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The Fresh Grocer’s time at 40th and Walnut streets is officially coming to an end, the University

and Acme announced Monday. An Acme supermarket will be moving into the space at 40th and Walnut, the company and Penn said in a joint press release. The supermarket doesn’t appear to be giving up its fight to remain in place anytime soon though. Throughout the month of April, the Fresh Grocer has continued taking out ads in The Daily

Pennsylvanian, including one forthcoming in Wednesday’s paper where it uses the hashtag #SavePennFroGro. The new Acme supermarket will, like Fresh Grocer, be open 24 hours a day and will feature a beer and wine shop. The store will also have both indoor and outdoor seating. The new store area, which Acme

calls a “first class urban grocery experience,” will feature a Starbucks, the third within a sevenblock stretch of Walnut Street. Ed Datz, the Executive Director of Real Estate at Penn Facilities and Real Estate Services, said the University is currently in litigation with Fresh Grocer, whose lease of SEE FROGRO PAGE 2

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here’s no denying Penn’s place as a global leader in being, well, global. Stroll down Locust Walk at high noon and you’ll see just about every culture represented. This is what makes Penn such an amazing place — it brings people together from all different regions of the world. What many people do not realize, however, is how global Penn’s student-athletes are. There are 35 international student-athletes at Penn representing 19 different countries, ranging from Hong Kong to Egypt to French Guiana. The DP wanted to highlight some of the athletes that best exemplify the character international students give to the university.

Here are just a few of their stories: Zsombor Garzo — Men’s fencing Zsombor Garzo was always going to play sports, it was just a matter of which one he’d pick. He was born in Budapest, Hungary, where his mother played professional basketball and was a member of the Hungarian National Basketball Team. It was evident from the start that sports were in Zsombor’s blood. He was not always a fencer, however. He first followed in his mother’s footsteps playing basketball in the small town where his mother’s pro team was located. When he was 11, Garso moved back to

Budapest after his mom’s basketball career was over. With his mother working a nine-tofive job, Zsombor learned to be self-reliant at a young age — and it wasn’t always easy. “I had to get myself to school on my own, had to get to basketball practice on my own, in the middle of the city,” he explained. “So I was taking trams [to get around]. It was very overwhelming.” Following two separate accidents in which he broke his arm and was hit by a car crossing a street in Budapest, his mother urged him to change sports. SEE INT’L ATHLETES PAGE 8

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If we are always working for the future, it’s easy to feel that our dreams are always being deferred …” - Emily Hoeven on making the most of the present while planning for the future PAGE 4

Penn will address concerns on a “case-by-case” basis ESHA INDANI Staff Reporter

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While some universities will be accommodating students affected by Trump’s order over the summer, Penn has not made similar accommodations.

Some Penn students need to lock down summer plans soon, and not just so they can land a competitive internship. Instead, they need to find a way to stay in the country — or their ability to return to Penn in the fall could be in jeopardy. Although P resident Donald Trump’s executive order — banning citizens of Somalia, Libya, Syria, Sudan, Yemen and Iran from entering the United States for 90 — was blocked by a federal judge in Hawaii, many students from the affected countries remain uncertain about the future of their immigration status and fear not being able to re-enter the

country should they go home for the summer. Some universities announced that they will provide free summer housing for international students impacted by the order. Penn does not have a general policy to accommodate all affected students, and is instead working with students on a case-bycase basis. Ithaca College was one of the first schools to announce that they would take action after the Ithaca College Student Government Association asked the university to provide oncampus summer housing for affected students, the Ithaca College Intercom reported. Ohio University followed suit a month later, according to the school paper, announcing that it would SEE ITHACA PAGE 2

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International House expands film program It will now be known as Lightbox Film Center HALEY SUH Staff Reporter

The signature film program at International House Philadelphia has been revamped with a new name. Previously known as Film at International House, the program is now called Lightbox Film Center. The freshly dubbed center remains part of IHP, but will exercise greater independence under its new name. A launch party celebrating the newly-named center will be held at IHP on May 18. Established in the 1970s, the film center has been a wellknown attraction for local cinephiles, bringing in an audience of 22,000 members annually. Screening approximately 500 films every year, the center shows films from Hollywood, international and avant-garde cinema. Despite its popularity among local cinema enthusiasts, some leaders of the organization felt

that the old name hindered widespread recognition of the center. “Our name change was an idea to help further distinguish the program from International House as a whole, since so many different things happen here,” IHP Director of Programs and Events Sarah Christy, said. “We found that not everyone was aware that we even had a film program, so we thought by rebranding it and giving it some identity, it would help bolster the reputation and hopefully help spread the word about the great arts program.” Other than hosting film screenings, IHP provides residential services for foreign students, hosts cultural celebrations such as Diwali and the Lunar New Year and presents art exhibitions. It is a non-profit organization. Chief Curator Jesse Pires said Lightbox distinguishes itself from other film centers in the city by showing both traditional and contemporary film. “We’re bringing in film from across many different

disciplines, genres and areas, so anything from classic film from Hollywood or international cinema, as well as experimental and contemporary video art,” Pires said. “We really embrace all these various manifestations of moving image art in a very broad context.” Pires, who has been with the film program for 13 years, said he was proud to witness Lightbox emerging as a more “distinctive voice and vision.” “As part of Penn Moviegoer, I’ve really come to appreciate watching movies with my friends and fellow classmates,” College sophomore Soubie Im said. “We’ve definitely looked into [Lightbox’s] themed screenings and have talked about going there together,” Although Lightbox and IHP are unaffiliated with Penn, they frequently collaborate with the Cinema and Media Studies program and host the annual Penn Humanities Forum. Most recently, Lightbox hosted the Penn Bioethics Film Festival, featuring the films “Avatar,” ”Her” and “Ex Machina.”

