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Hamlett, who vanished on Dec. 26, committed “suicide by drowning”

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On Monday, the New York City Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed in a media release that former College junior Timothy Hamlett’s death was a “suicide by drowning.” Hamlett’s body was found in the Hudson river on Friday.

His mother, Katherine Hamlett, believes that her son committed suicide by jumping from the George Washington Bridge.

“We never had any indication that our son was suicidal at all. It is important to me that people do know that this is what he did,” Hamlett said. “I don’t want to sweep it under the rug and avoid the reality of how he died.”

A Facebook page dedicated to searching for Hamlett announced his death on Monday afternoon.

Hamlett, who was recruited to run track for Penn, vanished on Dec. 26. His wallet was found in a park near the George Washington Bridge in New York.

Hamlett’s cell phone was traced to two young people who said they found the belongings at a park near a school. Police did not suspect foul play since $10 remained in the wallet. In March, the Teaneck Police Department confirmed that the investigation of his SEE HAMLETT PAGE 3

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Beau Biden, who died Saturday, was beloved by Penn colleagues JESSICA MCDOWELL News Editor

On Saturday, United States Vice President Joe Biden announced that his son, 1991 College graduate Joseph R. “Beau” Biden III had passed away. He was 46.

Beau Biden graduated with a degree in history from Penn and then attended law school at Syracuse University. While at Penn, he was a member of the fraternity Psi Upsilon, better known as Castle.

Biden’s fraternity brothers remember him as a friendly, humble and modest kid. “Everyone knew who he was, his name and status was joked about sometimes, but he was really just a normal guy,” said Eric Garrard, a 1991 College graduate and Biden’s sophomore year roommate.

“He was just this fresh-faced kid,” 1989 College graduate and Biden’s “big” in Psi Upsilon Evan Haymes agreed. “He perpetually looked like he got the joke and that he was up to no good.”

In 1988, while Biden was at Penn, his father, a Delaware Senator at the time, ran for president. Though he was ultimately

unsuccessful, the campaign made Beau’s name known across campus.

Retired History Professor Bruce Kuklick, who taught Biden, said that he didn’t let the fame get to his head. “He was very very modest and unassuming. Especially at a place like Penn, you get a lot of kids who are arrogant for many reasons,” Kuklick said. “He had every reason to be arrogant, but he wasn’t like that at all.”

Haymes agreed. “Whatever silver spoon people perceived in his mouth frankly never existed. And he would have spit it out if it had,” he said.

In the classroom, Biden’s friends remember him as a

conscientious and hardworking student. 1991 College graduate Michael Hochman met Biden on their freshman hall in the Quad.

He remembers him simply as “the smartest man I’ve ever met.”

Hochma n remembered taking a political communication class with Biden and staying up all night together studying. In class, he said he was confident and engaged.

Though Garrard never took a class with Biden, he vividly remembers arguing with him about politics until 6 a.m. “We argued a lot,” he said. “When he first found out I was a SEE BIDEN PAGE 3

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Wharton grad killed by Taliban

Paula Kantor, 46, died in a Taliban raid on a guesthouse in Kabul, Afghanistan

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Medical research at Penn is giving HIV-positive patients who need vital organs a reason to hope.

Penn Medicine recently released a study outlining the state of HIVpositive organ donation in America.

This study is the first of its kind since the passage of the HIV Organ Policy Equity (HOPE) Act in 2013, which legalized HIV-positive organ

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On May 13, 1990 Wharton graduate and science and development expert Paula Kantor was killed in a Taliban attack on a guesthouse in Kabul, Afghanistan. She was 46.

Kantor, who studied economics at Penn, was staying at the Park Palace Hotel when the Taliban stormed it in a siege that killed 14 people. Kantor’s

friend Christine Okali said in an emailed statement that Kantor was the only American citizen killed in the attack.

While Kantor was staying in the hotel, she was not actually inside the hotel when the attack began, Okali said. The hotel was stormed by several gunmen who placed the entire building under siege and held dozens hostage.

“She had gone out for a meal with her colleagues at the Institute established by the US Government

transplant research, even though no actual transplants have yet occurred.

Previously, HIV-positive people could not donate organs for fear of transmission.

This study revealed that there may be a significant number of viable organs that were previously disregarded on the basis of their HIV infection. The research used data from Philadelphia hospitals to estimate the number of potential HIV-positive donors who would be able to donate their organs to HIVpositive recipients annually.

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transplants faced the same procedures as other patients. “Like with other patients, there are criteria they need to meet to be eligible for organ receipt, most important being that they are actually sick enough to warrant transplant,” Dr. Emily Blumberg, senior author of the study and Infectious Disease professor at the Perelman School of Medicine, said.

“With HIV patients, another criterion is control of HIV infection.

So that’s a little unique for them, but they otherwise have to jump through the same hoops as anyone else,” Blumberg added.

The HOPE act did not change the

process of organ donation, but rather expanded the prospective pool of organs that could be transplanted.

“What our study says is that there is potentially a pool of donors who may ultimately be acceptable,” Blumberg said.

However, there may be some restrictions to the good news. The Penn Medicine study revealed that the organs from HIV-positive donors were more likely to be of lesser quality than organs from HIV-negative donors. “It’s not exactly clear what the reason for that is, but it may be SEE HIV PAGE 5

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Students assist Phil. homeless with hunger programs Despite over 5,000 homeless, Penn has no formal outreach program in Phil.

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At the corner of 41st and Walnut, you’ll find some student apartments and houses, the Homewood Suite hotel by Hilton and a middle-aged wheelchair bound veteran named Phil.

Day in and day out for the last six months, armed only with his wheelchair, a leather wallet, a pair of black Wayfarer-style sunglasses and his Bible, Phil sits on the corner watching people and cars pass.

He converses with the students and residents of the surrounding apartments and finally wheels himself back to the Safe Haven Homeless Shelter for veterans where he sleeps at night.

Growing up in the Belmont area of Brooklyn, Phil encountered a lot of adversity.

“I experienced a lot of depression due to my neglect, did drugs and got into altercations, but I don’t do those things anymore.”

He attributes this change to counseling and the Bible, given to him by his grandmother. which he has read cover to cover.

Though he has been in Philadelphia for less than a year, he has been homeless for nearly a decade. Phil can tell you which corners have people who are nice or who steal food. He can tell you the names of police officers that have helped him, and those who have treated him with suspicion, giving him citations he feels he didn’t deserve.

Phil is one of the 12,000 individuals that access emergency shelter per year in Philadelphia.

It is difficult to estimate how many people are living on the street but not accessing shelter at any point in time as many live in obscure, neglected places such as abandoned buildings, cars, and bus stops.

The city’s estimate is around 650, adding up to about 5,500 truly homeless people per year, according to Project HOME. More alarmingly, according to Axis Philly, this number is triple the amount of people whose shelter needs went unmet three years ago.

Though the University doesn’t provide homeless outreach programs through Civic House or the Netter Center, in recent years, Penn students have attempted to alleviate some of the dire needs of Philadelphia’s poorest residents through original initiatives.

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In 2011, Penn students Patrick Gregorio and Brianna Fram founded the Penn chapter of the Student Run Emergency Housing Unit of Philadelphia, an initiative started by local college students to house men during winter months at the Arch Street United Methodist Church near City Hall. The housing unit is staffed by area students, who also sleep in the church overnight and prepare breakfast for the men in the morning.

2014 College graduate Taryn Williams became involved with SREHUP through a friend on the frisbee team.

“I had done a lot of volunteer

work in poverty alleviation in high school,” she said.adding, “I knew the issue was more serious in Philadelphia [so] I wanted to do something here as well.”

