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‘Well-lit situation room’ at Perry World House U.S. leaders talk about national security and election CHARLOTTE LARACY News Editor

In one of the first events at the Perry World House, top national security officials described the importance of the 2016 election and voiced their opinions of how disastrous it would be for national security to have Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump as president.

The U.S. government leaders included former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former National Security Advisor Tom Donilon, Mass.

Rep. Seth Moulton, former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and Under

Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman.

Moderator of the panel, Vikram Singh, said he viewed the panel, which took place in the brightly sunlit Perry World House, as a “well-lit situation room.”

Penn President Amy Gutmann spoke before the national security panel about the opening of the Perry World House and having students from around the world come to the University. In Penn’s Class of 2020, one in seven students will be from a foreign country.

Richard Perry, a University trustee who gave a $10 million gift for the creation of the building, sat in the front row at the panel.

Gutmann quoted American

politician and diplomat Adlai Stevenson while also indirectly referencing the 2016 election. “In America, anyone can become president,” she said.

“That’s one of the risks you take.”

During the panel, the majority of the government officials gave numerous examples of why they are concerned about Trump’s rhetoric and what it could do to harm America’s security.

Moulton said that when he was in Iraq last week, many of the American soldiers were concerned about Trump’s language and how it could pose a threat to them. Donilon was troubled by the fact that earlier in the day, the Republican presidential nominee invited Russian hackers to hack into Hillary Clinton’s campaign, tweeting, “If Russia or any other country or person

has Hillary Clinton’s 33,000 illegally deleted emails, perhaps they should share them with the FBI!” Sherman explained the process of passing the Iran Nuclear Deal and how it took political courage for President Obama, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and current Secretary of State John Kerry to get the deal passed.

“There is no doubt in my mind that we stopped Iran from making a nuclear bomb,” Sherman said.

All of the panelists agreed on the significance of having foreign alliances in order to maintain national security. During the Q&A session, a former defense minister of Georgia asked Albright about expanding the SEE NATIONAL SECURITY PAGE 2

Wharton professor donates $100,000 to DNC to stop Trump Schoenberg thinks Trump is a danger to our democracy DAN SPINELLI City News Editor

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Wharton professor Eric Schoenberg paid the Democratic National Committee over $100,000 this year, which included $75,000 to help pay costs of the convention.

Though Donald Trump may repeatedly invoke his Wharton degree as a symbol of his academic prowess, one professor there wants nothing more than to see the 1968 Wharton graduate flop in the November general election. And, he isn’t afraid to pony up some cash to make that happen.

Wharton adjunct associate professor Eric Schoenberg paid the Democratic National Committee over $100,000 this year, including a

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Two Penn students voted and caucused for Bernie Sanders at the Democratic National Convention, even as Hillary Clinton remained the presumptive nominee.

Rising College juniors Yasmeen Kaboud and Jordyn Tannenbaum, who are board members of Penn Students for Bernie, will be representing Pennsylvania’s 2nd and 8th districts, respectively.

Both said they were looking forward to see Sanders speak on Monday, the opening day of the convention.

“I think Bernie will talk about the issues and ideals he has been talking about this whole time,” Kaboud said. “There will be a real focus on how much the Democrat platform differs from the Republican platform. There will also be a movement away from the fear-mongering and hate that we saw at the RNC and steer towards a more unified party.”

About 85 percent of Democrats who backed Sanders in the primary contests said they planned to vote for Hillary Clinton in the general election, according to a recent Pew Research Center poll.

Kaboud said she believes each member of Penn Students for Bernie will have to make a decision on what their next step is after the DNC. “It is going to depend on what kind of Bernie supporter they are. If they are one of those die hard supporters who generally dislikes establishment politics Hillary Clinton, then maybe they won’t join Penn Dems or Penn For Hillary,” Kaboud said. “If supporters are really getting SEE PENN FOR BERNIE PAGE 6

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$75,000 wire transfer to help pay for the costs of the Philadelphia convention, according to the email records of senior DNC officials released by WikiLeaks last week. His reasoning is not too difficult to parse out.

“I think Donald Trump is a potential disaster and I’m going to do everything I can to make sure he isn’t president. The Democrats are the only game in town to that regard,” Schoenberg said in an interview with The Daily Pennsylvanian.

Schoenberg, who will teach a class at Wharton in the fall on family wealth, upped his political

For many political journalists, Philadelphia is nothing more than a stop on the campaign trail. But for Andrea Mitchell, NBC News chief foreign affairs correspondent and host of her own MSNBC ANDREA MITCHELL show, “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” it’s a return to her old college town.

Mitchell, a 1967 graduate of Penn’s College of Liberal Arts for Women and vice chair of the Board of Trustees, got her start in journalism through WXPN radio. In an interview Tuesday morning at Le Meridien hotel in Center City, The Daily Pennsylvanian sat down with the acclaimed journalist between reporting stops to discuss her time as an undergraduate and her career in media.

DP: What are your favorite memories from when you were at Penn?

AM: Certainly being involved with WXPN, which was then student-run, and it was my first

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Community college seen as a necessary investment JESSICA KIM Staff Reporter

With the alarmingly high — and rising — cost of college, the movement for more affordable and accessible higher education is building momentum, starting with community colleges.

On July 25, the College Promise Campaign and Innovative Educators hosted a discussion focusing on free community college. The event started with a screening of “No Greater Odds,” a film about students’ experiences at the College of Southern Nevada.

Before attending community college, one student in the film stated that she did not know what a major was. Afterwards, the students had their own goals including teaching, attending law school and touring the country as a victims’ advocate.

Following the screening, audience members engaged in a panel with Mary Cathryn Ricker, executive vice president of the American Federation of Teachers; Dr. Donald Generals, president of the Community College of Philadelphia; Michael Flores, communications and government affairs director at the College of Southern Nevada and James McCoy, associate vice president of academic affairs at the

College of Southern Nevada.

The panel focused on the significance of community college, strategies to alleviate student debt and the effects of the Democratic National Convention.

“In the last two decades, we have been ramping up expectations — expecting students to go to higher education because all indicators say that they need to,” Ricker said. “We have this 30-foot expectation that kids are supposed to go to college, but our path for them to get there has not caught up.”

In order to help students prepare for success, many community colleges have started to require pre-orientation, standardized

testing and mandatory career advising. The Community College of Philadelphia also requires their students to participate in civic engagement.

With these requirements in place, retention rates are increasing. The Community College of Southern Nevada found that high school students who prepare for community college their junior and senior years have the highest retention rate among all students.

The panel also focused on the national level. The Democratic Party’s platform calls for extending debt-free and tuition-free college for students that qualify.

“This is the most progressive platform the Democratic Party has

ever adopted,” Ricker said. “However, it won’t be worth the paper it’s written on if we collectively don’t take responsibility for having discussions and getting these ideas on the desks of those who matter.”

Although the Democratic platform focuses on free community college, higher education took a backseat to other national issues such as immigration, police brutality and gun violence.

Until Wednesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) was the only one of five keynote speakers who mentioned affordable higher education.

Ricker explained why students from private and public universities, who have their own financial concerns, should make community

college affordability a top priority.

“There are so many community colleges in communities that people can immediately picture what this means for them,” Ricker said. “It can be so real for so many people right away.”

Dr. Generals also noted that some community college students transfer into four year institutions, becoming Penn students’ peers. “[Community colleges has] demonstrated not only the demand for what we provide, but also the outcomes... as a result, four year institutions are more willing to work with us,” Generals said. “We have sent students to Penn, Bryn Mawr, and Swarthmore, the highest liberal arts colleges in the country.”

Harry Potter readers more likely to dislike Donald Trump

Penn bumps up to No. 11 in Forbes’ college ranking

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There may not be a spell to defeat Donald Trump, but according to a new study, readers of the Harry Potter series are more likely to oppose the Republican presidential nominee and his policies.

The study, conducted by Penn professor Diana Mutz of the Annenberg School for Communication and the Department of Political Science, attempts to identify a pattern between readers of the popular book series and their attitudes toward Donald Trump.

“Each book that a person has read lowers their evaluation of Donald Trump by roughly 2-3 points [on a 100-point scale],” Mutz wrote in her analysis.

Mutz pointed out that the negative impact on evaluations of Trump could be as high as 18 points for readers of the entire series.

To remove any obvious preexisting relationships, the study controls for party identification and ideology as well as age, gender, education and evangelical self-identification. Although these variables are the most well known sources of association with Trump support, subtler personality traits, like the willingness to read books in general, are more difficult to control and may play a role.

Data was collected from a nationally representative survey of 1,142 respondents. The study will be published in an upcoming election issue of “PS: Political Science and Politics.”

