect the rest of her Spring Break, saying that she “was just going for fun before [her] flight out of Philadelphia,” and calling the delay “a minor inconvenience.”

Late Friday afternoon, the Division of Public Safety sent a weather alert informing students that the University was still open and operating on a normal schedule.

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On March 2, over 540 domestic and international flights departing from and arriving to Philadelphia International Airport were canceled due to extreme winter weather conditions, leaving some students stranded.

While Friday morning only showed light winds, the weather quickly intensified in the afternoon, reaching sustained winds up to 35 mph and gusts past 60 mph. Conditions also mirrored blizzard-like visibility levels, with two to four inches of wet snow and roads filled with slush.

Although most transportation services were shut down across Philadelphia, Boltbus only canceled buses departing from and arriving to Boston, where the nor’easter storm hit particularly hard. Amtrak trains north of Boston continued normal operations.

According to the Inquirer, all

the seats in the restaurants at 30th Street Station were filled by travelers, leaving some commuters to sit on the floor on March 2. After learning their trains were canceled, people searching for Ubers were reportedly met with increased surge prices.

Power outages and multiple accidents also struck across the city. A tree reportedly fell on a SEPTA bus along the Schuylkill Expressway during the afternoon on March 2, according to NBC. “We see widespread, extensive damage throughout the area,” PECO energy spokeswoman Liz Williamson told the Inquirer.

Ahead of Saturday, Amtrak announced on Twitter that due to “severe weather,” they would resume modified operations, canceling 12 train lines and adjusting the departure station for several trains. Several PHL flights have also been canceled, primarily in the early morning. Most SEPTA trains are expected to resume, with only the West Trenton Line being suspended.

Weather forecasters are reporting that Philadelphia residents may have to face the effects of another winter storm starting on Monday night moving into Tuesday.

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The Amy Wax and Jonah Gelbach feud is unbecoming GUEST COLUMN BY PENN LAW SCHOOL ALUMNUS DANIEL MARKIND The intellectual “blood feud” between Penn Law School professors Amy Wax and Jonah Gelbach erupted again, to the detriment of everyone concerned. As a Penn Law alumnus, a member of the Law Alumni Society, and the Reunion Chair for my class, I claim a vested interest in this and strive to keep our class informed. However, I speak entirely for myself.

Without rehashing the controversy (which you can review for yourselves), I find the actions of both Professor Wax and Professor Gelbach to be disingenuous and beneath the conduct we should expect from professors at our school.

Professor Wax’s initial piece in the Philadelphia Inquirer was

quite provocative. That’s not unusual for law professors. I feel she went beyond the bounds on Feb. 16, however, when without substantiation, she accused Dean of Penn Law Ted Ruger in the Wall Street Journal of asking her to take a leave of absence.

She also claimed that Dean Ruger told her that he was getting “pressure” to banish her for her unpopular views. Dean Ruger denied both and said his conversation with Professor Wax was about a routine sabbatical that she was entitled to take.

I have never met either professor so I have no stake in that sense. If Amy Wax did misrepresent her private conversations with Dean Ruger, then shame on her. A dean must be able to

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have private conversations with professors without these finding their way into the press.

Otherwise, we lower ourselves to the same level as our broken political environment. Professor

institution. Professor Gelbach’s article on Friday, Feb. 22 in The Daily Pennsylvanian on Friday marks the second time he has responded to Professor Wax via a personal attack. That is both

All professors and lecturers, especially those without tenure, must be free to express their views without intimidation or fear of retribution.”

Wax certainly got press mileage out of her claims. If, and I say if, Professor Wax used those private conversations to score political points and raise her national stature, then this is not conduct befitting our faculty.

Regardless of what you may feel about Professor Wax, I find Professor Gelbach’s conduct to be disturbing. He directed the open letter against her that was signed by 33 members of the Penn Law faculty. Reading that open letter was the first time in the nearly 40 years I have been involved with Penn Law that I truly felt embarrassed for the

his choice and, I believe, unacceptable.

Back in August, Professor Gelbach had numerous ways to respond to views with which he disagreed that would have been beneficial to all and helpful to the students. He could have written a rebuttal. Better yet, he could have organized a symposium with Professor Wax to publically debate the pluses and minuses of the “bourgeois values” Professor Wax admires.