Williams became involved in SREHUP after joining various other organizations in the area.

“SREHUP was the one where I felt like I, as an individual, was making the biggest impact,” she said.

More recently, Swipe Out Hunger — founded in the fall of 2014 by College sophomores Liza Lansing and Jessie Abrams — has tackled the convergent issue of hunger in West Philadelphia.

Water purification project among Engagement Prize winners All four undergraduate schools represented in inaugural prize VAMSEE MUPPARAPU Staff Reporter

The five inaugural winners of the President’s Engagement Prize will use this summer to prepare for their respective community engagement projects across the world.

The President’s Engagement Prize was announced last summer as part of Penn President Amy Gutmann’s vision for students to engage with the world, as set forth in the Penn Compact 2020.

The award is given to projects that “qualify as putting knowledge to work for the betterment of humankind” as per the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships website, and rewards winners up to $50,000 in living expenses and up to $100,000 for project implementation expenses.

The application process, which began in the fall, reached an end when President Gutmann announced the five winners — one duo and three individuals — in late March. The winners, representing all four undergraduate schools, “have developed extraordinarily promising projects that are going to impact thousands of lives,” Gutmann said in a statement. The projects themselves address a diverse group of community issues across the world.

2015 Engineering graduates Adrian Lievano and Matthew Lisle created the “Homegrown Organic Purification Project,” in which they will aim to develop and implement a rainwater catchment and purification system in Kimana, Kenya with the use of Moringa Tree — commonly referred to as the Miracle Tree — seeds.

When discussing the inspiration for their project, Lisle and Lievano described it as an incidental idea.

“We thought if it’s going to be something we can apply with, [it’s got to be] a big issue,” Lievano stated.

He added, “One of the biggest problems in our world today is the global water crisis. A lot of people around the world still lack access to clean water.”

They insisted that the project was more about their general approach towards development than any personal interest in the subject. Both engineers credited their Penn education and the school’s collaborative environment for fostering such an approach.

“We don’t have any prior background in specifically developmental water solutions, but we have problem solving skills that Penn has given us and resources that Penn has given us,” Lisle said.

Lievano described the process as “iterative,” as the two narrowed their focus.

“Here’s a problem. Here’s what I’ve researched. This is my full

”Liza and I realized that plenty of students end the semester and year with excess unused meal swipes, and wanted to figure out a way in which we can allocate them to reduce waste and engage in bettering the larger West Philadelphia community.” said Abrams.

Penn Dining and Bon Appetit, in a partnership whose details took 5 months to work out, agreed to give $4.75 per swipe to Philabundance, the area’s leading hunger relief organization, capping student donations to two swipes. During its pilot semester this past spring, Swipes collected

nearly 1,600 meal swipes, which will provide 14,000 meals to people in West Philadelphia.

“With the help of Dr. Harkavy, we found a way for Swipes at Penn to become a reality in a way that would benefit the local Philadelphia community of which Penn students are a part,” Lansing said.

In addition to the positive effects of their outreach efforts, Penn students have made a good impression on at least one visitor to campus.

“Penn students are very disciplined. I sometimes see them with their families. I wish them a nonviolent and stress-free life,” Phil said.

He added that his experience in Philly has been much better than in New Jersey, where he spent the last eight years: “I have always admired Philadelphia. I do love the city. It’s a blessed place” Despite his contentment with Philadelphia, there is something missing from Phil’s life even beyond a stable home and source of food. “I want to get married.

I want to have kids.” he revealed over a rare shared meal at McDonald’s.

“I’m always up on 41st. I’ll be responsible, I’m all prepared. I’ll take her on a honeymoon, take her dining. Do you know how hard it is to be alone?”

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Lievano and Lisle use seeds of the Moringa tree to purify water.

solution. It’s supported by this network of people and it confirms that it’s better than the previous solution and you move forward with that,” Lievano added.

However, both engineers want to be able to take away invaluable life skills from this unique experience regardless of where their career paths take them after this project.

“I just wanted to stick to the core idea of using what I’ve learned to help people I don’t know yet. That’s what we did,” Lisle said.

Lievano added, “Taking risks at this point in life is not a bad thing. I think it’s the best thing you can do. Being 21, 22 and just going out there.”

The other winners include: 2015 Nursing graduate Jodi Feinberg, who with the support of the New York University

Langone Medical Center and the Visiting Nurse Service of New York, will focus on bridging the gap between inpatient and outpatient cardiac rehabilitation by creating a comprehensive cardiac rehabilitation model for home care.

2015 Col lege g raduate Shadrack Frimpong will be establishing the Tarkwa Breman Model School for Girls and Community Clinic in the village of Tarkwa Breman, Ghana in hopes of serving the young girls and citizens in Tarkwa and the surrounding seven villages.

2015 Wharton graduate Katlyn Grasso, who will be developing the female empowerment network for high school girls, “GenHeration,” in hopes of addressing important community issues and positively impacting these girls’ development.

Sarvshreshth Gupta, a 2014 Engineering and Wharton graduate, 22, died on April 16.

Gupta, a first-year analyst at Goldman Sachs, was found in a parking lot next to his apartment building in San Francisco, Calif. While the San Francisco Medical Examiner’s Office has not yet confirmed a cause of death, The New York Times reported that Gupta “apparently fell from his building” in a probable suicide.

Gupta’s death “has largely remained held in confidence among a small group of his colleagues and family,” according to the Times.

“We are saddened by Sav’s death and feel deeply for his family,” Goldman Sachs said in a statement. “We hope that people will respect the family’s expressed desire for

privacy during this difficult time.”

Before his death, Gupta expressed to his family how stressed and unhappy he was at Goldman.

“This job is not for me. Too much work and too little time,” Gupta said to his father, Sunil, according to the Times.

In March, Gupta resigned from Goldman, but then gained his job back a week later, according to an essay his father posted on Medium — a story-sharing website — and later removed. Other workers told the Times that Gupta asked for his job back.

Upon returning to Goldman, Gupta worked on a reduced schedule, but still felt overwhelmed. Only hours before he died, Gupta told his father that ” ‘It is too much.

I have not slept for two days, have a client meeting tomorrow morning, have to complete a presentation, my V.P. is annoyed and I am working alone in my office,’ ” according to his father’s essay.

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Abramson Cancer Center holds fundraiser at local arboretum Activity-filled event hoped to raise $3,000 LUIS A. FERRE SADURNI Staff Reporter

On Sunday morning the Awbury Arboretum in Germantown opened its doors to scurrying children in search of hidden treasures, a raffle full of attractive prizes and a lively picnic abundant with coffee and bagels.

The event, Awbury Morning, was one of eight cancer fundraisers taking place simultaneously in different cities around the globe.

This particular one taking place under the summer Philadelphian sun was organized by Penn’s Department of Psychology Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies Caroline Connolly.

The event was organized in memory of cancer victim Judith Gillanders, a close friend of Professor Connolly. On the same day, some of Gillanders’ other friends held fundraisers in locations such as Dublin, Long Island and Vermont.

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Republican, he didn’t even want to meet me.”

“His beliefs were his beliefs — when you argue with someone like that, the tension is palpable,” Garrad added, though he said that ultimately they remained good friends. “He changed the way I thought. Living with him was the most educational experience of my life, and I spent a year living in Russia under Gorbachev,” he said.

Beside being intelligent, friends remember Biden as adventurous and a prankster.

“Friendship with Beau was hysterical, fun and memorable,” Hochman said. “Everything was an adventure; it was all interesting and more fun.”