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provide housing and other accommodations to students who might be affected by the policy, but did not specify if or how much students would be charged. College junior and incoming President of the Undergraduate Assembly Michelle Xu said that the UA would be interested in trying to work with the University to provide similar accommodations. “This is definitely an interesting project and one the UA could pursue if someone on the body wanted to and if there was interest expressed from the student body,” Xu said. College junior and UA College Representative Sola Park added that the organization would most likely not be able to take it on as a project until next semester. “This seems like a great project idea and something I am personally interested in

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the property expired March 31. According to FRES Communications Director Jennifer Rizzi, however, the Fresh Grocer “rejects Penn’s position” that the

THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN | THEDP.COM pursuing,” Park said. “We’re just in the middle of transitioning and have only one GBM left before school ends but I’ll be interested in bringing this to my committee and working on it next year.” Executive Director for Education and Academic Planning Rob Nelson said that while the University does not have a general policy regarding summer housing for students impacted by the immigration policy, they are working on a case-by-case basis to ensure that all those in need of support over the summer are taken care of. “So far all the students that we’ve identified have made arrangements either by finding work on-campus or finding an academic program to pursue this summer,” Nelson said. “If there are students who are struggling to figure out summer plans and they have not made contact with their academic advisor, they should do so immediately.” College freshman Aula Omer was forced to search for

on-campus work-study jobs over the summer that provided free accommodation in college dorms. She found an opportunity at Penn Hospitality Services, but the deadline to apply had already passed. However, after reaching out to explain her situation, she was given an extension to apply and interview, and will now be working the front desk at a college house this summer. Omer is from Sudan — one of the countries affected by the policy — and said she felt that the University has not been proactive about providing concrete solutions like summer housing and employment for affected students now that the initial furor over the executive order has died down. “I feel like the University is under the impression that this went away, that everybody is fine because nobody is talking about it anymore,” Omer said. “They kinds of gave us shortterm help but nobody thought of the long term.”

lease expired on that day. Because of this ongoing litigation, the timetable of when Fresh Grocer will close — and when Acme will open — is not yet clear. An Acme spokesperson, in an emailed statement to the DP,

also did not give a timeline, saying only that the store hopes to open as soon as possible. The Acme grocery store chain originated in South Philadelphia in 1891, and this new location will be the sixth Acme location in the city.

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IHP takes on various roles in the local community: It provides residential services for foreign students, hosts cultural celebrations such as Diwali and the Lunar New Year and presents art exhibitions.

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The University is currently in litigation with The Fresh Grocer, so the exact date of FroGro’s closing is unknown. An Acme spokesperson also did not indicate a timeline for the store’s replacement.

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GOP and Green Perelman School of Medicine Party sues over reveals 2017 Teaching Awards N. Phila. election Among the winners was a professor of pediatrics

The special election had occured on March 21 KELLY HEINZERLING Staff Reporter

A Democrat — who wasn’t even on the ballot — was elected state representative of the 179th Pennsylvanian House District, located in North Philadelphia. Now, Republican and Green Party nominees are suing. Philly.com reported that Republican nominee Lucinda Little, Green Party nominee Cheri Honkala and their state parties announced the suit against Democrat Emilio Vazquez, Philadelphia’s Democratic City Committee, the Board of City Commissioners and Department of State on April 6, a day after Vazquez was sworn in. Little and Honkala are calling for a federal judge to overturn the election. The special election, which was held on March 21, occurred after Democrat Leslie Acosta pleaded guilty to embezzlement and resigned. The suit alleges that the election board workers, who are predominantly Democratic, violated election policy by threatening voters to vote for Vazquez. It claims these intimidation tactics include passing out pro-Vazquez

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literature, allowing Vazquez supporters to stay in polling places and permitting nonvoters into polling booths with voters. The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office’s Election Fraud Task Force is investigating these accusations. Republican candidate Little was the only name actually on this election’s ballot, since Democrats tried to run a candidate who didn’t live in North Philadelphia and missed the deadline to place a candidate on the ballot. Despite being a write-in, Vazquez still received 73.5 percent of the votes, with Green Party write-in Honkala receiving 10.5 percent and Republican Little receiving 7.4 percent. According to PhillyMag, Democratic leaders remain unworried that the lawsuit and investigations by the district attorney and the Office of Attorney General will change the election results. This unlikely Democratic victory came after Penn Democrats members categorized the election as one that “[didn’t] really matter.” With 121 Republicans in the House and a Democratic governor, Wharton freshman and Penn Democrats Political Director Dylan Milligan said that he believes this one election wouldn’t change the divided state government in Pennsylvania.

On April 4, the Medical School announced its 2017 Teaching Awards. Fifteen faculty members were honored across 11 award categories. Headlining the recipients was professor of clinical medicine David Jaffe, who received the Leonard Berwick Memorial Teaching Award. Established in 1981, this award recognizes

professors adept at “fusing the scientific basics with their clinical medicine instruction.” “I am continually amazed by the curiosity, the enthusiasm and the genuine desire for learning on the part of the Penn medical students,” Jaffe, who has taught at Penn since 2005, said in an interview. “It’s a given that they’re all very bright, but beyond that the spirit of inquiry and thirst for knowledge is something that makes it easy for me to come back every year and energizes me from a teaching point of view.”

