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Penn’s Trustees meet to talk new investment projects Leaders discussed the new Penn Medicine Pavilion CHRIS DOYLE Staff Reporter

As part of the scheduled meeting of the Board of Trustees last week, the Trustees Facilities and Campus Planning Committee discussed Penn’s newest investment projects,

one of which is valued at more than $1 billion. Here’s what you need to know: The $1.5 billion Penn Medicine Pavilion will make up for a shortage of beds at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. The Pavilion being constructed across the street from HUP — Penn’s largest capital project in its history — will expand the amount

of space for inpatient care in Penn Medicine’s complex of hospitals. Ralph Muller, the CEO of Penn Medicine, said the additions were necessary, largely because HUP does not have enough beds. Muller reported that “several days each week,” HUP had to turn away patients because there just wasn’t sufficient space.

Penn President Amy Gutmann said she was enthusiastic about the Pavilion, and thought it marked a milestone in the history of Penn Medicine. “This is by far the largest project we’ve ever done, and by far the most intensive care project we’ve ever done,” Gutmann said. “We want [Penn’s hospital facilities] to be the best and we want everybody

to compare themselves to us.” Gutmann said that the growth Muller spoke about was part of a national trend towards consolidated and more efficient care. Muller summarized a number of other Penn Medicine projects that were completed over the last year. He spoke to the committee about the $90 million expansion project for Chester County Hospital,

which Penn Medicine acquired in 2013; the acquisition of the Princeton HealthCare System; and the opening of a new Penn Medicine location in Cherry Hill, N.J. Wharton is adding another building — it’ll be across from the Quad at 37th and Spruce streets. Wharton Dean Geoffrey Garrett SEE FRES PAGE 5

Penn has limited outsider access to the Class of 2021 Facebook group, likely in response to the racist cyber attack last year HALEY SUH Senior Reporter

Access to the Class of 2021 Facebook group will be limited to just six New Student Orientation coordinators this year, a change from years past when Peers Helping Incoming New Students, or PHINS, had access to the page. PHINS, who help incoming freshmen, transfer and exchange students adjust to life at Penn during NSO, have generally used the page to interact with incoming students during the summer. Now, they will only get to do so in person during NSO. This change comes after a consideration by the Admissions Office to delete the Facebook group for admitted students. Access to the page provided the means for an admitted student to collect contact information from the page and add black freshmen to a racist group chat in November. Kathryn Bezella, a spokesperson for the Admissions Office, wrote in an emailed statement earlier this year that the Admissions Office will be working with other departments, including NSO, the Registrar’s Office and the Office of Student Affairs, to “moderate” the Facebook group by managing the enrollment in and content of the page. “The GroupMe incident led us to think about the Facebook group from the ground up,” said NSO Director David Fox. “In discussions, we all agreed that the primary goal of the group was to build community among freshmen, and that worked best when it was really their space, with only a few moderators functioning largely in the background.” Fox added that they were limiting the participation of upperclassmen strictly to NSO coordinators because the Facebook SEE FACEBOOK PAGE 2

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Penn rejects fossil fuel divestment proposal again

I’m waiting for an Asian actor to play a character whose main trait isn’t being Asian. - Jessica Li PAGE 4

Trustees see no reason to change former decision CHRIS DOYLE Staff Reporter

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Fossil Free Penn student outreach co-coordinator Zach Rissman said FFP was disappointed and reiterated the Univ.’s commitment to climate action.

University administrators have rejected student protesters’ latest call to divest its endowment from fossil fuel holdings. At a planned meeting of the full Board of Trustee’s meeting last week, Chair David L. Cohen addressed various aspects of the open letter Fossil Free Penn published earlier this month which, among other demands, calls for the University to divest immediately from fossil fuel companies. Cohen said he felt the University was already a strong contributor to the fight against climate change. “Despite the continued entreaties from Fossil Free Penn, the Trustees see no change in

circumstances that would justify the reconsideration of the initial, well-reasoned, and fully communicated decision [not to divest] made by the Trustees last September,” Cohen said. Fossil Free Penn student outreach co-coordinator and rising College sophomore Zach Rissman said FFP was disappointed with Cohen’s remarks, and reiterated that the University has a duty to offer more than verbal reassurances of its commitment to climate action, particularly in the wake of President Donald Trump pulling the United States out of the Paris Accord. “We recognize that Penn has taken steps toward reducing our carbon footprint, but the issue lies instead in what Penn has not done,” Rissman wrote in a SEE DIVESTMENT PAGE 5

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Fulbright winners are changing the world after graduation Some of Penn’s winners head to Mexico and Russia RAHUL CHOPRA Contributing Reporter

Each yea r the Fulbright Program provides grants to American citizens to study, teach or research abroad. It’s a prestigious program designed to bridge cultural gaps between the people of the United States and other countries. This year, 20 Penn students and alumni were given awards through the program, with 11 recipients eventually going on to accept the award. The Daily Pennsylvanian spoke to some of these students to learn about what they’re doing with their grant. Sophie Litwin 2017 Col lege g r a du at e Sophie Litwin applied for a Fulbright award after her experience with the Penn International Internship Program and was awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Award to teach in Mexico.

After her sophomore year, Sophie interned with Ashoka, a social entrepreneurship program, in Mexico through the IIP. Litwin recalled that she “fell in love with Mexican culture” and that the IIP “gave me a broader perspective on my Penn experience.” Litwin credits her extracurricular as well as academic experiences at Penn as one of the reasons she applied for the program. As the community outreach director for the Penn Art club she taught art to students in West Philly, “saw how art could help improve children’s wellbeing” and now hopes to incorporate that through a psycho-educational workshop that she’ll run in Mexico. Litwin hopes to help break down m isconceptions that Americans may have about Mexicans, and vice-versa. Jonah Rosen 2017 College graduate Jonah Rosen applied to Fulbright in order to have a chance to teach American language culture at

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Twenty Penn students and alumni were given awards through the Fulbright Program this year, 11 of whom accepted the awards and will study, research or teach abroad.

a university in Novosibirsk, Russia. A Russian major, Rosen said that he’s “been very impressed with the very high quality of teachers” in the smaller, seminar-style classes. Rosen said these professors helped him discover his interests and

Penn Law professor to serve on U.S. Court of Appeals Stephanos Bibas will be Third Circuit judge DYLAN REIM Social Media Editor

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he intends to nominate Penn Law Professor Stephanos Bibas as a circuit judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, according to a statement from the White House. Bibas would have jurisdiction over Penn, as the Third Circuit includes the Eastern, Western and Middle Districts of Pennsylvania, in addition to the Districts of New Jersey, Delaware, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. “We are tremendously proud that Stephanos Bibas has been nominated to the Third Circuit,” Penn Law Dean Ted Ruger said, in an announcement by Penn Law. “In the course of his career, he has produced incisive scholarship, advocated outstandingly for the clients of the Supreme Court Clinic, and been a mentor to many Penn Law students. His intellect, experience, and character make him

an exceptional choice for the federal bench.” A professor of law and criminology, Bibas also serves as director of Penn Law’s Supreme Court Clinic. He is a former federal prosecutor and has argued in front of the Supreme Court six times. At Penn, he has been involved in the campaign for open expression, serving as the chair of the Committee on Open Expression in the 20142015 academic year, one of the Committee’s historically more active years. He also was involved in the Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice. Bibas is widely revered among members of the Penn community, especially among his students at Penn Law. “I was very fortunate to have the opportunity to take two courses with Professor Bibas during my time at Penn Law,” said 2017 Penn Law graduate Peter Fishkind, who also served as the president of Penn Law’s Council of Student Representatives. “It was abundantly clear, both in the classroom and in getting to know him outside of it, that he has a brilliant legal mind and

motivated him to apply for Fulbright. Rosen ultimately hopes to play a similar mentorship role to the students he will be teaching in Rosen added that Penn prepared him by exposing him to a world beyond what he knew about and that he’s excited