He chose neither course. The language of the open letter, in which all 33 professors stated they “categorically reject Wax’s

claims,” was facile. Professor Gelbach’s actions needlessly split the faculty.

Professor Gelbach subsequently wrote a long critique of Professor Wax’s article in Heterodox, but only after organizing the open letter and gaining his own headlines. Professor Gelbach claims that Professor Wax cannot be trusted. He should examine his own actions.

For our Law School to be true to its principles, all professors and lecturers, especially those without tenure, must be free to express their views without intimidation or fear of retribution.

If Dean Ruger has not made that absolutely clear, he needs to do so. The cause of academic freedom, which I believe to be at the heart of the Law School’s mission, is harmed when a self-appointed professorial constabulary attempts to enforce its own political orthodoxy.

Our faculty members can argue with and detest one another, but they must respect each other.

Each has been given the honor of joining the faculty at one of the world’s great law schools.

Start acting like it.

DANIEL B. MARKIND is a partner at the Philadelphia law firm of Weir & Partners LLP and is an alumnus of the Law School.

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What designer threads and Penn Crushes reveal about our desire to be seen THE WALLFLOWER | Seeing and being seen is a staple of the Penn experience If I had a dollar for every Canada Goose, Burberry trench, or Moncler puffer jacket I see at Penn, I could probably buy Amy Gutmann’s blazer collection two times over. Penn students love designer names — the more 0s and French written on the price tag, the better. But I’m not writing today to discuss Penn’s love for luxury — there have already been more than enough memes and DP features thoroughly dissecting this phenomenon.

Their choices in attire likely aren’t for warmth, as the first confirmed sighting of Canada Goose was reported in mid-October.

They also probably aren’t fashion either, as most of the items are not exceptionally unique in de-

sign (See the HuffPost article, “17 coats that look exactly like Canada Goose parkas”).

I believe that many Penn students’ fixation on fashion is due to the simple fact that we know people will be watching. It is SABSing semester-in, semesterout. And there is no other Penn quirk that better attests to the SABS phenomenon than the Penn Crushes page on Facebook.

Although the page recently has not been active for unknown reasons, Penn Crushes churned out large volumes of content on a daily basis during its prime. The page features anonymous submissions largely from the undergraduate population — from posts blatantly calling out the attractiveness of

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specific students and faculty on a particular day, to exclamations of love for the community-at-large, there has been an endless stream of submissions. I have person-

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Penn and other college campuses?

At Penn, the influx of anonymous submissions isn’t just limited to Penn Crushes — a whopping 493 love notes were received for 34th

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Many Penn students’ fixation on fashion is due to the simple fact that we know people will be watching.” ally found some of the anonymous contributors to be alarmingly keen, leading me to dread the many mornings I rolled into class wearing free IT T-shirts and mismatched socks.

While many anonymous postings are unique to Penn’s community and culture, we are not alone in having an unofficial “crushes” page where undergraduate students submit anonymous professions of love. Just to name a few, Georgetown University, the University of Chicago, the University of Virginia, Duke University, and Cornell University all have relatively active pages of their own that feature similarly provocative content.

So why are anonymous crush submission pages so popular at

Street’s Valentine’s Day special, indicating that, despite the apparent end of Penn Crushes, submission opportunities are still actively pursued by Penn students.

Other than notable restlessness of the 18 to 22-year-old demographic, the popularity of anonymous crush postings may be due to colleges being enormous institutions with countless people. One may never see passersby again, so such posts become a last-resort mating call. While most propositions on Penn Crushes do not come to fruition, it is a tested method to catch someone’s attention.

I also admit that as long as the post is appropriate, it is a nice feeling to receive a tailored crush note every once in a blue moon.

Receiving such crushes is remi-

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JENNIFER LEE niscent of middle school and high school days, when one may have found surprises in their lockers from secret admirers (or adversaries). Nonetheless, it is understandably frustrating that the posts are anonymous, and so there is really no other way to find out the sender other than the interested party contacting the lucky person directly.