The awards also seek to honor professors working at hospitals affiliated with Penn. The Dean’s Award for Excellence in Clinical Teaching, which recognizes a commitment to medical education at partner hospitals, was awarded to four recipients this year. Kyle Kampman, a professor of psychiatry, is one of them. He credits much of his success to his experience in the U.S. Navy, where he served as a medical officer for five years in the 1980s. “I ended up on that path because I probably watched one too many John Wayne movies,” Kampman said of his time in the Navy. “I learned a lot of primary care medicine that I probably never would have learned otherwise, and also learned how to deal with people.” Kampman said he strives to bring lessons from the Navy into his teaching. “I really try to stress a team approach with the students,”

Kampman said. “I hope I stress to the medical students how important it is to work with the staff, be respectful and value input from other members of the treatment team.” Two other recipients of this award are Wanjiku Njoroge and Kathleen Zsolway, both of whom have experience in pediatric medicine. Njoroge is the current medical director of the Young Child Clinic at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, while Zsolway is a clinical professor of pediatrics at CHOP. These are just some of the professors who were honored; 10 other teachers across nine other categories — from addiction treatment to bedside manner — were recognized for their work Nominations for the teaching awards were gathered from Medical School faculty, house staff and students. Recipients will be celebrated at the annual Penn Medicine Awards of Excellence banquet in the fall.

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On preparing for retirement at age 20 GROWING PAINS | Can we work for an ideal future without deferring our present dreams?

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I was struck by something Alec Baldwin said near the end of his talk at Penn on Friday. When asked what advice he would give to college students, Baldwin immediately replied that we ought to travel, to explore the world when we are single, young and free. Yet he also pointed out the contradiction at the heart of this advice, which had manifested itself in his own life: “When I was young I had the time to travel but didn’t have the money, and now I have the money but I don’t have the time.” This quote came into my head the other day when my parents recommended that I start setting aside money for retirement. My first instinct was to laugh, because the mere thought of retirement was foreign to me: I am only twenty years old. I just secured my first post-college job. I inhabit a world filled primarily with people under the age of twenty-three, with the responsibilities, concerns, interests and conversations that people under the

age of twenty-three typically have. However, I sobered up pretty quickly when I realized that my parents weren’t kidding. After all, if you want to be able to retire sometime in middle age, say, around 55 or 60, and have enough to live on comfortably for the rest of your life — if you want to travel and raise children and do the things on your bucket list you’ve always dreamed of doing — it never hurts to start saving money at a fairly young age. Yet the notion of creating a retirement fund for myself before even beginning my first job was jarring to me. It was weird to think about setting aside money for “the rest of my life” when, in many ways, I and many other students are just beginning our lives — our independent lives, that is. I felt the urge to say something like, “Wait, but I just got here! I’m just beginning to come into my own as an adult, and now I have to ensure the wellbeing and happiness of my

future self at 60 and 70 and 80 years old.” There is a way in which we are always working for the future, and it is the strange poignancy of that truth that is at the heart of Baldwin’s advice. You work hard when you’re single and young and free and full of dreams in or-

ent pulls on your time and on yourself. And so where does that imagined future, that future we dreamed of when we were young, go? If we are always working for the future, it’s easy to feel that our dreams are always being deferred — that life itself is being deferred.

How can we balance using the present moment as a way to obtain the future we want with living in the present and enjoying it, appreciating it, for what it is?” der to secure your future. Yet when you reach that future, chances are you’ll be married, or will have children or will have less energy and drive due to age. You’ll have different priorities, you’ll have different things to worry about, you’ll have differ-

How many times have I said to my friends and family, “Once the semester’s over, then I’ll finally be able to relax”? How many times have I heard people say, “I’m going to go into investment banking, but only for a couple years — I just want to make

enough money so I can quit and do what I actually want to do”? How, and when, do we get to the point where we’re able to do what we actually want to do? How can we balance using the present moment as a way to obtain the future we want while living in the present and enjoying it, appreciating it, for what it is? How can we simultaneously live for and dream for ourselves at the age of twenty and at the age of sixty? How can we reconcile the catch-22 at the very center of life: time — and timing? As young adults, we are constantly told to enjoy our youth while it lasts. This is, without a doubt, the most common advice given by one’s elders. Yet, as young adults, we also become increasingly aware of the ways in which our youth is often spent striving towards the ideal of an always-escaping future. It is difficult to imagine myself at age 60 or 70. I have no idea what that stage

EMILY HOEVEN of life holds. Nor do I have an especially clear idea of what age 30 will look like. In this sense, the future is always escaping because it is always shrouded. And so I don’t have an answer to my own questions. But 70-yearold me would probably want 20-year-old me both to set aside money in a retirement fund and to be 20-year-old me, pursue my 20-year-old dreams. And I trust 20-yearold me to strike that balance. EMILY HOEVEN is a College senior from Fremont, Calif., studying English. Her email address is ehoeven@sas.upenn. edu. “Growing Pains” usually appears every other Tuesday.

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GUEST COLUMN BY SONARI CHIDI If a person has not flung open the window of a campus building to angrily yell “You hate me!” at you, while you are still reeling from invitations to scheduled public lynchings of black freshmen and marching peacefully to raise awareness, then welcome to the reality of race relations in the era of 45! On Feb. 20, the 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump, toured the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Like many politicians before him, during Black History Month, President Trump quoted Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., saying, “We are determined … to work and fight until justice runs down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.” Yet, soon after that photoop, he went on to oversee cuts to housing, Meals on Wheels, after-school programs, school lunches and environmental protections. He then attempted to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act with a program that would cause over 20 mil-

