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A four-year rower in the Varsity 8, a two-time CRCA National Scholar Athlete, a two-time first-team CRCA All-Region and a 2016 Rhodes Scholar all sit in the same boat.

With a lineup stacked with such talent and determination, it’s easy to see why Penn is in the midst of a spell of success.

Last week’s win over Cornell to claim the Class of ‘89 Plaque — Penn’s first in over eight years — showed that this is not your typical Red and Blue crew. For the first time in a long time , Penn seems to be in position to challenge its fellow Ivy opponents for an NCAA berth.

A large part of this newfound spirit can be at-tributed to star senior and 2016 Rhodes Scholar Jenna Hebert. Now, you might ask, “what about the other three factors, the other three rowers whose accolades were listed above?”

Engineering seniors Sade Oba , Alfredo Muniz , Wil-liam Duckworth and Wharton senior Aaron Goldstein are the inaugural President’s Innova-tion Prize recipients, President Amy Gutmann announced Tuesday.

The President’s Innova-tion Prize is similar to the President’s Engagement Prize in that seniors are eligible to submit projects, but the Innovation Prize accepts sub-missions that are commercial

ventures, rather than projects based solely based in commu-nity engagement.

Oba and Muniz received the award for a project called XEED. XEED is a network of wearable devices that tracks the movement of limbs and transmits that information to a smartphone. The project is designed to help patients who suffer from Parkinson’s disease and their families to keep tabs on their well being.

Duckworth and Goldstein also won the prize for a health-care related project, called Fever Smart. Fever Smart is a device that monitors core body temperature over time and sends the information to

a cloud system, which then allows the patient and doctors to monitor the patient’s body temperature over time.

Gutmann said that while she initially planned to only pick one project, she couldn’t decide between the two winners.

“I was hoping, planning and expecting to pick one,” she said, but added, “There was no way of choosing between them.”

Although both of the winning projects are health-related, Gutmann stressed that it wasn’t a commonality among the 21 projects that were sub-mitted.

“They just came to the top out of a very broad group

which ranged quite widely,” she said.

The 21 Innovation Prize projects that were in the run-ning exceeds the number of Engagement Prize applications this year, at 18, even though the Engagement Prize is in its second year and this is only the first for the Innovation Prize.

Each of the President’s Inno-vation Prize teams will receive $100,000 to implement their projects and a $50,000 living stipend per team member, the same dollar amount as the En-gagement Prize. The winners will also receive dedicated workspace in the Pennovation Center and mentorship from the Penn Center for Innovation.

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brims with environmentally-friendly efforts like reusable food containers at 1920 Com-mons, bike share programs and recycling bins near trash cans. But 46 years ago, this kind of awareness and access to resources was only a dream.

This dream began turning into a reality on April 22, 1970, when members of the Penn community banded together to create the first ever Earth Day.

Earth Day was inspired by a 1969 speech by Wisconsin Sen. Gaylord Nelson, high-lighting the consequences of depleting natural resources. The speech came at a time when environmental issues were on people’s minds — soon after the publication of Rachel Carson’s book “Silent Spring” and the massive 1969 fire on Cuyahoga River.

Nelson invited the entire nation to partake in Earth Day celebrations, which led

to a grassroots move-ment among hundreds of thousands of people who gathered in cities across the country to show support for the environment.

In Philadelphia, a group of mostly Penn students and fac-ulty, including late landscape architecture and urban plan-ning professor Ian McHarg and retired earth science pro-fessor Robert Geigengack, led efforts for the Philadelphia re-gion’s first Earth Day events.

Teaming up with leaders, ac-tivists and planners from the city and local universities, they hosted an entire week of pro-gramming, starting on April 16, that culminated in the first ever Earth Day on April 22.

According to Ian McHard-ing’s autobiography at the first Earth Day rally, an estimated crowd of 30,000 people came to Fairmount Park in Philadel-phia to hear the city’s keynote speaker Sen. Edmund Muskie

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Hillary Clinton addressed an enthusiastic crowd on Wednesday night at The Fillmore in Fishtown that remained unfazed by disrup-tions by protestors.

College junior Barry Johnson kicked off the night, calling out to the crowd, “Good evening, every-one. Are you excited to see Hillary Clinton?”

After the supporters let out their roar, Johnson went on to explain his status as a Penn undergraduate and as a fellow for the Clinton campaign.

“I’ve been constantly reminded why Hillary Clinton is the best candidate and also has the most experience to be President of the United States,” Johnson said, before launching into her policy positions.

When he mentioned women’s rights, the crowd cheered the loudest.

At the end of the remarks, John-son said, “One issue that matters most to me is education,” and ex-plained how he had benefited from the Upward Bound program, a pro-gram that Clinton helped initiate as First Lady.

“We should not only make edu-cation more affordable, but more accessible, and that’s what Hillary Clinton is going to do,” he said.

Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) took the stage a few moments later, express-ing his own support for Clinton and listing out choice policy propos-als and positions. Next, Malcolm Kenyatta-Green, who works for the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce and is a member of the board of directors of the Liberty City LGBT Democratic Club, also had his turn at the microphone to voice his support for Clinton.

“She has the know-how to get

results on day one,” he said passion-ately.

The crowd had been building in energy and growing in size as the three men were speaking, and when Kenyatta-Green called out, “Join me in welcoming the best fighter I know!” and Clinton walked on to Rachel Platten’s “Fight Song,” the supporters gave out their loudest cheer yet.

She began by thanking Casey, and acknowledging other elected officials, including former Philadel-phia Mayor Michael Nutter.

“We had a really really good day in New York yesterday,” she said, eliciting a cheer from the crowd.

She also spoke about her connec-tions to Pennsylvania, referencing her father’s childhood in Scranton and her son-in-law’s origins in Phil-adelphia. The rest of her speech largely covered her policy positions, with a few jabs to her Republican rivals thrown in.

“When I hear Donald Trump and Ted Cruz talk about international issues, I mean, what they say is not only offensive — it’s downright dan-gerous,” she said.

As Clinton spoke about pay equality for men and women, a group of four or five protestors began shouting and were escorted out. They were wearing matching T-shirts , carrying signs and chanting.

A few minutes later, three more protestors were escorted away sepa-rately. One protester was saying, “Don’t vote for Hillary. She’s killing black people.”

The protestors continued to chant outside as supporters exited the event.

Though Clinton did not address the protestors directly, College freshman Abby Lee and sophomore Josh Jordan, who were at the rally, felt that she ended up referencing them when she was speaking about reaching across the aisle.

“What we cannot abide is break-ing ourselves into groups where we can’t even talk or listen to each other,” Clinton said.