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group should not be a means to recruit students to organizations or socialize with upperclassmen. While he said the change is not a direct outcome of the GroupMe incident, Fox said the event certainly did shape how the NSO team viewed “community building and the safety of students.” Rising Wharton junior Gary Li, who was a member of PHINS last year, said he was surprised to hear about the

about the opportunity to do something different and outside the box. He also said he’s looking forward to “chart a different course” from the standard route taken by most Penn students into the corporate world. Jesus Fuentes 2015 College graduate Jesus

Fuentes applied to Fulbright in order to explore his own culture and background. Although he will primarily be teaching English, Fuentes will also be pursuing a research project on community medicine. Fuentes said the Latino cultural center on campus, La Casa Latina, encouraged him to explore his own heritage. Fuentes explained that a lot of his Penn experience was spent exploring how to build connections across cultures; he wants to continue this work while teaching English in Mexico, and believes that this is increasingly important given the tense political climate between the two nations. Fuentes wants to “learn as much as possible and assist the community however I can.” Although he has visited Mexico in the past, Fuentes states that he is “excited to actually live in the community”. Fuentes’ larger goal is to be a teacher and views his research in Mexico as crucial for that goal.

change. He had posted on the Class of 2020 Facebook page occasionally throughout the year when he had an event or opportunity that he felt could benefit the entire group of freshmen. “For instance, I’m a part of a student organization that provides support to all Wharton clubs, and all students regardless of their school can apply to Wharton clubs,” Li said. “So whenever we have our club fair or information about clubs, I’d share that in the group because that’s something freshmen are generally interested in

knowing about.” Li said that while he understood the change was made with good intentions, he felt that including PHINS in the class page overall benefitted the incoming students. “PHINs should always be on the lookout for ways to support freshmen,” he said. “In my experience, I haven’t witnessed or heard of PHINS abusing the group ... they are carefully screened, selected, and trained so I don’t believe that restricting them from the group necessarily reduces any risk.”

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Bibas also serves as director of Penn Law’s Supreme Court Clinic and is former federal prosecutor

that he is a good man.” If confir med, Professor Bibas will join a number of other Penn Law affiliates sitting at the Third Circuit, including two Penn Law alumni, two current adjunct professors, one previous adjunct professor, and one Senior Fellow. “I’ve had the great good fortune to learn from outstanding jurists, including Judge Higginbotham and Justice Kennedy, and have learned a tremendous amount from my colleagues and students at Penn Law,” Bibas said in the Penn Law announcement.

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While incoming class Facebook groups typically grant access to some upperclassmen, this year the Class of 2021 Facebook group is only accessible to members of the class and NSO coordinators.

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Why Philadelphia is better known for internships than jobs

The city was ranked 98th of 150 for summer jobs NATALIE KAHN Senior Reporter

Financial advice website WalletHub released a list of the 150 best cities for college students to spend their summers in. Philadelphia was ranked 98th. Among other notable cities that made the list were New York ranking at number 101, and Washington D.C. ranking 15th. The number one spot went to Orlando, Florida. Anne Marie Gercke, the associate director of Career Services for the College of Arts and Sciences, said the list had some “red flags” and may be misleading for Penn students. It assesses all jobs available in these cities — which WalletHub Com mu n icat ions Ma nager Diana Popa confirmed — and not just pre-professional internships. The list averages several metrics — summer job availability, internship availability, summer job growth, costs of living and the quality of life for young people in each city — to ultimately determine which are the best cities for college students in the summer. Popa shared the data breakdown for Philadelphia: The city happens to be ranked 14th for internship availability, though it’s ranked 111th for summer job availability. Philadelphia received poor ranks for its minimum wage — the federal lower limit — and its small share of the population aged 16-24 and its underemployment rate.

However, according to WalletHub, Philadelphia has the best access to public transit of any city. Gercke said she’s never come across a Penn student who was unable to find a summer opportunity in Philadelphia. She added that Philly is a top city for Penn students’ summer employment and that Career Services partners with the Campus Philly organization to helps students find city jobs. “Of course, at vacation towns, there’s going to be an influx in the summer of opportunities,” she said, of jobs in

Orlando. “[These] are perfectly great jobs for the summer but maybe aren’t as pre-professional as the jobs typical Penn students are looking for.” Is there a “Penn bubble” when it comes to internships? Penn is the largest employer in Philadelphia with 37,000 local employees, per the Philadelphia Business Journal. Penn was also the top workplace for the College students and Engineering students that career services surveyed after the summer of 2016. Rising College sophomore Michelle Lu said all her friends

staying in Philadelphia this summer are working for Penn. She’s also working in the city, interning for a short period with the Philadelphia Orchestra, a position she received through a Penn program. She’ll start another internship with the House of Representatives in D.C. after the orchestra finishes its tour. Lu noted that it seems easier to find a summer job at — or through — Penn than trying your own luck at other employers in Philadelphia. Rising College and Wharton sophomore Jay Vaingankar

agreed, adding that it can be difficult to break the Penn bubble when finding summer jobs. “I think there just happen to be a lot of opportunities at Penn,” Gercke explained. Students, particularly in their freshman and sophomore years, often tend to apply for research opportunities with the University. Philly’s a tough market to crack Rising Engineering senior Anand Desai said many workstudy students spend vacations working for Penn, as he has

done in the past. Rising Wharton sophomore Casey Linehan found this a barrier, as she is not eligible for work-study and could not apply for many positions at Penn. After sending in 40-50 applications, Linehan found an unpaid internship researching for a Philadelphia nonprofit. She also secured a part-time, paying job at Kiwi frozen yogurt. Though she struggled to find a job in Philadelphia, she attributed most of her difficulties to her standing as a rising sophomore. Vaingankar agreed. He said he fared a bit better in D.C. than he did in Philadelphia, as fewer D.C. jobs expressed that they would not hire rising sophomores l i ke h i msel f. Most Philadelphia jobs he was interested in only wanted upperclassmen. Perks to staying in the city Desai — working at a D.C. consulting firm — and Vaingankar will both be living in student housing at George Washington University, as they said summer housing in D.C. is much more expensive than that in Philadelphia. Lu, also working in D.C., shared similar concerns. Vaingankar added that Philadelphia is a fun city for young people like himself, with museums and center city so close to campus. And as Gercke reminds, the largest percentage of Penn students stay in Philadelphia over the summer. “There are plenty of opportunities at the University as well as in the city itself,” she said.

