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The train system’s daily rider capacity has decreased by half CLAIRE SCHMIDT Staff Reporter

All of SEPTA’s 120 Silverliner V train cars are out of commission and likely won’t return until at least Labor Day, bumping up against the beginning of the fall semester.

The mechanical issues, which have decimated SEPTA’s commuter rail fleet and decreased daily rider capacity by half, stemmed from cracked equalizer beams within the cars’ suspension systems, according to PlanPhilly.com. This caused the affected cars to be immediately pulled from use.

The abrupt changes to SEPTA’s schedule are causing organizational problems for many as they commute to West Philly.

For a significant portion of Penn students, faculty and staff that commute from the edges of the city or outside of it, the rail changes are causing significant interruptions to their usual schedule.

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Wharton students pen letter to Trump: ‘You do not represent us’

Penn engineers create $2 Zika test device for the masses

A group of individuals published the letter last Friday

The device will not be available before the 2016 Summer Olympics

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Two professors in Penn’s School of Engineering and Applied Science have developed a quick, low-cost, portable testing device for the Zika virus.

Professors Haim Bau and Changchun Liu, of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, began working on the test in March after learning about the growing threat of the virus.

“In the last few years, our Micro and Nano Fluidics laboratory has made significant advances in point of care diagnostics,” Bau and Liu said. “Once we learned about the recent outbreak of the Zika virus (ZIKV) pandemic in the Americas, its devastating consequence to pregnant women and their fetuses, and the lack of appropriate diagnostic tools, we recognized that we are in a position to provide an appropriate solution to address this problem.”

The only current methods of testing for Zika that have been approved by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention require some expertise or technical equipment to carry out.

Most notable about Bau and Liu’s device is how easy it is to use.

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3,116 Penn students, graduates, parents, partners and family members signed a petition condemning presumptive Republican Party nominee Donald Trump.

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In the midst of 1968 Wharton graduate Donald Trump’s presidential run, during which he has repeatedly invoked his Wharton degree, 3,116 Penn students, graduates, parents, partners and family members have signed a petition telling him: “You do not represent us.”

The petition was posted online two days ago, just over a week before the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, where Trump is

…although we expend an enormous amount of time and energy investigating everyone else’s business, the actual mechanisms of the press are often opaque.”

expected to become the party’s official presidential nominee.

The petition takes the form of an open letter. It begins, “Dear Mr. Trump: At the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, students are taught to represent the highest levels of respect and integrity. We are taught to embrace humility and diversity. We can understand why, in seeking America’s highest office, you have used your degree from Wharton to promote and lend legitimacy to your candidacy.”

But as it continues, it becomes a more biting critique.

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No road closures in University City during DNC Road closures will surround Wells Fargo Center CHASEN SHAO Staff Reporter

Unlike the numerous road closures experienced during Pope Francis’ visit to Philadelphia last fall, Penn’s Division of Public Safety said the Democratic National Convention set to take place July 25-28 should be more quiet around University City and students should experience fewer, if any, disturbances as a result of the convention.

But if you want to see Hillary Clinton buy a cheesesteak from Tony Luke’s or join in the protests at FDR Park, there are some things you should know about traveling in Philadelphia during the DNC. Traffic is expected to proceed normally, especially around the University City area.

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Vice President of Public Safety Maureen Rush said University City won’t experience road closings during the Democratic National Convention, unlike when Pope Francis visited Philadelphia in September 2015.

“Delegates will travel to the convention via buses and police escorts, so street closures will not be necessary...the Democratic

National Convention should not affect student life at Penn,” Vice President for Public Safety and Superintendent of the Penn Police

Following McDonnell appeal, hope for Fattah’s conviction Fattah was found guilty of bribery and fraud MITCHELL CHAN Staff Reporter

There may be some hope left for former congressman and 1986 Fels Institute of Government graduate Chaka Fattah, who was convicted last month of 23 charges including bribery, racketeering and fraud.

The successful appeal of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, whose 2014 bribery conviction was unanimously overturned last Monday by the U.S. Supreme Court, could provide a framework for Fattah to mount his own appeal in the future.

In the court’s opinion for McDonnell v. U.S., Chief Justice John Roberts explained that the court wanted to clarify the definition of the term “official act” in current bribery statutes. Under existing federal law, an “official act” constitutes any decision or activity by a public official in their capacity as a government employee — such acts are illegal if performed in exchange for a bribe from a private citizen. The court had to decide whether minor, everyday interaction between politicians and private citizens, such as staffers making phone calls on a constituent’s behalf, counted as official acts.

“The Government’s expansive interpretation of ‘official act’ would raise significant constitutional concerns,” Roberts wrote.

“Our concern is not with tawdry tales of Ferraris, Rolexes and ball gowns. It is instead with the broader legal implications of the government’s boundless interpretation of the federal bribery statute.”

McDonnell was convicted in 2014 in a federal district court after prosecutors alleged that he and his wife had received more than $135,000 worth of loans, gifts and

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other favors from businessman Jonnie Williams in exchange for promoting a dietary supplement produced by Williams’ company.

According to records produced before the Supreme Court, Gov. McDonnell had Virginia state officials encourage Virginia public universities to test Williams’ drug, while McDonnell’s wife hosted a launch party for the company in the Virginia Governor’s Mansion.

Legal observers have noted that McDonnell’s circumstances bear some resemblance to the facts in Fattah’s case, where prosecutors accused the congressman of working to obtain an ambassadorship for former Philadelphia Deputy Mayor and local political fundraiser Herbert Vederman. In exchange, Vederman supposedly showered the Fattah family with expensive gifts, including a private plane, cash payments to Fattah’s children and $18,000 that ostensibly paid for Fattah’s au pair’s college tuition.

Vederman was convicted alongside Fattah as a co-defendant in the case.

Roberts added that in McDonnell’s case, prosecutors did not adequately explain the definition of an “official act” to the jury that ended up convicting McDonnell.

The Supreme Court’s majority opinion, therefore, does not rule out the possibility that that jury

wrongfully convicted McDonnell for acts that were not official — and therefore not unlawful.

