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Akyra Murray was the youngest victim of the Orlando shootings JENNA WANG News Editor

University City-area high school graduate Akyra Murray was the youngest person killed in the shooting in Orlando, Fla. on Sunday, CNN reported.

Murray, 18 years old, graduated on June 6 from West Catholic Preparatory High School on 45th and Chestnut streets. She was a star student and gifted basketball player recruited to play for Mercyhurst College in Erie, Pa. “Akyra was a superstar who was a leader amongst her classmates and teammates,” a post on her high school’s website read. “She was an honors student who graduated third in her class, and a 1,000 point scorer on the Lady Burrs basketball team.”

Murray was on vacation in Florida after her high school graduation with her family, according to ABC News, when she was killed in the worst mass shooting in U.S. history. Forty-nine people were killed and at least 53 were wounded by gunman Omar Mateen.

Murray was about to leave Pulse nightclub on Sunday night with her friend Patience Carter and her cousin Tiara Parker when the gunman began firing rounds, Carter said in a press conference Tuesday afternoon.

Carter said seconds after Parker ordered an Uber on her phone, what sounded like firecrackers or BB gun pellets rang out in the air. Murray and Carter quickly ran out of the nightclub, but went back in to find Parker when they realized she was not with them.

“If I would have told Akyra to stay outside and just wait while I went inside to get Tiara...” Carter said, briefly choking up. “I told her, Let’s go get Tiara! We got to get Tiara. We went inside. We got trapped in there.”

Carter said the three women ended up hiding in the handicap stall of one of the nightclub’s two bathrooms, where they were all shot by Mateen. Murray was shot fatally in her arm.

Parker recalled Murray begging the gunman to let them live.

“My cousin she got hit in the arm and she was begging him. Please stop. We got hit, please,” Parker told FOX 29 News.

Murray then called and texted her parents, asking them to come save her, according to Philly.com. She told her mother she was losing a lot of blood.

“I just tried to tell her to remain calm and apply pressure to the wound,” her mother, Natalie Murray, told the Associated Press.

“All I could hear was my baby screaming.”

Hours later, the hostages were rescued when the police broke down the wall of the bathroom and killed the gunman in a firefight. Murray was sprawled limp across Parker’s lap, Carter recalled, looking “lifeless.” Someone checked her pulse and said she was still alive. Carter picked up Murray’s phone as she was helped out of the stall, intending to give it back to her friend later.

Murray died of her wounds in the hospital on Monday.

West Catholic Preparatory held a private vigil for Murray on Wednesday, June 15 in the school auditorium.

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Penn students from Orlando share their experiences

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In Philadelphia on the morning of Sunday, June 12, rising College senior Alec Josiah couldn’t sleep.

He woke up at 7 a.m., and then tried to go back to sleep. He woke up again at 8 a.m. Then he checked Facebook. The first thing he saw was a video about a shooting in Orlando, where he has lived for 16 years.

“I was thinking that it was the previous one, which was Christina Grimmie’s the night before,” he said.

“Then it said at nightclub Pulse, Orlando, which was just the most jarring thing that could have happened.”

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Pulse was where Josiah had been two weekends ago when he’d gone home for a visit. It was where he’d met friends and hung out regularly for two years before coming to Penn.

Now, it was where the largest mass shooting in American history had taken place.

Without even having time to process the information, he headed out to Philly Pride with his friends, which was happening the same weekend — “ironically,” as he put it. In the morning when he checked Facebook, the death toll had been 10. By the time he got back in the evening, it had risen to 49.

“I just started watching the news and everything, just bawling,” he said. “I couldn’t believe what had happened, and just watching everything, it was just so surreal. It was that same image

of the club, that same street that so many times I’d pulled up to, brought friends to and hung out with such good friends that I’d met.”

Rising Engineering junior Nour Hussein woke up that morning in Orlando. She also checked Facebook — where she was immediately prompted to check in with her friends and family to let them know she was okay — a new feature that Facebook has used in incidences like the Paris attacks.

“It was really creepy,” she said. Hussein walked out of her bedroom and saw that her parents had the news on.

“That’s when I found out,” she said.

“It was really shocking. It was something I never expected to happen in Orlando, honestly.”

Hussein, who has lived in the city

for two years now, said she feels like everyone there seems “friendly,” which is why it was so hard for her to believe.

Rising Wharton senior Marlaine Erhart found out about the shooting the night it happened, when she was out and about in the Gayborhood in Philadelphia. If she’d been home in Orlando instead, she could very well have been at Pulse.

“It’s kind of hard to believe that somewhere anyone our age could have been — a lot of people are saying it’s somewhere where you think you’re safe and can be yourself — even there, everyone’s vulnerable.”

Rising College senior Devan Spear also grew up in Orlando. She also came out as gay there. For her, Pulse is an SEE ORLANDO PAGE 3

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Wharton alum quits finance for cage wrestling He moved to Peru to become a full-time fighter CHERRY ZHI Staff Reporter

For 2011 Wharton graduate Rollie Peterkin, pursuing the American dream meant escaping the cage of Wall Street and stepping into a literal cage in South America.

Recruited to wrestle for Penn, Peterkin ended his college wrestling career in a disappointing loss and headed to Wall Street after graduation to become a bond trader. After going on vacation in Peru and reigniting his passion for wrestling, however, he quit his job and moved to Lima, Peru to become a full-time professional MMA cage fighter.

This March, he published his book “The Cage: Escaping the American Dream” to detail his adventures and to share his story of perseverance, strength and the search for meaning. “People thought I had gone crazy when I said I was moving to Peru,” Peterkin said. “I had a great job in New York City and I always knew I was going to do finance ... that’s basically why I went to Penn.”

With a job trading investment grade corporate bonds on the

proprietary trading desk at the Royal Bank of Canada, Peterkin was on the verge of getting his own portion of the portfolio to manage.

“It’s like I had reached all my goals and it’s what I had always wanted,” he said. “Part of me would have liked to continue to wrestle, but I had fallen short of my wrestling goals and I had a good job offer waiting for me, so I felt like I had no choice in the matter.”

At Penn, Peterkin wrestled for four years, during which he won over 100 collegiate matches. He was team captain his senior year and a three-time NCAA qualifier.

Each of those years, he made it to the Round of 12, meaning that he was among the best 12 collegiate wrestlers in the country. By winning that match, wrestlers automatically place top eight and get a spot on the national podium as an All-American.

“Three years in a row I lost in the very same round, so I was just short of reaching my goal of being an All-American,” he said. “When I lost during my senior year, I was just devastated, and it really hurt me for a long time. I just felt like a huge failure.”

Peterkin wrote in the first chapter of his book that “[he] spent the remainder of [his] senior year wallowing in anger and self-pity. [He]

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2011 Wharton graduate Rollie Peterkin published a book this March about quiting his finance job and cage fighting in Peru for a year.

drank a lot, and that sometimes helped. Other times [he] would wake up in the middle of the night, panicked and sweaty, with the image of the last match searing [his] memory.”

