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Among a sprawling Democratic presidential primary, former Penn professor Joe Biden has steadfastly held onto his frontrunner status for months, according to national polls.

Most of the former vice president’s support, however, has been among older voters, with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) leading the youth vote and Biden struggling to appeal to those aged 18 to 29. A pair of Penn seniors want to change that by stirring up support for Biden among young voters on campus through the new group, Penn for Biden.

Penn for Biden currently has a Facebook group with more than 80 members, which the group’s leaders have used to promote Biden’s events. The group has also encouraged students to apply for fall internships with Biden’s campaign, which is headquartered in Philadelphia.

The group launched late last semester — days after Biden’s campaign announcement. The former Penn Presidential Professor of Practice is taking an unpaid leave of absence from his post during his campaign.

The group’s co-founders, Wharton senior Dylan Milligan and College senior Gabriel Barnett, said they want to convince students to support the former vice president because of his political know-how and electability.

“He’s the most experienced, most accomplished candidate, and he has the broadest appeal,” Barnett said. “He’s the Democrat that will beat Donald Trump.”

Milligan said Biden’s centrist ideology would more likely help Democrats beat Trump compared to Biden’s more progressive rivals, such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who was a former Penn Law professor.

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The previous Penn Book Center owners will sell the store to Matthew Duquès and Diana Bellonby

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Joe Biden is taking an unpaid leave of absence from his position at Penn during his campaign

“Biden’s persona as a moderate Democrat certainly puts him in a position to obtain a lot of votes,” said Milligan, the former president of Penn Democrats. “He’s clearly one of the strongest candidates in the field.”

Biden’s long track record of public service is also appealing, Milligan said. But Barnett defended Biden and brushed off his frequent gaffes.

“A quote out of context in the news or an attack line

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After months of student complaints and community protests, the Penn Book Center will continue to stay open in the fall.

The news comes after the Penn Book Center announced that it would close in May after 60 years of business due to financial hardship and competition from chain bookstores like Barnes & Noble. A petition calling on Penn to help the bookstore stay open and student protests extended the bookstore’s lease until the end of August.

Now, the Penn Book Center is set to stay open in the fall — but under new ownership and a new name. Current Penn Book Center owners Ashley Montague, who graduated from Penn in 1999 with a Ph.D. in English, and Michael Row, who received a Wharton Ph.D. in 2001, will sell the Penn Book

Center’s assets to prospective owners Matthew Duques, English professor at the University of North Alabama, and his wife, writer Diana Bellonby, by the end of this week, Duques said.

Montague wrote in an email that she and Row are working out the final details left in the transition of ownership and “just need to agree on a final price” for the inventory to sell to the new owners.

Bellonby said Montague and Row made the decision to sell after the bookstore has not been profitable for a few years.

2019 College graduate Derek Willie, who studied English, said he is “excited” to see the Penn Book Center stay open, as it has become a place he has come to “really value” on campus.

“I’m happy that my initially pessimistic prediction has been proved wrong,” Willie said.

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Officials from the Fresh Grocer said the store was re-inspected the morning of Aug. 20 by the Philadelphia County Board of Health, which approved its reopening “after we took immediate action to address their concerns.”

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The Fresh Grocer partially reopened Aug. 20 following an inspection from the Philadelphia Department of Public Health that shut down the supermarket temporarily on Aug. 19 after finding several instances of health violations including “heavy accumulation of mice feces” and “foodborne illness risk factors.”

The inspection report indicated that the establishment was required to stay closed for at least 48 hours, when it would be permitted to undergo re-inspection and pay a $315 fee. By midday on Aug. 20, however, the Department

of Health sign ordering the supermarket to “cease operations” in red ink was no longer displayed on the glass doors and the Fresh Grocer appeared open for business.

Officials from the Fresh Grocer told The Daily Pennsylvanian Aug. 21 that the store was re-inspected the morning of Aug. 20 by the Philadelphia County Board of Health, which approved the store’s reopening “after we took immediate action to address their concerns.”

Fresh Grocer employees said Aug. 20 that the general supermarket reopened the morning of Aug. 20, but that the meat and food preparation area of the supermarket, where the health violations were most concentrated, would reopen Aug. 21. Many employees were concentrated

in the closed section Aug 20, scrubbing the surfaces and cleaning the floors behind the stoves.

The employees would not answer follow-up questions and were not able to confirm whether the inspection would take place Aug. 21. Fresh Grocer employees directed the DP to contact the corporate office, which confirmed Aug. 21 that the general store re-opened on the morning of Aug. 20, and later in the day, the kitchen and prepared foods department re-opened.

The initial inspection took place on Aug. 19 from 11 a.m. to 3:15 p.m, and the sign has since been removed from outside the store that read that “occupancy after 8/19/19 at 1:07 p.m. is illegal.” The reinspection took place on the morning of Aug. 20.

Other violations listed in the report included an accumulation of food residue, “visible physical evidence of rodent / insect activity,” “potentially hazardous” readyto-eat-tuna, and wet food debris in the bakery and deli cases.

“The Fresh Grocer of Walnut Street has successfully addressed the issues brought to our attention by the Philadelphia County Board of Health.

After receiving the findings from a routine inspection on the afternoon of Aug. 19, we temporarily closed the store to take immediate action,” the Fresh Grocer’s official statement read. “The store is back in operation, open 24 hours a day, and our team will remain diligent to ensure that store conditions exceed sanitation standards.”

Penn’s yield rate reached 70% for the Class of 2023 after the most selective round of admissions in the University’s history.

The yield rate measures the percentage of students who enroll at Penn after receiving an acceptance. This year, 70% of 3,345 admitted students accepted their offers, the highest yield rate in the past decade, according to the Penn Common Data Set. The Class of 2020 previously held the record for the highest yield rate at 67.8%. The rate has dipped since then, reaching 67.3% last year.

“This year, for example, was the first full year of our new information session, it was a year when we made programmatic changes to our admitted student events, and a year when we launched a redesigned website and branding strategy,” Kathryn Bezella, vice dean and director of marketing and communications for Penn Admissions, wrote in an email to The Daily Pennsylvanian.

“With so many areas that are

growing and improving, it is difficult to attribute our yield rate to specific initiatives, but we’re happy to see Penn continue to be a top choice for so many students and their families,” Bezella added.

Penn’s peer institutions also reported increases in their yield rates. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology reported a record-high yield rate of 78%, and Harvard University and Princeton University also reported historically high yields at nearly 83% and 73.2%, respectively.

The newest class of freshmen is comprised of 2,400 students who hail from 79 nations and all 50 states as well as the District of Columbia, according to Penn Today.

In March, Penn admitted a record-low proportion of applicants for the Class of 2023, with 3,345 out of 44,960 applicants being accepted.

Fifteen percent of students in the incoming class identified as first-generation. Fiftyone percent of admitted U.S. students self-identified as students of color and 53% of the admitted students identified as female.

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Penn Admissions officer says Trump was no “super genius” higher acceptance rate, Nolan told the Post. A Penn official told the Post that the 1966 acceptance rate is not available but cited the 1980 acceptance rate as “slightly greater than 40%."

“I certainly was not struck by any sense that [I was] sitting before a genius," Nolan said about his interview with Trump. "Certainly not a super

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Trump has never released his transcripts from his time at Wharton and Nolan’s account is one of the first of its kind.

Trump mentioned his Wharton education 93 times in public speeches between May 2015 and January 2018.

Trump’s classmates have also questioned assertions by various news agencies that Trump

graduated first in his class in 1968.

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Nolan told the Post his initial decision to interview Trump for admission at Penn was a favor to Fred Trump Jr., the president’s older brother and one of Nolan's closest friends. Nolan added he remembered that Fred Trump Sr., the president’s father, accompanied his son to

the interview, seeking to “in- Post. Nolan described adgratiate” himself. mission into Penn as “not “It must have been decent very difficult” at the time enough to support his candi- of Trump’s application, acdacy,” Nolan told the Post about cording to the Post. the rating he gave Trump after More than half of Penn’s t he i nt er v iew.

