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This year’s admissions cycle was unique in that applicants had an extra four days to submit application materials — the Office of Admissions chose to extend the deadline in order to provide students with more time to enjoy their holidays. Previously, the deadline had only been extended in the case of logical Health and Welfare extenuating circumstances, such as Suon Feb. 19 in response stuperstorm Sandy in 2012 andto Common dent suicides and campus Application glitches lastayear. movement to address mental “These students will come together health.

Since tothe beginning in late summer begin their shared of 2013, Penn a totaladexperience as a has class,seen but Penn’s of five student suicides ininthe missions officers were drawn over community. the last few months by their individual Co-chaired Dean stories,” Dean by of former Admissions Eric of the School of Arts and SciFurda said in a statement. “Each class ences Rebecca develops their ownBushnell identity overand time, Director of Education for the and there are no fixed conclusions.

Depar tment ofnature Psychiatr y The experimental of bringing Atogether nthony Rostain, the task a class is what transforms and force hasour nocampus student reprerevitalizes and community sentatives. each year.” It expects to conclude its research at the end of 2014 and release a report in early 2015.

“It completely defeats the pur pose of connecting with your students,” College sophomore Julie Bittar, also an Undergraduate Assembly member, said at the time.

“We need students involved.”

A Jan. 26 UA email told undergraduates to reach out to Bittar and College junior and PUHC member Elana Stern with thoughts about the state of mental health at Penn. Within 24 hours, Bittar said, she and Stern were poring over about 300 emails from students. They used the emails, which detailed personal stories about mental health at Penn and recom-

On March 31, regular decision applicants to the Class of 2019 were able to The force will access theirtask decisions via the online applicant portal. Of 37,267 students who investigate student applied to Penn in the early and regular welfare rounds, 3,697 were admitted, leading to an overall acceptance rate of 9.9 perBY SARAH SMITH cent.

Last year’s overall acceptance Marblehead High School ‘11 rate Marblehead, was also 9.9 percent. Mass.

An all-time high of 54.4 percent of highly publicized theAfter Class two of 2019 was filled with early student suicides early inregular the decision applicants, making the semester, asmore wellcompetitive. as a third decision round Stusuicide inClass December, Penn dents in the of 2019 come from announced the creation of a all 50 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto task force to examine mental Rico and Guam.

Fifteen percent of the health campus. acceptedonstudents are international, But from t he 84 lack of staround udent hailing countries the representation on the University’s newly created task force drew sharp reactions f rom facult y and students alike after its announcement on the afternoon of Feb. 19.

“We seem to be starting off on the wrong foot,” School of Social Policy & Practice professor Toorjo Ghose said at the University Council meeting on Feb. 19 in Houston Hall’s Bodek Lounge. “I really would encourage you to have students, especially students who have been taking this flag and marching with it for the last few months, on that task force.”

He f inished speak ing to snaps from around the room.

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The Vagelos programs’ low retention rates reflect changing interests

comments, but it’s never quite clear how much he means seriously.

That kind of uncertainty about the true nature of the

BY LAURA ANTHONY Vagelos programs may be part Montgomery Blair High School ‘11 of another common stereotype Silver Spring, Md. — that students often start but The Vagelos programs have seldom finish the programs. a reputation at Penn.

“The program does have They’re hard or cutthroat a notorious drop rate,” said or prestigious or give students College junior Josh Br yer, great research experience. who was in MLS until halfway CHEN | SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER “This is the kind of thing YOLANDA through his freshman year.

For sorority girlsfive visit the nineMolecular sorority houses different that people recruitment, will say after The Lifewith Sciences rounds on different or six years, ‘Well,days. that was a program focuses on chemistry good thing to have done.’ Past and biochemistry within the tense,” said Ponzy Lu, chemis- College, with the vast majority try professor and the director of students opting to submaof the Vagelos Molecular Life triculate for a master’s degree Sciences program. in four years.

“I think most of them say it Placed next to the image of PAGE PAGE A12 in the A3 present tense, but I’m the Vagelos programs as modnot sure if they’re being hon- els of Penn’s interdisciplinary est,” he added. “If they say approach, an interesting juxit’s fun to do, then we’re not taposition arises. working them hard enough.”

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A roundup of all things Greek this year at Penn

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Last year Harvard University had the highest yield 121 in the nation with 80.2KATE percent.

JEON | NEWS DESIGN EDITOR Penn admissions reviewed a record 35,788 applications this year. Only 9.9 percent of applicants gained admissions, the lowest admit rate Penn has seen.

The Class of 2018 also has increased diversity and academic quality compared to previous years, Furda said in an email.

The admitted class of 2018 is a diverse group, both in their interests and their origins. They hail from all 50 states and countries as close as Canada and as far away as Kuwait. And while zero students are planning to study Geology, over 300 applied undecided, giving them plenty of time to consider switching in.

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412 3 students committed This year, 66 percent of accepted 7 to join the Class of 2018, a modest increase from last year’s yield rate of 63 percent.

Penn admissions also enjoyed the highest yield rate WHO ATTENDED PENN 8 since the Class of 2011, when466 percent of324 accepted students also came to Penn.

The yield is likely to increase slightly because of wait list acceptances, which are used to make sure enrollment meets the target class size, as well as to address “summer melt,” or when students rescind their commitments to attend. Last year’s final yield increased 1.3 percent to 64.3 percent.

The Office of Admissions is expecting to offer places to “some” applicants on the wait list due to the fact that “we went out conservatively with offers of admission,” Dean of Admissions Eric Furda said in an email.

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Council during this year’s conference The Admissions Office has received in Pittsburgh, Pa. MGC won the Amy over 240 FERPA requests this year Vojta Impact Award for outstanding Multicultural Greek Programming.

HANNAH NOYES CAROLINE SIMON After 20 years, Director of the Westmont Hilltop High School ‘13 Upper Dublin High School ‘14 Johnstown, Pa. Oreland, Pa. Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life Scott Reikofski retired. He oversaw Although future Penn students are only a This school year, Greek life made the upgrade of over 24 Universityday away from viewing their regular deciheadlines for a plethora of reasons. managed chapter houses. Earlier this sion results, the Admissions Office has been Whether you are considering joining year, Meghan Gaffney took over as busy accommodating the enormous volume of Greek life at Penn or not, it can be Associate Director at OFSL. FERPA requests submitted by current students. useful to know what has happened Penn Greek life also made some After a group of Stanford students discovand how it works. Here is a guide to controversial headlines. After Phi ered a way to access admissions records under the recent Greek life happenings.

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Expect some homework before arriving for orientation Pre-orientation modules cover mental health, alcohol and sexual violence JENNIFER WRIGHT Science Leadership Academy ‘13 Philadelphia, Pa.

Pre-New Student Orientation programming has been revamped for the Class of 2019.

The incoming class will be expected to complete four online pre-orientation programs as part of a new project called Thrive at Penn. The topics will cover how to thrive at a research university, how to maintain wellness and health, the risks associated with alcohol and other drugs and healthy relationships and sexual violence prevention.

TAP will incorporate alcohol and drug prevention education similar to the Penn Alcohol Module, well-known to past incoming freshman classes, but

will be a completely revised program.

Director of New Student Orientation and Academic Initiatives David Fox said that providing more content preNSO will give students the chance to understand the information “at their own pace, at a quieter time before they are thrown in.” The courses will include videos, interactive question and answer sections, text and other links.

Beginning at the end of NSO last year, many groups have collaborated on the development of the content. For example, Director of Sexual Violence Prevention and Education Jessica Mertz is working on the module that will focus on the policies, procedures and resources on campus intending to complement the event “Speak About It”, a new addition to NSO in 2014.

Student Financial Services, the undergraduate deans and the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Life, among other offices, all had a hand in the project, which includes modules like the “Penn Ten” — or the ten things you ought to remember to do before you get here.

Another aspect of the program will include FAQs. The questions most often asked to the University Honor Council about what constitutes plagiarism and academic integrity will be incorporated into a feature of the site.

“All of these pieces will make for a smoother, more familiar entry into Penn,” Fox said, but added that the program is not meant to substitute for any of the major NSO informational events.

For example, “we’re not going to move the safety session online,” he said, saying that it’s

helpful for freshmen to feel the “energy of the room” and even to see Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush in person.

Canvas — the site most professors use to post assignments and grades — will host the program and will allow students to return to it to access the information provided at any time.

“You’ll be able to go back and use this as kind of an index,” Fox said.

TAP serves the dual purpose of familiarizing students with how to use the online platform before entering the classroom, he said.

While the courses are not graded per se, they are considered mandatory. Using the statistics that Canvas provides, administrators will know who logs in, for how long and more.

Fox compared it to the Penn Reading Project, saying, “You don’t get an F on your transcript

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In his experience running NSO programming, he thinks freshmen are typically eager to learn as much as possible about Penn prior to arriving and thinks participation will reflect that.

Fox said they intend to follow up with freshmen a few months after completing the course to gather information about how

much they remember or how much they believed it helped, as well as continue to modify and add to the content. In the future, there might be a similar lexicon of information and version of TAP available for parents.

While the exact release date is not set since the courses are still in development and await approval, students can expect to be able to access TAP in July or August.

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Behind the swipe: why Penn charges $12 for a meal swipe Students and professors question the price of a swipe at Penn’s dining halls

DAVID CAHN Stuyvesant High School ‘14 New York, N.Y.

Students often complain at the high price of dining hall swipes — which amount to about $12 each — when they can buy a Chipotle burrito for just $8. Add-on visits can cost up to $15 a swipe on the most popular plan. There are a few theories of why this is the case.

W hile Penn Dining says union labor drives up the costs, economics researchers think it might be the effect of having a monopoly or a tool to price out upperclassmen.

Executive Director of Business Services Doug Berger said the primary driver of dining hall costs is unionized labor. 30 percent of dining hall expenses go toward the cost of food, 44 percent goes to labor costs and 26 percent are direct expenses, such as utilities. One hundred and twenty-one Penn Dining staff members are unionized under Local 54, Berger said.

Penn Dining Advisory Board Chair Brianna Krejci, who is also the president of the Penn Vegan Society, does not support the structure of Penn Dining’s union. “I’m significantly less in support of the union structure as it applies to dining at Penn,” she said.

Krejci said the union prevents Bon Appetit from asking staff members to do additional work and reduces the incentive for employees to be innovative on the job. The union structure “allows people to exist at the bottom-level,” she said. Krejci also noted that the union rules might lead to overstaffing, which would exacerbate cost problems. On Sunday at Hill brunch, around 20 employees

appeared to be on duty at one time.

K rejci said she suppor ts living wages, but believes that the university can engage in corporate social responsibility and pay employees fair wages, without having to be bound by the strict rules and regulations that surround unions.

This year, Krejci purchased the “Take Your Pick” meal plan, which offers a flexible number of dining dollars and swipes.

Next year, she will move off campus and not buy a meal plan.

“I am the chair of the dining advisory board and I care a lot about what Bon Appetit does but I can’t afford a meal plan next year.”

Krejci estimates that the cost of a meal plan is a financial concern for around 35 percent of students. Particularly for the 13 percent of students whose families earn less than $50,000 a year, Krejci said it makes more sense not to buy a meal plan and instead use that money for the cost of living in Philadelphia.

Overall, Berger said Penn offers the third cheapest dining plan among its peer institutions.

Only Brown and Dartmouth offer less expensive dining plans, but both require students to purchase a meal plan for either three or four years.

Stanford’s dining plan is $1,000 more expensive, he said.

Whether PennDining’s larger mission to serve students justifies higher prices is up for debate.

“I don’t necessarily think the dining hall food allows me to always choose the food that I want to eat,” Wharton freshman Emily Zhen said. Zhen does not plan to buy a meal plan next year. “Maybe if it was like $5 a swipe, like if it was the equivalent of a food truck, which, in my opinion, gives better food and more variety and convenience,” she said.

W ha r ton fresh ma n Billy Kacyem said he plans to buy a

dining plan for sophomore year.

“I might do the one where you can pick your own swipes and dining dollars. I feel like I have a better idea of how much I eat now.”

Kacyem said the price of meal swipes will not affect his decision. “I think the pricing is just something that I can’t control, so I just take it as a given,” he said.

Despite Penn Dining’s claims that union labor is the main cost differentiator, not everyone is so sure that this is the case.

Over a dining hall dinner, Yanhao Wei, an Economics Ph.D student who studies the movie industry, said he believes that high dining hall prices force upperclassman out of the market.

It is possible that “the university doesn’t want seniors and juniors to come to the dining hall or live in the dormitory,” he said.

Wei said that higher prices might be a way to allocate limited capacity. “Maybe because they have limited space ... they increase price,” he said. “They want first year[s] to come here, to socialize or whatever, but maybe they want to discourage the second or third year student.”

Penn Dining did not respond to repeated requests for specific data on the breakdown of dining hall expenses.

Director of the Microeconom ic P r inciples P rog ra m in the Econom ics Depa r tment Rebecca Stein said Wei’s hypothesis is “internally consistent.” She said it is also plausible that increased pressure from students to provide higher wages for Penn Dining staff bumps up the price. She noted that students have no incentive to propose lower prices since their parents, the federal government and society will foot the bill.

Stein also said there is a third hypothesis that could explain

dining hall prices. Because Penn Dining is a monopoly, she said it is possible that high prices are simply a method of extracting increased revenue from Penn students. While Penn in a non-for-profit, it still has incentives to generate revenue, whether for increasing financial aid or building a new building.

At the end of the day, Berger said that Penn Dining breaks even. Penn Dining is “mission driven by the university,” he

said. Penn Dining, along with the Dining Advisory Board, recently added Hill Express to address the concerns of student athletes who did not finish practice in time to swipe in at a dining hall.

Berger added that Penn Dining offers better quality food than retail competitors.

Comparing Penn Dining to Wawa, Berger said, at Penn dining halls the food is always fresh. Krejci agreed, noting that

Penn Dining offers works hard to provide students with balanced meals.

“If we were financiallydriven, we might make some different decisions,” Berger said. Many retail institutions don’t provide employees with sick days and serve frozen or low-quality food, he said.

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SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2015 VOL. CXXXI, NO. 57 131st Year of Publication MATT MANTICA President JILL CASTELLANO Editor-in-Chief SHAWN KELLEY Opinion Editor LUKE CHEN Director of Online Projects LAUREN FEINER City News Editor KRISTEN GRABARZ Campus News Editor CLAIRE COHEN Assignments Editor STEVEN TYDINGS Social Media Director PAOLA RUANO Copy Editor RILEY STEELE Senior Sports Editor

THE DANALYST | Penn’s core curriculum can be annoying, but it ultimately makes us better students

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spend way too much time on Penn InTouch.

With Advance Registration looming over my head, I feel obligated to spend my free time creating mock schedules, deleting them, testing out the possibilities. It’s fun, to an extent — I can take a mural painting class?! — but when reality sets in, the process gets more frustrating. Instead of taking any class that sounds interesting, I need to chip away at Penn’s College curriculum requirements. But while that’s an annoying aspect of registration, course requirements don’t deserve all of our complaints.

Penn’s curriculum isn’t especially constraining compared to other top schools. Fair Harvard estimates that general education requirements make up 30 percent of a student’s total coursework. Old Yale forces students to take at least 10 general education classes, two for each “sector of learning.” Columbia is notorious for

having a set of six classes that all students must take .The exception, of course, is Brown’s open curriculum, which boasts no requirements at all. In the words of 1850 Brown president Francis Wayland, the average student should be able to

take only humanities courses.

But there’s an intrinsic value in pushing past our comfort zones. Penn’s core curriculum forces me to take classes I might not enjoy as much, but will make me a more educated citizen. I’ll need to work my

for freshmen especially. In a school this pre-professional, it’s tempting to gravitate toward the classes we “should” be taking, but course requirements force us to think outside our plans. My friends who swear they’ll go pre-med

Learning across disciplines allows us to pick up skills we wouldn’t otherwise have, to teach us how to think.” “study what he chose, all that he chose and nothing but what he chose.”