After starting his job in New York, Peterkin did not continue to wrestle. “I didn’t even belong to a

gym,” he said. “[During those two years] I was sedentary and went out to fancy dinners all the time.

I gained a little bit of weight and I missed the sport a lot.”

In 2014, Peterkin went on vacation to Lima, Peru to visit his friend Ben Reiter who had also wrestled at Penn. After graduation, Reiter

had gone to Peru to do charitable work and teach English in a small village. He was also training for MMA there as a cage fighter.

“While I was down there I trained with the team a little bit and his coach invited me to come down and fight for them because of my wrestling pedigree,” Peterkin said.

“At first I was like, ‘that’s crazy, there’s no way I’m doing that.’”

Yet after returning to New York, Peterkin found it hard to focus and find meaning in his work, writing that “the seed had been planted and I couldn’t seem to shake it” in a piece he wrote for Vice. Peterkin then quit his job and made the move to Peru to the surprise of many of his friends and family.

“My family was not happy with me. They were supportive but not happy,” he said. “It also split my friends down the middle. Some people said ‘this is the coolest thing ever’ and others were like ‘what are you doing, you’re ruining your life.’”

During his time there, he kept a blog and many people followed it as he posted stories about his professional MMA fights and his undefeated record. After living in Peru for a year, however, Peterkin suffered injuries that prevented him from competing and decided to move to Madrid instead, where

he now teaches English to elementary school kids.

These three completely different careers spanning the globe reveal Peterkin’s flexibility and desire for adventure and he recounts his journey from one extreme to the other in his book “The Cage.”

“I had so many amazing experiences and significant events and [my path] was something no one has really gone through before,” Peterkin said. “I really enjoyed writing posts for my blog so I compiled everything and spent about a year writing and editing my book.”

Peterkin explained that the writing process was a completely new challenge. “I went to Wharton so I didn’t take writing classes beyond the freshman writing seminar but I was always a big reader and tried to pick up this new skill set,” he said.

“The Cage” is available on Amazon and has received largely positive reviews.

“I’ve had a lot of people message me and say they’re inspired by it and to me that’s the most important thing,” Peterkin said.

Spending the next school year teaching in the Canary Islands, Peterkin doesn’t see himself coming back to the United States anytime soon, but he added that anything could be possible given “life’s crazy twist and turns.”

Mobile CPR project initiated to help combat cardiac arrests

Rhodes Scholarship makes large program expansions

Project certifies people in hands-only CPR

Marks biggest expansions in 113-year history

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Every great initiative begins with a good story. For the Mobile CPR Project, the story began three years ago in Radnor, Pa. Police officer Anthony Radico, 46 at the time, was nearing the end of his routine when he suddenly went into cardiac arrest.

Fortunately, Amanda Beal, who had recently learned CPR, was also at the gym and close by.

By the time the ambulance arrived, Beal had been performing CPR for nearly 10 minutes.

Anthony Radico lived to see another day, but his life sadly is only one life saved out of the many that go unsaved when cardiac arrest strikes unexpectedly.

According to Penn Medicine, cardiac arrest kills more than 1,000 Philadelphia residents

each year, yet the numbers of of bystanders who performed CPR in Philadelphia is half of the national average.

“Cardiac arrest is such a lethal problem in the United States,” said Dr. Benjamin Abella, director of clinical research at the Penn Center for Resuscitation Science. “The prompt delivery of bystander CPR is one of the key ways to improve survival.”

According to the American Heart Association, 70 percent of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests happen in homes. Only about 46 percent of people who experience an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest get the immediate assistance they need before professional help arrives.

The Mobile CPR project started as a community initiative in Hartford, Conn., and it main goals is to bring the resources and trainers to communities where children and adults may not have the resources to learn CPR. The

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The Mobile CPR Project, a joint venture by Penn Medicine and the Department of Emergency Medicine, seeks to combat cardiac arrest.

program is able to work with communities in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas that it would have not initially reached.

In recognition of this glaring problem that is afflicting the citizens of Philadelphia, experts at Penn Medicine’s Center for Resuscitation Science and the Department of Emergency Medicine recently launched the Philadelphia Mobile CPR Project.

The project aims to continue the success of the Hartford Project, to certify as many people as possible in Hands Only CPR using only an informational video and a 30-minute training period.

The initiative in Hartford educated 5,000 citizens in this reformed version of CPR, known as Hands Only CPR. Hands Only CPR eliminates the need for mouth-to-mouth breathing, and thus facilitates the learning process and administering of this type of CPR. The project initiated participation with an introductory mass training event that was held on June 7th at the WHYY studio in center city.

Major funding for the Mobile CPR project has been provided

by Independence Blue Cross, which aims to bring project organizers to communities in and around Philadelphia.

CPR Anytime kits will be provided to participants to the training so that they can show family members and even educate them, further widening the margin of the public with Hands Only CPR certification.

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On June 1, the Rhodes Scholarship announced its largest expansion in the program’s 113year history.

The scholarships cover postgraduate study at the University of Oxford and will now be available to students from Ghana, Nigeria, Malaysia, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, the United Arab Emirates and the Palestinian territories.

“Our aspiration is to identify and support innovative, energetic and ethical young leaders globally,” the warden of Rhodes House Charles Conn said. “The addition of these new Scholars from regions that have an important international role to play in the twenty-first century marks a substantial step in that direction.”

The program is also adding four more scholarships for Chinese students, increasing the number of scholarships awarded annually from 83 to 95. This raises the number of Rhodes Scholars studying at Oxford from around 220 to 250. Oxford has over 22,600 students, 10,499 of whom are postgraduates according to the university’s website.

“Studying at Oxford can be prohibitively expensive for students coming from outside of the UK or the EU,” 2016 College graduate and Rhodes recipient Jenna Hebert said.

Hebert was one of two Penn students awarded the scholarship last year. “Adding scholarship recipients from these countries will add both ethnic and, hopefully, socioeconomic diversity to the Rhodes community and to

Oxford.”

“I think it is important for Rhodes scholars to interact with people from many different backgrounds, particularly from countries that are in serious conflict like these, to gain a truly global perspective,” Hebert said. “The Rhodes experience is as much about forming relationships with people from different backgrounds as it is about the academic experience.”

The Rhodes Scholarship was established in 1903 and initially awarded scholarships to 57 students each year. This included 20 for students from specific parts of the British Empire and later the Commonwealth, 32 for American students and five for students from Germany.

According to the Rhodes Trust website, in awarding scholarships, the selection committee looks for students who demonstrate “outstanding intellect, character, leadership, and commitment to service.”

Each scholarship is worth about $79,000 per year.

“I wanted to get more experience in neuropsychiatry research, study abroad and travel, and continue to compete as a competitive rower,” Hebert said.

“Studying at Oxford provided the opportunity to do all of these, so the Rhodes was the perfect package,” Hebert said.

