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After $80 million of renovations, Hill has reopened The college house will feature AC and 35 lounges CHRIS DOYLE Staff Reporter

For the entirety of the past school year, Hill College House was closed for construction.

Now, after 15 months and $80 million worth of renovations, 500 freshmen will be moving into the newly renovated facility.

The modernized Hill — which was originally built in 1960 as a women's dormitory — was designed by a team from a New Jersey company called Mills + Schnoering Architects.

The company has also renovated Princeton University's Nassau

Hall and the Statue of Liberty.

The new building includes a redesigned dining hall, more individualized study spaces and an overhaul of building operations that make Hill more environmentally friendly. However, the one change that University Architect David Hollenberg called "the major intervention" was the addition of air conditioning. "[Installing air conditioning] was really a challenge that had not been met multiple other times throughout the last few decades," Hollenberg said. "It was a great accomplishment by the design team."

Individual student rooms will now get air conditioning via valence units lining the ceiling

and room-specific thermostats.

Meanwhile, main rooms, such as the entrance lobby and dining hall, will be air conditioned by a series of ducts that run throughout part of the building.

"Students expect, and usually get, air conditioning in their dorms," Michael Mills, partner at Mills + Schnoering Architects, said. "And since Hill had never had it, it was time to do it."

Another big feature is the redesigned dining hall, which consists of several "mini-kitchens" that offer a variety of food.

Hill staff hope the new layout will allow them to better cater to vegans and vegetarians.

Mills described the layout of the dining hall "as islands

with different things going on." He added that there'll be a pizza place, Mongolian grill and ice cream stand, which will be clearly marked to facilitate more efficient self-service.

Every weeknight, at least one station will remain open from 9 p.m. to midnight so students can get a late-night snack.

The renovation also included additional private areas, both for recreational and study purposes.

The dining hall includes a 1,810-square-foot private area, where lunches and meetings can be held. There will also be two large rooms overlooking the dining area - one for recreation and one for studying.

The recreation room, which

Mills calls Hill's "Grand Central Station," has a public kitchen, pool tables and flatscreen televisions. The study room is equipped with furniture, tables and several group study rooms with laptop-compatible presentation monitors.

Hill also offers more individualized study spaces. There are 19 atrium lounges and 17 corridor lounges in the entire facility, which Hollenberg described as examples of the "smart design interventions" that he anticipates will make Hill one of the most social college houses on Penn's campus.

Other notable renovations include LED lighting, a restoration of Hill's courtyards and bridge entrance, a new elevator

and expanded bathrooms, which will fit several individual restrooms and showers.

Many of the renovations incorporate environmentally sustainable features. The building will have refurbished windows and walls, dorm room thermostats, improved ventilation and high-performance plumbing to increase energy efficiency.

They'll also have high-performance, low-flow toilets and showers that will reduce water usage by 35 percent.

"It was time to renew [Hill] and make it state-of-the-arts for students today, make it comfortable, make it safe, make it environmentally comfortable," Mills said. "So that's what the project was really about."

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The newly renovated Hill College House features a completely redesigned dining hall including a 1,810-square-foot private area. The recreation room, referred to as “Grand Central Station” by Hill’s architect, features pool tables, flatscreen televisions and a public kitchen. Many renovations were made with the environment in mind: including energy-efficient thermostats, ventilation and plumbing.

NSO adds program for first-generation, low-income students

Some FGLI students came a day early for targeted events KATIE BONTJE Staff Reporter

Arguably one of the most highly-anticipated events of

freshman year, New Student Orientation is also one of the most meticulously planned.

And 2017's NSO itinerary is no exception.

"They've got it pretty much down to a science," said College junior Michael Krone, who

is one of the student leaders of Peers Helping Incoming New Students or PHINS, who help to plan and execute the NSO program.

PHINS Exchange Coordinator and College junior Natasha Allen explained that while the

foundation of this year's NSO schedule remains the same, there are some minor changes and additions to the program.

For the first time, first-generation low-income students will participate in their own program, which will be conducted in collaboration with the Greenfield Intercultural Center, Penn FIRST, and other groups.

FGLI students will move in a day early and take part in events designed for bonding.

"The purpose of the program is to make sure FGLI students are provided with an opportunity to get acclimated to campus life because they may not be afforded the same opportunities that many students might have," Krone said.

The Penn Reading Project has also been modified. In previous years, professors took charge of facilitating group discussions for PRP, but since

professors occasionally failed to show up on time, Allen said PHINS student leaders will take on a larger role in facilitating these conversations.

Another change is that this year's assigned text, "The Innovators" by Walter Isaacson, is available online as an ebook through a program called Grose. This allows students to highlight and annotate the novel as well as post discussions online.

"I think that the discussions are a really great place for students to have a discourse in an academic setting at a college level," Krone said. "[The discussions are] a great way to start that, especially since a lot of students will be taking writing seminars their first semester."

Krone said the ideal choice for PRP is a text that is engaging, and which encapsulates the

theme without being too long for a summer read.

But according to some members of the Class of 2021, this year's assignment might have missed the mark.

"I have only met one person who actually read the whole book," College freshman Tise Ben-Eka said.

Every year, coordinators of NSO try to find places for advocacy groups eager to be part of the NSO schedule, Krone said.

NSO Director and English professor David Fox echoed that sentiment, noting that a shortcoming of last year's NSO was that it was so "jampacked."

"My hope is always that students find it exciting and not too overwhelming," Fox said.

"And every year, we ask ourselves what we can do better next time."

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Penn aims to register off-campus group events The U.’s implementation plan remains unclear ESHA INDANI Deputy News Editor

Penn is pursuing a new policy towards off-campus organizations, though it's not clear how the University intends to ensure that these organizations will comply with their new proposals.

In an email sent Aug. 17, the University announced that it will begin to enforce the duties of its recentlyformed task force on off-campus organizations during the coming academic year. The email was signed off by Vice Provost for University Life Valarie Swain-Cade McCoullum and Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush.

Some of the proposals outlined by the task force include calling on off-campus groups to provide contact information of its members and register their events. In a joint statement sent to The Daily Pennsylvanian, McCoullum and Rush did not respond to questions on how the task force planned to identify off-campus groups or implementing punitive measures for groups that don't cooperate.

Officially titled "Task Force on a Safe and Responsible Campus Community," this task force was formed following an email sent by

off-campus organization OZ inviting freshman girls via a suggestive poem to the one of the group's "Wild Wednesdays" parties during New Student Orientation last year.

Students from the activist group "We are Watching," called attention to the email by printing it on flyers, which they spread around campus. The group condemned OZ for perpetuating Penn's rape culture, prompting the University administration to set up a task force dedicated to tackling issues surrounding off-campus fraternities.

The task force, headed by McCoullum, Rush and Vice Provost for Education Beth Winkelstein, spent last semester working with students to put together a list of "Task Force recommendations" that form the basis of the measures that will be put into effect this year.

The email warned students that the measures being implemented are likely to have an impact on offcampus organizations and their members, and added that some oncampus groups are also likely to be affected by their new initiatives.

The task force aims to hold students accountable for their actions through the Office of Student Conduct. "Students recommended that the University hold them and organizations accountable through the Office of Student Conduct," the statement read. "We concurred, as

the Office of Student Conduct is responsible for determining sanctions for alleged student conduct policy violations by groups and individuals."

The email was only addressed to rising sophomores, juniors and seniors. Incoming freshman will be notified of the task force and its policies during NSO, McCollum and Rush said in the joint statement.

The email said the task force sees off-campus organizations as operating similarly to affiliated Greek organizations: having the same processes of rush, pledging and parties, but without any level of regulation.

The task force aims to enhance coordination between the University and off-campus groups by requiring identified off-campus groups to annually provide contact details to the Office of Student Affairs.

Additionally, the University "expects" all student groups, off-campus and recognized and registered on-campus groups, to register any event with alcohol with the Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Program Initiatives."Doing so helps students manage risk and maintain guests' safety, as registered events require hosts to hire bartenders and security," the email said.

Affiliated student groups have been required by the Alcohol and Other Drug Program Initiatives to register any and all social events

with the University since 19992000, but this is the first that this regulation has been extended to offcampus groups.

The task force is also expanding its team of alcohol monitors, which will now be referred to as event observers, in order to facilitate their monitoring of registered events as well as their reporting of suspected unregistered events.

Event observers are to collaborate closely with Penn Police and the student-run Medical Emergency

Response Team. Event observers are a University-appointed group of individuals who are present at registered parties to ensure that University policy is being followed in all registered events.

The University aims to have observers roam in pairs around areas encompassing University-owned housing and non-University-owned housing. Host organizations will also be required to provide sober hosts in a ratio of 1-to-30 expected guests on campus locations and

1-to-50 expected guests for events at third-party venues such as bars and restaurants.

McCollum and Rush said the task force is still in its developmental phase and that they aim to continue working with undergraduate students to understand and enforce what is expected from the task force.

"In the coming months, we will continue to discuss these expectations to all undergraduate students, including those in identified off-campus groups," McCollum and Rush said.

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OPINION

One Penn experience isn’t enough; try others on for size LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT

WEDNESDAY AUGUST 23 — MONDAY AUGUST 28, 2017 VOL. CXXXIII, NO. 64 133rd Year of Publication CARTER COUDRIET President DAN SPINELLI Executive Editor LUCIEN WANG Print Director ALEX GRAVES Digital Director ALESSANDRO VAN DEN BRINK Opinion Editor REBECCA TAN Senior News Editor WILL SNOW Senior Sports Editor CHRIS MURACCA Design Editor CAMILLE RAPAY Design Editor JULIA SCHORR Design Editor LUCY FERRY Design Editor

There are approximately 25,000 undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania.

We are joined in this Penn community by about 4,700 standing and associated faculty and almost 2,500 academic support staff. And yet, we in the Penn community far too often think only of the few hundred Quakers with whom we interact most often.