While that’s all well and good for Brown students, an open curriculum creates the temptation for students to stick with what they know they’re good at. Academically, I’m extremely lopsided: I gravitate toward English and history and tend to stay away from anything close to a hard science. If I went to Brown, I’d most likely

butt off to fulfill the Quantitative Data Analysis Requirement — maybe more so than I would in the creative writing class I’d take in its place — but I shouldn’t graduate without knowing how to think numerically. Penn has an obligation to turn us into well-rounded thinkers, or at the very least to ensure we have a standard knowledge base.

That aside, course requirements can be a useful tool —

might fall in love with an Arts and Letters class; my tentative poli sci and English major plans might crumble when I take a formal reasoning class.

The point is that we’re young, we’re in our first year of college and it’s okay to not know what we want to do. Course requirements stop us from specializing too early.

It sucks that I have to put off that creative writing course I’m interested in until next year,

but I want to become a more educated person. Requirements raise us to a level of competency so we can graduate with the knowledge base we need to take on the world. English majors need rudimentary math skills to survive; Wharton kids need to know how to write.

Learning across disciplines allows us to pick up skills we wouldn’t otherwise have, to teach us how to think. If that’s not the purpose of college, I don’t know what is.

Some complaints about the general requirement system are fair. Penn should allow AP credit to fulfill requirements — the AP curriculum is standardized across the nation; those classes are widely recognized as college-level courses. Furthermore, other Ivies let students use APs to get out of requirements. Why should Penn be different? But our foundational and sector requirements still have value.

Am I annoyed that I have to

DANI BLUM put off taking a cool comp lit class so I can check off my req for Living World? Yes. But Penn forces us to be more educated. It’s like eating our vegetables: complain as we might, ultimately, we know they’re good for us.

Column originally printed on 10/19/2014

DANI BLUM is a College sophomore from Ridgefield, Conn. Her email address is kblum@sas.upenn.edu. “The Danalyst” appears every Thursday.

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will be among the first to admit that my relationship with my smartphone is unhealthy. It’s an iPhone 4, which makes it a dinosaur given the speed at which technology develops and it is now very slow — almost unusable. Despite it frequently irritating me, I am constantly using it even when I shouldn’t be and scramble to charge it the second the low-battery alert pops up. I hate it, but I can’t live without it.

Many people don’t hate their phones but are still addicted to them. Smartphones have become such an integral part of our lives that it is no wonder there are so many examples in film, literature and television of humanity’s demise at the hands of our own creations. Often times, these media will predict a dystopian future for mankind, possibly

TALL, SKINNY, MOCHA | When our creations spiral out of control in the form of the police state in George Orwell’s “1984,” or the colorless society envisioned in Lois Lowry’s “The Giver.” In “1984,” Big Brother uses technology to monitor the thoughts and communications of the proletariat, while in “The Giver” the “Elders” attempt to maintain their idea of utopia by prescribing pills that eliminate any emotion.

Examples in film include “Wall-E,” an animated feature set 700 years in the future where Earth is a wasteland, and “Interstellar,” which is close enough to the present to resemble the effects of overpopulation and unsustainability.

While they both might serve as cautionary tales for humanity’s interaction with the environment, perhaps one of the most haunting examples of technology’s dangerous potential is “Black Mirror,” an anthology

TV series that describes small innovations with devastating effects.

“Black Mirror” satirizes our desire for connectedness, our worshipping of celebrities and our ability to be manipulated by groupthink, among other themes. Unlike the aforementioned works that predict doom and gloom, however, its main message is to highlight the many problems with contemporary society in the context of new technology. Turn a page in any newspaper and there will surely be studies showing that social media makes us feel lonely and isolated, or that tablet computers should be banned in elementary schools so that children can continue learning to write by hand.

Rather than attempt to forecast impending disaster, writers should think about adopting “Black Mirror’s” approach

and address societal problems creatively. The movie “Her,” directed by Spike Jonze, does exactly that. It exemplifies a man’s inability to sustain relationships with others through his romance with an advanced computer operating system named “Samantha.” Samantha could easily have been the soulless antagonist of “I, Robot,” a film based on the book of the same name by Isaac Asimov, in which humanoid robots that were developed to help us turn against us for our own safety.

For every innovation in technology, there has been a corresponding backlash from the privacy advocates. When the telephone was introduced into American homes at beginning of the twentieth century, a large subset of the population claimed their rights were being violated. The same occurred with the television. When

Apple introduced the Newton PDA in the late ‘80s, it was ahead of its time and the product failed. That same device became the iPad in 2010.

Very few have accurately predicted how technology would influence our lives because no one can see the future.

Campaigns like “Look Up!” serve to emphasize our growing reliance on it. Is the reality of technology that grim? The possibility of being imprisoned by robots seems to make for a good action film at best. As cliché as it sounds, I think the only thing we should fear being imprisoned by is our own close-mindedness.

Humans co-evolve with the technology they create. Instead of fearing that Generation Z will be glued to their iWatches and lack the social skills to communicate with others, we should have confidence in that they will

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EATING ON AND AROUND CAMPUS JEFFREY CAREYVA MMI Preparatory School ‘14 Freeland, Pa.

Although every freshman is required to sign up for a meal plan through Campus Express, there is a much wider world of dining at Penn beyond 1920 Commons. Here are some of the options near campus both on and off the meal plan.

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Dining Halls

1920 Commons, Hill House and Kings Court English House encompass Penn’s three all-you-can-eat dining facilities.

Use your meal swipes for a lunch in-between classes or a prepaid dinner with friends afterwards.

Commons is the biggest and most bustling dinning hall with the widest variety of food. Because of what some consider to be Commons’ checkered records of previous health violations,

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Dining Dollar Cafes

Most freshman meal plans come with Dining Dollars, which may most notably be used at the Mexican-style Tortas Frontera, located in the ARCH, and at Houston Market.

Many cafes on campus also accept Dining Dollars, including Starbucks under Commons, Mark’s Cafe in Van Pelt Library and the Bridge and Plaza Cafes in Huntsman Hall.

The Gourmet Grocer under Commons

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also accepts Dining Dollars, which can be used on groceries including organic fruits and vegan supplies.

Any place that accepts dining dollars will also accept the PennCash that parents can add to your account to help you get by.

William’s Cafe is the one location in a campus building that won’t accept Dining Dollars, but their coffee and croissants are worth the price and the post-foreign-language-class line.

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Sansom and Walnut Streets

Take your first college date to White Dog Cafe beside Kings Court English near 34th and Sansom streets and fall in love with the dog decor. Also on Sansom are Baby Blues BBQ and Federal Donuts to satisfy your desires for fried dough and chicken, while Cosi is right up the street near Pod, a pan-Asian restaurant with a futuristic interior.

Wishbone near 41st and Walnut streets serves almost exclusively fried chicken and is open late to satisfy those midnight

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some students avoid Commons entirely, whereas others make it their second home on campus.

Each dining hall has some sort of vegetarian and vegan option daily, and meals can be taken on the go with sustainable Green2Go boxes.

Meal swipes do not transfer from semester to semester, so choose your meal plan wisely and consider how much Commons food you really want to eat.

Spruce Street

A dozen food trucks line Spruce Street beside the Quad everyday, from Mexican to fruit smoothies to the Real Le Anh’s Chinese food, waiting for busy students and faculty to hungrily walk by.

West of the 36th Street intersection starts the row of restaurants from Beijing for quick Chinese food, Saladworks, HubBub for coffee, the Philly Pretzel Factory and finally the

cravings.

Past the go-to supermarket Fresh Grocer is a long line of eateries including Hummus Grill for Mediterranean fast food, Jimmy John’s, Capogiro Gelato, Bobby’s Burger Palace, Sweetgreen and Chipotle.

Down near 34th Street on Walnut and across from your English class in FisherBennett Hall there is another Starbucks, and not far are an Auntie Anne’s, Dunkin Donuts, Quiznos and more.

We Deliver! all-important Wawa at the corner of 38th Street.

A little farther up you’ll find Allegro’s Pizza and Copabanana at the corner of 40th and Spruce streets for margaritas and Mexican food.

Make a right on 40th and you’ll pass by Qdoba, Greek Lady, Hip City Veg, Ben & Jerry’s, Smokey Joe’s bar and the Harvest Seasonal Grill and Wine Bar.

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Wharton expands social media outreach with Snapchat account Outreach will engage current and prospective students, along with alumni

BY BRYN FERGUSON Havergal College ‘14 Toronto, Canada

Next time Wharton students take a Snapchat, they may have the opportunity to be featured on the business school’s social media. The Wharton social media team recently created an official Snapchat account.

“The decision to launch Snapchat account was relatively easy one,” Director of Wharton New Media Communications Stefan Frank said. “Our own survey data and independent market research showed that students use Snapchat in a big way. Our social media team has grown dramatically, and we are now in a better position to respond to

students.”

Frank said that the purpose of the account is twofold: to engage with current students and alumni, and to authentically convey the Wharton experience to prospective students and make them more familiar with life at Penn.

Specifically, the Wharton social media team will take the Snapchats sent to the account and use them to help students create engagement in events on campus. The team will also repurpose the content to share with audiences around the world.

“Twitter, Facebook and Instagram are great for broadcasting information and engagement, but we feel that Snapchat is one of those apps that has blown up being about interaction,” Frank said. “Wharton is excited to be in a space about interaction.”

Frank’s social media team

will begin intensive promotion of the account at this year’s graduation.

“Now with graduation, it is good way to capture these moments and a good way to target alumni,” Frank said.

Although the account is brand new, the social media team is already looking to further student and public engagement.

Frank said that they hope to create “Snapchat Stories” over time and even engage “guest snappers,” students that will showcase a day in the life of a Wharton student through Snapchats.

The possible creation by Snapchat of a Wharton “Live” section is something that the team hopes to see one day. The Live section on Snapchat is where users send their Snaps related to a specific event or location, to an official feed to have a chance to be featured for all users to view.

“That is not something we have control over, but the fact that we will be on Snapchat will drive more engagement [from the company],” Frank said.

Frank added that the team is looking into requesting Snapchat to create a geotag.

But the short-term goal is to build excitement and awareness about the new account within the Penn community.

“It is really an exciting time and evolution for social media and higher education. We are glad to be at the forefront,” Frank said.

Following in Wharton’s social media footsteps is Penn’s social media team. Manager of New Media Communications for Penn Matthew Griffin said in a statement that his team is in the process of developing a Snapchat account under the name UofPenn, but have yet to make any posts.

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records after they had fulfilled their intended purpose,” Yale Law School Associate Dean Asha Rangappa said in an email in a Yale Daily News Article.

Stanford has also returned to a policy of deleting its admissions files, but are responding to FERPA requests with all records available at the time the request was made.

Penn has not moved to delete its digital admissions files.

When students submit a request, they are invited to arrange an appointment to come to the Admissions Office and view their files electronically during a 30minute time window. Nursing freshman Delaney Jenkins, who viewed her files on March 6, was underwhelmed at the amount of information she was able to see.

“It wasn’t really much in terms of quality of information that was there,” Jenkins said. “I wish I had seen more.”

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a paper with directions and access to a computer. Although she had waived her right to view her teacher recommendations during the application process, a step taken by many students when applying online, she was able to view her Common Application and essays.

The Admissions Office provided Jenkins with a spreadsheet containing numbers that the Admissions Office had used to weigh various parts of her application — but no information about the meaning of the numbers was provided. “I could see the numbers but I didn’t understand what they meant,” Jenkins said.

She was also able to view around three or four simple comments that admissions officers had made about her essays. “They were really basic,” she said. “It wasn’t anything that I hadn’t expected to see.”

However, Jenkins was unable to see another three or four comments that had been made about her application. FERPA only requires admissions offices to provide students with individual information about their application, so Penn

chooses to redact all comments referencing other students or specific school groups. For Jenkins, roughly half of her feedback dealt with information involving others.

Overall, Jenkins felt that viewing her files was not as informative as she had hoped. “I feel like it wasn’t really worth seeing,” she said.

At Penn, over 240 requests have been received since January. Before the discovery of the Stanford students, the Admissions Office received roughly five requests per year.

Earlier in the semester, the Admissions Office was struggling to manage the large number of requests. However, Dean of Admissions Eric Furda believes that the Admissions Office is now better prepared to meet the challenge.

“I think we have a good process in place, we’re giving individuals an opportunity to take a look at their record,” Furda said. “I think we’re in much better shape now.”

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When former Provost Ron Daniels stepped down in March 2009 to serve as president of Johns Hopkins University, then-Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs Vincent Price took the reins as University Interim Provost until he was named provost May 2013. He is Steven H. Chaffee Professor of Communication in the Annenberg School for Communication and professor of political science in the School of Arts and Sciences. As provost, Price oversees student and academic affairs at the University, including education, research, faculty affairs and student life.

Price obtained his doctorate at Stanford University and served as chair of the Department of Communications Studies at the University of Michigan before coming to the Annenberg School in 1998. At Penn, he has served as interim provost, associate provost for faculty affairs, chair of the Faculty Senate, and associate dean of the Annenberg School.

Price has published extensively on mass communication and public opinion, social influence processes and political communication. He has written a book, entitled “Public Opinion,” and he is the former Editor-In-Chief of “Public Opinion Quarterly,” the leading journal of public opinion research.

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AMY GUTMANN UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT After 10 years here as University president, Amy Gutmann has come a long way in furthering policies she believes to be important. The former Princeton University provost and political philosophy scholar has focused her presidency on three main goals, outlined in the Penn Compact, which she unveiled at her inauguration in 2004.

Gutmann continues to promote diverse background in the student body, Over half of the incoming Class of 2019 will be composed of minorities. Moreover, she has been

at the forefront of social issues nation- and campus-wide. She released a video for the It Gets Better Project to prevent suicide among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students.

On the national level, Gutmann — as the chairwoman of President Barack Obama’s Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues — put out a report on the ethical use of emerging synthetic biologies, which she said would not require new legislation.

Gutmann was also named to Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences, along

Since taking the helm of Penn’s largest undergraduate school in January 2006, Mathematics professor Dennis DeTurck has been keeping busy monitoring the College’s recent curricular adjustments.

The Belmar, N.J., native has spent much of his time overseeing the recently revamped College curriculum, which was implemented for the Class of 2010. He was also influential in pushing for the Cultural Diversity in the U.S. Requirement, which mandates courses on different cultures for the Class of 2012 and beyond.

Deturck conducted his own research in partial differential equations and differential geometry, and he has authored more than 50 papers on the topic. He is known for his “60-Second Lecture” in which he proclaimed the end of fractions. “In this digital age, they’re as obsolete as Roman numerals are,” he said.

He has already implemented various college initiatives, including the College Alumni Mentoring Series, which brings notable alumni back to campus to talk careers with undergraduates. He has also helped in the implementation of new College minors, including jazz studies, consumer psychology and international development.

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with Communications professor and Annenberg Public Policy Center director Kathleen Hall Jamieson.

Gutmann is boosting the University’s global image as well.

She delivered the prestigious annual lecture of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics in London this March. She also attended the five-day World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Finally, she has kept the school financially secure.

Under Gutmann’s leadership, the University’s endowment has remained stable despite the economic downturn.

Appointed last year as the new dean of Penn’s School of Nursing, Antonia Villarruel was previously the associate dean for research and global affairs at the University of Michigan School of Nursing.

Villarruel is no stranger to Penn Nursing. She taught at the Nursing School between 1995 and 2000 and has written books with several Penn faculty members.

Villarruel has spent years building and maintaining a research program around interventions for Latino, Mexican and Puerto Rican populations, with a particular focus on reducing sexual risk among Latino adolescents.

Villarruel is Mexican-American herself. Her father was born in Mexico, and her mother was born in the United States. Much of Villarruel’s past work has dealt with minorities and diversity. She served on an advisory council to the Secretary of Health and Human Services for minority health and was president of the National Coalition of Ethnic Minority Nurse Associations.

Her work has been recognized by the CDC, the Office of Adolescent Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Although Steven Fluharty assumed his role as dean of the School of Arts and Sciences on July 1, 2013 his relationship with Penn began nearly 30 years earlier, when he entered the College of Arts and Sciences as a freshman.

Fluharty received all three of his degrees — a B.A. in psychology in 1979 and master’s and doctoral degrees in psychobiology in 1979 and 1981, respectively — from Penn.

