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Rapper Tyga to open Spring Fling concert
Tyga is the second artist to be announced for
this year’s concert, Janelle Monae was first
BY RYAN ANDERSON
Staff Writer
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Rapper Tyga, born as Michael Ray Nguyen-Stevenson, will be the first opening
act for Spring Fling this year. Tyga is known for his hit song “Rack City.”
Spring Fling just got a
little more “Dope.”
Rapper Tyga will be coming to Penn on April 12 as the
first Spring Fling opening
artist. Tyga, born Michael
R ay Ng uyen- Stevenson,
came to fame with songs like
“Faded,” “Roger That” and
the megahit “Rack City.”
Tyga is the second opening artist released by the
Social Planning and Events
Committee. Janelle Monae,
the first artist announced
last week, will take the stage
after Tyga.
Wharton senior and SPEC
Concerts Director Ronnie
Disimone said about the
choice, “We didn’t get a rapper last year, and we thought
that having something along
those lines would help to be
more well-rounded.”
“It’s dope. It’s about to be
live, for sure. I’m glad that
that West Coast sound is get-
ting big enough that it’s coming over here now,” Kelechi
Okereke, a College freshman, said of the choice.
Last year, Tyga’s album
“Careless World: Rise of
the Last King” debuted at
number 4 on the Billboard
charts, to positive reviews
from critics. Tyga will be releasing a new album, “Hotel
California,” on April 9, just
days before his performance
at Franklin Field.
SPEC Concerts Director
and College senior Dorian
Mendoza described Tyga as
“a pretty natural choice for
a Fling opener.”
The artist was hinted at
through a classified advertisement published in the
print edition of The Daily
Pennsylvanian Thursday.
SPEC Concerts wrote the
ad, which contained clues
like “Faded hardwood floor”
and “The view is Dope,” ending with the email “[email protected].” Those
clues are references to Tyga’s songs and the email is
a reference to the record label he is signed to, YMCMB,
headed by Lil Wayne.
Some students are very
excited for Tyga’s performance.
SEE FLING PAGE 6
Tuition sees Gender diversity in the UA still lags
3.9 percent
Female Leadership
in student government at Penn
rise again
20%
Class Board 2013*:
4 out of 10
Current UA breakdown:
1 out of 5
2 of the last 20
UA chairs/presidents
have been female
In 2004-05, Penn cost nearly $20K
less than what families pay today
10% female
BY SETH ZWEIFLER
Senior Staff Writer
= 2 people
For the fourth year in a row, the price of a
Penn education will increase by 3.9 percent
for the upcoming school year, the University
announced Thursday.
Total undergraduate charges — including
tuition, room and board and other fees — will
be $58,812 for 2013-14. The hike was approved
by the executive committee of the Board of
Trustees. Tuition alone will increase from
$39,088 this year to $40,594 next year.
Although the University has now kept tuition increases below 4 percent for the past
five years, it is likely that 2013-14 will mark
the last year in which some families will see
a bill below the $60,000 mark. If total undergraduate charges increase at the same 3.9
percent rate next year, it will cost $61,105 to
attend the University in 2014-15.
As in previous years, Penn’s administration cited rising operating costs as the primary reason for the tuition hike.
“If we’re going to maintain the same size
student body and our costs continue to go
up, we have to keep raising revenue,” Executive Vice President Craig Carnaroli said.
“We never stop looking for ways to keep cost
down, but there’s always going to be upward
pressure on things like tuition.”
While Penn’s single-year tuition changes
may appear small, the University’s increases in cost have added up substantially over
time.
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are female
executive board
members are female
female
are female
60% female
Class Board 2015*:
4 out of 10
12 out of 34
are female
representatives
are female
= 2 people
6 of the last 47
13% female
= 2 people
Class Board 2014*:
6 out of 10
= 1 person
35% female
UA chairs/presidents
have been female
40% female
SCUE breakdown: (past 5 leaders)
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40% female
Class Board 2016*:
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are female
70% female
SPEC breakdown: (past 5 leaders)
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are female
are female
60% female
60% female
SAC breakdown: (past 5 leaders) NEC breakdown: (past 5 leaders)
4 out of 5
2 out of 5
are female
The last female UA chair/president was elected in 2005.
Since the position of UA
president has become
popularly elected, no
females have run
BY SETH ZWEIFLER
Senior Staff Writer
When College and Wharton
junior Abe Sutton is elected president of the Undergraduate Assembly this weekend, it will mark the
eighth year in a row that a male has
stood at the helm of Penn student
lucky number ‘thirteen’
government.
Sutton’s upcoming election,
which is a virtual certainty because he is running unopposed,
underscores a far-reaching challenge that the UA has faced for
decades: a lack of gender diversity
among the upper ranks of its leadership.
Since the UA was first established in 1972, there have been just
six female chairs or presidents of
the body, The Daily Pennsylvanian
found through an analysis of historical election results.
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80%female
40% female
*Only includes elected positions.
Of the seven candidates who
have run for UA president since the
position was first made popularly
elected by the student body in 2010,
all have been male. Prior to 2010,
the position of UA chair was determined by an internal election.
While gender diversity in the UA
— and throughout most student
government branches — increases
as the scope of data is broadened,
some find the lack of female presidents over the years troubling.
“The numbers aren’t all that surprising,” College senior and Penn
Graphic by Hailey Edelstein
Consortium of Undergraduate
Women Chair Adrienne Edwards
said. “It’s unfortunate, though,
because the UA is supposed to
be the governing body of the undergraduate population at Penn.
There’s been progress, and while
that should be celebrated, there’s
still a long way to go.”
A deep-rooted history
It was spring 1967, and then-senior Barbara Opotowsky, former
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For dual-degree students, a
dilemma in student elections
Dual degree students
can only vote for one
school rep in UA, Class
Board elections
College sophomore Gabrielle Patterson looks at College senior Tom McQuaid’s piece “100 Strangers,” one of the works displayed at “Thirteen” — this year’s Fine Arts Senior Thesis Show.
are female
Being a dual-degree student is
supposed to forward your goals,
but for College and Wharton
freshman Sebastian NegronReichard, it was more of an obstacle.
Last fall, Negron-Reichard —
a Daily Pennsylvanian contributing writer — ran for Class of 2016
Wharton chair and ended up in a
tie. There was a runoff election,
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which he lost. This week, NegronReichard is running again for a
Wharton seat in the Undergraduate Assembly. However, he had
issues with the way the elections
were originally conducted.
He claims that his loss last
semester was partly due to a
political disenfranchisement of
students in the Huntsman Program in International Studies
and Business, and of dual-degree
students in general. “It was very
sad to see a hall full of my best
friends not being able to vote for
me,” he said.
The way dual-degree voting
and voting constituency in general works is that each student has
a home school in the Office of the
Registrar’s database, explained
College junior Frank Colleluori,
Nominations and Elections Committee Vice Chair for Elections.
For most, that’s an easy thing
to assign, but for dual-degree students, the home school is decided
by which school the larger portion of tuition goes to, according
to Negron-Reichard. For Huntsman Program students, that
is an even split, so their home
school is arbitrarily designated
as the College.
The home-school designation determines which school
a student can vote for in representative elections. For NegronSEE VOTING PAGE 5
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Argentinian station offers ‘unique perspective’
Courtesy of Claudia Valeggia
Claire Stingley (left), a 2012 College graduate, talks with a field assistant and two mothers who are participating in
the Fundación ECO’s study on babies and fertility. The Fundacion was founded by two Penn professors in 1999.
The field station, founded by two Penn
profs, focuses on health care and education
BY DINA MOROZ
Associate News Editor
Approximately 4,700 miles
south of Penn’s campus, in
Argentina, stands a house
called “Casa 100.”
P u r c h a se d by Pen n i n
2007, the house serves as a
field station for Fundación
ECO, an umbrella organiza-
tion founded in 1999 by two
Penn professors that works
on research while promoting the region’s growth and
development.
In 1996, Eduardo Fernandez Duque and Claudia Valeggia — who are married
— were pursuing individual
projects in the province of
Formosa, located in northern A rgentina. Fernandez
Duque’s Owl Monkey Project
focuses on primate behavior and mammal conservation, while Valeggia’s Chaco
Area Reproductive Ecology
Program centers on human
reproductive biology.
“The common thread between the two projects was
to promote education,” said
Valeggia, an associate professor of anthropology. The
region, which is home to the
Toba indigenous population,
faces problems includ ing
malnutrition, lack of education and social discrimination.
“ I a m f r o m A r ge nt i n a
originally, but it was my first
time visiting these communities in my own country, so
that was quite a shock,” she
added.