“I think she’s done a lot to try to meet common ground,” Jordan said, adding that Clinton had previously

met with Black Lives Matters activ-ists.

“Honestly, I think that Hill-ary handled it really well, just the fact that she’s so accepting of other opinions and that she can handle op-position very well,” Lee added.

At the end of her speech, Clinton spoke about looking forward to the

Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. She said it was “fit-ting” that the convention be held in Philadelphia.

“I want us all to be reminded of the incredible legacy that we’ve all inherited,” she said. “[But] I believe that our best years can still be ahead of us.”

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Most people fly when they need to cross the United States. Some choose to drive. Forrest Gump opted to run. But this summer, Penn students are ready to ride.

College junior Nick Moncy, College senior Edgar Agudelo and Engineering sophomore Liam Gallagher plan to bike across the country and help build affordable housing through an organization called Bike & Build. Bike & Build began in 2003 and plans trips for groups of approximately 30 people to bike cross-country, aid in build-ing housing and raise funding

and awareness for affordable housing. Riders can apply to par-ticipate in multiple cross-country routes, beginning in places such as North Carolina, Virginia and Rhode Island, and ending in Cal-ifornia, Oregon and Washington.

Participants in one of the orga-nization’s trips must raise $4,500 before the start of their journeys, which can serve as a daunting but also rewarding challenge. Riders reach out to their personal net-works, along with using creative methods such as garage sales to obtain the funds. Moncy believes that fundraising has taught him how to ask for help from others.

“That’s something I had a hard time with at Penn. I tried to do things on my own,” Moncy said. “So being with a group of people, being with a team on Bike & Build and asking friends

and family and everyone who will listen about fundraising has taught me that life’s a lot easier when you have people to support you.”

In addition to raising money for the cause, riders must also be prepared for the physical task of biking approximately 4,000 miles through diverse terrain. Bike & Build requires riders to bike 500 miles before the start of their trips. Moncy and Agudelo both currently live in Florida and have worked together to ready themselves for the summer.

Back at Penn, Gallagher wants to exceed the mileage require-ment, hoping to bike 100 miles a week in the next month when he finds time on the weekends.

“I used to cycle some when I was in high school … but I never linked together 80 miles a day,

80 miles a day, day in day out,” Gallagher said. “So I don’t think there’s any possible way I can really be ready for that until I do it.”

The affordable housing aspect of the experience serves as a strong motivating factor for the riders, who said they want to make an impact in the commu-nities they visit and emphasized the importance of awareness of America’s housing issues.

“It’s so important to feel that connection with communities that we’re going to be in. Build-ing goes a long way towards fostering a sense of community,” Agudelo said. “I don’t think that it’s always the highlight or at the forefront of a lot of issues that we deal with, but it’s definitely something we have to think about.”

For f irst-generation stu-dents, locating resources, navigating college life and finding a community of people who share similar experiences can be difficult. But a new move by Brown University could be the answer colleges including Penn are looking for.

After Brown’s recent an-nouncement that it will build a First-Generation College Student Center this summer, first-generation students at Penn hope that one day Penn can follow this path as well. The center — which was cre-ated after a steady stream of student-driven efforts — will serve as a dedicated home for all the resources offered to first-generation and low-income students at Brown and will be the first of its kind at any Ivy League university.

Penn First founding member and College junior Juana Gra-nados says that one of the main reasons Brown is the first to have this type of resource is probably because their student group for first-generation and low-income students has been active for almost a decade. The group’s growth and longtime presence on campus over the years demonstrated a visible need to the university. And 16 percent of Brown students are first generation — the largest at any Ivy — compared to 12 percent at Penn and similar numbers at the other seven schools.

Penn First, Penn’s student group for first-generation and low-income students, was established just last year by a group of undergraduates. Because of this, Granados re-alizes that creating a center would be a long-term goal.

“It’s something that we as the other groups also want to get going but we know it’s something that’s going to take a lot of time — to become a force on our campus large enough for it to actually be something we can accom-plish,” Granados said.

A recognition of the strug-gles faced by first-generation students — especially at pres-tigious universit ies where most students come from af-f luent backgrounds — has been coming into light over the years. This February marked the second ever Inter-Ivy, First-Generation College Students’ Conference, which is devoted to discussing the problems first-generation and low-income students face.

Ricky Gresh, director for campus life projects at Brown and a future co-director of Brown’s FGLI Center, states that having an actual space for first-generation students is essential.

“Growing research shows that in order for first-genera-tion students to succeed, we must affirm their identities and experiences and create a sense of belonging for them on campus,” he said in a press re-lease from Brown. “We have to go beyond offering resources and expecting students to have the tools to navigate them on their own, to building trust and relationships with students and meeting them in their spaces.”

Granados said that having a community of students who can share these experiences is extremely helpful. She herself experienced isolation when she arrived at Penn, and dis-cussions with other Penn First members were the first times in her three years here that she felt there were others who un-derstood what she was going through.

She agreed with Brown that having a center would not only help centralize resources available, but like the other centers on campus, it would create a safe space where stu-dents can accept that part of their identity and meet similar students. It would also reduce the stigma of being a first-generation student on campus. She emphasized, though, that she and other first-generation students are extremely grateful for all Penn does and recog-nize that they are privileged to be at the University.

Over the years Penn has been pushing for including more first-generation and low-income students and providing

more support for them under the leadership of Amy Gut-mann, who is a first-generation student herself.

According to an email from Vice Provost of University Life Valarie Swain-Cade Mc-Coullum, Penn wants to work closely with first-generation students to provide program-ming and improve resources available as well. In fact, they are currently scheduled to hold a meeting with first-genera-tion and low-income students to discuss further options this coming Monday.

“As a first-generation, low-income student myself, this partnership is more than a pro-fessional priority: support of FGLI students is my personal

passion,“ McCoullum wrote.McCoul lum says some

of the topics of focus at the meeting will be defining first-generation and low-income program space and admin-istrative support, increasing access to research and intern-ships and increasing FGLI student access to graduate and professional opportunities.

“This isn’t something we just want to push on adminis-tration. This is something that we want to work for as well, whether that’s reaching out to other student groups [at other schools to create a model and tangible plan of action] or ac-tively finding funds and ways that we can contribute to this as well,” Granados said.

First-generation students consider a place to call their own on campus

— the largest gathering in any location.

“We can use the power of the people to turn the nation around,” Muskie said. “The power of the ballot box, the cash register, the courts and peaceful assembly, where we can demand redress of grievances as we are doing here today and across the land.”

