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Whether you’re arriving to campus for the first time or the last, the next chapter of your Penn story is entirely unwritten. From the winding halls of the library to the iron gates of the Quad, you will carve your own path here. The next step is yours. But here’s a glimpse of what it might look like.

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Penn students use their summers to give back Projects ranged from trail work to research JACOB WINICK Staff Reporter

For Penn students, summer is a time to build resumes, travel the world, take classes or even just relax. But for many, it’s also a time to do some good.

Col lege ju n ior Rebecca Composto spent her summer months wielding a chainsaw and protecting small birds from extinction as part of the Nevada Conservation Corps.

While camping in the Great Basin National Park at night, Composto worked tirelessly cutting down trees to prevent forest fires during the day.

“I definitely want to get into environmental and conservation work after I graduate, so

this was an amazing opportunity,” Composto said. “College is going to try to give me the academic and scientific knowledge I’ll need, but there’s something unique about physically going out and cutting down trees. It taught me to appreciate how much effort goes into conservation.”

On the other side of the country, College sophomore Alden Terry interned at the Fresh Air Fund, a New Yorkbased nonprofit founded in 1877 that helps get children from low-income families in New York get out of the city for a few weeks during the summer.

Terry — a photographer who works for Humans of UPenn — ran the Fresh Air Fund’s social media accounts and helped publicize their events.

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College sophomore Dan Liu spent his summer doing research and drug testing at the Food and Drug Administration. He worked extensively on heart cells differentiated from stem cells.

“I’ve been doing photography for a while now and just incorporating it into a job, is

just any photographers dream,” Terry said. “It was an amazing opportunity to work for such a

great nonprofit that helps kids.”

College sophomore Dan Liu put his summer to good use as

an intern for the United States Food and Drug Admistration’s Office of Science and Engineering Laboratories.

Even as a summer intern, Liu was on the front lines of heart disease research. In his lab, scientists differentiated stem cells into heart cells. Liu then tested new drugs on these cells and observed if they caused arrhythmia, an unwanted side effect of many heart disease medicines. By testing the drugs on differentiated stem cells, Liu could determine their effectiveness with no risk to patients.

“The really cool thing about working with these stem cells is that this is something that is just completely novel,” Liu said. “All my research is going to be published and help bring new drugs to market.”

No consensus among College Republican chapters on Trump Harvard, PSU chapters have denounced him CHARLOTTE LARACY Staff Reporter

For college Republican chapters at Penn and across the country, November’s presidential election poses an existential question: whether or not to support their party’s nominee.

While chapters at Penn State and Harvard have publicly chosen to not endorse Trump, a 1968 Wharton graduate, the affiliate at his alma mater has not made a decision yet.

Penn College Republicans President and College and Wharton senior Jennifer Knesbach said the Penn College Republicans will be making a statement about a presidential endorsement during the fall semester.

But some members of the group have already stated their

dissatisfaction with the nominee.

Executive Director of the College Republicans and College senior Matthew Shapiro said he will not support the nominee due to his position on trade and comments about the parents of slain United States Army Captain Humayun Khan.

“I would say at this point in time I am most likely to vote for Hillary Clinton, not because I like her or most of her policy stances, but rather because I truly am fearful of the damage that Donald Trump could wreak upon our country,” Shapiro said. “I fear that the world could become a much more dangerous place.”

The decision to not endorse Trump made history at some schools, such as Harvard, where for the first time in 128 years the group did not support the GOP nominee.

“The rhetoric he espouses

— from racist slander to misogynistic taunts — is not consistent with our conservative principles, and his repeated mocking of the disabled and belittling of the sacrifices made by prisoners of war, Gold Star families, and Purple Heart recipients is not only bad politics, but absurdly cruel,” the Harvard Republican Club said in a statement.

The group also called upon other College Republicans to withdraw their support for Trump, though not all have taken up the call.

At Yale University and the University of Notre Dame, the College Republican chapters have announced they will endorse the nominee.

“While not every member of our organization supported Trump in the primary, as an organization and branch of the GOP we support Republicans up and down the ballot,” the

Yale College Republicans said in a statement. “And yes, that includes supporting Donald Trump for president. We remain dedicated to achieving victory in the White House, here in Connecticut, and in our hometowns.”

Soon a f t er Ya le’s endorsement, some Col lege Republicans on the executive board there resigned and denounced the organization’s decision. The former board members created a new organization called Yale New Republicans.

As of early August, Princeton’s College Republicans have not yet taken a position on whether to endorse Trump.

Penn College Republicans Chief of Staff and Wharton sophomore Owen O’Hare, who has also denounced Trump, said the rise of Trump has him concerned about the future of the Republican Party.

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“I think the Republican Party will really need to disavow Trump to reestablish itself as a serious party after this,” O’Hare said. “Hopefully, as well, we don’t see a repeat of

what we saw during the Obama administration where so much of the Republican party is dedicated to attacking the other side rather than offering constructive solutions.”

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Latest gig for Wharton rapper: the United Nations Kayvon Asemani spoke about unity and hope ELIZABETH WINSTON Staff Reporter

Kayvon Asemani, Wharton junior and aspiring music mogul, met his most imposing audience yet on Tuesday, Aug. 16: over 1,400 people from 193 countries at United Nations headquarters in New York City.

A s em a n i’s p e r for m a nc e came as part of the Intern a t ion a l Yo u ng L e a d e r s Assembly, a 10-day conference that invites 50 distinguished young leaders from 25 countries to learn about social impact and international relations.

Asemani’s journey to the auditorium of the UN General Assembly began on a recommendation from Wharton and

Engineer ing junior Rober t Dowling, who arranged for him to speak at a panel for the Penn Diplomacy and Policy Council, which Dowling founded, on Saturday, Aug. 13.

Asemani took advantage of the opportunity and spoke on the panel about how music brings people of all socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds together.

Among the nearly 60 attendees present at the Penn Law School was John Dickson, chairman of the Global Young Leaders Academy, an elite leadership development program that selects highly qualified young adults from across the world to participate in various programs, including the International Young Leaders Assembly.

The next day, Dowling received a phone call from

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Wharton junior Kayvon Asemani received an opportunity to perform at United Nations headquarters as a part of the International Young Leaders Assembly.

Dickson, who requested to have Asemani perform at the United Nations High Level Plenary Session on Tuesday in New York.

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Dowling immediately asked Asemani if he would be willing to perform. “Are you in or are you out?” Dowling asked. Asemani did not hesitate.

“Of course I’m in,” Asemani replied.

In the packed General Assembly auditorium on Aug. 16, Asemani addressed United

Nations delegates, international diplomats, CEOs and experts from the private sector, along with students selected to attend.

Asemani went on stage last following two Grammy Awardwinning producers, Jimmy Jam and Terri Lewis, and performed a medley of three songs: one to represent his life story, one representing the message of peace and unity and an unreleased single.

“It was a great way to kick off the Penn Diplomacy and Policy Center,” Dowling said.

“We proved that we had the student side of things down, but also we have a professional side.”

For his part, Asemani was happy to spread his music and message of unity.

“We were all brought here to make a difference together,” Asemani said.

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OPINION To be or not to be proud GROWING PAINS | On coming to terms with the changes inherent in adulthood

WEDNESDAY AUGUST 24, 2016 VOL. CXXXII, NO. 59 132nd Year of Publication COLIN HENDERSON President LAUREN FEINER Editor-in-Chief ANDREW FISCHER Director of Online Projects BRIELLA MEGLIO Director of Internal Consulting ISABEL KIM Opinion Editor JESSICA MCDOWELL Enterprise Editor DAN SPINELLI City News Editor CAROLINE SIMON Campus News Editor ELLIE SCHROEDER Assignments Editor LUCIEN WANG Copy Editor SUNNY CHEN Copy Editor NICK BUCHTA Senior Sports Editor

At the end of this past school year, my mom and I were talking about the ups and downs of my college experience when she asked, “Are you proud of the person you’ve become?” Although taken by surprise, my first instinct was to say yes. After all, I had finished two years of college, lived across the country from my family, survived several East Coast winters, taken stimulating courses with incredible professors and learned from and been challenged by the students around me.

My two years at Penn have given me rare opportunities, lifelong memories and invaluable relationships with others. They helped cultivate my academic passions, taught me how to cook for myself and showed me the importance of practicing self-love. I have grown at Penn. But in some ways I feel that my time at Penn has caused me to regress and to develop qualities that I am not proud of.

So my answer to my mom’s question was, “Yes

and no ... I don’t know.”

I have spent a lot of time trying to flesh out the complex and contradictory feelings evoked whenever I think about this question.

One of the conclusions I have arrived at is that Penn is not necessarily at the root of this uncertainty, but rather adulthood itself. The 2015 movie “Inside Out,” which was heavily sourced from contemporary neurological research on emotion, helps explain this.

Near the end of the movie the protagonist, Riley, obtains a new “emotional dashboard” in her head.

Many of Riley’s previous actions were governed by a single emotion (happiness, sadness, fear, disgust, anger), but as she got older and encountered more complicated circumstances, her emotional dashboard was forced to adapt. It became three times the size of the original, the buttons composed of many different combinations of the preexisting emotions to signify that her emotions, actions and memories would now be more complex and nu-

anced.