While at Penn, Garrard said that Biden had a habit of playing pranks on his fraternity brothers. Garrard recalled a time when Biden stole some dead fish caught by one of his brothers and hid them around the Castle house in his brothers’ rooms.

Haymes remembered when, only a few years ago, he and Biden sprinted through Union Station in Washington, D.C. to catch the last train home. “We literally ripped through the entire station, laughing the entire time. When do you just get to act like a kid like that?” he said.

During Biden’s time as a brother of Castle, the fraternity got in trouble on campus. In 1990, ten members of the fraternity were arrested on charges of kidnapping after tying a member of a rival fraternity to a tree and subjecting him to racial epithets.

The fraternity was kicked off campus for five years because of the incident.

Though Biden was a brother, his friends insisted he was far removed from any drama associated with the fraternity. In fact, many of them agreed that Biden did not even drink alcohol until he turned the legal age of 21.

“Beau was nowhere near any of that. His hands were totally

Gillanders was diagnosed with a rare type of cancer called liposarcoma in February. She passed away in May and is survived by her husband Ross, and two young children, George and Ciara.

“For Judith there unfortunately wasn’t hope, but for a lot of people there is hope,” said Connolly. “I was really motivated by her husband saying if we wanted to help organize an event … It’s really one of these unfortunate illnesses that can affect anybody and have huge sweeping ramifications in someone’s life and in the life of the people around you.”

The goal of the fundraiser was to raise $3,000 for Penn’s Abramson Cancer Center. The Center is one of 40 Comprehensive Cancer Centers designated by the National Cancer Institute. Its comprehensive approach makes it not only one of the leading global institutions in cancer research, but also a cornerstone of cancer education and care in the United States.

At the closing of this event, the ongoing fundraiser was $124 shy

of its $3,000 mark.

The event was attended by a crowd of approximately 40 people, mainly composed of young couples with their children.

It included a walk through the Arboretum, followed by a picnic with the Schmear It food-truck. Afterwards, a scavenger hunt for kids and a raffle were held.

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clean,” Garrard said.

Haymes agreed. “The concept of bullying was so against everything he stood for. Beau’s personality and his abstinence from drinking — it all kind of unintentionally made him a leader,” he said.

Through his legacy and his “magnetism,” Hochman calls Biden his “best friend ever since college.” Hochman, who was born in Miami, even followed Biden to Delaware and became an attorney there. “I’m a better man for knowing him. He’s had a tremendous influence in my life,” he said.

On Saturday night, Biden’s father released a statement saying “It is with broken hearts that Hallie, Hunter, Ashley, Jill and I announce the passing of our husband, brother and son, Beau, after he battled brain cancer with the same integrity, courage and strength he demonstrated every day of his life.”

His death comes after a long battle with brain cancer. Last week, it was announced that Biden had been hospitalized at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Washington DC. In 2010, Biden was first hospitalized for what was described as a mild stroke. Then, last year, he was admitted to the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.

Though Biden’s prognosis was serious, he kept his medical issues private. “Beau was his own man. He did everything on his own,” Haymes said. “A lot of his friends reached out to him, but he wanted to keep his health issues close to the vest.”

Biden, who was a Delaware native, served two terms as the state’s Attorney General before stepping down last year so that he could seek the governorship in 2016. Hochman said that Biden was still planning on running for the office as recently as a few weeks ago.

“Even until his last days, he was convinced he would beat [the cancer],” Hochman said.

Haymes agreed, noting that he didn’t say goodbye to anyone before his death.

Biden’s health issues are not the first time tragedy has struck the Biden family. In Dec. 1972, Biden’s mother Neilia and sister Naomi were killed in a car accident that captured national attention and catapulted Beau and his brother Hunter into the media spotlight.

“That car crash really made Beau and Hunter the property of the populus,” Garrard said, noting that the population of Delaware “really owned and protected those boys.”

Garrard also said that, though his illness was never announced, many people in Delaware were aware that Biden had been struggling with health issues.

“Anybody in that town could have made that national news and they didn’t — I think that says something very powerful.”

Even with Biden’s pronounced career, it is still Beau’s friendship that his classmates miss.

“I know it sounds like a stretch, but he had an IQ relative to people’s sensibilities. He made you feel like you were the most important person in the world,” Garrard said.

Hochman agreed, recalling how fondly Biden remembered his days at Penn. “He loved his alma mater; he was a very proud Penn grad. Somewhere out there, he’s smiling down on us with his varsity letter jacket,” he said.

For Haymes, Biden’s life was cut too short. “He was a rising star and he always has been,” he said. “Who knows what else he could have accomplished.”

Biden is survived by his wife Hallie, two children, his father Joe, stepmother Jill, his brother Hunter, his sister and 2010 School of Social Policy and Practice graduate Ashley and several nieces and nephews.

President Obama will deliver Biden’s eulogy at his funeral on Saturday at 10:30 a.m. at St. Anthony of Padua Roman Catholic Church in Wilmington, Del..

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The fundraiser was held in memory of Judith Gillanders.

due greatly to the generosity of different Philadelphia local businesses.

“From Schmear-It food truck coming, to Trader Joe’s donating water and bananas for participants, to Mama Chia providing snacks … this was made a really fun event from the numerous great Philly businesses and groups,” said Connolly, who has

been a lecturer at Penn since 2011.

The fundraiser was both a morning in celebration of Gillander’s life and a show of support for the fight against cancer.

And for the Abramson Cancer Center, every bit of support counts.

“These types of events and the folks that run them, our philanthropic partners, are our most powerful partners. Professor Conolly’s efforts and the support of the Penn family is key to Penn being at the forefront of curing cancer,” the Center’s Principal Gifts Officer Tricia Bruning said.

Fundraising events like Awbury Morning are of great value for the Abramson Cancer Center because of the flexible nature of private philanthropic funds.

Bruning explained how the use of grant money received from large foundations and government is restricted to very specific research projects specified by the donors.

On the other hand, the Center has more leeway in deciding how to allocate private donations for the better.

“When we get philanthropic dollars it gives us the flexibility to direct them to new exciting ideas to help develop pilot data to then lead to larger grants from the federal government. So, if you will, they give us the seed money from which to grow a garden of cancer hope and cherish,” Bruning said.

In fact, funding received from private donations seems to be playing an increasing role at the Center. For fiscal year 2014 the Center received over $35 million from private philanthropy, an increase of about $7 million from the previous year.

“We’re really at the forefront not only in delivering care locally, but also in shaping the global perspective on cancer research …

And it’s really because of the seed funding we get from events like these that we’re making an impact in patients in the region, but also changing the way cancer is treated globally,” Bruning said.

Those interested in helping the center reach its $3,000 goal can visit http://givingpages.upenn.edu/ awburymorning.

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absence was still open.

On Monday evening, the Teaneck Police Department declined to comment until the following day, and did not confirm that Hamlett’s death was a suicide.

During his sophomore year at Penn, friends said that Hamlett’s personality changed.

His parents believe that this change in character was caused by his use of performance-enhancing drugs. In September 2014, Hamlett was arrested for throwing a brick through someone’s window. Following the incident, Hamlett took a medical leave of absence from the University.

“We as a family strongly believe that his use of supplements was an aggravating, if not primary force for the change in his behavior,” Katherine Hamlett said.

Timothy Hamlett was home with his family at the time of his disappearance. In the months since, his mother has led her own investigation to find her son. In early May, the family announced that they would offer a $10,000 reward to whoever could provide information about Hamlett’s disappea rance. Kather ine Hamlett said the family was considering raising the award to $25,000 before Timothy’s body was found.