lion people to lose health care coverage, while vowing to “Make America Great Again.” Beyond paying lip service to Dr. King’s call to action, President Trump has branded African Americans as the enemy within. This dehumanizing narrative sets up an “us versus them” mindset among the races, desensitizes people to inhumane treatment of “the other,” places the blame for all the serious issues affecting black people squarely on their shoulders and essentially absolves the powers that be of any responsibility for the results of their policies. It is this dehumanizing narrative that enabled the woman to fling open the window of a building on Penn’s campus and yell “You hate me!” at black students peacefully marching to protest the GroupMe that had, just hours before, threatened black Penn freshmen with scheduled lynchings. Somehow our chants of “black lives matter” in the face of hateful attacks on our lives was an act, not of self-

love and self-healing, but of hate towards her. “Black lives matter” is somehow seen as radical, deviant and even anti-American. But “I have a dream” is not. Why? Dr. King and the classical civil rights movement of the ‘50s and ‘60s were actually

that, “The problems of racial injustice and economic injustice cannot be solved without a radical redistribution of political and economic power.” The truth is, racism didn’t die with MLK. Racism killed MLK. Racism didn’t die with Malcolm, Fred Hampton or Medgar Evers. Rac-

To fully understand and assess the unfinished business of race and racism, it is necessary to separate the convenient from the factual narrative and the remembered from the forgotten narrative.” considered radical and contentious by some. The civil rights movement was not just about “colorblind” policies that many would have us believe have been achieved. Dr. King asserted in his 1967 “Three Evils of Society” speech

ism murdered them. Racism didn’t end with the classical civil rights movement. Racism ended the classical civil rights movement. Racism didn’t change when the narrative of the civil rights movement was repackaged. Racism did the repackaging.

With states convicted of racially discriminatory voting laws and America’s large wealth and criminal sentencing disparities, to be sure, we are far from any equitable redistribution of political and economic power in America. Dr. King’s call to action still rings true today, as his legacy of justice for all is reduced to neat soundbites in January and February, then subsequently ignored the rest of the year. The insidious mischaracterization of all sides of the issue, remains one of the most significant obstacles to the advancement of race relations in America. To fully understand and assess the unfinished business of race and racism, it is necessary to separate the convenient from the factual narrative and the remembered from the forgotten narrative. “Unfinished Business: From the Great Migration to Black Lives Matter” is a mixed-media documentary project by Stephanie Boddie, a Fox Leadership alumni fellow at Penn. In an interview from the documentary, Eliza-

beth Spann, a member of Philadelphia’s Mother Bethel AME Church, says, “They were still lynching people when I was a little girl.” It is a sad commentary that I too, can tell my children about the horror of threatened lynchings, as a college student in 2016. Regarding the seminal March on Washington in 1963 and the marches happening today, Mrs. Spann said, “People had signs that said, ‘We’re marching for the right to vote, we’re marching for better jobs, we’re marching for better paying jobs, we’re marching for equality, we’re marching for better schools’ … We’re marching for the same things 50 years later.” It is up to our generation to continue the fight, together with all races and ethnicities, against systems of intersecting oppression, to truly make America a country with liberty and justice for all. SONARI CHIDI is a College freshman from Los Angeles studying Africana studies and cinema & media studies.

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President’s Innovation Prize Winner SolutionLoft makes software development simpler SAMANTHA FRISKEY Contributing Reporter

College and Wharton senior William Fryis on a mission to make coding easier and more efficient. Fry received this year’s President’s Innovation Prize for his company SolutionLoft, which capitalizes on Fry’s method of reusing codes in order to make the development of software cheaper for his customers. The prize awards $100,000 toward Fry’s venture, as well as $50,000 in living expenses. While studying abroad in Berlin, Fry worked on several

data engineering projects that required intensive coding that took a lot of time. That was when he came up with his award-winning idea. “I kind of came to the conclusion that almost everything I was doing had already been done in some form or another,” he said. “So it was very redundant on my end. I wasn’t building anything new.” Fry said he realized the current process for data projects was not only inefficient for the coders, but inefficient for the clients as well. Fry said, essentially, clients were paying for “something that’s already been done.” Upon returning to Penn, Fry met with various professors and

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SolutionLoft, noting that the two are “on the phone every day.” Fry compares his method of reusing code to the idea of the printing press. Just as the development of the printing press took much of the manual labor out of the production of the printed word, Fry’s development of reusable code will take much of the manual labor — having to start from square one — out of building software. “Before the printing press, if you were writing a newsletter or a pamphlet, you were rewriting a lot of the same things,” Fry said. “And then they had the movable type, to abstract all of that manual labor away. So then you saw the proliferation of literature, etc. because you could

mass-produce it. We’re trying to do the same thing with software.” Fry said he owes much of the success of SolutionLoft to the Penn community. Over the past four years, he has received over $18,000 through various Penn funds and programs, met his mentor, professor Jeffrey Babin, who Fry said is “invaluable,” and has worked with Penn students and alumni to build and operate SolutionLoft. Fry said that 80-90 percent of people who work on SolutionLoft are from the Penn community. In five years, he hopes SolutionLoft will be “the cheapest and quickest way for you to get your software.”

