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100,000 students will see Hamilton in numerous cities across the U.S.

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Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator and star of the Tony award-winning Broadway show “Hamilton” and Penn’s 2016 commencement speaker, teamed up with former Penn President Judith Rodin to announce the Rockefeller Foundation’s commitment to send 100,000 public school students to see “Hamilton.”

Rodin is currently the President of the Rockefeller Foundation, a position she has held since 2005.

“Our goal is to not only bring history to life for students throughout the country, but to have them relate to the actors who make this show what it is; demonstrating that everything is possible for them, no matter what neighborhood they live in, what school they attend, or where they come from,” Rodin said. “This program is one of the Foundation’s most impactful and we are so excited to be able to export it across the country.”

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ith Wharton’s new interactive budget model, anyone will be able to easily see effects of public policy proposals on things like GDP and unemployment.

Formed by Wharton professor Kent Smetters, the Penn Wharton Budget Model is an interactive, nonpartisan website that allows its users to adjust different factors related to public policy proposals to get an idea of how a proposal will affect the nation in real life, in areas such as employment, GDP, population and old-age dependency ratio.

The model was developed through

the Penn Wharton Public Policy Initiative, according to a press release, and aims to help legislators and the public make fact-based, informed decisions about public policy.

“Wharton has been known for focusing on data and data statistics to inform business decisions, so the idea was, why not take those things and apply them to public policy decisions?” Penn Wharton Budget Model Managing Director of Legislation and Special Projects Kimberly Burham said.

The model was started by Smetters around a year ago at Wharton. It was financed by a group of funders,

many of whom are Wharton alumni, who “come from all sorts of different political background, from both the right and the left,” according to Burham.

After months of work by a team of over a dozen researchers, analysts and economists, the model’s website launched on June 29.

The project aims to be a transparent and data-powered tool for primarily policymakers in the government, as it is a “very technical tool,” Burham said. It was developed to be non-partisan and neutral on specific policies, focusing only on facts and data for its conclusions.

Burham also emphasized the fact that anyone can use the model for free.

“You get everything” she said.

“You don’t have to pay for it, you don’t get access to just one part of it. It’s really trying to be transparent and open-school.”

Currently, the Penn Wharton Budget Model has three modules, or “budget model issue areas” — demographics, Social Security and immigration. Users can test out 4,096 different policy combinations for Social Security and 125 policy SEE BUDGET PAGE 3

The GOP presidential nominee is appealing directly to LGBTQ voters and recognizing their rights.”

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Court ruled over immigration and affirmative action LUCIEN WANG Copy Editor

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The Supreme Court ruled to prevent President Obama from deferring deportation and to uphold affirmative action, both on Thursday, June 23.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on June 23 that President Obama can’t prevent undocumented individuals from being deported in United States v. Texas and also upheld affirmative action in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, two relevant topics in the

current election season.

Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin was an unusual ruling. The court voted 4-3, with the traditionally conservative-minded Justice Anthony Kennedy siding with the court’s remaining three liberal justices — after Justice Elena Kagan recused herself from the case due to conflicting interests with her tenure as solicitor general.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education published its own account of 1968 Wharton graduate Donald Trump’s time at Fordham University and Penn

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with an article titled “Trump: The College Years,” on Sunday, July 3.

Trump spent two years at Fordham before transferring to Wharton and graduating in 1968 with a B.A. in economics.

“By Donald J. Trump’s own account, he saw higher education as a means to an end,” begins the article.

“To become the real-estate mogul he

envisioned, he needed these institutions — but in the same dispassionate way that a mechanic, say, needs a socket wrench.”

The Daily Pennsylvanian has covered the presumptive Republican nominee’s time at Penn before, but reported that ultimately, not much is known.

Chronicle notes the same, writing,

“[Trump] left little discernible mark on Fordham or Penn, suggesting that he had a limited role within the communal life of the institutions he attended.”

The article draws a contrast between Trump’s college years and Hillary Clinton’s, which were full of

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College unaffordable within every income bracket Prof. argues that college has become less accessible BOWMAN COOPER Staff Reporter

Graduate School of Education professor Joni Finney wrote in a June 22 article in the New York Times that college is becoming less accessible as time goes on, even for higher income brackets.

In recent research conducted at Penn and Vanderbilt, Finney compiled publicly available data on the costs of tuition at different kinds of colleges and universities throughout the United States. She used this data to determine the proportion of income by families making $48,001 to $75,000 per year required to send a child to college.

Through this research, she found that “a college education is being priced out of reach of

middle-class and even uppermiddle-class families,” according to her article.

Finney’s research shows that the average family in the indicated income range had to pay a significant proportion of its yearly earnings in order for a child to receive a higher education.

For families to send a child to a public four-year non-doctoral institution, it cost on average between 16 and 33 percent of the parents’ income, depending on the state. Public research universities and private institutions were even more costly, costing between 17 and 31 percent and private institutions costing between 16 and 45 percent.

Finney also found that community colleges are becoming less accessible to the middle class.

For families earning between $48,001 and $75,000 per year,

11 to 22 percent of their yearly income was needed to pay for a two-year degree from a public community college.

Finney believes that, in the long run, inaccessibility to a higher education could have a negative effect on the U.S. economy.

“It’s going to have a major impact on the economy if we don’t educate more young people and working age adults,” she said.

“The economy is moving in the direction of more knowledgebased industry.”

Finney added that knowledgebased jobs provide a level of income that allows for middle and upper-middle-class standards of living, meaning accessibility to higher education is an important factor in earning potential.

She also noted the effect of rising costs of tuition on equity in America, because rising costs

Colleges face rising admission yields and growing class sizes 32 percent of freshman submitted 7 or more apps RAYMOND POMPONIO Staff Reporter

Some colleges like to see rising admissions yield — Penn’s Class of 2020 set a school record with 68 percent of admitted students choosing to enroll. However, in an environment where resources are continually becoming more expensive, many colleges are trying to control class sizes.

Predicting yield is proving challenging as students’ application habits are changing. This past spring, nearby Pennsylvania State University was faced with an unexpectedly large incoming class. Nearly a third of admitted students accepted their offers by the decision deadline, up 30 percent from the year before.

In order to avoid a potential housing shortage, Penn State

offered admitted students a discount of up to $20,000 to attend a regional campus for their first year. The effort enticed 288 students to accept the discount offer, reducing the class size on Penn State’s main campus to a manageable range, according to Executive Director of Undergraduate Admissions Clark Brigger.

“The reality is, this initiative was much more successful than anticipated,” he said. “Each and every student [accepting the offer] relieves some amount of pressure.”

But what factors determine college admissions yield? It is difficult to pinpoint, and while universities like Penn State rely partially on historical regressive models, changes in students’ application habits may continue to surprise admissions officers.

According to the most recent report by the National Association for College Admission

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Universities that see growing class sizes from changes in applicants’ behavior can face economic and housing barriers,

Counseling, 32 percent of freshmen submitted seven or more college applications in 2013, up 10 percentage points from 2008.

With more students applying to more colleges, universities have to adjust their decision processes to end up with an appropriate class size. For schools like Penn State that want to maintain a relatively stable size, the solution is to be more selective.

“I would anticipate we’re going to continue to see application growth,” Brigger said.

“That alone will make us more selective in the coming year.”

Brigger also said the school will make more use of its waitlist in the future to gradually move towards a target class size. Other admissions tools such as Early Decision and Early Action are available to colleges looking to have more control over their class sizes.

The concern over class size is tied to the growing uncertainty surrounding the college value proposition. With tuition rates increasing steadily, often faster than inflation, parents and students alike are questioning the value of a four-year degree.