The scholarships last for two to three years and cover tuition, university and college fees, a personal stipend and economy class airfare for two flights — one to Oxford at the beginning of the scholarship and one to the student’s home country at the end of their study. The scholarships are not awarded based on financial need.

The Rhodes Trust also

announced a $108 m illion partnership with the Atlantic Philanthropies, an international time-limited organization founded by Charles F. Feeney. The Rhodes Trust will collaborate with Atlantic Fellows programs to set up the Atlantic Institute at Rhodes House, a gathering place for Atlantic Fellows, who are distinguished leaders, thinkers, activists, scholars, government officials, writers and experts. The partnership will also create a new award, the Rhodes Fellowship, to support mid-career professionals with projects.

The scholarship program and trust are named after Cecil Rhodes, who endowed them in his will. Rhodes was a nineteenth century British imperialist, businessman and politician who promoted British superiority and helped institute white minority rule in South Africa and Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe). He has recently been the subject of much controversy and scrutiny, especially through the “Rhodes Must Fall” movement, which started at the University of Cape Town in March 2015 and spread to other institutions, including Oxford.

However, the changes to the scholarship were not meant to confront or diminish these concerns.

“The trust wasn’t set up to be the guardian of Cecil Rhodes’ political legacy, but to identify really talented people to fight the world’s fights,” Conn told The New York Times.

“We’re about Rhodes Scholars,” he said. “We’re not about this historical character — any more than Nobel prizes are about Alfred Nobel, who was an arms manufacturer,” Conn said.

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New Beefsteak restaurant premieres in Houston Hall Chef Andres makes political comments at opening ALLY JOHNSON Staff Reporter

Celebrity chef Jose Andres celebrated the grand opening of his newest restaurant with a speech about veggies and the American dream.

Beefsteak opened Tuesday, June 7, in Houston Hall. One of Philadelphia Zagat’s “11 Most Anticipated Restaurants for Spring,” it features bowls and salads centered around fresh vegetables.

Beefsteak also offers an array of toppings, including kimchi, seaweed and poached egg.

The Penn location is the first outside the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and fills the space in Houston Hall formerly occupied by Einstein Bros. Bagels.

The restaurant is well suited for Penn students because of its flexibility, according to Beefsteak Executive Chef Pat Peterson.

Vegans and vegetarians have varied options, while meat lovers can pile on chicken sausage or salt-cured salmon.

Vice President of the Division of Business Services Marie Witt said that the choice to introduce Beefsteak was based on student and faculty requests.

“They want healthy, they want innovative, they want fresh, they want fun,” she said. “Chef Andres and his Beefsteak concept hit all of those right on the mark.”

At the grand opening, Chef Andres spoke about his past and his vision for the future of American dining.

“My wife and I, we became American two years ago,” he said. “It was probably one of the best moments of our life, besides giving birth to our three beautiful, American-born daughters. And I’m only saying this because I do believe every citizen — whether you are an immigrant or you came on the Mayflower — I think the role of everybody is just to try

to do whatever is right to keep moving America forward, one community at a time. A chef, in this case, can only do it one plate at a time.”

Andres owns restaurants in several cities across the country and was honored as one of Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential People” for his activism. He is also a Spanish immigrant and a vocal critic of 1968 Wharton graduate and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s comments on immigration.

Shortly after Trump’s polarizing announcement speech, Andres backed out of a plan to create a Spanish restaurant for the Trump Organization’s $200 million redevelopment of the Old Post Office Pavilion in Washington. In a statement in which he severed ties with Trump, Andres wrote that the majority of his team is Hispanic and that Trump’s “disparaging” statements made it impossible for his company to proceed with the deal.

Trump filed a $10 million breach-of-contract lawsuit, and Andres counter-sued for $8 million.

During the grand opening, Andres thanked Bon Appetit Management Company for working closely with his company and stressed the importance of cooperation.

“When you really decide to work together and embrace each other, America will always be better,” he said. “So yes, that’s a political statement, and you can make with it whatever you want.

Here is to showing that, working together, we can do great things.”

Andres said that the food at Beefsteak resembles the food he serves to his family at home. He also joked about the restaurant’s name, which refers to the beefsteak tomato.

“Look at me — I eat a lot of steaks, too,” he said. “I eat, actually, anything and everything.”

But he also stressed the importance of ensuring access to fresh,

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Beefsteak, a vegetarian restaurant, is now open in Houston Hall in the space previously occupied by Einstien Bagel Bros.

delicious produce.

“Today it is difficult to find good vegetables and fruits, more often than not,” he said. “We are pushing the boundaries in how we should be feeding America.”

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Beefsteak is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays. Veggie bowls range from $7.49 to $8.49, and the restaurant accepts Dining Dollars as part of the student meal plan.

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STANDING WITH ORLANDO On Monday, members of the LGBT community and allies gathered at City Hall for a vigil for Orlando. Police cleared nearby streets as mourners marched around City Hall, while other supporters lit candles in honor of the deceased.

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“Gay visibility in Orlando was something that was particularly important and significant to me,” she said. “Pulse was really close to my high school, where I often felt sort of alienated before I was coming out and when I was coming out. I think that Pulse

kind of represented some part of that visibility to me in my home town.”

Spear said even though her parents especially are scared and worried, the response from the community has been heartening.

“I think that ten years ago the response would not have been the same as it is now,” she said. “The response has been almost largely a response of support from Orlando,

and around the country, and it’s interesting to see all the support in my hometown where I didn’t always feel supported as gay.”

Josiah, too, acknowledges that the tragedy has given the LGBTQ community a chance to become stronger together, but he resents some of the politicization that has occurred. Specifically, he finds the overwhelming emphasis on terrorism doesn’t give it the

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incident its proper weight.

“Yes, it was terrorism, but it was also a hate crime,” he said.

“There’s a reason a gay club, there’s a reason why the LGBT community was targeted. To diminish that is so disrespectful, [it] kind of erases the memory of the people who died there.”

Erhart is more willing to recognize the terrorism link, but makes the point that LGBTQ individuals

are most on edge right now.

“For the country, I think especially with that LA Pride attempted shooting and New York Pride coming up in a couple weeks, a lot of people I’ve talked to are a little bit wary to go out in public in such a public area and celebrate something that another religion or another country is very intolerant of,” she said.

But she and Josiah don’t plan to

stop going out any time soon, or being who they are publicly.

“Being at pride it was in the back of my mind, like what if something happens?” Josiah said.

“Being at the vigil it was in the back of my mind, what if something were to happen here, what would I do? But I’ve always had the idea that I’m not going to let them win by being afraid, by changing my actions.”

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SERIOUS BUSINESS | Tragedy, and how the media reacts The shootings in Orlando, the deadliest in United States history, have been all over the news for the past few days. A gunman named Omar Mateen attacked a gay nightclub in Orlando on Monday at two in the morning, killing 50 and wounding 53. The event is horrifying and traumatic to both those with connections to it and those without.

But I’m not here to write an emotionally-charged column about the shooting and how much of a tragedy it was; such a piece should be written, but I’m not the right person to do it.

