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Penn announces J.D./M.D. program The six year program will start in the 2017-2018 academic year ALIYA CHAUDHRY Staff Reporter

For those who have trouble choosing between being a doctor or a lawyer, have no fear: You can now become both at Penn.

Penn Law announced the arrival of a joint J.D./M.D. program on June 6, which will begin in the 2017-2018 academic year. The program will allow students to receive an M.D. from the Perelman School of Medicine and a J.D. from Penn Law in six years.

“The law touches every aspect of society, and for students, having degrees in both law and medicine is both highly beneficial to one’s career as well as to society, and a wholly unique advantage,” Penn Law Dean Ted Ruger said in the announcement on Penn Law’s website.

“Having a knowledge of the law is, increasingly, an integral part of being both a physician and a biomedical research scientist,” Penn Medicine Dean J. Larry Jameson said in a news release for Penn Medicine. “The JD/MD program will empower health professionals to effectively SEE J.D./M.D. PAGE 3

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Study finds link between sorority rush and self-esteem AMANDA GEISER Staff Reporter

If we … would wish for our incoming classes to be truly composed of the best students Penn can find … we ought not to celebrate our yield rate.”

Sororities confer obvious social benefits — at least for those girls who make it through the rush process, according to Penn psychologist Melissa Hunt.

Hunt’s study on sorority rush at Penn, published in the spring 2016 issue of Oracle: The Research

Journal of the Association of Fraternity/Sorority Advisors, found that although the women who rush and ultimately join a sorority enjoy a boost in their senses of belonging and self-esteem, those who are unsuccessful experience negative effects.

Inspiration for the study came to Hunt when she read an article in The Daily Pennsylvanian about bid night, featuring many girls who were pleased with their sorority JULIO SOSA | NEWS PHOTO EDITOR

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First CRISPR trial on cancer patients approved at Penn Med

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Gene therapies used for cancer research despite controversy CHASEN SHAO Staff Reporter

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Penn Medicine will collaborate with the MD Anderson Cancer Center and UC San Francisco for the first-ever human trials using CRISPR gene therapy technology.

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After receiving recent approval from the National Institutes of Health, researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine will move forward with the first-ever human trials using CRISPR gene therapy technologies.

CRISPR are segments of prokaryotic DNA containing short repetitions of base sequences. With the ability to easily change DNA, scientists could theoretically slow the aging process and lengthen lives, bring back extinct species and feed the world by

changing genes in farm crops so they can grow in different places, according to CNN. The revolutionary CRISPR gene therapy technology was initially discovered in bacterium by a group of Japanese scientists and quickly took the gene therapy stage by storm. Although numerous other technologies relating to gene therapy have been developed and are currently undergoing investigation, CRISPR revolutionized genetics by becoming the first of its kind of “genome editor” with innate specificity due to a guide-RNA. Despite its potential, not all gene therapies have progressed, due to SEE CRISPR PAGE 5

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Students worry about potential Penn Brock Turner Campus leaders are unsurprised about coniviction GENEVIEVE GLATSKY Staff Reporter

Many were shocked to find out that Brock Turner received only a six-month prison sentence for sexually assaulting an unconscious 22-year-old woman, but campus leaders at Penn involved in communities of sexual violence survivors were not surprised.

“I know of so many cultural examples and experiences of friends that it’s not uncommon for the punishment to be so minor,” rising College senior and co-chair of the Penn Association for Gender Equality Julia Slater said.

The President of Abuse and Sexual Assault Prevention and rising College senior Isabella Auchus agreed.

“Honestly it wasn’t too surprising,” she said. “The short sentence and the victim blaming because that’s just what we’ve always seen.”

What is uncommon about this instance is the unusual amount of media coverage it has received, which many students were quick to note was due to the privilege and status of the perpetrator.

“I think a lot more people know about this case than other cases because he was a Stanford swimmer and came from a good background and a wealthy family,” Auchus said.

“The boy was a young white male who had a huge future. Those are sympathy-getting factors that make this seem like a more newsworthy story than other cases, not that it necessarily is.”

“It wouldn’t have received that much attention if it was a Hispanic athlete,” rising College junior and Vice President of Recruitment for Men Against Rape and Sexual Assault Ramon Garcia Gomez noted.

“You can’t deny that.”

Auchus, Slater and Garcia Gomez all noted similarities between Stanford and Penn as prestigious institutions with promising students, which often contributes to

a culture of silence.

“I think Penn and Stanford are comparable institutions in terms of being academically rigorous and having reputations to uphold,” Slater said.

“People are worried about their career and the future if their name comes out as a sex offender,” Auchus said. “That makes it even more difficult for people who are trying to get justice under the legal system.”

Garcia Gomez also cited the presence of “huge egos” at elite universities as a factor contributing to the prevalence of sexual assault.

“They feel like they could get away with it, or that they’re entitled to it,” he said.

“In general the way that sexual assaults are handled in this college scenario versus our college scenario and other colleges is probably fairly similar in that it is difficult for the victim or survivor to be believed,” Auchus said.

Garcia Gomez and Auchus also noted the similarities between Greek life and at Penn and Stanford

The rich should fix unfairness, professor writes in new book Green says unfairness is a part of liberal democracy CHARLOTTE LARACY News Editor

In the United States and every other liberal democratic regime, one can expect a degree of unfairness, according to Jeffrey Green, an associate professor of political science at Penn.

“Unfairness is when inequalities impact areas that they are not supposed to,” Green said. “How rich you are is not supposed to impact the extent of your political voice. And how rich you are is not supposed to impact the quality of your children’s education. These principles are widely held in liberal democratic culture.”

In his new book, “The Shadow of Unfairness: A Plebeian Theory of Liberal Democracy,” Green argues that plutocracy and unfairness in the political system are permanent features of any liberal democracy.

Green used an interdisciplinary approach by incorporating philosophy, history, social science and literature to study the meaning of democracy in modern societies that are impaired by socioeconomic status.

“America is clearly a

society where wealth gives a disproportionate amount of political opportunities to the wealthy and gives disproportionate amount of education opportunities to the wealthy,” Green said. “However, even in countries like Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Finland and Holland, there is unfairness, less than the United States, but it is still meaningful. I want to make the claim that we should expect unfairness to be in any liberal democratic regime.”

Using Roman plebeians as a metaphor, Green compares the ancient social group to our modern second-class citizenship.

In the 21st century, ordinary citizens who do not have huge amounts of money or power can experience the feeling of secondclass citizenship. Ordinary citizens can vote or protest but to have a real power, individuals have to affix themselves to a mass of likeminded individuals, according to Green.

“There is still the reality of second class citizenship,” he said.

“The Roman plebeians were full members but of a separate class.

They couldn’t run for high office but they were voters. In many respects, ordinary citizens who do not have huge amounts of money or who are not famous or powerful,

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will experience levels of second class citizenship. They do not run for high office and they would never expect to.”

The book is also an effort to spotlight present-day politics. In the 2016 U.S. presidential election, economic inequality and unfairness have been key issues in both Democratic and Republican campaigns, albeit in different ways.