By limiting class size, colleges avoid over-saturating their communities and studentfaculty ratios. These measures come with the consequence of increased selectivity in college admissions decisions.

The national average acceptance rate is down to 64.7 percent from 69.6 percent in 2003, according to the NACAC’s most recent report.

Although Penn’s incoming class exhibited a record-high yield this year, the final class size will only be about 40 more students than planned. With the completion of the New College House, housing availability at Penn shouldn’t be a problem in the near future.

make college less accessible to historically underserved populations.

“Colleges and universities, just like other enterprises in the American economy, are going to have to learn to live within their means,” she said. “Now, some of these colleges and universities do need more money, because they serve a poorer student population and so there will likely have to be some reallocation of resources in certain states.”

In terms of solutions to this problem, Finney focused most on slowing the growth of the cost of tuition and making need-based financial aid more available. "[Financial aid] still doesn’t keep up with tuition increases, so students are losing purchasing power,” she explained. “In order for us to reverse that, we really have to slow down the growth in tuition.”

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Graduate School of Education professor Joni Finney wrote in the New York Times that college is becoming less accessible.

inner-city students with tickets to the Broadway show. Due to the early success of the New York City program, #EduHam will expand to select cities including Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.

As a part of their American History studies, students will experience history and see the show for just $10. The students will attend special matinee performances and engage with the cast members.

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Former Penn President Rodin has teamed up with writer, director and star of the musical Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda, to give students across the country a chance to see the show for ten dollars.

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Kermit Roosevelt, the ruling is surprising, as the court was expected to have ruled in favor of the plaintiff, especially before conservative Justice Antonin Scalia died in early 2016.

2016 Penn Law graduate Alexander Bedrosyan said the ruling on affirmative action was also “an extremely narrow holding,” indicating that “far from establishing any new law, [the ruling] reaffirms that the constitution requires public universities that consider race in their admissions to do so in the most limited manner.”

Bedrosyan, who also served as an executive editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, remarked that the Supreme Court’s decision would “hardly [be] a resounding victory for affirmative action,” as “in the University of Texas program whose constitutionality was endorsed by the Supreme Court, race is a sub-factor of a sub-factor of a subfactor in the admission of 25% of

applicants.”

Berdosyan instead commented that it would be interesting to see if more states “mimic Texas by adopting admissions plans that automatically admit students in the top 10% of their high school class,” as “these plans exploit the fact that school districts have become de facto racially segregated, and as such achieve some racial diversity indirectly.”

The Supreme Court also ruled 4-4 regarding the constitutionality of the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans program issued in an executive order by President Obama. The equally divided court thus upheld the lower court’s decision of a preliminary injunction blocking the program, and preventing citizens’ parents from deferring deportation, without setting a national precedent. The case may now reach the Supreme Court again after Judge Hanen, the original district court judge, has held a trial regarding the executive action taken by the president.

Some Philadelphians reacted with shock and outrage against

this recent ruling according to CBS Local, gathering on the day of the decision at Juntos, a Latino immigrant organization, in South Philadelphia. With DAPA now in question, parents of Americanborn children once again face the threat of deportation.

Maria Sotomayor, who immigrated from Ecuador when she was nine, told CBS Local, “We are going to organized, this is just the beginning– this blow will make us stronger; we are not pawns in a political game.”

According to professor Roosevelt, this recent ruling has effectively ended the potential for the DAPA program, and the likelihood of immigration reform, for the rest of the Obama presidency.

Immigration has been a key issue in the 2016 presidential election, with severe distinctions between Democrats and Republicans. Now, the court’s decision will further intensify the debate.

Roosevelt remarked that, in the case of a Democrat presidency, the case could go back to the Supreme Court on more favorable terms.

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Apple balances between data collection and privacy Prof. explains Apple’s use of differential privacy ALIZA OHNOUNA Staff Reporter

After its refusal to obey a federal judge’s orders to hack into the San Bernardino shooter’s phone earlier this year citing its customers’ security, Apple will voluntarily walk another line between protecting its users’ privacy and collecting more information about people’s habits with the fall release of its new operating system, iOS 10.

Accompanying the introduction of iOS 10 will be the implementation of differential privacy. Differential privacy is a set of statistical techniques that

can produce information about a certain population without providing enough information for individuals within that population to be identified, Aaron Roth, associate professor of computer science at Penn said.

The advantages that differential privacy confers can be best understood with a simple example.

Suppose someone wanted to determine how many people in Philadelphia intend to vote for Donald Trump in the upcoming general election. One way of obtaining that information would be to call people on the telephone and ask them directly, but that method could easily give away the personal identities of the sampled population.

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Differential privacy allows companies like Apple to gather information from its users without linking that information back to their identities.

Instead, the Philadelphia population could be sampled in a sneakier way. Perhaps, before

asking each survey respondent if he or she intended to vote for Donald Trump in November, a

coin was flipped. The survey respondent would be instructed to lie about their intended candidate if the result of the coin flip was a head and to tell the truth if the result of the flip was a tail.

Collecting data via this method using a large sample population offers the survey respondents the assurance of plausible deniability. The responses are weakly correlated with the behavior of individual respondents.

“It is possible to get a realistic picture of the predicted voting patterns using this randomized method of recording responses,” Roth said. “The law of large numbers enables one to subtract out mathematical noise from the data to obtain trustworthy, accurate results.”

Apple will likely be employing differential privacy to acquire more complicated types of data from its various target populations, though Roth isn’t sure what they are looking for.

Differential privacy, in theory, will make it difficult to ever trace information back to an individual user, while providing Apple’s computer scientists with workable datasets. It is considered to be one of the most accurate privacy-preserving data techniques within the academic world, according to Engadget, a technology and consumer electronics magazine.

Google has also been public about its use of differential privacy to learn about the behavioral patterns of its users.

Professors head Pew-funded citywide art exhibition project CLAIRE SCHMIDT Staff Reporter

The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage announced late last month that the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program will receive $300,000 to help finance “Monument Lab: A Citywide Public Art and History Exhibition,” an extensive art installation and collaboration slated to be exhibited next summer.

The project, created by Penn professor and Chair of the Fine Arts Department Ken Lum, Urban Studies professor Dr. Paul Farber and A. Will Brown, will feature several installations by world-renowned artists in ten pavilions across the city.

The project will encourage five different artists to address the question “what is an appropriate memorial for the current city of Philadelphia?” through their installation, exploring “histories

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well documented involvement.

Even with minimal evidence of what exactly Trump did while he was at Fordham and Penn, the article goes on for over 2,500 words, much of it working to draw parallels between the historical and political significance of the 1960s, especially on college

that interest them; a history that solicits dialogue about present day Philadelphia,” said Lum. Lum noted that the project “is really a meditation on Philadelphia’s histories and public spaces, and how they are constituted, repressed, or even suppressed.”

In considering this, the artists can then contemplate “how this [repression] can be dealt with using temporary architectural pavilions and public sculptures.”

As the featured creators for the project, artists Ai Weiwei, Zoe Strauss, Kara Crombie, Kaitlin Pomerantz and Alexander Rosenberg will attempt to answer the question, creating spaces and pieces throughout the city.

The pavilions will be spread across Philadelphia, including four sites at each major Center City square, one at City Hall and other points throughout Port Richmond, Point Breeze and West Philadelphia.

This, according to Lum, was intentional.

“In order to see all of the

campuses, to who Trump is today.