***Flash forward to 2016 — the

Student Sustainability Associa-tion now boasts 15 constituent groups, and on Friday, Penn will celebrate its seventh Tree Campus USA title, an prize awarded by the Arbor Day foun-dation to campuses that commit to tree management, foster healthy urban forests, commu-nity outreach and engagement of the student population.

Facilities and Real Estate Environmental Sustainability Director Dan Garofalo says the campus has come a long way.

“A friend of mine sent me photos he took during his Fling — I think these were from the 1980s,” he said. “At the time, the city didn’t have recycling. The University didn’t have recycling programs that were formalized. So the students had a truck which all during Fling collected bottles and cans and things like that. It was something he was really proud of because the students at the time were really taking the lead in bringing environmental awareness to the campus.”

He said this history reflects Penn’s legacy of commitment to the environment, but added that people at Penn and elsewhere can do more to help the earth, by re-ducing the amount of nondurable goods they use.

“Everyone has a responsibility to try and reduce and minimize our waste every day, and every-one on campus has a role to play,” he said.

His message resonates with College sophomore and Daily Pennsylvanian contributing re-porter Aria Kovalovich. As one of the founding members of Ep-silon Eta, Penn’s environmental fraternity, she says that the com-mitment shown in the 1970s is something current students can aspire to.

“That’s our goal: a Penn in which there’s enough stu-dents who care about this and are active and see this vision and want to carry it through,” Kovalovich said.

She was inspired by the fact

that regular students were able to gather together to make such a lasting impact, believes it dem-onstrates how Penn is a place where students can use their voices to make a difference. She said it can simply start in the classroom — she met her fellow Eta founders in environmental science class, and fun conversa-tions about their passion for the environment turned into some-thing bigger.

“We wanted to create more of a cohesive community where it’s really accessible and cool to care about these issues,” Kovalovich said.

***Since the 1970s, Earth Day

has grown. The first Earth Day is said to have attracted 20 mil-lion Americans from 10,000 elementary and high schools, 2,000 colleges and more than 1,000 cities and towns, accord-ing to Penn Current. Today, Earth Day Network collaborates with more than 17,000 partners and or-ganizations in 174 countries with more than 1 billion people across the globe, according to History.com.

College junior and School of Social Policy & Practice graduate student Gavriela Reiter, a student director of the Student Sustain-ability Association, believes that although Penn has achieved com-mendable progress, there is still much more that can be done, such as divesting from fossil fuels. Still, she said, the University is showing signs of improvement. She points to the revamping of the Eco-Reps program, which will soon become more project-based, for example.

“The fact that the first Earth Day was a project of the professors and students at Penn really speaks to the spirit we have in sparking real-world discussions and action on campus, and I think one way Penn students can take that legacy forward is looking at intersection-ality,” Reiter said.

She mentioned that not all people are as lucky to live in safe and clean conditions like those at Penn, and emphasized the importance of looking at the broader impact of people’s actions, rather than just the indi-vidual effects.

Her sentiments echo those of Nelson himself.

“Our goal is not just an envi-ronment of clean air and water and scenic beauty,” Nelson said in his 1970 Earth Day speech. “The objective is an environment of decency, quality and mutual respect for all other human beings and all other living crea-tures.”

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“Democracy is so over-rated.”

While this line was spoken by “House of Cards” character Frank Underwood, this sentiment is increasingly common in political dis-course at Penn and around the country.

Whenever Donald Trump is mentioned here, there is almost universally an im-plicit assumption that he is not a legitimate candidate. To most students, Trump supporters are ignorant, sexist, xenophobic or racist. Even conservative students thumb their noses, most hoping for a contested con-vention that embraces a savior like John Kasich or Paul Ryan.

We’ve all participated in these conversations, which have the common theme that supporting Trump is unacceptable. While I know dozens of Trump support-ers — both Republicans and Democrats — on campus, they keep their support secret for fear of being labeled as bigots. Conse-quently, support for Trump is rendered invisible, with those who do support him remaining silent. As for the

millions of voters supporting Trump nationwide, campus consensus is clear: They’re wrong.

For some people, the con-versation ends there and they resolve to vote differently than those eight million ignoramuses. Others, like Facebook’s executives, are doing more.

This week, we learned that Facebook’s leadership is currently debating whether to manipulate their mas-sive social media network to ensure a Trump loss. Why let the people decide when they can intervene and ensure the voters reach the right result?

Leaders in both political parties have a similar idea. As Pennsylvania prepares to vote this coming Tuesday, neither party is prepared to trust the popular vote.

Of the 210 Democratic delegates available, 21 are superdelegates freed from democratic constraints. But that abandons 90 percent of the delegates to the popular will. As long as more than 60 percent of voters don’t choose Bernie Sanders, Democrats need not fret de-mocracy. Voters, don’t screw this up.

The Republicans have better fulfilled Frank Un-derwood’s vision. Of their 71 delegates, only 17 are at-tached to the state’s popular vote, with the rest chosen by a complex process effec-tively dominated by party officials. In other words, Pennsylvania Republican

voters have a say over about 24 percent of their delegates. What do the people know, anyway?

Across the country, the Republican party is strik-ing back against Trump’s insurgency by retaining control of the delegate selec-tion process. In Colorado, North Dakota and Wyo-ming, there are no statewide votes. It’s so much simpler to let a few thousand party activists decide than letting the million plus registered

Republican voters opine.In other states, the party is

systematically working to re-verse democratic decisions. Of the 42 delegates Trump won in Georgia, 32 of those actually selected Ted Cruz. In Louisiana, a state where the people chose Trump, Cruz ended up with 10 more

delegates than the winner. At a contested convention in Cleveland, Trump could lose hundreds of his delegates because the party was care-ful to correct democracy’s failure.

But surely, as Ted Cruz re-sponds, Trump should have known the rules and better navigated the party’s com-plex procedures. Fair point, Ted — but then we should make something clear.

America is not a democ-racy.

President Franklin Roo-sevelt once said, “We know [democracy] cannot die … because democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men’s enlightened will.”

What “enlightened will” could Roosevelt be referring to? Perhaps Roosevelt would have revised his remarks if he knew millions of Ameri-cans would vote for Trump, if he knew that an ignorant, sexist and racist electorate might choose The Donald over Marco Rubio or Hillary Clinton.

So what do we prefer, let-ting the people decide or reaching the “right” answer? If we prefer the latter, per-haps we should consider establishing a monarchy or a technocracy, the trendy option preferred by many of my Penn friends. Surely these forms of government, staffed by progressive and well-educated people, would reach the “right” decisions more efficiently.

Or perhaps we can just retain the status quo, where we pay lip service to de-mocracy while letting party officials, or perhaps Face-book, decide.