“One of Bernie Sanders’ core issues of his campaign is that we should become more like the Northern European countries and become more egalitarian,” Green said. “Sanders is saying that there is unfairness in America and that we need to be more like Northern Europe, but what he doesn’t say is the fact that in countries like Denmark, they also have enduring unfairness and that the shadow of unfairness persists.”

Presumptive Republican nominee and 1968 Wharton graduate Donald Trump also addresses unfairness in political money and campaign finance in the United States.

“Donald Trump and his campaign has said the political process is colonized by money and that there is a lot of unfairness where those who are rich and connected get to have access to candidates and shape the candidates,” said Green. “He has a different solution; namely by trusting someone who is so rich that he is not beholden to economic interests so citizens can expect fairer policy outcome.”

Green offers a different solution than Sanders or Trump. He argues that there is value in expecting more from the best-off in country.

“The core additional argument is that the people that have prospered the most in an unfair situation, the super rich and political leaders, they have a special obligation and a larger role in remediating the shadow of unfairness.”

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as a factor that can contribute to a culture of sexual assault and victim blaming.

“A lot of these [assaults] are more likely to happen at frat parties than anywhere else.” Garcia Gomez said.

“It has a lot to do with the circumstances, like that alcohol was involved was a big thing where people always like to question ‘Oh, whose fault was it?’” Auchus said.

In this case, backlash towards Turner’s sympathizers has been swift. The judge faces a recall effort, and friends and family who wrote letters excusing the actions of the rapist have been ridiculed, which Slater felt signaled cultural shift.

“I was heartened to see that so many people were taking very vocal stances in solidarity with not just the survivor in the case but with all survivors,” Slater said. “It says that people are listening and people are becoming aware of how pervasive a problem this is,” The campus leaders also noted how the heated reactions demonstrate increased awareness and

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placements. “Notably absent from the article was any mention of women who had failed to match,” she said. “It struck me that we were missing information about that important group.”

Along with 2014 College graduate Colleen Kase, who was a senior at the time, Hunt set out to learn more about this group of girls who did rush but either withdrew from the process or were not offered bids.

The two sent out surveys via email to all 1,395 freshman girls in the Class of 2017 at four different points during the 2013-2014 school year — one in November, one in early January before recruitment began, one in late January following recruitment and one at the end of March. Overall, 171 girls completed all four surveys.

Out of these respondents, there emerged three distinct groups. Two of these groups already had high levels of selfesteem and belonging — one planned to rush while the other did not.

“We had hypothesized that women who planned to rush would be hungry for connection and belonging,” Hunt said. “Instead we found that most women who definitely planned to rush were uniformly happy, extraverted, and already had a sense of belonging.”

To Hunt’s surprise, the third group of girls — who were less confident and had a lower sense of belonging — was rather large.

“The middle group of girls who were more unhappy and uncertain of their place in college surprised us as well. We had not anticipated them being such a large group.”

The surveys found that the members of this “middle group,” who would theoretically receive the greatest benefit from joining a sorority, were actually the least likely to receive a bid.

Among all of the girls who rushed — both the members of the first and the third groups

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The study found that women who would receive the greatest benefit to their self-esteem from joining a sorority were the least likely to get a bid.

— the rush process at least temporarily dampened their selfesteem.

“Rush seems like such a superficial, one-way, I just got judged based off a 5 minute conversation type situation, which can be extremely unnerving, especially for college freshman who honestly are just looking for more friends,” said rising Wharton sophomore Sanika Puranik, a member of Sigma Kappa sorority. “Greek life though, once in a sorority, introduced me to a subset of people I wouldn’t have otherwise met. It’s like a larger, flexible family to supplement my comfort on campus.”

Like Puranik, women who did receive bids reported an increased sense of belonging on campus after recruitment, while those who did not receive bids suffered blows to their self-esteem. Meanwhile, Hunt noted, the already-confident girls who chose not to rush experienced a temporary spike in their selfesteem during rush, followed by a return to its baseline level.

“Watching gaggles of girls in miniskirts and high heels and makeup wandering around campus in tight groups making artificially excited but shallow conversation with each other

makes one happy one isn’t participating and ends up being a bonding experience, of sorts, with other women who also are not participating,” Hunt said.

Rising College sophomore Elaine Lee, who did not rush in the spring, said she does not regret her decision. “As someone who was already invested in a lot of other extracurriculars and knew how to make upperclassmen friends through activities, I didn’t see the use of joining a sorority just so I could find a social label that, in the end, belonged to a social hierarchy completely arbitrary based on looks and connections.”

The results of the study, according to Hunt and Kase, could have significant implications for the effectiveness of the sorority system and the current recruitment process.

“Colleen Kase and I both believe that national rush guidelines should be amended to allow women to visit only the sororities they are interested in joining,” Hunt said. “This would decrease the number of potential ‘rejections’ and would also mean women would have to spend less time engaged in superficial, brief visits to large numbers of houses.”

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Students mentioned the existing efforts of the University to address sexual assault by recently adding two new positions dedicated to prevention and awareness, as well as groups on campus like ASAP, which stands for Abuse and Sexual Assault Prevention, and puts on the annual Take Back the Night event, and the V-Day Campaign’s Vagina Monologues.

“You can get support and at least some sort of cultural poetic justice if a criminal justice is unavailable,” Slater said.

All students were emphatic that the incident was not isolated to Stanford.

“Because it happened at Stanford it might have happened at Penn,” Garcia Gomez said. “I wouldn’t have been totally surprised.”

“This is not a problem that is just at one or two schools,” Auchus said. “I definitely think it could have [happened at Penn]. I think it could have happened anywhere.”

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“It’s a good thing that people are standing up and getting angry and realizing that there needs to be a shift in rape culture, especially towards those who were more lenient and supportive of Brock,” Auchus said.

“I think that shows that people are fed up how the courts give leniency to some people over others,” Garcia Gomez said.

Slater said she was focused on “the ways that we can mobilize all that energy going forward, so that it’s not just another case that’s swept under the rug, that it actually makes a dent in the culture and raises consciousness about rape culture.”

“I hope that it might give survivors who may have been hesitant to speak out for fear of being judged or invalidated the courage to speak and the supportive cultural climate to talk about the issues and to heal,” Slater said.

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Councilwoman, professors sound off on new soda tax Sugary drinks will be taxed 1.5 cents per ounce JINAH KIM Staff Reporter

Starting next year, Philadelphians who want to purchase sugary drinks may find themselves shelling out a few more coins.

On June 16, Philadelphia’s City Council passed a tax on sugary and artificially sweetened beverages, known as the “soda tax.”

While Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney had initially proposed a tax of 3 cents per ounce, this was reduced to 1.5 cents per ounce, or a little over a dollar for a twoliter bottle. The tax is expected to bring in $91 million its first year, and will go toward funding universal prekindergarten programs.

The mayor’s office has since said that some of the initial revenue will also go to other city services, like renovating the city’s parks system.

The bill passed the City Council with only four members voting against it — Republicans David Oh, Brian O’Neill and Al Taubenberger, as well as Democrat Maria Quinones-Sanchez.

“I have a Coca Cola plant in my district with 435 jobs that will be impacted,” Sanchez said. “Any

time you’re looking at an industry that could potentially shut down and move across the bridge, it’s my duty to protect those jobs.”