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President’s Engagement Prize Winners Project Y.V.E.T.A. aims to teach kids various skills HARLEY GEFFNER Contributing Reporter

Some Penn students might hop on a train to New York following graduation, but College seniors Antoinette Zoumanigui and Selamawit Bekele will set up shop in Senegal to establish a school in a community outside its capital, Dakar. The two seniors received the President’s Engagement Prize and plan to use the $100,000 cash prize to launch Project Y.V.E.T.A. and continue the work they started at Penn. The school’s mission is to teach children agricultural and literacy skills, Zoumanigui said, in order to combat a widespread problem in the area. Koranic teachers promise young Senegalese children education in larger cities, but instead abuse and force the children — commonly referred to as talibes — to panhandle for them. This issue is particularly relevant to Zoumanigui and Bekele, who are from Senegal and Ethiopia. As health and societies majors, Zoumanigui and Bekele bonded during their freshman year over similar social and political issues that exist in both of their home countries. “We talked about a lot of social issues that lead to health issues,” Bekele said. “We realized that having grown up in two different countries, we knew of these types of traditional education systems that prompted these children to

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College seniors Antoinette Zoumanigui and Selamawit Bekele will establish a school in Senegal with the $100,000 award.

leave their homes.” The two have worked have worked on different projects over their four years at Penn that focus on spreading awareness of these issues. At the beginning of their sophomore year, they founded the nonprofit Kids of Dakar, which aims “to reach out to local and international audiences to engage” them in a dialogue centered on this issue, especially within the Philadelphia Senegalese community. Kids of Dakar has hosted a movie screening on campus and has partnered with NGOs and other organizations in Senegal to host feeding and health programs. This past summer, Zoumanigui and Bekele took a CURF-funded trip to Senegal, and that’s when their idea for Project Y.V.E.T.A. was born. They reached out to history professor and Senegal native Cheikh

Babou, who “is an expert when it comes to West African history and its relation to Islam,” Bekele said. He became their mentor for Project Y.V.E.T.A. and facilitated partnerships that they formed with organizations in Senegal. With the years of connections, partnerships and projects built leading up to Y.V.E.T.A., Babou said he believes that the work they have done and the partnerships they have formed will lead to change beyond the scope of the school. “Even after the project has ended,” Babou said, “there is a possibility of continuing to build on the experience, the infrastructure and on the knowledge that the project [helped] generate — to continue to work after [they are] no longer around and funding [is] not coming anymore.”

Lanzado Lideres will foster cultural identity in S. Philly CHRISTINE OLAOGUN Contributing Reporter

Three Penn seniors want to dedicate their time after graduation to improving the academic performance of Latino high school students in South Philadelphia. Nursing senior Yaneli Arizmendi, College senior Camilo Toro and College senior Alexa Salaswere recently awarded the President’s Engagement Prize for their project Lanzado Lideres — a bilingual after-school program centered around cultural identity for high school students in South Philadelphia. The team, which began planning for the program in November, will continue developing the project over the course of the next year. Toro said their project serves a community that is “often overlooked.” Some Latino youth have undocumented immigration statuses or speak a language other than English, making it more challenging for social organizations to reach them, he explained. The other members of Lanzado Lideres emphasized the importance of communication with those they serve. “We hope to serve the community how they want to be served and not how we think they need to be served,” Arizmendi said. Lanzado Lideres most closely translates to “launching leaders” and signals the group’s desire to propel students to success. “Identity in any cultural setting is difficult, particularly to

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Translated as “Launching Leaders,” Lanzado Lideres is a community service program that emphasizes communication.

teens overall,” Arizmendi said. “One of [our] goals is to help students develop a sense of selfefficacy in students with this in mind.” The project drew inspiration from the tutoring program Puentes Hacia el Futuro, which all three members have been actively involved in during their time at Penn. Now partnered with Lanzado Lideres, Puentes Hacia el Futuro is an after-school program for elementary school students in South Philadelphia. “We ended up working with the initial need that we saw and [the needs] that Puentes voiced,” Salas said. “We then figured out how we can best fill that in ourselves, making sure our visions [and those of Puentes] aligned every step of the way.” Although volunteering in nearby West Philadelphia is relatively common among Penn

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Two nursing seniors, Ian McCurry and Marcus Henderson, were awarded the 2017 President’s Engagement Prize, with $100,000 of funding for their project, “Homeless Health and Nursing: Building Community Partnerships for a Healthier Future.”

Seniors create “Homeless Health and Nursing” JAMES MEADOWS Contributing Reporter

Nursing seniors Marcus Henderson and Ian McCurry want to transform the way Philadelphia’s homeless community receives health care. The duo was recently awarded the 2017 President’s Engagement P r ize, wit h $100,000 of funding for their project, “Homeless Health and Nursing: Building Community Partnerships for a Healthier Future.” Partnered with the Bethesda Project, a Philadelphia nonprofit focused on reducing homelessness, their initiative aims to provide more community-oriented health care by proactively addressing health concerns before homeless individuals reach the emergency room. McCurry said the initiative has a community-oriented approach centered on the role of the community health worker: people who emerge as natural caregivers within targeted communities. Many of these individuals have experienced homelessness or worked with the homeless — as a pastor or a clinic employee, for example — and recognize the shortcomings of the current health system.

The two seniors have been caretakers for most of their lives. When Henderson was in middle school, he would go home and take care of his great aunt with Down syndrome and his grandmother diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. “When I was just 12 years old, I would go home take care of them instead of playing with my classmates after school,” he said. Henderson went on to study public health at Philadelphia’s Franklin Learning Center while in high school, and eventually joined Penn’s nursing program. McCur r y attributes his beginnings as a nurse to his mother, a veteran nurse. “My entire life I have been raised by someone who taught me who to look at communities through a nursing lens,” McCurry said. As a teen, he helped adults with developmental disabilities, eventually working as a counselor for those adults. By the time college applications came around, nursing was the only thing he could see himself doing. Since arriving at Penn, McCurry and Henderson have had their passion for nursing tested by a range of challenges. On top of a strenuous workload, nursing students have to confront the mortality of the

students, there is a need to create “new avenues for engagement in Philadelphia in both geography and in practice,” Salas said. This project was formed to address that gap. “Philadelphia is so much bigger than West Philadelphia,” she said. “There are so many other communities in this city that could really benefit from college students who are dedicated to serving and learning from them in a mutually reinforcing way.” Toro agreed, adding that this type of work benefits both the community served and the volunteers themselves. “Our hope is to open up avenues for communication and collaboration between Penn and other colleges in the Philadelphia area to this community because it has been a great experience for us to learn from them and get to know them,” he said.