But I suppose there is no helping the anonymity of Penn Crushes, as it would be inappropriate to compliment someone’s hair on Locust.

While the future of Penn Crushes is unknown at present, what’s for sure is that people at Penn are always watching. I, for sure, will think twice the next time I am tempted to wear my middle school band shirt to morning Econ.

JENNIFER LEE is a C ollege sophomore from Fair fax, Va . s t u d y i n g i n t e r n a t i o n a l relations. Her email is leej@ dailypennsylvanian.com.

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A look at the rest of the action in Penn Athletics Women’s lacrosse stands out with unbeaten mark BREVIN FLEISCHER Associate Sports Editor

Although the men’s and women’s basketball Ivy League Championships may have dominated the Penn athletics landscape this weekend, Penn’s many other teams were also quite productive over spring break in their own right.

For instance, the women’s lacrosse team swept its three matches over break, defeating No. 18 Cornell, Drexel, and No. 25 Georgetown. The No. 11 Quakers (6-0, 1-0 Ivy) who were the visitors in all three games, dominated the competition each time, proving emphatically that they will be a force this year, both in the Ivy League and on that national

stage.

The men’s lacrosse team was unable to match this success, however. The No. 19 Red and Blue (3-3) had an inconsistent week. Their 11-3 win over Navy was sandwiched between losses to rivals No. 20 Penn State and No. 5 Villanova. As their respective rankings would indicate, both in-state foes were strong opponents, but if the Quakers want to live up to their lofty schedule and to assert themselves nationally, they need to string together multiple victories in a row, something they haven’t been able to do this season.

On the diamond, the Penn baseball team demonstrated similar inconsistencies. The Quakers (2-9) were swept by both Wofford and Furman before losing two of three to USC Upstate in South Carolina. In the lone win, junior third base-

man Matt McGeagh was the most productive Quaker with three hits, a walk, and two RBI. Penn softball replicated baseball’s struggles, finishing break with a 1-10 record at the USF Under Armor Invitational in Clearwater, Florida. Faced with strong competition such as Florida State, the Red and Blue were largely unable to halt the high-octane offenses of their opponents, although they did split a two-game series with Niagara.

Women’s tennis also exhibited early-season rust, falling to Loyola Marymount, Long Beach State, and No. 2 Pepperdine over the course of the break. The first two losses were tightly contested 3-4 affairs, while the match against juggernaut Pepperdine was a more decisive 1-6 defeat.

Meanwhile, men’s tennis had a much more successful break.

The Quakers (8-9) won three of their five contests, defeating UNC Charlotte, Drexel, and UT Arlington. Their two losses came against No. 10 Texas and TCU. Neither the losses nor the wins were very close, as the Red and Blue won by scores of 7-0, 6-1, and 5-2 and lost 0-7 and 1-6.

Unfortunately for the Quakers, that success did not carry over to Penn gymnastics, as the Red and Blue finished behind Maryland and Yale on March 2 and behind Temple and Maryland again on March 9. However, the matches resulted in many positive takeaways. For example, the Quakers, against Temple and Maryland, posted a season-best score on the bars and on the vault. On the beam, junior Nicole Swirbalus posted her best score of the year, placing her third in the entire competition.

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After topping No. 1 Duke, Penn men’s lacrosse and senior attack Kevin McGeary couldn’t keep up the hot streak, going 1-2 over break.

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burst, Penn (24-8, 12-2) came back with one that was even better. The end of the first half was yet again the Foreman show, with the senior scoring eight points in the final three minutes of the half to give Penn a lead that seemed impossible only minutes prior.

Hitting an NBA-range threepointer with only two seconds left, Foreman sent the Palestra into complete mayhem, memorably sprinting into the locker room as soon as the shot fell and sending the Red and Blue into the locker room with a 3432 lead. “[I was] trying to be a leader, just finding some way to spark us, and I take pride in that; that’s one thing that my teammates need from me,” Foreman said. “Walking in this building every day, you wanna be on that wall, you wanna be in the Palestra. You want to have that history, and now that team has it. This team is gonna be remembered.”

Coming out of the break, the names changed, but Penn’s dominance remained the same.

Led by Brodeur, the Quakers scored the first 11 points of the second half to stretch their lead to a game-high 10 points.