In her analysis, Mutz identified several parallel themes between the Harry Potter series and Trump’s campaign; namely the value of tolerance, the dangers of authoritarianism and opposition to violence.

“Because Trump’s political views are widely viewed as opposed to the values espoused in the Harry Potter series,” she wrote, “exposure to the

Penn came in at number 11 in Forbes’ 2016 America’s Top Colleges rankings, one spot higher than it was ranked last year.

Forbes’ ninth annual list of the best colleges in the United States included a total of 660 public and private universities, liberal arts colleges and service academies.

The top three spots went to Stanford University, Williams College and Princeton University, respectively.

Seven Ivy League schools made the top 25, with Princeton (#3), Harvard (#4), Yale (#6) and Brown (#8) rounding up the top 10. The Top 10 also included the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (#5), Pomona (#7), Wesleyan (#9) and Swarthmore (#10). Columbia ranked at #16, Dartmouth at #17 and Cornell at #30.

The top three public universities were the United State Military Academy, the United States Naval Academy and the United States Air Force Academy.

According to Forbes’ website, the rankings were determined with an emphasis on whether the colleges are worth their costs of

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Penn professor from the Annenberg School finds relationship between people who read Harry Potter and dislike Donald Trump.

Potter series may play an influential role in affecting how Americans respond to Donald Trump.”

Trump’s campaign has drawn comparison to Voldemort’s rise to power more than once. Last December, Trump’s call for a temporary ban on Muslim immigration to the United States prompted J.K. Rowling to write, “How horrible. Voldemort was nowhere near as bad.”

Although many believed that “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” fortified public opposition to slavery in the 1850s, little research has demonstrated a material impact of fictional stories on public opinion. Still, the findings in Mutz’s study provide valuable insight into the complex relationship between literature and political discourse.

With 450 million copies sold worldwide, Harry Potter has become the best-selling book series of all time. Empirical

research on the series is limited to date. Its cultural impact may take decades to measure and understand, but Mutz’s timely study certainly offers an interesting perspective in the midst of an ongoing election season.

One might presume the impact of the accompanying movie series to be even greater, given that more people have watched Harry Potter movies than read the books. However, the effect of exposure to Harry Potter movies was found to be insignificant. Perhaps this is due to the low levels of attention required to consume video content, or cinema’s emphasis on action sequences as opposed to character dilemmas.

“Consuming print, on the other hand, automatically demands high levels of attention, so it is not surprising that those who consume a story via print tend to learn and remember more,” Mutz wrote.

attendance. Forbes focused on the college graduates’ success after college, rather than the schools’ admissions statistics like other rankings do.

Rising College junior Allison DuPont discussed the differences between different rankings’ methodologies.

“There are several magazines and websites that publish rankings and none of them end up overlapping even with the same guidelines,” DuPont said. “I think it’s hard to rank schools because there’s not a consistent definition for ‘best.’”

Forbes worked with the Center for College Affordability and Productivity to generate these rankings, using data from a variety of sources including Payscale, RateMyProfessors.com, the America’s Leaders list and the Department of Education.

The categories used to rank these colleges included post-graduate success (accounting for 32.5 percent of a college’s rank), student debt (25 percent), student satisfaction (25 percent), academic success (10 percent) and four-year graduation rate (7.5 percent).

The top 25 schools had low student loan debt, high graduation rates and high retention rates, all with at least a 94 percent retention rate, with 11 schools reaching 98 percent and two reaching 99

percent.

The methodology addressed the issue of the rapidly rising cost of tuition and the resulting increasing student debt. According to Forbes, tuition and fees at public universities have grown 270 percent in the last 40 years and 204 percent for private universities during that same period.

Penn’s own tuition rate has been increasing at 3.9 percent per year for the past seven years, peaking at $66,000 for the 20162017 academic year.

Forbes also reported that 43 million Americans have debt from student loans, with the amount of people taking out loans increasing by 92 percent from 2004 to 2014. The total American student loan debt in 2016 was almost $1.3 trillion, with the average per borrower being around $27,000.

Overall, several Penn students said they did not particularly care for Penn’s precise rankings year by year.

“I’m really happy I go to a great school that is super well known, but I don’t care what exact number it is,” said rising College senior Tina Lulla.

“I don’t need someone to tell me that Penn is the best or the worst,” DuPont said. “It has ended up being the best for me and that’s all that matters in the end.”

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North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Albright responded by saying that she a proponent of expanding the “alliance of democracies.”

“I believe in NATO enlargement but there needs to be safety procedures in order to make a stronger alliance of militaries and common values,” Albright said.

Donilon also mentioned the importance of a president establishing relationships with world leaders and using his or her political powers to influence foreign affairs. He said, “Global security needs United States engagement.”

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Penn students head to DNC to prep for fall class Class centers on a research paper on conventions SYDNEY SCHAEDEL Editor-in-Chief

Some Penn students are already hard at work prepping for next semester — at the Democratic National Convention.

Communication Professor Dwight D. Eisenhower is teaching a class in the fall called Conventions, Campaigns and Debates, and the pre-requisite for the class is that students must attend either the Republican National Convention or the DNC. A few of the students in the class were at the RNC last week, and many are also currently at the DNC. One such student, rising College junior Karissa Hand, was already headed to the DNC for her internship as part of the Philadelphia Host Committee. As such,

she felt it made sense to roll her experience in with an academic opportunity as well. She majors in Communication and Public Service, the major that Eisenhower leads, so she felt she was a good fit for the class.

Two commitments during the DNC has been a lot for Hand, though.

“I’ve been kind of hopping between the two,” she said of her responsibilities for her internship and the class. She had gone to a Pennsylvania State Delegation breakfast with the class Wednesday morning, then was spending some time in the office for her internship, and planned to attend a speaker event later in the evening and head to the Wells Fargo Center with her class.

“Obviously my first responsibility is with my internship but any time I have a free moment I meet up with them and see what they’re doing,” she said.

There aren’t many formal assignments yet, Hand said.

“Right now it’s mostly taking in the convention, going to as many speakers as we can and absorbing the information,” Hand said.

In the fall is when the work will start. The entire premise of the class is writing a research paper on some communication-related aspect of the convention. Hand wants to focus on gender in her paper.

“I’m very passionate about gender equality and this election is obviously historic in that we have the first female nominee from a major political party,” she said, adding that in her paper she wants to “look at the way the speeches at the convention discuss this historic aspect of it.”

Rising College sophomore Ariel Goldfine is also taking the conventions class, which is right up her alley after working for several campaigns and being involved

Trump campaign breaks silence on student debt Trump finally outlined more specific goals MITCHELL CHAN Staff Reporter

The morning after Hillary Clinton secured the Democratic nomination for president, her Republican opponent and 1968 Wharton graduate Donald Trump finally revealed his thoughts on an issue now at the forefront of the Democratic platform — the cost of college.

At a Wednesday morning press conference in Doral, Fla., less than 12 hours after Clinton became the first woman in U.S. history to headline a major party ticket, Trump took a break from encouraging Russia to hack Clinton’s emails and revealed that he was working on a “great plan” to address rising levels of student loan debt.

This was the first time that the Trump campaign, known for noncommittal policy positions, publicly addressed the issue in detail.

“They can’t breathe, they’re scared, they’re so scared they have leveraged their entire life,” Trump said. “One of the saddest things I see are college students that work so hard, that go to good colleges, they’re good students.”

He added that his team would be working on the plan over the next four weeks.

Student loans have risen to the forefront of recent national debate as debt levels across the country increase with each passing year. Total student loan debt in the United States nearly tripled between 2004 and 2012, with an average increase of 14 percent annually, according to a 2014 analysis by researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

In 2010, student loans surpassed credit card debt as the

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During the Democratic National Convention , Donald Trump announced his plan to combat enormous college student debt.

second-largest form of household debt in America after mortgages, the report said.

Unlike other forms of debt, student loans cannot be forgiven through bankruptcy proceedings.

In an unprecedented moment of directness, Trump blamed colleges themselves for some of the rising costs of higher education. He pointed out the enor mous adm inistrators’ salaries common across many college campuses and noted that colleges can pocket large amounts of student loan funds directly from the federal government, regardless of students’ ultimate ability to actually repay the loans.

This system, Trump said, has encouraged colleges to perpetuate a cycle where they receive money from the federal government and unfairly foist the bill on their students.

“Colleges are viewing the students as just a con to it,” Trump said. “Because the colleges say what difference does it make?”

Trump did not provide any specific action items he was considering to relieve student debt, but acknowledged that his ideas

likely would go against the Republican Party’s official position on higher education. The GOP’s 2016 platform, released earlier this year, explicitly states that “the federal government should not be in the business of originating student loans.”

Trump briefly mentioned student loans when he accepted the Republican nomination at last week’s Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio.

