MONDAY, APRIL 2, 2018 VOL. CXXXIV NO. 22
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Professor Biden returns to Penn’s campus
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Strikes affect study abroad students in U.K.
Many students have missed weeks of classes DEENA ELUL Staff Reporter
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During his recent visit to campus, former Vice President Joe Biden discussed a variety of topics mediated by Penn President Amy Gutmann. He also answered questions from the audience and stayed afterward to meet the attendees. Read more about Biden’s visit on Page 2.
Fels Institute of Government reform sparks student and alumni concern
It will be restructuring its MPA program this year DEENA ELUL Staff Reporter
Penn’s Fels Institute of Government announced that it will be restructuring its Master of Public Administration program and will not be accepting applicants for the 2018-2019 academic year. Students and alumni have expressed confusion about the changes, and many say that Fels has not been transparent about the restructuring process.
The MPA program is a twoyear program that prepares students for careers in public policy and public service. Every year, about 30 students take courses in management, finance, data analysis, and politics. The Fels Institute also offers an Executive MPA program, which is geared toward professionals with full-time jobs. In December, students and alumni received a newsletter which tangentially mentioned that “the Fels Faculty Committee [had] recommended significant modifications to the future
Full-Time MPA program,” adding that new applicants would not be accepted for the 20182019 academic year “to allow faculty and staff time to focus on this important initiative.” The announcement stressed that current students would not be affected. The students and alumni who spotted the story in the newsletter say they found the announcement unclear regarding what specific changes were planned. “[The announcement] kind of just was completely out of nowhere and didn’t allow a
lot of time for students to respond,” 2017 College graduate and first-year MPA student Kellen Wartnow said. Students and alumni alike have taken action to address their concerns. Students have founded a committee to bring together students and administrators, while alumni have drafted a petition with hundreds of signatures. Wartnow, along with fellow MPA student John Pierce, founded the Fels Committee a few weeks after the announce-
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Penn broke another record this year with its lowest-ever overall acceptance rate of 8.39 percent. This year’s admitted students hail from all 50 states, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, and Guam, with Pennsylvania, New York, California, New Jersey, Florida, and Texas having the most representation. There was a 6 percent increase in the number of admitted international students, who are from 104 different countries. Additionally, one in every seven admitted students to the Class of 2022 is the first in their families to attend college. The Daily Pennsylvanian spoke to some of the newest Quakers who just received news last week. It was Korea’s National Independence day when Jordan Seungjin Choi heard back from Penn the second time. A
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There was a 6 percent increase in the number of admitted international students, who are from 104 different countries.
resident of Seoul, South Korea, Choi received the first round of news from Penn a few months earlier, when he learned he was deferred. Now, the email carried good news, as Admissions Dean Eric Furda wrote in the email that his admittance was “likely,” assuring him of his admission pending his current academic performance. “I disturbed my family’s
peaceful morning that day with a big shout, feeling relieved of all the stress and anxiety that had been with me throughout high school and especially through the application process,” Choi said. “On March 28, my admission became official.” As Penn was his dream school since ninth grade, Choi is certain that he will be at-
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From Seoul to Baltimore: Meet some of Penn’s newly admitted students 8.39 percent of students were accepted this year
Many Penn students studying abroad in the United Kingdom have missed up to five weeks of classes due to teacher strikes, and these students are unsure about whether or not Penn will give them course credit or reimburse them for missed lectures. On Feb. 22, members of the U.K.’s University and College Union began a month-long strike program to protest changes to their pension plans. Lecturers canceled classes for weeks at 64 universities and turned down a temporary agreement proposed on March 13. While the strikes ended last week, professors are planning two more weeks of strikes for the exam period in April and May. Penn Abroad Director Nigel Cossar wrote in an emailed statement to The Daily Pennsylvanian that, while it is too early to identify how many students were affected by strikes, Penn is “working with students to col-
lect important information about their courses and which have been affected, before any decisions are made.” He added that solutions would involve “[working] with each student based on their individual circumstances.” Student opinions have been divided, with many students supporting their professors but calling for tuition reimbursement for canceled lectures. In response to student petitions, King’s College London announced that it would be refunding students using money saved from striking lecturers’ salaries. However, Penn students studying in the U.K. pay Penn tuition, so they will not be affected by this policy. Because many London colleges have 10-week terms, some Penn students have missed almost half of their semesters. College junior Tyler Williams, who is studying at the University College London, said that all four of her courses were disrupted due to strikes and that one class was canceled for five weeks. Similarly, Wharton ju-
tending Penn’s Nursing School next fall. He said he is most excited to pursue a pre-med track in a place that turns “ideas and theories into realities and practicalities.” He also praised Penn’s students’ seeming drive to pursue extracurricular activities outside of the classroom. “On top of academic excellence, Penn students focus on self-development, teamwork, and life outside of classrooms and labs,” Choi said. “The school’s community aptly represents well-roundness and is full of leaders of today’s and tomorrow’s world. It would be anyone’s dream to attend school with such students.” Aneela Kanhai had to read her acceptance letter a few times before she could make sure she wasn’t dreaming, or waitlisted, the New Jersey resident said. “I was extremely elated. I was completely stunned, especially knowing Penn, and knowing what it means for me SEE QUAKERS PAGE 3
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On Feb. 22, members of the U.K.’s University and College Union began a month-long strike program to protest changes to their pension plans.
OPINION | Keep Penn Out of My Bedroom
“Let’s demand more effective policy change from the administration - Penn can combat sexual assault without treating its students like minors.” - Isabella Simonetti PAGE 4
SPORTS | Setting the Pace After one of the most successful indoor seasons in recent memory, Penn track and field looks to carry the success outside. PAGE 9
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NEWS Career Services director to retire PAGE 6
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Revamped ‘Take Your Professor/Mentor to Lunch’ program sees increased participation
Spring had 152 percent more reservations than fall KAITLYN BOYLE Staff Reporter
Since the revamp of the Take Your Professor/Mentor to Lunch program this past February, the University has seen an uptick in reservations. Compared to 2016-2017 academic year, this academic year has so far seen a 152 percent increase in reservations with just over half of the semester completed, according to recent University data. The information, provided by Rob Nelson, the executive director for education and academic planning for the vice provost of education, also indicated that the number of reservations for lunch at the Inn at Penn has increased this semester by 174 percent since just last semester. The Take Your Professor/Mentor to Lunch originally began as an initiative by the Student Committee on Undergraduate Education, but is
now managed jointly by the University Club, Penn Dining, and New Student Orientation and Academic Initiatives, according to Nelson. The program’s recent expansion was announced shortly after the first Campus Conversation as a part of the University’s Campaign for Wellness. Through the updated program, students can dine with their instructors at a variety of Penn’s dining halls and can invite up to two additional students as guests. For lunch, students can also dine with their professors or mentors at the Inn at Penn. Nelson explained that the consistent overwhelming popularity of lunch at the Inn at Penn is likely due to the exclusiveness of the venue. “This is a program that offers non-members a chance to eat there,” Nelson said. Typically, lunch at the Inn at Penn costs only $13.95; however, a reservation is usually only available to members, who pay a $65.00 yearly
fee. According to the University Club’s website, current staff, faculty, and graduate students as well as retired staff, emeritus faculty, and alumni can apply for membership. Through the program, students and faculty can enjoy a meal at the club for free, making it the preferred location for lunch over the dining halls. Midway through this semester, there were only 15 reservations for a meal in one of the dining halls, compared to the 326 reservations at the Inn at Penn. Engineering senior Kate Panzer has gone to lunch with her professors at the Inn at Penn twice this academic year and said she plans to use the program at least one more time before graduation. “I think the thing that really stopped me from doing it earlier was because I thought it was this big process and it would be hard to organize,” Panzer said, “but seeing how easy it is, I wish I had done it before my senior year.”
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The program originally began as an initiative by the Student Committee on Undergraduate Education, but is now managed jointly by the University Club, Penn Dining, and New Student Orientation and Academic Initiatives.
Although the process of signing up may be simple, some students with busy schedules struggle to coordinate a time for the program. Engineering senior Julia Lin said that she initially was not able to find time to participate in the program; however, now that her schedule has
cleared up, she has already maxed out her reservations at the Inn at Penn. “I really enjoyed it,” Lin said. “It’s a good time to get to talk to people more outside of a class setting.” Lin has brought not only professors to lunch, but also administra-
tive support staff. She also works as a teaching assistant and said that her own students are now trying to organize a time to take her out to lunch. “I was very happy with the experience overall,” Panzer said. “It was more relaxed than I thought it would be.”
Joe Biden talks gun control, voting, and friendship with Obama Biden addressed a packed auditorium on Thursday MARYANNE KOUSSA Contributing Reporter
Former Vice President Joe Biden spoke to a packed Irvine Auditorium on Thursday about topics ranging from gun control to his relationship with former President Barack Obama. Introduced as “Penn’s own,” Biden engaged in a dialogue with Penn President Amy Gutmann about international affairs, cancer, and the presidential administrations. After answering Gutmann’s questions, he took questions from the audience and also remained on stage afterwards to meet attendees
personally. The dialogue began by addressing the current nationwide debate about gun control and the “March For Our Lives” movement. The national gun violence protests tell the nation that it “can’t continue to turn a blind eye to the prostitution of the second amendment,” Biden said. To the students, Biden said, “You have more influence on your parents than they have on you,” as a means to break their ideas of underestimating themselves. Although he called the young generation “incredible,” he also said that it’s very “lousy in participating in politics,” as his final call to vote. The dialogue between Gutmann and Biden was full of personal anecdotes, from his time with Russian
President Vladimir Putin to his work in the Obama Administration. One attendee from the audience asked Biden about what he missed most about his time with Obama. In addition to their copious amount of trust and admiration, Biden missed their lunches together. He also joked, “Barack made the first friendship bracelet, not me.” During Biden’s “lightning round” of questions with Gutmann, she asked him three questions more related to his personality, much to the delight of the audience. Separated from the heavy political discussion, Gutmann asked Biden to describe Penn in three words. Biden said, “Engaged. Enlightened. Opportunity.” He also said that his three role
models when he was a college student were Martin Luther King Jr., Robert Kennedy, and his father. Both MLK Jr. and Robert Kennedy were his political heroes and were killed in his senior year of college. In response to another question, Biden said that three historical figures he would like to dine with are the Prophet Muhammad, Jesus Christ, and Leonardo da Vinci. After announcing his decision to run for vice president with Obama, Biden recalled how his granddaughter asked to invite over Obama’s family for a sleepover, resulting in children of difference races and backgrounds all sleeping together. “When he said, ‘I knew then, I knew it was going to work then,’
that warmed my heart. That made me tear up,” said Engineering freshman Cassandra Menshouse, who attended the event. Biden continued to answer questions about Ukraine and the continuity of cancer research. Menshouse said she thinks Biden continues to inspire students through his perseverance and commitment to many causes. “[Despite] everything he’s been through, everything he has experienced in his life, he’s still continuing to fight for cancer research and good politics and international, global issues” Menshouse said. Biden was named “Benjamin Franklin Presidential Practice Professor” in February 2017. Since then, the Penn Biden Center for
Diplomacy and Global Engagement officially launched in February 2018. “I was really impressed with this talk. It was exciting to hear Joe Biden’s opinion on such a wide range of issues,” College senior Kathryn Davis said. “He talked about international relations, he talked about politics in the U.S. today, and he also talked about his initiatives at Penn, and so it was exciting to hear all of it.” “I feel like Joe Biden is a very valuable asset to the Penn community. He’s a very good role model,” College freshman Beatrice Zhang said. “Through everything, he stayed humble and transparent and vulnerable, and I feel that’s something everyone should look up to.”
