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Penn’s campus reacted with shock and sadness to news of Wharton junior Ao “Olivia” Kong’s death on Monday. Students mourned their classmate at a candlelight vigil on Monday night and took to social media to express their memories of Kong as well as their discontent with Penn’s culture.

Students on campus have reacted not just to the news of Kong’s death, which was officially ruled a suicide, but also to the University’s handling of the announcement. Current students were not the only group affected — hundreds of prospective students visiting Penn for Quaker Days were also witness to the news.

Kong’s death has brought renewed attention to the longstanding issue of mental health at Penn, which has seen 11 student suicides since February 2013 (including one Law student who committed suicide last year, after having graduated less than two weeks prior).

The University’s responseThe first time most students heard of Kong’s

death was in an email from the President’s Office, sent at 2:22 p.m. on Monday. The email reported the incident and listed a number of resources for students, but did not provide Kong’s name.

Wharton sent an email to its own undergradu-ate body 20 minutes later, sharing Kong’s name as well as additional details about her life. The email, which was sent before her suicide was confirmed, described her death as an “accident.”

Wharton’s only information at the time the email

“You say you’ll be back in time, but time’s just a sharpened knife and I can’t stand to be cut from you,” College freshman Elizabeth Goran sings on her new EP titled “Dis-tance.”

The EP, which was released this February, is the second in three years for Goran. She has been sing-ing since she her days in elementary school choir at five years old and writing songs since she was eight years old , but she didn’t have formal training as a singer until she was 12 years old.

“My parents kind of recognized that these songs were pretty good and they helped foster my singing through voice lessons and helping me pay to make my EPs,” Goran said.

Goran released her first EP, “Fight, ” in 2014 when she was just 16 years old. She categorizes her own music in the pop genre, but stresses that music doesn’t neatly fit into labeled boxes. Her biggest influ-ence is English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran.

Manal Kaddoura, a high school senior in Goran’s hometown of Los Angeles, became friends with Goran before the release of her first EP.

“One of the reasons me and Liz became friends was because of music,” Kaddoura said. “It’s always been such a big deal to the both of us. Liz has always had a huge passion for music.”

For the past five years, Los Ange-les-based vocalist John Deaver has coached Goran. Deaver and Goran have both recorded instrumental piano tracks for the EPs. The EP, “Distance, ” was recorded in his studio and was produced by him and his sound engineer Gabe Lopez.

“She’s a very talented girl,”

Deaver said. “She writes very com-mercial songs that work well in the pop medium that she’s going for. Her voice has come a long way as far as having more power and more high notes.”

Goran draws some of her inspira-tion for her music from real life.

“It mainly comes from real life, but a lot of the time it will be based off a small concept and I’ll just expand on it, ” Goran said. “I was writing love songs at the age of 14. I knew nothing about love. I still know nothing, let’s be real. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t write about those experiences. Or you hear your friends’ stories and that inspires you.”

Specifically, she drew the inspi-ration for the song “2AM” after the end of a friendship.

“A lot of people have interpreted it romantically, but interpretation is part of the music experience,” Goran

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This February, College freshman Elizabeth Goran released a new EP titled “Distance.”

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When Penn released its admissions decisions on March 31, admitted stu-

dents took to social media to celebrate their excitement. But while students celebrate every year, Penn’s Class of 2020 was able to express their excitement this admissions season with a Penn emoji.

As the largest employer in the Greater Philadelphia area and an intellectual hub for stu-dents, Penn plays an integral role in Philadelphia. But as much as Penn contributes to the city, Philadelphia enriches the

University as well. Prospective students are drawn to Penn be-cause of its location in the city of Philadelphia, and students and alumni alike reap the bene-fits offered to them during their time here.

This relationship is evident in several new partnerships orga-nized by Philadelphia and Penn, like Penn’s feature on a new Philadelphia Emoji Keyboard created by Visit Philadelphia — the official organization for Philadelphia travel and tour-ism — and new Quaker Days programming led by Visit

Philadelphia representatives.

A New Kind of RelationshipWhile the relationship be-

tween Penn and the city of Philadelphia is currently strong and thriving, this was not always the case.

Penn’s Executive Vice Presi-dent Craig Carnaroli, who was an undergrad at Penn in the mid-1980s, has seen the relationship change over his lifetime.

“It’s all been a progres-sion… I think that the evolution is positive and it has been a

recognition of interdependence that if Penn can grow and thrive, then the city of Phila-delphia will grow and thrive as well,” Carnaroli said.

Dean of Admissions Eric Furda also agreed that the rela-tionship between Penn and the city has changed with time.

“I think the work that hap-pened between the late-90s and early-2000s was the dra-matic shift in the relationship between the city and the uni-versity,” Furda said, “What has

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happened in the last decade has been to solidify that relation-ship.”

“There is good relationship building going on right now,” Carnaroli said, noting that ef-forts have been particularly strong with recent efforts from former mayors Ed Rendell and Michael Nutter, both of whom were Penn grads.

Executive Director of the Office of the Executive Vice President Anthony Sorrentino, who has also been with Penn for some time, said that back in the 1980s and 1990s, Penn heavily focused on West Philadelphia and how the university could better improve the relationship between that area and Penn.

“We feel that we’ve done that,” Sorrentino said. “Phila-delphia is no longer a liability in attracting students to Penn, but an asset.”

“Students are now saying, ‘I want to go to Penn because it’s in Philly,’” Sorrentino said.

In fact, when Campus Philly was formed, Penn was one of the first investors.

“They believed that if we po-sitioned Philadelphia as one big campus, that you don’t have to just be on the campus of any one university, you had access to the whole city awaiting you. It would be good for the university and it would be good for the city,” President and CEO of Campus Philly Deborah Diamond said.

Visit Philadelphia and Emoji keyboard

Although Visit Philadelphia’s Philadelphia Emoji Keyboard is new, Visit Philadelphia’s work with Penn is anything but.

“Penn is such a big part of Philly’s image, economy and future, and that’s why we’ve always worked with Penn,” President and CEO of Visit Phil-adelphia Meryl Levitz said.

Currently, Carnaroli serves on the Visit Philadelphia board. Prior to Carnaroli’s time on the board, current Drexel University President John Fry served on the board during his time as executive vice president of Penn between 1995 and 2002.

“Penn has always had a place on our board because when you survey people about Philadelphia, Penn and Wharton almost always come up,” Levitz said. “It’s to everyone’s mutual benefit to brand each other.”