“There is no doubt that this case is distasteful; it may be worse than that,” Roberts wrote.

Nevertheless, the case’s outcome does raise questions about how compliance and anticorruption investigations are conducted at the federal level. In the weeks prior to the Supreme Court’s decision, many incumbent and former politicians expressed sympathy for McDonnell’s appeal. The coalition includes everyone from former Obama White House Counsel to a former George W. Bush attorney general to several former governors and members of Congress from both political parties.

“Elected officials want to know what the rules are. Public service shouldn’t be a game of gotcha,” former North Carolina Deputy Attorney General Hampton Dellinger told Politico.

The Supreme Court appeared to agree, arguing in the majority opinion that a more limited definition of the phrase “official act” left “ample room” for prosecuting genuinely corrupt officials without jeopardizing the real dayto-day practice of government.

“It’s certainly going to change the mentality of prosecutors across the country in terms of what they need to do to prove these cases in the future,” white-collar criminal defense attorney and former Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania — where Fattah’s case was heard — Thomas A. Bergstrom told the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Fattah, who resigned from his seat in Congress two days after his conviction on June 21, has said that he plans to appeal his conviction.

He had previously represented Pennsylvania’s second congressional district, which includes University City, since 1995. His sentencing hearing is currently set for October 4 of this year.

Department Maureen Rush said.

As for the current state of road closures, there are no foreseeable road closures that will affect the

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The assay they developed, which uses what is called reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification, does not require lab equipment. One simply has to provide the soda can-sized device with a saliva sample, and color-changing dye will turn blue within about 40 minutes if it detects the virus.

The previously approved assays, which use what is called reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction, require multiple specific temperature adjustments that can only be carried out in a lab. The RT-LAMP process, however, only requires the sample to be kept at one temperature — which is easily achieved using the simplified amplification process Bau and Liu developed.

The total cost of the materials and reagents needed for the device is only $2, making it potentially more accessible to the masses. However, the device must still undergo more tests before it is ready for patient use — and according to the researchers, it will not be available before the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

“Before the assay can be adapted for medical use, we must, among other things, experiment with patients’ samples and verify that our assay and system match the performance of the gold standard (laboratorybased RT-PCR) and operate

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faculty of Wharton, are outraged that an affiliation with our school is being used to legitimize prejudice and intolerance,” the letter says. “Although we do not aim to make any political endorsements with this letter, we do express our unequivocal stance against the xenophobia, sexism, racism, and other forms of bigotry that you have actively and implicitly endorsed in your campaign.”

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University City area. According to a road closures map released by the Secret Service, the immediate area surrounding the Wells Fargo Center and Lincoln Financial Field will be closed.

The DNC is expected to draw about 50,000 attendees, and the convention will impact regular city functions such as public transit. But the number of people is small compared to the Pope visit, when hundreds of thousands congregated in Philadelphia for the Sunday service, according to USA Today.

Road closures are primarily concentrated in South Philadelphia, according to NBC Philadelphia. Some additional ramp shutdowns will be happening on I-95 near the sports complex where the DNC is set to take place. Commercial vehicle restrictions are also in effect near a designated stretch of I-95 during the four-day convention.

reproducibly and reliably,” the researchers said. “We are fortunate to have dedicated colleagues in endemic regions ready to assist us in this task. We hope to secure the necessary funding to continue developing the system and carrying out these critical experiments.”

The researchers’ preliminary experiments have indicated that their test matches the performance of the RT-PCR test

Protesters will be allowed access to FDR Park, adjacent to Wells Fargo Center in South Philadelphia, with designated permits, according to the Philadelphia Police Department.

Protesters without permits are expected to parade around the Center City area.

The Hilton Inn at Penn will serve as one of the locations serving DNC delegates. On-campus retail will operate on normal schedules and students should be able to proceed normally with daily activities without worry about major delays.

In 2000, Philadelphia hosted the Republican National Convention at the Wells Fargo Center.

According to Newsworks, there were some traffic restrictions, especially on the evening of the convention when special bus lanes were established on Broad Street to get delegates to the convention from Center City.

approved by the CDC, but they must still continue to experiment before the assay can be released.

Bau and Liu were assisted by Jinzhao Song and Michael Mauk, who work in Bau’s lab, as well as Sara Cherry, associate professor of microbiology in the Perelman School of Medicine, and Brent Hackett, who works in Cherry’s lab. The researchers’ work was published in the journal Analytical Chemistry on June 16.

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The Zika test that Penn engineers developed does not require a constant temperature like more elaborate lab-based versions.

Since its posting, the article has been picked up by national news outlets such as NBC, the Huffington Post and CNN. One of the co-authors of the letter said she and the rest of the authors prefer not to be named because they feel it would distract from the fact that the message comes from a larger Wharton community. However, she did include a statement from the coauthors.

“Throughout this presidential campaign, Donald Trump’s

education at Wharton has been used as a part of a platform to promote prejudice and intolerance,” the co-authors wrote. “It was important for us to speak out against Trump because, as we have seen in many moments throughout history, silence is an act of complicity.

This open letter speaks on behalf of Wharton students, alumni, and faculty who wish to speak out against hate and stand in solidarity with all members of our diverse community — both at Wharton and across America.”

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DNC volunteers cultivate West Philadelphia garden The community garden will feed 20 needy families CHARLOTTE LARACY News Editor

While politics aren’t always associated with plants, the Democratic National Convention provided volunteers in June to turn a parking lot in West Philadelphia into a flourishing community garden.

The one-acre plot sits behind the Karabots Pediatric Care Center, a satellite program of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, at 48th and Market Streets. It is the main volunteer project for the Democratic National Convention. The DNC will be held at the Wells Fargo Center in South Philadelphia July 25-28.

In the garden, a variety of fruits and vegetables will be grown, including pears, apples, tomatoes and squash. The garden is expected to grow about 100 pounds of produce a week, enough to feed roughly 20 families during the growing season.

The community garden will also hold health cooking and eating workshops.

“CHOP plans to donate the bounty to local, needy families, as well as offer cooking classes, nutritional information and recipes for our patients and families from the Karabots Center and the neighborhood,” a CHOP spokesperson said in a statement.

