On Wednesday, some students received false confirmation of floor passes for the Spring Fling concert, resulting from a technical

issue. At 10 a.m., the Social Plan-ning and Events Committee posted the Spring Fling floor pass sale form on its Facebook event page but mistakenly sent out confirmation emails to some students, saying that they had won floor passes even though they were not among the first 50 to fill out the form and win.

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pass forms every day this week. For the past three days, tickets have sold out almost immediately upon release.

This morning, however, many excited students received confir-mation emails saying that they had won floor passes only to re-ceive an email later saying that “unfortunately, we had some

technical difficulties with the floor pass form.”

College junior and SPEC Con-certs Co-Director Paul DiNapoli wrote in the to students email that, despite the confirmation email, these students had not actually won because the Google Forms did not

Physician and anthropologist Paul Farmer called on American research universities to do more to support global health equity on Wednesday.

His talk, entitled “Global Health vs. Global Health Equity: Health, Social Justice and the Research Uni-versity,” was hosted by the Center for Global Health at the Perelman School of Medicine.

Farmer, the co-founder of the nonprofit organization, Partners in Health, said what distinguished global health equity from inter-national health is the emphasis on delivering care to patients, as op-posed to just research and training.

Farmer said both academic

medical centers and PIH use a model that links medical care, the training of doctors and nurses and research.

“There needs to be a research and training component, but also a ser-vice delivery piece,” he said .

One example he brought up was Sierra Leone, a country with an advanced research laboratory but lacking in medical care at the dis-trict hospital.

“If there’s only a focus on re-search and not on care delivery, well, we saw what happened,” he said.

The nursing schools and medical schools were shut down in Liberia following the Ebola crisis. The role of research universities could be to reopen these schools, Farmer said.

“Our universities have these re-sources,” he said.

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Pennsylvania could potentially become the 25th state to legalize medi-cal marijuana, thanks to the passage of Senate Bill 3 in the state House of Representatives this month. Governor Tom Wolf has agreed to sign the bill if

it passes through the Senate.The bill, which was supported by

Democrats and Republicans alike, will make legal the purchase of marijuana for the treatment of serious medical conditions. With doctor recommenda-tion, patients will be able to acquire a special ID card, which will allow them to purchase strains of cannabis that are deemed appropriate for their diagno-ses.

This legislation follows former mayor of Philadelphia Michael Nutter’s

decriminalization of small-scale mari-juana possession in 2014. As a result of the decriminalization, those caught in possession of less than 30 grams of marijuana are merely fined $25 and given a citation. Anyone caught smoking in public is either fined $100 or required to complete nine hours of community service.

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President Amy Gutmann an-nounced today that College seniors Vaishak Kumar, Kriya Pateloxford and Nursing senior Melanie Mari-ano have won the 2016 President’s Engagement Prizes.

Recipients of the President’s Engagement Prize receive as much as $100,000 to implement a public service project of their own creation to serve communi-ties on the local, national or global level, as well as $50,000 for living expenses. The prizes were first awarded in the 2014-2015 school year.

This year, two projects will take place in Philadelphia, and one will take place in India.

Patel will work to help women who are about to be released from the Riverside Correctional Facility in Philadelphia to acquire health insurance and identification to best prepare them to go out into the world. She will keep track of the women for at least three more years to monitor the effects of continued care. Mariano plans to partner with the Free Library of Philadelphia to educate library patrons about health. She intends to create a “one-stop-shop” for people to re-ceive health information, medical counseling and preventive health services.

Kumar’s project in India will use mobile technology to improve farmer education, something that is seriously lacking in certain areas. Kumar will also set up an inexpen-sive mobile laboratory to provide the farmers with timely, person-alized information to help them

boost their productivity.Gutmann praised the projects

for their uniqueness.“They’re really original,” she

said. “There’s something that’s strikingly, importantly, original about bringing mobile technology to farmers in India, going into the Free Library of Philadelphia and having a one-stop shop approach

to health care and enabling female prisoners to make a successful transition to civilian life.”

Gutmann said there were 18 ap-plications this year, a slightly lower number than last year.

Center for Undergraduate Re-search and Fellowships Director Harriet Joseph said the lower number could have been due to

Gutmann’s announcement of a new prize this year, the President’s Innovation Prize, which awards grants to students for for-profit en-terprises.

“There may have been some confusion about the difference between the two prizes,” she said, but added, “Next year the innova-tion prize won’t be new; it will be

announced earlier and the distinc-tion between the two will be made much clearer.”

Joseph also said the impres-sive caliber of the prizes awarded last year may have intimidated some students. Students may be thinking, “I do something engage-ment-wise, but it doesn’t measure up to what the last four prizes were,” she said.

Students must also start plan-ning early in the academic year in order to have a strong application. They need to secure a University employee as a mentor, find some-one to write them a non-academic letter of recommendation and make initial connections with the community they hope to help in order to work out logistics.

“It’s a very high bar to complete an application, but once completed, I have to say all of the applications were exceptional,” Gutmann said.

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Campaign for Community is still going strong one year later

Nearly a year after its inception, Penn’s Campaign for Community has sparked a wide variety of con-versations about campus’ toughest issues.

In April 2015, Penn’s adminis-tration launched the campaign, an umbrella initiative encompassing events, grants and partnerships that encourage discussion about issues that “may appear to be difficult or intractable,” according to the cam-paign’s website.

The campaign kicked off in April with a panel event titled “Having Difficult Conversations in the Academy,” and it has tackled vari-ous issues since with 12 additional events to date and four more coming in the next month. These have ranged from a screening and discus-sion of the film “Feminist: Stories

From Women’s Liberation” to a Black Lives Matter Arts Showcase.

College senior and the co-founder and current chair of Students Organizing for Unity and Liberation Gina Dukes was a panel-ist at an event in late January called “Laws without Morals are Vain: A Panel on Open Expression.” She felt that the event fulfilled the cam-paign’s goals by addressing difficult topics, but she said she feels the con-versation needs to continue.

“I think it was a good starting point, but I don’t think we were able to delve deeply into the issue,” she said.

The other panelists included Vice Provost for Faculty Anita Allen, Penn Law School profes-sor Stephanos Bibas, current Daily Pennsylvanian President and Whar-ton junior Colin Henderson and College and Wharton junior Jen-nifer Knesbach, who represented Penn Political Coalition and Col-lege Republicans.

They also only had time to take

five or six questions after the pan-elists were finished speaking, and Dukes wished more students could have been heard, even expanding to students who weren’t at the event.

“It would have been good if it was campus-wide dialogue,” she said. “It could have maybe con-tinued instead of just the one time event, maybe through a series of events or maybe something online like a poll or voting, just something of that nature to get responses of what people were thinking.”

From Feb. 22-26, Gregory Col-lege House hosted a film series called “Difference, Division and Discussion,” with one issue-ori-ented film premiering each day in the house film lounge, followed by a discussion. The series spot-lighted LGBTQ communities and stigma with “Paris is Burning,” the Black Lives Matter movement with “Fruitvale Station,” bullying among youth with “Welcome to the Doll-house,” Islam and patriotism with “American Sniper” and suicide and

mental health with “The Perks of Being a Wallflower.”

Dean of Gregory College House Christopher Donovan said the concept fit in well with Gregory’s regular screenings and discussions, but would also be “looking at film in a different way than we custom-arily do.” Namely, it wouldn’t be as focused on the films cinematically as it would be on the social issues at hand.