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Writing seminar needs improvement

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be focused on writing genres that are more useful to Penn students across the board

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n 2 0 0 3, t h e C r it i c a l Wr it i n g P rog ra m for me d to solve Pen n’s “lack of cent ra lization” problem.

It sought to integrate all of Penn’s writing resources and, in doing so, required all undergraduates to take a one-semester writing seminar.

However, while the intentions behind the writing seminar seemed to be good, an analysis of Penn Course Review data as of 2009 reveals writing seminar courses to be consistently rated well below average when it comes to “course quality” and well above average when it comes to “work required.”

To begin with, the courses have appealing titles such as “The Mind of a Dog,” “Law and Order,” “Uncreative Writing,” and “How Coke Explains,” but in reality have little to do with the writing “topic” and more to do with completing general, time-consuming writing assignments.

The students end up learning more about how to read/analyze a book that discusses a singular aspect of the topic they chose, than they do learning about the topic itself. Spending too much time outlining the author’s argument on the topic, while important, doesn’t allot much time for students to discuss, engage with, and find their own relationship with the topic.

But the writing seminar curriculum shouldn’t change simply because the course titles are misleading. Many Penn students find that the actual work that is done during the class is not beneficial to them. While there are aspects of the writing seminar that are arguably helpful in general and good to know, such as logical reasoning, how to support different types of arguments, and the career-oriented assignments, students don’t feel that those few aspects are enough to make an entire semester feel useful. Rather, they end up feeling like the information could have been learned in half the time, and consequently complain that they are not getting the most out of their writing seminar.

Admittedly, some of the curriculum is dedicated to writing for job applications — such as requiring students to write resumes and cover letters — which

Many Penn students find that the actual work that is done during the class is not beneficial to them.” is perhaps the most beneficial part of the writing seminar. However, ironically, these important skills are given the least amount of time, whereas the writing seminar spends most of its time teaching students to write literature reviews and op-eds — seemingly less useful skills for the future.

The best writing seminar curriculum should prioritize writing that will be necessary for students in the future, while also teaching students how to write for their current classes.

An ideal curriculum for the writing seminar would include students learning: 1. How to write resumes 2. How to write cover letters 3. How to write emails to a boss or employer, whether it be to introduce yourself, thank them, ask them for recommendations or promotions, etc.

4. How to write a literature review 5. How to write an opinion piece 6. How to write a research paper 7. How to read, annotate, and outline complicated texts While this seems extensive for a one-semester curriculum, it should be doable if the curriculum spends less time forcing students to adopt PowerNotes note-taking, teaching about arguably less important and less useful genres, and making students conduct an excessive number of peer reviews. If these changes are implemented, the critical writing seminar would actually be productive for Penn students, and not just a requirement to check off their list.

ILYSE REISMAN is a College sophomore studying english and music. Her email address is ireisman@sas.upenn.edu.

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s a writing tutor, I often get to listen to students talk about their opinions on Penn’s writing seminar during my sessions with them.

When I read Ilyse Reisman’s article entitled “The Critical Writing Seminar needs to be looked at under critical review,” I was interested in the author’s ideas for reforming the syllabus. However, the article painted a misleading and surfacelevel picture of Penn’s writing seminar, using data that is 10 years old.

Reisman’s logic, although echoing commonly circulated complaints, does not fully delve into the reasons the writing seminar exists in its current form.

Asserting in an opinion piece that learning to write op-eds is not an important skill seems misguided. I believe that in order to be a successful community leader, as Penn hopes its students will be, one must be able to write a compelling opinion piece.

Expressing opinions through persuasive writing is essential, and maintaining that op-ed writing is a “less useful” skill is simply untrue. In fact, several writing seminar students have gotten their op-eds published in noted publications.

Reisman takes aim at the time spent on the literature review during writing seminars, referring to it as an “arguably less important and less useful genre” of writing. However, the applicability of literature reviews transcends the classroom into the professional world. People pursuing certain majors may scoff at having to research and write literature reviews, but learning to write for an academic discourse community allows for greater understanding of and appreciation for research in general.

This understanding is key to reading and digesting coursework, in addition to conducting one’s own research. As for time spent working, learning a new style of writing does not come easily to people. Learning new skills takes time, much as it takes time to learn a new language.

I try to view every class I take with a constructively critical eye and take advantage of the course evaluation process; this extends to my experience with my writing seminar. However, Reisman’s “ideal writing seminar curriculum” bears a striking similarity to the current syllabus used in writing seminars.

Students enter their writing seminars with many different ideas of what should be prioritized by their professors and by the program. The writing seminar can only cover so much, and the information it does cover is chosen by writing professionals who have taken the insights of many other faculty members from across disciplines into consideration.

Some students would prefer a writing

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seminar curriculum focused less on the job search, or more on creative writing or multimedia work. But pleasing everyone is simply not possible. Penn offers courses in creative writing, multimedia production, and many other writing-related topics in which passionate students may enroll.

If I were crafting an ideal writing seminar curriculum, I would, as Reisman also mentions, focus more on cover letters and resumes, while eliminating the rule that the internships students write their cover letters for must be writingrelated. This may be a personal preference, but I believe that learning to apply for a job is an incredibly useful skill, and I’m glad I learned how to do it in my first year of college.

I would also suggest that after a certain amount of time spent outlining in the style currently dictated by the syllabus, students could research different outlining styles and try to incorporate them into their personal research processes.

According to a Fall 2013 Knowledge Transfer Study Penn Critical Writing Program, 88% of students who say their writing process has changed after taking a writing seminar cite outlining as an area where changes occurred. They may not use the exact style of outlining used in writing seminars, but this core idea is clearly key.

People learn in different ways. This idea is taken into account when teaching tutors how to work with students, but the writing seminar, even if it is not intentionally structured this way, can feel at times like a one-size-fits-all class. The Critical Writing program works hard to mold its program to suit the ways in which students learn, but this may not be evident to someone sitting in a writing seminar currently.

The writing seminar is never a finished product. However, the average student may not be aware of the work and research that goes into the writing seminar curriculum. Penn’s Critical Writing program was recognized just last year with a Writing Program Certificate of Excellence from the Conference on College Composition and Communication.

Although students may take issue with small aspects of the writing seminar (and can express these through course evaluations or further discussion with their professors), they should take time to reflect on the bigger picture of critical writing at Penn. They may then realize that the “critical review” of the writing seminar that Reisman calls for in her article is actually occurring, even as you read this.

JADEN BAUM is a College junior from Norfolk, Va. studying Communications and Political Science.

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Penn professors, make syllabi accessible before classes start

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any Penn professors hit the ground running when students return to campus for the new semester with rigorous homework assignments and in-class activities. While it’s reasonable to expect students and professors to try and make the most of the time they have for classes, if Penn wants to give students a serious chance to be prepared to hit the ground running, syllabi must be accessible prior to the start of classes.

For many Penn students, the add-drop period is regarded as little more than a joke. Although students can technically add new courses to their schedule during the first two weeks of the semester, it’s often practically impossible to do so, unless students are willing to forego a week or two of assignments and start the course off at a disadvantage.

Access to syllabi at least a couple of weeks in advance before the start of classes would help students head off some of the problems that can arise when they show up for courses and realize they need to drop and add a new class. Some classes simply aren’t a good fit, or aren’t precisely what the student thought from the usually brief description on Penn In-

Touch or a department website.

There are also even more intractable issues, like exam conflicts, that might cause students to rearrange their schedule. While there are rules that require accommodations so that students with overlapping finals or three finals on the same day have the ability to move one of them, these same rules do not apply universally to midterms, and different departments and professors vary in their willingness to be flexible with midterm makeup exams. Often the easiest way to resolve these conflicts is to check the syllabi and make sure these conflicts are limited from the jump.

The effect is that students do not have the flexibility to adjust their schedule before classes start, which means that often the only options are to drop classes without adding another one in order to achieve the optimal number of credits, or staying in classes that will create conflicts in the future.

Further, while many professors allow some flexibility with purchasing textbooks throughout the first few classes, more time would enable students to pursue alternatives to the Penn Bookstore.

Utilizing other sources of books, by finding one to borrow from a friend, ordering a cheaper version

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online, or tracking down online versions can save students hundreds of dollars that they might otherwise be forced to spend in order to get the materials in time to complete homework assignments.