Since its founding, many
Penn students have joined
the mission, spending time
at the research site as part
of their education. Monika
Wasik, who graduated from
the College in 2012, is there
today. As the field coordinator for the Chaco Area Reproductive Ecology Program
— which aims to study the
impact of lifestyle changes
of the indigenous populations on fertility, investigate
the effect of transculturation
on fertility and health status
and explore child-rearing
practices on growth and development — Wasik works
with urban Argentinians and
Toba.
“They offer a unique perspective … and it’s part of the
role of the project and the Fundación to offer opportunities
for the community in which we
work,” she said.
She is assist i ng w it h a
five-year longitudinal study
i nvest igat i ng l i fe h istor y
transitions — weaning, first
menst r uat ion a nd meno pause — among Toba women
in the region. “It turns out
that in dif ferent cultures,
women have really different
experiences of menopause
and different symptoms that
are salient,” she said.
Ca ra McGuiness, who
graduated from the College
in 2009, spent almost two
years on site. She recruited
a group of 90 women, both
indigenous and non-indigenous, in an effort to get the
L i fe H ist or y T r a nsit ions
project off the ground.
“A lot of the health disparities, instances of abuse
and lack of resources that I
witnessed in Argentina furthered my conviction that
I wanted to be involved in
women’s health care education,” she said.
Today, she is back at Penn,
wher e she is pu r su i ng a
Nursing degree and is set to
graduate in 2014.
Elaine Yang, who majored
in anthropology and graduated from the College in 2011,
spent the summer of 2010 in
Formosa, where she worked
as a research assistant.
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She w a s d r aw n t o t he
Fundación because she was
interested in Valeggia’s research model, which incorporates changes in biology
of the Toba but also studies
these changes through an
anthropological framework.
“The reason why I chose
to be an anthropology major
is because … I’m very much
interested in the sociocultural and outside-of-science
aspects that contribute to
people’s health,” she said.
Now a medical student at
the University of Southern
California, Yang found her
time in Formosa — where
she conducted interviews on
the self-perception of health
of the indigenous population
— to be an affirmation of her
interest in pursing a healthrelated field.
“I saw that the most immediate need on the ground
was health care,” she said.
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graduate students can get
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Valeggia said that undergraduates usually have backg rounds in a nthropolog y,
health and societies, nursing
and the pre-med track.
“It’s very satisfying to see
what a turning point this experience is for all of the students,” said Valeggia. “It’s
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realities and it’s very nice to
see the friendship exchange
that happens in the field between the Toba and the students.”
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At 35, Benjamin Jealous became the youngest ever president and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People. During his Wharton Leadership Lecture, he outlined what still may be done to cement racial equality.
Benjamin Jealous cites
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higher education as
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BY SEBASTIAN NEGRON
Contributing Writer
“You cannot lead unless
you can listen.”
These words embody the
message Benjamin Todd
Jealous — the National Association for the Advancem e n t o f C o l o r Pe o p l e ’ s
youngest ever president and
CEO — offered more than
100 students yesterday at
Huntsman Hall.
T h e 4 0 - y e a r- o l d J e a l ous delivered the most recent Wharton Leadership
Lecture, emphasizing the
NAACP’s ongoing fight for
equality and justice.
In an engaging conversation, the NAACP’s newest
superstar — who has taken
helm of the organization by
increasing membership and
donations — discussed the
lecture series’ theme of leadership in the context of his
own career.
Since becoming president
and CEO in 2008, NAACP
membership has increased
from 175,000 to 600,000, and
the number of consistent
donors went from 16,000 to
120,000.
In a talk shaped by the contemporary realities faced by
minorities, especially blacks,
Jealous discussed the Civil
Rights Movement and the
prospect of equality for all
American citizens.
Among his top priorities in
attaining this equality were
abolishing the death penalty,
promoting federal legislation
against wrongful imprisonment and improving access
to education — including
higher education.
When asked about on-campus diversity and access to
education, Jealous — who
was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University — stressed
the importance of promoting
inclusion.
To illustrate his point, he
recalled a statistic concerning student athletes. Last
year, he said, the graduation
rate for black male basketball players at the University of Connecticut was 0
percent, compared to an 11
percent overall team graduation rate.
And refer ring to black
Americans’ ability to create
wealth after the Civil Rights
Movement, Jealous said,
“We got the right, but we
lost what we had.”
He argued that the NAACP
has the crucial role of encouraging and promoting the
creation of wealth in order to
promote sustainability.
College sophomore Kyle
Webster — present of Penn’s
NAACP chapter — said he
was “pleasantly surprised by
the amount of students present” and felt empowered by
the speakers’ testimony.
Other students attending
the lecture, such as secondyear Wharton MBA student
Nitin Sharma, praised Jealous’ honesty and insightfulness.
Sharma, a member of the
Wharton Leadership Lecture
Committee, was also thrilled
to have had the honor of introducing Jealous, “who has
achieved so much in constantly changing times,” he
said.
The lecture also wasn’t
l i m i t e d t o c u r r e n t Pe n n
students. 2005 Law School
graduate Cassandra Georges expressed the immense
importance of valuing the
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knowledge and wisdom Jealous brought to everyone in
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people from all years and
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Before thanking the audience and taking his flight
back home, Jealous left his
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Guest Column | Why St. Elmo’s party slogan is anything but brotherly to Penn Catholics
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ast month, there
was the infamous
“Racist Rager” at
Duke: An invitation with the opening “Herro, Nice Peopre!” was
sent out for a frat party. The
intricate and deeply layered
cultures of an entire continent
were reduced to a handful of
painful caricatures.
Last semester, a sorority at
Penn State hosted a so-called
“Mexican fiesta,” where they
took a picture of the sisters
holding signs reading “Will
Mow Lawn for Weed + Beer”
and “I Don’t Cut Grass, I
Smoke It.” A whole ethnicity and heritage was turned
into the butt of blatantly racist
jokes.
Both incidents led to storms
of outrage, and rightly so.
These are obviously inappropriate and unacceptable, turning something beautiful and
meaningful into something
insulting and small. But this
is the kind of thing that could
never happen in a place like
Penn. Here, we have a community that rallies together to
denounce anti-Islamic ads. We
are a community that unites to
support Dephanie Jao through
the entire sickening “Hunting
for Asians” incident. We are
a community that stands by
our Africana professors when
they protest lack of diversity in
the university’s leadership.
We are a place of tolerance,
appreciation of diversity and
respect.
Except this Friday, when
there is a party planned with
the tagline, “Join the brothers
of St. Elmo for a night of papal
blasphemy. Let’s get sacrilegious in honor of Pope Francis, a true minister to the poor,
the sick, and the blackout.”
Those two sentences are
sacrilege enough, disrespecting not only a man of humility and charity who stands
against the very debauchery
that this organization is suggesting be done in his “honor,”
but also insulting the 1.2 billion Catholics worldwide who
identify with the pope. A whole
religious community is being openly mocked by people
who we doubt have taken the
time or effort to understand
what kind of weight the election of a pope has. At least, we
hope that the party planners
don’t understand the value
this event has in the hearts
of Catholics. That way, we can
believe that they are acting
out of ignorance instead of
malice.
‘‘
This ‘Pope Party’ is
taking something as
vast and joyous and
meaningful as faith
… and reducing and
degrading it into a
tasteless joke.”
that you can at least see the
insensitivity this party presents to the part of our community that does identify with
the pope. This is an issue not
just for Catholics, but for all
individuals who care about
respecting the beliefs and
identities of other human beings, regardless of whether
that identity is based on race,
nationality, orientation or yes,
even on faith.
We are not trying to condemn the people who planned
or are attending this party,
and we’re certainly not trying to convert anybody. Penn’s
strength lies in its diversity
and in our ability to appreciate
our differences. Despite our
differences, however, we must
be united by a common emphasis on respecting one another. We pray, alongside Pope
Francis, “that there might be
a great sense of brotherhood”
in the Penn community and
that we as a community continue in our united fight for
diversity, inclusiveness and
respect for each other.
Is this insulting? Yes, of
course it is. This “Pope Party” is taking something as
vast and joyous and meaningful as faith (whose impact
on identity can be similar to
that of culture or heritage)
and reducing and degrading
it into a tasteless joke. At its
core, this party is disrespecting something that commands
the highest respect: the feelings and identities of our fellow classmates.
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We are criminals
Give Me Liberty | The minimum drinking age law has failed and it’s time for us to speak out against it
H
ave you ever
pictured yourself behind
bars?
It would be
a fair assessment to say most
Penn undergraduates are
criminals. Every weekend,
college campuses across the
country are transformed into
hotbeds of crime by misguided
laws with track records of abysmal failure.
In effect, the 21-year-old
drinking age criminalizes
young people. It makes all
young people less safe, and it
has proven to be nothing but a
failure since Congress passed
the National Minimum Drinking Age Act in 1984.
The premise underlying the
law is that we’re not mature
enough to handle alcohol. Yet,
our achievements suggest otherwise. We excel at academics
at an Ivy League institution,
start businesses, run nonprofit
organizations, organize events,
advocate for social and political
change and so much more.