In numerous neighborhoods and towns across the United States, it can be difficult to find fresh, healthy and affordable food. In 2012, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported that it had identified more than 6,500 food deserts.

“The lack of access contributes to a poor diet and can lead to higher levels of obesity and other diet-related diseases, such as diabetes and heart disease,” the Department of Agriculture wrote on their website.

The Karabots Center is part of the Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania, which provides primary care services to children in West

Philadelphia and houses several community programs such as Domestic Violence Education Program, Early Head Start and Reach Out and Read.

The new West Philadelphia garden was funded by a $300,000 donation from America’s Credit Union, including operation and programming costs for the first year.

The Credit Union National Association is undergoing a parallel project in Ohio at the UH Rainbow Babies Children’s Hospital of Cleveland in time for the Republican National Convention.

According to NewsWorks, during a brief press conference at the community garden, Rev. Leah Daughtry told volunteers that the garden represents democratic ideals.

“We believe that when communities are strong, our nation is strong,” Daughtry said. “And what better way to demonstrate that than to ensure that children of all ages have healthy, nutritious, home-grown food right in their own backyards.”

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The one-acre plot sits behind the Karabots Pediatric Care Center at 48th and Market Streets. It is the main volunteer project for the Democratic National Convention, which will be in Philadelphia, July 25-28.

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BLACK LIVES MATTER MARCHES IN PHILADELPHIA Protesters marched past Penn’s campus around 8 p.m. on Sunday, and continued to City Hall. There, the group stopped to let individuals share their experiences with racism, as well as ideas for tangible change to decrease the number of unarmed black individuals shot by police.

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SERIOUS BUSINESS | Talking (or not talking) to the media One of the most frustrating experiences you can have as a reporter is a source refusing to talk to you. You email them, you call them, and they continue to ignore you or refuse to be quoted. The recent Atlantic article When Student Activists Refuse to Talk to Campus Newspapers explains the conundrum pretty well with regard to recent campus activism - activists become frustrated when their voices are not broadcast, yet refuse to talk to the mechanism for broadcasting. Of course, this phenomenon extends to multiple demographics, not just activists.

Naturally, as someone who works for a college newspaper, I have strong opinions on the subject. Most of these opinions can be summed up by one sentence: People should talk to the press.

Yet I had that opinion challenged last week when I had my first interview. Not the first interview I’ve conducted, but the first interview where I’ve been on the other side of the mic.

I hadn’t realized how nervous I would be, how wary of being misrepresented. I found myself second guessing everything I was saying, wondering if my sound bites could be taken out of context. I realized that unlike when it was me giving

the interview, I had no way of being sure of the reporter’s good intentions.

The interesting thing about the press is although we expend an enormous amount of time and energy investigating everyone else’s business, the actual mechanisms of the press are often opaque.

But in both roles, reporter and subject, I realized that my ultimate intention was similar. As a reporter,

accurate. The goal of an interview is to gain information, to learn about a perspective that the reporter does not have. Had I refused to talk to the reporter, she would have lacked the information I could give her and subsequently written a sparser, less informed piece — a situation I’ve found myself in when writing stories.

Being interviewed can be intimidating or seem like an attack,

…although we expend an enormous amount of time and energy investigating everyone else’s business, the actual mechanisms of the press are often opaque.”

I cared about getting the most accurate information possible, from a variety of sources, so that my article would reflect the reality of the situation and the various opinions involved. As an interviewee, I cared about accurately explaining my side and understanding of the issue, so that my perspective could be broadcast further.

In each case, I cared most about getting the truth out and being

especially if the subject is sensitive or personal. And yes, there are times when topics should be kept off the record, or not mentioned.

There are times when the reporter is in the wrong. But uniformly going into the conversation expecting the worst, or refusing to talk to a reporter because of preconceived ideas on the reporter’s use of the material is both unfair and unproductive.

In most circumstances, the reporter is on your side — they want to transmit your words faithfully and with appropriate context. They are asking you questions because they are investigating, not because they have an agenda that they want to fill. The press and the media are not a monolith bent on spinning a specific angle.

In almost every case, refusing to talk to the media does not mean that the story will not be written.

It simply means that the story will be written without your input, and your perspective will go unexplained.

This fact is perhaps more relevant when applied to groups than to individuals. In many cases, groups — especially activist groups — refuse to engage with the media or only engage with the media on certain terms. While it is understandable that groups representing marginalized demographics would be wary to cooperate with perceived establishment outlets, complete refusal to speak with the mainstream media is unhelpful to both groups.

Refusal to engage with the institution only cements a group’s status as outsiders, and prevents a wider audience from hearing its message.

Without communication, there can

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be no understanding.

If you believe that your side of the story is one that should be reported, you should talk to the press.

Withholding information helps nobody, and leads to a less-well reported story which in turn leads to incorrect stories and misrepresentation. While there are exceptions to this rule, in most cases it stands firm. Refusing to speak to the press and then claiming that the press misrepresents you is ridiculous.

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

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American unrest, contextualized ZOU IT ALL | On the frontier of civil progress “People mountain, people sea” is a popular Chinese idiom used to describe large mobs or gatherings and often the overcrowdedness of China itself.

But what China makes up for in sheer population, it lacks in diversity. Just one face out of hundreds you encounter on the streets of even a purportedly cosmopolitan city like Shanghai might be that of a foreigner – white, black, brown – and the difference (and, depending on that foreigner’s race, deference) in the manner with which they are treated is immediately obvious to all – and totally unacceptable by American standards.

Yet such racialized disparities are widely tolerated by the Chinese.

It is common knowledge that while being white wins you favors in China, being black makes you little more than a spectacle and a photo opportunity. Racial and social hierarchies are not only set in stone, concrete, but left totally unchallenged as if they were some sort of immutable truth, inherently woven into the fabric of life. Meanwhile, racial discrimination in the US, at least in rhetoric, is condemned across all fifty states. In many regions of the world, however,

widespread acceptance of racial bigotry is a fact of life.

