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Penn alters sexual violence and harrassment policies The updates were the school’s third change in the past two years JENNA WANG News Editor

The University recently revised its sexual harassment and sexual violence policies, effective July 1. These changes mark the third time Penn has updated its policies in two years. Previous updates came in 2014 and February 2015 in accordance with the Department of Education and “to accommodate newly issued guidance and legislation,” according to the Office of University Communications. The school changed its sexual harassment policy “to be more inclusive” of a range of sexual orientations, gender identities and gender expressions. The updated policy clarified procedures for making formal complaints and added sections about the complaint process for anyone visiting Penn, as well as anti-retaliation provisions. The revision also included language to clarify that instances of sexual violence, relationship violence and stalking should be referred to under the sexual violence policy rather than the sexual harassment policy. Administration amended its sexual violence policy to include single acts of relationship violence within its coverage. The revision included SEE SEXUAL VIOLENCE PAGE 5

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ove over, Masala — another Penn a cappella group is hitting the TV screen with perfect pitch. Off the Beat, one of 14 groups in Penn’s A Cappella Council, will take the stage next week in ”Sing It On,” a documentary series featuring student a cappella groups as they pursue the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella title. “We spend so much time [and] energy and we have this passion for what we do, and for a TV production company to say ‘Hey, we want to show everyone what you guys do’ is pretty awesome,” said rising College senior Madeline Kleypas, who recently SEE OFF THE BEAT PAGE 3

Student’s internship in Turkey shaken up by military coup attempt

…living in a constant state of hyper-vigilance and mistrust is the wrong way for us to grapple with terrors.”

The failed coup happened in Turkey’s capital city Ankara

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Jaime Molyneux, Penn’s director of international risk management, said nine Penn students and six faculty members were in Turkey during the coup.

When members of the military launched a coup attempt against the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday, July 15, rising College junior Leo Page-Blau was in his host family’s house, 20 minutes outside Ankara, Turkey’s capital city. But they were on vacation, so he was alone. “It probably wasn’t until one in the

morning until I started hearing jets,” he said. “I could only really hear jets from one to four.” He said the houses of his friends who lived downtown were shaking from bombs. Jaime Molyneux, Penn’s director of international risk management, said nine Penn students and six faculty and staff members were in Turkey at the time of the coup. But that doesn’t count students and employees who are Turkish citizens. Molyneux said Penn’s Global SEE TURKEY PAGE 5

The Daily Show gears up to film at Penn’s Annenberg Center Preparations for next week’s tapings began a year ahead JENNA WANG News Editor

Next week, Penn will share a piece of the Democratic National Convention’s spotlight. “The Daily Show with Trevor

Noah” will be filming at Penn’s Annenberg Center from Tuesday, July 26 to Friday, July 29. Eight hundred free tickets were distributed to the Penn community in a lottery in April, and a full audience is expected at each of the four nights. Comedy Central first reached out to Penn about a year ago about the Annenberg Center being a possible

filming location for its show, according to Annenberg Center Associate Managing Director Stuart Jasper. The Annenberg Center was one of five venues that were being considered, alongside the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Drexel’s Mandell Theater, the Philadelphia Theater Company and the Prince Theater. “Penn is home to smart, curious

and socially involved students and faculty members,” Jasper said. “We have the right combination of size and venue, the location is easy to park and close to public transportation [and we have] the technology and the availability during the summer months.” Daily Show Executive Producer Jill SEE DAILY SHOW PAGE 3

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How to make an algorithm notice your resume

Large employers now use automated applicant filter LUCIEN WANG Copy Editor

With a new season of Wharton recruiting beginning, students will need to prep their resumes for human and non-human readers alike. Banking, consulting and technology jobs will be recruiting in the fall this year, for both internship and full-time positions. Penn students will undoubtably apply to large companies like Morgan Stanley and Google, which sift through the hundreds of thousands of applications from students worldwide. According to figures provided by the Financial Times, Goldman Sachs alone attracted over a quarter of a million applications in the

2015-2016 application season. In order to tackle this challenge, virtually every large employer now uses automated applicant tracking software to filter through the mountains of resumes. All resumes are first fed through a parser, which removes all formatting and stylistic features, condensing the document into keywords and descriptors. The system assigns meaning to the resume content, where the resumes are then ranked on relevancy for the employer and position. According to Management professor Peter Cappelli, although firms may risk missing potential talent and hires through this automated system, the priority behind using them still remains “the need to process thousands and thousands of

applications cheaply.” Firms need to “choose between erring on the side of picking too many qualified applicants and too few,” as “they don’t have the resources to investigate too many, so they choose going with too few,” noted Cappelli. He also remarked that on-campus recruiting may differ, as “real” recruiters get to see the resumes as well. In a recent interview with The New York Times and in a followup interview with The Daily Pennsylvanian, Cappelli gave a few tips in making resumes stand out in the automated sifting process: It is especially important to “try to write the resume around the job description,” and to tweak your resume with this in mind. “Knowing what they are looking for and highlighting those attributes is important,” he said.

“The automated systems are designed more to cut out thousands of résumés, and less to find diamonds in the rough.” Cover letters are also important, “but usually they aren’t screened,” according to Cappelli. With a growing number of applications, firms such as Goldman Sachs are also now turning to video submissions as a form of applicant screening. In the upcoming 2016-2017 recruiting round, Goldman Sachs now requires first-round applicants to submit videos through an online portal to answer questions rather than face an in-person interview. Cappelli remarked that this process would allow the company to screen many more candidates, but whether this video-submission process would lead to better hires is not yet clear.

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In a New York Times article, Wharton professor Peter Cappelli outlined ways to enhance resumes for automated applicant tracking software.

Talking about race and social injustice with children

Penn study identifies how much marijuana is in a joint

Prof. says parents should have the difficult talks

The study found the average amount is 0.32 grams

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When police-involved shootings of black men and shootings of police officers in Dallas, Texas, and Baton Rouge, La. are shown constantly in the news and on social media, parents can feel conflicted. They might want to protect their children from exposure to these graphic events while also wanting to teach them about moral issues. Clinical psychologist at Penn’s Graduate School of Education Howard Stevenson said he believes parents need to have the difficult conversations with their children about race and social justice. “Parents talking about these issues will help children with their questions and queries,” he said. “More talking is always better.” It helps answer questions like: What am I supposed to say? What did I actually see? How I am feeling?” Stevenson works with educators and families to help them understand the emotions that racial events can bring about, and how to lessen the effects of the stress they might feel on their health and wellbeing. His research has found elementary children are aware of racial attitudes and that talking about injustice helps children make sense of things that do not go right in the world. According to the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, black boys as young as 10 may not be viewed in the same light of childhood innocence as their white peers. Instead, black boys are more likely to be mistaken as older, be perceived as guilty and face police violence if accused of a crime. “What we know, that with children of color, it affects how they perceive themselves, their