He intended to major in English as an undergraduate student, but change his mind after he enrolled in an advanced seminar in “what we would probably call behavioral neuroscience now, [but was then] called physiological psychology,” taught by then-Provost Eliot Stellar.

Fluharty has spent time with Penn’s leadership discussing a variety of topics including instructional innovation, such as Coursera and other online initiatives, as well as “more impactful, more experientially based education.”

“I want us to be leaders in instructional innovation,” he said.

Fluharty has been a member of Penn’s faculty since 1986, holding positions in the Psychology Department of the College of Arts and Sciences and in Pharmacology in the School of Veterinary Medicine’s department of Animal Biology.

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School of Engineering and Applied Science professor and robotics researcher Vijay Kumar will serve as dean of the School of Engineering and Applied science beginning on June 1, replacing previous dean Eduardo Glandt. Kumar has held several positions within the Engineering School, including director of the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception Lab and chair of the Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics department.

Kumar is world-renowned for his work on the development of autonomous robots and biologically inspired algorithms for collective behavior. He is the author of more than 400 papers and more than 20 books and book chapters and has received numerous honors and awards for his research and teaching.

Kumar’s responsibilities will include managing the administration of the school as well as setting its intellectual agenda. As the new dean, he hopes to increase the presence of technology on campus and encourage an innovative spirit among students.

“I think one thing we have to do is empower our own students,” Kumar said in a March interview. “We need to empower them to innovate, to try, to fail and to learn from the failures and try again.”

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Unlike his previous three predecessors, Geoffrey Garret does not have a degree in business or economics. Appointed this year and a former Fulbright Scholar, he completed his master’s and doctoral degrees in political science at Duke University and his bachelor’s degree in the same subject at the Australian National University.

Previously a dean and professor of business at the Australian School of Business at the University of New South Wales, he served as an associate professor at the Wharton School in 1995-1997, teaching multinational management.

Wharton professors have noted that Garrett’s international and interdisciplinary background makes him a good choice to lead the school in a rapidly changing society.

Management professor Mauro Guillen talked about Garrett’s remarkably prescient research on the connection between a country’s attributes and economic performance.

Guillen pointed to one of Garrett’s most well-known and controversial publications, “Partisan Politics in the Global Economy,” published in 1998. Garret predicted that social democratic government, though traditionally recognized as not as pro-business as conservative government, could also lead to economic growth.

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The Spring Fling concert was organized by a small, tight-knit group of about 30 SPEC Concerts members.

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White House ranked Penn the least-affordable Ivy JACK CAHN Staff Reporter

Administrators tout affordability, press releases emphasize access and brochures highlight no-loan financial aid — but the numbers tell a very different story.

Statistics released by peer institutions, the White House and even Penn’s own Student Financial

Services indicate that Penn is actually among the least affordable universities in the Ivy League.

According to the federal government’s “College Scoreboard,” Penn students on average take out $20,407 in loans — the highest amount among all Ivy League universities.

The federal government is not alone in singling out Penn for its lack of affordability. Business Insider ranked Penn the third least affordable Ivy in its 2013 college rankings. In terms of cost of attendance, Penn’s $64,200

total cost of attendance is the second most expensive among Ivy League universities for the 2014-15 academic year.

In a meeting with Student Registration and Financial Services Associate Vice President Michelle Brown-Nevers, Financial Aid Director Joel Carstens and Credit Services Senior Director Sharon Pepe, SFS provided updated counter statistics from the Institute for College Access and Success evidencing that Penn does not have the highest median

student indebtedness in the Ivy League. Rather, Penn has the third highest indebtedness, with students incurring an average debt of $19,798 as of 2013.

He also pointed out flaws in the federal government’s methodology.

“The whitehouse.gov information is 2011 data. My concern is that you’re using some stale information,” Carstens said. “As an institution, we feel more confident in what we’re reporting and what our peers are reporting,” he said in reference to data

that universities provide to TICAS. Carstens isn’t alone in questioning the federal government’s statistics. In a public response to the Postsecondary Institution Rating System, Penn President Amy Gutmann wrote that “the most distinctive characteristics of the University of Pennsylvania’s financial support are not, however, captured in currently available data that apply to all institutions.” Furthermore, she argued that Penn’s SEE PENN AFFORDABLE PAGE 2

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Last year, students raised concerns about the culture of Spring Fling changing due to the supervision of alcohol monitors. This year, wristbands to get into parties added a new element to the weekend.

The Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement began sending undercover cops to Fling three years ago. Under the watch of police and University limitations of up to eight registered parties for the weekend, students devised new ways of getting around restrictions.

As upperclassmen were aware of the police presence, several fraternities had wristbands for their closed parties for crowd control, and some threw downtowns to get off campus. The wristbands came with various levels of fees. For example, a ticket to the Bamboo Bar was $35 before a $2 online processing fee, while a Friday carnival on campus cost $5.

College sophomore Carolina Hernandez said wristbands had the potential to leave people out, or at least change their Fling plans. Those who weren’t able to obtain the wristbands because of the limited quantity might have been excluded

Over the course of this semester, The Daily Pennsylvanian has worked to find the most impressive undergraduates at Penn. We asked the Penn community to nominate those who are making an impact at Penn, in Philadelphia or around the world — and who will continue to do so postgraduation. We sent out applications to the top nominees, which were reviewed by a selected panel of alumni judges. The inaugural Penn Ten is a diverse cross-section of the Penn undergraduate population. These students are working tirelessly to empower those who are disadvantaged, to develop innovative technologies that solve serious problems and to make the world healthier and happier — all while balancing the many responsibilities of life at Penn. Over the course of this week, the DP will take you from an impoverished village in Ghana to the Long Island suburbs to hear their stories. We are confident that all the winners will accomplish great things and hope you find inspiration in their experiences and passions. The DP is proud to present the first ever edition of The Penn Ten! Left to right: Sayid Abdullaev, Seaon Shin, Ariel Koren, Adrian Lievano, Shadrack Frimpong, Taylor McLendon, Daniel Fine, Christopher Yao, Denzel Cummings, Allyson Ahlstrom

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On a typical weekend, Penn students can often count on a friend talking about blacking out. Reagan Wetherill, a research assistant professor at Penn who focuses on blackouts specifically, explained the phenomenon.

Forty percent of college students will experience a blackout, Wetherill said.

She added that people who experience blackouts are predisposed to experience more of them after the initial blackout.

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Darren Ambrose leaves for Vanderbilt after 15 seasons at Penn

In the age of social media it’s hard to keep a secret. But when the athletes of Penn women’s soccer were called in for a meeting with coach Darren Ambrose on Thursday afternoon, none of the players had heard the news yet.

At 4:30 p.m., Ambrose informed his players together that he would be resigning immediately to accept the head coaching position at Vanderbilt University.

Ambrose, the winningest coach in Penn women’s soccer program history, coached the Quakers for 15 seasons, never posting a losing record in any year of his tenure while winning 148 games and the program’s three Ivy League titles.

Ambrose commented on the atmosphere in the room when he made his announcement.

“It was the most emotional athletic meeting I’ve had as a coach or a player,” Ambrose said in an interview. “Some girls were visibly shaken.

A lot of tears were shed.”

“Leaving Penn is the most difficult decision I have had to make to this point in my life,” he added in a press release. “The student-athletes, the coaches and the administration have been a major part of my life, both professionally and personally, for the past 15 years. I will leave behind a huge part of me as I make the transition. Penn and its athletic department will always hold a very special place in my heart.”

Ambrose went 148-73-35 overall, while finishing 54-34-17 in 105 career Ivy matches. The program’s most recent Ivy League title came in 2010, while the Red and Blue finished 8-5-3 with a 3-3-1 Ivy record this season.

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it’s an accident,” Nursing sophomore Rachel, who has blacked out multiple times, said. “Sometimes, I’ll start drinking and I don’t feel it, so I’ll continue to take more shots, but then it’ll hit me,” Rachel, who preferred her last name to not be used, said.

Wether ill expla ined the two types of blackout.

What most consider blacking out is called en bloc, which is characterized by complete memory loss, high blood alcohol content and often results in passing out. “Browning out,” on the other hand, is fragmentary and characterized by piecing together the evening in the morning and not remembering getting home.

In a blacked-out brain, Wetherill said, information from an individual’s surrounding goes into shortterm memory but is not encoded into long-term memory.

“I think blacking out is kind of scary in general, but at the same time, I’ve never lost my phone, I’ve never been hospitalized,” Rachel said. Since losing her keys the third night of college, she has not lost anything since. “I’m not super worried — it’s college.”

Col lege sophomore Amanda, who preferred her real name not be used, said she has lost many belongings while blacked out. “I’ve

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College junior dies of cancer

Alex Bilotti was a mayor’s scholar and member of ZTA

Alexsandra Bilotti, a College junior, died early Saturday morning of Ewing’s sarcoma. She turned 22 years old last Wednesday.

Alexsandra, known to her friends and family as Alex, was a Philadelphia Mayor’s Scholar and member of Penn’s Zeta Tau Alpha sorority.

“Alex is the air that I breathe. She

and nearly being considered a survivor, her cancer returned in 2009.

“She always set goals in life and that’s what got her through a lot of this,” her mother said. “The day she found out she got into Penn was one of her happiest days.”

Over the course of her illness and its extensive treatment, Bilotti was held back a grade and took off a semester from Penn. After taking some time off again this spring, she had hoped to return to Penn in the fall.

“Alex was an amazing young woman who is going to be missed by

Five armed robberies were reported in a one-week period DAVID CAHN Staff Reporter

Criminals don’t usually like the cold, says Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush. Not so this year. Despite low temperatures last week, Penn and Drexel police are facing a spike in armed robberies, with five armed robberies and one unarmed robbery reported between Feb. 7 and Feb. 15.

Over the course of approximately one week, two armed robberies occurred on Penn’s campus, and three armed robberies and an unarmed robbery occurred on Drexel’s campus. No suspects have been arrested in any of these cases, and five of the six were highway robberies, meaning the victims were robbed while walking down

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the street. The sixth was a residential robbery.

The first robbery at Penn occurred at 7:50 p.m. on the 4100 block of Pine. A female student reported a male suspect had pushed her from behind and then asked her to empty her pockets. When she turned around, she saw that the suspect had a small black handgun. She handed over her cell phone before the suspect “got spooked” and ran away, Rush said.

The woman described the suspect as a black male, 5 feet 11 inches tall, with shoulder-length dreadlocks and dark-colored jeans. He escaped from the scene in a dark colored vehicle, headed eastbound on Pine Street.

The second robbery at Penn occurred at 11:11 p.m. on Feb. 8 on 200 South 38th Street. The victim, who is related to a

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the chapter,” Zeta chapter president Julia Peng said on behalf of the sorority in an email.

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was every breath that I take and she was my sunshine,” Sandy Bilotti, Alex Bilotti’s mother, said. “She was my hero. She was all that I wanted to be in my life. I wanted to be like her and she just gave me strength and she gave me lots of love. I don’t know what I’m going to do the rest of my life without her.”

Ewing’s sarcoma is a rare form cancer that affects the body’s bones and tissues. Bilotti was diagnosed at age 11, and she fought the disease for 10 years and eight months. After going into remission for a few years

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Cockroach problem fixed in Commons Despite health inspection reports, dining hall has maintained the same level of activity JEFFREY CAREYVA Staff Reporter

Following the buzz about a cockroach problem in 1920 Commons, the dining hall remains as crowded as ever.

Many students learned of the issue two weeks ago when Under the Button published “The Inconvenient (HealthThreatening) Truth Behind Your Meals,” which detailed several Philadelphia Food Safety Inspection Reports of Penn’s dining halls. But Penn Dining says it has taken measures to ensure the health and sanitation of its facilities.

These free, publicly-available reports also reveal various sanitary concerns for Kings Court English House, Hill House and Falk Dining Commons in Steinhardt Hall. Most notably, the reports indicate a lack of cleanliness in the men’s bathroom at Kings Court in February 2013, past evidence of rodent and insect activity at Hill in January 2013, mouse droppings in the main kitchen of Hillel in December 2014 and “live roaches observed in breakfast and ice cream station areas” at Commons last October.

The UTB article quickly spread across Penn students’ Facebook walls, provoking some gut reactions to Penn Dining’s food safety practices.

“I find it a little worrying that we didn’t find out about the [food safety] problems until someone posted the reports on Facebook,” College freshman JinAh Kim said.

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the semester ends, according to estimates by chapter members.

Sisters have been told that they cannot revoke the chapter’s charter with the University unless they have a unanimous vote. Because a few members have expressed interest in remaining in the chapter, the More than 90 percent of Penn’s rest of the members have to officially Alpha Epsilon chapter of Alpha Chi deactivate in order to lose their indiOmega is expected to resign before vidual affiliation with the Office of

Fewer than 10 of 201 sorority sisters likely to stay on campus

FROM PENN One student aims to make his music both accessible and successful ELIZABETH WINSTON Staff Reporter

Wharton freshman Kayvon Asemani started his own business where the product is free.

Coming from a difficult background, Asemani believes that everyone should have the chance to experience the music that is part of his brand: Kayvon Music.

He says he practices “ethical capitalism,” so that even those who can’t afford his rap music can still enjoy it. He has made a profit selling T-shirts with his logo designed by College sophomore Adam Reid. He said the design — which is a blend of a lion, bear and wolf’s face wearing a crown — reflects the theme of his songs, which start with “a fierce dark element” and end in a hopeful tone, reminiscent of his own past.

By the age of nine, Asemani lost both his

parents and was subsequently shuffled around to different family members. Eventually, he attended the Milton Hershey School, a free private school for underprivileged kids in Pennsylvania. He graduated as valedictorian of his class and was determined to pursue a degree in business as well as his artistic dream of making music.

Most of his music is about the struggle of social stratification. College freshman Roger Lee said that Asemani’s music “challenges the status quo and addresses the sickness within society.” Asemani describes his music as “serious, but it can also be funny.”

Asemani acknowledged that he did not start with the same resources that other Wharton students might have had, but he works tirelessly to compete at the same caliber.

“There would be days where we’d be up until 5 a.m. studying after he’d already had a full day of performing and writing new music,”

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A helmet ad blocker for real life

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One PennApps team has created an app which works like AdBlock for real life — and could potentially make them big bucks in the near future.

“Brand Killer” is aptly named for its ability to pixelate certain advertisements like Starbucks and Coke logos right in front of your eyes. The app was built by Engineering sophomore Reed Rosenbluth and College junior Jonathan Dubin, along with two students from Johns Hopkins University, Tom Catullo and Alex Crits-Christoph.

The device is put over the eyes like a “ski mask that fits over your head,” Dubin said. “Everything that the webcam sees is processed through a computer where the ads are blocked.”

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Penn students on keeping track of sexual partners HANNAH NOYES Staff Reporter

a one-night stand or hook-up buddy.

Either way, the question of how many hook-ups a potential partner has had can cause some anxiety. Some students say the answer to “What’s your number?” is not a deal-breaker.

A 20-year study of over 5,000 college students cited in The Huffington

Post from July 2014 found that the average number of sexual partners for students age 18-24 is 3 to 4 partners. The study was conducted from 1990-2010.

“The only way a number should matter is to you personally,” College senior Caroline — who preferred

her real name not be used — said. “I know some people with high numbers who are happy with it, I don’t think your number is a good indicator of anything about you.”

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‘Philly after Ferguson’ addresses police-minority relations Town hall brings together police and local activists

Emotions ran high over police and minority relations at the town hall meeting, “Philly After Ferguson,” held on Wednesday night.

Members of the Philadelphia community, including several members of the Philadelphia Police force, gathered at Catalyst for Change Church at 3237 Barring Street.

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Last semester, students stood in solidarity in light of the Ferguson decision at a Town Hall meeting.

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PAATH hosted the Pride Games last year to promote acceptance of LGBT athletes on campus.

Forget Sector and Foundational requirements — the College of Arts and Sciences may soon require students to fulfill credits outside of the classroom.

This possibility was revealed in the recently released School of Arts and Sciences Strategic Plan.

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For international students, aid doesn’t cross borders Foreign students given less financial aid

Is it better to get into Penn and exhaust every option to afford it, or is it better to simply get rejected because of your inability to pay? This is a serious question that many international students ask themselves when applying to Penn.