But the see-saw would only continue from there, with the Crimson quickly clawing back into things. Trailing 55-45 midway through the half, Ivy League Player of the Year Seth Towns finally began to get going, catalyzing a 13-0 Harvard run to put his team on top yet again.

As the passionate Palestra

Whitlatch, and Beth Brzozowski sat out the final few minutes on the bench, wiping tears and consoling each other as the clock wound down to end their careers.

“Just disappointment,” Nwokedi said. “And the realization that they were going to be celebrating on our court, is what hit us.”

Over their four years, the quartet won two Ivy League championships, the program’s first two ever Big 5 championships, one Ivy League Tournament title — its inaugural last year — and 88 games, including the Quakers’ firstever postseason win at the NIT their freshman year.

Ross started every single game in her career and holds Penn’s all-time record for assists, while Nwokedi won Ivy League Player of the Year honors last season and recently became the first and only player in league history

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After senior guard Darnel Foreman carried the team with 19 points in the first half, sophomore forward AJ Brodeur helped lead the charge in the final minutes, scoring eight of his 16 points.

crowd began to heat up in the final minutes, though, Penn gave it what it wanted with clutch late play. And as has been the theme all season, it was someone new stepping up when called upon — after Foreman dominated the first half and Brodeur excelled early in the second, Caleb Wood hit back-to-back three-pointers in the final four minutes, giving the Quakers a lead they wouldn’t relinquish the rest of the way.

Even playing without Towns, who injured his knee with just over eight minutes left and didn’t see the floor the rest of the way, the Crimson were able

to cut the lead to as little as one point with under a minute left. But unlike last year’s Ivy semifinal loss to Princeton, the Quakers closed out.

Ryan Betley hit two clutch free throws, Harvard couldn’t connect from downtown on its last possession, and chaos ensued in the Palestra as players and fans celebrated the school’s first March Madness appearance in 11 years.

“Honestly I didn’t even dream about this, I didn’t think we could do it. I drove home last night saying, ‘I gotta get that out of my head, I gotta show some confidence,’” third-

year coach Steve Donahue said.

“I didn’t it was possible for us to get to the NCAA Tournament until that horn went off.

In a building I grew up in, and watching the kids storm the floor for our guys, it’s magic.”

Penn’s next task will be the most difficult the program has seen in a long time: the Quakers will attempt to become the firstever No. 16 seed to take down a No. 1 seed on Thursday, in the form of Kansas (27-7, 13-5 Big 12). But no matter the result of the Quakers’ next attempt at glory, one thing is undeniable — Penn men’s basketball is in the history books.

to record 1,000 points, 1,000 rebounds, and 300 blocks. When Penn’s sharpshooter, Whitlatch, went down with a season-ending knee injury last January, it was Brzozowski who stepped in and played her significant part in the team’s title-winning campaign.

“This team is my family,” Ross said. “[Nwokedi]’s an amazing player, [McLaughlin]’s an amazing coach, and I’m just so grateful for this opportunity.”

The Quakers stand a strong chance of receiving an invitation to the NIT, though an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament looks far less likely. While Sunday might not have been the final game of their careers, their future lies at the hands of selection committees.

McLaughlin remained adamant that this wouldn’t be the last the world saw of Penn this year.

“Oh yeah, there will be postseason,” McLaughlin said. “We’ll be in the NIT for sure, and I’d love to see us get two bids in the Ivy again.

This team is an NCAA Tournament team. Not so much today, but they are over the course of the season.”

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Senior forward Michelle Nwokedi may have played her final game for Penn, unless the Quakers get a postseason bid.

Reeham Sedky wins national title, finishes perfect season SQUASH | Sedky becomes Penn’s first champ since ‘96 WILLIAM SNOW Former Senior Sports Editor

It took her three years, but she finally got the championship she wanted.

Penn women’s squash star Reeham Sedky won the CSA Individual National Championship on Sunday, completing a perfect season in which she dropped just two games in 20 matches. To win the championship, Sedky, a junior, defeated Harvard’s Georgina Kennedy — a rematch of last year’s final — in a 3-1 contest that was heated and testy throughout.

