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Univ. budget sees highest financial aid to date $197 million will go toward undergraduate financial aid in the 2015 fiscal year BY KRISTEN GRABARZ News Editor Penn’s budget for the 2015 fiscal year includes the largest financial aid budget in the University’s history. Allocating $197 million toward undergraduate financial aid, the recently enacted budget — which took effect July 1 and will terminate with the fiscal year on June 30, 2015 — saw a 4.5 percent increase in undergraduate financial aid.

“The overall financial aid budget has increased by 4 percent to $444 million,” Vice President of Budget and Management Analysis Bonnie Gibson said, adding that the $197 million allocated to undergraduate financial aid is a 4.5 percent increase compared to the 2014 fiscal year and a 150 percent increase since 2004. According to the budget overview released by the Of f ice of Budget and Management Analysis, Penn is “one of fewer than 50 private institutions in the United States maintaining a need-blind admissions policy while upholding its commitment to meet full demonstrated need with the all-grant, no-loan packages.”

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Penn has seen a marked increase in financial need, with the number of grant-aided undergraduates growing by 30 percent since the 2008 fiscal year. The graduate and professional financial aid budget for this fiscal year totals $155 million, with an additional $92 million budgeted as stipend support. Tuition and fees are budgeted to increase by 3.9 percent to $47,668. This is the sixth consecutive year that the increase has been below 4 percent. According to the budget overview, peer institutions report tuition and fee increases ranging from 2.9 percent to 4.3 SEE BUDGET PAGE 5

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Evacuated residents of Chestnut Hall Apartments stood outside Sunday night while the Philadelphia fire department extinguished the blaze.

DPS reported that the blaze was caused by cooking BY KRISTEN GRABARZ News Editor At 8:26 p.m. on Sunday, Philadelphia Police and Fire Department and Penn Police responded to a fire at the Chestnut Hall Apartments on 39th and Sansom streets, according to the Division of Public Safety. The building was evacuated while the fire — which appeared to have been caused by cooking — was contained.

The fire was extinguished and residents were allowed re-entry at approximately 9:45 p.m. No injuries were reported. Rising College sophomore Mallor y K irby, a resident of Hamilton Court Apartments across the street from the Chestnut Hall complex, was walking home at the time of the fire and said that the scene seemed surprisingly calm. “None of the fire was visible from the street — at least from my perspective,” Kirby said. “They evacuated the whole building and there was a large police and fire department presence, but no one was panicking on the street.”

Pennsylvanians vote Penn State most respected Penn received only 17 percent of the votes BY FOLA ONIFADE Deputy News Editor In a statewide poll of Pennsylvania, Harper Polling has released survey results that found Pennsylvania State University to be the most respected school in the state. In its “Our Commonwealth Poll”, 24 percent of participants chose Penn State over Bucknell University, Carnegie Mellon University, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pitts-

burgh, and Villanova University. Penn and Carnegie Mellon were tied for second with 17 percent each. The survey, conducted between June 25 an June 26, also found that schools received higher percentages in their respective regions. In the Philadelphia and Southwest regions, Penn and Temple claimed about 60 percent of the votes together. “It doesn’t tell us a whole lot about anything,” economics professor Francis DiTraglia said. “It’s a light hearted poll and it doesn’t say a lot about the universities involved.” He went on to list the different criteria people might use to determine respect. “A school like Penn State

has a lot more students than Penn. There are a lot more graduates and there’s a tendency for people to refer to what they know,” he said. DiTraglia used the polling results to do some further digging of his own and noted some of the disproportionality in the results. Penn’s class of 2017 had about 2400 students with about 16 percent coming from the state of Pennsylvania. Penn State, on the other hand, had 8400 freshmen at University Park alone, with more than 60 percent in-state students. W har ton professor Abraham Wyner was not impressed. “A surSEE PENN STATE PAGE 5

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The Philadelphia Museum of Art was illuminated by an explosive firework display on July 4, following the free Wawa Welcome America concert. Many Penn students made their way to the Benjamin Franklin Parkway to see Ed Sheeran and Nicki Minaj perform.