For years, experts have debated the amount of marijuana contained in the average joint, and a new study by criminology professor Greg Ridgeway and Beau Kilmer of the Rand Corporation offers an answer: about one-third of a gram, lower than some previous estimates. Understanding the amount of weed consumed in a typical joint is important for discussions surrounding the drug in both political and healthcare contexts. Marijuana is often sold by the joint in both legal and illegal markets. If someone wants to know how much weed people are smoking, for issues such as tax projections or public health

studies, you need to know how much weed is in an average joint. “If you are trying to estimate total marijuana expenditures, make realistic projections about tax revenues, or understand how a policy change will influence the illicit market, you need to have good information about consumption,” Kilmer said The study, published in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence, looks at 10 years of arrest data to estimate average joint size. Using a drug pricing model and statistical analysis, the two researchers came up with a mean weight of 0.32 grams of marijuana per joint. Previous studies have offered a range of estimates when it comes to joint size. A 2011 study of 251 participants yielded an average of 0.66 grams per joint. More recently, a 2014 federal report estimated the figure to be about 0.43

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Howard Stevenson, a Graduate School of Education professor, recently stated the importance of race and social justice discussions.

self worth, how much voice they have in the classroom and how confident they feel,” Stevenson said. “So the benefit of having these difficult conversations with children is so that children do not internalize that they are inferior or that there is something wrong with them.” These conversations about racial issues in the United States can help children ask questions, have open discussions and solve problems as adults. “Most adults, especially white Americans, do not know what to do or say when it comes to a racial moment or event,” Stevenson said. “Silence is often the most common coping strategy for adults. You might not say anything in these situations in order to not upset anyone, but you also do it to protect yourself. We think that is unacceptable for social justice.

People need to learn to speak up in order to protect people.” Stevenson published a book titled “Promoting Racial Literacy: Differences That Make a Difference,” which discusses how educators emotionally settle racially stressful encounters that reflect racial profiling and undermine student emotional wellbeing and academic achievement in the classroom. “Teachers have to examine their own skill sets and biases about how much experience, exposure and knowledge one has about racial issues and institutional racism,” Stevenson said. “Once we figure this out, teachers need to accept that they teach students from all different backgrounds with very different experiences and they need to try meet the needs of students of color.”

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According to a study by professor Greg Ridgeway and Beau Kilmer of the Rand Corporation, 0.32 grams of marijuana are in an average joint.

grams. Because users often report marijuana consumption in terms of joints smoked, self-reported consumption data is not very useful without an accurate estimate of joint size.“In order to get good projections, you need to be able to turn those answers — ‘I’ve had one joint in the last 30 days’ — into a quantity,” Ridgeway told The New York Times. A number of factors can complicate estimates, particularly when self reporting is involved. “Much depends on the type of user being surveyed, where they live, how the question is worded, and whether there were visual prompts,” Kilmer said. Admittedly, Ridgeway and Kilmer only addressed a subpopulation of 10,000 marijuana users in U.S. cities during a federal program from 2000 to 2010. Prices paid and amounts purchased were based on participants’ reports. The challenge in measuring consumption does not end at estimating joint size. The popularity of other methods of consumption, such as concentrates and edibles, presents complications for researchers. “While joint size info can help inform these estimates, we also need data about the consumption of other cannabis products,” Kilmer said. Changes in drug potency also pose challenges. Over the 10year period analyzed, the average amount of THC in a joint likely increased, the study noted. Still, Ridgeway and Kilmer’s study is one of the more robust in recent years. The joint size estimate is also notably lower than previously reported figures. “These estimates can be incorporated into drug policy discussions to produce better understanding about illicit marijuana markets, the size of potential legalized marijuana markets, and health and behavior outcomes,” the two researchers wrote.

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A conversation with The Daily Show’s Jordan Klepper The correspondent will be in Philly all next week JENNA WANG News Editor

The last time “The Daily Show” correspondent Jordan Klepper was in town, he had his identity stolen at a bar. Next week, when he arrives in Philadelphia to cover the Democratic National Convention for national television, he’s hoping for a better time. Jordan Klepper is one of seven correspondents reporting for “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.” Its cast and crew, currently in Cleveland, Ohio, for the Republican National Convention, will be traveling to Philadelphia next week — Annenberg Center Live on Penn’s campus, specifically — to cover the Democratic National Convention. In anticipation for “The Daily Show”‘s tapings at the Annenberg Center next week, The Summer Pennsylvanian interviewed Klepper about his thoughts on covering two weeks of America’s craziest politics, “sticking a thermometer up the convention’s ass” and why the

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Katz affirmed Jasper’s statement, saying that the Annenberg Center’s location on Penn’s campus and facilities made it a standout spot for the show’s tapings. “There are a lot of ingredients that make the right choice for us, and the Annenberg Center had the right size stage, sufficient space — and we always love being at a school,” Katz said. In addition to being the location for this summer’s “Daily Show” tapings, Penn already has a history of partnering with Comedy Central. In 2000, Jon Stewart filmed “The Daily Show” at the Annenberg Center during the Republican National Convention. In 2008, “The Colbert Report” filmed at Annenberg’s Zellerbach Theater for its coverage of the Pennsylvania Democratic primary. Seats sold out almost immediately for “The Daily Show”‘s

DNC doesn’t have ex-underwear models speaking instead of Bill Clinton. The Summer Pennsylvanian: Have you ever been to Philadelphia? What is your impression of the city? Klepper: The last time I was in Philadelphia I went to a dodgy bar, I used the ATM machine, and I had my identity stolen. If it goes slightly better than that, if I retain my identity on this trip, then it’s a huge success. SP: What are you looking forward most to about taping the upcoming week of shows in Philadelphia? Klepper: I can’t wait to see how this convention is going to play out. America’s gonna get two weeks of incredible reality television. You’re gonna get to see all the way from Antonio Sabato Jr, who is a former underwear model, to the President of the United States. I can’t wait to enjoy all that America has to offer. SP: In a recent interview you said you were planning to “take the thermometer and stick it up the convention’s ass.” We would like to know, in detail, how you plan to do this at the DNC in the

Philadelphia tapings in April, when “The Daily Show” opened up tickets to the general public on its website. “It took no time for them to all scooped up,” Katz said. “They went fast — an hour or so, gone.” Half of the tickets went to the general public, while the other half were reserved for Penn affiliates. Tickets are non-transferrable and require an ID to pick up. Students who don’t have tickets but are still hoping to attend the tapings can opt to queue in a standby line each day at the Annenberg Center, according to Jasper. “We’ll have a standby line in the event that people don’t show, but we won’t know that until we get closer to the actual start of the show,” he said. “Right now everything is pretty much filled.” However, Katz said that a standby line would not be encouraged, as “The Daily Show” purposely overbooks audience members to ensure a full theater

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coming weeks. Klepper: The best way in which to gauge the temperature of the populace, if you are going to do it through the posterior, is to get in there. You can’t dance around it. You go right to the people, the delegates, and

in case some ticket holders don’t show up. “We’re not promoting a standby line or anything like that because we think enough people will have booked tickets to fill the seats,” she said. “The Daily Show”’s production team is set to arrive on Penn’s campus a week before the tapings to build a custom set for the show and work with the Annenberg Center’s technical and professional staff. There will be high security throughout the week of live tapings, according to Jasper, and audience members will be discouraged from bringing large bags or taking pictures at the show. “We are working very closely with the Department of Public Safety and the Daily Show staff to ensure efficient crowd management,” Jasper said. As for special guests on the show — an oft-expected staple of television coverage at national conventions — they “haven’t been finalized and certainly not released yet,” according to Katz. Students will be expected to arrive around 2 p.m. on each day of the tapings to stand in line and go through security checks. Audience members will be let into the theater at 4:30, and filming will start around 6 and end at 7. However, the Thursday taping of “The Daily Show” will break this mold. On July 15, “The Daily Show” sent out an email informing ticket-holders that the show would be broadcasting live at 11 p.m. on July 28, in order to react quickly to Hillary Clinton’s scheduled speech at the DNC that night.