There are others who would fill that need far better than I, who knew none of the victims and have no personal connections to such horror.

Instead, I’m going to talk about focus, and how the media and the general public fixate on certain aspects of tragic or shocking events.

In our age of internet and online communication, breaking news is released in waves. The original story — often just a few lines about the event that transpired — is augmented as more facts are unearthed and investigation continues, over a period of hours and days. Obviously, this means that the original story is devoid of a lot of the facts that later emerge.

The problem arises when

the media and the various personalities that inhabit it try to interpret the event based on the initial sparse information, and often this initial interpretation is spread as fact, even after more information is released.

As soon as the news about the shootings broke, each of these now all-too-familiar media factions rushed to classify the shooting to fit their preferred narratives, filling in the significant gaps in factual knowledge with self-serving speculation.

Some were quick to call the shootings part of a larger pattern of gun violence.Mateen’s father said that “this had nothing to do with religion,” and his ex-wife said that she thought he was mentally ill. His father also said that Mateen had previously expressed hate against LGBTQ individuals, and more recent investigation suggests he was also a homosexual.

In fact, Mateen claimed to have connections to Al Qaeda and Hezbollah, and he had been interviewed twice by the FBI although the cases were ultimately dismissed. ISIS sympathizers and pro-ISIS forums praised him.

Both of these are true facts, but neither of them, considered equally with all other known true facts, had enough weight to elevate a particular narrative

or position. Nor, of course had anybody bothered to synthesize them into a cohesive, honest, whole story.

The better outlets stated the facts plainly as they came in, but it seems to me that much of the media picked which facts they wanted to believe, and then filled in gaps with their own speculation or spun available data to support their own causes.

Factions of the media — and the varying personalities that compose it — ignored the obviously relevant issues of anti-LGBTQ violence in order to fret about terrorism, and vice versa.

The media, at its best, is a vehicle for information. At its worst, it reflects the ugliest of our prejudices back at us, and I’m concerned over how the latter disguises itself as the former.

Reactive speculation happens in the aftermath of practically every single tragedy in America, but premature conjecture on incomplete data and pointed fingers are unproductive.

It would be reassuring and comfortable if there was an easy answer, a sensible answer, a logical answer. It would be so much simpler if we could just immediately say “this was a hate crime conducted by an Islamic terrorist organization,” because that would fit neatly into already

existing worldviews.

Jumping to conclusions leads to such short-sighted, xenophobic assumptions as “if the shooter was Muslim, then this must be a terrorist attack.” And maybe that is the answer, but assuming prematurely helps nobody and might perpetuate false information – which is worse than no information at all.

Perhaps by the time this column is published, our understanding of the context around the shooting will have changed, but we can’t yet reduce this to a story about gun control and mental health, or a story about hate crimes against the LGBTQ population, or a story about terrorism and Muslim hate groups without first being clear on the shooter’s motive.

All three points of view — and more — have been presented in the hours and days after the shooting, often to the exclusion of the other two viewpoints, when there wasn’t enough data to conclusively argue for any one side - or combination of sides.

It’s a lot simpler — and it generates a lot more clicks — to jump to easy answers. If the easy answers happen to be the right answers, that’s great. But let’s make sure that they are the right answers, first.

The media has a responsibility to be more thoughtful, more

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critical than the common consensus. It has a duty to inform, and yes, that does mean voicing the unpopular opinion or withholding judgment until the entire story is revealed. It cannot simply reflect back the half-baked conjecture that is so easily spun by politicians and those with an agenda, and it cannot build its stories on the prejudices and assumptions of the average American. By doing so, it loses whatever integrity it has, and rather than becoming a vehicle for truth, becomes just another seller of spin.

ISABEL KIM is a rising College senior from Warren, N.J. majoring in English and Fine Arts. Her email address is kim@thedp.com “Serious Business” appears every other Thursday.

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Turn up the heat ZOU IT ALL | Crusading against the cult of “chill” My mother is a lively woman with an infectious, uncompromising spirit. Growing up, she encouraged me to always express myself. She taught me that feelings were important and legitimate, not something to be trivialized or brushed aside, and to never feel ashamed of my personality, that it should be cherished instead.

My father, more calm and logical in nature, had a different lesson to teach. According to him, we each come into the world embodying a unique, unrefined shape, until over time as we interact and rub against each other, the spikes and rough edges of our personalities whittle down, leaving behind smooth, frictionless orbs. This social process thereby reduces potential interpersonal conflict and primes us for our professional lives. So, this was good.

When I transitioned to middle school at an elite all-boys K-12 institution in NYC, there was perhaps hardly a better candidate for this kind of whittling-down than me. If everyone else my year was shaping up nicely to become a pyramid or octahedron, I was a straight-up sea urchin. On my first day, I naively believed that my

wild, flamboyant character would be as popular at my new school as it had been at the public school I attended previously. Fortunately, survival instincts kicked in sometime after homeroom, and those absurd fantasies were burned vigorously and unceremoniously at the stake.

It was ti be an interesting seven years. My aspiration was to eventually be one of the senior boys in the student center, lazing indiscriminately beneath couch cushions and oversized hoodies, dripping pizza on sticky linoleum floors.

If you didn’t have interest in attending a school basketball game, groupthink proclaimed you a hater.

Communication was not generally a thing except in the form of a crude joke or a vague grunt. Actual conversations were disturbingly rare.

Prolonged exposure to this mind-numbing conformity and affected indifference made its mark on me. I became aware that my perspective on personal expression was not only an uncommon one, but — as I had assumed it was a universal attitude — that it was a perspective at all. I increasingly began to doubt the validity and

importance of my values, opinions, likes, dislikes — essentially everything that had come to define who I was.

I had thought that, certainly, my school was just a very particular microcosm from a select crowd and would be no way representative of how things would be in college. Yet, after two years at Penn, it has become apparent, I think, that this culture of ennui – commonly referred to as “having chill” – was not specific to my school, but is an affliction of our entire generation.

Failure comes in many different forms, especially at a school whose mantra is “work hard, play hard”.

Voicing an opinion or feeling comes with the risk of rejection, which can be just as devastating as academic failure. If we want to be risk averse, our thoughts, emotions, opinions, and personalities become complicated, uncool, controversial, polarizing, even threatening. In the interest of keeping social interactions peaceful and pleasant, these must be repressed and neutered.

We deny our own personhoods, forfeit the advanced mental capabilities gifted uniquely to us as humans, so that we may become

disengaged automatons that function more smoothly in society and are better equipped to preserve our sacred cult of apathy and complacency. We get drunk and high to help ward off pesky thoughts — all thoughts, to be sure, since they all run the risk of being disagreeable — while dim lighting and the dull throbbing of bass speakers somewhere in the background complete the ideal sensory-free experience.

Any sign of originality, passion, or life not only causes extreme discomfort but also suggests an infirmity who does not comprehend the sanctity of these unspoken conventions.