hospital ward on a daily basis as part of their education, McCurry said. “You can have a great day and save three lives or lose two,” he said. As male nursing students, they also had to confront gender stereotypes. “Male nurses have historically gone into military or administrative roles,” Henderson said. “But we are two male nurses going into the community and defying those stereotypes and break ing those barriers.” After years of working in nursing, they had to boil all of their experience and passion down to roughly 800 words — crafted through more than 50 iterations of editing — in their proposal for the President’s Engagement Prize. “To encompass the passion that we had for this project in such few words was probably the hardest thing that I’ve ever done,” McCurry said. Then, on a Monday morning in March, the two received the good news — and years of planning became a reality. “I think what’s most exciting about this is that Penn believes in the project,” Henderson said. “It’s an incredible affirmation of four years of working and studying to final have the phone call that says ‘Yes, we believe in you.’”

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in both Madrid and New Delhi. With those experiences, she knew that she wanted to come to the US for college. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was always there,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I always wanted to attend an American school. Going back to Sweden was never an option, it felt too much like vacation with all of my family being there.â&#x20AC;? Although her sights had been set on the US for quite some time, golf came about a little differently. Rahm was first introduced to golf by her father while still living in Madrid. A golf fanatic himself, he tried, unsuccessfully, to get her into the game. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I started, I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like it at all,â&#x20AC;? she laughed. But once the family joined a country club, providing Isa the opportunity to compete in tournaments for the clubâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team, golf grew on her immensely. She described the golf atmosphere on Spain as being â&#x20AC;&#x153;extremely fun to play in.â&#x20AC;? When the family moved to India, however, golf became much more difficult. Fewer courses and less competition hurt Isaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ability to improve her game. But it didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stop her desire. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The whole idea of going to college and getting a golf scholarship was incentivizing,â&#x20AC;? she said. Once she got to Penn, she made her mark. Over her career, she has amassed eight top-10â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to go with a victory at the 2014 Navy Invitational, where she shot 75-71-73. She was also named a Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Golf Coaches Association (WGCA) All-American Scholar for the 2015-2016 academic year. While her career in golf is coming to a close, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be home no matter where in the world she finds herself after college. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Home isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a destination,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the feeling you get in a place.â&#x20AC;?

â&#x20AC;&#x153;She told me, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to play water polo instead,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? he laughed. Water polo is a very big deal in Hungary â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but it just wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t for Zsombor. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like it much at all. I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a very good swimmer,â&#x20AC;? he quipped. Trying to find another sport, he stumbled upon fencing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At the beginning, I did it as a hobby. You know, sports are good for you,â&#x20AC;? he noted. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But then, Isabella Rahm â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s golf well, if I spent time and money Isabella Rahm speaks four lanon it already, I might as well do guages â&#x20AC;&#x201D; five, if you count the better, do more. And I did.â&#x20AC;? Italian she is learning on the side. He went on to attend high A senior captain on the womschool at one of the best public enâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s golf team, Isabella â&#x20AC;&#x201D; or as schools in all of Hungary â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a her friends call her, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Isaâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; has school he considers himself very lived all over the world. She was lucky to have attended. born in Sweden to Swedish parâ&#x20AC;&#x153;I got really lucky because I got ents; lived in SĂŁo Paolo, Brazil for a very good English teacher at the three years; grew up in Madrid, school, so I picked a lot up there,â&#x20AC;? Spain until she was 15; finished he explained, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I always wanted high school in New Delhi, India to come to the states for college. and most recently has spent time I would do English work for two in Dubai, where her parents curto three hours a day. I got decent, rently live. but not good enough to get into a Living in so many places really good school [in the US].â&#x20AC;? makes it difficult for her to claim Since his English skills still a single â&#x20AC;&#x153;home.â&#x20AC;? needed to improve, he decided to take a gap year once he graduated high school. Around that time, he learned about the possibility of fencing in the Ivy League. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I found out you can come to the Ivy League and can get financial aid, and you can afford to go to a really good school, I started pre- - Kuba Mijakowski paring for the SAT, ACT,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Since that year was not too useful, I decided to take anâ&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never felt like Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve idenother gap year (on top of the first) tified with one culture,â&#x20AC;? she and then got accepted to Penn.â&#x20AC;? remarked. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a product of Choosing to fence at Penn all the experiences youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been proved to be a wise decision. As through, and I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feel like I a captain, Garso has anchored identify with any particular one.â&#x20AC;? the Red and Blue to two straight Like many other international Ivy League Championships, students at Penn, Isa attended two third-team All-American American international schools