you talk to them about what they care about. You talk to the people on the streets who are protesting, and you try to gauge the temperature. It might be a little bit dirty, it might be stinky and gross at times, but hopefully at the end you get a real feeling

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took the role of Off the Beat’s music director. “It was pretty unexpected, and then when it happened, it was really exciting.” “Sing It On,” which prem ieres on Pop TV on Wednesday, July 27 at 9 p.m., will follow Off the Beat’s preparation for the ICCA, including, said Kleypas, “all of our late-night, stressed-out practices.” According to Kleypas, who joined Off the Beat her freshman year, the journey started when the network reached out last summer to then-College sophomore Brian Park, the group’s business manager at the time. The singers then went through interviews with the producers and were ultimately selected, along with the University of Maryland’s

journey concluded at the 2016 ICAA Mid-Atlantic Semifinal, have a similar skill in arranging. Off the Beat was awarded “Outstanding Arrangement” at the competition for their performance of “End of an Era,” which Kleypas helped produce. The opportunity to get the group’s name out there is huge for Off the Beat, whose latest album will come out this fall and whose previous albums are available on Spotify. “We’re really excited to see how things turn out and the amount of press the show can produce,” said Kleypas. Pegged by Pop TV as a “‘real life’ Pitch Perfect,” ”Sing It On” makes Off the Beat the second Penn a cappella group in two years to be featured in a national production. In 2015, Penn Masala was featured in the Billboard Music Award-winning movie ”Pitch Perfect 2.”

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Faux Paz and the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Hexachords and S#arp Attitude. The show’s television crew then followed Off the Beat — which has been singing on Penn’s campus for almost 30 years — throughout the last spring semester, tracking their months of preparation for the ICCA and the hours in between. The ICCA is run by Varsity Vocals, a group that connects college and high school a cappella groups around the world. The organization has conducted the ICCA competition for 20 years, and Off the Beat is no stranger to the competition — the group was awarded best arrangement for Jeff Marrazzo’s arrangement of “Beautiful People” back in the 2000 Mid-Atlantic Quarterfinal. The current artists, whose

opportunity. SP: What, for you, would be the definition of a great and successful week of Daily Show DNC coverage? What do you hope to accomplish? Klepper: Our goal is to be a part of this process and hopefully bring a side of this gigantic event, bring a different perspective and illuminate something that maybe people didn’t know was happening. First of all, I want to get up close and dirty with the political process and see if it is as dysfunctional as it looks from the outside. I also want to hear in both places what is it that people really care about and are moved by with both of these candidates. It will be fascinating to hear that from the horse’s mouth. SP: Great! Any last thoughts? Klepper: We are super excited as an entire team to travel. The whole show picks up and moves to another city. It’s like one big sleepover in a brand new town. So it’s like you get to go to your best friend’s house but your best friend is the city of Philadelphia. I hope you guys are ready for us. This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity.

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OPINION The GOP’s diversity dance

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CITIZEN CAPOZZI | Trump’s non-negotiable conditions for minority inclusion You’re allowed in our Party, but only on our terms. That was the blunt message delivered to minority voters by the RNC speakers on Monday. But while many media groups are criticizing the RNC’s speaker lineup for being excessively white, it was predominantly minority speakers making three blunt points on minority issues: Term #1: You’re on your own, no handouts. Arizona state senator Kimberly Yee (R-20th) shared her Chinese immigrant background while denouncing government regulations and handouts, which she contrasted with “hard work.” Colorado state representative Libby Szabo stated, “We prided ourselves on earning our way and not having anything handed to us. We the people are the answers to our problems, not the government” Term #2: You better come here legally. Day 1 of the RNC was, in large part, a presentation of violence by illegal immigrants against Americans. This violence was then repeatedly used as a justification of Trump’s policies. Sabine Durden, a black woman, blamed illegal immigration for her son’s death, saying, “We need to enforce our existing immigration laws. We need to secure our borders so no other person needs to go through this agony knowing it could have been prevented. We need to build the wall and Americans need to come first.”

Jamiel Shaw, a black man, said that “every black politician in LA” supported him after his son’s murder, until they learned that the killer was “an illegal alien gangbanger from Mexico.” Shaw further stated that it was proven in court that the killer’s gang targeted black males, but blamed President Obama for not caring about black lives because the killer was an illegal immigrant. Rep. Szabo made the point less directly, saying, “I was taught to obey the rules, even when I didn’t like them… not following them shows a lack of integrity.” Ahem, dishonest illegal immigrants! Term #3: We side with the Police, get over it. The GOP could not have chosen a more appropriate messenger than David Clarke Jr., the black Democratic sheriff of Milwaukee County. He started his speech by saying, “I would like to make something very clear: blue lives matter.” He then praised the acquittal of the Baltimore police officer accused of murdering Freddie Gray and denounced the “malicious prosecution of activist State Attorney Marilyn Mosby.” He went on to blame communities for the increase in crime, saying that “safety is a shared endeavor. It starts with the willing acceptance of people to play by society’s rules.” The message to minorities seems clear: respect the police and follow the law, no matter what. And then he targeted Black Lives Matter directly, saying their actions “transcend peaceful

protest” and promote “anarchy.” Most aggressively of all, the GOP’s black Colorado senate candidate, Darryl Glenn, said, “Someone with a nice tan needs to say this, ‘All lives matter.’” He then denounced Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, saying “they don’t speak for black America, they don’t speak to me.” As for police violence against black people, Glenn said, “If you really want to heal our communities, more men need to step it up to take care of their children. Safe neighborhoods happen when fathers and mothers are at home.” In other words, it’s the fault of black people that they’re being killed by the police. The primary media critique of the RNC on minority issues is that there aren’t enough minority speakers, that they’re predominantly white. As a Politico analysis observes, only 20% of primetime speakers represent minority groups, a slight downtick from Mitt Romney’s 2012 Convention. But this misses the larger point, especially since that percentage actually overrepresents minorities within the Republican Party and is not far off from the minority share of the population. What’s more significant is that Republican minority voices are not using the opportunity to bridge the divide between the GOP and minority voters. Not only is their message largely the same as white Republicans, they mostly fail to acknowledge the concerns of many people in minority communities.

No speaker uttered the phrase “Black lives matter” on Monday other than to condemn a movement that speaks directly to the widespread concern in minority communitiesthat law enforcement unfairly targets them. Likewise with illegal immigration. Many parts of the Party platform are potentially appealing to Hispanic communities, as evidenced by the success of Bob Dole and George W. Bush in earning the Hispanic vote. And while some Hispanics who legally immigrated to the U.S. could find the GOP’s tough message appealing, around 77 percent of Hispanics favor a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants. By taking such a hardline stance and failing to acknowledge the reasons – most of which are hardly sinister - that people come here illegally, Republicans like Rep. Szabo are missing an opportunity to speak directly to Hispanic voters. As for their anti-welfare message, Republicans don’t have to alienate minority communities. While they might not be able to win minority voters dependent on welfare, many want more equality of opportunity, the chance to get a good education or a job that pays a living wage. I’m not saying Republicans need to abandon their principles on issues like minimum wage or having a small government, but they could certainly acknowledge that minorities generally have inferior education opportunities and

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healthcare. So the issue with the RNC is not necessarily the skin color of the speakers or even what the GOP’s minority voices advocated for, but perhaps what they didn’t advocate for. You can protect police officers while acknowledging that American minorities face discrimination, a greater chance of violence and fewer educational opportunities than white Americans. You can advocate for a tougher immigration system without harshly dehumanizing those who came here illegally. But the GOP is not doing taking these approaches. Consequently, many minority voters will continue to thinkRepublicans don’t care. Who can blame them? LOUIS CAPOZZI is a rising first-year Penn Law student from Mechanicsburg, Pa. His email address is capozzil@sas.upenn.edu. “Citizen Capozzi” appears every other Thursday.