Hamlett’s death marks the seventh Penn student suicide in the past two years. After two suicides occurred within three weeks last spring, Penn launched the Task Force on Student Psychological Health and Welfare in February 2014 to evaluate its mental health initiatives.

Katherine Hamlett said her son did contact Counseling and Psychological Services for help while he was a Penn student, but found that the center’s 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. service hours did not

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Hamlett’s death marks the seventh suicide in 15 months at Penn.

accommodate his schedule.

He initially sought help from a private counselor, she said, although he did eventually see a counselor from CAPS before he began his leave of absence.

“CAPS had limited availability for counseling,” she said. “With respect to college counseling services generally, they need to be available at times that are outside the regular working times.”

Katherine Hamlett believes that all students should receive a regular mental health checkup, similar to annual physical check-ups. Although she said there is a resolution to the mental health crisis facing college students, she believes that it has yet to be found. “There is more work to be done,” she said.

Hamlett also drew parallels between her son’s suicide and that of Madison Holleran, the track athlete who committed suicide last year.

“There have been two suicides in the same year on the same team,” she said. “It’s devastating.”

“I was at Madison Holleran’s service. And I was absolutely so hurt for the grief and pain of the community and the loss of her beautiful life,” Hamlett continued.

Penn President Amy Gutmann expressed sympathy on behalf of the University.

“The entire Penn community is deeply saddened by Timothy Hamlett’s passing. A popular and talented member of the Penn family, his was a life of tremendous promise that ended far too soon. We share the pain felt by Timothy’s family and loved ones, and our thoughts and prayers are with them,” Gutmann said in a statement.

The Facebook post announcing Timothy Hamlett’s death stated that a ceremony would be held in his memory on June 12 in Englewood, N.J. There will also be a private ceremony for family and friends held in Martha’s Vineyard.

In lieu of f lowers, the family asked that donations be sent to Legal Outreach, to the Timothy Akil Hamlett Fund in support of their Summer Law Institute at the NYU School of Law/PACT. “Please know that we are comforted by your prayers, support, the wonderful memories of extraordinary joy that we shared with our son, and of course, God’s healing grace and love,” the Facebook post concluded.

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he first winners of Amy Gutmann’s President’s Engagement Prize that awards its recipients with $100,000 to fund a “promising engagement project” at the local, national or global level the year after graduation were announced in March.

Such a prize obscures whose participation is needed most, for example, at the local level of engagement. According to a report recently released by Shared Prosperity Philadelphia, whose information is used by the mayor’s office to assess the effects of poverty, and the Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia is the poorest big city in America with nearly 30 percent of its residents living below the poverty line and 12 percent living in deep poverty.

In an era of post-industrialization, non-union service jobs are the norm and Philadelphia’s economy has become marked by increased privatization through widespread subcontracting. Working parents take on multiple, part-time jobs and receive few benefits while their children’s public schools are

closing and grossly underfunded.

Developers have built new apartment complexes to support the influx of young professionals, raising property taxes, while vacant lots that could be perfect locations for community gardens and farms sit empty in food deserts. Large nonprofits such as universities — including ours — and hospitals are some of the largest employers in the city and boast about their community projects and partnerships, yet fail to commit to paying the city for lost property taxes.

There is something missing from progressive social movements, city government and neighborhood-level decision making, and it is not Ivy League graduates. It is the participation of the communities we hope to “serve” on the frontline of the social issues that affect them the most.

Responding to injustice in Philadelphia, injustice that is inherently racial and economic by nature of this city, will require more than one-year ventures funded by Penn. Efforts must be creative,

multidimensional, build strong coalitions and prioritize workingclass community leadership. Penn students should take the examples of recent successful campaigns and organizations, such as the lobbying efforts of Philadelphians Organized to Witness, Empower and Rebuild (POWER), that resulted in securing an increased

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take on large social engagement projects, Amy Gutmann hoped the prize would maximize Penn student involvement. However, what the prize does is laud the few select and exceptional recipients of a prestigious award that is on par with the benefits of working a high-paying corporate job the year after graduation — especially

There is something missing from progressive social movements, city government and neighborhood-level decision making, and it is not Ivy League graduates.”

minimum wage for city contracts and subcontractors, or the new paid sick leave policy that was recently mandated.

Created with the innocuous intention of establishing motivation and the financial support for Penn students to

since the award also comes with an exorbitant $50,000 to fund one individual’s living expenses for a year. What this award does not do is create a cultural norm at Penn that its students can and should have the opportunities and innate motivation to take on such

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few weeks ago, 34th Street published an article detailing some aspects of cocaine use at our University. The story failed to make the connection between consumption in our own sheltered environment, and the violent drug cartels in developing countries that supply the drug.

The white powder which users buy from dealers on campus has its origin in the coca plant, indigenous to the fields of South America. Cartel organizations convert this plant into the marketable drug, then smuggle it up north to Mexico, get it past the U.S. border, and put it in the hands of local dealers who ultimately hand it off to Penn students like the “Charlie” of 34th Street’s article, who thinks that his highflying millionaire future depends on cocaine consumption while in college.

Latin American drug cartels thrive because their product continues to rein in astronomical profits. In order to stay in business, they resort to violence. The result

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has been many thousands of deaths every year since the trade took off decades ago. Cartels are linked not only to mass murders but also kidnapping, government corruption, child abuse and a sickening litany of other crimes.

Last year, the results of drug consumption in the Global

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Salvador, Honduras and Mexico itself, countries that face chaos from cartel violence. Many do travel for economic reasons, but others make the rational choice to risk their lives by migrating because their odds of surviving at home are unfavorable; if they do live, it will be in fear.

The story failed to make the connection between consumption in our own sheltered environment, and the violent drug cartels in developing countries that supply the drug.”

North and cartel presence in the Global South drew abnormal media attention because of the child refugee crisis. According to federal government estimates, during 2014 upwards of 60,000 children — many as young as 5 years old — traveled alone and illegally through the U.S.-Mexico border from Guatemala, El

Their stories illustrate the point that cartels are responsible for years and years of bloodbaths and instability.

And drug consumers of Penn are also creating the conditions under which this system of institutional terror is possible.

Perhaps many of Penn’s users are simply indifferent to

all the human suffering because it happens far away in Latin America, to people who don’t matter to them. Perhaps many are ignorant.

The extent to which ignorance as opposed to indifference about the consequences characterizes Penn’s drug users is unclear. It is clear, however, that among our peers are those who participate in this system of extreme violence and terror so that they can show off their spending power or fit into “elite” social groups on campus.

There is one right choice they can make: quitting their drug habit.

Until they make that choice, cocaine dealers, consumers and those who harbor them on this campus are complicit in a crime against humanity.

GEORGE ROSA-ACOSTA is a College senior and former staff reporter for The Daily Pennsylvanian from New York, studying political science and comparative literature & theory.

His email address is georgero@ sas.upenn.edu.

social engagement work in all capacities, not just as the creators of new projects.

President Gutmann believed the prize would present an opportunity to translate knowledge gained at Penn into practice. However, this depiction of Penn graduates presumes that the translation of such knowledge into accepted community practice or public policy in the world — especially by someone who has most likely never had to live under the consequences of such social problems — is just as easy as becoming an expert in a particular social problem under the auspices of an Ivy League institution.

The sign of the award’s success will not be found in the longevity or efficacy of the projects it first funds. It will be found in whether the thousands of Penn undergraduates who want to do good after graduation but will not win — or even consider applying for such an award — will be institutionally and culturally supported by Penn.

