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A fraternity listserv email thread containing racial and homophobic slurs prompted a member to leave the organization at the end of the spring semester. Just before midnight on April 21, former Pi Kappa Alpha member and then-College senior Curtis Harris sent an email to the group’s listserv — of current members and some alumni — about offensive language. He had recently become frustrated with members’ use of racial slurs such as the n-word in joking contexts. “To put it in perspective saying the n-word (the term that is used negatively towards the African ethnicity) or the f-word (the term that is used negatively towards the LGBT community) is just as bad as using a term that the Nazi’s would have created for Jews,” Harris wrote in the email. “I hate to get that deep, but I’m f[***]ing sick of the bigotry.” Some members and alumni responded in agreement, but others responded in a more joking way. One alumnus used the word “n*****f**gots,” which was a reference to a video posted in the listserv. After another alumnus asked if someone “[could] use it in a sentence?” a Pike freshman responded to the
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hat was once implied by student culture has now been proven by data — Penn undergraduates have bad sleeping habits. Fitness tracker company Jawbone recently published a report of the sleep data it collected from about 18,500 undergraduate students at 137 universities since 2013. Penn students ranked number two on the list of colleges with the latest weekday bedtimes, with an average weekday bedtime of 1:22 a.m., only surpassed by Columbia at 1:26 a.m. In the category of sleep time, which tracks when students actually fall asleep in bed to when they wake up, Penn fared marginally better. It
was ranked fourth, with an average weekday sleep time of 6.72 hours. The average weekday sleep time of all schools surveyed was 7.03 hours. Rising Engineering sophomore Weiwei Meng can attest to the findings of the survey. During the past school year, she said, her sleep schedule was “pretty bad.” “I would sleep around maybe 3:00 or 4:00 a.m. and not wake up until at least 12:00 p.m., and then nap again in the afternoon after class,” she said. Rising Wharton sophomore Kristin Li had a similar weekday sleep schedule. “I usually wake up at 9:00 a.m. and go to sleep somewhere between 3:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m.,” she said.
Meng attributed her late bedtime to her academic workload. Her habit of napping during the day, she said, also affected her inability to sleep earlier in the night. She noted that many of her peers also had bad sleep schedules — in her freshman dorm, there was regularly “a whole group of people in the common room” that would stay up as late as she did. For Li, sleeping late was more a result of social and extracurricular obligations. “During the day, I’d rather spend time with friends, and then do my work really late at night,” she said. “I don’t think my academic workload was too bad, to be honest. It’s definitely a contributing factor, but [my
sleep schedule] was mostly because freshman year, I tried a bunch of random [activities] I was interested in.” While bad sleep schedules are common at Penn, they are not ubiquitous. Rising Engineering sophomore Will Lowe said he usually got at least 10 hours of shut-eye each night at school. “I usually go to bed at school between 9:30 p.m. and 10:00 p.m., and wake up at 8:00 a.m,” he said. “If I went to bed much later, I would just wake up in the morning and not feel great.” Lowe said he would usually try SEE SLEEP PAGE 3
Amazon@Penn opens under 1920 Commons
Trump supporters are popularly imagined, at least at Penn, to be a bunch of racist, sexist, xenophobic, and ignorant hicks.”
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Amazon@Penn, now open under 1920 Commons, will serve as a selfshipping center and a study space as well as a delivery destination.
For many Penn students, 1920 Commons evokes memories of long lines for pasta or expensive healthy snacks at Gourmet Grocer. Now, this campus hotspot is about to get a lot more enticing. The highly anticipated launch of Amazon@Penn, an on-campus delivery and shipping center for the online retailer, is poised to bring new purpose to the centrally located dining hall
building. The new shipping center, which occupies half of the ground floor of 1920 Commons, officially opened its doors to the public last Wednesday morning following a formal ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by multiple Penn administrators and Amazon executives. Amazon@Penn is the first venture of this kind that Amazon has launched in the Ivy League. The construction of Amazon@Penn, which began in January and spanned most of the spring semester, is part of a SEE AMAZON PAGE 5
Canvas transitions to new interface over the summer Students are largely optimistic about new user interface ALEX GRAVES Design Editor
According to Canvas at Penn’s blog post about the May 16 user interface update, everyone would “jump for joy over the new Canvas UI!” But
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to students, while a welcome change, the update was largely inconsequential. Rising College sophomore Michaela Tinkey, who is taking Math 104 during the first session this summer, says that since the change, she has “only looked at Canvas like once.” In fact, this was highly intentional.
“We picked this time ... to minimize disruption for users,” Molly Bonnard, the courseware services manager for Canvas at Penn, says. Tinkey agrees that this was a good course of action, saying, “It’s probably smartest to [update] now because there are going to be less students on campus.” May 16 was not just chosen in
order to facilitate transition. “A lot of [Canvas’] major changes ... will be optional for a really long period, and then be mandatory after a certain period,” Bonnard said. ”[The UI update] is going to be mandatory on the ninth of July.” Bonnard has a positive outlook for SEE CANVAS PAGE 2
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Students face challenges finding help after CAPS Finding long-term provider can create problems ALIZA OHNOUNA Staff Reporter
While CAPS funding and hours of operation may have increased this school year, a percentage students still did not receive the care they needed from CAPS providers. Most of the students who visit CAPS come to address situational and normal developmental problems that require fewer than 10 visits, said Dr. William Alexander, the director of CAPS. Students in need of long term treatment work with the CAPS referral coordinator to find a mental health care provider, either outside or inside of Penn, compatible with their personal issues and insurance plans. This academic year and last, CAPS referred
about 12 percent of the students that contacted it. Establishing a relationship with a long term care provider can be difficult, even with the help of the referral coordinator. Students frequently have trouble fitting appointments into their schedules, as many the long term providers are located in Center City. Finding a service outside of CAPS can produce additional mental health concerns. For example, for some students, seeing a long-term provider might mean having to take the subway for the first time, a source of additional anxiety. Though CAPS has a referral network spanning cities all over the USA and the world, insurance barriers can get in the way of students obtaining meaningful care. While a hard number was not provided, Alexander observed that many providers in the
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CAPS currently refers students to other mental healthcare providers after 10 visits, but some students struggle to make the transition.
Philadelphia area do not accept insurance of any kind. Students then must determine if their insurance plans offer out-of-network benefits; taking advantage
of the benefits frequently results in students paying providers almost their full fee, he said. Further difficulties arise from the fact that many Penn
undergraduates are on their parents’ insurance. The wide variability in insurance plans makes it challenging for CAPS staff to match specific plans with those accepted by local clinicians. The University Council’s 20152016 Report of the Committee on Campus and Community Life addresses the concerns and challenges that CAPS faces as well as giving recommendations. In the report, it recommends that Penn Behavioral Health, which is a major provider of care, develop “a unit of psychiatrists and/ or expand capacity within current specialty units to allow it to serve more Penn students.” Referrals to a wider array of Penn Behavioral Health clinics could alleviate the transportation barrier since they are close to campus, but the insurance barrier may still exclude many students. The Center for the Treatment
and Study of Anxiety, for example, accepts only Aetna Student Health Insurance from Penn and Drexel students. Students who are in need of long term care but cannot make arrangements with a provider outside of CAPS often remain CAPS patients for extended periods, Alexander said. The report also notes that providers who do accept Penn students’ insurance have imposed limits on the number of Penn students they will accept due to to “low reimbursement rates under typical insurance plans.” Alexander noted that he personally has not heard of the limits on referrals. “Providers very much like getting Penn students, one because they’re very smart and interesting and they like them,” he said. He cited frequent requests from providers to refer more Penn students to them.