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Stop living in terror HOSTAGER’S TAKE | How to deal with terrorism in our lives The American Flag serves as an enduring symbol of freedom, liberty, and patriotism. Lately, flying at half-mast, it has also been a somber reminder of the evil and violence that has invaded our world. President Obama has ordered US flags to half-mast no fewer than three times since the beginning of last month. First, a gunman pledging allegiance to the Islamic State murdered 51 people at The Pulse nightclub in Orlando. Then, on July 7th, a gunman who expressed hatred towards white police officers killed five during a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas. And just last week, a radicalized Tunisian national drove an SUV through a crowd celebrating Bastille Day in Nice, France, killing 84 and injuring over one hundred others. It is as if half-mast is the new normal. These horrific attacks were all so-called lone wolf acts of terrorism, planned and executed by a single individual. None of the attackers had previous known ties to any terrorist group, and none had a criminal record that

raised a red flag. There were no obvious clues that intelligence agencies could have detected to prevent the attack. The problem of thwarting lone wolf attacks is further complicated by their variety. The attacks in Orlando and Nice were carried out by self-radicalized Islamic extremists, while the Dallas shooter was motivated by racial hatred towards white police officers. Orlando and Dallas involved a semi-automatic rifle, while the Nice attacker used his truck as a weapon of massacre. In light of these realities, how can we possibly stop another lone-wolf? We could give law enforcement unrestricted access to all the tools they would need to detect every potential lonewolf attack, which would mean submitting to Orwellian state spying. We could deny potential attackers weapons by banning guns, vehicles, and anything else that could kill a lot of people. We could detain immigrants, Muslims, minorities, and anyone who seems “a little off.” We

could deny terrorists any opportunity to kill a large number of people by forbidding protests or other large gatherings of people. These are all terrible ideas. This seems to leave us with one other option: to live with terrorism. This feels chilling. But during the decade spanning from 20042014, a total of 303 Americans were killed in terrorist attacks at home and abroad according to the State Department. For comparison, roughly 1500 Americans died because of a peanut allergy during the same time frame. Terrorism is far less widespread than we make it out to be. Terrorism has always sparked fear incommensurate with its true threat. The unjust brutality of calculated attacks against innocent civilians, combined with unsettling randomness, is what makes terror effective. But this is especially true today, as social media and instant access to news has made the gruesome images of terror more accessible than ever. Terrorism is further blown out

of proportion by political leaders in the US and Europe who use it to stir up fear and nativism. Look no further than the Republican National Convention, where speaker after speaker railed about the threat of terror Monday night, including Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) who falsely declared that “ISIS is operating in all 50 states.” Terrorism was listed as a number one concern by more Republican voters in Iowa than any other issue heading into the Caucuses this January. Considering Iowa has never had a terror attack and probably is not a prime target for attacks, fear-mongering must have played a part in voters’ perceptions. Our obsession with terror has real consequences: it has divided our communities and led to racial profiling, particularly against Muslims and Americans of Middle Eastern descent. In April UC Berkley student K h a i r u ld e e n M a k h z o om i was kicked off of a Southwest flight after making “potentially threatening comments” before takeoff — speaking to his uncle

in Arabic, he said “inshallah”, the liberally-used Arabic phrase that means “God-willing”. Several weeks later, Renowned Penn economics Professor Guido Menzio was removed from his plane and questioned after another passenger reported him writing “suspicious letters.” He was solving a differential equation. It is important to say something if you see something, but living in a constant state of hyper-vigilance and mistrust is the wrong way for us to to grapple with terrorism. Instead, we should work to build what terrorists seek to destroy: strong, inclusive communities. “If a community has good relations with the police and society in general, it has fewer grievances for terrorists to exploit,” says Daniel Byman, a Senior Fellow with the Brookings Institution. Rollie Flynn, a former CIA analyst, also points to a lack of opportunity that exists in some communities. “You have to get down to the root causes. Is it social isolation? Is it lack of education? Lack of adequate job

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training? That gives rise to this kind of thing.” Terrorism has the effect of making us feel powerless, but we can participate in the fight against it in our everyday lives by building trust and opportunity in our communities. We may have to live with terror, but we can defeat it by refusing to live in it JACK HOSTAGER is a rising College sophomore from Dubuque, Iowa. His email address is hostager@sas. upenn.edu. “Hostager’s Take” appears every other Thursday.

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University City Dining Days arrives on campus A record 34 restaurants are participating this year CLAIRE SCHMIDT Staff Reporter

Dining Days are returning to University City this summer July 14-24, bringing an ever-growing selection of food deals to the West Philadelphia area. Now in its 12th year, University City Dining Days are designed to allow residents and tourists alike to sample West Philly fare at a fixed price.

A record 34 restaurants will be participating this year, including seven that are participating for the first time, including Renata’s Kitchen, Ochatto and JG Domestic. Each restaurant will offer a fixed price, three-course menu at $15, $25 or $35. The promotion comes at an interesting time — in the middle of the summer, when Penn and Drexel students are away from campus and the area appears to slow down. However, University City District Communications Director Chris Richman doesn’t see the lack

of students in the area during the summer months as an issue for the summer promotion. Past iterations of Dining Days had been scheduled for the Fall or Winter, when students are a strong presence in the area. Instead, by scheduling Dining Days for a time when students are gone and general traffic to restaurants is slower, the promotion can have a more dramatic effect on local restaurants and businesses. “So many people leave the city for vacations, plus most college students are not in session, so business

Wharton researchers validate your Instagram obsession Study finds how photos affect people’s experiences JESSICA KIM Staff Reporter

With more than 400 million active users on Instagram, a Wharton researcher discovered why photography has infiltrated almost every Penn student’s daily life. Wharton doctoral student Alixandra Barasch and her two collaborators, Kristin Diehl and Gal Zauberman, studied the effects of photography on people’s experiences. Through nine different activities, they found that generally taking photos could induce beneficial effects by increasing people’s feelings of engagement and immersion. “Study after study, people were enjoying the experience more,” Barasch said. “As we delved into the reason why, it made people feel more immersed … When you’re taking photos, you’re searching out the visual field, you’re looking for things to capture and that just makes you more engaged.” In the study, more than 2,000 participants were engaged in

various activities including eating lunch, watching a Rihanna concert, taking a virtual bus tour, doing arts and crafts and walking through a museum. For each experiment, researchers asked half of the group to take pictures while the other half was instructed to go about the experience without using their cameras or posting on social media. Originally, all three researchers responded with skepticism that photo taking could be beneficial. They, along with many others, believed photography is distracting or harmful to their experiences. But contrary to their initial thoughts, Barasch and her collaborators consistently found that photo taking was beneficial to a person’s experience. Barasch noted photo taking is not universally beneficial. In cases where the physical process of taking the photo is a hindrance, people stated that they enjoyed their experience less. Likewise, when the experience they were capturing was negative, people enjoyed it less. Additionally, taking photos during activities that are already actively engaging resulted in neither positive or negative effects

on a person’s enjoyment. The goal of taking photos is also a critical factor of its effects on a person’s experience. “If I’m just taking a photo of a fountain or food to just remember this, there’s less stress and less anxiety to get it perfect,” said Barasch. “The types of photos that people take to share, they tend to be more posed, more presentational. All these different things, the way we want to portray ourselves to others, can have negative effects on our experience.” Then why do casual and avid photographers keep taking photos to post on social media sites if it causes stress and anxiety? One main reason is the long term, positive effects of sharing. “When you’re sharing the photo and you’re getting likes and people are excited about your experience, that feels really good,” said Barasch, “It’s thinking so much about how your photo is going to be received by the audience that can be harmful. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do it or it’s bad overall, because we get a lot of value and happiness and enjoyment from the sharing process.”