There are legitimate rea-sons to prefer this system, like stopping the voters from choosing Trump or Sanders. There are, after all, many good arguments against both, with the news media choking the airways with putdowns of Trump.

If we reject the voters’ will, can we at least dis-pense with our democratic ostentation and avoid glaring hypocrisy? Then again, per-haps I’m being naive.

As Frank Underwood says, “The road to power is paved with hypocrisy.”

When a former student asked me recently to share something on my teaching experience in The Daily Pennsylvanian, I wasn’t sure I had anything to say. Then, as I was going through old files, I came across my first teaching philosophy. The novice teacher I was proudly stated that her main goal was to make students respon-sible.

The epithet enabled her to launch into a pompous description of what a re-sponsible student was in her mind: a student who was never late to class, religiously turned in assign-ments on time, scrupulously followed directions, was totally engaged in their learning process and infal-libly participated in class. It sounded so crisp, so profes-sional, so teacher-like.

As I am reading it today, I am petrified. The

commonplace jargon only conjures up military images of perfect little students. Did that make me a drill ser-geant?

The teacher I was forgot one thing: Life happens.

More than a decade later, my goal is still to help stu-dents be responsible. Yet with another definition attached to the adjective — “able to choose between right and wrong for oneself.”

2015 was tragic in many ways, not least of all in France, where the year began and ended with terror-ist attacks. At the beginning of this semester, in the course I teach about France from 1789 to 1944, I pledged to my class that I would try to give sense to life even when things did not seem to make sense anymore. In return, I asked them to pledge to be kind to them-selves, be kind with each

other and to take walks and get deliberately lost.

Our cynical selves might read the last sentence and chuckle. What does being kind to oneself mean? To re-

alize that it is okay to make mistakes.

The mistakes we make are precisely what remind us that we are not the ma-chines my younger self had

imagined in the classroom — and there is comfort in this.

Being kind to ourselves makes us more ready to be supportive of others. In

times of turmoil, solidarity is the most sensible response. As for asking students to walk, it is a way to teach them to slow down and re-discover the ability to live in

the moment. Life on campus is too often synonymous with going fast and find-ing short cuts. When they “botanize on the asphalt” (as the poet Charles Baude-laire beautifully described the flaneur’s activity), with all their senses wide open, they are ready to experi-ence the city more intensely. Walking, if it is lived as an aesthetic practice, triggers magic moments through the rediscovery of our surround-ings, the streets become texts for us to read and we let ourselves approach life as the imaginative children we once were.

Between my two selves — the novice teacher I was and the more experienced teacher I am now — life hap-pened. Difficult moments made me realize that being responsible should mean first and foremost being flexible, compassionate and

taking care of one another. I believe it is the only way to help students give a sense to our future.

As the historian Patrick Boucheron said in his inau-gural speech to the Collège de France last December, “Why take the trouble to teach, if not precisely to con-vince the youngest among us that they never arrive too late? In this way, we work to preserve our debt to youth.”

This is how I see my re-sponsibility as an educator.

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Penn professor calls for greater focus on ethics in nursing

Nursing students at Penn learn valuable skills in biology and physiology, but they also study a more unusual subject: ethics.

While there isn’t a signifi-cant amount of research on ethics in nursing, bioethics as a whole enjoys a greater pres-ence at Penn than it does at many other universities.

“One of the unique aspects of Penn Nursing is that we do have a bioethics course,” School of Nursing professor Connie Ulrich said. Ulrich is the only nurse bioethicist at the University, but the Depart-ment of Medical Ethics and Health Policy itself has over 40 primary and affiliated fac-ulty. “I think we recognize that nurses have to think about the ethical decisions that are made on a daily basis related to their patients.”

Ulrich recently wrote an

editorial titled “Nurses and Industry: Conflict or Collabo-ration?” for the journal Annals of Internal Medicine, about the need for greater research into ethical problems nurses may face. The editorial was spurred by a recent study by Grundy et al. that found that nurses were having increasing contact with pharmaceutical and biotech companies, which could lead to potential conflicts of inter-est.

“Much of the [bioethics] research has focused on physi-cians and physician conflict of interest in working with indus-try; the focus has not been on nursing,” Ulrich said. “But in this study we saw that nurses were interacting on a daily basis with industry and help-ing to make decisions related to patient care.”

All nursing students at Penn are required to take either a class on health care ethics or public health policy, a require-ment that reflects the relatively strong presence of bioethics at the University in general.

“I think a lot of it does stem

from this really strong bioeth-ics department that we have,” College junior Darby Marx said. Marx is editor-in-chief of the Penn Bioethics Journal, a peer-reviewed undergraduate publication.

“Recent ly the bioeth ics minor was developed,” Darby said, “And I think that was ... a bunch of different departments getting together and saying, ‘Hey, this is a growing field and it’s becoming increas-ingly important in the realm of health care.’”

Managing Editor and Col-lege junior Jamie Atienza said she thought that the relative awareness of bioethics at Penn might be due to the school’s pre-professional atmosphere.

“I think at some point ev-erybody who is pre-med, or pre-health in general, gets at least some exposure to the issues that come up in bioeth-ics, whether it be in health pol icy or a global health class,” she said.

Atienza and Marx sa id that despite the wide range of subjects covered in the Penn

Bioethics Journal, ethics in nursing had not been explored in the publication.

“We actual ly don’t ta lk about nursing ethics at all, which is interesting because we have such a big nursing community,” Atienza sa id. “When we consider the hos-pital setting, it’s very much patient-provider, patient-phy-sician relationships.”

The lack of submissions on ethics in nursing to the Penn Bioethics Journal may be due to the relative lack of research focus on ethics in nursing in general. Ulr ich hopes that the recent study by Grundy et al. will draw attention to the issue.

“Because the study was small, we rea l ly couldn’t generalize the information,” Ulrich said. “We need more re-search to better understand the role[s] of nursing and industry, [and] we need larger studies to look at those specific interac-tions and whether or not those interactions influence the ethi-cal conduct of nurses in that clinical setting.”

Nursing underrepresented in Penn bioethics presenceJINAH KIM Staff Reporter

Despite the lack of significant research on ethics in nursing, bioethics still enjoys a greater presence at Penn than it does at other universities.

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Your courses,deconstructedAcademics may not be the only reason students come to Penn, but it certainly plays a big role. The Daily Pennsylvanian was able to gain access to all avail-able Penn Course Review data, which contains an enormous number of student evaluations of their classes going back over a decade. Through data analysis, we've been able to address some of the most simple and complex questions students might wonder about their academics. Through graphics, lists and in-depth articles in print and online, here we present our answers to those questions and more.