While the effort of the award recipients to begin a new social

CLARA JANE HENDRICKSON engagement initiative requires tremendous creativity, the willingness of Penn students to forfeit prestige and financial security to perform the important and fundamental work of listening to communities the year after they graduate, rather than beginning projects with community relationships that are half-baked, is certainly its own reward.

CLARA JANE HENDRICKSON is a rising College senior from New York studying political science. Her email address is clara@sas.upenn. edu.

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he purported goal of The Daily Pennsylvanian article “Black Ph.D.s face disparate treatment in the sciences” was to discuss disproportional funding trends facing underrepresented minorities in science. The article attempts to describe our stance, as black members within the Penn community, on the disparities facing URM in science. As two black scientists who are extremely proud of our Penn education, training as biomedical researchers, and continued support from faculty at our institution, we were blindsided and disheartened by the misrepresentation and diminished depiction of our opinions within the published article. Specific data discussed during our interviews about the NIH’s commitment to diversity inclusion were omitted, and what followed were unsubstantiated statements that were often taken out of context.

The DP has graciously welcomed our request to clarify our position and statements that we believe were misrepresented.

The article overall describes an unfair and hostile environment for blacks in science. We were quoted as using words such as “affirmative

action” and “constant humiliation,” which, in addition to others, were incorrectly attributed to us.

Moreover, false equivalencies were made between events in Ferguson and life for blacks in academia.

Additionally, the views of some black professors in the social sciences were conflated with that of black professors in the life sciences.

The article makes unsubstantiated assertions, principally because only two black scientists were interviewed, neglecting to cite data from the plethora of available literature on the subject. Lastly, the tone of the article was that of anger and resentment, which does not resonate with us, having experienced nothing but warmth and support in our relatively short time in academia.

In conclusion, while we are not oblivious to the challenges that URM groups — women, blacks, Latinos and members of the LGBT community — may encounter in the sciences, distorted articles made to be provocative do not lead to progress, but rather drive further wedges into the multicultural fabric of academic science.

Ishmail Abdus-Saboor Zahra Parker

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that we are actually doing a good job of treating their HIV,” Penn Medicine student and lead author of the study Aaron Richterman said.

“The take-away may be that there are some areas where we have better donors and some areas where the donors aren’t as optimal. It may be that HIV-positive donors in this country are better for livers versus for kidneys. These are things that need to be further evaluated,” Richterman added.

Despite passage of the HOPE Act 18 months ago, there have been no recorded HIV-positive organ transplants in America to date. However, in South Africa, there were 27 transplants between 2008 and 2014.

Richterman explained that the situation in America is different from the situation in South Africa. “When those transplants were initially being performed, the HIV-positive patients who were in renal failure were not eligible to be on dialysis there — life-saving dialysis. There was more of an impetus to try this there to see if it would work because otherwise those patients

were just sent home to die,” he said.

The HOPE Act legalized research into HIV-positive organ transplants in America, but the National Institute of Health is still setting the research criteria for these transplants. “The reason we’re thinking about doing it now in the U.S. is because of the South African experience,” Blumberg said.

This Penn Medicine study estimates about 400 prospective organ donors annually — previously dismissed because of their HIV infection — who are now able to donate. “Improving care for people with HIV is critical to fighting the epidemic,” former Director of the Office of National AIDS Policy Dr. Grant Colfax said.

Ultimately, HIV-positive organ transplants could have widespread benefits for all patients on the waiting list. HIV-positive recipients benefit from a pool of potential organs that are marked specifically for them. HIV-negative recipients benefit from a reduced pool of competitors for the same organ.

“Our goal is to continue to improve access to transplantation for all patients, including patients with HIV,” Blumberg said.

Penn Law grad died on Friday David Cooper was a senior editor of Penn Law Journal DAN SPINELLI News Editor

David Cooper, a 2015 Law School graduate, died on Friday morning. He was 24.

Cooper, who earned his JD degree on May 17, was a senior editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review.

While he was born in La Jolla, Calif., Cooper grew up in

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and where Paula had previously worked,” Okali said. “Paula died on entering the hotel when she returned from her dinner appointment.”

After graduating from Penn, Kantor went on to receive a masters degree from the University of Sussex and a PhD at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. It was during her time at Chapel Hill, where she had been pursuing an academic career in economics, that Kantor’s mother, Barbara Kantor, said her daughter’s life changed.

“She took a group trip to India and she saw all of this poverty that people here just can’t even imagine. It quite literally changed her life, and she devoted the rest of her life to this work overseas,” Kantor said.

Kantor became a prominent expert in international development and gender issues. Her work took her to remote corners of the world including Egypt, Malaysia, and Bangladesh. She focused primarily on improving life for women and families in the community she served.

In May, she was working on a project involving wheat production with the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit. At the time of her death, she was getting ready to start a new project in Islamabad, her mother said.

Her mother remembers her as a passionate, driven and hardworking woman. “She was a doer.

She didn’t want to sit there and talk about what could be done — she wanted to go out and do it,” Kantor said.

Hopewell Township, N.J. He attended Boston College as an undergraduate, and had been working at Ballard Spahr, LLP, in Philadelphia after graduating from Penn Law, according to an obituary in the Times of Trenton.

A memorial service will be held on Thursday at 11 a.m. at St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church in Pennington, N.J. Condolences are welcome at wilsonapple.com and contributions may be made to the Boston College Appalachia Volunteers or the Civil Practice Clinic at Penn Law School.

Shortly before her death, her mother said Kantor spent some time with her parents in the United States. “She was here for a whole three weeks — that was very unusual. Typically, she was never home for more than four or five days,” she said.

While Kantor’s work ethic and multiple projects kept her busy, her mother still remembers her daughter beyond her legacy.

“Even with all of the people’s she’s touched and the great work she’s done, to us, she was just Paula,” she said.

Since her death, the University of Sussex has begun a named scholarship in Kantor’s name, and the organizations she worked for will continue their projects overseas.

Her death has come as a shock to many. “I am still finding it hard to get used to the fact that we will not get together again,” Okali said.

Kantor’s mother remembered some final words from one of her friends and colleagues: “Paula was exactly where she was supposed to be. She wasn’t in the wrong place; violence was.”

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Penn ranked tenth in most stressful colleges in America by College Magazine Students discuss highpressure environment

YASMEEN KABOUD Staff Reporter

Penn has made it onto another Top Ten list — but this one may not be so brag-worthy.

College Magazine recently named Penn the 10th most stressful college in America — citing Penn’s high price tag, the intense application process and the high on-campus crime rate as evidence. Other Ivies that made it onto the list were Cornell at number seven and Harvard at number one.

These rankings embody a trend of high-stress environments at Ivy League universities. Zach Schwartz, a rising senior at Columbia University, recently wrote a viral article entitled, “Going to an Ivy League School Sucks.”

Part of his distaste for Columbia stemmed from “the cutthroat environment [that]

breeds a sense of competition, not collaboration.”

In his article, Schwartz acknowledges the benefits that come with an Ivy education, but asserts that there is an alternate atmosphere of pressure and disingenuousness that may not make the Ivy experience worth the effort.

However, Schwartz has been scolded by Ivy Leaguers everywhere for overgeneralizing his own unique experience.

Wharton junior Theodore Caputi wrote a rebuttal to Schwartz in a Huffington Post article entitled, “Going to an Ivy Doesn’t Suck: A Response to Zach Schwartz.” In the article, Caputi argues that Schwartz “may have simply chosen a school that’s not a good fit for him.”

