February 18, 2014

John Legend will be telling the class of 2014 that they are no “or-dinary people” this May.

The nine-time Grammy Award-winning singer and 1999 College graduate will deliver the com-mencement address this year. He will receive an honorary Doctor of Music at the ceremony.

Among those who will be awarded honorary degrees is Raymond Perelman, who en-dowed a record-breaking $225 million to the Perelman School of Medicine, which was subsequent-ly named after him and his wife.

In addition, Olympia Snowe, a former U.S. Senator who was the first woman to serve in both hous-es of Congress and both houses of state legislature and was in-fluential in key policy issues, will be awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws.

Although Legend is most fa-mous for his music, he is also a philanthropist and activist who has received many awards for his humanitarian work. He launched the Show Me Campaign in 2007, which seeks to break the cycle of poverty through education in the United States and Africa.

Inspired by Legend’s song “Show Me,” which questions the suffering in the world, the cam-paign partners with educational

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John Legend, a 1999 College graduate, spoke at the 12th Annual Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture in Social Justice in 2013, a topic he is involved in with his humanitarian work.

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Lawsuit: Mental health leave led to retaliation by U.

In the spring of 2013, Janet White felt that she couldn’t stay at work anymore.

White, who worked as a pro-gram manager at the Graduate School of Education, had man-aged her bipolar II disorder for the past six years without a major episode. In late 2012, the condition flared up again, sending her to cry in the bath-room for 30 minutes at a time at work and experience severe mood swings. She decided to

take an eight-week leave of ab-sence from her job in May 2013.

W h it e c la i ms t hat upon returning to work, she got a negative performance review and was subsequently demoted because of her leave. She filed suit against the University on Dec. 2, 2013 in United States Distr ict Cour t in Camden, N.J., accusing the University of violating the Family Medi-cal Leave Act. The federal law entitles eligible employees to

Federal lawsuit claims GSE staff member was demoted after leave of absence for bipolar II disorder

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Around 200 Philadelphia school children spent their Presidents Day playing games at the first annual Police Athletic League Carnival. Members of the Philadelphia 76ers led basketball drills at the Palestra for the attendees — and the Sixers Dance Team performed for them in the afternoon.

P enn students currently face heavy workloads and carry many extracurricular

responsibilities that cause exces-sive stress.

But some longtime members of the Penn community don’t re-member campus always being this way.

A combination of work ethic, social pressure and a competitive drive to succeed can push stu-dents to achieve great things; but this can surpass a healthy level. The Daily Pennsylvanian dis-cussed stress levels at Penn with long-standing members of the University community to gauge their perceptions of how students approach pressure.

Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Dennis DeTurck observed how students take on a wide range of responsibilities rather than focusing on a particu-lar interest.

Alongside an Ivy League work-load, this means students are “loading up so much” in terms of all of their work and extracurricu-lar activities, said Gregory House Dean and 1992 College graduate Christopher Donovan.

Donovan specifically outlined the idea that students feel “every second of your life must be filled with responsibility.”

“Students take on more stress just to take on more stress,” he said. He described it as “a strange dynamic where you feel bad if you don’t have something crazy going on.”

Associate Director of the Netter Center and 2005 College gradu-ate Rita Hodges also acknowl-edged how Penn students are very involved. However, she de-scribed that involvement as “pow-erful,” explaining how “excited and engaged” students working with the Netter Center are.

Dennis DeTurck, dean of the College of Arts and Sci-ences and a faculty master in Riepe College House, said that students now are more con-cerned about “being employed and being successful” than they did while he was a doc-toral student at the University.

DeTurck speculated that a root cause of students’ stress are their own personal drives

‘‘[My generation] didn’t feel that sort

of pressure,” he said. “We did what we

wanted to do and had the confidence that it

would work out.”— Dennis DeTurck

to be successful, a senti-ment echoed by DuBois fac-ulty master and former Univer-sity Chaplain William Gipson,

who came to Penn in 1996. Both DeTurck and Gipson

touched on the idea that stu-dents’ drives to succeed were influenced by outside factors — pressure from parents, so-ciety and peers that reinforce that drive.

‘‘[Students are] self possessed...They want to take

advantage of every opportunity at Penn.”

— William Gipson

Origins of Pressure

Some faculty members who have also studied at Penn have observed a shift in student approach to pressure over time.

Christopher Donovan ob-served a “significant shift” since his years at Penn. The kind of internal pres-sure he observes at Penn now “didn’t exist,” during his time as a student. As an academic advisor, he has noticed an increase in the number of students re-questing to double major, something that was very uncommon during his time at Penn, he said.

In the late 1980s, Donovan said there was a “hype” of pressure at Wharton, because it was like the “center of the uni-verse.” Now, he feels like the whole campus em-bodies that spirit.

Rita Hodges, however, said she has not observed a significant change in ap-proach to student stress

since her time as a stu-dent. She outlined a gen-eral trend, though, which has impacted stress over time.

“Everyone is looking for a competitive edge,” Hodges said, discuss-ing the job market. She added that increasingly competitive admissions to Penn may also be en-couraging a competitive mentality in the students who get in.

University Chaplain Chaz Howard, a 2000 Col-lege graduate, said that new expectations from employers have increased student stress levels by adding to worries about their future job prospects.