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Penn and the University of California, Los Angeles are the two schools initially chosen by the federal government to develop and test implantable devices to facilitate memory recovery after brain injury. Penn will receive up to $22.5 million in funding over four years for its role in the research. T he Defense A d v a nced R e search Projects Agency (DARPA) announced the launch of the Restoring Active Memor y ( R A M )

program yesterday. R A M is only one of DA RPA’s programs supporting President Obama’s Brain Research through A d v a nc i ng I n nov at ive Neu r o technolog ies — or the BR A I N Initiative. It is “part of a new Presidential focus aimed at revolutionizing our understanding of the human brain,” according to the National Institutes of Health. The BRAIN Initiative seeks to create a “revolutionar y new dy namic picture of the brain” that will “fill major gaps in our current knowledge” of the human mind. The RAM program ultimately seeks to create implantable neuroprosthetics — artificial extensions to the body that restore SEE DARPA PAGE 5

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Ed Sheeran, Nicki Minaj and a multitude of other performers helped Philadelphians celebrate Independence Day on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway with the “Largest Free Concert in America” and a fabulous fireworks show. Photos by Luke Chen and Osama Ahmed

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Class projects use art to intervene in public spaces The projects were supposed to inspire reexamination BY EMILY OFFIT Staff Writer One class of Penn students pushed the community to see things differently this summer by altering public spaces

around campus. Foundations of Art Design and Digital Culture, a class taught by Design professor David Comberg, recently finished up a summer session project in which each creation had to intervene in a public place. Students were urged to consider the behaviors of the

members of the community who frequent their public area of choice. They were also asked to “provoke a response in the viewer, creating questions or thoughts, laughter, delight, re-examination of assumptions, etc.,” according to the course syllabus. “The Penn community, in general, is kind of conserva-

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One student in David Comberg’s Foundations of Art Design and Digital Culture class created this piece of art to “intervene in a public space.” ed. “A fair amount of people stopped to look at it. A larger number just walked by.” Each student brought his or her distinct strengths to the project. 2014 W har ton g raduate Shawn Zamechek used his background in math when coming up with the idea behind his project, which he said he hoped would “expose people to a secret.” One inst a llment of Zamechek’s project was a sign

attached to Claudia Cohen Hall which encouraged onlookers to rethink their conceptions of the College with its message reading, “The College offers 64 majors and 76 minors. There are 4,864 unique paths of study.” Although most of the projects were taken down soon after they were installed, the class will bring a slew of new conceptual interventions when it is offered again in the fall.

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Team of Penn students and alumni produce debut film The group launched a Kickstarter page to raise post-production funds BY MADELINE MCCALLUM Staff Writer In the summer, everyone could use a good unrequited love story — especially when such a film features familiar places and faces. A team of Penn students and their colleagues — all under the age of 24 — is nearly finished producing Driving Not Knowing, a debut feature film and “a love letter to the place and people we grew up with,” according to the group’s KickCourtesy of Dane Mainella starter fundraising page. 2014 College and Engineering The production team of Driving Not Knowing hopes to gain acceptance to top tier film festivals such as American-based graduates Dane Mainella and Sundance and South by Southwest and Euro-based Berlin and Rotterdam. Dylan Hansen-Fliedner, 2014 College graduate Jay Jadick, Now that the film is finished, Mainella. Main characters Will are “at odds yet addicted to and Temple graduate Benjamin the cast and crew is focusing and Lee are artists — one a each other.” Will is “hesitant Davis wrote and directed the on their fundraising campaign musician and one a poet — who to make himself vulnerable to film. Mainella and Jadick also on Kickstarter.com, through star in the film, which is still in which they hope to raise $21,170 post-production. to finish production. The film is Emily Rea — a 2014 College also up for Project of the Week graduate — plays Jo, the lead on indieWire — a news site tarrole opposite Mainella and geted at the independent film Jadick. Rea, along with other community —, with the winmembers of the cast such as ner being awarded a creative 2014 College graduate Seth consultation with the TriBeCa Schimmel and rising College Institute, among other things. seniors Alex Temme and Liz Mainella said that the team Baar met Mainella and the oth- hopes to gain acceptance into er Penn cast and crewmem- top tier film festivals such as bers through the fraternity Pi American-based Sundance and Lambda Phi. South by Southwest and Euro“Pi Lam, for us, has always based Berlin and Rotterdam. been a safe-haven for the artisDriving Not Knowing is a tically minded and free-spirited love story that “follows two lost of Penn’s campus and beyond,” young men and the blurred borMainella said. ders of their relationship,” said