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2 Required courses generally receive lower rankings than electivecourses, partly because students aren’t as interested in coursesthey have to take compared to those they want to take. So whenpicking a sector course, try to find one that’s genuinely interesting to you — even if it has a higher difficulty score than other possible classes you could take to fill the sector. Being interested in the subject will be a greater motivator.

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Amy Cuddy discusses mind-body connection

Penn professor Adam Grant donned a Superman T-shirt and cape as he welcomed speaker Amy Cuddy onto the stage of Zellerbach Theater. He struck a power pose — the posture that made Cuddy a world renowned speaker.

Cuddy spoke to an audience of Penn students and faculty about “how our bodies shape our minds,” as part of the Authors@Wharton Speaker Series. Cuddy is a social psychologist and as-sociate professor at Harvard Business School, as well as a speaker and author.

Cuddy’s 2012 TED Talk on “power poses” is the site’s second most viewed video of all time. After her successful talk, she ac-cepted speaking invitations from around the world. A year later, she published a New York Times Bestseller entitled “Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges.”

“When we feel powerful, we expand. When we feel powerless, we shrink,” Cuddy said. “Women in particular often shrink in public settings,” Cuddy said. “These postures are associated with powerlessness and intimida-tion and keep people back from expressing who they really are,”

Authors@Wharton invites speakers based on the votes made by a committee of undergraduate and MBA students. “Amy was high on our list,” Director of Mar-keting and Communications Kate FitzGerald said.

Grant asked Cuddy how she

remains poised under pressure, and she cited a moment when she teared up onstage while tell-ing a story about a devastating brain injury she sustained at the age of 19. She was a student at the University of Colorado and doc-tors told her she might struggle to regain full mental capacity and finish college. The brain injury had caused her IQ to drop by two standard deviations.

Cuddy finished her under-graduate degree in spite of her doctors’ predictions and went on to earn her doctorate at Princ-eton in social psychology. But she suffered acutely from imposter syndrome — she believed she did not deserve to be there and wor-ried that she would be discovered as a fraud.

She was so afraid to give her

first-year talk as a Ph.D. student she told her adviser she was quit-ting. Her advisor told her “fake it ‘till you make it,” and she went through with the presentation, feigning confidence all the way to Harvard Business School.

Her insight into the relation-ship between mind and body comes from her own research that found that lab participants who spent two minutes in a room alone doing high-power poses increased their testosterone levels by about 20 percent and lowered the stress hormone cortisol by about 25 per-cent.

Cuddy ended her talk with a quote from Maya Angelou.

“Stand up straight and realize who you are, that you tower over your circumstances,” she said. “Stand up straight.”

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Red and Blue prepare for Ivy League championships

Penn golf will hit the road this weekend and compete for

the Ivy League championship, with the men’s team looking to defend its title in Greenwich, Conn., and the women looking to win their first league crown since 2010 in Jackson, N.J.

The women’s team is coming in with momentum, having fin-ished top-five in each of its first three tournaments this spring after a strong fall season. Coach Mark Anderson is optimistic about his team’s chances going to the big tournament.

“We expect to win,” Ander-son said. “Harvard certainly has a good team, but we’ve beaten them a few times this year. We feel like if we play well, we can beat anybody.”

The men, however, have struggled this season. Following

a disappointing fall, the team has stumbled through the spring thus far. With his team ice-cold going into the championship tournament, coach Bob Heintz is keeping his expectations in check.

“Statistically, we’ve been too inconsistent to be considered a favorite for this event,” Heintz said. “So we’re looking at this as being underdogs and young. We still feel that we have a shot at the title, but it’s gonna take some strong contributions all the way throughout the lineup for us to have a chance.”

Of course, the men were underdogs heading into the tournament last year, and that didn’t stop them from going worst-to-first, taking the Ivy

crown after a last-place finish in 2014. Senior captain Patrick O’Leary is the lone returning member from last year’s title-winning five (teams send five players and count the top four scores).

“As far as our leadership, I was there and Patrick was there. These other four guys, we just have to get them to buy into the process,” Heintz said. “Golf is really strange — you can have guys who look like they’re the favorites going in, and then somebody walks in there and plays really well and takes it away from people.

“We’re very capable of that. I’ve said it all year, we’re defi-nitely among the most talented teams in the league. We just

haven’t been very consistent.”The men will send O’Leary,

junior Matt Kern, sophomore Carter Thompson and freshmen Josh Goldenberg and KJ Smith. The women will send juniors Isabella Rahm, Erin Lo and Sophia Chen, sophomore Tif-fany Yau and freshman Rachel Dai. The women’s team has no seniors, so nobody will be playing under the pressure of knowing it is their final chance to win a league title.

Regardless of where the team finishes on the leaderboard, Heintz has other targets he’d like to hit over the three rounds.

“I’d like to see if the guys can finish stronger than they start this week,” the coach said, call-ing the team’s recent tendency

to falter down the stretch a “dis-turbing” trend. “And I’d like to have us shoot a score under 290. We haven’t done that this year, and this would be a heck of a time to pull that off.”

Rahm is hoping to bring home some extra hardware to go with what she hopes will be a ti-tle-winning team performance.

“Winning the [individual] Ivy League championship is a per-sonal goal of mine,” the captain said. “My short game is very strong right now, so hopefully that’s going to help me at the tournament.”

It’s an individual sport, but both Red and Blue squads will need excellent individual per-formances across the board to succeed as a team.

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record for career assists. If that was not special enough, Corcoran would beat that performance with another assist, putting herself in the record books once again for most assists in a single season with 41.

“She’s been great. She’s just a playmaker,” coach Karin Corbett said, noting that Princeton tried several times in vain to double up on Corcoran. “She is confident driving herself and finishing. She’s the catalyst for our attack and really in charge out there and is our quarterback and she’s just playing great.”

Princeton would eke out two more goals before time expired but the damage had already been done: the Quakers had ended Princeton’s 13-game conference win streak and trampled their Ivy rivals for 60 minutes. Penn won 12-7 and put on one of its best showings of the season.

“There are certain teams that we really get up for. We had a great win tonight and a great game and we need to play 60 minutes like this against other people,” Corbett said.

Flying under the radar throughout the season, sopho-more midfielder Alex Condon has been a pleasant surprise recently: her hat trick tonight markets her fourth in her last four games. One would be remiss, however, to be impressed only by the sophomore’s finishing ability, ac-cording to Corbett.

“She has really blossomed this season to become a complete midfielder. She’s playing really defensively as well,” Corbett said. “She is a great finisher and is somebody who we’re really con-fident in when she has the ball in her hands.”

As Corbett previously men-tioned, Wednesday’s contest again Princeton marked a full team effort from start to finish. While the offense constantly earns praise, the defense did its job stopping a potent Princeton attack.

