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Students survive Amtrak crash

Rising Engineering senior recounts his experience on the train DAN SPINELLI News Editor

At least one Penn student was in the Amtrak train that derailed two weeks ago.

Engineering senior and former Daily Pennsylvanian staffer Josh Pearlstein was seated in the third car of Northeast Regional Train No. 188, which was traveling from Washington, D.C. to New York before it went off the tracks.

Eight passengers died in the accident, with all other passengers being

accounted for now.

Pearlstein boarded the train at 30th Street Station and planned to get off in Newark, N.J. He had been on the train for about 10 minutes before he felt the car going too fast around a bend.

“It didn’t occur to me that the train was going too fast until we turned,” he said.

Trains are generally restricted to 50 miles per hour upon entering the curve, Robert Sumwalt, a National Transportation Safety Board official, said in a news conference. The Amtrak train was clocked at 106 mph — over twice the speed limit SEE AMTRAK PAGE 2

PENN GRADS ENCOURAGED TO MAKE “TANGIBLE DIFFERENCE” Samantha Power told graduates to find a “world outside Penn” CAROLINE SIMON News Editor

At the 259th Commencement Ceremony at Franklin Field, United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations Samantha Power warned the Class of 2015 about international problems — and provided tangible ways to solve them.

“The world outside Penn’s walls leaves a lot to be desired. That is diplomatic speak for things are really screwed up,” Power said. “But there are four ways that — no matter the field or the profession, the country or the scale — you can improve your odds of making a tangible difference in a world that needs you.”

Power used real-world examples from past and present to encourage graduates to “act as if,” “know something about something,” “bring others along” and “humanize your cause.” She illustrated her points by discussing topics that ranged from Boko Haram extremist violence and Ebola outbreaks to Benjamin Franklin’s SEE COMMENCEMENT PAGE 5

The Class of 2015 gathers on Franklin Field for the 259th Commencement Ceremony, featuring United States Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power.

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Where it all began: Students revisit their freshman hall

Pitching in: Penn Masala appears in Pitch Perfect 2

Three years later, the hall reunites for Hey Day

The a capella group was the only real college team in the film

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LAVI BEN DOR Staff Reporter

The narrow and normally stuffy hallway of Riepe College House is now completely claustrophobic. Almost 20 students are crammed into the winding space, dressed in their bright red T-shirts and styrofoam hats.

They haven’t all stood together in this hall for two years. The students, now juniors, all met when they lived in this hall their freshman year. Now, as they celebrate Hey Day after three years at Penn, they’re back to pay their old stomping grounds a visit.

I’m pressed up against the wall firmly as they crowd around me. Rising College senior Spencer Jaffe, who has appointed himself my guide for the day, gives me a breakdown of his friends’ freshman personas. “So all of us lived here, in this hall, our freshman year. We are all still really close friends, and all of us still live with other people from this hall,” he says excitedly. He’s ready to elaborate, but one of his former hallmates cuts him off affectionately.

“Spencer, she’s not taking notes. Do you

Few Penn students can say that they have appeared in a film that had the biggest-ever opening for a musical movie. But when “Pitch Perfect 2” debuted on May 15 and earned almost $70 million over its first weekend, the members of Penn’s South Asian all-male a cappella group, Penn Masala, earned that distinction.

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Almost a dozen Penn Masala members appear in the movie, which is a sequel to the 2012 film about competitive collegiate a cappella singing, as the Indian national team at the world a cappella championship. They, along with several other ensembles from around the world, performed Journey’s “Any Way You Want It.” Each group in the sequence sang their portions of the song in a language of the country they represented.

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— before beginning its turn.

“The first real feeling I felt was leaning to one side and then we just kept leaning — tilted beyond the point of where you’re supposed to.

And then everyone started screaming,” Pearlstein recalled.

After the train derailed, the first three cars toppled over and fell down the sloping field next to tracks in the Frankford section of northeast Philadelphia. As the third car fell completely on its side, gravel “came through the train window, so everyone was full of dust and dirt,” he said.

“The glasses had broken, windows had broken, people had rolled out,” he recalled.

Pearlstein, who sustained a head injury with some bruises, was taken by police to Aria Frankford Hospital around 11 p.m. or 12 a.m. the night of the crash. The passengers who were in critical condition were brought first to area hospitals, including Aria Frankford and Temple University Hospital. Pearlstein was released the morning after the derailment and brought home to Newark.

Other passengers in the first few cars did not survive the night.

“There were people [that were] incredibly injured and there may

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have been fatalities in my train car,” Pearlstein said.

“I was very lucky.”

Nearly two weeks after the derailment, passengers began receiving back some of their luggage that had been lost in the accident.

“I got some of my stuff back, but lost some things,” Pearlstein said in a later interview on May 25.

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Amtrak also reached out to passengers about compensating for lost luggage.

“They said I should be getting a letter in the mail with compensation information in the next few days,” Pearlstein said.

Amtrak had been mandated by Congress to install a safety system called positive train control along

all of its rail lines. This safety mechanism, which according to The New York Times is designed to “keep trains below maximum speed,” was not implemented in the area where the train derailed. Positive train control has been installed in three other sections along the Northeast Corridor.

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Congress denied a bid to raise Amtrak’s funding in a 30-21 vote out of a committee meeting of the House of Representatives. Democrat leaders harshly criticized their Republican colleagues for denying the train operators more funding.

“It is absolutely stunning to me,” Former Democratic Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell said of the

funding vote to The New York Times. Rendell, a 1965 College graduate, has been vocally critical of Congress for not funding infrastructure in the past.

“It shows that ideology trumps reality, and it shows that cowardice reigns in Washington. The callousness and disregard was shockingly contemporaneous,” he said.

On Friday, Amtrak sent an email to its subscribers from President and Chief Executive Officer Joe Boardman.

“Amtrak takes full responsibility and deeply apologizes for our role in this tragic event,” Boardman wrote in the email.

He also described the formation of a Family Assistance Center in Philadelphia “to work closely with the family of passengers and crew on the train.”

Boardman did not reveal any findings about the cause of the accident, though he affirmed Amtrak’s commitment to “completing Positive Train Control implementation in the Northeast Corridor by December of 2015.”