His acceptance speech included one sentence where he promised to help “all of our students who are drowning in debt.”

However lenient Trump’s plan will be to debt-ridden graduates, he likely will not go as far as Clinton, whose campaign is calling for free tuition at community colleges, expanded credit counseling services for graduates behind on their loan payments, and greater financial support for colleges with large minority student populations, according to the Clinton campaign’s website.

Clinton has also said she plans to pay for student loan relief by raising taxes on high-income earners. Trump has consistently called for broad tax cuts across multiple income tax brackets.

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in politics for quite some time.

She also had friends who took the class in 2012 — Eisenhower has taught the class for the past several conventions.

Goldfine said she wants to focus her paper “on how different campaigns chose to put this together.”

She said she’d look at “little things like how all of the speakers are highly positive,” and how the campaign “controls the tone” of the convention. She noted how consistent the Hillary Clinton campaign has been from the beginning, even down to its font.

Of her choice to attend the DNC over the RNC, Goldfine said she’s a democrat and wanted to go to her own party’s convention. She added that there was also “some concern of there being violence at the RNC,” but she primarily chose the DNC because she though it would be “more helpful to see [her] own party.”

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real introduction to — beyond high school journalism — getting involved in journalism. I found my mission there. I thought I was going to be an English professor. I was an English major in what was then the College of Liberal Arts for Women because we were not officially co-ed. We took classes together but there were separate rules for women. And all of the sudden I was involved in the radio station, I got to cover the senate races and for the Ivy League radio network we did joint programming on election night. And I got the bug and ended up not going onto graduate school and taking a job right here in Philadelphia, an all news radio, KYW. DP: What drew you to radio in particular when you joined WXPN? AM: What actually drew me there was classical music. It was a classical music station and I was a violinist and so I was at Houston Hall, our studios were on the third floor of Houston Hall, I heard music at the end of the hall and wandered down and found it. I was actually there for an NAACP meeting because we had a lot of issues, of housing issues in West Philly that campus undergraduates were involved in.

One of the things that’s really transformed is much more political engagement and volunteerism by the undergraduates. Foreign study, inter-disciplinary curricula — it’s really a case where Penn had a great reputation, but I think all of us would acknowledge that academically our reputation exceeded the depth of what we were offering.

DP: You said that Penn students are more politically engaged now, you think. So what was the engagement like when you went to Penn?

AM: There were many people who were very involved in the anti-war activity and the Civil Rights Movement. But there was a large — I would say a majority of students — who were much less engaged, and so it was not your typical 60s campus, just a hotbed of activity. And I don’t think there was as much, as I recall, civic involvement, volunteerism. And now with the Penn Alexander School and

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Undergraduate students in the Annenberg School took a trip to Cleveland, Ohio, and Philadelphia, Pa., to learn about the conventions.

things that our Graduate School of Education is doing, and things that our health care system, which has been brilliantly expanded and developed and really has a big role in West Philadelphia, the larger community and now the region, we are really the biggest employer, the biggest economic driver in the city and largely in the state. It is an institution of which I am enormously proud.

DP: In that setting, what drew you to be civically involved and what made you feel like that was important to do? And did that have to do with your involvement in journalism?

AM: Absolutely. I made a big decision. Two big decisions when I was an undergraduate: One was not to be a violinist. I didn’t think that I was good enough to be a concert violinist and I could have continued and been an orchestra player and develop[ed] my career.

But I wanted to expand beyond the single focus of music that was so intense with practicing 8 hours a day.

I wanted a broader education. And that developed my view of what a liberal arts education should be.

And I studied everything: political science and history, of course my literature courses and music. And it better informed what kind of person I wanted to be. I just wanted to be more engaged in the world.

I think I was always intuitively political, coming from a very newsconscious family. And I had done a lot of writing as I grew up, had even written for our hometown newspaper. So I guess it was an unconscious desire to be part of that world. And once I started programming classical music at the station then they said, well, do you want to start doing the newscasts? Eventually I was the program manager and then got an internship at KYW, which was then was ... the NBC affiliate. And when I graduated I went right to work at the NBC local station. The radio station was on all the time, as it is now, and it was a tremendous opportunity. They sent me in 1972 to my first conventions in Miami, the Democratic and Republican conventions. And then in 1976 to New York and Kansas City.

So that’s how I first got interested in national politics.

DP: So you mentioned you

went to the women’s college at Penn. What was it like being a college student as a woman at the time and getting into journalism as a woman? And how has that changed?

AM: It was almost impossible to get into journalism, broadcast journalism, as a woman. They had no desire to hire women. And in fact I had qualified and been hired out of Penn for the management trainee program at Westinghouse Broadcasting. And then they told me that I couldn’t be in the news room and I couldn’t be a journalist, I had to go into public relations or advertising or sales, which was not my interest at all. So instead I talked them into giving me an entry-level job as copy boy, ripping wire copy on the night shift at KYW radio. And that’s how I started. So it was very, very hard to break into the business as a woman.

As a woman undergraduate, we, unlike the boys, we had a dress code. We could only wear pants on snow days. We had curfews, 11 o’clock. We lived in an all-girls dorm. I lived in what we called Hill Hall, which was all women, even though we didn’t have closets, room for books, but that’s another whole story. And the Quad was all male and we were not allowed to walk through the Quad except, I think, on Sunday afternoons. There were a lot of strict rules for women, to put it mildly.

DP: What made you keep pushing? Pushing to get into a field that wasn’t necessarily open to you?

AM: I suppose it was the influence of my parents who always said we could do anything we wanted to do. I was always aggressive. I’m something of a fighter. And endless curiosity.

DP: Why journalism? Why was that what you wanted to fight for?

AM: I always had an interest and had done writing, even in, would you believe, elementary school. I was the school reporter for our local hometown newspaper and wrote a weekly column about school activities in the elementary school, believe it or not. So I loved to write.

This interview has been edited for brevity and clarity. Read a longer version online at theDP. com.

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OPINION ‘You’re pretty white’

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SERIOUS BUSINESS | On the difference between ethnicity and culture I’ve been called “pretty white” a few times in my life. Now, if you look at my headshot, I think it becomes clear that I’m Asian, and if you look at my last name, it becomes even clearer that I’m Korean. So, calling me “pretty white” means nothing from a physical standpoint. It’s a measure of how someone acts, not how someone looks.

So what makes me “pretty white?” Am I “pretty white” because my Korean is mediocre, I don’t really listen to K-pop and I’m not really part of the Korean community at Penn? Am I “pretty white” despite the fact that my parents are first-generation immigrants and I spent 10 years in Korea and went to elementary school there? Does my cultural absorption into the mainstream Americana negate my experiences?

When you pick apart the assumptions wrapped around the statement “you’re pretty white,” it becomes clear that it’s only a way of saying that “You’re culturally removed from your ethnicity and have been absorbed as part of mainstream American culture, and you don’t really care about

the pop culture that is stereotypically associated with your ethnic group.”

Now here’s the interesting bit: I’ve heard “you’re pretty white” from both white people and people of color — in my case, specifically Asians.

When white people say “you’re pretty white,” it’s a racist statement

implication that you are selling out on your culture. Calling someone “pretty white” isn’t a measure of race, but of how much of your ethnic culture and pop culture you do not identify with, and it’s a ridiculous conflation.

My point is this: “White” should not be considered “average,” and a person of color does

Calling someone ‘pretty white’ isn’t a measure of race, but of how much of your ethnic culture and pop culture you do not identify with, and it’s a ridiculous conflation.” prettily wrapped in a compliment.

Is it derogatory to you in particular? No. Does it somewhat imply that being white is superior to being of color? Yes. But that’s an entirely different column and one that has been written before.

When Asians say “you’re pretty white,” it’s much stranger conceptually. It’s a judgment of where you fall in the assimilation spectrum, and often vaguely negative, coming coupled with the

not ever stop being their particular race regardless of cultural consumption, and often these two factors are blended by ethnic minorities. But being part of a minority does not make you the authority on what it is, culturally, which makes someone part of that minority, nor does being part of the mainstream culture fundamentally change your experience of race.

This is the point in the column

where I admit to also having told people that they’re “pretty white” because they don’t adhere to what I expect from them.

Coming from an immigrant family or being part of an ethnic minority often means that you — consciously or unconsciously — view yourself in degrees of assimilation. There’s a reason that people talk about how many generations removed from foreign birth they are, as if the degree of one’s cultural assimilation is a function merely of time. Which, granted, it is in some amount.