He explained that stu-dents are now far more likely to spend their sum-mers doing internships, as opposed to when he was a student, when they were more likely to travel over the break.

Pressure over Time

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Col lege senior Sonya Davey will be studying at Cambridge University this fall as a Gates Cambridge Scholar, the program an-nounced on Monday.

Davey, one of 40 Ameri-can applicants chosen for the award, is the 24th Penn student to have received this distinction since the program’s founding in 2000.

The scholarship will cov-er the cost of the tuition for her master’s degree and provide her with additional money for living expenses, Davey said.

At Cambridge, she will pursue a master’s degree in socia l a nthropolog y, building on her studies as a triple major in Biology, Health and Societies and South Asian Studies.

Davey has conducted re-search on women’s health in India as an undergradu-ate, specifically on female feticide, or sex-selective abortion.

Davey said that it was this specific research in-terest that drove her to apply to scholarships for degrees in the United King-dom since the issue of sex-selective abortion is “not that prevalent in the United States.”

Starting the spring se-mester of her junior year, Davey began working on her application with a writ-ing advisor through the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships. “I think that’s probably what made it a lot easier,” she said.

Davey said she is also

looking forward to the op-portunity to travel through-out Europe during her time at Cambridge and later hopes to attend medical school to study to become an obstetrician-gynecol-ogist.

Research Round-up

A synopsis of research released this week, from

Wharton to Penn Med

Corporate leaders from state schools are on the rise

An analysis conducted by the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and the IE Business School in Madrid shows that graduates of private universities and Ivy League schools no longer command the majority of leadership positions in the corporate world. Fifty-five percent of corporate leaders attended state schools, a rise from 32 percent in 1980. Women are now more visible among the top 1,000 corporate leaders, occupying 18 percent of jobs in 2011 as opposed to none in 1980.

Anti-seizure drug may help reduce alcohol consumption

Cutting down on alcohol consumption may become simpler for "problem drinkers" who wish to cut down. Patients treated with the anticonvulsant drug topiramate were five times less likely to experience a heavy drinking day than a placebo group. The drug is effective only in 40 percent of Europe-an-Americans who have the genotype that allows them to respond to topiramate. The study, initiated at the University of Connecti-cut Health Center, was completed by the Center for Studies of Addiction at Penn.

Charting brain development as predictor of some illnesses

HIV more prevalent among mental health patients

Breathe deeply to avoid regret

A new study shows that mental health is another risk factor correlated with the human immunodefi-ciency virus. Over 1,000 patients seeking some form of mental health treatment were tested for HIV in Philadelphia and Baltimore, and it was found that mental health patients were four times more likely to be HIV positive than the general population in each city. The study suggests more HIV screenings in mental health care facilities. Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine published the study in the Journal of Public Health on Feb. 13.

Tracking brain development may predict certain mental disorders. Perelman School of Medicine researchers implemented a combination of clinical psychiatric evaluations along with computerized neurocognitive tests to study brain behavior in patients at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. The 10,000 subjects were between 8 and 21 years old. The results enabled researchers to create cognitive growth charts for diagnosing disorders or delays in cognitive develop-ment. They found that the greatest delays in development correlate with severe psychosis. Psychosis is a mental condition that manifests in hallucinations, delusions, loss of reality and social detachment.

Meditation might help you make better choices. According to researchers at the international business school INSEAD and the Wharton School, 15 minutes of mindful meditation may help decision makers to avoid the “sunk cost bias." The bias says that people would rather “hold on to losing stocks too long; stay in bad relationships; and continue to eat heavy desserts despite being full” instead of cutting their losses earlier. Subjects who focused on deep breathing and directed thought felt less anxiety about past choices than those who did not.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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A new Interfaith Fellow for Mindfulness just arrived on campus.

The Office of the Chaplain introduced the fellowship this semester to provide Penn a figure to guide meditation and Buddhist groups on campus. Chris Johnnidis, a 2007 Col-lege and Engineering gradu-ate, will work to help students become mindful.

The new fellowship position follows the introductions of a Muslim and a Hindu Inter-faith Fellow over the last five years. University Chaplain Chaz Howard explained that the creation of the new posi-tion is something the office has been “aiming towards for some time.”

The role of the fellow will be “to advise, help guide and be a sounding board” for students and spirituality groups, How-ard explained. Johnnidis will lead Mindfulness by example, he said.

Mindfulness is about aware-ness and equanimity, John-nidis explained. “It means accepting reality,” he said.

He said that while mind-fulness is stereotypically perceived as serenity and reflection, it can also mean accepting that you are angry or responding to heightened emotional states with self-awareness.

Howard added that it is about “being in the pres-ent” and “using one’s mind to engage in the moment.” He outlined further how this is particularly important for students, as working out goals and ambitions make college “a challenging season of life.”

Johnnidis’ role on campus currently consists of “informa-tion gathering,” Howard said.

“My role is less defined and more emergent,” Johnnidis added.

As meditation and Buddhist groups aren’t as visible as oth-er groups on campus, Johnni-dis has started reaching out to these student groups to gauge their engagement levels. He hopes to “support them, how-ever they’re existing.”

One thing he hopes to do in particular is to develop “a space for students and staff to explore spiritualities,” he said. He will also have one-on-one conversations with any student interested in talking to him about Mindfulness.