With thousands of new students embarking on their Penn journeys this week, our university is getting thousands of stories deeper.

The best advice I can give anybody this year is to hear out as many of those stories as possible.

Campus life at Penn presents a healthy abundance of viewpoints and perspectives. When my friends at home ask me to describe what a typical Quaker is like, it is legitimately impossible to provide a good answer, which at times is a

very good thing. First-year students should be enthusiastically ready to have their beliefs challenged. Parents and guardians should expect their kids to return home as wiser people, probably with some new answers to life’s questions.

The only way to arrive at those answers is by continually asking those questions to as many people as possible. The best way to become a strong, intelligent and adaptable member of any society is by actively engaging with said society.

Put differently, if we want to get the most out of Penn, we need to care to learn about parts of this community with which we aren’t intimately involved.

I have found this mentality to be challenging on multiple fronts. This last year has seen increased coverage of free speech incidents on campuses nationwide, as political polarity, racial tensions and other divides

make open, well-intentioned debate harder to come by.

Additionally, college life – particularly in a setting as intense as Penn’s can often be – is inherently overwhelming, making it difficult to engage with campus issues that are not on the forefront of every person’s

the payoff for being a good citizen of Penn is mountainous: I firmly believe that the most engaged students have the best chance to make the Quaker experience a better one, which needs to be a top priority for each of us.

I see my fellow Quakers do this every day. Student

… if we want to get the most out of Penn, we need to care to learn about parts of this community with which we aren’t intimately involved.” mind, such as financial aid policy or the availability of mental health resources.

Being open and active members of any community is tough and is perhaps made tougher in a fastpaced place like this. Yet

leaders can actually create tangible change at this school, like working to reduce the extra costs of some courses and pushing the University to hire its first chief diversity officer. We at The Daily Pennsylvanian,

34th Street Magazine and Under The Button strive to be a part of this mission as well, and we work to impact our community every day by informing our readers and holding our leaders accountable.

Every member of this community is endowed with some degree of privilege simply by being connected to a renowned and excellent institution like Penn. This privilege, however, is also a mandate, one that requires us to use this awesome opportunity to make our lives and others’ lives better.

We can only make others’ lives better if we are aware of what others’ answers to our questions are, so I charge you, a member of our Penn community, to step outside your comfort zone as often as possible this year. Delve deeply into something you know nothing about. Read about the incredible work that the people around you do, and make sure that your

CARTER COUDRIET administration, your student government, your peers and — quite importantly — your campus media is doing right by you.

That’s really the only advice I have, other than calling your parents or guardians every once in a while.

Welcome to Penn; now start asking some questions.

CARTER COUDRIET is a College senior from Franklin Park, N.J., studying political science. His email address is coudriet@ thedp.com. He is the president of the 133rd board of The Daily Pennsylvanian.

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My first reaction to the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division's recent decision to investigate Harvard University's undergraduate admissions process to determine if it discriminated against Asian Americans was to laugh. "Look at these special snowflakes," I chuckled, “so frustrated about their Harvard rejections that they sued.”

While suffering through the pain of churning out application essay after application essay, and then enduring the seemingly incessant waiting period before D-Day, it is easy to get so carried away with the college process that you begin to see a false reality — name one person who didn't. Artificial senses of entitlement and hope begin to develop, as does the hyperaware feeling that every applicant is trying to personally push you out of the way of achieving your shining dream: Penn (or substitute the name of some other institution). Therefore, on the surface, this article seemed like an archetypal tale of students stuck in their warped entitled worlds, upset they didn't snag a spot in their dream school.

But then I looked deeper into the complaints in the article and dove into the statistics.

There is strong evidence of racial discrimination against Asian Americans when it comes to the college admissions process. A 2015 Daily Pennsylvanian article cited a Princeton University study that found SAT scores of AsianAmerican applicants were reduced by 50 points while other minorities were awarded points. The same article further reported that 18.7 percent of Penn undergraduates identified as Asian-American or Pacific Islander in 2013, a number similar to the Wall Street Journal's breakdown of the class of 2021 at Harvard and other Ivy League schools.

While Asian Americans have made up roughly 20 percent of the classes within the Ivy League for the past decade, this group surpassed 30 percent in California public universities such as Universities of California at Berkeley and Los Angeles, which do not use race as an admissions factor by law.

Similarly, the Asian-American percentage of California Institute of Technology’s class, a private institution that chose not to consider race in admissions, exceeded 40 percent, according to both the Wall Street Journal and the DP. These numbers can't be pure

coincidence. It is likely that there is a systemic problem causing these discrepancies between California universities and many schools across the nation, including the Ivies.

The prime suspect: affirmative action.

Affirmative action was conceived a half century ago to help rectify two things: the racial injustices of slavery and Jim Crow, and the negative socioeconomic impacts of in-

the original intention of affirmative action was to compensate for past wrongs against a plethora of races and religions, then how is this same policy now penalizing a race because of its members' stereotyped high achievements?

The purpose of affirmative action is in the name: affirmative, and not punitive, action to better create equal educational and commercial opportunity. I wholeheartedly support poli-

… we need to make sure that well-intentioned policies like affirmative action do not evolve into something unproductive, or worse, antagonistic.” stitutionalized racism on minorities. While the injustices committed against African Americans are particularly severe, injustices were committed against other races as well, for example during the Zoot Suit Riots and Japanese internment during World War II. If

cies that promote both equal opportunity and campus diversity, as I believe it is a crucial part of any education to learn from people with different experiences and backgrounds.

And I agree, as President Lyndon Johnson said, that "[y]ou do not take a man who

for years has been hobbled by chains, liberate him, bring him to the starting line of a race, saying, 'you are free to compete with all the others,' and still justly believe you have been completely fair." However, like any law, just because I support it doesn't mean there isn't room for improvement.

Affirmative action policies have thus morphed into a type of benign discrimination all in the name of fostering campus diversity. In malignant discrimination, a racial group is isolated and branded as inferior and accordingly punished; yet affirmative action has isolated and branded Asian Americans as academically superior and, instead of rewarding such behavior, imposed a penalty to ensure that a certain cocktail of students mix. Not only does this logically make zero sense — the college process is supposed to reward, not penalize, academic achievement — but this is evidence of an inversion of moral standards.

Yes, the college admissions process is over for us lucky Penn students — thank goodness for that. However, college admissions is not the only area where affirmative action is a factor. Whether it is through competing for internships,

JACQUELYN SUSSMAN research positions, graduate programs or jobs, institutions should always be mindful to have a diverse pool of students or employees.

It is easy to be blind to injustices during a process as stressful as applying to college, but it is essential that we always keep our eyes open. Especially today, when a malaise quells critical debates across the nation's campuses — within both conservative and liberal camps of thought — we need to make sure that well-intentioned policies like affirmative action do not evolve into something unproductive, or worse, antagonistic.

JACKIE SUSSMAN is a College freshman from Westport, Conn. Her email address is jasuss@sas.upenn.edu. “The Objectivist” usually appears every other Wednesday.

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Penn stands by existing affirmative action policy The Trump administration has attacked racial quotas HARRY TRUSTMAN Staff Reporter

group for Penn students who either are the first generation in their families to attend college or come from a low-income background. Posadas said she supports affirmative action policies because many students accepted through these programs come from underprivileged backgrounds who have worked hard to overcome their "personal boundaries."

Critics of affirmative action such as the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia have cited statistics that indicate that some minority students are admitted to elite institutions with lower SAT scores. A 2015 Princeton University study

Despite the recent announcement from the Trump administration suggesting that affirmative action in college admissions may be discriminatory against white and Asian applicants, Penn's administration remains steadfast in its "strong commitment to diversity," University spokesperson Stephen MacCarthy said.

"An inclusive student body greatly enhances the educational experience for all students and better prepares them to succeed in an increasingly complex world," MacCarthy wrote in the statement. "We believe our current policies and practices are fully within Supreme Court guidelines."

The 2016 landmark Supreme Court case Fisher v. University of Texas held that a race-conscious admissions process was lawful under the Equal - Kathryn Wang Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

But under the Trump adminis- found Asian applicants were tration, the Justice Department held to a higher standard by has planned to investigate a admissions officers, effectively complaint filed in 2015 by 64 losing 50 points on their SAT. Asian-American groups against Posadas, however, insists Harvard University that claims that an applicant's scores must Harvard's admissions policies be evaluated relative to their include the institution of "Asian background. Students from disquotas." advantaged backgrounds whose The Penn Admissions Office scores may be lower than their declined to comment. more privileged peers should College sophomore Nicole not be barred from admission.

Posadas is the communications "We all believe we have chair of Penn First, a student earned our spots, just like every

Penn student," Posadas said.

Wharton sophomore Kathryn Wang, the vice chair of communications for the Asian Pacific Student Coalition, said she wasn't convinced of the sincerity of white conservatives who say they oppose affirmative action due to potential discrimination against Asian people.

"Asian Americans are being used as a shield or a proxy for these conservative, traditional white Trump supporters," Wang said. "Saying that Asian Americans are being discriminated against is largely a strategy for these groups to twist the policies to help them."

Wang added that she thinks conservatives who claim to be concerned about AsianAmerican discrimination should focus on a wider range of issues that the Asian-American community currently faces, beyond potential discrimination in college admissions.

One example she cited is the "bamboo ceiling," which refers to the lack of Asian Americans in leadership roles in corporate America.

Wang also pointed to the lack of representation of Pacific Islanders, such as Samoans, as well as Southeast Asians on elite college campuses as indicative that affirmative action is still important for the AsianAmerican community.

"The idea that Asian Americans have really high access to educational resources isn't entirely true," Wang said. "Affirmative action is still necessary for these specific Asian-American groups."