According to the American Institute of Stress, 8 in 10 college students reported experiencing stress sometimes or suffering from it often in their daily lives — a 20 percent increase from a similar study five years ago.

At Penn, some students feel that the most stressful aspect of college is trying to juggle all the opportunities that the campus has to offer.

“The most stressful thing is trying to balance your coursework with all the extracurriculars you are involved in while still having whatever social life you want,” rising College junior Stephanie Felt said.

“There’s not much that Penn can do to foster a less stressful environment, due to the fact that it is an Ivy League institution with high expectations for students,” rising College junior Casey Stevko said.

However, other students are satisfied with the resources Penn has available for stress management.

“There’s really a lot available on campus; the resources are pretty astounding,” Caputi said, who is also a member of Penn Drug and Alcohol Peer Advisors. “There’s RAP Line, where you can talk to a peer, CAPS, free psychological

Students put unused meal swipes to good cause: fighting hunger Swipe Out Hunger donates to Philabundance SHOBA BABU Staff Reporter

It looks like all those unused meal swipes this semester didn’t go to waste after all.

Earlier this month, Penn presented a cheque to Philabundance, a local hunger relief organization, for the $7,291.25 that was gathered from the Swipe Out Hunger Campaign.

Between 800 and 900 Penn students participated in the campaign, which was able to garner a grand total of 1,535 unused meal swipes during its set donation days.

The campaign — which had its pilot run this semester — was the brainchild of rising College juniors Liza Lansing and Jessie Abrams, who partnered with Penn Dining and Penn’s food service provider Bon Appetit to allow students to “donate” their unused meal swipes. For each of the donated unused swipes, Bon Appetit gave Philabundance $4.75.

This semester there were two donation days — March 25 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and April 28 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

— during which students could could donate up to two meal swipes.

Abrams and Lansing were inspired to create the program after taking an academically based community service urban studies class taught by Ira Harkavy in which they were challenged to find a problem in Penn or the Philadelphia

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community and create a solution. Although implementing the solution was not a part of the class, Abrams and Lansing went forward with their idea and were supported by Dr. Harkavy in helping their vision come to fruition. They are extremely pleased with the results.

“We’ve exceeded our expectations,” Lansing said. “On the first donation day we had [only] hoped for 500 swipes donated and got 900 and on the second donation day — which was only two hours — we got more than 500 swipes.”

Although some students expressed that they would have liked to see more donation days and would have liked to donate more meal swipes, Abrams and Lansing mentioned that the campaign had to be plausible for both students and the

University administration.

Although Penn Dining is supportive of the cause, they have a limited budget, which is why the number of donation days and number of swipes was capped.

Nevertheless, Lansing and Abrams are appreciative of the mass support from the University and students and hope to expand the Swipe Out Hunger Campaign in the coming years.

“We have been thrilled with the response of the student body and are looking forward to only growing the program and offering ways for students not on a meal plan to get involved as well,” Abrams said.

Lansing and Abrams hope to establish a Hunger Awareness Week next year, culminating in a meal swipe donation day, with different activities each day of

the week to engage students.

Possible activities include canned food drives, marathons, events with guest speakers and trips to perform various volunteer activities at Philabundance.

In addition, Abrams and Lansing hope that the campaign will be expanded to other schools as well. They have already been approached by students from Wake Forest University and University of Michigan, who asked for advice on setting up Swipe Out Hunger Chapters at their own colleges.

“A lot of Penn’s mission is civic engagement and engaging in the community you’re a part of. Swipe Out Hunger comes right down to the heart of that,” Abrams said. “We’re setting up a form where students can engage in the community really easily.”

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services, learning resource centers, the Women’s Center and SHS.” Penn continues to educate students about the opportunities available to them.

“Spreading awareness to students about the resources that are available to them would probably result in more students utilizing those resources more frequently,” Stevko said.

“Any stress that I’ve had at Penn is not Penn’s fault, it’s just that Penn has so much that’s available,” Caputi said.

A simple web search will lead to a full list of Penn resources available for stress management. To learn more about the physical effects of stress or to find contact infor mation for on-ca mpus resources, students can visit the Student Health Services website.

“College is going to be stressful, no doubt about that,” Caputi. “But going to Penn is great because Penn has the resources to make sure there are people there to help you.”

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PITCH PERFECT 2

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SURVIVING AND THRIVING WITHOUT

A SMARTPHONE RESISTING THE SWITCH TO A SMARTPHONE HAS BEEN A SMART DECISION FOR MY SOCIAL LIFE

BY CAROLINE GRACE

My phone is a LG Octane.

Haven’t heard of it? I’m not surprised. It’s no longer in circulation. Wikipedia put it nicely, “The LG Octane has since been retired.” It’s a discontinued product, a predecessor of Verizon’s enV3, a relic from the glory days of 2010. In short, it’s not a smartphone. But it is a super–phone.

The LG Octane has a pretty efficient structure with a side flip, a full QWERTY keyboard and a camera with built–in flash. It makes calls and sends texts. It sets alarms and calendar dates.

It even has a calculator specifically for tipping at restaurants.

The LG Octane doesn’t have a touch screen or video call capabilities. It can’t use applications, create group texts or display emojis. And yet, it has withstood bathroom sinks, countless sidewalks, a toilet at Barbuzzo and a dropkick across College Green.

What makes my LG Octane super, though, is its simplicity.

I can call or text someone. Isn’t that all a phone really needs to do in the 21st century?

In the most basic technological sense, the LG Octane has enough features to not be considered “simple.” But in 2015, it’s simple to the point of being archaic. People — friends and strangers alike — are always in awe of my LG Octane. “What is that thing?” “I haven’t seen a flip phone since middle school!”

“How do you survive with that phone?” I get a variation of these

questions at least every other day. Apparently, the fact that my phone can contact people in only two ways, neither of which grants me the opportunity to add a Chrome filter or a poop emoji, is shocking.

But I’ve been able to meet friends for lunch just fine with my LG Octane. I’ve even spent an entire semester around France without instant access to Google Maps. Sure, I may have to ask someone for directions or glance at a street map sometimes. I may have to use Gmail, Facebook and Twitter solely from my laptop. I may have to take good–quality pictures with an actual camera. That’s fine by me.

And I’m not the only one.

According to Pearson’s 2014 Student Mobile Device Survey, 84 percent of U.S. college students own a smartphone. That means there is about 16 percent of the nation’s estimated 21 million college students — 3,360,000, if you were wondering — that are going about their academic, extracurricular and personal lives sans smartphone.

That being said, I’d be lying if I claimed that not having a smartphone doesn’t affect my day–to–day sociality. In this digital day and age, of course it does.

I’ve been left out of group conversations because my LG Octane can only message phone numbers individually.

I’ve walked to DRL in a blizzard, only to learn upon arrival that my class had been cancelled due to weather, which my professor had communicated over email just minutes after my departure.

I had no chance of getting floor passes for Spring Fling because I couldn’t constantly check Twitter and Facebook for SPEC’s flash sales.

But I call people more frequently, even for little things, and it’s much more efficient. I get a direct response, and I always enjoy the sound of a friend’s voice. My LG Octane also makes me more perceptive of my interactions with others. Despite the many times people decide to take a break from our conversation to check another person’s Snap Story, it is rare for me to glance at my phone when I am with someone. Sure, there are times when I may be expecting a call or text, or I need to see what time it is. But beyond those reasons, I don’t feel the need to constantly check my phone.

Why should I, when there is a live person in front of me with whom I can connect? I understand the integration of smartphones into social media, but sometimes I feel like they desensitize us to the very idea of what it means to be “social.”