Earlier this week, investigators confirmed that the engineer of the train, Brandon Bostian, made calls and texts on his cell phone the day of the derailment. According to NBC News, it was not confirmed whether he used his phone while conducting the train.

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College graduate Elizabeth Banks chose them to appear in the movie. According to Deke Sharon, a vocal producer and arranger for the film, Banks wanted a South Asian group to appear in the scene to establish the high stakes of the international event.

Sharon immediately recommended Penn Masala because he thought that they were “the biggest, best American South Asian a cappella group” and knew of their renown in the U.S. and India.

Penn Masala’s members recorded the song in Hindi in May 2014 and filmed the scene over a week during the following month

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in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, becoming the only real-life college a cappella group to appear in the film.

“We took the experience one step at a time and tried to make the most out of it. We didn’t really know what to expect, and we just tried to enjoy everything,” rising College senior and Penn Masala president Chetan Khanna said.

“It was an absolutely phenomenal experience and something that I never imagined being able to experience as a college student.”

Sharon said that although the tempo, key and form of the song were predetermined, Penn Masala’s members were given freedom to make their rendition of the piece their own.

“We wanted them to be as

authentic and creative as possible, so when you juxtapose it against [the other groups’ performances], you hear these different styles and sounds popping out,” Sharon said.

In fact, he said, the song for the scene was chosen to represent the idea that “you can have a cappella ‘any way you want it,’ in any of these different styles from all around the world,” which is why he worked with Penn Masala to give their performance more of a distinct South Asian flavor.

“The nature of the human voice is a great equalizer, so we really wanted them to go toward the tambura and tabla and [other] Indian classical instruments — these iconic sounds that are in the collective unconscious at this point,” Sharon said. “Everybody

knows the sound of great Indian music, so we wanted to make sure that their blend of South Asian pop music and American pop music that they do really well leans toward the South Asian side.”

Members of the group attended the premiere of “Pitch Perfect 2” at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles on May 8, when they saw their scene in the film for the first time and later got to interact with some of the stars of the movie, including the Grammy Award-winning group Pentatonix and members of the Green Bay Packers.

“Obviously, having had a chance to film was enough for us — we were super excited to be in the movie, and we were not even expecting at all to be invited to

the premiere,” Khanna said. “For each of us individually as college students, to attend a movie premiere is a really cool experience, and getting to soak up the entire experience was absolutely unbelievable.”

Penn Masala’s business manager and rising Wharton junior Pranay Sharma said that the entire experience was surreal.

“At the end of the day, we’re just brothers and sons. We all [heard] our families going to see the movie and people sent us Snapchats, pictures, Facebook messages and whatnot from it,” Sharma said. “It’s weird for us to think that people all around us are seeing this movie when we just flew in for one week and lip synced on stage, so it’s pretty

cool.”

Sharma said that he hopes that Penn Masala’s appearance in “Pitch Perfect 2” opens up new doors for the group in the future.

“It’s a totally different direction for us in terms of what we normally do — it’s the first time that we’re taking an English song and straight up covering it in Hindi,” Sharma said. “It’s a refreshing change of pace, and hopefully people will like it and appreciate it.”

“It’s a very interesting spot where we’ve never been before, so I’m curious to see how we can push the limits on what new projects we come out with, and I think it will be interesting for folks to see what direction we take our music after this,” he added.

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LETTERS HAVE YOUR OWN OPINION? Write us! The SP encourages guest submissions from the Penn community. Submissions can be up to 700 words long. The SP reserves the right to edit for accuracy, clarity, grammar and DP style. The SP does not guarantee publication of any submission. Send submissions to Opinion Editor Katiera Sordjan at sordjan@thedp.com.

The SP wants to ensure that all content is accurate and be transparent about any inaccuracies. If you have a comment or question about the fairness or accuracy of any content in the print or online editions, please email corrections@thedp.com.

ANNEKA DECARO is a rising College sophomore from Austin. Her email address is annekaxiv@gmail.com.

No more rain checks GIRL, INTERRUPTING | California’s drought calls for serious action

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remember California rain.

When I was little, it rained often in the winter, and fairly regularly in the fall too: Lazy early morning showers that darkened the pavement; steady afternoon downpours that coaxed the ocean into a broil; sudden, desperate late night thunderstorms that woke me from deep sleeps and illuminated my bedroom in bright flashes of lightning.

These days, California rain hardly exists outside those memories. For the past four years, my home state has faced one of the most severe droughts in its history. Precipitation and snowfall have reached record lows. Reservoirs have dried up almost to the point of disappearing entirely.

A number of inland areas no longer have access to running water, some for more than a year. In another year, the state will have completely exhausted its reservoirs.

Environmental issues feel abstract and distant in Philadelphia, experienced in their extremes only through news items and stories,

through conversations in science and political science classes that end at the close of a lecture and through brief bouts of social activism like

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an effort to encourage Californians to reduce water usage by a quarter. Fresh from a wet spring in Philadelphia, I arrived home in May to find the

Environmental issues feel abstract and distant in Philadelphia, experienced … through brief bouts of social activism like the campus referendum for fossil fuel divestment.”

the campus referendum for fossil fuel divestment. But in California they have become unavoidable as the drought has progressively worsened, coloring the landscape and creeping into residents’ daily routines.

As a result, Californians have been forced into action. Many responses, including Governor Jerry Brown’s, have focused on decreasing water consumption. Restrictions have made waste punishable with hefty fines in

lawns in my neighborhood dead and brown and the cars parked along the curbs streaked with dust. At home, we minimized our water usage by reusing water in multiple household tasks and limiting our daily showers to under five minutes, always trying to keep water from escaping down the drain.

In Santa Cruz, the debate over what should be done continues in full force. Battle lines have been drawn between those who advocate building

a desalination plant that would convert saltwater into drinkable freshwater and those who argue that such a plant would be too expensive, too harmful to local fish and wildlife and too high in energy usage.

What these latter arguments often fail to acknowledge is that the proposed alternatives to desalination — more water restrictions, conservation-oriented changes in landscaping and construction and aquifer restoration, to name a few — are at best temporary fixes for a problem that some scientists estimate may last for decades. If the drought continues, such efforts are more likely to only delay the establishment of desalination plants while Californians suffer through increasingly untenable drought conditions and restrictions in order to put off taking more dramatic action.