Keeping this in mind, it was a no-brainer that Penn should be one of the featured images as part of Visit Phila-delphia’s Philadelphia emoji keyboard.

In addition to a Penn emoji, the keyboard also features other classic Philadelphia icons like the Love Statue, the Rocky Statue and the Liberty Bell as well as other Philadelphia uni-versities.

“The keyboard was created to give people a new and creative way to talk about Philadelphia

in their private conversations,” Visit Philadelphia social media specialist Chelsea Calhoun said.

The emoji keyboard works in texting, email and Facebook messaging, but it does not work in public platforms such as Twit-ter or Instagram.

“It’s been a pretty big hit,” Calhoun said, noting that the Love Statue and Rocky Statue have been the most popular. Penn’s emoji has been used more than 3,000 times.

Quaker Days 2016

Because of its appeal for newly admitted students, the Philadelphia emoji keyboard is an attractive tool for Penn Ad-missions.

Use of the Penn emoji can be incorporated even further during Quaker Days, during which a many prospective stu-dents come to campus and are together sharing their excite-ment about being admitted.

“There is an opportunity to share,” Admissions Director Lara Grieco said, in reference to the use of the Penn emoji.

This year, Quaker Days, which were held this week, worked closer than ever with Visit Philadelphia to ensure that prospective students can get a taste of what it’s truly like to live in Philadelphia.

“We have thought about what was missing from Quaker Days, and we thought it was the Phila-delphia component,” Grieco, who oversaw Quaker Days this year, said.

Quaker Days has changed a lot since its inception in 2014, Grieco said. The first two years were heavily focused on Penn programming. After that, Admis-sions worked on incorporating student life aspects. Now, in its third year, Quaker Days will give prospective students a taste of Philadelphia that prior classes had never had before.

Admissions brought back

the Philadelphia tour that they have done in years past and Visit Philadelphia presented a pro-gram called “Philly in a Minute,” Grieco said.

“Philly in a Minute” showed “all the fantastic things that are happening in Philly in the next year” by presenting ten differ-ent places and attractions in Philadelphia, such as the Frank-lin Institute, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and WXPN, in brief, one minute segments done by Visit Philly reps, Visit Phila-delphia representative Colleen

Ryan said.Grieco was excited when

discussing the Visit Philadel-phia partnership, noting how the “energy” of Philadelphia makes it a “terrific place to live and to learn.”

“When we talk about stu-dents becoming a citizen of the University, we also talk about how students are be-coming citizens of the city, and we want students who are excited to be both of these,”

Grieco said.Beyond Quaker Days, Penn

Admissions works hard to make sure that displaying Philadelphia to prospective students as part of the Penn experience is done right. On Penn Admission’s website, the office displays six themes that students interested in Penn can explore, and Philadelphia is one of them, Furda said.

“What we’re trying to achieve here is to show the interconnec-tion between the city and Penn, physically, how interconnected they are … but also, the vibrant city, the energy and what it would mean to be an 18- to 22-year-old on a beautiful college campus while having access to a major city, like ours,” Furda said.

Campus PhillyVisit Philadelphia is not the

only city organization that works closely with Penn.

11-year-old nonprofit Campus Philly creates events and oppor-tunities to enhance life for college students in Philadelphia with the hope that they will stick around to make a difference in the city after their college years, Diamond said.

The nonprofit was founded as a partnership between the City of Philadelphia and colleges in the area, plus sponsors from the busi-ness community.

“All three sectors are invested in Campus Philly and the mission

to keep students here,” Diamond said.

Since its creation, the way that Campus Philly has interacted with universities and college stu-dents in the area has changed as the relationship between the city and its universities has changed.

“Students are now more eager to explore and embrace Philadel-phia,” Diamond said.

Before, Campus Philly merely worked as a facilitator in con-necting students to activities off-campus — now, students come to them.

“A lot of what Campus Philly has concentrated on in the past five years has been connecting students to internships and job opportunities,” Diamond said.

Everything that Campus Philly offers is free to students, includ-ing the CollegeFest it hosts every fall at Dilworth Park in order to connect students from different Philadelphia colleges, as well as its OpenArts program, which en-courages students to explore the vibrant art scene throughout the city.

College TownWith Visit Ph i ladel-

phia and Campus Philly increasing programming aimed at college students, Philadelphia has become more like a college town.

With over 100 colleges and universities and 350,000 college students in the region, Carnaroli described Philadelphia as a “col-lege mega-region.”

“Students from different schools are interacting and meeting each other… It makes you feel like you don’t just have your campus community, but also your college and city com-munities,” Diamond said.

Furda points toward the “density of the city,” specifi-cally University City, and how

construction efforts by Penn and Drexel have transformed their neighborhood as a major factor in the development of the city.

“This is a college town. This is a college neighborhood,” Furda said.

President of Kite and Key and College junior Meredith Kline also believes Philadelphia is a college town from more per-sonal experiences.

“When I say I’m from Penn, they get it,” Kline said, describ-ing her interactions with local business owners. Kline said the experience is vastly different than her suburban California hometown.

Although Penn students during the year do not always get to take advantage of all the opportunities the city and orga-nizations like Visit Philadelphia and Campus Philly offer, stu-dents who spend breaks in Philadelphia tend to make the most of these options.

After spending the past summer in Philadelphia, Kline took it upon herself to explore the city more and go downtown.

“There were lots of college friendly, cheap events,” she said.

As Philadelphia has grown to be an integral part of the Penn experience, Kite and Key has incorporated more information about the city into student tours.

“Most people like to talk about Philadelphia because it’s a really big part of going to Penn,” Kline said, noting also that in training new tour guides, Philadelphia is part of the cur-riculum.

Although the relationship be-tween Penn and Philadelphia is currently thriving, it is still de-veloping.

“We’re only beginning to explore what this partnership could be,” Grieco said.

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was sent was “from what was re-ported in the media or sent in emails to the Penn community,” Wharton spokesperson Peter Winicov said in an emailed statement.

Vice President for University Communications Steve MacCarthy addressed the decision to release the student’s name immediately to Wharton students, but not to all students, citing the Kong’s family’s wishes to maintain privacy.

“Given all the media attention that had been focused on the death, we felt it was important to acknowledge that a student was involved,” Mac-Carthy said in an emailed statement. “At the time it was being drafted we were respecting the wishes of the family regarding the release of her name.”

Emails from the President’s Office are typically intended for a broad audience and take time to pre-pare and disseminate, MacCarthy said. He added that at the time this announcement was being drafted, Kong’s name “was not being pub-licly revealed.”

