April 11, 2017

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TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 2017

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Acme will replace Fresh Grocer, U. says

A Starbucks and beer garden will be inside the Acme ISABELLA FERTEL, TOM NOWLAN & KELLY HEINZERLING Staff Reporter, News Editor & Staff Reporter

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

ATHLETES FROM OVERSEAS Janet Zhang Kristen Ho Serena Xue Wendy Yang Ashley Zhu Alex Ridenour Canada

Sweden

Alex Norman Jessica Davis England

Ciara Multari Kim Phan Canada

Jakub Mijakowski Marta Kowalska Poland Bart Roovers Netherlands

Lina Qostal Morrocco Kana Daniel Spain

Dan Harris Louis Davis Jamaica Sergio Roman Ecuador

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Luba Vazhenina Dmitry Shatalin Russia

Isabella Rahm

Melissa Alves French Guiana

Zsombor Garzo Hungary Rowaida Attia Karim Hussein Marwin Mahmoud Egypt

Pierre Aymerich Raphael Van Hoffelen Marie Stephan France

Anaka Alankamony Oj Singh Rahil Fazelbhoy India

Kristen Sun Hong Kong Michelle Wong Malaysia Ria Vaidya Ria Vaidya Singapore Singapore

CARTER THOMPSON | Sports Reporter

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

Other universities to house travel banaffected students

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.

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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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