Sanchez also criticized the tax for its disproportionate effect on poorer residents, which Wharton professor Michael Sinkinson acknowledged.

“Taxes don’t necessarily affect everyone equally,” Sinkinson said. “When you impose a consumption tax, or any sort of a sales tax, there’s concern that it might be regressive, and that it would actually have a larger effect on lower-income individuals.”

Sinkinson, who teaches Business Economics and Public Policy, added that poorer individuals were also less likely to be able to avoid the tax by purchasing drinks outside city limits.

Councilwoman Sanchez, along with fellow councilman David Oh, argued that the city’s budget already contains the funding necessary for the mayor’s intended pre-kindergarten programs without the need to enact a new tax.

“The amount of money that has been identified to us as what we need [for prekindergarten] already exists in the current budget,” Oh said. “Maybe you need about 45 million dollars to start pre-k, and we certainly have

45 million dollars extra in the budget.”

Oh called the soda tax “bad tax policy” and said that the tax created a case of conflicting incentives for the city.

“You don’t want people to drink it, [so] you’re raising the cost,” he said. “And because you’ve done that, if you’re successful, you won’t have the money to sustain your program.”

This inconsistent nature of the tax has also led to criticism.

Sugarless, calorie-free diet sodas are subject to the tax, while highcalorie drinks that are at least 50 percent fruit or vegetable juice or milk will not be. Drinks where the customer adds or requests the addition of their own sweeteners will also not be taxed — which applies to many drinks at Starbucks.

“Certain smoothies [and] mocha smoothies are exempt,” Sanchez said. “[The tax] disproportionately affects poor people and exempts products that wealthy people buy.”

Perhaps for these reasons, the mayor’s office focused less on the health aspects of a decrease in soda consumption, instead presenting the tax as an opportunity to fund education for young children through universal prekindergarten.

Grace Kelly’s Phila. family home now on housing market The famous actress also had ties to the University MITCHELL CHAN Staff Reporter

When Philadelphia-born Grace Kelly married into European royalty in 1956, it was a crowning moment for a family whose legacy had been intertwined with Penn before she was even born.

Now, the Northwest Philadelphia estate where Kelly grew up is up for sale. The house in the city’s East Falls neighborhood was listed last week for $1 million, according to brokerage firm Redfin, which is overseeing the listing.

It was in this house that Kelly, then a 26-year-old Oscar-winning actress, accepted a marriage proposal from Prince Rainier III of Monaco, ruler of a tiny city-state on the French coast with 142 hereditary titles, in December 1955.

Born in Center City to one of Philadelphia’s most famous IrishAmerican families, Kelly enjoyed a brief but successful career in Hollywood that made her one of the most recognizable film stars of the 1950s. In just six years, she garnered two Golden Globe Awards and an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1955. She routinely worked alongside the likes of Alfred Hitchcock, Ava Gardner, Clark Gable and Frank Sinatra.

Kelly met Prince Rainier during the 1955 Cannes Film Festival in France — they were engaged by the end of the year. At her husband’s insistence, Kelly retired from acting and prepared to move

permanently to Europe. After a brief civil ceremony at the Prince’s Palace of Monaco, the couple were married on April 19, 1956, in a televised church wedding. An estimated 30 million people watched as Philadelphia’s Grace Kelly became Her Serene Highness the Sovereign Princess of Monaco.

The Kelly family, whose prominence in Philadelphia has been compared to the Kennedys, was already de facto royalty to the city’s Irish community. Her father, John B. Kelly, won three Olympic Gold Medals in rowing before starting a successful bricklaying and construction company. Active in local politics, he was the Democratic candidate for mayor in 1935 and narrowly missed election as Philadelphia’s first Catholic mayor.

Her mother Margaret Katherine Majer Kelly rose to fame in her own right as Penn’s first-ever women’s athletics coach. Majer joined Penn’s athletics department in 1921 and within three years had organized Penn’s first teams in women’s basketball, gymnastics, softball and swimming. She also secured funding for a new women’s tennis court at the corner of 34th and Walnut Streets, according to Majer’s biography on the University Archives and Records Center’s website.

She later retired from her position after marrying Kelly’s father in 1924. Grace, born five years later, was their third child.

Two of Kelly’s siblings would follow in their parents’ athletic footsteps at Penn. Her older brother John Kelly Jr., who

inherited their father’s rowing talent, graduated in 1950 from the College, where he was on the varsity crew team, president of the Kappa Sigma fraternity and a member of the Sphinx Senior Society, according to his University Archives and Records Center biography. He completed in the 1948 Olympics in rowing while still a Penn student, and eventually went on to become president of the U.S. Olympic Committee, according to his 1985 obituary in The New York Times.

Kelly Drive near Boathouse Row, where Penn’s rowing program is based, is named after him.

Kelly’s sister Lizanne, who was captain of the Penn women’s hockey team, graduated from Penn in 1955, according to her 2009 obituary in the Philadelphia Inquirer. She named her own child, Grace, after her famous crowned sister.

Grace Kelly died in 1982 from injuries sustained in a car crash.

Her son, Albert, is the current Prince of Monaco.

The Kelly family lived in in the East Falls house until 1973, when it was sold to the current listed owner, Marjorie Bamont. Bamont died this past April, according to her obituary in the Philadelphia Sun Times.

Bamont made headlines in 2013 when law enforcement officers from the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals charged her with multiple counts of animal cruelty and seized her 15 pets, including 14 cats, from the house.

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“The tax was being sold politically as a tax to fund universal pre-k in Philadelphia,” Nursing professor Karen Glanz said. “It wasn’t being sold as just a healthrelated tax.”

Glanz, who holds a secondary appointment in the Perelman School of Medicine, is also a senior fellow at Penn’s Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. “[Healthy childhood and early childhood education] are causes that very few people can look at and say, ‘I don’t want little kids to be educated,’” she said. “It’s much easier for people to argue against a public health measure, because they can interpret it as ‘oh, you’re trying to take away my free choice.’”

But even the proposal for universal prekindergarten has not received universal support.

“What is pre-k? You can’t tell me what it is in the sense of what the city’s doing, I couldn’t tell you what it is, because the mayor hasn’t said what it is,” Oh said.

“They’re working on it now.”

“We knew from the beginning that although it was called universal pre-k, that it was not going to be universal,” he continued. “We could not afford universal pre-k.

So the question is, who is it for?

And, when will they receive the

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address the emerging legal issues that accompany topics ranging from patient confidentiality in the era of big data and electronic medical records to patenting and commercialization processes for new discoveries.”

The program took approximately 12 to 18 months to develop. It is comprised of 86 credit hours, requiring roughly six years to complete.

“We already partner with Perelman School of Medicine in connection with the very popular J.D./M.B.E. [Master’s in Bioethics], so the decision to formalize a J.D./M.D. was the next logical step — especially given that both schools are ranked among the best in their fields,” Ruger said.

Students are enrolled in the M.D. program at the Perelman School of Medicine full-time for the first two years of the joint degree program, then in the J.D. program at Penn Law for the next two. The fifth year is normally split between participating in the J.D. program in the fall and the M.D. program in the spring, completing the law degree that year.

Students take the final year to complete the M.D. program.