Fattah announces math grant as corruption trial continues
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Congressman awards Penn grant for research
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Earlier this month, U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah from Pennsylvania’s 2nd district, which includes Penn, announced the award of a $510,000 grant to the University of Pennsylvania for the study of algebraic geometry and physics. “Examining the boundary lines of algebraic geometry and physics has been advantageous as scholars in their separate investigations of math and physics have discovered the potential of blending the sciences,” Fattah said in his announcement. Now through the summer, Fattah will stand trial for federal corruption charges. He is being accused of allegedly taking a $1 million campaign loan for his failed 2007 mayoral campaign and misusing funds to pay the loan back. The grant will fund continued research by mathematics Professor Ron Donagi. Donagi has been investigating the interaction between mathematics and physics for over 15 years. His research is often applied to developments in quantum mechanics and string theory. Donagi’s proposal was selected by the National Science Foundation from a pool of competitive applicants from other international research institutions. Only
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about 25 to 30 percent of the proposals will receive funding, Donagi said. However, a much smaller percentage receive the level of attention granted to his latest proposal, as it received overwhelmingly positive reviews during the decision process. Algebraic geometry is the study of spaces described by arbitrary equations. Physicists find this branch of mathematics particularly useful when working with small length scales, as in quantum mechanics. In his research, Donagi works with his colleagues in physics to get an understanding of the problem, then fits a mathematical model to the physical situation. His research network includes professors from France, Germany, Japan and other nations. “It’s a very tight-knit but international community,” Donagi said.
This particular grant will last four years, one year longer than the typical NSF grant in mathematical sciences. The funds will help pay for summer salaries, support from graduate students, travel, computers and other equipment. For Donagi, the grant is part of continued progress in his research endeavors at Penn. Last year he received a similar grant from the Simons Foundation, originated by renowned mathematician and hedge fund manager Jim Simons. In addition to continuing to publish his findings, Donagi hopes to someday write a textbook on mathematical physics. Donagi began his work with particle physics after learning of a major breakthrough over the radio. Upon congratulating Professor Edward Witten at Princeton University for his role in the discovery, Donagi was invited to collaborate in his next research project. Since then the two have published multiple papers together. Donagi helped to create the “Math-Physics Joint Seminar” at Penn, a group that meets weekly and invites various guests to speak about the frontiers of discovery in the two fields. In the meantime, he teaches courses on algebraic geometry, string theory and calculus. “We have a good program, great graduate students and postdocs. It’s fun to work here,” Donagi said.
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Penn has been ranked 16th based on its scholarly reputation around the world by Times Higher Education. Times Higher Education, a weekly magazine in the United Kingdom that focuses on higher education, released universal rankings this year based on the “reputation” of an institution. In these new reputation-based rankings Harvard, Princeton, Yale and Columbia are all ranked above Penn. With the publication of these rankings, some students are skeptical about these results and about university rankings
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the update. “You’re not going to have to relearn Canvas. It just looks different,” she said. Anthony Nardone, a rising College sophomore looking to transfer into Engineering, is taking both a fine arts course and a chemistry course this summer. He uses Canvas for the chemistry class. “It’s a lot more modern,” Nardone said. According to the Canvas at Penn blog post detailing the update, the two major changes are the “User Dashboard” and “Global Navigation” menu. The dashboard allows students to choose between viewing course notifications or “course [cards] for each of your favorite courses” as the default screen. The menu functions similarly to the navigation bar across the top of the old UI. The motivation for the move was to “allow more room for content on smaller
in general, including College and Wharton junior Amos Leow. “I’ve realized how incredibly subjective these rankings are in methodology,” he said. “What they value may not be what I value as a student, which is also again inherently subjective. At the end of the day, what is the real difference between fifth and 10th place? In my opinion it’s all pretty redundant once you get above a certain point.” The methodology used to evaluate schools on “reputation” stems mostly from an invitation-only survey sent to scholars around the world. More than 10,000 responses from 133 countries were aggregated in a ranking that combined data points on the overall esteem of these institutions, as well as
data on the schools’ reputations for research and teaching. The survey was sent evenly across academic disciplines. In the survey, scholars were asked to name no more than 15 of the top universities in their field, based solely upon their experience; this is in contrast to the more traditional rankings of universities, whose criteria include research output, citations of publications and international outlook. Other students remained unfazed by these rankings. “There’s so many different rankings that come out all the time, so it’s hard to keep track of the criteria for each one and where Penn ranks, but it’s cool to see that we are always close to the top,” College sophomore Kyle McKee said.
resolution devices.” To Nardone, this was the most significant change. “On my surface I have a touchscreen, so when I touch the drop-down, it would drop down, but when I would release my finger, it would disappear. ... Now I can just click on it, and there’s ... the next thing I can pick,” he said. The one update that wasn’t simply a design change gives users the ability “to add nicknames and color code their course.” Even though she hasn’t spent a lot of time on Canvas since the update, Tinkey believes the change is positive. “I think it’s a little easier to understand,” she said. “Everything seems like it’s a lot more user-friendly,” Nardone agreed. However, while students appreciate this update, there are issues they feel need to be addressed. “Canvas can be unreliable and that’s just too much of a risk
to take when dealing with your grades,” Tinkey said. Particularly, she laments that “a lot of professors won’t change their grading style to match if Canvas isn’t working well.” Nardone also expresses complaints surrounding the way professors use Canvas. “I think a lot of it depends on the teacher – to make it really user-friendly or to really make it easy,” he said. Some professors, however, can make it more challenging. “The physics department makes it very confusing. You would have one [course page] for a combined set, one for lab. There are so many different things,” Nardone said. “Just put everything in one place! It’s really not that hard.” Perhaps the more straightforward and simple interface that came with this update will reduce this kind of confusion. If not, Bonnard says that “[Canvas’s] big conference is in July, so that’s probably when they’ll say what’s happening next.”
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Sexual assault trial against Bill Cosby proceeds Judge found enough evidence to start criminal trial CHARLOTTE LARACY Staff Reporter
Bill Cosby, holder of an honorary degree from Penn, will get a criminal trial more than a decade after he was accused of sexual misconduct. During the three-and-a-half hour hearing on in Norristown, Pennsylvania, Judge Elizabeth A. McHugh found enough evidence to continue with a criminal trial against the comedian. According to CNN, Cosby faces three counts of felony indecent assault from a case in 2004 including Andrea Constand, a former employee at Temple University, where Cosby had attended school. She was the first of more than 50 women who have accused him of
sexual misconduct. Constand’s decade-old police statement was used during the preliminary hearing so she did not need to testify. Previously, authorities have paraphrased her account and have quoted portions of Constand’s statement. This was apparently the first time that large sections of her statement were made public, according to the Associated Press. In her statement, Constand told the police that Cosby penetrated her with his fingers and fondled her at his Philadelphia suburban mansion in 2004 after giving her what Cosby said was herbal medication. Cosby’s lawyers tried to argue that having a police officer read Constand’s statement instead of having her on the stand would be third-hand testimony and would deprive him of his right to confront the accuser. But in Pennsylvania,
reading police statements in preliminary hearings is common practice. In Cosby’s original police statement, which was also read in the hearing, he said Constand never said “no” as he put his hands down her pants. He told the police that the medication was over-the-counter Benadryl. The comedian’s lawyers also tried to make the argument that the former district attorney promised to never prosecute Cosby as a way to urge him to testify in the civil suit brought by Constand, which was ultimately settled. But at a hearing in February, a trial court judge declined the defense’s challenges. Cosby settled with Constand in 2006 for a sum that was not revealed after testifying behind closed doors about his extramarital affairs, his use of quaaludes to
sexually entice women and his efforts to conceal payments to former lovers from his wife. Prosecutors reopened the criminal case last year after dozens of women revealed similar allegations and after Cosby’s sealed testimony in Constand’s lawsuit was made public. In the hearing, Cosby waived a formal arraignment which means he automatically pleads not guilty. The case now moves back up to the state’s trial court level. A different judge will be assigned and will set a trial date. According to Associated Press, Cosby could face up to 10 years in prison if convicted in this case. The criminal charges that are brought against the comedian out of the numerous allegations that he drugged and molested dozens of women over five decades. Right now, he is free on $1 million bail.