China hosts first ever think tank summit 28 Chinese think tanks attended the conference BY KATHERINE CHANG Staff Writer China closed out the month of June by holding its first think tank summit. The conference was cohosted by Penn’s Think Tank and Civil Societies Programs and the Shanghai Academy for Social Sciences in Shanghai, from June 25 to 26. Think tanks are research organizations that examine political and social policies. Because many Chinese think tanks are state-funded, however, they currently play a much closer role with government policy than they would in most other countries. “In the US, where think tanks can be contacted for consultation with the government, think tanks in China really do play a direct role in giving all the information necessary to legislate policy,” rising College junior Stephanie Herrmann said. “That very direct connection not only sheds new light on how the Chinese government’s structure works, but also on how think tanks are actually integral to developing law.” The goal of the summit was “to offer both internal and external perspectives on how to improve the profile and efficiency of China’s think tank system,” said Her r mann, who is also an intern for both SASS and TTCSP. The conference was attended by 28 Chinese think tanks and 24 other organizations representing 15 countries. There were three panels; two related to generally improving think tanks around the world, while the third was China-specific. Much of this discussion was focused on steering away from a solely governmentaffiliated think tank system and expanding to more universities and independent institutions. “ T h is was desig ned to serve as a catalyst to stir the think tanks, and part of the reason for having the meeting was to have all of the think tanks in China to think about other ways that were less government controlled that are

critical if China is to effectively deal with the many policy challenges it faces,” Director of TTCSP and Senior Lecturer in International Studies at the Lauder Institute James McGann said. “Motivation [came from] an array of policy problems, and they have a limited, narrow set of institutions that are providing advice, and they understand that they need the greater policy innovation and diplomatic advice to grapple with the fundamental policy changes they face.” Overall, the conference was considered a success that exceeded expectations, according to McGann. “[The think tanks] were focusing on sharing their experiences so that China might benefit from that, and that was key and pretty dramatic. Again, that many institutions coming together in China, to discuss freely a range of options was pretty extraordinary,” said McGann. “And a very short period of time ago — just four or five years ago — that was not possible. So to me, it was really exceptional that this took place and that there was fairly free-flowing discussion about this critical issue.” Unlike the summit, however, conversations are far from over. “Broad partnerships have been forged with the leading think tanks in China that will continue. It was the major output of the meeting,” McGann said, referring to the new collaborative partnerships between Penn and organizations such as the Development Research Center of the State Council in Beijing. “Main viewpoints of participant presentations and discussions will also be summarized for policy recommendations,” said Iris Jin, an associate research professormade lowercase since the the title is after the name at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, in an email. “At the same time, we hope to hold the China Think Tank Summit every year and build it into a platform for think tanks all over the world to interact with each other and to network for further cooperation.”

Lee’s [violent and intense] affection.” Very few of the film’s lines of dialogue were pre-written. Mainella said that the group wrote an outline of each scene and then “felt immersed enough in [their] characters to be able to improvise dialogue.” Mainella added that much of the conflict in the film comes from disagreement among characters in their self expression, a familiar conflict to college students at Penn and beyond. “There is a big divide in the characters between living a life based on established practices...and living one that is more free-form and intuitive, however risky,” Mainella said. The first act of the movie takes place in Philadelphia, and some of its scenes were filmed in familiar buildings like the Institute of Contemporary Art in West Philadelphia, the Phila-

delphia Museum of Contemporary Art in North Philadelphia, and Penn’s own Kelly Writer’s House. Many Penn professors have also acted as mentors and inspiration to the Driving not Knowing cast and crew. Mainella said that Cinema Studies professors Nicola Gentili, Meta Mazaj, Tim Corrigan, David and Nancy Novack and Keir Politz and English professors Charles Bernstein, Kenneth Goldsmith and Deb Burnham offered encouragement and support throughout the process. Director of the Kelly Writers House Al Filreis helped the crew through much of the movie-making process and even appears in a cameo. “We’re hoping [the film] will be received well,” Mainella said. “We think it has the potential to be universally enjoyable and relevant as an honest portrait of our generation.”