Applicants are required to apply to both Penn Law and Perelman separately. They may apply to Penn Law either at the same time as Perelman or during the first two years of the program.

Interdisciplinary learning is strongly emphasized at the University of Pennsylvania, through a number of programs. According to Penn Medicine, 65 percent of Penn Medicine and 75 percent of Penn Law students complete joint certificate or degree programs.

“Adding this new, joint

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Philadelphia councilwoman Maria Quinones-Sanchez opposed the soda tax because she has a Coca Cola plant in the district she represents.

services?”

While the mayor’s office has not released specific plans for how the prekindergarten program will be structured, education advocates are hopeful that instituting such early childhood programs will improve student outcomes.

“From a broad perspective of

medicine/law degree continues that longstanding tradition of offering relevant, cross-disciplinary collaboration for its students,” Senior Vice Dean of Education Gail Morrison said in the Penn Law announcement.

“Students see the value and take advantage of joint degree and certificate programs, which are very popular at Penn Law,” Ruger said. “We also have a lot of student interest in working at the intersection of law and health.”

Penn Law and Perelman offer a J.D./M.B.E. program, which includes a law degree and a Master’s in Bioethics. According to Penn Medicine, it is common for medical students to also earn Master’s degrees in Bioethics.

The Master in Law (M.L.) program at Penn Law offers a health law track designed for medical

what we know about the social determinants of health … education and a decent living income are very important from the early stage on up,” Glanz said. “There are quite a few studies now that [show] things like pre-school education … rates are associated with better quality of life and better health later in life.”

professionals.

“Compared to the J.D./M.B.E., which is geared to future lawyers looking to gain expertise in health and bioethics, the J.D./M.D. is also for future doctors who are looking to gain deep expertise in law and legal issues,” Ruger said.

The new J.D./M.D. program is designed for students who plan to do work involving law, health and medicine in areas where the fields connect and overlap. According to Morrison, the program is expected to prove especially useful for students preparing to work internationally, in pharmaceutical companies, with start-ups and with clinical trials that study human patients.

The degree has applications for technology, product and app development.

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SERIOUS BUSINESS | The most overvalued trait Last summer, in the grand tradition of bored teenagers everywhere, my friends and I went to the beach. One of them brought a watermelon, but had forgotten the accompanying knife.

Picture, if you will, seven teenagers, hitting a watermelon. With our fists.

Five of us go to Ivy League schools and the other two go to Stanford and USC. We were all completely sober. And we were sitting in the sand slamming the rind of a watermelon with our fists like cavemen while sunburnt soccer moms and small children stared at us in confusion.

Cute anecdotes aside, the punchline of the story I just told you rests on the idea that “isn’t it funny that a bunch of smart kids were pretty dumb.” The humor lies in dichotomy and the premade assumption that supposedly intelligent people defaulted to the most neanderthal-esque of behavior. It’s funny because it’s embarrassing.

There’s a general assumption that if someone is intelligent or highly skilled in a certain field, that intelligence or level of generalized skill is a basic fact of

their entire life. But intelligence isn’t a trait that manifests uniformly across a person’s interests, and practical competence does not necessarily map onto intelligence.

Arguably, we — and I mean both the global human we and the smaller Penn we — overvalue intelligence, and we redefine suc-

to me that the kind of intelligence that we tend to prize really doesn’t merit the value we give it.

But let’s approach the topic from another angle. Last week, I read an article in The Atlantic called “The War on Stupid People,” in which David Freedman talked about the fetishization of intelligence in today’s society,

But intelligence isn’t a trait that manifests uniformly across a person’s interests, and practical competence does not necessarily map onto intelligence.” cess to align with that valuation, defining it as good grades and high test scores. Being smart on those terms, however, doesn’t make you happier, and there’s no guarantee that if you’re smart, that you will be “successful,” by more meaningful definitions.

Provided one meets a minimal threshold, however, it seems

and the plight of the “average joe” in an era where perceived intelligence is prized over all.

He argued that the elevation of intelligence only leads to an unbalanced society that prioritizes a small group which values certain criteria over all.

The logical conclusion of the world that Freedman describes,

which is the world that we live in, is not a more intelligent society but one that tries it’s hardest to appear intelligent. These are two very different things, and the latter is detrimental overall.

By quantifying intelligence, we hold people up who fill certain requirements — though they might be completely lacking common sense — and might overlook those who do not fit the criteria, though they might be competent in other aspects.

You can neither count on intelligence to be comprehensive or to be a substitute for experience, determination, or any number of other traits. If intelligence is relative, and this is a world that prizes a certain perception of intelligence over others, then we are, as humans have done throughout history, conflating a certain uncertain, badly defined trait with other traits.

I don’t believe that society’s preoccupation with intelligence is in itself a completely harmful phenomenon. I can’t deny that I also believe that a smarter world is probably a better world.

But concern over intelligence over all other traits is, in a word,

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concerning. After all, as Freedman wrote in the article, “We must stop glorifying intelligence and treating our society as a playground for the smart minority.”

There is always the bottom fifty percent.

And in case you were wondering, we did eventually open the watermelon. I used a water bottle to puncture the rind.

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

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Nothing to be proud of FROM THE EDITOR | Penn’s record-high yield rate indicates admissions malpractice The Summer Pennsylvanian reported late last month that Penn’s “yield rate” — the percentage of students who are offered admission to Penn who accept that offer — reached a record high this year at between 68 and 69 percent.

It would be easy to read this record-setting as a triumph for Penn and a marker of the University’s success in appealing to top students across the country. Indeed, Penn Admissions and the University public relations team would likely prefer that it be read this way by everyone.

Unfortunately, however, the high rate requires a somewhat more cynical analysis than that.

As with so much related to the cutthroat world of undergraduate admissions, all things yield-related are not quite what they at first seem.

Ask the Admissions Office what accounts for the high rate this year, and they’d probably tell you that they’ve worked hard to make more graduating high schoolers aware of the joys and benefits that Penn has to offer. Indeed, this is more or less what Dean of Admissions Eric J. Furda told the SP for the news article announcing the record. “In

an email … Furda credited the effort during Quaker Days and the Multicultural Scholars Program combined with the Impact Beyond Campus initiatives as one reason for the high yield rate,” the article said.

Technically speaking, this is very likely true. Penn Admissions does work hard to make itself attractive to high-achieving prospective freshman. But saying that these efforts account primarily for the record-setting acceptance rate this year is sort of like saying that Barry Bonds set the record for home runs because he lifted a lot of weights — there’s something else going on that isn’t quite so savory.

In Penn’s case it’s not steroids, but binding early decision contracts that are juicing the numbers.

When one reads that Penn’s yield rate is 69 percent, it’s automatic to assume that better than two in three students who were offered admission to Penn chose to come here over other schools that accepted them. But this isn’t the case.

To see how Early Decision inflates the yield rate artificially, consider last year’s freshmen, the Class of 2019. That year, Penn enrolled 2,435 freshmen in the

fall term, of 3,787 total admitted students, producing a yield rate of 64 percent. Of those students, however, 1,316 were admitted under binding Early Decision, and therefore required to enroll. Unlike regular decision admits, these students have to forfeit their chance to choose between multiple schools.