I hesitate to call myself patriotic. I believe that the US, despite its diversity, is, as a whole, a racist nation. One needs to look no further than the recent events in Louisiana, Minnesota and Dallas, or to our Republican presidential nominee, to find ample evidence to corroborate this claim.

But I also don’t believe that our racism makes us unique. In this regard, sadly, the US is like every other nation in the world.

While racism may be omnipresent in the US, it is undoubtedly even more so in Europe, even in countries we think of as being highly developed and progressive. I spent just three hours in France with my high school orchestra, but even in that short time I was greeted by a kid of maybe seven or eight years with an exaggerated Orient-inspired caricature of an elaborate martial arts routine. He asked me if I were Jackie Chan, to which I responded theatrically with a painful, crotch-splitting attempt at a high kick. His parents, without so much as a glance in my direction, let alone any visible attempt at an apology, beckoned lazily to their

hyperactive child and ultimately let him follow me all the way back to my bus. Funny for a bit, harmless, possibly – but annoying nonetheless, and clearly from a 21st-century French parenting perspective, a complete non-issue.

And in China, for instance, there is no law forbidding employment discrimination and only a handful of anti-discrimination provisions of any kind, which are virtually never enforced. As a result, de facto segregation runs rampant. Employers routinely hire on whatever discriminatory grounds they see fit. In Guangdong province, a factory relocated all its Uyghur workers after a rumor broke out that an Uyghur worker had raped a Han worker.

Even more egregiously, China has denied all civil servants and government employees in Xinjiang province, which has a majority Muslim population, the right to fast during Ramadan. A quick Google search reveals innumerable other discriminatory human rights violations, all of which would have undoubtedly sparked public outrage and flurries of lawsuits in the US. In China, however, they barely register as a blip on the cultural radar. Litigation is futile and thus

rarely attempted, and so people have little hope for change.

Without an audience to listen, marginalized populations in China and elsewhere grow silent, complacent, desensitized. They console themselves by choosing to believe that they at least face less discrimination than their counterparts in more prejudiced countries, or that their quality of life might at least be better than what they could expect in their country of origin. But in the US we do exactly the opposite.

Rather than use other countries as a comparative baseline, we fixate on what we think ought to be. The relative bigotry of other nations is irrelevant. It is because the US was founded on principles of equality and justice that we, its people, are collectively imbued with a sense of righteousness and the strength to demand change. In the spirit of American equality and justice, these demands will not cease until this country’s ambitious foundational rhetoric manifests itself fully in practice and fulfills the prophecy proclaimed centuries ago by our founding fathers in 1776. I bring the miracle of our nation’s diversity to light during what may seem like one of its darkest hours

not to distract from the work that still needs to be done toward that end, but to celebrate the progress that has already been achieved.

Diversity is our greatest challenge, but also our greatest strength. It is because we have all been spoonfed since infancy the national language of freedom, regardless of color or creed, that we have the luxury, which others in the world do not, of understanding equality to be a basic human right and not a privilege. It is because we are able to recognize when these rights are respected and when they are violated that we cannot help but feel cheated when the rhetoric we grew up with reveals itself in places to be illusory.

While the rest of the world sees our violence, turbulence, and political instability, they also see that we at least still hold on to the integrity of our anger and our desire to listen and be heard worldwide. Perhaps it is ironic that during this time, amidst all the confusion, turmoil and grief, I somehow feel more American than ever. Along with many others in the US, I mourn the officers and civilians whose lives were recently claimed by senseless violence. But we are a nation

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of fighters, demanders and leaders.

I am confident that the US can, and will, right itself.

Racism is as ugly as it is pervasive; we need not be in denial of the fact that it exists. But with its indomitable spirit, our nation distinguishes itself from everyplace else, and there is beauty in the never-ending battle we choose to fight.

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

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Trump reacts to FBI’s Clinton email conclusion

Trump called the American justice system rigged MITCHELL CHAN Staff Reporter

P resumptive Republica n presidential nominee and 1968 Wharton graduate Donald Trump issued a harsh assessment of the FBI after the agency recommended against criminally charging Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton for using a private email server as Secretary of State.

Following the FBI’s recommendation, U.S. Attorney

General Loretta Lynch announced Wednesday that the Justice Department would not file any criminal charges against Clinton.

“Because of our rigged system that holds the American people to one standard and people like Hillary Clinton to another, it does not look like she will be facing the criminal charges that she deserves,” Trump said in a statement on his campaign’s website.

The Trump campaign’s response to the FBI’s announcement came after FBI director James Comey revealed that although the agency did not recommend

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The FBI reccommended that Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server as Secretary of State should not warrant criminal charges.

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She commented that some of her colleagues “have changed their work hours; others are

car-pooling,” but that either way, “everyone is trying to adjust and finding it difficult.”

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criminal charges, it admitted there was disturbing evidence that Clinton and her staff in the State Department had been “extremely careless” in handling highly sensitive government information.

Trump alleged that the agency was allowing Clinton, who served as Secretary of State, 2009 to 2013, to cover up mistakes she had made while in office.

“She used the State Department for her personal gain, trading favors for cash, and tried to conceal the records,” Trump said. “She didn’t want people to know the details about her botched decisions in Libya, Syria, Iraq and Egypt that destabilized the Middle East.”

Among other findings, Comey said that Clinton used multiple devices and several different personal servers to send and receive work-related emails. The FBI also determined that of the approximately 30,000 workrelated emails that she returned to the State Department in 2014, 52 email chains containing 110 emails were found to contain some type of classified information. An additional 2,000 emails contained information that is now considered classified but was not at the time the emails were sent.

Trump claimed that Clinton’s careless behavior allowed hackers from foreign intelligence agencies to steal confidential information about American foreign policy and national security secrets contained in her emails. Comey clarified that while the FBI found no evidence that this actually

happened, it is “possible” that hostile actors hacked into Clinton’s personal email servers.

These findings, Trump noted, directly disproved Clinton’s earlier claims that she had never sent classified information by email.

He also questioned the FBI’s ultimate conclusion that Clinton’s behavior was merely the result of extremely bad judgement and that there was insufficient proof of willful criminal intent to recommend prosecution.