Students criticize mental health pamphlet Students felt that pamphlets didn’t do enough
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The University’s “How to Help a Friend” pamphlet, distributed to undergraduates after the suicide of Wharton junior Ao “Olivia” Kong this April, saw limited efficacy in appeasing undergraduates students’ desires for increased mental health resources. In an email sent to all undergraduate students on April 19, Vice Provost for University Life Valarie Swain-Cade McCoullum reminded students of the mental health support services available at Penn. Among the options mentioned was the “How to Help a Friend” pamphlet, sent to every undergraduate student both in an email and through the mail. The “How to Help a Friend” flyer, designed to educate students on how to help struggling
fellow students, has been a part of the University’s Counseling and Psychological Services for several years. The Division of the Vice Provost for University Life noted that the pamphlets are “part of a larger multimedia informational campaign” that includes other pamphlets focused on “sleep, depression, grief and loss and group therapy options.” Swain-Cade McCoullum said that the University chose to distribute the pamphlets, long available in the CAPS office and at other locations around campus, to students individually because “we wanted to provide students with as much support as possible, and they asked for guidance on how to nurture each other through challenging times.” Despite the University’s efforts to increase awareness of and access to these mental health resources, some students felt that the pamphlets didn’t do enough. Rising College senior Trudel
Pare noted that while she and her roommate, who have contacted CAPS, received the pamphlet in the mail, “my two other roommates didn’t, which struck me as odd.” Students also expressed frustration towards the University’s overall approach to mental health on campus. Rising College junior Madeleine Andrews, who received a pamphlet in the mail, said she felt the pamphlets were “representative of the way they [the University] have handled these things. Kind of hands off, clean, and not super real or involved.” While Andrews said she understood that only so much could be done through a distributed material, she noted that “a pamphlet in the mail feels particularly distant and cold.” Pare echoed this statement. “It seemed like kind of a cheap and callous way to attempt to have a conversation that should
be more serious than a letter mailed to students,” she said. While Andrews said she appreciated that the University was trying to aid students in the wake of a tragedy, she nevertheless felt that “they could do better.” The lack of significant communication after Kong’s death, as well as the feeling that the university initially did not acknowledge that her death was a suicide, made Andrews feel like the University was sending a “message that it’s something to be hidden and not discussed.” This thought resonated with other students, who felt that the pamphlet reflected the University’s slow progress in understanding that meaningful change and reform needs to be enacted, rather than just a reminder of what resources are available. “The University ignores a lot of the mental health issues on campus,” Pare said.
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Lowe said he would usually try to get his homework done right away so he didn’t have to stay up late. He recalled seeing other kids in the library late at night doing homework and thinking that staying up so late would be “quite painful.” “I’m sure somewhere else in Penn there are kids who go to bed like me, but we’re a pretty small group,” Lowe said. “I haven’t run into anyone else who really goes to bed around my time.” In addition to lowered test performance, lowered concentration and increased fatigue, which have been linked to lack of sleep by numerous scientific studies, bad sleep schedules create additional inconveniences in students’ daily lives. “I find it hard to eat with my sleep schedule, especially with the whole dining plan,” Meng said. “When I wake up, the dining halls are often closed,
and I have to find my own food.” Jawbone’s fitness data also pointed to a correlation between college rankings and late bedtimes. Columbia (ranked fourth in the nation by the U.S. News and World Report) and Penn (ninth) had students that slept the latest on weekdays, followed by Stanford (tied for fourth) and Duke (eighth). Li acknowledged that there was a “competitive pressure” at Penn that might cause students at top colleges to sleep later. However, she said, it was more of a personal choice for her to sleep late due to the way she managed her social life. Meng also agreed that there was a hardworking streak among students at Penn that led to later bedtimes. “It’s something to do with the competitive nature [of Penn],” she said. “People don’t really want to fall behind, so they work really hard to stay on top of things — and for some people, that just means having to stay up longer.”
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Another brick in the wall
CITIZEN CAPOZZI | How the Penn Bubble insulates students from Trump supporters There’s a wall at the center of the 2016 presidential election, but Mexico has nothing to do with it. Instead, the wall separates “us” from Donald Trump’s supporters. Trump supporters are popularly imagined, at least at Penn, to be a bunch of racist, sexist, xenophobic, and ignorant hicks. In the minds of Penn students, they’re probably waving a Confederate flag, wearing an offensive t-shirt, or beating up a black protester. Whether in Washington D.C. or at an elite school, it’s easy to understand how this perception arises. At Penn, there are few Trump supporters, and even most Republicans are wary of embracing the eccentric billionaire. On social media, endorsing Trump is the worst kind of heresy and risks backlash from our aggressive consensus culture. In short, a wall exists and Mexico didn’t pay for it. Yet things are about to change. Unless you’re staying at Penn, you will almost certainly live somewhere with
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a much higher percentage of Trump supporters than your current community. How do I know this? Several recent national polls have Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton statistically tied in a head-to-head matchup. If you’re going home to Ohio, polling suggests you’ll find more supporters of Trump than Clinton. If you’re traveling in Pennsylvania or Florida, expect an equal breakdown between the two candidates. If you feel inclined to interact with Trump supporters in their native habitats, there are two options. First, you can pretend they don’t exist and trust the many pundits and celebrities that insist Trump cannot win. After all, even some Republicans are adopting this stance, hopeful that they can embarrass the Trump insurgency and take back their GOP. I do not recommend this strategy. I don’t accept that almost half of the American people are mere bigots without reason. Many highly educated
people support Trump, including Penn alumnus Jon Huntsman Jr. Even some minority citizens support Trump, as he earned 20 percent of the non-white vote in the most recent Florida poll. It’s comically arrogant to summarily dismiss so many people as ignorant bigots. But if humility isn’t compelling, consider the risks of dismissing his supporters.
down on their earlier mistake. The other option is to tear down the wall and engage with Trump’s supporters, to consider their perspectives and present your own. While the wall is complex, language comprises most of the bricks. As educated Penn students, we’re used to a certain way of speaking. This is perhaps the most off-putting thing about Trump to us. Yet
Trump supporters are popularly imagined, at least at Penn, to be a bunch of racist, sexist, xenophobic, and ignorant hicks.” Last September, I identified a similar refusal to acknowledge Trump as a legitimate candidate. Pundits scoffed, citing his historically bad favorability ratings and lack of policy knowledge. I predicted he could win the Republican Primary, and now he has. While some pundits have already learned their lesson, I highly recommend caution to the others who are doubling
I would argue this is the key element of Trump’s success. Why? Most people don’t talk like we do. Trump routinely makes wild claims with tenuous links to evidence and reason. As college students, we likely sympathize with Trump’s exasperated fact checkers. However, not all people have the educational privilege to read newspapers, journal
articles, or statistical reports. Only 40 percent of Americans have a college degree, and even those who do might be more concerned with making a living or raising a family; why should they care if the numbers in Trump’s tax plan don’t add up? Further, Trump has targeted Muslims, demonized illegal immigrants, and made sexist comments. To well-educated students, his comments are not only ignorant, but offensive to people we know in our increasingly diverse communities. But in a state like Iowa, which is about 90 percent white, Trump’s comments may be less troubling because diversity is less relevant there. Polling suggests that voters think Trump will manage the economy better than Clinton. If voters think Trump will improve their livelihoods, perhaps you can begin to understand why they won’t rule out Trump because he disparages Muslim immigrants, a group they rarely interact with. I’m not arguing that we should embrace ignoring facts
or targeting marginalized communities. But Trump, the extravagant billionaire, has clearly connected with millions of Americans in a way most educated elites haven’t. Perhaps he realized that over 70 percent of Americans dislike political correctness. Perhaps we can learn something from Trump’s success. If you want to persuade, it’s probably not effective to dismiss prima facie almost half of the country as racist, sexist, xenophobic, or ignorant. Not only are you wrong – many well-educated people like Jon Huntsman have rational reasons for preferring Trump over Clinton – you are unlikely to change minds. And if you don’t change minds, the wall will get higher in 2016. And Trump’s critics will pay for it. LOUIS CAPOZZI is a rising first year law student from Mechanicsburg, Pa. His email address is capozzil@sas.upenn.edu. “Citizen Capozzi” appears every other Thursday.