Asian Americans are being used as a shield or a proxy for these conservative, traditional white Trump supporters,”

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How Penn Residential Services prepares for move-in Staff prepare for move-in over a year in advance KELLY HEINZERLING Staff Reporter

Anxious freshmen clustering on the sidewalk outside the Quad as move-in staff load their suitcases and boxes into one of the 1,200 bright blue and red wheeled carts — this is a scene many upperclassmen will

remember as one of their first moments at Penn and also one that will occur all over campus this week.

But what work actually goes into move-in? For Penn Residential Services, it's a large operation that they plan for throughout the year.

"The scope of thought that goes into planning our move in is very high," Associate Director of Operations Dennis Daly

said. "I start sending out calendar invites for move-in 2018 in the first couple weeks of September."

While the University is responsible for setting the dates for move-in, it is up to Penn Residential Services to work out the logistics. They're in charge of gathering volunteers, setting up move-in times and creating parking and drop-off plans.

The move-in process relies heavily on its strong team of volunteers and organizers. This year, 115 student volunteers and 30 paid student coordinators were selected from Residential Services' application and interview process. An outside move-in company, University Student Services, helps the student team with employees that

manage traffic and help unload cars.

"They do all the same things that a move-in company would do," Daly said. "Just because we can't necessarily have students out there directing traffic."

Upperclassman leaders in Penn Helping Incoming New Students, which organizes NSO events, help out in the move-in process as well, along with many athletic teams, which often ask members on campus to help out.

"It's really exciting to go into the Quad and see all the different kinds of rooms because everything has a totally different layout," said College senior Lauren Murski, a member of Penn Swimming and Diving who helped students move in during her sophomore and junior

years. Murski estimated that about a third of the team shows up to move in and are typically stationed at the lower Quad, which can be difficult due to the lack of elevators. "[I volunteered] to provide people coming for the first time to Penn a smiling face, and let them know that this is an amazing university," College junior and student volunteer Luis Rosario said. "I wanted to be that person for people coming to campus this semester."

There are also services on campus to help upperclassmen move in, but Daly said they're not as comprehensive because many upperclassmen don't actually move in on the official move-in day. Instead, they often sign up to move in early to see

friends or wait to move in until after classes start.

Residential Services relies on student feedback to tweak move in year to year. After receiving negative feedback about the cardboard boxes which used to be used for move-in, Penn Residential Services switched last year to the red and blue rolling carts, Daly said.

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Class of 2021 yield falls below last year’s record

The yield rate dipped to “just over 67 percent” HARRY TRUSTMAN Staff Reporter

The admissions process for the Class of 2021 was the most selective in Penn’s history. But after a record-breaking 68 to 69 percent for last year’s freshman class, the Class of 2021’s yield rate fell short.

The yield rate measures the percentage of students who come to Penn after they have been offered a position. This year, the yield rate for the Class of 2021 dipped to just over 67 percent of students. Assuming that all students in the early decision pool accepted their binding offer of admission, the regular decision yield rate would be approximately 48 percent.

When compared to the yield rates of the rest of the Ivy League, Penn is around the middle of the pack.

Penn’s overall yield rate is lower than Harvard University’s 84 percent and Yale University’s 71.4 percent, but higher than Princeton University’s 66.6 percent and Dartmouth College’s 61 percent. Brown University, Columbia University and Cornell University have not yet released their yield rates.

Some of Penn’s other peer institutions recorded high yield rates as well.

These included Stanford University at 82 percent and Georgetown University at 49 percent.

Harvard, Yale, Prince t o n , St a n fo r d a n d G eorgetow n a l l have

non-binding Ea rly Action policies as opposed to Penn’s Early Decision program. Brian Taylor, the managing director of the college counseling service Ivy Coach, said he believes that Penn uses the Early

Decision program to inflate its yield rate, but that “they have every right to do so.”

“That’s why Early Decision exists,” Taylor said. “To admit students who 100 percent will come, who love that school.”

Taylor added that Penn, like many of its peer institutions, is highly skilled at manipulating the yield rate.

“Every school is trying to manipulate the yield rate,” Taylor said. “Penn does it better than most.”

Class of 2021 Yield Rates (%) Taylor also noted that Penn’s application is particula rly conducive to producing a higher yield rate, citing Penn’s supplemental application essay asking students to explain why they chose Penn.

Taylor said this question is designed to increase Penn’s yield rate.

“They want to see that you’re not going to write, ‘I want to go to Penn because Ben Fra n k lin founded it, and they offer Chris Muracca | Design Editor a great liberal arts education,’” Taylor said. “They

want to see that every sentence of that essay is specific to Penn.”

There are, however, some cases where universities with higher acceptance rates also produce higher yield rates.

Brigham Young University, a private Mormon school in Utah, accepts roughly half of their applicants each year, yet regularly has a yield rate rivaling Harvard’s. Taylor explained that this is because the yield rate doesn’t necessarily measure the selectivity of an institution, but to what degree applicants would choose one school over any other to which they were accepted.

In an emailed statement, Dean of Admissions Eric Furda said the “admissions data is not finalized until after the start of classes,” so the figure of 67 percent may change in the fall.

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Penn condemns white nationalist rally held in Charlottesville Gutmann described their bigotry as ‘deeply abhorrent’ REBECCA TAN Senior News Editor

Violent protests by white nationalists in Charlottesville, Va. over the weekend of Aug. 12 have ignited outrage and condemnation from across the country, including at Penn.

On that day, hundreds of white nationalists gathered for a “Unite the Right” rally, partly to oppose the planned removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee from a park in Charlottesville. Violence quickly erupted when they were met with counterprotesters and a white supremist rammed a car into a group of counterprotesters, killing one person and injuring nine.

Two state troopers also died on Aug. 12 after a helicopter carrying two Virginia State Police troopers crashed and burned “on the outskirts of the University of Virginia campus,” according to a report in The New York Times.

Penn President Amy Gutmann released a statement on Aug. 13 stating that the the “racism, anti-Semitism, and other bigotry” from the white supremacist groups is “deeply abhorrent,” adding, “The hatred espoused is inimical to any decent society and anathema to the most fundamental ideals of our University.”

In a guest column published by The Daily Pennsylvanian, Dean of Penn Law School Ted Ruger echoed Gutmann’s statement and said he was “shocked and saddened” by the “deadly, violent events in Charlottesville.”

Three residential advisors and graduate associates in Rodin College House have also released a statement writing that they “stand in support of the students at the University of Virginia who bravely and publicly stood up against white nationalists.” One of the three students, rising senior Nayab Khan, said that they also organized more

than 100 residential advisors and graduate associates to take a solidarity photo in support of the Virginia students.

The statement ended by calling on the Penn administration to implement measures that protect Penn students from facing a similar experience.

“As RAGAs, we urge the University of Pennsylvania administration to develop protocol to keep students safe in the event that groups such as neo-Nazis, KKK, or other white supremacist groups target our community.”

Notable Penn alumni have also spoken out. Musician John Legend, a 1999 College graduate, responded to a tweet about the protests by Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) by calling on Ryan to “impeach the white supremacist in the White House.”

“We have nazi sympathizers and white nationalists in the White House. Condemn them too. They should not be receiving taxpayer money,” Legend added in a second tweet.

President Donald Trump on Aug. 12 made a statement on the deadly protests, condemning “this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides — on many sides.”

His repetition of “many sides” has been interpreted by many as equating the actions of the white supremacists with counterprotesters, prompting widespread criticism and dividing supporters of the Republican Party across the country.

On Aug 14., Trump made another statement on Charlottesville that called out “the K.K.K., neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups,” but many commentators felt that this condemnation had come too late. That evening, Trump tweeted, “Made additional remarks on Charlottesville and realize once again SEE CHARLOTTESVILLE PAGE B4

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Meet College Dean Paul Sniegowski The biology professor has been a Penn faculty member for 20 years NATALIE KAHN Senior Reporter If the morning’s not rainy or snowy, odds are you can catch Paul Sniegowski riding up to Penn’s Leidy Labs on his white Trek road bicycle.

After the 15-mile journey to work, the biology professor brings the bike into his office. Sniegowski, donning biking clothes and pedal shoes, then takes a quick shower at the Leidy Labs and emerges a few minutes later in his professional attire ready to start his day.

Sneigowski has worn out three bikes since he started riding to work 15 years ago, which was five years after he first arrived at Penn as a faculty member. Over this time, he has worked as a professor, chaired the Biology Graduate Group and in July, began to serve as the new Stephen A. Levin Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.

Sniewoski enjoys biking to work for very much the same reason he likes biology: he enjoys interacting with nature.

As a professor of evolutionary biology, Sniegowski has had to handle some controversial subject matter in the classroom. Nonetheless, Karen Hogan, Sniegowski’s former teaching assistant and Ph.D. advisee, and now a lab coordinator at Penn, said the professor has always been eventempered and respectful to the occasional skeptic. “[Sniegowski] teaches something

that outwardly society thinks is controversial but inwardly, as a discipline, is not,” Hogan said. “Striking that balance when you’re doing scientific communication can be very difficult but he’s handled it well.”

Phil Gerrish, a professor at the University of New Mexico and a personal friend of Sniegowski for over 20 years, agreed that Sniegowski strikes that balance well.

“He’s what I would call a ‘real scientist,’” Gerrish said. “By that I mean he’s an exasperatingly careful thinker, and I mean that as a compliment.”

In 2011, Sniegowski’s colleagues recommended him to serve on University’s Office of Student Conduct and Office of the Sexual Violence Investigative Officer. He has been a Disciplinary Hearing Officer since then, working to ensure trials on sexual violence and student conduct proceed according to University rules.

As a professor, Sniegowski has always been welcoming to colleagues seeking advice. Biology Department Chair Brenda Casper said she would periodically stop by his office for input on administrative matters, and 2015 Philosophy Ph.D. graduate Emily Parke said she used to come by to pick his brains on various intellectual topics, often staying for over an hour.