I think there’s a tendency among immigrant-descended minorities to measure oneself by how “white” you are versus how “your race here” you are. While I can only speak to my subjective experience and the experiences of those that I know personally, I know that among my friends the term “banana” and “fob” were pretty popular. Banana, meaning yellow on the outside and white on the inside, and fob, meaning freshoff-the-boat. All of these are crude terms that measure how assimilated you are into the mainstream culture, and the mainstream culture is conflated with whiteness.

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Of course, the logical dismissal of my argument is to say that I’m making a big deal over a phenomenon that, in the end, lacks obvious malice. It’s verbal shorthand for description of a person’s particular interests and cultural tendencies.

But conflation of popular culture or particular experiences and tendencies with race only serves to uphold the assumption that experience is synonymous with race.

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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When inclusion excludes ZOU IT ALL | Affirmative action has become a tool of anti-Asian discrimination On June 23, the Supreme Court of the United States upheld affirmative action, reasserting the legality of considering race as a factor for admissions into U.S. universities.

This practice, proponents argue, increases class diversity and benefits the members of the class as a whole, while aiding students from underprivileged backgrounds.

Perhaps more interesting than what the policies of affirmative action entail in theory, however, is examining how U.S. universities put them into practice. The movement for diversity in public institutions all began with Brown v. Board of Education (1954), when the Supreme Court ruled the segregation of schools unconstitutional. Green v. County School Board (1968) then declared that voluntary segregation was unacceptable, and that the desegregation of schools must be actively monitored. Originally, the policies of affirmative action were created and administered by U.S. universities in response to activists’ concerns that, because of a history of discrimination and poverty, black people were ill-prepared to compete in the admissions process and receive adequate education. Later, socially progressive schools across

the country began implementing hard racial quotas to ensure diversity in their incoming classes. In the 1968 case of California v. Bakke, however, the Supreme Court ruled this practice unconstitutional. Consideration of race in admissions decisions, the Court held, was permissible only as part of a “holistic” approach to admissions, whereby race would be just one of many factors under consideration.

The recent ruling in the case of Fisher v. University of Texas is just the latest in a long chain of Supreme Court cases upholding the integrity of the Bakke ruling. Now, if the policies of affirmative action were administered with the simple intention as to level the playing field, I would be all for it. Sadly, this is not the case. U.S. universities seem to believe that the right to consider race in college admissions, which they originally desired in order aid disadvantaged black applicants, now also allows them to set an enrollment cap on another U.S. minority.

U.S. universities abuse this power, citing affirmative action, and use their knowledge of every applicant’s race not for the noble cause for which it was originally intended, but in order to discriminate against

Asians. In my junior year of high school, the topic of college admissions was obsessively on the tip of everyone’s tongue. In one of our many conversations on the subject, a white friend of mine, who is now a rising junior at Brown University, candidly confessed that he “loved affirmative action.” Why? “Because affirmative action benefits everyone, except Asians,” he replied matter-offactly. He was right. It is common knowledge among all college-bound students today that candidates are only in competition with those from their own race, which meant that, to his evident relief, he would not be facing competition from Asian students with possibly superior qualifications. If college admissions do not wish to consider Asians a disadvantaged group the same way that they consider the black and Hispanic communities, despite our also having suffered historically from systematized oppression at the hands of white America — under the Chinese Exclusion Act, the Alien Land Law, the internment of Japanese Americans, the Luce-Celler Act, among countless others — then so be it. However, not only have Asians never benefited from any sort of affirmative action-type measures, but

they are held to distinct standards exceeding even that of white people, effectively excluding all but the very best from admission to top-tier universities. But why, I question, if Asians are not to be considered a disadvantaged group, should they not at least be evaluated alongside white people, rather than separately from them? Is it because, perhaps, that the racially homogenous bodies governing our country’s elite schools fear that direct competition with Asians might pose a threat to the majority enrollment that their white students currently enjoy?

Bluntly, the purpose of this factional admissions process is two-fold. To the sheer exaltation of xenophobic white America, this enrollment cap ensures that elite universities’ Asian populations are controlled at a low, steady 20 perfect.

It also ensures that whites may safely continue to constitute a majority population at these institutions.

I understand that diversity is necessary for a healthy college culture.

I agree that policies need to be in place to ensure that those with relatively less are given a fair shot. But to U.S. universities, minority enrollment is only desirable as long as they remain minorities, and diversity is

only measured by the color of one’s skin. I may be Asian, but I believe that I contribute significantly by way of diversity not through my demographics but through what I can contribute as an individual. To be told that as members of our race we collectively do not add to an institution’s diversity offensively likens us to robots — which we are not, contrary to our demeaning stereotype and perhaps popular opinion. I have made it to Penn. I suppose one could say that I am one of the Asians who have succeeded. But with just a month left until we welcome the Class of 2020, I wanted to commend all the Asians in this country who did, and especially those who did not, gain admission into their dream university, as well as all the Asians here on this campus who still feel less-than. Have you ever noticed that whenever an accomplishment is preceded by the fact that its achiever is of Asian heritage, it becomes immediately less impressive? But I refuse to be dismissed as your typical Asian — I am an accomplished and talented individual who deserves more than just a socially constructed qualifier. Until college admissions at Penn and across the U.S. can see that, I expect that they

BENJAMIN ZOU

will continue to manipulate the policies of affirmative action to educate and perpetuate the white elite. But the model minority today knows better than its predecessors. We are growing tired of yielding to our nation’s injustices and playing into its racist, obsolete stereotypes.

We can shoulder our burden in silence — but we cannot silence the roar of a troubled conscience.

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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Bartram’s Garden unveils $2.7 million restoration effort Project revitalizes riverfront path and wetlands CLAIRE SCHMIDT Staff Reporter

At a ceremony in mid-July, Bartram’s Garden unveiled a $2.7 million restoration and renovation project that updated the garden for the first time in almost a century.

The funds went toward the restoration of the Ann Bartram Carr Garden, the only 19th century flower garden in Philadelphia, and towards various improvements to the property’s buildings, including installing geothermal heat sourcing.

The unveiling also served as an update for the Bartram’s Mile trail, a project spearheaded by the Schuylkill River Development Corporation to connect the Southwest Philadelphia green space to the ever-expanding Schuylkill River Trail.

The garden, situated on the Schuylkill River southwest of Penn’s campus, is actually a 45acre National Historic Landmark.

Established in the 18th century as the home of botanist and Quaker John Bartram, the property was passed down through two more generations of diligent caretakers, including Ann Bartram Carr, the namesake of the newly renovated flower garden.

After decades of different owners, The John Bartram Association now operates the property and has taken advantage of Bartram’s Garden’s location in Southwest Philadelphia to serve as a resource to the surrounding community.

JBA Assistant Director Stephanie Phillips said Bartram’s Garden “is committed to being a welcoming green resource for Philadelphians.” Phillips noted the property’s full calendar of community events and programs, and the year-round free access to a green landscape it provides for the community.

The new garden fulfills its

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The 45-acre garden near the Schuykill River will revitalize public docks and add new programs to educate people about watershed.

purpose as an important resource of botanical knowledge, but it also acts as a way to connect visitors to Ann Bartram Carr, who Executive Director Maitreyi Roy said was an essential figure in the garden’s history.

“Ann Bartram Carr remains important because she opened Bartram’s Garden up to the general public and spread the importance of horticulture and open spaces,” Roy said. “She was also one of the first women to run a gardening business in our young nation, carrying on until 1850.”

An avid gardener and educator herself, “Ann taught her visitors and customers about the need for beautiful plants and open spaces in their lives, paralleling a time when heavy industry was blossoming in the Philadelphia area,” Roy said.

Bartram’s Garden is, however, not so easily accessible by public transportation. Those without cars can access the property by taking the 36 trolley, or by biking on Lindbergh Boulevard, but its lack of connectedness to the surrounding neighborhoods could serve to limit its accessibility and visibility.

A desire for that connectedness is why the JBA is so excited for the Bartram’s Mile project to be completed, which should be by the end of the year, at last estimates.

The project, a trail along the west bank of the Schuylkill from Grays

Ferry Avenue to 56th Street, will connect Bartram’s Garden to the existing Schuylkill River trail, allowing for greater access for pedestrians and bicyclists.

For the JBA, the trail is “a great, safer connection for bicyclists and recreational users, attracting new audiences to the Garden who may not otherwise come from University City,” Phillips said.

In providing would-be attendees with a safe, accessible way to reach the property, Phillips said, Bartram’s Garden can begin to transition from a destination for those who know the property well to those looking to explore the city and access a new recreational amenity.

And in turning a once industrial but long mistreated section of shoreline into a trail, JBA curator Joel Fry said, “it is hoped the trail will sparks development of these open, post-industrial lands.”

Given Bartram’s Garden’s steady progress over the past decade, the JBA will look to implement further improvements and changes to the property.