suffers,” Richman said. Adding the Dining Days promotion was “an incentive to drive more business to the area during what is typically a slow period.” While Richman admits the UCD misses out on a large portion of the University City population by scheduling the promotion in July, any loss in numbers is made up by the extra consumers driven to the area during Dining Days. And by attracting extra customers to West Philly eateries when business would otherwise be slow, UCD is “helping [the

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Incident Management Team knew something was going on even before news outlets were reporting the coup — bridges were closing, and the airports were disrupted. When that news reached Molyneux, she said “the immediate thing that my office does is pull a report from the Global Activities Registry.” All Penn students traveling abroad are required to register with GAR, which helps Molyneux’s team locate them in an incident like the one in Turkey. Even though it’s required, though, sometimes it doesn’t happen. “It’s difficult to get compliance but in situations like this it’s the number one resource for identifying travelers abroad,” she said. In the case of the coup in Turkey, she ensured everyone was safe and then provided guidance via email. “There was no call to evacuate,

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updates on confidential and non-confidential resource information, added a reporting and monitoring section for sexual violence and clarified that

restaurants] succeed during slow times, mean[ing] they can be open and operational when the students return.” This strategy has proven successful for the area; the number of patrons to West Philly restaurants increases by 50 percent at participating restaurants during Dining Days, drawing both locals and general Philadelphia residents to the area. UCD is also looking to use the DNC — which begins next week — as a means to drive more customers to University City eateries.

As delegates, tourists, media outlets and more arrive, “We’d love for people here for the DNC to trek across the Schuylkill River and explore more of Philadelphia,” Richman said. More than anything, Dining Days are designed to show off the culinary excellence — and diversity — of the West Philadelphia area. There’s nowhere else locally, says Richman, “where someone can choose from Ethiopian, Italian, two types of Chinese, Indian, Japanese, Laotian, Vietnamese, or typical American fare.”

not by the State Department and not by our insurance provider,” she said. Instead, the recommendation was “shelter in place.” “Find a secure location and stay inside,” she said. “Definitely do not participate in the uprising, but stay home. We’re always checking on the wellbeing of our travelers, and all reported that they were safe in a secure location and were able to sit tight for the weekend.” Page-Blau remembered getting that message. “I mean, it’s really all you can do, in a developing situation, just see how things go, stay inside and be safe,” he said. “No one really knew what was happening.” By Saturday, the Turkish government declared the coup was suppressed, and Molyneux said “things are stabilizing a bit but it very much varies about where you’re located in Turkey. Page-Blau said Ankara still doesn’t feel like it’s back to normal.

“I take the public bus by parliament which was bombed every day,” he said. In fact, he’s considering heading home early now that the airports are up running again and he could easily get a flight back to the United States — which Penn would pay for. “I’m not concerned about violence in the street,” he said. “It kind of feels like it’s almost making it more likely that there’s gong to be a terrorist attack from ISIS … because the government is spread thin. It weakens Turkey’s intelligence.” The plan today was just to go to work like normal and see how it was, and he said “it was pretty messy traffic-wise and lots of police presence.” With his internship ending Friday, he was planning to travel to Istanbul and do some touring before he left for the United States on Wednesday. Now, he is deciding whether or not to just cut that part out.

“complaints of sexual violence against enrolled students and faculty will be investigated by the Sexual Violence Investigative Officer.” Deborah Harley holds the position, and was appointed in January. The University changed its

sexual harassment and violence guidelines in 2014, the “first update of Penn’s policy in many years.” The policy was then updated again in February 2015 “to expressly include relationship violence and to accommodate newly issued guidance and legislation.”

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DINING DILEMMAS If you are a person who eats food you should download this now | BY STEPH BARRON

Both restaurants and consumers face serious Dining Dilemmas. For restaurants, the problem is that they have fixed menu prices all throughout the day and week regardless of factors that might weaken demand. For example, the Tartufo Pizza from Tap House is $17 whether you dine at 8 p.m. on a beautiful Friday evening, when demand is high, or at 4 p.m. on Monday in torrential rain, when demand is low. For customers, the problems are that, firstly, everyone argues about where to eat, and, secondly, nobody wants to spend more money than necessary. Enter Spotluck, the app that provides monetary incentives to dine out at specific restaurants and at less popular times, simultaneously saving money for the consumer. Here’s how it works: You choose the neighborhood in which you would like to dine — University City, for example. You spin the virtual wheel, which is divided into segments with a restaurant name on each. At whichever restaurant the wheel stops, you receive a minimum of 15% off your check and a maximum of 35%, depending on weather, time of day and

day of the week. For the other restaurants on the wheel, you receive a minimum of 10%. I’ll repeat that. You receive 10% off your bill every time you dine out no matter what, but there is one randomly-selected place where you will save even more. For example, right now it’s 1:24 p.m. on a Thursday and I’m about ready for lunch. So I spin the wheel on which Tap House, Tandoor, Aksum, Ramen Bar Drexel, Ramen Bar UPenn, Jake’s Sandwich Board, Baby Blues and Hai Street Kitchen are options. The wheel lands on Ramen Bar UPenn, so I recieve 20% off there and 10% off all the others. When I get there, I just have to show my server the app. More customers for Ramen Bar, cheaper noodles and deadly cocktails for me. “It’s a win-win for the marketplace,” said Cherian Thomas, who co-founded Spotluck with Brad Sayler. “It encourages exploring and checking out local gems.” So far, Spotluck has partnered with VisitPhilly, Center City District Sips and 150 local restaurants in the city of Philadelphia, where it is growing 25 times faster than it is in Washington, D.C. Thomas attributes

this success, in part, to the culture of the city. “It’s very local and everybody loves their neighborhood,” he said. “Philadelphia really screams foodie.” Thomas also cites his “team of spies,” comprised of Penn students Zachary Stimler, Zach Madden, Sherry Yao, Nick Scian and Alec Josiah, as paramount to the success of the app. “These are students taking on the responsibilities of professionals,” such as performing a full-on marketing research analysis of UPenn and UCity, determining where to market the brand and designing Spotluck swag to pique the interest of students. “Philadelphia is a huge university city, so when we launched that hub we wanted students to take the lead on our marketing efforts,” Thomas said. “They’ve been vital and instrumental in our growth.” There is also a charity component to the company called “Spotluck Potluck,” which targets a third and far more pressing dining dilemma — food insecurity. Each restaurant in partnership with Spotluck donates a tray of food, which the company then returns to needy people in the local community.