And there’s a reason why Sniegowski’s office is always so

busy: the professor is approachable, said the Undergraduate Chair of the Biology Department Mecky Pohlschröder.

His pleasant disposition, she said, makes it difficult for people to have real disagreements with him. In the 20 years she has worked alongside him, she does not recall ever having any significant arguments with him. Seven other individuals close to Sniegowski echoed this sentiment.

“I wish I had a little dirt,” Hogan joked.

Sniegowski’s Ph.D. advisor and later colleague Brian Charlesworth said his former student is easy to get along with because of his strong sense of humor. He even remembers Sniegowski sending him a clipping from a Michigan newspaper of cows’ farts blowing up a nearby barn.

Charlesworth added that Sneigowski was one of the most popular students in his graduate program at the University of Chicago.

Charlesworth said this is because he was always friendly and empathetic.

Gerrish agreed and shared a story about a time he spent staying over Sniegowski’s house. While Gerrish watched TV, Sniegowski left to help his elderly, widowed neighbor with her yard work.

“It tells you the kind of person he is,” he said. “Just a good human being.”

American Apparel on Walnut replaced by a vintage clothing store Raxx Vintage also has a store on South Street MICHEL LIU Staff Reporter

When Penn students return to campus, they’ll no longer see the clearance signs, which seemed to have become a permanent fixture, in the windows of the American Apparel store on campus. Instead, they will see signs for a new vintage clothing store, Raxx Vintage West, which will open in its place just as school starts.

The opening of the new store comes after a long-time struggle for American Apparel to stay open. In January, American Apparel filed for bankruptcy and announced that all of its stores would close, including the one on Penn’s campus.

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Raxx Vintage, which is replacing American Apparel, offers men’s and women’s clothing from the 1960s through the 1990s, which manager Lauren Thomas said appeals to college students.

and who also runs a wholesale supplier warehouse called Bulk Vintage — has another store on South Street.

Store manager Lauren Thomas said the opportunity for Raxx Vintage to move in “just popped up about a month

ago.”

“College kids and vintage clothing kind of go together amazingly,” Saslow said. “We

already have a lot of Penn and Drexel students that come down to our store [on South Street].”

“We are great for theme parties,” she added, noting the popular demand for Hawaiian shirts, Halloween ensembles and Christmas sweaters.

Still, many students visit Saslow’s store for more than just a costume.

“We have a lot of students that – this is what they wear,” she said. “They don’t believe in fast fashion, they don’t believe in mall stores. They believe in recycling and they believe in quality goods.”

The store, which sits on 37th and Walnut streets next to Pottruck Health and Fitness Center, began its transformation during the second week of July. There was a soft-opening on Aug. 1.

Raxx Vintage offers men’s and women’s clothing from the 1960s through the 1990s,

which Thomas said appeals to college students today.

“Students are excited to get their hands on the real thing,” she said, adding that she thinks that the newfound accessibility to vintage clothing through online shopping has rekindled such interest.

Thomas noted a shift in attention from stores like American Apparel to stores with antique clothing. She said this is clear in campaigns like Urban Outfitters’ “Urban Renewal,” which offers vintage clothing but “not at the same volume” as Raxx Vintage.

Although this new store is an offshoot of the original, Thomas said that Raxx Vintage West will differ from the original store in several ways.

The space is a big factor. The location on Penn’s campus is six times the size of the South Street location, according to SEE VINTAGE PAGE B4

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Huntsman Jr. tapped as ambassador to Russia President Trump announced the appointment in July DYLAN REIM AND ALEX RABIN Social Media Editor and Senior Reporter

Jon Huntsman Jr., the former Utah governor, diplomat and 1987 College graduate, is President Donald Trump’s choice to be the next ambassador to Russia,

according to an announcement from the White House.

Huntsman is a Penn luminary whose father’s name adorns one of the most notable sites on campus: Huntsman Hall, the Wharton School’s main building. If confirmed by the Senate, he will assume one of the most politically fraught roles in Moscow — serving as Trump’s main emissary to the Kremlin as accusations of

collusion with Russia to tilt the balance of the 2016 presidential election swirl around members of Trump’s orbit.

Huntsman has previously served as ambassador to Singapore under presidents George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton and ambassador to China under President Barack Obama. In 2012, he unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for president.

On July 18, after the White House announced Trump’s intention to nominate Huntsman, various commentators pointed out how the likely ambassador’s first name was misspelled in an

initial press release.

He was identified in a header as “Governor John Huntsman Jr.” The correct spelling of Huntsman’s first name is “Jon.” The Jon/John distinction has tripped up other writers before. In an article in The New York Times from February 2011, Huntsman was referred to as “John.”

The press release stated that Huntsman, whose father is the namesake of Huntsman Hall, has had “a distinguished career as a politician, diplomat, and businessman.”

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After initially urging Republicans to rally around Trump’s candidacy once it appeared inevitable that the real estate developer would secure the party’s nomination in spring 2016, Huntsman changed course in the fall.

Once a vulgar tape of Trump appearing to brag about committing sexual assault was reported on by the Washington Post, Huntsman called on him to drop out of the race and let then-vice presidential nominee Mike Pence replace him.

At a Penn Board of Trustees meeting weeks before the presidential election, Huntsman even joked about Trump’s standing as a candidate.

“I remember sitting in this meeting 20 years ago, and the great lament was, ‘we don’t have enough Penn people running for politics at the highest level,’” he said, according to a recording of the meeting.

The trustees and assembled guests bellowed with laughter.

Trump, for his part, tweeted an attack at Huntsman during the 2012 presidential campaign, claiming that he “gave away our country to China.”

Their relationship has strengthened in recent months and “the two have maintained a cordial relationship,” according to a Politico report from March, when it was initially reported that Huntsman was the likely choice to be Trump’s ambassador to Russia.

Huntsman has a long and multifaceted history with Penn.

After studying at the University of Utah, he earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from Penn at the age of 27, having already been married with two children.

His name only appears in Penn student directories for the 19851986 and 1986-1987 academic years. While at Penn, according to former active members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints, Huntsman attended services often and completed volunteer work with his wife.

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Penn Medicine among best employers, says Forbes Forbes magazine ranked Penn Medicine seventh NATALIE KAHN Senior Reporter

Penn’s sprawling medical system, home to major scientific innovations and the largest capital expenditure in the University’s history, just added another distinction: a nomination as one of the best employers in the United States, according to Forbes magazine.

Penn Medicine placed seventh in the country on the list.

Several of Penn Medicine’s over 35,000 employees spoke to The Daily Pennsylvanian about the honor and why their workplace is one of the nation’s best.

Michael Ashburn, the director of Penn Medicine’s pain management center and an anesthesiology professor, noted the historical significance of working at the home

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“That sense of history gives people a foundation on which to try to make their own history,” he said.

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Reiss Binder described annual, “very raucous, very entertaining” brunches at her division chief’s house with the women in the oncology department.

“You feel like you’re just hanging out with a bunch of really cool ladies who happen to be absolutely, unbelievably brilliant and extraordinary scientists,” she said. “I think that was the moment for me when I went to that brunch. I was like, ‘I am part of an unbelievable group of women.’”

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Molina lauded her mentor as well, a former president of the American Heart Association who has written textbooks about heart failure.

“When I first met her, I was starstruck,” she said. “That’s probably why I have this culture of, ‘I have to strive harder,’ because I am with the best.”

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“There’s a number of opportunities,” she said. “It’s difficult not to excel in anything because the opportunities are just there.”

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The president of the College Republicans chapter at Washington State University, was identified as a participant of the rally, where white nationalist protesters waved Confederate flags and chanted slogans like, “White lives matter,” and “Jews will not replace us.”

In contrast, Penn’s chapter of College Republicans posted a resounding condemnation of the white supremacist groups on Facebook.

“There was one ‘side’ that is responsible for the violence in Charlottesville. It was the side bearing Nazi and Confederate flags and carrying torches,” they wrote. “We believe it is paramount to denounce these groups and call them for what they are — white supremacists.

We hope our elected officials will do the same.”

Thomas, with room for three changing rooms instead of just one.

Thomas said they plan on utilizing the extra space by bringing in local artists to showcase their work, “like a gallery wall exhibition.”

She added that many of Raxx’s employees are also artists, and the store invites them to display their own art.

Raxx Vintage West plans to work with local antique dealers, artists and craftspeople to sell their work in the stores.

This includes Philadelphia-centric ceramics, jewelry and home goods.

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Saslow imagined that there be “cool collectibles for dorm rooms and small apartments, neat vintage prints and barwear and home goods like glasses from the 1970s and cocktail shakers from the 1950s.”

Raxx Vintage West plans to cater their merchandise towards college students’ tastes by making it more preppy.

Saslow promised a “full wall of denim” and a lot of cool band T-shirts.

However, Thomas said the pop-up will still stay true to the Raxx aesthetic.

“We’ll keep it young, keep it funky, and keep it affordable at price points younger kids can afford.”

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Trust the process? 76ers owner Josh Harris won’t stop My conversation with the 1986 Wharton grad YOSEF WEITZMAN Sports Editor

“May I ask you a question?” Josh Harris asks me.

Suddenly my heart starts beating a little faster and my body tenses up. For the past several minutes, I had been listening to Harris, who graduated Wharton in 1986 and wrestled at Penn, explain what had pushed him to buy into the three professional sports teams he currently owns stakes in. I was ready to ask him another question, but the thought of being put on the spot by the private equity investor who Forbes estimates has a net worth of $3 billion was enough to give me some jitters. Luckily for me, Harris doesn’t skip a beat.

“Is it okay if I walk downstairs and call you back from a car?” he continues.

Phew.

“Oh yeah, no problem,” I respond.

“That would be great, just because I have to get to a meeting and it will give us a little more time,” he

answers.