According to Phillips, the projects will include revitalizing the half-mile of riverfront the garden boasts to provide safe river access and protect tidal wetlands, adding a revitalized public dock and adding new public programs designed to educate the public on Philadelphia’s waterways and the Schuylkill watershed.

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contributions by over 718 percent in order to stop Trump.

During the 2014 election cycle, he only gave $13,250, according to public donation records.

In 2012, a presidential election year, he gave even less at just $11,750.

While his donations were made months ago, the revelation of Schoenberg’s contributions comes soon after the circulation of an open letter from Wharton alumni, students and faculty decrying Trump, a 1968 Wharton graduate. As of July 25, the letter has 3,694 signatures.

“This man, Donald Trump, represents a true threat to our democracy and our system of government,” Schoenberg said, adding that he “substantially increased” his political contributions this year specifically to fight Trump.

Watchdog website OpenSecrets.org pegged Schoenberg’s 2016 contributions to the party committee at only $33,400.

However, in email chains included in the Wikileaks dump, Schoenberg also sent a wire transfer of $75,000 to the DNC to attend a June 8 fundraiser in New York with President Obama.

A DP analysis of public donation records and leaked DNC emails estimates Schoenberg’s

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behind Bernie’s endorsement and voting for Hillary as a way to combat a Trump presidency then I do believe a significant amount of people who will join Penn for Hillary and Penn Dems this upcoming semester.”

Donald Trump has tried to appeal to Sanders supporters in some of his recent speeches, asking them to leave the Democratic Party and support him instead.

In a Washington Post-ABC News poll in May, 20 percent of Sanders supporters said they would back Trump over Clinton

THE SUMMERPENNSYLVANIAN | THEDP.COM total donations to the DNC in 2016 to be more than $108,000, not including the $500 he gave to Josh Gottheimer, a former Bill Clinton speechwriter and candidate for Congress in New Jersey, and the untold amount he may have given to super PACs, whose donor lists are not recorded.

He confirmed the wire transfer to the DP, but could not give a reason for why the figure did not appear in public records when a separate $8,800 donation made during the same week was included.

“I cannot in fact answer. I am not familiar with how the reporting system works,” he said.

Schoenberg has repeatedly spoken out in the past against income inequality and the corrosive influence of corporate money in politics, including in a Huffington Post op-ed where he admitted to paying only 1 percent of his income in federal income tax in 2009.

As a member of the advisory board for Patriotic Millionaires, a group of “200, high-net worth Americans who are committed to building a more prosperous, stable, and inclusive nation,” he has declared himself in support of “less political influence for those whose sole credential is the ability to pay for it,” one of the group’s goals according to its website.

He acknowledged the apparent conflict in his support

for less corporate influence on politics while still having contributed large sums of money to a political party, including one large donation which went allegedly unrecorded in public records.

“I would dearly love to reform the system so people aren’t able to give extreme amounts of money to parties and candidates,” he said, but “it makes no sense to unilaterally disarm.”

Party officials earmarked his wire transfer specifically for the Democratic National Convention. The impetus for Schoenberg’s donation was to attend a New York fundraiser with President Barack Obama, at which the most expensive ticket was $33,500. The fundraiser was held at the home of BuzzFeed chairman Kenneth Lerer, and garnered some controversy at the time because BuzzFeed had just cut off an advertising deal with the Republican National Committee.

In a May 13 email discussing his $75,000 transfer, DNC National Finance Director Jordan Kaplan asked, “Why did they give 75,” referring to Schoenberg and his wife, Alexandra, who attended the Obama fundraiser with him. DNC Finance Chair Zachary Allen responded, “Convention.”

Director of Online Projects Andrew Fischer contributed reporting.

in the general election. In June, that figure was down to eight percent.

Tannenbaum said they do not think Bernie supporters will vote for Trump, even if they are against the political establishment.

“The people who are frustrated with the political establishment realize that Trump’s rhetoric is horrible for the country,” Tannenbaum said. “In the end, I think most Bernie supporters will vote for Hillary. I think Trump is trying to pander to Bernie supporters but I don’t think we will fall for it.”

The two students also said while they thought the Democratic

party’s platform was solid, it left a few things to be desired.

“We have seen a lot of great things and progress with the updated Democratic platform, but there are definitely some issues that we want to take on and we will be fighting for as delegates on the convention floor,” Kaboud said.

Members of Penn for Bernie plan to continue advocating for Bernie’s movement in the fall, Tannenbaum said.

“I hope the energy on campus that we had all year for Bernie and progressive issues will continue during the general election, even if Bernie is not the nominee,” Tannenbaum said.

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Jerry Springer: It ‘doesn’t get any better than’ Clinton Springer sits with DP to discuss the convention JENNA WANG News Editor

On the second day of the Democratic National Convention, esteemed talkshow radio host and former Cincinnati mayor Jerry Springer could be found sitting on one particular couch in the Wells Fargo Center.

Springer had made himself a temporary fixture at the Microsoft lounge along the perimeter of the stadium, jokingly calling it his de facto “office� for the convention.

In 1between Springer’s television interviews with major news outlets and photo opportunities with fans, The Daily Pennsylvanian caught up with the longtime Democrat for a quick conversation about his personal relationship with Hillary Clinton, the Sanders revolution and cheesesteaks.

The Daily Pennsylvanian: So how are you enjoying the DNC so far?

Jerry Springer: Well, I’m loving it. Every convention we go to has its own rhythm, its own personality. This is particularly neat because it’s historic. In 30 years I won’t be around, but people will look back on this and say, “Wow, this was when a woman was nominated for the presidency and ultimately became president of the United States.�

It’s a magical moment, as 2008 was with Barack Obama. So to be a part of this, and to see it actually happening — the lifelong struggle to get here — it’s wonderful.

DP: What would you say is the main difference between this convention and the last [Democratic] convention that you went to?

Springer: The last one, you had the incumbent as the candidate, so there was no controversy.

It was Barack Obama and all the delegates were for Barack, so it [was] a much calmer place. This convention, you have the delegates of the other candidate as well. They’re committed to their candidate, and this is very hard

for them to not have won. So we go through this. That’s the beauty of the Democratic Party — we’re a party of coalitions. You look at the Republican Party, it’s monolithic and white. When you look at the Democratic delegates, it’s a picture of America. It’s the way it ought to be.

DP: Do you think there’s a real chance that Donald Trump will become president?

Springer: Well, when you’re down to two people, there’s always a chance the other one will win.

It’s always possible, [but] I don’t think it’s probable.

DP: Okay, so if Sanders was still in the race, would you support Sanders or Clinton?

Springer: I’m more for Hillary. I’m closer to Sanders on the issues, I just think Hillary’s more prepared to be president. Nothing bad to say about Sanders at all — it’s just that probably in American history, there’s never been someone so prepared to be president who hasn’t already been president.

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At Truth to Power exhibit, a powerful message to youth Artwork represents criminal justices reform JENNA WANG News Editor

Eight years ago, a young man sat behind bars with nothing but a number two pencil in his hand and an idea in his head.

Fast forward to today, and a towering portrait of his face hangs in an art gallery at the Truth to Power art exhibition in Philadelphia. Around the corner hang the works of Banksy and Hank Willis Thomas, but that’s not the most remarkable thing about the portrait. In fact, the painting is a self portrait of the artist, Russell Craig, who taught himself to read, write and draw while in prison.

Russell Craig recalled loving to sketch as a kid, doodling some of his favorite comic book characters for fun. But he stopped drawing when he grew up fast and started selling drugs. The drugs landed him in county and then state jail, where he went in and out for 12 years.

During his last sentence of seven years, Craig decided to pick up art again while working on getting his GED. He started by drawing pencil portraits of fellow inmates and their families for money. “I started with a number two pencil. I just did pencil sketches, portraits of people’s families — their children and wives and mothers — and they would send it out to them,� Craig said. “I started a business, and you’re not supposed to have your own business, but I had to do it.�

Craig used the money he earned to purchase art supplies through the jail — colored pencils at first when he was in county, and then better supplies in state. He taught himself to draw with different mediums and different styles. “Prison made me come back to art,� Craig said. “I was 90 percent art. Sometimes I’d play chess or something like that, but 90 percent of the time I wasn’t really

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Hampton also stressed the importance of strong Penn support for the app. “We hope that many of the first 2000 HotMaps users are from the Penn community because we trust their instincts and value their feedback,� he said.

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There’s still this double standard. “I don’t like her voice. What is she wearing? Why did she stick with Bill?� What has that got to do with anything? Ask any United States Senator who worked with her when she was in the Senate for six years, any Republican, any Democrat, any one of them, and they will all say the same thing: “I respect her. Didn’t always agree with her on the issues, [but] she worked hard, she was honest, she was great to work with.� Ask the people who know her and work with her, even Republicans.