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A crisis we don’t own HOSTAGER’S TAKE | Mental health demands our attention beyond Penn’s campus Mental health is a lightningrod issue at Penn. This is for good reason: in the last three years, a shocking ten Penn students have taken their own lives. But as I have read article after article on this issue and spent hours talking about it with friends, I have come to feel that the conversation about mental wellness on Penn’s campus is still somehow incomplete. The problem with the way that we discuss mental health at Penn is that we emphasize the “at Penn” part far too much. In doing so, we have tricked ourselves into thinking that mental health is specifically a Penn problem. If we are to fully grasp the reality of this issue, we need to consider the broader context of mental healthcare in our society. This past school year, I spent two days a week at an outpatient mental health facility in downtown Philadelphia. I reviewed psychological records as a research assistant at the Center for Mental Health Policy and Services Research. Most of the clients which this clinic serves are low income.
They have a wide range of mental health issues: some suffer from schizophrenia or bipolar disorder; others have generalized anxiety disorder or depression. Some have coinciding challenges with substance abuse, and many have a history of suicidal behavior. The clients whose records I reviewed come from all walks of life, and their narratives sometimes felt uncomfortably close to home. Some didn’t make it past elementary school, while others were successful students at Drexel, Temple and yes, even Penn, before some trigger caused their life to unravel. Some are in their eighties; others were born within months of me. Some had inpatient admissions at HUP, and many live within a mile or two of campus. These records told graphic, hea r t-wrenching stor ies of poverty, abuse and violence. The predictable trajectory of a middle-aged person with an extensive history of childhood sexual trauma who still struggles with PTSD and Major Depressive Disorder became startlingly familiar.
These clients worked hard to overcome their unimaginable combination of illness and circumstance. Some set goals and found their way back to school, employment, and independent living. Other stories did not end happily. There were breakdowns and relapses, and some clients vanished from treatment just when they were starting to
So: what does all this mean for us? The painful experiences we have had with suicide have sparked an important dialogue at Penn. However, that dialogue has taken place entirely within the so-called “Penn bubble.” We are working hard to destigmatize mental illness and to encourage emotional wellbeing among Penn students, but
The problem with the way that we discuss mental health at Penn is that we emphasize the ‘at Penn’ part far too much.” improve. Yet time and time again, these people showed a deep desire to live a life defined by their endurance instead of their diagnosis. I was always left inspired by their hope and their humanity on my ride back to campus.
we are still gripped with fear when we encounter a homeless man with psychosis on Locust Walk late at night. We s h o u l d r e c o g n i z e that even if inadequate, we have better mental health resources than most. Few Philadelphians have free access to
anything like CAPS. Most are consigned to overcrowded, under-resourced facilities that can barely see many clients more than once every month. And those who can make it to these facilities at all are the lucky ones: over 8 million Americans with mental illness are uninsured, and nearly 60% of mental illness among adults in the US goes untreated. This is not to diminish the serious issues with emotional and mental well-being at Penn. Our suicide rate is appalling. The University has been incredibly reactive in its approach to this issue, and many students believe CAPS is neither effective nor accessible. We are right to be angry about mental health. But if we care so much about mental health here then we ought to be just as passionate about it in the wider community in which we live, because mental health issues do not only exist on this campus during the sliver of our lives that we spend at Penn. We cannot forget the 120,000+ other lives that have been taken by suicide across America in the last three years
and the millions who continue to suffer without the treatment they need. Wherever you find yourself this summer, keep the conversation about mental health going. Talk to your friends and family outside of Penn about this issue. Spend some time learning about how mental health issues manifest themselves in your community. During this election cycle, we can also challenge candidates at all levels of government - in town halls, on social media, etc - to talk about mental health. We can push them to make it part of their platforms. Most importantly, we can factor a candidate’s commitment to mental health into our decision about whether to support him or her at the ballot box. Imagine the power if we made mental health a voting issue. Mental health has found a voice at Penn. Let’s work together to give it a voice everywhere. JACK HOSTAGER is a rising College sophomore from Dubuque, Iowa. “Hostager’s Take” appears every other Thursday.
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internal standards review of the incident and recommendation of sanctions and to Associate Director of the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life Meghan Gaffney for sensitivity training. When contacted by The Daily Pennsylvanian, OFSL Director Eddie Banks-Crosson deferred comment to Pike Alumni Advisor and former board member of the International Fraternity Bruce Wolfson. Wolfson, the Pike alumni advisor, expressed the organization’s no-tolerance policy for offensive language. “The fraternity has absolutely no tolerance for racism or any other prejudice based on sexual orientation, gender or any other factors,” he said. “We work very hard on that, and we’ve invested a lot of time, effort and money in trying to educate our members and leaders.” Wengyn also denounced the actions of the individuals who used offensive language in the email thread in the statement.
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prompt. “ S we e t g r e e n e m p l oy s n*****f**gots — the gay, black guy that served me lunch,” he said in the email. Harris said he submitted his request to deactivate from the fraternity the same day, and his phone and email inbox were soon flooded with apology emails. Other members attempted to talk to him in person, but Harris avoided them. “I didn’t really want to talk to them in person and get into any arguments — what happened, happened, and I just wanted to be done with it,” he said. The Pike freshman, who was later suspended from the fraternity, sent text messages to Harris and an apology email to the listserv the next day, on April 23. In the email, he stated his regret in using offensive language and promised to apologize to everyone in person at the Pike chapter house. As a condition for being interviewed, the student is identified only by his former membership and class year. “The fact that they responded to my email, which was asking for more sensitive language, in such a joking and derogatory way was not only offensive, but it just really - Curtis Harris shows that they don’t get what I was even trying to say,” Harris said in an interview follow“Pi Kappa Alpha does not toling his request to deactivate. erate prejudice,” he wrote. “Our In response to the comments values are not just words; they in the listserv, Pike President and are words we live by ... We deeply then-College sophomore Max regret that anyone pledged to Wengyn reached out to Judicial uphold our values would so flaBoard Chairman and then-College grantly violate them.” junior James Townsend for an But even before this specific
I hate to get that deep, but I’m f[***]ing sick of the bigotry.”