I thank him for the time he’s already given me and he tells me he’ll call me right back.

Five minutes and seventeen seconds later, he does just that. This time, I don’t skip a beat. Right away I ask him the question I was thinking of earlier and we pick up the interview right where we left off.

In the moment, I didn’t think much of this little exchange. In fact, it wasn’t until I sat down a day later to listen to the interview recording that I started thinking about it again.

Who in the world was Harris going to meet, I thought.

Just a couple of months ago, he had sat at a table with President Donald Trump, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and several other prominent business executives and Cabinet members. I also know that in the past, he had seriously considered running for political office as a Republican, but he ultimately decided that he could accomplish more in the private sector.

I didn’t know this at the time of the interview but the very next day, rumors began to explode that Harris’ NBA team, the Philadelphia 76ers, were well on their way to negotiating a trade for the Boston

Celtics’ No. 1 pick in the NBA Draft. That trade was officially approved several days later, paving the way for the Sixers to select Washington guard Markelle Fultz with the Draft’s first pick.

I still have no idea who Harris was driving to meet with, but I do know one thing; whoever he was meeting with is definitely a hell of a lot more important than I am.

As I’ve thought about it more, though, I’ve realized that maybe I shouldn’t be so surprised that Harris agreed to let me interview him.

While he keeps a low public profile, especially compared to a certain other Republican billionaire who graduated from Wharton, there are a couple things that are pretty easy to find out about him.

For one, he likes to stay busy.

And this is something he’ll be the first to tell you. In his own words, “I must admit I’m like a 24/7 — you know, I have a lot of energy.”

In my words, I wouldn’t be very surprised if most of his car rides are filled with phone calls and the fulfillments of various other responsibilities.

Secondly, he’s candid about the status he holds, but he doesn’t try to isolate himself within that position.

Instead, he makes conscious efforts to use his status to make a positive impact. For example, in 2015, he gave the Philadelphia Police Athletic League the largest donation it’s ever received. More recently, he has worked to launch local chapters of After-School All-Stars, a national non-profit organization dedicated to creating after school programs to keep at-risk youth on safe paths to success.

Despite these efforts, much of the media attention he does get has been critical. In 2015, he came under fire after he landed his helicopter on a school field that forced two youth soccer teams to cancel their game.

It didn’t matter much that the school had previously given him permission to do this. And even though it was the school’s scheduling error, he still took it upon to himself to apologize to all the kids and invite all of their families to join him at a New Jersey Devils game, the NHL team he owns.

Even with the Sixers, plenty have criticized him for the approach the team has taken to rebuilding. After five straight losing seasons, many have accused the Sixers’ management of “tanking” — essentially prioritizing the potential of future

success over the desire to win now.

This Harris won’t apologize for.

“We have conviction that our strategy is right,” he tells me.

One could even say he trusts the process.

Harris acknowledges that “when you’re going through it, it’s not a lot fun,” but the approach has shown results. Wins have remained elusive, but the Sixers now boast one of the most promising young rosters in the league, which in large part, is due to the trades that Harris has signed off on.

The numbers validate the optimism as well. When Harris originally bought the Sixers from Comcast-Spectacor in 2011, the team had a season ticket base of only 3,000. Now, according to Harris, that number is approaching 14,000.

Harris has also seen incredible financial return. His investment group was able to purchase the Sixers with a bid of $280 million.

According to Forbes, the team is now valued at $800 million.

The fact that the Sixers have proven to be a wise investment for Harris shouldn’t be very surprising.

After all, it was the success of his private equity firm, Apollo Global

Management, that allowed him to accumulate the capital to buy the Sixers in the first place.

Harris, though, is quick to credit others for much of the success in his various ventures.

“What we do is we run them in a way similar to how we make private equity investments in terms of finding great people to run the business or the team,” he explains. “So for example in the Sixers’ case, I have Scott O’Neil running the business and I have Bryan Colangelo as the GM of the basketball. Ultimately, on a day to day basis, they are running the team and the business of the Sixers.”

That doesn’t mean that Harris isn’t involved in the big decisions, though.

“I have power in that I hold them accountable, but in terms of major decisions, I am definitely at the table,” he says.

With the NBA Draft and free agency period looming, Harris will likely find the Sixers taking more and more of his time as the team will have to make several important player and personnel decisions.

Something tells me Harris won’t mind the extra time commitment, though.

2017 graduate Alek Torgersen makes preseason NFL debut FOOTBALL | Torgersen

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Former Penn football quarterback Alek Torgersen saw his first NFL action on Aug. 10, stepping in under center for the Atlanta Falcons in a preseason Thursday night game against the Miami Dolphins.

Torgersen, who won two Ivy League Championships for the Red and Blue before graduating

this past May, completed his first NFL pass shortly into the fourth quarter — a short dump to fellow rookie Eric Saubert that netted a one-yard loss. In the same drive, which ultimately ended in a punt, Torgersen scrambled for 14- and 3-yard runs.

In the Falcons’ 23-20 loss, Torgersen completed all five of his pass attempts for 19 yards and was sacked once. Starting Falcons QB and reigning NFL MVP Matt Ryan saw limited action, as did backup QB Matt Schaub. Matt Simms, who is currently listed as the

Falcon’s third-string quarterback, saw the most action at the helm of Atlanta’s offense, going 10-20 for 104 yards.

Unfortunately for Torgersen, things didn’t get much better in the Falcons’ next outing against the Pittsburgh Steelers on August 20. Torgersen threw his first NFL career interception and finished 2-8 for only 25 yards.

Once again, Simms continued to hold most of the playing time, going 15-29 for 197 yards with an interception. Ryan finished 4/6 for 57 yards with limited touches

and Schaub came off the bench to complete his only passing attempt of the game.

Torgersen is one of only four former Penn players — including Detroit Lions outside linebacker Brandon Copeland, Oakland Raiders tight end Ryan O’Malley and Panthers center Greg Van Roten — on an NFL roster right now.

Torgersen’s struggles and Simms’ high number of reps is not a great sign for Torgersen, who signed with the Falcons after going undrafted in the 2017 NFL Draft. His next opportunity for onfield action will come on August 26, when the Falcons square off against the Arizona Cardinals.

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Meet Lonzo Ball’s agent, Harrison Gaines

Former Penn basketball player Gaines makes it big YOSEF WEITZMAN Sports Editor

If you follow basketball at all, then it’s probably safe to assume that you’ve heard of Los Angeles Lakers guard Lonzo Ball and his outspoken father, LaVar Ball.

After all, it’s pretty hard to not hear about them when they are doing stuff like this and this.

A better question, though, is have you heard of Lonzo’s agent and former Penn basketball player, Harrison Gaines?

It’s perfectly understandable if you haven’t. Gaines has not played for the Quakers since 2009 and until the world saw Lonzo shake hands with Gaines right after being drafted on June 22, very few probably even realized that Lonzo’s agent wasn’t his dad. That’s pretty remarkable for someone who is so closely connected to one of the world’s most famous athletic families — a family that will soon have its own reality television series.

In the days following the NBA Draft, a Sports Illustrated profile helped unshed some of the mystery of Gaines. It describes how the 28-year-old Gaines, despite not having a single client playing in the NBA, was able to win over the Ball family. And while the article does discuss Gaines’ decisions to come to Penn and ultimately to transfer to UC Riverside after just two years with the Red and Blue, much still remained unclear about his time in University City.

Unclear it shall remain no more. ...

Even as a freshman, Gaines showed the makings of a future sports agent.

“I’ll tell you what he would do,” former Penn guard and Gaines’ freshman year roommate Tyler Bernardini recalls. “In the dorm rooms, I would buy my sodas, and he would take them, but he would always leave a dollar.”

For Bernardini, that kind of behavior was unusual. He was used to friends taking his sodas, but the

idea of actually being paid back for the sodas was completely foreign.

In hindsight, though, Bernardini’s memories of Gaines don’t seem all that surprising. Isn’t that the exact kind of financial responsibility you would hope and expect to see from someone who now has a fiduciary duty to a player worth tens of millions of dollars? Probably, but for Bernardini, the story says something even simpler than that.

“That just shows you the kind of guy he was,” Bernardini says.

“He’s a guy that just is genuine, and even if he took it, he’d never do something without making sure it was just a dude trying to go about it in the right way.”

On the court too, Gaines quickly proved himself as one of the team’s hardest workers.

“He was the one guy who was always in the gym working out, playing and trying to get better every single day, and I think that kind of rubbed off on a lot of us on the team,” former Penn guard Remy Cofield, another teammate and close friend of Gaines, remembers.

And that shouldn’t be taken as hyperbole. For Gaines, there truly was no such thing as a day off.

Even on weekend nights, while the rest of campus was enjoying the latter half of Penn’s “work hard, play hard” culture, Gaines could be found getting shots up in the gym.

“I remember like walking past the Quad or walking past all the frats on like a Friday night, and we’d be in like the Palestra or Weightman Hall — we really liked that just for some reason — so a lot of nights we’d spend up there just the two of us, just working out or playing one-on-one,” says Bernardini.

All the hard work paid off for Gaines once the 2007-08 season finally rolled around. Despite his youth, the rookie quickly proved himself to then-coach Glen Miller.

That year, the team finished with a mediocre Ivy League record of 8-6, but it also seemed to have found its point guard of the future in Gaines. As a freshman, Gaines

led the entire conference in assistto-turnover ratio.

Gaines was excited for the team to continue progressing the next season, but the Quakers took a step backwards, struggling mightily as the team finished second-to-last in Ivy standings. Worse yet, Gaines suddenly felt as if his role on the team was in jeopardy. He managed to increase his scoring average to 9.9 points per game, but the message from coach Miller was clear.

New freshman Zack Rosen was the point guard of the future, and Gaines’ job was to complement Rosen off the ball. That didn’t sit well with Gaines, so he decided to transfer.