Penn Med professor recognized for research on psychosis

Irene Hutford is one of five recepients nationwide MICHEL LIU Staff Reporter

Penn Medicine’s assistant professor of psychiatry, Irene Hurford, is one of five recipients nationwide to be awarded the 2017 Exemplary Psychiatrist Award from the National Alliance on Mental Illness. NAMI is America’s largest grassroots mental health organization. It focuses on providing education programs, advocating for public policy as it relates to those with mental illness and leading public awareness

events and activities. Each year, it also awards the Exemplary Psychiatrist Award to those who “improve the lives of people living with mental health conditions.” Hurford, who started working for Penn in 2009, said Penn’s worldwide reputation helps her projects get “a second look” from supporters. She also said that the support of her fellow colleagues has been invaluable to her. The award honors Hurford’s career devoted to psychosis research and treatment. Hurford said her interest in the disorder began in her childhood. Psychosis affecting young people her own age, at the

time, particularly interested her. “Psychosis struck me as really strange and interesting that people could have a different perception of reality,” Hurford said. “Usually we take reality for granted, but for many, reality is shifting and unreliable.” She developed the Psychosis Education, Assessment, Care and Empowerment program, which intervenes in the early stages of psychosis. As director of the program, she helps individuals in Philadelphia overcome symptoms of psychosis. While the program includes peer and family counseling, there is also a focus on education

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Irene Hutford developed the Psychosis Education, Assessment, Care and Empowerment program, and as director of the program, she helps individuals in Philadelphia overcome early symptoms of psychosis.

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Hurford’s experience in establishing PEACE has allowed her to develop and advise similar projects throughout the state. In Pennsylvania, she is the principal investigator

for statewide program evaluation of first episode psychosis programs. She said she aims to “make the effort statewide and not just local.”

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Growing up (wanting to be) white

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When I was younger, I wanted to be an author. I wanted to write short stories and plays and novels. I thought something was keeping me back, though — my name. I didn’t think the name “Jessica Li” would look good on a byline, underneath the glossy title of a book. I brainstormed pseudonyms, pen names, stage names, whatever you want to call them, to hide my identity, my culture. During this period, I was heavily subscribed to celebrity culture, consuming whatever the media gave me. In middle school, I was obsessed with Zooey Deschanel. And then in high school, Emma Stone. Just a string of pasty white, doeeyed women that had as much in common with me as a flesheating zombie. Movies, television series, even late-night show interviews, it seemed that any and every form of media showcased thin, beautiful white women as the leading heroines. Soon, it didn’t matter who I was obsessed with at the

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time, because they all formed into one amorphous entity of something I could never be. Growing up, it was hard to fully understand that there was no visible, physical representation of a role model, especially for an Asian American girl in a suburb of New Jersey. In many ways, we grow up seeking validation and visibility. As children, we stay glued to our TVs and laptops, consuming and internalizing culture, allowing it to dictate what we should strive to be. But when we don’t see ourselves reflected back on that shiny screen, we can feel like we’re not good enough. At Penn, I’ve met many people in the Asian-American community going through identity crises, unsure of their future paths and their purpose in life. I sympathize with this constant internal battle — we’re carriers of heavy expectations, burdensome stereotypes, a black-and-white guide to the future placed upon us by parents and our communities.

When we see ourselves on the screen, we’re caricatures and stereotypes. The representation we get is so little, and when we get it, it’s inaccurate and harmful. Instead of fair representation, what little

it was a slow realization, formed by an accumulation of internalized microaggressions, but it fully hit me that there is an extreme lack of AsianAmerican voices in relevant media, and that was truly depressing to see.

When we see ourselves on the screen, we’re caricatures and stereotypes. The representation we get is so little, and when we get it, it’s inaccurate and harmful. three-dimensional Asian roles exist are given to white actors. Stories told by Asian writers and creators are whitewashed beyond recognition: Emma Stone attempting to portray a half-Hawaiian, half-Chinese woman in “Aloha,” Scarlett Johansson playing the lead, originally a Japanese woman, in “Ghost in the Shell.” Maybe

Here’s what I’ve noticed: white people — the majority — are told time and time again that they can be anything they want. Superheroes, writers, astrophysicists, any innermost desire to be anything is reflected in the media and culture that we subscribe to. I’m waiting for an Asian actor to play a character whose

main trait isn’t being Asian. I’m waiting for an Asian character to transcend one-dimensionality. I’m waiting for a real, tangible, breathing Asian character with human flaws and the potential to be anything they want, even if what they want does not align with what is expected. We have made progress. We have shows like Master of None, a semi-autobiographical show created by Aziz Ansari and Alan Yang, showcasing Ansari as an Indian-American actor trying to navigate his life in New York City. We have Fresh Off the Boat, a show about an Asian-American family adapting to suburban Orlando, starring Constance Wu, a consistent advocate for Asian-American representation. Crazy Rich Asians, a movie with an all Asian-American cast, has begun filming. However, there’s a long way to go before we — Asian Americans, people of color — get the representation that we deserve in mainstream media. There’s a long way to go before

JESSICA LI we stop feeling inherently foreign in a country that erases us more than represents us, an industry that hires white people to tell our stories. In the meantime, we keep writing. We keep producing, creating and fighting for our voices to be heard. There still needs to be more room on the byline for names like mine. So I’m going to keep speaking out about the things I care about — who I am and what my name is won’t ever hold me back. JESSICA LI is a College Sophomore from Livingston, N.J., studying English and psychology.

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Philosophizing | Why ethics and physics are not analogous VINAYAK KUMAR | The special theory of ethical relativity

The rise of multiculturalism has created an environment where all backgrounds, and by extension all opinions, are given equal standing. Especially at Penn, we value diversity of thought, and that has resulted in an outbreak of ethical relativism in the student body. Formally, ethical relativists believe that everyone has their own version of morality, and their own moral ‘truth,’ with all versions of morality being equally true. The appeal of this philosophy, especially for progressive students, is that it provides easy access to a world of cultural tolerance and equality. If everyone’s version of morality is equally true, then it makes sense that we should treat people equally, and respect their values and beliefs. People on the political right often say that Western cultural practices are superior to their Eastern counterparts — for example, the less limiting dress codes for women — and moral relativism refutes that claim. Unfortunately, the appealing conclusions that the moral relativist position provides has led

its followers to adopt some lessthan-sound justifications. Instead of rooting their philosophy in foundational truths, some moral relativists have borrowed from Einstein’s theory of special relativity in an attempt to legitimize their beliefs via association with scientific objectivity. As interesting as it sounds, this argument is ultimately a fallacious appeal to physical principles and one that’s necessary to disprove. The argument goes something like: “Physics has shown us that the world is relativistic! The world people experience is conditioned by their point of observation; their reality is as equally true as anyone else’s. Thus what is right and wrong is just a function of a person’s point of view.” Special relativity indicates that it is possible for two observers in different reference frames to observe events happening at different times, if they are traveling at close-to-light speeds. Depending on your point of observation or ‘reference frame,’ you can experience time-dilation or length contraction effects, from

the warping of spacetime. What one observer experiences as five seconds might be five minutes for someone traveling near light speed. The big (and I think sometimes non-obvious) problem with this argument is this: it is an analogy. It’s an attempt to analogize one property of the physical world

a quantifiable mass and velocity (though momentum has achieved its own formal definition in finance). In sports commentary, commentators love discussing the ‘momentum of the game’, as one side gains the lead or loses the lead. In both of these cases, people are borrowing the language of physics in order to