DP: Last question for you — do you like Philly cheesesteaks?

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Springer: She is a lovely human being. I would say this — if God forbid something happen to my family and I needed someone to raise my daughter or grandchild, I would put [them] in the hands of Hillary Clinton. That’s how good, decent she is. She’s [like] your mother — assuming you have a good relationship with your mother. She’s brilliant. You may not like her politics, [but] as a human being? It doesn’t get any better.

DP: That would seem really unfair then, to think that so much of the American public thinks she’s dishonest and a liar. Why do you think she’s had such a reputation?

Springer: Well, number one, she’s been in politics for 40 years, so she’s had enemies for 40 years.

She’s been the wife of the president, which caused some issues.

So she’s been in the spotlight for 40 years, plus you have Fox News, plus you have the Internet. [If] you

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This is the beginning. So, you support Hillary for president now over Donald Trump, and you continue with the Bernie revolution. It’s what [Sanders] is advocating.

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I’M ON A BOAT Meet the Penn student spending summer on an Alaskan fishing boat | BY EMILY CIESLAK

College sophomore Autumn Powell is crossing gender boundaries this summer, and no, she is not working in tech or engineering. She is on a boat. In Alaska.

Fishing for salmon. After months of sitting under the flourescent bulbs of lecture halls, slaving over essays and hailing Ubers, Powell decided to head back home to Kodiak and get lost in the wilderness of the emerald isle. Don’t get us wrong, she is still working crazy hours and making bank — but no cubicle is required.

We chatted with Powell while she had service and frankly got a little envious we didn’t have the guts to ditch the 9 to 5. Read about her experience and realize you don’t need a button down to make the most of your summer.

Street: So I heard you are fishing in Alaska this summer.

Tell me a little more about what you do.

Autumn Powell: I’m the cook and a deck hand, so I basically have to take all the weights of the fish and take the fish off of what catches them. The hours are very weird. We deliver sometimes in the middle of the night and maybe catch a nap somewhere in there. If I’m not working, I’m sleeping, and if I’m not sleeping, I’m working.

Street: That sounds like a lot of hard work. Is this your first summer doing it?

AP: I have spent at least some part of my summer on a boat since I was 14 years old, maybe a little younger. But I basically

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grew up on a boat because my dad is a crab fisherman. Two summers ago I did the same thing I’m doing now but on a different boat, and last summer I went up Bristol Bay fishing for sockeye.

Street: What made you want to go back? I feel like as college students we have this pressure to always move on to something new.

AP: It’s a good way to make money quickly, and it is a family business. I don’t think I could last a whole year away from Alaska, honestly.

Street: You must have a completely different lifestyle than in Philadelphia.

AP: In a city you can’t be alone, and even if you are in your room you are never more than 10, 20 feet from another human, but [here] I can go into the woods and climb a mountain just maybe 10 to 20 minutes from my house, and I get to be alone. It’s so nice.

Street: What reactions do you get here when you tell people you are from Alaska?

AP: People ask is it white all the time, do you live in an igloo?

It’s actually so funny. One of the first things they ask me is about the “Deadliest Catch.” I’m actually on a boat right now that was on that show. It’s called the Seabrook.

Street: Does your job relate to what you want to do in the future?

AP: I think it most relates to how I want my personal life to be when I’m older, but it’s not going to coincide easily with molecular

biology at all. I would like to be a medical researcher and hopefully go to medical school. But I would love to spend a year as a biologist or medical observer on a boat.

Street: How’s the crew? Are there any other girls or people your age?

AP: It’s a very sexist industry, but the fact that I am a girl is even shocking to people that are in Alaska. I had a crew member on here who just got fired, and it was because he hit on me, and he was like double my age. His nickname for me was “Sugar Tits.”

Loved it [sarcastically laughs].

Street: Yikes! How did your parents feel at first about you working on a boat?

AP: I remember the first time I told my dad I wanted to go on the boat to go fishing he was really surprised. For my brother, it has always been expected, but for me it was like, “Oh she wants to work on a boat? Let’s get her a job then.” They were always open to it.

Street: I’m sure it has taught you a lot.

AP: It has taught me how to operate on little to no sleep, how to shut my mouth when someone is telling me how to do something because otherwise I won’t do it right. It’s taught me how to be hard worker most of all.

Street: What’s the best part?

AP: My favorite part is when everyone else is asleep and you get to wheel watch. You’re in open ocean, you can’t see land and you get to just put on your favorite song and ride the waves.

DNC DEALS

How #DNCinPHL can help you get your drank on | BY EMILY SCHWARTZ If you don’t live under a rock, you’ll know that the Democratic National Convention is being hosted in Philadelphia this summer and it’s taking the City of Brotherly Love by storm. Whether you’re a DNC intern, a volunteer or completely unaffiliated with the convention, you’ll want to take advantage of all the great deals and attractions the city has to offer. Check out the best ways to enjoy Philadelphia’s food, drink and fun during the week of the DNC

Food Red Owl Tavern As polisci majors will tell you, there’s no better place to get into the political spirit than the Liberty Bell and Independence Mall. And if you’re living in Philly for four years, you have to go at least once. So if you find yourself getting hangry post-tourist attraction, head across the street to the Red Owl Tavern who will be selling their popular burger and collaborative beer for $20.16 (how clever) at lunchtime during DNC week.

Square 1682 121 S. 17th Street A bang-for-your-buck meal that’s served until midnight?

We’re interested. Square 1682 will be offering Staff Meal Trays, a multi-course dinner complete with a Miller Highlife Pony, for a not-bad $25 until midnight during the DNC. Don’t skip lead bartender Daniel Kulisek’s specially crafted DNC drink, Kulisek’s The Hillary: a shot of Bulleit Rye served with a Diet Coke on the side, lemon twist included for $12.

Capofitto + Capogiro Multiple Locations Most people don’t give Capogiro enough credit on campus, but Capogiro might be the go-to for DNC week with extended hours at every location. We can’t forget that the award-winning Capo is getting creative for the DNC with Democrat themed flavors, like the hot pepper caramel swirled chocolate flavor

called Hillary Hot Sauce. Our personal favorite? Feel the Burnt Sugar.

Drink SkyGarten 1717 Arch Street Hit up Philly’s highest beer garden for its extended hours during the DNC, serving up unique beers until 10 p.m. on weeknights and 11 p.m. on Saturdays. The menu includes DNC specials like an $8 Bluecoat American Dry Gin and Tonic. Located on the 51st floor of a Philadelphia skyscraper, you’ll be able to enjoy better beers than you’ll find at Smokes, better views than you’ll find at the High Rises and better comedy (politics?) than you’ll find on TV. Philadelphia Distilling To celebrate the DNC, Philadelphia Distilling has launched Drink-cision, a creative cocktail campaign where the classic “Martini” and its rival “The Martinez” (each made with a different type of Bluecoat Gin) will compete online on Bluecoat’s Facebook. Check out both drinks and vote for your fave online in a poll where your opinion may matter just as much as it will in the general election.

Fun PoliticalFest 2016 Take advantage of PoliticalFest 2016, an American history and politics themed festival designed to let you enjoy and participate in the DNC even if

you’re not a volunteer or intern.

Filled with interactive displays, trivia games and special guest appearances, PoliticalFest is a must for those in Philly this summer. Don’t miss the patriotic programming, and especially don’t confuse PoliticalFest with Made In America, a different USA themed festival with slightly different attire restrictions and liver demands.

Philly Feast 3rd and Arch This Philly-centric food truck festival is designed to bring Philadelphia’s best food trucks (dare we say better than Hemo’s or Lyn’s?) to Old City. The festival will feature local food, live music and a bunch of Philly retail vendors for a full arts and culture experience. And while yes, this is technically a foodcentered activity, all food is fun, right? Right?

Broad Street Arts Activation Project Get a true taste of Philadelphia during DNC week with the Broad Street Arts Activation project, a project spanning Broad Street from Arch to Washington during the whole convention. Seven street-level pop-up spaces will bring Broad Street to life with paint, light, art and performance from different artists and groups all across the city. Go on Wednesday to catch Make Art Philly, a day of art-making and crafting centered around the theme of voting.

THE FINSTA

PHENOMENON When a fake profile depicts real life | BY LEIGH ANN EISENHAUER It all began with a photograph of myself at a fraternity rush event, riding a shirtless pledge as if he were a horse (with an Indiana Jones-esque cowboy hat to boot).

Being the millennial that I am, I

Finstagram, or finsta, as “a mixture of Fake & Instagram. People, usually girls, get a second Instagram account along with their real instagrams, rinstagrams, to post any pictures or videos they desire.

I’m not trying to prove anything when I post on my finsta, I’m just trying to share funny photos.”