Donovan said a few films in par-ticular sparked intense discussions. “Welcome to the Dollhouse” was one, and another was “American Sniper.”

“As you can probably imagine, ‘American Sniper’ was pretty di-visive. That’s a film that can be controversial for the issues it raises without addressing, in certain ways, so that was kind of a difficult dis-cussion,” he said.

In the future, if Gregory does another film series, Donovan said they may spread the screenings out throughout a month or a semester

instead of doing them in such a short sequence to avoid so much heavy material in such a short amount of time. He also said they learned things as they went along; for example, rearranging the chairs in the film lounge into a circle helped make everyone feel equally heard in the discussions after the films.

The film series, and specifically

the screening of “American Sniper,” even inspired one of Gregory’s resi-dential advisors, Wharton senior Sneha Shashikumar, to do her own screening of “My Name is Khan” on the Saturday that followed and lead her own discussion.

“I think that’s a nice complement to the type of event we were doing, so it’s great if it inspires more events like that,” Donovan said.

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close immediately after re-ceiving the first 50 responses. SPEC Concerts had switched from using SurveyMonkey to Google Forms today, hoping that this would prevent people from creating bots to fill out the forms.

“We want to combat people who are writing scripts and creating bots to fill the form out ... we deal with these prob-lems every year, and we were trying to stay ahead of it this year,” DiNapoli said. “Unfor-tunately, it went live, and by the time I clicked over to the response form, we already had more than 50 responses,

so I had to manually close the script.”

Upon receiving the email, College senior Sarah Mu-rayama commented on the Facebook event page that “the high you get when the congrats message pops up is nothing compared to the low you hit when you find out the Google form was messed up and you didn’t really win.�”

Other students also took to Facebook to question the trans-parency of the situation, since the form closed a minute after release at 10:01 a.m. Wharton and Engineering sophomore Robert Dowling commented, saying “I think SPEC should be transparent and release the form entry names and time

stamps for validation of that email.”

Two hours later, Dowling commented saying that he had received an email from SPEC with a screenshot of his line entry on the Google sheet. “Update: SPEC was transpar-ent. I was 132nd. Well played,” he posted.

“SPEC is really sorry this happened, but unfortunately the script didn’t work, and ul-timately it was not on us. We would love to give everyone a floor pass, but logistically we just can’t do that,” DiNapoli said.

SPEC will continue to sell f loor passes on Thursday, March 24, at 4:30 p.m., and on Friday, March 25, at 2:00 p.m.

He sees the role of universi-ties as strengthening the health system, building local capacity and conducting training and re-search.

“Shouldn’t there be strate-gies by which a well-resourced research university can help re-spond?” he asked.

As an example of a global health success story, he talked about the steep declines in mor-tality rates seen in Rwanda.

“Imagine what we could do if we build on those trans-formations to train the new generation and to train our-selves to think about equity front and center,” he said.

Farmer added that American research universities could have a huge role in this global health realignment.

“Let me invite you to be a part of this,” Farmer said.

Kent Bream agreed with Farmer’s analysis of the bal-ance between research, training and care.

“I agree with his numbers that that is probably out of balance,” Bream said. “But a modern re-search university has to think strategically in how to implement that change so we can accomplish the same things globally that we accomplish locally.”

“I thought that it was a really important way of bring-ing in the lessons learned from Rwanda, Sierra Leone

and Liberia and really using the idea of a university teach-ing hospital driven model as a way to establish global health equity,” second- year Penn Med-icine student Michael Spinnato said. “And I think it was done in a way that provided a clear trajectory of doing that, which is important for people that kind of need to think in terms of pragmatism.”

For students, the opportunity to hear from Farmer was inspi-rational in itself.

“It was just cool to see him talk live,” College junior Jesse Lu said. “Because you don’t realize how captivating he is and how good he is at making you actually care about these things.”

Opinions of presidential can-didates among Penn’s LGBTQ community are as diverse as the candidates themselves. Students fall all along the political spec-trum, supporting Democrats, Republicans and in some cases, even the Green Party.

College junior Hannah Frank- supports Bernie Sanders. “I think he’s the most honest and open candidate. His proposals reflect his track record, history and political career,” she said, criti-cizing Hillary Clinton’s supposed lack of consistency, especially when it comes to her support of marriage equality.

But if Clinton were to win the Democratic nomination, Frank would cast her vote for Clinton without a second thought, as “she’s far, far better than any of the Republicans. I just think that if we have a Republican in the White House, it’s going to be a few steps back for LGBT rights and the community.”

Frank places a high impor-tance on candidates’ stances on LGBTQ issues, refusing to sup-port any candidate who doesn’t embrace the community’s rights.

College freshman John Mat-thews also plans to vote for

Sanders in the primaries. He is in “critical support” of Sanders, as he doesn’t fully agree with Sand-ers’ foreign policy and believes that Sanders could go further with some of his stances, such as those concerning LGBTQ issues.

“I think I would be more in support of Bernie if he were to say, ‘We need to radically change the way we address the queer homeless problem’ or some-thing like that,” Matthews said. “That’s, in my opinion, the most important issue in the queer com-munity right now.”

If Sanders doesn’t win the Democratic nomination, Mat-thews would either vote for Jill Stein of the Green Party or choose not to vote.

“I think that environmental-ism is very important; significant portions of the Democratic party have not really been active on trying to stop climate change or have actually been on the wrong side of environmental policies,” Matthews said.

College junior Emily Irani thinks that Clinton is the most qualified candidate. She likes how Clinton is a strong supporter of women’s rights and that she has “policies in her head that she’s going to implement as president — policies that will work in Con-gress and the government.”

Irani thinks the media is play-ing up the email scandal and admires how Clinton has handled

the situation. She’s supporting the candidate even though she has been criticized for perceived inconsistency on certain issues. “Every candidate flip-flops on issues, and people change their opinions,” Irani said.

But not all members of the LGBTQ community identify on the liberal side of the spectrum — there are a number who identify as conservative. Wharton fresh-man Eugene Otero described the experience of being at the

intersection between gay, Chris-tian and conservative as “pretty difficult. I can face a little bit of backlash and rejection from all sides.”

Originally a fan of Ben Carson before he announced his candi-dacy, Otero now finds himself struggling to choose a favor-ite Republican candidate. “I’m definitely not feeling any of the Republican candidates, espe-cially Trump. I pretty much hate that guy with a passion,” he said.

The idea that many Christians are voting for Trump baffles Otero since “he really is the opposite of a Jesus Christ figure.”

If it came down to Trump and Sanders, Otero said he would vote for Sanders if he nominated Neel Kashkari as his running mate, as Kashkari is a Republican and would balance out Sanders’ ticket.

Otero finds it unfortunate that the most “moderate” Republican when it comes to LGBTQ rights

— John Kasich — merely pres-ents a “weak opposition to LGBT rights.” He hopes that the Repub-lican party moves in the right direction in the future, along with the rest of the country.

College freshman Christian Petrillo , who identifies with the Republican party, started off the election cycle as a Rand Paul sup-porter, but when Paul dropped out of the race, he turned toward Marco Rubio, who also recently dropped out. Out of the three candidates still in the running, Petrillo likes Kasich the most, but he believes that in order to prevent Trump from winning the nomination and to have a better chance at landing a Republican in the White House, he has to rally behind Ted Cruz.