Unlike its Ivy League peers such as Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Dartmouth, Penn’s need-blind admissions policy only applies to citizens and permanent residents of the United States, Canada and Mexico. All other applicants must either be able to pay full-price tuition or compete for the $6 million in financial aid available for the entire international applicant pool.

This has put significant financial burdens on some international students who can’t afford Penn on their own.

“Penn will not admit a financial aid candidate for whom we cannot provide aid,” the Penn Admissions

website says. “As a result, some candidates we would otherwise want to admit will be turned away.” Thus, many international applicants who really want to go to Penn but cannot afford it, apply to Penn without financial aid and seek assistance elsewhere.

Outside scholarships ... for a price College senior Julia Shin did not want to take the chance of applying to Penn as a financial aid student.

“Generally, if you have a Korean passport, you don’t receive financial aid from Penn,” she said.

Each year, the South Korean Kwanjeong Educational Foundation provides a limited number of scholarships for Korean students to attend universities abroad.

In 2011, Shin was one of six undergraduate students to receive the scholarship.

“I probably wouldn’t come to Penn without my scholarship,” she said. “The only requirements are that I should never get a C in my transcripts and my GPA is above 3.5.” She added that the scholarship allows her to study anything other than

law, pre-med or business.

While Shin’s scholarship requirements may seem strict, there are other scholarships that place more demands on students.

Col lege sophomor e Dayana Mustak receives a scholarship from the Malaysian government. After speaking with older Penn students from Malaysia, she decided it was in her best interest to apply to Penn without financial aid.

“I took a risk and essentially applied without financial aid to increase my chances of getting in to Penn,” Mustak said. “I knew that once I got into Penn, I would have a higher chance of getting financial aid from my government.”

Mustak’s scholarship required her to sign a contract with the Malaysian government, where she agreed to pursue a psychology major at Penn and then go back to Malaysia to work after graduation.

“Most of us [receiving scholarships] have to work for the government or sometimes the company that

Calorie counting is a guessing game Counting calories is important for many diets, but Penn’s dining halls don’t make the counting easy.

Penn Dining and Bon Appétit do not publish precise nutritional information — like calorific content, percent daily values of nutrients and grams of sugar — for all of their foods. Pilot programs are in the works, however, to make more nutritional information available to students through the PennMobile app and elsewhere, Director of Penn Dining Pam Lampitt said in an interview for a previous article on changes in meal plans.

Through the Penn Dining website, Bon Appétit already makes a lot of nutritional data available for the public.

But students should not take this data as their dining hall Bible.

“Rather than creating standardized meals based on specific predefined

recipe books, our chefs at various accounts across the nation create their own menus for their customer base,” Bon Appétit nutritionist Dan Connolly wrote in an email. “Our chefs therefore cook their meals from scratch on a daily basis, and because of this we are unable to list detailed nutrition information of food items we offer in our cafés.”

Nutritional information is available for typical menu items like beverages and condiments, but accurate information on specific and changing menu items is not readily available. Knowing the nutritional values of foods can be a guessing game for students.

College freshman and previous The Daily Pennsylvanian contributing reporter Anuj Amin has been focused on maintaining a proper diet before he came to Penn. “I have definitely been trying to count calories in Commons, but it’s hard when I’m a vegetarian and the options are already limited,” he said.

“Most of the time I have no clear idea how many calories I consumed, so I try to make an educated guess, but even that’s hard when food like pizza is in all

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Community service, internships or research could count towards new credit

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Although the first gay National Football League athlete — Michael Sam — was drafted just last year, the student organization Penn Athletes and Allies Tackling Homophobia has been on campus since 2003.

PAATH is a constituent group of the Lambda Alliance, the queer advocacy umbrella organization on campus. Facilitated by the LGBT Center, PAATH’s goal is to provide a safe place for athletes

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For the Admissions Office, keeping Quaker Days separate from Fling is a priority. “We intentionally try to avoid pre- and post-Fling as much as possible,” Dean of Admissions Eric Furda said.

Positioning Quaker Days too As hundreds of prospective Penn close to Fling raises several constudents flood campus for Quaker cerns for the Admissions Office.

Days, current students are gearing Most importantly, it is more difficult up for the wildest weekend of the to find hosts for prospective students year. when current students are preoccuPenn’s Quaker Days program for pied with Fling activities. prospective members of the Class of Although the Admissions Office 2019 began on Sunday, April 12, and successfully recruited enough hosts runs through Wednesday. Though in preparation for Quaker Days this official Spring Fling activities do year, Furda said that finding volnot start until Friday, many students unteers was a challenge, especially begin their festivities as early as Wednesday night.

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“When we liked each other in elementary school, our way of �lirting was this secret handshake that was kind of stupid. We both went to church so we had to keep it PG.” “Funny thing is, we both forgot what the handshake was.”

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into when they were dealing with our chapter,” said one member, who chose to remain anonymous because she is finalizing her resignation from the chapter.

Last week, leaders of the sorority were looking to revoke the chapter’s charter because of the seemingly harsh sanctions from OFSL, including social probation for the next two years. The

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Fraternity and Sorority Life.

The final straw for some of the sorority members was an email sent to them by the national branch of Alpha Chi Omega comparing an underground sorority to a knockoff Tory Burch handbag, which lacks the “same credibility” as a real one.

“The email turned a lot of girls off even further. Nationals didn’t really know what they were getting themselves

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“I love that she’s even more passionate about her sock choices than I am.”

“We bonded over our love of really awesome socks.”

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SPEC swaps flash sale for lottery 150 floor passes will be sold through lottery starting Friday JESSICA WASHINGTON Staff Repoter

The Social Planning and Events Committee has decided to bring back the lottery system for Fling concert

floor passes — for this weekend at least.

SPEC originally planned on hosting “flash sign ups” to sell floor passes until Sunday, but the giveaways will now only last until Thursday. Beginning on Friday and ending Sunday, anyone can enter the lottery for a chance at 150 spots to

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claim the last 300 tickets.

SPEC has decided to end the flash sign ups for floor passes “in response to considerations of equal access and stress,” the group wrote on the Spring Fling page on Facebook. Last year, all floor passes were given away through a lottery.

“We’re answering the desire for

more fairness by offering a lottery system for the last few tickets,” SPEC Secretary Derek Standlee said in an email.

By Wednesday, SPEC recognized that some students were using “bots” to sign up for the Floor passes as soon

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WHERE IS TIMOTHY HAMLETT After 3 months, the former Penn junior has yet to be found DAVID CAHN Staff Reporter

Before he disappeared, Timothy Hamlett wanted to be in the Olympics.

He was a star runner for the Penn track and field team — one of the top recruits of his year, teammates said. He was a role model to underclassmen, a compassionate friend and never one to allow his ego to get in the way of his sense of humor. But as his sophomore year progressed, Hamlett’s behavior noticeably changed. He became distant from friends and family, and in September 2014, was charged with vandalism. Then he went missing.

Who is Timothy Hamlett, and where has he gone?

Hamlett, a native of Teaneck, N.J. and a former Penn junior, vanished on Dec. 26 and was last seen near the George Washington Bridge in the Washington Heights area of New

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Students who don’t know where to turn now have a central option for mental health concerns: 215-898-HELP. Penn launched its mental health HELP line on Dec. 1, 2014. Since then, 54 students have called the number. Of these calls, two were made on behalf of a student who the caller wanted to check in on, 17 were transferred to Counseling and Psychological Services and eight were requests for information, according to the Mental Health Task Force report.

“This really just is the catch-all for people in the crisis who might not feel they have the energy to look up the numbers,” Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush, who sat on the Mental Health Task Force, said.

Setting up the HELP line was not a simple task, Rush said. “We had to acquire the phone number, we wanted to ensure that the PennComm call-takers were trained to respond.”

Callers reach the HELP line for a variety of reasons. Rush said some callers simply request information about CAPS, others are parents who are worried about their children and still others are students calling for personal help.

“Some of the calls might be a parent who says, ‘I haven’t been able to reach my son for a whole weekend. I’m worried,’” Rush said. She said DPS would respond by sending police officers to find the student and ask them to call their parents.

Alternatively, she said, a student will say, “‘I’m feeling like I’m wanting to hurt myself, and I need help.’” In this case, the dispatchers will “immediately connect that person to the on-call CAPS person. In urgent cases, DPS will arrange transportation for a person to a hospital, if this is what the CAPS clinician on duty recommends.

“We are not psychologists. We are trained to be a crisis center,” Rush said. When students do reach CAPS, the clinicians take over.

“There’s a mechanism where the dispatcher keeps the caller on the line and reaches the CAPS clinician on call and connects the two so that the person never goes off the line,” CAPS Director Bill Alexander said.

He added that the system is not simple. If a student calls on a Friday, for example, CAPS will follow up multiple times over the course of the weekend. Throughout the weekend, CAPS may send a clinician to visit the student if

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A recent robbery at the TD Bank near campus could be connected to a suspect with over 10 other robberies under his belt.

On April 9, Penn Police and the Philadelphia Police Department responded to a robbery alarm at the TD Bank located at 3735 Walnut St. According to the police report, the unidentified male suspect handed a demand note to the teller. After receiving money from the teller, he fled the scene. He reportedly did not have any weapons on him and did not cause any injuries.

On Thursday, Philadelphia Police arrested 41-year-old Rashon Mitchell for a string of robberies of a similar nature in the Philadelphia area. Mitchell confessed to having robbed four banks. Court documents did not include the names of all the banks. It is currently unverified whether Mitchell was responsible for the TD Bank robbery.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office is prosecuting Mitchell for a robbery that occurred on Feb. 28, 2015 at the Republic Bank branch located at 1601 Market Street. According to a pre-trial motion filed by the U.S. Attorney’s office, Mitchell entered the bank at 1:30 p.m. and handed the teller a note which read “Just give me 3 grand and no one gets hurt.”

The teller gave Mitchell $913 along with a

angles and diagonal lines of the different bleacher sections, marked EE and EC, for both public and Penn. They redo several rows of bike racks without complaint. It’s a long and tedious job, but is essential to making the concert run smoothly.

The whole operation is streamlined with walkie-talkies, clipped to the hips of many of the committee members and all three of the directors.

SPEC Concert Director and Engineering sophomore Kelsey Simet signals over the walkietalkie that she needs someone to bring her “paper towels and some kind of cleaning product.”

Within a matter of seconds, someone produces them.

Simet then sharply turns around and heads back inside to deal with another snag. Opener Kygo has, at the last minute, requested that several more names be added to his VIP guest list.

“Kygo wants to change the names on his guest list now, three and a half hours before doors open,” Simet explains quickly. “It would normally not be a big deal, but we only have a certain number of passes that we print, and it’s hard to add more now.”

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The friends and family of Madison Holleran, a Penn student who committed suicide last spring semester, see Penn’s new mental health efforts as a move in the right direction, but they believe more must be done to create a stronger sense of community and support across campus.

Following six student suicides in 15 months, the Task Force on Student Psychological Health and Welfare published a report last Tuesday that reviewed and made recommendations for Penn’s mental health resources.

In reference to the drive for perfection in academics and all aspects of student life, the Task Force report emphasized an approach of “cultural rather than structural change.”

“There isn’t an easy fix to this issue, and I think it’s great that Penn is really taking this issue seriously, but I think Penn can do more to help students who are overwhelmed and need someone to go to and trust,” Madison Holleran’s father Jim Holleran said.

For Holleran’s father, Penn would more effectively spur the cultural change it hopes to achieve if it also focused on creating official programs, such as a formalized mentoring program in the athletic department, that would encourage students to talk openly about personal issues.

“In the Penn environment, I think it’s tough to achieve that level of depth in friendships,” Wharton sophomore Logan Gardner, a close friend of Holleran’s, said. “You think you know someone really well, but then when they go and do something like suicide that you never would’ve expected, you realize you had no idea

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York. His wallet was found in a nearby park and his cell phone was traced to two young people who said they found the belongings at a park near a school.

Police did not suspect foul play since $10 remained in the wallet.

Today marks the third month of Hamlett’s absence. As recently as the night of March 25, Teaneck Police confirmed the investigation is still open and ongoing. It is still unclear why Hamlett disappeared, but information from Hamlett’s friends and family provides more context on the circumstances leading up to Dec. 26.

A ‘great kid’ To his friends, Hamlett is charismatic, funny and committed to track.

College sophomore Clark Mangini has known Hamlett since they were on rival track teams in high school.

At Penn, they were roommates and trained together. Mangini said he was inspired by Hamlett both because of his talent on the track team and his humility despite his success. During the interview, Mangini was visibly

distraught and emotional over Hamlett’s disappearance.

In high school, Hamlett was a New Jersey state champion for the indoor 400-meter race. Coming to Penn, Mangini said, “I was pretty excited, the prospect of being on a team with him ... I think the opportunity to run with him definitely played a part in my choice to come to Penn.”

Even before he got to Penn, Hamlett made a strong impression on the friends he interacted with.

“Tim was very cool, he was into schoolwork, he was very studious, but at the same time he made separate time to have fun, like with us both on and off the court,” said Jemal Mosley, Hamlett’s high school basketball teammate at Don Bosco Preparatory School.

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Getting a tutor might take longer than expected

Vanity Fair reported that Emma Watson would be attending Penn

With a limited number, it can take weeks to get help

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If you spent yesterday practicing spells and brushing up on your British accent, you weren’t the only one.

Writers at Vanity Fair unknowingly participated in the Daily Pennsylvanian’s annual joke issue on Wednesday when they reported that Emma Watson was headed to Penn for graduate school.

Beyond reporting that Emma Watson would soon be attending Penn for graduate school, the joke issue also claimed that Penn would be joining Dartmouth in banning hard liquor, that Wharton would begin issuing a GPA requirement and that Netflix was no longer supported on AirPennNet. Wednesday’s articles contained clues to the satirical nature of the content that were spotted by suspicious readers, including the fake all-too-British name of Watson’s “publicist”, Kingsley Pennyton, and a quote from House of Cards character Peter Russo.

“I didn’t see it coming,” Wharton sophomore Taylor Brown said. “Since it was from the DP I thought that it was true,” Brown added in reference to the article on Penn banning hard liquor.

With finals season looming, Penn students can seek help at the Tutoring Center — but some students say the system isn’t perfect.

Penn’s Tutoring Center offers free help in several forms: Students can attend satellite tutoring sessions, participate in student-led discussion groups or workshops, receive tutoring in their college house or request

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Some students report that the process of getting a private tutor is complicated and time-consuming.

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a private tutor.

It’s this latter option, students say, that can be problematic — some students report that the process of getting a private tutor is complicated and time-consuming.

“Last semester, it took a while to get a tutor,” one student who sought Tutoring Center services said. “It can be like a two week-long process.

The system makes it inconvenient to get help.”

On the other side of the system, tutors hold similar views. “I’d like

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Hey Day festivities just got cheaper. On April 30, Penn’s campus will be swarmed for the 100th time

by hat-biting, cane-wielding juniors as they take over Locust Walk in celebration — all for just $20.

This year marks the 100th anniversary of Hey Day, a Penn tradition commemorating the Junior Class’s transition into senior year with quirky customs like donning hats and canes while marching across Locust

Walk. In an unprecedented move to make Hey Day more accessible and affordable, the Undergraduate Assembly decreased the cost of participating from $35 to $20 — a 43 percent price drop. In addition, tickets can be bought online for the first time ever.

Along with the discounted rate,

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Saying “ni hao” to the Penn Wharton China Center in Beijing This is the start of the six month long opening BRYN FERGUSON Staff Reporter

Costs cannot continue to rise without some sort of breaking point …”

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From Philadelphia to San Francisco, Penn has expanded its influence across the U.S. — now the University’s name has crossed the Pacific Ocean and taken on China, with the Penn Wharton China Center officially opening on March 10 in Beijing.

The opening was attended by around 40 senior administrators and faculty members, including Provost Vincent Price, Vice Provost for Global Initiatives Ezekiel Emanuel, various professors and eight deans from across the University, including Wharton Dean Geoffrey Garrett.