My emotional dashboard has definitely tripled over the past several years — my experiences at Penn have caused me to feel a wider and deeper range of emotion than I could have imagined when I was younger.

And perhaps it is the relative simplicity of the past

have developed a sense of imposter syndrome that I never had before; I constantly compare myself to others and worry that I am not doing enough to keep up and am not of the same intellectual caliber of the students around me. Yet I am also aware that this feeling derives from my expo-

because I have realized that there are very few situations where I — or anyone — can actually be completely sure of the answer.

Furthermore, I detect cynicism in myself that was not present two years ago. Things I have seen and heard and experienced have chipped away at my innocence, causing me to view the world less through rose-colored lenses and with more of a jaded perspective. College, which was something I had looked forward to all my life, also turned out to be a place where students drink themselves into oblivion, where high-pressure circumstances and unreachable standards cause mental health to deteriorate, where sexual assault is on the front page of the newspaper almost every week. Call me naive, but I wasn’t prepared for these realities.

College reflects larger issues that must be confronted in adulthood, things that may have seemed distant to us as children but now are much more closely linked to our lives. An un-

... my experiences at Penn have caused me to feel a wider and deeper range of emotion than I could have imagined when I was younger.” that I miss. Because I don’t often feel anymore that things are simple. This contributes to the difficulty in ascertaining whether or not I am proud of the changes I’ve gone through in the past few years.

Firstly, I feel that my selfconfidence has regressed. I

sure to harder concepts in a more challenging academic environment. The more I learn, the more I feel overwhelmed by the complexity of every subject; the more time I spend in Van Pelt, the more I am aware of all the books I haven’t read. I am less sure of myself partially

EMILY HOEVEN derstanding and awareness of the complexities of the world, the people in it and their actions, both for good and for bad, is the curse and the gift of growing up.

And although I may mourn the simplicity of younger years, I wouldn’t give up my journey into adulthood. I wouldn’t trade my emotional dashboard. It is a record of all that I have experienced, of all that I have felt, a map from there to here, and of that I am proud.

EMILY HOEVEN is a College junior from Fremont, Calif., studying English.

H e r e m ai l a d dr e s s i s ehoeven@sas.upenn.edu.

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It’s a scene right out of a classic college film or a rose-tinted admissions propaganda leaflet — a group of college students lazing around a dorm room or lounge, late at night, arguing about politics, philosophy and the meaning of life.

It probably figured, to some extent, in your high school visions of what Ivy League life would be like. I know it did in mine.

Moving now into the first days of my final year at Penn, however, I have to say that while I’ve certainly lived out this cliched scene more than a handful of times, it hasn’t been the lifestyle mainstay my orientation-week self thought it would be. There are a lot of reasons why that’s been the case, some cultural and some structural. Much of it is just the ordinary failure of reality to live up to teenage expectations and cultural mythology.

Some of it, though, is that Penn students overall don’t have all that much to argue

about. The range of common opinion amongst 18 to 21-year-olds of the coastal elite demographic where Penn has drawn much of your class — and each class before you — just isn’t that broad.

Maybe you’ll get lucky and your roommate will be a conservative Muslim or a right-wing nutjob (read: ever-so-slightly conservative centrist) like me. Statistically speaking, however, a hedge-fund manager’s kid who says he’s a revolutionary intersectional Marxist is about the best you can hope for.

In the months since you received your acceptance letter, a lot of older people have probably been telling you what to do once you got here. At the risk of joining them in unselfconscious inanity, I’m going to pile on, “Don’t settle for rolling your eyes at the hedge-fund Marxist.”

If you’re a kid who wants real discussions about big ideas with people who sin-

cerely disagree with you to be a part of your college experience — and if you’re not, you should be — don’t sit around and wait for those people to show up.

Unless you are the devout Sunni or the die-hard Ted Cruz fan, Penn doesn’t tend to serve up chances to

part of them. They do exist.

There will be no shortage of opportunities to join groups of people who think and live like you do.

They can be valuable, and I wouldn’t ever suggest you avoid them altogether, but they can also be a trap.

It’s easy to get caught up

You have the chance to be deliberate about seeking out disagreement and conflict.” think, talk and argue “big,” so don’t wait around. The sad reality is that the median student here is more than happy to only ever talk to people they agree with or to completely tune out and plug in once ECON 001 recitation gets out on Friday. Don’t fall into that trap. Find the niches where there is real ideological diversity and make yourself a

being part of a tribe, but doing so has its costs. When I look back at some of the moments in which I’ve seemed to be living that college cliche of engrossed discussion, the moments I came away from feeling wiser and more whole, they almost uniformly began as encounters with people whose values, outlooks and lives were drastically dif-

ferent from my own.

Those moments often came by accident, but they never came by chance.

They came, predictably, because I found my way into the company of smart people who disagreed with me. They came because I didn’t — by luck more than by wisdom — get hooked on the easy ideological affirmation which is sand in the desert on a modern college campus.

But you, newly-minted Penn freshman, can do one better than I. You have the chance to be deliberate about seeking out disagreement and conflict.

Take an inventory of what you believe, and make it a goal to try each pillar of your own personal faith by fire before you leave this place. If you fell in love with “Atlas Shrugged” in high school and fancy yourself a libertarian, go find a Marxist and talk to her.

If you read Mill and are a utilitarian, seek out the most radical deontologist

ALEC WARD you can find. If you spent your senior year marching for Black Lives Matter, go find someone you think is a racist and talk to them. It’s why you’re here. At worst, you’ll be that much more certain you were right in the first place.

At no other point in your life will it be your full-time occupation to be wrong. It’s easy to waste that chance.

Most people do. Don’t.

ALEC WARD is a College senior from Washington, D.C., studying history. His email address is alecward@ sas.upenn.edu. Follow him on Twitter @TalkBackWard.

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This summer’s top stories in the world of higher education

Hillary Clinton holds voting registration rally in W. Phila.

From campus carry to a sexual assault case

Event focused on increasing voter turnout

JULIA BELL Staff Reporter

Students might be away from campus over the summer — but there’s been no shortage of controversies and changes in the higher education world over the last few months. Here’s a look at the major stories of the summer.

1. Brock Turner receives sixmonth sentence in Stanford sexual assault case Stanford freshman Brock Turner’s six-month sentence with probation sparked anger and protest when the verdict was released on June 2.

Turner was found guilty of three sexual assault charges after he was apprehended near a Stanford University fraternity this January. He faced a maximum 14 years in state prison, but was given a reduced sentence

by Judge Aaron Persky, who felt that “he will not be a danger to others”.

Critics believe that Turner’s swimming prestige and position at an elite university awarded him privilege in the trial, and

a petition to remove Persky received over one million signatures online. Turner, registered as a lifetime sex offender, will be released on Sept. 2.

2. New law permits concealed carry on University of Texas campuses Starting on Aug. 1, it became legal to bring a concealed handgun onto a UT campus. Campus buildings, dormitories and classrooms are included in the new legislation.

The law follows 20 years of allowing concealed handguns in public elsewhere in Texas.

Former UT School of Architecture Dean Fritz Steiner left the school for a position as the dean of PennDesign because of his opposition to concealed carry.

3. Vanderbilt gives Confederate memorial group $1.2 million to rename dorm Vanderbilt University gifted the Tennessee chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy $1.2 million in order to remove the name “Confederate” from Confederate Memorial Hall.

The purpose of the gift was to repay the group’s 1933 donation of $50,000 to the university, and thus clear any debts to their

group.

Vanderbilt lost to the Daughters of the Confederacy in a 2005 court case, when it was declared that the university could not rename the building until it reimbursed the group in “contemporary dollars”. Vanderbilt had been planning to remove the name since 2002.

4. Replacement found after University of Albany refuses to play Duke in North Carolina Marist College will face Duke University this November insteada of the scheduled University of Albany at Duke’s Cameron Indoor Stadium in North Carolina.

This July, the University of Albany declined to play Duke to protest the North Carolina law that requires people to use public bathrooms that correspond to their biological sex. Albany cited New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s bill that bans “nonessential state travel to North Carolina” to withdraw from the game.

A few weeks after Albany declined, Marist College, a private New York institution, agreed to play instead, drawing criticism from some students and players on campus.

M. EARL SMITH Staff Reporter

Playing to a boisterous crowd, former Secretary of State and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton took the stage on Tuesday afternoon, Aug. 16, at West Philadelphia High School with a few words of praise for the younger members of the electorate: Millennials are the “most tolerant and generous generation that we’ve ever seen in America,” she said to a ripple of applause from the largely middle-aged members of the crowd.

Clinton spoke for nearly 15 minutes about economic opportunity, the importance of democratic participation and cycled through some of her campaign policies, such as providing free forms of education to students everywhere and driving both the economy and

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No lack of enthusiasm greeted Clinton’s arrival to West Philadelphia.

Several attendees formed a line outside the gymnasium over two hours before the event started.

Campaign staffers used every opportunity to spread the message of getting out to vote while attendees waited to enter. From the moment someone was in line outside the event, they faced a consistent stream of inquiries about their voter registration status. Volunteers were quick to repeatedly ask if voters were both registered to vote and if their voter registration needed to be updated.