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conscious and continual re-creation of 1920 Commons that began in 2011. The introduction of the fireside space in the Starbucks under Commons, the addition of an outdoor patio and now Amazon@Penn have all been part of an active effort to breathe new life into the complex. The Amazon@Penn facility itself
includes lounge areas equipped with study space, power outlets and tables with computer screens for group seating. “If it wasn’t already a destination before, 1920 Commons will be a true destination,” Vice President of Business Services Marie Witt said. To have Amazon packages delivered directly to 1920 Commons, Penn students have to link their accounts to Amazon@Penn at penn.
incident, Harris and other members of the fraternity had noticed the use of derogatory language. “There were a couple of moments when I was at the chapter house where racial slurs were brought up,” Harris said. Other minority members of the fraternity had conflicting opinions over whether the email thread was an isolated incident of insensitivity. The Pike freshman who had responded with the slurs said the email he sent was not representative of what he or the fraternity “believes on a daily basis.” Pike’s diversity and welcoming environment initially motivated him to join the fraternity, he said. He said the offensive response he wrote was because he failed to understand the context of the listserv. “Me, being brand-new to the listserv just responded to his request about using the term in a sentence,” the student said in an interview. “I was just like, ‘ok, is this how things are done?’ I did not mean any offensive at all to the African-American or the LGBT community and that was addressed in the apology email.” “In the last email I had overstepped boundaries in a poor attempt to make a rude joke,” he wrote in the apology email. “I have great respect for and did not mean any offense to the black or LGBT community ... I believe that Curtis and others who have tried to admonish the careless usage of words such as the N word and the F word have the right vision of Pike in mind.” Despite the apology emails and texts that Harris received, he felt certain about his decision to deactivate from the fraternity.
“Them apologizing and then me accepting it — that doesn’t really teach them a lesson,” he said. “I’m not saying they need to be taught a lesson or punished, but these guys can just go on saying this stuff the next day. I’ve heard so many apologies from people who use offensive language, and then they just say it the next day.” Harris also added that although this email thread motivated him to leave the fraternity, this was not the only isolated instance of derogatory language used in casual settings. He said that new pledge nicknames assigned were sometimes racial or religiously based. The DP was unable to independently verify this particular information. Wolfson, the Pike alumni advisor, expressed approval for the way the leaders of the fraternity had reacted to the listserv comments. He said that this was a critical learning experience and a way for members to reinforce the values of the fraternity. Wolfson also added that although the derogatory comments were unacceptable, they were not representative of the organization as a whole. He pointed to Pike’s diversity in terms of race — with about half non-white membership in the chapter — and sexual orientation, and said that “it is a group that has exemplified diversity.” “I think the facts speak for themselves,” Wolfson said in response to Harris’ claims that he has observed other instances of offensive language in the fraternity. “Whatever words he may have heard that he finds offensive, and that he may think suggests a culture of intolerance is just totally inconsistent with the membership
of the chapter.” However, Harris said that after others found out he’d sent information about the email incident to the DP, he was met with pushback. He said a couple of former Pike members — who, due to an unrelated infraction, were removed from the fraternity with the chance to petition for alumni status after a given period of time — threatened to send information about him to his future employer. Harris said most of these conversations were in person and that he’d deleted text conversations involving the threats. He would not give the names of those who had contacted him, so this information could not be independently verified. But after Harris said he’d received these threats, he began to have serious doubts about contacting the DP regarding the email
thread, as he was concerned that the threats could impact his future professional life. However, after talking with other members of the fraternity, Harris said that he felt like this issue was necessary to make public and raise more awareness about the use of offensive language. “It was just a couple of people in my frat, and other people were definitely not involved, but it really made me stressed out,” Harris said. However, Harris expressed the necessity of bringing awareness to this type of issue. “More people need to be aware that a situation like is happening right on campus — and I’m not even sure it’s really just a Pike issue,” he said. “It’s 2016 and the fact that people are still using these racial slurs without thinking is kind of a scary thought.”
amazon.com. Once activated, students can add Amazon@Penn to their online Amazon address book and can then select it as their shipping address when ordering. When a student’s package is ready for pickup, Amazon@Penn will send an automated notification to the student containing a link to a personalized pickup code. Each pickup code will be connected to one of four self-service kiosks for
package pickups, each attached to a secure locker. To retrieve the package, the student simply has to scan the code at the appropriate kiosk and said package will fall into the attached locker. The whole pickup process should take no more than one to two minutes, Amazon@Penn summer staffer Emily Ricci said. The shipping center also includes a self-service packing station
equipped with free boxes, padded envelopes and tape and additional kiosks specifically programmed for printing return labels. Amazon@ Penn staff will be on-hand throughout the day to assist customers. Unlike the package rooms in Penn’s residential college houses, Amazon@Penn is available to all Penn students regardless of whether they are living on or off campus, Witt said.
Penn students who are Amazon Student or Amazon Prime members can get free same-day delivery directly to Amazon@Penn on a variety of items if ordered before noon, and free next-day delivery if ordered before 10 p.m. “This is all about students and the greater Penn community and making life more convenient for them,” Director of Amazon Student Programs Ripley MacDonald said.
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A Pi Kappa Alpha freshman was suspended from the fraternity after using a derogatory term in an internal email.
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Blue Cross Riverrink Summerfest (5/27 Onwards)
Movie Night Under the Bridge (6/2, 8:30 p.m.)
Wizard World Comic Con (6/2-5)
Rocket Power is buried deep in the cemetery of 90s Nickelodeon shows, but that doesn’t mean the roller derby is dead. Grab some skates ($10 rental, or $3 to ride) and some sure-footed friends for a good ride, and try some of the Famous Crabfries at the visiting summer crab shack.
You need a car for a drive-in theater, but for this kind of movie showing, all you need is a blanket. Optional: a friend, hummus dip, chips. This week, Stand by Me, a 1986 coming-of-age dramedy, will be playing.
Do Halloween early at the Philly Comic Con at the Philadelphia Convention Center. Michael J. Fox will be there, along with all the Spidermen and Batmen you can count.
Art After 5 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (6/3)
Philly Beer Week (6/3-12)
Beyonce: The Formation World Tour (6/5)
There comes a time in every young squire’s life to graduate from beer pong to beer-pairings. Plan out your happiest hours using the 68-page guide on the Philly Beer Week website, or just crawl your way through the many participating pubs.
Bey is coming to Philly, ‘nuff said. Resale tickets are going at $90 and up, or you could just sit somewhere grassy beyond Lincoln Financial Field and check if you can see her halo.
Hey, remember that time when you wore a bedsheet to the PMA? Redeem yourself in your best Zelda or F. Scott Fitzgerald wardrobe at the Arden Cabaret performance, where Joliet Harris will be singing jazz classics and more. The Spanish AMOR sculpture (of which we have the English LOVE version) was installed here this year in honor of the Pope’s visit. Bring a date there once the museum closes at 8:45, take a cute photo, fall in L-O-V-E. We hear that’s how it works, right? (Free after admission)
Philly Free Week at Philadelphia’s Magic Garden (6/5-10) Mirrors, mosaics and mazes, oh my! Knock this must-do item off the bucket list before graduating (or after!).
WHAT YOUR FAMILY Street presents a collection of the things we can’t tell our families | ANONYMOUS They hold the door open for us when they pick us up from the airport. They help unload the suitcases you won’t unpack all summer and wheel your rolling backpack into your childhood room. They say they’re so excited to have you home again – for a week before you go to New York, a month before you head back to Philly, maybe even the whole summer. And then, they – parents, siblings, the people you call your family – ask you about Penn. You sure as hell don’t tell the truth. We present our families with a glossy, admissions-brochure overview of college life. The realities of Penn are a lot messier– from the leather whip in the closet to the monsters inside our heads. This week, Street presents a collection of the things we can’t tell our families.