“The normal punishment, in this case, would include losing authority to handle classified information, and that too disqualifies Hillary Clinton from being President,” Trump said. “Folks — the system is rigged.”

Trump also criticized Bill Clinton meeting Lynch, after they met privately at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport last Monday. Lynch oversaw the federal investigation into Clinton’s email controversy and would have made the ultimate decision whether or not Clinton would be indicted.

“Bill Clinton didn’t accidentally run into the Attorney General on the airport tarmac,” Trump said.

The FBI’s recommendation and the DOJ’s subsequent decision not to indict Clinton comes less than three weeks before the Democratic National Convention and less than two weeks before the Republican National Convention on July 18.

At a rally on July 5 in Raleigh, N.C., Trump expressed sympathy

for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Clinton’s opponent for the Democratic nomination. Sanders, who until Tuesday had refused to concede to Clinton in spite of falling support in the polls, said that the FBI’s recommendation against criminal charges would not affect his decision to continue campaigning up until the DNC. “Bernie, my poor Bernie. I feel so bad for Bernie,” Trump said.

“Because honestly, he was waiting for the FBI primary. And guess what? He just lost the FBI primary.”

Trump added that he believed

many Sanders supporters would support the Trump campaign rather than vote for Clinton.

Trump, whose platform consistently highlights his status as a political outsider, has made criticizing Clinton for her perceived lack of trustworthiness and association with Washington’s political cronyism key elements of his campaign strategy. Clinton and Trump, currently the Democratic frontrunner and Republican presumptive nominee, respectively, will like face against each other in the general election on Nov. 8.

The reduced capacity has caused almost all Regional Rail lines to operate on modified weekend schedules, reducing the number of trains down to an average of one per hour.

Rising College sophomore Derek Willie added that his commute from Jenkintown on Regional Rail has experienced significant delays.

“Most trains that come through

the station are either already full or extremely tardy,” he said, adding that it is now difficult for him to get to work on time at 8 a.m.

“My bosses understand, but I end up missing important work hours and losing pay,” said Willie.

The changes to the rail schedule have also echoed beyond the Regional Rail line, causing increased traffic and increased stops along several bus and rail lines.

Rising Engineering junior Kaylin Raby takes the Norristown High Speed Line, which usually only makes three stops on its way from the 69th Street Transportation Center out into Norristown.

However, the decrease in Regional Rail service to that area has caused Raby’s train to switch from high speed to local, now making a total of 19 stops on the average weekday.

Raby said that while she was vaguely aware of an announcement SEPTA had made regarding rail operations, she “was surprised my train took way longer that first day, because it’s not Regional Rail, and I was late to work.”

Raby added that she now has to leave her house 20 minutes earlier to catch an earlier train so that she can still get to work despite the added commute time.

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THE BAR NOMAD The man behind Quizzo Spectacular | BY DAVID MURRELL The chalkboard to the left of the door at the Sidecar Bar features a drawing: a mysterious looking bearded man in a blazer and a brown fedora, standing in front of a patriotic background of red, white and blue. Above him are the words, “Calling all nerds, Johnny Goodtimes wants you for Quizzo.”

On a Monday night, he walks into the Graduate Hospital neighborhood bar on 22nd and Christian Street a few minutes late. He climbs the stairs to the second floor, where light barely filters through low-hanging brass lamps and roughly thirty people sit.

He still sports a beard and a blazer (baby blue on this night) but lacks the fedora. He places his large portable speakers on the bar, grabs the microphone, turns on the music — Dr. Dre’s “Still D.R.E.” featuring Snoop Dogg, his usual song — and begins.

“Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Johnny Goodtimes Quizzo Spectacular. My name is Johnny Goodtimes. Here’s how

the game is played.”

There are to be five rounds with eight questions each. An easy round, speed round, audio round, wild card round, and impossible round.

“This is a written test, not an oral exam,” Johnny continues.

“Please do not shout out the answers, please do not shout out the answers.” His speech begins to accelerate, turning ordinary phrases into tongue twisters.

“Also, the use of cellular devices, iPhones, all electronic devices is prohibited. Please put a team name at the top of your paper, please put a team name at the top of your paper.”

Meanwhile, six twenty-somethings sit at a table in the corner of the bar. Two of them, Tom and Lyle, have been to Johnny’s quizzo at Sidecar around thirty times, and many more times before that at City Tap House while they were students at Penn.

“It’s definitely the best and most organized quizzo,” says Tom, who studied economics and physics and graduated in 2014.

He and his buddies used to play quizzo at The Blarney Stone on 39th and Sansom Street, and racked up over $1,000 in free bar tabs over the years. But despite the free beer, winning quickly got old.

“Here, you get to drink and have competition,” he says.

That competition is what attracts Penn students and University City community members alike to Tap House on Tuesday nights. It’s no secret that Johnny runs the best quizzo in the city.

What fewer people realize, though, is that there is more to Johnny Goodtimes than meets the eye.

* * *

For a guy who asks questions and gives answers for a living, there’s one piece of trivia Johnny Goodtimes won’t reveal: his real name.

“It’s a trade secret,” he says.

Growing up in a small Virginia town of 600 people, Johnny resorted to playing games to keep

himself entertained. Once, when he was eight years old, he invited all of the kids in the neighborhood over to the house for a baseball game. His mom, Peggy, helped set up the afternoon of ball, welcoming mothers as they dropped off their kids, gloves and bats in hand. She made ice-cold lemonade and left it on the deck for the kids.

Less than five minutes later, Johnny barged into the house in full tantrum mode.

“Son, what on earth is wrong?”

Peggy asked.

“Mom, I invited these kids over here for a baseball game. And all they wanna do is play!”

“He was just beside himself,” Peggy remembers. “His whole day was ruined because they wanted to play. He found that revolting.”

In a sense, Johnny never stopped inviting people over for games. Now he just gets paid for it, earning a flat-rate per quizzo session (he hosts seven per week).