“ My m a i n f e e l i n g i s curious[ity] right now,” John-nidis said. He described his role as small, but added that there is “momentum at Penn for this conversation [about Mindfulness].”

Johnnidis is already work-ing with post-baccalaureate

health studies student Elsy Compres to create “talking cir-cles” at Penn. Compres hopes these will consist of twice-monthly dinner meetings at the Greenfield Intercultural Center where “people can bring pretty much anything to the table,” she explained.

Compres outl ined how Johnnidis has been support-ing her plans by giving ideas and “facilitating that space.” For her, Mindfulness is about fulfillment, she said, talking

particularly about the “tug-of-war” which students can experience when trying to plan their futures. She hopes her work with Johnnidis will create a space of “positive re-inforcement” where students can “come back to earth.”

Johnnidis also described Mindfulness as having an im-portant place at Penn. “Every-one’s very focused on doing,” he said, “there’s less emphasis on being, but our doing comes out of being.”

Being ‘mindful’ of the spiritual gapThe Interfaith Fellow for Mindfulness will work with Buddhist groups

BY MELISSA LAWFORDStaff Writer

Yolanda Chen/News Photo Editor

Chris Johnnidis will guide students in their search for Mindfulness, which is about awareness and equanimity, by guiding meditiation and Buddhist groups on campus. He hopes to help students explore spiritualities.

THIS WEEK IN DP HISTORY

30 YEARS LATER, STATUE STILL STANDS AT 34TH & WALNUT

Thirty years ago today, ab-stract sculpture Black Forest was erected behind Meyerson Hall after lying on its side for several months. Delays in its final installation were caused by problems securing the sculpture’s base.

The sculpture was met with criticism from students. Some failed to realize that it was ever lying down. Then-freshman Kirsten Isbister, a 1987 Whar-

ton graduate, went as far to say, “I think it’s ugly and try to ignore it.”

Black Forest was first creat-ed by alumnus Robin Freden-thal. Fredenthal designed the sculpture for display in a sum-mer 1983 art show before it was installed at its current lo-cation. He passed away in 2009 at the age of 69 after suffering from Parkinson’s Disease for most of his life.

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More than a theme, not just a costume

SIYUAN CAO is a College senior from Bronx, NY. Her email address is [email protected].

As six concerned mem-bers of the Penn com-munity who strive to foster multicultural

dialogue, we find the general trend of parties that serve to culturally objectify and vilify certain groups on campus deeply concerning.

Racial and ethnic minori-ties on campus, as well as those from lower-income backgrounds, face microag-gressions on a daily basis, and it adds insult to injury when social organizations on Penn’s campus throw parties in which the “theme” is mocking a mar-ginalized group.

We feel it is necessary to start a dialogue about these issues because if we remain apathetic about these micro-aggressions, they will continue

and ultimately become worse. However, the purpose of this article is not to scold or rebuke any particular groups, but to start a dialogue about the misrepresentation and misap-propriation that has been all too common on this campus throughout its history.

We have seen this story re-peat itself and become all too common in peer institutions. Whether it be the “Pilgrims and Indians” party that was held at Duke two years ago or the “Conquistabros and Nava-jos” party that was held three years ago at Harvard, we have seen individuals continue this trend and also members of the student body at each of these schools speak out.

We have faced similar in-stances at our own campus.

Events such as the canceled “Cinco De Febrero” party held by members of the Penn track and field team and the “Gang-sta Party” hosted by the Beta Theta Pi fraternity with the Chi Omega sorority this week-end show that our campus is no more immune to these in-stances than any of our peer institutions.

Further, this problem ex-tends to the trend of social organizations such as Theos, who hosted an annual “White Trash” party in a campus envi-ronment that already margin-alizes lower-income students. Most of the people at Penn host-ing and attending these themed parties have not experienced the actual realities of extreme poverty and living in an envi-ronment filled with gang vio-

lence.These recent examples high-

light a trend that has been go-ing on in our university and on campuses across the country for years. Individuals in the Penn community should un-derstand a clear fact: These parties mock certain cultures, people of lower-income status and/or people of color, ultimate-ly dividing our campus. These parties also misrepresent the purpose of the organizations that hold them, some of which represent our university with pride and provide safety and refuge for students that find Penn to be home.

In all likelihood, many of the individuals who attended these events did not mean to express racial insensitivity nor misrepresent any group. Nev-

ertheless, if we do not use these events as an opportunity to start a conversation, we neglect to explore the situation, learn what makes it wrong and stop perpetuating it. In the future, we hope that when instances like these arise, individuals may reconsider the negative outcomes of positive intent.

Further, for this dialogue to be a healthy one, we must be careful to not misrepresent or disrespect our peers on either side of the conversation in our attempts to solve these issues. It is not through anger or rage that we will stamp out these in-stances, but through dialogue and understanding.

If you see something, say something. If you find yourself turning a culture, ethnicity or other marginalized group into

a costume or party theme, take a moment to check yourself and think about how your actions might affect members of the Penn community.