Some people’s beliefs are true and others’ are false; not just as a matter of preference but as a matter of fact. to an entirely different domain of study, namely moral truths. There is no reason why this argument has any validity, because there is no reason that morality and physics need to have the same structure. People in economics like to talk about the ‘momentum of the market’, as if the market had

describe something; but luckily, they are merely borrowing the language, and not trying to make an argument. Analogies have tremendous pedagogical value, and can often help us conceptualize abstract objects by appealing to things we are more familiar with in our lives. We cannot see electric

charge move in wires — but a commonly used analogy is that charge movement in wires is similar to the flow of water. However this does not mean that charges and water have to share other properties e.g. water is blue, therefore charge has to be blue. Analogies also offer beauty in the form of metaphors and similes; “Her eyes were as bright as the light of a thousand suns.” This doesn’t mean her eyes have to, like the sun, burn at 5,505 degrees Celsius. It’s important to differentiate between making analogies — which can often be missing something crucial — and truthpreserving arguments, that start from premises and reason to a conclusion. This latter kind of argumentation is far harder to produce, but is far more powerful as well. Those who want to argue that everyone’s beliefs are legitimate will need to find stronger footing. Some people’s beliefs are true and others’ are false; not just as a matter of preference but as a matter of fact. No reference to quantum mechanics or relativity

VINAYAK KUMAR will change that. To those who formulate their moral convictions on a relativist paradigm; I strongly urge a you to reconsider it. You do not need relativism to argue for civil rights or against oppression and violence — in fact, relativism destroys the foundation for your arguments rather than supporting it. What is needed is a paradigm of moral objectivity, formulated on consistent and coherent principles. VINAYAK KUMAR is a rising sophomore from Parsippany, N.J., studying finance, physics and philosophy.

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Penn rabbi honored by Hillel International in New York Mike Uram is the executive director of Penn Hillel MICHAEL SCHWOERER Contributing Reporter

Hillel International, the largest Jewish campus organization in the world, honored Penn Rabbi Mike Uram with one of its top awards. Uram, executive director and campus rabbi of Penn Hillel, received the Edgar M. Bronfman Award at the annual Hillel International Gala on June 5 in New York City. The award aims to recognize “a Hillel professional who has served the movement with distinction and honor,” according to the Hillel International website. Uram is the fourth person to

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statement to The Daily Pennsylvanian. Rissman also argued that Penn’s investment decisions are far more impactful than its consu mpt ion de cisions, a nd so withdrawing holdings in fossil fuel companies is a necessary step. “[The University’s] impact as an investor is around three times that of [its] impact as a consumer in terms of climate change impact,” Fossil Free Penn said. “Penn cannot meaningfully fight against the climate change and for climate justice while continuing to be invested in the fossil fuel industry.” As evidence of Penn’s support for action on climate change, Cohen noted how Penn President A my Gutma n n sig ne d a st at ement r e a f f i r m i ng Pe n n’s com m it ment to t he A mer ica n Ca mpuses

receive the annual award, following three recipients whom he described as “legends of Hillel”: Rhoda Weisman, the co-founder and former director of the Steinhardt Jewish Campus Service Corps; Michael Brooks, the former executive director of University of Michigan Hillel; and Jeffrey Summit, the executive director of Tufts University Hillel. Uram said he was surprised to receive the award in light of the achievements of previous honorees. “I feel like I’m too early in my career to get an award like this,” he said, “but I’m very touched and excited about it.” Uram, however, is no stranger to national recognition within the Jewish community. The Jewish Daily Forward named him one of the country’s top

Act on Climate Pledge along with 11 other peer universities. This agreement, organized by the Obama administration in 2015, acknowledges t h e i mp or t a nc e of climate cha nge a nd promises “to accelerate the transition to lowcarbon energy while enhancing sustainable and resilient practices across [campuses].” Cohen emphasized that the entire Board of Trustees supported this agreement, even as student leaders have said that verbal commitments are not enough. In their open letter, FFP said the University was not among the 180 schools which signed the “We Are Still In” pledge, circulated by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomb e rg. T h i s ple d ge strongly rebukes the Trump administration in more direct terms for withdrawing from the Paris Accord, and has signees commit to pu rsu ing “a mbitious

50 Jewish leaders in 2012 in recognition of his response to the national Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions conference, which was held at Penn that year. Last year, he received the National Jewish Book Award for his publication “Next Generation Judaism: How College Students and Hillel Can Help Reinvent Jewish Organizations.” The namesake of the award, late billionaire Edgar M. Bronfman, Sr., was president of the alcoholic beverage company Seagrams and president of the World Jewish Congress. As president of the World Jewish Congress, Bronfman is best known for his work toward legitimizing the Hebrew language in Russia and helping Soviet Jews escape to Israel. Hillel International granted the

climate goals.” In its language and direction, Bloomberg’s pledge is more overtly political than the one Penn signed. Cohen said Bloomberg’s agreement did not find wide support across the Ivy Plus group, and was therefore not something Penn was interested in signing. (Columbia University is the only member to have participated.) “Along with all but one of the Ivy Plus schools, we elected not to sign onto an alternative statement proposed by Michael Bloomberg,” Cohen said. T h a t ex pl a n a t io n sounds a different note than the one the University initially gave. When news of Bloomberg’s group broke in The New York Times, University spokesperson Stephen MacCarthy said “it does not appear” Penn or its peer schools in the Ivy Plus group were approached to sign Bloomberg’s pledge.

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Mike Uram has highly praised the namesake of the award, the late billionaire Edgar Bronfman, Sr., president of the World Jewish Congress.

first Edgar M. Bronfman Award in 2014, the year after Bronfman’s death. Rabbi Uram described Bronfman as “one of the great Jewish leaders and philanthropists of the

20th century.” Uram emphasized that the award recognized not only his work but also that of others in the Penn Hillel community.

“I think that the award is really a testament to the incredible work that students do,” he said, “and to the whole Hillel team at Penn and to all the incredible alumni and parents who fund Penn Hillel.” He also described what he sees as Penn Hillel’s role in fostering ideas to engage the “next generation of Jews.” “We’ve been trailblazers in bringing Jewish life out of the Hillel building and into the dorms and offcampus houses where students live,” he said, “and transforming Hillel from the Jewish club on campus to the incubator of Jewish life that takes place in every corner of campus, not just in the Hillel building.” Uram emphasized the need to “minimize the boundaries to involvement” in Jewish life.

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said the new building will address scheduling and space conflicts that often arise in Wharton facilities. “The amount of my time and senior administrators’ time in the school on finding space and on room allocation is incredible. I mean it’s ‘can we find a hundred square feet here, a hundred square feet there?’” Garrett said. “So desperately seeking space I think is a fair way to explain the state of the school.” Garrett diagramed how the four-story Wharton Academic Research Building, as it will be called, will be organized. While some of the rooms are to resemble traditional lecture halls, others will facilitate the Structured, Active, In-Class Learning (or SAIL), where students use class time to collaborate and solve problems. “The lower-half is for students and academic programs,” Garrett said. “There, what we’re really talking about is another incremental step towards, what I would call a rebalancing of what I would call learning by studying and learning by doing.” The center’s top two floors will be reserved for research areas, academic offices and administrative spaces. Garrett says that this organization will promote “synergy,” between Wharton’s evergrowing and diversifying faculty.

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Among the University’s recent investments is the $1.5 billion Penn Medicine Pavilion, Penn’s largest project to date, according to Penn President Amy Gutmann.

The Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics is on track for completion by spring of 2018. The $75 million center, which will be located above the complex at 36th and Walnut streets that formerly contained Ann Taylor Loft, is the new planned headquarters for the Economics and Political Science departments. The planned $7.5 million facelift for the headquarters of the Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology, is scheduled to be done in the fall, administrators said. Larry Robbins, a 1992 Wharton and Engineering graduate and alumnus of the M&T program, provided the gift for the renovation. The building will be renamed after him. Other renovation projects discussed

at the meeting included additions to the School of Dental Medicine’s Schattner Building; the Cox & Harrison Wing of the Penn Museum; work on the heating, ventilation and air conditioning throughout Van Pelt Library and the $80 million makeover that went into Hill College House, which will reopen in the fall with air conditioning. Correction: A previous version of this article implied that multiple projects discussed at this meeting were valued at over $1 billion. Only one project is. Additionally, the first name of the donor for the renovation of M&T headquarters was misidentified and the location of the Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics was incorrectly given. The Daily Pennsylvanian regrets the errors.

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Sixers owner and Wharton class of 1986 alum Josh Harris won’t stop YOSEF WEITZMAN Sports Editor

“May I ask you a question?” Josh Harris asks me. Suddenly my heart starts beating a little faster and my body tenses up. For the past several minutes, I had been listening to Harris, who graduated Wharton in 1986 and wrestled at Penn, explain what had pushed him to buy into the three professional sports teams he currently owns stakes in. I was ready to ask him another question, but the thought of being put on the spot by the private equity investor who Forbes estimates has a net worth of 3 billion dollars was enough to give me some jitters. Luckily for me, Harris doesn’t skip a beat. “Is it okay if I walk downstairs and call you back from a car?” he continues. Phew. “Oh yeah, no problem,” I respond. “That would be great, just because I have to get to a meeting and it will give us a little more time,” he answers. I thank him for the time he’s already given me and he tells me he’ll call me right back.

Five minutes and seventeen seconds later, he does just that. This time, I don’t skip a beat. Right away I ask him the question I was thinking of earlier and we pick up the interview right where we left off. In the moment, I didn’t think much of this little exchange. In fact, it wasn’t until I sat down a day later to listen to the interview recording that I started thinking about it again. Who in the world was Harris going to meet, I thought. Just a couple of months ago, he had sat at a table with President Donald Trump, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and several other prominent business executives and Cabinet members. I also know that in the past, he had seriously considered running for political office as a Republican, but he ultimately decided that he could accomplish more in the private sector. I didn’t know this at the time of the interview, but the very next day (Friday, June 16), rumors began to explode that Harris’ NBA team, the SEE HARRIS PAGE 7

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How do athletes balance training and work commitments? DP Sports’ varsity student-athletes weigh in DP SPORTS STAFF

For many, summer is a great time to relax and recover from nine months of late-night cramming and early-morning rising. But for Penn student-athletes, summer isn’t much of a rest. It might be the offseason, but few athletes can afford to take the summer off. On top of all of the training, throw in a full work day in the office and suddenly, a warm summer’s day doesn’t seem so pleasant anymore. For DP Sports’ three varsity student athletes, however, it is nothing they aren’t used to. Check out how they are balancing it all below. Carter Thompson (men’s golf), Sports Reporter: During the school year, golf provides a unique challenge when it comes to practicing and training due to the amount of time that it takes to play a full 18 holes. In the summer, with so many more hours in the day, it is much easier for me to practice and train in order to be ready when our season starts in August — with so much time it is hard to not improve solely from playing so often. However, this summer I am faced with the challenge of trying to train and improve with a nine-to-five job. It has forced me to improve my practice and be more efficient with how I structure my practice — you can’t be competitive only practicing for such a minimal amount of time unless you’re using your time efficiently. This is the challenge I have enjoyed trying to accomplish this summer. It makes practice enjoyable knowing there is something to

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Despite having jobs and internships like many Penn students, student-athletes like rising senior Carter Thompson still have to put in long training hours to prepare for the upcoming season.

accomplish each day to build up to compete wearing the Red and Blue in the fall. One benefit of working during the day is the ability to weight lift in the morning and be fully recovered by the end of the day when I get to the golf course. Golf requires a lot of touch and fine motor skills, so soreness is one of the worst things you can deal with when you’re practicing. Having the time to recover during the day has given me the ability to focus a lot of my summer training on improving in the weight room. The improvement in the weight room was one of the areas I wanted to address most this summer with my reduced practice time. If I was able to take advantage of building strength, I could hit it farther and have more endurance when the season rolls around, regardless of how much practice I inevitably would get. One way you can “train” in golf

is to play the golf course as opposed to hitting on the driving range. Most nights after work I will go play nine holes before it gets dark. The two hours it takes to play nine holes matches perfectly with when it gets dark and it gives you reps doing what you will be doing in tournaments. In the past these summer months would be filled with four to five hours of solid practice and another four hours to go play 18 holes. While I miss those days, I feel like I am more motivated than ever to have myself in shape in the fall to compete for Penn. Playing for something bigger than yourself gives you the motivation to push your limits past where you thought you could go. Regardless of how much time I have each day, once golf season comes I’ll be as ready as I’ve ever been. Reina Kern (women’s rowing), Sports Reporter: Training over the summer can

be a difficult task for any athlete. You are not surrounded by your team and coaches to push you, and most of the time you’re juggling an internship and training at the same time. This is the case for me this summer. Like many other sports, rowing is a lot of aerobic conditioning and is about being physically strong. Since we race in both the fall and spring seasons, it is crucial to come back prepared and ready to pick up where we left off. The past two summers when I was training for field hockey, I was given a packet of running workouts that I followed religiously. I knew what to expect from each workout and knew how to prepare for the run test I would have to complete in August during preseason. However, now that is not the case. While we will also be receiving workouts, I am not entirely sure what to expect since this coming fall will be my first fall season on the

women’s rowing team. As always, I can rely on my teammates for advice, but I have never physically competed in a 6k race, since the spring consists of all 2k races. Despite the fact that I may be new to the sport, I feel that field hockey has prepared me to be able to conquer the fall rowing season. I am used to the strenuous summer training and maintaining a competitive mindset to be able to contribute to the team when we return to school. I will use the same fire in me to be able to compete at the Division I level in rowing that I used for field hockey in previous years. While I would usually play in summer leagues for field hockey in the past, this summer may be harder to train for a sport like rowing. Since I will not be very close to a boat club this summer, I will mostly rely on the ergometer and running. Thankfully, I have the ability to row in lifesaving boats for the Beach Haven Beach Patrol in Long Beach Island, NJ as an ocean lifeguard. Although this is not the same as sweeping (the type of rowing we compete in with one oar per athlete), it will definitely still keep me in shape to compete in the fall. Rowing in the ocean can be a difficult task and will prepare me mentally and physically for what is to come. The beach patrol also swims and runs on a daily basis, so this will help with my conditioning as well. As I said before, the fall consists of 6k races versus the 2k races in the spring. Thus, it is more about endurance on the ergometer rather than a sprinting mentality. This summer will be a crucial time for me to not only lengthen my erg workouts to prepare my body for this shift, but to also lengthen my runs and conditioning workouts to meet these requirements. Cole Jacobson (sprint football), Sports Editor: What makes sprint football, and all fall sports, unique is that we truly

have to be in peak condition when the school year rolls around. No collegiate student-athletes can afford to take the summer off altogether, but with fall sports, there’s no time for “catching up” if we show up out of shape. Given sprint football’s nineteam, two-division structure, this is even further exacerbated for us — though other fall teams can shake off the rust before Ivy League play with non-conference matchups, we show up for our opening practice on August 26th, and we have a regular season game with direct championship implications only 21 days later. Personally, in terms of the time balance, I’m lucky to avoid any major training conflicts. I have a pair of small summer jobs for two sports companies, but both allow me to essentially create my own hours and work from my Los Angeles home. So with that, I can devote two or 2.5 hours every weekday to nothing but getting ready for the fall. Our strength coach, Pat Dolan, gave us a very detailed lifting and running summer program, so I fortunately don’t have to worry about conjuring up my own workouts to challenge myself. Of course, another unique aspect of sprint football is its weight limit of 178 pounds — admittedly, I took too much advantage of the buffet-style meals while in Israel in late May and hit 190 pounds after that, so that only adds extra motivation to work; there aren’t many better ways to lose weight than running gassers in the L.A. summer heat. Once that time to grind rolls around, there’s really nothing else that matters. For those couple and a half hours each day, I don’t think about summer jobs, or making plans with high school friends, or helping out with The DP — all that’s on my mind is getting another championship ring, and doing anything in my power to make that a reality.