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Hey fam! (Yeah, that’s just short for family and not some weird Internet lingo because I don’t want to have to explain that. Please don’t make me.) Yeah, things are great. Especially now that it’s summer. I had a great few days just relaxing and cleaning my room and hanging out with people as they left. (I reached varying stages of drunk every day post finals, crescendo-ing to when I went to AC for a bachelorette party, spent more money than I care to admit to myself and got drunk enough that I found a random gigantic bruise on my leg the next morning). Yeah, I’ve just been catching up on sleep, really boring, ya know? My plans for the weekend? Probably just finish moving into my summer sublet (much more fun while high). Omigod yeah, I am so glad this semester’s over. It’s been really busy. (Remember when I told you I’d cut back on social stuff and extracurriculars
so I wouldn’t lose too much sleep with those six credits? I didn’t do that). Yeah, all my grades are in. I did okay on most things, not super well though. That econ class I told you about was a little disappointing (hey there, C+). Oh I sound kind of down? I’m fine! Just a bit tired (from recovering from the shittiest breakup from a relationship you had no idea about, since you’re very Muslim. While I’m on the phone with you, I am too). I know I know, I also wish I could come home for a few days before my internship starts (I don’t; here, I don’t have a curfew, why would I go home?). Yeah I miss you guys too. (I really do).
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I can’t tell you, Mom, because you’ll ask too many questions. You’ll want to know his name and how I knew him and why I was in his room that night. You’ll want to know how I let myself get that drunk and what I was wearing and why can’t I remember all the details – why I can’t remember how far he went. Why I am certain this was assault. You’ll ask me the same series of questions the woman in the College office used, after I came to her office sobbing that the nightmares wouldn’t let me sleep enough to study the next day: Are you sure? Why didn’t you report him? Why haven’t you told more people? What do you expect me to say? And maybe, like her, you’ll tell me there’s nothing you can do to help me.
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There’s a lot of things I could never explain to my family. Like how I actually sprained my ankle and had to get an expensive x-ray and even more expensive MRI because I skateboarded down the Locust Walk bridge and wiped
“I can’t tell you, Mom, because you’ll ask too many questions.”
DOESN’T KNOW out. Or how I actually broke my glasses and almost got concussed because I blacked out from too much Franzia (who hasn’t?) and apparently thought that giving my friend a piggyback ride was a good idea. (Losing my balance and falling headfirst onto the pavement was not part of that good idea.) And it would be better
friends as you depart for breaks doesn’t make that any easier. I appreciate and love my parents, but there’s a barrier when it comes to opening up to them about my flaws and failures. They already spend time fixating on grades and wondering if I’m actually succeeding in college, so I’ve struggled with finding a way to
Condoms – check. I return back to the comfort of my bed, and decide to take a quick cat nap before she arrives. When she rings my doorbell, I pretend I haven’t been sleeping till noon. Before you know it, I see my mother going through my closet, throwing her cares to the wind when it comes to finding
“It’s never going to be easy, but I’m crossing my fingers that one day I’ll find the right way to tell my parents what I told to a whole school.” not to explain what a line is and that I did one in an alley in Center City while I was tripping on acid. I doubt that saying that I was at least with a friend would make any of those stories better. However, I do feel like my parents would be proud to know how much we discussed vaginas in my gender studies’ class considering how much they’ve always wanted their queer son to have a girlfriend. Especially after I brought a boy home that I met on Tinder.
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Two months ago I was one of six students to be featured in Street’s article on eating disorders, and during the waiting period before it was published I felt like I was on trial. I remember spending the entire interview picking at my jeans and pulling at my shirt in hopes that I would be able to fidget myself out of existing, but since the article came out I’ve received incredible support from my partner, close friends and even professors. It’s not the right method for everyone, but talking about my disorder in such a public way has made it easier for me to face it personally. The only time this doesn’t apply is when I go home. One of the hardest parts of mental illness is feeling utterly alone, and leaving all of your
say, “Mom and Dad, I think about my body everyday and I hate it.” Not really the thing they want to hear. I don’t know if I’m ever going to tell them; maybe it’s because I worry they’ll be disappointed or maybe I’m still hurt that they haven’t picked up on it after all these years. I think my biggest fear is that they really just won’t care — the most isolating of the possible outcomes. For now, I’m going to let myself continue to work with my disorder day by day with the support I have from my friends and academic network. It’s never going to be easy, but I’m crossing my fingers that one day I’ll find the right way to tell my parents what I told to a whole school.
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The morning after Walnut Walk, I wake up to a phone call from my mother coming to help me pack. Shit. I forgot about her arrival. When parents arrive, it is typical to do the pre–parent screening around your room and get rid of the unmentionables that they know exist. 12 empty wine bottles – I was saving those for a project but I guess, check. Your bursar receipt that indicates you have spent $250 on coffee in the past month – check.
incriminating evidence that her daughter is not, in fact, the angel child of years past. As close as I am to my mother, there are some things you just can’t explain. While we have a close relationship where I definitely TMI too often, some elements of the person you have become in college just can’t be revealed. Case in point: the pinnacle of this cleaning experience was when she picked up an old leather purse. She holds it up, and knows me well enough to check before looking. “Do I even want to know what’s in here?” she asks. No mom, you do not want to
father that the handcuffs were “just part of a champagne and shackles date night,” or simply break out in song.
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My parents have always said that freshman year is all about exploration and finding yourself and your true passions. But I don’t think that they meant that in terms of figuring out how many shots it takes me to get me in my “zone” and how good I am at finding elevated surfaces. While my parents thought I was staying awake to pull all-nighters in Van Pelt, I was out trying to decide whether I enjoyed “the scene” better than the frats. I’m a freshman; I knew I was bound to have roommate drama. When I explained our living situation to my parents, I always talked about all of the annoying things my roommate did, but what I left out were my mishaps. Like when I brought a boy back to the room and found out, much later, that my roommate was asleep in her bed. Or when I hosted a pre-game in our room the night before her big exam. So yeah, maybe I deserved some of the blame. But my parents would be proud to know that I did apologize with a kind note (and an airplane bottle of Amsterdam vodka). What parents also don’t understand is that the club selection
“And hey, what mama don’t know won’t hurt her.” see the complex, under the bed restraints that my sometimes– hookup bought for us to use. Sorry not sorry, your daughter enjoys being tied up. I recommend that she also doesn’t look in another bag in my closet, which houses some sort of whip. Sort of a fluke that this happened, as it has happened before. If your parents know you well enough – they will not ask. If they don’t, I recommend you either do what I did the first time – tell your
process at Penn is more cutthroat than the undergrad admissions process. So no, Mom, I don’t know why I didn’t get into the volunteer mentoring program and I’m not sure why the art club never e-mailed me back (does Penn even have an art club?). But what you should know is that of all of the 15+ clubs I signed up for I only got into 3 and I’m happy with that. And hey, what mama don’t know won’t hurt her.