Heading into tonight, the Tigers offense averaged 10.25 goals per game. With a team defensive effort and a standout performance from junior goal-keeper Britt Brown — in just her second game back from a concus-sion — Penn held the opposition to just seven goals.

“Princeton has a lot of threats on the attack and I thought we played as a unit well and helped each other a lot and play good, solid 1-on-1 [defense]. Brittany had some really key saves at im-portant times. All over the field it was a real team effort and a com-plete game for us for the 60 which is really important as we continue to move forward.”

Moving forward, Penn cannot afford to let up. Certainly, beat-ing the reigning Ancient Eight champions was a sign that the Red and Blue will contend if given the chance in the Ivy League tournament. The hard part, at the moment, will be for the Quakers to get themselves into the four-team tournament.

The Red and Blue have a brief three-day respite before traveling again to New Haven to take on Yale on Saturday. They will finish their regular season campaign the following Saturday when they travel to Cornell.

“We need to play Yale to win,” Corbett said. “We have two tough games ahead of us and we have to take each one as it comes. I think after the Dartmouth game every one has become a must win for us and we need to play that way.”

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the outside, it was questionable whether or not such a young team would be able to succeed, espe-cially with such a tough schedule. But the team has stepped up and shown that it can hang with some of the top programs in the nation.

“In college you have to be a lot more technically sound,” fresh-man attacker and team-leading goalscorer Simon Mathias said. “In high school, we were the better lacrosse players out on those fields. But when you get here, when you get to college, everyone is a Division I recruit, everyone is an All-American, so you have to be fundamentally sound and you have to do every-thing right or else you’ll pay the price.”

Freshman attacker Tyler Dunn agreed with Mathias’ analysis of play.

“Pace of play is really a big thing, having situational aware-ness is key, and on- and off-ball is important. I’d say those are definitely the biggest things I think [associate head coach Pat-rick] Myers, [head coach Mike] Murphy and [defensive coordi-nator Jim] Stagnitta have really helped us out with,” Dunn said.

That’s not to say there is not still work to be done. Their play has just begun to become more steady and consistent rather than streaky and varied. They will have to aspire to that style of play if they are to win the Ivy tourna-ment and make it to the national stage.

“Sometimes it can feel a little bit like whack-a-mole. Sometimes

you focus too much on one aspect of the game and then another problem crops up, so we just try to be consistent,” coach Mike Murphy said. “We try to touch on things at least weekly, if not daily, whether it be tactical or technical skill.”

That being said, it’s clear that the Quakers have made good strides despite battling through some growing pains this season. And the players feel as though there’s really not much holding them back except themselves.

“We can go this season as far as we want to,” Dunn said. “We definitely have the talent and defi-nitely have the skill. We just need to keep being mentally tight, keep being healthy. Our captain Nick Doktor is doing a great job with us, so if we follow him we can go as far as we want.”

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A LITTLE MID-WEEK MOMENTUMPlaying host to Big 5 rival Saint Joseph’s on Wednesday, Penn softball swept a mid-week doubleheader, logging an afternoon of solid play in the wake of some recent struggles in the midst of Ivy League play.

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Turns out those all belong to Hebert, too.

Some crews would be happy to take the Pittsburgh native’s athletic ability and spread it out

over half a boat, but luckily for the Quakers, Hebert only takes up one seat.

A Penn Athletics release at the time of Hebert’s Rhodes Scholar announcement in No-vember read, “Hebert is not only a member of the Penn women’s

rowing program, she is arguably the Quakers’ top rower.”

Statements like that can place unwelcome amounts of pressure on a single person, but Hebert is quick to turn attention to the support and efforts of her team-mates.

“I don’t think I felt pressure,” she said. “We have some really amazing rowers on the team, so I just use them as inspiration and to push me to be the best version of myself.”

While the camaraderie of the boat is not lost on Hebert, she has made a name for herself in particular through her renowned effort and determination.

“I think she had a great repu-tation that preceded her before I arrived at Penn,” head coach Wesley Ng said.

“I knew of her as a hard worker, someone with a lot of physical capacity, somebody who was very conscientious,” the first-year coach continued. “And all of those things were really confirmed during the very first few weeks of practice.”

What makes Hebert’s suc-cess on the water even more impressive is the fact that it is on equal standing, if not surpassed, by her incredible ac-ademic achievement. She is the first Penn athlete to be named a Rhodes Scholar since 1984, and is now only the fifth inductee to that illustrious list of athlete scholars.

“I’m not going to say that it’s easy to balance Division I rowing and rigorous academ-ics at Penn, but honestly, I think that rowing has helped me per-form well in academics,” the 5-foot-5 bow seat said.

“Also, I know it’s a cliche, but rowing really makes you strong mentally,” she continued. “So taking a 15-minute exam is nothing after doing a three hour long practice.”

As true as that statement may be, her coaches and teammates have come to recognize that Hebert is one of a kind.

“I think I underestimated her willingness to go really hard and her capacity to succeed in every-thing that was asked of her,” Ng said.

Such observations have also led fellow rowers to ask more out of the former U-23 national team member, who only this season begun to make her voice heard. For a long time, Hebert embodied the strong, silent type – the team standout who led by example more so than loudness.

At the urging of her coach and teammates, Hebert has stepped into a more engaging role,

adding yet another dimension to her dynamic skillset.

“What was neat in our spring training trip in Gainesville was her teammates asked her to be more vocal,” Ng said. “I think they respect her knowledge and her skill and her opinion, and they wanted to hear more of what she had to say.”

Come this fall, after four years on the Schuylkill, the Quakers’ prized rower will take that same skillset over to the River Thames, where she plans to row for Oxford.

“I see myself going until pretty much my back goes out. It’s a sport that you can do pretty much forever.”

But in between Hebert and the next chapter of her rowing career lie three more races in the Red and Blue, and the senior is determined to make her final season not only the best of her four years, but potentially the best in this new millennium so far.

Penn’s first and only NCAA championship appearance dates back to 1998. Hebert and her teammates are determined to amend that discouraging piece of history.

“That’s something we’ve never done before, and I think it’s something that we could ac-complish this year,” Hebert said. “We still have about a month left in the season to accomplish that,

so that would be a great way to end my four years.”

With Ng at the helm, who Hebert claims has brought the Red and Blue to the next level with his revamped training pro-gram and focus on technique, the Quakers might have their best chance in recent memory.

The likelihood of such an ac-complishment will be tested this weekend when the team goes up against Dartmouth, Princeton and Bucknell.

“I have a huge amount of re-spect for what Princeton is doing with their varsity boats,” Ng said. ”I think we’re going to try and keep the margin as close as we can and use them as a foil to test our preparation.”