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Former menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball star leads lawsuit against Trump

Suit claims President recieves illegal benefits COLE JACOBSON Sports Editor

Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most prominent Penn alumnus is in the national spotlight yet again this week, and this time, he finds himself in direct conflict with another former Quaker. On Monday, it was publicly announced that current Washington, D.C. Attorney General and 1980s Penn menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball standout Karl Racine is leading a lawsuit against President Donald Trump, alleging that the latter has violated the Constitution by illegally profiting off foreign leaders. Racine, who graduated from Penn in 1985 as an economics major, is joined in his efforts by Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh, a fellow Democrat. Together, the pair is arguing that Trumpâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decision to maintain his business empire while simultaneously holding the U.S. Presidency â&#x20AC;&#x153;calls into question the rule of law and the integrity of the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s political system,â&#x20AC;? courtesy of the Washington Postâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Aaron Davis and Karen Tumulty. The full details of Racineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and Froshâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s efforts can be seen in the

official lawsuit document, but their core arguments are well laid out in this excerpt from the Washington Postâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s release: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Racine and Frosh accused Trump of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;flagrantly violatingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; the Constitutionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s emoluments clause, which prohibits U.S. officeholders from taking anything of value from foreign leaders. The conflicts created are so vast, Frosh said, that Americans cannot say with certainty whether Trumpâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s actions on a given day are taken in the best interest of the country or that of his companies.â&#x20AC;? More specifically, as Davis and Tumulty wrote, Racineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s suit argues that D.C. and Maryland are being harmed because the Trump International Hotel â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which has been inhabited by ambassadors from Kuwaiti, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Georgia in recent months â&#x20AC;&#x201D; may be drawing business away from smaller facilities in the region subsidized by taxpayers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Republican-controlled Congress has wholly failed to fulfill its responsibility of serving as a check and balance on the president and has thus given the president a total pass on his business entanglements,â&#x20AC;? Racine told the Post. According to the New York Times, Trump is â&#x20AC;&#x153;the first

president in 40 years to retain his personal business interests after entering the White House,â&#x20AC;? and a financial disclosure report by the U.S. government reported that in the early months of his presidency, Trump and his related business entities reported revenue of at least $597 million. In a Q&A session with the Washington City Paper, Racine went into further detail on his specific motives, citing a desire to prevent the District of Columbiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s residents from financially suffering as a result of Trumpâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s corruption. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As far as I know, the hotel is the only business the President has [in Washington D.C.] that he is receiving income from. Businesses are in it to make money, and they relish and embrace competition. When there is unfair competition, or a favorites game being played, they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like it,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in the hospitality industry, and you have a Four Seasons Hotel, and you have an embassy and a country delegation that made reservations months in advance, only to have them call you and say that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not going to go forward with the reservation because theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re opting to go with the Trump Hotel, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the kind of real business activity that folks are concerned about.â&#x20AC;?

star, being named his teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Best Defensive Player as a sophomore and then team MVP in both his junior and senior seasons. A Penn captain in both 198384 and 1984-85, Racine earned second team All-Ivy honors in both of those seasons, and he was a crucial component of a pair of Ivy League championship squads in 1982 and 1985. Even now, his name remains in Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s record book, as he ranks 10th all-time in program history with 290 career assists. And after wowing the Philadelphia crowds by dropping dimes on the Palestra floor so many decades ago, Racineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s profession may be entirely different, but one thing hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t changed â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the former floor general is still dead set on finding ways to assist. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want to assure the District residents of the full functioning of the Office of the Attorney General,â&#x20AC;? he told the Washington City Paper. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And what is it that we do? That is, being progressive juvenile prosecutors, also focusing on public safety, protecting vulnerable citizens, including bringing suits against slumlords, focusing on affordable housing, and also bringing other actions that are in the public interest. All of that work will continue.â&#x20AC;?

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After starring for Penn menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball in the 1980s, Karl Racine went onto be elected as D.C.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Attorney General in 2015.

According to the Post, legal experts seem to be split on predicting the ultimate outcome of the case, and Racine himself told the Washington City Paper he had no idea how long the case would last. However, according to Davis and Tumulty, the lawsuit has already been recognized by the Trump administration in â&#x20AC;&#x153;its most detailed response yet,â&#x20AC;? as the U.S. Justice Department claimed that Trumpâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s businesses are legally permitted to accept payments from foreign governments because such payments â&#x20AC;&#x153;do not constitute emoluments as defined by the

Constitution.â&#x20AC;? Though their common roots in University City are rendered moot now, Trump and Racineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s common alma mater does add an interesting wrinkle to the rapidly budding conflict. And while the formerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time on Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s campus is notoriously mysterious, the latterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exploits in Philadelphia have been welldocumented, as Racine was one of Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most dominant athletes in the 1980s. Having emigrated to America at age three from Haiti, Racine joined the Red and Blue in 1981 and became an immediate

Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball reveals talented recruiting class of 2021 THEODOROS PAPAZEKOS Sports Reporter

Were last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s freshmen the best of all time? Maybe not; but Penn menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball certainly put together the greatest freshman class of recent memory. Last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rookie trio of AJ Brodeur, Ryan Betley, and Devon Goodman played massive minutes for the Quakers down the stretch during an unprecedented turnaround to earn a berth

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Philadelphia 76ers were well on their way to negotiating a trade for the Boston Celticsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; No. 1 pick in the NBA Draft next week. I still have no idea who Harris was driving to meet with, but I do know one thing; whoever he was meeting with is definitely a hell of a lot more important than I am. As Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve thought about it more, though, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve realized that maybe I shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be so surprised that Harris agreed to let me interview him. While he keeps a low public profile, especially compared to a certain other Republican billionaire who graduated from Wharton, there are a couple things that are pretty easy to find out about him. For one, he likes to stay busy. And this is something heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be the first to tell you. In his own words, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I must admit Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m like a 24/7â&#x20AC;&#x201D;you know, I have a lot of energy.â&#x20AC;? In my words, I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be very surprised if most of his car rides are filled with phone calls and the fulfillments of various other responsibilities. Secondly, he recognizes the position heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in, but he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t try to isolate himself within that position. Instead, he makes a conscious effort to use that position to make a positive impact. For example, in 2015, he gave the Philadelphia Police Athletic League the largest donation itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ever received. More recently, he has worked to launch local chapters of After-School All-Stars, a national non-profit organization dedicated to creating after school programs to keep at-risk