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Red and Blue surge on forward into the summer ROWING | Lightweights
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GREG ROBINOV Sports Reporter
Classes may have ended, but some students are facing finals of a very different variety. With the season coming to a close, Penn rowing has been competing in a host of monumentally important events, notching impressive results along the way. Leading the pack was the lightweight squad, which, thanks to an excellent performance at the EARC Sprints on Sunday, May 15, will be heading back to the IRA national championships for the second-straight year. This is the first time Penn will be represented at the IRA’s two years straight since 2006-07. In the Grand Final race, the Quakers’ Varsity earned a fifthplace finish up against strong competition from Yale, Columbia, Princeton, and Cornell, which rounded out the top four. Penn stayed right with the leaders of the pack for the majority of the
one-kilometer race, and clocked in fast enough to secure entry to the IRA’s. Additionally, the second Varsity will be rowing in the high stakes regatta, but will be splitting up into two boats of four after coming out on top over Georgetown, Dartmouth, and MIT. Explaining the road ahead after this achievement, sophomore 2V rower Joe Ebner is ready for the big time: June 2 on Mercer Lake, N.J. “After an emotional team banquet where the graduating seniors spoke their final piece to the team last Monday, those remaining for IRA training have found a new gear of motivation to keep chopping even harder for this grand finale to their careers,� Ebner said. “We are entering the same varsity 8 lineup we put out at Sprints and bringing two fours composed of the second varsity 8, one will have a coxswain and one will not.� Ebner continued to explain the progress resulting from such motivation. “These boats have been hitting the training regiment hard with two practices a day in the aftermath of finals. Every boat has been picking up speed, but we can’t expect
the race will be handed to us. The onus is on ourselves to keep training hard, and we’re excited to do something special in two weeks.� Meanwhile, women’s rowing did some damage of their own at the Ivy League Championships on May 15, securing a fifth-place result. Penn finished with a grand total of 46 points, beating out Dartmouth, Columbia and Cornell, while Brown edged out Princeton at 83 points to secure the title. The Quakers’ Varsity finished second only behind the nation’s top-boat Brown in the preliminaries, with three seconds to spare over Harvard. In the final, three top-10 boats for the Red and Blue competed, finishing fourth — their highest mark to date. Penn’s second Varsity 8 came in third in its head, with the V4 and V4B boats picking up bronzes in their respective races. Reflecting on his team’s overall performance, coach Wesley Ng was pleased with the effort and results for the day. “I thought the team competed in a way that reflected our preparations for the year. There were bright spots in our races that I saw. We had good starting speed in our eights
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Although graduation has passed, Penn rowing has been competing on into the summer — and the lightweights last week even qualified for the IRA National Championships later on inJune.
and better closing speed in our fours and overall we made positive strides,� Ng said. Looking to next year, he added, “I believe the results showed that we had a continual upward trajectory throughout the year and we ended on our best note. The group now sees what is possible, where the gaps in our training and preparation are, and how much fun it is to invest fully. We have the tools to be successful and now have to develop the willingness and consistency to use them on a daily basis.�
They will be graduating seven seniors, but have an incoming recruiting class of 16 rowers and coxswain to chase trophies down the road. Lastly, the heavyweights placed ninth in the EARC Sprints regatta last week, which is on par with their form from last year. Moreover, this is the first top-10 finish in consecutive years for the program since 2001-02. Coming in at an 11 seed, the Quakers ground out a bit of an upset overall. Finishing in third, Penn’s
crew topped Dartmouth’s squad in the Petite Final, which had defeated them weeks back in the final cup race of the 2016 season. Second and third varsities each notched twelfth overall, and both also picked up sixth in their own Petite Finals. The Red and Blue heavies will also be headed to the IRA Regatta at the beginning of June. So, while Van Pelt might have emptied out for the summer, the boat house is still at full capacity as Penn makes its last push for new silverware.
Penn’s Graul, O’Neill win pair of end of season Ivy awards
Ivy Player of the Year
NICK BUCHTA Senior Sports Editor
The year may be over for Penn baseball, but the hardware keeps rolling in. After finishing 2016 on a 14-game hitting streak — batting .534 with five home runs, 11 doubles and 19 RBI in that stretch — junior catcher Tim Graul vaulted to the top of nearly every Ivy offensive statistical category. The Ancient Eight coaches noticed. On Thursday, he was announced as the Ivy League’s Player of the Year. “I thought he was our best hitter early on in the season, he just had some tough luck, lining out or driving balls 399 feet to center field — one of those things with Timmy,� Penn coach John
Yurkow explained. “And eventually, you know how baseball goes, you hit the ball hard enough, things are gonna start to fall.� Graul isn’t the only Penn player to have made an impression on the Ancient Eight coaches this season — fellow catcher Matt O’Neill won the Ivy League Rookie of the Year award as well. This is the first time the Quakers have boasted back-to-back winners — Graul follows former Penn catcher Austin Bossart, currently in the Philadelphia Phillies’ organization — and the first time they have had the Rookie and Player of the Year in the same season. O’Neill is just the secondever member of the Red and Blue to win the award, joining Todd Roth in 2007. “Obviously it’s a great sign — a lot has to go back to the job the coaching staff has done as a whole recruiting, getting the right types of kids,� Yurkow said. “Hopefully
from this point on, you see more of this. I think it’s a great sign, it bodes well for the future.� Throughout the year, Graul won three Ivy Player of the Week awards to go with a pair of Big 5 Player of the Week honors. His batting average was just .003 away from allowing him to complete the triple crown — the junior led the league with eight home runs and 35 RBI to go along with a .364 average. Graul was named first team All-Ivy as a designated hitter and second team as a catcher. O’Neill also took the Ivy League by storm in his first year in University City — also adding honorable mention All-Ivy as a DH and catcher to his resume in 2016. The Morristown, N.J., native finished in the conference’s top 10 in batting average (.341), on-base percentage (.424), RBI (26) and runners caught stealing (11). “I thought he got off to a
decent start but he made some adjustments with his swing about halfway through the season — he shortened his stride up and kept his hands higher — and his power numbers really went up,â€? Yurkow noted. “From that point ‌ he really just took off for us.â€? The two divided reps behind the plate, with O’Neill starting just over half of Penn’s games at catcher — as Graul would then
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contention for a place at the Trials – only a time under 3:38.00 would have guaranteed qualification for the upcoming race. “It’s a relief that I get an automatic in and not have to wait and see,� Awad said. “But the goal going in was just to run a PR, run fast. They’re going to take it out for a really fast race so I just knew that I needed to hang on to run a really good time.� And hang on he did. Pitted against a field full of some of the
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As a team, the Quakers finished the season 19-22 overall and 10-10 in Ivy play, three games back of Princeton for the Gehrig Division title. The Red and Blue lost only five players to graduation on Sunday, however, and both Graul and O’Neill figure to be back at Meiklejohn Stadium next season to help lead Penn to its potential first Ivy title since 1995.
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netted them so many scores against Wagner. But the most prominent factor in the Quakers’ easy win over Towson was actually their lockdown defense, which held the host Tigers scoreless for over 30 minutes of action. Despite the absence of senior Brooke Kiley and two yellow cards that forced Condon out of the game, freshman Katy Junior and junior Megan Kelly were highly active, forcing turnovers and snagging ground balls throughout the contest. The result was another convincing victory for the Quakers, who prevailed by a final score of 12-4. Unfortunately, the offensive momentum and defensive cohesion that had defined Penn’s tournament came to a crashing halt in Saturday’s game against Penn State. The Nittany Lions had just secured an impressive and thrilling overtime victory, defeating a No. 2 Florida Gators team that featured four newly minted All-Americans and Tewaaraton Award Finalist Nicole Graziano. Flush with confidence from their upset win, Penn State, led by captain Abby Smucker, shut down both Williamson and Condon, forced the Quakers to commit a season-high 18 turnovers and prevented Corcoran from
serve as designated hitter, and vice-versa. Joining Graul and O’Neill with the All-Ivy honors four teammates. With Graul on the first team was senior outfielder Gary Tesch. Junior pitcher Gabe Kleiman and senior shortstop Ryan Mincher both found their way to the All-Ivy second team while junior pitcher Mike Reitcheck earned honorable mention.