When it comes to the environment, this tendency toward half measures and stall tactics is hardly new — not in California, a state which has garnered a reputation for eco-

friendliness and routinely set the standard for environmental policy in the United States, and not in the rest of the country either. In recent years, exceptions for the automotive, lumber and gas and oil industries have weakened environmental legislation. Florida officials have reportedly banned the term “climate change” from their public speeches and documents. And improvements to climate-friendly public transportation infrastructure have been repeatedly put off or eschewed entirely.

I understand that these projects don’t come without a price — and a high one. But now, as the effects of climate change can be felt from flooded Vermont to snowy Massachusetts to arid California, I think the price for not acting may be even higher.

We should always be weighing those costs against the costs of inaction: the agriculture revenue that will be lost, the people that will go without running water, the memories of California rain that grow hazier with every dry year. And, as we move

ANNIKA NEKLASON toward the next referendum, the next vote for politicians who control policy, the next point at which we have a say, we should stop pretending that what we’re doing now is enough, that all the small sacrifices we’re making to avoid the big ones will somehow fix the world without us paying steeply

ANNIKA NEKLASON is a rising College junior from Santa Cruz, Calif., studying English. Her email address is neklason@sas.upenn. edu.

A letter from the Vietnamese Student Association GUEST COLUMN BY PATRICK VINH AND TAN CHAN

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he seniors of the Vietnamese Student Association have taken great time to collect all accounts of what happened during the VSA Barbecue on April 17 in order to create a clear timeline of events. Unfortunately, we believe the article previously written by a Daily Pennsylvanian reporter (04/27/15) is a misrepresentation of the events that occurred during Fling as well as our response to those events. We are submitting this opinion piece in order to better contextualize what transpired.

The VSA Barbecue took place on the porch of a house on 41st and Spruce streets. On the day of the barbecue, several different groups of white students walked by making racially insensitive statements such as “Wo ai ni” and “Ni hao.” Other individuals made racist gestures, such as pulling their eyes to create “slanted eyes.”

When students came up to our porch and demanded a burger, they were told the barbecue was a closed event for members of VSA. One of the groups responded with comments such as “What?

Just because I don’t look like you

guys means I can’t get a burger?”

We repeated that the barbecue was a closed event. At that point, a black student donning an Oz Fling tank, commented that he “watches anime” and “eats rice.”

(We would like to emphasize that this individual was not the main instigator of all the events that occurred.)

At about 3 p.m., this same black student returned with other people we presume to be his friends or fraternity brothers and continued to harass our organization. One of the white students came up to the porch and said “Remember me?”

We respectfully told him to leave the property, but he and two other white males refused.

The argument escalated as more students began walking up onto the porch. Several people on the street joined in, and a mob soon formed around our porch. A group of people in particular began chanting, “F**k you chinks,” and one individual threw his drink, splashing several of our VSA members with alcohol.

Another individual had grabbed one of our members’ wrists and proceeded to say “F**k you, Asian bitch.” Threats were exchanged

between both parties. Eventually, the situation de-escalated when we expressed the possibility of calling law enforcement.

The altercation made VSA members feel cornered and attacked, which is why we decided to pursue the issue. A letter was sent to all VSA members to discuss what happened and get opinions from more members as to where to go from there.

Before a decision was made, VSA was sent an email from the black student of OZ who apologized for his behavior but also seemed to recall a friendlier exchange than what we know to be the truth. We did not believe this apology to be sincere, but we responded that we were waiting to have a meeting with our members before anything else.

At no point did VSA state that we were not open to have a dialogue with OZ about the incident.

We also received emails from administrators who had heard about the incident and wanted to talk with us about how we felt and different courses of actions.

VSA never wanted to make this a discussion only between OZ and VSA, nor do we believe this is a

black-Asian issue as the previously written article might imply. We

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people of color, both on campus and in the nation’s communities at

We chose not to pursue criminal charges as an organization because we wanted the aftermath to focus around education and awareness rather than punishment.”

wanted to use these incidents as an opportunity to bring awareness to how minorities are often treated on campus and call for more sensitivity and understanding from members of the Penn community.

We chose not to pursue criminal charges as an organization because we wanted the aftermath to focus around education and awareness rather than punishment. For that reason, we suggested that individual members who felt strongly affected by the incident to pursue charges separately.

What we faced is not an isolated incident of racism. Time and time again, we have witnessed acts of racial prejudice committed against

large. The incidents are too many to count.

In 2011, a black student named Christopher Abreu wrote in the DP about his encounter with a group of white students who confronted him with racially prejudicial remarks.

Two years ago, a student named Dephanie Jao and two friends were approached by a group of students from Drexel University on Locust Walk, who attempted to kiss them forceably as part of a scavenger hunt item to “hook up with three Asians.” And this past December, a campus fraternity, Phi Delta Theta, published a Christmas card of its members posing alongside a dark-skinned female blow up doll.

These incidents remind us of the systemic nature of racism and of the constant burden that people of color themselves must shoulder to voice and justify their hurt. By having our story told, we wish to support those voices that have come before us.

VSA is one of the more diverse cultural organizations at Penn, and we pride ourselves in that. As an organization, we wish to protect our members from racial violence and discrimination. Asian Americans are often seen as the “passive voice” in these conversations concerning race, but we believe that this is the time to stand together. We ask all those who value a more inclusive campus to stand in solidarity with us.

PATRICK VINH is a recent College graduate from Philadelphia who studied fine arts. His email address is vinhp@sas.upenn.edu.

TAN CHAN is a LPS graduate student from Hialeah, Fla. studying urban environmental studies. Her email address is tanchan@wharton.upenn.edu.

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hat choice.

Although Power emphasized the many world problems that confront today’s graduates, she also took time to remind them of the progress that has already been made — including a decrease in world poverty and growing support of LGBT rights.

“Amidst all the darkness of the world, it can be easy to lose sight of all the bright spots. But look around you: they are all around you,” she said.