“The school email goes to a much smaller group of people who were likely to have known the deceased. It occurs as efforts are being made to personally contact roommates, friends, those who knew her in clubs,

etc.,” MacCarthy wrote. “At that point the name is well-known within that campus community, so those messages always include the name.”

Students reactMany students expressed their

frustration with the manner in which Penn notified students of Kong’s death, criticizing the email sent from Wharton that described Kong’s death as an accident.

“Mental health is the elephant in the room no one wants to talk about,” College and Wharton fresh-man Freddy Chang said. “The University has euphemized the situa-tion by claiming it was an ‘accident’ and only sending an email to Whar-ton students rather than bringing the conversation to the forefront.”

College sophomore Carly O’Donnell took to Facebook to ex-press her frustration with Wharton’s email.

“Why, in a separate email sent to Wharton, was this tragic suicide de-scribed as an ‘accident?’ Why have 24 hours passed without any amend-ment to this statement?” she wrote in a status.

O’Donnell also took issue with the decision to not release the stu-dent’s name in the initial email sent from the President’s Office.

“I am profoundly disappointed in the actions of the administration here at Penn. Why, when I read the

announcement of her passing, did I immediately panic and have to search the internet to see if I person-ally knew this nameless junior?” she wrote.

O’Donnell urged the University to do something about what she de-scribed as a “deadly phenomenon.”

“I am tired of internalizing my anger and sadness and pretending that everything is fine. Everything is NOT fine and it is time that both the students and administration of Penn DO something about it. We CANNOT afford to wait until an-other student takes his or her life,” she wrote.

Students began circulating a peti-tion, pressing Penn President Amy Gutmann and the administration to more seriously address the issue of mental health. The petition was cre-ated by College and Wharton junior Sophie Phillips, the president of Phi Gamma Nu — the same business fraternity that Kong was in.

The petition, which was created early Tuesday afternoon, had over 2,000 signatures as of late Tuesday night.

The petition included a list of proposed mental health reforms: shorter wait times at Counseling and Psychological Services, mandatory mental health first aid training for resident advisors and educators, an easier withdrawal process for Whar-ton classes, more transparency in

leave of absence policies, a reduc-tion of financial barriers associated with leaves of absences and a crisis response team to support students in the wake of traumatic events.

Several students left comments below the petition, sharing their frustration with Penn’s handling of suicides and mental health and ex-pressing their support for change.

Prospective students reactWhile current students were

shaken by Kong’s death, the tragedy also had an impact on students con-sidering Penn.

Prospective students and parents were informed of Kong’s death at separate sessions on Monday af-ternoon. “We felt it was important to address it, since people would be hearing about it,” Vice Dean and Director of Admissions Yvonne Romero Da Silva said.

At the time of the sessions, an official cause of death had not been determined.

Da Silva said the news of Kong’s death showed prospective students and parents what resources Penn has in place. “And so it’s really the

questions then can center around what does the University or the com-munity do in the face of such sad news,” she said.

For many visiting high school students, Quaker Days was their first experience on Penn’s campus. Some said they were shaken when they learned of Kong’s death.

Dean of Admissions Eric Furda first informed the students of Kong’s death at the “First Hurrah,” on Monday afternoon.

“Everyone on campus acknowl-edged the tragedy that occurred and did everything they could do to express their condolences,” said Ashten Nguyen, a prospective stu-dent from Monterey, Calif. Nguyen also mentioned that during a class she attended with her host, the pro-fessor expressed sympathy for those who knew Kong.

Some prospective students who did not attend the “First Hurrah,” first heard the news from current students.

Tuzo Mwarumba, a prospective student from Stillwater, Okla. said he first heard the news from his host, and wasn’t aware that it had been

announced by organizers of Quaker Days.

Some prospective students said the news of Kong’s death colored their perception of Penn.

“It kind of added onto my worries of getting lost in such a big school,” said Maxin Yunis, a prospective student from Philadelphia. “I know Penn is a competitive environment, and especially Penn is much bigger than a lot of other schools.”

“I was afraid of getting lost here to begin with, but seeing this happen to such a great student — who was very involved and successful — how did she not have a support system here?”

But Mwarumba, who attended the vigil on College Green Monday night, said the news would ulti-mately not affect his decision to attend Penn.

“I saw a side of Penn I never would have been able to see no matter how many Quaker Days I at-tended,” he said.

Deputy News Editors Sydney Schaedel and Vibha Kannan and Staff Reporter Sophia LePorte con-tributed reporting.

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Celebrating National Poetry MonthPenn PoetsWednesday, April 20th, at 1:00 p.m.Join us for poetry readings by three Penn Poets; Dr. Julia Bloch, Jason Zuzga, and Bob Perelman. Whether you are new to the field or accomplished in it yourself, if you hold an interest in poetry this poetry reading will not be one you want to miss.

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DO YOU PAY PER VIEW?Film polled you to fi nd out how you are getting your Sunday afternoon movie fi xes. Here’s what we learned. BY ANTHONY KHAYKIN

Though we all know the Internet is for porn (thanks Avenue Q), the

bedroom is no longer the only area being ceded to digital terri-tory. For every girl with daddy’s AmEx, window browsing on Fifth Avenue has been replaced with online shopping. And FYEs everywhere have virtu-ally been rendered useless (pun intended) with the existence of the multifarious iTunes store.

Things are no different here at Penn, where the Rave gets nearly half the traffi c for the midnight screenings of block-buster hits like Twilight as Hulu does the day after the newest episode of 30 Rock airs. This makes sense. We Penn students are too busy procrastinating on Penn InTouch and design-ing funny lacrosse pinnies for the clubs we’re involved in to leave the comfort of our beds to

watch Hugo in theaters. And we fi t this mold of overworked Ivy League students well, with only about 17% of Penn undergrads watching movies at the Rave ev-ery semester.

But how about the other ste-reotype, the one that says all col-lege students are poor? The free movement of information made possible by the interweb makes

entertainment accessible and inexpensive to anyone with an AirPennNet account. Wouldn’t

you guess then that Penn stu-dents would prefer to get their RomCom fi x online with free streaming websites like SideReel and Ch131 rather than pay for services provided by Netfl ix and Redbox?

While 75% of us watch mov-ies online, nearly 50% pay for it. I hear Horrible Bosses — a new release on iTunes — is hys-

terical, but is it worth the 1.5 salads at Sweetgreen it would have cost if I had seen it in theaters? Ramen noo-dles aren’t that bad, I guess.