DENZEL CUMMINGS is a junior in the College and one of the co-chairs of UMOJA. ABRINA HYATT is a junior in the College and one of the co-chairs of UMOJA. ABEL MCDANIELS is a sophomore in the College and the admissions chair of UMOJA. He is also a columnist for the Daily Pennsylvanian. DIANA CABRERA is a sophomore in the College and chair of the Latin@ Coalition. KATHERINE MATEO is a junior in the College and vice-chair of the Latin@ Coalition. She is also a member of Chi Omega. DAWN ANDROPHY is a junior in the College and the chair of Lambda Alliance.

GUEST COLUMN BY KELLY DIAMOND AND MADISON HUNT

Internet-shaming at Penn

We are two mem-bers of the Class of 2013. As proud Penn alumnae, we

have been distant witnesses to recent events at our beloved university that have made us uneasy. We realize we cannot speak to the atmosphere of campus at this time, as we are 3,000 miles away living our post-graduate lives in Los Angeles, California. However, as alum-nae, we feel the need to speak. We are writing as individuals and not as a part of any orga-nization that we were formerly affiliated with at Penn.

Firstly, we are proud of the efforts taken by the University and student body to break down

barriers concerning the stigma attached to receiving mental health help. We are happy that President Amy Gutmann has chosen to hire more therapists at CAPS. We are thrilled to see links on social media to the new Pennsive blog and witness the bravery of students willing to share their own experiences with the community.

However, recent events that have occurred on social me-dia have caused us much con-cern. The public skewering of students who attended a dis-tastefully-themed social event is proof that some members of the Penn community are not willing to practice what they preach. After speaking with

several friends who are still students, it has become evident that while the party theme was offensive, the public response is unacceptable in its own right.

Internet shaming is the scar-let letter “A” of our era. To see students insult others online is cyberbullying in the purest form. This party is just one ex-ample of a situation where no one is right. Yes, this event and others like it should be brought into the social discourse on campus. But activism does not mean insulting a student’s in-telligence by calling them ig-norant in the most public space possible.

Penn is already stressful enough. Watching students

do their best to offer support to individuals who are strug-gling is beautiful. It makes us proud to be alumnae. But see-ing students defame each other on the internet is causing Penn to take many steps back. Bul-lying causes harm to another person, whether it be physical, mental or emotional. Voicing your opinion is important, but attacking an individual publicly is undeserved and propagates a problem that students have been trying so hard to combat in recent weeks.

We are disappointed in our alma mater. Penn should be a safe community where stu-dents of all backgrounds can converse, debate and learn.

Isn’t that why we applied here in the first place? This safety is jeopardized when the in-ternet is used to threaten and humiliate. We urge you all to quit using the internet to spite each other. No matter our race, sexual orientation or socioeco-nomic background, we are all Penn students and we are all incredibly lucky for this reason. Band together as a community to create respectful discourse around issues, but do not bully each other in the process.

Be kind to one another. You are family and you share a bond as Penn students. When you graduate, your alumni network will be your connection to the University. We know from expe-

rience that no one will remem-ber you for your leadership positions or the social groups with whom you spent your time. But people will always remem-ber how you treated your fellow classmates.

How do you want to be re-membered, Penn?

KELLY DIAMOND is a 2013 College graduate from Philadelphia, Pa. She was a member of the Friars Senior Society. MADISON HUNT is a 2013 College graduate from Salt Lake City, Utah. She was a member of Chi Omega and the president of Reach-A-Peer Helpline. They can be reached at [email protected] and [email protected].

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Furthermore, a party is not a place to be judging politi-cal correctness when we all know that what goes on at Penn parties typically isn’t anything that anyone intends to make public anyways. I’m not excusing it under the

pretense that “this is college,” but rather don’t give a stu-pid house party this kind of power and influence.

— Cndprbz

Is this politically correct? No, prob-ably not.

Is this factual in any way? Nope.Can this be viewed as insensitive?

Probably.But is it offensive? Not really...

— MexicanStudent

I think it’s completely reason-able for [the] Latino community to be offended by this event and ask for its cancellation. It’s not

an over-reaction. It’s their right to self-respect.

— Clearing it up

If you are struggling to get the motivation to venture over to Van Pelt, think about those who need to travel to Japan to get their books.

Up until last month, some students and faculty members had no choice but to do just that to conduct their research. Now, thanks to the Japan-U.S.

Global InterLibrary Loan Framework Project — also known as the GIF Project — they will be able to gain access to necessary material minus the airfare.

Tens of millions of books from over 150 Japanese uni-versity libraries will be made available at Penn through this system, Japanese Studies Li-brarian Molly Des Jardin said in an email.

This is good news for re-searchers like School of Arts and Sciences graduate student Jeannie Kenmotsu, who stud-ies Japanese art history. In the

past, when she has needed a book only available in Japan, she would have no choice but to make a list of items to check out when she visited. Although certain books are sometimes available at other U.S. univer-sities, the universities might not send them, thereby neces-sitating an expensive trip to the school. After two years of living in Japan, Kenmotsu said she now needs to stay ground-ed in the United States and buckle down on her disserta-tion. The GIF Project promises to aid this process.

Frank Chance, associate

director of the Center for East Asian Studies, said that many books published during World War II are only avail-able in Japan and difficult to find online. Due to the poor relations between the United States and Japan during this time period, much of the work printed during World War II on any subject is difficult to obtain in the United States. Chance hopes the new pro-gram will facilitate access to these materials.