‘‘
Unless we stand
up … we have traded our rights and
dignity for a drink
… again.”
But I don’t need to convince
policymakers that we’re productive and responsible members of society — the other laws
they pass indicate that they
clearly understand this. It is
hypocritical at best to entrust
18, 19 and 20 year olds to serve
as soldiers, sailors and marines
on the hot desert sands of Iraq
and Afghanistan and to fight
our wars, while simultaneously
denying them the right to sip a
beer when they return home
on the basis that they are not
responsible enough.
We are taxpaying adults
— individuals considered to
have attained the age of majority for every other conceivable
purpose in American society
— and are denied the right to
drink alcohol. People our age
pilot fighter jets and drive 67ton tanks head on into enemy
fire. The trust bestowed upon
these young people to take up
arms on behalf of the United
States and defend the freedom
and security that we hold so
dear does not, apparently, extend to the enjoyment of inebriating beverages.
There are those who decry
the danger of alcohol and who
support prohibitionist policies
in the interest of keeping it out
of the hands of “vulnerable”
young people. Alcohol is, without a doubt, a substance that
can be dangerously misused to
disastrous effect.
However, the solution is to
implement smart policies that
make drinking safer, not to double down on those that have demonstrably failed. Seventy-one
percent of eighth graders say
that it is “fairly easy” or “very
easy” for them to get alcohol.
Clearly, blanket prohibition is
ineffective.
History instructs us that
when the consumption of alcohol is outlawed, it becomes
more dangerous. Neither use
nor abuse decreases in any
meaningful way. Dangerous
habits are not curbed. The environment in which people drink
becomes infinitely more hazardous, and the results of the
forbidden fruit effect pervade:
people drink more, and they do
it ever more dangerously.
Should this really be a surprise to us? This type of behavior can be seen in toddlers
grasping eagerly for a cookie
denied to them by a concerned
parent, and it was mimicked
by 1920s mobsters and bootleggers nationwide.
But if we want our laws to
change, we must speak up. Jeff Nadel
While drinking is seen by most
to be a merely social activity, for a drink … again.
it’s not enough. It’s time to stop
It is incumbent upon us to
letting weekends fly by without switch from a coping mindset
considering both the political — “I’ll be 21 soon anyway” —
statements we are making in to an activism mindset: “We
our social lives and the pru- won’t tolerate being treated as
dence of laws that affect our second-class citizens.”
social atmosphere.
Modern-day prohibition
We must stop flying below makes drinking more dangerthe radar. As long as we treat ous for us and our friends. It dethe drinking age as just a seem- nies a most basic respect to all
ingly trivial regulation to flout young adults. And it is a chapwith fingers crossed, we are ter of history that now, more
handing a victory to the pro- than ever, we must close.
hibitionists. Their goal is to
convince society that we are Jeff Nadel is a College
utterly ill-equipped to make de- sophomore from Boca Raton,
cisions as adults about our own Fla. His email address is
lives. Unless we stand up and [email protected]. Follow him
vocally refute them, we have @theseends. “Give Me Liberty”
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A wasted opportunity
Sorry to be Kurt | Obama should have used his visit to Israel to propose steps towards peace in the Middle East
T
his week, Barack
Obama made his
first official visit
to Israel as president.
The trip was filled with fanfare and photo ops, but was
light on policy and absent of
any new proposals to solve the
enduring conflict between Israel and her neighbors.
Perhaps we shouldn’t have
been surprised — after all, he
is a president that has always
been high on rhetoric and light
on actual solutions.
I have often wondered why,
as Obama recently put it, we
have “an unbreakable bond”
with Israel.
It is true that Israel does
have a Western-style democracy, and the United States
promotes the establishment of
free societies around the world.
Israel also faces an existential
threat from its neighbors.
But consider the case of
Taiwan. It also has a Westernstyle democracy and faces an
existential threat. While we do
provide support to Taiwan, I
don’t think anyone would characterize our relationship with
it as being an “unbreakable
bond” — we don’t even have
formal diplomatic relations
with Taiwan.
Moreover, like what diplomatic relations with Taiwan
would entail, there are obvious costs to our unwavering
support for Israel. Obama
rightfully noted the persistent
suffering of the Palestinian
people during his 2009 speech
in Cairo and how our perceived
indifference to it has strained
relations with the Muslim
world.
All sides in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have blood
on their hands — the Palestinians, Israelis, Syrians and
Lebanese have all engaged in
reprehensible acts of violence.
My point here is not to say that
one side is right or somehow
has the moral upper hand in
the ongoing conflict.
Israelis have a right to live
in peace, without fear of rocket attacks or suicide bombers. Palestinians have a right
to self-determination. Both
sides are at fault for failing to
achieve peace.
This puts the United States
in the difficult position of weighing the respective rights of the
two peoples. We shouldn’t support Israel just because it has
been our ally when it comes to
human rights issues.
What is clear is that it is in
the best interest of our country
to have a lasting peace in the
Middle East.
What is also clear is that we
provide a significant amount
of aid to Israel, and we provide
them with technological advantages in the conflict. The
director of the Israel Missile
Defense Organization, in reference to improvements in
rockets fired at Israel, recently
said, “Without the support of
the United States, we will not
be able to cope with this rate
of change.” This should at least
give us a seat at the table in
pushing for peace.
‘‘
I have often
wondered why, as
Obama recently
put it, we have ‘an
unbreakable bond’
with Israel.”
As such, Obama should
have used his visit to put forth
a comprehensive proposal for
peace and the establishment
of a Palestinian state. A reasonable starting point would
be: 1) An Israeli withdrawal to
its 1967 borders; 2) Disband all
settlements across the Israeli
West Bank Barrier; 3) An exchange of equal area of land for
settlements currently within
the barrier; 4) Significant financial incentives to both the
Israelis and Palestinians in
exchange for peace, similar to
the Camp David peace agreements.
Neither Lebanon nor Syria
will ever agree to a much-needed peace without a return to Kurt Mitman
the pre-Six-Day War borders,
which were established by the status quo will give any side
1949 armistice agreement be- cause to bring about peace.
tween Israel and its neighbors.
Perhaps the Israelis or PalThey want a Palestinian state, estinians would rebuff our
which requires the Palestinian efforts. The coalition cobbled
people having substantial and together recently by Israeli
continuous land. This would Prime Minister Benjamin Nenecessitate, in large part, the tanyahu may not be cohesive
first three points mentioned enough to achieve a lasting
above. While there is no guar- peace. But supporting the staantee this would ensure last- tus quo is not in our best intering peace, it’s a step that will ests. If it isn’t going to change,
eventually be taken and what why should we still be choosIsrael should do.
ing sides in a conflict in which
Obama should make clear everyone is wrong?
that the continued U.S. support
of Israel cannot and will not Kurt Mitman is a sixth-year
last indefinitely without signifi- doctoral student from McLean,
cant progress toward peace. Va. His email address is kurt.
We have been a staunch ally [email protected]. Follow him
of Israel for decades, but I do @SorryToBeKurt. “Sorry To Be
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Some contest
two votes for
dual-degrees
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Reichard, his fellows in the
Hunstman Program could
not vote for him in the Wharton chair election because
they could only vote for candidates f rom the College.
Similarly, students in the
Jerome Fisher Program in
Management and Technology can only vote for Engineering candidates.
The problem for NegronR eic h a r d i s t h at “ we i n
Hu nt s m a n i d e nt i f y v e r y
much w ith W ha r ton, so I
wa nt to represent W ha r ton.”
This is not the first time
this issue has come up, “but
it’s always kind of been accepted as the status quo,”
said Colleluori.
“I saw this as a serious
enough problem on campus
and reached out to the University to see what could be
done,” he added.
The system ca n’t be
changed, however, because
the underlying technolog y
infrastructure — the coding
behind the website where
students vote — would have
to be changed and the IT
team had been busy working on other infrastructure
cha nges u nti l t he for ma l
start of campaigning.
This left the NEC “no time
to make the upgrade and adequately test it to ensure that
no unforeseen consequences
or coding mistakes rendered
all of the elections biased.
Such an error would require
us to rerun the entire process and bring student government to something of a
standstill,” Colleluori said.
Despite the lack of change
today, Colleluori is optimistic. “It is likely that dual-degree students will indeed be
able to vote in both schools
in the near future,” he said
in an email.
This is a contentious topic
for some, as it raises the
question of why dual-degree
students should be allowed
to vote twice.
“The reality is that not ever y student is comfortable
with some individuals being
able to vote in two elections,”
Colleluori said in an email.
“Allowing students enrolled
in two different schools to
vote tw ice would actually
double t hei r r epr esent ation as opposed to more accurately [ref lecting ] their
dual-degree status.”