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and what it could mean for my family,” Kanhai said. A prospective International Relations major, Kanhai did a lot of research on Penn’s study abroad programs and even looked into some courses she could see herself taking in the fall. “Being someone who likes learning about the intersection of different areas of interest — in politics, human rights, history and culture — I liked the fact that Penn’s classes weren’t just in one area but were seeking to combine a lot of different areas and subjects. That was something that really attracted me,” Kanhai said. Specifically, Kanhai interested in Penn’s Center for Advanced Studies in India as well as The Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy. “I looked into that and looked into a lot of general programs that Penn had for study abroad and just the general opportunities to get funded for travel and doing work also attracted me,” Kanhai said. One of Kanhai’s favorite parts of Penn were the students and their general curiosity and their willingness to be active in the surrounding Philadelphia community. “They were generally interested in being exposed to new questions and new ideas, and I think more importantly new stories,” she said. “I know that they’re doing a lot of work in the Philadelphia area, and they’re integrated into doing community service, and the students are passionate about it. I think personally
nior Hannah Liu, who is studying at King’s College London, said that two of her four classes were canceled for the entire month. Liu said that she had hoped to use the semester to take electives and explore subjects she wouldn’t have studied otherwise. “I was really excited about doing something new that I was interested in in a new country,” she said. “So I guess I’m a little disappointed that I wasn’t able to fully take advantage of that.” As of now, it is unclear what Penn’s response to the strikes will be, and students are unsure whether they will receive credit for the courses they took. Some are also concerned that future strikes will impact their exams. Williams said that she was “kind of concerned” that Penn wouldn’t give her course credit and that as of now, Penn hasn’t made a statement in either direction. Wharton junior Madeline Dalzell, who is studying in King’s College London, shared these concerns. Dalzell said that one of her classes was canceled for almost four weeks and that “it will definitely be disruptive if I don’t end up getting credit for the class.” Penn students also hope that the University will consider refunding them for the classes they missed. “Especially if the King’s College students are getting a reimbursement, I definite-
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ment in order to bridge the gap between the administration and current students. The committee has met several times over the past month with Associate Dean of Social Sciences Rogers Smith and Fels Faculty Director John MacDonald, who are leading the restructuring. Fels Executive Director Nelson Lim did not provide a comment on the effort to restructure the program, writing in email statement that since Smith and MacDonald are leading the effort, “I can try to explain the effort, but I can get the facts wrong.” MacDonald did not respond to request for comment. In an emailed statement, Smith said that “the ideas of the students and alums will be drawn on in the final proposal.” Smith also confirmed that the Fels Institute plans to accept a new MPA class in the fall of 2019. Wartnow said that in these
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I wanted to do something with my education where I’m not just impacting me or my family but generally the people around me and I guess the larger world.” Deferred in the early decision round, Emma Villamater said she was anxious to open the email on March 28 in fear of another rejection or a waitlist. Penn had remained her Villamater’s top choice throughout the entire college application process, and she did not want to face the possibility of not getting in. Despite the nervousness, Villamater said that the deferral made opening the acceptance letter all the more exciting. “I have worked so hard throughout high school to get to this point, and the feelings of surprise and elation that I had, along with the smile on my face, when I opened my portal and viewed my acceptance letter made all of my hard work worth it.” Because of her cousins who had attended the university before her, Villamater, who hails from Baltimore, said Penn had been on her radar since sixth grade. Since then, along with several visits to campus, Villamater said she developed a “deep appreciation for the fierce academic rigor as well the abundance of opportunities offered at
Penn.” She reaffirmed her love for Penn when she attended Penn’s Leadership in the Business World Program last summer. “After four weeks of engaging classes in Huntsman Hall with a diverse group of students, I knew I wanted to study at Wharton,” Villamater said. When Toba Olokungbemi first opened his acceptance letter, he said he started ‘milly rocking’ to the Hurrah son. “I was so excited,” he said. Although he said he isn’t absolutely certain that he will be attending Penn in the fall, Olokungbemi said that Penn remains high on his list of choices and that it is “pretty likely” that he will end up here. If so, he will be a student at the Engineering School, majoring in electrical engineering. “I like Penn’s entrepreneurial spirit as well as their interdisciplinary focus,” he said. “I want to do engineering but I also want to explore other disciplines.” Olokungbemi added that Penn is a “fun city” with many opportunities nearby. “I am most excited about meeting new people, participating in different activities/clubs, and pretty much everything Penn has to offer,” he said. Born in Lahore, Pakistan, but having grown up in Dubai, Na-
dine Wain was in disbelief when she first opened the acceptance email. “I had missed the ‘congratulations’ video by scrolling down too fast and was trying to quickly read the letter,” Wain said. “It took me a few minutes before I could register the words in front of me and my body went completely numb. I was so overwhelmed with excitement that I couldn’t even scream.” Wain said that Penn is definitely one of her top choices, especially since her sister — a junior at Penn, is its biggest advocate. She was initially attracted to Penn after her first visit to campus in 2015. “I loved the vibe of the student body and the campus,” Wain said. “Finding out about the curriculum options and the variety of student organizations furthered its appeal and Philadelphia anyways is such a lovely city with so much to offer.” A Pakistani native, Wain said she is most excited to meet individuals from unique backgrounds and stories. Additionally, she looks forward to not only learning more about subjects she is already familiar with, but also exploring completely new fields. “And of course, being able to try all the great restaurants around Philly,” she added.
meetings, the administrators gave more details regarding the specific changes that they plan on making to the program. These include a shift from a two-year program to a one-year program, as well as an increased focus on “data-driven” courses. There has also been discussion to reestablish the program as a Master of Public Policy, but Wartnow said that the Fels Faculty Committee has moved away from that. The Fels Committee shared this information with the MPA student body in early March and conducted a survey to assess student opinions. It also hosted an open forum for Fels students and administrators to discuss the changes. Wartnow said that student feedback has been mixed. “There was a lot of emotion at the beginning of the process just because there was so much confusion and nobody really knew what was going on,” he said. “But as the process went on, I think people definitely settled down and they wanted to really provide constructive feedback.”
Wartnow added that while Fels administrators have been “receptive” to scheduling meetings with the Fels Committee, the students’ requests to sit in on Fels Faculty Committee planning meetings were denied. In fact, Wartnow and other students say they do not even know who sits on the Fels Faculty Committee. “It’s still kind of frustrating that there hasn’t been a whole lot of communication,” Wartnow said. Fels alumni have also said they feel a lack of transparency from the administrators. 2014 College and Fels graduate Adam Silver, a former columnist for The Daily Pennsylvanian, said that “what would have been better for us was being more upfront with the changes.” Silver, along with 2014 Fels graduate TJ Hurst, wrote a letter to the Fels administrators that was signed by 255 alumni. In the letter, they expressed their concerns and requested that the restructuring process be trans-
parent and incorporate feedback from alumni. “A pause in admissions is an unusual step for a program of Fels’ stature,” the letter read. “Additionally, this important news was buried in the newsletter with very few details surrounding the decision provided, and it caught the entire alumni community by surprise.”
The Penn History Department presents…
History Matters Now
a series of dinner talks by Penn History faculty
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Kathy Peiss, “Entertainment and Politics: An American History” Harrison House, 1/24, 6:00 Kathy Brown, “Thinking about Race in the United States” Kings Court, 2/1, 6:30 Beth Wenger, “Is Anti-Semitism Resurgent?” New College House, 2/21, 6:30 Hosted by Cam Grey All College House residents welcome Ben Nathans, “Are We Headed for a New Cold War with Russia?” New College House, 3/20, 6:30 Hosted by Cam Grey All College House residents welcome Mary Berry, “History Teaches Us to Resist: How Progressive Movements Have Succeeded in Challenging Times” Dubois House, 4/4, 6:00 Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, “Banned—Uncle Sam Doesn’t Want You!” Gregory College House, date TBD https://www.history.upenn.edu/calendar/history-matters-now
“Our request is simple: we would like the full-time MPA redesign process to be transparent and to incorporate the perspective of alumni who have not only had the Fels on-campus experience, but have seen the value of the degree in our careers since completing the program,” it continued. Silver added that alumni “never really were or still are opposed
ly feel that I should also be able to take part in that,” Liu said. Williams added that she hopes Penn will take the disruptions into account when calculating students’ grades. “I would want them to take into consideration that a lot of material that we’re being assessed on, we didn’t learn properly,” Williams said. “Hopefully that will be reflected when grades come out and are translated from the U.K. system to the American system.” Penn Abroad has been in touch with students in the U.K. through emails from Senior Global Programs Manager Greta Kazenski and Bianca Leggett of the Cornell-Brown-Penn U.K. Centre. On March 12, Kazenski sent an email to let students know that “Penn has not forgotten about you and is monitoring the situation closely.” However, she added that she did not have updates about how Penn will be dealing with credits. Kazenski also sent a survey to students on March 28 to determine how many classes they had missed. Dalzell said that the initial email was only sent after strikes had been going on for two and a half weeks. Despite the strikes, students said that they still found their study abroad experience worthwhile. “My motivation for study abroad was more social and cultural than it was academic,” Liu said. “I definitely still got that.”
to the idea of changing Fels, but … want to have a say in that process.” He said that as of now, the administrators “haven’t given [them] any official word” on what the proposed changes to the MPA program will be, but that a meeting between administrators and alumni is being scheduled for the upcoming weeks.