Kenmotsu anticipates this project will “make Japanese studies at Penn even stronger.”

Exchanging more than books

Students no longer have to fly to Japan to

borrow Japanese booksBY LAUREN FEINER

Staff Writer

INTERLIBRARY LOANWITH JAPAN

2014ILL between Penn and Japanlaunched January this year

2002Global ILL Framework launched in May

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89North American universitylibraries involvedas of December 2012

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take unpaid leave without punishment for speci f ic family and medical rea-sons, includ ing ser ious mental conditions.

“I want to draw attention to the fact that not only has Penn failed to seriously and meaningfully address the menta l health con-cerns of its student body, this failure has extended to University employees as well,” White, a 1995 Col-lege graduate, wrote in a Feb. 11 letter to The Daily Pennsylvanian.

The University declined to comment, as the lawsuit is ongoing.

“We’d like to do anything we can — in any way we can — to advance the effort to see mental health treat-ed equally with physical health,” said White’s New Jersey-based attorney, Mi-chelle Douglass.

White began as program manager after a year at GSE and about 20 years in various Penn of f ices. As her mental condition wors-ened, she spoke to a staff member in the University’s Office of the Ombudsman and a University benefits specialist , both of whom assured her that she should take a leave of absence, ac-cording to the suit.

A f ter meet ing w ith a psychologist and support groups, White returned to work in the beginning of July with notes from her doctor, the complaint reads. Two weeks after she

got back, she received her performance evaluation.

“Absences from work are … within any employee’s rights,” reads a copy of the evaluation submitted as an exhibit with the suit . “While legitimate, Coordi-nator absences, of course, exacerbate these workload diff iculties. This was the case at the end of the aca-demic year.”

H e r s u p e r v i s o r t o l d White that her posit ion would be discontinued and that she would become an administrative assistant, the complaint reads, which White considered a demo-tion from her previous po-sition. She tried to work out the dispute through the University ombudsman, the suit claims, but was unable to come to a resolu-tion about her position and about removing a review that she felt would harm her ability to get new jobs.

“Sometimes, the only way to get somebody’s at-tention is to file a lawsuit,” Douglass said of Penn. The best-case scenario she en-visions for White is a new assig n ment w it h i n t he University or an entirely new position — without the recent performance evalu-ation in her file.

The lawsuit seeks un-sp ec i f ied d a m ages “ t o vindicate [White’s] rights under the laws.”

As White watched the debates about the state of mental health and resourc-es on campus unfold in the wake of this semester’s sui-cides, she wanted to share her experience.

“I hope that whatever the outcome,” she wrote in the letter, “my story will help to further improve the way mental i l lness is v iewed and treated at Penn.”

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Legend was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people in 2009.

Rolling Stone gave Leg-end’s new album, “Love in the Future,” a three-and-half star review, saying, “Undies

f ly away like silken doves when the reigning king of hip-hop soul is in the general vicinity.”

College senior Ricky Swi-eton said that he is particu-larly excited to have John Legend as the speaker be-cause he represents minority students at Penn and specifi-cally those who are involved in the arts.

“I think it’s interesting to have someone who came from Penn, who came from our perspective and who was able to do something he was passionate about and leave his mark,” he said.

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College senior Carolina Angel said that she “would have loved to see a female commencement speaker or a female woman of color” this year. The last female commencement speaker was Jodie Foster, who spoke in 2006.

Engineering senior Nicole Xu said she thinks it will be good to “see a Penn alum who is really successful” talk at graduation.

While at Penn, Legend served as the president and musical director of the a cap-

pella group Counterparts while recording his own al-bums. He graduated at 19 with a degree in English and a concentration in African-American literature.

Legend has remained ac-tive at Penn, performing at the Making History celebra-tion and delivering the an-nual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture in 2013. He also spoke at the 2009 College of Arts and Sciences gradua-tion.

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On Monday, former Perelman School of Medicine professor and current Congressional candidate Val Arkoosh spoke at Huntsman Hall. Arkoosh’s platform includes furthering health care reform and extending access to education. In 2013, she raised more than $935,000 for her campaign.

Christopher Donovan said he feels that Penn’s pre-profession-alism is something that might cause a more goal-orientated mindset for students. From talk-ing to residential college staff members at other schools, Don-ovan feels that Penn’s culture might encourage temptation to overload on academics through double majoring.

Rita Hodges, however, con-sidered stress culture as less Penn specific. “Weird pressures and competitions … happen on a university campus,” Hodges said. Competition is ”how society evolves,” she added, describing how she perceived stress cul-

ture more as a trend which can be considered increasing univer-sally.

University Chaplain Chaz How-ard agreed.

“College and maybe even the world has become more stress-ful,” he added.

‘‘Stress is a problem that transcends

Penn.”- Chaz Howard

Specific to Penn?

Faculty members interviewed by the DP generally agreed that a solution to a culture of stress can be found in thoughtfulness, col-laboration and moderation.

“It’s important to have a drive to achieve, but the emphasis should be on learning,” Donovan said.

He said that students’ goals need to be aligned with the sources of pressure in their lives, noting that hard work and stress can be fulfilling, but only when students are in it for the right reasons.