Being chill, then, is about staying in our comfort zones. But life should not be about staying in one’s comfort zone — in fact, college, if anything, should be about venturing out of it. If we are not exposed to new and even opposing ideas, how will we find the stimuli necessary for growth? As students of Penn who hopefully aspire to lead and serve, we must engage, interact, and seek to live our best, most passionate lives, as opposed to retreating into the lull of monotony.

Yet it seems for many of us that our need for safety from social

isolation outweighs our desire for discovery or development. For the sake of getting along, we keep our thoughts to ourselves. But what does a nameless face absent smoking a joint, slouched over the arm of a crumbling couch at a frat party, have to offer other than a hit?

When we do not allow ourselves to honestly think and feel –what distinguishes the living from the programmed, why being organically alive is superior to being artificially intelligent, the very essence of our humanness – how can we expect anyone to get to know or connect with us at all? Are we not only distancing ourselves more absolutely, even preemptively?

Perhaps the real problem lies in the framework within which we interact, that we view opposing opinions as threats to be quelled rather than perspectives to be openly discussed and respectfully considered. No opinion can be fully right or wrong, black or white. There is no reproducible formula for telling us how to feel or think in every scenario; personalities cannot be evaluated by a panel of professors and assigned grades of A through F. But when it comes to expressing

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our most genuine selves, while we risk the possibility of being assigned an F by one grader, we gain the opportunity of being awarded an A by another. And while frictionless orbs may glide silently past each other, they will never mesh together like two adjacent pieces of a puzzle — imperfectly jagged, yet perfectly adjoining.

BENJAMIN ZOU is a rising College junior from New York, N.Y.. studying Economics. His email address is zoub@sas.upenn.edu. “Zou it all” appears every other Thursday.

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How Penn selects its commencement speakers Process starts 18 months or more before graduation GENEVIEVE GLATSKY Staff Reporter

When the name Lin-Manuel Miranda came up as a possible candidate for commencement speaker, it was met with support, particularly from Penn President Amy Gutmann, who had seen the now Tony award-winning creator and star of Hamilton on its opening night.

Over a year ago the University Council Honorary Degree Committee started the process of picking the commencement speaker for the University of Pennsylvania’s Class of 2016.

Luckily, one of the trustees on the Honorary Degrees Committee tasked with selecting the commencement speaker every year was a friend of the Miranda family and was able to secure his commitment.

Past commencement speakers were often successful individuals from the political or business world, such as Vice President Joe Biden, philanthropist Bono or Jon Huntsman. Now, the University is open to

an even wider variety of fields than it has been in the past.

“In some people’s minds having someone like Lin-Manuel Miranda would have been an unusual choice 25 or 30 years ago,” Kruhly said.

But there is a common thread that runs through the selection every year. According to Vice President and University Secretary Leslie Kruhly, Penn looks for successful people from diverse backgrounds.

“We’re looking for someone who is best in class, whatever that class is,” she said. “We try not to have a cluster of scientists or a cluster of artists. We try to have people who represent work in different areas.”

The University looks for someone with enough name recognition for students to recognize, as well as an ability to effectively deliver remarks that capture the attention of 25,000 students and their guests that fill Franklin Field.

The weighty task of choosing the commencement speaker and honorary degree recipient starts 18 months or longer before the actual graduation.

Every year the Office of the

University Secretary organizes a student advisory group, which creates a survey to figure out who the rising senior class would like as a commencement speaker.

Elon Musk, Beyonce, President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama and Ellen Degeneres are some of the top suggestions, Class Board President and rising College senior Darren Tomasso told The Daily Pennsylvanian.

Students requesting public figures like the Obamas might be disappointed given their popularity as graduation speakers.

“Most universities would not like their speaker to be someone who spoke at ‘their competition’ the year before,” said Kruhly. “The last thing you want is for your school to be one of several.”

The University tries to make sure the speaker doesn’t appear at another commencement during the same year. This year Miranda agreed to only give commencement remarks at the Penn.

Current members of the student advisory group include Tomasso, Undergraduate Assembly President and rising College junior Kat

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The weighty task of choosing the commencement speaker, performed by the University Council Honorary Degree Committee, starts 18 months or more before the actual graduation.

McKay and Class Board Vice President and rising College senior Max Levy.

Tomasso liked the current survey suggestions, and also said he would like to see comedian Jon Oliver.

McKay said her top choice was Bruce Springsteen, while Levy was

uncommitted.

“As long as it’s somebody compelling who can speak well, I’ll be happy,” Levy noted.

Although the student advisory group and the University Council Honorary Degree Committee can make suggestions, the Board of

Trustees makes the final decision.

The ultimate decision-making power of the students is limited, but this could be for a good reason — on the student survey, the satirical presidential candidate “Deez Nuts” is currently polling higher than Mark Zuckerberg.

Wharton students pitch ideas in Shark Tank closed audition

Grad student goes missing while glissading near Seattle

Around 100 people in 50 teams participated

Search for missing student suspended Tuesday

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“Shark Tank” held closed auditions exclusively for Penn students, faculty and alumni on Saturday in Jon M. Huntsman Hall.

Entrepreneurs from several Penn schools delivered pitches to casting producers in hopes of winning a spot on the show.

Rose Laden, Director of Alumni Relations, Engagement and Programming for the Wharton School, said that approximately 100 people in 50 teams participated in the casting call at Penn.

“Shark Tank” reached out to Penn about holding a casting call

as a part of its college program.

Laden said that the event aligned with Wharton’s current emphasis on entrepreneurship.

“It’s really exciting for Wharton right now — with a huge focus on entrepreneurship — to be able to offer this opportunity,” she said.

Six Wharton graduates have made deals on the show since its debut in 2009. 2007 Wharton MBA graduate Jordan Lloyd Bookey received $250,000 from “Shark” Mark Cuban for a 25 percent share in her company, Zoobean, in 2013.

Shark Tank also held closed auditions at Temple University on Saturday and open auditions in South Philadelphia on Friday.

Unlike in the open casting call, members of the Penn community who registered to pitch at Penn’s

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ABC’s entereprenuerial TV Show “Shark Tank” held closed auditions for Penn Students last Saturday in Huntsman Hall.

closed auditions were guaranteed time in front of the casting staff.

1985 Wharton graduate and 1989 Penn Law graduate Renee Mazer pitched her idea to the producers on Saturday.

“I pitched the idea for centers for relationship recovery for anyone going through any type of breakup, either a divorce or just a bad relationship, and services and products that would go with that,” Mazer said.

1989 Wharton graduate Beth Rosen also presented a pitch. She proposed a television, film and animation investment fund and requested $10 million over three years. Her company currently has 53 pieces of content.

“We already have access to some of the networks and studios, and we have award-winning writers attached,” she said. “We have an open door to pitch to one of the big studios” Rosen and Mazer remarked that the pitch length was particularly short — entrepreneurs were only given one minute to explain their ideas.

Mazer also commented that the process was intimidating because producers do not give feedback during or immediately after pitches.

“You have no idea how you’re doing, and that’s what made it hard,” Mazer said.