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Despite a blazing start to the NCAA tournament, senior attack Nina Corcoran could not carry the Quakers through to the semifinals.
recording a single point for the first time this season. Penn went 27 minutes without scoring while allowing the Nittany Lions to rattle off a 6-0 run that secured Penn State’s first victory over the Quakers since 2006. With their defeat in the quarterfinals, the stellar careers of Corcoran, Dickinson, Kiley and Williamson come to an end, along with five other seniors. Penn, despite qualifying for the NCAA Championship ten consecutive times, have failed to move past the quarterfinal since 2009. But, while they exited with a whimper, the Quakers can count this season as one of the more
world’s elite runners, Awad found himself in a position he wasn’t all too comfortable with. “I was a little worried going in about how competitive I would be,� he said. “I was one of the slower runners going in, which hasn’t been the case in most of my career.� With New Zealand’s 2008 silver medalist Nick Willis pacing the race, there was not much room for error if Awad wanted to keep himself in contention. But the Penn runner rose to the challenge, finishing fifth. The showing also put Awad in
successful in recent memory. Corcoran, along with leading the NCAA in assists and breaking records throughout the year, was admitted into the final pool of 25 nominees for the Tewaaraton Award, the highest honor in collegiate lacrosse. Corcoran was also selected as a second-team AllAmerican by the Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association and was joined by Condon, who was a third-team selection. And, in leading her team to their ninth Ivy League title in 10 years, Corbett was honored as the Ivy League Coach of the Year for the first time in her career.
the history books with the second fastest time in the history of the Ivy League in the 1500m and was just .61 seconds off Penn’s converted record from 1974. “I figured if I was going to have a huge breakout day,� he said, “it needed to be in a race like this.� All signs point to more of the same trail-blazing success from Awad this weekend, but all eyes will be on the rest of the team in hopes that they can perform at a similar, Olympic level in order to qualify for the national championships in Portland a few weeks from now.
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Lightweight rowers qualify for the IRA National Championship Regatta
Pair of baseball players rack up pair of end of season Ivy League awards
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THURSDAY, MAY 26, 2016
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ANDREW ZHENG Associate Sports Editor THURSDAY-SATURDAY
NCAA East Prelims Jacksonville, Fla.
Now that all of the times and marks have been recorded for the regular season, berths for the postseason have been confirmed — 16 track and field stars will be representing the Red and Blue in the first round of postseason meets, the NCAA East Prelims.
The group of athletes has traveled down to Jacksonville, Fla. to compete in the Prelims over the course of the weekend. Succeed, and their seasons will continue on later into the summer towards TrackTown USA in Eugene, Ore., where the NCAA Championships are being held. Underperform, and their summer vacations will start a little earlier than hoped. Each section of the team is represented — from throwers to distance runners, freshmen to seniors, men and women alike. Among the crop of high-profile athletes from Penn are throwers Kelsey Hay and Sam Mattis, high jumper Mike Monroe, sprint sensations Taylor McCorkle
and Calvary Rogers, and distance runners Nick Tuck and Tommy Awad. The final name on that illustrious list, meanwhile, will have to stay focused following a monumental race just last week that booked his ticket not to an NCAA final, but to a level even higher. With a quarter of a second to spare, senior distance runner Awad took a colossal step towards representing the United States in the Rio Olympics this August. Last week at the Swarthmore Final Qualifying meet, Awad recorded a personal best in the 1,500 meter race with an historic time of 3:37.75, narrowly earning him automatic
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qualification to compete in this July’s United States Olympic Trials. This year, the U.S. Track and Field Olympic Qualifying Standard stood at a daunting 3:38.00, more than two seconds faster than Awad’s previous outdoor best of 3:40.68. “Honestly, going in I didn’t even know what the auto-time was,” the East Norwich, N.Y. native said. “I figured if I ran under 3:39.00 I would be pretty happy with it and it would be a close to a time that would get me into the Trials.” While a 3:39.00 finish would still have been a remarkable feat – certainly enough to put the senior in
On Saturday, No.7 Penn women’s lacrosse ended one of its best seasons in program history with an 8-4 loss to unseeded Penn State. The defeat came in the quarterfinals of the NCAA Division I Championship, with in-state bragging rights and inclusion in the tournament’s Final Four on the line. The disappointment of the four-goal loss was compounded by the fact that this year’s Final Four will be contested in Philadelphia, less than 30minutes from Penn’s campus. The Red and Blue’s (15-5) offensive struggles against the Nittany Lions (14-6) represented a stark departure from Penn’s previous tournament matchups with Towson and Wagner. The Quakers’ attacking front was led, as expected, by departing senior and established lacrosse legend Nina Corcoran. She was her typically dominant self against the Seahawks and the Tigers, and she continued to set record after record along the path to the quarterfinals. In the 17-7 drubbing of Wagner to open tournament play, Corcoran tallied a hat-trick and four assists to surpass Ali DeLuca’s single-season points record of 76. She also statistically cemented her status as the best passer Ivy League history, breaking the 33-year old mark for most career assists in Ancient Eight play, which was previously held by Harvard’s Maureen Finn. Her remarkable vision was supplemented by the three-pronged attack of sophomore Alex Condon, who scored four goals, and fellow seniors Iris Williamson and Catherine Dickinson. After the game, head coach Karin Corbett commented on Corcoran’s unrelenting and almost obsessive selflessness: “Alex has just been tremendous this year and [Condon and Corcoran] have a tremendous connection. But for Nina, it doesn’t matter, when she sees the stick she’s going to feed it. And her unselfishness and how much she wants this team to win is why we had the season that we’ve had.” The 17-goal onslaught made a defensive effort almost unnecessary, as the Quakers scored the most goals out of any other team in the first round while recording a stratospheric 73.9 shooting percentage. The second round saw the Red and Blue once again demonstrate the rhythmic, high-motion offense that
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Red and Blue’s promising Class of 2020 announced FOOTBALL | Eclectic
group comes to Penn
DAVID FIGURELLI Sports Reporter
Twenty-nine members of the Class of 2020 will join Penn’s football team this fall. The new student-athletes — sixteen defensive players, 12 offensive players and one kicker — hail from 13 different states. California and Texas are each home to four new members of the football team, while New York, New Jersey and Colorado are the home states of three members each. Maryland, Pennsylvania, Georgia and Illinois will each be sending two new Quakers to campus. Connecticut, Virginia, Kansas, and Florida will each have one representatives in the Red and Blue’s new class. The composition of players coming in on the offensive side of the ball is fairly balanced and includes running backs, quarterbacks, wide receivers, tight ends and a multi-position athlete. The Quakers, however, will not be bringing in any new offensive
linemen, despite the fact that four of the 20 offensive linemen on last season’s roster have graduated. The new defensive class is also well balanced — four linemen and six linebackers will be come to Philadelphia with the hopes of earning a starting spot in the Quakers’ front seven, while six defensive backs will also call University City home in the fall. A kicker will round out the 2020 recruiting class for Penn. “It is always a great moment when we get to officially welcome our newest class of scholar athletes to our program,” head coach Ray Priore said in an announcement on the Penn Athletics website. “We have scoured the country in search of the right type of player to succeed in a Penn uniform, and we are confident that we have put together a group which will fit right in with our team. This group is filled with high character people who are aiming at big goals — two traits we value immensely at Penn.” Almost every member of the class served as team captain at some point during their high school careers, and the class is represented in every school at
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Penn besides Nursing. The Quakers will look to this new recruiting class to contribute immediately in the 2016 season with the hopes of defending its Ivy League crown. Despite having the Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year in linebacker Tyler Drake and leading the Ivy League in sacks and also finishing second in both interceptions and fumble recoveries, the Quakers finished sixth in the league in both points per game and yards allowed. These rankings will have to improve, lest the Red and Blue fail to defend its title. On the offensive side of the ball, the Quakers will hope that the Class of 2020 can help improve their sixth-ranked passing offense to bolster their secondranked rushing offense. Despite the presence of star receiver Justin Watson, the Quakers finished the season above only Columbia and Cornell in passing yards per game. That said, Franklin Field has been home to plenty of football success for the Quakers, and the Class of 2020 will be looking to keep it that way when the team starts practice in August.
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In pursuit of an Ivy League title defense this season, Penn football has added a promising group of players to the squad through the Class of 2020, hailing from 13 states all over the country.
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