The article links the volatile race and gender relations of the time with Trump’s current rhetoric. It notes that in 1964, when Trump came to Fordham, the school was just beginning to integrate women. A modernizing theology curriculum at Fordham also guaranteed that Trump, who wants to ban Muslims from entering the United States, “would have

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The Chronicle article finds, like the Daily Pennsylvanian article, that not much is known about Donald Trump’s time at Penn and Fordham.

locations, you will get a real tour of the city,” Lum said. This would thus encourage audiences to explore more of Philadelphia as they view each site.

The project grew out of last summer’s “Monument Lab,” a popular installation created by Lum and featuring a prototype monument by the late Penn professor Terry Adkins. “Monument Lab” shared a similar goal, asking the same question — what kind of monument would be right for Philadelphia?

The installation, located within the courtyard of City Hall, featured a bare-bones classroom layout, created by Adkins and designed to invoke the organized and minimalist layout of an ideal 19th century classroom. Lum said that Adkins intended for the classroom to “deal with the idea of making the city better; addressing public education through the concept of the ideal classroom.”

The courtyard space also featured a “lab” component — a container-turned-information

studied Islam,” according to a 1968 Fordham graduate quoted in the article, who does not remember Trump.

Trump’s admission to Wharton is also speculated upon.

The article quotes a book, “The Trumps: Three Generations of Builders and a Presidential Candidate,” which says that Trump interviewed with a “friendly admissions officer” who was a high school classmate of Trump’s older brother Freddy. The DP also reported on this anecdote in its article about his college years, in addition to the fact that not much is known about Trump’s grades while at Penn. Reports conflict greatly, with some who remember him at the top of his class and others as an unremarkable student.

Also conflicting are accounts of Trump’s personality from his classmates. The Chronicle article interviewed 1968 Wharton graduate Louis J. Calomaris, who remembered Trump saying on the first day of class “I’m going to be the next Bill Zeckendorf,”

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kiosk, with seating and space to discuss the installation and the ideas behind it. The space hosted talks and lectures from a wide variety of speakers, all addressing the same question: What monument would work here?

After its success last summer, “Monument Lab” now serves as a template for the city-wide version; Lum hopes to include similar spaces throughout the pavilions designed for conversation and contemplation.

The $300,000 Pew Center grant will specifically go towards hiring students, accommodating and housing artists and producing at least five of the projected 10 pavilions. The funds to complete the remaining sites will come from other grants.

Lum and his fellow creators also hope to produce a book, with catalogue essays and photos, documenting the project.

Lum expressed excitement for the project, lauding it as “possibly the largest such art exhibition attempted in Philadelphia.”

referencing a prominent New York City developer, “but I’m going to be better.”

But 1968 Wharton graduate Ted Sachs told the DP, “I liked him. I thought he was a really nice low-key guy.”

The DP is also mentioned in the Chronicle article when John L. Puckett, co-author of “Becoming Penn: The Pragmatic American University, 19502000,” told Chronicle he could not find any mention of Trump in Penn’s archives, nor in any archived copy of the DP. The article closes with another anecdote from Calomaris, who said Trump was especially interested in a lecture at Wharton that argued that good business is about understanding the desires and psychologies of those on the other side of the negotiating table. “[H]e didn’t care a whit about the technicalities of the realestate business, just as today he doesn’t care about the technicalities of virtually anything,” Calomaris said in the article.

“He’s a big-picture person.”

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The $300,000 Pew grant will fund ten art pavilions

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The grant will fund several installations by well-known artists at each major Center City square, City Hall, and other places in Philadelphia.

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combinations for immigration policy, according to a Wharton press release. More modules will be added to the website over time.

“In September there will be a tax module released,” Burham said. “After the tax module we’re going to focus on creating a health care module, and in the future, criminal justice, education, and retirement policy are all in the long term plan.”

In creating the module, the team also checked for historical accuracies in making sure their predictions aligned with what actually happened over time in public policy.

The model will need to be updated from time to time as the fourteen or so government data sources Penn Wharton Budget Model relies on update their information. Policy ideas will also need to be added into the model over time to keep it current and relevant for users.

“We really are bringing in a large number of data sources by using cloud computing to handle that amount of data and bringing [in] big data technology to getting timely results,” Burham said.

But as useful as the Penn Wharton Budget Model is, it, like many other economic and data-based models, must make assumptions about various input factors in order to function.

“There are certain assumptions we have to make in order to project into the future, and we try to make sure that the model is taking reasonable assumptions,” Burham said. “For instance, we have to make an assumption about what interest rates are going to be. So for a lot of that, we try to follow the other models that policy officials use.”

A video explaining the Penn Wharton Budget Model and its background can be found on its website, along with its first three modules that are ready for use.

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CITIZEN CAPOZZI | How the Republican Party quietly shifted on LGBTQ rights Is the Republican Party becoming an ally?

This idea would have been unthinkable just a few years ago, when opposition to gay marriage was enshrined in the Party’s 2012 campaign platform. Mitt Romney argued that gay marriage was incompatible with a “strong society” and opposed equal benefits for gay civil unions.

In 2014, the media chuckled at the pair of gay Republicans who ran for Congress and lost. Meanwhile, President Obama and Hillary Clinton enthusiastically identified themselves with the LGBTQ movement even though they had only recently reversed their opposition to same-sex marriage.

Then in 2015 the Supreme Court unambiguously declared gay marriage a fundamental right protected by the Constitution.

Many Republican leaders quietly celebrated the ruling, happy to move on from an issue where their stance is increasingly unpopular.

But many Republicans were not willing to move on. Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore ordered state officials to ignore the higher court’s ruling.

Senator Ted Cruz called for a reversal of the Supreme Court’s decision, describing it as the “very definition of tyranny.”

Anti-LGBTQ Republicans garnered momentum in 2015 when Kim Davis, a Kentucky government clerk, refused to issue

marriage licenses to gay couples.

The socially conservative Mike Huckabee saw his chance to rise and attempted to make Davis into a major issue that would shape the 2016 Republican Primary.

Several other GOP candidates, including Rick Perry, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, and Bobby Jindal sided with Davis. Yet one favorite of the far right shrugged his shoul-

After suggesting that North Carolina’s law was a mistake, he invited Caitlyn Jenner, a prominent conservative transgender activist, to use whatever bathroom she wanted at Trump Tower.

Indiana Republican voters didn’t seem to care when they chose Trump over Cruz. Perhaps they were tired of the battle after their state was battered for its

The GOP presidential nominee is appealing directly to LGBTQ voters and recognizing their rights.” ders.

Donald Trump said Davis should resign her government position because gay marriage is “the law of the land.” Shortly thereafter, at the first Republican debate, John Kasich made headlines when he said he would love and accept a hypothetical gay daughter.

But social conservatives weren’t yet ready to surrender.

When North Carolina passed its bathroom law targeting transgender people, Ted Cruz pounced and again placed LGBTQ issues front and center just before the Indiana Primary.

Again, Trump shrugged.

anti-LGBTQ laws in 2015.

After Trump locked up the nomination, he went on the offensive to earn LGBTQ votes.

In the aftermath of the Orlando terrorist attack, he attempted to reframe his proposed Muslim ban as an LGBTQ rights issue.

On Twitter, he promised “to fight for [LGBTQ voters] while Hillary brings in more people that will threaten your freedom and beliefs.”

Call his remarks awkward, forced, or absurd. But one thing cannot be denied: the GOP president nominee is appealing directly to LGBTQ voters and recognizing their rights.

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The leaders of the Log Cabin Republicans have hailed Trump’s nomination as a sign of significant progress for the GOP on LGBTQ rights. They are even making the argument that Trump might challenge Clinton’s dominance with LGBTQ voters.

In the not-too-distant past, , these developments would have seemed highly unlikely, if not impossible.