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Planted myths about GMOs GUEST COLUMN BY VAISHAK KUMAR | Paranoia and a lack of critical thinking are ruining debate on this complex matter

classmate and I decided to get lunch together as a break f r om ou r f r a nt ic finals study sessions. She s u g ge s t e d a v e ge t a r i a n restaurant that specialized in food made from local organic ingredients. “I’m just trying not to pump chemicals into my body and die of cancer at 40,” she explained. Her words came to me as a surprise. I had always seen her as a very critical thinker, and I never expected her to ma ke such a baseless statement. She choked a little when I asked her if she knew that orga nic fa r ms use pesticides as well and that there is no conclusive ev idence that GMOs have any harmful effects on human health. “No way! Wait, we have to Google this,” she said and whipped out her iPhone. After perusing a few reputable websites, her face turned

a little red. “I never knew that. I just always thought that organic was 100 percent chemical-free and that GMOs were bad for you,” she said in a sober tone. I’ve had many a conversation like this. I find that many people — who are otherwise well-infor med — seem to have a ver y misinfor med view on GMOs. A professor once told me, “It’s disgusting what they do with food in this country.” “The Europeans are smart. They’ve banned all of those engineered mutant crops,” she continued. I just smiled in response, hiding my disapproval. It was then that I wondered: If some of the brightest minds in the country are so misinformed about this issue, then how can we expect the general public to participate in this conversation in a mature manner? “GMOs c ause c a ncer.” “The DNA from the GMOs

pass to human DNA.” “GMOs are less nutritious than their organic counterparts.” These are just a few of the many myths that people cite as valid points when debating on the issue. Sometimes the conversation is steered away from the ef f icacy of GMOs to the legal histor y of big biotech cor porations. To a few people, the alleged campaign by Monsanto to sue farmers whose crops have been contaminated with patented genes through pollination is evidence enough to prove that GMOs are bad for mankind. T h e “ T e r m i n at o r ” s e e d technology, a proposal that never came into existence, is also fair game. Amidst all these myths and fallacies, the debate suffers. The a nti- GMO propaganda machinery has been highly successf ul in misleading the public. With a great incentive to discredit

GMOs, there are many scientists a round the world — using questionable methodologies — working hard to prove that GMOs will kill you.

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It baffles me that someone can consider banning an entire technology that has helped not only millions of farmers, but consumers as well.” A prime example is the GMO corn rat study led by French scientist Gilles-Éric Séralini. The study, which is often quoted by GMO skeptics, was actually retracted by the journal after it drew

censure from the scientific community. There are also scores of anti- GMO web sites and social media accounts disseminating false information to advance the cause. The last few years have seen a lot of interesting developments on the policy front. It is very disturbing that various state legislatures a nd other councils have time and again been considering blanket bans on GMOs. While it is certainly understandable that certain GMO products or related practices might be harmful, it baffles me that someone ca n consider ba nning a n entire technology that has helped not only millions of farmers, but consumers as well. This is definitely the direct result of fear mongeri n g a n d m i s i n f o r m at io n from the anti- GMO camp. This is highly dangerous be-

cause it not only threatens to decrease the food output of the countr y — which is still grappling with California’s severe drought — but it may also make encroaching on forests and woods inevitable to meet the demand for more cultivable land. Don’t mistake me. I’m not saying that organic is bad or that GMOs are the key to our salvation. I’m not suggesting that the anti-GMO camp is the antichrist either. Food is an important issue, and we definitely need to have a lot of caution and discussion when acting on it. All I’m saying is that there is a dire need to educate people about the issue, and there is no place for myths and lies in this critical debate. VAISHAK KUMAR is a College junior from Mysore, India, studying political science and economics. His email address is vaishak@ seas.upenn.edu.

Endanger zone GIRL, INTERRUPTING | The choice to forgo vaccination is personal, but its implications aren’t

ix years ago, I sat in a crowded theater and watched Will Smith wa nder t h roug h a blighted Manhattan with only a German Shepherd for company. He spends most of “I Am Legend” in this isolation; since a mutant strain of the measles virus spread across the globe three years earlier, he has watched everyone around him become infected and die, leaving him to believe he’s the only healthy person left on Earth. Now he passes time fending off measles-stricken wild dogs and attempting to develop a treatment for the virus from his own blood. Spoiler: At the end of the movie, he learns he isn’t entirely alone, successfully tests the treatment and passes it off to his newfound compatriots just before dying in a blaze of glory. The movie ends on that hopeful, if tragic, note, with the treatment going out into the