The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program presents
The 18th Annual Goldstone Forum
THE (HONEST) TRUTH ABOUT DISHONESTY D A N A R I E LY Monday, April 9, 2018 • 4:30 – 6 p.m. Penn Museum, Rainey Auditorium • 3260 South Street
DAN ARIELY, founding member of the Center for Advanced Hindsight, co-creator of the documentary film (Dis)Honesty: The Truth About Lies, and New York Times bestselling author of Predictably Irrational and The Upside of Irrationality, will discuss how the principles of behavioral economics can help us understand some of our irrational tendencies, specifically the mechanisms at work behind dishonest behavior. One of the most interesting lessons is understanding our capacity to think of ourselves as honest even when we act dishonestly. The implications of this research are far reaching and include a better understanding of financial crises, regulations, and day-to-day misbehaviors.
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OPINION Keep Penn out of my bedroom SIMONETTI SAYS | By banning faculty-student relationships, Penn is treating us like minors
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’ve never had sexual feelings for a Penn faculty member, nor do I plan on having a romantic relationship with one. So, I wasn’t too upset when, last week, the University banned sexual relations between faculty and undergraduates. But, after thinking about it further, one question stuck in my mind: is it really the administration’s business to invade our bedrooms? Prior to the implementation of this new policy, sexual relations between faculty and undergraduates were only banned between students who had class with the professor they were seeing. This is only fair, as an instructor can’t be impartial when grading a student they have a private relationship with. Furthermore, I believe that students who have engaged in sexual relations with certain professors should not be permitted to take classes with them.
Still, all undergraduates are older than 16, the legal age of consent in Pennsylvania, and most are 18 years old. We can buy cigarettes, enlist in the army, and possess firearms. So if we want to sleep with a professor, Penn shouldn’t stop us. While many universities, including Harvard University, have also banned faculty-student relationships, a few schools continue to enforce less stringent policies consistent with Penn’s previous policy. Columbia University only mandates that “no faculty member shall have a consensual romantic or sexual relationship with a student over whom he or she exercises academic or professional authority.” In an email to The Daily Pennsylvanian, Provost Wendell Pritchett elaborated on the reasoning behind the University’s decision: “It is one of our highest priorities at Penn to sustain a campus free of sexual violence, sexual harassment, and all other forms of sexual
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misconduct,” Pritchett wrote. “In this light, we have updated the University’s policy on Consensual Sexual Relations Between Faculty and Students, which was originally published in 1995.”
istration’s goals. Usually, those who oppose sexual relations between faculty and students will argue that the inherent power dynamic will result in a harmful relationship. This certain-
Let’s demand more effective policy change from the administration — Penn can combat sexual assault without treating its students like minors.” While it is of the utmost importance that Penn address sexual assault on campus, I’m skeptical that this policy will be very effective in doing so. According to the 2015 Association of American Universities Campus Climate Survey, 23 percent of female graduate respondents identified a faculty member as the perpetrator of harassment, whereas only 5 percent of female undergraduate respondents did. As Provost Pritchett articulated, the objective of forbidding sexual relations between students and faculty is to prevent sexual assault. But given the large percentage of female graduate students who stated that a faculty member had harassed them, why didn’t Penn extend the policy beyond undergraduates? Given the data, this seems out of line with the admin-
ly has some truth to it. Still, Penn can provide the proper education regarding the dangers that come with these relationships, instead of prohibiting them altogether. Ultimately, we are adults, capable of making our own decisions without interference from the administration. What’s more, workplace relationships are far from out of the ordinary. Many well-respected companies permit sexual activity between employees so long as it is reported to human resources. The implementation of a system of reporting relationships between faculty and students at Penn might help prepare students for these dynamics in the future. Don’t get me wrong, facultystudent relationships are nuanced, and demand careful consideration. Personally, I wouldn’t want
ISABELLA SIMONETTI to get involved with a professor. But this doesn’t change the fact that the logic behind Penn’s new policy is highly flawed. It ignores the more thoughtful rules of peer institutions, as well as those of well-respected companies. Furthermore, sexual assault on Penn’s campus is a wider problem than faculty-student relationships. At the biaunnual University Council Open Forum, two students strongly criticized Penn’s current system for students to report sexual assault. Engineering senior Carolyn Kearney said do more to make sure that students who have been victims of sexual assault do not have to interact with their assailants while on campus. So let’s demand more effective policy change from the administration — Penn can combat sexual assault without treating its students like minors. I SAB ELL A SIMONE T T I is a College freshman from New York. Her email address is simonetti@ thedp.com. “Simonetti Says” usually appears ever y other Sunday.
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Hunting for the perfect job can erase the traits that make us special
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odern breakthroughs in the science of artificial intelligence have made robots more and more human. But as this year’s internship recruitment season winds down, I wonder if my fellow Penn students have lost a bit of humanity in the process. In the pursuit to impress recruiters and be the best applicants, we sometimes lose sight of the very traits that make us special in the first place. When charting our academic path, many of us already have concrete plans of what we will study and when we will take the courses to fulfill that. We strive for perfect grades in order to land that “prestigious job offer” not because we like the place but rather we think society is impressed. When did we forget to think about what we like to study and stand our ground? When did we forget to think for ourselves? Outside of academics, the activities and organizations we partake in are many times driven by the idea of job prospects. We think about which organizations will look good to recruiters and how connected people
SHAH SPEAKS | Pre-professionalism and networking are distractions in the organization are. But we rarely think about what we genuinely like to do and how the organization fits what we enjoy.
leaders of the world are intangible. We ask the positions and titles we hold to speak for us, instead of speaking for ourselves. So, are we
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But even joining one group is not enough. We get involved in dozens of organizations and try to get into leadership positions, because we need to prove that we are leaders. We need to prove that we are the best candidates. However, in the processing of proving our leadership to the world through titles, we forget that the attributes of some of the greatest
true leaders? Before we get adjusted to the start of the semester, we start looking for internships for the summer that will impress recruiters and the people around us. There are even freshmen worried about landing an internship instead of doing something they enjoy and spending time to reflect on the year. We learn about what
networking means and what the big consulting firms are even before we know the Foundational Approaches and Sector Requirements we need to fulfill. Soon enough, Quakernet becomes our search engine and Handshake becomes a crutch. Let’s not forget that all this surely changes our interactions with the individuals around us. If you have a poorly attended event, put the word “networking” in the title and watch the rapid influx of social climbers. The word “networking” perks up our ears because we feel like that is the key to succeeding. We “network” with people in hopes that they can help us achieve what we want and land us that job. We try to flatter them and pretend like we are interested in their conversations. We meet people who we think we need to meet, and not people who we really want to meet. Soon enough people begin to look less like humans and more like tools at our disposal. In a desire to fit a perfect mold, which doesn’t even exist, we allow others and society to dictate the direction of our lives much like a robot being externally controlled. We often become so engrossed in trying to outcompete each other on hamster
JAY SHAH wheels, that we fail to realize that we are not moving forward. When did we forget to think about things that we like to do? When did we start losing our agency? It is not completely our fault because we have been conditioned this way. After all, for many of us it may have helped us get here at Penn. But we must consciously start to make decisions that are not pre-determined by the society we are in or the people around us. It will be hard but it will be worth it. JAY SHAH is a College junior from New Hyde Park, N.Y. in the Biological Basis of Behavior Program. He is the Vice President of the Undergraduate Assembly. His email is shahjay@sas.upenn.edu.
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Trump’s golden reunion is not worth celebrating
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ay Alumni Weekend is just around the corner. West Philadelphia will soon welcome back alumni from landmark years to an action-packed weekend of carefully orchestrated nostalgia, camaraderie, and fundraising. Thousands of members of Penn classes from 1943 to 2013 have already signed up to celebrate reunions ranging from their fifth to their 75th. But according to 1968 Class Vice President and 50th Reunion Liaison Elsie Sterling Howard, 1968
SPENCER’S SPACE | The Class of 1968 has a responsibility to stand up for Penn’s values have little motivation to join. Trump’s classmate and former Daily Pennsylvanian Executive Editor Howard Morrison would be surprised if he would have any personal interest in coming. After all, during his time at Penn, it was clear that Trump “had a life” and that life didn’t seem to be at Penn where he “was neither very social nor exceptionally interested in retaining friendships.” Furthermore, Trump would have little political motivation to attend as neither the university campus nor the Penn alumni communi-
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Wharton graduate President Donald Trump’s plans are still unknown. Informal consensus is that his attendance remains unlikely. Even if Trump seems to have an outsize pride in his Penn education, and “has cited his academic credentials more frequently and more assertively than any of his presidential predecessors” it seems he would
ty represent a friendly constituency or flippable demographic to him. For Penn, Trump’s absence is likely a good thing if only because of the logistical hurdles a presidential visit would entail. Nevertheless, the mere possibility of Trump’s presidential presence in West Philadelphia should give us all pause. Ev-
eryone in the Penn community should consider what association with Trump implies for Penn’s reputation, domestically and abroad. Even those of us who will by alumni weekend already be far from campus for summer break, should consider the ramifications of showcasing the Trump Penn connection. Whatever your personal political orientation, the sexual assault allegations against Trump, and the ongoing investigation into the Trump campaign’s potential collusion with Russia, should be enough to make you want the University distance itself from our 45th president. Back in January, the Penn administration reaffirmed its “sacred commitment” to its “responsibilities of stewardship of our University’s reputation” and emphasized that Penn’s associations need to reflect this. In this context, our Trustees rescinded the honorary degrees of both 1963 Wharton graduate Steve Wynn and Bill Cosby, and renamed the spaces and scholarships associated with Wynn in order to insulate “the ethos of our society and our University community” from the fallout of the two men’s sexual misconduct scandals. If Penn is willing to send an unequivocal and very public message on its associations with Wynn and Cosby, it should also be confident to do so with Trump. The controversies surrounding Donald Trump as a shady businessman, uncouth
politician, groping womanizer, and increasingly failed president should be motivation enough for the University to take a bold stand. I would even go further and argue that Trump’s nondisclosure agreements with Stormy Daniels, which included $130,000 in “hush money”, seems to imply an admission
without any, options to voice our concern. Essentially it falls on the community to actively protest. Some of us have already done so. During their 50th reunion last year, members of the class of 1967 called upon Penn to “denounce Trump.” 1967 Wharton graduate Michael Sales put it bluntly: “Bragging
The controversies surrounding Donald Trump as a shady businessman, uncouth politician, groping womanizer, and increasingly failed president should be motivation enough for the University to take a bold stand.” of guilt — whereas Wynn and Cosby are maintaining their innocence — should encourage the University to make its discomfort official. Of course, rescinding an honorary degree and renaming scholarships and public spaces presented concrete opportunities for the University to publicize its views. As Trump is an actual graduate of Penn, it is impossible to use this approach even if the administration were actually prepared to disassociate itself from Trump’s behavior. This leaves the Penn community with fewer, but not
about sexual assault and harassment, ethnic stereotyping, religious bigotry and inciting violence are not acceptable at the University.” Morrison said he wouldn’t be surprised if similar actions were taken by his Class of 1968. While no concrete plans seem to be in the works, it would feel fitting if the Penn class that graduated in the legendary “Year that Shaped a Generation” were to take a leadership role. Morrison who has “stayed in touch with a couple of [his] classmates,” said, “[Y]eah, they’re probably still up for a good protest.”