The average Penn student (who is anything but average, if you ask Amy Gutmann) watch-

es seven movies, more or less, every semester. Simple arithme-tic proves that it’s $40 cheaper to watch said movies on Netfl ix than at the Rave, and an addi-tional $20 less on iTunes (cost of popcorn and Mike and Ikes not included in these calcula-tions). The low cost of watch-ing seven movies on iTunes for less than 30 bucks is worth the many conveniences that online paid services afford us: not be-ing interrupted by incessant buffering and commercials, the immunity to computer viruses and most importantly, not hav-ing to wait 54 minutes after watching 72 minutes of a movie on Megavideo.

Not to mention, it’s a small price to pay when you look at the big picture — the combined savings of the 47.7% of Penn students who pay for their online services rather than going to the movie theater is somewhere be-tween $196,136 and $295,344, depending on whether they use Netfl ix or iTunes, respectively. Moral of the story is: we won't judge if you just stay in bed.

*A simple random sample of 100 Penn undergrads were surveyed to collect data about their fi lm viewing habits.

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3NEWSWEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 2016THEDP.COM | THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN

It was with a mix of great sadness and severe frustration that I read about the death of Whar-ton junior Olivia Kong yesterday. Preliminary re-ports from SEPTA police confirm that Kong’s death was the result of a suicide. If those reports are accu-rate, and they seem to be, Kong’s death would be the 11th suicide in the last three years of a student at-tending the University of Pennsylvania. Such num-bers are jarring and they should have the adminis-tration, faculty, students, parents and alumni on full alert, because there is a crisis at Penn that collec-tively we are making very little progress in address-ing.

If 11 Penn students would have died from something else — for exa mple, t ubercu losis — during the same time

frame, there would be ca mpus-wide protest s demanding that Penn im-mediately address the problem head-on, and if they did not do so earnestly and effectively, votes of no confidence would surely follow. However, we treat suicide very differently, in part because we do not understand it very well, and in part because we of-tentimes miss the signals of depression and stress in those we love and care about until after it is far too late.

While I understand that the administration has attempted to address student suicides recently with programs and making counseling services more available, it is quite obvi-ously not enough. When you have an epidemic, like Penn does now, you have to address the issue in a meaningful and impactful

way as an institution so that everyone knows where you stand on the problem and how you are going to go about addressing it.

As such, I would humbly suggest that Penn consider enacting a suicide preven-tion day in the immediate

future. Classes would be cancelled and students, faculty and administra-tors would mandatorily participate in a variety of

symposiums, workshops and meetings where ev-eryone is educated on the topic of suicide prevention,

as well as how to deal with stress and depression as it relates to the uber-compet-itive environment at Penn. I understand such a pro-posal is drastic and would require a lot of resources from the administration, but when you have a crisis such as this, you need to lead boldly and not sit back and hope for the problem to go away.

There is simply no ques-tion that the students who attend Penn are the best of the best and have been high achievers their entire lives. While to them a low grade in one class or a lost intern-ship may seem like the end of the world, those of us a little longer in the tooth know that in the grand scheme of things such oc-currences mean very little.

It is therefore incumbent upon us — the administra-tion, faculty and alumni — to make sure this

message is communicated often and directly, and that students understand that the Penn community doesn’t just care about your grades and job prospects. It cares about you as a person and is willing to help you in any way it can with the considerable resources it has at its disposal.

We need to work to-gether on th is issue because if we simply main-tain the status quo, we will likely all be opening up the Philadelphia Inquirer or The Daily Pennsylvanian shortly and reading about the 12th suicide at Penn in three years. And frankly, I’m sick of it.

I am so frustrated with Penn. I am a freshman who chose to come here because it was supposed to be the best of all worlds and the best in the world. I say I’m frustrated, but the thing is, Penn is everything I wanted it to be and more. Penn is a place where stu-dents work hard. We play hard. We are prepared for the future. We take classes taught by the most brilliant minds in any given field. We learn and we act and we serve and we speak up.

Penn is everything I wanted it to be.

But before Penn, I didn’t know everything I would need. I didn’t know that freshman year would bring the k ind of homesick-ness that keeps you up at night. I didn’t know that the acceptances into social groups and clubs would not

make up for the rejections and isolation that just seem to come with being here. I didn’t know that boundar-ies of race and class would play such a huge role in deciding my place on campus.

I didn’t know that I would think about trans-ferring, and I didn’t know that the idea of leaving Penn would not be a fleet-ing thought, but rather a constant question, always lingering in the corner of my mind. I didn’t know that I would feel trapped, like transferring wasn’t an option, like failure wasn’t an option. I didn’t know that, at some point, ev-eryone else would feel the same way.

Penn is everything I wanted it to be, but nothing of what I needed it to be.

I need Penn to be a place

that spends our tuitions not building shiny, new facilities to attract new students, but rather a place that invests in taking care of the students who are already here. I need Penn

to be a place where fresh-men don’t feel like they are not good enough to stay and also not good enough to leave. I need Penn to be a place where CAPS doesn’t have a reputation of being understaffed and

underfunded and unsuc-cessful. I need Penn to be a place where students matter.

It’s possible that the only reason I haven’t transferred is that trans-

fer deadlines had passed by the time I admitted to myself that I should look into going somewhere else. Maybe it’s something else though.

I researched transfer-r ing and thought, “But

this school doesn’t have CityStep. Or Mujeres Em-poderadas. Or my peer advisor who helped me get through first semes-ter. Or the rabbi at Hillel who mentored me. Or my roommates for next year. Or… Or… Or…” My peers are the ones who made me second guess transferring, who made me realize that Penn is a place where stu-dents can change the status quo, but only if the admin-istration follows our lead.

I am writing this be-cause I believe that the administration has not done enough to make Penn what we all need. I want to tell them that the Hunts-man Forum and Perry World House and fancy computers in every build-ing will only attract so many students. Penn will become the best it can be

when students are the num-ber-one priority. Penn will be a world-class institution when the budget, not just the speeches and emails sent out to the student body, ref lects that health and safety come before prestige and U.S. News rankings.

If Penn can make this change, then students will want to come here even though this place is not perfect. They will come not because of what Penn looks like or because of what Penn gives them, but because of how Penn makes them feel.

Penn is not what I need it to be right now, but it has the potential to become a place that I love being part of. I hope that it gets there.