Each of the speakers preceding Clinton seemed intent on spurring voter turnout among millennials, who vastly preferred Clinton’s rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in the primary.

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through Councilwoman Jamie Blackwell, City Council President Darrell Clarke, state Rep. Dwight Evans, state Sen. Vincent Hughes and ending with Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney, each speaker’s message was the same: register to vote.

Though Clinton leads in nearly every current swing state poll, one supporter was nervous about her potential voters getting too overconfident.

“An eight-point lead means nothing if turnout is low,” said 2010 School of Education graduate Ian Riccaboni, one of the current announcers for Ring of Honor Wrestling. “I hope that my fellow Clinton supporters don’t take their feet off the gas, so to speak, and continue to register voters, knock on doors and continue to keep the enthusiasm high to ensure the highest turnout.”

As Clinton concluded her speech, she reminded everyone to register to vote once again.

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Through their books “Lean In” and “Originals,” Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Wharton professor Adam Grant inspired millions with stories of success and ingenuity. But the two are now tackling a more sober topic: grief.

Currently titled “Option B,” the book is meant to explore how people can recover from and grow through grief and trauma.

Sandberg has spoken openly about the loss of her husband, former SurveyMonkey CEO Dave Goldberg, who died suddenly on a trip to Mexico last May. “For many months afterward, and at many times since, I was swallowed up in the deep fog of grief — what I think of as the void: an emptiness that fills your

heart, your lungs, constricts your ability to think or even to breathe,” Sandberg said in a commencement address at the University of California at Berkeley.

“I learned about the depths of sadness and the brutality of loss.

But I also learned that when life sucks you under, you can kick against the bottom, break the surface and breathe again,” she said.

Along with stories of personal loss, including Sandberg’s, the book will also include research conducted by Grant. It might seem unusual to bring in a Wharton professor for a book about grief — but Grant’s research on emotions like generosity and motivation makes him a natural fit for the topic.

“Some people felt that I did not spend enough time [in ‘Lean In’] writing about the difficulty women face when they have an unsupportive partner or no partner at all,” Sandberg wrote in a Facebook post this May. “They were

right.”

Unlike “Lean In,” Sandberg and Grant’s new book will focus explicitly on the difficulties and loss that people may experience in their lives.

“We explore what it takes to help others through hardships: how to speak about the unspeakable, comfort friends in the wake of suffering, and create resilient workplaces, build robust marriages, and raise strong kids,” Grant said in a July Facebook post.

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Penn makes sexual violence policy changes Two changes were made over the summer JENNA WANG Staff Reporter

This summer, the University altered two of its policies relating to sexual violence.

The University announced in May that students who violate the University’s academic integrity, student conduct or sexual violence codes will be barred from receiving academic honors.

Provost Vincent Price and Vice Provost for Education Beth Winkelstein announced that students who receives a sanction of probation or a greater offense for breaking the Code of Academic Integrity, the Code of Student Conduct or the Sexual Violence, Relationship Violence and Stalking Policy would be ineligible for Latin graduation honors or Dean’s List citations.

The University also revised the wording of its sexual violence and harassment policies on July 1 to include a wider range of sexual orientations and clarify procedures for reporting incidents. These changes included sections about procedures for formal complaints, complaints against students visiting Penn, antiretaliation provisions and reporting and monitoring sexual violence.

Administration’s changes to the school’s academic code actually

allows “more students to not be penalized” when they violate Penn’s academic integrity code, according to Director of the Office of Student Conduct Julie Lyzinski Nettleton.

“It makes it so that lower level violations of the Code of Academic Integrity keep an educational only component,” Nettleton said. “The University is saying that we acknowledge that this is your first time, it’s a lower level violation and we want you to step back, think about your actions and change how you’re going to approach your academic career moving forward.”

Megan Yan, co-president of the Penn Association for Gender Equality and the former business manager of The Daily Pennsylvanian, said that while the policy changes were a positive step forward for sexual violence justice at Penn, there was still a long way to go.

“Overall, we think any change in policy that holds perpetrators of sexual assault and violations of the policy more accountable is positive,” Yan said. “But we’re more focused on making sure that violations of the policy are being reported, that survivors feel safe and comfortable reporting violations and that their experiences doing so are positive.”

Students receive graduation honors based on their cumulative GPA at the end of

college — summa cum laude, magna cum laude and cum laude, from highest to lowest ranking.

Students with a 3.7 or higher combined GPA during the full academic year can also receive a Dean’s List citation on their transcripts at the end of each academic year.

If found to have violated any of the University’s three codes, a student who already earned Latin honors would still have their honors removed. A student’s Dean’s List citation would only be taken off for the academic year during which the student violated the codes.

The two policy changes were made based on a recommendation by the Council of Undergraduate Deans, according to Price and Winkelstein’s message posted on the Almanac.

“It’s really a philosophical shift in terms of viewing the conduct process as part of the educational experience,” Nettleton said. “If a student moves forward by changing their behavior, they get to preserve what they’ve worked hard towards. Personally I think it’s great … we believe that there are natural consequences for one’s actions, and our primary goal is that consequences engage students in a learning experience, which I think is at the heart of this shift in these policies.”

Wharton graduate pursues narrow path to White House Evan McMullin is running as an independent M. EARL SMITH Staff Reporter

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Evan McMullin knows his presidential bid is a longshot by conventional standards, but that hasn’t stopped the former CIA operative and 2011 Wharton MBA graduate from pressing his way into the electoral foray.

So far, McMullin has officially gained ballot access in six states. Five of those — Arkansas, Colorado, Utah, Iowa and Idaho — were through signature drives. In Louisiana, McMullin earned a spot on the ballot by paying a $500 fee in lieu of collecting signatures, and in Minnesota, he is all but guaranteed access through his affiliation with the Independence Party of Minnesota.

But since announcing his candidacy on Aug. 8, McMullin has failed to meet the deadline to join the ballot in eight other states and Washington D.C. Republican nominee Donald Trump, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson are on the ballot in all 50 states, while Green Party nominee Jill Stein holds current ballot access in 35. Even candidates from the little-known Constitution Party (on the ballot in 23 states) and Socialist Workers Party (on the ballot in nine states) have more access than McMullin.

Such a narrow electoral path has not prevented McMullin, the former chief policy director of the House Republican Conference, to repeatedly criticize the other presidential candidates.

The goal of his campaign, he told Yahoo News, is to “keep Hillary Clinton from reaching 270 electoral votes.”

In regard to Trump, a fellow

Wharton graduate and the Republican nominee, a McMullin campaign memo obtained by ABC News said Trump poses “a larger threat to national security than ISIS itself.” The memo went on to call Green Party nominee Jill Stein a proponent of “warmed-over magical-thin k ing socialism and weirdness,” and said Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson has “astonishingly weak and dangerous positions on foreign affairs and religious liberty.”

In order to win the presidency, McMullin’s campaign intends to ensure no candidate wins the necessary 270 electoral votes, which would force the House of Representatives to decide the election, something that hasn’t been done in almost 200 years, according to the memo.

The last time the House

decided the election, in 1824, Andrew Jackson received a plurality of the popular vote, but the electoral votes split between four candidates, with none receiving the required majority.

The election went to the House of Representatives, who, under the leadership of Jackson’s bitter rival Henry Clay, supported John Quincy Adams.

“Once in the House, against the backdrop of Trump and Clinton’s deeply divisive positions and after a strong electoral college showing, we believe Evan’s unifying message will prevail,” said McMullin’s chief strategist Joel Searby.

The website FiveThirtyEight, which had successfully predicted the electoral outcome of every state in the 2012 election, currently gives Clinton more than 80 percent chance of beating Trump.

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In the midst of 1968 Wharton graduate Donald Trump’s presidential run, during which he has repeatedly invoked his Wharton degree, over 3,800 Penn students, graduates, parents, partners and family members have signed a petition telling him, “You do not represent us.”

The petition was posted online on July 8, just over a week before the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, where Trump became the party’s official presidential nominee.

The petition takes the form of an open letter.

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

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

“We, proud students, alumni, and faculty of Wharton, are outraged that an affiliation with our school is being used to legitimize prejudice and intolerance,” the letter says. “Although we do not aim to make any political endorsements SEE TRUMP PAGE B3

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Wharton alumnus quits finance to pursue cage fighting CHERRY ZHI Staff Reporter

For 2011 Wharton graduate Rollie Peterkin, pursuing the American dream meant escaping the cage of Wall Street and stepping into a literal cage in South America.

Recruited to wrestle for Penn, Peterkin ended his college wrestling career in a disappointing loss and headed to Wall Street after graduation to become a bond trader. After going on vacation in Peru and reigniting his passion for wrestling, however, he

quit his job and moved to Lima, Peru to become a full-time professional MMA cage fighter.

This March, he published his book “The Cage: Escaping the American Dream” to detail his adventures and to share his story of perseverance, strength and the search for meaning.

“People thought I had gone crazy when I said I was moving to Peru,” Peterkin said. “I had a great job in New York City and I always knew I was going to do finance ... that’s basically why I went to Penn.”