“I think we need to start get-ting closer so that in future years we have a chance to really make a run at that trophy.”

In addition, when the Varsity C 4 boat takes to the water this Saturday, it will be the first time that Penn has fielded an entire team with multiple rowers re-turning from injury.

On the men’s side, the heav-ies will venture up to the Charles River in Cambridge, Mass. where they will face Harvard and Navy in the Blackwell Cup. The lightweights will join the women in Princeton where they will compete in the West-Ham-mond Cup against the Tigers and Georgetown.

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Tennis players make the jump from varsity to club

The expansion and wide-spread success of club sports across the country has had a tremendous effect on college stu-dents over the last decade.

For club tennis, this has become especially evident with the creation of an official na-tionwide organization known as USTA Tennis on Campus.

And for members of Penn club tennis, Tennis on Campus has provided an opportunity that most did not think would be pos-sible: to play competitive tennis at a high level without playing on varsity squads.

The level of play on the Penn club team is impressive in itself, with almost everyone having played USTA sectional or na-tional level tournaments in high

school, with some even coming to Penn despite being recruited elsewhere.

With the limited number of varsity spots available to Ameri-can junior tennis players, and an even more limited number of walk-on spots awarded across all of Division I tennis, Tennis on Campus has become an at-tractive option for many players — even those with the capability to play at the varsity level.

And this past weekend at the Tennis on Campus National Championship, this trend was easy to see. Throughout the entire tournament there were dozens of players who could be playing at the higher level of col-lege athletics but decided club provides a satisfyingly high level of tennis as well as the flexibility for the social and academic life of an ordinary college student.

On the men’s side, one of the players for three-time champion UC-Berkeley was an interna-tional student out of Hong Kong

who was considered one of the top 100 recruits coming into col-lege, but didn’t end up playing for the Golden Bears because an

injury prevented him from being able to handle the daily grind of D-I sports.

Ashley Kitchen, member of

the Auburn club team — win-ners of this year’s team national championship — was a 5-star recruit ranked 31st in the nation when she arrived in college. However, after quitting the team, she decided to join club and helped lead her team to victory.

Even here at Penn, there are several players who could have made the jump or have already gotten some varsity experience.

Junior Brigitte Desnoes played on the varsity team for her most of her freshman year before leav-ing. First year engineering grad student Sam DeLuccia played as the top man on his Hobart var-sity team before graduating and joining club.

Sophomore McKay Novak came to Penn anticipating she would walk on but, after being on the roster, ended up deciding against it.

“I joined the team anticipat-ing it would just be something I would do with a friend, practice once a week, and that’s it,” she

said. “It turned out to be a great community, traveling to tourna-ments and going to practice with a relatively high level of tennis and was something I really en-joyed.

She was also impressed by the national championship hosted by the USTA, complete with media booths and merchandise tents.

“I was shocked by how le-gitimate it was. The whole setup was so official and USTA Tennis on Campus did an incredible job. The level of tennis was ac-tually shocking, especially on the guys’ side. Every single guy was very, very good and could be playing college tennis. They all had a high level. Overall the level was so much higher than expected.”

As college athletics become more and more competitive, organizations like Tennis on Campus will grow and allow students to competing at a high level without playing on the var-sity level.

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First-year engineering grad student Sam DeLuccia plays for club tennis at Penn, after playing varsity at Hobart College as an undergrad.

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everyone perform and really play at the top of our capabilities. We haven’t done that in a long time, and I think it’ll give us momentum heading into the weekend,” she said.

In the second half of the double-header, the Quakers’ pitching was the story yet again. Penn sopho-more Mason Spichiger allowed a solo home run in the first inning, but settled down to pitch three innings of two-hit ball. Junior Courtney Cuzick and freshman Joy Lewis both tossed two perfect frames in relief, notching the win and save respectively.

The Red and Blue got on the board in the fourth, tying the game up at one. The squad capitalized on another two-out throwing error by the Hawks to push Li across the plate.

In the bottom of the fifth, the Quakers took a 4-1 lead that they would maintain for the rest of the game. After two infield singles and an error loaded the bases, junior Leah Allen ripped a double into left-center to plate two. Sargent added another run on a sacrifice fly.

The big innings that Penn had in these two games played key roles in their two victories, as they have throughout the season.

“Softball’s weird like that,

sometimes you get those little mo-mentum swings,” King said. “I thought we got a little bit of luck today, which I think has been miss-ing at times in our games this year, and it was really nice to get some breaks. We had some mishits that since we’re speedy we were able to run them out. And we drove some balls too, which was nice.”

With just eight games left on the schedule, they will look to carry to-day’s success into the closing games of Ivy play, starting with a double-header on Saturday with Cornell. If they continue to catch a few breaks, they could find themselves back fighting atop the Ivy League’s South Division.

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Penn seeks fair weather going into big weekend

Mother nature has not shone brightly on Penn track and field this season. At the vast majority of the meets, the Quakers have been forced to embrace the elements.

This weekend should be no dif-ferent. There is an 80 percent chance of rain and thunderstorms in the forecast for Princeton this Friday, where the Red and Blue will be competing in the Larry Ellis Invi-tational hosted by their Ivy League rival.

“At this point we’ve been victims of bad weather for most of the meets through the spring,” said throwing and head women’s coach Tony Te-nisci.

As a result, the team, and espe-cially the throwers, have not had a chance to put up their best perfor-mances.

“We’re a little under-achieved at this point,” Tenisci added. “But I feel now if the weather cooperates they’re in terrific shape.”

However, Tenisci, who has over 30 years of coaching experience, has seen it all and is able to train and pre-pare his athletes regardless of any obstacles.

“They’ve had wonderful training sets. Everyday they come down and they work hard and they look great,” he explained. “Then we go to a track meet and the weather’s lousy. So you really don’t see what they do every-day.”

Still, Tenisci isn’t concerned about his team heading into the season’s final push because of what they’ve shown him on the practice fields. As a result, he hasn’t diverted from his training plan.

“I’ve been steady with the work and the consistency,” he said. “It’s

like in a classroom. It’s a steady state. You don’t need to add more or less if you’re holding that steady state.”

The Larry Ellis Invitational will be a sort of trial run as the final meet before the Penn Relays and then the subsequent league and national championships.

This year, however, the heat will be turned up a notch.

Due to the unpredictable weather that has plagued this spring season, more teams than usual will make the trip to Princeton, upping the level of competition.

What’s more is that Heptagonal and ECAC Championships will be held at the same facilities in Prince-ton over the two weekends following the Penn Relays.