It’s no secret that for most, Instagram offers a carefully curated display of photographs edited

“The safety of finsta lies in its exclusivity.” immediately thought to myself, “This needs to be shared with my closest friends, acquaintances and that really funny guy that I only met one time but who always comments on my Instagrams.”

Sending the photo to one of my multiple group chats with friends felt cumbersome and awkward.

However, the photograph was much too risque to post on Instagram or Facebook, for the eyes of family, love interests, frenemies and potential employers. Consequently, my finsta was born. I was now free to share my victory lap in the triple crown of fraternity hazing.

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The photos or videos posted are usually funny or embarrassing.”

Although they are more common amongst women, finstas are not exclusive to females. The phenomenon is also not exclusive to Penn; in fact, finstas are widespread enough to have gained coverage by publications such as Tech Insider, Elle, and The New York Times.

Kayla* created her finsta freshman year as a way to post pictures without worrying about her online image. “I think with my regular Instagram getting likes or followers is a source of validation, whereas on my finsta, I don’t worry about it at all because I know I’m only sharing it with my closest friends.

and filtered to “perfection” accompanied by a carefully thought out caption. A finsta offers refuge from the constant horse race of accumulating more followers and likes. It serves as a space where, ironically enough, users can actually be “real.” Tellingly, when asked about how much time was spent preparing a finsta post as compared to a regular post, one student responded, “A lot less time. A lot.”

Finsta content varies by user, but almost always features photographs deemed too inappropriate for other forms of social media.

Every student surveyed for this article had posted at least one

photograph explicitly showing them drinking alcohol on their finsta, and most students had several photographs depicting or heavily implying the use of alcohol, drugs and/or lewd behavior.

When asked how strangers might perceive them if presented with their finstas, students responded similarly. “They would think I’m an alcoholic,” replied one male student. “They would probably think I blackout every night.”

“They would maybe call the police and also wonder how I haven’t yet died of alcohol poisoning.” Meanwhile, the public profiles of these students remain more or less exemplary.

The safety of finsta lies in its exclusivity. Whereas a regular Instagram may have hundreds or even thousands of followers, finstas are typically private and have a following in the double or low triple digits. Followers are instilled with some degree of trust; the poster is counting on them not to screenshot the images or share

them with others. For this reason, most users only allow close friends or the people they party with to follow. When too many people gain access to a finsta, users are forced to censor their posts — which defeats the whole purpose.

Last year, Kayla realized she had allowed too many people to follow her and promptly deleted her Finstagram. “There were too many private things on there and I didn’t want that many people seeing it.”

standards. As one student admitted, “On my finsta I want people to comment and say how funny I am.” Whereas Instagram serves as a constant measure of who has the whitest smile, most appetizing brunch and most scenic vacation spot, for some, finsta is a measure of wit. Social media, it seems, will always be a competition, regardless of intent or form.

Nearly everyone surveyed agreed that neither their Finsta

“Screw perfection, here’s a look at my life in all of its absurdity.”

She now has a new account with only a handful of followers.

For users, a finsta offers an opportunity to reclaim social media, without the pressure to present an idealized image of their lives. It allows them to say, “Screw perfection, here’s a look at my life in all of its absurdity.” However, finstas may come with their own

nor their real Instagram account would give a stranger an accurate depiction of their real-world lives.

As one student remarked, “Social media is not real life.” But, ironically enough, a fake Instagram offers a slightly more realistic look. * Names have been changed.

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CLOSE BUT NO CIGAR Behind Alexa Hoover’s conference-high 27 goals, Penn field hockey had its best season in years. However, things ended abruptly in the de facto Ivy championship when Princeton scored a sudden death winner.

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Although the Quakers quickly fell behind to Fordham, 28-3, in mid-October, that day marked a turning point for the team. What was shaping up as another blowout loss slowly turned into something else, with Penn scoring 20 straight points at one point to eventually even up the game at 45 with 1:46 left in regulation. Although the Rams hit a field goal with eight seconds left, it was the best the Quaker offense, led by backup Andrew Lisa for the game, played.

It also marked the breakout of then-junior running back Brian Schoenauer, who ran for 161 yards and three touchdowns.

Facing longtime coach Al Bagnoli, now the head coach for Columbia, Torgersen then returned from injury to lead the Quakers in trouncing Columbia with 42 unanswered points after the Lions scored first. Then-freshman receiver Christian Pearson was unstoppable running bubble screens, converting 10 receptions for 126 yards and one of Torgersen’s three scores through the air.

The Red and Blue made it back-to-back triumphs by topping Yale, 34-20, on a Friday night

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that game was also an opportunity for Harvard to clinch a playoff bid and for Yale to play spoiler to its biggest rival. Or even better, what if both teams were in contention for the league championship, and “The Game� was a “win or go home� showdown – kind of like that time the two schools played an instant classic basketball game in 2015 to determine who advanced to March Madness?

These games would maintain the historical significance they’ve always had while adding the new prize of a possible playoff berth; it’d be absolute mayhem. The only “tradition� at risk is that of unjustifiably robbing student-athletes of their well-deserved opportunity to compete against the nation’s best, and it’s one that needs to stop.

The most prominent argument against the tournament is the fact that it overlaps with final exams – a sensible theory at first glance.

But if we take a look at some other Ivy League sport calendars, we see that this claim is pure hypocrisy.

Every other Ancient Eight sport allows worthy teams into their sports’ versions of playoffs, and when juxtaposing this knowledge with the aforementioned argument, it’s pretty appalling how many of them saw final exams and postseason play overlap. In 2016 alone, all of these Ivy teams competed at least into, if not all the way through, their final exam periods: Penn, Princeton and Harvard women’s lacrosse, Princeton and Yale baseball, Princeton and Harvard softball, Brown, Yale, Penn and Harvard men’s lacrosse, Harvard men’s and women’s golf, Columbia women’s tennis, a combined 21 rowing teams across the Ivy League, and every single Ivy

at Franklin Field. After falling behind 10-0, Penn outscored the Elis 20-3 in a key second quarter to secure the lead. Torgersen had 350 yards passing and four touchdowns, Pearson burned Yale for 133 yards and two touchdowns, and then-sophomore running back Tre Solomon put up a solid 120 yards rushing with a touchdown.

Penn improved to 3-1 against Brown in a contest which resembled the Columbia blowout. The Bears struck first, but the Quakers followed with 41 unanswered points. This forced Brown into catch-up mode, where the defense shined with two forced fumbles and four interceptions.

Having won three straight conference games, Penn faced a challenging homecoming opponent in Princeton. A 42-yard field goal off the leg of then-senior Jimmy Gammill with 3:22 tied the game at 20, but the Tigers were in position to kick a game-winning, 35-yard field goal with just seconds left.

But senior linebacker Donald Panciello, who sealed the Villanova win with a 90-yard fumble return, blocked Nolan Bieck’s kick, forcing overtime.

Penn forced a three-and-out on Princeton’s first possession in

track and field program.

And it’s not like these studentathletes are getting crushed academically. 22 members of Penn’s three rowing teams were Academic All-Americans in 2016, including Rhodes Scholar Jenna Hebert. Track and field and women’s lacrosse haven’t released the bulk of their academic honors for 2016 yet, but in 2015 (when both teams also played into finals), three Penn women’s lacrosse players made the IWLCA Academic Honor Roll, while eight track and field Quakers earned USTFCCCA All-Academic honors, including 2016 CoSIDA second-team Academic All-American Sam Mattis.

Additionally, it should actually be easier for football players to handle in-season exams based on scheduling; nearly every single game of the FCS bracket takes place on Saturday, when it’s highly unlikely for an exam to be scheduled. No other sport can make that claim. So if your primary argument against joining the playoff is the fact that the tournament interferes with final exams, then you literally cannot justify the Ancient Eight’s participation in postseason baseball, lacrosse, track and field and the other sports that directly contradict this philosophy.

What about the benefits to joining the tournament? The biggest one would simply be the opportunity to compete against the best.

Winning championships is the ultimate goal for any athlete, and being the best out of 125 teams is a much more impressive claim than being the best out of eight.

And coming up short of a national title doesn’t mean the ride can’t be memorable – try to tell Steve Donahue that Cornell’s 2010 Sweet 16 basketball run was meaningless.

But beyond the obvious

overtime, ceding a field goal, and allowing itself an opportunity to tie it back up. Torgersen’s 11-yard pass to senior receiver Eric Fiore was the nail in the coffin for Princeton, provoking madness among the remaining fans at Franklin Field.

Climax At this point, the Quakers had won four straight Ivy games and were still in the Ivy League title picture. Standing in their way was Harvard, which had previously served Dartmouth its only loss. A win over Harvard wouldn’t guarantee a share of the championship, but a loss would eliminate the Red and Blue.