While Republicans regularly campaigned against gay marriage just a few years ago, most of the Party’s high-profile candidates simply avoid the issue now.

In Pennsylvania, Senator Pat Toomey has remained relatively quiet on LGBTQ rights, though he supported repealing the military’s Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy. New Hampshire senator Kelly Ayotte has urged Republicans to avoid discussing the issue.

Some Republicans are going even further than Toomey and Ayotte. In Ohio, Senator Rob Portman had already endorsed gay marriage in 2013 after his son came out as gay. Yet most surprising of all, Senator Mark Kirk of Illinois not only supports gay rights, but he was even endorsed by the left-leaning Human Rights Campaign, a prominent LGBTQ advocacy group.

On most issues, these moderate Republicans generally dissent from their presumptive nominee’s positions. Yet on LGBTQ rights, they might have some common ground.

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How politically important is this shift? Though polling suggests that only around 5 percent of voters self-identify as LGBTQ, there is extensive debate over what percentage of Americans are still in the closet. And in 2012, President Obama received 76 percent of the self-identified gay vote. Considering that Romney still won a quarter of this vote even as he directly opposed LGBTQ rights, it’s possible that Trump or other more mainstream Republicans could significantly improve on Romney’s performance in the near future.

In other words, gay voters just might send a Republican straight to the White House.

LOUIS CAPOZZI is a rising first-year Penn Law student from Mechanicsburg, Pa. His email address is capozzil@sas.upenn.edu.

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Happy 1st of July HOSTAGER’S TAKE | Reflections on the anniversary of the 26th Amendment Most Americans are familiar with the Fourth of July, our nation’s Independence Day celebrated annually with concerts, cookouts, and fireworks. But few people know about the other significant — if perpetually overshadowed — early-July American anniversary. July 1st was the 45th anniversary of the ratification of the 26th amendment, lowering the national voting age to 18. The amendment granted young Americans a fundamental civil right, but sadly, it is a right which today a majority of those young Americans ignore.

The ratification of the 26th amendment is notable for being the shortest ratification process in the history of the United States— it took all of 100 days. But the political fight to lower the voting age began over thirty years earlier, when President Roosevelt lowered the draft age to 18 years old during World War II. Campaigners gave birth to the phrase “Old enough to fight, old enough to vote!”, and several members of Congress introduced legislation to lower the voting age to 18.

The campaign got a boost when

President Eisenhower expressed his support for lowering the voting age in his 1954 State of the Union address. The movement continued to gain allies in Congress and support throughout the country over the ensuing decade, and in 1965 Senator Ted Kennedy successfully lobbied for an 18-year-old voting provision to be included in the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

However, Kennedy’s provision was never implemented. It was challenged, and in 1970 the Supreme Court struck down the provision on the grounds that the Constitution does not give Congress the authority to regulate state and local elections. By this time, opposition to the Vietnam War had swelled, especially among young people, the the Court’s decision sparked rage across the country. There were student-led demonstrations, and the movement for a Constitutional amendment to overturn the Court’s decision began in earnest.

In a matter of months, the 26th amendment was ratified. Young people, who had fought and died for their country since the Revolutionary War, had finally won this

fight of their own. They secured suffrage for all young Americans for generations to come.

From there, however, the story sours, as the voting habits of young people have steadily atrophied ever since. In the 1972 election, the first in which 18-20 year olds could vote, over 50% of 18-24 year

victory to criticism: Britain’s older generation chose a future that the younger generation does not want, yet the young have to live with that future the longest.

Yet young voters must place at least some blame on themselves.

The two-thirds of 18 year olds in Britain who failed to cast a ballot

The apathy of young voters plagues democracies everywhere.” olds cast a ballot. By 2012, only about one in three 18-24 year olds voted, and barely 20% turned out for the 2014 midterms. It is almost as if some young voters have forgotten the 26th amendment exists.

The apathy of young voters plagues democracies everywhere, often with tremendous consequences. The most salient example is the UK referendum on EU membership. 73% of 18-24 year olds voted to remain, yet only an estimated 36% of them actually went to the polls cast a ballot. This has opened the leave campaign’s

are just as complicit in Brexit as the 17 million who actually voted in favor of leaving the EU. Brexit should be a wake-up call for us young people in the US. We must do something to address this crisis of apathy.

I am hesitant to suggest that voting should be mandatory, as such policies force uninformed citizens to make uninformed decisions. But extraordinary circumstances call for extraordinary measures, so here is my proposal: the voting age would be lowered again, this time to 16. A

newly-eligible voter’s first election, be it local, state, or federal, would be required for high school graduation, and all subsequent elections would remain voluntary.

Furthermore, each student would be required to write a school essay explaining their voting decisions before casting their first ballot. Such an arrangement would force first-time voters to consider all of the candidates and think critically about the issues that matter to them. The physical act of voting would also habituate students to vote starting at an early age. Much research has shown that after you vote once, you are far more likely to do it again in the future. This proposal, however crude, would do much to reignite energy around the 26th amendment and do justice to the men and women who fought hard to make it our reality.

Nonetheless, it is disappointing that mandatory first-time voting even seems necessary. I am ashamed to be part of a generation that regards the rights enshrined in the 26th amendment— and the democratic process whose inception we celebrate on Independence

JACK HOSTAGER

Day—with such stunning indifference. As you wrap up your Independence Day celebrations, take a moment to reflect on the history of the other anniversary happening this week. You do not deserve to enjoy the 4th of July if you do not also celebrate the 1st of July, and follow through with the festivities at the ballot box in November.

JACK HOSTAGER is a rising College sophomore from Dubuque, Iowa.

His email address is hostager@sas. upenn.edu. “Hostager’s Take” appears every other Thursday.

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Non-Penn summer students face adjustments, obstacles

Innovation Prize winners added to Pennovation Center

Penn hosts high school students, other college students

The Pennovation Center is set to open this fall

JINAH KIM Staff Reporter

While Locust Walk is less crowded during the summer months, Penn’s campus is far from empty. Along with the many students and faculty who remain at Penn working, taking classes or doing research, some students from other schools call Penn home for the summer.

“I was actually surprised by how much nature was integrated into the campus,” rising Dartmouth College sophomore John Fitz-Henley said. For Fitz-Henley, coming from Hanover, NH, (population 11,260, not counting Dartmouth’s 6,000 student population), Penn’s urban environment was something of an adjustment — though not as much as he’d expected.

“Just because it was in a city, I sort of expected it to be very stereotypical, lots of buildings,” he said. “But I was pleasantly surprised to see that there was lots of green space.”

Fitz-Henley is a member of the SUMR program, a program created by the Wharton School

and the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics to provide research opportunities for undergraduate students interested in health services. Though some SUMR scholars are Penn students, many attend other schools.

In some cases, non-Penn students may face difficulties. High school students arrive at Penn for the 23 summer programs offered by the University, which range from programs like Penn GEMS for female high-school students interested in STEM, to the Sabermetrics-focused Wharton Moneyball Academy, and they face a significant adjustment.

For many of these students, this may be their first time alone in a college environment. To help students adjust, the pre-college programs provide housing in the Quadrangle or one of the high rises, often with residential teaching assistants, or RTAs, who live with the students and provide the guidance that an RA or GA would provide during the school year.

But undergraduates from other schools at Penn for the summer may not be so lucky in finding housing.

“My experience was miserable, actually,” rising University

of Dallas junior Joseph Pecha said. Pecha is also a participant in Wharton’s SUMR program, which does not provide housing for its participants. Undergraduates can rent rooms in one of the high rises, but some choose to — or are forced to by necessity — find accommodations offcampus.

Pecha said that he wished the school had done more to help with his housing search.