It didn’t take long for No. 1 Sedky to assert her mark on the match. With her trademark hammer blows and long-winded rallies, Sedky flew out of the gates to run up a 7-1 lead on Kennedy in the first game. By the time Harvard’s star woman from England had recovered, the game was almost out of reach. Sedky finished strong with an 11-5 win in the first game.

Kennedy came out stronger in the second to take a quick 6-1 lead, leaving Sedky frustrated as she didn’t get the calls she wanted from the referee. Playing angry, the Seattle native pulled the game

back to 9-7, but her comeback fell short and she lost just her second game of the entire season, 11-8.

If the game seemed tense then, it was only about to get worse.

Neither player scored a point in the first three minutes of the third game. Two long rallies and a pair of lets — each of which one player angrily contested — meant that the game prolonged as tensions flared. Kennedy was furious at Sedky’s playing style, which rides a fine line between playing the space effectively and interfering with her opponent, denying full access to the ball. With Sedky up 7-3, the referee issued her a warning that she would be penalized for continuing to ride that line.

“Her swing and her movement is a little bit unorthodox,” coach Jack Wyant explained, “and if you have a referee that goes by the letter of the law, then she can get herself into trouble. And that’s what she was doing today.”

Perhaps unsettled, she fell victim to a quick surge from Kennedy, holding onto a slim 8-7 lead as each player fought for the crucial third game. On the next point, however, Kennedy took a tumble after bumping into Sedky, appearing to roll her ankle in the process. Sedky used it as a turning point to take the next three

points and finish the game, up 2-1 and 11 points away from a national championship.

The fourth and final game saw tensions rise high above the center court. Sedky and Kennedy traded points — and barbs — throughout much of the game, until Sedky appeared on the verge of victory after winning five of six points to move up to 9-5. Once again, however, the referee stepped in. Three straight strokes to Kennedy, after ruling Sedky was denying her access to the ball, pulled the game back into contention at 9-8.

The following play was piece of vintage Sedky play. She played the space of the court after settling into a rally, sending Kennedy flying all over the floor. Kennedy ultimately crashed into the wall several hits in a row, leaving her unable to recover for one final save. Sedky took the point and the game to 10-8, leaving her one winner away from a championship.

When she forced an error out of Kennedy on the ensuing play, she became Penn squash’s first individual national championship since 1996 — the year before she was born.

“What she did to win the match was allow her opponent access [to the ball],” Wyant said. “That actually is to her benefit. When

the rallies go longer, it’s better for her, because no one can keep up with her pace. There’s probably 10 people in the whole world who can keep up with her pace.”

“I’m extremely happy for Reeham,” Wyant continued. “She has worked so hard — not just her three years here, but her entire life. She has scratched and clawed for everything she’s ever accomplished, and I’m overjoyed for her. I’m indebted to her for everything she’s done.”

The road to the final wasn’t easy for Sedky. In the semis, she faced another one of Harvard’s finest and her oldest rival, Sabrina Sobhy. As with their previous meeting this season, the decadelong foes duked it out, but Sedky came out on top after just three games.

In the previous round, Sedky had to face her teammate and captain, Melissa Alves. The two had a light-hearted match, featuring a pair of instances in which Alves was gifted a point by the referee, but disagreed with the call and so denied the reward. Their friendly rivalry was also over after just three games.

Sedky wasn’t the only member of Penn squash to walk away with some hardware on Sunday. Women’s sophomore Lindsay Stanley won the consolation bracket for

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Losing no matches and only two single games all season, junior Reeham Sedky finished off the best season in school history.

her draw, while men’s sophomore David Yacobucci made it to the final of the Molloy North Division draw and finished runner-up after falling in five games.

Men’s senior James Watson also made it to the consolation final of his bracket, though he lost in four games. Senior Marie

Stephan’s women’s consolation final appearance rounded out the Quakers’ representation in championship finals for the weekend.

The tournament concluded every player’s season — but for one.

Sedky will continue on for one more week to compete at the US Squash National Championships.

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It’s not too late to hop on the bandwagon YOSEF WEITZMAN

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For many Penn students, Sunday’s Ivy League Championship was the first Penn men’s basketball game they’ve ever been to.