Making syllabi available at least two weeks before the start of classes would solve this issue without putting an undue burden on professors. The conditions cannot be substantially different between mid-August and the start of classes, and syllabi are generally already presented with the caveat that readings, assignments, and exam dates are not set in stone, so there’s no reason that an adequate but inexact level of precision could also be achieved prior to the start of classes.

Some professors who teach the same course many times make past syllabi available on their website. This can be a helpful resource for students looking to get a sense of the course material or topic, but does not solve the problem for students taking new classes or classes that are being taught by a new professor and obviously does not help with exam scheduling.

The clearest and simplest solution is for the University to mandate that syllabi be made available at least two weeks prior to the start of classes.

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voices to listen to

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hey let Penn students have tattoos?” My grandfather asked incredulously upon seeing a third tattoo bloom on my arm. Unlike him, I don’t believe that tattoos indicate diminished intelligence, but that’s just one of the many things we don’t see eye to eye on. My father’s T-shirt, emblazoned with the words “Second Amendment Established 1791,” passed my grandfather’s standards however, earning a sneer from me.

My nose ring, tattoos, and overall belief that women should be able to choose what goes on their bodies are surface-level manifestations of the stark political differences that run like raging rivers between myself and half of my family. College has only enhanced these differences in beliefs, which is why I urge each first-year student who is possibly moving away from home for the first time to not shy away from the new perspectives that a college campus gifts them. Though my political beliefs are highly aligned with those of my sister, who studies 3,000 miles away from me, they diverged even further from most of my family’s when I went away to college. Penn’s campus, and many others like it, are often criticized for being liberal bubbles that stifle true dichotomous discourse. I would argue that this is true only to the extent that many Penn students refuse to entertain perspectives that perpetuate ideas of minority inferiority. When it comes to other topics of discussion, such as immigration policy and tax reform, there is greater diversity.

This broadening of political dialogue is a blessing. To imbibe the frame of reference of other students by listening to their personal histories is one way of accessing

a broader level of understanding. Involving yourself in student groups more closely affiliated with political activism or parties is yet another step. I think it is infinitely important for first year students to listen to ideas different from what they’ve heard from their families and in their hometowns when they come to college, in order to more fully develop their own ideas and beliefs. Growing up in Florida, I was constantly surrounded by people whose political ideologies, religion, and family histories were vastly different than my own.

I am grateful to the city of Philadelphia for providing such a bustling and rich social environment from which I’ve learned more about my own politics as well as the politics of those I’ve always opposed. As first-years leave their hometowns, many are being confronted with new political ideologies for the first time. This is one of the aspects of college that enriches your life with important learning outside the classroom.

Young kids often regurgitate what their parents or guardians believe as they grow into their own political person, and college is an integral time to develop as an individually political person. I’m not advocating for an immediate opposition to everything you’ve known and grown up with, but if you’ve never been exposed to ideas prior to college due to your upbringing or geographical boundaries, then college is the best time to open your mind. College has amplified my already staunch political views, and placed me even farther away from my father’s family on most political spectrums, but this isn’t something to fear. This is a part of growing up in America today, where advocacy and action are

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Penn’s campus is brimming with information when it comes to politics, as well as many political student groups that provide contemporaneous sources that you haven’t grown up with. I love discussing policy with my mom, because we’re normally batting for the same team, but discussions in college with people of all backgrounds and all perspectives is where I can learn the most about things I haven’t had access to before.

It’s okay to stray from your norm; in fact, I encourage gathering all the information you can in order to be the most informed political entity you can be. If this differentiates you from your family, then at least it’s a choice you made, and not a blind faith due to upbringing.

Our country can’t afford blind faith anymore. College students, with all our resources and opportunities for discussion, must be pioneers when it comes to combating ignorance with knowledge. Create your own political agenda, instead of following your family’s.

SOPHIA DUROSE is a College junior from Orlando, Fla. studying English.

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Biden’s salary was higher as a Penn professor than as the VP He made $776,527 in his two years at Penn GIANNA FERRARIN Staff Reporter

D emo c r at ic president ia l candidate Joe Biden earned a higher annual salary as a Penn professor than as vice president, according to tax returns released by his campaign on July 9.

Biden made $15.6 million in the two years after he left the White House, including $371,159 in 2017 and $405,368 in 2018 from working at Penn.

As vice president of the United States, Biden received an average annual salary of $225,000, according to a Forbes analysis of his tax returns. Penn professors made an average of $213,613 in the 2016-2017 academic year according to the

most recent data from the Penn Almanac.

Biden also listed speaking engagement fees and sales of his book as sources of income on his state and federal tax returns.

The former vice president received no payment, or less than $201, for his numerous appearances at Penn since 2017, according to his financial disclosure report. Biden put down

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The University named Biden a Presidential Professor of Practice in 2017, sparking confusion from students, as Biden does not teach any classes at Penn.

As a professor, Biden leads the Washington D.C.-based Penn Biden Center, which officially opened in 2018. In April 2019 Biden began his unpaid leave of absence from Penn to compete

for the Democratic presidential nomination.

President and 1968 Wharton graduate Donald Trump has not publicly released his tax returns since running for office in 2016. Though his sources of income are not in the public record, Trump may have donated up to $1.4 million to the University, as shown by tax filings from the Trump foundation and University reports.

Penn’s visitor center moves out of College Hall The move accomodates increase in visitors SIDDARTH TUMU Staff Reporter

Penn has moved its visitor center out of College Hall to accommodate an increase in visitor volume.

The admissions center moved to the basement of Claudia Cohen Hall in late May after nine months of construction.

Plans for the move began in the winter of 2016 to address the need for increased space. Lindsay Dussing, the director of on-campus programs for the admissions office, said she's "not in a position to comment” when asked what the former visitor center space will be used for.

Dussing cited an increase in visitors to campus as the primary motivation behind the move. She estimated that the admissions office welcomes more than 80,000 visitors annually.

“We have long exceeded our ability to accommodate our visitors in our current center space,” Dussing said.

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admissions tour guide Nicholas Rivera said the new center helps with high visitor volumes, as it has a designated waiting area for guests to be split into tour groups. Rivera, a tour shift captain, said that in the past guests would be divided into groups in front of Irvine Auditorium. He added that the visitor's center has a room for guests to watch l ive -st rea me d i n for mat ion sessions in cases of visitor overflow.

“We have that group room where we can cast what’s happening," Rivera said. "Whereas before if we were over capacity we were out of luck."

Rivera added that the center's interior design reflects Penn Admissions' recent re-branding, which focuses on "telling a story rather than facts." This rebranding includes a shift from the traditional tour format, a website redesign, and adjustments to the information session.

“That’s why all these walls are painted with stories and pictures with students," Rivera said. "Rather than like, 'under 10% admissions rate,' stuff like that."

Despite the move, other admissions-related offices will remain in College Hall and the visitor center will offer the same programs.

“In the immediate term, we expect to maintain the slate of visit programs we currently offer,” Dussing said.

These slates of programs include information sessions and student-led tours, which are led by Kite and Key during the school year and admissions office employees in the summer.

Dussing, however, will move with the student tour guides to the visitor's center. Rivera said Dussing is now the admissions officer that Kite and Key works most closely with.

“It’s been a very smooth transition and the information and interactions we require are still available readily,” Rivera said.

University architect Mark Kocent said his team selected Claudia Cohen Hall over other options due to its central location.

“I think the idea of Cohen [Hall] was wonderful because it kept admissions right in the core of campus," Kocent said.

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certainly did not hurt their cause.

“I do think [the sales] helped, that the store was doing really well over the summer for us to say to Penn real estate that this is a business people not only care about but use regularly and it’s of real importance to not just the school but the community,” Duques said.

After the bookstore was slated to stay open in the summer, supporters brainstormed whether the Penn Book Center should change its name to distinguish it from the Penn Bookstore.

Yang updated the petition on July 18 asking students, faculty, and Philadelphia residents to vote on one of the three potential new names for the Penn Book Center – Muse City Books, 34 West Books, and Free Verse Books.