WORST INTERN It’s not sabotaging your future when you already hate your internship | ANONYMOUS

Maybe it was from the moment you laid eyes on the three dingy walls (read: cubicle) that would enclose you for 40 hours a week. Or maybe it was when you had to reorganize Excel sheets for the 100th time. But it’s official, you hate your internship. Don’t worry, you aren’t the only one. According to Career Services, internships only sound beneficial; really, they just take up your time and give the company free labor.* At the most, you may learn what you DON’T want to do in the future. Hoping you will achieve at least that, here are ten more ways to ensure you learn everything you are not supposed to do professionally. If your work is going to waste, it might as well get you fired. 1. Blame everyone else: First off, you have to have the right mentality. Don’t even think you could be contributing to your unhappiness with your job. It’s not your fault that you applied for it and that you never have enough to do. It’s your boss’s fault, your coworkers’ fault and the company’s fault. They suck. 2. Be a freeloader: Alright, the one thing that isn’t so sucky about your internship is all the free stuff that comes with it. We are talking free printing, free coffee, free staples. Use. It. Up. Come September when you are deteriorating in Van Pelt, trying to jam a dollar bill into the machine so you can print your damn essay, you are going to miss those unlimited copies. So hit “Command P” for anything you might need, no matter how personal or unnecessary. Hoard office supplies. Devise a plan to get compensation for lunch or a “business trip.” Will this take up time? Exactly.

3. Play Pokemon GO in the office: Speaking of time, you reached the point of apathy and antipathy where your biggest concern is not how are you going to save time but how you are going to waste it from 9 to 5. Go mainstream and find some Pokemon. If anyone questions why you are aimlessly walking about, remind them that sitting is bad for you, you’re still learning the layout of the building and/or as the youngest person here, you have to play to keep the company socially relevant. 4. Ask for a raise: You may be young (and only an intern), but that doesn’t mean you aren’t smarter than everyone else. After a month or two of you slaving for free, now’s the time for them to recognize your worth and pay up. For reference, ask your colleagues how much they make and then tell your boss you should earn more. It’s good to set the bar high and be ungracious in these situations. 5. Become passive-aggressive: Don’t just be directly assertive, see how far you can go with hostile comments and a resentful attitude before getting the can (this seriously is good to know for future positions). You want this project done? Sure, I can do it if you actually gave me enough time. You want me to get you coffee? Should we try the non-fat? Did we forget to mention how good you will feel once you start passively leaking out your frustrations? 6. Go off (anonymously): Depending on the industry, you may be able to dole out even more anger anonymously. If working for some sort of publication, send a letter to the editor, signed by a

pseudo name, of course. Use your insider perspective and attack all of the company’s weaknesses, not being specific enough that they can guess it’s you. If letters to the editor are not an option, troll their Facebook and Twitter with a fake account. Writing has never felt so satisfying. 7. Gossip: Before there were networking events, copy room gossip brought coworkers together. Embrace your inner hipster and bring back the vintage past time, pulling in your social media stalking skills to fuel the fire. Start dishing to a couple comrades and then expand your circle of trust. You won’t be here much longer, so no employee or topic is off limits. 8. Hook up with that semihot coworker: Just do it already. 9. Send a handwritten note: The most important thing to do before ending an internship is write a thank-you note. In this case, make it an honest letter. Slam, diss, reveal. Describe everything you hated, the secrets you now know and how much cooler you are than them all. If your workplace does face-to-face evaluations, only make this same message more graphic. 10. Change your career path: In all seriousness, take these last 40-hour weeks as a warning of what you shouldn’t be doing for the rest of your life. What did your hate the most? Was it the work, the environment, the people? Figure that out and identify what will make you happy in the professional world. If a real salary won’t do it, find a new title. *Career services did not say this.

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Deciding to transfer to Penn | BY ALIYA CHAUDHRY Last year, around the time I had decided to transfer colleges, I came across an article about a Penn student titled “Suicide on Campus and the Pressure of Perfection,” and after reading it, I was sure I didn’t stand a chance of getting into Penn. The students mentioned in the article were track champions, figure-skating competitors and scientific geniuses — and these students felt academically inferior to their peers and found the atmosphere Penn to be competitive, stressful and depressing. I applied to transfer to Penn anyway and eventually was accepted. About a week after receiving my acceptance, I was pretty much committed to Penn, and started to become aware of its reputation. Penn has been criticized for students’ poor mental health, the widespread use of Adderall on campus, the level of economic privilege among the student population and its hook-up culture. Penn has a reputation of fostering a soulcrushing, high-pressure, deeply competitive pre-professional environment along with being a

party school. I was surprised and anxious about both the cutthroat competition and the intense partying and drinking culture. I was more so shocked because it felt to me that both opposed each other — and neither was something I wanted to deal with in college. I felt the same way about Cornell, which I applied to both as a freshman and a transfer. In high school I was shocked to hear that people thought of Cornell as a party school. I had always heard about how competitive it was, how classes were graded on the curve, how it was supposedly the easiest Ivy to get into but the hardest to stay in and that Cornell was notorious for student suicides. Penn and Cornell are completely different universities — but they ended up with similar reputations. Cornell’s competitive reputation deterred me the first time around, while I didn’t buy into the idea that it was a party school (however, its location discouraged me the most). I’ve learned from my first two years of college that reputations aren’t always entirely indicative of reality. Reputation was part of

what led me to apply for a transfer. I had chosen to go to my previous school because of other people’s impressions and opinions of the school — which ended up not resembling my experience at all. Friends, family members and teachers had all told me similar things about my old college, about how challenging, rigorous and intellectual it was and how welcoming, friendly and accepting the community was. And what I got from their comments and from talking to alumni was what made me want to go there. Unfortunately, it wasn’t the academic, supportive environment that I was hoping to find. I had friends in college who had completely different experiences, who felt pushed, stimulated and nurtured by this environment, but my experience was not as positive. I found the courses weren’t as challenging or as engaging as I hoped and I found the student community to be less academically-oriented than I expected, and less supportive, diverse, inclusive and accepting than I wanted. Although I know others who felt the same

way about my old school, I was in the minority. I knew that 90 percent of a college population can have one experience, but that doesn’t matter if you’re part of the ten percent that goes through something completely different. Every opinion matters, and ultimately, the most important experience is your own. People tried to dissuade me from applying for a transfer, citing rankings, graduate school acceptances, how respected my old school was, how everyone thought of it as a good school. None of that matters if I don’t think it’s a good school and if I don’t feel like I’m getting the education and experience I want and need. It didn’t matter to me whether it was a “good” school, it mattered that it wasn’t a good fit. Someone once told me that all schools are party schools. And it seems to me that a lot of schools are stressful. From reading that New York Times article, although it focused on a Penn student, I took it more to describe what teenagers and college students all over the country are experiencing

— how the education system itself is deeply flawed and psychologically taxing and how depression is an epidemic, especially among adolescents. The one aspect of Penn’s reputation that got to me was the fact that I hadn’t heard much about the English department. I had heard about Penn’s great business and science programs, but it seemed to me that Penn wasn’t known for its humanities and social sciences, which is what I’m studying. Penn’s pre-professional reputation also made me feel that those areas would not be as strongly emphasized. However, looking at articles online, I noticed that Penn had a highly-ranked English department — one aspect most popular conceptions of Penn neglected to include (USA Today said Penn was the second-best school for English majors and College Factual places Penn’s English major at number one). That may also not be entirely accurate, but it’s as true or false as every other stereotype involving Penn, which we buy into more than we realize. I know that reputations can be

based on the majority or the minority. That rankings are flawed. That institutions change over time. That experiences vary. So, when transferring, I focused on the concretes. I wanted a bigger school, I wanted to go to college in a city. I wanted more classes, departments, and more students. And that’s what Penn is going to give me, party school, preprofessional school, competitive campus, bad mental health or not. And already my understanding of Penn’s reputation has shifted and altered drastically — it changed the moment I received my acceptance letter. My impression of Penn has bounced all over the place, from that school I didn’t even know was an Ivy League, to a good school, to a top school, to a competitive school, to a party school, to a school that houses one of the best English departments in the country, to my school. I don’t really know what to expect from Penn. It might be a good fit, it might be a bad one. I won’t really know until I get there, but I prefer to find out for myself.