College graduate Robert Golden reflected positively on Power’s message. “I thought she was a really impressive, incredible person who has managed to make all the things she’s done and experienced really relatable, which I think is a huge challenge in a graduation speech,” he said.

“I really enjoyed it.”

Arthur K. Asbury, Lee C. Bollinger, Joan Myers Brown, Rita Moreno, Ellen Ochoa and Cass R. Sunstein received honorary Penn degrees at the ceremony along with Power.

Penn President Amy Gutmann echoed Power’s sentiments in her own speech, challenging graduates to embrace the concept of “crossing borders and leaping boundaries.”

Gutmann emphasized that Penn’s mission of global engagement is embodied by the work that Penn students do. “When I talk about bringing the world to Penn and Penn to the world, I’m describing something infinitely more profound than time zone differences and jet plane travel.

I’m imagining the future. And I’m talking about you,” Gutmann said.

Gutmann’s speech included

THURSDAY, MAY 28, 2015 a video that highlighted the diverse global backgrounds of Penn students, then morphed into a special Penn version of the Game of Thrones theme, complete with a zooming view of pop-up campus landmarks accompanied by the famous theme song.

Gutmann explained that some aspects of the world of Game of Thrones are similar to our own world — specifically, struggles with international politics, violence and borders. “Despite the magic and giants, the white walkers and dragons, we all can identify something real in Westeros,” she said.

But, she said, Penn graduates have the power and knowledge to face these problems: “Today each of you crosses a very special border – between your years as a student and your worldly achievements yet to come,” she said.

“The unexpected awaits you.”

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What former Fels instructor Jim Kenney’s win means for Penn Debate over education funding to heat up LUIS FERRE SADURNI Staff Reporter

It may still be six months until Philadelphia’s general election for mayor, but it looks like the city already has its new chief executive.

Former City Councilman Jim Kenney won the Philadelphia Democratic primary for mayor last Tuesday with 55.83 percent of the vote. The former professor at the Fels Institute of Government overwhelmingly defeated the other five candidates by amassing a coalition of progressive voters that crossed racial lines.

State Sen. Anthony H. Williams came in second with 26.11 percent of the votes, followed by former District Attorney Lynne Abraham,

former Philadelphia Gas Works senior vice president Doug Oliver, former City Solicitor Nelson Diaz and former state Sen. Milton Street — whose voting percentages were all in the single digits.

Kenney will face off against Republican candidate Melissa Murray Bailey in the Nov. 3 general election. However, experts expect an easy win for Kenney due to his challenger’s political inexperience and the city’s overwhelming Democratic electorate. Not to mention the fact that Philadelphia hasn’t seen a Republican mayor in the last six decades.

In the election for City Council, 1986 College graduate W. Wilson Goode lost his reelection campaign, while 1993 College graduate Helen Gym finished well enough in the primary to all but guarantee her a seat on Council in

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1975 College graduate Sherrie Cohen lost her second bid for City Council, narrowly trailing Gym in the primary results.

1978 College graduate and Republican Ward Leader Matt Wolfe lost his campaign for an at-large seat to the City Council. Republicans are generally guaranteed two seats on the Council per a city ordinance reserving two spots for members of the minority party.

The issue that dominated both the mayoral and Council races was education.

In recent years the local education system has been plagued by budgetary deficits and countless school closings.

“In terms of public education, Kenney has been very clear, and the support that he has gotten from the teachers union suggests so, that it is something he’ll respect. He thinks that public education has to be a top priority,” local politics expert and St. Joseph’s University professor Randall Miller said.

If Kenney takes office, the debate over Payments in Lieu of Taxes, or PILOTs, will likely resurface given Kenney’s commitment to finding new sources of revenues for the education system.

PILOTs are voluntary contributions that nonprofit organizations make to finance essential services like trash collection, police and fire protection.

A great part of the local school funding relies on revenues from property taxes, which Penn and other nonprofits are exempt from paying under Pennsylvania law.

A PILOT program would help the debt-ridden school district, supporters say.

From 1995 to 2000, Penn had an agreement under which the university paid an estimated $9 million in PILOTs. The University has not participated in a PILOTs program since then.

This year, Penn has received pressure from activists, students and local officials to provide PILOTs. “For a university with Penn’s wealth, and that is supposed

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to educate people to serve the public, paying PILOTs would be completely in line with Penn’s mission,” Penn Democrats President and College senior Sean Foley said.

The current mayor, Michael Nutter, hasn’t shown active support for a PILOT program. In March he told The Philadelphia Inquirer that he doesn’t “think a PILOT program here, or demonstrated in any other city, is the kind of sustainable, long-term, serious funding that our school system needs.”

The University stated that its economic and social contributions to the city alleviate the loss in taxes due to Penn’s nonprofit status.

In particular, Penn cites its $800,000 annual subsidy to the Penn Alexander School, its partnership with local schools through the Netter Center for Community Partnerships and the thousands of jobs it creates as the city’s largest private employer.

Unlike the incumbent mayor, Kenney has explicitly stated his support for a more rigorous citywide PILOTs program.

In his online platform for education Kenney draws on Boston’s successful “PILOT Task Force”, which helped the Massachusetts city receive $23 million through PILOTs in 2013. This amount

overwhelmingly surpasses Philadelphia’s collection of about $500,000 through PILOTs in 2011.

His platform states that due to Philadelphia’s larger city size Kenney, “is committed to at least collecting as much in PILOTs ... as Boston does currently.”

The City Council seems to be on the same page as Kenney. On March 26, the Council passed a resolution asking Nutter to issue an executive order requesting taxexempt nonprofit organizations to make voluntary payments to help fund city schools.

Miller thinks that Kenney, a 23 year veteran of the City Council, will have a good working relationship with the city’s legislators.

“Together they will come up with some type of funding proposal. They’re not going to solve the public school problem. But they can do a lot in the short term, instead of having this constant bickering and battering that we’ve seen over the last years,” he said.

If Kenney takes office next year, his promised support for a PILOT program, along with City Council’s existing efforts to address the local education system could align cohesively. Come January, Penn might be facing more pressure for PILOTs than it currently does from the local Philadelphia government.