With a job trading investment grade corporate bonds on the proprietary trading desk at the Royal Bank of Canada, Peterkin was on the verge of

getting his own portion of the portfolio to manage.

“It’s like I had reached all my goals, and it’s what I had always wanted,” he said. “Part of me would have liked to continue to wrestle, but I had fallen short of my wrestling goals and I had a good job offer waiting for me, so I felt like I had no choice in the matter.”

At Penn, Peterkin wrestled for four years, during which he won over 100 collegiate matches. He was team captain his senior year and a threetime NCAA qualifier. Each of those years, he made it to the Round of 12, meaning that he was among the best 12 collegiate wrestlers in the country. By winning that match, wrestlers

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automatically place top eight and get a spot on the national podium as an AllAmerican.

“Three years in a row I lost in the very same round, so I was just short of reaching my goal of being an AllAmerican,” he said. “When I lost during my senior year, I was just devastated, and it really hurt me for a long time. I just felt like a huge failure.”

Peterkin wrote in the first chapter of his book that “[he] spent the remainder of [his] senior year wallowing in anger and self-pity. [He] drank a lot, and that sometimes helped. Other times [he] would wake up in the middle of the

Celebrity chef Jose Andres’ vegetarian restaurant Beefsteak is now open in Houston Hall in the space previously occupied by Einstein Bagel Bros.

Celebrity chef Jose Andres celebrated the grand opening of his newest restaurant with a speech about veggies and the American dream.

Beefsteak opened Tuesday, June 7, in Houston Hall. One of Philadelphia Zagat’s “11 Most Anticipated Restaurants for Spring,” it features bowls and salads centered around fresh

vegetables. Beefsteak also offers an array of toppings, including kimchi, seaweed and poached egg.

The Penn location is the first outside the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and fills the space in Houston Hall formerly occupied by Einstein Bros.

Bagels.

The restaurant is well suited for Penn students because of its flexibility, according to Beefsteak Executive Chef Pat Peterson. Vegans and vegetarians have varied options, while meat lovers SEE BEEFSTEAK PAGE B7

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Track stars fall short at trials, fail to qualify for Olympics Mattis places ninth, Awad and Hay both finish 24th DAVID FIGURELLI Sports Reporter

Over July 1 to July 10, three recentlygraduated members of Penn’s track and field team competed in the United States Olympic Trials in Eugene, Ore. for a spot on the team bound for Rio in August. All of them fell just short of their goal of ultimately making the

Olympic team, but none failed to impress at one of the most prestigious domestic competitions in the nation.

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

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

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

Mattis got the weekend started off hot for the Quakers on Thursday, July 7, when he placed second in the qualifying

round with a throw of 60.93 meters.

Friday would not be as favorable to the discus throwers, as Mattis was only able to muster a throw of 57.86 meters in the final round, good for ninth place.

His performance was subpar by his standards, considering his past marks this year alone. At the beginning of the season, Mattis hurled a discus for 67.45m at the Philadelphia College Classic — the longest throw in the world SEE OLYMPICS PAGE B4

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Harry Potter readers more likely to dislike Trump Values in books conflict with Trump, researchers say RAY POMPONIO Staff Reporter

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 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.

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Canvas interface redesigned for more user-friendly experience Update facilitated more changes for site ALEX GRAVES Design Editor

According to Canvas at Penn’s blog post about the May 16 user interface update, everyone would “jump for joy over the new Canvas UI!” But to students, while a welcome change, the update was largely inconsequential.

Rising College sophomore Michaela Tinkey, who is taking MATH 104 during the first session this summer, said that since the change, she has “only looked at Canvas like once.”

In fact, this was highly intentional. “We picked this time ... to minimize disruption for users,” Molly Bonnard, the courseware services manager for Canvas at Penn, said.

Tinkey agrees that this was a good course of action, saying, “It’s probably smartest to [update] now because there are going to be less students on campus.”

May 16 was not just chosen in order to facilitate transition. “A lot of [Canvas’] major changes ... will be optional for a really long period, and then be mandatory after a certain period,” Bonnard said. ”[The UI update] is going to be mandatory on the ninth of July.”

Bonnard has a positive outlook

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with this letter, we do express our unequivocal stance against the xenophobia, sexism, racism, and other forms of bigotry that you have actively and implicitly endorsed in your campaign.”

Since its posting, the article has been picked up by national news outlets such as NBC, the Huffington Post and CNN.

for the update. “You’re not going to have to relearn Canvas. It just looks different,” she said.

Anthony Nardone, a rising College sophomore looking to transfer into Engineering, is taking both a fine arts course and a chemistry course this summer.

He uses Canvas for the chemistry class. “It’s a lot more modern,” Nardone said.

According to the Canvas at Penn blog post detailing the update, the two major changes are the “User Dashboard” and “Global Navigation” menu. The dashboard allows students to choose between viewing course notifications or “course [cards] for each of your favorite courses” as the default screen.

The menu functions similarly to the navigation bar across the top of the old UI. The motivation for the move was to “allow more room for content on smaller resolution devices.”

To Nardone, this was the most significant change. “On my Surface I have a touchscreen, so when I touch the drop-down, it would drop down, but when I would release my finger, it would disappear. ... Now I can just click on it, and there’s ... the next thing I can pick,” he said.

The one update that wasn’t simply a design change gives users the ability “to add nicknames and color code their course.”

Even though she hasn’t spent

a lot of time on Canvas since the update, Tinkey believes the change is positive. “I think it’s a little easier to understand,” she said.

“Everything seems like it’s a lot more user-friendly,” Nardone agreed. However, while students appreciate this update, there are issues they feel need to be addressed.

“Canvas can be unreliable and that’s just too much of a risk to take when dealing with your grades,” Tinkey said. Particularly, she laments that “a lot of professors won’t change their grading style to match if Canvas isn’t working well.”

Nardone also expresses complaints surrounding the way professors use Canvas. “I think a lot of it depends on the teacher — to make it really user-friendly or to really make it easy,” he said.

Some professors, however, can make it more challenging. “The physics department makes it very confusing. You would have one [course page] for a combined set, one for lab. There are so many different things,” Nardone said.

“Just put everything in one place!

It’s really not that hard.”

Perhaps the more straightforward and simple interface that came with this update will reduce this kind of confusion.

If not, Bonnard said that “[Canvas’s] big conference is in July, so that’s probably when they’ll say what’s happening next.”

One of the co-authors of the letter said she and the rest of the authors prefer not to be named because they feel it would distract from the fact that the message comes from a larger Wharton community. However, she did include a statement from the coauthors.

“Throughout this presidential campaign, Donald Trump’s education at Wharton has been used as a part of a platform to promote

prejudice and intolerance,” the coauthors wrote. “It was important for us to speak out against Trump because, as we have seen in many moments throughout history, silence is an act of complicity. This open letter speaks on behalf of Wharton students, alumni, and faculty who wish to speak out against hate and stand in solidarity with all members of our diverse community — both at Wharton and across America.”

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Two Penn students serve as delegates for Bernie at the DNC They represented two Pennsylvania districts

CHARLOTTE LARACY Staff Reporter

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, represented Pennsylvania’s 2nd and 8th districts, respectively.

Both had said they were

looking forward to see Sanders speak on Monday, July 25, 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 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 ALEX GRAVES | DESIGN EDITOR

The Democratic National Convention was held in Philadelphia the week of July 25. Delegates for Bernie Sanders, like two Penn students, were met with disappointment when Hillary Clinton was nominated.

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 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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Thursday, July 7, qualifying for the semi-final round of the 1500 meter run by finishing eighth overall in the qualifying round with a time of 3:42.49. However, he would not perform as well in the semi-finals on the next day, finishing the second round with a time of 3:55.36 for Penn’s second 24th place finish of the day.

National Olympic Committees are only allowed to send three athletes for each event, and as such, Mattis, Awad, and Hay found themselves facing all odds competing against professional athletes for a

chance to travel to Rio. While they unfortunately fell short, to reach the pinnacle of United States Track and Field competitions at such a young age means that there is much more to come from these newly graduated Quakers.

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

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Hay was also featured in competition on Thursday, as her top javelin throw of 42.25 meters placed her in 24th place for the qualifying round.

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The Red and Blue’s Class of 2020 hails from across the country 13 states are represented by new football class DAVID FIGURELLI Sports Reporter

Twenty-nine members of the Class of 2020 will join Penn’s football team this fall.

The new student-athletes — 16 defensive players, 12 offensive players and one kicker — hail from 13 different states. California and Texas are each home to four new members of the football team, while New York, New Jersey and Colorado are the home states of three members each. Maryland, Pennsylvania, Georgia and Illinois will each be sending two new Quakers to campus. Connecticut, Virginia, Kansas and Florida will each have one representatives in the Red and Blue’s new class.

The composition of players coming in on the offensive side of

the ball is fairly balanced and includes running backs, quarterbacks, wide receivers, tight ends and a multi-position athlete.

The new defensive class is also well balanced — four linemen and six linebackers will be come to Philadelphia with the hopes of earning a starting spot in the Quakers’ front seven, while six defensive backs will also call University City home in the fall. A kicker will round out the 2020 recruiting class for Penn.