Ot hers i n t he N EC a re
quick to ack nowledge this
question. “There are times
when Engineering UA positions have been uncontested
and I would’ve liked to vote
in Wharton,” NEC Chair and
Wharton and Engineering
senior Alec Miller said. “But
we want to avoid giving dualdegree students double representation in the UA.”
Many students agree with
a more tempered approach,
even among Negron-Reicha rd’s closest suppor ter s.
They endorse a solution that
would allow dual-degree students to choose their home
school constituency.
“Ultimately, I think dual
degrees should … not nec-
essar ily vote in both, but
choose the one they feel closest to and vote there,” College and Wharton freshman
Jorge Barriga said.
Negron-Reichard, meanwhile, sees no problem
with double representation.
“Huntsman people aren’t
taking advantage of the fact
that they’re in two schools.
We simply are in two schools
and should be represented
in both,” he said.
The ability to vote in both
schools, if changed within
the inf rastr ucture, would
then be up to the discretion
of the NEC. Constitution-
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ally, it decides how all voting abilities and behaviors
will work. It may deny dualdegree students the right to
vote in both schools.
In that case, Colleluor i
said, “It’ll be up to the UA to
represent and consider [the
dual-degree students’] interests that much better.”
Negron-Reichard and his
suppor ters, however, a re
still vocalizing their views
to the NEC.
“Last semester, this was
something ver y important
to me. Ever yone else running could get their friends
and hallmates to vote for
them, and at the start of the
year when you don’t k now
many people, those people
are your best allies,” he said,
noting that many Huntsman
students live together in a
tightly-k nit hall in K ing’s
Court/English House.
“I just don’t want another
student to go through this,”
he added.
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Greek directory website relaunched
The website offers a
directory and online
forum for members of
the Greek community
BY LAURA ANTHONY
Staff Writer
After a first attempt, a spinoff
venture and a brief debacle with
Facebook, the social networking site Greekdex is once again
live across Penn’s campus.
The website, which is a combination directory and gossip forum for members of fraternities
and sororities, was re-launched
on March 13. Since then, about
340 users have registered and
40 percent were returning to
the site daily, according to College senior Tony Diepenbrock,
co-creator of Greekdex.
Greekdex links to users’ Facebook accounts, sharing their
name, class year, Greek affiliation, profile pictures and any
leadership positions they may
hold. It also includes a discussion forum called the Banter
Board, where users may post
comments either with their
names or anonymously.
Soon after its original launch
in February of 2012, Greekdex
faded out of use because users were not allowed to post
anonymously on the Banter
Board, Diepenbrock said. “At
the end of the day, people were
uncomfortable representing
their entire house in a post,”
he said, but the site has since
been modified to now allow for
anonymous posts.
The website uses an algorithm to analyze users’ lists of
Facebook friends to determine
who else is in their fraternity or
sorority. Those other members
are listed on Greekdex even if
they don’t create an account,
listing just their name and
Greek organization.
College junior and Panhellenic Council President Jessica
Stokes recently registered for
an account, but said she is apprehensive about some of the
possible functions of the website that may be added in the
future, like the albums of Facebook photos that users are
tagged in with other members
of their fraternity or sorority.
Although she doesn’t see it as
a major issue, “the invasion of
privacy thing was a little concerning to me,” she said.
That photo album feature is
currently not a part of Greekdex, and Diepenbrock said it
would only be included with the
user’s explicit permission. “It
would find pictures and then
ask the user if they’d like to add
the photos. If they say no, we
wouldn’t add them,” he said.
Diepenbrock said that Greekdex is primarily intended as a
directory of Greek students,
and Stokes agreed that this
function is very useful for planning events and connecting
with other Greek students.
When Greekdex was originally launched last year, only a
few students were using it regularly, so Diepenbrock and cocreator Charles Moyes, a 2012
graduate of Cornell University,
shifted their focus to another
application of their social algorithm in a spinoff venture called
GraphMuse.
This is how Diepenbrock explained it: Each Facebook user
has an individual “token,” which
acts like a key to his personal information on Facebook. “Let’s
say Zynga approaches us and
asks us to help them improve
their invitation system by encouraging users to invite close
friends who are likely to sign
up,” Diepenbrock said. “Zynga
would pass us tokens to access
their users’ data on Facebook,
we’d analyze those users’ friend
graphs, and then make the recommendations for Zynga.”
Facebook soon heard about
GraphMuse, and two months
after meeting with Diepenbrock
and Moyes over last summer to
discuss it, they began adjusting their invitation widget similarly.
“It’s hard to know if they truly
copied it,” Diepenbrock said.
Then in February of 2013,
Facebook updated its terms of
agreement to include a clause
prohibiting anyone from sharing their tokens with a third
party, and GraphMuse was
forced to shut down.
Greekdex, which had been
on the back burner for Diepenbrock and Moyes, was revived,
because it wasn’t affected by
Facebook’s policy change. It
only analyzes information from
its own users, and doesn’t share
tokens with third parties.
Greekdex is now live again
across campus, and Diepenbrock said they are hoping to
expand to 50 more colleges by
the end of the month. Already
50 of the approximately 340 users are from other colleges like
Vanderbilt University, Cornell
University and the University
of Southern California.
Diepenbrock also hopes
to expand the site to include
non-Greek student groups and
alumni.
Within the next week, though,
it will feature Spotify playlists so
that DJs from different Greek
chapters can share their music,
which students can follow.
Stokes said that the addition
of Spotify playlists is a good
idea, but that Greekdex will
likely “fizzle out” instead of having lasting impact on campus.
Greekdex hasn’t had time
yet to spread throughout
campus, but Wharton senior
Patrick Leahy, who registered for an account last year,
said the site is extremely effective even in its infancy
stage. “The reality is that
people want gossip sites, and
the other side is people are
curious [about] who’s in what
fraternity or sorority, particularly after rush, and I think
Greekdex definitely fulfills
those two roles,” he said.
Students
excited for
Tyga to rap
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“I’m so excited, I want
to tattoo my whole body
to look like him,” College
freshman Jake Lechnir
said.
Ot hers a ren’t necessa r ily happy about the
choice.
“Yeah, it’ll be fun when
‘Rack City’ comes on, but
that’s his only hit,” College f reshman Caroly n
Grace said. “What else is
he known for?”
However, some remain
excited for Tyga.
“ I’m so re ady to get
ratchet with Tyga,” Engineering sophomore Irene
Jadic said.
Prof examines the science behind ‘Patience is a virtue’
Psych professor
studies why people
often give up diets
halfway through
BY ALEX GETSOS
Staff Writer
Raquel MacGregor/Contributing Photographer
Psych professor Joseph Kable along with Joseph McGuire recently published
a paper about how people tend to stop waiting for delayed gratification.
First female
UA president
elected in ‘67
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president of the Women’s Student Government Association,
had just been elected president
of the University of Pennsylvania Student Government.
Opotowsky’s election was
groundbreaking, marking the
first time ever that a woman
had been chosen to lead an Ivy
League student body.
For all of the history made
through her election, though,
Opotowsky — formerly Barbara Berger — said her time as
president was mostly “business
as usual.”
“The assumption was that
the position would always be
occupied by a male, but when
the men’s and women’s student
governments merged, running
just seemed like the right thing
to do,” Opotowsky said, adding
that once she was elected, her
gender was largely a non-issue.
While Penn’s climate has
changed dramatically since the
1960s, Opotowsky is disappointed that there haven’t been more
women at the top of the UA.
“It’s heartbreaking to see
such a dramatic stagnation in
representation,” she said. “I’m
sure there are plenty of qualified women on campus today. If
women aren’t sharing in these
leadership opportunities in a
reasonably equal way as men,
then it’s important to find out
what’s going wrong.”
The search for what’s going wrong has prompted a fair
amount of discussion on campus over the past year.
In summer 2012, College junior Danielle Marryshow founded the Women’s Political League
— an organization dedicated to
helping female students find
leadership roles on campus.
Several months before that,
the Office of Student Affairs announced that it would partner
with the Penn Women’s Center
in a project to study the role of
gender in campus leadership.
As part of the study, which is
still ongoing, several students
said they participated in a series
of focus groups near the end of
last semester.
“It’s really important that,
beyond just planning for the
future, you’re assessing where
you’re at with diversity at the
given moment, so I’m glad we’re
doing this,” said College sophomore and UA Secretary Joyce
Kim, who is the only female on
the UA’s five-person executive
board.
The UA is not alone among
student government branches
that have lagged behind in electing women to leadership roles.
Before College sophomore
Ariel Koren was elected 2015
Class Board president in fall
2011, there had not been a female
class president since 2004.
In the semester following her
election, Koren wrote a guest
column in The Daily Pennsylvanian, arguing that too much
has been made of the “female
leadership issue.” The column
prompted a response by 13 female leaders on campus, who
wrote that Koren’s claims were
“inaccurate and misleading.”