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the US,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had no idea Lina Qostal â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tennis what to expect â&#x20AC;&#x201D; what I expected Lina Qostal is a thinker. was what I saw in the movies.â&#x20AC;? A Philosophy Politics and EcoFor Lina, Penn was a perfect nomics (PPE) major, she put a fit, given her love and passion lot of thought into her post high for tennis as well as her desire to school plans. Should she play tennis? Or should she go to school? Her philosophical solution: Why not both? A standout tennis player from Morocco, Lina represented the Moroccan national team from all ages, 12-18. Her highlights included a third-place finish -Isabella Rahm at the African Junior Championship on 2013 and an appearance in the Junior World attend a school that would chalCup in 2011. lenge her academically. With her early success, she â&#x20AC;&#x153;What is so great about the US eyed going pro. At that point, compared to everywhere else is with a mother in academia and it allows you to do both at a relaa father who was a sports coach, tively high level.â&#x20AC;? Linaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s days consisted of a similar The Moroccan international routine. still wants to play professional â&#x20AC;&#x153;My typical day would be wake tennis after college, and she up, go to school, play tennis, eat, believes she can succeed. If it do my homework and go to sleep,â&#x20AC;? doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t work out, she wants to go she explained. into the entertainment industry, Seeking a professional career although she isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t certain about with her daily routine, Lina was what role sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d take. locked in. However, as she grew However, one thing is certain: up, cultural pressures became sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll think of a solution. more evident. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have a culture that puts Kuba Mijakowski â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basa lot of emphasis on school and ketball academics,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kids can Jakub â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kubaâ&#x20AC;? Mijakowski was handle the school work and train- born in Warsaw, Poland. ing for their sport up to a certain Like Zsombor Garzo, he comes point. But then there is cultural from a family of athletes â&#x20AC;&#x201D; both pressure to focus on academics, of his parents played professional because it is the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;safe betâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and basketball in Poland. Having his they start putting in less time with parents play basketball was not their sport.â&#x20AC;? the driving force in him playing Enter the United States. The the game, but their influence was US is one of the few countries a factor. around the world where you can â&#x20AC;&#x153;I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t necessarily play beplay a sport for a school and study cause they did, I played more there at the same time. because they showed it to me,â&#x20AC;? he As Qostal admitted, she didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t said. know much about the US before When Kuba was a sophomore coming to Penn. in high school, he left Poland to â&#x20AC;&#x153;The first time I came to Penn attend high school in the US at was the first time I stepped foot in the Mountain Mission School

in Virginia, where his fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s old Polish basketball coach was coaching. Yet coming to the US for college â&#x20AC;&#x201D; let alone high school â&#x20AC;&#x201D; was not something he thought heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d ever do. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It never crossed mind to come to states for college,â&#x20AC;? he explained. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But after coming to states, it was my goal.â&#x20AC;? Those early years did not come without their share of difficulty. Kuba missed his family, and found it difficult to speak English at first. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Language was hard,â&#x20AC;? he stated. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I knew English, but it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t something I did every day. I needed time to unlock what I knew.â&#x20AC;? Whatever he faced, he knew it was worth it. He shared similar sentiments to those of Lina Qostal regarding his education. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In Poland, I would have had to choose [between basketball and school],â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is hard to do both.â&#x20AC;? Compared to Poland, what Kuba has found in the US is a culture that embraces the sport he loves. â&#x20AC;&#x153;More people here are interested in sports,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great to be somewhere where people are genuinely interested in what youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing, it makes me like basketball much more.â&#x20AC;? With his reinvigorated love for the game, he hopes to step into a contributing role on a team whose goal remains the same: â&#x20AC;&#x153;My goal, and the goal of all of my teammates, is to get to March Madness and win the Ivy League tournament.â&#x20AC;? *** None of these two stories are the same, and the same goes for the global mosaic that is Penn Athletics. Stories like these and many more are what give Penn Athletics its identity â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and thankfully itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not changing anytime soon.

my absolute best,â&#x20AC;? Graham added. The weekend was special for the Quakers with two of the three finalists, Swirbalus and Graham, placing in the finals at fourth on floor and sixth on beam, respectively. For Levi, one of the most memorable parts of the weekend was seeing her teammates rise to the top. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Watching both Nicole and Rachel place was so memorable, especially with it being Nicoleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first time at Nationals. She is setting the tone for the rest of the team to see what we can do,â&#x20AC;? Levi said. This was a special and gratifying moment for Graham as well. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was really cool for me because last year I qualified for finals and didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t place, so this was a nice way to finish my career,â&#x20AC;? Graham said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It meant a lot to me that I was able to achieve fourth place my first time at Nationals. I worked so hard this season and to achieve a USAG All-American status as a sophomore is

something I am truly proud of,â&#x20AC;? Swirbalus beamed. Having three event finalists this year shows not only the squadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s progress, but also their drive to succeed and get better from year to year. With twelve athletes representing the Red and Blue, it proves the talent that is coming out of the Penn gymnastics program. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With three event finalists I think it was a step in the right direction, moving from one event finalist last year. Next year hopefully the whole team will be there and our goal is to have everyone be an event finalist,â&#x20AC;? Levi added optimistically. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We set a precedent and showed that next year we will be one of the leaders in that arena.â&#x20AC;? As USAG Nationals come to a close, so does Penn gymnasticsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 2016-2017 season of hard work, dedication, and commitment to being a threat to some of the most competitive teams in the country. It is a testament to their teamwork and their drive to succeed beyond expectation.

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Quakers pant and rave about new coach VOLLEYBALL| Players embracing Schumacher-