SPENCER SWANSON While alumni return to campus primarily to see each other and celebrate their common university experience, it is also a great time to remember Penn’s values. In fact, not only alumni, but every concerned member of the Penn community should make their voice heard whether by engaging in social media, participating in protests, or donating to liberal causes. A symbolic gesture in the vein of the courageous walkout by Notre Dame students listening to Mike Pence’s commencement speech would go a long way. The 50th milestone of Trump’s graduation provides a terrific opportunity to make clear that Penn disapproves of the President’s behavior and that while unable to rescind a degree or rename a building, the community wants to put distance between ourselves and this president. SPENCER SWANSON is a College freshman from London, studying p h i l o s o p h y, p o l i t i c s , a n d economics. His email address is sswanson@sas.upenn.edu.
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KRISTEN YEH is a College freshman from West Covina, Calif. Her email address is kristeny@sas.upenn.edu.
Dear baby Quakers, enjoy your acceptance to the fullest
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ast Thursday outside Houston Hall, my friend and I were watching students swarm like little ants eating lunch, on the way to class, skin warmed by the sun. “I wonder where all these people come from,” she said, glancing first left, then right. She zeroed in on a small blonde who I assumed to be 15 years old, passing us by, flanked by a middleaged couple. “I think that girl must have just been accepted to Penn.” “How do you know?” I asked. “Well, because she was carrying the decision packet with a cup.” Only then did I notice the plastic mug the size of her forearm, a blue and red “P” emboldened on the side. It is that time of the year again. Students have finally seen Possibility — that flighty yet potent goddess — in the form of big “yes” packages, or cursed her absence with every meager “no.” Those blessed by her swirl around our campus, pulled by the gravitational force
CHANCES ARE | Ramblings from a senior on being admitted to Penn of a future in the Ivy League. As a weathered, cynical senior, it is difficult for me to feel any joy for these kids. Nor, even, to feel anything for them at all. After four years of this place, seeing three waves of students enter, I often feel as if all Penn does is chew you up and churn you out. I, like perhaps many upperclassmen, want to tell those kids to run. I want to tell them not to look so happy when they’re here because the happiness won’t last. I want to tell them not to give themselves so easily to others because they’ll disappoint you in the end. I want to say, prepare yourselves for the storm. For those of us who have been through Penn, it is easy to forget what it was like when we first entered. And it is even easier to associate Penn with only the negative, to consider it only disillusionment. Since I prefer blunt honesty,
I will tell you newly admitted students the truth. This place is not always what it’s cracked up to be. Some of you may fit
in perfectly here, while others will struggle. There is often no equality, no “shoulds” that correspond to our effort. There is randomness, and chance, and yes, hard work, but at times, hard work which doesn’t get appreciated without a small stroke
of fortune or social savvy. I won’t tell you to try to maintain that happiness you feel now throughout your col-
you possibly can be in this moment. Dream all the big dreams you have of Penn, let them inflate and grow, and don’t worry about them possibly deflating later. Dreams aren’t inherently bad, only when they lead to uncontrolled disappointment. It is okay to have expectations, as long as you know how to protect yourself if they don’t come to fruition. Do your best to take into account how to prepare for Penn, but remember that at a certain point, there is only so much you can do. This time in your life won’t come again. New beginnings, whether they lead to happy endings or LULU WANG | DESIGN ASSOCIATE slightly more somber ones, are for the most part hopelege career. That is nearly im- ful, and should be celebrated in possible, and it puts a lot of and of themselves. Even curpressure on you in moments rently, when I shut my eyes, and when you want to, and should when I think of that first balmy allow yourself, to feel down. May, four years ago, when I set But I also won’t tell you not to foot on Locust Walk, I was trube as happy as you are now. ly happy. And happiness in any You should be as happy as moment, whether because of a
AMY CHAN perceived or actual truth, is real happiness. So revel in your achievement and nourish the hope you have for Penn — because if you don’t have hope now, you’re already unprepared. And contrary to what most people will tell you, don’t worry so much about the details, because life will happen and ultimately, it’s you who has to experience Penn and learn for yourself.
AMY CHAN is a College senior from Augusta, Ga., studying classics. Her email address is chanamy@sas.upenn.edu.
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A look at the outgoing Career Services director Patricia Rose will be officially retiring in August CLAIRE SLINEY Staff Reporter
After working at Penn for almost 40 years, Director of Career Services Patricia Rose will be officially retiring in August, and her colleagues and students alike reflect on her decades of service to the community and express appreciation in anticipation of her departure. Vice Provost of University Life Valarie Swain Cade-McCoullum announced Rose’s retirement to VPUL directors on March 13, writing that “Pat is a Penn pioneer in an iconic position.” “She has personally guided thousands of students and alumni through the exhilarating process of discovering their passions and embarking on their professional path,” she continued. Rose entered Penn as graduate student studying English, but quickly started working in advising and shortly after for Career Services. While her position as director has placed her in charge of more administrative work, Rose said that she always prioritizes the Penn student body and still finds time to advise them. “She’s not shy about advocating for students’ best interests,” Senior Associate Director of Ca-
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reer Services Barbara Hewitt said. “She’s always looking out for students — what will be most effective for them, how can we bring more employers to campus, how can we prepare them well.” College senior Victoria Peng is an advisee of Rose’s and has found that unlike other “perfunctory relationships” that she has had with advisors on campus, Rose is not only a well-informed advisor, but is also supportive personally. “She cares about my professional and academic success, but she also checks on me outside of my career aspirations,” Peng said. “It’s very cool to have someone care about me as an entire person and not just as another statistic — I feel very lucky to have had the opportunity to work with her.” Throughout her time at Penn, Rose has helped spearhead many of Career Services’ major projects, including the Quaker Career Wardrobe — a clothing
drive that collects new or gently used professional clothing for Penn students who otherwise could not afford them — and initiatives to fund and support firstgeneration, low-income students pursuing professional opportunities during the summer. Senior Associate Director of Career Services Claire Klieger added that Rose was one of the first in her field to conduct “First Destination Surveys,” which document where students go and what they do within the first six months after graduation. These surveys are used by Career Services as reference when advising students about potential future opportunities. “Across the industry, what she’s known for is using data to tell stories,” Klieger said. Aside from concrete initiatives, Rose said that one of the most important things that she has done with Career Services is create relationships with other departments within the University. “We have forged relationships with people throughout campus,” Rose said. “And we can leverage what we do by the partnerships that we have formed. And I feel that that’s my role — to be out there to say, ‘We’re Career Services, we can work with you. Would you work with us? It’ll help us.’”
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In 2012, Rose won the Penn Human Resources’ Model Supervisor Award for her leadership, a quality for which she has become revered within the office. Senior Associate Director of Career Services Sharon Fleshman said that she learned so much from Rose just by “witnessing her leadership and trying to emulate that with what I do.” Many have also described Rose as both “innovative” and “creative.” “She allows for creativity in the office — she encourages it. She encourages innovation,” Associate Director of Career Services Anne Marie Gercke said. Rose agrees that innovation is crucial for her position. In more recent years, she has helped to develop the office’s social media presence by establishing Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter accounts, as well as a Pinterest page, for Career Services. “Heraclitus, the Greek philosopher, said, ‘You can’t step in the same river twice.’ Things do not stay the same. You can’t just keep going to the river. The river’s going to be different and you need to adapt,” Rose said. “I like technology. I do like to innovate.” Rose has also had an active voice on Penn’s campus, both within Career Services and the
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larger community. She has been a regular contributor for Career Services’ blog, “Penn and Beyond,” where she has published posts on topics ranging from a job hunter’s New Year’s resolutions list to how the Eagles’ Superbowl victory can inform the career decision-making process. She has also contributed to The Daily Pennsylvanian a handful of times. In January, she published a Letter to the Editor, responding to an article that she felt unfairly targeted Career Services’ work with Penn’s FGLI community. Rose’s retirement will be effective Aug. 3 and while the University has posted a job listing on the Human Resources website, it has yet to announce
candidates for the position. Nevertheless, while her colleagues and students are sad to see her go, Hewitt said that “she has not backed down at all as far as leaving the office in a really good place to move forward.” Associate Director of Career Services Mylene Kerschner echoed Hewitt in saying that she admires the legacy that Rose is leaving behind. “When we conduct interviews when we hire new advisors or even new administrators, people ask, ‘What are some of the things you like most about working in the office?’ Pat is at the top of the list. She fosters this environment where we are collaborative,” Kerschner said. “It has been a great place to work because of Pat.”