The combination of the venue and the field of athletes will give Penn a chance to size up its opponents and get a feel for the fields, tracks and equipment.

For the Quakers to put on a good showing this weekend, the throwers will undoubtedly have to do their part.

While seniors Sam Mattis and Kelsey Hay can always be relied upon for huge performances in their respective disciplines, juniors Noah Kennedy-White and Lisa Sesink-Clee will play huge roles as well.

Sometimes overshadowed by the seniors who compete in the same event as they do, Kennedy-White and Sesink-Clee are exceptional discus and javelin throwers, respec-tively, in their own right.

They don’t just share com-monalities in their class and their hyphenated last names. Sesink-Clee is the second-best javelin thrower in the Ivy League, and Kennedy-White holds the second-best discus throw in Penn history.

Tenisci is looking forward to seeing what they, and others, can achieve down the stretch.

“I’m hoping they can start to open it up a little bit more as we go forward,” he said. “We’re tapering right now in the weight room. Their bodies are more recovered. The only thing that gets in the way is exams. But they’re pretty resilient, these young people.”

When the clouds clear up, the Quakers will be ready.

“I’m hoping that as we go into Penn Relays, we’ll have momen-tum coming out of Larry Ellis, and that everyone begins to really put some good numbers down,” Tenisci added.

The clock may be winding down, but everyone is calm. Especially Tenesci, who after 30 years with the program, is ready for anything.

TRACK | Meet is Quakers’ last before Penn RelaysTHOMAS MUNSONAssociate Sports Editor

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Maybe all they needed was just a little time away from the Ancient Eight.

In a brief interlude from Ivy League competition, Penn took both games of a doubleheader against Saint Joesph’s yesterday, defeating the Hawks by scores of 7-0 and 4-1.

The two games signified a re-turned to early season form for the Quakers (17-19, 3-9 Ivy ), who have struggled recently in Ivy play. Much like earlier in the season, the theme of the day for the Red and Blue was pitching. Five Quak-ers combined to hold the Hawks (16-19) to just two runs on four hits scattered throughout the two games.

“It was really pleasing to see all five of them just play their role,” coach Leslie King said. “We had specific tasks, and it just went really well. All five of them came

in and pitched to their spots and kept the ball down and did an ex-ceptional job.”

The first game of the double-header started off as a pitchers’ duel between Penn’s ace junior Alexis Sargent and the Hawks’ Ashley Ventura. Neither pitcher alloed a base runner for the first two and a half innings, mowing through the opposing lineups.

The Red and Blue broke through in the bottom of the third. Senior Korinne Raby led off the inning with a double to right field and moved to third on a sacrifice bunt by junior Sydney Kranzmann. After a ground out, freshman Sam Pederson knocked Raby in with a single up the middle.

The Quakers cracked the game open in the fifth, scoring six runs to make it a 7-0 lead. The team capitalized on a Hawks’ error to score all of their runs with two outs. Highlights from the inning were a two-run double from Sar-gent and a two-run home run for sophomore Joyce Joyner.

Senior Lauren Li came on in place of Sargent in the sixth and fired two scoreless innings to secure the shutout. Sargent fin-ished the day with one hit allowed and two strikeouts over five in-nings, improving her record to 9-7 on the year. The performance was

a much needed return to form for the junior, as she has struggled in Ivy play recently.

“It really is a confidence booster to come back home, it has been

awhile since we’ve gotten to play here and have a dominant perfor-mance. It really meant a lot to see

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Quakers prep for Dartmouth

After clinching a berth in the Ivy tournament, you might think that Penn’s men’s lacrosse team has done its job. But rest assured, there is still plenty of work to do.

The Quakers (7-5, 3-2 Ivy) will travel north to Hanover, N.H., this weekend to the Dartmouth Big Green (1-11, 0-4) in their final Ivy tilt of 2016. Penn will be entering its penultimate regular season game on a two-game win-ning streak, having beat Ivy foe Harvard at home on Saturday to clinch a berth in the postseason Ivy tournament before grinding out a hard-fought win at UMBC on Tuesday. This game will mark the third in a tough final stretch for the Red and Blue, who finish out their season with four games in two weeks.

One might think these final two games against unranked

Dartmouth and crosstown rival Saint Joseph’s will serve simply as tune-up games for the Quak-ers, but the reality is that these two games still hold plenty of weight in determining the post-season fate of the team. Though Penn is currently unranked, it did receive votes in the Inside Lacrosse poll last week, indicat-ing that they still have an outside shot at an at-large bid to the na-tional tournament if they do not win the Ivy Championship. How-ever, a loss to either of these two teams would likely crush what-ever hope the Red and Blue has of obtaining such a bid.

Luckily for the Quakers, they’ve been playing well of late. They bounced back from a thrashing at the hands of Brown to begin playing some of its best lacrosse of the season . In its past two games against Harvard and UMBC, the team won almost every statistical battle, from shots to ground balls to faceoffs, despite winning by just one goal in both games.

If anything, this speaks to the development and maturity of the young players that have stepped up for the Quakers over the course of the season. From

M. LAX | Ivy tourney bid already locked upDAVID FIGURELLISports Reporter

Red and Blue best Philly rivalSOFTBALL | Cornell awaits the QuakersJONATHAN POLLACKSports Reporter

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If people were initially bearish on Penn women’s lacrosse’s potential to reclaim their Ivy League cham-pionship, they may need to start rethinking things. The Quakers traveled to Princeton in a mid-week confer-ence matchup and came out triumphant with a 12-7 victory.

Clearly, the Red and Blue came to play. Just six minutes into the game, No. 14 Penn (10-3, 4-1 Ivy) had already scored four straight goals. A few minutes later,

the 11th-ranked Tigers (9-4, 4-1) came roaring back and went on a 3-1 run over the next 20 minutes. Penn would net two more before halftime for a 7-3 lead.

If there was one contest where Penn could not squan-der an early lead, tonight’s game was it. Over the next eight minutes, Princeton would tally another two points to Penn’s one and the game became a tightly contested 8-5 affair.

With a little under 25 minutes left in the game, Princeton clearly still had a chance to come back. Another goal for the Tigers could have given them the momentum to rally. A goal for Penn would have stopped the opposition dead in its tracks. Fortunately for the Red and Blue, sophomore attack Caroline Cum-mings delivered, scoring her second of the night in the process and giving Penn a 9-5 lead.

Just over a minute later, Nina Corcoran set up fellow senior attack Catherine Dickinson for the latter’s second goal of the game. That assist from Corco-ran marked the 109th of her career, breaking Penn’s

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Junior pitcher Alexis Sargent tossed a gem in the first game of Penn’s Wednesday doubleheader, allowing just one hit in five innings of work.

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