“We a re delighted to

launch the Penn Wharton China Center,” Penn President Amy Gutmann said in a statement. “We are building on Penn’s history of broad, deep engagement with China and creating a Center that provides an impressive infrastructure and significant resources to augment the University of Pennsylvania’s many collaborations and partnerships with great Chinese educational institutions.

The Center represents another major milestone in the Penn Compact 2020’s vision of bringing Penn to the world and the world to Penn.”

The launch celebration featured various panels, research talks and round table discussions.

Garrett moderated a panel on US-China relations, global economic prosperity and

geopolitical stability, featuring panelists like Wharton professor Richard Marston.

Price and Emanuel also led a round table discussion on the future of higher education. Panelists included Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences Steven Fluharty, interim Dean of the Law School Wendall Pritchett, Dean of the School of Design Marilyn Jordan Taylor and Garrett.

Among the Penn panelists in the various talks were senior executives and chairmen of Chinese companies.

With the Center now operational, its goal is to become a hub in China for Penn students, faculty, staff and alumni. The Center will maintain contact with different institutions across China, SEE CHINA CENTER PAGE 7

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Spring break elicits images of overworked students partying their stress away in bathing suits and bikinis at tropical resorts, traveling to exotic new countries or relaxing at home with family. For many Penn students, however, spring break is no break at all.

Most professors at Penn assign regular weekly workloads to their students over the break. Some even assign projects, papers and midterms due immediately after the break, which forces students to cut vacations short. For students enrolled in such courses, spring break means hours of studying in Huntsman Hall and Van Pelt Library or at a dusty bedroom desk that has remained untouched since high school.

From the Sociology department in the College to the Business Economics and Public Policy department in Wharton, courses across the curriculum this semester have midterms scheduled on the first day back from break. In some cases, this timing was not planned. The “Managerial Economics” midterm, for example, was postponed due to the partial snow day on March 5, the Thursday before break. For others, however, exams were originally scheduled immediately after break.

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It’s just before 3 p.m. when I get to Franklin Field on April 17. Most Penn students are in the midst of daytime parties and finishing up classes before heading to the concert in a few hours.

For the members of the Social Planning and Events Concerts Committee, their day started at 8:30 a.m.

I walk into the stadium and, for the most part it looks just like any other day at the field. The lacrosse team is running drills on the turf, and a few runners are doing sprints along the track.

The one noticeable difference is the giant stage facing the back part of the bleachers — one that will soon host Kesha and Kygo and thousands of Penn students.

Outside the stadium, dozens of students run around lifting bike racks into long lines that, as of yet, make no sense to me. Music drifts out of a small speaker one of the committee members has brought with them while they work. I stand and watch quietly as the production comes together.

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Our writers create the core of our newspaper every day. From student activism to administration policy changes, DP reporters bring important campus issues to light.

This year, reporters exposed Penn’s financial aid system, delved into student experiences with mental health and sexual assault and even went on ride-alongs with Penn Police.

Students interested in writing for the news department start as general assignments reporters, working on a three-week rotation: one week writing, one week attending team meeting and one week off. After a semester of writing, students are invited to apply to become beat reporters. Later on in their DP careers, writers can choose to run for a board position or write as a senior reporter.

The photographers in the DP not only compliment the story and make the paper aesthetically pleasing, they often tell the story. Our photographers capture campus in ways that words alone cannot. After all, a picture is worth a thousand words.

With state-of-the-art equipment and software, lovers of photography and amateurs alike are invited to become members of the photo staff. After undergoing sessions of photo training, new photographers have the opportunity to shoot for sports and news and build up to senior photographer status. This year, DP photographers shot photos of personalities including Kesha, Malcolm Gladwell and Ellie Kemper, as well as a variety of campus, city and sporting events.

Throughout the year, our sports writers follow the progress of our athletic teams, traveling to sister institutions to bring readers highlights of their teams’ performances. This year, sports reporters covered the loss of our basketball and football coaches, and the hope for turning around Penn Athletics teams.

On our opinion pages, columnists and artists voice their opinions and concerns to their readers, reaching out to a community of over 20,000 students and faculty members.

And if all that’s not enough, the DP’s Copy department comes in each night to edit, proof, fact-check and write headlines.

To learn more about DP Editorial, contact Editor-in-Chief Jill Castellano at castellano@theDP.com

Beyond the Print Edition As news increasingly moves online, The DP has become more accessible on the web. Readers can comment on stories, watch videos and photo slideshows and interact with multimedia graphics.

The web department also helps bring budding journalists the skills they need to succeed in the age of social media and real-time reporting. It also provides students with the opportunity to do on-camera work, help run blogs and create multimedia features.

weekly arts and entertainment magazine.

Under the Button: The popular blog is your 24/7 source for Penn news, gossip and entertainment.

The Buzz: the DP’s sports blog brings you real-time sports updates, live blogs during games and analysis of Philadelphia and national sports.

To learn more about web development opportunities at the DP, contact Director of Online Projects Luke Chen at chen@theDP.com.

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Finally, motivated and enthusiatic circulation staff hand out the newspaper to people around campus.

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This section brings the culture of Penn into print. The staple of the section is the ego of the week — a Penn personality worthy of inverviewing.

This is your go-to section for when the going gets tough and all you need is a little laugh. Home of the “Shoutouts,” low brow is Street’s humor section.

This is the high steppin’ section of Street with content that makes doing the Sudoku seem like an utter waste of mind and brain.

Reviewing restaurants and beverages with in-depth looks at other comestibles, the food and drink section tells it like it is.

The film section represents the epitome of the word film — and we are not talking about membranous covering.

Look out for details on all the best movies.

The meat and potatoes of Street, this section is where Street focuses its attention on issues and topics relevant to Penn.

This section covers reviews of new tracks and takes a look at bands on and around campus. It’s a great place to find out about upcoming concerts.

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A painless guide to creating your freshman year class schedule

As Penn’s newest crop of Quakers, you’re probably looking forward to four years of fun and excitement. But first, you need to make sure you know how to choose the right classes. Here are some tips that will help.

Penn InTouch: Penn InTouch is the multipurpose web platform on which you will manage your course registration, grades, billing and student information for the next four years. You can search for classes and enroll in the ones that interest you. The mock schedules tool allows you to see what your hypothetical course schedule will look

Advising: Upon your admission to Penn, you are assigned to a pre-major advisor, who will be the go-to person when you have questions about academic planning. Every semester, you need to let your pre-major advisor know which classes you

plan to take. If you don’t, you will be put on registration hold, which means that you cannot register for classes on Penn InTouch. Make sure to make an appointment with your advisor before Advanced Registration starts.

After you officially declare a major, normally at the end of your sophomore year, talking to your advisor before registration will no longer be required, but it is still strongly recommended that you continue to discuss your academic plans with the advisor assigned to you.

Advanced Registration: As the name suggests, advance registration period usually happens shortly before the semester you’re choosing classes. For incoming freshmen, advanced registration will happen during the summer before school starts. You will use the Penn InTouch system to search and register for classes.

Advanced registration usually lasts for two to three weeks, so keep the time frame in mind while finalizing your choices.

Also, advanced registration is not rolling-based, so there is no advantage for anyone who registers early. As long as you meet the deadline, your choices will be considered, though there is no guarantee that Penn’s algorithm will place you in all the classes you request.

Course Selection Period: There is a second chance if you weren’t given all the courses you wanted during advanced registration. After advanced registration, you can still add a class if someone drops the class and leaves a vacant space.

Besides advance registration, classes are filled up as students enroll during course selection period, so timing is important.

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The server of Penn InTouch is known to become unreliable if too many students are trying to log on the system at the same time, so try your best to avoid last minute changes and get things done early.

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There are group study rooms, computer labs and quiet study places. The downside is that the library can fill up pretty ELIZABETH WINSTON quickly, especially around exam Starpoint High School ‘14 time. If you do find yourself in City, S.T. Van Pelt, check out the sixth Midter ms season doesn’t floor. It’s filled with little Ben mean you always need to be Franklin artifacts which will constrained to a library. Take perhaps inspire you to study. a look at some of the study op- The sixth floor also happens to tions around campus. have the best bathrooms in the library.

EASY ON-CAMPUS SPOTS Huntsman Hall: This is the Fisher Fine Arts Library: go-to study place for Whar- This big red building is hard to tonites. It is conveniently miss. This library offers what located in the center of campus you expect from a school like and offers three floors of poten- Penn. It has detailed architial study space. Now, booking tecture and kind of feels like a group study room (or GSR) is a castle inside with its windeasier than ever with the Whar- ing staircases. If you’re a fan ton Connect app. of Instagram, you will likely find yourself bragging to your Van Pelt Library: This is non-Penn friends about your exone of the most popular study perience there over social media.

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PLACES TO AVOID Starbucks on 34th and Walnut: Unlike the Starbucks under Commons, there is virtually no space to sit and study.

Even if you manage to find a seat upstairs, the lighting is dim, and it gets crowded pretty HubBub: This cafe is nice quickly. This place is better for and close to the Quad. If you a quick grab-and-go latte before are tired of being called “basic” class. for constantly drinking Starbucks, this venue is for you. Fun The dining halls: These places fact: This coffee shop actually offer little ambiance and are pretty started as a food truck run by a loud. Save your homework for later Penn alumnus.

— the dining halls don’t quite inspire productivity. Also, you can Saxbys: This coffee shop is only stay there so long before you another popular study space on get kicked out at closing time. campus. If you like caffeine, but not the taste of coffee, this is The benches outside of Van your spot. Saxbys has all kinds Pelt: These benches look tempting, of coffee drink flavors. If coffee especially when the weather is nice. isn’t your thing, they also have But bees have already claimed this

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We tallied up 1,316 votes and found the most eligible bachelors on campus. You’ve loved them from afar, but now you can get up close and personal. You’re welcome.

AYYUB IBRAHIM C’16 This fashionable Insta–famous bachelor @ayyubibrachic has the notoriety of a young Kanye, and we’re dying to be his Kim K. His dream Valentine: “I love girls who are into biology and aspire to be doctors.”

His oral skills, on a scale of 1 to 10: “Solid 9. I’m modest.”

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When this stormy–eyed salsa star isn’t cutting a rug on the dance floor, he’s breaking hearts at the club.

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His perfect Valentine: “A good dancer.”

How he’s still single: “High standards.”

His biggest turn–off: “[Wearing] sweatpants.”

How to catch his eye: “Look very good in sweatpants.”

How he’ll warm your cold, unbeating heart: “I’m an optimist.”

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The mental image of this cutie petting a golden retriever puppy will make you believe in Nicholas Sparks, guaranteed.

Model, artist, photographer — this bachelor has done it all, and he’s looking for a guy who appreciates one hell of a ride.

Why your mom will love him: “I like dogs and kids.”

Why you will, too: “I made [a girl] dinner—pesto pasta with pine nuts. We baked brownies together after.”

Drink of choice: “Lychee martini.”

His type: “My mom in guy form.”

Ideal date: “A tasting menu dinner at Juni in New York. Followed by exploring art galleries.”

ANTHONY GEORGIADES W’16 If you’re looking for love, or a GrubHub companion, look no further than this notoriously hot bachelor.

His type: “I like sweet. I like smart. I like girls who bring food over.”

His signature drink: “Three measures of Gordon’s; one of vodka; half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it over ice, and add a thin slice of lemon peel.”

This hipster bachelor likes brains and beauty. If you’re the one, his southern manners will sweep you off your feet — trust us.

His fantasy girl: “Great Quizzo partner. I really love bar trivia. I like a girl who reads books.”

How he sounds in bed: “That’s for me to know, and you to find out.” (Ed. note: I mean, okay.)

His most awe–inducing moment: “I planned a scavenger hunt that ended with the sunset on the beach.”

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GREEK LIFE IS INHERENTLY SEXIST

Spring Fling serves as a reminder that our social lives are dominated by Greek life. But why do we calmly accept a fucked–up system where men get to call all the shots?

MIKAELA GILBERT-LURIE Marlborough High School ‘13 Los Angeles, C.A.

It was a freshman girl’s nightmare. I was at my first college party and had managed to lose everyone I came with. I didn’t know the name of the frat or how to get home. My phone was dead, my future roommate hadn’t gotten to school yet, and I didn’t know what to do. Maybe it’s because I’d gone to an all–girls high school and was naive. Or maybe it’s because I have two big brothers and have always felt safe around older boys, but instinct told me to ask one of the fraternity brothers to walk me home. He told me I could sleep in his bed instead. I laughed. He didn’t. He made me an offer: he would walk me home, but I had to blow him first. For the record, I didn’t do it.

I’m not in a sorority, so before

you say I couldn’t possibly understand “sisterhood” or “brotherhood,” I’m going to say you’re probably right. There are undoubtedly many wonderful aspects of Greek life that, not being a member of it, I will never understand.

That being said, no matter how special your lifelong friendships are, the benefits of Greek life don’t outweigh the systematic, pervasive harm a system predicated on internalized misogyny perpetuates.

In light of recent events surrounding AXO’s investigation, it’s important to take a serious look at the structure of Greek life and the related behaviors we’ve accepted as both normal and appropriate.

Greek life needs to be dramatically changed or abolished in order for Penn to be a place where women and men are truly equal.

Full disclosure: when I was a freshman, I went through rush

and signed a bid from Alpha Phi. For reasons that have nothing to do with the girls in that sorority (many of whom I like very much) and more to do with the fact that I was in a long–distance relationship at the time and didn’t see the appeal of date nights or mixers, I quit right after Bid Night.

Greek life’s double standard for women and men begins during recruitment. While men are technically not allowed to “dirty rush,” it’s pretty much taken for granted that they do, while sororities face very strict punishment for doing the same. Potential fraternity brothers have a semester to get a feel for the houses, while girls have five days during which they’re supposed to be able to decide where they belong.

Once official recruitment begins, men are allowed to go to whichever houses they want, eating and drinking in low–key envi-

ronments. Sorority rush, by contrast, is a highly structured process where women have no choice but to start with every house and then go back to ones they may not even like. When I was rushing, I got a recruitment guide filled with rules like, “There is absolutely no talking between potential new members from the end of preference parties until the end of preference card signing,” and a list of behaviors that could get me dropped from recruitment (such as using a cell phone during recruitment, not attending one of the parties without an excuse or arriving late to a party without an excuse).

Sure, these are the National Panhellenic Council’s rules, but by voluntarily being a part of these organizations, women are complicit in the appropriation of their own agency. What the rush process is really saying, and sorority women are by extension

endorsing, is that women are incapable of making decisions without excruciating handholding and endless rules.

The gender bias doesn’t end on Bid Night. National rules forbidding sororities from throwing parties with alcohol are infantilizing and reinforce the message that men are more capable than women. Not allowing women to throw their own parties forces them to attend events at fraternities and surrender control to men.

With a monopoly over campus parties, frat boys control the guest lists and alcohol. I’ve spent way too many nights standing before khaki–clad boys while they evaluated whether my friends and I met their qualifications for entry.

Why should my social life revolve around parties where my presence is viewed in terms of improving the ratio of girls who are fuckable to the guys who can fuck them?

I know I’m not the only woman who has felt something on the spectrum of objectified to blatantly unsafe inside a frat house. If sorority girls could throw parties on their own turf, maybe I could accept a drink without fearing my cup was filled with Everclear, Adderall and Kool–Aid. Maybe I could be at a party and feel like more than a potential sex object.

I assume people will respond with arguments about all the good sororities and fraternities do.

They’re philanthropic, sure. But you can’t honestly believe that charity offsets the damage Greek life does to women. Sexism is scary when it’s overt, but when it’s so normalized and internalized that women don’t even care, or worse, don’t even realize they’re taking part in a system that’s oppressing them, we have an even bigger, more insidious problem on our hands.

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Not all departments offer submatriculation for Penn undergraduate students JILL MOELY Weston High School ‘14 Hill Point, Wis.

Submatriculation into one of Penn’s graduate schools can save students time and money — but some may need to determine whether pursuing an advanced degree through this type of program is worthwhile.

Submatriculation allows students to complete their first year of graduate study during their senior year as undergraduates, and exists in many forms on Penn’s campus. In the College of Arts and Sciences, students have the option of submatriculating within their department or within professional schools such as the Graduate School of Education, Penn Law School and the School of Dental Medicine. Nursing, Engineering and Wharton also offer opportunities for undergraduates to earn higher degrees on an expedited timeframe.