“A fact that many have acknowledged: the name Penn

Book Center, though historic, is both a blessing and a curse,” Yang wrote in the petition update. “A new name will clarify the store’s independence, while also helping to resuscitate it.”

Bellonby said a lot of people confuse the Penn Book Center with the University’s campus book store and hopes a different name will benefit the book store in the long term.

Bellonby said, however, the polling results were “not conclusive” with no clear winner and that they will spend the next couple of months figuring out the new name.

The exchange of owners is almost sealed for the Penn Book Center. Duques said he and his wife will “ideally” sign the lease agreement with the University early next week.

“Penn has been really helpful in giving us a good lease and working with us to set things up so we can keep things going as a business so we can afford to do some renovations in the space that we think will help bring more folks into the store and help make the store a community space,” Duques said.

Duques said the renovations include aesthetic changes in the store that will make the space “more conducive” to community events, readings held by authors and poets, and book clubs.

“We have no plans to make the store bigger or overhaul its identity as a book store,” Duques said. “We just want to save it and keep it going.”

Despite the renovations, Bellonby said there will not be a second location of the Penn Book Center.

She added, however, if she and Duques were to open up another independent book store in Philadelphia, the book store would have its own identity and be “totally different” than the Penn Book Center.

“We have no desire to ever be a franchise,” Bellonby said.

Duques thanked Montague and Row for their persistence to keep the bookstore alive.

“Saving the store is a cool story but the fact that they managed to keep it going in the face of Barnes & Noble and Amazon, in my opinion, is a pretty cool story too,” he said.

Joe Biden, the former vice president of the United States, was named the Penn Presidential Professor of Practice

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from an opponent isn’t going to change people’s minds about someone they’ve seen in action for eight years as Obama’s vice president,” Barnett said. “Gaffes probably just won’t matter anymore in the era of Donald Trump.”

Another central concern is his long legislative record, which includes votes unpopular with the current Democratic base. Warren recently called for the repeal of the 1994 Crime Bill, which Biden authored while he was a senator from Delaware.

Milligan acknowledged Biden’s legislative errors, but said they should be viewed as a learning experience.

“In many ways, he exudes experience, that he has such a long legislative record and has modified it to improve his stance on issues,” he said. “He fully admits he has made legislative errors in what he’s supported in his past.”

While the former Penn Dems

president has now shifted his focus on supporting Biden, Penn Dems has not yet endorsed a presidential candidate.

Although the group is waiting to endorse a candidate, the Biden campaign has reached out to them, Penn Dems Communication Director and College sophomore Tamara Wurman said.

“The campaign reached out to us once this summer asking for volunteers, but we forwarded it to the Penn for Biden campus group,” said Wurman, who is a Daily Pennsylvanian staff member. “We’d love to collaborate with any Democratic campaigns in the upcoming semester.”

Wurman said the group would help members get involved in campaigns they support this fall.

“We’re hoping to have presentations at our Deputy Board Meetings so members can learn more about how to get involved in campaigns before we make an official endorsement,” she said.

Penn Dems President EJ Carlson said there is no single candidate that

stands out to the group.

“At the moment everyone seems to have three to four candidates they like,” Carlson said.

Although other candidates — most notably Warren and Trump — have links to Penn, Biden has lifelong roots in Pennsylvania. The former vice president was born in Scranton, and served as senator for nearby Delaware for almost four decades.

During his tenure as a Presidential Professor of Practice at Penn, Biden took part in a number of events, such as voter registration drives and conversations with Penn President Amy Gutmann and other figures.

Milligan said Biden’s home roots in Pennsylvania and nearby Delaware could prove crucial in winning Pennsylvania in 2020.

“He’s kind of a hometown boy for people here in the tristate area,” Milligan said.

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Students protest Amy Wax racist remarks

Harnwell gets a new house dean Patel was formerly a director at PAACH HARSHITA GUPTA Staff Reporter

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Student-created petitions were called on Penn to hold Wax “accountable for her remarks” and for Penn to relieve her of all teaching duties.

Her controversial remarks are about immigration ASHLEY AHN Staff Reporter

Days after Penn Law professor Amy Wax made inflammatory statements on immigration at a conference, students have created multiple petitions urging the University to take action.

Wax argued for an immigration policy favoring immigrants from Western countries over nonWestern countries at the inaugural National Conservatism Conference last week. In her speech, she favored a position that the country is “better off with more whites and fewer nonwhites,” according to reports from Vox, The New York Times, and Buzzfeed.

The Latinx Law Students Association released a statement on July 18 calling on Penn Law to denounce Wax’s statements and relieve her of all teaching duties, “as they serve

to further her platform and lend her legitimacy.” 2019 College graduate Luis Bravo started another petition on change.org titled, “Fire Racist Penn Law Professor, Amy Wax” on July 18.

The LALSA petition condemns Wax’s statements as “racist” and also calls on the University to hire more persons of color as tenured professors.

“We have come to expect these sentiments from the President of the United States and now, unfortunately, we have come to expect the same from members of the Penn Law community,” the petition reads.

Bravo’s petition argues for Penn to hold Wax “accountable” for her remarks.

“While Penn touts itself as a beacon of diversity and inclusion with black and brown students showcased on its admission materials, the administration continues to turn a blind eye to the racism prevalent in its faculty,” his petition reads.

LALSA’s statement is supported

by five other Penn Law student associations including the Muslim Law Students Association, South Asian Law Students Association, Black Law Students Association, Asian Pacific American Law Students Association, and Penn Law Lambda.

“I don’t know of a single student who attended the conference or heard my presentation,” Wax wrote in an email to The Daily Pennsylvanian. A full transcript of Wax’s remarks was published on July 26 by The Federalist.

Vice President of LALSA and rising second-year Penn Law student Yericca Morales said LALSA emailed the statement to Penn Law Dean Ted Ruger, Penn President Amy Gutmann, and Provost Wendell Pritchett on July 19. Within two days, the LALSA statement garnered over 1,390 signatures from Penn students, alumni, and other supporters. Bravo’s petition gained over 800 signatures as of July 23.

Ruger has since released a statement on Wax’s conference remarks.

Ruger described Wax’s comments as “repugnant” and said that they were at odds with Penn’s institutional values.

“At best, the reported remarks espouse a bigoted theory of white cultural and ethnic supremacy; at worst, they are racist,” he wrote.

Rising First-year Penn Law student Randy Kim, who also signed LALSA’s statement, said, “It’s outrageous that this person’s employment at a private institution is being protected under the guise of protecting scholarly disagreement and free speech.”

Penn Graduate School of Education professor and author of “Free Speech on Campus” Sigal Ben-Porath said while she strongly disagrees with Wax’s remarks and finds them “offensive” as an immigrant herself, the first amendment and acaSEE WAX PAGE 10

Viraj Patel, the former associate director of the PanAsian American Community House, will now serve as house dean of Harnwell College House.

After four and a half years as PAACH associate director, Patel has left the cultural resource center to become Harnwell house dean. As house dean, Patel will supervise Harnwell programming, provide residents with guidance, and serve as a pre-major advisor to roughly 40 students in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Patel has worked with multicultural and Asian-American groups since her time as an undergraduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Chapaign. She went on to complete her Master of Education at the University of Vermont and is currently pursuing a doctorate in higher education at Penn’s Graduate School of Education.

Patel started her first position at Penn as PAACH asso-

ciate director in January 2015.

She served as the lead advisor for PAACH student groups such as the Asian Pacific American Leadership Initiative, Promoting Enriching Experiences & Relationships Mentoring Program, Spice Collective, Asian Students Promoting Identity, Reflection, and Education, and the South Asian Women’s Space.

Wharton junior and PEER Chair Melisa Lee said Patel was a source of encouragement and advice for nearly every student involved in the PAACH community.

“When I was applying [for PEER Chair], Viraj told me she was very happy and she believed in me, and I think that made me realize how conscious she is of everything that’s going on,” Lee said.

Patel applied for the house dean position at Harnwell after seeing the open position on the College House and Academic Services website.

She said she enjoys working at Penn and felt that “it was time” to expand and seek new opportunities at the University.

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Viraj Patel has worked with Asian-American groups since her time at as an undergraduate student.