In other words, students admit-

Of course, considered independently, this doesn’t much matter.

Early Decision students, after all, do “choose” Penn in the sense that they voluntarily agree to enroll if accepted.

When taking the incentives associated with “yield rate” into account, however, my apparently semantic quibble takes on greater

If we … would wish for our incoming classes to be truly composed of the best students Penn can find … we ought not to celebrate our yield rate.” ted under Early Decision — 54 percent of those who ultimately enrolled — have a 100 percent yield rate. When they are subtracted out, therefore, the numbers look much different: 2,471 students were admitted under regular decision, of whom 1,119 enrolled. In other words, among students who actually had the option of choosing between Penn and another school, the yield rate was 45 percent.

significance. Overall yield rate — the one which includes Early Decision — is used by U.S. News and World Report in their annual college rankings as a statistical marker of school quality. For most schools, it isn’t a particularly significant metric, but for elite, highly selective schools, who all basically get full marks in the major qualitative categories, a high yield rate can make the difference between a

top five spot and a top 10.

Elite schools, therefore, have strong incentives to ensure that their yield rate is high. But they also have a problem: Regular decision yield rates are stubbornly stable year to year, for a multitude of hard-to-alter reasons. For Penn, it hovers around 50 percent.

An easier way to boost yield rate, then, is to admit a greater percentage of each incoming class through binding programs like Early Decision. The more slots Penn can fill with 100 percent yield students, the fewer students it has to admit regular to reach its desired class size, boosting both selectivity and yield.

This is why so many top schools admit large portions of their classes via early decision, and there are good reasons to be concerned. Though the early decision applicant pool is getting more diverse, early decision applicants remain, in the aggregate, far more homogenous, geographically, racially and socioeconomically, than their regular decision counterparts.

Furthermore, there are — understandably — far fewer of them.

For the Class of 2019, Penn filled 54 percent of the class from a pool

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of just 12 percent of the applicants.

The result of this perverse incentive structure is unfortunate.

If we, as a community, would wish for our incoming classes to be truly composed of the best students Penn can find, rather than the elite few who serve the University’s self-promotional needs, then we ought not to celebrate our yield rate.

ALEC WARD is a rising College senior from Washington, D.C., studying history. His email address is alecward@sas.upenn.edu. Follow him on Twitter @TalkBackWard.

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Prof. proposes $2 mil award for a superbug cure Ezekiel Emanuel wrote an op-ed about antibiotics ALLY JOHNSON Staff Reporter

Last month, a Pennsylvania woman was diagnosed with the first American case of an infection resistant to colistin — a treatment known as the antibiotic of last resort. Although she has recovered, the case has heightened concern about the dangers of antibiotic resistance.

In response to this crisis, Vice Provost for Global Initiatives and Chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy Ezekiel Emanuel published an op-ed in the Washington Post in late May, proposing a $2 billion prize to anyone who secures FDA approval for a new antibiotic.

Emanuel wrote that the Pennsylvania case “signals that a superbug is inevitable.”

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some controversy. Since the case of Jesse Gelsinger, who suffered from an X-linked genetic disease of the liver and died as a result of misuse of gene therapy techniques at Penn in 1999, gene techniques such as CRISPR are met with apprehension.

Deaths and other maladies around the United States that are related to gene therapies have also produced numerous skeptics regarding the efficacy of the

Superbugs could cost the global economy as much as $100 trillion between 2014 and 2050, according to a 2014 report published by British economist Jim O’Neill.

The report also projected an extra 10 million deaths from drugresistant infections each year by 2050 — more than the number of worldwide cancer deaths in 2014 — if action is not taken to combat antibiotic resistance.

Emanuel proposed four steps to combatting this problem.

He suggested hospitals should implement programs to reduce the overuse of antibiotics. Next, an electronic system should review the necessity of antibiotic prescriptions in order to minimize the number of unnecessary prescriptions. He also proposed government funding for preclinical research on antibiotics.

Finally, he proposed large financial prizes.

Pharmaceutical companies

currently have a greater financial incentive to develop other types of drugs, Emmanuel said. Chemotherapy drugs, for example, can be much more profitable. There are currently only 37 antibiotics in clinical development, while nearly 836 drugs or vaccines are being developed for cancer.

“We have to shift the incentive structure for researchers and drug companies,” Emmanuel told NPR. “Otherwise we’re just not going to have enough development.”

The Pennsylvania woman’s infection was found to be from a strain of E. coli. Although the infection could not be treated with colistin, doctors were able to treat it with other antibiotics.

Researchers at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Maryland identified the gene, called mcr-1, that made this strain of E. coli resistant to colistin.

The Centers for Disease

Control and Prevention official Beth Bell stated that this strain currently poses a minimal risk to the general public.

Emmanuel proposed this prize as a collective effort by developed countries to encourage the development of new antibiotics.

The United States would be one of several contributing to the fund and creating rules for their use in order to decrease the chances of resistance.

As for the source of the prize money, Emanuel suggested a small tax on hospitals. He wrote that even a tax of two cents for every $10 in revenue would generate $2 billion a year.

Emmanuel also stated that action is urgently needed to encourage antibiotic development and to slow the development of antibiotic-resistant infections.

“Unless we shift course, superbugs will become a fact of life,” Emmanuel said.

technique.

According to Dr. Tobias Raabe, the adjunct associate professor and principal investigator of the Penn Gene Targeting Core and Laboratory, gene therapy technologies could be the future of genetics despite the ongoing debate surrounding them.

“I have no doubt that gene therapy will become extremely important in the future,” Raabe said.

“Even though I am fully aware of the danger of potential off-target effects in gene therapy, very promising novel technologies, including

exciting CRISPR-based methods, are currently being developed in academia and in industry to make gene therapy safer.”

According to TIME, CRISPR is considered one of the greatest recent breakthroughs in science.

If the study is approved by the organization that will conduct it, Penn scientists involved in the trial will test the mechanisms behind CRISPR by removing immune cells from 18 select patients afflicted with melanoma, sarcoma and myeloma.

After genome editing, these

immune cells will then be injected back into patients. Phase 1 of the CRISPR genome-editing project will focus on the safety of the procedure as well as its efficacy in treating certain cancers.

The trial will be funded by a cancer organization founded by former Facebook president Sean Parker. According to the medical news site STAT, phase one will take place at MD Anderson Cancer Center and the University of California, San Francisco, in collaboration with the Perelman School of Medicine.

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LIFE IN LIMBO Between adolescence and a hard place | BY STEPH BARRON

SNAPS TO YOU The lowdown on the Snapchats Street sees over the summer — and what they tell us about Penn | BY PERREN CARRILLO Remember that one time when the Snapchat ghost (what ghost?) was a symbol of how you could send a message without it being screenshotted? I don’t either, but for every Snapchat we do screenshot, there are hundreds that we’ve speedily tapped through.

From sexts to food (food sexts too), Snapchat has seen it all … and so has Street. We give you the rundown of every snap you’re likely to see this summer: Snaps from New York: You love the Hamptons. You’ve used the Upper East Side and SoHo filter every (other) snap. You use that one “subtle” filter that makes it seem like everything is a little bit clearer and a little bit more enhanced, but let’s be real: your brunch eggs aren’t that natural color.