It may seem like the job of a man who never found his passion and is doing anything to get by. But don’t be fooled by the adult Johnny’s wacky, ill-fitting blazers and general apathetic vibe. Games are what excite him — he estimates spending 35 hours every week on quizzo. And he’s as serious about quizzo now as he was about pickup baseball as a child. You have to be, in order to keep going for all these years.

Still, Johnny is surprised when he reflects on his career. “Sometimes I think to myself ‘Holy shit, here we are twelve years later, and this thing still exists?!’ I thought it was gonna be like disco, two years of this thing. Now it’s an institution in Philadelphia.”

* * *

It’s time for round three, the audio round. Johnny announces the theme: every song has to do with either starting or stopping.

You have to name the artist.

Midway through the round, he plays “Who’ll Stop the Rain” by Creedence Clearwater Revival.

Good men through the ages, tried to find the sun. And I wonder, still I wonder, who’ll stop the rain.

Rather appropriately, it has begun to rain. Lyle, looking very businesslike in his purple buttonup shirt and khaki pants, thinks

THE SUMMER PENNSYLVANIAN | THEDP.COM out loud, “It’s not Tom Petty singing. He has a distinctive voice.

Dave Matthews has more of a twang, it’s not as smooth as that.”

Immediately after the round, Lyle pulls out his phone. “Oh noooooo! It’s CCR. I was thinking that! I love their songs,” he says, dramatically falling to his side onto the faux-leather green booth.

Johnny didn’t always do an audio round. But as he’s gotten older, his audience has gotten younger, and their taste has changed, so he decided to tweak his quiz. Particularly since getting married and starting a family (he has a two-year-old son, Avery), Johnny has changed the way he looks at quizzo. “Now I caretake it a bit more,” he says.

“I’m a bit more like, ‘What do I need to do to keep the momentum? What do I need to change?’

Whereas before I was flying by the seat of my pants, and to some degree I still am, I think I stopped seeing it as a hobby I got paid for, and more like a job.”

* * *

Johnny asks a lot of his audience for the wild card round.

The category is “chain restaurant before and after” – in other words, every clue is about a chain restaurant, but there’s a second part to the question that creates a link to the restaurant. For instance: Johnny asks who recorded the 1999 album Before the Pawn, then hints about a restaurant known for its boneless chicken wings. Somehow, the two are related.

The answer? Fiona Applebee’s.

To even produce a question like this is a three-step process. First, Johnny finds a list of fast-food restaurants. Then he brainstorms what can be attached to the beginning or end of a given restaurant.

When he finally decides, then he can write the question. Much harder than a simple search on Wikipedia. But it pays off.

“See, this is so fun!” says Margaret, one of five Penn grads at the corner Sidecar table. “They require so much more thought and putting things together.”

A few minutes later, the iconic choral song “O Fortuna” blares from Johnny’s speakers, a tune all quizzo regulars recognize as the anthem for the “impossible round,” the final of the night.

Johnny’s normally quick cadence slows to a crawl.

“There will be. One question.”

He takes a deep breath. So do the thirty others in the bar.

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Unison.

Outside the bar, lightning flashes.

* * *

On Tuesday night, Johnny hosts two quizzes. First stop, O’Neals, where he’s been since 2003, then on to Tap House. He’s swapped out his blue blazer for a white, checkered counterpart, but most everything else is the same — dancing and lip syncing to the songs in the audio round, riotous cheers whenever a question is answered correctly.

At 10 p.m., after two hours at O’Neals, Johnny throws on his backpack, where he keeps his wires, microphone and a carton of Bic pens, and lugs his speakers to his car. He opens the door of the black Scion, only to find a car seat in his way, so he walks around to the other side and puts his speakers away. A toy truck lies on its side under the passenger seat.

He tunes in to grainy radio coverage of the Phillies as he drives through empty Philadelphia streets toward City Tap House, where the crowd is mostly Penn students. When he arrives, a waiter brings him a cup of ice water and Johnny asks if he might put on the Phillies game. The waiter says sure, but when he changes the channel, the screen appears black, with the message “One moment please. Channel should be available shortly.”

Only it isn’t. So Johnny waits.

He walks over to the bar, tapping the surface with his palm impatiently. It’s 10:30, he needs to start quizzo soon. The game must be in the ninth inning by now. He asks another bartender if the game can be put on. Different TV, same message.

So Johnny Goodtimes walks away defeated, over to his microphone, and turns on some Dr. Dre. “Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Johnny Goodtimes Quizzo Spectacular. My name is Johnny Goodtimes. Here’s how the game is played.”

CHOOSE YOURSELF

Why I’m transferring out of Penn | BY KIVA SEWELL When I first began my college search, I sought a small school where learning trumped competition and socioeconomic differences. However, when I discussed the matter with my family and friends everyone said, “If you attend an Ivy, you’re bound to be successful.” At the time, my grades were great, but they hadn’t always been — Physics is hard. Therefore, the Ivies I could get into were limited. My admissions counselor said that Penn was probably my

enough to receive a scholarship to a college preparatory school, but the academic and social transition was hard. At the end of the day, I was still academically inferior and marginalized due to my status as a poor, black, homosexual female.

Essentially, nothing about my circumstances set me up to attend such a prestigious university.

Therefore, applying to Penn was a matter of proving to myself and my peers that I was good enough, in a world where everything about

“I chose to listen to what other people thought was best for me.” only option. So, on an October afternoon in 2013, I applied Early Decision to the University of Pennsylvania.

In hindsight, applying ED was foolish. I didn’t take my financial constraints into consideration, nor did I research the university well. I chose to listen to what other people thought was best for me, despite the fact that I would have to spend four years of my life at this institution.

But I wanted to defy the odds and foremost, make my family proud.

I grew up in inner city Baltimore, where use of correct English and escaping institutionalization, let alone “getting ahead” is nearly impossible. In addition, my mom is a bipolar heroine addict and my father an alcoholic, so the difficulty of my home life inhibited my performance in school. During my later years, I was fortunate

me is considered less than.

I remember the day I received my acceptance email. I believed my whole life was about to change; I assumed that attending an Ivy League would bring instant success. For those of you who subscribe to this belief — it isn’t true.