Penn replaces Critical Writing Center with $22.7 million guesthouse The guesthouse will host University events SIDDARTH TUMU Staff Reporter

A guesthouse to host events and University guests will be constructed at 3808-3810 Walnut Street, where the Marks Family Writing Center is currently located.

Penn President Amy Gutmann said at a Board of Trustees meeting on June 13 that the need for a guesthouse arose due to the lack of space available at the President’s House, which hosts more than one event on average each week during the academic year.

With the design and development almost complete, construction is set to begin in September 2019 with an anticipated completion date of January 2021, according to the Facilities and Real Estate Services presentation slides at the Trustees meeting. The building has a $22.7 million budget

and is expected to have 17,000 square feet of space.

Gutmann said at the meeting it is “unusual for our peers” to not have a guesthouse on campus.

“We are in dire need of having a dedicated guest and meeting space for the University,” Gutmann said.

Gutmann added the small size of the President’s House will make it “difficult” for future Penn presidents with larger families to fit into the house. The President’s House currently only houses Gutmann and her husband. The house is 13,975 square feet, according to the FRES website.

University spokesperson Stephen MacCarthy wrote in an email to The Daily Pennsylvanian that the guesthouse “will be used to welcome dignitaries to campus, provide a place for strategic meetings and Trustee gatherings, and host special events.”

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The $22.7 million project was proposed due to a lack of space available at the President’s House. The anticipated completion date of the guesthouse is January 2021.

and Construction at FRES Mike Dausch said the writing programs currently housed at 3808-3810 Walnut St. will be

relocated to the McNeil Building, located on Locust Walk and currently undergoing renovations.

Dausch added the renovations for the guesthouse will include an additional 2,500 square feet of space, elevator, and staircase

on the rear side of the building facing Perry World House. The parking lot on the east side of the building will also be converted into a garden space.

“It will look still very much the same on the north but on the south side of the building facing Perry World House and Locust, it will be a very much contemporary addition,” University architect Mark Kocent said.

According to the Board of Trustees meeting, the location of 3808-3810 Walnut St. was chosen by the University in part because of its proximity to the President’s House located at 3812 Walnut St. “[The guesthouse] will play an important role in the University’s ability to accommodate speakers and dignitaries attending their events, as well as partnering with other schools and centers for their activities across campus,” MacCarthy said.

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demic freedom given to all university professors protect Wax’s freedom to express her own views. Given this, Ben-Porath said administrative action such as relieving Wax of all teaching duties is not “necessarily warranted here.”

Ben-Porath added, however, that the University also has a responsibility to protect students’ ability to learn in an environment that “protects their dignity,” and professors have a responsibility to uphold a “professional expectation.”

“When people talk in a professional setting such as a conference, there are further expectations from them beyond any other speech in any other democratically protected context,” Ben-Porath said.

Kim and 2019 Penn Law graduate Bill Fedullo acknowledged the University’s “difficult position” given Wax’s status as a tenured professor. Both students, however, said the University should end Wax’s teaching duties if she cannot be fired.

“It seems very reasonable to say that she should not be able to teach or interact with any students what-

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CHAS in the past within my role at PAACH, and I always had a really positive experience,” Patel said. “So I knew a little about CHAS and was excited to be a part of that community as well.”

Patel is currently learning about Harnwell’s history and culture, as well as getting to know its student body. Patel added she looks forward to collaborating with PAACH in the future.

Rising College senior Kamal Gill, who is also the chair of the Asian Pacific Student Coalition, said Patel’s work at PAACH makes her well suited for her new role as house dean.

“A house dean has to have a vision and ideas of how they want the community to look like and how they want the community to feel,” Gill said.

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Co-President of APALSA and rising third-year Penn Law student JiLon Li said Wax’s comments were “unacceptable,” and in particular noted Wax’s comment in a Vox report explaining her remarks were not racist, since she said she opposed non-white immigrants for their culture rather than their biology. Li described her explanation as a “flimsy shield, something to distract from the fact that it is just evidently racist.”

Fedullo, who also signed LALSA’s statement, echoed Li’s comments and said he felt a “lack of surprise” after reading Wax’s remarks.

“I think Amy Wax has been engaged in a campaign of deeply offensive comments every couple months to maintain some kind of relevance,” Fedullo said.

Wax has scheduled to take her sabbatical for the upcoming school year, Penn spokesperson Stephen MacCarthy confirmed. In a February 2018 op-ed, Wax wrote that Ruger asked her to take a leave for the next school year after her controversial publications. The discussion of the sabbatical, a form of leave of absence for professors, is routine for tenured faculty, Penn Law spokesperson Steven Barnes said at the time.

“Viraj has repeatedly shown that she has great skills in community building.”

Lee said Patel called her into the PAACH office to personally deliver the news that she would be accepting the house dean position and to advise Lee on plans moving forward. Lee said she was “very touched” that Patel made the time to talk with her individually and have a “heart-to-heart conversation.”

Patel said her favorite part of working at PAACH was connecting with students and the Penn community.

“The students were the reason I woke up in the morning, why I was always excited to come into work,” Patel said.

Patel hopes to continue interacting with students and facilitating genuine relationships within the student community as Harnwell’s house dean.

“I’m deeply proud of the work I did at PAACH, and I

think that there is significant alignment between the work I was doing there and the work I will be doing now in the house dean position,” Patel said. “Ultimately, we are here to support students and to focus on wellness as well as education and co-curricular involvement.”

Although Patel will no longer be PAACH associate director, Lee found comfort knowing Patel’s new job will require her to relocate to Lee’s college house.

“Viraj has been very kind in that even though her title won’t be associate director of PAACH anymore, she has reminded me that she’ll be present and only a couple floors away from me at Harnwell,” Lee said. “Viraj is always there to guide you, and she’s taught me many things.”

Patel added, “I see my work as house dean as a new challenge, but it’s still about connecting with the student population I love working with.”

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Largest Panera in Philadelphia opens at 40th and Walnut Construction was delayed for almost four months ASHLEY AHN & SOPHIA SCHULZ-RUSNACKO Staff Reporters

The largest Panera Bread restaurant in Philadelphia opened on June 11 after months of construction delays. Originally slated to open in late April, then May, the new location near Penn’s campus is now one of three Panera Bread restaurants in the Philadelphia area.

Panera Bread in University City is located next to Cinemark at the intersection of 40th and Walnut streets. The space was previously occupied by Harvest Seasonal Grill and Wine Bar. The restaurant has two floors and technological features such as outlets on tables and touch pads to order.

It has numerous spaces to eat and study, including a private conference room upstairs and tables on the outdoor patio.

The restaurant’s manager Ashley Fusetti said this location is “one of the most unique Paneras” in the area.

“This cafe is opening with all of the newest features with the technology aspect of it, ordering online, delivery, catering,” Fusetti said. “We definitely have a

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The restaurant, which is located next to Cinemark, features a private conference room upstairs and tables on an outdoor patio.

more unique grasp than some of the other Paneras have started out with.”

The fast-casual chain serves soups, salads, and sandwiches in addition to baked goods. It also offers bike delivery within an eight-minute radius, and has a rewards program called MyPanera.

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and cafe items.

Originally scheduled to open by the end of April, American Bread Company Director of Development Peter Strang said in an email to The Daily Pennsylvanian that the restaurant would open on May 20 because of construction delays.

American Bread Company district manager Chris Mattiola cited the second delay from May 20 to June 11 as construction-related as well.

Fourth-year Penn Dental student Maddy Love said she is excited about the new restaurant and predicts Panera Bread will be “overrun by dental students” as a popular lunch and study spot.

“It’s super close by, less than a block away, and I think it’s going to be a great space for us to get lunch and study,” Love said. “Some of the people in the year below us are studying there right now.”

College sophomore Alice Zhao agreed Panera Bread will be a good study space, adding that she would use it more like a café than a restaurant. 2019 College graduate Michael Krone, who advocated for Panera’s opening during his time as Undergraduate Assembly president, ate at the restaurant with his friends when he was visiting campus on Tuesday. The

restaurant was the “nicest Panera [he’s] ever been to in [his] life,” Krone said.