You have two choices —
either eat one marshmallow now, or wait and get two
sometime later. Do you wait,
or do you give in and eat the
marshmallow?
This marshmallow experiment was originally conducted in the 1970s by professor
Walter Mischel of Columbia
University. Other studies following this inf luential one
have shown that children who
waited longer for both marshmallows showed more positive outcomes in life, such as
higher SAT scores and lower
body mass indexes around
the age of 40.
Penn psychology professors Joseph Kable and Joseph
McGuire recently published
a paper in which they found
that despite the potential
rewards of waiting, people
“I think that column was
when a lot of this conversation
about gender diversity really
picked up,” Marryshow said.
“I think most people at Penn
recognize that women can and
should lead. At the same time,
our leadership doesn’t reflect
those ideals, so you have this
conflict where you believe in
gender equality but you’re not
seeing it, and that’s where it becomes frustrating.”
Looking beyond the top
Although there has been a
dearth of top female UA leadership over the years, the trend is
not necessarily a result of women deciding to avoid running in
elections altogether.
Over the past decade, five of
the 18 UA presidential or chair
candidates have been women.
In addition, since the position
was first popularly elected in
2010, three of the 11 candidates
for vice president have been
women.
In looking at the current
makeup of the UA as a whole,
gender diversity becomes
slightly more equitable. Of the
34 representatives listed on the
UA’s website, 12 — or 35 percent
— are female.
Although these numbers
hardly mirror a student body
that is essentially split down the
middle in terms of gender diversity, Sutton believes they are a
step in the right direction.
“There are definitely positions of leadership that women
have risen to in the past and
can rise to lead again,” he said.
“There’s no glass ceiling when it
comes to the UA — it’s a ceiling
that’s already been broken.”
Penn is not unique in its lack
abandon delayed gratification
because they believe that the
wait time becomes longer as
time goes on.
“It’s seemingly illogical behavior because if you really
preferred the two marshmallows, why wouldn’t you just
wait?” Kable said. “It’s similar to a diet — if you’re going
to give up halfway through,
why not just not do it in the
first place?”
Their experiment involved
646 students filling out one
of two questionnaires about
decision-mak ing and wait
time.
The first survey asked students about how long they
would wait to eat the marshmallow in the marshmallow
experiment. The second applied to more personal situations such as studying and
dieting.
“In the paper we are trying to understand the hidden
rationality in this behavior
where you start out towards
a delayed goal but abandon
it before it gets there,” Kable
said. “It captures the kind of
dilemma that a lot of us face
in the real world … It captures the behavior we engage
in when we start a diet or try
to quit smoking.”
According to K able, the
marshmallow exper iment
has shown that people engage in odd behavior because
they wait but eventually opt
to eat the one marshmallow
anyway. His goal was to understand wh y they waited
and eventually gave in to
temptation.
“People feel that the
amount of time they have
until they reach their goal is
increasing the longer they’ve
been working towards it without reaching it,” Kable said.
“[They] fail to sustain delayed
gratification — their expectations about how long things
take actually have a counterintuitive form,” and they give
in to their desires.
He and McGuire analyzed
data from the National Institute of Child Health and
Human Development, which
tested 1,000 children at the
age of 4 to see how long they
would wait to eat the marshmallow.
of female student body presidents. Throughout the Ivies,
only Columbia and Harvard universities currently have women
leading their respective student
governments.
However, leadership in other
student government branches
at Penn largely tells a different
story from the UA and Class
Boards. With the exception of
the Nominations and Elections
Committee, the majority of the
most recent five chairs of each
other branch — the Student
Committee on Undergraduate
Education, the Student Activities Council and the Social Planning and Events Committee
— have been women.
Although Koren remains the
only female Class Board president, women slightly outnumber
men — 21 to 19 — in elected positions on each of the four Class
Boards.
Despite the stronger gender
diversity numbers among other
branches, NEC Chair and Engineering and Wharton senior
Alec Miller acknowledged that
the UA’s numbers are likely
magnified because of the elevated importance of the UA
presidency in the eyes of the
student body.
“The UA president is the only
time where almost all of the
student body is speaking in an
election,” said Miller.
Miller added, however, that
there is still progress to be made
on other fronts beyond merely
increasing the number of female
UA presidents.
“I’d like to see a female UA
president, I’d like to see a Nursing president [and] I’d like to see
a transfer student president,” he
said. “The list goes on and on.”
While female students have
undeniably experienced difficulty in securing top UA positions
over the years, some women
who have served say that, once
elected, a large part of the battle
is already won.
“Ninety-five percent of the
time, I didn’t think about being a female chair at all,” said
2006 College graduate Rachel
Fersh, who was the most recent
female UA chair, elected in 2005.
“I never felt like people saw me
any differently from anybody
else who was gunning for the
position.”
Fersh added that it is “too
bad that other women haven’t
also followed in those footsteps.”
Moving forward, she hopes that
Penn’s current student government will do more to get to the
root of the problem.
Over the past year, College
junior and current UA President Dan Bernick said, the UA
has made a concerted effort to
reach out to lesser-represented
communities in student government — such as Engineering
women — from early on.
“It’s hard not to notice that
there aren’t any females in the
highest offices,” he said. “You
have to make your efforts to fix
that intentional, because it’s not
going to fix itself.”
At the end of the day, Opotowsky believes that if more female students find their way to
high-ranking UA positions, they
may be more inclined to seek
leadership roles post-Penn.
“Things have changed rapidly at the national level over the
years, and it’s important that
Penn keeps up with the times,”
she said. “This is where it begins.”
Students ag reed that
Kable’s research is relevant
to their lives.
“ T h r oug h h i s work he
comes to a better understanding of value, how people perceive time and how
they are making real-world
decisions,” said 2012 College
g raduate Zey nep Enk av i,
who has also worked with
Kable in the past. “He hopes
to apply these to real-world
situations like exercise or
smoking behavior.”
Kable’s study is among the
few to question the accepted
findings from this long-standing experiment.
“I think it’s a novel interpretation of the really classic
marshmallow experiment —
it’s something that makes a
lot of intuitive sense that no
one has systematically looked
at before,” College senior
Alli Oakes, who worked with
Kable on this topic, said. “In
research it’s not about reinventing the wheel, but looking
at what’s out there and asking
whether it’s really right and
doing more research to try
and figure it out.”
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First step made towards liquor privatization
$58,812
60000
down in January 2012.
Opponents of the plan, however, have cited data showing
that the state-run liquor industry is a boost to the economy
and a valuable job source for
Pennsylvanians.
“From our point of view,
particularly at a time when
the state has a real challenge
with raising sufficient revenues, privatization shouldn’t
be high on our priority list,”
Stephen Herzenberg, executive director of the Keystone
Research Center, told the DP
earlier this year.
The Senate is expected to
begin considering a version
of the bill within the next 30
to 60 days.
Released 2013-2014 total cost
throughout the Ivy League
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Dartmouth $60,201
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Yale $57,500
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Brown $57,232
Princeton $54,165
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The total cost of attending Penn has increased 18
percent over the past five
years, and 48 percent over
the past decade. In 2004-05,
a Penn education was nearly
$20,000 less than what families pay today.
Penn’s total charges of
$58,812 make the University
the second most expensive
Ivy League institution — behind only Dartmouth College
— that has announced tuition
increases for 2013-14.
Cor nel l , Colu mbia a nd
Harvard universities have
not yet announced total costs
for the next academic year.
On T hu r sd ay, t he Un iversity also said it will be
increasing its financial aid
budget for 2013-14 to $188
million, marking a 5 percent
increase over projected aid
expenditures this year.
2013-2014 tuition:
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sumer convenience in their
campaign over the past several weeks.
“We have the most convoluted and complex way of dealing
with liquor sales in this state,”
Charlie Gerow, a spokesperson
for the grassroots Coalition
to End the Liquor Monopoly,
told The Daily Pennsylvanian
earlier this semester. “Many
Pennsylvanians realize that,
and we’re going to make our
voices heard.”
Gerow added that a privatization plan could go a long
way toward bringing a liquor
store back near Penn’s campus, which lost its closest state
store — located at 41st and
Market streets — when it shut
Total costs per year over the last ten years
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this year.
T hu r sd ay ’s t u it ion a n nouncement has troubled
— although not necessarily
sur prised — some across
campus.
“It is very hard to see any
rational policy basis underneath it at all besides, ‘Let’s
get more and more money,
let’s spend more and more
money a nd i f we have a
problem in future, we’ll deal
with it in the future,’” said
Graduate School of Education professor Joni Finney,
who researches higher education finance. “Costs keep
rising, and at some point
even an extremely wealthy
institution like Penn is going
to have to come out and say
that enough is enough.”
C o l l e ge j u n i o r M e h a k
Chadha, an inter national
student from India, agreed
that the increase is concerning.