But not all departments offer this option. Some popular majors within the College, such as History and Political Science, do not allow students to begin graduate work early.

“It was kind of a shock to me because I’d heard a lot about submatriculation in Engineering, and I realized it’s not really offered, at least with my major, at Penn,” dual-degree senior Max Morant said.

This discrepancy is mostly due to the fact that many graduate divisions are geared towards Ph.D. students — submatriculation, which generally allows students to pursue their master’s degree, doesn’t always work with the department’s existing structure.

“The graduate level of Arts and Sciences departments are actually set up to offer the Ph.D. That’s the terminal degree,” said College of Arts and Sciences Assistant Dean

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for Advising Gary Purpura. “A lot of the departments don’t have a master’s program at all.”

As a result, only departments that can sustain a master’s program independent of the Ph.D. — such as Chemistry and Mathematics — offer submatriculation programs, and submatriculant numbers are low. However, departments such as Criminology and Bioethics have recently made efforts to emphasize the possibility of submatriculation to their students.

There are also differences between the benefits of submatriculating in different schools.

Morant considered submatriculation in his Engineering major of Computer Science because of the career benefits.

“There’s a big pay bump, and it makes you more competitive,” Morant said. “Students encourage other students to submatriculate because it gives you tangible advantages. For people who want to work within their major, submatriculation is a really a good idea.”

Maryeileen Griffith, the Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics and Integrated Product Design graduate program coordinator, confirmed the vocational benefits of

submatriculating in Engineering.

“Obtaining a master’s degree can make a SEAS graduate more marketable when looking for employment after graduation,” she said.

Morant also says that submatriculation within a single Engineering department can act as a logical extension of undergraduate studies — many SEAS students take 500-level courses before graduation, so taking a few more graduate courses is a minimal change.

In other schools, the stakes may be different. In the College, for instance, the career benefits of submatriculation may not be as apparent. In fact, submatriculation could actually be a waste of time for those who plan to pursue a Ph.D. “In terms of the master’s in Arts and Sciences, it’s not clear to me what kind of professional benefit that might have,” Purpura said. “These are fields where the Ph.D. is the terminal degree. So doing submatriculation and getting a master’s, I don’t know if that that’s really going to have a professional advantage … and it’s unlikely you’d get any credit for a Ph.D. from that master’s you may have done as a submatriculant.”

Given this, many students who

submatriculate within the College do so to further their intellectual interests rather than to advance their career plans — those who finish their majors early and want to continue study in that area are good candidates for the program.

The exception, Purpura said, are those who enroll in programs within the professional schools.

In these cases, submatriculation saves students a year of time on a degree they would probably pursue anyways.

Regardless of the school and program, submatriculation can save students time and, given the fact that submatriculants pay undergraduate tuition for their first year of grad school, money. However, advisors say that students must plan well and be aware of the pros and cons in order to ensure that submatriculation is the right option for them.

“Students who want to consider submatriculation need to be as clear as they can be about their rationale,” Purpura said. “Are they doing it for personal intellectual reasons, are they doing it for professional reasons or is there some other reason? The clearer they can be about their rationale, the more confident they can be in their decision of whether or not to pursue submatriculation.”

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minority groups on campus expressed their discontent. Phi Delt was put under investigation and placed on probation.

They were also required to complete cultural sensitivity and sexual and relationship misconduct education programs. One group, Students Organizing for Unity and Liberation, protested the fraternity by holding a mock slave auction in front of the fraternity’s house this April.

Alpha Chi Omega made its own spalsh. After being placed on probation in January following a phone call made by a Penn student’s parent to the University after a drinking event, Penn’s chapter of Alpha Chi Omega decided to go offcampus, instead of abstaining from social events for the next two years.

By the Numbers: Today at Penn there are 53 Greek social fraternity and sorority chapters, 30 chapters in the Interfraternity Council, nine chapters in the Panhellenic Council and 14 chapters in the Multicultural Greek Council.

The Rush Process: Penn’s main recruitment processes take place in the spring semester as soon as everyone arrives back from winter break at the end of January. This differs slightly from schools with a larger Greek life scene. Currently, the overall number of students actively involved in our Greek system is more than 25 percent of the total undergraduate student population at Penn.

Having recruitment in the spring allows students time to get settled into the college experience, as well as to weigh the Greek life options.

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Exploring political groups, from Penn Dems to College Republicans

rush, can be an exciting, hectic time.

Fraternity v. Sorority Rush: Recruitment differs greatly for guys and girls on campus.

Boys attend date nights and hangouts where they get to know the brothers of the fraternities that they are interested in.

Rushing a sorority, on the other hand, is a different story.

Girls visit the nine sorority houses with different rounds on different days, meeting many girls in a complicated but organized selection process. They are guided along houses by a recruitment guide called a Rho Gamma.

Life as a Greek: Once joining Greek life, weekends are filled with date nights, formals and bonding activities. Philanthropy events also raise money for causes like Alzheimer’s or breast cancer research.

Partisan and nonpartisan groups are available for politically active students DAN SPINELLI La Salle College High School ‘14 North Wales, Pa.

Since its founding by politician and diplomat Benjamin Franklin, Penn has fostered political discussion and advocacy through campus organizations. Some of these groups are action-oriented — with a distinct focus on producing political change in the community — while others are discussion-based — with their primary goal being the pursuit of political knowledge. Here is an overview of the groups to get involved

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Expand your vocabulary with these must-know Penn terms Add SWUG, sceney, MERTed, DFMO and SABSing to your lingo CAROLINE SIMON Upper Dublin High School ‘14 Oreland, Pa.

Penn students speak a language all their own. Before you arrive on campus, check out this helpful list of terms and abbreviations used frequently by Penn students. Impress upperclassmen — and intimidate each other — with your new vocabulary, and enjoy the start of your year!

YOUR CAMPUS The Button: A large, white button sculpture directly outside of Van Pelt Library. A popular meeting spot.

The Tampons: A large red sculpture on Locust Walk between 38th and 39th streets that looks eerily like a pair of used tampons (or a pair of lipsticks).

Also a popular meeting spot.

DRL: David Rittenhouse Laboratory. A large science and math building at 33rd and Walnut streets that is detested by most Penn students for being far away from mostly everything.

Steiny-D: Steinberg-Dietrich Hall. The Wharton building on Locust Walk between 36th and 37th streets.

The Compass: The large compass built into Locust Walk at the 37th Street intersection.

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Stommons: The Starbucks Downtown: A party held at a under Commons downtown location rather than KCECH: Kings Court and on campus.

English Houses Darty: A party held during the day, popular especially YOUR CLASSES during Fling.

PPE: Philosophy, Politics and DFMO: Dance floor makeEconomics out. Can also be used to describe BBB: Biological Basis of Be- a person to whom this applies. havior Walk of Shame: The return HSOC: Health and Societies to your residence, wearing OPIM: Operations and Infor- clothes from the previous night, mation Management after staying the night with BEPP: Business Economics someone. and Public Policy Apes, Theos, OZ, Crows, Fiji, St. A’s, St. Elmo’s, Castle, YOUR SOCIAL LIFE Sammy, Pike and now OAX: BYO : Br i ng-Yo u r- O w n . Greek organizations that conPhiladelphia is blessed with a fusingly aren’t known by their number of restaurants, both in Greek letters.

University City and Center City, SABSing: The act of seeing that allow you to bring your own and being seen. Popular in a alcohol and don’t check iden- number of places, such as the tification. A popular way for tables outside of Tortas Frongroups of Penn students to have tera. fun and drink together.

Spring Fling: The time when MISCELLANEOUS you’ll be happy you didn’t get OCR: On-campus recruitinto Princeton — a weekend that ing. The explanation for stressed includes a concert, a carnival W ha r ton st udents r un n ing and endless parties. around campus in suits during MERT(ed): Medical Emer- certain times of year. gency Rescue Team, a group of SWUG: Senior Washed-Up student EMTs who respond to Girl. A senior girl who is genemergency calls on campus. To erally tired of college life and be MERTed is to be so incapaci- ready to move on. tated that someone had to call GSR: A group study room in emergency help to take care of Wharton. Great for productivity, you. but you have to be in Wharton to Sceney: A difficult-to-define reserve one. term referring to Penn stuFlyering: The generally undents who are involved with the welcome activity of having a “scene” — for example, wealthy flyer aggressively offered to you students who take Ubers to on Locust Walk by an organidowntown parties on Thursday zation trying to advertise their nights on a weekly basis. show/fundraiser/event/startup.

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FIRST BIG 5 TITLE

Longtime Penn football coach Al Bagnoli became Columbia’s coach after finishing the season

With a win over Temple in January, women’s basketball clinched their first Big 5 title

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Penn Relays is a world affair

THE

BEST SPOT TO WIN

RILEY STEELE

Athletic Director Grace Calhoun introduces new hire

April 23 — Toward the end of Penn’s spring break, the basketball teams — and respective fan bases — from Harvard and Yale gathered at the Palestra for the Ivy League’s one-game playoff.

On the line in that matchup was everything: With a win, one team would advance to the NCAA Tournament while the other, it turned out, wouldn’t play again in 2014-15.

On that March afternoon, Penn’s famed basketball arena played host to one of the greatest basketball games in the venue’s history, probably the most thrilling game most people at the Palestra — myself included — had ever seen in person.

The sort of energy from that game isn’t seen terribly often when Penn’s campus hosts a sporting event, especially ones involving the Red and Blue.

Except for Penn Relays, that is.

Over the course of the next four days, over 120,000 people will fill the stands at Franklin Field in support of some of the most dominant athletes in track in field. For over 12 decades, the Relays — by far the most popular athletic event at Penn on an annual basis — have showcased an amalgamation of the purest raw talent the sport has to offer, with high schoolers and college athletes, professionals and Olympians all on display.

However, similar to the Ivy League Playoff, as well as the overwhelming majority of sporting events on campus, many students at Penn are apathetic about the Relays, arguing that they aren’t important because … well, I don’t really know why.

To me, anyone — be it a sports reporter for The Daily Pennsylvanian or a senior who has never been to Franklin Field while at this school — who is apathetic about the nation’s most famous track meet clearly doesn’t understand the event’s importance.

Because on top of the sheer size of the spectacle, one simple fact stands out: Penn Relays are important because they keep Penn Athletics — and, by extension, the University at-large — relevant in the sporting world, even when the Red and Blue’s flagship sports do not.

Yes, just like that one-game playoff at the Palestra.

The past two seasons have been SEE STEELE PAGE B4

RILEY STEELE & STEVEN TYDINGS The TASIS School in Dorado ‘12 and The Pennington School ‘12

March 18 — There’s nothing better than coming home.

Fifteen years after leaving the Red and Blue to take over the head coaching position at Cornell, former Penn basketball assistant Steve Donahue was formally introduced as the Quakers’ next coach at a press conference at the Palestra on Tuesday.

Standing next to Athletic Director Grace Calhoun, Donahue described his return to the Red and Blue as an opportunity that was too good for the 52-year-old to let get away.

“This was flat out the best spot to win,” Donahue said. “I have the chance to win with the right type of kids, the right way. This place is one that has everything I ever wanted in an institution, because [it has] the people and the ability for me to really win championships.

“I am a Big 5 coach. There are only five of us. To imagine that I am one of them, at this institution, is just incredible.”

The 20th coach in program history, Donahue arrives at Penn after a season away from the sidelines, a period in which he did television work for ESPN. An assistant to legendary Red and Blue coach Fran Dunphy from 1990 through 2000, Donahue received his first head coaching opportunity with perennial Ivy bottom-feeder Cornell, spending a decade in Ithaca.

However, in ten seasons with the Big Red, he transformed one of the Ivy League’s worst programs into a powerhouse. In his final three years at Cornell, Donahue won three consecutive Ancient Eight titles, becoming the first team outside of Penn and Princeton to ever do so.

Following a Sweet 16 appearance in 2010, Donahue was hired at Boston College. Although they finished 21-13 in his first season at the helm, the Eagles won only 33 games in Donahue’s final three SEE M. HOOPS PAGE B2

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Penn women’s squash clinches Ivy title Championship is team’s first since 2008 LAINE HIGGINS The Blake School ‘13 Minneapolis, Minn.

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Penn women’s squash clinched the third Ivy title in program history, the Quakers’ second under coach Jack Wyant and first since 2008. Penn earned a 2-seed in the CSA Championship, before losing to Trinity in the semifinals.

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Feb. 9 — Some victories are just a little bit sweeter than others.

For the women’s squash team, Sunday’s 9-0 sweep of Columbia was more than just a win; it was the win that capped off a perfect conference season and clinched Penn’s first Ivy League title in seven years.

Heading into the weekend, only Cornell and Columbia (7-7, 2-4 Ivy) stood between Penn and a spot atop the Ancient Eight. But neither the Big Red nor the Lions could put a damper on the Quakers’ winning ways.

With a four-game winning streak in tow, Penn conquered the Big Red (8-5, 3-4 Ivy) at home on Friday with an SEE W. SQUASH PAGE B5

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Red and Blue go from worst to first, capture Ivy title Penn edges Princeton by one stroke ANNA DYER The Hockaday School ‘14 Dallas, Texas

April 28 — On the back nine in the final round of the Ivy League Men’s Golf Championships, Penn knew it was going to be close.

What the Red and Blue might not have realized was just how close it would be.

On Sunday, after three rounds of exciting play, the Quakers won the Ancient Eight crown by just one stroke with a total score of 885 over Princeton’s 886.

After starting the final day four strokes behind then-first place Princeton, the Red and Blue knew they would have to

play their best to keep pace with the Tigers. Although uncertainty swirled around the exact scores of each team throughout the round, senior captain Austin Powell made one thing clear to his coach.

“I’m not going down without a fight.”

And Powell wasn’t the only Penn golfer with this resilient mentality. Over the course of the final nine holes, the Quakers’ top four golfers combined to go seven-under-par, including two eagles from sophomore Dane Walton on the 10th and 13th holes. Powell and fellow senior Ben Cooley each notched four birdies on the last nine as well.

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years in Chestnut Hill, Mass., claiming less than 10 victories in two of those seasons.

Despite Donahue’s struggles in the Atlantic Coast Conference, Calhoun views the hiring as a no-brainer.

“I was taken aback by his humility in describing his failures when he could have instead described [them] as circumstances beyond his control,” Calhoun said. “After all, we are ultimately defined by our responses to adversity.

“I was again taken aback as he described his professional and personal challenges over the past three decades, and I heard perspective, perseverance, wit and wisdom that can only come from life experience.”

Now tasked with improving the fortunes of a team in the midst of its longest Ivy title drought — eight seasons — since the 1960s, Donahue is excited about the opportunity to develop a talented group of players heading into next season. After freshmen Antonio Woods, Sam Jones, Darnell Foreman and Mike Auger played significant minutes in 2014-15, a talented incoming recruiting class and various veteran players will allow Donahue to implement an exciting style of play.

“We’re going to recruit highcharacter kids that play an extremely fast, skilled, gritty and smart style of basketball,” Donahue said. “We’re going to get up and down the floor, and we’re going to do it in a manner that is really focused on execution on both sides of the ball.

“I hope that you can look out and, even if we didn’t have uniforms on, you would know that it is a Penn basketball team.”

Donahue’s vision for Penn basketball fit in with what Calhoun was looking for in the program’s next head coach.

Calhoun hired the firm of longtime Division I basketball coach Eddie Fogler as a consultant after first developing the characteristics needed in the next coach.

“I’ll start by acknowledging that with a year to really study

this, I felt that — as of Jerome’s resignation — I had a really strong sense of the background and the personal attributes that were going to be required in our next coach,” Calhoun said. “So it really allowed me to focus the search really quickly.”

Moving quickly on candidates became a priority for the firstyear AD as Penn hoped to stay ahead of the curve compared to other Division I coaching searches. While Penn initially considered a few assistant coaches, Calhoun didn’t see the job as ideal for someone’s first head coaching experience.