Strang said the restaurant’s large seating capacity will be an advantage, adding that many of the restaurant’s local competitors have limited seating. Panera Bread is one of several new restaurants opening near Penn’s campus, joining the The Halal Guys and Bonchon.

Mattiola said community members have been “extremely welcoming and very friendly.”

“The locals who actually live in the community have come by while we were training and told us how excited they are,” Mattoila said.

Fusetti said Panera Bread started hiring and interviewing staff at the end of April and beginning of May, and held a one-week training period for employees. She added that 95 percent of the staff are new to the chain.

“It’s been a long process, but the staff has been extremely patient,” Fusetti said. “The community has been extremely patient with us and we’re finally excited that it’s started and paying off and we’re ready to go.”

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Wharton Dean Geoffrey Garrett to leave for USC in 2020 He will assume the role on July 1, 2020 ASHLEY AHN Staff Reporter

Wharton Dean Geoffrey Garrett will leave Penn to serve as dean of the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business.

Garrett will assume the role on July 1, 2020 and succeed former Dean Jim Ellis, who held the position for over a decade. The Los Angeles Times reported in December that USC removed Ellis due to his handling of sexual harassment and discrimination complaints.

“I wasn’t involved in any of that, and I don’t have insight into it,” Garrett told the LA Times. “I respect Jim Ellis immensely, and it’s clear from a distance that he did some wonderful things in his time as dean.”

Garrett told the LA Times that his decision to leave was made partly because of family reasons, as his wife is from Northern California, and because of the “diversity and dynamism of the LA economy and its place on the Pacific Rim.” “Professionally, the obvious thing to say about Marshall is they’ve been on an incredible upward ascent for a couple of decades, and I want to be a part of

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that,” Garrett told the LA Times.

As dean, Garrett oversaw the launch of the Penn Wharton China Center in Beijing and saw record enrollments in the MBA Program for Executives in San Francisco, according to Penn Today.

“Geoff has done an absolutely superb job in leading Wharton for the past five years and in helping firmly establish Wharton as the world’s leading business school,” Gutmann told Penn Today.

“He has expanded the Wharton standing faculty to more than 240 members and increased its breadth, depth, diversity, and eminence,” Gutmann said.

Before starting his term in 2014, Garrett served as a Wharton faculty member and a dean of the UCLA International Institute, the University of Sydney, and the University of New South Wales, according to Penn Today.

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Penn Museum moves largest authentic sphinx in North America The sphinx is 12.5 tons and 3,000 years old FAITH CHO Staff Reporter

The Penn Museum has moved the 12.5–ton Sphinx of Ramses II for the first time in nearly a century.

With the help of four hovercrafts and an elevated pathway, the relocation team transported the 3,000-year-old statue from the Egypt Gallery to the main entrance hall as the last part of the three-day, 300-foot journey.

Nearly 100 people gathered on the morning of June 12 to watch the move of the largest authentic sphinx in North America.

The move took several hours, and onlookers applauded when the sphinx first emerged in the courtyard.

Penn Museum Director Julian Siggers said the sphinx’s move represents a larger transformation in the museum’s physical space. This transformation includes the construction of galleries in Africa, Mexico, and Central America, and renovations such as elevators, washrooms, and air-conditioning.

Siggers added the sphinx’s placement at the entrance will serve as a dramatic greeting and “moment of impact” for visitors.

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object you see as you enter,” Siggers said according to Penn Today. “It is our most iconic object, but it is also standing in as a representation for the complete transformation of the Museum.”

The sphinx will be open to public view on Nov 16, according to Penn Today, in addition to the new Mexico and Central America Gallery, Africa Galleries, and

the renovated Harrison Auditorium.

The renovations will cost a total of $22.452 million with an expected 20,000 square feet of space revamped across the museum, as announced in a Board of Trustees meeting on June 13.

To prepare for the sphinx’s move, museum officials and engineers conducted 3D scans of

the sphinx and reinforced the entrance hall’s floors to support the statue’s weight. Two major obstacles during the move included transporting the statue up an inclined ramp and eventually changing its direction.

Associate curator of the museum’s Egyptian section Jennifer Wegner said the sphinx first arrived at Penn in 1913 after a 6,000-mile journey by boat and

horse-drawn wagon. Wegner added British archaeologist W.M Flingers Petrie uncovered the artifact near Memphis, Egypt and offered it to Penn Museum to thank the University for its financial support.

“This museum knows a great deal about history — how to excavate it, how to learn from it,” Siggers said at the ceremony.

“And today, making it.”

Wegner said many thought another move would be impossible after the sphinx was placed in the gallery in 1926.

“This morning, another chapter in the sphinx’s journey from Egypt is about to be written with this monumental undertaking,” Wegner said at the ceremony.

“For the first time in almost a century, our sphinx will make his way back into the sunlight.”

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he scandal began on July 20, 2018 — more than a full year ago. Then, Jerome Allen was a former Penn men’s basketball coach, a Penn Athletics Hall of Famer, and known as one of the best Penn men’s basketball players of all time. Now, a year later, Allen has been convicted of a federal crime, is no longer in the Hall, and is synonymous with one of the biggest scandals to rock the Ivy League in recent memory.

A year ago, Allen was first implicated in a bribery admissions scheme. Identified initially as “Coach 2” in court documents, Bloomberg was the first to report that Allen had accepted bribes from Philip Esformes in order to recruit his son Morris to Penn in 2015.

Within days, Penn launched an investigation into Allen’s conduct. The University has still not publicly discussed the investigation’s scope or findings.

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“Penn Athletics continues to fully cooperate with the NCAA regarding the Jerome Allen case. As the case is still being processed, we are unable to comment further at this time,” Kevin Bonner, Senior Associate Athletic Director of Governance and Administration wrote in a statement on Thursday.

Allen’s legal case has now ended after his guilty plea and subsequent sentencing on July 1. He was sentenced to 600 hours of community service and a fine of $202,000 in addition to an $18,000 forfeiture judgement — in addition to

four years of probation and six months of house arrest. His house arrest will not affect his ability to work for the NBA’s Boston Celtics, where he is an assistant coach.

Bonner’s most recent statement echoed previous Penn Athletics statements dating back to February.

It was then, more than five months ago, that Athletics Director M. Grace Calhoun sat down with The Daily Pennsylvanian.

“Penn thoroughly reviewed everything surrounding the situation, and as soon as we’re at liberty to proceed forward, after that part of the trial at least, we will,” she said.

Allen’s case, without precedent when the story broke a year ago, has since become entangled in the narrative of the larger Operation Varsity Blues sandal uncovered by the FBI. The Allen case was not mentioned in the original reports of the Varsity Blues scandal surSEE ALLEN PAGE 21

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After 41 years, there may be light at the end of the tunnel.

On July 9, former Penn hockey president Rolando Bonachea and chairman of the Penn Hockey Alumni Board Stu Siegel announced the start of a university supported Penn Hockey Endowment in an email to the Penn hockey community. Bonachea and Siegel hope that the endowment will ultimately be able to fund both men’s and women’s Division I ice hockey teams at Penn — for the first time since 1977-78. They expect the process to take about 10 years until the programs regain D-I status.

While Penn Athletics supports the endowment as a fundraising effort for the club teams, it has not backed the proposal for a varsity program.

“Penn Athletics and Recreation is currently working with the ice hockey alumni community to create an endowment to support our program and student-athletes at its current club sport level. We continue to strive to provide our ice hockey student-athletes with a positive experience and are appreciative of the interest and en-

After firing almost all of his entire team in early May, Director of Strength and Conditioning Cory Walts revealed the five members of his staff on Tuesday.

The group brings a wide variety of experience to Penn, with two already working with the Red and Blue, another two coming from other colleges, and the final addition coming from a similar position at the high school level.

“I am pleased to announce that we have completed the hiring of a staff which aligns us with the vision for Penn Athletics, Sports Performance, and my vision for Strength and Conditioning,” Walts said in a Penn Athletics statement. “Dr. Grace Calhoun, Dr. Andrea Wieland, and Rudy Fuller have made it a priority to ensure that Sports Performance continues to be a center of excellence for the Division by supporting additional staff as well as granting

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Penn has not had Division I men’s and women’s ice hockey teams since 1977-78, but Penn club hockey has a plan in place for two new programs.

thusiasm of our alumni in this sport,” Kevin Bonner, Senior Associate Athletic Director for Governance and Administration, wrote in a statement.