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Transfer student Caleb Woods joins Red and Blue

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Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball head coach Steve Donahue officially announced his six Class of 2020 recruits to the team recently to complete his roster for the 2016-17 season. Or so we thought. Donahue announced last week via a press release through Penn Athletics that one more addition has been made to the squad, in the form of a transfer student from Lassen Community College in northern California. Caleb Woods, a Reno, Nev.

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comfortable and be able to know that I definitely could hang with everyone out there and I could do well and I could play well, I think that definitely boosted my confidence, and I was able to go out there and really play my game and to not be nervous that I would mess up or have a bad pass or let my team down.â&#x20AC;? That newfound confidence worked wonders for the sophomore and helped bring about an air of consistency to an offense that was already tough to stop. In a 12-game span that started before midseason and lasted up to the season finale, Condon scored nine hat tricks. Her 41 goals in 2016 were the sixth most in a season in program history. She was a force to be reckoned with and received the national acclaim that comes with that type of success: a first-team all-Ivy, first-team all-region and thirdteam all-America selection. Of course, this means that the secret is out: Condon is no longer that sophomore who just entered the starting lineup and was dishing out hat tricks like they were going out of style. That will ultimately pose a challenge to the incoming junior, but she already has devised a plan to avoid becoming a one-hit wonder. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As a junior I want to be able to evolve my play,â&#x20AC;? Condon said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of my goals last season came from beating my defender on a cut and being able to get that feed in and score inside, but I want to have that and also be able to facilitate goals and look to feed and score off of dodges and be able to create more, so Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not as much of a one-dimensional player and bring in some more stuff to my

native, is expected to slot straight into the squadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s playing rotation at the beginning of the season, after lighting up the competition in a standout 2015-16 year. Woods led Lassen with 23.2 points per game, and a remarkable 49.1 threepoint shooting percentage. For reference, Steph Curry shot 45.4 percent from downtown this past NBA season. Woods also contributed to his team beyond scoring, with 5.4 rebounds and 4.7 assists a game. His 6â&#x20AC;&#x2122;4â&#x20AC;?, 180-pound frame allows him to impose himself inside the arc while still able to find space from range. The transfer junior will have two years of eligibility for the Quakers, and if his transfer story goes anything like womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

game to make me a harder player to mark.â&#x20AC;? It all sounds great in theory, but how will Condon, and the rest of the team for that matter, look to produce offense without the Ivy Leagueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best playmaker of all time in Nina Corcoran? The teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s superstar attack broke the Penn and Ivy League assists record in 2016 and played a huge role in Condonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s success prior to graduating this past spring. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She was able to find me on the field when I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even think I was open,â&#x20AC;? Condon said of Corcoran, one of the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s two co-captains. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Her passes were incredible. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be really hard to try and figure out how to replace that because she was so good at seeing the field and making things happen and finding those feeds.â&#x20AC;? Of course, all great collegiate players have to leave the program at some point, and coaches have to be able to replace them through various strategies. But that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean that the task of replacing Corcoran will be an easy one. Condon is confident in her coachesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; abilities to replace superstar talents â&#x20AC;&#x201D; rightfully so, since this is the second time that they had to replace a program record-holder in as many years â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and offered her own tactics on how to be successful without such an imposing presence like Corcoran. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We might have to look towards the midfield and dodging to goal instead of looking for assists and feeds.â&#x20AC;? Condon said, as the first of her two attempts to remedy the offense after Corcoranâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s departure. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We also have people who their main role wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t to look for feeds and assists and we have them coming up so we can look to repurpose

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with a run to the final on Saturday nothing short of expected. After all, the U.S. had won all eight of the Under-19 World Championships since the eventâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s conception in 1988. A repeat matchup against Australia was hardly a contest as the Red, White and Blue ran out 23-1 winners. The final was much more

intense, with many spectators even giving up hope on the Americans as they trailed hosts Canada the entire game, including an 8-2 deficit at halftime. But the U.S. fought back and took their only lead of the game with just eight seconds to play, winning the championship 13-12. Roesner finished the tournament with 18 goals. Mathias registered nine goals and six assists, while Dunn scored four and assisted once.

basketball guard Kasey Chambersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, he can experience a love affair with the fans at the Palestra. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m very excited that we are able to add Caleb to our program,â&#x20AC;? Donahue, who enters his second season in charge of the Quakers, said in a press release. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He is going to be a huge piece for us as we continue to build our program. He brings a tremendous skill set to our team with his ability to score off the dribble and his three-point shooting. Caleb played against some outstanding competition during his time at Lassen, and so he should be prepared to come in on Day One and be an immediate contributor to our program. Calebâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s final two years of eligibility will be very valuable to our program.â&#x20AC;?

them and ask them to do some different things on the field to fill up that gap. I think weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have the people we need on the field to create opportunities and score goals.â&#x20AC;? Defensively, the team loses one of its pleasant surprises of 2016 in Liz Gully, who assumed a full-time starting role in 2016 after playing the role of apprentice for three seasons to the talented class of 2015 trio of Taylor Foussadier, Meg Markham, and Lydia Miller. Condon recognized that the coaches have their work cut out for them, but admitted that it is not as daunting a task as last year, when the aforementioned triumvirate of defenders graduated. The defenseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ability to succeed in 2016 brings hope that the 2017 roster will be able to fill in the gaps left by this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s now-graduated senior class. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We went from having a couple defenders return to being able to have a strong steady defense and be able to put up a fight against a lot of the better attacks in the country. We had to replace a lot of people last year and I think one or two spots this year is a much easier task than it was last year,â&#x20AC;? Condon said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think we have the talent on our team to find the right people to fit right in and make an impact.â&#x20AC;? The defenseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ability to keep up their high level of play was in part due to Condonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s two-way presence, which was a result of her burst that she often used to get back in transition after a failed offensive breakout. In the same way that she remains modest about her scoring ability, Condon is reluctant to acknowledge her defensive skills, quick to recognize instead outgoing senior and co-captain Lely DeSimone for much of her success. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She was huge. I would always look to her if I had a question on defense or offense. She was a great dodger so whenever I wanted to work on that she would be more than willing to help me,â&#x20AC;? Condon said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She was a huge help and such a leader on both sides of the field.â&#x20AC;? Heading into 2017, the goal is to advance further than last year, a season that ended with a heartbreaking loss in the NCAA quarterfinals. And, while the season-ending loss to Penn State was a tough pill to swallow, the overlying image is one of progress. In Condonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s view, this is a great source of motivation for the team. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Just the fact that we know we can get that far and we have the talent and potential on our team, that really motivates us in the offseason to be better than ever in the fall coming into next season.â&#x20AC;? Sure, the team needs to work on its consistency after dropping a few winnable contests in 2016, but the future appears bright for Penn womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lacrosse. And Alex Condonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s role will play a big part in that.