That is why I’m hesitant to switch to a smartphone once I have the financial capability.

I can’t say I haven’t considered it. I see the advantages: Venmo, Uber and automatic Internet access in general. But then again, for the past four years I’ve been doing fine with cash, taxis or SEPTA, and having to whip out my laptop for wifi. My older siblings made the switch a couple years ago once they started working, so maybe I will have to do the same for my job’s sake. Until then, however, I think I’m going to stick with my LG Octane. Life’s Good with it.

Fat Amy (Rebel Wilson) is back. It’s senior year, and the Barden Bellas have been suspended after a humiliating performance at the Lincoln Center. In order to redeem themselves, they enter the World Championships a cappella competition in hopes of winning and getting reinstated. As Penn alum, Elizabeth Banks makes her directorial debut with this film, Pitch Perfect 2 entertains us with sing-offs for a $45,000 grand prize to Dave and Busters, acafunny puns, new songs and some new faces.

While the Bellas and Treblemakers sang their way into our hearts three years ago, the sequel doesn’t fall short of keeping the audience engaged, laughing as new love sparks onscreen

while the Bellas try to find their harmony. After her leggings rip as she hangs from the circus ribbons onstage, Fat Amy moons us and the Lincoln Center audience within the first five minutes of the film. It immediately sets the tone and quickly establishes what the rest of the movie will entail. Newcomer and Barden Bella legacy, Emily (Hailee Steinfeld), finds her way into the Bellas, and while Beca (Anna Kendrick), is off interning for a record producer, a new romance buds onscreen as Benji (Ben Platt) falls for Emily.

He shined onstage as he sang, “I’ve Got the Magic in Me” in the first Pitch Perfect and the magician is back again. He comes armed with new magic tricks that make us laugh as he tries to impress Emily. While he still

gets nervous trying to talk to her, we are left thinking that there is a bright future ahead for them.

As the girls go to boot camp and Bumper (Adam DeVine) declares his love for Fat Amy, the film is filled with gags that keep the audience laughing the entire time. It’s lighthearted and fun, making it a great blockbuster to kick off summer break. To make it even more entertaining for Penn kids, we get to see some familiar faces as Penn’s very own Penn Masala takes the stage at the World Championships, and Banks’ witty character shares her thoughts on them too.

Grade: A Rating and runtime: PG-13, 115 min.

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Most students working in New York in the summer are living in Manhattan. The slightly cooler folks found an AirBNB spot somewhere in Brooklyn. Contrary to popular belief, these are not the only two boroughs that make up the city (and no, the other three aren’t Scarsdale, Syosset and New Jersey). If you want to be ahead of the curve, venture on over to Queens.

What is there to do in the most diverse county in the world, a place that was recently named the top tourist attraction in the United States by Lonely Planet? I’m glad you asked. In terms of attractions, the borough is home to two of the city’s prettiest parks (Flushing Meadow Park & Astoria Park), the U.S. Open and the New York Mets.

In Queens, you can find authentic food for any type of cuisine you can think of. For an authentic Italian deli experience, head to Whitestone. For Indian or Latin food, check out Jackson Heights. If you want excellent dim sum, check out Flushing, where the ambience will make you feel like you’re actually in China rather than Chinatown. There are even some nice beaches at Far Rockaway. The best part? Nearly every subway line in the city enters Queens at some point, making the trip easy and worthwhile. Don’t miss the Astoria Park fireworks on Tuesday, June 30th or a great Manhattanhenge sunset at the Long Island City Piers on Sunday, July 12th.

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If you’re into nature, check out the Wissahickon Valley Park, also commonly known as Forbidden Drive. The path is both beautiful and easy to hike, making it a great place for someone who considers the uphill part of the 38th Street Bridge to be a week’s worth of cardio. At the very least, it’s a cooler place to smoke than the Biopond. If you’re looking for something closer, you can walk along the Schuylkill River Trail, which begins right past Penn Park and runs for almost 30 miles.

If movement for the sake of movement isn’t your kind of thing, believe it or not, Center City has several attractions that aren’t downtowns or BYOs. If you are into weird things like the preserved bodies of conjoined twins or a human fossil known affectionately as the “Soap Lady,” then the Mutter Museum is for you. If you’re a little too squeamish for that, the Curtis Institute of Music has an excellent symphony orchestra and offers free performances from the best up-and-coming musicians.

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place finish in the Ancient Eight.

So for a team trending downward, why the upswing in 2015? After all, the team is graduating one of its all-time great scorers — forward Duke Lacroix — along with three

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other starters and one of its top reserve forwards.

To begin with, the team’s record didn’t reveal the whole picture — when has a record ever done that? Among those nine losses were three to top-15 programs and five one-goal losses. As coach Rudy Fuller liked to say during the season, the team struggled to execute

inside the boxes, whether on offense or defense. It was those little moments of late-game execution that proved to be the difference in the season.

But last season shouldn’t be the predictor, after all this will be a very different team. While Penn graduated five strong seniors, the Quakers are bringing on one of the best recruiting

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classes — not just in the Ivy League — in the nation. CollegeSoccerNews.com ranked Penn’s class 12th overall, highlighting a number of youth national team players.

If Fuller and his staff can integrate this new class into the roster early in the season, the Quakers should be able to right the ship.

bodes well for the Quakers as they enter next year’s campaign, especially considering that both the men’s and women’s squads saw improvements at outdoor Heps compared to last year.

For the vast majority of the Quakers, the season is over and it is finally time for a break. But for the five advancing, there is still work left to be done.

The Finals will take place from June 10 to 13 and will cap off a busy past two months for the Red and Blue.

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start as she was forced to deal with injury throughout much of her cross country campaign.

Ultimately, Whiting did not qualify for Finals, along with 10 more of Penn’s 16 athletes who competed over the weekend.

However, along with the rest of those athletes, things are looking up for her.

Remarkably, none of those 16 athletes were seniors, a fact that

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Bossart added. “It helped me really focus on baseball and improve year after year.�

Bossart and Glenn are just two members of a decorated senior class, which counts shortstop Mitch Montaldo, third baseman Jeff McGarry, first baseman Matt McKinnon, pitcher Connor Cuff, and outfielder Connor Betbeze among its ranks. All eight players stand at least an outside chance of being selected. “There has been a number of scouts coming to games to watch many of our players at Penn,�

Bossart said. “It is very cool to see a lot of our young guys already turning heads and our older guys getting scouted, possibly having a chance to play pro ball.�

Bossart and Glenn are ready for whatever next week’s draft may bring. “It has been a dream of mine to play professionally, but if I’m not drafted I plan on interviewing for jobs to start my life as a college graduate,� Bossart said. “I am praying every day that two weeks from now, God grants me an opportunity to continue playing this great sport,� Glenn said. “I have come to realize at this point in my career that fortunately I have no regrets with how I approached the game, and I am just ecstatic to see what happens during draft time.�

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Bossart and Glenn also were noticed while playing in collegiate summer leagues. Such leagues are key to getting noticed by major league organizations and count scores of players, such as Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander and Phillies second baseman Chase Utley, among their MLB alumni.

Bossart spent the summer after his freshman year playing in the Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League and then the next two summers playing for the Asheboro Copperheads of the Coastal Plain League.

Glenn played for the Alexandria Aces of the Cal Ripken Collegiate Baseball League before receiving an offer to play in the prestigious Cape Cod Baseball League, traditionally the best-known collegiate summer league, in the summer of 2014.