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universities for advice.“Most importantly, it’s impor-

tant to sometimes take a step back from a situation to decom-press, and to not always be work-ing actively towards a specific goal,” DeTurck said.

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‘‘“Students sometimes don’t take time to

just be themselves — you have to take time

to do that.”— Dennis DeTurck

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For both of these swimmers, representing their team in the relay events is the highlight of any meet.

“Relays are the most fun part of swimming,” Schultz said. “You get to stand up there with three other guys, race for

them and race for your team. It’s just an honor to be on an ‘A’ team.”

“I think we both learned in high school how important re-lays were, and how they could really set the tone of a race,” Worster added. “At Penn, my best races have come in relays, and like Eric said, they are just enjoyable.”

With the long anticipated Ivy Championship meet now fast approaching, the time has come for the Penn squad to see if its months of competition and training are going to pay off on the big stage.

If Penn is to have success, particularly in the relays, much of the pressure will be on Schultz and Worster to come up with big performances. However, if they are feeling the pressure, they don’t show it at all.

“Coming in we are ranked second or third in most of the relay events,” Schultz said. “It’s a lot of fun going in there knowing that we have a chance to win.”

“We are going to go out there, and we are just gonna fly,” Worster added. “These guys are ready to rock and roll.”

M. SWIMMING from page 8

Ivy League Championships

draw near

baller in senior guard Alyssa Baron, who keeps moving up the Ivy League all-time scor-ing list.

But now comes the hard part.

Now the Quakers are at the top and teams are gunning for them.

Cornell is a pain. Yale is going to be pissed after Fri-day’s defeat at the Palestra. After three straight years at number two, Harvard won’t go down nearly as easy at home.

But don’t forget, there is the dynasty that coach Courtney Banghart has built over the past seven years at Princeton, which has won each of the past four Ivy League titles.

And it was those Tigers that provided Penn with its only blemish so far in Ivy play.

“ I t houg ht [when] we came in, we were definitely equal talent,” senior captain Meghan McCullough said after the loss to Princeton. “They kind of gave it to us. We didn’t come mentally pre-pared so obviously it was a larger gap.

“We think we can compete with them. We are just as good as them.”

The idea that the Red and Blue can compete with Princ-eton shows how much they have grown over the past four years — both literally and figuratively — with the young and dominant frontcourt be-ing a main factor in Penn’s success this year.

And while on the court, coach Mike McLaughlin is about as mild-mannered as they come, he remembers well the program that he had to rebuild, with which he won just two games during his first

season four years ago. You know he has his Penn squad focused on each week ready to take on the league one more time.

“The girls know that in the Ivy League anyone can beat anyone at any given time; that’s very clear coming from us,” McLaughlin said. “But they know that, they’ve seen that and they’ve been on both sides of that, so I don’t think that will be an issue at all.”

The Quakers are in unchar-tered territory. They control their own destiny. You can in-sert in whichever of the other sports cliches you want.

All I know is that this four-year turnaround is very near-ly complete.

They are halfway there.

MODI from page 8

Incredible turnaround by McLaughlin

But it was more than just sincerity and passion that drove Ford to have a record-setting month so far.

“I realized there were a couple of records I thought my f itness level was capa-ble of achieving,” he said. “I thought it would be a great way to show how hard our team has been working and how effective our training is.”

Ford is quick to chalk his success and motivation up to his teammates and coaches, who have eased his transition to college.

“There’s no way that I

would be at the point in my training that I am without the encouragement of my coach-es and my teammates,” he said. “They’re all phenome-nal teammates, they push me harder than I could imagine at every practice, and it’s re-ally been paying dividends.”

His team chemistry is ap-parent to all who see it, espe-cially Baker.

“He’s never been anything but great at everything he’s

done,” Baker said. “He push-es them when they need to be pushed and he seems to be a great friend as well to all the guys on the team.

“I think the most impor-tant thing to keep in mind is that this is just one of many stepping stones that the team as a whole has been making recently.It’s just one of many ind icators that our team has given to show that we will have a very successful

spring,”With three world records

under his belt before even starting his first collegiate spring season, Ford has po-tential far beyond just this season — national honors could be on the horizon.

“The sk y ’s the l imit for Jake,” Baker said. “We could easily see him in years to come on the national team, if that’s something that he wants to do.

“He’s got the strength, he’s got the right attitude and he’s got the determination to be there.”

But a l l t e a m m at e a nd coach encouragement , al l passion and drive aside, one thing’s for sure: setting three world records within his first half-year at Penn felt good for Ford. It’s not hard to guess how that felt for him:

“Well, phenomenal. Obvi-ously,” he said with a laugh.

M. ROWING from page 8

The sky is the limit for Ford in the future

Dodd and Lane “assisting” players to new heights

As both Penn squash pro-grams found success in their 2013-14 campaigns, there were two men who were pivot-al in the team’s performance, all while working behind the scenes.

Gil ly Lane and Richard Dodd are two assistant coach-es who have made an immedi-ate impact during their time with the Red and Blue.

“It’s not possible we finish 8th [for the men] and 3rd [for the women] without them,” head coach Jack Wyant said.