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 an international championship under their belts, the menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lacrosse team could head into the new year with a head full of confidence and hopes of winning even more.

ALEX FISHER | SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Steve Donahue announced last week that the menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball team would add one more player to this seasonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s roster â&#x20AC;&#x201D; transfer rising junior point guard Caleb Woods. He is the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s seventh new member.

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NBA Draft, as future teammate DeMarcus Cousins tweeted â&#x20AC;&#x153;lord give me the strengthâ&#x20AC;? moments after the Kings traded with the Phoenix Suns for No. 13 pick Georgios Papagiannis, a Grecian center. Luckily for Chriss, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be starring alongside the disgruntled Cousins, who claimed the tweet was in response to a hot yoga class rather than his front officeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decision-making, instead of competing with him for minutes, like Papagiannis. Joining Chriss in the NBA ranks is teammate Dejounte Murray. The Huskies point guard averaged 16.1 points per game and scored 22 against the Quakers â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a performance solid enough to get picked 29th overall by the San Antonio Spurs. Several Big 5 players will also

continue their playing careers in the NBA next season. Shooting guard DeAndre Bembry of St. Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s will remain a Hawk after getting drafted to Atlanta at No. 21. In his teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 75-60 win over the Quakers in January 20, he scored 17 and picked up eight rebounds. Villanova, the reigning national champions, saw two players ink contracts with professional teams. Although neither player scored a spot in the tworound, 60-player NBA draft, next season Ryan Arcidiacono and Daniel Ochefu will join the Spurs and Washington Wizards, respectively. Arcidiacono, a 2016 graduate, had 13 points and six rebounds in the Wildcatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 77-57 victory over Penn. The guard went on to blossom at the Big Dance, averaging 15.8 points per game on .663 shooting and being named Most Outstanding Player of the 2015-16

NCAA Tournament. Back in December against Penn, teammate Ochefu was dominant on defense with 10 rebounds and 12 points, matching his season average in points per game. Funnily enough, Donahueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first start of his college career came in that December match up against Villanova. He outscored both of the Wildcatsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; future professionals and buoyed Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s offense, netting 18 points and shooting five of 12 from three. Not too shabby. Given the pre-professional culture of Penn, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unlikely that any of the 20 players on the Quakersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; roster will join their Big 5 compatriots in NBA colors in the years to come. But going against players headed for the proâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still elevates Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s level of play at the Palestra and pushes coach Steve Donahueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team to an even better finish than last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fifth place.

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FRESH BLOOD Men’s basketball coach Steve Donahue has announced another addition to his squad’s roster

Great Expectations >> SEE PAGE 7

THURSDAY, JULY 21, 2016

W. LAX | Star midfielder Alex Condon looks to

deliver her team a title WILL AGATHIS Associate Sports Editor

Penn athletics is seemingly teeming with wonder kids. Just about every team seems to have their own underclassman superstar. For women’s lacrosse, no player burst onto the scene last season quite like sophomore midfielder Alex Condon did. The Dunn Loring, Va. native went from scoring one goal as a spot-starting freshman to a program all-time sixth-best 41-goal season in spring 2016 and helped pave the way for the Quakers’ trip to the NCAA tournament. Rewinding to the beginning of the 2016 season, it was difficult to predict how the Quakers would perform after losing a star-studded senior class the prior spring. On the defensive side, the team had to replace three four-year full-time starting backs and a three-year full-time starting goalkeeper. That, coupled with the loss of several offensive catalysts — one of whom was the program’s second ranked all-time goal scorer, Tory Bensen — blinded people from seeing the strides that the rest of the team had made. Nonetheless, Condon admits that most had pegged the team to take a step back in 2016, something that

she and her teammates made sure to prevent. “Coming in last season, nobody really had any sort of expectations for us. To be able to make it that far in the NCAA tournament was a huge accomplishment and none of us really thought that was a possibility coming in,” Condon said. Unlike many of Penn’s young stars, Condon did not burst onto the scene until her sophomore season. As a freshman, she started just one time and appeared in 12 other contests. Going into her second season for the Red and Blue, Condon was poised to become a mainstay in the lineup. “At the beginning of the season I knew I was going to be able to play, but I didn’t necessarily know if I was going to be able to start because we did have a lot of girls who are very good players,” Condon said. As time went on, Condon began to take greater advantage of the opportunity that coach Karin Corbett provided. That is ultimately what turned the tides on Condon’s starts. “As I got more playing time on the field, and I was able to get SEE W. LAX PAGE 7

ALEX FISHER | SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Athletes compete against Quakers on Team USA 2016 NBA draftees win at World Champs M. HOOPS | Team played

five draftees in 2015-16

LAINE HIGGINS Sports Editor

Penn basketball hasn’t sent a player to the NBA since 2000. That player was none other than Ira Bowman, who still frequents

the Palestra as an assistant coach to the Quakers. The last before Bowman? None other than Jerome Allen in 1996, who coached the Red and Blue for five and a half seasons before being fired in March 2015. Allen has since returned to the NBA, this time as an assistant for the Boston Celtics. While no members of the team Allen used to coach in University

ANANYA CHANDRA | SPORTS PHOTO EDITOR

Rising sophomore guard Jackson Donahue has played against NBAcaliber opposition, including this year’s No. 5 overall draft pick, Kris Dunn.

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City will be signing lucrative rookie contracts this summer, that doesn’t mean they are strangers to some of the NBA’s top incoming talent. Just take sophomore guard Jackson Donahue. Back in his high school days, Donahue played against Kris Dunn, the Providence point guard that was drafted as the number No. 5 overall pick by the Timberwolves. Dunn will join a Minnesota squad rife with rookie talent, including last season’s NBA Rookie of the Year Karl Anthony Towns. Dunn’s selection by the Timberwolves has even prompted some NBA insiders to wonder if he will replace veteran point guard Ricky Rubio in the starting lineup. Dunn isn’t the only top-ten draft pick to play against the Quakers in 2015-16. During Penn’s West Coast jaunt against Washington last November, a 104-67 loss, Donahue and his teammates went up against Marquese Chriss and Dejounte Murray. Chriss, a six-foot ten point guard, was drafted as the eighth overall pick by the Sacramento Kings. His arrival in California preceded the subtweet of the 2016 SEE M. HOOPS PAGE 7

M. LAX | Four players,

coach vital to title repeat

WILL SNOW Sports Editor

The Federation of International Lacrosse Under-19 World Championship took place in Canada over the past two weeks, and tournament champions Team U.S.A. relied on a core composition of Quakers throughout the six games. Five individuals — four athletes and a coach — represented Penn in the Canadian province of British Columbia as the U.S. defended its title in the Under-19 World Championship. The four players were all rising sophomores: Tyler Dunn, Noah Lejman, Simon Mathias and Alex Roesner donned 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 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

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YOSEF ROBELE | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Rising sophomore attack Alex Roesner lit up the tournament for Team U.S.A. with a tally of 18 goals, as well as three assists.

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. played their first knockout game Thursday night, SEE M. LAX PAGE 7