Both players saw these as invaluable experiences. “Every summer experience I had has helped me to get to the point I am today,� Glenn said. “I thoroughly enjoyed all three of my summers, the people I have met, the coaching I received and the self-learning process I had undergone.� “I enjoyed playing baseball without school on top of everything,�

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MLB Draft could claim Penn alums Throwers,

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This week, Penn baseball could see some of its alumni drafted for the first time in three years.

Graduated senior catcher Austin Bossart, classmate Ronnie Glenn and others could hear their name called during next week’s MLB first-year player draft, which takes place from Monday, June 8, to Wednesday, June 10.

Bossart was the powerhouse of the

lineup and a stalwart behind the plate, batting .358 with 4 home runs, 27 RBIs and nabbing 46.9 percent of would-be base stealers in 2015. Bossart came up with several key hits and handled a pitching staff that posted a 3.38 ERA as the Red and Blue marched to a 16-4 record in Ivy League play.

The Illinois native served as the starting catcher for all four of his years in University City while batting .302 for his career. His standout play earned him the attention of Major League scouts.

“It seems like I have a pretty good chance [of being drafted] this year,” Bossart said. “I’ve been in contact with a number of teams, and they seem

interested.”

Bossart’s stellar senior campaign was good enough to earn him the Ivy League Player of the Year Award, which he shared with Columbia senior outfielder Gus Craig. Receiving the honor bodes well for Bossart, as the award’s previous three recipients went on to play pro ball.

“Those previous players were very talented and did amazing in their college careers, so they deserved everything that has been going well for them,” Bossart said.

Glenn provided valuable senior leadership to the Quakers’ pitching rotation this season, finishing with a 4-3 record, 139 strikeouts, and a 3.12 ERA

in 52 innings pitched. A true workhorse, Glenn completed five of his nine starts. He was named to the All-Ivy League honorable mention team.

Glenn’s consistent performance over his four years at Penn has drawn significant interest from MLB teams.

“I have been incredibly blessed to have gained interest from some organizations,” Glenn said. “I have spoken to a number of teams about their interests, my potential going forward, what role they see me in, past performances, my approach of the game and my pitching arsenal that I work on from day to day.”

Besides their play for Penn baseball, SEE DRAFT PAGE 7

the buzz: roundtable

Which fall sports team on upswing?

THE DP SPORTS EDITORS From The Daily Pennsylvanian’s sports blog, THE BUZZ

As the fall sports season draws closer by the day, the DP sports editorial staff took some time to sit down and debate: Which fall squad will be the most improved in 2015?

Sports Editor Laine Higgins: This fall, keep an eye out for Volleyball. Yes, the team did graduate four talented seniors in Trina Ohms, Kendall Turner, Meghan Connolly and Taylor Smith from the class of 2015. And yes, replacing Kendall Turner will be tough — the middle blocker led the team in hitting percentage at .295. But the rising senior class has already displayed the kind of leadership and dedication on the court necessary to push the Quakers towards a winning record in 2015-16.

Just take outside hitter Alexis

Genske. The Altadena, Calif., native played in all 90 of Penn’s sets and recorded nine double doubles last season. In addition to being earning honorable mention All Ivy honors, she was named to two all-tournament teams early in the season. If the rising senior can start out 2015 with the same momentum as she did last season, her excellence on the court can no doubt set the tone for Penn - and a positive one at that.

The Red and Blue also have a strong class of emerging underclassmen. Rising sophomore Aimee Stephenson started in 21 of the Quakers’ 25 games, making an impact on defense upon arriving on campus. The outside/rightside hitter finished 2014-15 with the fourth most kills on the team with 109, and given her impressive rookie campaign that number will only go up this season.

Last year Penn volleyball was good. But this season, with the

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guidance of seasoned upperclassmen and promising newbies, they can be great.

Summer Sports Editor Tom Nowlan: I think field hockey could take a major step forward this season. Last year, the Quakers finished a pedestrian 3-4 in Ivy play, but that was largely a product of rotten luck: The Red and Blue dropped three of those four conference losses by only one goal. This year, the Quakers will return much of their top talent and could make some serious noise in the Ancient Eight.

Of course, everything will start with Alexa Hoover. The attack had an utterly dominant season as a freshman in 2014, leading the entire Ivy League with 14 goals.

She’ll only get better with experience, as she still has room to grow as she adapts to the college game.

Without a doubt, Hoover will be a treat to watch in 2015 and beyond.

To be sure, the Quakers will be hurt by the graduation of several

key seniors. Emily Corcoran and Alex Iqbal were second and fourth (respectively) on the team in scoring last season and anchored the Penn offense during their four years in University City. However, the Red and Blue still have an impressive core, as Hoover is joined by senior attack Elizabeth Hitti and junior midfielder Elise Tilton.

The Red and Blue will face a challenging schedule in 2015, as they will square off with five teams who finished in the NCAA’s top 25 last season. If the Quakers get some breaks, they could finish the season right up there among the nation’s elite teams.

Sports Editor Holden McGinnis: Coming off of an Ivy League title in the previous season, men’s soccer took a step backwards last fall. The team finished the season with a 6-9-2 record and a fifth

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The majority of Penn’s undergraduate population is off campus for the summer, resting up after a long and arduous school year. However, for the top performers of Penn track and field, there is no rest for the weary.

This past weekend, Penn’s qualifying athletes competed in the NCAA East Preliminary meet with hopes of earning a bid for NCAA Finals in Eugene, Ore., later this month — and five of them did just that.

The marathon-like event was held in Jacksonville, Fla., and ran from Thursday to Saturday.

But thanks to junior javelin thrower Kelsey Hay, it didn’t take long for the Quakers to make noise.

In the meet’s very first event, Hay broke the Ivy record for the women’s javelin with an outstanding toss of over 51-meters. Her fourth-place finish was comfortably within the 12 qualifying positions, securing her second-straight appearance in NCAA Finals.

The throwers and jumpers of Penn’s field program have stood out throughout each of the past two outdoor seasons, and that trend would continue on the meet’s second day of action.

Star junior men’s discus thrower Sam Mattis, much like Hay, was a heavy favorite to advance to Finals competition. So, it did not come as much of a surprise that, again much like Hay, he launched an impressive toss that would land him comfortably in fourth place, getting him the easy qualification.

The real surprise of the day came from his eventteammate: sophomore Noah Kennedy-White.

Kennedy-White came into the meet ranked No. 41 in the field, but with a toss of almost 58 meters, he beat the odds to take the top position in his heat and, ultimately, the ninth position overall, earning a spot in the Finals.

The youth movement continued on Friday when freshman high-jumper Mike Monroe cleared just under seven-feet to punch the fourth Penn ticket to Oregon. Fellow jumper Thomas Pitt — alongside whom Monroe has competed all year — barely missed out on a qualifying result.

Not to be outdone by their teammates in the field, two distance runners stole the show on Saturday with similarly redemptive performances.

Star junior Thomas Awad has a resume impressive enough that he has little left to prove in collegiate running. Among myriad other accomplishments, he has won Heptagonal Championships titles in indoor track, outdoor track and cross country — all this season.

However, due to an inopportune sickness at the end of last season, he still does not have a qualification for the outdoor track NCAA Finals to his name. He changed that on Saturday.

With a sub-14:00 run in the 5,000m, Awad won the event and will make his first appearance in the Finals later this month.

Meanwhile, sophomore Cleo Whiting posted a strong performance in the women’s 5,000m, capping off a remarkable season that got off to a slow SEE FINALS PAGE 7

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Rising sophomore Mike Monroe cleared just under seven-feet on the high jump to make it to the Finals.

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