On a cold, windy day, Penn jumped out to 21-6 lead thanks to two short Torgersen touchdown runs and a 68-yard TD catch-and-run from Torgersen to then-sophomore Justin Watson.

Harvard, though, came right back with three straight scores, capping its run with a trick play pass

by Ivy League Rookie of the Year receiver Justice Shelton-Mosley.

Penn reclaimed lead in third with 28 yard pass to then-senior tight end Ryan Kelly before Watson extended the lead with a 79-yard run in fourth quarter. Penn pulled off

excitement of the playoffs, the regular season would also change for the better. In 2015, Harvard and Dartmouth won their nonconference games by a combined score of 242 to 34 – why schedule strong teams when your rĂŠsumĂŠ doesn’t matter? Allow the Ivy League in the postseason, though, and you probably see more nonleague games like Penn’s thriller against Fordham. Conference play easily would become more exciting too, considering the extra intensity of fighting for a playoff spot. The playoff would boost student interest – remember the vibe when Penn students piled into the Palestra to watch women’s basketball “Selection Mondayâ€? live on ESPN? Why not re-create that in the fall season when the opportunity is right in front of you?

Recruitment would improve as well when adding the opportunity to compete for a national championship to the already existing perks to joining the Ivy League.

The ticket sales and television money from playoff games would bring a huge financial surplus to any schools involved.

It’s clear that the Ivy League respects its customs, but there’s a line between respectfully paying homage to tradition and stubbornly refusing beneficial change, and the presidents are firmly on the wrong side of that line.

They know the euphoria that a successful football team can bring to a school. They saw Penn’s student section and football team dance together on the Franklin Field turf on that magical November afternoon last year. Now let us dance on the big stage.

COLE JACOBSON is a rising College sophomore from Los Angeles, Calif., and is an associate sports editor at The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at dpsports@thedp.com.

the upset.

Denouement Priore was adamant that Penn had not yet beaten Cornell, although the Big Red were not nearly as daunting a foe as the Crimson. Penn jumped ahead of Cornell 20-0 in the first quarter

and won easily, 34-21. Schoenauer had 118 rushing yards and a TD, Watson cemented his season with 133 yards and two scores and Torgersen accounting for three touchdowns.

Then the accolades came in.

Priore became just the seventh coach to win Ivy League Coach

of the Year in his first season and then-senior Tyler Drake (80 tackles, 8.5 sacks) took down the Defensive Player of the Year award while Watson (1,082 receiving yards, 10 total touchdowns) finished second for Offensive Player of the Year. Penn had 11 players receive All-Ivy recognition.

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ANANYA CHANDRA | SPORTS PHOTO EDITOR

End the misguided ban on postseason play for Ivy teams COLE JACOBSON Associate Sports Editor

The preseason hype surrounding Penn football is unreal – 13 returning starters from a championship team will do that. I’m not guaranteeing a repeat title, but it’s clear that Penn is the consensus favorite in the conference.

Still, even if Penn repeats as league champs – even if Penn finishes 10-0 for the first time since 2003 – hell, even if Penn wins every game by 30+ points – its season will come to an end when the clock strikes zeroes at

Cornell on November 19th.

And that’s ridiculous.

Football is the only one of the Ivy League’s 33 varsity sports to refrain from postseason play, and this is dead wrong – it’s time to end the double standard and give Ivy football teams the choice to compete in the FCS playoffs like everybody else.

So why haven’t the Ivy League presidents pulled the trigger? Some might argue that the conference wouldn’t be competitive. But at the end of the 2015 season, the NCAA’s Simple Rating System had Dartmouth ranked 2nd in the FCS, Harvard at 4th, and Penn at 15th. Only one other conference in the nation (the MVC) had three schools in the top 15.

Prefer on-the-field evidence? How

about Penn taking playoff team Fordham to the brink, falling 48-45 after roaring back from a 28-3 deficit – with arguably its most important player, Torgersen, sidelined with a concussion.

And even if it was impossible for Ivy League schools to advance far – a questionable claim – why shouldn’t they get to try? No Ivy team has ever brought home the NCAA men’s basketball title, and none has made the Elite Eight since Penn back in 1979. So should the league stop sending its basketball champion to March Madness?

Obviously not – take one look at Yale men’s basketball storming the court after upsetting Baylor this spring and try to argue that those kids should’ve been robbed of that joy.

Another justification for the lack of football postseason play is tradition.

But what traditions exactly would be at risk by entering the FCS playoffs?

Harvard and Yale would still go toeto-toe in front of a sellout crowd every year in the last game of the regular season; Penn and Cornell’s annual tilt would still be for the Trustees’ Cup. And don’t try to tell me that these games would be less meaningful because of the playoff. Harvard-Yale is the third-most played rivalry in college football history, known for tailgates, pranks and College GameDay appearances – an atmosphere unlike anything else in Ivy League sports. Now, imagine how much rowdier it would get if SEE JACOBSON PAGE 9

Retelling the tale of 2015: an epic title charge FOOTBALL | A narrative arc of

the Quakers’ unlikely Ivy title

JACOB ADLER Sports Reporter

Exposition As the opening credits appeared to the tune of the music score, Ray Priore readied for his first season as head coach of the Penn football team, his 29th year as part of the staff. Projected to finish sixth in the Ivy League by the preseason media poll, Priore was attempting to revive a program that won just two games in 2014.

Conflict Many Red and Blue backers likely saw their hope for a turnaround disappear upon first glance of the box score of the first game. They saw a 42-21 beating at hands of Lehigh, allowing the Mountain Hawks to net 245 yards on the ground and quarterback Nick Shafnisky to account for five scores. The Daily Pennsylvanian led the game recap with, “Maybe this season won’t be about change after all ... Penn football’s season opener shaped up a lot like most of its contests from last year.”

One thing that became evident, though, was that the Quakers had the talent to hold their own against tough opponents. With the papal visit moving the next game up two days, the Quakers played their version of Thursday Night Football against No. 4 Villanova. Penn demonstrated it wasn’t going without a fight with an astounding 24-13 victory that marked the first time the program defeated the area foe since 1911. Injuries were a factor for Villanova, but the defense was stout after allowing 41 points in 2014’s matchup.

Then, it went back downhill, fast. In the first conference game of the year, Penn proved no match for Dartmouth, with Big Green quarterback Dalyn Williams two steps ahead of the Red and Blue at every turn. Williams ran for 73 yards and two scores and completed 23 of 25 passes (92%) for 336 yards and four touchdowns. Meanwhile, Penn then-junior quarterback Alek Torgersen completed seven of 10 attempts for 29 yards before leaving at halftime with a concussion. Penn’s deficit sat at 41-6 after three quarters before inching to the final score of 41-20. A betting man could have gotten great odds on Penn winning the Ivy League at that time, but a betting man wouldn’t have wagered on the Red and Blue after seeing how much better the Big Green looked.

Rising Action SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 9

Quakers add assistant to help groom young squad VOLLEYBALL | Was

coach at George Mason COREY HENRY Sports Reporter

After a disappointing 13-13 finish to the season last season, head coach Kerry Carr has decided to make an offseason splash that she hopes will set Penn Volleyball up for future success.

Newest assistant coach Scott Schweihofer joins Carr’s staff in the hopes of bringing the Ivy title back to Philadelphia for the first time since 2010.

After spending the last two years at George Mason University as the team’s top assistant and recruiting coordinator, Schweihofer comes to Penn after helping the Patriots to their best single-season win total in six years. The former outside hitter at Limestone College brings a wealth of experience and success to the Red and Blue both as an assistant and as a player.

Coaching, though, isn’t the only thing bringing Schweihofer to the city of brotherly love. The newest Quaker will

wed Caitlin Rimgalia, the head coach of Big 5 rival La Salle’s volleyball team, at the end of the month.

Carr has made her enthusiasm known for bringing Schweihofer into the fold, espousing her praise and admiration for her newest addition to the team.

“He stood out among all the national candidates, and he will immediately hit the ground running with his recruiting, scouting and technical coaching experience,” Carr said in a statement. “I have been able to witness first-hand his recruiting these past two years, as well as his knowledge and enthusiasm of the game when we played George Mason last year. I know our student-athletes are looking forward to working with our whole team of experienced coaches this upcoming season.”

On a team that has zero seniors, the coaching staff will be key in making sure that every player continues to improve as the season wears on. And with a promising young core, the Quaker program hopes that they can be at least Schweihofer’s second-most successful marriage this fall.

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Coach Kerry Carr added former George Mason assistant Scott Schweihofer to her staff last week. As an interesting footnote, Schweihofer is set to be married at the end of the month to La Salle’s head volleyball coach.

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