There are plenty of successful and unsuccessful Penn grads. Life can be difficult for anyone, no matter where they attend school.

My mind was racing as I thought, “Soon I’ll know whether or not I’ll live in a mansion, drive a luxury car and become a member of the elite or continue living paycheck to paycheck, bus pass in hand, hindered by institutionalized racism and sexism.“ My first semester at Penn was rough. I received a concussion, lost relationships, struggled with intellectual inferiority and combatted

overt racism and body shaming.

Luckily, I had to leave Penn during the spring semester to have surgery.

During my leave of absence, I applied to other universities and even accepted an offer. However, when I posted the notorious “__________ University Class of 2018” status I received so many Facebook messages from people telling me what a horrible decision I was making. They said that I was walking away from a full ride and an Ivy League institution, which would open doors for me down the road.

I filled out the forms detailing that I would return to Penn the upcoming fall.

While on academic leave, I took some time to improve my mental health. I thought that maybe there was nothing wrong with Penn, but instead my misery was due to a chemical imbalance. I was soon after diagnosed with Bipolar II disorder. They saddled me up with three different types of medication, and three weeks, later classes began.

I was, for the first time in years, mentally stable. I had several drugs coursing through my veins. To be honest, I was emotionally numb, but that was better than being manic depressive.

Though my feelings were

cut short, and I am on the thicker side. One day, I got tired of being ignored, so I decided to conform.

Every other week I paid about $300.00 to have a woman sew hot, overpriced hair into my head, even though it was an expense I could barely afford. I also began planning my outfits to make sure they were up to date with what my wealthy peers considered fashionable, and I never left my home without makeup on. Worst of all, I began attempting to be straight: I thought that subscribing to that sexual orientation would make me more appealing even though I’d spent years being out and proud.

Sure, I began to have more friends at Penn, but it was all a façade.

Academically speaking, it’s easy to get lost at Penn. My classes were a lot larger than I was used to; I was afraid to ask questions, and when I did ask, I often found the TAs didn’t know the answers and the professors were absent. Eventually, it was easier for me to just stay at home and read the lectures from my bed rather than attend lecture itself.

Moreover, Penn’s culture was way too competitive. Students gobbled academic performance enhancing drugs like candy. I, along with most of the student body, seemed to value the A over

at Penn that were life altering for me, like a law fraternity and Penn Women’s Rugby, many other clubs were more concerned with having elections so that people could put “member of the executive board” on their resume than with endeavoring fulfilling activities or serving as catalysts for change.

I firmly believe that my time at Penn would have been better if I were not poor. There are many low income students on campus and they tend to stick together, but most of my friends stem from higher income brackets than my own.

It was horrible when I couldn’t accept my bid into a sorority, which I believe would have improved my experience at Penn, because I could not afford it. I felt as if most of the activities that truly brought Penn students together were off limits to me, because I could not afford the dues.

The stress of it all was overwhelming. I began to gain weight and binge drink. I rapidly began a descent into depression. During my entire high school career, I had never skipped a class, but during spring semester, I attended only eight lectures of my Introduction to Psychology class, even though the class was a requirement for my major. I couldn’t be who I had to be to attend Penn.

many Penn students before had so expertly worn Penn face and succumbed to the misery. That day I began applying to other universities.

Since announcing that I wanted to transfer, so many people have reached out to me, thanking me for speaking out on the struggle that is attending Penn if you aren’t rich, white or mentally stable. I am so grateful that people feel safe enough to confide in me. At this point, I do not know what university I will be attending in the fall, but I do know that it will not be the University of Pennsylvania.

Penn is an amazing school and many people thrive there. I simply was not one of those people. Please believe me when I say that I try to convince myself every day to come back and suffer through because being a Penn student is a privilege.

I urge those of you who still attend Penn to keep working hard and reaching for that which others deem unattainable. However, if Penn and any other institution makes you question your sanity and your self worth, please, choose yourself and leave. This has not been an easy decision and due to it, I have been financially and emotionally cut off from my family members, but as of today, I have officially unenrolled.

“I couldn’t be who I had to be to attend Penn.” reigned in, I continued to feel inferior at Penn. I was virtually invisible because of the way I presented myself. I chose to go to class in sweatpants, I wore my hair

actually learning the material.

Unfortunately, this level of competition also seeped over into on campus recruiting and clubs.

Though there were several clubs

In the spring, the Penn community experienced a severe loss when a fellow Quaker took her own life, and it was my tipping. It was heart wrenching because too

In this moment I am already beginning to feel something that has been foreign to me for two long years. I believe it’s called happiness.

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STUDENTS BALL OUT AT POTTRUCK Between taking classes, doing research and working at internships, some Quakers still find time to play pickup basketball in the gym at Pottruck. Regulars and amateurs alike can be found on the courts virtually from open til close.

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Friday, finishing the second round with a time of 3:55.36 for Penn’s second 24th place finish of the day.

National Olympic Committees are only allowed to send three athletes for each event, and as such,

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Princeton’s Ryan McCarthy netted the sudden death winner just minutes into bonus time. The Quakers, despite the valiant effort, were forced to settle with the Ivy’s silver medal.

Undeterred, I whipped out my game recap and headed up to Franklin Field, where Penn football was in the final moments of a nailbiter, also against the Tigers.

To that point, the Red and Blue had shown some life on the season — picking up Ivy wins versus Brown, Columbia, and Yale. However, doubts remained that Penn was truly capable of competing with the conference’s big boys.

The score was tied 20-20 when Princeton lined up for a game-winning field goal, one that would drop Penn to 3-2 and likely out of title

Mattis, Awad, and Hay found themselves facing all odds competing against professional athletes for a chance to travel to Rio. While they unfortunately fell short, to reach the pinnacle of United States Track and Field competitions at such a young age means that there is much more to come from these newly

contention.

However, junior linebacker Donald Panciello, who had provided the heroics in an historic upset win over Villanova earlier in the season, burst off the edge and blocked the attempt, sending the game to overtime.