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College is out for the summer, and so are red solo cups. Don’t bring the frat party to your grandma’s house. But here are some better alcohol consumption methods for when you want to get #turnt this summer (maybe even granny will join!)

Strawberry shots This delicious, in season fruit can easily be turned into an edible shot glass! Take out the stem (cutting away enough room for the shot) and fill it

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BY ELENA MODESTI

If you’re like me, you usually find about three songs to listen to over and over again during the summer. Eventually, you listen to them so much that one more play of said song could lead to self-

implosion (see: “Take It Kesha as an example).

In order to avoid down three more songs to loathe by the end of here is a compilation of of latest, and possibly

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with alcohol. Remember to wash the strawberries first because, even when you’re getting strawblackout sanitation is important.

Alcoholic snow cones Your favorite carnival is getting an adult twist. Mix the syrup with your favorite alcohol and then pour it over the ice!

Amy WINEhouse Edward 40 hands is such a winter game. This summer, tape wine bottles to your friends’ hands and enjoy!

Slap the birdhouse Summer is the perfect time to break our your birdhouse!

Fill your birdhouse with your favorite mixed drink and then chug until you can’t anymore (or die).

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When in desperate need to be drunk, an IV of Everclear straight to the vein will always do the trick.

Blue solo cups They may be more expensive than the traditional red but it’s really worth it.

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summer “jams” for all of your angst-y mood swings. So slap on your headphones, and enjoy these handpicked musical gems. (full disclosure: these were picked by a white, 19-year-old freshman girl.

If that isn’t already obvious.)

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Atlas Hands- Benjamin Francis Leftwich (Thomas Jack Remix) Clothes Off – (Whipped Cream Edit) Brooklyn Baby – Lana Del Rey (Monsieur Adi Remix) Ignition/Do you Like… – Pheobe Ryan Lost – Frank Ocean Childs Play- Chance the Rapper & Sza Senior Skip Say – Mac Miller Settle down – 1975 (Young Ruffian Remix)

Summer Break Up Ed. note: you shouldn’t be listening to music you should be revenge fucking his best friend.

Happy Home - Hedegaard (Matoma Remix) Modern Drift- Efterklang Kiss Me/ XO – Louisa Wendorff Decisions – Atticus Beats James Dean – Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. Gooey (Gilligan Moss Remix) – Glass Animals Blank Space/ Style- Louisa Wendorff

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Maybe they moved in late. Maybe they moved in early. Maybe they sing in the shower, or they don’t talk at all. Regardless, they’re pissing off your roommates who expect you to handle it from whatever beach you’re currently tanning on.

Here are a few things easier than dealing with your new subletter: 1. Dealing with your old subletter.

2. Meeting the demands of your current high maintenance roommate.

3. Paying off your surprise Campus Apartments fees.

4. Figuring out if your end-of-semester hook-up will continue into the summer.

5. Explaining to your parents that you had to sublet your $1000/month room for only $540/month because it was the only offer.

6. Solving that Rubik’s cube your parents bought you after your first A in elementary school (when your teacher first told them you were “gifted”).

7. Finding a formal date in less than 24 hours.

8. Finding a formal date (that none of your friends have hooked up with) in less than 24 hours.

9. Having Starbucks correctly make your betchy vanilla-caramel-half/caf-nonfat frappa-latte.

10. Requesting off for July 4th weekend even though you are the bottom intern.

11. Figuring out how to get your underage ass into Smokes.

12. Avoiding your high school ex (and his mom, and his dad, and his four siblings) for the whole summer.

13. Finding free parking in West Philly on a workday.

14. Organizing a road trip while all of your friends are busy with their high-paying internships.

15. Getting your new subletter to agree to GTFO in time for you to move back in for NSO.

Road Tripping

Bitch Better Have My Money – Rihanna (Hitimpulse remix) Ridin’ – Lana Del Rey/ ASAP Rocky Mother Protect (Goldroom Remix)- Niki & the Dove Intoxicated – Martin Solveig & GTA Lean on – Major Lazer & DJ Snake Hollywood- RAC (Penguin Prison) The Matrimony – Wale Wet Dreamz- J. Cole

Overplayed Songs that Should be Popular Again The Sweet Escape – Gwen Stefani ft. Akon (SMLE Remix) Young Hearts – Strange Talk (Chainsmokers Remix) Firefly- The White Panda Me & U – Cassie (Dr. Fresch’s Let’s Go Home Remix) Sweet Serenade- Pusha T (Ft Chris Brown)

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New mental health policies engage faculty at Penn Report recommends Faculty Ambassador position BRYN FERGUSON Staff Reporter

A possible addition to Penn’s mental health policies and procedures may change how the faculty interacts with students.

Following the report of the Task Force on Student Psychological Health and Welfare published in February, the faculty Senate Committee on Students and Educational Policy was given the responsibility of considering follow-up action on the recommendations given by the task force committee.

The committee recommended the creation of a Faculty Ambassador for Mental Health and Wellness, based on the observation of the task force that “while faculty and teaching assistants often observe symptoms of student distress (absences, poor test performance, late papers, etc.), they don’t always know when or how best to intervene.”

Engineering professor Paulo E. Arratia is one of the members of the SCSEP who worked on the creation

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really think she cares? Nobody cares,” she says sarcastically.

Jaffe responds by tackling her into a side-armed hug and planting a kiss on her cheek.

Three years after meeting for the first time, the hall acts as though it’s still the middle of their freshman year. Their arms drape lazily around each other’s shoulders, and they joke with each other with ease.

This hall, which hosted the Riepe College House Mentors Program, has a special bond. The program required the students, as freshmen at Penn, to become

and now possible implementation of the Faculty Ambassador program.

“One of the things we were discussing in our committee was how can we better involve faculty in the matters of student well-being,” Arratia said. “That was the beginning of the thinking process.”

Arratia said that his committee consulted with co-chairs of the task force: Rebecca Bushnell, School of Arts and Sciences Board of Overseers and professor of English, and Anthony Rostain, Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics and Director of Education for the Department of Psychiatry at the Perelman School of Medicine, as well as staff members of Counseling and Psychological Services.

“Talking to Rebecca and Anthony and some other people at CAPS, it became clear we also needed to educate the faculty in the long-term about mental health issues,” he said.