As disappointing as that is, I’m not writing this to shame all the bandwagoners.

I’m writing this to welcome everyone aboard.

Don’t get me wrong — making it to March Madness is 100 percent the team’s accomplishment, and the team’s accomplishment only.

But there’s also no denying the impact of Penn’s student section.

From the opening tip until the nets were cut down, we made ourselves heard. The Quakers’ 24-0

run to end the first half and start the second certainly would not have happened on the road.

Even coach Steve Donahue agrees.

“The fans have an impact on the outcome,” Donahue said after the game. “When [the Palestra]’s like this and it rocks, there’s nothing like it. It was definitely a factor today.”

The fans were loud all game and turned the Cathedral of College Basketball into the most hostile “sanctuary” in the nation.

Here’s just a few of the best chants and one-liners I heard (and may or may not have said a couple of myself): About Darnell Foreman: “Build that man a statue outside the Palestra.”

To Harvard’s Seth Towns who had scholarship offers from multiple Big 10 schools: “Should’ve gone to Michigan.”

“Trust the process.”

“Harvard was my safety school.”

And what makes all of this even sweeter is that Sunday’s game against Harvard — and Penn’s entire season — was a total team effort.

For the first half, senior captain Darnell Foreman couldn’t be stopped. He singlehandedly kept the Quakers in the game with his 19 points.

And then how many points did Foreman score in the second half?

Zero.

But it didn’t matter, because his teammates were there to pick him up. Penn’s super sophomores — AJ Brodeur and Ryan Betley — finished the game with 33 combined points, and when Harvard made one last run to take the lead with just minutes remaining, senior Caleb Wood responded with back-to-back threes to put the Red

and Blue back on top.

In a few days, the Red and Blue will play again in March Madness for the first time in over a decade.

It’s crazy to think that the last time Penn went dancing occurred before iPhones existed, when George W. Bush was president, and when most of Penn’s current players were still in the second or third grade.

Let’s watch our Ivy League school upset a national powerhouse. It could happen: Ivy teams have won five NCAA Tournament games since 2010. This weekend could see a sixth.

You won’t want to miss watching Penn men’s basketball now that it’s great again.

YOSEF WEITZMAN is a College sophomore from Lower Merion, Pa. and is a sports editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at weitzman@thedp.com.

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W. HOOPS | Quakers fall to Tigers for third time this year

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n the end, they were second best.

Penn women’s basketball lost to Princeton, 63-34, in the Ivy League Tournament championship on Sunday afternoon. The Quakers missed their chance to make it to the NCAA Tournament for a third straight year and join the men in the Big Dance, falling instead to a rampant Princeton team for the third time this season.

The Tigers (24-5, 12-2 Ivy) stood with their feet on the Quakers’ throat from the get-go. Penn (21-8, 11-3) scored just three points in the first quarter for

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their tied-worst ten-minute performance in years — tied, of course, with its fourth quarter at Princeton earlier this season.

Senior forward Michelle Nwokedi was the only Penn player to make it on the scoreboard in the opening frame, draining a three from distance four minutes in to make it 8-3. The quarter ended with the Tigers running up 11 more points unanswered.

“I think if one or two [shots] fall, then maybe we’d have a different first quarter, we’d feel a little better going into the second quarter. But it just never hap-

pened,” Penn coach Mike McLaughlin said.

That trend continued for most of the game. Penn’s next basket came courtesy of a dish from Ivy League Rookie of the Year Eleah Parker to a cutting Tori Crawford two and a half minutes into the second quarter. Senior guard Anna Ross followed that up with a layup of her own soon after, but the margin by then was still 17 points.

By the end of the half, the Quakers had found their footing offensively to an extent, but still had found no answers for the tenacious Tigers. Penn never cut

the margin down below 14, heading into the locker room for halftime down 35-16. The underdogs never threatened to mount a comeback.

Princeton’s hot shooting and lockdown defense simply made for a deadly concoction that the Quakers had no choice but to drink. It went down like a tough pill, with the Tigers’ supremacy in the league asserted once and for all.