“At least with Ted, I know he’s consistent. I know that he can beat Hillary Clinton if he tried. Donald Trump — I feel like you’re rolling the dice. I feel like he could win, but I feel like he could lose 50 states,” Petrillo said.

While he isn’t supporting Trump, he believes that some of Trump’s views have been mis-construed. “I don’t think Donald Trump is racist. I don’t think he’s racist. I don’t think you can be a billionaire businessman from New York and be racist and try to just point the finger at people. But I do think that, in some ways, he is silently leaning towards that.”

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In typically delusional, short-sighted and hypocriti-cal fashion, the Ivy League leadership has decided to fol-low the crowd and institute a conference tournament for men’s and women’s basket-ball. This is a terrible mistake that not only makes competi-tion less fair and meritorious, but also weakens the league’s chances for success in the NCAA Tournament.

The conference’s athletic directors and presidents have overturned six decades of tra-dition whereby the league’s automatic ticket to March Madness was rightly awarded to the regular season cham-pion. Even while every other minor conference instituted a hokey tournament at the be-hest of television dollars, the Ivy smartly stuck with send-ing its strongest team to the big dance.

The Ivy League plays 14 games: a true round-robin. At the end, it’s pretty obvious who the best team is. In the event of a tie, as has occurred recently, a one-game playoff will decide the winner. This is the most fair and logical way to determine a champion.

What, exactly, is the com-pelling reason for not doing it this way? How can they rationalize rewarding a 6-8 team over one that is 13-1? Those are the records of Har-vard and Yale, who would be the No.4 and No.1 seeds if a tournament were in place this season. Is the league’s goal to finally have a team in the NCAA’s play-in game?

Some say this is about “op-portunity.”

Every team starts the league season 0-0. Every team has a chance, from January to March, to win games en route to the confer-ence title. Why throw that out and instead rely on just two tournament games — games that include an extra dose of random chance thanks to the league’s chronically terrible officiating?

By not sending the best team, the Ivy League also eviscerates its opportunity to actually score wins in the tournament. Imagine the 2010 Cornell team that advanced to the Sweet 16 losing on a bad call to 6-8 Yale in the Ivy title game. Or lesser teams upset-ting recent-vintage Harvard

squads that posted NCAA wins in consecutive years.

Sending anyone less than your best representative is recipe for failure, plain and simple. It happens every year with just about every other lower-tier conference. In the

last decade, 61 minor confer-ence teams won automatic bids after finishing second or worse in their league regular season. Only six won games in the NCAA Tournament. The Ivy League’s true cham-pions have five wins over the same span.

Do they seriously think a postseason tournament in-creases the probability of the Ivy at last getting an at-large bid? There have been myriad

opportunities for this in the past — never happened. And it will get harder, not easier, as the perception of the league dwindles with each 16-seed representative going quietly year after year.

Ivy League Executive Di-

rector Robin Harris described the tournament as a “land-mark event” for the confer-ence. What does this even mean? A 10 a.m. time slot on ESPN3? That will be watched by hundreds of people?

The evidence is clear that minor conference tourna-ments see terrible TV ratings and are sparsely attended. The Ivy League isn’t the Big East; it’s not even the Atlan-tic 10. Even the prospect of

a Penn-Princeton final would not sell out today.

And what does this change of heart say about other sports?

For decades people have been asking the league’s pres-idents and athletic directors why the football champion is banned from competing in the NCAA playoffs. Each time the answers include some variation on these themes: “It’s our tradition”; “Play-offs would place too great a burden on student athletes”; “This is what makes the Ivy League special”; “We have done it this way since 1956.”

Either these things are true, or they’re not.

Harris boasted the tourna-ment would be something players would “anticipate while they are in school and ... cherish throughout their lives after graduation.” Penn Director of Athletics and Recreation Grace Calhoun echoed, “The tournament will add excitement and give an additional opportunity to spotlight our talented athletic scholars.” So would allowing the best football team(s) — some years the league could

quite reasonably receive mul-tiple bids — to compete in the FCS tournament.

Either the Ivy League stands for tradition and meri-tocracy, or these people are hypocrites.

Of course, you will hear coaches and ADs supporting this basketball plan. After all, it’s a lot easier to keep your job after a few 13-15 seasons if you can hang your hat on an NCAA appearance. Sure, it was a 50-point loss to Kan-sas, but hey, “We were on TV!”

And maybe Penn will ben-efit from this system in the future. Considering the cur-rent dreary state of the men’s program, that looks like the only viable path to the brack-et. A trip to Spokane and a T-shirt will be the reward, but it won’t be earned.

Sadly, the Ivy League has decided that getting paid is more important than earn-ing your way to the top. It’s a landmark to stupidity.

My endorsement is a no-brainer decision: John Kasich.

Of the three remaining Republican candidates, John Kasich is undoubtedly the most qualified, having served 18 years in Congress and five years as the governor of Ohio. In contrast, Ted Cruz has spent a mere three years as a senator while Donald Trump hasn’t held elected office for a single day.

Further, Kasich has seri-ous proposals to address en-titlement reform, our national debt, healthcare and educa-tion. Simultaneously, he has avoided the extreme posi-tions embraced by Trump and Cruz, like the deportation of millions of illegal immigrants or the targeted patrolling of Muslim neighborhoods.

Perhaps most refreshingly, Kasich has run a singularly positive campaign, accompa-nied by a hopeful message and respect for all people. Once in a while, when listening to Kasich, I forget about Trump and Hillary Clinton and feel optimistic about 2016.

This optimism has made Kasich popular at Penn,

where he earned The Daily Pennsylvanian’s endorsement and easily won the Penn Cau-cuses, a mock election hosted by the Government and Poli-tics Association. And he’s not just popular here. Over 60 percent of voters in his home state — and crucial swing state — of Ohio like him, and polls consistently show him beating Hillary Clinton in national head-to-head match-ups.

Just think: We could have an experienced president with good ideas and consistent eth-ics. Really, endorsing Kasich is a no-brainer.

But it’s also a no-brainer in another respect. Supporting Kasich doesn’t require serious use of the brain.

Kasich’s chances of be-ing the Republican nominee are only slightly better than deceased president Gerald Ford’s. It is mathematically impossible for Kasich to win enough delegates to win the nomination before the Repub-lican National Convention. Acknowledging this, Kasich says mathematicians should “take a chill pill,” claiming

that a brokered convention — during which GOP delegates will hand him the nomination — is inevitable.

If the Republican dele-gates do somehow hand him the nomination, Kasich will need millions of chill pills

to placate the angry mobs of disenfranchised voters that supported Trump and Cruz. Fortunately for our nation’s pharmaceutical industry, it’s hard to imagine that Trump and Cruz’s delegates will vote for Kasich. A clear majority of the delegates will be rep-resenting Trump and Cruz, chosen by an electorate that overwhelmingly desires a po-

litical outsider. Perhaps Ka-sich believes that the fumes in the convention’s smoke-filled rooms will make these del-egates dizzy enough to forget their voters back home.

The danger with no-brainer decisions is that you some-

times don’t fully think them through.

Supporting John Kasich essentially ensures that Don-ald Trump will win a major-ity of delegates before the convention. That’s why Mitt Romney has been campaign-ing for Cruz, telling them, “A vote for John Kasich is a vote for Donald Trump.” Romney is right: Kasich can’t win, and

he divides the vote enough to deny Cruz.