Bonachea and Siegel said that after numerous conversations between Penn Athletic Director M. Grace Calhoun and Penn hockey representatives, it was made clear that the teams will need to prove there is sufficient financial sustainability and alumni support before the University backs the funding of two D-I hockey programs.

“We’ve made a lot of progress over the last three years in our fundraising.

We’ve roughly doubled [our fundrais-

ing] in the past few years in order to be able to provide more resources for the teams and fund their operations,” Bonachea said. “[With this], we’re building incrementally to get us in a position where we’ll be able to show the University that we have the ability to raise large sums of money and also have a large level of participation from the community.”

Penn hockey says they can only make so much progress in this endeavor without full financial support from Penn Athletics. The current aspi-

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Director of Strength and Conditioning Cory Walts hired five new strength coaches after dismissing nearly the entire staff in May.

the opportunity to hire a team of outstanding professionals.”

Moving into new positions within Penn Athletics are Associate Strength and Conditioning coaches Stephen Brindle and Pat Dolan.

Brindle has been with the Red and Blue since 2010 and was also named Head of Basketball Performance for the Quakers.

After working part-time at Penn since 2014, Dolan’s promotion means he will now be working full-time on campus.

Initially, Brindle was among those let go by Penn Athletics in the wake of Walts’ hiring in

April, but he has since been rehired and will return as the only full-time coach from last year’s team.

Miguel Rivera joins the team as Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach and Head of Football Performance. Over the past eight years, he has also worked with the football teams at Miami (Fla.) and Stony Brook, and will look to carry that experience to this fall with the Quakers. Rivera represents the first football specific strength coach Penn has had in recent memory.

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Penn men’s basketball should have more games at the Palestra GUEST COLUMN BY JACOB COHEN

My first Penn men’s basketball game was in 2005, when the Quakers played Boston College in the first round of the NCAA Tournament in my hometown of Cleveland. I attended with my mom, a 1986 College graduate, and my grandfather, a 1955 Wharton graduate. Throughout the game, they told me magical stories about watching the Quakers play at the Palestra. I was hooked: a Penn basketball fan for life.

Since I arrived on campus

as a freshman in 2016, I’ve Tournament against Princeton student attendance at basketball been extremely fortunate to in 2017, the No. 16 seeding in games as a sign that they also live through the resurgence of the 2018 NCAA Tournament, shouldn’t attend because “Penn Penn men’s basketball. This isn’t a sports school,” I inresurgence, led by coach stead made it my personal Steve Donahue and the curIf Penn Athletics has mission to bring as many rent senior class, has exof my friends as possible to a goal to increase ceeded all expectations and the basketball games. student attendance should only continue this Unfortunately, I won’t season. My first three years have many opportunities to at basketball games, this have seen some incredible fulfill my mission this seaseason’s schedule is a moments: the Ivy League son. The Quakers only have major swing and miss.”

Championship in 2018, the seven home games while upset of No. 17 Villanova students will be on cam- Jacob Cohen last season, and late-season pus. If Penn Athletics has runs in 2017 and 2019 to a goal to increase student clinch a spot in the Ivy League and the ill-fated decision to take attendance at basketball games, Tournament. I have also had my Ivy Madness away from the Pal- this season’s schedule is a major fair share of disappointment: estra. swing and miss. Every game on the missed free throw in the Ivy While some students saw poor the home schedule against Division I competition is a team that Penn plays every season either in Ivy or Big 5 play. The lack of home games against regional competition, like Lafayette in 2016 and 2018, or against a Power Five school, like Miami (Fla.) in 2018, is unfair to both players and fans alike. While Ivy League scheduling and the academic calendar are largely out of the hands of the athletic department, having just one home game before winter break

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The most disappointing part is that for the third consecutive year, Penn will host Princeton over winter break. My dad, a 1984 Wharton graduate, tells stories of sleeping outside the Palestra to ensure he got the best tickets for the annual Princeton game during his four years. Instead, this year, students will be off campus the night before the

game, and most will not even know the game is happening.

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rations of this fundraising campaign is to raise enough funds to inspire the University to back the proposal and help raise the remaining necessary funds.

“In the end, it’s primarily going to come down to money. Will someone step up to the plate and make it happen? It’s a chicken and an egg thing, because I can’t go out and say, ‘If you make a $10 million or $20 million donation, [Penn] is going to have a varsity program,’ because it’s not my decision,” Siegel said. “I have never gotten the commitment from the Athletic Director, [Calhoun], saying, ‘All you have to do is raise this much money and you’ll have a varsity program.’ She’s never said that.

I’ve asked her, and she keeps saying, ‘just keep doing the course, become more competitive, and we’ll put you on a path.’”

Despite the uncertainty of a potential move to varsity status, the leadership of Penn Hockey intends on using that eventual goal to inspire fundraising to make the current club

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Penn women’s hockey may become a Division I team again, but the transition to gain varsity status would likely take at least 10 years.

team more self-sufficient.

The immediate goal of the endowment is to raise $50,000 of seed money by fiscal year 2020. To date, Penn Hockey alumni have donated about $20,000 of that $50,000 goal.

“Through the assistance of the Penn Fund, the Athletic Department, and the Penn Champions Club, the endowment has been created with the principal goal of supporting the operations and the expansion of the

men’s and women’s ice hockey programs,” the Friends of Penn Hockey wrote in their public announcement of the endowment via email to the Penn hockey community. “Included in this goal is the intent of reestablishing the Varsity hockey programs in the future.”

Bonachea estimates that the total endowment will need to approach $50 million — 1000 times their 2020 fundraising goal — in order

for the men’s and women’s teams to sustain themselves in perpetuity without having to rely on annual alumni donations at the varsity level. Many of Penn’s existing varsity teams still rely on alumni donations.

Last season, the combined operating costs for the men’s and women’s programs totaled about $120,000.

According to figures supplied by Bonachea, about 45% of the funding came from the University, 35% by donors, and the remaining 20% through player dues. University funding for the programs has remained relatively constant over the past few seasons, contributing around $58,000 per season.

Currently, the men’s and women’s hockey programs at Penn operate as club sports in Division II of the American Collegiate Hockey Association, competing against other regional teams within a two hour bus ride from campus.

“When people hear ‘club sport’ they think more of an intramural league. It’s hardly that at all. The reality is that most of collegiate hockey in the United States is actually club.

There are actually only 61 varsity

[men’s] Division I programs in the entire country and six of those are Ivy League teams,” Siegel said.

“If we were to raise $50,000 — at the University’s [endowment] spending rule [of 4.5%] — that would leave us with only about $2,200 to spend for the teams. That is enough to cover about three practices and a game worth of ice time,” Bonachea said. “It would cover a very small amount of our current 2020 fiscal year needs, but we think that the endowment might help unlock a path towards varsity hockey in the future.”

As described in Siegel and Bonachea’s plan, originally entitled ‘Vision 2025’, in order to reach D-I status, the Quakers will first have to file an application to play in the American Collegiate Hockey Association’s Division I, then move up to the NCAA ranks. Most teams begin in D-III before moving to D-I as an Independent before joining a conference. The six existing Ivy hockey programs play in the Eastern College Athletic Conference.

Penn hockey’s fundraising efforts coincide with the announcement

in February that the Class of 1923 Ice Rink — Penn’s home rink — is slated for a $7 million renovation.

The renovation is funded in large part by the Philadelphia Flyers Alumni and former Flyers owner Ed Snider’s youth hockey foundation. Penn contributed 600,000 dollars to the renovation, which the clubs claim would make the rink suitable for D-I play.

“We did just get some cooperation with the [Philadelphia] Flyers and the Snider organization, to renovate the arena,” Siegel said. “The money that the Snider organization is putting in really assures the future of [the stadium] and alleviates those financial needs. It’ll essentially be a D-I varsity facility when they’re done.”