Members of the Penn community who pitched at the event will hear back in approximately two weeks if they have been selected to advance in the casting process.

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Chris Murphy, the director of the Master of Computer Information Technology program that He is a part of, sent an email to the department on Friday morning.

“It is with great sorrow that I write to you to share some information about your classmate, Qi He, who is missing after going on an outdoor excursion in Washington State,” Murphy wrote, linking to the Seattle Times article.

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We all like to pretend that our random DFMOs, side baes, and booty calls and other boo thangs don’t matter to us. On the outside, we might succeed in creating this “I’m so over it” facade.

Yet, when it comes down to it, we are all guilty of stalking our past hookups on at least one form of social media.

With all of the options of the app store world, keeping tabs on past hookups has become almost too easy. Whether you’re neurotically clearing your Facebook searches or popping into an Incognito tab to scroll through someone’s Insta, it’s time to own up and admit it: this summer, we’ll spend way more time on this than when we should.

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Snapchat: The stalking process starts with the most trustworthy source: Snapchat. It’s safe to say that Snapchat was made with the intentions of allowing others to keep tabs on people. It’s an “I’m not over it, but I’m pretending to be” person’s dream — and their exes’ nightmare. With 24 hour access to what our long lost lovers are doing, all our exes (especially the ones that live in Texas @Drake) should be wary.

Snapchat is all fun and games until you get hit with the blank arrow. Getting “blanked” is the nonverbal communication of “yes, I just saw 5+ seconds of your face and truthfully, I’d prefer not to reply.” This rejection is tough (Ed. note: better than the last guy you slept with not opening your Snapchat at all...), but hey, we go to Penn: we’re used to it.

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Facebook: Facebook is not-so-shockingly useful in keeping up with “friends” from both the real and cyber worlds. With the ability to view new uploads, album titles, shared posts and recent friends, it’s easy to gather integral information into your hookups’ lives.

The difficulty comes with the ambiguity of Facebook. If a boy has a profile picture with a girl,

should we automatically assume they are dating? If a girl has over 200 likes on a profile picture, is she out of your league or just super friendly and well-liked? Is anyone who actually added Featured Photos an asshole, or just vain like the rest of us? These are the questions that keep us up at night.

Spotify: If your potential or ex hookup has not been keeping Facebook up to date and their last interest or “like” was “*NSYNC,” (tasteful, but so 90s) you might want to search into their Spotify playlists just to see how musically compatible you are. Music can be a real deal-breaker — no one wants to be in the midst of a steamy make out sesh listening to Meghan Trainor and her whiny, somewhat offensive lyrics. Or, God forbid, Nickelback.

Venmo: If Spotify isn’t enough, shameful as it sounds, Venmo serves as a helpful tool in identifying the ins and outs of everyone’s lives — or, at least, their wallets.

It’s important to know which people are making transactions with your hookups. If bae used Venmo for “smokes” two nights in a row, who’s to say that they won’t show up a third time while you just so happen to be there?

When you start to see an increasing amount of transactions to a specific person for things like “dinner,” “movies,” “long walks on the beach,” it’s time to accept this person may not be on the market. The real difficulty with Venmo comes in distinguishing what the more discrete exchanges entail, which leads us to a whole other skill set — communicating in strictly emojis.

Holy Trinity: Since our stalking is most comfortably confined to a screen, we are left with our final few stimulating sources of insight: Twitter, Instagram and Tinder. These three apps are the triple threat of the stalking world. Not only is Twitter a

direct insight into your hookups’ minds, it also allows you to see who has caught their attention and gained their admiration through the honor of being retweeted.

Instagram is useful because it’s like Facebook’s younger, hotter, international cousin that came to visit and then decided to stay. Instagram allows us to see our potential hookups’ follow to following ratios, as well as how many likes they get per pic — which can, believe it or not, tell us a lot. When it comes to stalking hookups of the past, Instagram is key for knowing whose pictures your hookup is liking and how active they have been on the social scene. There’s also the added bonus of seeing how creative your hookup can get with captions. A page with Insta posts that are strictly selfies captioned with song lyrics should signal that it’s best to move on.

If you’re really desperate to rekindle a flame, you might find yourself perusing Tinder. Tinder is a stalker’s last resort. It’s helpful in keeping tabs on people who have minimal social media presence but are still trying to find that “special” someone.

Tinder provides us with the insight of knowing if a hookup has recently made, updated or deleted their account. Another one of its benefits is the bio feature: your person of interest’s statement to the world about all the virtues (or lack thereof) of joining them in bed. There’s no shame in making an account just to see if your old or new love is both witty and attractive.

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With all of these resources, we must be careful. If you find yourself on a social media rotation of these stalking apps anywhere from upwards of 25 times per day, please seek professional help. If you can keep your stalkerish tendencies on the low, then go ahead and enjoy. Who knows? With all of these tips, maybe you can channel your inner Soulja Boy and Kiss Me Thru The Phone.

BEFORE THE FIRST

HURRAH I stand in front of the Admissions Office at the back of College Hall, holding up my hand to shield my face from the April sun’s glare. I’ve just wrapped up a crowded tour of Penn’s campus and announced, as always, that I’d remain outside to answer any lingering questions. A mother clutches her son’s polo–clad shoulders, moves closer and lowers her voice.

“My son seems to have had a

every minute of it. I conduct weekly tours during the year and last summer, and I even went back to my high school on behalf of Admissions. But there’s one question they don’t teach you how to answer in all of the training sessions: What if Penn isn’t the right school for one of the eager high schoolers you promise it will be?

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involved with a host of extracurricular activities aside from Kite and Key. I’ve formed lasting friendships with amazing people from across the world.

My courses have been enjoyable and enlightening. The shy and anxious girl I was in high school has morphed into someone who’s outgoing and confident. I truly don’t believe I would have come so far without the experiences I’ve had here, experiences that

“My fake smile turns into a grimace.” similar high school experience as you did. Do you think my son will be happy here, too?”

My instincts take over, my smile broadening and making the corners of my eyes crinkle as I nod emphatically and repeat how wonderful my time at Penn has been, and that I’m sure it will be the same, even better, for him.

The woman’s shoulders sag in relief. My fake smile turns into a grimace.

was the one school I vowed I would never end up at. I was obsessed with the idea of having a fresh start, of being able to press a sticker emblazoned with the name of a new university onto the backs of my parents’ cars.

But after finally taking a tour the fall of my senior year of high school, I found myself sending in my Early Decision application to Penn. I told myself that if I got in, the first activity I’d sign up for would be tour guiding.

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I joined Kite and Key my freshman year, and I’ve loved

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are unique to Penn.

I’m met with applause and admiring smiles when I deliver this “why Penn” spiel at the end of each tour I give. It’s not an act.

But there’s something unsettling about pitching this seemingly fairytale-like ending to a group of potential Penn students. I tell them that overall, I’m less stressed now than I was in high school, thanks to my small class sizes and relationships with my professors. But I’m not supposed to share with them the all-nighters I’ve pulled to cram for a test.