The SCSEP has proposed the idea for Faculty Ambassadors, a role Arratia explained would serve as a “point person” for advising faculty on the resources available to them for helping

students struggling with mental health problems.

Each department would have at least one of these ambassadors.

“It is not quite rational to think that all 4500 faculty will be able to be trained with the skills to be effective [in helping students struggling psychologically],” Reed Pyeritz, Faculty Senate chair, professor of Medicine and Genetics and vice-chair for Faculty Affairs in the Department of Medicine, said. “A cadre of faculty will be trained to be a resource.”

mentors to local elementary school children. “That brought us all together, and a lot of us still mentor today,” Jaffe explained.

The mentor program, generally considered one of the more rigorous residential programs within the College House system, is what many of the residents attribute their close-knit community to.

“Everyone will say their freshman halls were memorable. But we built up great friendships that extend beyond our time at Penn.

We also helped give back to the West Philadelphia community each week, something not every hall had the chance to do,” rising Wharton senior Chad Payne said.

Rising College senior Jordan

Huynh, who also lived on the hall, agreed. “I can’t imagine living in a closer, more loving, more exciting hall,” he said. “Everything seems perfect in hindsight. If anything, I wish I could find a way to make it last forever,” he added.

The students reminisce together as they stand in their former hall.

They remember who took who to their formals and date nights, and they remember their hall dinners at Hill Dining Hall. They remember jokingly placing a sign reading “I just had sex” on each other’s doors, and how Huynh often made himself at home in the dorm room of rising Wharton senior and Daily Pennsylvanian Social Media Director Steven Tydings

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because faculty do play an important role.”

Pyeritz said that the program would initially be piloted in the four undergraduate schools to see how it is best implemented and to see how the ambassadors would best be trained.

The proposal for Faculty Ambassadors was presented to and approved by the Faculty Senate earlier this month and will now be recommended to the administration for implementation.

So far, those involved are optimistic about the initiative’s potential.

“I am confident that a lot of people are on board with this program,” Arratia said. “Students would be made aware about it and they will feel, I hope, the benefits of the program.”

As for implementation, Arratia said that the timeline depends on how well-received the program is by the administration, but is hoping that it will be put into place by next academic year if it is approved.

“I strongly believe that this will be beneficial to the students, to the faculty and to the community in general,” he added.

and watched TV, even if Tydings wasn’t there.

When a girl who currently lives on the hall walks out of her room in a towel and walks into the bathroom, she is greeted with cheers of excitement followed quickly by confusion when she enters what they remembered to be the men’s bathroom.

As the bathroom door closes behind her, another resident appears. Almost instinctively, the juniors join together in cheers of “Once a mentor, always a mentor.”

In many ways, that attitude describes the bond their hall shares.

As freshmen, the mentors moved in a day early to undergo training for their program and quickly bonded through their shared experiences and passions.

“That one night we all hung out, before everyone else was there, as one big, cohesive group. We all got to know each other so well so early on,” Jaffe said.

That sentiment has echoed beyond the juniors. Rising Engineering sophomore Shritama Ray, who lived in the Mentors Program this year, also attributed some of the hall’s tight-knit feeling to the fact that they moved in early. “Spending that whole first day and first night together was really important. We got to know each other and each other’s families, and we did a lot of really cool activities that revealed a lot about each other very quickly,” she said.

Fels Institute of Government master’s student and GA for the Mentors Program last year Chase Staub agreed. “Within a few hours, these kids were sitting there talking about their pasts, their families, their fears, their hopes

and dreams. It was a really inspiring first impression,” he said.

Ray said that the bond created in those first few nights, much like it did for the juniors, created a lasting bond in the hall. “It was really great because it was kind of immediately well-established that we were going to become close,” she said. “The people on this hall really did care about the kids [in the elementary school], and we shared that passion,” she added.

For the juniors, that bond has lasted well beyond their freshman year. Even now, most of the juniors live in some capacity with people they met on their hall. “We’ll plan like hall BYOs or something, and like 18 of the 25 people on the hall will show up, because it’s still so important to all of us to see each other and spend time with each other,” Jaffe said.

2012 College graduate and 2013 master’s graduate Hannah Adler was the GA for the Mentors Hall for 2012-2013, and she saw something special in her residents.

“I was really nervous coming into this job. I had just barely graduated college myself, and now it’s like, ‘What the hell am I thinking supervising a bunch of kids?’ But these kids were different. I really adored them,” she said. “They really took it upon themselves to create that community for themselves. Even now, they’re always planning reunions or hanging out. It’s a really cool thing to watch,” she said.

Adler’s affection for her residents was not one-sided. Jaffe and Huynh take time, now outside their hall in the Quadrangle, to remember her fondly. “She was

basically our Jewish mom,” Jaffe said.

Adler agreed warmly. “I was always telling them to drink water and take care of themselves. I feel bad for those kids; their asses got lectured,” she laughed.

Staub took on a similar role with his current hall. “I wasn’t just there as a mentor or a supervisor.

I kind of became a mentor to the mentors,” he said. “I didn’t have to supervise them or worry about them getting into trouble. They were just such a wonderful group of kids that I got to kind of take a step back and enjoy this program with them as more of a friend or colleague,” he said.

“They were great kids,” Alder said. “Seeing how they behaved in the hall really solidified my trust in them. They were always just so nice and friendly and warm.”

Friendship and warmth seems to be the resounding feature of this hall, even today. After they’ve knocked on all their old doors and stood in their hallway shouting at as many current residents as they can find, they trickle out into the Quad where they hug each other again and take pictures on the steps of McClelland.

“I feel like there are two kinds of freshman halls,” Jaffe said.

“Either everyone gets really really close freshman year and you have great memories, but then you kind of drift apart after freshman year, or everyone just hates each other and there’s a bunch of drama.”

“We didn’t have either of those,” he declared. “We just had such a close-knit community, and we hung out all the time. It was really just such a wonderful experience.”

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The faculty members who are selected as ambassadors will receive training from CAPS in how to recognize students in distress, how to approach them and how to help them, according to CAPS director William Alexander.

It has not yet been determined how the ambassadors will be selected.