“I didn’t really get all the help I was expecting from the program,” he said. “I think they could do a lot better of a job of helping students not from Penn find housing — especially because [we] can’t really see the apartments first-hand.”

Fellow SUMR scholar FitzHenley is staying at a fraternity house this summer, which he found through a high school friend; Pecha eventually managed to get an apartment near campus with the help of SUMR — in a manner of speaking.

“When I finally arrived, they put me in contact with [an LDI assistant], and she messaged a bunch of her sorority sisters asking if they knew of any apartments to let,” he said. “And that’s the only reason I found anything.”

Case over Rolling Stone campus rape article tossed out by judge Fraternity members brought defamation claims SYDNEY SCHAEDEL Editor-in-Chief

A Manhattan judge tossed out the defamation lawsuit brought against Rolling Stone Magazine by three former members of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity on Tuesday, the Washington Post reported.

The defamation claims stemmed from the debunked University of Virginia gang rape story written by 1994 College graduate

Sabrina Erdely. The story, titled “A Rape on Campus: A Brutal Assault and Struggle for Justice at UVA,” detailed the graphic account of a student, “Jackie,” being raped by seven men at a party at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house in 2012.

An investigation following the publication of the article found no evidence to back up the occurrence of the assault. Rolling Stone retracted the story and Erdely and her editor both apologized.

The three men who brought the case, George Elias IV,

Stephen Hadford and Ross Fowler, claimed the article brought them humiliation and emotional distress. But U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel said their claims were based in “speculation and hypothesis,” not fact.

He pointed out that none of the three members of the fraternity were identified in the article.

Nicole Eramo, a University of Virginia associate dean of students who was named in the story, also filed a defamation suit against Rolling Stone in May of 2015.

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This year’s President’s Innovation Prize recipients are joining the Pennovation Center, the University’s Division of Facilities and Real Estate Services announced on June 28. The prize was awarded to two start-up companies, Fever Smart and XEED, founded by four 2016 Penn graduates.

“XEED and Fever Smart are on the vanguard of innovation; they are disruptive, ingenious and pioneering,” Penn President Amy Gutmann said in an interview with Penn News from April when the winners were announced. “Both of these projects have the potential to fundamentally alter the way distance monitoring can improve healthcare. From helping Parkinson’s patients, therapists and families to fighting and mitigating disease at home and abroad, XEED and Fever Smart embody the ability of Penn students to do good in the world.”

The President’s Innovation Prize was founded by Gutmann to support innovative and commercial initiatives with positive social impact. The recipients were announced in April 2016, in the inaugural year of the award. The awards include $100,000 towards the project, a $50,000 living stipend for each team member, a place in the Pennovation Center’s community and support and guidance from the Penn Center for Innovation. Both start-ups have also been awarded a desk in the coworking space in the Pennovation Center.

“The Pennovation Center provides the resources and facilities for them to take their work to the next level,” Gutmann said to Penn News in April. “XEED and Fever Smart are joining a community of innovators that is taking shape at the Pennovation Center, and we are excited to welcome them.”

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XEED was founded by School of Engineering and Applied Science graduates Sade Oba and Alfredo Muniz. XEED helps Parkinson’s disease patients and therapists by tracking limb movements through wearable devices that sync the information they collect to a smartphone and compare results to standards established by therapists.

“Mentorship from PCI will help ensure that we are making smart business decisions and growing our company in a strategic manner,” Oba said. PCI also has connections with the National Science Foundation, which may be key to gaining more funding in the coming year.

“The biggest benefit is the network,” she said. “A community of innovators is like a form of roadside assistance. If we are stuck in a rut or want to gather a second opinion there will be other

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“We will have the amazing opportunity to connect with likeminded innovators who are fellow Center members,” Duckworth said in an April Penn News interview.

The Pennovation Center is opening in August 2016 and will support start-up companies, entrepreneurs and inventors. It will measure 58,000 square feet and include a full service technology incubator, wet and dry laboratories, private offices and a co-working space for 200 members managed by Benjamin’s Desk, a co-working network and management company based in Philadelphia. It will be a part of Penn’s 23-acre Pennovation Works development on the southern bank of the Schuylkill River designed to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship among researchers, innovators and startups from both the University and the private sector.

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BREAKING DOWN BREXIT Dispatch from a Penn student in London | MADELINE McCALLUM

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CHILDHOOD MAGIC

The Please Touch Museum provides enriching experiences for kids and adults alike | TRANG LUU The Please Touch Museum is housed in Memorial Hall, which used to serve as the art gallery for the 1876 Centennial Exposition, the first World’s Fair held in the United States. The building’s Beaux-Arts architecture, with its extravagant ornamentation and symmetrical articulation, is almost an oxymoron to the quirky and splashy fun-filled exhibits. Aren’t they just frivolous playthings? Well, you’ll change your mind.

The museum seeks to promote “purposeful play,” fashioning its programs and exhibits into interactive pedagogical tools. They provide children (mainly those seven years old and younger) with opportunities to, quite subliminally, learn to interact with the physical environment and cultivate cognitive and social skills. The exhibits cater to every child’s imagination and interests by oscillating between the day-to-day life and the mystical world.

The City Capers area, for example, mirrors a bustling cityscape where little shoppers fill up their carts with plastic groceries and prospective city planners construct skyscrapers out of foam blocks.

Meanwhile, Wonderland leaves even adults befuddled with an array of bizarre mirrors and intersecting corridors.

Alternatively, young visitors could also enjoy puppet theater performances or ride a carousel that dates back to 1908. These playgrounds open up unbounded possibilities where children can

direct their own play experiences in a world fueled by sheer curiosity.

With hands-on playtime activities in abundance, it may be tempting to overlook the vast collections of toys and artworks on display. Their presence is not immediately prominent. Except for those which form part of the Centennial Exhibition, most collections are arranged in the background or neatly integrated into interactive objects, creating seamless continuities between the dynamic and the static. The collections represent not only the crucial stages of children’s development, but also the aesthetic, cultural, and historical trends of the periods in which they were made.

One might learn that the Froebel blocks that Frank Lloyd Wright’s mother purchased for him during the Centennial would later influence his architectural designs. Or how pencil sharpeners connect back-to-school experiences across time and space. The collected artifacts thus trace the significance of childhood in relation to the bigger historical landscape.

What is there for adults to

discover? The museum offers pre-arranged guided tours for those who are interested in exploring the architecture of Memorial Hall. If this is not quite to your liking, simply wandering around the museum would make for an unusual yet tranquil experience.

Admittedly, anyone taller than four feet is likely to feel slightly awkward and out of place among frolicking and sometimes screaming little people.

Yet to me at least, the museum elevates the reality of childhood visions, hopes, and dreams, which I believe are not lost in us grown-ups but are merely latent. It is refreshing to realize that your now-mundane weekly trips to FroGro could hold such joy and magic in the children’s games of make-believe, and how these seemingly whimsical fantasies have gradually shaped part of who you are.

Something about it whispers: There is no rush. Remember broken pencils, bruised knees, the ends of ice cream cones, and the things you forgot you loved. Find that spark in those ephemera and trivialities.

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On a Friday morning, I woke up to the news that I was no longer in Europe, despite having moved to London at the end of May. Even though I still sound more Underwood (as in Frank) and less Middleton (as in Kate, for those who didn’t tune in at 4 a.m. to watch the Royal Wedding a few years ago), I can confirm that the Word on the Street over here is quite literally (and physically) “Brexit.” The streets of London are littered with RemaIN pamphlets, “Vote In!” graffiti (now with a few faded “Still”s added to the top) decorates the sidewalks, and the tube during rush hour is full of London Evening Standards blaring headlines about the European breakup.