world to ensure the continuation of the human race. As far as epidemic films go, this plot is fairly typical. Virus spreads, survivors trek through barren landscape in search of their fellows and some sort of cure. Sometimes they meet a doctor in the wilderness. Or they make it to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or another white-walled, high-security beacon of hope. Success varies, but the pursuit remains essentially the same. It’s understood that once the cure is found, the world will be saved, the suffering will end, a new and brighter era will dawn. In reality, a vaccine was developed for the measles virus (un-mutated by idealistic and misguided scientists) over half a century ago. Before vaccination became widespread and routine, approximately 2.6 million people died worldwide as a result of measles infection

each year. The vaccine’s influence set in more slowly and less dramatically than it might on screen, but by 2012 annual global fatalities had been reduced by roughly 95 percent. The most recent strain of

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the vaccine, which targets the mumps and rubella as well, has been found to successfully immunize 95 percent of people after receiving one dose. It costs less than a single dollar to vaccinate a child.

This is one instance in which I wish reality was more like the movies. Unfortunately, Americans are abandoning the script and exercising their right to opt out of inoculation — and preventable diseases are now making a comeback as a result. By May 23, the United States logged its highest number of confirmed measles cases in any one year since 1994. From a record low of 37 cases just 10 years ago, we reportedly climbed back up to 288 with more than half the year left to go. The vast majority of those infected contracted the virus for the simple reason that they had not been vaccinated. Measles is highly contagious, with a predicted 1-in-500 fatality rate in the unvaccinated children who contract it and an additional threat of serious complications such as blindness, deafness, encephalitis and pneumonia. For many, the decision to opt out is rooted in

religion or philosophy; for others, it’s borne of health risks associated with vaccines, both real (though infinitesimal) and fabricated. Similar resurgences of mumps, whopping cough and chicken pox have been reported in communities whose denizens are choosing to forgo vaccination. Parents defend the decision not to vaccinate their children as a matter of personal choice. But I have a hard time reconciling myself to a personal choice that increasingly endangers those for whom inoculation is not an option due to age, medical fitness or lack of access, and that also endangers the small percentage of people whose vaccinations fail to immunize them against these viruses. Of the 26 cases of measles registered in New York City in February and March, seven of the patients were under a year old. The

ANNIKA NEKLASON right to expose them to infection is, I think, a dubious one. Particularly because when time goes on, the infection balloons, and that seven becomes 10, 50, 100. Somehow I can’t quite see people lining up to buy tickets for a persistently-preventabledisaster film, one in which the hero bravely exercises his right to stand by and watch as the world burns. “I read that water has been linked to drowning,” I imagine him shouting, just loud enough to be heard over the plaintive cries for help. “I heard that fire extinguishers can cause concussions.” ANNIKA NEKLASON is a College sophomore from Santa Cruz, Calif., studying English. Her email address is aneklason@gmail.com.

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Undergrad. tuition and fees rise 3.9 percent BUDGET from page 1 percent, placing Penn within the range. Salaries are forecasted to increase by 3.6 percent in the 2015 fiscal year. Compensation comprises

Penn and UCLA to lead initiative DARPA from page 1 or supplement function of the nervous system — that w i l l r est or e t he memor y of those humans suffering from brain injury or disease. Teams at Penn and the Un iver sit y of Ca l i for n i a , Los Angeles will receive a total of $37.5 million to create these memory-restoring devices. U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah ( D - PA 2 ), s u p p o r t e d t h e launch of the BRAIN Initiative and commended yesterday’s announcement.

Penn voted less respected than PSU PENN STATE from page 1 vey conducted in this manner is not necessary and not meaningful,” he said. “An automated, computer generated phone system will provide nothing remotely representative.”

slightly over half of Penn’s total expenditures in the academic budget, and student aid represents 11 percent. A projected 36 percent of revenue for the 2015 fiscal year is expected to come from tuition and fees. “The 2015 Fiscal Year Operating Budget demonstrates Penn’s commitment to managing growth while continuing to invest in our faculty, students, staff and campus infrastructure,” Gibson said. While financial aid con-

The two leading teams are coalitions of universities, government research institutions and private companies. Psychology professor and Director of Penn’s Computational Memory Lab Michael Kahana will lead the Penn team. I n a n of f icia l press re le a se , F at t a h e x pr e s se d his enthusiasm for the “extraordinar y proposals” of the Penn and UCLA teams. “I look forward to watching this research progress, while continuing to champion funding that accelerat e s t he development of treatments and technology for patients — including our nat ion’s ser v icemember s and veterans — suf fering from brain disease and disorders,” Fattah said.