In his March 2009 announcement that he would be transferring from Penn, Gaines explained how he was hoping to find a school that would provide better “long-term satisfaction.” More specifically, he stated, “I need to attend a school where I have confidence in the basketball team’s leaders.”

Less than a year later, Penn fired Miller after an 0-7 start to the season.

The school Gaines ended up deciding on was UC Riverside, which was much closer to his family’s home in Victorville, Calif. — just an hour’s drive away. From a basketball perspective, though, things did not get much better for Gaines.

After sitting out a year due to NCAA transfer rules, he struggled to carve out minutes in his final two years of eligibility. He finished his career at Riverside with averages of just over three points and one assist per game.

Still, Gaines has no second thoughts about his decision to leave Penn.

“You know what, I don’t regret the transfer to the Riverside,” Gaines says. “When I look back to it, now I’m 28, when I look back on decisions from back then, each stop shaped and helped to get me where I am today. If I stayed at Penn for four years and graduated from there, do I end up at 28 is in the position I’m in? Maybe, maybe not.”

At the same time, Gaines harbors no ill will towards Penn. He

still values the time he spent at Penn in more ways than one.

As a player, Gaines remembers the battles his team fought in the Palestra fondly. Some of his favorite games came against Cornell, which won the Ivy League in both of Gaines’ seasons at Penn. And just for those keeping score at home, Cornell’s coach at the time was none other than current Penn coach Steve Donahue.

Off the court, Gaines continues to utilize many of the connections he made during his time in University City, like Cofield, who now works in the front office of the Boston Celtics.

“He represents a client [Lonzo Ball] right now for the Lakers,” Cofield says. “You know, I would talk to him in the spring and everything, trying to get his client to come and work out for us, so yeah, it’s been good.”

Since the Celtics held the No. 1 draft pick until trading down two picks to the Philadelphia 76ers’ — who happen to be owned by another Penn alum in Josh Harris — the relationship between Gaines and Cofield had the potential to change the entire future of the NBA. Ultimately, of course, Lonzo was drafted second overall by the Lakers, but that has done little to discourage Cofield from wanting to work with Gaines again in the future.

“He’s definitely going to have more clients, and I’m definitely going to have more conversations with him about those guys as well,” Cofield adds.

On top of all Penn did to expand Gaines’ professional network, he still stays in touch with several former classmates and teammates as friends, like Cofield and Bernardini. Not to mention, his wife is also a Penn alum.

So while the question of what could have been for Gaines if he stayed at Penn will always be there, he’s found peace with his relationship to the university, which at least on the surface, seems pretty complex.

In Gaines’ own words: “I loved Penn. Always have, always will.”

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Penn students gathered in Penn Park under evening showers in April to hear Zedd and Tinashe perform at the last Spring Fling. Past Spring Fling performers have included Chance the Rapper, 3LAU, Kesha and Kygo.

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Last October, then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton campaigned in front of a crowd of over 7,000 people at Penn Park.

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In November, a number of black freshmen at Penn were added to a GroupMe that included racial slurs and a “daily lynching” calendar.

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Former Vice President Joe Biden was named the Benjamin Franklin Presidential Practice Professor in Feburary.

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This March, Penn hosted the first-ever Ivy League Basketball Tournament at the Palestra. Penn women’s basketball won both of its games to take the title and earn a bid to the NCAA Tournament. President Amy Gutmann was in attendance and joined in the post-championship celebrations.

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The 123rd Penn Relays featured top high school athletes and world champions alike, with over 50,000 people at the world’s largest track meet.

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Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) spoke at the commencement for Penn’s Class of 2017 and urged students to be morally imaginative and creatively compassionate. Sen. Booker received an honorary degree at Penn’s 261st Commencement.

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In September, suggestive emails sent by off-campus organization OZ were leaked and posted around campus.

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1968 Wharton graduate Donald Trump became the first Penn graduate to win the United States presidency in November.

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These are the most popular majors at Penn Lexi Lieberman

Deputy News Editor

While Penn offers nearly 90 majors at the undergraduate level, some are more attractive than others — at least on paper.

According to education site College Factual, some of the most popular majors at Penn are finance, business administration and management, economics, nursing and biology.

Wharton sophomore Victoria Sacchetti, who intends to concentrate in finance, was attracted to the program due to her interest in quantitative data.

“I love being able to analyze stocks and see how the market is impacted by different things such as politics,” she said.

She added that she thought the applicability of her field and the skill of finance professors in the Wharton School served to draw other students to the major.

College sophomore Julia Hines first became interested in economics during high school. Since arriving at Penn she said that she has grown to appreciate the versatility of the major.

“I think many people are attracted to econ because it is such a marketable and applicable major, and econ graduates have a wide range of career options,” she said.

Anne Duchene, an economics lecturer, also emphasized the marketability of an economics degree. “[Economics] teaches how to analyze, understand and think critically. Employers know that, ” she said. “And that’s why they express so much interest in economics majors — so students know that the job opportunities are everywhere, not only in bank and consulting, but also in non for profit,

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Biology and economics top the list of most popular majors in the College, while finance and nursing are among the most popular overall.

government, etc.”

Nursing, which may seem more like a degree, is in fact a major in Penn’s School of Nursing, and one of the most popular ones. Other majors offered by the School of Nursing include nutrition, which is hosted in partnership with the College of Arts and Sciences, and Nursing and Health Care Management, which is offered as part of a dual-degree program with Wharton.

For Nursing sophomore Jessica Korducki, one of the most appealing aspects of the Nursing School is the accelerated style of the program. While many nursing programs in other schools require students to take foundational classes before applying to major in nursing, Penn allows you to take nursing courses even during freshman year.

Wharton sophomore Rachel Trenne said she intends to pursue a management concentration in Wharton because she appreciates the “big picture” aspect of businesses.

“Being able to learn about all the different elements of business and how they impact overall decisions and strategy is really interesting to me,” she said, adding that she thinks the management concentration is particularly appealing to quali-

tative thinkers.

For students in the College, biology is the most popular choice.

College sophomore Olivia Crocker said the biology major is particularly important for those, like herself, who are interested in scientific research.

She works part time at a laboratory during the academic year and worked there full-time over the summer.

Biology professor Linda Robinson identified several other factors that contribute to the popularity of the major.

These include “a widespread general interest and aptitude in science and math, fascination with the natural world [and] cool new discoveries,” as well as “the perception that there may be a good job market for those trained in Biology, including the medical field,” she said.

Crocker said the major is also particularly popular among pre-med students, though she’s personally not interested in hat path.

“I’m interested in cell biology because it is more related to the small-scale molecular interactions that form the basis of life, rather than more large scale, anatomical basis of life that I feel is more emphasized in the medical field,” she said.

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All the Quakers in Trump’s White House Alex Rabin Senior Reporter

Donald Trump’s rapid rise to the presidency has elevated many Penn alumni to prominent roles in government. Here’s a brief guide to some important Penn graduates in the current administration: Donald Trump: 1968 Wharton graduate Donald Trump, the first Penn alumnus elected to the United States presidency, transferred from Fordham University into the Wharton School of Finance as a junior.

At Penn, he apparently focused on developing his real estate business skills more outside the classroom than in it, according to several of his former classmates.

In the 1980s, when Trump stood out among Penn alumni as a celebrity and successful businessman, the University

Trustees nominated him to the prestigious Wharton Board of Overseers. And in the next decade, Wharton interviewed him for a recruitment video for high school students and asked him to talk to Wharton students about his path to success.

Trump has also sent three of his children to study at Penn and potentially donated over $1.4 million to the University.

Penn has been largely silent on Trump’s tenure as president so far. Penn President Amy Gutmann made a speech against Trump’s controversial travel ban in January, which was the first time she had publicly mentioned Trump since the start of his presidential campaign.

Ivanka Trump: Although 2004 Wharton graduate Ivanka Trump has often said she prefers to stay out of politics, she has met with world leaders, works as assistant to the President

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President Donald Trump, the 1968 Wharton graduate, sent three of his children to Penn — but Penn has remained nearly silent on his presidency.

and has an office in the White House. Like her father, Trump transferred to Penn before her third year of college, though she came from Georgetown University, not Fordham. Her former classmates at Penn have described her as ambitious, but pleasant. Trump focused on real

estate at Wharton.

Donald Trump Jr.: 2000 Wharton graduate Donald Trump Jr. recently attracted international attention and suspicion for his role in meeting with a Russian lawyer during the presidential campaign. He has talked to Wharton students

about how his education at Wharton and the relationships he formed at the school has helped his real estate career.

Trump Jr. got an economics degree from the Wharton School.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.: Jon Huntsman Jr., perhaps one of the politicians most visibly connected to Penn, is slated to serve as Donald Trump’s ambassador to Russia. Huntsman, a 1987 College graduate, has previously served as governor of Utah, ambassador to China and ambassador to Singapore. He also ran for president in 2012.

The former governor was an occasional critic of Trump during the campaign and called on the real estate mogul to drop out of the race after a tape was released of Trump bragging about his ability to grope women due to his fame. Huntsman’s father, whose name adorns the massive Wharton building, has donated

The best study spots on campus Capogiro: A gelato shop located right next to the Radian, Capogiro is a refreshing alternative to the more typical study spots on campus. Having some homemade gelato as you study is a strong perk, but note that Capo’s items do tend to be pricier to other options on campus. Free Wi-Fi is available with every purchase, but it’s encouraged to bring any electronic devices charged because it may be hard to find an outlet. The shop is also a nice place to hold informal interviews and coffee chats.

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Huntsman Hall: There’s no better place to have a team meeting or group-watch “Game of Thrones” than the group study rooms in Huntsman Hall. More commonly referred to as GSRs, these rooms are technically only available for Wharton students to book, so get a Wharton friend that can do it for you. If you book the room until midnight, the room is all yours until the morning. There are also large computer labs that are open 24/7 on the basement and the third floor of Huntsman Hall. Don’t be alarmed when security comes in to check your PennCard — this happens frequently throughout evening hours.