As I sit here writing this, it has been exactly a week since the U.K. voted to leave the EU by a slim majority of 48 percent (Leave) to 46 percent (Remain). To my world back in the U.S., this has been a shocking, perhaps disappointing, event across the pond; and, if you work in finance (but who at Penn does that), you may have already felt the weight of the world markets. However, in my world over here in London, Friday, June 24 was a grave, sad, nightmarish day that left the city streets eerily silent. More than anything, my time living in London has brought to light just how important it is to move past “fact” (and yes, I do put fact in huge air quotes) and place yourself in the shoes of those people who are not just worried about the pound vs. the dollar, but are genuinely terrified for their future in this broken country.

I attended a barbecue the weekend after the Referendum, where the general mood was “what else can we do but this?” (‘This’ being standing under the gray — sorry, grey — sky, sipping Red Stripes and watching the footy with the lads). Perhaps the realest, most sobering remark made about Brexit came to me in a conversation with a 25-year-old London lad, whose raw honesty and exhaustion rang true with the rest of the city’s mood. “Everything is not going to be completely terrible,” he said, “but everything is going to be noticeably worse.”

And that there is the truth. As I am here on the ground experiencing the direct impact of the Brexit decision, I can’t help but think about its terrifying parallels

to the current state of American politics. When I return to Philadelphia, I will step into the vortex of arguably the next largest global decision — the 2016 presidential election. A decision split into two sides: those who are angry and fed-up with the establishment, pining for glory days that weren’t actually all that glorious, and those who are attempting to forge ahead into the future with open arms and open minds. Which was precisely the situation with Brexit.

My boyfriend, who grew up in all the glory of 90’s London, summed up the volumes that Brexit speaks about U.K. politics really well. Weirdly, if you take out references to the U.K., you could basically apply the same quote to the States. “As the economic and social gap widens,” he said, “people feel disconnected and unimportant, to the point of despair.

Although there were a number of people voting for Brexit on what they believed to be evidential and justified reasoning, the truth is that a significant proportion of the vote to leave was based on hate, prejudice and protest — three things that stem from a feeling of hopelessness.”

Both of the countries we call home have sat resting on our privileged laurels for a while now, allowing the social and economic rifts to widen without any physical, in-your-face consequences (well, consequences that have ultimately led to a massive shake up in the way *our* world works).

Sure, the world is a scary place and all, but nothing will happen to us; nothing could happen to us! British millennials shook their head at the agonizingly close Brexit predictions in the week leading up to the vote, but at the end of the day just laughed at their parent’s politics and knew that one day their opinion would rule.

But it won’t. The older generations of the U.K., who won’t even be around for the full implications of the British exit, have decided the future for not only their children and their grandchildren, but also the children and grandchildren of all of Europe. As it turns out, in a maneuver that David Cameron thought would win him approval, Remainers thought would secure hope and acceptance as the status quo, and Leavers thought would win back their nation, the EU Referendum uncovered the scars of

hopelessness and turned them into frustrated sighs of helplessness.

The Guardian recently dedicated a whole section to “curing the Brexit blues,” which, believe me, is a huge issue. As my boyfriend said, “The state of the UK is uncomfortably disconnecting and the once bright future of our nation is quickly dimming.” That attitude is the norm: to quote from the Guardian, “Can’t face getting up. Or showering. Or talking to people. Actually, it’s not that I can’t face talking to people; I have got nothing to say.” To me, only experiencing the Referendum opinions in London and never meeting a single person voting Leave, I wondered how in the world this was such a hard decision.

And that, I think, is the scariest thing and also one of the most important insights for me to impart on my fellow Americans — we CANNOT be content in our complacency. By all means, think and pray if thinking and praying is your jam, but then immerse yourself in the opposite opinion.

I’m not asking you to change your mind, hell, I like to believe in democracy just as much as the next lad or lass. But I am begging you: Be willing to examine the other side. To pick it apart, to demand the full truth and go dig it up yourself if you don’t trust what you’re given. We can’t afford to have another powerful nation at a loss for words, controlled by people wielding our futures as political swords, with citizens making one-sided decisions on matters that have incomprehensible implications.

The United Kingdom is United no longer (and no, England losing to Iceland in the Euros definitely didn’t help). As July 4th passes (*cough cough* the OG Brexit), I can’t help but think that the States really seem to be all that United either. I by no means am proposing that we all hold hands and sing kumbaya and agree on our fate.

On the contrary, I think the key to keeping us United is to have the courage and the bravery to be able to entertain another idea, whatever that may look like for you as an individual. Because if we are not careful, if we are not hell-bent in our pursuit of a strong, whole, resilient country, we are going to crack straight down the middle just like the Crown. Please don’t let me sit here in a year’s time with nothing to say but “I told you so.”

IN GOOD TIMES AND IN BAD TIMES

Struggling with an abusive relationship at Penn | ANONYMOUS

I recently was going through my Google Drive, cleaning up the mess of documents and spreadsheets from the year, when I found a document that I had never seen before. I opened it, and I was horrified to see that it was a long letter from my ex.

When I first met him my freshman year at a different school, we quickly became good friends. We both had weird senses of humor that fit well together, and living in the same hall, we hung out all the time.

I lost touch with him during my second semester, but after I transferred to Penn, I reached out to him again, and we began dating not long after.

I’ve struggled with depression off and on since I was young, and at the time, it was hard to adjust to life at Penn. Towards the end of our relationship, he was kicked out of school and also became depressed. I ended up latching onto him as a lifeline of sorts, and he latched onto me. We spiraled over the course of the next nine months.

I lost sight of who I was. Actually, he actively tried to erase parts of who I was in order to fit his idea of me. He constantly put me down and rewrote parts of my story to fit his.

He would get easily upset about my achievements or rip them apart. He would get upset that I was “smarter than him,” and whenever we talked he would shut down whatever I said.

When I started going to a therapist and taking anti­depressants, he discouraged me from doing so, saying that taking medicine seemed like a bad idea. When we broke up, he blamed me for a lot of things, including his being kicked out of school.

He also admitted that he thought of me as his wife, and not his girlfriend. One of his favorite movies was “500 Days of Summer,” and he fancied himself “Tom” and tried to make me his “Summer.” The worst thing he did was the alienation. He told me my parents were terrible people, that another ex had been sexually abusive to me, that my friends were immature, trashy whores who weren’t good influences.

The worst thing I did was believing that this was true. I began to believe that the people who I had loved and who loved me were bad people. By the time I ended the relationship, I had pushed out most of my loved ones, all of whom cared for me.

The day after we broke up, he

called me, telling me that he was going to kill himself.

The next couple months were hell. I wanted to cut things off with him, but I also felt that I needed to be there for him and make sure that he did not kill himself. Every time I tried to cut him out for good, he would say he was going to kill himself again. It was not until much later that I realized that this was yet another form of control that he tried to assert over me.

After I cut things off with him, he called me multiple times every single day, and he used social media to try to contact me. After I blocked his number, he disguised his number as a restricted number and continued to call me several times a day. He sent me flowers with an unsigned note and left me unwanted gifts at my apartment. He contacted my friends, asking them about me. The last straw was when he sent a letter to my parents, berating them for being terrible parents, detailing my depression (something I had never spoken to them about), and asking them to make sure I was OK without him. Thankfully, I had told them about what he had been doing beforehand.

By many people’s standards, I was lucky. He never hit me, he never followed me physically. In fact, I was so lucky, that I legally did not have the grounds to file a restraining order against him when I went to the Penn Police. However, I don’t feel lucky.