If Kasich stays in the race, expect Trump to continue di-viding and conquering, as he is likely to sweep the Mid-At-lantic and West Coast states with a divided field. When this happens, Trump will have enough delegates to be the GOP nominee.

At that point, no-brainer decisions will no longer suf-fice for Republicans.

They will have to con-sider whether to hold their noses and vote for Trump, a man with no political expe-rience or substantive policy knowledge. Or they can vote for Hillary Clinton, who has made it clear she will ap-point judges to the Supreme Court who will fit the Con-stitution to her leftist agenda and threaten the separation of powers.

They will have to ponder voting for a man who has been a Democrat for years and mocked many central elements of the Republican Party’s platform. Or they can vote for a current Democrat who promises to increase the

federal minimum wages, raise taxes and impose more bu-reaucratic regulations.

For many Republicans, these decisions will be ago-nizing. At that point, GOP voters probably won’t be able to support an experienced, ethical candidate with a posi-tive vision for the country.

Since Republicans will have to use their brains this fall, they might as well start using them now. Think about it.

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Either the Ivy League stands for tradition and meritocracy, or these people are hypocrites.”

Supporting John Kasich essentially ensures that Donald Trump will win a majority of delegates before the convention.”

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the 2014 bill signed by Nutter. Kenney has even said that he would be “open” to the taxation and regulation of recreational marijuana if it were to be legal-ized in Pennsylvania, according to a Philly.com article.

That being said, possession and consumption of marijuana is still a criminal offense in the state of Pennsylvania and on the federal level. The expected pas-sage of Senate Bill 3, also known as the Medical Marijuana Act, could be the first step toward

change in the rest of the state.However, unlike medical

marijuana legislation in some other states, this bill only covers marijuana as legal treatment for what it cites as “serious medical conditions.” Some conditions that satisfy this requirement in-clude cancer, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease and autism. According to the bill, though, some of the revenues from taxa-tion on marijuana growers’ sales to dispensaries will be allocated to research into other conditions that may be treated with the sub-stance.

Also limited are the forms

in which medical marijuana may be sold and consumed. Ap-proved forms include pills and oils. Smoking is not included in the definition of “medical use” of cannabis.

Only residents of Pennsylvania will be eligible for consideration for a medical marijuana identifi-cation card, and health insurers will not be required to provide coverage for the purchase of medical cannabis.

Regardless of its limitations, advocates of marijuana legaliza-tion, like the Marijuana Policy Project, consider the expected passage of this bill a victory.

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FIRE Debates probe social media’s role in activism

Hashtags on social media have evolved into an important social tool for activist movements of all kinds. But how effective are they in bringing about change?

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education and The Daily Pennsylvanian sponsored “Hashtag Activism,” a debate centered around the usefulness of activism through social media. The motion of the debate was “Hashtag activ-ism garners attention but is not enough for outcomes.”

Arguing against the motion was educator and community orga-nizer Zellie Imani. Arguing for the motion was techno-sociologist and assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Zeynep Tufecki. Jeffrey Rosen, the president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, served as the debate’s moderator. The debate was the third installment in the FIRE debate series that is meant to spark conversations and encourage free speech among college students.

The debaters discussed the

effectiveness of movements such as Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, Kony 2012, and they even compared these movements to the Civil Rights Movement. The two speakers agreed that social media brought attention to issues, but dis-agreed when it came to the question of the impact that hashtags could have.

Imani, a cofounder of Millen-nial Activists United and creator of hashtags such as hashtag #NJShut-ItDown and hashtag #NotJustSAE, argued that social media has helped create change in activ-ist movements because it allows marginalized people to join the conversation and effectively further their interests.

“Social media became our CNN. Social media became our mimeo-graph. We became the journalists, the advocates and the leaders that we were looking for,” Imani said. We were disenfranchised, we were the marginalized, the people that were sitting in the margins of the margins, the voiceless ... What social media, what Twitter, did was give the voiceless a voice.”

On the other hand, Tufecki, a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, argued that movements that start online are

unable to create lasting change after going viral on social media platforms. Hashtags allow for people to gather, but do not prepare leaders for future challenges.

“Digitally fueled movements of today are often limping be-cause they’re so focused on their powerful change of conversa-tion,” Tufecki said. “They’re not thinking, ‘How do we develop the capacities, so that we can be that powerful?’”

An informal show of hands at the end showed a narrow margin of attendees against the original motion. Several raised their hands to say the debate changed their mind from before the event.

The event attracted attention from students across the area, in-cluding Nyazia Bey, a high school senior who has been admitted to Penn.

“My initial stance was against the motion — I thought social media was enough to create an outcome,” Bey said. “I kind of got swayed throughout the debate to leaning more on the pro side. I feel like social media and hashtag ac-tivism is really powerful in the way that ... the consumer becomes the creator, but where I saw it fall short was with the actual ground work.”

The event looked at re-cent social movements

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Mayor Jim Kenney is reintro-ducing former mayor Michael Nutter’s already twice-failed soda tax, hoping the third time’s the charm.

Introduced during his March 3 budget address, he proposed a rate of three cents per ounce, which would only apply to sugary drinks. This means it would include bottled soda, fountain drinks, any bottle juice that has added sugar, energy drinks and sports drinks, but would exclude diet drinks.

The key alteration in the proposal is the branding of the initiative. When Mayor Nutter attempted to pass this tax in 2010 and again in 2011, “he introduced it to solve a

budget hole or as a health program,” said Mayor Kenney’s Communica-tions Director, Lauren Hitt. This time, however, Kenney is providing a clear direction for the tax money.

“We’re proposing to use the rev-enue to fund expansion of pre-K and community schools and investment in park rec centers and libraries,” Hitt added.

While Penn has refrained from commenting on what would be the largest tax on sugary drinks in the country, politically influential uni-versity alumni have not.

On Tuesday, former Pennsylva-nia governor, former Philadelphia mayor and 1965 College graduate Ed Rendell shared his skepticism toward the tax with CBS Philadel-phia.

“I think the things that Mayor Kenney wants to use the money that would be generated by a soda tax for, like universal pre-K are ab-solutely, desperately needed,” said

Rendell, who is also a Fels Institute of Government lecturer. But he also added that, “while it’s true that sugary drinks are a health problem ... so are cheeseburgers.”

Rendell’s position sharply con-trasts that of his former chief of staff and chairman of Penn’s Board of Trustees, David L. Cohen. Cohen, a 1981 Penn Law School graduate who has expressed his support of the tax, has called on the Philadel-phia business community to do the same.

“You just don’t hear anyone questioning the need for or positive impact from pre-K,” Cohen wrote in a Philadelphia Inquirer op-ed. “The only question I hear is how are we going to pay for it. And with all due respect, that’s simply the wrong question. The only question is how can we afford not to pay for it?”

The difference is that the pro-posal is not being branded as a public health issue, but an initiative

to fund community programs, such as pre-K.

“We certainly acknowledge that if consumption goes down, there will be ancillary health benefits,” Hitt said, but she also pointed toward the benefits of the funding as well. “Kids who participate in pre-K tend to be healthier. If you have better park rec centers and li-braries, your kids are going to stay more active after school.”