Cawley and her high-intensity practices. TOMMY ROTHMAN Sports Editor

The turn of the calendar from 2016 to 2017 brought a change in leadership that threatened to throw a once-peaceful community into anarchy. I’m talking, of course, about Penn Athletics. But after three months of being coachless for the first time in 19 years, Penn volleyball is settling in with a new face at the helm. Once longtime coach Kerry Carr stepped down at the end of November following nearly two full decades leading the program, it took the Quakers until the end of February to settle on a new coach in Katie Schumacher-Cawley. It took several weeks more for the new coach to arrive on campus, ending an unusually long period of selfgovernment for a Red and Blue squad that will return the entirety of its roster from last year. But now, with Schumacher-Cawley on campus, the Quakers are organized. Organized, and happy. “She’s awesome,” junior captain Sydney Morton said. “She’s been making us so much better already, and it’s really exciting... She really has a high volleyball IQ, and she knows the words to say to get us motivated and to help fix a particular skill that we’re working on.” Organized, happy, and sweaty. The new coach is not one to overlook the importance of fitness. “Everyone is working so hard going for every single ball, everyone’s sweating so much, to just make a good first impression,” Morton said. “I don’t think I’ve sweat as much since I’ve been here as I have in the past couple weeks,” sophomore outside hitter Courtney Quinn said. “She is pushing us physically, which is definitely what we need, especially after being coachless for a while,” junior captain Kendall Covington said. “I mean, we definitely all held each other accountable during that weird transition period, but as soon as she got here she was like, ‘OK, we need to get back in actual D1 collegiate volleyball shape.’” But while nobody likes running laps in practice, the team knows that it will pay off in the long haul. “I mean sometimes games, when they go to five sets, it’s like two hours, two hours and fifteen minutes of straight volleyball, and in order to get through that you need a ton of endurance,” Covington said. “I think it will help us outlast other teams during games. And when other teams are tired, that’s when they start losing points.” And rather than having her players just run up and down the gym, Schumacher-Cawley is finding a way to keep practices centered on the game. “She’s definitely incorporating cardio into the drills. It’s not just regular conditioning and then volleyball, it’s volleyball and conditioning at the same time,” Covington noted. “So it’s really nice to be killing two birds with one stone, and getting in shape while playing volleyball.” So while practices might not be easy, the players have instantly found the tremendous value in their new leader’s approach, and are handling the always-difficult adjustment to a new coach well. “Everybody has completely embraced Katie,” Morton said. “We want to play for her, and we want to work hard for her.” “She came in super-confident, she knew what she was doing right away,” Covington said. “It’s been go-go-go, we have not been wasting any time. And that’s exactly what everyone wanted. There have been zero complaints so far.” “You can see the change in our program, and even the change in the vibe of our team. She’s really been working us out hard, but we love it,” Quinn said. “We’re all-in, we’re all into it.”

GYMNASTICS | Quakers find success at

Nationals as season comes to a close

REINA KERN Sports Reporter

It was a successful weekend for Penn gymnastics as twelve members of the squad travelled to Seattle, Washington to compete at USAG Nationals. With five of these twelve members being freshmen, the underclassmen were well represented at this elite level competition. However, the three finalists from Penn were more experienced gymnasts in Nicole Swirbalus from the sophomore class, Kyra Levi from the junior class and Rachel Graham from the senior class. “This was really special for me because I didn’t go to Nationals last year, and being able to represent my team in finals was really awesome being that there were so many girls there,” said Swirbalus, who

competed in floor, beam and vault. Rachel Graham felt the experience at USAG Nationals was a rewarding beyond just the competition. “It was amazing getting to be with our teammates and explore Seattle. It was really special to compete with them one last time,” Graham reflected on her final performance as a Quaker. While it was a great bonding experience for each gymnast flying crosscountry with the team, it was time to work once they stepped foot in the arena. It was time to put their season of training to the test and represent Penn on a big stage. SEE GYMNASTICS PAGE 8

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Former discus star Mattis trains for Tokyo 2020 dream

Wharton grad opts for training over JP Morgan YOSEF WEITZMAN Sports Editor-Elect

While the road to Rio may have ended in disappointment for Penn athletes last summer, at least one is hoping to find redemption and secure a ticket to Tokyo for the 2020 Olympics. For 2016 Wharton graduate Sam Mattis, the decision to continue his discus training after college wasn’t a hard one. Mattis came up just short of his ultimate goal at the 2016 Olympic Trials, but he knew all along that he wasn’t done with discus. Despite fielding an impressive job offer from JP Morgan, Mattis decided to spurn Wall Street and invest in himself instead. Now training at his coach’s farm just outside of Reading, Pennsylvania, Mattis is doing everything he can to make it to Tokyo. For Mattis, a typical day involves waking up before 8 AM and not getting back home until

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Despite just missing out on Olympic glory in 2016, Wharton grad Sam Mattis has decided to spurn Wall Streetis and has already begun training for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.

after 8 in the evening. In between, Mattis will usually have two stretching sessions, two throwing sessions, and a lifting

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session out of his coach’s barn that was converted into a weight room. On “off days,” Mattis only does one of each session

and works on his mobility with a trainer. And if all that isn’t enough, Mattis also holds down a part

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time marketing job at a local pharmacy. “It’s still somewhat of a mental grind, but it’s more physical. It would’ve been a grind mentally to hold down a job that I was looking at JP Morgan, that probably would have been like 15 hours a day or so — yeah investment banking, real fun stuff,” Mattis joked. While Mattis has enjoyed being able to focus more on his training, he still does his best to keep in touch with all of his friends and teammates from Penn. Just two weeks ago, Mattis came back to compete in the Penn Challenge as an unattached competitor, and he hosted Penn senior thrower Noah KennedyWhite for training over spring break. “You’re never going to replace someone at that competitive level,” Penn track and field coach Steve Dolan said. “You know obviously, he’s the best in school history, so there is certainly a void with that level of competition. But I’m proud of the group, I think they’ve

rallied.” And while Mattis’ final goal remains the same, he has plenty more to rally for over the course of the next three and a half years. In addition to smaller meets like the Penn Challenge, Mattis is also hoping to make the cut for the World Championships in 2017 and 2019. As the record-holder for the longest throw in American collegiate history and the 2015 NCAA national champion, Mattis’ goals are certainly not long shots. But still, only three competitors can make the US Olympic team in each event, so Mattis has his work cut out for him over the next several years. And as bold as Mattis’ decision to continue his training was, he has no regrets. “I was definitely going to continue training no matter what — this is something that I love to do,” Mattis said. How far Mattis can go with his discus throwing remains to be seen, but one thing is for sure: Sam Mattis is throwing caution to the wind and going all in.