“I think it’s quite a bit, especially because I’ve talked
to friends at other colleges
and we just seem to be paying a lot more here at Penn,”
said Chadha, who is not on
financial aid.
Finney added that, as tu-
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remain
stagnant
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A privatized liquor industr y in Pennsylvania is one
step closer to becoming a
reality.
Thursday night, the Pennsylvania House of Representatives passed a bill that calls
for liquor sales to gradually
be removed from the state’s
hands. Privatization advocates say the bill would lead to
cheaper liquor prices, greater
selection and longer hours for
Pennsylvanians — particularly in urban areas like West
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“Through our innovative
no -loan prog ram, we are
sending a strong and positive message to present and
future Penn students: this
institution will continue to
recruit and enroll the finest students, and no student
will need to decline the opportunity to experience a
Penn education for financial reasons,” Penn President Amy Gutmann said in
a statement.
T h is ye a r ’s r at e of i ncrease for the financial aid
budget is slightly less than
the past two years, when
f unds allocated to underg raduate a id rose by 7.7
percent.
Since Gutmann took office
in 2004, Penn’s aid budget
has increased by an average
rate of 9.1 percent per year.
Car naroli said that the
lower rate of increase this
year was not a “conscious
decision,” but rather a ref lection of what the University projected it would
need to allocate in 2013-14
to maintain the same aid
program that saw 46 perc e nt o f u n d e r g r a d u at e s
receive need-based grants
BY SETH ZWEIFLER
Senior Staff Writer
erations of the Pennsylvania
Liquor Control Board almost
immediately after the bill was
passed.
Today’s legislation marks a
far more gradual privatization
effort.
While the bill has made its
way through the House, it
may face an uphill battle as it
moves on to the Senate. Several prominent Democratic
senators have already spoken
out against the measure, and it
is likely that any privatization
plan would have to go through
several more rounds of revision before it stands a chance
of passing again.
Privatization supporters
have consistently pushed con-
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Philadelphia.
The passage of House Bill
790 — which carried by a 10590 vote — came after hours
of debate on Wednesday and
Thursday.
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett, who has been an outspoken advocate of privatization,
called the day “historic.”
“Never before has a liquor
pr ivat i zat ion bi l l passed
through either chamber of
the legislature, and I am extremely proud of the hard
work and commitment the
House and the leadership they
have shown to the people of
Pennsylvania today,” he said
in a statement.
Under the bill, beer retailers would be the first eligible
to apply for liquor licenses that
were previously given only to
state-operated stores. The bill
would eventually allow supermarkets to enter the liquor
industry.
Although the legislation is
a bold move toward privatization, it marks a less aggressive
push than a similar plan Corbett had called for earlier this
year. Under Corbett’s original
plan, the state would have sold
off the retail and wholesale op-
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through the Pa. House of Representatives
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40
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60
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Total cost (thousands of dollars)
Total financial aid budget allocated for 2013-14: $188 million (a 5% increase from 2012-2013)
Tuition increase from 2012-13 to 2013-14: $39,088 to $40,594
ition continues to rise and
the average value of Pell
Grants remains stagnant,
the impact of government
aid on students’ ability to
pay for college lessens.
Car naroli said that the
University takes changes
in federal aid into account
when determining students’
financial needs.
“We’re not insensitive to
the families that pay the full
amount, but we do have to
put all of this in the context
that we are need blind, so
we’re essentially meeting
the f ull need of students
through the criteria we’ve
established,” he said.
While Finney praised the
Universit y ’s aid prog ram
as one of the best in the nation, she cautioned that annual tuition increases at a
school like Penn can have a
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much wider “ripple effect”
throughout higher education.
“Penn exists in a larger
higher education environment, and when Penn and
other well-to-do institutions
increase their tuitions like
this f rom a high base, it
gives license for others to go
down the same route,” she
said. “That’s not the message that we want to send.”
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Gymnasts look to defend ECAC title
Gymnastics | Consistency and mental
toughness will decide who wins it all
BY alexis ziebelman
Staff Writer
This weekend, the Penn
gymnastics team will be feeling the pressure. But for the
defending ECAC champions,
that comes with the territory.
The Quakers will be heading up to Cornell hoping to win
their second consecutive conference crown.
There will be six teams
competing this weekend up in
Ithaca, most of which will provide stiff competition.
“Out of the six teams, five
teams have that opportunity
to win it. Five teams have
already shown that they can
score 193.000,” coach John
Ceralde said.
“It’s going to be a showdown
because everyone can go 194,”
senior Kirsten Strausbaugh
said. “It’s just a battle of who’s
the most consistent. Everyone
is not hitting every meet.”
If the Quakers hit their routines and make it through the
meet with no falls, they could
come away victorious. But that
is no easy task in any meet —
especially when the pressure
is on.
“You know how big the meet
is when you’ve won it the year
before. And we talk about it
all the time so the freshmen
k now,” Strausbaugh said.
“We [seniors] try to keep the
nerves calm during the meet
because freshmen can freak
out a little bit sometimes when
they are being thrown into a
big meet like this.”
Strausbaugh is one of three
Quakers who have been com-
peting all-around for most of
the season. Her biggest obstacle, though, is the balance
beam.
“I’d like to hit my beam routine, it’s always something in
my beam routine that I mess
up. It’s my nerve-wracking
event,” Strausbaugh said. “I
don’t have the biggest skills,
but I try to be the consistent
one.”
Consistency truly is the
key to performing well at this
level in gymnastics. Everyone
can do the skills and do them
well. It is just a matter of who
can be as close to perfection
as possible in the one routine
that counts, and the Quakers
understand the importance of
this big meet.
Gymnastics is as much a
mental sport as it is a physical one. The time between
turns gives you time to think,
a factor that doesn’t always
help and often leads g ymnasts to overanalyze a skill
or routine that they k now
they can do.
With a big meet like ECACs,
a lot of downtime caused by
byes can often lead to gymnasts psyching themselves
out, a fate the Red and Blue
hope to avoid.
“You have byes in the meet
so you have to sit and see everyone else compete and see
what they are doing,” Strausbaugh said. “We try not to
watch the other teams and
keep our eyes to ourselves and
on Penn.”
For Strausbaugh and the
other seniors, this is the end of
a long career in gymnastics.
“The seniors would like to
finish the season on a high
note. It would be an exclamation to their four years on the
team,” Ceralde said.
W i n n i ng t h i s we ekend
would be the icing on the cake
for not only the senior class,
but the whole Penn gymnastics team.
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Senior Kirsten Strausbaugh is looking to put together a more consistent
balance beam routine Saturday, as Penn tries to defend its ECAC crown.
Quakers aiming to solve road woes
M. Tennis | Penn
is out for revenge
against a struggling
St. John’s squad
BY Riley Steele
Associate Sports Editor
At this point in the season,
it’s gut-check time for the Penn
men’s tennis team.
Although the Quakers (75) have played well at times
throughout the spring season,
there has been a startling difference between the team’s
performances at home and on
the road.
Undefeated in seven home
contests, the Red and Blue
have dropped all five of their
matches away from Levy Pavilion.
However, the team’s matchup with St. John’s on Saturday
gives Penn a chance to end its
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Junior midfielder Drew Belinsky is fourth on the Quakers with eight goals after
notching two scores in Penn’s 11-10 victory over Princeton last weekend.
Offensive
strength key
for Penn
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The Red and Blue have
already faced some strong
offensive teams similar to
Cornell this season, including the season-opening victory over Duke.
One of the keys to that
game for Penn was a quick
5-2 lead that left the Blue
Devils playing from behind,
a fast start that the Quakers
would like to replicate Saturday.
“We are just going to play
our game and it’s going to
start with the faceoffs,” Belinsky said. “Danny Feeney
and Joe McCallion have done
a great job for us this year
and they just have to keep it
up.”
The faceoff circle will be a
key to the game, as Cornell
turned in a paltry 5-for-21
performance on faceoffs in
its only loss this year.
Additionally, winning faceoffs would keep the ball
in possession of Penn’s Tim
Schwalje-led attack and out of
the hands of Cornell’s offense,
led by senior Rob Pannell.
“Every offense has a slightly different strength but a lot
of times it comes down to us
just applying our fundamentals,” Murphy said. “I think
this game will be like that
and will just have to do what
we normally do on defense.”
Fairfield to
visit in WBI
quarterfinals
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the ball more and be the aggressor.”
Bradford help extend Penn’s
run by making five three pointers, finishing with 16 points.
“My teammates were defi-
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nitely finding me,” Bradford
said. “I would call for it and
they were looking for me but I
also just tried to cut hard and
get other people open.”
Throughout the game, Howard dominated from beyond
the arc. Senior guard Kara
Smith led the way for the Bison, making four threes.