As for the actual potential for it to pass this time around, St. Joseph’s University history professor Ran-dall Miller said that its chances are slim, but not impossible.

The reason for this, according to Miller, is that “Kenney is still in somewhat of a honeymoon period as mayor.” He also said that Kenney has worked with the people on council before, so he has a better chance of gaining support, “which Nutter was incapable of doing.”

Miller also said , “Kenney was very smart about this — his pre-K program is very important, he thinks, to the health of Philadel-phia, especially to the poor people in Philadelphia.”

He added that it is more

marketable because it has two po-tential positive outcomes. “It’s not just money for the general revenue. It’s money for a purpose,” Miller said .

While both supporters and detractors of the tax agree that Philadelphia is in dire need of improving pre-K education, dis-agreement has centered on how the levy would affect the sales of sugary drinks and whether the poor would be hit hardest by the tax.

One of the arguments in op-position is that the tax targets the poorer communities of the city, as they tend to consume sugary drinks at higher rates. Kenney has consis-tently denied these claims since, as the mayor told the Inquirer , the tax revenue would be invested in pre-K, community schools and rec-reational infrastructure.

Miller said that the soda industry argues that “this is going to pinch these small grocery stores, small sellers, small distributors, small ev-erything.”

The profit margin made on the sale and consumption of soda is “the difference between making it and not making it,” he said.

The local government estimates that sugary drink sales in the city would drop by 55 percent in the first year, according to Philadelphia Magazine. However, Hitt said that this is only the extreme, because it assumes that every cent gets passed on to the consumer.

Kenney’s proposed tax would be levied on the distributors of sugary drinks. How much of the tax will be passed down to business owners and consumers is unclear and at the core of the debate between the pro-tax and anti-tax coalitions.

Deputy Revenue Commissioner Marisa Waxman told reporters on March 14 that — after conducting a meta-analysis of 13 studies — the drop in sales would be due to a 55 percent increase in the average price of sugary drinks.

Similar taxes have been passed in Berkeley, California, and Arkan-sas at a state-wide level. It was also passed in Mexico at a nation-wide level, though it failed in San Fran-cisco.

“This time, it’s a more orches-trated effort in order to make the idea at least to be something worth considering,” Miller noted.

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Weekday split for Quakers ahead of homestand

Wednesday night was a lesson in getting halfway there for the Quakers.

Despite recording hits in nearly every one of the 14 innings played against La Salle at home on Wednesday night’s doubleheader, Penn (9-7) couldn’t manage to bring most of those eager run-ners on base home. That inability to turn hits into runs ultimately meant that Penn also got halfway to a doubleheader sweep, winning the first game, 5-2, before falling, 5-3, to the Explorers (7-11) in the second.

From the beginning of the showdown in Penn Park, the Quakers’ defense emerged as a high point. According to Penn coach Leslie King, this was by design.

“We weren’t really happy with how we played defensively last Friday, so it’s something we’ve been talking about because we know that we’re capable of making plays,” she said. “Some-times you get a little tight out there, but I thought they did a much better job tonight making plays.”

That toughness reached its peak in the final innings of the second game. Sophomore Katie Petroski had two highlight-film worthy grabs against the left-field fence, both of which supplied Penn with its third out to shut down multiple-run-scoring in-nings for La Salle.

Between making those daring grabs, Petroski breathed life into the Red and Blue offense in the bottom of the sixth inning. With

two outs and the score at 3-1 in favor of the Explorers, the sopho-more found a hole in La Salle’s right field for an RBI triple. Thanks to miscommunication be-tween two Explorers, confusion ensued, enabling Sarah Cwiert-nia to run home. The momentum would stop there though, as Vera

Barnwell was thrown out at first after bouncing a ground ball right into the pitcher’s glove.

La Salle would score two more runs in the top of the seventh to bring the score up to 5-2. In the bottom of the seventh, junior Leah Allen singled to plate an-other run and bring Penn within

two runs of the leader with two outs. But the Quakers’ comeback would stop there.

Although King was happy with how her team hung with its opponent through all seven innings, the game was over far before Allen would collect her Ivy League-leading 17th RBI of the season.

“I thought the turning point of the game was when we had the bases loaded and didn’t score,” said King. “I think we did a poor job really in both games of ex-ecuting with runners in scoring position — we left a lot of runners on base.”

What’s most frustrating about ending an inning with three run-ners on base, as Penn did in the bottom of the fourth inning of the second game, is that the Quakers did just about everything right in that inning — except score.

“It’s really encouraging that we were consistently getting run-ners on,” senior pitcher Lauren Li said. “I think the missing piece

is just scoring them, I think that we’ll pick that up and bring them in.”

The Quakers have two more doubleheaders, against Rider on Saturday and Lehigh next Wednesday, before the all-im-portant Ivy season opens against Brown. In those games, King hopes her team can smooth out the kinks and get to a point of consistency on both offense and defense.

“So we’ll use that opportunity to kind of solidify things and make sure we’re in a good place going into next week,” said King. “We’re still trying to build up to [Ivy play] and get better and better every time we take to the field.”

Penn’s first chance to prove it can put all of the pieces together will come against a very beatable squad from Rider (2-16), which coincidentally will also be the team’s first away game since re-turning from its 10-game spring break swing through Florida.

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Princeton awaits as Penn opens Ivy play

They say the enemy of your enemy is your friend, but do not go telling that to either Penn or Princeton women’s tennis when they meet for Ivy openers this weekend.

“The beginning of the Ivy season and the early ones are always the most interesting ones,”

Penn coach Sanela Kunovac said.When the Quakers (7-6) drive

to New Jersey to take on the Tigers (8-7), it will not only be a matchup between Ancient Eight opponents, the two teams will also bond over a shared opponent in Rice — which has given both sides a lot to be thankful for this season.

After wins against the Owls in Texas, both Penn and Princ-eton have carved out spots for themselves in the ITA rankings. Having had an up-and-down spring season thus far, the Red and Blue stopped a three-game slide with a 4-3 win against Rice almost two weeks ago.

That win over the then-No. 54 Rice found the team a No. 75 ranking the week of March 15. A week later, Penn propelled itself

to No. 67 with a 5-2 win over St. John’s.

The story for the Tigers is simi-lar but a little sweeter. Last week, an unranked Princeton went into its matchup with a then-No. 46 Rice team, and despite winning with the same 4-3 score as the Quakers did a week earlier, the Tigers were vaulted into the stand-ings at No. 60.

There is no telling who will emerge victorious this weekend, but it looks like the Red and Blue are now beginning to find their stride.

The pair of junior Kana Daniel and senior Sonya Latycheva played their way onto the March 8 version of the ITA doubles rank-ings at No. 67, winning three of four since March 8, with the only

loss coming at the hands of Texas’ No. 13 Breaunna Addison and Dani Wagland.

Needless to say, they will find tough competition in the Tigers. Of the seven teams it lost to, only Harvard was not ranked at the time.

“Princeton are the defending Ivy champs,” Kunoac said. “They know how to win, so our mindset is to respect them but know how good we are, and we’re very good. We’re going to set the tone our-selves.”

History also goes against the Red and Blue. Should the Quakers overtake their rivals this weekend, it will break a seven-game losing streak dating back to 2008. But as this season has shown, one game can make all the difference.