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Suicides at PennLETTER TO THE EDITOR

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Penn is everything I wanted it to be, but nothing of what I needed it to be.”

If 11 Penn students would have died from something else — for example, tuberculosis — during the same time frame, there would be campus-wide protests demanding that Penn immediately address the problem.”

SHUN SAKAI is a College junior from Chestnut Hill, Mass. His email is [email protected].

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CHRIS CORSI is a ‘00 Wharton alum.

DEBBIE RABINOVICH is a College freshman.

The 11 student deaths referred to in the piece include that of a student who died two weeks after he graduated.

Throughout March, f ive UPennAlerts were sent to the Penn community, including three in one week.

This flurry of safety alerts seems to point to an increase in crime during this past March, but the statistics suggest that crime trends have remained steady.

In terms of crimes against people, which include robbery and assault, March 2016 saw nine incidents, while March 2015 saw eight incidents. March 2016 also had 38 crimes against property, which include burglary and theft, in comparison with March 2015’s 39 crimes against property, according to statis-tics provided by the Division of Public Safety.

There were 34 total thefts and four burglaries in March 2016 and 36 total thefts and three bur-glaries in March 2015. The total

crimes for the month of March 2016 was 47, the exact same number for the month of March 2015, DPS said.

Looking at the first three months of the year, starting Jan. 1 and ending March 31, there has been a slight increase in crimes against persons from 27 in 2015 to 34 in 2016. However, crimes against property dropped from 130 in 2015 to 111 in 2016.

Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush said this was consistent with the down-ward trend in crime that DPS has seen recently.

Only two robberies occurred during March 2016.

On March 25, at 9:34 p.m., five minors surrounded an af-filiated 22-year-old woman on the corner of 42nd Street and Pine Street. One grabbed what was believed to be her cell phone but turned out to be a big cookie. Undercover police officers observed the crime and appre-hended all five minors.

Also on March 25, at 7:04 p.m., an elderly affil iated couple received a UPS package.

A man rang their doorbell and claimed that the package be-longed to him. This man tugged the package away from the el-derly couple and ran away. His insistence and use of force to take the package led DPS to send out a UPennAlert in

case the individual planned to commit a crime with the con-tents of the package. DPS is still looking for the suspect.

Despite the perceived in-crease in safety alerts, March did not see a significant in-crease in crimes in comparison

to previous years. Two alerts did not concern crimes: they were sent after an electrical explosion and series of power outages.

As finals season approaches, DPS will take extra measures to protect students from crimes.

Rush advised students to always back up their work. She noted that when students study

at coffee shops, step away from their laptops and have their lap-tops stolen, not only do they lose their laptops, but they lose all of their work. DPS has seen students lose 50-page theses after a computer was stolen.

“We’re even more attentive during busy periods, as students are preoccupied with studying and exams,” Rush said.

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recording her own music, Goran writes for the radio station WQHS, serves on the marketing committee for SPEC Concerts, shoots concert photography and is a member of Wharton’s MUSE Consulting . Although Goran enjoys creating her own music, she wants to pursue music pro-duction after college.

Goran does not feel like she will be releasing another EP anytime soon because she wants to maintain the quality of her music.

“I’m very picky and my ear is attuned to even small things,” Goran said. “I wasn’t

satisfied with [the EP] over the summer so I had to wait until winter break to fix it.”

College freshman Luis Bravo became friends with Goran at Penn.

“I feel like her personality really comes through in her music. Even though she takes her music seriously, she’s still shy and reserved and that comes through. Her style is very unique and true to her personality,” Bravo said.

Bravo added that he has listened to the entire EP. Envisioning the EP as the soundtrack to a movie, Bravo said , “I feel like there is a sunset and we’re at the shore. There are two people walk-ing dramatically and holding hands. And the sun is slowly setting.”

GORAN>> PAGE 1

For prospective students, Quaker Days provides an opportunity to experience what it’s like to actually sleep, eat and live like a Penn student academically as well as socially.

While the University also puts on scheduled lectures and program-ming for prospective students, many opt to sit in on actual classes. The Admissions Office coordinates with the various schools to organize a list of classes that professors have agreed to allow prospective student

visitors for each semester.The College of Arts and Sci-

ences offers the greatest variety of options, numbering over five hun-dred; options range from PSYC 001 — a lecture so large it takes place in Irvine Auditorium — to classes like FNAR 258: “Introduction to Clay: The Potter’s Wheel.” The School of Engineering and Applied Sci-ence offers around thirty classes for prospective students to visit, many of which vary in subject as well as difficulty. The Wharton School and the School of Nursing have smaller selections — ten and three respectively — focusing on more entry-level courses like Wharton’s “Business Fundamentals,” which

include FNCE 100 and MKTG 101.But some classes, especially this

far into the semester, may prove challenging for prospective fresh-men.

“[The prospective students] were listening intently, but they eventually just got very bored,” said College freshman Alexander Lee. Three “baby Quakers” sat in on Lee’s class, where psychology professor Joe Kable was lecturing on psychologi-cal theories of emotion.

But prospective Quakers may not need to understand everything taught in a class to get something out of it.

“We just wanted to check out what [the class] was like,” prospective

student Lekha Yesantharao said.Yesantharao and a friend sat

in on a session of “Introduction to Scientific Computing.” While Yesantharao said the class was chal-lenging to understand, she was still glad she took the opportunity as it helped her get a feel for Penn’s pro-fessors and classroom atmosphere.

“It was definitely good because we both came out realizing that the professor seemed really approach-able,” she said. “We kind of had a perception that professors — some of them — might be kind of far away from the class, but he seemed like he was very open to questions and helping out students that needed any help.”

Prospective students sit in classesAccepted students vis-ited campus this weekJINAH KIM Staff Reporter

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have an experienced leader guid-ing our student-athletes.”

Wyant has been with the Red and Blue since 2004, winning two Ivy League titles as boss of the women’s team in 2007 and 2015. The 2009 US Squash Na-tional Coach of the Year, Wyant jointly coached both of Penn’s teams for six seasons, helping the men’s side finish fifth at the CSA Team Championships at the end of 2016 while the women lost a nail-biter in the National Championship match.

“The Penn squash program enjoyed a banner year, and I am privileged to continue in a lead-ership role with the program,” he noted. “Our goal is to work diligently to further enhance the development of our talented stu-dent-athletes and strive towards winning more championships for the Red and Blue.”