But the Quakers took advantage of their interior size. Junior forward Courtney Wilson
came off the bench to put up
11 points while Bonenberger
added 10 points of her own.
“I thought Courtney was
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thought it was a good game
for her because she could pass
out of double teams and she
could score.”
As the game progressed,
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the basket at will. This led to
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the free-throw line, where the
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The success from the charity stripe helped Penn overcome the shortcomings of its
two of its best players, as Al-
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combined to shoot just 4-for-19
from the field.
With the win, the careers of
seniors Katie Davis and Bradford continue for at least a few
more days, as the Quakers advance to face Fairfield in the
quarterfinals of the WBI this
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“I think [this game] showed
a lot of resilience,” McLaughlin said. “We’re gonna play until someone says we can’t play
anymore and that’s the mentality that these girls have.”
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one of three returning members from last season’s team,
missed last weekend’s match
because of tendinitis in his
arm.
The injury bug has also hit
freshman Austin Kaplan, who
developed an injury in one of his
hands earlier this week.
“Our players’ health is kind of
day by day,” Geatz said. “I hope
we have everybody healthy and
I think Jeremy is going to be in
the lineup, but there’s probably
a 50 percent chance [Kaplan]
plays.”
Regardless of who takes the
court on Saturday, the Quakers
know that they have a great opportunity to get moving in the
right direction with Ivies on the
horizon.
“I don’t think there is one
guy on our team who doesn’t
truly think that we can win that
match this weekend,” Geatz
said. “Our guys expect to win.”
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road woes.
“I think our kids did a pretty
good job in practice this week,”
coach David Geatz said. “I think
that we just need to carry over
what we do in practice more
into matches and if we do that
then we can do well in doubles
and do well overall against St.
John’s.”
Penn’s match with the Red
Storm (2-10) will be the team’s
second of five straight on the
road after a loss against Virginia Commonwealth last
weekend.
On this road swing, the Red
and Blue are looking to tighten
things up as much as possible,
especially with Ivy League play
only two weeks away.
“Sometimes you can do
something in practice, but it
won’t show up in a match and
that’s what we want to eliminate,” Geatz said. “Our guys
have all the tools, we just need
to learn how to use them all.”
Saturday’s matchup may be
coming at the perfect time for
the Quakers, as the Red Storm
have struggled all year long,
though St. John’s came out
on top when the two met last
year.
“They beat us pretty badly
last year, so it would be nice to
get some revenge this year,”
Geatz said.
Geatz’s familiarity with the
Red Storm has helped his team
prepare this week in practice,
giving them confidence going
forward.
Nevertheless, it remains to
be seen whether Penn will be
at full strength when it plays on
Saturday.
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The Daily Pennsylvanian
Friday, march 22, 2013 Page 9
Seniors prep team for weekend doubleheader
baseball | Deitrich, Branigan impart lessons
for Penn’s fast-learning underclassmen
BY anna strong
Senior Staff Writer
Patrick Hulce/DP File Photo
Senior outfielder Ryan Deitrich has been a catalyst for Penn’s offense this
season, leading the Quakers in hits, batting average and on-base percentage.
LGBTQ
athletics are
looking up
YANKELEV from page 10
the semester, the same fear
that kept me from coming out
as a high school track and field
athlete hit me — hard.
Luckily for me, two weeks
before the start of the semester, I had done a photo shoot
with Jeff Sheng, the creator
and producer of Fearless, a
photo-documentary project in
which “more than 150 openly
gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender (LGBTQ) student-athletes” were photographed.
Sheng publicly posted the
photos from my shoot on his
Facebook page, tagging me in
the post, officially making my
status as a gay athlete public.
And only a few days before,
I hadn’t even decided when or
how I would come out to my
team. I sat in my dorm room,
with my computer in front of
me. And without really thinking, reposted his picture and
simply thanked him for letting
me be a part of the project.
So there it was — my coming
out. But it was not just to only
the track team and my Facebook friends. I received nothing
but positive feedback and love
from those who saw the post.
That one picture reinforced my
confidence in my sexuality and
encouraged me to completely
trust my teammates and com-
Lafayette (DH)
2-14
Saturday,
Noon
Sunday,
Noon
Meiklejohn Stadium Easton, Pa.
It’s not all about youth.
This season, Penn baseball’s freshmen have been
impressive contributors and
have filled some holes left by
last year’s graduating class.
But much of their success has
been due to the upperclassmen
leadership, particularly from
senior captains and offensive
powerhouses Ryan Deitrich
and Spencer Branigan.
“When a team is playing well,
it usually has a lot to do with
how the upperclassmen are
conducting business with the
team,” coach John Cole said.
“What’s really impressed me is
the seniors’ ability to maintain
their leadership qualities even
when they’re having an off day
or not playing well. Baseball is
full of failure, and you’ve gotta
be able to handle it and be in
control.”
The seniors so far are certainly in control. First baseman Branigan is currently
hitting .346 and has an impressive .992 fielding percentage,
which ranks just behind sophomore catcher Austin Bossart
in players who have started all
15 games.
Deitrich, who is currently
leading the Quakers with a .421
batting average and a .614 slugging percentage, is well aware
of the impact the seniors have
had on the younger players.
“We really just try to focus
on doing the right things in
practice, staying focused the
whole time and just letting
the underclassmen know that
you need to do things the way
coach wants them done. He’s
been in this for over 30 years,
so he knows what he’s talking
about,” Deitrich said.
But Deitrich was also quick
to commend the underclassmen for their impact thus far.
He was especially impressed
by their confidence and drive.
“They’ve really bought into
the system and they’re really
confident in their abilities,
which is great for us because
we need good bats in the lineup,
especially after losing [Greg]
Zebrack last year.”
Case in point: sophomore
Joey Greco, who blasted two
home runs, one of which was a
grand slam, against Villanova
on Wednesday.
The Quakers’ confidence,
both as individual players —
seven players are currently hit-
ting over .300, three of those
over .350 — and as a team, has
also been instrumental to their
success so far this season, and
they will look to continue their
momentum when they open a
five-game slate against Lafayette on Saturday.
The Leopards (2-14) come
into the weekend doubleheaders fresh off a 6-0 shutout loss
to Wagner. In their last three
games, the Leopards have
managed only two runs.
The Quakers (9-6) have won
five of their last six contests,
beating George Washington
three out of four games and
then putting up an impressive
12 runs against Big 5 rival Villanova on Wednesday. Penn
was down 5-3 in the sixth inning but managed a five-run,
two-out rally to close out the
inning. Penn shut out Villanova
for the remainder of the contest
while building on its 8-5 lead,
tacking on four more runs to
bring the final score to 12-5.
Cole pointed out that the
Quakers’ pitching has also
been a key factor to the Quakers’ wins, both the starting
munity to support me. So yes,
in a sense, I feel that I had come
out again to myself.
Track and field is just one of
those sports where everyone
ends up hooking up with each
other. Throughout high school,
I saw the top athletes in each of
the leagues, districts and even
the state publish their relationships on Facebook.
At the state championship
meet, where athletes stayed
in co-ed university dorms for
three nights, I was judged and
stigmatized for not “getting
with guys.”
All sports at an elite level
have gendered expectations
of “strength, competitiveness, courage and muscularity,” which negatively impact
perceptions of both male and
female athletes, according to
Pat Griffin, who has consulted
the NCAA on LGBTQ issues.
Homophobia and athletics have
unfortunately walked hand in
hand for decades.
But in the past year alone,
athletes from the MLS, MLB,
NHL and NFL have spoken out
in support of teammates “who
might be gay.” For example,
professional soccer player Robbie Rogers’ coming out and subsequent retirement last month
was answered with a video of
support from the entire Seattle
Sounders Football Club.
Last month at the Ivy League
Heptagonal Indoor Championships, dozens of members of
my team pinned Pride ribbons
to their warmups, backpacks
and even uniforms to join the
movement to end homophobia
in athletics.
The night before the meet,
the entire women’s team
crammed into one hotel room
to get ourselves ready for two
days of the physical, mental
and emotional overhaul that is
Heps. At the end of the meeting, I thanked my team for
supporting me as a teammate,
friend and person, as well as
Fundamentals
critical vs.
Cornell
rotation and the bullpen. The
pitching staff is currently posting a 4.14 earned run average
overall. Undefeated sophomore
starter Dan Gautieri leads the
pitchers with a 1.37 ERA.
“We have confidence in our
starting pitching and our bullpen has been dynamite,” Cole
said.
Cole also lauded his team’s
toughness and ability to hang
on to leads late in a game.
“If we get into the seventh
inning and we’re out ahead,
we’re not giving up the win,”
Cole said.
Deitr ich attr ibutes the
team’s success to a change in
the “culture” of the team and a
shift in mentality.
“It’s about going out there
and being aggressive, and its
not so much about the individual stuff. I think we’ve gotten rid
of the whole don’t mess up kind
of mentality, let’s just go out
there and play, it changes the
way we think about things.”