Snaps from abroad: At this point, the Eiffel Tower is as impressive as the dick pics the bro you hooked up with back home keeps snapping you.

Snaps from celebrities: I’m invested in how much you seem to genuinely care about me as a person you’ll probably never think about, but at this point I only hear the “you” in “you guys.” (I love you too.) Please respond to my snaps.

Snaps from internships: “Yes? Is this Human Resources?

So, one of your interns keeps Snapchatting about how bored they are...”

Snaps from that one friend that only posts at parties: Your liver is f*cked, dude. Please stop screaming. What time do you sleep?

Snaps from that one friend that only posts food: You love gourmet food. You love being adventurous. You aren’t afraid to dabble in some street food, either (as long as it’s on Spruce and has got good reviews on Yelp). The close-ups of your food is amazing. But, I just saw your snap at 2 a.m., and I am hungry NOW. Snaps from that one friend who only uses the dog filter: We are all this friend. Stop lying.

Snaps from that one friend who only uses the skin-clearing filters: Your crush can still see your acne.

Snaps from that one friend th at only posts aesthetic snaps: We get it. You have a lot of time on your hand to curate a collection of 10-second or less snapchats onto your story. You perfectly lined up the text in the

middle. Everything is in focus.

Are your priorities?

Snaps from that one friend that zooms in on everything: Okay, it’s still funny.

Snaps from that one friend that only posts selfies: You look good today. You’re feeling yourself. You’ve got your hair done.

You’ve got your face beat. You missed that small piece of eye crust in the corner of your left eye.

Snaps from that one friend that always hits the 4:20 mark: But do you vape?

Snaps from that one friend that’s home all summer: Reclaiming Netflix and chill one ridiculously complex and emotional “Scandal” season at a time.

Snaps from the group of people that all saw the same beautiful sunset: Surprisingly, I too have eyes. Unsurprisingly, I was inside and consistently don’t know when the sunset is.

Snaps from those dog accounts everyone should follow: Post more.

What it says about us: Work hard, play harder, snap hardest.

I am 21 years old and I don’t know how to ride a bike. Every day, when I run along the Schuylkill River Trail, sevenyear-olds on bicycles — whose lives I have lived three times over — zoom past me. And even though I understand the basic physics that even bodies lacking stationary stability will remain upright when in motion, I can’t convince myself to actually lift my feet from the ground and pedal forward.

My 21st birthday was two days ago. Combined with the existential crisis that seems to hit me every summer, it got me thinking about what it means to act my age. In another life, this might have meant acting hirable or even marriageable. Certainly it would have meant constricting myself to fit a very specific role in society. In this life, however — the free and privileged one that I and so many Penn students live — I’m not so sure.

We, people in limbo between being under the authority of our adult parents and professors and being adults ourselves, imagine ways to measure our adultness, of course. Like the way we dress. The way we socialize. The way we spend. The way we work. The way we eat.

The other day, my housemates and I were hanging out in the kitchen. I was making veggie burgers from scratch, loosely following a recipe I’d found on spoonuniversity.com.

Bre and Victoria sat at the table, eating cherry tomatoes from plastic packaging and debating heatedly whether ramen noodles taste better raw or cooked.

Victoria was adamant that raw is better.

“Raw is good,” said Bre. “I’m just not sure if it’s better, you know?”

I felt superior as my hands kneaded that squidgy ball of black bean Play-Doh. I felt like

an adult. Because I never eat instant noodles or instant mac and cheese or instant anything.

But the truth is that I’ve also never had a “real job” with a concrete time commitment and a steady payroll and a dress code like they and many of my peers have. This summer, I’m working as a freelance intern for a West Philly newspaper, living the ascetic life of a starving artist — except for the fact that my parents are paying for my housing. And my food. And the drinks and decorations for my birthday party. Cue the aforementioned summertime existential crisis in which I wonder whether I’m actually cut out to succeed in my chosen career, support a decent lifestyle, claim independence and act my age.

Maybe that’s the curse of college students who constantly

is not about facing reality, but about putting on a face for reality — the reality that most of us need to apply for about 50 internships just to get a response, that we’re behind where we want to be on our career path and that, realistically, New York after graduation is probably not an option for our finances. Even though we grew up with enough, or more than enough — or, for some of us, too much to feel happy with what we’ve accomplished for ourselves.

Poor me, I know. In the grand scheme of things, I am fortunate, privileged, well off.

And yet I can still look at my resume, in the mirror, at my life and feel as if I’m not doing well enough. As if who I am and what I’ve done is too little compared to the number of years my real and now legally

“…we never get to feel like we know what we’re doing.” challenge themselves: we never get to feel like we know what we’re doing. At our core, we are all 21-year-olds who still don’t know how to ride a bike. We’re all successful interns who haven’t figured out how to work the old­-fashioned coffee maker in the office. We’re all people who make healthy veggie burgers for dinner, then stop at Allegro when our night out is over. We attend our classes, internships, jobs, or whatever endeavor in which we intend to overachieve that day, and act as if we are right where we ought to be at this point in our lives.

And maybe the day when we finally put on that mask and never take it off again is the day that we become adults.

It’s a depressing notion. I hate to think that adulthood

acceptable ID says I’ve had to accomplish them.

I don’t know what it means to be an adult, I don’t know if I am one and I don’t know if I’ll ever be ready to act like one. But I do know that I’ve managed to get to where I am today without riding a bike, which sort of debunks the obvious metaphorical significance of the fact that I can’t. We all impose narratives on our lives with causes and effects and real-life metaphors that provide explanations for why we are who we are, and that reduce us to a mere combination of our accomplishments and, frankly, our excuses. But the truth is that we’re all still so young. Even I, the 21-yearold almost-junior, am so young.

We’re so young. It’s time we start acting like it.

LETTERS TO PEOPLE YOU’RE

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Street’s collection of letters to ex-lovers | ANONYMOUS You are not supposed to matter. It’s hard to summarize Penn’s collective attitudes towards the people we casually hook up with, but many of us get socialized, from NSO onward, to live by that statement. Push down our feelings. Only text after midnight. We are not supposed to “catch feelings,” we’re not supposed to get attached, and we’re certainly not supposed to let any trace of emotion linger past move-out and last into summer.

This week, Street presents a collection of letters to the people we’re not supposed to miss.

This is the way it goes: I’m the first to tell you it’s just sex. Because I don’t want you to think I’d think anything different.

You laugh, or roll your eyes, or

to myself that I don’t care about you.

* * *

“Do you want to spend the night?” you said. I looked up and thought, why not. And that was a mistake. You slept soundly. A deep undisturbed sleep, during which you pulled me into your arms, pressed my body to yours and wouldn’t let me go. I hadn’t realized that my skin was so hungry it gobbled up your touch and in the morning, wanted more.

I never even slept with you. But sometimes I wish I had because then I could easier forgive myself for still thinking about you three years later. Because somehow it would be okay to be hung up

all play of who can care less?