tinues to rise, sponsored research funding expenditures — which comprises close to 30 percent of the total budgeted expenditures — are budgeted to decline for the fourth consecutive year while non-research grows. Gibson said that the modest decrease in research funding can be explained by decreases in funding by the

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federal government. Following the recession in 2008, the federal government issued stimulus funding, allocating the University millions of dollars for research support. Now, the cessation of those funds has contributed to the decline of research expenditures. Additionally, Gibson said that the federal government is not contribut-

ing as much funding to base research programs — such as the National Institutes of Health — as in past years. Penn’s budget for the 2015 fiscal year includes a projected $7.1 billion in expenditures, split 55 percent to 45 percent between the Health System and the academic budget, respectively. Overall, expenditures are

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The main focus is on two young musicians: Lee who is openly gay and clearly in love with Will, who is struggling with his sexuality. The two have an intense relationship while trying to jumpstart their music careers, but then go their separate ways for a year before reconvening with their good friend Jo in Lee’s hometown for a weekend. Secrets come out as the audience sees Will become overtly jealous of Lee’s new band, and it’s revealed that Lee’s addiction to Will has turned into an addiction to drugs.

July 12th:

Embrace what’s left of your angsty teenage hormones and watch The Fray and Neon Trees perform for this month’s Radio 104.5 Summer Block Party at the Penn’s Landing Festival Pier. Other musical acts include Oh Honey, Barcelona and Bel Heir. Doors open at 6:00 PM.

but also a tendency for moments of true clarity in the dialogue.

July 19th:

The movie essentially looks to delve into the niche struggles of sexually tortured and deeply artistic young people. The trailer relies on some cliches: unexplained shots of people with guns, protests of people saying they “shouldn’t” be kissing someone, and drugs. A lot of drugs. There also clear cameos from the main room in Kelly Writers and dear old West Philadelphia. Overall, though, the narrative promises complexities about close friendships, aspiring dreams and the devil in drug addictions.

Feeling Beatnik? Groove at Powelton Village during the 8th annual Lancaster Avenue Jazz and Arts Festival at Saunders Park Greene from 12:00 to 7:00 PM. Listen to acclaimed jazz artists such as Azar Lawrence, the West Powelton Steppers, Shakera Jones, the Charlene Holloway Band and more.

are bound to ring true for anyone who generally feels aimless after college, and that in itself is

July 25th–27th:

Well, that, and our Quaker spirit. Go team.

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and indie rock at WXPN’s XPoNential Music Festival on the Camden Riverfront. NOTE that the festival is at both Wiggins Park and the Susquehanna Bank Center. Headliners include Ingrid Michaelson, Lake Street Dive, Beck, Ryan Adams, Dawes and The Districts.

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August 8th: In case you missed Chance the Rapper’s visit to Penn this past year, twerk your way back to the Festival Pier at Penn’s Landing for the Mad Decent Block Party. Featured artists include Diplo, Dillon Francis, Flosstradamus, and more. Sounds, well, decent. Doors open at 3:30 PM.

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Scarlett Johansson gets surgery and uses 100% of her brain. It’s like Adderall, but better. In theatres: July 11.

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Injuries derailed MLB dreams Q&A from page 8 got to put in there. DP: Now that you’ve had some time to ref lect, what does this past 2014 season mean to you? R B: I was for tunate enough to be a four year starter at Penn, so I played under coach Cole and got a se a son u nd er Yu rkow. You can definitely tell the pa rad ig m sh i f t [ bet ween

Twitter jokes lead to early round success VALENTI from page 8 Association Social Media Assistant Coach of the Year (SMOY) award. Valenti ultimately fell short in the quarterfinals to Danny Irwin of Wabash College 12251170. The SMOY award was created during the 2012-2013 season to honor those who make the best use of social media to increase the recognition of their program. The award has categories for head coach, assistant coach and athlete. In each award category, there is a five round bracket to decide who will be the voter’s champion. While this distinction doesn’t definitively earn one the SMOY award, the efforts shown during the voting process certainly help the case.