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Three congressional candidates to run in Penn’s district They are running to represent the new third district LUCY CURTIS Staff Reporter
Three candidates are running for the United States House of Representatives in Pennsylvania’s May 15 primary election to represent the newly drawn third district, a district that represents Penn’s campus and most of Philadelphia. The incumbent in the third district is Rep. Dwight Evans (D-Philadelphia), who is running against two newcomers: Democrat Kevin Johnson and Republican Bryan Leib. Evans has served in the House since 2016, while neither Johnson nor Leib have served in political office before. Kevin Johnson, a pastor and self-described “bold progressive leader,” said he is running in order to fight “for those who have been forgotten.” Johnson is pas-
sionate about public schools, and says public education in Philadelphia needs more funding and resources. “I’m a product of public schools, and I believe in public schools,” Johnson said, adding that if elected, he would like to sit on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. “When I look at all the economic activity that has taken place on the University of Pennsylvania’s campus, on Drexel, that is great for Philadelphia — but it also needs to be great for the community,” Johnson said. He said one of his main goals is to “dismantle income inequality.” The Republican candidate is Bryan Leib, who currently acts as treasurer for the Philadelphia Young Republicans. “We have a lot of people that are struggling to put food on the table, are struggling to get good paying jobs and keep good paying jobs,” Leib said. He hails
small businesses as a means to strengthen and grow Philadelphia’s economy. “I know there is a vibrant startup community on campuses, and I would want to do everything I can to support [that],” Leib said. He also cited national election reform as a priority and said, if elected, he plans on introducing a bill to limit congressional terms, which currently have no enforced cap. Both Johnson and Leib viewed their outsider status as a political strength. The third and final candidate is incumbent Rep. Dwight Evans, who was elected to represent the now third district in 2016 and has served as a state representative since 1980. If elected for a second term, Evans plans to “reduce poverty and increase opportunity” in Philadelphia, especially in West Philadelphia. Evans points to the West Philadelphia Promise Zone
and Together for West Philadelphia as models to begin addressing “the fundamental question of poverty” in West Philadelphia. Evans also points to education as a way to further address problems that exist on district and national levels. He describes schools like Penn and Drexel as “engines to attack the question of poverty” — in fact, Penn’s Fels Institute of Government published Evans’ 2013 political biography “Making Ideas Matter: My Life as a Policy Entrepreneur.” “I’m optimistic despite the challenges that we have, that we can move the needle and reduce poverty and grow jobs, deal with health care, and deal with education,” Evans said. Penn College Republicans President and College junior Ryan Snyder said the group has more common policies with Republican candidate Bryan Leib and praised his “new perspec-
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The incumbent in the third district is Rep. Dwight Evans, who is running against two newcomers: Kevin Johnson and Bryan Leib.
tive” and “fresh new set of policy ideas.” Yet Penn Democrats Communications Director and College junior Jack Weisman remained quite confident that Democrats would secure the district again. “I think Penn students who
are voting in this race have to remember that a lot of the district does not look like Penn; it’s a majority minority district, it’s a relatively poor district,” Weisman said. “I would be shocked if Dwight Evans is not in Congress after this election.”
Women’s Week highlighted voices of women not always heard
Organizations convened to highlight women’s issues BERNIE RODGERS Contributing Reporter
This year’s annual Penn Women’s Week, held in honor of National Women’s History Month, came to a close after several on-campus organizations convened to highlight women’s issues. Manager of Penn Women’s Week 2018, member of PAGE, and College sophomore Jenna Liu reflected on the week’s programming. “All of them were events that were extremely relevant to the Penn community or issues that I think should be more prevalent on campus,” Liu said. “I think these events helped a lot of people learn information
that shocked them, that touched them, and I hope that leads to further exploration of women’s issues.” The Penn Association for Gender Equity and Penn Democrats hosted multiple events, such as the “Know Your IX” panel discussion on Tuesday. The event focused on Title IX of the 1972 Education Amendments Act and its lasting effect on the ways that universities handle sexual assault. Experts at the panel explained Penn’s specific process in responding to reports of sexual violence and resources on and off-campus that survivors can turn to. Penn sexual violence investigative officer and panelist, Deborah Harley, spoke about her work in conducting investigations about on-campus sexu-
al assault. “I am driven to be fair and equitable to both the complainant and the respondent,” she said. “We are all working together to make sure that the involved parties feel safe and supported.” President of Penn Democrats and Wharton sophomore Dylan Milligan, discussed some of the highlights from this year’s Women’s Week. “I really think the panelists were great and extremely qualified,” he said. “[Harley] has 25 years of experience and she had a lot of interesting insights about the process and problems that students face when reporting sexual violence on campus. I’m glad we chose to invite her.” Another major event was Thursday’s “Beyond Our
Jails” panel discussion. Cosponsored by PAGE and the student organization Beyond Arrests: Re-Thinking Systematic Oppression, it featured five formerly-incarcerated women speaking about their issues with the criminal justice system. The discussion highlighted gender issues in incarceration, specifically. “There’s a huge problem that nobody talks about when it comes to women’s prisons,” said panelist April Hobbs. “When you arrest a woman, you rob a community. Women nurture the community and by taking them away, you’re hurting everyone else. One arrest means so much more than just one woman.” Other events throughout the week included a feminist quizzo and a film screening. Stu-
dent organizations Table Talk held a discussion on gender and identity, and Penn Non-Cis co-hosted a discussion on the policing and discrimination of protests. Liu explained how the events successfully accomplished tackling this year’s theme of “Existence as Resistance.” “Overall, I think that all of
these events highlighted the voices of women who might not always be heard in our society,” she said. “With our theme of existence as resistance — of not focusing on high-profile huge acts of activism — we instead focused on these small, everyday acts that many women go through that form this culture of resistance.”
The Delta Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa will award the
Elmaleh Prize for an undergraduate essay in the Social Sciences, and the
Humanities Prize for an undergraduate essay in the Humanities. The competition will be conducted by the Executive Committee and Electorial Board of Phi Beta Kappa, with judging by ad hoc committees. Essays, which can not be senior theses, may be submitted for consideration by faculty or by student authors. The ad hoc committee may seek the opinion of other members of the faculty in evaluating entries.
One need not be a member of Phi Beta Kappa to submit an entry. Each award will carry an
Honorarium of $150 The deadline for submission is
Wednesday April 25th Essays should be submitted to:
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The Delta Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa Announces Two Annual Phi Beta Kappa
Prizes for Honors Theses Two Phi Beta Kappa Theses Prizes of $1000 each and the
Frederick W. Meier, Jr. Thesis Prize of $1000 The competition will be conducted by the Executive Committee and Electorial Board of Phi Beta Kappa, with judging by ad hoc committees. Essays may be submitted for consideration by faculty or by student authors. A written evaluation by the thesis advisor must be included with the nomination. Students must submit two (2) copies of their thesis for review.
One need not be a member of Phi Beta Kappa to submit an entry. The deadline for submission is
Wednesday April 25th Essays should be submitted to:
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Alexandra Rubin (CAS) Chair, Vice Chair for Elections, The Nominations & Elections Committee; Alto/Tenor Saxophone Player, Social Chair, Bloomers Comedy; Teaching Assistant, Statistics Department; Leader, PENNacle Pre-Orientation Program; Public Speaking Advisor, Communication Within the Curriculum; Peer Advisor, College of Arts & Sciences Advising; Chi Omega Women’s Fraternity; Rho Gamma/Recruitment Guide, Panhellenic Council; Dean’s List; Friars Senior Honor Society
Caroline Ohlson (CAS) President, VP of Service & Philanthropy, Panhellenic Council; Chair, Outreach Chair, Abuse and Sexual Assault Prevention; Student Educator, Penn Anti-Violence Educators; VP of Recruitment, New Member Educator, Order of Omega Honor Society; Kinoki Senior Honor Society; Teaching Assistant, Topics in Animation: The History of Children’s Television; Formal Chair, Philanthropy Chair, House Manager, Chi Omega; Outreach and Member Relations Chair, Undergraduate Media and Entertainment Club; Dean’s List
Kai Kornegay (CAS) Vice President, Treasurer, Director, African American Arts Alliance; Outreach Chair, Finance Chair, Lambda Alliance; Educator, Penn Anti Violence Educators; Education Chair, Actor, Vagina Monologues; Advertising/Communications Chair, Chair, QPENN; Treasurer, Onyx Senior Honor Society; Teaching Assistantship, Urban Watershed Project
Kassidi Jones (CAS) President, Director, The Excelano Project; Chair, The Undergraduate Advisory Board for the Center for Africana Studies; President, Penn’s Chapter of NAACP; Program Coordinator, Sister, Sister; Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship; Research Assistant to Dr. Herman Beavers; Dean’s List; W. E. B. DuBois Prize in Africana Studies
Krisna Maddy (CAS) Chair, Vice-Chair, Programming Chair, United Minorities Council; Volunteer & Community Outreach Committee Member, United Community Clinic; Mentor, Herstory Empowers Resilience; Undergraduate Researcher, Perelman School of Medicine Department of Neurology; Cast Member, Vagina Monologues; Writing Committee Member, PennScience Undergraduate Research Journal; Penn Black Alumni Society Student Leadership Award; Benjamin Franklin Scholar; Onyx Senior Honor Society; Sphinx Senior Honor Society