Lane, a Penn alum who graduated in 2007, was a dec-orated member of the Penn squash program as a four -time All-Ivy and two-time All-American selection. Lane was also the first player in Penn history to receive the College Squash Association’s Skillman Award, an annual award given to a player who exemplifies sportsmanship, leadership and achievement

over their career.After Penn, he spent time

on the professional squash circuit , r ising through the world rankings to his high-est mark at No. 48, the sec-ond-best ranking ever for an American.

Lane also worked as a pri-vate squash instructor before coming to Penn and trained some of the nation’s top junior squash talents.

“My experiences playing in the pros and running my own business were amazing,” Lane said. “I’ve tried to bring my experiences here.”

Lane had spent time as a volunteer assistant during the 2010-11 season before go-ing back to running his own business as a private instruc-tor.

Coming back to coach at Penn meant that Lane would have to give up his business, but he knew what he wanted to do. Deciding which pro-gram to work for was an eas-ier decision.

“This program means a lot since I played here,” Lane said. “I always had a special place in my heart for this school.”

Lane’s alumni ties to the Red and Blue made the pro-

gram more ent icing than the more successful Ivy pro-grams such as top-ranked Harvard, which tried to hire the former Quaker.

Coming along for the ride was former Yale player Rich-ard Dodd. After graduating in the spring of 2013, Dodd was working for the Quakers within months of his com-mencement.

“It was definitely a weird ex p er ienc e ,” D o dd sa id . “Coaching against a team I played with was interesting to say the least.”

Coming in fresh off a col-legiate squash career, Dodd brings a more modern mind-set to a team that used some of the same strategies he was taught during his four years.

“They bring in a new cul-ture,” senior co-captain John Dudzik said. “It really mo-tivated us throughout the year.”

During his time with the Elis, Dodd also was a part of a team that snapped an enormous streak. Trinity had a 252-match winning streak that spanned 14 years and was t he longest w i nni ng streak in collegiate sports history.

Yale’s 5-4 win in January

2012 closely mirrored Penn squash’s 7-2 v ictor y over Princeton that snapped a 40-year, 45-match losing streak.

“Both Gilly and I have been involved in big matches,” Dodd said. “Belief was the big thing that we instil led throughout the year.”

These young coaches have helped their players improve their game throughout the year as well, even helping some players deal with ad-justing to college squash.

“As I hit with Gilly more I got used to the pace of the game,” men’s sophomore No. 1 Tyler Odell said.

“They’ve been very help-ful,” women’s sophomore No. 2 Yan Xin Tan added. “They’ll come in even if you want to hit on Saturdays.”

Having coaches who can keep up with the pace of their young players has pushed both squads to new heights this year.

“They have motivated me,” women’s senior co-captain Courtney Jones said. “They make me want to be the best player I can be.”

“I’m happy to have both of them this year,” Tan added.

So is Penn squash’s fan base.

SQUASH | Players and coaches alike thrived on the experience and

energy brought to PennBY COREY HENRY

Staff Writer

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A 2007 graduate, assistant coach Gilly Lane, returned to Penn after a trip to the professional circuit, where he earned a ranking of No. 48 worldwide.

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Junior guard Renee Busch has emerged as a difference maker for the Red and Blue this season, making her presence known via her pinpoint accuracy from beyond the three-point line. Busch hit five key triples in Penn’s two weekend wins.

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Senior Rhoads Worster has had a long and fruitful career in Sheerr Pool, having set two individual school records and two since-broken school records as part of relay teams. Worster has high expectations as Ivy championships near.

SUSHAAN MODI is a senior internat ional s tudies and business major from Demarest, N.J., and is a senior staff writer for The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at [email protected].

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As Spring Break approaches, things are starting to settle down in the Ivy League — that is, if you consider Harvard’s narrow escape at Columbia “settling down.” Yale struggled at first, but persevered to hold serve at home. As for Penn? Well, after getting stuck in the snow at

Brown, the Quakers are probably dreaming of a day at the beach.

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(20-4, 7-1 Ivy) Say what you want about the potential game-winning basket by Columbia’s Alex Rosenberg at the end

of overtime on Friday night that was waved off for a questionable charge, the Crimson

found a way to stave off the Lions in the second extra session, which speaks volumes about this team’s resiliency.

(13-9, 7-1) Coach James Jones certainly didn’t find it pretty, but the Bulldogs are in a position to win an Ivy title that they haven’t

seriously sniffed since 2002. Forward Justin Sears played the hero of the weekend — again

— dropping 25 points to stave off Penn and then hitting the game-winning jumper to give the Elis a 66-65 overtime win over Princeton.

(15-10, 4-4) After losing an absolute heartbreaker to Harvard in double overtime, 88-84, the Lions didn’t fold, rallying to beat

Dartmouth by 10 the next day. Columbia has only lost two games at Levien Gym all

season and has four home games left on the docket, including this weekend against

Brown and Yale. A sweep would be huge.

(6-15, 3-4) The Quakers were left out in the cold on their road trip to Yale and Brown,

dropping both games and sinking to new lows in the process. In their 69-54 loss to the

Bulldogs, the Red and Blue endured an ugly 23-possession stretch that saw only three

made baskets. In the first half of a 62-55 loss to Brown, Penn committed 13 turnovers.