My job as a tour guide is to make kids fall in love with Penn

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the way I did three years ago. I know this university can positively change the lives of more students it’s able to admit. But I also know that this school, with its undeniably fast–paced, pre–professional, competitive culture, can be a toxic and isolating place for others.

Penn is not a “one size fits all” kind of school. It takes a certain type of self-assuredness, an honest acknowledgment of one’s strengths and limitations, to have a healthy and fulfilling experience here. But this requires violating rule #1 of Penn Face: always appear happy and contented with your life, even if you really feel it’s in shambles.

And as we’ve learned, there have been too many students who’ve fallen victim to this paradox.

A few days after I learned of Wharton junior Olivia Kong’s suicide, I received a handwritten thank you note from a prospective student on one of my tours.

The student shared that she planned on applying ED come fall. “It was your tour that cemented my realization that Penn is the place for me,” she wrote in neat cursive. While such notes are always flattering, this

one struck a different chord. I couldn’t help but worry. What if Penn isn’t right for this student?

What if she struggles here, as so many others have? I felt uneasy as I thought about every potential new student I had come in contact with over the past two years.

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Are admissions tours part of the problem? For many high schoolers, deciding which college to attend is the first big

have applied here ED without signing up for a tour that September. But there’s no denying that these tours — at Penn and other universities nationwide — sugarcoat every aspect of college life. Is that fair to the high school student that finds herself so easily swayed?

I’m not sure how to go about answering that question. But in the tours I lead, I’ve started to think more carefully about what pitching Penn should really mean: answering visitors’ questions directly and honestly, even

“What if Penn isn’t the right school for one of the eager high schoolers you promise it will be?” decision they have to make. It’s extremely gratifying to play an active role in this important milestone for so many high school students. My choice to attend Penn has proved rewarding in every way, and I wouldn’t

if it varies from what’s inscribed in our tour guiding handbooks.

We have to start chipping away at the “perfect” shiny façade our university wears — and it starts with those who haven’t sung their first Hurrah.

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Two of the Red and Blue’s women’s lacrosse players were honored by Inside Lacrosse this week as part of its year-long

awards recognition. Senior attack Nina Corcoran and freshman defender Katy Junior received awards after being named on the All-ILWomen team and the AllRookie team, respectively.

Penn was the only Ivy League women’s lacrosse program to have a player on both of those teams. The Quakers were, of course, led by 2016 IWLCA

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Thanks to her record-breaking season for women’s lax, senior attack Nina Corcoran was named to the All-ILWomen Team of the year.

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again.

In 2010, Killion came on board for the Quakers as an assistant coach, working primarily with guards and taking eventual Ivy League Player of the Year Alyssa Baron under her wing.

Though Killion departed for Sacred Heart following the 201112 season, Baron would go on to lead the Red and Blue to just their second-ever Ivy League title in 2013-14 as McLaughlin secured his first of two Ancient Eight titles. “Being back at Penn, it’s home for me,� she said. “It’s where I started my career ... so it’s just one of those things where it was the right fit — it’s a great feeling to be back.�

Killion spent a single season at Sacred Heart before following head coach Ed Swanson to

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at the Philadelphia College Classic in March — a full sixteen feet further than the next farthest throw by an NCAA athlete in 2016, courtesy of Kansas’ Mitchell Cooper.

But Mattis — attempting to become Penn’s first two-time national champion since Bruce Collins won the 400m hurdles in 1972 and 1974 — struggled early on, barely advancing into the final flight with a first round mark of 57.98 meters.

In the finals, Mattis came with a stronger effort of 60.96 meters on his fifth attempt, boosting himself into second place and leaving him in an eerily similar situation to the 2015 NCAA Finals, when he trailed Tennessee senior Tavis Bailey by two inches entering his final throw before coming through with a then-lifetime-best of 62.45 meters to take the national title.

Unfortunately, there was no repeat miracle for Mattis this year, as the superstar fouled on his last attempt to finish the day in second place. Nebraska sophomore Nicholas Percy, ranked only ninth in the nation in the event entering the day, ended up stunning the field

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kept only credentialed media from entering the fences.

This wasn’t the first time a big sports team has used Penn Athletics’ facilities to practice before a game. In addition to Rhodes Field, NHL teams in the past have used the Class of 1923 Ice Rink to prepare for matchups with the Fliers or other games in the city.

The U.S. faced off on Saturday against Paraguay in a high stakes game that would determine who lived, and who died in the Copa America. If the U.S. had lost, it would have been Paraguay who secured the second birth from the group — along with Colombia — to the quarterfinals. A predatory goal from Clint Dempsey put the Red, White and Blue up 1-0 midway through the first half, and things were looking bright for the hosts heading into halftime. Shortly after the restart, though, things went awry.

DeAndre Yedlin had a minute of indiscipline that saw him booked twice for bad tackles. With 40 minutes left in the game, the Americans had to defend their lead with ten men.

They fought tooth and nail to cling on, with German-American John Brooks of Hertha Berlin in particular playing one of his best games as an American. The U.S.‘s gritty win

second-team All-American Nina Corcoran, who had a historymaking year to finish off her legendary tenure in University City.

In 2016, Corcroan set multiple records for both Penn and the Ivy League — including assists in a single season, 58, and assists in a career, 127 — while carrying her team to the quarterfinals of the NCAA tournament. Corcoran was named Unanimous Ivy League Attacker of the Year and was a first-team All-Ivy selection, leading the country in assists and assists-per-game along the way.

Junior, meanwhile, was the only freshman to start all 20 games for the Red and Blue in 2016, and finished third on the squad with 18 caused turnovers while adding 26 ground balls.

She was at her best in the postseason, earning ILWomen.com National Rookie of the Week honors for her three caused turnovers and two groundballs in the quarterfinals against Penn State. Despite this effort, the seventh-seeded Quakers lost to the Nittany Lions, 8-4, in a bitter end to their memorable season.

Virginia when he took over at the helm of William and Mary in 2013. She spent three seasons with the Tribe, working primarily with the guards and helping coordinate the program’s recruiting efforts as the team made its first-ever postseason appearance in the 2015 Women’s Basketball Invitational.

Now, following Day’s departure in May, Killion is ready to come back for a second round with the Quakers.

On McLaughlin’s end, he immediately knew Killion would be at the top of his list — the two maintained a close relationship even as Killion made stops at Sacred Heart and William and Mary — and after narrowing down potential hires, he made his final decision. “I vetted a lot of people. Kelly was right at the top of my list from the very beginning and she never moved,� McLaughlin

explained. “We met a few times and she was someone I knew that’s a winner, that’s been here at Penn, that has won at the college level as a player, she’s won as a coach. I wanted someone who cares at a deep level about the people.�

Before making it official, however, he made sure to give six of his upperclassmen a chance to speak with their potential new coach. Killion got approval all around.