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Brown saved every shot she saw down the stretch and the defense caused turnovers and won loose balls every time the Terps came down the field, while the offense finally settled in and worked their gameplan more effectively.

“In the first half we were kind of just one-and-done on offense. We would have one opportunity, not finish it, and then go back and play defense for a long time,” Corcoran said. “In the second half we wanted to really work the ball a lot more, and I think once we worked them more opportuni-ties came up.”

“For us in the first half we had to win the 50-50 ground balls, and we didn’t win those,” Brown said. “What really changed in the second half was that we went out and got those loose balls, whether

it was off a save or a check from a defender and translated those into opportunities. It showed that we’re really resilient as a team, we’re really resilient as a defense.”

Despite these first half strug-gles, the Quakers showed that they have already grown up a lot by refusing to concede to a team that was up 10 goals on them, a team who had just beaten the No. 2 Florida Gators by 10 goals four days previously.

“This is a great group of girls, we love coaching them, and they just fight,” Penn coach Karin Cor-bett said. “We know that they’re going to fight till the end and I think that a lot of teams would have given up being down 12-2, but that is not this team. Hope-fully that will carry us far into this season.”

Penn will look to rebound on Sunday in its second Ivy contest of the season at Dartmouth.

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that’s the theme, you’ll eventually get there.”

McLaughlin took to heart Wil-liams’ message, becoming a team leader on and off the court. By the time the 1988-89 season rolled around, the Father Judge alumnus was the Tigers’ sole senior. But that didn’t mean his teammates took their leading scorer all that seriously.

“This kid takes his shirt off in the locker room, and you think, ‘He’s a 1,500-point scorer?’” McLaughlin’s co-captain Mark Morrow said in a 1989 profile in the Philadelphia In-quirer. “But he has a lot of athletic ability. He can do 360s and behind-the-back passes. You should see him in the summer leagues.”

It was a sign of what would come next in McLaughlin’s career. Fol-lowing his time with the Tigers, McLaughlin embarked upon a three-year career in pro basketball. But not with any conventional team.

From 1989 to 1992, 5-foot-9 guard traveled the world with the Washington Generals — rival to the Harlem Globetrotters.

“I think that the ability to travel and see things that I would have never seen and to experi-ence things that I would have never experienced, it was part of my plan when I got into coach-ing,” he noted. “It was my chance to take the teams that I had to areas that they would not other-wise be in.”

A man who preaches family has to return home eventually, however. And he did just that in 1993 after being asked on as an assistant coach

for the women’s basketball team at his alma mater.

All in the Holy FamilyTaking over the women’s team

at his alma mater in 1995 was never part of McLaughlin’s plan. He was just 27 years old and a head coach-ing job had just fallen into his lap with the departure of the team’s pre-vious leader.

In his first year, the Tigers went 25-8. It was the worst season he would have in 14 years there.

It took just 459 games for McLaughlin to record his 400th career win — making him the fastest to the milestone in NCAA history — and he went 167-3 in Cen-tral Atlantic Collegiate Conference play after the Tigers joined the con-ference in 1999.

His first recruiting class went 122-22, but more important than any record was the first addition to what would become his Penn family.

One member of that class, Berna-dette Laukaitis, became an assistant

for McLaughlin that same year — and hasn’t left his side save for a one-year stint as the head coach at Cabrini. And fitting in with the

family atmosphere McLaughlin worked to build with the Tigers, Laukaitis’ older sister also played under McLaughlin, coming in while he was still an assistant.

“He always leaves a lasting impact on a player when they play for him, because they truly felt love in that he was like their father, you know, through the process,” she said of her former coach and current peer. “So the life lessons he teaches the student-athletes that come through here. It’s like you come in with one family but you’re always leaving with two.”

Before long, people were paying attention to the former General. Even as far back as 2004, McLaugh-lin was reportedly all but set to take the helm at a different Big 5 school — city rival La Salle. It was a deci-sion he weighed carefully. “What you’ve read, and I’ve read some of that, and they are very accurate. I was very, very close...”

But he wasn’t ready to leave yet. His family was still growing. In

2007, he successfully recruited Christine McCollum, yet an-other future member of his Penn family.

“Even comparing going to other schools at that time, to look at these games, I just felt like Holy Family could beat some of these teams,” McCollum recalled of the recruiting process. “It was fun to watch. And ultimately it was just the right fit for me for a lot of rea-sons.”

He wouldn’t be around to see McCollum graduate, however. Before the 2009 season, he was fi-nally wooed away from the school he had called home for 25 years.

Growing PainsHis first year at Penn, McLaugh-

lin experienced something he never had before as a head coach: a losing season. The Quakers won just two games in 2009-10, the worst per-formance since the program was started in 1970.

“That group, that year, was one of the most important years in his career, because I think it taught all of us a lot,” Laukaitis said. “But also made him a better coach because of it.”

McLaughlin had to get the play-ers to buy into his system. He had recruited none of them. Not even the seniors had ever played on a win-ning team. Sure, the new head coach came in with a stellar pedigree, but it’s near impossible to build a pro-gram from the ground up in a single year. Nonetheless, the team started to buy in.

“He kind of created more of a family culture so when Coach came in,” explained Kate Jordan — then with the last name Slover — who was a senior when McLaughlin took over and returned in 2014 as a volun-teer assistant coach.

“Myself, one of the other seniors, one of the juniors — who were es-sentially going to be the captains our senior year — we were actually in the interview process, and one of the things that he talked about was his own family, and he just brings his love for his family into the program. So he just really established a culture where it was very family-oriented, everyone was very friendly, and it kind of made us really want to be there.”

And so, the process contin-ued. And the next year, they got better, winning 11 games. Then 13 in 2011-12. Then 18 in 2012-13.

And then the breakthrough happened.

Success AgainAs the season began in 2013,

the first group of players McLaugh-lin recruited to Penn entered their senior years. They would walk away from it with just the third Ivy League title in program history.

Led by senior point guard Alyssa Baron, the squad started 6-2. And on New Years’ Day 2014, a new pro-gram emerged.

Down in Coral Gables, Fla., to take on Miami, a last-second layup from then-junior Katy Allen sealed a 67-66 upset for a Red and Blue squad that had never defeated an ACC opponent. They kept rolling from there.

After losing the conference opener at home to Princeton, 84-53, the Quakers seemed consigned to

have to battle it out for second place with Harvard. The loss to the Tigers was followed by two more to Villa-nova and Saint Joseph’s.

“And at the end of the day, I think that’s what’s most important for me,” he said of being a strong mentor to his players. “When these kids are done, that they know this was not just about winning or losing basketball games.”

As that year showed, it’s appar-ently possible to balance on- and off-the-court success.

The team that existed when Mike McLaughlin entered the Palestra would have written off the season. The one that took the court in 2013-14 didn’t. After winning 13 of the next 14 games, Penn headed to Jadwin Gym for a season-ending showdown with Princeton and the Ivy title in the balance.

The game was a blowout again. This time, the Quakers were deliv-ering the beatdown. With an 80-64 win, McLaughlin clinched his first Ivy title and what would become an NCAA Tournament berth against Texas.

“I think just from the very begin-ning, just from listening to him, how he interacts with us, he always in-stills in us that we can compete with anyone,” junior forward Sydney Stipanovich said — and it showed when the Red and Blue took on the Longhorns that March.