(9-13, 2-6) Remember when Dartmouth was good? The Big Green have now lost four games in a row after giving their fans a brief flicker of

hope early on, with the culmination of this season’s collapse coming in a 70-67 loss on the road to Cornell. The loss gave Dartmouth

the dubious honor of becoming the first Division I team to fall to the Big Red all season.

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(13-9, 5-3) The Bears still seem to be finding their way, blowing a three-point

halftime lead in a 69-65 loss to Princeton and then relying on senior guard Sean McGonagill to get hot late behind the arc to escape Penn.

Princeton’s T.J. Bray has now passed McGonagill in the Ivy scoring race, and Brown could wind up falling back in the pack as well.

(2-20, 1-7) Coach Bill Courtney can finally smile. His Big Red are finally off the schneid, defeating Dartmouth on Friday thanks to 17

points from sophomore guard Nolan Cressler to earn their second win of the season. The Big

Red may have followed it up with a 10 point loss to Columbia, but give Cornell credit for not

packing it in during a nightmare season.

(14-7, 2-5) The Tigers of old are back, but it’s likely too little, too late.

T.J. Bray’s 26-point shooting exhibition at Brown was a work of art, but allowing

a late overtime game-winner to Yale hurts, especially after rallying back

from a late five-point deficit to send the contest into overtime in the first place.

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Meet Penn’s

dynamic swim duo

Week in and week out, one of the strongest aspects of the Penn men’s swimming team’s per-formances has been its dominant relay teams.

At the heart of these relays stands senior Rhoads Worster — who has been one of Penn’s most versatile athletes this season — and sopho-more Eric Schultz, one of the team’s underclass-men who also had made a large contribution.

While relay teams are supposed to be close, Penn has the added benefit that these two are not only friends, but former high school teammates.

Both Worster and Schultz attended La Salle College High School, and according to Schultz, Worster was an important part of his jump to Penn swimming.

“Going to my high school gave me the oppor-tunity to go to a school like Penn,” Schultz said. “And having Rhoads here gave Coach [Mike] Schnur a pipeline to reach out to me.

“When I came on my visit, Rhoads was my host, and having him here made it easy for me to come up and get a feel for the team.”

“We were close as teammates and as friends, and we both played water polo for La Salle as well in addition to swimming,” Worster added. “Even though we were two years apart, Eric was always close with a lot of the older guys so we were friends from that as well.”

While they might have started out as high school teammates, Worster and Schultz have both certainly proven over the years that they can leave their marks on the collegiate level.

Worster currently holds two individual school records in the 200 individual medley and 100 backstroke. He has also been part of two school record-breaking relays in the 200 medley and the 400 freestyle relay, but they have since been broken.

In only his second season at Penn, Schultz has been part of the school’s all-time fastest 200 free relay, and both he and Worster have been on mul-tiple pool record relay teams. Against Harvard, Worster and Schultz were part of Penn’s Sheerr Pool record swims in both the 200 medley relay and the 400 freestyle relay, which finished with a perfect record in Ivy duals.

“We take a lot of pride in the fact that our 400 freestyle relay is undefeated,” Worster said. “And so now when we get up on the block we expect to win.”

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Penn’s Ford is a true record-breaker when

rowing solo

What was the most productive thing you did over winter break?

Penn freshman lightweight row-er Jake Ford set his f irst of not one, not two, but three under-19 lightweight 5,000-meter, 30-minute, and 60-minute world records.

The 5000m record came first on Jan. 9, when Ford drove down from his home in Warrington, Pa., set up a camera in the new Nash Land Based Rowing Center, and cap-tured an official record-breaking 16:47.6 time on tape. Not only did he break a 13-year-old record, but he also became the first man to break

17 minutes. The previous record of 17:01.1 was set all the way back in 2001.

Ford struck again at the begin-ning of the semester. On Jan. 20, he set the 30-minute world record with a distance 8,738 meters, beating his own American record that he set on Jan. 5 at 8,424m.

Not content with the pair of re-cords, Ford set yet another world record, this time for 60 minutes with a distance of 17,090m.

Yet there’s more to Ford than just his strength as a rower. According to coach Nick Baker, Ford’s great-est asset is “just his personality.

“He’s really sincere about ev-erything he does,” Baker added. “He’s got a lot of passion behind the things he does, and I think that’s kind of driven him to the level that he’s at right now.”

M. SWIMMING | Senior Rhoads Worster and sophomore Nick Schultz

have been model relay teammates since their high school days

BY SAM ALTLANDStaff Writer

M. ROWING | Freshman Jake Ford spent his winter

break setting three different individual world records

BY DANIELLE CHUANGStaff Writer

Penn women’s basketball halfway to an Ivy League title

SUSHAAN MODI

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Coach Mike McLaughlin has piloted Penn to back-to-back 16-win seasons for the second time in the history of the program. The team managed just two wins during his first season at the helm.

Halfway home.

With seven games gone and seven games left in Ivy League play, Penn wom-

en’s basketball team is halfway home.It’s new. Surreal. Kind of scary.But most of all, it’s exciting.It’s exciting because the pieces

are there. The talent is there: Bigs that can block and box out with Kara Bonenberger and Sydney Stipanovich headlining the group, a smothering defense and guards that can shoot lights out. Just ask Yale and Brown about junior guard Renee Busch.

And if all else fails, there is a pure

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