Madeline Gelfand (SEAS) President, Hillel; Board, Dear Penn Freshmen; Events Roadmap Committee, Weiss Tech House; Social Chair, Shira Chadasha; Co-President, Challah for Hunger; Maimonides Leadership Fellow, Meor; Advancing Women in Engineering; Penn Undergraduate Psychology Society; TA, Stat431/511; Project Manager, CIS573
Makayla Reynolds (CAS) President, Class Board 2018; Advocacy Chair, Active Minds Penn; Big Sister, Big Brothers Big Sisters; Mentor, Community School Student Partnerships; Senior Advisor, Communication Within the Curriculum; Fellow, Ortner Center on Family Violence at Penn
Medha Sharma (CAS) Chair of the College of Arts and Sciences, Class Board 2018; Assistant Director, Dance Captain, Alumni Relations Chair, Bloomers Comedy; Director of Special Events (IAA Executive Board), International Affairs Association; Coordinator, Penn Medicine Cut Hypertension Community Clinic; Leader, PENNacle Pre-Orientation Program; Cabin Counselor, Camp Kesem; Undergraduate Advisory Board, Research Peer Advisor, Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships; Biology Department Teaching Assistant in Vertebrate Physiology; Friars Senior Honor Society; Minister of Boisterousness (Social Chair), Oracle Senior Honor Society
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Nayab Khan (CAS) Vice President, Muslim Students Association(MSA); Co-Chair, Programs in Religious, Interfaith, and Spiritual Matters(PRISM); Facilitator, Asian Pacific American Leadership Initiative(APALI); Research Assistant, Wenqin Luo Lab in the Perelman School of Medicine; Resident Advisor (RA), Rodin College House; Sphinx Senior Honor Society; Oracle Senior Honor Society; STEM Classroom Fellow, Moelis Access Science(MAS); Director of Internal Affairs, Foundation for International Medical Relief of Children(FIMRC); Fellowship for Building Intercultural Communities(FBIC)
Silicia (LoLo) Lomax (CAS) President, Secretary, Marketing Chair, Minority Association of Pre-Health Students; Director, Chair, Internal Business Manager, Strictly Funk Dance Company; Mentor, Big Brothers Big Sisters; Brigade Officer, Volunteer, Medlife Penn; Academic Excellence Chair, Onyx Senior Honor Society; Friars Senior Honor Society; Collaboration Chair, Osiris Senior Honor Society; Dean’s List
Sola Park (CAS) Vice President, Communications Director, College Representative, Undergraduate Assembly; Executive Vice President, Class Board 2018; President, Oracle Senior Honor Society; Vice President of Communications, Assembly of International Students; Think Tank Leader, Penn Social Entrepreneurship Movement; Pi Delta Phi French Honors; Mentor, Community Student School Partnerships; Civic Scholar; Sphinx Senior Honor Society; Turner Social Impact Society
Sydney Rodriguez (WH) President, Director, Producer, External Relations Chair, Lead Actor, African American Arts Alliance; Planning and Facilitating Chair, UMOJA; Financial Secretary, Historian, Gamma Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.; Facilitator, Sister, Sister; Co-Founder/Facilitator, Kuumba Workshops; Mentor, Ase Academy; Ferguson Friday Committee, SOUL; Sphinx Senior Honor Society; Onyx Senior Honor Society; Carriage Senior Honor Society
Austin Borja (CAS) President, Sound Director, Sound Technician, Social Planning and Events Committee(SPEC); Lead EMT, Athletics Coordinator, Emergency Medical Technician, Penn Medical Emergency Response Team(MERT); Contestant, Mr. and Mrs. Penn Bodybuilding Competition; Research Assistant, Honors Thesis Student, Kayser Lab - Penn Medicine; Recruitment Chairman, Messenger, Risk Management Chairman, Chaplain, Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity; Executive Board, Skimmerfest Planning Committee; Leader, PENNacle Pre-Orientation Program; Ambassador of Service, Friars Senior Honor Society; Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society; Nu Rho Psi National Honor Society in Neuroscience
Christopher D’Urso (CAS) Rhodes Scholar; Founder and President, Penn Consumer Assistance, Support, and Education (Penn CASE); Co-Chair, Treasurer, University Honor Council; Editor-in-Chief, Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Assistant Online Editor, Sigma Iota Rho Journal of International Relations; Teaching Assistant for BEPP 203, The Wharton School; Teaching Assistant for GAFL 621, Fels Institute of Government; Dean’s Scholar; Sol Feinstone Undergraduate Award for Penn CASE; Director of Programming & Communications, Vice Director of Programming & Communications, Penn Undergraduate Law Journal; Programming Chair, Rodin College House Leadership Residential Program
Dawit Gebresellassie (WH) President, VP of Corporate Development, Howard E. Mitchell Memorial Conference Chair, Director of Academic Development, Black Wharton Undergraduate Association; Social Impact Fellow, Turner Social Impact Society; Social Impact Consultant, 180 Degrees Consulting; Onyx Senior Honor Society; Financial Chair, United Minorities Council; Alumni/ MBA Committee, Wharton Undergraduate Giving Society; MBA Future Leaders Program Selectee, Stanford Business School; Wharton Industry Exploration Selectee (San Francisco - Tech & Los Angeles - Media & Entertainment), Wharton Undergraduate Division; Wharton International Program Selectee, Wharton Undergraduate Division; Development Team, Wharton Investing & Trading Group
Dhruv Agarwal (SEAS) President, Assembly of International Students; Chief, Sphinx Senior Honor Society; Executive Vice-President, Wharton Undergraduate Finance Club; Director, PennApps; Oracle Senior Honor Society; Director of Corporate Relations, TEDxPenn; Coordinator, Peers Helping Incoming New Students(PHINS); Chief of Operations, Ivy League Model UN Conference India; Asian Pacific American Leadership Initiative; Admissions Dean’s Advisory Board
Fernando Andres Fernandez (CAS & WH) Treasurer, Choreographer, Dancer, Onda Latina; President, Co-President, Secretary, Grupo Quisqueyano; Secretary-General, Crisis Director, Ivy League Model United Nations Conference – Peru; Consultant, 180 Degrees Consulting; Vice-President, Association of Latino Professionals for America; Under-Secretary-General(USG), Assistant Secretary-General(ASG), University of Pennsylvania’s Model United Nations Conference(UPMUNC); Deputy Director of Special Events, Assistant of Special Events, Special Events of the International Affairs Association; International Consultant, Penn International Impact Consulting; Cipactli Latino Senior Honor Society; Onyx Senior Honor Society
Jackson Burke (CAS) President, VP of Internal Affairs, The Wharton Alliance; Vice Chair for Nominations, Nominations and Elections Committee; Mentor, Big Brothers Big Sisters; UACS P.E. Instructor, Netter Center for Community Partnerships; New Student Mentor, Transfer Student Organization; Research Assistant, Business Economics and Public Policy Department; Friars Senior Honor Society; Carriage Senior Honor Society; Dean’s List
Jerome Allen (WH) President, Penn Club Baseball; Leadership Council, Black Men United; Vice-Chair & Co-Founder, Wharton Sports Business Summit; Management Assistant, Building Bridges to Wealth; Executive Vice President, Undergraduate Sports Business Club; Onyx Senior Honor Society; Teaching Assistant, Legal Studies 207; Research Assistant, The Racial Empowerment Collaborative; Director, Adolescent Fathers Initiative; Head Residential Teaching Assistant, Leadership in the Business World
Kayvon Asemani (WH) Founder & CEO, Kayvon Enterprises(Kayvon Music); Head Teacher, Financial Literacy Community Project; Wharton Council; Howard E. Mitchell Memorial Conference Co-Chairperson, Black Wharton Undergraduate Association; Freshman Representative/Sophomore Director, Wharton Undergraduate Cohorts System; Leader, PennCORP Pre-Orientation Program; Friars Senior Honor Society; Annexstad Family Foundation Leaders for Tomorrow Scholar; Penn Impact Lab Fellow; Turner Social Impact Society Fellow
Nico Carrino (CAS) President, V.P. of Recruitment, Men Against Rape and Sexual Assault; Cast Director, Assistant Head Writer, Mask and Wig Club; Leader, PennQuest Pre-Orientation Program; V.P., St. Elmo; Recipient of the RealArts@Penn Prize; Winner of Kelly Writers House Prize in Entrepreneurial Journalism; Recipient of Hassenfeld Foundation Social Impact Research Grant; Dean’s List
Nicholas Silverio (WH) Chair, Dance Arts Council; Founder, Career Preparation Skills Seminar; Finance Coordinator, Performing Arts Council Executive Board; Artistic Director, Scheduling Director, Arts House Dance Company; Internal Development Chair, Team Advisor, Management 100/Wharton 101 Executive Board; Vice Chair of Wharton, Seniors for the Penn Fund; Recruitment Chair, Wharton Peer Advising Fellows; Friars Senior Honor Society; Carriage Senior Honor Society; Osiris Senior Honor Society
Ramón Garcia Gomez (CAS) Chair, Chair of Internal, Latinx Coalition; Vice President of Recruitment, Men Against Rape and Sexual Assault; Chair, Cipactli Latino Honor Society; Sphinx Senior Honor Society; MEChA de Penn
Sean Collins (CAS) Chair, Vice Chair of Internal Affairs, Lambda Alliance; Student Manager, Athlete, Varsity Track and Field; Resident Advisor, Riepe College House; Coordinator, Leader, PENNacle Pre-Orientation Program; Penn Anti-Violence Educators; President, Director of Advocacy, Penn Athletes and Allies Tackling Homophobia; LGBT Center Advisory Council; Sphinx Senior Honor Society; Carriage Senior Honor Society
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Vadim Ordovsky-Tanaevsky (CAS) President, Class Board 2018 (*Freshmen/Sophomore); Founding President & Creative Director, Nexo Productions; Ambassador of Service, Friars Senior Honor Society; V.P., Recruitment Chair, Philanthropy Chair, Social Chair, Psi Upsilon Fraternity; Executive Advisor, Wharton Latino; Co-Chair, Red & Blue Crew; Kinoki Senior Honor Society; Director and Editor-in-Chief, The Tab at Penn
Zeeshan Mallick (CAS) Chairman, Mask and Wig Club; President, Men Against Rape and Sexual Assault[MARS]; Educator, Penn Anti-Violence Education; Friars Senior Honor Society
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These are the finalists for the Class of 2018 Senior Honor Awards (Hottel Shield, Harnwell Flag, Goddard Loving Cup and Brownlee Skimmer Hat for women; and Spoon, Bowl, Cane and Spade for men). These awards recognize outstanding campus leadership. Nominations were solicited from the faculty, staff and students. A committee of administrators and the senior class board then narrowed the list to these finalists. The senior class will choose the final eight award recipients in an online election. Voting will be accessible online from April 2th - April 6th at https://medley.isc-seo.upenn.edu/studentElections/jsp/fast.do Winners will be announced on April 25th. The awards will be presented at the Ivy Day ceremony on Saturday, May 12th.