“It is always a great moment when we get to officially welcome our newest class of scholar athletes to our program,” head coach Ray Priore said in an announcement on the Penn Athletics website. “We have scoured the country in search of the right type of player to succeed in a Penn uniform, and we are confident that we have put together a group which will fit right in with our team. This group is filled with high character people who are aiming at

big goals — two traits we value immensely at Penn.”

Almost every member of the class served as team captain at some point during their high school careers, and the class is represented in every school at Penn besides Nursing.

The Quakers will look to this new recruiting class to contribute immediately in the 2016 season with the hopes of defending its Ivy League crown. Despite having the Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year in linebacker Tyler Drake and leading the Ivy League in sacks and also finishing second in both interceptions and fumble recoveries, the Quakers finished sixth in the league in both points per game and yards allowed. These rankings will have to improve, lest the Red and Blue fail to defend its title.

On the offensive side of the ball, the Quakers will hope that the Class of 2020 can help improve their sixth-ranked passing offense to

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For many Penn students, 1920 Commons evokes memories of long lines for pasta or expensive healthy snacks at Gourmet Grocer. Now, this campus hotspot has become a lot more enticing.

The highly anticipated launch of Amazon@Penn, an on-campus delivery and shipping center for the online retailer, brings new purpose to the centrally located dining hall building.

The new shipping center, which occupies half of the ground floor of 1920 Commons, officially opened its doors to the public May 18 morning following a formal ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by multiple Penn administrators and Amazon executives. Amazon@ Penn is the first venture of this kind that Amazon has launched in the Ivy League.

The construction of Amazon@ Penn, which began in January and spanned most of the spring semester, is part of a conscious and continual re-creation of 1920 Commons that began in 2011. The introduction of the fireside space in the Starbucks under Commons, the addition of an outdoor patio and now Amazon@Penn have all been part of an active effort to breathe new life into the complex.

The Amazon@Penn facility itself includes lounge areas equipped with study space, power outlets and tables with computer screens for group seating.

“If it wasn’t already a destination before, 1920 Commons will be a true destination,” Vice President of Business Services Marie Witt said.

To have Amazon packages delivered directly to 1920 Commons, Penn students have to link their accounts to Amazon@Penn at penn. amazon.com. Once activated, students can add Amazon@Penn to

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Amazon@Penn now serves as a self-shipping center and a study space as well as a delivery destination.

their online Amazon address book and can then select it as their shipping address when ordering.

When a student’s package is ready for pickup, Amazon@Penn will send an automated notification to the student containing a link to a personalized pickup code. Each pickup code will be connected to one of four self-service kiosks for package pickups, each attached to a secure locker. To retrieve the package, the student simply has to scan the code at the appropriate kiosk and said package will fall into the attached locker.

The whole pickup process should take no more than one to two minutes, Amazon@Penn summer staffer Emily Ricci said.

The shipping center also includes a self-service packing station equipped with free boxes, padded envelopes and tape and

additional kiosks specifically programmed for printing return labels. Amazon@Penn staff will be on-hand throughout the day to assist customers.

Unlike the package rooms in Penn’s residential college houses, Amazon@Penn is available to all Penn students regardless of whether they are living on or off campus, Witt said.

Penn students who are Amazon Student or Amazon Prime members can get free same-day delivery directly to Amazon@Penn on a variety of items if ordered before noon, and free next-day delivery if ordered before 10 p.m.

“This is all about students and the greater Penn community and making life more convenient for them,” Director of Amazon Student Programs Ripley MacDonald said.

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Vice President of the Division of Business Services Marie Witt said that the choice to introduce Beefsteak was based on student and faculty requests.

“They want healthy, they want innovative, they want fresh, they want fun,” she said. “Chef Andres and his Beefsteak concept hit all of those right on the mark.”

At the grand opening, Chef Andres spoke about his past and his vision for the future of American dining.

“My wife and I, we became American two years ago,” he said.

“It was probably one of the best moments of our life, besides giving birth to our three beautiful, American-born daughters. And I’m only saying this because I do believe every citizen — whether you are an immigrant or you came on the Mayflower — I think the role of everybody is just to try to do whatever is right to keep moving America forward, one community at a time.

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night, panicked and sweaty, with the image of the last match searing [his] memory.”

After starting his job in New York, Peterkin did not continue to wrestle. “I didn’t even belong to a gym,” he said. “[During those two years] I was sedentary and went out to fancy dinners all the time. I gained a little bit of weight and I missed the sport a lot.”

In 2014, Peterkin went on vacation to Lima, Peru to visit his friend Ben Reiter who had also wrestled at Penn. After graduation, Reiter had gone to Peru to do charitable work and teach English in a small village. He was also training for MMA there as a cage fighter.

“While I was down there I trained with the team a little bit and his coach invited me to come down and fight for them because of my wrestling pedigree,” Peterkin said.

“At first I was like, ‘that’s crazy, there’s no way I’m doing that.’”

Yet after returning to New York, Peterkin found it hard to focus and

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A chef, in this case, can only do it one plate at a time.”

Andres owns restaurants in several cities across the country and was honored as one of Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential People” for his activism. He is also a Spanish immigrant and a vocal critic of 1968 Wharton graduate and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s comments on immigration.

Shortly after Trump’s polarizing announcement speech, Andres backed out of a plan to create a Spanish restaurant for the Trump Organization’s $200 million redevelopment of the Old Post Office Pavilion in Washington. In a statement in which he severed ties with Trump, Andres wrote that the majority of his team is Hispanic and that Trump’s “disparaging” statements made it impossible for his company to proceed with the deal.

Trump filed a $10 million breach-of-contract lawsuit, and Andres counter-sued for $8 million.

During the grand opening, Andres thanked Bon Appetit Management Company for working closely with his company and

find meaning in his work, writing that “the seed had been planted and I couldn’t seem to shake it” in a piece he wrote for Vice. Peterkin then quit his job and made the move to Peru to the surprise of many of his friends and family.

“My family was not happy with me. They were supportive but not happy,” he said. “It also split my friends down the middle. Some people said ‘this is the coolest thing ever,’ and others were like ‘what are you doing, you’re ruining your life.’”

During his time there, he kept a blog and many people followed it as he posted stories about his professional MMA fights and his undefeated record. After living in Peru for a year, however, Peterkin suffered injuries that prevented him from competing and decided to move to Madrid instead, where he now teaches English to elementary school kids.

These three completely different careers spanning the globe reveal Peterkin’s flexibility and desire for adventure, and he recounts his journey from one extreme to the

stressed the importance of cooperation.

“When you really decide to work together and embrace each other, America will always be better,” he said. “So yes, that’s a political statement, and you can make with it whatever you want. Here is to showing that, working together, we can do great things.”

Andres said that the food at Beefsteak resembles the food he serves to his family at home. He also joked about the restaurant’s name, which refers to the beefsteak tomato.

“Look at me — I eat a lot of steaks, too,” he said. “I eat, actually, anything and everything.”

But he also stressed the importance of ensuring access to fresh, delicious produce.

“Today it is difficult to find good vegetables and fruits, more often than not,” he said. “We are pushing the boundaries in how we should be feeding America.”

Beefsteak is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays. Veggie bowls range from $7.49 to $8.49, and the restaurant accepts Dining Dollars as part of the student meal plan.

other in his book “The Cage.”

“I had so many amazing experiences and significant events and [my path] was something no one has really gone through before,” Peterkin said. “I really enjoyed writing posts for my blog so I compiled everything and spent about a year writing and editing my book.”

Peterkin explained that the writing process was a completely new challenge. “I went to Wharton so I didn’t take writing classes beyond the freshman writing seminar, but I was always a big reader and tried to pick up this new skill set,” he said.

“The Cage” is available on Amazon and has received largely positive reviews.

“I’ve had a lot of people message me and say they’re inspired by it and to me that’s the most important thing,” Peterkin said.

Spending the next school year teaching in the Canary Islands, Peterkin doesn’t see himself coming back to the United States anytime soon, but he added that anything could be possible given “life’s crazy twist and turns.”

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New Student Orientation is simultaneously one of the best and most stressful times as a Penn freshman. It’s all new and exciting, but also can be extremely confusing. But fear not, The Daily Pennsylvanian will be your guide to one of Penn’s craziest weeks.

1. Don’t be afraid to attend events with people you don’t know.

One of the most important aspects is meeting new people. The best way to do so is to attend events you find interesting, as it will attract others with similar interests.

Many of the events cater to specific interests, so if it doesn’t sound like something enjoyable, skip it.

THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN | THEDP.COM on safety precautions, numbers to call for help and how to avoid bad situations. Another mandatory event is called “Speak About It,” a primer on the importance of consent and healthy relationships. Go and take it seriously.

4. PennFest is better than you think.

At 9 p.m. on Friday is PennFest, which will feature vendors from around Philly. Penn food trucks are easily one of the greatest aspects of this school. The sooner you discover the great food — and cheap prices — the better off you

will be. Any chance given to take advantage of Philly food is not one to miss. Eat. Enjoy.

5. Convocation is cool. The desserts afterward are even better.

Monday is Convocation. Penn President Amy Gutmann will speak along with other high ranking University administrators.