Arratia stressed the importance of engaging faculty in tackling the mental health issues on campus.

“One comment that was made to us by CAPS is that if a student, a

colleague or a friend refers another student to CAPS, the likelihood that that student will go is low,” he said. “But if a faculty does it, it is more likely a student will actually seek help. So that means that faculty does play a role in the wellbeing of the students, and therefore the faculty need to be aware of that.

That is why we are focusing on the faculty.” “[Faculty Ambassadors] is an enormous improvement in reaching out to students,” Alexander said. “The faculty are pretty important. They are the eyes and ears of the school. They know the student body better than anyone. If a student is going to exhibit difficulty or stress, the faculty is one of the first people who will know about it.”

“From my point of view, it one of the most pressing recommendations,” Arratia said. “There are other recommendations from the task force on how to improve communications to the students of where the resources are, how to better integrate the resources, the capacity for CAPS … those are important as well. But we believe this is very much up in there in the priorities of mental health for students

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There’s really only one way to describe the end of Penn baseball’s season: Frustrating.

The Quakers were supposed to be the best team in the Ivy League. They had the pitching.

They had the offense. They had the preseason hype.

But now, for the second consecutive season, the Red and Blue will be watching the Ivy Championship from afar. After falling to Columbia on Saturday in a one-game playoff to determine the Lou Gehrig division’s winner, the Quaker’s 16-4 regular season Ivy record — the best in program history — turned out to be for naught.

It’s easy to point fingers for the loss.

Ronnie Glenn lasted just 1.1 innings in the biggest start of his career. Jonah Campbell struck out with the bases loaded to end the sixth inning in a 2-2 game. Third baseman Jeff McGarry went 0-for-3 with two strikeouts.

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men finished third and the women finished fifth.

This heavy use — along with the facility’s additional use from Penn’s lacrosse and football squads and the University’s annual Spring Fling concert — may have contributed to the need for a new track surface.

Much like the neighboring Palestra, Franklin Field is one of the most culturally significant sports facilities in Philadelphia’s sports history.

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If you want to go back even further in the search for the Quakers’ scapegoat, you could point to Connor Cuff’s abysmal .1-inning, 3-run clanker of a start last Sunday. If the Quakers had won that game — they ended up falling 8-6 to the Lions in extras — there would have been no need for a playoff game, and the Red and Blue would be preparing to take on Dartmouth for the Ivy championship.

Perhaps you could put the blame on McGarry. After coming into the season as Baseball America’s pick for Ivy Player of the Year, the senior turned in a disappointing 2015 campaign, hitting just .262 with four home runs.

However, to engage in such accusations would be an injustice. While it’s hard not to be salty after a second consecutive year of coming up short, Quaker fans must keep in mind that this was a truly superb Penn team.

Catcher Austin Bossart was his usual dominant self at the plate, leading the team with a .358 average. Connor Betbeze and Mitch Montaldo broke out during their senior season, with Montaldo leading the Ancient

Eight with ten homers. Sophomore lefty Mike Reitcheck led the league with a 1.71 ERA and will anchor the rotation in the years to come.

And despite their respective poor final starts, Glenn and Cuff provided valuable leadership on the season, with each securing four wins as Glenn was second in the conference with 48 strikeouts.

So the end to Penn’s season should not be looked at as a failure; it was simply a case of the Quakers not getting the breaks when they desperately needed them. They played five consecutive games against the two-time defending Ivy champion Lions to conclude their season and battled neck-and neck with the conference’s best right to the end.

And though coach John Yurkow has come up just short in each of his first two seasons at the helm, he has instilled a culture of year-after-year excellence in University City.

Without a doubt, the Quakers will be back next season, ready for more.

So there is reason to feel optimism.

But for now, it’s OK to just be frustrated.

From the many runnings of the Penn Relays to the early incarnations of the Philadelphia Eagles, the field has seen a lot in 120 years of existence.

However, although some of its original bricks still stand steadfast today, it is no surprise that this is by no means the first renovation that the facility has seen. In fact, $25 million has been invested in the Frank’s new fitness facility as recently as 2010.

The track’s renovation is a natural extension of Penn Athletics total makeover that has occurred over the past two

years, starting with the hiring of current athletic director M. Grace Calhoun in early 2014.

Calhoun’s hiring has been followed by major coaching turnover amongst Penn’s two marquee sports: football and men’s basketball. Recentlyappointed head coaches Ray Priore and Steve Donahue will surely look to give Penn’s two most historied athletic programs a new look, given their recent struggles.

It is only fitting that the university has followed suit by giving its most historic athletic facility a new look to match.

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League. He also performed well as a punt returner, averaging 19.8 yards per return. With Kyle Wilcox — last year’s leading rusher — and Eric Fiori — last year’s leading kick returner — graduating, Solomon should have every opportunity to pick up where he left off before his injury.

M. Cross Country: Ross Wilson As the only freshman on Penn’s men’s cross country roster to compete at the NCAA Regional Championships last year, Ross Wilson will enter the 2015 with unique experience and a leg up on other young runners in the Ancient Eight. Finishing first among Penn freshmen in all but one XC race last season, Wilson will continue to work on his alreadygreat times, including a 20:03.10 four-mile from September and his 25:12 5K in October. Though rising-senior Thomas Awad will deservedly be the most talked about runner, the Quakers should be set for a few years with such young talent as Ross.

M. Soccer: Luka Martinovic Only 16 players in the Ivy League started more games than Luka Martinovic, an outside back who is no stranger to the college pitch. His 1466 minutes played this past season were fourth on the team and more than any other freshman. While being a back does not lead to many points — though Martinovic did record the game-winning assist in a doubleovertime thriller against Big-5 rival St. Joseph’s — the Bayville,

Natasha Rowland of Cornell.

Look for the Illinois native to show the Ancient Eight how her 5’2� can come up big for the Quakers.

W. Cross Country: Abby Hong If Abby Hong can re-capture her early-season success from 2014, her sophomore season could be one of the strongest in Penn this year. Hong started her collegiate career with a first-place finish at the Big-5 Invitational and a third-place finish at the Main Line Invitational and ultimately scored in her first three meets. While she did not finish as highly in her last three meets, Hong still was the only freshman on the women’s roster to go to the NCAA Regional Championships, and with another year of growth — coupled with success in other Track events including the indoor mile — Hong has the potential to score high in any meet this season.