in the inaugural Ivy League Tournament. Now, a new set of freshmen are up to bat. While the class only has five players, it is replacing an even smaller group of seniors that boasted only one major contributor in Matt Howard. The freshman five have already proven they can win, boasting a total of five high school conference championships and one state title between them. Coach Steve Donahue was upbeat about the group and the recruiting process as a whole. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We feel extremely confident that these five young men

will have a tremendous impact over the course of their four years at Penn. We also believe they are the type of individuals who could immediately contribute to our growing success as we continue to build toward an Ivy League championshipâ&#x20AC;?, Donahue said in a Penn Athletics press release. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I cannot wait until we can start working with them in the fall!â&#x20AC;? Donahue had to wait a little longer than usual to get one recruit, Mark Jackson, to come to Penn. The Salt Lake City, Utah native graduated from East High School in 2015, but spent the last two years on a Mormon

youth on safe paths to success. Despite these efforts, much of the media attention he does get is critical. In 2015, he came under fire after he landed his helicopter on a school field that forced two youth soccer teams to cancel their game. It didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t matter much that the school had previously given him permission to do this. And even though it was the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s scheduling error, he still took it upon to himself to apologize to all the kids and invite all of their families to join him at a New Jersey Devilsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; game, the NHL team he owns. Even with the Sixers, plenty have criticized him for the approach the team has taken to rebuilding. After five straight losing seasons, many have accused the Sixersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; management of â&#x20AC;&#x153;tankingâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;essentially prioritizing the potential of future success over the desire to win now. This Harris wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t apologize for. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have conviction that our strategy is right,â&#x20AC;? he tells me. One could even say he trusts the process. Harris acknowledges that â&#x20AC;&#x153;when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going through it, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a lot fun,â&#x20AC;? but the approach has shown results. Wins have remained elusive, but the Sixers now boast one of the most promising young rosters in the leagueâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and one that is bound to improve even more after the Draft this Thursday. The numbers validate the optimism as well. When Harris originally bought the Sixers from Comcast-Spectacor in 2011, the team had a season ticket base of only 3,000. Now, according to Harris, that number is approaching 14,000.

Harris has also seen incredible financial return. His investment group was able to purchase the Sixers with a bid of 280 million dollars. According to Forbes, the team is now valued at 800 million. The fact that the Sixers have proven to be a wise investment for Harris shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be very surprising. After all, it was the success of his private equity firm, Apollo Global Management, that allowed him to accumulate the capital to buy the Sixers in the first place. For Harris, the success of his various endeavors has as much to do with others as it does with himself. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What we do is we run them in a way similar to how we make private equity investments in terms of finding great people to run the business or the team,â&#x20AC;? he explains. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So for example in the Sixersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; case, I have Scott Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neil running the business and I have Bryan Colangelo as the GM of the basketball. Ultimately, on a day to day basis, they are running the team and the business of the Sixers.â&#x20AC;? That doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean that Harris isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t involved in the big decisions, though. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have power in that I hold them accountable, but in terms of major decisions, I am definitely at the table,â&#x20AC;? he says. With the NBA Draft and free agency period looming, Harris will likely find the Sixers taking more and more of his time as the team will have to make several important player and personnel decisions. Something tells me Harris wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mind the extra time commitment, though.

Mission to Paris. In high school, the four-time letterman won All-State and All-Region recognition in his senior year. And while he took two years off between commitment and joining the Quakers, the 7â&#x20AC;&#x2122;3â&#x20AC;? big man was a prize recruit in 2015, and is rumored to have chosen Penn over schools in conferences as big as the Pac-12. Jackson is joined by Moon Area HS graduate Jarrod Simmons. Simmons was named All-Conference twice and Section Player of the Year once. He also won two conference titles. Simmonsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 6â&#x20AC;&#x2122;8â&#x20AC;? height adds additional size behind Jackson.

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that confusion. Scott also won two conference titles, and was named All-Conference and Honorable Mention All-Metropolitan in the Washington Post his senior year. Last but not least is Griffin Halpern. The only new Quaker to be listed under 6 feet, Halpern still managed to be named to the All-County team twice and All-State Honorable Mention once. He was also named Conference Player of the Year. Donahue is excited for his incoming class. If they can match last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s newcomers, the rest of the Penn community will be just as thrilled.

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ISABELA FERTEL Whether your wine is from a bag or Merlot, might as well know a few things about what you’re chugging. Street presents: how to talk about wine without seeming like a dumbass. You’re welcome. Red vs. White Contrary to popular belief, the difference between red and white wine has to do with whether or not the grape skins are left to ferment with the wine, not the color of the grapes—even red grapes have white juice. Leaving the skins in with the fermenting juice allows the wine to steep and absorb tannins, a substance found in organic compounds that yields a bitter taste and puckery feeling (think that dry bitter taste in your mouth after you drink black tea). The darker the wine, the higher the tannins and the bolder the taste. On the flip side, white wines are aged without the skins and are more acidic, instead having a tart taste. For those who want the best of both worlds: Rosé Every betch’s favorite wine only gets to age a short amount of time with red grape skins, resulting in the blush-y pink color. With relatively

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low tannins and a crisp flavor, a rose is the perfect blend of red and white. Dry vs. Sweet Sweetness has to do with residual sugar, the amount of sugar that remains in the wine after the fermentation process is stopped. Dry wines have very little to no residual sugars, and actually make up most wines on the market. Sweet wines are—technically speaking—desert wines (but the only one stopping you from ordering a prosecco at dinner is yourself). Body Body has to do with the wine’s weight on your palate, which is basically a fancy way of saying how the wine feels in your mouth. Full bodied wines are richer and feel like they coat your tongue, while light bodied wines are lighters and have more of a water-like sensation. Fruity vs. Earthy This distinction is a little more self-explanatory. Wine flavor depends on a. what aromas a wine gets from aging in a certain type of barrel or container and b. how ripe the grapes that are being used.Fruity wines are made with very ripe grapes, aged in metal containers, and fermented at cooler temperatures. Earthy wines on the other hand are aged in warmer temperatures in wooden barrels, which are treated with different essences. Go forth and drink (legally and responsibly).

Filming has begun on the adaptation of Kevin Kwan’s 2013 bestseller Crazy Rich Asians, which features Hollywood’s second all-Asian cast ever. (The last all–Asian cast was featured in the 1993 adaptation of Amy Tan’s modern classic, The Joy Luck Club.) Constance Wu (Fresh Off the Boat) and Henry Golding (a newcomer, previously a TV presenter) star in this tale of: the intrigues of old-money families in Singapore (the titular “crazy rich Asians”) and how an American-born Chinese woman navigates their world, entirely foreign to hers. “Asians” is in the title of the book, so you might think that of course the movie’s cast will be mostly (if not completely) Asian. Historically, though, simply describing or depicting a character as Asian in the source material hasn’t been enough to get an Asian actor cast to play the character in Hollywood’s

live-action adaptations: consider the recent cases of Aang (Noah Ringer) in The Last Airbender, the Ancient One (Tilda Swinton) in Doctor Strange and the titular character of Ghost in the Shell (Scarlett Johansson). All were East Asian, explicitly or implicitly, in their original iterations; all were played by Caucasian actors in their respective films. Counterarguments often run the lines of: “the main character of Ghost in the Shell doesn’t look Japanese / isn’t even human / uses an assumed name.” These arguments, however, misunderstand the issue: the problem with whitewashing as much so about accuracy as it is representation. Hollywood often ignores its social responsibility: every child deserves to have favorite actors and characters who look like them, who let them know that they can be something, regardless of what society tells them about the color of their skin or the shape of their eyes — and on a more practical

note, whitewashing narrows the already-limited pool of reasonable, non-stereotypical roles available to non-white actors. (See Master of None for a crash course in the sorts of stereotypes that talented actors of color are often forced to play, if they want to eat.) Kwan, to his fans’ delight, has directly addressed the latter issue in a Facebook post: Three years ago I sat across a table from Nina Jacobson in LA and told her that my dream was to make “Crazy Rich Asians” a showcase for the amazingly talented actors of Asian descent from all over the world. Nina promised to make my dream come true and she kept her promise. Crazy Rich Asians is a story that could have been dismissed (Crazy Rich White New Yorkers, after all, has been told many a time) or whitewashed (to be “less Asian” and “more marketable”) — but neither of those things happened. It’s an Asian story that’s being told on the big screen, featuring the bigname, all-Asian cast it merits.