I couldn’t look my friends and parents in the eye. I felt unsafe stepping off of campus. I spent most of my days in bed, unable to get up.

Now, a year after we broke up and nine months after I called CAPS, went to Penn Police, and told my parents and friends, I still feel ashamed and guilty. The Google document only added fuel to the fire.

The document was a story I had written that I had shared with him while we were still together. Over the last year, he had written over the document several times, asking me why I didn’t love him, asking me why I thought he was abusive, and telling me I was judgmental. I can deal with that. However, when he detailed his journey to an assisted suicide clinic in Europe and gave me a date, I lost it. I spent the night checking the obituaries from his hometown and crying.

I didn’t find any obituaries, and I

am hoping that this was another one of his threats.

I’ve gotten most of my life together now. Towards the end of last semester, I was finally able to step off of campus and go to Center City by myself again. I’ve learned to function as my own person at Penn, a person who loves to hang out with friends, who loves to drink with friends (he called me an alcoholic at one point for having a couple drinks with friends), who loves to try new things by myself, and most importantly, loves to talk back and assert myself. Now, I love to tell people to “Fuck off, I’m doing my own thing, bitches.”

But most importantly, I’ve reconnected with a lot of the people that I had pushed away including my parents and a couple friends. I still haven’t talked to most, including several people who were there for me the most. To those people, I’m so sorry and thank you.

On good days, I’m able to cope with the facts, but on bad days, I have a very hard time thinking about what happened to me. Even on good days, I have a hard time thinking about what happened to me as abuse. Another reason why

I don’t feel lucky is because I have only recently been able to admit to myself that he never respected me when I said “no” and coerced me into sexual activities with which I was very uncomfortable. I have a hard time calling that sexual abuse and rape as well.

I don’t think that there was much I did right in that relationship, but I don’t think there was much I did wrong either. However, I know that no matter what I do from now on, this will affect me. Sometimes, I am so angry at what happened and at other times, I wish I could tell him that I’m sorry. I don’t know what the right answer is anymore. I don’t know if I was abused, even though the bruises are there to tell me that I was. I don’t know if my actions led someone to kill themselves; I don’t know if I killed someone.

I really hope that one day, I will be able to come to terms with what happened.

If you have been or are being abused, reach out to someone.

People care about you. If someone tells you that they are being abused, believe them and support them, even when they don’t believe themselves.

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Quaker seeks to become the next Tim Howard

awaits USMNT call-up

GREG ROBINOV Sports Reporter

For those of you who were watching — and also mesmerized by — the Copa America Centanario, you’ll have noticed a few things. Firstly, Messi with a beard is no replacement for the good-old clean shaven version (see: Messi’s penalty in the Finals shootout).

And secondly, the U.S. looked surprisingly dominant, thanks to a large pool of young talent.

DeAndre Yedlin. Bobby Wood.

Christian Pulisic. These are some of the names that will come to define the Red White and Blue in the coming years. But could we be seeing some Red and Blue as well?

Rising sophomore Etan Mabourakh was also once on the same path as these icons and many others. Greatness has to begin somewhere.

In this case, the setting was Plantation, Fla., a sunny oasis just north of Miami. Across town is where Mabourakh played his club soccer at Weston FC, a team in the National Premier Soccer League (NPSL) — the fourth tier of the American soccer system.

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Of course, with the sudden lack of academic obligations following the end of exams, the newfound time can’t all be spent in the weight room or on the practice fields. From a social standpoint, daily life also becomes significantly different for the Quakers who stay on the deserted campus, as they experience the unusual dynamic of simultaneously facing a rapid increase in freedom and a decrease of nearby classmates to enjoy it with. “Honestly, Penn is really chill

Touted as a top club nationwide, it is one of only 77 others that have been named by U.S. Soccer as a U.S. Soccer Development Academy program. Coincidentally, one the graduates of the program is Alejandro Bedoya, a mainstay in the national team roster.

With this strong foundation, Mabourakh was eyed early on by the elites. “I first got involved through this scouting program called ODP (Olympic Development Program) which had regional tryouts, then state tryouts and then national tryouts,� said the goalkeeper. “I made it through the levels to the national pool and then you basically just wait to get called up.�

This labyrinth of talent is not easily traversed. As the pool quickly narrows down as the competition heats up, approximately just two percent of players can expect to progress all the way to the national scene.

Unfortunately, Etan’s journey ended here, as illness prevented him from taking his place in California for the national camp.

But there is still a chance, as he explained. “I’m still on the national pool, so if I do well this season I can get called again.�

That would be quite a heavy burden for the student athlete, as

pushing for the top level is a grueling commitment. Can an Ivy League education and international soccer even coexist? “The youth national teams work in cycles — whoever makes the team would go live at the residential training facility at IMG in north Florida, and they wouldn’t go to school,� he said. “It wouldn’t be a juggling act, more so a choosing one over the other.�

That would raise the question of which jersey he would pick.

But the shot-stopper doesn’t plan on leaving his Quakers anytime soon. “I’m happy with my own choice, I get to go to a great school and I really enjoy my academics and social life. Those things wouldn’t be possible if I wanted to truly pursue playing professionally.�

He then added, “I would never rule it out if I was presented with the opportunity, but I know my priorities.�

So Penn really benefited by recruiting the 13th-ranked goalkeeper in the country — with a little help from those Mabourakh knows best. “The fact that my dad and my sister went to Penn made it an attractive option,� he said. “Both of them had really positive experiences [there] and met amazing

once everybody leaves besides the spring athletes, and some of the guys at my house stayed for a while too,� Mattis, who recently became the school’s first CoSIDA Academic All-American in any sport since 2009, said. “We kind of would just hang out and explore Philly, because we’d have time to do that.

You can literally just walk around for a few hours and then come back and practice, so it’s really nice.�

While this time period can certainly be described as a change of pace for any spring athletes, that concept holds especially true for seniors like the recently graduated

Mattis. For the vast majority of the Class of 2016, the days leading up to Penn’s Commencement ceremony on May 16 marked the emotional conclusion of a fouryear life journey — but for those few athletes still competing at that point, there was still plenty of business to handle. “I didn’t really enjoy ‘Senior Week’ as much as I wanted to,� said Mattis, who went on last month to finish second nationally in the discus throw at the NCAA Finals. “But you know, that’s part of being an athlete; having a little self-restraint and not going out there and ruining things.�

Mattis is different from his classmates in the sense that his season still isn’t truly over — as the topranked American discus thrower of any age in 2016, he comfortably earned the right to throw at the U.S. Olympic Trials, where he will begin competing this week.

But for most senior spring athletes, the end of the season can perhaps hit a little harder than those of fall and winter sports, as being eliminated brings an abrupt and unplanned end to the entire college experience, a stark contrast to the delicately planned Commencement.

For example, an 8-4 Elite Eight setback by No. 7 seed Penn women’s lacrosse to unseeded Penn State was difficult to swallow, not only because the team was a game short of advancing to its first Final Four since 2009 — in a season

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Men’s discus thrower Sam Mattis is one of many athletes who had to compete for his team this summer after finals, and after his graduation.

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prelims of the 100m breast, but they didn’t manage to fare 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.

McHugh did make the finals in the 200m breast, although he fell short of an Olympic berth. 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.

For Schnur, it wasn’t hard to keep things in perspective after McHugh came up short — if you could even call it that. “We were disappointed for Brendan when he finished ninth (in the 100), but to come back in the 200 which is not his best event, and finish top eight, that says a lot about his character. And both of us understood, both times, he had no shot at the Olympic team. The guys who made our Olympic team in both breaststrokes, both broke American records. And that made it a whole lot easier to swallow afterwards.�

Also competing last 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.