It was never the nights together that broke me, it was the in between. It was hearing about you going on dates with other girls and wondering what mystery quality other girls had that made them worthy of dates that I somehow lacked. And watching you kiss that girl three inches from my face the day after I had woken up under your chin and wondering if you did it purposefully or if you really didn’t notice me and trying to decide which was worse. And it was after weeks spent thinking about you and the next time I would spend a night with you only to find out that you got back together with her and that night wasn’t going to happen.

And wondering what made her

“I know your subtext. And I still swear to myself that I don’t care about you.” if you’re drunk just let your grip on me go a little limper, and you whisper, “of course.” Of course: we are young and Penn is big and neither of us wants a relationship, anyway. Not with each other. We play the game: I scroll through your formal album and wonder if she’s prettier than me. You keep your eye on me at parties, size up who I’m dancing with. We perform for each other. It’s absurd how normal this feels.

I know your smell and some of your secrets. I know how fiercely your eyes shut when you sleep, how you look so determined in shutting the world out. I know your subtext. And I still swear

on the first person I slept with.

But what about the first person to give me an orgasm? The first person I gave one to? The first person to hold me throughout the night, your arm wrapped around my bare waist and our naked legs intertwined and our fingers laced together after telling stories about friends and families, anecdotes and disappointments of life into the wee hours of the morning? The first person to make me cry for months on end, my first heartbreak from someone I was never even in love with?

The first person that forced me to confront the fact that maybe I wasn’t cut out for this game we

worthy of devotion and persistence and waiting, while I was worthy of 2 a.m. text messages.

I don’t know if I can call it jealousy. Even those nights in your bed that you spent talking about her I never felt jealous in those moments. Because right then when you laid your head on my chest and I stroked your

averted eye contact. The jilted conversation. Putting on a show of indifference in front of all of

with sex and with insecurity and with longing and with hurt. And what hurts the most is the thought

“…maybe I wasn’t cut out for this game we all play of who can care less…” the friends that knew. Pretending that you were no one to me, no different from any other acquaintance who hadn’t seen every part of me.

I never said anything because I never knew how to voice what I wanted. It’s not that I wanted you to take me on dates or kiss me in public and I didn’t expect you to choose me over her. What I wanted was to feel like I mattered, to feel like more than just a warm bodied placeholder to stifle your loneliness when you couldn’t be with her, the one you really wanted. And after all these years you are still the person I’m not supposed to miss, because our nights together are only a total of four and we never even slept together, an invisible barrier that I somehow thought meant I couldn’t get attached. But three years later I still think about you, and I wonder if you ever think about me. Because you are the

that while you made up a chapter in my book, I might be just a footnote in yours.

* * *

I don’t quite remember the entire night, but I remember that moment. The crowd was thinning out at the frat house, My friends and I were still dancing on top of the table. And you kept on staring at me. You climbed up the elevated surface. You totally wanted me; I totally wanted you, but I kept on looking away.

Those nights where we slip on skimpy outfits and push aside all responsibilities — that’s when we tell ourselves it all could happen.

We grew up searching for “it all”.

And every packed club or frat house is a roomful of suitors, but only a few actually become something; the rest are faces of potential. Options.

These are the guys we could

friends and fantasizing how the night could have ended differently. These moments fuel us to go out again and again.

So no matter how how fuzzy and impulsive my mind, I pushed you into the potential category.

Actually it was a voice, my friend earlier whispering that you were the guy she would go after. I hope I am not the only one who would take your attraction for me over her as a compliment. I hope I am not the only one who fondly recalls these flickers of something on slow summer nights. I hope I’m better off with the memory than the regret.

* * *

You are the only part I remember of some nights. Blacking out doesn’t apply to you; I don’t know what I was doing before I came into your bed, or after, but flashes of you stream through my mind like a strobe light. I remember you saying you don’t do emotions. I remember saying I hated you. I remember you saying you don’t cuddle, and I remember hours later when you edged closer to me, slid a hand around my stomach, nested against my curled frame. I remember the pacts we made: text me if you can’t find anyone else for the night. I remember telling you,

“I hope I’m better off with the memory than the regret.” hair, sensing your loneliness that matched mine, I felt like your friend, your confidant, someone you trusted, someone that mattered. It was afterwards. The

person that made me realize that just because someone isn’t using you for sex doesn’t mean they aren’t using you. And you are the person I will forever associate

have danced with, the hookups we could have taken further. Forgetting who or what got in the way, we treasure these almosts, gushing about the hot face to our

telling my friends, telling myself: I don’t give a shit about you.

You’re a warm body and a queen bed. And now, months later, I remember. I remember you.

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Maria Sharapova to attend Harvard Business Tennis star to take two classes during her ban ANANYA CHANDRA Sports Photo Editor

What do you do when you can’t play the sport you love? Turn your fighting energy towards a different arena: the business world.

On a hiatus from the game of tennis, 29-year-old Maria Sharapova has chosen to attend Harvard Business School for a two-week summer program. Although it is unclear exactly what courses or certification she will receive, the Russian tennis phenomenon is reportedly taking two classes on campus. She announced her intentions to attend Harvard on her Twitter and Facebook accounts on Saturday

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With just a half second to spare, McHugh managed to make the finals for the 200 breast on Wednesday night, finishing in eighth, the last spot available. The final for the event will take place Thursday night.

The last Quaker compete before print time at the Olympic Trials in Omaha is rising sophomore Nancy Hu. The 200m butterfly specialist — and current Penn record holder in the event — raced Wednesday in a strong

afternoon.

This announcement comes just weeks after the five-time Grand Slam champion was given a twoyear ban by the International Tennis Federation after testing positive for Meldonium — a substance banned at the start of 2016 — at the Australian Open in January. Sharapova denies that she intentionally took the performance-enhancing drug, which would have carried with it a fouryear ban from the sport.

Sharapova announced plans to appeal the decision just minutes after it was given, and is reported to be in the middle of an appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

In the meantime, however, the Russian star is demonstrating her fighting spirit by remaining busy in her day-to-day life. Sharapova

field, ultimately finishing 77th.

A host of other swimmers from Penn will be racing over the weekend, from Thursday through Saturday, though one man could potentially still be competing on Sunday if his prelims go well enough.

That man is, of course, star swimmer Chris Swanson ‘16, who is the current NCAA champion in the 1650-yard freestyle.

He will seek qualification for the finals in the 1500m free when he races in the prelims on Saturday.

With McHugh unable to stamp his ticket to Rio in one of his

already has a lot of business experience, even without Harvard Business School. She founded her own candy brand, Sugarpova, which donates proceeds to the Maria Sharapova Foundation.

Sharapova was also previously the highest paid female athlete for 11 years straight (she is still amongst the highest female earners, making $21.9 million this year). And if that wasn’t enough, the five-time Grand Slam champion and former world number one was also the subject of a 2007 Harvard Business Review case study, “Maria Sharapova: Marketing a Champion.�

And perhaps, with her attendance to the Harvard Business School program, she is trying to send a message to the world. She has a life beyond tennis. She may be down, but she is not out.

events, and his fate in the other still uncertain, he leaves Swanson the most likely contender in the pool for a University of Pennsylvania delegation to Brazil this August.

But several other Quakers will still do their best to climb up the national rankings with strong showings this weekend, including 50m free powerhouses Eric Schultz ‘16 and rising senior Rochelle Dong.