Starbucks under Commons: Conveniently located right below 1920 Commons and across from Huntsman Hall, this Starbucks is the perfect place to study in if you like some white noise or company. This vibrant location has the most generous seating among the other Starbucks locations on campus; choose from long communal tables, individual tables, couches and lounge chairs. One final tip — dining dollars are accepted.

McClelland Hall: The social hub of freshmen living in the Quad, this place is more for socializing than getting work done in the evening. During the day, however, it’s much quieter and is actually a nice place to study in if you don’t feel like leaving the Quad. There are also quiet study spaces in the back of McClelland that have communal tables and individual desks.

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significantly to Penn. Huntsman attended church regularly during his time at Penn and frequently engaged in related volunteer work. Arriving at Penn after studying at the University of Utah, he earned a bachelor’s degree in political science at age 27. He is now a trustee emeritus of the University.

Jay Clayton: Trump’s nominee for the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Walter “Jay” Clayton, is a notable Wall Street attorney.

Clayton will likely encourage deregulation and partial reformation of the Dodd-Frank Act, which discouraged risky financial behavior of firms after the 2008 financial crisis, per Forbes reports. Clayton graduated Penn in 1988 with a degree in engineering and received his Juris Doctor degree from Penn Law School in 1993. He also lectured at Penn Law for six years.

Van Pelt Library: As Penn’s main library, Van Pelt is a quintessential study spot on campus. Each floor of the sixstory building has different features: the basement, which is open 24 hours on most days, has numerous desks and several sofas, while the sixth floor offers one of the best views of campus. If you want to take a study break or grab something to eat, Mark’s Cafe, located in the basement, will keep you fueled.

But be aware that the library can get crowded, especially during midterms and finals season.

Fisher Fine Arts Library: Built in the late 1800s, the Fisher Fine Arts Library is not only home to the University’s art collection but also a beautiful and quiet study hall. The red sandstone Gothic architecture lures in students who are looking to focus for hours at a time.

Take the winding staircase to the second floor and you’ll find small, private alcoves perfect for hitting the books.

The one downside? Food isn’t allowed.

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A look back at a half-century of NSO history Olivia Sylvester Senior Reporter

All Penn students are familiar with New Student Orientation, but few know that its history spans more than half a century.

On Sept. 2, 1968, Penn's class of 1972 moved into their dorms, marking the beginning of that year's "New Student Week," as it used to be called.

Multiple traditions have remained the same since then: the class-wide picnic, the activities fair and the Performing Arts Night, though important changes have also been made.

For example, until 2000, NSO was only four days long.

At a Board of Trustees Meeting, 1966 College graduate and former Penn President Judith Rodin changed the length from four to six days to make extra time for academic seminars, according to meeting minutes at the University Archives

and Records Center. The Penn Reading Project is also a newer addition to orientation. 1989 College graduate Richard Gusick said PRP was not a part of his NSO. In 1968, students took some preliminary examinations during their orientation week, including a Wharton "accounting aptitude" test, according to the 1968 New Student Week schedule. Freshmen were divided and orientated based on schools – the School of Allied Medical Professions being one of the schools at the time – as well as based on gender because the College for Women still existed at the time. There were also specific meetings for those who designated themselves as "commuters," which refers to students who commute to school from their off-campus homes.

In 1973, the University sent out a news release about their decision to add a FacultyFreshman Day to the New

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Student Week lineup, which included 149 — later changed to 152 — seminars given by

faculty members. The topics ranged from "Comprehensive Care of the Pregnant Addict" to

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The perks and drawbacks of joining Greek life Staff Reporter

For more than a quarter of undergraduate students, going Greek is an essential part of the college experience.

The nearly 50 active Greek chapters on campus consist of a number of traditional fraternities and sororities and various culturally-based, preprofessional and interest-based groups, some of which are coed.

For freshmen, the Greek recruitment process officially takes place in the spring semester. For most sororities under the Panhellenic Council, recruitment guides, who are called Rho Gammas, shuttle groups of girls to each sorority where they meet their prospective sisters. For fraternities under the Interfraternity Council, boys are invited to attend catered hangouts.

Official recruitment for freshmen begins in the Spring semester, although for some Greek organizations, upperclassmen may rush in October.

During the spring of 2017, 763 students joined an oncampus sorority or fraternity according to the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life.

Recruitment begins with rush, which is where candidates meet the members of various Greek organizations for the first time. Many students choose to rush due to the benefits associated with Greek life, which include housing, opportunities for philanthropy and friendship.

Reflecting on his decision to join a fraternity, College sophomore and member of Pi Kappa Alpha Viruj Menon said he is especially appreciative of the

friends he has made.

“My brothers are literally my best friends,” he said. “I know that I can trust them, and they’ll have my back.”

He added that he thinks being in a fraternity can help someone to develop their leadership skills. For some, a fraternity can “provide the right kind of environment to become the best version of you," he said.

Alex Nichols, an Engineering sophomore and a member of Chi Omega, said joining a sorority helped her broaden her social network by introducing her to people outside her usual social circles. She added that she remembers attending the first day of a difficult class and feeling comforted when she saw women wearing her sorority’s apparel, knowing immediately that she had classmates she could bond with.

But both Menon and Nichols also acknowledged the less savory aspects of Greek life.

“I think fraternities depend inherently on social hierarchy.

It’s not like it’s intentional, it just happens,” Menon said.

“Fraternities overemphasize very conventional heteronormative masculinity.”

Nichols said joining a sorority can be “cost-prohibitive," since shopping for rush and going out with sisters can be a financial burden.

“If you don’t have as much money to do all those things, you can feel not as included,” she said.

She also said that being in a sorority is a significant time commitment, especially during the months-long initiation process when new members are expected to attended a plethora of bonding activities.

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Stephen-Pons said she initially participated in the rush process for sororities last spring in hopes of joining making close friends, but ultimately dropped out. She said she wasn't comfortable with the rush process, which entails numerous 5-to15 minute conversations with

members of various sororities.

Stephen-Pons said these conversations felt like “superficial” judgment of personality.

Stephen-Pons also cited the time commitment required to join a sorority. “[Without Greek life] my schedule is more my own,” she

said. “I really enjoy going out, but I like being flexible and living more spontaneously.”

She described the Greek social life as seeming more “regimented,” adding that some of her friends had “itineraries” over some weekends.

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Giovanna Paz Staff Reporter

Close to 4,000 students from the Class of 2021 will start on the jampacked itinerary of New Student Orientation this week. Forty-four of the 157 listed NSO events are mandatory, but what actually happens if students can't attend them?

Under the frequently asked questions on the NSO website, it states that "mandatory events will be clearly labeled in the Calendar of Events you will receive upon your arrival to campus," but does not mention any potential consequences for absences.

NSO events are often mandatory only for specific kinds of students.

On the website, students can view which events are mandatory for all students, for specific groups of students — such as transfer or international — and for each school within the University. There are also mandatory activities for freshman college houses.

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agree on what they expect to be the actual consequences for missing a mandatory event.

Director of New Student Orientation and Academic Initiatives David Fox said administrators' response to absences from mandatory events varies and that certain events warrant closer tracking of attendance than others.

For example, events like "Safe Living," which is a guide to living safely at Penn, are very important for students to attend, Fox said.

"When we know students aren't coming we turn that information over to the College Houses and let them deal with that," he said.

Fox added that public safety sessions like "Safe Living" are mandatory because they're essential to "central citizenship issues," and provide awareness for various resources at Penn.

However, various upperclassmen have a different point of view on mandatory events.

"I only went to two events for NSO, and it was with our peer advisors and the safety conversation in

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According to David Fox, the director of New Student Orientation, said that the consequences of skipping a mandatory New Student Orientation event — such as Convocation — vary depending on the event.

Irvine," College and Wharton sophomore Ana Isabel Baco said.

"Especially because my family was in town, and it was the last time I was going to be with them," Baco added.

Wharton sophomore Ghali Benlafkih made similar comments. "I kind of feel like there weren't really people there to tell you what to do," he said. "It felt like everything was a choice. Maybe I was told to go

somewhere because it was mandatory, but because my parents were there, they were lenient."

Fox said absences for mandatory events have not appeared to be "a large-scale problem" during NSO in

past years because students tend to be eager to get a sense of Penn.

Nonetheless, College junior Michael Krone, who is apart of the NSO student group Peers Helping Incoming New Students, which helps organize NSO, said the administration is always looking to increase attendance for NSO. "At the end of the day," Krone said, "there is no one to take 2,500 freshmen and poke them with a stick to make them go to all mandatory events."

Many students think the most stringently mandatory event is the Penn Reading Project group session, which supplements the freshman writing assignment that must be submitted online beforehand. But College sophomore Johany Dubon said she completed the PRP writing assignment last year and didn't go to the group session and was not penalized for it.

"At this point, you're an adult," Dubon said of the freshmen. "So make the decision that you want to make … as long as it doesn't have super severe consequences."

Five tips for incoming international freshmen at Penn

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Faculty-Freshman Day added to New Student Week

Students from the class of 1972 took many examinations, including a Wharton "aptitude test."

"Electronic Music."

Parent Orientation seminars were introduced in 1977, ac-

cording to the New Student Week activities pamphlet. The parent activities lasted twodays and included student panels, a comedy night and a barbecue.

And in 1981, incoming freshmen during New Student week, which was "often referred to as Camp Penn," attended 40-person parties hosted by New Student Week committee members, toured Philadelphia by specially-chartered trolley and chose one of three high rise rooftop parties to go to.

Gusick said that he did not remember organized activities during NSO but recalled the dorm-wide parties thrown by graduate fellows. For him, one of the most memorable events was the tour around the city.