The Red and Blue looked at 25 coaches with Division I head

No one could check all the boxes and presented the profile and the proven track record

”

- Grace Calhoun Athletic Director

coaching experience, vetting candidates for experience as well as familiarity with the financial aid model within which Penn operates. "[The more I] had a chance to talk to people, the more it just became so obvious that no one could check all the boxes and presented the profile and the proven track record that Steve Donahue does,” Calhoun said.

Calhoun launched a coaching search as an athletic director once before, finding a new coach in her previous position at Loyola virtually immediately after she took the job. This time around, she had the benefit of being on campus and having more experience at the school.

Ever since arriving on campus, Calhoun placed an emphasis on assessing and turning around the Penn basketball program, deeming it either the 1-A or 1-B priority alongside assessing the division of

intercollegiate athletics and recreation as a whole.

“You can debate which order they happened in, but certainly getting through that assessment and figuring out how to take that next step forward is so critically important because this is our flagship sport,” Calhoun said.

“We need the Penn community to feel good about our program and be engaged in our program.

“We want students to come to games. We want there to be interest in the program and we want to proudly represent the University with what we do here so we’re well positioned to do that.”

With the one-year anniversary of her hiring as athletic director less than a week away, Calhoun now has a better sense of what the program needs to thrive in the current Ivy League.

With that knowledge, she hopes that she can work hand and hand with Donahue to return the Quakers to prominence.

While Penn used to be able to rely simply on its superior facilities like the Palestra along with its history to recruit top-notch athletes, Calhoun believes the school needs to rethink many of the program’s smaller aspects to help regain competitive advantages in an improving Ivy League.

“Certainly making the announcement of a coach is just the first step now in the next chapter,” she said. “We do need to work together to access what he will need and the team will need to be competitive. We certainly know there will be a series of changes that we’ll need to go through to reposition that program so that ought to keep us plenty busy.”

Despite the changes looming on the horizon for the Red and Blue, Donahue understands that it will take a significant amount of work for both he and Calhoun to accomplish their goals surrounding Penn basketball.

“Obviously, right now, that vision is not where we want to be,” Donahue said. “We need to be back on top because that’s where we belong.

“I will roll up my sleeves and work as hard as I can to make sure that happens.”

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Bright future ahead for Penn basketball’s Mike Auger

M. HOOPS | Rookie

makes big impact TOM NOWLAN

Montpelier High School ‘14 Montpelier, VT

Feb. 4 — The play started with a turnover.

Before the Palestra crowd knew it, freshman forward Mike Auger was streaking down the court, eventually finishing the breakaway with an emphatic one-handed jam.

The Red and Blue faithful went crazy. Penn — after trailing by as many as 17 points — was within just two points of Lafayette with under ten minutes remaining.

That Nov. 22 game was just the third of Auger’s career, but the powerfully built Boston native made it clear that he was already a force to be reckoned with. The emphatic dunk accounted for two of Auger’s team-high 18 points, notched along with a game-high nine rebounds in only 14 minutes of playing time off the bench.

The game was not entirely full of positives for Auger. He suffered a foot injury in the contest, a frustrating setback that sidelined him for the next six games. However, upon his return on Dec. 30 against La Salle, Auger picked up right where he left off, notching nine points on perfect 4-for-4 shooting.

“He didn’t allow the injury to be a setback mentally,” coach Jerome Allen said of Auger’s ability to stay fresh despite an extended absence.

“Whatever the trainers allowed him to do, he did it to the utmost.”

Despite averaging just 20.8 minutes per game — six Quakers’ players have higher average playing time — Auger has been able to make the most of his time on the floor. Featuring a relatively modest six-foot-seven frame, the freshman is second on the team — behind only junior center Darien NelsonHenry – with 5.3 rebounds per game.

“It’s just always how I’ve played,” Auger said of his

GUYRANDY JEAN-GILLES | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Despite an early injury in the 2014-15 season, freshman forward Mike Auger has demonstrated poise and efficiency on the court.

remarkable efficiency. “A lot of the times when I come into the game, we’ve needed a little bit of an energy boost. I just try to bring that energy as much as I can.”

“He really leaves it on the floor,” Allen agreed. “It’s just a part of who he is. Very rarely do we run plays for him, but he always finds a way to be a part of the action. It’s really something that we desperately need.”

Auger attributes his breakout success to the collective support and guidance of the team as a whole.

“Tony [Hicks], Darien, Greg [Louis] … I can’t key in on just one [positive influence],” he said. “We have a great staff and a great group of guys.”

Despite Auger’s efforts, the Quakers faded late in that November game against Lafayette. The 83-77 loss was emblematic of a season that has been filled with its fair share of ups and downs.

But, much like Auger’s slam was a glimmer of hope in an otherwise forgettable game, the play

of Auger — along with the breakout success of fellow freshman Antonio Woods — has provided a bright ray of optimism in what has been an otherwise subpar season for Penn.

“I’m really excited,” Allen said of the program’s future. “We still have everything in front of us.

I’ve been really impressed with [Auger’s] poise, his pace and his understanding of the game.”

As for Auger, he has some pretty lofty goals for the years to come.

“Obviously I want to win an Ivy championship, that’s always the goal,” he said. “I know this program has so much history and so much culture.

“There’s a fan base just waiting for a team they can jump on board with.”

So, perhaps the roar in the crowd on that November night as Auger soared high above the rim was more than just a brief moment of optimism and joy.

If Auger has it his way, it will have simply been a sign of things to come.

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Alexis Sargent steps up to the plate for Quakers

SOFTBALL | Sophomore

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STEVEN JACOBSON Ranney School ‘14 Tinton Falls, NJ

March 31 — Coming into 2015, Penn softball pitcher and first baseman Alexis Sargent had already recorded the eighth-most home runs in program history, notched the school’s fifth-lowest career earned run average, been named second-team All-Ivy and led the Quakers to the Ivy League Championship series.

All in her rookie season.

Sargent’s tremendous debut in 2014 wasn’t totally unexpected, as the Virginia native joined the Red and Blue after being named to the All-State team three times in high school, among numerous other accolades. However, Sargent’s freshman performance was so good that it even surprised herself.

“Coming in as a freshman, I didn’t expect to get as much plate time as I did,” Sargent said.

“I was absolutely thrilled with the amount of opportunities I got. I’m really happy with how I showed up, especially in stressful situations to help our team succeed.

“I was really proud of myself.”

In addition to firmly establishing herself on the Quakers’ career home run leaderboard, Sargent’s nine bombs last year were the third-most for Penn in a single season, behind only Annie Kinsey in 2007 and fellow freshman teammate and outfielder Leah Allen, who set the single-season mark after clubbing 13 home runs in 2014.

However, despite establishing herself in Penn’s history books, Sargent isn’t focusing on setting individual records.

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After recording the fifth lowest ERA in the Ivy League in 2014, sophomore Alexis Sargent has taken on responsibilities for the Red and Blue on the diamond at both pitcher and first base. The sophomore has been one of the team’s best players as the Quakers advanced to the ILCS.

“Honestly, you can’t really think about that while you’re at the plate or else it’s really going to mess up your performance,” Sargent said. “I just try to focus on getting solid contact and helping the team out. And if that results in breaking any of those records, I’d be absolutely thrilled, but I just want to win

out here.”

In addition to her prodigious power at the plate, Sargent also served as Penn’s No. 2 pitcher last year, behind senior Alexis (AC) Borden. Her 2.51 ERA placed fifth among pitchers in the Ivy League last year.

Despite her dominant run-prevention skills, Sargent isn’t your

typical strikeout pitcher.

“Comparing myself to the rest of our staff, I’m definitely more of a pitch-to-contact pitcher,” Sargent said. “AC strikes more people out and I think I’m in there more to induce pop-ups and groundouts.”

It’s a style that has worked well for Sargent. Although she

only struck out 43 batters in 69 innings last season, she won six games, including a complete game shutout over Yale last spring.

Sargent’s double duty is all the more impressive given the constraints on her practice time.

The Ivy League restricts spring sports’ practice time in the fall,

which means Sargent has to devote the majority of her efforts to honing her craft in the circle when spring rolls around.

“All my practice time with the coaches get devoted to pitching, so I really have to work on my hitting,” Sargent said. “That kind of does my hitting a disservice, but it’s a lot of work.”

Nevertheless, Sargent has numerous resources to help her at the plate.

“I’ve had great coaching all my life,” Sargent said. “I know I can go home, or give a phone call to somebody, tell them that I’m struggling, and they know the right things to say to me. I also have great teammates that are willing to go down and work with me and help me out too.

“So there’s a lot of support.”

Despite the extra work that being a two-way player dema nds, Sa rgent is always willing to accept the challenge.

“On a good day, I love being on the mound,” said Sargent.

“But at the end of the day, I want to do whatever will help the team win, so if that means playing first, or pitching, whatever it means.”

Sargent has already done quite a bit of that in her sophomore campaign for the Quakers (11-9, 3-1 Ivy), batting .281 in 57 at-bats leads the team with 18 RBI. She has also continued to shine on the mound, as her ERA is a sterling 1.19 in two starts and four relief appearances while limiting opponents to a .239 batting average.

Sargent is hungry to win after coming so close to an Ivy League title last year and is confident about her team’s chances.

When asked who she was most looking forward to playing the season, her reply was immediate.

“Whoever we play in the championship.”

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Red and Blue bring home Penn’s first Big 5 title W. HOOPS | Quakers

take down Owls at home COLIN HENDERSON Nazareth Area High School ‘13 Nazareth, Pa.

Jan. 5 — For most of Monday evening at the Palestra, offense was tough to come by for Penn women’s basketball. But unlike the majority of their shots on the court, the Quakers did not allow their shot at history to rim out.

The Red and Blue defeated city-rival Temple, 52-50, to clinch a share of their first Big 5 title in school history.

“It’s the culmination of a lot of hard work,” coach Mike McLaughlin said. “We had a lot of girls who were not aware of the Big 5 coming in … And we certainly captured their understanding of [its history] over time.”

The first half was a back-andforth affair. Neither Penn (7-4,

3-0 Big 5) nor Temple (7-9, 1-3) was able to create any distance from each other for most of the half.

The majority of the Red and Blue were unable to get going offensively. Senior guard Kathleen Roche largely carried the team in the early going, scoring 10 in the first half.

“That’s just how the game goes sometimes — shots just don’t go in,” Roche said. “I think that I just had more opportunities because the post was doubled so much throughout the night.”

“It was easier for girls to lose their composure,” McLaughlin said. “And she held the team together.”

Despite holding Temple to under 32 percent shooting in the first half, the Quakers went into halftime down, 26-22.

The Red and Blue continued their offensive struggles in the early stages of the second half, as free throws and otherwise makeable shots just did not

GUYRANDY JEAN-GILLES | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

In the Quakers’ nailbiter game against their Big 5 Rival, senior guard Kathleen Roche carried Penn offensively, scoring a game-high 22 points.

seem to be falling. At certain points, it seemed that the Owls

were ready to pull away.

But Roche continued her

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strong offensive performance, and the team’s trademark interior defense, led by sophomore Sydney Stipanovich and enhanced by McLaughlin’s zone schemes, kept them in the game.

“They’re more of an attacking team,” said Roche of Penn’s zone defense. “So we wanted to make sure that we make them beat us with 15-foot jump shots.”

“Defense is always our main focus,” senior guard Renee Busch said. “We knew it was going to be a hard-fought game.”

With under three minutes to go, the Quakers got a threepoint play on a baseline drive from Roche and a post-up bucket from Stipanovich to take a three-point lead. However, a clutch three-pointer from Temple guard Feyonda Fitzgerald left the score tied with under a minute to go.

Busch missed a three on the following possession, but after a long rebound from senior

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undeniably rough for Penn football and men’s basketball. On top of the significant changeover in coaching for both squads, the product the Quakers have put out has been exasperatingly — and, in comparison to the established standards for those sports, significantly — subpar.

So when Penn goes through a difficult stretch like that, the University’s fanbase needs something in which it can take solace. This year, and every year, that outlet is Penn Relays.

And unlike that contest between Harvard and Yale, the Relays actually feature a handful of Penn athletes. Beyond the event’s importance for bringing superstars like Usain Bolt, Marion Jones and Allyson Feliz Borrow Borrow Borrow from from from Library Library Library to campus, it also showcases homegrown standouts like juniors Don't Don't Don't Watch Watch Watch Movies Movies Movies Thomas Awad, Sam Mattis and Theaters Theaters Theaters Kelsey Hay, all of whom will be on display in Streaming arguably their most Free Free Free Streaming Streaming important meet of the season.

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forward Kara Bonenberger, Busch got her shot at redemption. And she did not miss.

“I could just hear coach yelling ‘Knock it down, Renee,’” Busch said. “So I shot it, and it went in … If I miss one, the next one’s going in. You have to keep your confidence up.”

Busch’s three-pointer with 25 seconds left put the Quakers up for good, as Roche would later ice the contest at the free-throw line with her 22nd point of the game.

“Coming into freshman year, winning a Big 5 game was more the goal,” Roche said. “It’s definitely amazing to have this [title].”

With the tremendous milestone in the bag, the Red and Blue will take the next couple days to enjoy the accomplishment. But just over the horizon lies their biggest challenge of the season — a matchup with undefeated and nationallyranked Princeton to start Ivy play.

runners and many from the island of Jamaica are able to share Franklin Field like it’s their backyard. If you’re not going to Relays for the action, at least go for the entertainment in the stands.

Tuesday marked the 121st anniversary of the first running of the Penn Relays, an awe-inspiring figure if you think about it. The meet hasn’t been interrupted once over that time period, living through 21 presidencies, two World Wars, nearly the entire span of Major League baseball and making it older than six states.

Talk about a legacy.

Still, one of the foremost issues confronting college athletics today is the problem of student apathy. Luckily, if Penn students need an excuse to visit Franklin Field this weekend, it isn’t for a college sporting event.

It’s for a world affair.

And if people on campus aren’t going to pay attention to the beauty of what’s happening right before their eyes, there’s no harm in having outsiders come show us the awesomeness of what sports at Penn can truly look like.

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Legendary coach leaves Penn athletic department

months on the job, a combination of a desire to get back into coaching and dissatisfaction with his new role led Bagnoli to accept the position with the Lions.

“When I retired, I was given some administrative duties and they weren’t as challenging as I hoped they would be,” Bagnoli said. “And it’s nobody’s fault. I really didn’t have any idea what administration was, I’ve never been in the administrative world.

So, three months in, I realized it probably wasn’t for me.

“I had the title of ‘Director of Special Projects.’ I’m not exactly sure what all that means. I guess I was kind of like the catch-all — I did everything from writing recruiting protocols and financial aid explanations to equipment inventory procedures and football scheduling.”

Despite the separation between him and the Red and Blue, Bagnoli insists that he was open about his intentions to move on to Columbia with Penn Athletic Director Grace Calhoun.

“She’s been great,” Bagnoli said. “I think she’s in a difficult scenario because she inherited me. She had to create a position, plus she had to learn Penn. It’s one of those scenarios where there is nobody to blame.

“She did the best she could, I did the best I could, and when the smoke cleared I was more meant for coaching.”

Entrenched in his new position, Bagnoli has already scheduled interviews with potential candidates for his new coaching staff. Remaining focused on the immediate future, when asked about whether he could guarantee a win for Co-

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Feb. 24 — NEW YORK — One day after confirming the hiring of Penn football’s all-time winningest coach, Columbia’s athletic department introduced nine-time Ivy League champion Al Bagnoli as the new head coach of its football program at a press conference on Tuesday.

Seated next to recently hired Athletic Director Peter Pilling, Bagnoli addressed a crowded room of media members and returning players, speaking at length about his excitement to be back on the sidelines in 2015.

“Ironically, 23 years ago, my family and I started on our first adventure,” Bagnoli said. “I had my first opportunity to work in the Ivy League with some tremendous student-athletes at an elite academic institution. You fast-forward 23 years, and now — while some people don’t ever get a chance to do it once — I feel very fortunate and very blessed that I get to do it a second time.”

One of the greatest winners the Ancient Eight has ever seen, Bagnoli is now tasked with righting the ship for the least competitive program in the conference. While the 62-year-old had three undefeated seasons and six unblemished conference marks between 1992 and 2014 with Penn, the Lions have not won an Ivy title since 1961.

To make matters worse, the program has seen its ugliness on the field paralleled off of it.