The Cincinnati native has gone 146-42 while at the helm of Penn’s women’s squad, help-ing guide the Quakers to the CSA National Championship match three times. According to Wyant, Tuesday’s developments were the product of a plan put in place nearly two years ago, one that always centered around el-evating Lane.

“I think it was a collabora-tive effort,” he said. “I had some advice from some mentors who were Penn alums, and when we took the plan to [Calhoun], she was on board with it.

“I look at it as an opportunity

to continue to have the best coaching staff in college squash.”

For Lane, this represents the second consecutive offseason in which the former Penn player has been promoted. A four-time All-American from his days with the Quakers, Lane was named associate head coach of both the men’s and women’s teams fol-lowing the 2014-15 season.

“I am extremely honored and excited to begin this next phase of my coaching career as the head men’s coach,” he said in a statement. “This is a dream po-sition for me as this program has been my second home since 2003. I want to thank Dr. Grace Calhoun, Jack Wyant, Matt Valenti, the Penn squash board members and alumni for put-ting their trust in me to lead an amazing group of talented stu-dent-athletes.”

“It’s an exciting time for Penn squash,” Calhoun noted. “Gilly Lane’s passion for and loyalty to Penn made him the ideal candi-date for head men’s coach. We believe that the men’s squash program will flourish under Gil-ly’s tutelage.”

Since Lane became an assis-tant with the Quakers in 2013, the team’s ranking has continu-ally improved, peaking at No. 5 in 2016. Last season was high-lighted by the Red and Blue’s upsets over No. 4 Rochester and No. 3 St. Lawrence on back-to-back days, as well as the squad’s first win over Harvard since 1979.

“Gilly’s ready to assume the

head role,” Wyant said. “I’ve known him since he was a sopho-more at Penn and he is the perfect coach to lead the men’s program. I look forward to working together for many more years.

“I wouldn’t have put this plan in place if I didn’t feel like he was able to continue what we’ve started.”

Although Lane will be the men’s team’s go-to person on a daily basis, Wyant will remain heavily involved with both of the program’s squads. Addition-ally, throughout the course of matches, Wyant and Lane, along with assistant Richard Dodd,

will converge to guide whichever side is on the court.

“It’s essential that while the titles have changed and Gilly’s focus will shift primarily to the men, we need to leverage the entire coaching staff to help both teams when matches are happen-ing,” Wyant said.

And although it may be some-what different from what Penn has become accustomed to in recent years, the coaches are confident the new structure will pay dividends.

“I think this is the best model going forward,” Wyant said. “The coaching model in college

squash has changed consider-ably since I played in the 1990s, and one of the things that I’ve tried to do and have had the full

support of the administration to do is to continue to think how we can best serve the needs of our student-athletes going forward.”

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Even as he makes his per-sonal progress through the minors, Glenn keeps a close eye on goings-on with the Penn baseball program.

“ [2015 g r a du a t e a nd former Penn shortstop] Mitch Montaldo just up came to watch us play in Peoria. He was catch-ing me up. ... I’m really proud [of] how the guys work together as a team and manufacture wins

the way they have,” he said.The Red and Blue sit at 5-3

in Ivy contests and will play a crucial four-game set at Princ-eton this weekend as they look to win the Lou Gehrig Divi-sion — something the Quakers never did during Glenn and Montaldo’s tenure.

“Ivy League play is tough; a lot of young talent has stepped up. It’s great to look at the box score and see those guys suc-ceed the way they have,” Glenn said, singling out the success

of pitchers Billy Lescher and Gabe Kleiman. “They’ve really found a way to win ballgames. They’re in a good spot right now.”

If Glenn continues to dis-tinguish himself, his next steps along the Angels’ minor league ladder will likely be Advanced-A Inland Empire (CA), followed by Double-A Arkansas. As a versatile lefty — capable of either starting or relieving — his high ceiling belies his late-round draft slot.

But even as he works his way to the game’s ultimate stage, Glenn is quick to reminisce about his formative years at Penn.

“The guys on the team, the senior class I graduated with, they were just so fun to be around. The bus rides, the locker-room talk, the off-the field bonding ... those guys were my best friends.

“We really shared something during college that you just don’t find anywhere else.”

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Which Red and Blue athlete is midseason MVP?

We’re heading down the home stretch of the spring season as most of Penn’s teams are half-way through their Ivy League campaigns. Which Penn stu-dent-athlete is the MVP so far?

Tommy Rothman, Sports Editor: Alexis Sargent is the MVP of Penn Athletics midway through this spring season thanks to her work on the mound for Penn softball. After Alexis Borden graduated last year, it seemed safe to assume that the Penn pitching staff would take a huge step back. But Sargent has filled the role of staff ace with-out missing a beat. The junior boasts an Ivy League-best 2.03 ERA and also leads the Ancient Eight in innings pitched, strike-outs, complete games, K/9, BB/9 and K/BB rate. Sargent has been, without question, the best pitcher in the league, and she’s no slouch at the plate either, with a .308 batting average to her name.

Sargent, however, hasn’t been at the top of her game against Ivy League foes. In league play, the right-hander has an ERA of 4.64 and an 0-4 record. If she can turn it around and dominate against Ancient Eight competition, Penn

could go on a huge run in the second half and move up the Ivy League standings.

Sargent’s biggest competi-tion for MVP might be from one of her own teammates: junior outfielder Leah Allen leads the league in runs batted in and ranks third in home runs.

Cole Jacobson, Associate Sports Editor: It’s the easy

pick, sure. But considering Sam Mattis’ status as the top discus thrower in the world for any age group in 2016, it’s also the right one.

Entering the season as the defending national champion in the event, Mattis was already ex-pected to dominate in his senior campaign.

But no one — not even the

two-time U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Asso-ciation All-American selection himself – could have seen what was coming in the opening meet of the team’s season. At the Phil-adelphia College Classic held at Penn on March 19th, Mattis’ first attempt went for a lifetime best 67.45 meters, topping his mark from last year’s national

championship by more than 16 feet en route to comfortably se-curing the world’s top mark.

Proving that his breakout performance — which was the best discus throw by an Ameri-can athlete in NCAA history – was no fluke, Mattis went on to secure two more throws of 67.21 and 66.51 meters later in the same day, both of which rank higher than current world second-place Lois Maikel Mar-tinez of Spain. Although Mattis hasn’t set any records in the time since, he did secure a throw of 65.12 meters at last weekend’s meet at Virginia, still a full three meters ahead of any other colle-giate thrower this year.