Momentum and aggression,
Deitrich believes, will be key.
With 33 runs scored in their
last five contests, the Quakers
are in attack mode and on paper, overmatch the Leopards,
who have not won since March
10.
“We have five games against
them and we want to take all
five,” Deitrich said. “That’s all
there is to it.”
for creating an environment
in which I don’t have to worry
about hiding my sexuality and,
in reality, my identity.
So to the thousands of athletes who aren’t fortunate
enough to belong to an athletic
community in which they can
find support and, in Penn’s
case, solidarity from their teammates, things are changing.
ELIANA YANKELEV is a College
freshman from Lower Merion, Pa.
She is the advocacy director of
PATH and a hurdler on the Penn
track & field team.
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Iris Williamson, who recorded
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Williamson took over in the
final two minutes, scoring a
beautiful goal to tie the game,
then launching a missile into
the top left corner of the net
just a minute later that would
ultimately be the game winner.
The emotional win was a
complete team effort on offense, with seven different
Quakers recording at least
one goal. The hero of regulation, Tory Bensen, recorded a
hat trick, while Meredith Cain
and Courtney Tomchik each
chipped in two apiece.
“It’s a combination of doing my homework and having
great teammates,” Williamson
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Though the Quakers think
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Penn will need to rediscover those fundamentals in
a hurry before a critical Ivy
League matchup this Sunday
against Cornell. The Quakers
topped the Big Red (6-1, 2-0)
last season in an 11-10 thriller,
but Cornell has been off to an
incredible start this season.
Their lone loss came earlier
this week at No. 3 North Carolina, 11-10, in a game they had
multiple leads in.
“Cornell is a great team
r ight now,” Corbett said.
“They’re disciplined, they’re
clean and they play great as
a unit.”
The
If the Quakers are going
to remain undefeated in Ivy
League play, they will have to
shore up their defense. They
gave the Commodores eight
free position shots, and five
were converted for goals.
“We have to have higher expectations for ourselves. We
need to be cleaner, take care
of the ball better, and shoot it
better,” Corbett said.
In a game that will likely
be a solid indicator of who
will reign supreme in the Ivy
League this season, the Quakers will try to make a statement about why they’re the
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Penn (17-12)
Red and
Blue eke
out win
vs. Vandy
Howard (20-12)
NEXT GAME: vs. FAIRFIELD | sat, 7 p.m.
Penn survives and advances
W. Hoops | Quakers
hold off late Bison charge
to earn first postseason
win in school history
W. Lacrosse | Penn
pushed to two overtimes
by plucky Commodores,
survive to face Cornell
BY Steven Tydings
Associate Sports Editor
In almost all of Penn’s losses this
season, the Quakers have gotten off
to a slow start while falling behind
early.
But in their first postseason game
in nine years, the Red and Blue
bucked the trend.
Penn (17-12) overcame a 10-1 deficit in the opening minutes of the contest to pick up the first postseason
victory in program history, defeating
Howard, 65-60.
The Quakers looked rusty to open
the game against the Bison (20-12),
as the Red and Blue were playing
their first game in nine days.
But coach Mike McLaughlin adjusted on the fly, implementing a 2-3
zone that stifled the Bison’s offense
and forced 10 first-half turnovers,
which created opportunities in transition.
“When we went zone, I don’t think
we’ve played that much zone continuously [this season],” McLaughlin
said. “But I thought we matched up
pretty well with them in zone.”
On the other end of the court, Penn
figured out Howard’s suffocating defense behind a balanced attack, as
the Red and Blue responded with
a 20-4 run that put the team ahead
for good.
But the Bison made the game
close at the end, using an 8-0 run in
the final three minutes to cut Penn’s
lead to just two.
Yet thanks to a late layup from
sophomore forward Kara Bonenberger and a strong defensive stand,
the Quakers held off the charging
Bison.
“To their credit, they really came
at us the final four minutes,” senior
guard Brianna Bradford said. “But
I think finally we started to come to
SEE W. HOOPS PAGE 8
BY Alex Ott
Staff Writer
vs. Vanderbilt
It wasn’t pretty, but the Penn
women’s lacrosse team pulled out
a win over Vanderbilt, 14-13, in what
was easily the wildest game of the
season.
Thursday’s game was a battle of
two halves, with the Quakers (3-3)
dominating the Commodores, 7-3, in
the first half and seemingly ready to
run Vandy out of Philly.
But the second half proved to be
a much different story. The ‘Dores
(1-9) erased an 11-6 deficit to take a
12-11 lead with just under less than
four minutes left in the half, putting
Penn in a difficult position.
“We got complacent and stopped
working the defense,” coach Karin
Brower Corbett said. “We should
have kept working the clock because
that’s when you could really break a
team, but we forced shots and took
bad fouls on defense.”
But the Red and Blue remained
calm. As the clock ticked down, Penn
moved the ball downfield with ease
as senior Caroline Bunting got a
great shot that hit iron. The ensuing
rebound was scooped up by junior
Tory Bensen, who rocketed a shot
into the back of the net with just 25
seconds left, forcing overtime.
After a scoreless first extra session, the Quakers had their backs
against the wall once again, trailing,
13-12, with 2:42 left. But freshman
Andrew Dierkes/Senior Photographer
Senior guard Brianna Bradford led the Quakers back from an early deficit, as she drained five shots from beyond the arc for 16 points.
Bradford helped spark Penn, coming off the bench in the first half to make three treys as part of the Red and Blue’s 20-4 run.
SEE W. LACROSSE PAGE 9
Confidence in coming out Quakers to face Ivy
League powerhouse
M. Lacrosse | The Red
and Blue will be looking
to knock off their fourth
ranked team of the year
BY Steven Tydings
Associate Sports Editor
ELIANA YANKELEV
T
h e red water bottle. At
Penn, it’s the universal
sign for “I’m an athlete.”
It’s also the universal sign
for “I’m straight.”
Statistically speaking, if one out of
every 10 individuals in a given population identified as LGBTQ, then
between 50 and 70 Penn varsity athletes should self-identify as such.
But as you struggle to think of
even two or three athletes who fit
that bill, you will understand my sentiment exactly. Penn Athletes and
Allies Tackling Homophobia, commonly known as PATH, is a group
dedicated to the advancement of the
status of gay athletes and the fight
against homophobia in athletics.
But the group is incredibly small
and there are only a handful of varsity athletes actually in the group.
I started college knowing that I
wanted to be out. I felt no hesitation
at all coming out to new people and
introducing myself to members of
the LGBTQ community here.
But unfortunately, I didn’t feel the
same way about coming out to my
team. During our first practice of
SEE YANKELEV PAGE 9
Courtesy of Morgan Wheeler
Freshman hurdler Eliana Yankelev became involved with Penn’s Athletes and Allies
Tackling Homophobia early in her freshman year, quickly becoming its advocacy chair.
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Six games into the season, there is
a plethora of stats that you can reel
off that shows how well Cornell has
played this year.
The Big Red (6-1, 1-0 Ivy) began
the week leading the NCAA with
15.17 goals per game. They lead
the Ivy League in goals, shots and
ground balls per game.
And all of this has added up to
Cornell entering its matchup with
the Quakers as the No. 2 team in Division I while tied with Brown and
Penn atop the Ancient Eight.
But don’t start thinking the No. 9
Quakers (5-1, 1-0 Ivy) are fazed by
Cornell’s strong start to the season.
“All Ivy teams are going to be
tough this year,” midfield Drew Belinsky said. “A ranking in the middle
of March doesn’t really mean anything.
“The only ranking that matters is
the one that comes out after Memorial Day — after the national championship.”
The Quakers have made waves
in the national rankings this season, despite the team refusing to put
much stock in the very same measurement.
After beginning the year un-
No. 2 Cornell
6-1, 1-0 Ivy
Saturday,
1 p.m.
Ithaca, N.Y.
ranked, the Red and Blue have
reeled off three wins over ranked
opponents, including a hard-fought
11-10 victory over then-No. 7 Princeton last weekend.
“When you look at the recent and
not so recent history of the league,
Princeton and Cornell have been the
class of the Ivy League for at least 20
years,” coach Mike Murphy said.
“So [starting Ivy play against
those two teams] is significant, but
I don’t think these two games are
bigger than the next four [games] in
conference play.”
Historically, the Big Red have
been consistently successful against
Penn, winning each of their last six
meetings with the Red and Blue and
taking 13 of their last 15 matchups.
But the Quakers have already
demonstrated how this version of
Penn lacrosse is different from last
season, winning three games by two
goals or fewer after losing four onegoal games in 2012.
“I think we are a more mentally
tough team this year,” Belinsky said.
“We have done a whole lot of situation practices this year and I get the
feeling that we just want it more at
the end of games than we did last
year.”
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