W. Soccer: Juliana Provini Despite only making three starts, forward Juliana Provini made the most of her minutes.

The Pennsylvania native led the team with nine points and tied for first in goals with three. She recorded two crucial game-winners in back-to-back games against Loyola and Columbia and was a tough player to defend throughout the season. With those responsible for 37 percent of Penn’s goals scored last year have graduated, Provini stands out as the star of the Quaker attack that looks to improve on its third-place Ivy finish under the guidance of new head coach Nicole Van Dyke.

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Sprint Football: Quinn Karam One of Penn’s top tacklers in 2014, linebacker Quinn Karam could anchor a sturdy linebacker corp as he enters his sophomore season. With consistent play in all six games, Karam racked up 34 tackles — 27 solo — which ranked fourth and second on the team, respectively. He stood out as a run-stuffer, recording 4.5 tackles-for-loss for a team that was often overmatched by opposing running backs. For Karam to help steer this defense forward, he will need to get even better at his rush defense while continuing to play well in the pass game — he notched one interception, one break-up and two pass deflections while in coverage. If he takes these strides, Karam can be a star on this defense.

Volleyball: Emmy Friedler While this team was full of young talent this season, only one freshman participated in 88 of 90 sets played this year. Rising sophomore Emmy Friedler headlined the Quaker defense, and though the team was often outplayed, Emmy’s performance as a freshman far surpassed the freshman numbers of any player currently on Penn’s roster. Friedler’s 5.35 digs per set in conference play ranked second in the Ivy League, only surpassed by now-graduated

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BASEBALL SEASON Baseball team makes early exit from postseason, but future looks bright. >> SEE PAGE 9 THURSDAY, MAY 28, 2015

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SPORTS | Matt MacDonald joins squad from Farleigh-Dickinson

FRANKLIN FIELD GETS NEW TRACK to the field itself.

Franklin Field, that is.

Franklin Field — the competitive home to several Penn Athletic COLIN HENDERSON programs, including football and Staff Reporter track — will be closed for the duIt’s been a transitional year for ration of the summer.

Penn Athletics, with the biggest The facilities were closed from news surrounding the Quakers May 11 to 19 to help accommodate coming from the program’s off- Commencement festivities for the the-field makeover. But now, it University’s graduating class, seems that the Red and Blue have after which work began to renobrought their full-scale makeover vate the field’s track. Throughout

The 120-year old stadium to undergo renovations

the summer, the old track surface will be completely excavated and replaced with a new one in time for fall season practices beginning in early September.

With Penn’s athletes on break for the summer, the field’s summer closure should not have much of an effect on Penn Athletics in particular, but rather on the general public. Franklin Field’s track is usually open for public use during normal weekday business hours.

The renovation comes on the heels of a busy past few months for the Frank.

In addition to hosting Commencement, the historic site has also played host to the world’s largest annual track and field meet — the Penn Relays — and the Ivy League outdoor track and field championships, otherwise known as the Heptagonals, in which the SEE FIELD PAGE 9

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It didn’t take long for coach Steve Donahue to get going.

The new man in charge of Penn basketball reeled in Fairleigh Dickinson guard Matt MacDonald, the first transfer the Quakers have added in nearly 15 years. MacDonald played two seasons at FDU and will have to sit one season out before using his two remaining years of eligibility starting with the 2016-17 season.

MacDonald started all but one of the 60 games he played in while with the Knights.

He improved from 8.6 points to 9.0 points per game going from his freshman to sophomore year while also slightly improving his field goal, three-point and free throw percentages.

The 6-foot-5 shooting guard hails from Buffalo, N.Y. and is listed at 185 pounds. He announced that he was coming to Penn via his Twitter account.

When asked in April about the lack of transfers to Penn in recent years, Donahue responded that “We are turning over every stone and we want guys who think this is the right spot for them and I would think we’d have at least one.” Donahue had a hand in recruiting the last set of transfers to Penn, including nowRobert Morris head coach Andy Toole.

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Rising sophomores look to build on solid rookie seasons Sophomores will need to step up after loss of star graduating seniors CARTER COUDRIET Staff Reporter

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Because college athletic rosters reset annually, a standout sophomore who will be around for three more seasons is huge asset for a team looking for long-term success. While many of Penn’s fall sports teams boasted more experienced stars like men’s soccer’s Duke Lacroix and men’s cross-country’s Thomas Awad, the freshmen of 2014 will be relied on to fill the holes left by graduates.

Here are rising-sophomores who can become stars on their teams after promising rookie seasons.

Note: Because of the team nature of the rowing sports, no specific freshmen were chosen for men’s

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heavyweight rowing, men’s lightweight rowing or women’s rowing.

In a strong year overall for freshman rowers, the men’s heavyweight sprinters received the bronze medal in the Freshman Eight competition at the Eastern Sprint Championships and should be major contributors to the varsity squads in their sophomore year.

Field Hockey: Liz Mata While attack Alexa Hoover received the most headlines of last year’s freshmen, goalkeeper Liz Mata could be the next Class of 2018 field hockey athlete to have a breakout season. Penn has lost its 2014 surprise starter Allison Weisenfels to graduation, making it Mata’s job to lose. While she was lackluster in her only start last season, Mata has a history of being a top goal-stopper, as the high school All-State keeper led Severna Park to two Maryland state

sectional titles. Before the three-time Junior Olympian faces opponents, she will have to win the job over incoming freshman Reina Kern, who herself enters Penn with her share of awards. If Mata wins this position battle, her track-record and experience in Penn’s system should enable her to shine.

Football: Tre Solomon The Quakers’ ground game was weaker than expected last season, as the team was out-rushed by 844 yards. Improvements must be made on both sides of the ball, and no player is more poised to grow more than running back Tre Solomon.

Before a season-ending knee injury that came after only four contests, Solomon was averaging 36.2 yards per game, which would have ranked him as a mid-tier backup in the Ivy SEE SOPH SPORTS PAGE 9

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