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No. 16 Quakers to face No. 1 Kansas

Foreman, Penn to go down in history THEODOROS PAPAZEKOS

M. HOOPS | Quakers receive surprisingly low seed after Ivy League tournament victory DANNY CHIARODIT Associate Sports Editor

Bring on the Jayhawks.

Just hours after Penn men’s basketball’s 68-65 victory over Harvard in the Ivy League Championship game, the NCAA tournament selection committee announced that the Quakers will be taking on Kansas in the Round of 64.

Penn, which received a 16 seed in the Midwest Region, will travel to Wichita, Kansas to take on the oneseeded Jayhawks on Thursday.

The Red and Blue, receiving an automatic bid to the tournament, will make their first appearance in the dance since 2007.

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Glory.

It isn’t a feeling you get often.

Penn men’s basketball won the Ivy League Tournament, securing a ticket to the NCAA tournament for the first time in 11 years. And it was glorious.

The Palestra crowd — overwhelmingly in support of the “away” team — erupted with each Penn bucket. I have no idea how the science of this works, but you could literally feel the ghosts of the Cathedral come to life in the game’s final moments.

Old-timers always wonder what it would be like if these walls could talk. Today, they did.

Those same old-timers drone about how sacrilegious the mere idea of an Ivy Tournament is.

Enough of that. Today, the Quakers added enough history to the building to last a lifetime.

“This was incredible … I’ve never experienced anything like that in my coaching career. It was just so much fun. I took a moment a couple of times and thought, ‘I can’t believe I’m in this. This is incredible — this environment, this high-level play, it was just amazing,” coach Steve Donahue said.

As amazing as the paranormal activity was, the physical activity on the court matched it every bit.

It all started with Darnell Foreman. When Penn went down by 13 early in the first half, it was Fore-

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man who had an answer. The senior scored 19 points on seven field goal attempts, missing only one shot in the entire half. Foreman’s performance spawned a 24-0 Penn run that eventually won the Quakers the game.

Foreman supplied one of the big, legendary moments as a part of that run. Down by one, in the dying moments of the first half, Foreman drilled an NBA-range three-pointer to beat the buzzer. While being double-teamed. His reaction was to sprint down the runway to the locker room Bo Jackson style.

The senior guard is the most knowledgeable of the history of the program among the current crop of Quakers. He has waited four years to be a part of a winning team, and when it finally came together, he knew exactly what to do.

In a recreation of one of the Palestra’s most iconic moments, Mike Jordan sitting on the hoop after the victory, Foreman climbed onto the rim and waved the liberated net over his head.

“Especially being a guard, you look at the past history of guards that played, the great guards — the Ibby Jaabers, the Jerome Allens, even going back to ‘Booney’ Salters — you want to be those guys,” Foreman said. “You want to be on the wall, you want to be in the Palestra, you want to be in the new atrium.

You want to have that history, and now, the team has it.

“I wanted to be like Mike Jordan.

You walk in the gym every day, and you walk past Mike Jordan and other guys who have done that. You just think to yourself like, ‘Man, I want that opportunity’. I just took advan-

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Hitting a long three-pointer with only two seconds left in the first half, senior guard Darnell Foreman sent the Palestra crowd into a frenzy.

tage of it.”

The jubilation of the moment is not lost on anyone affiliated with these Quakers. They’ve worked too hard not to enjoy this moment.

During the post-game festivities, and at the press conference, Foreman could be seen cradling the Ivy League trophy in his arms. He didn’t stop caressing his newest friend until he left it for his coach — but was later seen leaving the Palestra and walking down Walnut with it firmly in tow.

At one point during the postgame press conference Foreman interrupted his teammates with an important question of his own.

“Hey, don’t that sound good?” He asked. “Ivy League Champions. Say

it again. Say it one more time. Ivy Champions.”

“I honestly thought — I didn’t think we could do it,” Donahue said.

This moment will not be forgotten for a long, long time. It will be up on the walls in the museum-like hallways of the Cathedral before long.

“This team is going to be remembered as the team that stopped the drought,” Foreman said.

Stopped. That means there’s more to come.

THEODOROS PAPAZEKOS is a College sophomore from Pittsburgh, Pa, and is a sports editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at papazekos@thedp.com.

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