Although they took a 38-31 lead into the half, foul trouble and Allen being unable to play due to injury took a toll, and the 12th-seeded

Quakers ended up on the wrong end of an 18-point decision.

Less than a year later, the Penn-Princeton game again featured the Ancient Eight champion. It wasn’t Penn. The Tigers rolled to a 30-0 regular season as McLaughlin’s squad settled for second place and a 21-9 record.

This season, it was 2014 all over again. After a program-record 24 wins, the Red and Blue punched a ticket to the tournament with an Ivy-clinching win over Princeton at Jadwin. For his own part, McLaugh-lin won his second Ivy League Coach of the Year award in the three years it has been given.

This weekend will determine if

McLaughlin’s next milestone is the program’s first NCAA Tournament win.

Establishing a LegacyAs McLaughlin has built the

program, he’s done so on the same foundation he did at his alma mater. He built a family before he built a team.

“That’s part of what makes Mike so good at what he does. He culti-vates that family atmosphere,” said William & Mary assistant coach Kelly Killion, a former player for McLaughlin at Holy Family who joined the staff at Penn in 2010 before departing for Sacred Heart after the 2011-12 season. “Whether it’s talking about my next step ca-reer-wise or my next step personal life-wise, he’s been there every step of the way.”

Laukaitis is still with him as an assistant coach. Jordan rejoined her old coach as a volunteer assistant in 2014. McCollum took over as the team’s director of operations begin-ning this season.

He still makes his way over to Holy Family games whenever he gets the chance. Players from his alma mater still make their way over to his summer camps. Former play-ers like Jordan and Killion attest to the coach’s commitment to keep-ing tabs on them — in Jordan’s case even when they weren’t his recruits.

“Mike was very protective of where I ended up next after leav-ing him,” Killion explained. “He wanted to make sure it was the

right fit for me and the right fit for the program I was going to — making sure I had another mentor to follow under.”

While coaches appreciate what McLaughlin offers them, it might be easy to think his players may not yet have the perspective to understand the kind of coach they have teaching them. But the real-ity couldn’t be farther from the truth.“I think it’s who you want to play

for, and I’ve learned I truly — I step out onto the court that first minute when the buzzer first goes off, with Michelle tipping the ball, I play for my teammates and for my coaches,” sophomore guard Lauren Whitlatch said. “It’s more than myself and I want to play for Coach McLaugh-lin.”

For McLaughlin, being a coach is about more than on-the-court performance. That means making sure his players are set up to succeed however they want in life — through internships, jobs, anything beyond just the court.

“He definitely just gives us enough resources to not be over-whelmed with everything that’s being thrown at us,” freshman guard Ashley Russell noted. “Like bas-ketball, school, tests, midterms. He gives us everything that we could possibly ask for. So if we have a test or something, he’ll be like, ‘Oh, you can leave early, make sure you’re ready.’”

Without a doubt, rumors will flare up about McLaughlin leaving Penn just as they did for years before he finally left Holy Family. The day may come where he moves on, it may not. One day, though, a differ-ent coach will troll the sidelines for the Red and Blue.

“I want [people to say] when I’m done coaching, many, many years from now — hopefully — that I did it right,” McLaughlin said. “That the program is successful on and off the court. And hopefully the wins and losses are closer to the end of the story, that it’s not the beginning of it.”

Keiera Ray, a senior whose career ended early due to injury, thinks his legacy has been cemented.

“To be honest, I feel like he took me in as one of his children.”

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Eighth leading scorer in Holy Family history

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McLAUGHLIN>> PAGE 10

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- Mark Morrow

To be honest, I feel like he took

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Quakers dispatch LehighLEHIGH11 4PENN

Stop us if you’ve heard this story before.

In 2014, Penn baseball found itself with an 0-6 record at the conclusion of spring break before winning 24 of its remaining 34 regular season games to earn a tie for the Ivy League’s Lou Gehrig Division title.

In 2015, the Quakers had an equally frustrating opening, hold-ing a 1-7 mark after the school’s break before winning 21 of 28 to earn their second straight tie for the division’s lead.

And now, after a 2-6 perfor-mance during this year’s break, the comeback kids are rolling again.

Behind a season-best run total and four shutout innings from Billy Lescher in his first career start, the Red and Blue cruised to an 11-4 win over Lehigh (6-12) on Wednesday evening, taking their third win in their last four con-tests to seize momentum entering conference play.

“We’ve had a few guys that were struggling at the plate early, and they’ve been putting in extra work to try to make more adjust-ments offensively, and you’ve started to see some of the results of that today,” Penn coach John Yurkow said of an offensive per-formance that was a full five runs more than the team’s previous season high. “We’re doing a better job cutting down on strikeouts and laying off some tough pitches, and I think that’s why we drove the ball so well.”

Behind a two-run double from junior Tim Graul, Penn (5-8) jumped out to a 3-0 first-inning lead — and that was all that would be necessary for Lescher. The

sophomore ensured that Yurkow’s gamble to start him would pay off dividends, only allowing three runners to reach base in his four frames.

“We haven’t extended him all year — it’s been short spurts — so we wanted to extend him. We were only hoping that we would get three innings [from Lescher],” Yurkow said. “We gotta hand it to him for coming with good shutout ball.”

After a home run from Matt Greskoff stretched Penn’s lead to five, the Mountain Hawks threat-ened, cutting the lead to 5-4 once Lescher was removed from the mound.

But Penn would stop the mo-mentum just in time, as four-RBI performances from Graul and Sean Phelan combined with three shutout innings in relief from Jack Hartman helped the Quakers cruise to the comfortable seven-run win.

“We had a pretty rough inning — fell apart a little bit to be honest — but we held it together just enough,” Yurkow said. “We bent a little bit, but we didn’t break.”

Looking to keep their new-found momentum going, the

Quakers will next take on La-fayette (4-11) this weekend in a four-game set, hosting a pair of games on Saturday afternoon before both teams head up to Easton, Pa., for the third and fourth showdowns on Sunday.

Although the Leopards might be the favorites according to sta-tistical metrics — ranking 213th in D1Baseball.com’s RPI, com-pared to Penn’s 286th — recent history has gone the Quakers’ way, with Penn winning the season series in each of the past five years en route to a 14-4 over-all record against Lafayette over that time period.

With the Leopards currently sporting an alarming 5.98 team ERA on the mound, Penn’s bats will be eager for the opportunity to build on Wednesday’s breakout performance.

“Our hitters had some confi-dence and we scored some runs today, but we still made some mistakes and still have room for improvement,” Yurkow said. “I’m just hoping that we learn from our mistakes with so many young players, and that every time out we make fewer mistakes as we get closer to conference play.”

BASEBALL | Phelan, Graul log four RBI apieceCOLE JACOBSONAssociate Sports Editor

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Quakers fall to No. 1 Maryland

You should never dig a hole that you can’t crawl out of. Unfortunately for Penn women’s lacrosse, the hole that they dug for themselves in the first part of Wednesday’s game was just a bit too deep.

The No. 14 Quakers squared off with the top team in the nation under the lights at Franklin Field, falling to

Maryland by a score of 12-8 in a game that appeared to be a comfortable win for the Terrapins (7-0) until about 10 minutes in to the second half. Penn (6-2, 1-0 Ivy) went on a six-goal run to close

the game out, but was ultimately unable to complete the comeback.