And unlike their field hockey counterparts, the Quakers came up big in the extra period. After holding the Tigers to three points on defense, Alek Torgersen found Eric Fiore for a game-winning touchdown. The stands went crazy; Penn football had officially and indisputably returned to relevance.

That Saturday afternoon was the most conspicuously thrilling day in what was an unbelievably exciting fall season for Penn athletics — football would continue its roll to a share of the Ivy title with an upset of Harvard and a trouncing of Cornell. Tommy Awad’s All-American

graduated Quakers.

The end of the U.S. Track & Field Olympic Trials brings disappointment to Penn, ensuring now that no Quakers will find themselves in Rio de Janeiro this August, after all 14 of the swimmers at the swimming trials also failed to qualify last week.

TOM NOWLAN is a College junior from Montpelier, Vt., and is a sports editor at The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at nowlan@thedp.com.

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MISSED 2016 graduates Mattis, Awad and Hay all fail to qualify for Rio Olympics DAVID FIGURELLI Sports Reporter

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his past weekend, three recently-graduated members of Penn’s track and field team competed in the U.S. Olympic Trials in Eugene, Ore. for a spot on the team bound for Rio this August. All of them fell just short of their goal of ultimately making the Olympic team, but none failed to impress at one of the most prestigious domestic competitions in the nation.

Thomas Awad, Sam Mattis and Kelsey Hay, all class of 2016 graduates, made the trip out to the west coast last week to compete for U.S. Olympic roster spots on the men’s 1500-meter run, men’s discus and women’s javelin teams, respectively. All three came in with high expectations — Mattis and Hay hold Penn records in discus and javelin with throws of 67.45 meters and 51.17 meters, respectively,

while Awad is second in the Penn all-time record books for the 1500meter event with a time of 3:37.75 and also holds the Penn record for the 5000-meter run at 13:33.29.

Given their established success, all three had reasonable expectations to make the team, but unfortunately they could not quite achieve the same level of performance that they had seen at Penn.

Mattis got the weekend started

off hot for the Quakers on Thursday, when he placed second in the qualifying round with a throw of 60.93 meters. Friday would not be as favorable to the discus throwers, as Mattis was only able to muster a throw of 57.86 meters in the final round, good for ninth place.

His performance was subpar by his standards, considering his past marks this year alone. At the beginning of the season, Mattis

hurled a discus for 67.45m at the Philadelphia College Classic — the longest throw in the world in 2016 at the time. Even a throw of 61.25m would have secured him third place and a spot on the U.S. Olympic roster, but it was not meant to be on a day of disappointment for the track star.

Hay was also featured in competition on Thursday, as her top javelin throw of 42.25 meters

placed her in 24th place for the qualifying round.

Finally, Awad rounded out the competition for the Quakers on Thursday, qualifying for the semifinal round of the 1500 meter run by finishing eighth overall in the qualifying round with a time of 3:42.49. However, he would not perform as well in the semi-finals on SEE OLYMPICS PAGE 7

Quakers make their Homecoming weekend mark at World Champs was pinnacle of fall 2015 M. LAX | Four players,

coach join Team USA WILL SNOW Sports Editor

The Federation of International Lacrosse Under-19 World Championship has kicked off in Canada this past week, and Team U.S.A. has a core composition of Quakers.

Five individuals — four athletes and a coach — are representing

Penn in the Canadian province of British Columbia as the U.S. seeks to defend its title in the Under-19 World Championship.

The players are all rising sophomores: Tyler Dunn, Noah Lejman, Simon Mathias and Alex Roesner are donning the Red, White and Blue, all under the tutelage of Red and Blue associate head coach Patrick Myers.

Play began with the U.S. faced against tournament hosts Canada on July 7, with other Blue Division

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Rising sophomore attack Alex Roesner has lit up the Under-19 World Championship so far, with 11 goals and three assists in four games.

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group games played against Australia, Iroquois Nationals, and England over the ensuing week.

The Americans, led by barnstorming performances up front by Roesner, won every game in their group by blowout margins ranging from seven to 14 points.

Roesner scored 11 goals and registered three assists in his team’s four games of group play, while fellow classmate Mathias also lit up the score sheets, notching five of each himself.

The U.S. will play their first knockout game Thursday night, with a run to the final on Saturday nothing short of expected. After all, the U.S. has won all eight of the Under-19 World Championships since the event’s conception in 1988.

The tournament is sure to give the Quakers a boost heading into the 2016-2017 season, and a muchneeded one at that, following a bitter end to their spring season with a tight loss to Yale in the first round of the Ivy League tournament.

With new experience to tout, and perhaps even an international championship under their belts, the men’s lacrosse team could head into the new year with a head full of confidence and hopes of winning even more.

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’ve had the privilege of writing for the Daily Pennsylvanian for two full years now, and one particular date is seared into my brain: November 7, 2015.

T hat pa r ticula r day, undoubtedly, was the most entertaining of my Penn career thus far.

It was homecoming weekend, and campus was packed with parents and alumni prepared to take in some late-season fall sports action.

I started off the cool afternoon covering field hockey versus Princeton. It was a daunting matchup for the Red and Blue — the Tigers had utterly dominated the Ivy League for decades, winning the previous 11 championships and 20 of the preceding 21 titles.

Penn, however, was no slouch in its own right: behind a conferencebest 27 goals from sophomore attack Alexa Hoover, the Quakers sat at 5-1 in conference play, meaning that the day’s tilt served as the Ivy League’s de facto championship game.

Princeton, as predicted, took

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Homecoming was put into Penn sports history when junior QB Alek Torgersen threw an OT game-winning touchdown to beat Princeton

an early 1-0 lead. That score then held for the next hour of gameplay, as each squad settled into solid defense. The crowd, easily twice as big as any other I had ever seen at Vagelos Field, was on edge.

Their angst gave way to euphoria when Quaker freshman Selena Garzio found the back of the net of a corner play with three minutes remaining, tying the score at one

and extending the season to an overtime period.

“We were confident at that juncture of the game that she’d be able to finish, and she did,” Penn coach Colleen Fink told me afterwards. “She executed it perfectly.”

There was, however, to be no joy in Mudville that day, as SEE NOWLAN PAGE 8

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