Dress up for the ceremony, sit through it, and then bask in the glory of all the free dessert at the reception that follows shortly after.

Just don’t be those kids who bring tupperware and ruin the fun for everyone else.

2. Do not say no to free food.

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3. The safety sessions are mandatory for a reason.

Though it seems fairly selfexplanatory, “Safe Living” is an important event. University administrators give all of the information

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Tools you need to register for your perfect schedule What to do when you want to switch your classes

you just decided that you won’t be satisfied without that one history course you’ve always dreamed of taking. Whatever the reason for the change, you still have a chance to perfect your schedule.

Here’s a guide to some important tools to help with all your scheduling needs.

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With hundreds and hundreds of courses across dozens of departments, choosing classes can be a challenge, and switching them once the year has started can be even harder.

Maybe you realized that your passion for mathematics is not worth the struggle to get out of bed at 8 a.m. Perhaps you’ve decided to put off writing seminar for yet another semester. Maybe

allows you to review your current schedule, learn more about open courses and make scheduling changes through the ‘Registration & Planning’ tab. Undergraduates can add courses during the course selection period until Sept. 19 and they can choose to drop or take a class pass/fail until Oct. 10.

Penn Course Notify If you didn’t get into one of your requested courses during Advanced Registration, there’s still hope. Check out Penn Course Notify, a webpage which alerts you whenever a class has an open spot. It may just help you

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to create the ideal schedule.

Advisors Beyond simply helping you plan your academic future, academic advisors can be very important in the process of adding or dropping courses. If convinced, advisors can give you permission to enroll in more credits than your allotted credit limit.

Choosing your schedule can be rather intimidating. With a little maneuvering and a careful consideration of which classes will be worth the most to you, you can have a fantastic fall semester.

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Discover groups on campus to fit every identity

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Get to know the five minority coalitions, “5B”

Compton” at the Class of ’49 Auditorium in Houston Hall. Starting at 10:00 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 26, the event will also provide food from Jamaican Jerk Hut.

Student groups span every area of interest

United Minorities Council: The UMC is a coalition of Carribbean/African-American, Asian/ Pacific Islander, Latino and Native American student organizations.

Founded 38 years ago, the coalition strives to facilitate interculturalism and social justice within its 24 constituents.

Looking to make friends, build experience and have a good time? Look no further than Penn’s wealth of student groups.

At the beginning of every semester the Student Activities Council hosts an activities fair — a chance to get to know the different clubs that Penn has to offer. This year, the Fall Activities Fair will be held on Thursday, Sept. 1 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

It might be tempting to sign up for every activity that sounds interesting, but beware of signing up for too many listservs and letting clubs inundate your inbox with emails. Instead, take the flyers to check out the websites and Facebook pages of the clubs, or only put your email address down for clubs you know you want to join.

The application process for student clubs and activities varies.

Some are open to all students, while others require a rigorous process. Don’t be afraid to apply for a group that seems competitive, but be wary of signing up for too many commitments. A maximum of two or three activities for the first semester ensures that you won’t get overwhelmed.

Most groups will start having General Body Meetings, also known as GBMs, within the month of September, which are great opportunities to meet members and learn about the clubs.

But you don’t have to wait until then — here’s a run-down of some of the student activities Penn has to offer.

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For most Penn students, New Student Orientation is the beginning of a yearlong journey into finding their place on campus. Fortunately, there are various minority groups on campus that are ready to take in the class of 2020.

Most groups fall under the five main coalitions, known collectively as the 5B. These are the Asian Pacific Student Coalition, the Latin@ Coalition, UMOJA, the United Minorities Council and the Lambda Alliance. Some groups, such as Queer People of Color, are constituents to several coalitions.

Asian Pacific Student Coalition: One of four umbrella groups for ethnic minorities, APSC is a coalition of 22 Asian and Asian Pacific groups on campus. These include the Penn Pakistani Association, Penn Taiwanese Society and cultural sorority Sigma Psi Zeta, among others.

APSC is closely affiliated with the Pan-Asian American Community House, a resource center located in the ARCH building at 3601 Locust Walk. PAACH is home to numerous Asian-interest organizations, from preprofessional groups such as the Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers to performing arts groups such as the nationally-renowned a cappella

group Penn Masala.

To welcome the class of 2020, APSC is throwing the Late Night event CelebrASIAN at the Hall of Flags in Houston Hall on Saturday, Aug. 27 at 10 p.m., featuring food and performances.

Latin@ Coalition: The Latin@ Coalition consists of 24 constituents which span cultural, professional and social interests.

They are closely affiliated to La Casa Latina, the resource center at the ARCH building for Latinx students and faculty at Penn. The center offers mentorship programs, opportunities for community service, academic resources as well as resources for students residing in the United States without legal documentation .

To introduce these resources to incoming freshmen, the Latin@ Coalition will be holding a social media scavenger hunt at the ARCH building auditorium on Friday, Sept. 2 from 10:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m.

UMOJA: UMOJA is a coalition of groups formed of students of the African Diaspora. They have 20 constituent groups who meet bimonthly to discuss issues of concern such as public safety and minority recruitment. They are affiliated with MAKUU, the black cultural center at the ARCH building.

For NSO, one of UMOJA’s constituent groups, the Onyx Senior Honor Society is holding a film screening of “Straight Outta

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Penn has many minority and LGBTQ specific groups that can provide an initial community for many freshmen entering Penn’s campus.

Lambda Alliance: The Lambda Alliance is the coalition of LGBTQ groups on campus, including the Association of Queer International Students, Penn Athletes and Allies Tackling Homophobia and a range of school-based support groups such as the Wharton Alliance, a preprofessional group for gender and sexuality minorities. Outside the alliance, there are many other groups representing LGBTQ interests such as Queer Muslims and Allies at Penn who provide a community for students to share their experiences confidentially.

The Lambda Alliance holds many of its events at the LGBT Center, located at 3907 Spruce Street. Their NSO late night event, Bar ‘Q’rawl, will be held there on Sunday, Sept. 4 from 9:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. Lambda Chair and Nursing senior Ian Jeong said freshmen will get to “crawl” between different rooms at the center, meeting student leaders and learning about the LGBTQ community at Penn.

More information about minority groups will be available at the Introduction to Cultural and First Generation Resources at the Terrace Room in Cohen Hall on Thursday, Aug. 25. In the meantime however, leaders from minority groups advise incoming freshman not to be discouraged if they do not immediately find their community.

“Do not be afraid to express yourself,” said President of Penn Queer and Asian and Wharton senior Kevin Lin. “There are people in the Penn community who will accept you for who you are.”

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Women’s Center The Penn Women’s Center runs a number of groups that all genders can join, such as Penn Association for Gender Equality, Abuse and Sexual Assault Prevention, the Vagina Monologues and more.

Civic House Civic House is the hub for all community service and advocacy-related groups. There you can check out clubs like Colleges Against Cancer, City Step and the co-ed community service fraternity, Alpha Phi Omega.

Politics Penn has active branches of both major parties, the Penn Democrats and College Republicans, as well as groups supporting specific political candidates. You can also get involved with Mock Trial, Speech and Debate, and the International Affairs Association (the Model United Nations group on campus).

Publications In addition to the DP, 34th Street Magazine and Under the Button, students interested in writing and journalism can get involved in publications that cater to specific themes.

Stamped is a travel writing magazine, IMPACT focuses on social justice, Penn Appetit is foodiefocused and The Walk is Penn’s fashion magazine.

Minority Organizations There are multiple groups on campus aimed toward minority and cultural groups. The five main coalitions are the Lambda Alliance for LGBT students,

UMOJA for students of the African Diaspora, the Asian Pacific Student Coalition, the Latino Coalition and the United Minorities Council. These groups make up what is known as the 5B. The ARCH building houses the PanAsian American Community House, Makuu: The Black Cultural Center and The Center for Hispanic Excellence: La Casa Latina. The LGBT Center is located near Harrison College House.

Arts Penn’s Performing Arts Council is the overarching group that oversees all of the arts groups at Penn. PAC is responsible for all groups involved in dance, theatre, music, a cappella and comedy.

Most groups will hold several rounds of auditions within the first week of September.

Greek Life The Panhellenic Council, Interfraternity Council and Multicultural Greek Council do not start official recruitment for freshmen until the spring, but many organizations hold open houses during the fall.

Student Government Penn Student Government has six branches: the Undergraduate Assembly, the Class Boards, The Social Planning and Events Committee, the Nominations and Elections Committee, the Student Activities Council and the Student Committee on Undergraduate Education. These branches act on behalf of students in all aspects of University life. Some branches involve an application process, while others require campaigning before a student election.

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Your parents are gone, you’ve moved in, and you’re ready to get started on (arguably) the most important part of college: your social life. Good thing that The Daily Pennsylvanian knows a thing or two about freshman-year etiquette.

Do get to know your hallmates and, especially, your roommate(s).

Do party (responsibly) with your hall.

Whether you got into your first choice building or some little bungalow know one’s ever heard of, your hall will play a huge role in your freshman experience.