Tennessee to be the perfect preparation STEELE from page 8 that there is a parallel between Lebron’s comments on becoming a better team in practice and what Mike McLaughlin is doing with Penn women’s basketball’s nonconference schedule. Still riding high off last season’s Ivy League championship and NCA A Tournament appearance, Penn Athletics announced on Tuesday that the Quakers’ first game of the 2014-15 season will take place on Nov.

the team under Cole and Yurkow]. I can honestly say this past season was the most fun I’ve had playing baseball my entire life. The chemistry was just better, we had a g reat coachi ng staf f, and the players really battled behind coach Yurkow. He’s a great leader. With the guys we have in place now, and with the current coaching staff, with coach Yurkow leading the way, the sky’s the limit for Penn baseball.

bute that surge to? RB: I think it was definitely due to being healthier for the most part. Considering I was a senior this year it was really time for me to step up and be a leader — lead by example. So I just tried my best and let the younger g uys follow behind me. Also just playing relaxed. We’d just go out there, have fun, and not be stressed out or worried about anything. Playing free and loose like that was a real benefit for me.

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14 against defending SEC champion Tennessee. With that decision, McLaughlin and his assistants continue to demonstrate their willingness to match the Red and Blue up w ith some of the nation’s best teams. And that’s the right move. A season ago, the Quakers hosted then-No. 5 Notre Dame in their second game of the season. The Red and Blue fell by 22 in a game taking place on the same day that Penn football ended its regular season against Cornell. It’s safe to say that not enough people paid attention. But years from now, that game may mark the turning point for McLaughlin’s program. Sure, Penn lost.

But it hung in against a juggernaut, one that would go undefeated until the national championship game. It also marked the f irst test in a brutal nonconference season for the Quakers. F ive weeks later, on New Year’s Day, Penn stunned Miami in Coral Gables as Katy Allen’s layup with five se c ond s r em a i n i ng gave McLaughlin’s squad its first win against an ACC opponent. Ever. And by the time the Quakers k icked of f the bulk of their Iv y matchups, Penn had two Big 5 wins under its belt for the second time in program history. By now you’re probably awa r e of how successf u l 2013-14 was for the Red and Blue. In the words of one

you play against very good competition,” McLaughlin said. “It prepares you playing against different styles. Each league plays a different style of basketball, it’s good to see it and to be able to adapt to it and get some on-court experience.” The past season was a historically notable one for the Quakers as they also tallied their first ever win against an ACC opponent w it h a lat e r oad v ict or y against Miami, as well as two w ins against the Big Five. The remainder of Penn’s schedule will be released l a t e r i n t h e s u m m e r, though according to Mike McLaughlin it will be fairly similar to years past. “We’re going to play the five Philadelphia schools, the Big F ive and Drexel. We ’ l l p l a y t w o P a t r i o t League schools. We’ll have Lafayette and we’ll be playing at Nav y,” McLaughlin said. “It’ll be very challenging, but it’ll be exciting for our team. Hopefully it prepares us for Ivy play.”

thing to push themselves and get better, champions are formed. For Penn, it’s the ga mes aga i nst Notre Dame, Miami, the Big 5 and Tennessee that are just the tip of the iceberg. By winn i ng t hose ga mes, t hat’s when play ing against Iv y opponents becomes “easy.” McLaughlin has mastered the ar t of toughening his teams. A nd if he can ride those experiences for the next few years, maybe the Quakers will be in a position to win “not two, not three, not four...” Ivy titles.

put themselves in a precarious position. Sitting atop the Ivy League tied with Princeton, Penn had one option: win their final five games — including a contest against the Tigers the road to end the regular season — or go home. It’s not a stretch to say that there’s no way Penn could have handled the pressure of playing essentially six consecutive single-elimination games against Brown, Yale, Columbia, Cornell, Princeton and Texas without its nonconference experience. Looking back, Lebron was probably wrong. After all, if it had been easy, the Heat likely wouldn’t have lost in the NBA Finals. Twice. But the sentiment isn’t far off. When teams do every-

RILEY STEELE is a rising College junior from Dorado, Puerto Rico, and is a senior spor ts writer of The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at dpsports@ thedp.com.