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SUMMER SPOTLIGHT: JISOO KIM JESSICA LEE A founding member of Ep Eta talks Penn’s “Green Scene” (from Paraguay). Rising senior Jisoo Kim has been involved with the green scene at Penn from the very beginning—and now she’s in Paraguay doing amazing, sustainable things for the future. Street: Tell us a little bit about yourself and what you’re involved with at Penn. Jisoo Kim: I’m a senior now, apparently! I’m from San Jose, California, and I’m a proud Earth Science major concentrating in environmental science. Everything I’ve done at Penn has been related to that, because environmentalism has been a lifelong interest. I was interested in environmental policy for a while, so I was in a few political clubs. I’m now the coordinator for Eco-Reps, which is the green campus partnership at Penn. I was in the first class of Epsilon Eta, and that about covers my life at Penn! Street: So you’re in Paraguay for the summer! Why there? JK: I am a research intern for a nonprofit call Para La Tierra. They conduct studies on all sorts of wildlife (ecology) in this country, because there are very specific habitats that are linked to this part of the world, but have been vastly understudied. Because when you think of South America, you think of the Amazon and how there’s this amazing biodiversity there, and there absolutely is. But all the attention’s gone there, and there’s been very little attention to the ecology

of Paraguay. The Amazon is this amazing famous thing, whereas the Atlantic Forest is just as diverse and large as well, but I never even knew that existed until I came here. As well as Paraguay being a landlocked country in between more famous countries, the fauna here has already been covered in Argentina and people think that’s the end of the story, but it’s not. I’m here because within environmental science, which is really broad, I hadn’t really learnt much about ecology, and I wanted to explore that part of environmental science while continuing to explore another country—it’s my first time in South America. Street: What exactly are you doing over there/what’s your typical day in Paraguay like? JK: Every intern has their own independent project that they select and design with the guidance of inter-coordinators. I decided to study the biodiversity of fish in this part of Paraguay—in the lower Paraguay river. My average day will be going out into the field. Our organization is based in a small city right now, so we have our house, but then it’s a short drive to non-urbanized spaces that we refer to as field sites. We’ll go out, and then spend a few hours catching fish and setting up nets and traps and trying to get a wide variety of fish to get a full sampling effort. I’m also gonna look at certain environmental variables to see if there’s any correlation between the species that we find and how they are affected by their local environment. So we record those variables and those species, and then we come back to the house and then take photographs of the specimens and record all the relevant information, like the

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depth of water, the weather that day, etc., and organize the data for that day. In any spare time I have, I’ll add to my literature review or work on the write-up and analysis. Since it’s the beginning of my project, there’s still details to be hashed out, and I’m always thinking of new variables to look at and how to make this project as interesting as possible. Street: Why specifically fish? What was the inspiration behind this project? JK: I narrowed down what I wanted to study to fish, birds, or monkeys. I knew I would get a taste for the monkey research through a recent field trip where the organization’s primatologist has been working for a long time. I wanted to diversify my experience here—it’s only 3 months, it’s kind of a long time but also not. It seemed like there was more of a need for research on fish (though not significantly needed more because this organization is new and everything is needed/useful). In addition to that, my senior thesis research for honors environmental science, should also deal with fish (that’s the plan right now!). I thought it would be a good idea to gain more experience in that heading into senior year. Street: How do you think

you will bring those experiences in Paraguay and connect them to your studies/time at Penn? JK: Any application of what I’ve learned at Penn is the reason why I decided to go to Penn and how I choose to spend time outside of Penn. So that relates to how I studied abroad in Spain and how that really built my language skills, how I feel like my Penn experience has prepared me for international research. Being an environmental scientist, you can work literally anywhere and find something to do. This just falls in line with my philosophy how I imagine any environmental science career to be. Street: How would you characterize being in the “green” scene at Penn? JK: This is something I’ve said time and time again and I still stand by it. There are so many different opportunities to be involved with at environmentalism at Penn in some way. We have a ton of academic offerings, and I’ve been a part of that department from day one. We have really amazing professors—coming in as a freshmen, I didn’t grasp the gravity of their work, but they really do amazing things. On the extracurricular side, you have so many options, from SSAP, which is a huge entity with so

many different niche groups, to the Bee-Keeping Society (not sure if that’s its official name). On the employment side as well, I’ve held a summer internship with Green Campus Partnership and Eco-Rep coordinator (that is my work study job). My work study job sophomore year was research assistant with someone who works at Wharton’s Institute for Global Environmental Leadership, and that was following my interest in environmental policy. I feel like I’ve had my fingers in every pie, and I feel like I’ve proved that you can make of it what you will. Even if you don’t agree with how the university approaches climate action, or that the majority of students don’t seem to care the way you do, you can’t deny that there are options to get involved at Penn in some way. Street: Do you see yourself working in environmental affairs in the future? Non-profit sector JK: Right now I’m pretty set on devoting my life to environmental research, so going on to grad school right after college, going on to get my PhD in something in the broad field of environmental science (I’m really not sure yet!). From there, go on to academia or public service, like, I spend one summer working with the US Department of Energy, which was a research internship that I consider public service since that research is ultimately being used for the people. Those things aren’t mutually exclusive—I can be in academia for a bit, and then do research for government, and then come back, I don’t know. I’m not ruling out the private sector either, there’s some cool stuff to be done there too. But I think

research is the route I’ll take. I’m not sure the nonprofit route is for me, based on my past experiences with them, and how they fit into our collective approach to environmental issues. Street: What inspired your passion for the environment, even before Penn? JK: I grew up camping with my family, so the outdoors always seemed very accessible to me. From there, it was very natural to start caring about taking care of wildlife, clean air, clean water, and just being cognizant of your individual effect on something bigger. And that just grew as I grew up, I started taking more action. In my middle school, I noticed that they didn’t have recycling bins yet, so I would bring in a basket from my house and then take all the paper home at the end of the week! I know, it was hilarious. I wasn’t completely sure I wanted to go into it, and then I took AP Environmental Science at my high school, and apart from the typical mid-college major crisis, I haven’t really questioned it since. Street: If you could tell one thing to Penn students about the environment, what would you say? JK: From the student perspective, behavioral change does matter, and it takes time and self-discipline. You will see on Locust or more environmental friends certain reminders to change your behavior, but you can find it within you to take that extra step and self-motivation to change your habits, not just cruise through your day. Being more mindful, even if it’s just turning off the lights. It’s probably easier than people think it is. It’s a matter of discipline, and it all adds up if everyone is equally committed.