Needless to say, with the U.S. Olympic Trials coming up this July, Mattis has greater goals than merely helping Penn have a strong season. But as the un-disputed number one collegiate athlete in the nation in his event, there’s no doubt that he’s worthy of midseason MVP status.

Thomas Munson, Associ-ate Sports Editor: Sam Mattis may be the best athlete on any Penn team this year, but Nina Corcoran has been the most valuable. While one of those distinctions often comes along with the other, in this case it is important to note the difference. Mattis may be one of the best

discus throwers in the world, but Corcoran has led the women’s lacrosse team on a spectacular run of success.

Currently, the senior form Point Lockout, N.Y., is leading the Ivy League with 53 points and 35 assists this season. Those 35 assists are also the third-highest total in the nation, but her 3.18 assists per game is the best mark in the country.

She is dangerously close to surpassing her own Penn record of 40 assists in a single season. Surpassing that mark would also make her the Quakers’ all-time leader in the category, a feat she is on pace to achieve.

To say Corcoran is a key part of the offense is an understate-ment. She has assisted on 29% of Penn’s goals, which is also the highest rate in the nation. Keep in mind, she isn’t picking up an assist on any of her 18 goals. Add together her assists and goals and Corcoran has played a role in 44% of Penn’s 121 goals.

Currently the Red and Blue are 15th in the nation. But a loss to an unintimidating Dart-mouth has them sitting alone in 4th place in the Ivy League standings. Corcoran will have to continue playing at her current ridiculously-high level in order to keep Penn in the conference title hunt.

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Senior standout Nina Corcoran has been dominant in 2016, recently being named National Player of the Week by the Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Association and Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week.

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Penn softball may be down, but it is certainly not out.

Last weekend, the Quakers (13-16, 2-6 Ivy) played through a string of disappointing road losses to Dartmouth and Har-vard. Although the losses certainly do not give coach Leslie King’s team a surge of confidence heading into the final stretch of its Ivy season, all has not been lost just yet.

Each of the four Ancient Eight teams Penn has faced thus far all hail from the con-ference’s North Division. And while those matchups give the Quakers an early look at what might await them come the postseason, wins or losses against North Division teams have few ramifications for whether Penn will make the playoffs.

Penn will have one more chance to get another win under its belt against cross-town foe Drexel on Wednesday before launching into the most impor-tant stretch of conference play. The Dragons (16-21) will give the Quakers an ample test, as last year they bested their Ivy League opponent 8-0 in five in-nings.

After Wednesday’s game,

results in the six doublehead-ers that remain — two against Princeton, Cornell and Co-lumbia each —will determine the fate of the Red and Blue’s season.

As the defending South Di-vision champions, the Quakers are in good standing to stay competitive in their division once again in 2016.

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talent in the highly-skilled and highly-competitive Mas-sachusetts Independent School League at Belmont Hill, college lacrosse presents a whole new beast. The players are bigger, faster, older and stronger, the shots have more velocity, the time commitment is greater and the academic workload and responsibility can be much heavier. Fortu-nately for Penn, Junkin has seemed to make the transition smoothly.

“One thing that makes Reed great is obviously his athleti-cism, he’s a big kid who has got a lot of talent,” coach Mike Murphy said. “But the other thing that makes Reed great is his ability to focus. Whether it be in the classroom or on the field, a lot of kids don’t have that. So he’s been able to im-prove his game a lot since he got here in September.”

So it appears that Junkin has all the tools necessary to claim his starting spot for years to come. And in looking at all of the contributions from other young members of the team, Penn looks to be in a position to capitalize on that success.

But right now, the team’s focus is on the present. Though a young team, Penn men’s la-crosse has fared pretty well over the course of the season, winning the games it should and giving top teams a run for their money — even comfort-ably beating a ranked Penn State squad.

Though a tight loss to then-No. 1 Yale and a blowout loss to No. 3 Brown show that the team still has a lot to learn, Penn has the potential to make waves against the nation’s top teams when it plays its best la-crosse.

It will be interesting to see just how far Junkin and the rest of the young Quakers can carry this team.

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When they first set foot in University City, many fresh-men athletes learn to keep their heads down and work hard in the hopes of receiving just a smidge of playing time by the time they are an upperclass-men. One freshmen golfer, however, has broken that mold.

In just seven short months at Penn, freshman Rachel Dai has made the most of her time competing for the Quakers and has already become one of the best golfers on her team.

Dai’s rapid rise to the top of Penn women’s golf’s lineup has surprised many, as it comes at

a time where many other fresh-men athletes on the Quakers’ campus are still trying to figure out where they belong.

Success has flowed through the blood of the Georgia native even before she stepped foot on Penn’s campus. Back in high school, Dai won two George State Golf Association indi-vidual state titles along with leading Cambr idge High School to two team state titles.

The momentum continued once Dai donned the Red and Blue. In her first ever colle-giate tournament in September, the freshman shot 230 on the weekend. Her performance was good enough for sixth place in the 63-person field. Dai also helped the Quakers take home the Chesapeake Bay Invitational title.

After finishing the fall

semester with a team-leading 77.1 scoring average in the four tournaments, Dai has shown that she is ready to lead this team at the Ivy League Cham-pionships at this season’s end.

While Dai’s accomplish-ments thus far haven’t matched her illustrious pre-Penn career, she also hasn’t yet had the chance to shine on the Ancient Eight stage. If her results thus far are any indication of what’s to come, she is destined to be a breakout star. From helping her team to victories and often times competing for the top in-dividual score at tournaments, the freshman could follow in the steps of Brown sophomore Christine Kim, who won the individual Ivy League title as a freshman in 2015.

The Quakers have come to rely on Dai’s skills, as she

has carded the lowest score for the team in four of their six tournaments thus far this season. Both Dai and junior Isabella Rahm have created a two-woman powerhouse that has guided the Red and Blue to some of their best results of the year, including a second place finish at the W&M Kingsmill Intercollegiate Tournament in March and a fifth place per-formance at the River Landing Classic in April.

This weekend at Brown, Dai’s success is sure to be par-amount to the Red and Blue’s final result. If head coach Mark Anderson wants to im-prove upon his team’s fifth place finish at last year’s Ivy League Championships, the fate of his team may just lie in the hands of this freshman phenom.

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It takes a lot to be a Penn athlete. It takes even more to be a successful Penn athlete.

And it’s damn near impossible for a Penn ath-lete to excel in the world of professional sports.