Day worked primarily with the forwards — including reigning Ivy league Player of the Year Sydney Stipanovich — and McLaughlin plans to have Killion do the same despite having focused on guard work her last time in University City. “Player development, for me, is probably my favorite part of the game — being able to coach the post players is something that I love to do,� Killion said. “I’ve

with a lifetime-best effort of 61.27 meters en route to a first-place finish.

Awad was next up for Penn, competing in just the 5000m, despite owning the second-fastest 1500m time in the NCAA this season.

Like Mattis, Awad started off slowly, trailing the front of the pack after the first several laps as a star-studded field led by defending champion Edward Cheserek of Oregon set a blistering pace.

And while Awad — who held the 13th best collegiate time in the event in 2016 entering the day — made a name for himself with epic last-minute comeback efforts earlier this season at the Penn Relays, there was simply too much ground to make up on Friday night. Awad ended up finishing with a time of 14:21.06, with Cheserek taking first place in a phenomenal seasonbest time of 13:25.59. Even Awad’s season-best of 13:41.77 would’ve only resulted in an 11th place finish, demonstrating the unparalleled depth that was on display in the highly anticipated race.

Still, Awad’s efforts were good enough to secure honorable mention All-America honors — his second time doing so for outdoor

track and field, and fifth overall All-America nod including contributions to cross country and indoor track and field. Mattis and Awad combined for eight AllAmerica berths in their careers, making themselves the 37th and 38th All-Americans in program history.

Overall, the Penn men’s team earned nine points from Mattis’ second place finish, allowing the Quakers to finish in 29th place nationally – this marks the third consecutive season Penn has finished in the top 50, after previously not having done so since 2004.

And even though Mattis and Awad are done imprinting their names on the Red and Blue record books, the summer of competition has only just begun for both superstars. Both will return to the same Hayward Field venue in early July to take part in the U.S. Olympic Trials in advance of this year’s Rio Games; Mattis qualified for the Trials in the discus throw with his record-breaking toss in March, while Awad recently qualified for the 1500m with a seasonal best time of 3:37.75 — also the secondfastest in Ivy League history — at the Swarthmore Final Qualifier in May.

done it in the past and I’ll continue to love doing it.�

Killion’s familiarity with the staff — she not only played and coached under McLaughlin, but also for assistant coach Bernadette Laukaitis, in addition to spending two years as a Holy Family teammate of Director of Operations Christine McCollum — will help ease the transition

After an epic last-lap comeback in the Penn Relays 4xMile race, now-graduated senior Tommy Awad tried to replicate such heroics at the NCAA Championships last week, but fell short, finishing 22nd in the 1500m.

coupled with Colombia’s surprise loss to Costa Rica meant that the host nation won the group, and they ultimately got a more favorable quarterfinal match, pitted against Ecuador.

The penultimate match of the group stage and the third game hosted by Lincoln Financial Field took place on Tuesday night, with Chile and Panama dueling for a single spot in the quarterfinals. This goal fest was perhaps the most entertaining of the bunch, and two sumptuous goals from the Chilean firecracker Alexis Sanchez secured

a 4-2 win for the defending Copa America champions.

Several members of the Chilean national team were spotted hanging around the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art the day before the match, and some Penn students were even reported to have taken selfies with their players.

So while this grand-scale international tournament airs on televisions in all corners of the globe, last weekend’s installations had enough local flavor to draw in thousands of eyes from around the city, too.

as the team looks to repeat as Ancient Eight champions.

And that title was foremost in McLaughlin’s mind as he made his decision. “To be able to bring her back here, I’m not taking a chance on anyone,� he said. “I know what I have here, and I think that’s really important. And I think that’s great for Penn basketball,

because we’re getting an absolute winner.�

With a complete staff, McLaughlin will now set out to defend his second Ivy League championship this season.

Thankfully, not many players on his team graduated in May, meaning that confidence should be high as November draws closer.

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TRACK & FIELD | Mattis, Awad

compete at their final NCAAs COLE JACOBSON

Associate Sports Editor

It’s the end of an era for Penn men’s track and field.

After years of service leading the rebuild of the Quakers’ men’s program, senior superstars Sam Mattis and Thomas Awad donned the Red and Blue for the final time on Friday evening, competing in the discus throw and 5000-meter run, respectively, at

the 2016 NCAA Track and Field Championships in Eugene, Ore. Mattis finished in second place in the men’s discus throw earning his third consecutive first team All-America honors, while Awad took 22nd place in the men’s 5000m to secure an honorable mention All-America spot.

Penn’s evening was opened by Mattis, who was the presumptive favorite in his signature event all season after setting a stillstanding American-born collegiate record with a gargantuan toss of 67.45 meters back SEE TRACK & FIELD PAGE 7

Killion hired back for a The Americas come to second stint at Penn Phila. for Copa America W. HOOPS | Assistant is

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Three crucial matches played at the Linc.

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When Penn women’s basketball coach Mike McLaughlin had to hire a new assistant coach, he didn’t have to look far.

Following Chris Day’s departure for Vermont in May, former William and Mary assistant Kelly Killion was announced as his replacement last Thursday.

Killion is far from an unfamiliar face to McLaughlin. A standout guard, Killion played for McLaughlin from 2003-08 at Holy Family. For the Tigers, Killion was a three-time captain, two-time Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference Player of the Year and a Division II AllAmerican in 2007-08.

“She’s always had a high level of basketball maturity, ever since I coached her 10 years ago,” McLaughlin noted.

“But now she’s just developed

The Copa America is now in knockout mode, with the preliminary stages of the competition now finished.

But last weekend, the tournament certainly had knockout vibes running throughout Philly as three teams said goodbye to their Copa America dreams.

Last Thursday night, Luis Suarez and Uruguay were fighting for their lives against a dark horse Venezuela team at Lincoln Financial Field. Everyone expected a return to winning ways for Uruguay, with their backs against the wall after a loss in the opener to Mexico.

It was not meant to be, however, as West Bromwich Albion striker Salomon Rondon snatched his second goal in as many games for the Venezuelans. They then defended their lead resolutely, while Luis

ALEX FISHER | SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

A former player and assistant for Penn women’s basketball coach Mike McLaughlin, Kelly Killion (left) is now back in University City.

in a different role as a coach, looking at the game as an assistant coach, being able to benefit the program.”

Following the 2007-08

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season, McLaughlin departed for University City. He and Killion would soon cross paths SEE W. HOOPS PAGE 7

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On Saturday night at Lincoln Financial Field, the U.S. faced off in a do-or-die match against Paraguay — and came away with a win.

Suarez made headlines off the pitch as he threw fits on the bench for being listed ineligible to play by his head coach. In the end, Uruguay was not good enough to survive, and was eliminated from contention for the knockout rounds.

Another national team was also in Philly on Thursday, but

they weren’t playing a match.

The U.S. camped out on Rhodes Field at Penn for a training session Thursday afternoon, with the entire team, Jürgen Klinsmann and his coaching staff on site. Fans lined up around the field, but a tight security team SEE COPA PAGE 7

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