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Valenti faced tough local competition in the first round as he was matched up against a fellow Philadelphian in Drexel’s Frank Cimato. However, thanks to avid campaigning and the twitter support of Penn Wrestling and associate director of athletic communications Chas Dorman, Valenti prevailed 425-338. With the success of the #VoteValenti campaign in day one, Valenti progressed into a round two matchup with 5th-seeded Garett Kiley of Wayland Baptist University. The two-time NCAA champ came through once again, tallying the second-most votes of the round with 1078. Valenti’s 1078 easily toppled the 900 votes for Kiley, allowing him to advance to the quarterfinals. Among the best Valentirelated tweets of the first two rounds were references to Valenti being an “ambiturner and ridiculously good looking” (Zoolander) and the similarity of his face to one of the aliens in Men in Black.

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Searching for a new direction BY SEAMUS POWERS Senior Staff Writer All-Ivy outfielder Rick Brebner, a 2014 graduate, was at the center of Penn baseball’s success this past season. Relieved to give his body a rest but unsure of his next move after a sports-centric youth, Brebner ref lects on an exhilarating senior season, lost MLB dreams and having his own parody Twitter account. T he Da ily Pen ns ylv a n ia n: What are your plans for the near future? Rick Brebner: Right now, I’m relaxing a bit, trying to gather my thoughts and give my body a rest after the season. I’m looking for jobs right now. It’s pretty tough. I don’t have much prior experience, because I’ve played sports my entire life. Right now I’m trying to figure out my next move and have some fun.

RILEY STEELE In the spirit of this summer’s NBA free agency period, maybe it’s wise to let the best basketball player on the planet do the talking. It’s not like his name has been in the news enough this week. “The way we’re gonna challenge each other to get better in practice, once the game starts, I mean it’s gonna be easy,” Lebron James said as he was introduced as a member of the Miami Heat for the first time in 2010. Oops. Alright, maybe Lebron put the cart before the horse while inserting foot into mouth. But the idea made sense to a degree: if the most-talented basketball team in the country practiced as hard against one another as it would play in games, the other 29 NBA teams with inferior talent would be helpless to stop the Heat. Let’s look past the absurdity of the notion that winning basketball games on a consistent basis could be “easy”. In doing so, it’s possible to see SEE STEELE PAGE 7

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After emerging as a team leader and prolific power hitter in his senior season, 2014 Penn graduate Rick Brebner is looking to move in a new direction now that baseball will no longer dominate his life.

Women’s basketball slates Tennessee for opening game W. HOOPS | Quakers will travel to Knoxville for first ever meeting with Lady Vols BY HOLDEN MCGINNIS Sports Editor After their first NCA A Tournament appearance in nearly a decade, Penn Women’s basketball has its sights set on another big game.

In the upcoming 2014-2015 season, the Quakers will open on the road in Knoxville, TN on Nov. 14 as they v isit the University of Tennessee to face the Lady Volunteers in the first ever meeting between the teams. “To play in a ver y historical venue, against a team that’s won the national championship many times and a program that draws a great crowd, it’s a good experi-

ence for our players,” coach Mike McLaughlin said. “It’s an opportunity to play against the best and something that they’ll remember for a very long time.” Tennessee has a historically excellent women’s basketball program and has made it into each of the 33 NCA A Tournaments, advancing to the Sweet Sixteen SEE W.HOOPS PAGE 7

DP: W hat was your attitude as a baseball player coming into college, in terms of your hopes to play after college? R B: My entire life I’ve been hoping to play professional baseball one day. All throughout high school that was my main goal. My number one priority was to play baseball in college, and when Penn recruited me, it was a great oppor tunit y to play Div ision I baseball and also get an excellent education. I feel like, throughout my career, there was a real possibility for me to get drafted, but I’ve had some injuries over the years. I pulled my hamstring sophomore year and missed some time, and then I tore my labrum my junior year, and had to have surgery in the summer. So it was a tough road back, trying to rehab. And I was able to come back for the season, and have a decent year. But I played with pain for a lot of the season. My shoulder isn’t really holding up, but I’m still thankful for the four years that I SEE Q&A PAGE 7

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After last season’s trying experience against tough opponents like Notre Dame and Miami, Coach Mike McLaughlin hopes that yet another difficult non-conference schedule will help prepare his team for its Ivy League title defense.

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NCAA Tournament experience – he’s a two-time NCAA champion and three-time All-American – won’t necessarily help him. Matt Valenti, Penn alumnus and current assistant wrestling coach, advanced to the quarterfinals of voting for the Elite Level Sport Marketing/National Wrestling Coaches SEE VALENTI PAGE 7

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