But Ronnie Glenn — a lefty pitcher and 2015 Red and Blue baseball graduate — is doing just that. After being selected in the 22nd round of last year’s first-year player draft by the Los An-geles Angels, Glenn is steadily working his way up the minor league ladder.

After playing for the Rookie-level Orem Owlz last summer in Utah, Glenn was promoted to the Single-A Burlington (IA) Bees, a strong step forward as he pursues his goal of making the majors.

“The players in this league are more pol-ished,” the Florida native said of playing at the next level. “They have a good sense of the game. Even the guys without out-of-the-park talent, they know how to compete with their stuff.”

After pitching exclusively as a reliever with the Owlz, Glenn has moved back to being a starter — his role in college — this season.

“Going into this offseason, they wanted to have the mindset of having me as a starter,” he said. “They made no guarantees, but I really worked on my conditioning in the offseason; they told me to come back in the best shape that I could.”

When the Angels broke camp in Arizona a

week ago, Glenn was named the Bees’ No. 4 star ter. He made his season debut Monday night, surrendering just one earned run over five innings of work in a game the Bees would come back to win in dramatic fashion, 4-3.

“I felt comfortable. I worked well with the catcher I had back there [Nebraska product Tanner Lubach]. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to finish the game, so I’m just gonna work on being more efficient in my next outing,” Glenn said.

A season ago, Glenn pitched to a 6-1 record with a 3.73 ERA and 1.24 WHIP, all team bests among Orem players with at least 40 innings pitched. In the offseason, Glenn, in addition to making the transition to starting, focused primarily on developing his fastball.

“I really have to trust that my fastball is good enough to get these hitters out, so I don’t have to rely on my slider or my changeup,” Glenn said. “When you’re facing guys two or three times [as a starter], you really have to trust your fastball.”

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After playing for the Rookie-level Orem Owlz last summer in Utah, Glenn was promoted to the Single-A Burlington (IA) Bees, a strong step forward as he pursues his goal of making the majors.



“Going into this offseason, they wanted to have the mindset of having me as a starter,” he said. “They made no guarantees, but I really worked on my conditioning in the offseason; they told me to come back in the best shape that I could.”


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After playing for the Rookie-level Orem Owlz last summer in Utah, Glenn was promoted to the Single-A Burlington (IA) Bees, a strong step forward as he pursues his goal of making the



“Going into this offseason, they wanted to have the mindset of having me as a starter,” he said. “They made no guarantees, but I really worked on my conditioning in the offseason; they told me to come back in the best shape that


week ago, Glenn was named the Bees’ No. 4 star ter. He made his season debut Monday night, surrendering just one earned run over five innings of work in a game the Bees would come back to win in dramatic fashion, 4-3.

“I felt comfortable. I worked well with the catcher I had back there [Nebraska product Tanner Lubach]. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to finish the game, so I’m just gonna work on being more efficient in my next outing,” Glenn said.

A season ago, Glenn pitched to a 6-1 record with a 3.73 ERA and 1.24 WHIP, all team bests among Orem players with at least 40 innings pitched. In the offseason, Glenn, in addition to making the transition to starting, focused primarily on developing his fastball.

“I really have to trust that my fastball is good enough to get these hitters out, so I don’t have to rely on my slider or my changeup,” Glenn said. “When you’re facing guys two or three times [as a starter], you really have to trust your fastball.”

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Quakers find answer to goalie question in rookie

Wyant, Lane promoted after historic season

On the heels of one of the best all-around seasons in Penn squash history, the Quakers are doing everything they can to maintain their success from 2015-16.

And it starts at the top.Penn Athletics announced

on Tuesday that Jack Wyant — who has overseen both the men’s and women’s squads for the past six seasons — has been promoted to the program’s di-rector of squash. While Wyant will continue to coach the Red and Blue’s women’s side, former associate head coach Gilly Lane will now take charge of the men’s team.

“The Penn squash pro-grams have seen much success in recent seasons and we are

excited to keep both programs moving in a positive direc-tion,” Athletic Director Grace Calhoun said in a press release. “Promoting Jack Wyant and Gilly Lane was an important step in that process.

“Jack Wyant has been a

tremendous asset for many years while overseeing both the men’s and women’s programs,” she added. “Retaining him as our director of squash and head women’s coach ensures that we

SQUASH | Pair of coaches ready to propel PennRILEY STEELESenior Sports Editor - Emeritus

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It’s not often in college ath-letics that a freshman can come in and enjoy the success you’d expect from a seasoned veteran. But for Penn men’s lacrosse’s starting goalie Reed Junkin, putting together strings of high-caliber performances has already become business as usual.

The 6-foot-2, 200-pound freshman from Wayland, Mass., has started every game for the Quakers this year, shor-ing up play at a position that seemed to be a big question mark for the team coming in to the 2016 season. Junkin has provided the answer to that question time and again for the Red and Blue, already having garnered three Ivy League

Rookie of the Week awards — one of which came alongside an Ivy League Player of the week award after the team’s 9-6 win over Cornell.

He was the first player to earn both honors in the same week since 2005.

Junkin’s recognition has not been restricted to the Ivy League. Junkin is part of a highly-touted recruiting class for Penn that was ranked No. 4 by Inside Lacrosse coming into the year, and his play through ten games earned him the No. 4 spot in Inside Lacrosse’s early season freshman rankings, alongside freshman defense-man Noah Lejman, who came in at No. 16.

It’s safe to say that not many people were expecting Junkin to see the level of success he has so far this season, himself included.

“Last year, there were a senior and junior that split time, and we had a couple other

goalies on the team as well, so I knew coming into the year it would be a big competition,” he said. “But then two of the guys left the team, and I didn’t know until pretty close to the begin-ning of the season that I was going to start, so it was kind of a surprise to me.

“I know a couple of years back Brian Feeney (Class of 2014) came in and started all four years, but it’s usually pretty tough for a freshman to start. But after working hard and getting a feel for college lacrosse, getting a feel for the shots [and] assimilating with the game, I felt like I was get-ting better and was better able to show my ability than at the beginning of the year, so it worked out.”

Making the transition from high school to college lacrosse is no small task. Even though Junkin played against tough

M. LAX | Reed Junkin at home in Penn’s netDAVID FIGURELLISports Reporter

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MID-SEASON MVPThe sports editors weigh in on which spring athlete deserves

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TEEING OFFFreshman Rachel Dai

emerges as a star of Penn women’s golf

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On Tuesday, Penn Athletics announced that head coach Jack Wyant would be promoted to the program’s director of squash.

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