With the creation of the endowment as a first step, Penn hockey will continue to build on the fund, striving toward University recognition of their long-term plan. Although there are many obstacles that the programs must confront, Bonachea and Siegel are hopeful that the new endowment can be the seed money for a return to the highest level of college hockey.

A version of this story was originally published on July 9.

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In early July, Penn men’s basketball junior Jelani Williams underwent yet another anterior cruciate ligament surgery. This is the third surgery Williams has had on his ACL since 2016.

There is a remote medical possibility that Williams can recover in time to play the last few games of the season as the fastest ACL surgery recovery times are about eight months — putting a return in early March. However, based on Williams’ medical history, that optimal time is almost certainly out of reach.

“I don’t think there’s any way he plays this year,” coach Steve Donahue told the Philadelphia Inquirer.

“His doctor believes it’ll be one year before he’s completely ready to play college basketball again.”

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Unfortunately, after months of rehab, Williams tore his ACL again right before his sophomore season, forcing him to spend yet another year on the bench.

Despite his injuries, Williams has

remained involved with the team.

From the bench, he provides helpful advice to his teammates, and has continued to foster relationships with the squad. He continues to have hope that he will be able to play as a Quaker next season.

Williams posted a video on Twitter of a workout, saying he was “more motivated than ever” to tackle rehab and return to the court.

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However, on July 11, Ben Baskin of Sports Illustrated reported that Philip Esformes had been in contact with and given money to Singer.

It remains unclear what, if anything, the NCAA has done about the Jerome Allen scandals — it has yet to announce an investigation or any sanctions. Penn Athletics has repeatedly declined to comment on the NCAA’s or Ivy League’s involvement in the case.

However, based on the similarity between the Varsity Blues and Jerome Allen cases and the way the NCAA has handled recent scandals, it seems likely that any sanctions or investigations into Penn men’s basketball or Penn Athletics will come after the Penn investigation ends. The NCAA could also lump the Jerome Allen scandal in with Varsity Blues given the simi-

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larities in the cases.

While Allen has admitted to breaking various NCAA rules at Penn in court testimony, there has been no indication from Penn, the media, or any governing bodies that Penn Athletics will face punishment.

“It really comes down to whether the school knew or should have

known,” Miami-based collegiate sports lawyer Jason A. Setchen said in March. “If they didn’t know and couldn’t have known and [Allen] really did a serious job of trying to conceal it, then the school’s culpability obviously goes down dramatically to the point where they might not even have an NCAA violation.

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“It’s [a question of] how did it happen and did the school know about it. Someone in compliance: Should they or could they have done more?”

According to Baskin, Allen made monthly trips to Miami to visit Morris, which became an open secret among the team. Allen even brought four Penn players to Miami to practice with Morris Esformes before Morris was admitted to Penn. Baskin reports that the open secret had become so open that Allen was offered a bribe on a second occasion from a youth coach implicated in the Varsity Blues scandal. He denied it.

Steve Donahue replaced Allen as head coach of the program with Ira Bowman — an assistant coach who had access to an account with Esformes’ money in it according to Allen’s testimony — still on staff. Donahue quickly realized Morris was not good enough to make varsity, leading to Morris’ departure from the team.

While the pieces were all there for Donahue, the compliance department, or an administrator to

put together, there is no definitive proof that anyone in Penn Athletics knew of the bribes before the Bloomberg report a year ago.

Penn Athletics’ plausible deniability is aided by the circumstances of the Ivy League’s Academic Index. Because all incoming Ivy recruiting classes must collectively meet a certain academic threshold, many coaches will balance athletically gifted recruits below the average AI score required with academically gifted athletes that are unlikely to see much playing time. It was not unusual for a player like Esformes — academically gifted but not at the same athletic standard as his teammates — to be a recruit.

Similarly, the lack of oversight of Allen’s priority recruit lists was standard in NCAA athletic departments, according to court testimony from then-Penn associate athletic director Alanna Shanahan.

Penn Athletics can still be found culpable even if nobody other than Allen and Bowman had knowledge of the bribes. The NCAA has doled out sanctions before

when an athletic department has failed to maintain “an atmosphere of compliance” or “lack[ed] institutional control.” If the NCAA or Ivy League determines that Penn Athletics should have known about the scandal, that could be enough.

Adding to the complexity is a potential statute of limitations issue if the investigation continues indefinitely. According to the NCAA website, the typical statute of limitations for violations is four years, which would be sometime in 2019. There is, however, an that may apply if the NCAA finds that the rules violation consisted of “a blatant disregard for certain fundamental rules (recruiting, extra benefits, academics, ethical conduct).”

“There are clearly NCAA violations. There’s no doubt that the violation occurred,” Setchen said in March. “The question now would be what is [Penn’s] culpability in that and what would be the penalty for it.”

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On Wednesday, former Penn football player and current New York Jets linebacker Brandon Copeland was suspended for the first four games of the upcoming NFL season after violating the League’s policy on using performance-enhancing substances. “Copeland is eligible to participate in all preseason practices and games. He will be allowed to return to the Jets’ active roster on Monday, Oct. 7, following the team’s Week 5 game at Philadelphia,� the NFL wrote in a statement.

Later in the day, Copeland responded to the suspension in an Instagram post, claiming that

his violation was unintentional. “I spent the better part of 28 years building and working on my legacy,� Copeland wrote. “This offseason, I began taking a supplement AFTER multiple verifications that it was safe for me to use. Unfortunately, this supplement was contaminated with a banned substance — NOT on its label. Regardless of the reason, League policy says I am responsible for what is in my body.�

After his standout career on the gridiron with the Quakers, including captaining the 2012 team to an Ivy League title, the 2013 Wharton graduate returned to his alma mater earlier this year to co-teach an Urban Studies class with Dr. Brian Peterson. Titled “Inequity and Empowerment: Urban Financial Literacy,� the seminar was widely praised by students. “[Copeland is] an amazing

teacher; he’s very comfortable with talking to us,� thenWharton freshman Jadah Daley said. “He wants us to share our stories and for us to be active participants in the class.�

Before being signed by the Jets in March 2018, Copeland’s early career included brief stints in the Baltimore Ravens and Tennessee Titans organizations, along with a stretch of play in the Arena Football League with the Orlando Predators.

His return to the NFL saw him play all 16 games for the Detroit Lions in the 2015 and 2016 seasons. A torn pectoral kept the Sykesville, Md. native off the field in 2017, but he saw time in all of the Jets’ contests last year, picking up 34 tackles and five sacks.

Copeland is the most accomplished active Penn graduate in the NFL.

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Former Penn football player and guest lecturer Brandon Copeland was suspended for the first four games of the NFL season for violating the League’s policy on performance-enhancing substances.

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The second new hire coming from the college level isn’t a stranger to the Philadelphia area, as Michelle Pifer will come to University City from nearby Swarthmore. Before her time with the Phoenix, Pifer spent three years in an internship with Penn Strength and Conditioning, making her especially familiar with campus.

Finally, Dr. Jeremy Weeks was named Assistant Director of Strength and Conditioning after eight years as Assistant Athletic Director and Director of Athletic Performance at Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas. He also has experience on the Division I level, having served for two years as Assistant Director of Athletic Performance at Baylor.

“We have increased the number of full-time staff members from four to six and are pleased to welcome three new coaches to Penn while welcoming back two coaches who have demonstrated their commitment to the new vision of Penn Strength and Conditioning,” Walts said in the statement. “It has always been my goal to create a team full of outstanding people who learn from each other and collectively move forward on a daily basis. I believe we have done that.”

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Penn Strength and Conditioning hired Miguel Rivera as the new Head of Football Performance after a staff upheaval in early May.

With a new team at his side, Walts feels he has all the pieces he needs to rebuild the strength and conditioning team after wiping the slate clean in May. Back in January, former head strength coach Jim Steel resigned from Penn Athletics after 20 years.

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ing dispute with the Penn Athletics administration.

“Exactly what happened is that the Sports Performance administration and I didn’t see eye-to-eye on the best way to run the strength and conditioning program,” he wrote. “I really love the athletes at Penn and will miss them.”

A version of this story was originally published on July 11.

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