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Quakers look to keep momentum going after successful indoor season WILL DiGRANDE Associate Sports Editor
The stage has been set, and the team is ready to go. After a historic winter indoor season, Penn men’s and women’s track will look to carry the success over to the outdoor season this spring. With the women coming in first for the first time since 1996 at the Ivy League Indoor Heptagonal Championships, and the men’s second place finish marking their best since 2002 at the Heps, the team’s goals this season are set higher than ever. “We expected to do very well, but coming in second was really something I personally didn’t see coming and I’m very proud of,” junior Calvary Rogers said. “[Ivy Heps] was definitely a big confidence booster, and after that a lot of people were proud of themselves
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and willing to step up to the plate.” The women’s team won six individual championships at Ivy Heps, the most from the team since 1988, and even though the men’s team could only add one title to that number, strong performances from both rookies and veterans on both squads indicated a promising season to come. On the women’s side, senior Abby Hong cruised to a pair of distance titles at indoor Heps in the 3,000m and 5,000m races, adding two more titles to her already prolific career. Hong is coming into this spring with as much momentum as possible, and she is not slowing down. But this year’s pool of new talent includes freshman Uchechi Nwogwugwu, who took first place in the 500m event, a flying start to what will be a great career. Penn’s only event win on the men’s side came in the 200m from Rogers. But again, underclassmen also performed well, as freshSEE MOMENTUM PAGE 15
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Following strong rookie year, Clarke reaches new heights
Family attitude, youth bring success for women’s sprinters
Sophomore pole vaulter now owns the indoor record
Talented group has broken several records this season
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Penn’s pole vaulting records are on red alert — if they haven’t been broken by Sean Clarke already, that is. The three-time Florida state champion has had a blazing start to his Penn career. Still only a sophomore, Clarke owns the best indoor pole vault in Penn history (5.30 meters) and the second best outdoor pole vault in Penn history (5.35 m). Despite this, Clarke remains humble, downplaying his accomplishments. “To me, not that high,” said Clarke on where his indoor record, set on January 20 of this year, ranks on his list of all-time accomplishments. “The guy who jumped that height did it 40 years ago, so to me that is no big deal — the record was just a step in the direction I was taking my indoor season.” This past indoor season Clarke helped Penn to its most successful season in recent history. Penn’s men’s track and field came in second place at the season-ending Ivy League Indoor Heptagonal Championships, the team’s highest place since 2002. The 102 points they earned along the way were their most since the 1998 competi-
The sprinters on the Penn women’s track and field team have tasted a lot of success lately. School records? High finishes? An Ivy title? They’ve got it. And the best part of all? That success seems like it’s here to stay. The Red and Blue team won the Ivy League Indoor Heptagonal Championship for the first time in 22 years in large part due to the success of its sprinters. The sprinters contributed eight of the 22 scored results at Heps, highlighted by a win by freshman Uche Nwogwugwu in the 500-meter. The sprinters on this year’s squad are quite the decorated group. They’ve been shattering school records left and right, completely rewriting the record books. Earlier this season, Nwogwugwu set a new program record in the 400m (54.69 seconds) and the 4x400m relay team of Candace Taylor, Caroline O’Neil, Cecil Ene, and Nwogwugwu added a new program record of their own (3:43.83). In all, there were 11 different instances of sprinters setting top-10 school records in their
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Sophomore pole vaulter Sena Clarke has his eyes set on the national stage and is only inches away from taking the Penn record.
tion. Clarke finished second in the pole vault that day, helping his team reach those lofty accomplishments. Despite his team’s success, Clarke was pushing himself for even more this past indoor season. “I would have really liked to make it to indoor nationals,” said Clarke. “It is much harder than outdoor because there is no qualifier meet — it’s just the top 16 jumps of the year (that qualify) and that favors inconsistent people who can put up a really big number.” One might wonder where this drive and passion for such a niche sport comes from for Clarke. As it turns out, pole vaulting runs in his blood. Clarke’s uncle
was a pole vaulter at UCLA, exposing Clarke to the sport at a very young age. His mother is a gymnast — another sport that requires athletes to contort their bodies in seemingly impossible ways. As a result, Clarke was pole vaulting for his high school team while he was still only in eighth grade. Getting an early start has clearly paid off for Clarke, whose impressive list of accolades will surely only continue to grow. The 2017 second-team All-American has doggedly pursued improving his form despite already showing that he is one of the best collegiate pole vaulters SEE CLARKE PAGE 14
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respective events during the indoor season. “A goal is always to PR [set personal records] every year, [as well as] to get your indoor time to match your outdoor time,” Nwogwugwu said. “We want to hit times that allow us to go past our conference championship and qualify for regionals,” senior Taylor McCorkle added. “That’s kind of in the back of our minds, being able hit the times we need to hit to go that far.” The sprinters are led by seniors McCorkle and Taylor, but the freshman and sophomore classes have been a large factor
behind the Quakers’ resurgence. In addition to Nwogwugwu and O’Neil, fellow freshman Camille Dickson turned in a second place in the 400m at Heps. All three can run well in the 200m and 400m, and O’Neil figures to be a factor in the 100m as she was the 2017 Connecticut state champion in the event. “I feel like the freshmen, just their mentality and their drive to want to succeed has really helped us,” McCorkle said. “I feel like that’s what is taking us further and further each year.” The sophomores excel in SEE SPRINTERS PAGE 10
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Senior sprinter Taylor McCorkle is the veteran leader for her position group, and the results have spoken for themselves.
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The niche track and field events deserve love too DANIEL WITTMER
Underappreciated shouldn’t mean underestimated. With the track and field season in full swing for the Quakers, the usual events: sprints, relays, and jumps will garner the same high level of media coverage and popularity as they have in past years. Now, it’s time for a more holistic understanding of all the high-level athletic events at track meets. So I went out to cover the events and athletes deserving of more respect. I first sat down with junior Rachel Wilson. She competes in various throwing events for the Quakers, but her specialty is the hammer throw. Contrary to its name, hammer throw has absolutely nothing to do with a traditional hammer. A metal ball, 16 pounds for men and 8.82 pounds for women, is attached to a metal cable and grip. The athlete uses techniques consisting of spins and turns in order to have the hammer land as far away as pos-
sible. What makes the hammer throw interesting is the combination of different ways an athlete can toss the device. Essentially, as long as a player does not go outside the seven foot circle, he or she can use some imagination to find the combination that launches the hammer the farthest. There’s one myth surrounding the throwing events that Wilson wanted to set straight. “One of the misconceptions is that you have to be really strong and really big in order to throw these events, but that’s not what makes them go far,” she said. “With hammer it’s a lot more finesse, and you have to be very smooth and technical with the throw in order for it to go far.” Like anything else, the hammer throw is straight physics. The athlete is fighting against gravity, release trajectories, and acceleration. When the athlete understands how to manipulate these natural phenomena to his or her advantage, these laws can be friends instead of foes. I then got a chance to talk to a guy who can be characterized as a
jack of all trades. Sophomore Evan Lee competes in the decathlon, which is a series of 10 events over two days. On the first day, the athlete competes in the 100-meter dash, broad jump, shot put, high jump, and 400m. The second day events are the 110m hurdles, discus throw, pole vault, javelin throw, and 1,500m. It’s truly impressive the amount of different skills a decathlon athlete has to have in order to be successful. Other track athletes can specialize in and refine one event, but these athletes combine ten individual skills at once. Track and field is officially designated a team sport, but it’s similar to golf, in that you really have to rely on yourself and play your own game. Most fans think the athlete steps on the playing field, does his or her job, and that’s that. However, Lee sees the decathlon differently. “You’re rooting for your teammates and you’re building a lot of camaraderie, and it’s really fun to cheer for the people you’re competing against.” It’s obvious there are different well-known running and jumping events in the decathlon, but an
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especially interesting event is the javelin. Lee put the thrills of the throwing event most bluntly: “It makes me feel like I’m out hunting caribou.” A spear that can vary from seven to eight feet depending on regulations, is thrown through the air with the goal of launching it as far as possible. Javelin, like hammer throw, is down to a science, but what makes this event incredibly special is the fact that, unlike in hammer, the technique of the throw is regulated. The javelin has to be thrown over the upper part of the throwing arm, and the athlete is allowed only 98 feet of running path before release. Release point, velocity, and wind resistance play huge factors and affect outcomes when competing in the javelin event. Lastly, I spoke with junior Nicole Macco, who competes in the fearless sport of pole vaulting. Pole vaulting stands out among the rest. Compared to distance events, throwing events, and even jumping events, pole vaulting adds a unique dynamic to track and field. Pole vaulting uses an extremely long pole, which can be crafted from fiberglass or carbon fiber. Each the athlete runs 40 meters and sticks the pole into a depression in the ground. Next, the athlete uses strength and speed to fling himself or herself into the air, trying to vertically clear a bar. The athlete has
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Junior pole vaulter Nicole Macco launches herself more than 13 feet in the air using a fiberglass pole stuck into a depression in the track.
three tries to clear a height that can reach as high as 20 feet with world records. What does Macco wish people knew about pole vaulting? “A lot of people don’t recognize how technical of a sport it is … and it’s very unique in itself.” Technical it is — technically really difficult. In fact, USA Today ranked pole vaulting as the third hardest event in sports. What makes the event special is that the playing atmosphere can change in every event. In basketball, the hoop is always 10 feet above the ground, in baseball the bases will be in the same position game after game, and even in track running events, athletes wake up knowing exactly
how far they will run. But according to Macco, the starting height for the pole vault is usually unknown entering each meet, and as competition progresses, the height will increase until a winner is determined. The only thing pole vaulters can be sure of is that they have to give it their all on every jump and risk everything in hopes of clearing the endless number of possible bar heights. These athletes highlight a few of Penn’s greatest. The psychological and physical demand necessary for track and field athletics is nearly unmatched across every sport — and you should watch these Quakers continue to compete at an extremely high level.
Although the results are finally shining through, the change didn’t happen overnight. The team’s pair of secondplace finishes at the indoor and outdoor Heps last season might have been considered an outlier following a pair of seventh-place finishes two years ago. But after this season, it is starting to look more like the new normal. “I feel like the culture of Penn track and field has been developing so much, we’ve come such a long way,” McCorkle said. “We’ve just been getting more and more people who are so dedi-
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Quakers tear up record book in strong showing TRACK | Penn sets five new school records in two meets WILL DiGRANDE Associate Sports Editor
Penn track and field shattered records like glass with another great weekend showing. This past weekend, men’s and women’s track continued their blazing form and represented the Red and Blue well at both the Florida Relays and Raleigh Relays. Against tough competition from across the nation at both events, the Quakers held their own and set five new school records over the weekend, as well as totaling 16 new top-10 marks in individual events. At the Florida Relays in Gainesville, the Red and Blue did not let the humid weather affect their performance, as a group of athletes moved up in the program’s rankings in their events. The 4x400-meter relay team of Candace Taylor, Uchechi Nwogwugwu, and Caroline O’Neil set a new school record with their time of 3:37.17, which was good enough for a third-place finish. Junior high jumper Anna Peyton Malizia finished fourth with her mark of 1.76m, tying
her indoor record and setting a new outdoor school record in the process. For the men, sprinters freshman Marvin Morgan and junior Calvary Rogers continued to impress. The rookie sped out to a 10.66 mark in the 100m, and Rogers’ time of 21.05, tying his personal best and fourth best in Penn’s history, earned him a top ten finish in the 200m dash. Sophomore pole vaulter Sean Clarke again stood out in the field, clearing 5.32m for a second place finish and coming close to his personal best of 5.35m. Hosted by North Carolina State, the Raleigh Relays were another great success for Penn’s track and field teams. The event saw Quakers earn three new school records coming from a trio of women, all from different years and a sign of an overall well-balanced roster. Abby Hong once again proved she owns the distance races, as the senior captain finished ninth in the 5,000m race with a time of 16:05.26, setting a new program record and currently the seventh fastest time in the NCAA East region. Carrying momentum from the Penn Challenge last weekend, sophomore Maura Kimmel broke the school record in the
discus for the second straight competition, throwing 53.83m. This mark was not only historic for the program, but it also put Kimmel seventh in the NCAA East and third all-time in the Ivy League. Freshman Ashley Anumba followed up on Kimmel’s success with history of her own, putting up a distance of 50.70m in the distance, good for second in program history behind just Kimmel. In the shot put, her mark of 13.77m put her into the top five for the Red and Blue all-time. Junior Rachel Lee Wilson finished third in the hammer throw and was also a program record breaker, throwing a distance of 57.87m and beating her old mark of 57.72m. On the men’s side, Penn took fourth and fifth in the discus behind a pair of freshmen. Jake Kubiatowicz and Chudi Ikpeazu both threw further than 49m, and with three years still to compete, both will look to build on this early success. Both the men and women will be in action for the third weekend in a row when they travel to Princeton to compete in the Sam Howell Invitational this Friday and Saturday. If the team does as well as in the past two weekends, it will rewrite the record books.