Full results will come over the weekend once all 14 Quaker delegates have competed in all the possible events.

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to the University of Pennsylvania to study romance languages in the fall of 1893, earning an M.A. in 1894 and a Ph.D. in 1896.

Orton was the captain of the Red and Blue’s track and field team in 1895 and 1896, and won two intercollegiate one-mile championships in ‘95 and ‘97.

His successes at the 1900 Olympics came as a member of the University of Pennsylvania delegation.

Orton competed in track and field from 1892 to 1903. Highlights of his track career include championship runs at the 1893 World Fair in Chicago and at the 1900 Paris Olympics. His other athletic achievements included American championships at one mile, ten miles, cross country,

steeplechase and English steeplechase.

After completing his graduate studies, Orton combined his own sports participation with teaching and coaching at the precollege level in the Philadelphia area. From 1897 to 1908, Orton taught languages at local high schools and also coached track and field.

But his contributions to Penn weren’t over.

Sometime shortly after the turn of the century, Orton began to assist in the managing of the Penn Relays, which had only just been founded a few years earlier.

He also coached track and field at Penn at various times between 1912 and 1924. Before World War I, Orton was a co-author of the History of Athletics at Pennsylvania in several volumes.

In 1925 Orton was appointed

director of athletics for the Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition, held in Philadelphia in 1926. From 1928-1934, he was Director of Philadelphia’s Municipal Stadium. He also played an important role in bringing the Army-Navy football game to Philadelphia.

On top of all his managerial and administrative achievements, Orton was also an outstanding athlete in sports beyond track and field. He played on Toronto’s AllStar soccer team, and was still playing soccer in Philadelphia for the Merchantville Club in 1923.

He took up ice hockey at Penn and played on its first ever team, and he played hockey until ‘34.

For all his achievements, Orton, who passed away in 1958, will be inducted into the Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame this November 3rd.

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TO RIO SWIMMING | 14 Quakers fight

for U.S. glory, trip to Rio

WILL SNOW Sports Editor

As the country prepares for the Rio Olympics later this summer, an unprecedented delegation from Penn is in currently trying to fight for places on the United States’ swimming roster.

14 Quakers flew to Omaha, Neb. earlier this week to compete at the U.S. Swimming & Diving Olympic Trials, and several of them entered the trials with a realistic shot at qualifying for a trip to Rio de Janeiro.

Some of the Red and Blue have already raced, with some still to go, and updates will come along with their races.

One of the most likely to qualify for Rio of these athletes was 2012 graduate and current assistant swimming coach Brendan McHugh. The breaststroke

specialist was seeded sixth in the 100m breast, having previously won the U.S. Championship in 2014 in the stroke’s 50m variant.

McHugh had a decent race in the prelims on Monday, finishing seventh with a time of 1:00.46, good enough to take him to the semifinals. In the semis, however, McHugh finished ninth, and he needed to take eighth or better to advance to the final round and potentially qualify for Rio. Two other Quakers raced in the prelims of the 100m breast, but they didn’t manage to fair as well as McHugh.

Rising seniors Wes Thomas and Cole Hurwitz paced 90th and T-95th, respectively, while now-graduate Kyle Yu finished 115th — not good enough for a berth to the semis, but still respectable in a highly competitive national field.

Also competing on Monday were current Penn students Alex Peterson, Grant Proctor and Mark Andrew. The rising respective junior, senior and sophomore all swam in the 400 IM alongside the

greats of American swimming, including 11-time Olympic medalist Ryan Lochte. Peterson finished 72nd in the prelims, while Proctor took 82nd place, but the real highlight of the trio came from the underclassman Andrew, who finished 32nd, just six seconds outside of a semifinal berth.

The results from Monday didn’t flatter the Quakers, but McHugh had another shot at national glory in the 200m breaststroke, which took place on Wednesday. In the preliminary round, the 2012 graduate placed 10th, good enough for a spot in the semifinal.

Also racing in the prelims for the 200 breast were Thomas and rising junior CJ Schaffer. Thomas came in 33rd — remarkably better than his 90th-place finish in the 100 breast — while Schaffer finished close behind him in 48th.

Neither made the semis, but were there to watch McHugh have another shot at making the finals.

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A look at the Red and Philadelphia Sports Hall Blue’s Class of 2020 of Fame to induct Quaker M. HOOPS | Guards,

forwards key to group TOM NOWLAN Sports Editor

Though the Penn men’s basketball Class of 2020 has been more or less set for a while now, head coach Steve Donahue made things official when he unveiled the newest Quakers last week.

“These young men possess the type of talent and character that

good programs are built upon,” the second-year coach said in a statement. “We are bringing in a couple of local guys, but also some guys who are coming from notoriously good basketball areas across the country.”

Here’s a quick rundown of the freshman class that will be arriving on campus next fall: AJ Brodeur – 6’8” – Northfield Mount Hermon (NH) Brodeur, as team captain and MVP, led his squad to a 28-8

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record and a NEPSAC title in his senior season. A power forward, Brodeur turned down offers from Notre Dame, Davidson and Boston College in order to join former high school teammates Jackson Donahue and Collin McManus in University City. Look for him to be key in replacing 2016 graduate Darien Nelson-Henry’s production down low.

Ryan Betley – 6’5” – Downington West (PA) High School One of the first players in the class (along with Brodeur) to commit to Penn, Betley will join guards Jake Silpe and Darnell Foreman as Philly-area natives expected to get regular minutes in the backcourt. A two-year captain in high school, Betley won a ChesMont title and was named the conference’s player of the year in his senior season. “What separated Penn for me was I grew up around Penn,” Betley told the DP last summer. “It was a special place for me growing up. Also I loved coach Donahue’s vision for the program.”

Devon Goodman – 6’0” – Germantown (PA) Academy As the fourth Philly-area product on the roster, Goodman will look to add to the already talentpacked Quaker backcourt. An SEE M. HOOPS PAGE 7

TRACK & FIELD | Orton

won Olympic gold medal

WILL SNOW Sports Editor

Last Thursday, the Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame announced its induction class of 2016. One team and 15 individuals will be inducted — some posthumously.

And in a class that features world boxing champions, NFL Hall of Famers and the 1966-67 Philadelphia 76ers, one induction will be an old Quaker.

George Washington Orton graduated from Penn with a Masters in 1894 and a Ph.D. in 1896, a long time ago by any standard, but is still remembered as one of the best track athletes to ever come through University City.

Orton earned 14 U.S. Outdoor Championships between the 2-Mile Steeplechase and the 1-Mile run alone, and he even picked up two medals in the 1900 Olympics in Paris — bronze in the 400m hurdles and gold in the 2500m steeplechase.

The track star, who was born in 1873, in Strathroy, Ontario, overcame many hurdles on his path to Penn. After being crippled in an accident as a child, young Orton turned to exercise, particularly

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1894 Penn graduate George Orton is being posthumously honored for his achievements, including a gold medal in the 1900 Olympics.

running, to overcome his injury.

He soon discovered he had a natural gift for long distance running.

During his years at the University of Toronto, Orton dominated

the half-mile and mile runs at meets in Canada and the United States. After graduating, he came SEE ORTON PAGE 7

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