Andrew also put up an impressive showing in the 200 IM with a 23rd-place finish, but the mere notion of an Olympic bid was out of the question, with the two bids in that event going to an 11-time Olympic medalist in Ryan Lochte and the most decorated Olympic athlete of all time, Michael Phelps. “A lot of the goals were to move up, and to pull up your seed mark, and move up where you were ranked,� Schnur explained when asked whether he thought his squad’s goals had been met. “This was a meet that had a pure ranking system, it was the best time you’ve done in the last two and a half years, and there is no way to fake a seed time, it’s all on a computer database. So to go to the meet and improve your seed time, that’s really cool. Taylor Uselis in the mile went from 92nd place to 50th, and that’s a monster improvement. Mark Andrew was 23rd in the 200 IM and that’s terrific, that sets him up in 4 years to be a contender.�

Star swimmer Chris Swanson

(‘16), who is the current NCAA champion in the 1650-yard freestyle, sought qualification for the finals in the 1500m free when he raced in the prelims on Saturday, but finished three-and-a-half seconds shy of the mark needed to crack the top eight.

50m free powerhouses Eric Schultz (‘16) and rising senior Rochelle Dong also had a chance to qualify for Rio, but neither could get out of a strong and massive field to make the finals in the event. Coach Schnur, however, was very pleased with Dong’s performance. “She moved up 50 places, and I think she was the highest finishing Ivy kid in the whole group.�

Also on the women’s side, rising sophomore and 200m butterfly specialist Nancy Hu raced last Wednesday in a strong field.

The current Penn record holder in the event ultimately finished 77th.

Looking at the results, Schnur found one particular detail to be a great source of comfort and confidence going forward. “We were so far ahead of the other Ivy kids who were there, and I think we really took some solace in that. Grant Proctor was ninth at Ivies, and beat nearly all of the guys who beat him at Ivies.�

Schnur and his team will remember the Trials fondly, and with pride. “It was great fun. We really enjoyed how well our team did, we enjoyed all of our successes, we enjoyed all of our failures, we enjoyed every minute of it.�

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Rising sophomore goalkeeper Etan Mabourakh may spend his time at Penn, but he has worked his way up the U.S. national team ranks, meaning he could potentially be called up to the USMNT at any time.

people. I was really comfortable with the school, and when the coaching staff recruited me I couldn’t say no.�

In fact, his father Shahrad rowed crew for Penn, so the keeper has been a Quaker, in a way, for all his life.

Penn will hope to make the most of their diverse talent pool and make amends for last year’s failed campaign of 3-11-2 this fall.

While the goal of representing the USA on the big stage might just be a pipe dream for the Penn

pre-med, Etan has not yet conceded. “I’m hoping that I get another shot at it,� he noted.

Meanwhile, he’ll just have to watch the games from afar while taking breaks from mountains of school work.

where it happened to be played in Philadelphia, nonetheless — but also because the upset brought a harsh end to the seniors’ lives at Penn as a whole. “I wish I could go back and replay the game, but it doesn’t really work that way,� recent graduate and second-team IWLCA All-American Nina Corcoran told the Penn Gazette in June. “It all didn’t really

hit me until leaving campus. It was kind of like two things ended at once. It wasn’t the best feeling. But I still think everyone had a lot to be proud of.�

Ultimately, the highs and lows of being an athlete after final exams are evident. Even those who have experienced the freedom, relaxation and increased focus firsthand know that as long as they’re in

University City, that kind of life will always be the exception — not the rule. “I think everybody would probably do better with less obligations outside of athletics, but that’s not what you signed up for when you came to Penn,� Mattis said. “You’re supposed to take classes, get good grades, get a degree — nobody here signed up just to do sports.�

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nastiest, hardest meet on Planet Earth,” Schnur said. “You have 2 winners and 180 losers in every event. There’s no team scoring. 3rd place is no different than 200th. So it’s really a hardcore experience. And what was so cool was the experience our guys had of walking out of the tunnel onto the blocks and seeing 15,000 people in the stands.

That’s something that swimmers don’t really have the opportunity to ever experience. But once every four years they might get to be in a place that has

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s the country prepares for the Rio Olympics later this summer, an unprecedented delegation from Penn fought for places on the United States’ swimming roster.

14 Quakers flew to Omaha, Neb. last week to compete at the U.S. Swimming & Diving Olympic Trials. None of them will be in Rio, but Penn swimming head coach Mike Schnur made it clear that the trip was, on all fronts, an experience to be cherished.

“The Olympic Trials are the

Competing after finals gives athletes new life

15,000 indoor screaming swimming fans, so it was really cool to be there.”

And while no members of the Red and Blue ultimately won an opportunity to swim for the Red, White and Blue, some of them certainly made noise in the pool.

One of the Quakers with the highest hopes to qualify for Rio 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 last 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

For most of Penn’s undergraduate population, the end of the final exam period signals the time for kicking back, relaxing and looking back at the previous year.

But for a very lucky, very small fraction of the student body, the onset of summer simply implies business as usual.

Playing on a varsity spring sport inherently carries the risk of playing past the school year’s conclusion, and 2016 was no exception. This year, Penn’s women’s lacrosse team reached its first NCAA Division I quarterfinal in six years, resulting in the squad playing 11 days past the conclusion of final exams.

Meanwhile, the men’s and women’s track and field teams combined to send a school record 16 athletes to the NCAA D-I East Preliminaries, pushing their seasons to at least the end of May — and even later for the few who qualified for the NCAA Championships.

At first glance, one might disparage the idea of being forced to remain on school grounds after the year’s conclusion, but there are some advantages. Without the otherwise constant burden of balancing rigorous schoolwork with athletic preparations, student-athletes are able to lock in on their respective sports, allowing them to commit full-time to their teams in a way not previously possible.

“It definitely is nice when school ends. ... It’s basically doing literally nothing except hanging out and practicing and focusing on whatever you have to focus on,” said men’s discus thrower and 2016 graduate Sam Mattis, a four-time NCAA qualifier. “It’s nice to finally get to be like a professional athlete, at least for a little bit.”

Chronologically, the layout between Penn’s school year and the various spring sport schedules isn’t annually consistent, and that comes with its ups and downs. This year, women’s lacrosse and both track and field teams unfortunately had their respective Ivy League Championships come during Penn’s final exam period. But once both teams advanced to compete on the national stage, the calendar suddenly turned from a curse to a blessing, as they were in the clear to focus on securing big-time postseason results.

“Technically I’d rather have it so that when we hit NCAAs, they can just be lacrosse players, since that’s kind of fun,” women’s lacrosse head coach Karin Corbett said in April, foreshadowing her team’s playoff run. “We shoot for that, so then they’re really just here to play lacrosse.

They’ve finished their exams, so that’s what they’re focusing on.”

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WHEN TO WATCH Three Quakers compete at U.S. Track & Field Olympic Trials Thomas Awad (1500 m)

Mark: 51.17 m | Trials Standard: 54 m

Sam Mattis (Discus)

Mark: 67.45 m | Trials Standard: 62 m

Mark: 3:37.75 | Trials Standard: 3:38

Thursday, July 7 6:30 p.m.

Javelin Qualifying

Thursday, July 7 9:00 p.m.

Discus Qualifying

July 7 at 10:21 p.m.

1500 m First Round

Saturday, July 9 7:00 p.m.

Javelin Final

Friday, July 8 6:30 p.m.

Discus Final

Kelsey Hay (Javelin)

July 8 at 7:12 p.m.

1500 m Semifinal July 10 at 8:20 p.m.

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