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Friday, April 6, 2018 2:00 pm The Benjamin and Anne A. Pinkel Endowed Annual Lecture Fund was established through a generous gift from Sheila Pinkel on behalf of the estate of her parents, Benjamin and Anne A. Pinkel, and serves as a memorial tribute to the lives of her parents. Benjamin Pinkel, who received a BSE in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1930, was actively interested in the philosophy of mind and published a monograph on the subject, Consciousness, Matter, and Energy: The Emergence of Mind in Nature, in 1992, the objective of which is a “re-examination of the mind-body problem in the light of ... new scientific information.” The lecture series is intended to advance the discussion and rigorous study of the deep questions which engaged Dr. Pinkel’s investigations.
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No. 20 Penn (5-5, 1-2 Ivy) came out hot as it attempted to pull off its second top-five upset of the year, taking a 2-1 lead on goals by junior Simon Mathias and sophomore Adam Goldner — with Mathias’ goal extending his program-record point-scoring streak to 38 games. “We didn’t talk about this game as being any different from Princeton or Cornell; Yale is the best team in the league, so I think there’s that level of respect and preparation,� coach Mike Murphy said. “It’s no different than any other Ivy week; there’s six Ivy games, and this is one of them, so I don’t think there’s as much to [a revenge match] as what people think on the outside.� But soon after that, the No. 4 Bulldogs (7-1, 3-0) proved that they’re the three-time defending conference champions for a
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Revenge will have to come another day for Penn men’s lacrosse. 10 months after Yale ended the Quakers’ season in a fourovertime Ivy League semifinal match for the ages, the Red and Blue couldn’t get their payback in the teams’ first matchup since. Victimized by a 5-0 run spanning the first and second quarters, the Quakers could never claw back in a 12-6 loss in New Haven.
reason. Yale scored five straight goals over the span of 18 minutes between the first and second quarters to open up some breathing room. A big reason for that was the Bulldogs’ domination at the faceoff X, where they won 16 of 22 attempts. “It was a tough day for a couple of guys to have off days on offense. For whatever reason, don’t know if it’s just this point in the season, or if we’re overly excited — we’ll figure it out and not do it again,� Murphy said. “It’s a combination of us and them. A lot of credit to Yale, they were well-prepared and had a good game plan, and their goalie played real well.� It was a cat-and-mouse game from there, but the underdog Quakers could never catch their juggernaut rivals. The score got as close at 7-4 early in the third
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quarter on Goldner’s third goal of the day, but a physical man defense from Yale led by senior Tyler Warner made sure Penn would struggle to get much else on the board the rest of the way. On the other side of the ball, senior and two-time Teewarton Award finalist Ben Reeves was as skilled as ever for the Elis, seemingly a step ahead of the Red and Blue at every opportunity. Though Penn sophomore de-
fender Mark Evanchick did a solid job limiting Reeves’ own scoring to two goals, the senior’s passing vision rendered Evanchick’s efforts largely obsolete, as Reeves finished with four assists to help Yale gradually pull away. “It all starts at the faceoff, where we did a good job early in the first half, but then Mack got into a rhythm and that helped them out on offense,� Murphy said. “I don’t know what the time of possession was, but we kind
of just wore down on the defensive end.� Now below .500 in Ivy play, Penn’s chances of its first regular season championship in 30 years are near non-existent, but the Quakers still find themselves in position to contend for an Ivy tournament berth. If the Red and Blue want to be able to do more than just make it there, though, it’ll take a lot more than what they saw on Saturday.
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an excellent rookie season last spring. Even during the one month layoff between the indoor and outdoor seasons, Clarke meticulously worked to improves his abilities. Instead of spending his spring break on a beach, Clarke went to Louisiana to train with a coach he believed could help him get better. With the motivation
and work ethic to match his natural abilities, the sky’s the limit for Clarke. At the first event of this spring’s outdoor season, the Penn Challenge, Clarke soared his way to a first place finish. Yet for Clarke this has become the norm — the challenge now is to not only beat his peers, but also the records set by his predecessors.
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In wild weekend series, baseball manages to tie Dartmouth Series finale ended in tie after 11 innings due to darkness DANNY CHIARODIT Associate Sports Editor
It was a wild weekend for the Quakers. Penn baseball’s series against Dartmouth had a little bit of everything. The Red and Blue went 1-1-1 versus the Big Green, losing the lone Saturday matchup 5-4, winning Sunday’s first game 8-7, and tying 4-4 in the finale. This was a special weekend for Penn (6-15-1, 2-3-1 Ivy), as it was the team’s first home series of the season. “It was great,” coach John Yurkow said. “It’s been a long time coming because of the weather and what’s going on with the field, but it was nice to play at home.” The Red and Blue sent their ace pitcher Gabe Kleiman to the hill on Saturday. The senior lefthander didn’t get off to a great start, as Dartmouth (5-13-1, 1-1-1) jumped out to a 4-0 lead through four innings. Kleiman settled down from there, though, finishing with six innings of work and four runs allowed. The bullpen, led by Robby Cerulle, John
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man Marvin Morgan took second place in the 60m and sophomore Sean Clarke continued to star in the pole vault, also finishing in second after a jump-off. Athletes from both teams noted how easier it was to perform well when their teammates did likewise. “One thing led to another and everyone was feeding off of each other’s energy,” senior Patrick Hally said. “It’s super motivating when we can do so well in every event; all day constantly, something great is happening.” “I felt like the whole meet we
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Sophomore second baseman Chris Adams crossed the plate four times this weekend, including scoring the winning run in game two. He also hit a RBI single in the first game to open the scoring.
Alan Kendrick, Dylan Mulvihill, and Jacob Sadowitz, gave up a single run in three innings. It took a while for Penn’s bats to get going, but the offense was finally able to get on the board with a three-run sixth inning, featuring RBI singles from sophomore second baseman Chris Adams, freshman left fielder Eduardo Malinowski, and junior third baseman Matt McGeagh. After each side scored a run in
the eighth, the Quakers couldn’t tie the game in the final frame, stranding a runner on third base to end the contest. In Sunday’s first game, Penn saw itself in a similar situation to the day before, down by one entering the bottom of the ninth. This time, though, the Quakers came through in the clutch. Sophomore outfielder Peter Matt sparked the rally by taking a walk and advancing to second on a
were building off each other’s success, and that’s a huge part of it being a team meet,” Hong added. “It’s definitely been a big boost, confidence-wise, just knowing our whole team can perform at such a high level.” All of this momentum seemed to continue when the Quakers kicked off the outdoor season last weekend at home for the Penn Challenge. Again, the women won by a large margin and the men finished second, with both teams’ talent across the board propelling them to victory. Sophomore Maura Kimmel set two new school records, and along with freshman thrower Ashley Anumba, the two will look to reach
distances never before achieved by the women’s program. The men also have hope for a record-breaking season, as sophomore Evan Lee set Penn’s third-highest score all-time in the heptathlon at Ivy Heps, and Hally took first place in the 1,500m last weekend. Rogers is optimistic about the team’s chances for the rest of the season. “As soon as all our freshmen came in, I was telling them right from the beginning, ‘We’re all gonna be in the final. We’re all gonna be scoring,’” he said. With help from all areas of the roster, men’s and women’s track is ready for a historic season.
balk by Dartmouth pitcher Austen Michel. With two strikes and two outs, Malinowski drove in Matt with a single to right field, tying the game and sending it to extra innings. After a homerun from Dartmouth’s Kyle Holbrook and Penn’s Daniel Halevy, the Quak-
ers put themselves in a great position to win in the bottom of the 11th. Adams was hit by a pitch and Malinowski singled to move him to third base. Next up, junior first baseman Sean Phelan hit a sacrifice fly ball, securing the Penn walk-off win. As in Saturday’s contest, the Red and Blue used five pitchers in this one. Sophomore Mitchell Holcomb threw the first five innings, giving up three runs, while Cerulle, Brendan Bean, Grant Guillory, and Sadowitz allowed four runs in relief. Less than an hour after the end of an intense 11-inning affair, the two squads began the series finale. Penn, at the beginning, had a hard time matching the energy that it brought in Sunday’s first game. With sophomore Christian Scafidi on the hill for the Quakers, Dartmouth jumped out to a quick 3-0 lead through two innings. The Red and Blue looked to be dead in the water, down 4-1 entering what looked to be the final frame. Penn showed no quit, though. After a Halevy RBI single to put the Quakers within two,
McGeagh knotted the game at four with a two-run bomb, sending the contest to extra innings. “I was looking for a ball up to drive,” McGeagh said. “First two pitches, I got a couple pitches to hit and missed them, and then the third pitch he just hung over the plate, and then I obviously got it.” Penn was close to a repeat performance in both the 10th and 11th innings, stranding runners on base in each frame. The game was then called a tie after the 11th due to darkness, and even though they didn’t win the weekend series, the Red and Blue couldn’t help but feel good about the way they competed. “[We] showed some toughness; obviously, you know, you put up three there to tie it in the bottom of the ninth,” Yurkow said. “The whole weekend seemed like it was a lot of back and forth. I thought both teams played hard, and nobody wanted to quit.” The Quakers will take this momentum into their next test against Villanova in the Liberty Bell Classic, a tune-up game for them ahead of next weekend’s series at Harvard.
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