Living with someone is no small undertaking, and if you want to feel good coming back to your room each day, then you have to make it work. Get to know one another, engage in shared interests, and be patient with each other’s flaws — we’re only human. No one can guarantee that you and your roommate(s) will get along — some people just aren’t a good fit together — but many Penn students who were happy enough with their initial roommate live with them the following year (this writer included). So invest in this relationship — it might just pay off in spades.

There’s no better group to party with than the people who can help walk your likely stumbling body back to your room.

Even if imbibing certain liquids doesn’t interest you, your hallmates are still the best people to recruit in exploring all the opportunities offered at Penn. Drag your neighbors with you to a cappella auditions and dance workshops, and you may find a convenient practice partner as well as a lasting bond.

Don’t lose sight of who you are.

Our school is a melting pot of different cultures, backgrounds and personality types, but certain flavors tend to dominate. The pluralism of a freshman hall has a way of turning its diverse group of residents into a very likeminded bunch. Be true to yourself, and remember that the world outside of the Penn bubble doesn’t all wear Sperry’s or Vineyard Vines.

Do make a GroupMe, and you might as well make two.

The notifications may quickly bother you, but it’s always a good move to set up two group messaging chats with your hallmates — one with your resident adviser and one without them. That way you can stay constantly in the loop of sanctioned (and unsanctioned) social events as the year gets started.

BEST STUDY SPOTS New Student Orientation is all fun and games, but before too long classes will be starting. And with classes come papers and exams. Luckily Penn has no shortage of great study spots to help the semester go a little more smoothly.

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Van Pelt is the quintessential place to study at Penn. During midterms and finals seasons here, you’ll have to settle for whatever you can get, but until then go for the basement or the sixth floor.

The basement is the most social spot in Van Pelt, because you are guaranteed to run into nearly everyone you know (especially if you don’t want to run into them). It’s home to Mark’s Café, so you’ll never have to worry about running low on brain fuel.

For something a little more isolated, go for the sixth floor. It’s quiet and aesthetically pleasing with a great view of the city, which makes studying that much less miserable.

Word to the wise: no matter where you study in Van Pelt, be sure to wear layers. It’s always either boiling hot or freezing cold — there is no in-between.

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The forum is great if you’re doing more talking than working, but there is no doubt that the best place to buckle down and study is in a Huntsman Group Study Room, more commonly known as a GSR. These study rooms are some of the most coveted spots on campus, so reserve one early, especially during midterms and finals.

If you aren’t in Wharton, be sure to befriend someone who is so that you can have access to GSRs. Whenever all the GSRs are booked, the MBA Cafe on the second floor is also a pretty good option. There are usually plenty of spots open, and the vending machines in the cafe are particularly well-stocked.

Fisher Fine Arts Library is great if you appreciate silence and beauty.

The interior of the library is just as gorgeous as its exterior and it features a mix of communal tables and smaller study nooks.

This is not the place to go if you’re planning on socializing, because it is almost entirely silent.

However, the quiet environment makes it easy to focus on the task at hand, and it is an ideal spot for getting a lot of reading done.

The one downside to Fisher is that food is not allowed, so it might not be the place for you if you need snacks to keep you motivated.

If you’re a person who isn’t too easily distracted, Starbucks is actually a really nice place to do work.

Like in the Van Pelt basement, you have access to as much coffee as your heart desires, and there is plenty of seating, ranging from communal tables to single tables to the more social couches and chairs.

Go here if you don’t actually want to get anything done.

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It only makes sense that a culture as unique as Penn’s has its own lingo. Here’s a crash course to help you learn the words and phrases that Penn students throw around every day.

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Reading Lounge: The sixth floor of Van Pelt Library is one of the most popular study spots on campus. It boasts an amazing view of College Hall and Fisher Fine Arts Library, brand new couches and near perfect silence. Great locale for grinding out serious work.

GSR: Group study room. Rooms available to reserve for several people (or just one if you’re feeling aggressive) in Huntsman Hall and Van Pelt.

Snagging one during finals season is very competitive, and only Wharton students can reserve Huntsman GSRs. Stommons: Starbucks under 1920 Commons. The only Starbucks on campus that takes Dining Dollars.

The Button: The white button sculpture outside of Van Pelt. Popular meeting point.

The Tampons: Large red sculpture past the bridge on Locust Walk. Although it’s actually titled “Covenant,” the installment brings to mind a pair of dueling tampons. Students often meet each other “by the tamps.”

DRL: David Rittenhouse Laboratory. The center for many science and math classes, this large building at 33rd and Walnut is almost universally hated for its depressing atmosphere and far distance from practically every other classroom building.

Steiny-D: Steinberg-Dietrich Hall. The Wharton building on Locust Walk between 36th and 37th where many introductory classes like economics are held.

The Compass: The large compass built into the brick of Locust Walk at the 37th Street intersection before Pottruck Health and Fitness Center. The superstitious say freshmen who cross it will fail their first midterms.

KCECH: Kings Court English College House.

Radian: The off-campus apartment building on 39th and Walnut that is a popular housing option for many sophomores and juniors.

VP: Van Pelt Library.

Fisher: Fisher Fine Arts Library.

YOUR SOCIAL LIFE

BYO: Bring-Your-Own (drinks). Count yourself blessed to live in a city that has many restaurants that permit you to bring whatever alcohol your heart desires (even hard liquor and boxed wine) to dinner without showing ID. It’s a favored way for students to eat and drink casually.

Spring Fling: The sweet release that is half a week of pure fun in mid-April. Students take advantage of the warm weather to attend parties that start mid-morning, a concert and student group performances in the Quad.

Homecoming (HoCo): Sarcastically (or maybe not so much) referred to as the only day of the year students show any school spirit. Attend the football game and then head to outdoor parties during the day.

MERT(ed): The Medical Emergency Response Team — an official group of student EMTs who take emergency calls on campus. To be MERTed is to require emergency help from this team.

Sceney: A term used to refer to Penn students who are in on the “scene.” For instance, a sceney person might very regularly go to expensive dinners in Center City or attend Thursday night downtowns.

Darty: A party that is held during the day — popular during NSO, Fling, HoCo and St. Patty’s.

DFMO: Dance floor make-out.

Apes, Theos, Owls, OZ, Crows, Fiji, St. A’s, St. Elmo’s, Castle, Sammy, Pike, Phi, OAX: Greek organizations — some on-campus, some off-campus — that aren’t known by Greek letters.

SABS-ing: To “see and be seen.” There are several locales on campus where one can SABS, including the tables outside Tortas Frontera, Capogiro and Stommons.

Late Night: A party held by a fraternity after 1 or 2 a.m., for those who want to keep going.

Smokes’: Smokey Joe’s. A popular bar on 40th Street. Ambitious freshman who try to enter must pass strict bouncers.

Harvest: Located next to Smokes’, this spot is known for providing a healthy-ish meal alongside Long Island ice teas.

The ratio: The ratio of girls to guys you need to enter any given party.

Hill brunch: Held in Hill College House from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sundays. With a smorgasbord of brunch options, it is widely known as one of the best ways to use a meal swipe.

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Frogro: Fresh Grocer. The only almost-on-campus grocery store, located at 40th and Walnut.

OCR: On-campus recruiting. Wharton students will sprint down Locust in suits and tweed skirts to get a position for after graduation at a reputable company.

SWUG: Senior Washed-Up Girl. A girl in her last year who is just over it.

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The Quakers lost their best player to graduation before the 2015 season, and lost several key players to injury once the season got underway. Penn scored a paltry five goals over its seven Ivy League games and allowed a league-high 14.

That bad combination led to a 1-5-1 Ivy record and a seventh-place finish.

Senior forward Alec Neumann and his supporting cast will need to be healthy for Penn to get back to its title-winning ways of 2013.

Under new coach Nicole Van Dyke, Penn was quiet on offense in 2015, scoring three goals in seven Ivy League games. But thanks to a stingy defense that allowed just five goals against Ancient Eight foes, the Quakers finished fifth in the league with a record of 1-2-4. The Red and Blue will need to score more in 2016, however, after the graduations of star goalie Kalijah Terilli and defender Caroline Dwyer. The scoring boost might come from sophomore Sasha Stephens, who returns to lead the offense after an impressive rookie year.

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The Red and Blue built on a 4-3 season in 2014 with an unforeseen title charge last year.

The penultimate game of the season was a championship-decider against Army West Point. The Quakers lost in a double-overtime thriller, giving the CSFL title to Army. However, a 5-2 finish to the season provided hope for the 2016 season. The team will begin its year, led on offense

by Mike McCurdy, with its second game being a much-anticipated rematch of last year's title-decider against Army on Sept. 23.

After a disappointing 2014 season, the Quakers broke out in 2015, coming within one goal of winning a share of the league title for the first time since 2004. The team lost the de facto championship in overtime against Princeton, but they will look to build on last year's 5-2 Ivy record, and with superstar attack Alexa Hoover returning for a third year, the Red and Blue might end their title drought in 2016.

VOLLEYBALL The Quakers had their highs and lows in 2015, getting off to a good start, suffering from a five-game losing streak, then winning four of the final five games to finish at 7-7 in the Ivy League. The team was led by five senior captains, including two prolific "killers" in Alexis Genske and Alex Caldwell. The 2016 team will look a whole lot different, with no seniors.