Mired in the nation’s longest losing streak — Columbia has lost 21 consecutive games dating back to November 2012 —former coach Pete Mangurian resigned in December amid allegations of player abuse and mistreatment.

“My first goal is to make football fun again,” Bagnoli told the crowd of players. “You’ll hear me say this all the time, but

COURTESY OF COLUMBIA ATHLETICS

After 20 years at the helm of the Quakers’ football program, Al Bagnoli was a bonifide legend at Penn. He announced in February that he would be leaving his administrative post within the University’s athletic department for the head coaching job at Columbia.

practice has to be the best two hours of your day.

“At Penn, the players called it ‘adult recess’ or ‘adult play time.’ I want that to be the case here too.”

For Pilling, who was hired three weeks ago and did not officially start his tenure with the Lions until Monday, the hire is undoubtedly a win for both him and the football program.

“This is a wonderful moment for the university and the football program,” Columbia President Lee Bollingersaid. “I have seen in my life some truly outstanding

coaches. I’ve just had only a limited amount of interaction with Al, but it is clear to me that he is in that league of really great coaches.”

Sur prisingly, it was the leader of one of the Qua kers’ most-talented nonconference foes that floated the idea of hiring Bagnoli to Pilling.

“I called Andy Talley, the coach at Villanova who I worked with [when Pilling was the

Wildcats’ assistant athletic director] and I gave him a list of some people,” Pilling said. “So when we reached the end of that list, he said, ‘You know, Al Bag-

we met in person to continue the dialogue.”

After Bagnoli elected last April to retire following the 2014 season, it was announced that the

“I learned a long time ago to never get into the prediction business.”

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to tell where they stood during the round.

“The whole day we were guessing,” coach Bob Heintz said. “What was very obvious was that Quinn [Prchal, Princeton’s top golfer] was playing really well, so it was looking a little bleak about halfway through.”

In fact, the situation might have been even bleaker than Penn thought as Princeton had a seven-shot lead at the turn. Nevertheless, the Quakers focused more on playing their best game than on the score, and it paid off.

“We wanted to have a shot coming down the last couple holes which we did, and we played really well down that stretch,” Powell said. “We just wanted to have fun. … We felt like if we were loose and like ourselves we would have a good chance.”

After the round finished, the entire Penn squad, which had been staggered in different pairings on the course, learned that it had clinched the Ivy League title by one stroke, a margin that has only occurred three times in Ancient Eight golf history.

“It was probably one of the

coolest feelings I’ve ever had in my life,” Powell said of winning the title. “It was just pure elation.”

There is no doubt that last year’s disappointing result made this victory even sweeter. After a tough 2014 season filled with injuries and missed chances, the Red and Blue finished dead last in the Ivy League Championship.

So what changed?

This year’s amazing comeback was certainly not by chance. In fact, with four of last year’s five starters returning, the Quakers’ success can be attributed to countless hours of work on and off the course.

“I think one of the biggest things is that we all got better throughout this last summer and offseason as we worked hard on our games, and I think we also developed into our roles a little more,” Powell said.

“This year, we knew we could lean on each other.”

The players quickly found that they could lean on each other during the competitions and when play had ended. Earlier in the season, when the Quakers were not seeing the results they wanted, instead of giving up, the team banded together, something Heintz says he greatly admires.

“We had some really crappy

tournaments early in the spring,” he said. “They just kept on training in practice and believing in themselves. I think they showed a lot of resiliency.”

This resilient effort was undoubtedly lead by the seniors.

Both Powell and Cooley have served as role models for the team in the gym, in the practice facilities and on the course, raising the expectations for the underclassmen.

And for these seniors who have dedicated so much to the program over the past four years, there was no better way to go out.

“It was one of those things where you work all year, and you talk on Aug. 27 when we have our first meeting as a team and say this is the main goal of the whole season,” Powell said.

“You put in the workouts in November, in the offseason and to finally see it come together at Ivies is a pretty cool feeling.”

When these seniors walk across the stage at graduation in a few short weeks, they can confidently know that they have left far more behind than this Ivy title for Penn golf.

They have changed the culture of the team and proved that a little hard work can go a long way.

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can college campus, Virginia Polytechnic Institute students struggled to come to grips with their new reality.

And though the student body largely remained in shock, there

“Right now, ever ybody’s still in shock,” Woods said. “It doesn’t even seem like anybody’s accepted that this happened.”

Despite having 26,000 students, Virginia Tech maintains a tight-knit community, and

ing into the phone, she said, “I hear gunshots; there’s SWAT teams on the Drill Field; what’s going on?”

Woods rushed to the Drill Field — just in front of Norris Hall, where the majority of shooting occurred — and grabbed his girlfriend before returning to his dorm.

is still no doubt that things are different.

“For the first time ever here, I walked outside and the darkness actually scared me,” sophomore Mike Woods said of the evening after the shootings.

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As3,697 thestudents news out of of the gle acceptance with Penn Police Staff Reporter the Class of 2019 were able also11:00 9.9 percent. a.m. on Apr. 17 near 40th 37,267 were accepted to accessstudent their decisions via Penn tostreets enroll 2,420 but I want America and theOn Thursday, a Penn doctoral candidate Carly Siegel A plans few blocks away, 100 peobegan to sink in, Penn and Spruce .

CAROLINE SIMON the online applicant portal. students in shooting the Class of—2019 The which ocStaff Reporter curred the 200 Preswas awarded $80,000 in compensation after Of 37,267 students who ap- ple across the on College ofblock Arts ofat Virginia Tech freshman world to see this outpouring gathered St. Agatha-St. groups rushed to organize vigStreet , between Spruce and his wrongful arrest in the 2011 Occupy Philaplied to Penn in the early andton Sciences, the Wharstreets — followed delphia protests, according to a philly.com Penn’s acceptance rate and regular rounds, 3,697 ton Locust School, the School of a highils and prayer services in an efspeed car chase west on Spruce article. fell below 10 percent for the were admitted, leading to Engineering and Applied St. in which the suspect crashed Ph.D. student Gregory Harris second year their in a row. respects an overall acceptance fort to pay to therate into See VA TECH VIGIL, page 2 wasSociology See PENN , page 5 a line of parked carsVIGILS and inSEE ADMISSIONS PAGE 2 arrested in 2011 for assault after allegedly Yesterday at 5 p.m., regu- of 9.9 percent. Last year’s

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elbowing a police officer while he observed an Occupy Philadelphia protest for his dissertation. On April 2, a federal civil court jury found that Harris was wrongfully arrested.

In 2011, Municipal Court Judge Karen Simmons dismissed all charges against Harris, which included aggravated assault, riot, recklessly endangering another person and resisting arrest. She ruled there was not enough evidence to demonstrate that Harris, who was in the middle of a large crowd, intentionally Taylor Howard/DP Senior Photographer Toby Hicks/DP Senior Photographer injured the police officer in question.

Students hold candles aloft on Apr. 17 at the Drill Field on the Virginia Tech Adam Lilienthal, a 2006 Virginia Tech alumnus and West Philadelphia resident, Occupy Philadelphia was a movement about campus in Blacksburg, Va. The vigil was held in memorial of those killed in the shows his support by wearing his alma mater’s sweatshirt at a Penn memorial service income inequality that began after the fiApr. 16 shooting. on Apr. 17. nancial crisis in 2008. The movement’s goal was to highlight the impact of inequality on “the 99%.” Harris was arrested along with 51 other demonstrators at Dilworth Plaza when Philadelphia Police decided to clear the Occupy encampment.

The jury decided not to award Harris punitive damages, which are damages intended to punish the City of Philadelphia for wrongdoing, his lawyer said. It did award him $80,000 shooting.

Blacksburg community.

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By ASHWIN SHANDILYA in compensatory Staff Writerdamages.

Staff Writer A nd with speeches and “It was intended to be a quipaullr@sas.upenn.edu ashwing@wharton.upenn.edu screams, par ticipants et place for students amid the B L A C K S B U R G , V a . touched upon the wide range A small, dimly-lit room in the hustle and bustle of academic — Throughout silence and of emotions spurred by the corner of Rodin College House life to have a quick moment to cheers, thousands of candles tragedy. offered a haven on Apr. 17 for pray or meditate,” said Rodin Vice President for Student lit the night sky at Virginia students trying to cope with House Dean Kenneth Grcich, Polytechnic Institute Drill Affairs Zenobia Hikes adtragic shootings on Apr. 16 at who organized the service at dressed the crowd by saying Field.

Virginia Polytechnic Institute. the college house. “This has afStudents and community that “we are here to grieve, As the news of the massacre fected everybody.” members gathered there on but I want America and the Carly Siegel began to sink in, Penn student A few blocks away, 100 peoVirginia Tech freshman Apr. 17 to hold a candlelight world to see this outpouring groups rushed to organize vig- ple gathered at St. Agatha-St. vigil in remembrance of stuils and prayer services in an efdents killed in the Apr. 16 fort to pay their respects to the See VA TECH VIGIL, page 2 See PENN VIGILS, page 5

MORE PENN REACTION TO THE VA. TECH TRAGEDY SEE PAGES 2 & 5 Penn’s

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jured a female pedestrian.

The suspect was taken to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and died from gunshot wounds at 12:37 p.m.

The pedestrian, who is a Health System employee , was also transported to HUP and is currently in stable condition.

8-1 decision. Next, the Quakers headed north to Manhattan, wrapping up an undefeated Ivy season against Columbia.

Although the Quakers were not officially named Ivy champions until Sunday night, according to coach Jack Wyant, the fate of the Ancient Eight crown was decided almost an entire month ago.

“We really clinched the championship the moment we came back from a 4-3 deficit to beat Harvard [on Jan. 11],” Wyant said of the Quakers 5-4 victory over the then-No. 1-ranked Crimson.

“They were the top dogs, and we were just starting from their position,” Wyant said. “Ever since that moment, ever since

that win, we have been the hunted rather than the hunters.”

Indeed, the No. 2-ranked Red and Blue were the favorites in every single one of their conference matchups following their upset of Harvard.

But rankings are just numbers, for they do not speak to the obstacles the team overcame on its way to a 7-0 conference record.

Just take Jan. 28’s win over Princeton the day after the passing of Wyant’s college coach, Princeton’s famed Bob Callahan.

“We’ve had moments of brilliance and moments when we weren’t quite at our best,” Wyant said. “But one thing that I’ll say about this young group of women is that they’ve risen to the occasion like few other teams I’ve ever coached.”

In Wyant’s 11-year tenure at

Penn, the 2014-2015 squad is just the second team to clinch an Ivy title.

“Our goal is to compete for Ivy titles every year,” he said. “I can fully appreciate how difficult it is to achieve this.”

Although the conference season may be in the books for the Red and Blue, the toughest opponents still have yet to be vanquished. This weekend, the team will head to Harvard to compete in the CSA Team National Championships.

As the tournament’s No. 2 seed, on Friday Penn will face the seventh-seeded team, which has yet to be determined. A win would guarantee a rematch between Penn and No. 1 ranked Trinity, who handed the Quakers their only loss of the season back in January.

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Spiderweb cracks show where an alleged carjacker’s head hit the windshield of the van he rammed into a row of parked cars.

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Suspect wounded twice after struggle with Penn Police

An alleged carjacker was shot twice and killed during a struggle with Penn Police at about 11:00 a.m. on Apr. 17 near 40th and Spruce streets.

The shooting — which occurred on the 200 block of Preston Street , between Spruce and Locust streets — followed a highspeed car chase west on Spruce St. in which the suspect crashed into a line of parked cars and injured a female pedestrian.

The suspect was taken to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and died from gunshot wounds at 12:37 p.m.

The pedestr ian, who is a Health System employee , was also transported to HUP and is currently in stable condition.

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In the wake of shootings on the Virginia Tech campus, Vice President of Public Safety Maureen Rush called for better com-

munication and improved student preparedness as the best way to ensure safety if a similar incident were to occur on campus.

Thirty-two people were killed before an unidentified gunman took his own life on Apr. 16 at the rural Virginia campus in the worst mass shooting in United States

students, teachers, campuswide e-mail, so DPS relies OR GRANDPARENT 439 and 137 listservs and Web sites even people who 6 TXon various 2 NY training WHO ATTENDED PENN emergency-response history. don’t gotragto school completed an exercise last month to provide such notification.

And while no comparable here — are Hokies.”

But Rush said DPS is looking edy has ever occurred at Penn, “If, that simulated the type of attack 412 123 3 7 CA IL into new technologies, like cellGod forbid, the circumstances at seen at Virginia Tech on Apr. 16. cracks show where an and is working with phone alerts, Still, the University is constant- Spiderweb Virginia Tech had happened here, alleged carjacker’s head hit the windshield of the van he rammed Systems and Comly working we would have prepared to TRAGEDY ALUMNI INTERVIEWS TO on2 &ways into aInformation row of parked cars.

MORE PENN been REACTION TO THE OFFERED VA. TECH SEE PAGES 121 8 MA 45 NJto help guaran324 tee that such a response would be puting to develop more effective have a response,” Rush said.OF applicant pool 91% means of relaying information.

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In the wake of shootings on the Virginia Tech campus, Vice President of Public Safety Maureen Rush called for better com-

before an unidentified gunman took his own life on Apr. 16 at the rural Virginia campus in the worst mass shooting in United States

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history.

And while no comparable tragedy has ever occurred at Penn, “If, God forbid, the circumstances at Virginia Tech had happened here, we would have been prepared to have a response,” Rush said.

Rush explained that Penn Police officers regularly receive

emergency-response training and completed an exercise last month that simulated the type of attack seen at Virginia Tech on Apr. 16.

Still, the University is constantly working on ways to help guarantee that such a response would be as effective as possible.

For example, there is currently

no way to alert the entire Univer- is communication,” she said. “It sity of an emergency through a is just so hard in a large campus campuswide e-mail, so DPS relies setting to communicate.”

Still, in the event that this type on various listservs and Web sites of episode — officially termed an to provide such notification.

GRAPHICS KATE JEON | NEWS DESIGN EDITOR “active-shooter incident” — were But Rush said DPSBY is looking into new technologies, like cell- to occur, police would flood the phone alerts, and is working with area with officers to “eliminate Information Systems and Com- the possibility of people walking puting to develop more effective the streets.” means of relaying information.

“My biggest concern everyday See SAFETY, page 2

New gossip app hits campus After flood,officials student loses belongings Report says Penn security acted appropriately RACIAL PROFILING

New app a source of cyber-bullying in Greek community

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Founder and recent her roommate was placed in Stanford After the incident, the Unit- erly called in as a “fight-inreleased on Apr. 16 the final re- and that no racial profiling octhe wall of Silhave to be moved from their another single. ed Minorities Council issued progress.”tions being asked by users Stanford curred. portburst of its behind investigation of last See DPS, dropout page 6 Adam Halp- topher Sebastian and an on a new app called Whats- er said the app was intended advisor who had recently berling and her roommate’s rooms due to maintenance Silberling was asked to regoodly.

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In the incident, a security supervisor called PennComm after the student allegedly became confrontational with the supervisor and another secuprofiling.”

In its report, however, DPS rity guard.

The situation was deterofficials again stressed that officers reacted according to mined a “fight-in-progress” procedure for what was prop- and as many as eight police oferly called in as a “fight-inprogress.”

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The report was issued in re- a statement claiming that the Report says Penn security officials acted appropriately Incident in which black College student was sponse to a March 21 incident detainment was another exIncident in which black College student was in which a black male student ample of “Penn Police using detained sparked DPS internal investigation detained sparked DPS internal investigation was temporarily detained on excessive force and bias-based month’s alleged racial profiling incident, concluding that the officers involved acted properThe Division of Public Safety ly and according to procedure released on Apr. 16 the final re- and that no racial profiling ocport of its investigation of last curred.

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Walnut Street following a verbal altercation inside Huntsman Hall between the student and two AlliedBarton security guards.

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The experimental nature of bringing together a class is what transforms and revitalizes our campus and community each year.”

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is communication,” she said. “It is just so hard in a large campus setting to communicate.”

Still, in the event that this type of episode — officially termed an “active-shooter incident” — were to occur, police would flood the area with officers to “eliminate the possibility of people walking the streets.”

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