The first half was all Maryland. After Penn senior Catherine Dickinson scored her second goal of the game at the 15-minute mark to make the score 4-2, the Ter-rapins commanded the rest of the half. After scoring four straight goals, Maryland took an 8-2 lead into halftime while allowing just five shots from the Penn offense over the entire 30 minutes. If not for junior goalie Britt Brown’s play in net, the deficit could have been more — she finished Wednesday’s game with a career-high 13 saves.

Maryland came out hot again in the second half, scor-ing two goals in the span of a minute and a half. They would extend their lead all the way to 10 to make the game 12-2 with 21 minutes left in the game before the Quakers hit another gear.

Senior captain Lely DeSimone got the comeback started for the Quakers with 15 minutes left in the game, scoring off an assist from junior Emily Rogers-Healion. Three minutes later, Alex Condon scored her first of three goals on the night off a feed from senior captain Nina Corcoran, who put up two assists on the night to bring her season total to 23.

Sophomore Caroline Cummings and senior Iris Wil-liamson both scored within two minutes of each other for the Quakers, bringing the score to 12-6. Condon then scored the final two goals of the game to complete the hat trick with two minutes left, capping off a 6-0 run for the Quakers. The Red and Blue ultimately fell short on the night but showed that they could hang with the top team in the country.

“It was all about heart and fight in that second half,” Corcoran said after the game. “We were down 12-2, and at that point we had no choice other than to win all of the 50-50 balls and just go after it. We had nothing to lose at that point, so we had to go down with a fight.”

And what a fight it was. The young Penn team that had struggled throughout most of the game showed resilience and fight on both ends of the field in the second half.

W. LAX | 8-2 halftime deficit too much for Red and Blue to overcome at homeDAVID FIGURELLISports Reporter

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Penn sends six down south for NCAA Championships

It’s championship season, and while most eyes are on the spring sports, the Red and Blue have a chance to make the podium nationally in the pool. Well, six Penn swimmers do, at least.

A contingent of six men have travelled down to Atlanta, Ga., to represent the Quakers in the Division I NCAA Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships. This group is led by senior Chris Swan-son, whose last appearance in a Red and Blue cap will mark the end of an era for the swimming program.

Swanson will be competing in the 1,650-yard freestyle — in which he is seeded fifth in the nation — as well as the 500 free on Thursday. With any luck, the nine-time Ivy League champion will cement his leg-endary status in the history books for the swimming program he helped lift to suc-cess.

“He’s certainly the best swimmer in Penn history,” swim coach Mike Schnur said. “No one is even close.”

Swanson will look to go out on a high note in what could possibly be the penul-timate meet of his career. The soon-to-be alumnus is planning on hanging up his cap and goggles after the Olympic Trials this summer, should he fail to make the cut for Rio.

Another senior looking to end his colle-giate career with his head held high is Eric Schultz. The sprinter is competing today in the 50 and the 200 free tomorrow. He is currently seeded 39th and 35th, respec-tively, but hoping to break into a more elite position. Schultz is also racing in the 100 free later this week, in which his seeding is a more favorable 23rd.

The next Quaker to be swimming solo at nationals is Alex Peterson. Peterson will join Swanson in the 500 free, after turning in a personal best time at the Ivy League Championships to qualify for nationals with three seconds to spare. For the sopho-more, this meet in Atlanta will help him gain a lot of experience competing against the best in preparation for years to come, when he could attempt to break into the top dozen or two of distance swimmers nation-wide.

The final swimmer from Penn to be performing individually is freshman sen-sation Mark Andrew. Andrew crashed the

scene in the 400 individual medley com-petition and dominated the event at the Ivy League Championships. He finished that race with a time of 4:43.53, which broke the Penn and Ivy League record. That time was good enough to get him seeded 17th in the nation, although he is within a second of the top 10.

Andrew will also get to show off his talent when he swims in the 200 IM and the 100 free events. However, he, along with his three other individual competi-tors from Penn, must first advance through prelims to get a shot at an All-American finish.

Along with the four individual racers, Penn has also sent a delegation for the 400 free relay. Andrew and Schultz will compete along with junior Kevin Su and freshman Thomas Dillinger. The relay team is seeded 19th in the highly-compet-itive field, but lies within three seconds of a podium place. The culmination of Penn’s team effort at nationals should turn out to be a thrilling race.

Win, come close or come last altogether, though, and the Penn swimming program can be happy with the result — the six delegates it sent down to Georgia form the biggest group the school has sent to nation-als since 1971. And likewise, having sent the most of any Ancient Eight program, the Quakers can hold that over Harvard and Princeton — at least for a year.

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SEE W.LAX PAGE 7

Family.One word describes Penn women’s bas-

ketball coach Mike McLaughlin’s program.In seven years at the helm for the Quak-

ers, McLaughlin has forged a familial bond amongst his team and coaches. It’s fitting for a man with so many roots in Philadelphia.

But a coach who has defined women’s basketball in his hometown for 20 years almost had a career that never got off the bench.

Starting SlowIn 1984, after four years as a reserve on the basket-

ball team at Father Judge High School in northeast Philadelphia, McLaughlin finally earned his way into a starting role. But just a few games into the season, he broke his leg.

With few options for a small, relatively inexpe-rienced three-point specialist to play college ball, McLaughlin ended up staying local, attending Holy Family just three miles away from Father Judge. At Holy Family, the former backup guard didn’t join

the basketball team — he didn’t have a choice. At the time, the school didn’t have a team at all.

McLaughlin had other worries then anyway. He started at Holy Family as a part-time student because of what he characterizes now as immaturity. Re-peating some classes early on and working his way through school as a bartender helped kickstart the evolution McLaughlin experienced through college and into his time with the Washington Generals.

“These are life experiences for me that I can share with them and those apply with higher-driven, aca-demic kids,” McLaughlin said of some of his early obstacles. “They still have potholes, they still have struggles, they still try to skip a step. So I think it’s all relatable. It’s relating things that are common to all of us. We’ve all missed steps.”

So he joined the club team, and when the Uni-versity decided to start a men’s basketball program in 1986, McLaughlin was first in line. It was a rough start for the newly christened Tigers.

“We got crushed by like 40 points most of the time,” McLaughlin said in an interview his senior

year.It wasn’t for a lack of effort on McLaughlin’s part.

Over the course of three seasons — the Philadelphia native stuck around as a fifth-year senior in 1988-89 — he led the team in scoring, shooting a still pro-gram-record .602 from beyond the arc.

As one of the few players there for the start of the program, McLaughlin stepped into an early role as head of the family.

“You see it now from a different set of eyes,” he re-flected. “I’m seeing it as a player, not knowing what’s going on with the coaching staff, now I see the op-posite. But I think a lot of the common themes are that you do it step by step. You don’t skip a step, don’t rush a step. And just continue to every day be better than we were the day before. That’s what [Holy Family] coach [Dan] Williams talked about all the time, that we were building something,” he said.

“And you’re not always going to see the rewards of it any time soon. But you’ll eventually get there,

SEE McLAUGHLIN PAGE 8

INTO THE TIGERS’ DENPenn women’s tennis hits the road this weekend, ready to open Ivy play at Princeton

>> SEE PAGE 7

WEEKDAY SPLITTaking on La Salle in a weekday

doubleheader, Penn softball split a pair of contests at home

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OFFW. HOOPS | Mike McLaughlin leaves a lasting impact on players

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