Juniors Kendall Covington and Sydney Morton have stepped up to fill the role of captain, but if the Red and Blue want to top .500, it will need to be a total team effort.

CROSS COUNTRY The Red and Blue had a strong 2015 season and a strong performance at the Ivy League championships. Led by overall winner Tommy Awad, the men's team finished in second place — Penn's best showing since 1973. The women finished fifth and will return most of their key runners, including seniors Ashley Montgomery and the Whiting twins.

Awad has graduated, but seniors Brendan Shearn and Nick Tuck are back for one more year, setting the entire program up for a solid showing in 2016.

FOOTBALL Ray Priore stepped into his new role as head coach in 2015 to great aplomb, winning Coach of the Year honors while leading the Red and Blue to a share of the Ivy League title. The team's defense will miss the graduated 2015 Defensive Player of the Year Tyler Drake, but its high-scoring offense should be fine with senior quarterback Alek Torgersen and junior receiver Justin Watson. 2015 was full of miracles — including a 90-yard fumble return and a season-saving blocked field goal — but Penn football enters 2016 as a favorite to win the title.

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Coming off of winning a share of the Ivy title in 2015, Penn football was predicted to finish second in the Ancient Eight preseason media poll this year, trailing only Harvard.

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After losing only a handful of offensive starters to graduation – and even fewer on defense – expectations are high for Coach Ray Priore’s squad. “Programs that have had a great deal of success like we’ve had, those guys understand the rhythm and culture we have that it’s next man up to take the reins and lead,�

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Penn men’s basketball unveiled its 2016-17 schedule on Monday, one which will look quite a bit different than in previous years.

The 27-game schedule features 13 games at the Palestra, including the standard seven versus Ivy opponents. The season will open on the road at Robert Morris on Nov. 11 and conclude with a showdown with Harvard at the Palestra March 4.

“I am very pleased with how our schedule came together for this season,” second-year coach Steve Donahue said in a statement. “A challenging nonconference schedule will provide us with tremendous opportunities to make some noise this season.”

Notably, the Quakers’ final game of the regular season will be against an opponent other than Princeton for the first time since 1992. The arch-rivals will still

kick off their Ivy schedule against each other — on Jan. 6 at Jadwin Gym — but will play the second game earlier than usual on Feb. 7. This means that the game will be played while Penn students are on campus rather than away for spring break, as had been the case in recent years.

“I think my favorite part about the schedule is that, for the first time in seven years, we will play Princeton at home while classes are in session,” Donahue said. “It is vitally important to me that our students get to experience one of the best rivalries in all of college sports.”

“I’m excited to be able to see an in-conference game that will hopefully garner the same full house and enthusiasm of a Big 5 matchup,” College junior and basketball fan Jack Becker said.

The other must-see game at the Palestra this season will be the home opener on Nov. 29 versus defending NCAA champion Villanova. The Quakers’ Big 5 rivals were victorious in the teams’ 2015-16 meeting, beating Penn 77-57 en route to a 35-win

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In other Big 5 action, St. Joseph’s will visit the Palestra on Jan. 21, while the Red and Blue will travel to face Temple on Dec. 3 and La Salle on Jan. 25.

The Quakers will make two swings through the state of Florida, squaring off against Miami on Nov. 19 in the second game of the season before returning for a tilt in Orlando versus Central Florida on Dec. 12. The Quakers and Knights have faced off just once before, an 81-64 UCF win in December of 2008.

As an interesting footnote, the Palestra will play host to Big Ten action this season when Michigan State and Penn State face off on Jan. 7. The Spartans, after winning their conference championship a season ago, were promptly dispatched in the first round of March Madness by 15seed Middle Tennessee State. The Nittany Lions, the game’s home team, are coming off a middling 16-16 season in which they finished tenth in the conference.

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Every year in college athletics brings about the inevitable loss of graduated senior and star athletes, with the next year’s group of veterans responsible for picking up where the previous group left off.

Track and field, however, has had to do a even more rebuilding than usual.

The program’s greatest team

in recent memory lost NCAA All-Americans Sam Mattis and Tommy Awad — as well as other star athletes — but perhaps the most notable loss came from the coaching staff that vaulted the team up to its relative success on the Ivy League and national stages in 2016.

Penn’s throwing coach of 30 years, Tony Tenisci, announced his retirement last year after decades of building up nationally competitive throwers, even the most recent of whom make his work look remarkable — 2016 graduates Mattis and Kelsey Hay, as well as senior Noah

Kennedy-White, all reached their heights under his tutelage.

Two other coaching staffers also resigned following the spring semester: long sprints and middle distance coach Robin Martin and assistance distance coach and Director of Operations Claire Hewitt.

To replace Tenisci, track and field head coach Steve Dolan has brought in a local man to fill the role. “We have three excellent new coaches joining our staff, the first of which is Jeff Pflaumbaum. Tony Tenisci retired after 30 years of coaching here

at Penn, so coach Pflaumbaum will join us. He has been most recently the throwing coach at Lehigh University, and certainly has a great background in Philadelphia,� Dolan said of the new coach, who also worked at Temple in the past.

Pf laumbaum’s immediate task will be to get the best out of discus thrower Kennedy-White, the thrower most likely to be an All-American performer in 2017.

More interesting to monitor, however, will be the development of younger athletes in the next two or three years after his methods have truly sunken in.

The second new coach to come to the team over the summer is Juli Benson, who will be working directly with Dolan on the distance running squad. Benson coached most recently at the Air Force Academy, whose cross country team won the Mountain West Conference title in 2015.

And with the women’s team — according to coach Dolan — poised to have their best year in recent memory, she hopes only to add on to that momentum. "[The women] aren’t back yet, they’re coming in a couple days,� Benson said. “That’s the part I can’t wait for. I’m counting

the days, I get to meet them in a couple days, and I’m looking forward to it.�

Dolan’s third and final hire of the off-season was J.J. Hunter, a sprinting and hurdling coach whose most recent experience was at the University of Miami.

The Canes’ track team had their best year of performance in 2015 since they joined the ACC. Hunter will work alongside current sprint coach Porscha Dobson in an attempt to kickstart the short-distance part of the squad for the 2016-17 season.

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o, Penn State is a much less prestigious school four hours away.”

I decided early on that it would be rude to say this, so by the time I got set to leave home for the University of Pennsylvania — where thousands of scholarly individuals, probably including you, are arriving this week for the first time as new students — I had taken to addressing the frequent mix-up with a friendlybut-often-awkward “No, Penn State is the one with, like, the sports.”

But that’s not entirely true.

Here at the University of Pennsylvania, we have 31 varsity sports teams. And here at the Daily Pennsylvanian we, and hopefully some of you, will cover each and every one of them.

Why? Partially because the

teams are better than most incoming freshmen tend to realize.

Several of our squads, including Penn football, won Ivy League titles last year, and many of them made noise on the national level as well. The women’s basketball team put a serious March Madness scare into an opponent that would go on to reach the Final Four. The men’s team will look to get back on the big stage themselves, and they’ll do it behind a coach that brought another Ivy League team to the Sweet Sixteen a few years back. Our men’s fencing team was ranked No. 1 in the nation at times last season, and our women’s squash squad came within one set of a national championship. Our swimming team boasted a national champion in the mile, and our track & field team saw one student throw a disc farther than anybody — student or professional — on the planet had in 2016.

But success is just a small part of why we cover Penn’s teams, as are the teams themselves. More importantly than the teams, we cover the athletes.

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“The Throwing of the Toast” at Penn football games is a tradition that has endured since the late 1970s when alcohol at games was banned.

Why? Because those athletes are first and foremost students, just like you. When you move into your freshman hall, you’ll find at least one. In class, you’ll find several athletes, from different teams. And sure, they’ll probably all sit together; even the ones that aren’t teammates still find common ground because

they appreciate the hard work, countless hours, competitive spirit, talent and pursuit of perfection that go into being an athlete at a Division I school, whether one rides the bench or starts every game.

We cover the results of those games, and the performances of the students serving as athletes

in those games. We do this for those who care about the results and performances, which is definitely a minority of the student body, which is why we will strive to keep scores and statistics from making up anything near a majority of our coverage.

Instead, we’ll focus on covering the stories created by the students and their coaches. On the field, how will a younger player approach the task of replacing the superstar who graduated the year before? Off the field, how — and why — are some of the athletes starting a unicycling club, or bringing back the sneakers-on-wheels that were all the rage during the “Heelys” craze of 2003? What is life like for the players on a “sprint” football team where the maximum permitted weight is 172 pounds?

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season and still be one of the most important contributors on a championship-winning team?

How can the football team help save hundreds, if not thousands of lives, all by using a cotton swab?

Hopefully, you will go to the games and let the athletes (some of whom may become your closest friends in the coming weeks, months and years) show you their abilities. But if you don’t care about that — especially, perhaps, if you don’t care about that — read our paper, and, as you spend the next four years on the same campus as these student-athletes, let us tell you their stories.

TOMMY ROTHMAN is a College junior from New York, N.Y. and is a sports editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at rothman@thedp.com.

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