"The bus stopped at South Street, and they let everyone run around," Gusick said. "I remember thinking that Jim's Steaks was the best cheesesteak — what a freshman."

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stronger sense of community from her dormitory, Kings Court English College House, where she contributes as a program coordinator.

“I like KCECH because I am able to give to a group that I care about, but I don’t feel like I’m restricted. It’s very fluid.”

Starting college is an exciting and nervous experience for most incoming students — and even more so for those coming from abroad.

Engineering sophomore Eduardo Ortuno grew up in Mexico and said that after coming to the United States, he found it difficult to adjust to speaking English for long periods of time.

“When [international students] go to the U.S., a lot of what we know is from pop culture, music and movies.” Ortuno said, though these sources don’t often provide a comprehensive picture of American life.

Raj Bhuva, a College and Engineering sophomore from India,

said one challenge was getting used to talking about American sports and politics.

During Thanksgiving break, when many American students visit their families, Ortuno said that many international students, himself included, are unable to travel home due to long and expensive flights.

“When you’re struggling with your first semester and everyone else has their family close by it can be really hard," he said.

He recommended that during shorter breaks, when it might not be feasible to fly home, international students should reach out to any nearby friends or family that they might have.

Ortuno also advised incoming international freshmen to reach out to residential advisors, as they're often good sources of support for

any student adjusting to life at college.

“At times you’ll feel homesick or slightly uncomfortable, but [there are] always people and resources at campus,” Bhuva said, adding that he advises students to attend events held by the Assembly of International Students and other relevant cultural groups in order to find a community on campus.

College sophomore Eva Zhang, who is originally from China, said there are also academic resources to help international students navigate the unfamiliar American educational system.

“It took me some time to know that it’s okay to ask for help and ask your advisors anything,” she said.

Both Zhang and Ortuno agreed that attending a university with a large international population was rewarding for them. For the Class

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The Assembly of International Students hosts events to help homesick students find a community on campus.

of 2020, 12 percent of the cohort was international, meaning that there are close to 300 international students.

Zhang said she appreciated

Penn’s diversity, adding that international students can “relate to each other since [they’re] from different parts of the world.”

Ortuno agreed, advising incom-

ing international freshmen not just to discuss their culture with others, but to “make the most out of it, have a lot of fun and enjoy the diverse student body that Penn has.”

How student government is changing its NSO agenda James Meadows Staff Reporter

As the summer holidays come to a close and students arrive on campus for New Student Orientation, Penn Student Government is preparing to usher in a new school year and attract new members.

Much of the NSO recruitment process is the same as before, but PSG has made some changes to make recruitment more accessible and transparent this year.

As in previous years, PSG will set up booths at the activities fair and send repre-

sentatives from all branches to hand out identical pamphlets, to ensure PSG builds a united image of its many different branches, said Carly Ragozzino, a College junior and the Nominations and Elections Committee's vice president of education.

Ragozzino added that interested students will be able to attend an information session where executives from each of the six branches of student government explain the responsibilities of each of the governing bodies and answer any questions.

But this year’s NSO is also proving to be a time for the

student government to reevaluate their recruitment process. Last semester, after meeting with many members of the undergraduate body, the Undergraduate Assembly and the Student Activities Council found that various student clubs were holding grueling recruiting processes that left potential members feeling discouraged.

College junior Michael Krone, who is the communications director of the UA and an executive board member of the SAC, said students during the recruitment process that they felt they were rejected without an explanation.

In response, Krone said that senior members from both the UA and SAC had informed all campus clubs of new recruitment guidelines that were meant to increase transparency and due process for applicants. He added that both groups are partnering with the Office of Student Affairs to identify clubs that breach these guidelines in the coming months.

PSG is also changing its annual late-night held in Houston Hall. After realizing that many students were unable to attend the event due to prior conflicts such as parties and dinners, the organization de-

cided to rebrand the event as a carnival held in the daytime, Ragozzino said.

“We want to make the recruitment process more open and fun for the Penn community this year,” she said. “By moving the Late-Night earlier in the day, student do not have to choose between us and other activities they have planned.”

The PSG’s official NSO programming concludes with its annual ice cream social, which it hosts together with Penn’s Counseling and Psychological Services, Active Minds and Penn Wellness on College Green. Students can enjoy ice cream while meet-

ing counselors and students to learn about maintaining mental health at Penn.

The UA wanted to partner with various mental health resource groups on campus for this event in order to prepare freshmen for the various hardships associated with life at Penn, Jordan Andrews, the UA communications director and College junior said.

Krone said PSG hopes for incoming students to feel welcome and accepted on campus.

“We want all students, especially incoming freshman, to feel like a part of our Penn community. It’s hard enough to get here as it is," she said.

Homework over summer: not all students are against it Rebecca Lieberman Staff Reporter

For most students, summer is a welcome break from homework, tests and essays. Occasionally however, professors choose to deviate from the norm and assign homework or reading over the summer.

Assistant professor Francesca Russello Ammon, who teaches Urban Studies class "Introduction to City & Regional Planning," gave her students one mandatory article to read before the first class, along with several suggestions of books to read.

Ammon said assigning summer reading allows the class to have a more substantive discussion during the first class meeting and also

allows her to engage her students from the get-go.

"The goal of optional readings," Ammon said, "is to offer interested students the chance for more indepth exploration of important aspects of our subject matter should they have time to read one of these books in full before classes fully get going."

Ammon added that she doesn't necessarily assign pre-reading in every course she teaches, but has done so "when it made pedagogical sense."

Wharton sophomore Katherine Salvatori, who is enrolled in Ammon's course, said the article she assigned was pretty short, though the suggested books were lengthy.

"I started one of the books, and it's actually a really good read,"

Salvatori said. "I'm happy to have some sort of background going into the class."

Salvatori added that she is relatively unfamiliar with city and regional planning, so she finds the readings helpful.

But not all summer assignments entail just reading. Engineering sophomore Nidhi Kapate said that for her Chemistry 101 course that she took last fall semester, students had to complete different modules and review high-school chemistry topics. The assignment was only considered as completed once they "mastered" the material by completing online quizzes.

"It wasn't that difficult, but it did take a lot more time than I expected," she said. "I took [chemistry] sophomore year, so I didn't

remember much and definitely had to brush up on stuff."

Kapate said although the work was time-consuming, it didn't interfere with her NSO experience because she finished the assignment before moving in to Penn. She did say, however, that she's thrilled that she wasn't assigned homework this summer.

College and Wharton sophomore Liam Huebner had to read a book in French this summer before starting French 225.

Huebner's professor, Mélanie Péron, sent an email to her students detailing the assignment. In French, she told them that she didn't want to spoil their vacation by giving them homework but asked them to read the novel before classes start.

"I didn't really start doing it un-

til a week and a half ago," he said.

"It's like 20 minutes a day for two weeks and you're done."

Huebner also said he is not against summer homework if it lightens the workload during the semester.

"They're gonna teach the course the same way one way or another," he said. "So either you're going

to do the reading a little bit early, or you're gonna have to cram the book in when you're super busy at school."

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Gnomes and more at graduate student NSO Manlu Liu Staff Reporter

The face of New Student Orientation is often a brighteyed undergraduate freshman, though hundreds of graduate students will also embark on their version of NSO starting today.

The graduate and professional New Student Orientation is a series of events organized by various on-campus hosts such as the Graduate Student Center and Graduate and Professional Student Assembly as well as by each of the 12 graduate schools.

GSC starts welcoming new graduates to campus in late July through a series of online webinar sessions, which discuss access to health insurance, safety in Philadelphia and public transport options such as SEPTA, said Logan Thurnauer, the associate director of GSC. Once students arrive on campus, GSC sponsors walking tours of Chinatown and Center City and information sessions about life at Penn and in Philadelphia.

Another popular orientation event is the "Gnome Hunt," during which students search for GSC's "lost" garden gnomes which can be found at various stations throughout campus. After the scavenger hunt, participants are invited to attend a happy hour and an awards ceremony with their fellow students. More than 100 people have already signed up for the event, GSC's graduate and professional NSO Coordinator Dean Schmeltz said.

And although many think NSO ends in August, some graduate student welcoming events are hosted later in the semester.

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New Student Orientation for graduate and professional students will feature a gnome hunt, outdoor movies and tours of Philadelphia.

to encourage bonding among graduate students. In the past, GradFest has included special lectures, comedy shows and outdoor movies.

This year, the festival will include a private event at Reading Terminal Market, a dance performance and subsidized tickets to movie showings, GAPSA Vice President Rebecca Umbach said. She also said she hopes to host a mix of smaller and larger events throughout the semester to give students a chance to get to know one another.

Both GSC and GAPSA said they're working to convince a wider audience to attend their events.

"In the future, we would love to collaborate with schools who have not necessarily participated a lot in the past," Umbach said. "Especially as this is one of the big ways that GAPSA can impact a large swath of the graduate student

population."

Thurnauer agreed that GSC's challenge in the future is to involve as many students as possible from all 12 schools.

Nikaela Bryan, a secondyear pharmacology doctoral student, said when she was new to Penn, she didn't know about any graduate NSO events besides the mandatory information sessions held by her Biomedical Graduate Studies group and her pharmacology program.

Bryan toured campus and attended presentations on student experiences at Penn with the other students in her pharmacology group but said she found the NSO experience lacking. She added that she wished there would have been a chance to interact with and get to know upper-year students.

"It was kind of like you got thrown into grad school," Bryan said.

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FALL SPORTS PREVIEW Welcome back to school! You may just be getting back, totally unprepared for the semester to start, but athletes from seven of Penn's varsity programs have been training for the fall for months. Some are chasing their first title in years; others are defending their hardwon hardware. For Penn's teams like men's cross country, football and sprint football, the next few months are all about matching last year's glory. Meanwhile, upstarts like volleyball and soccer will seek to break the mold of recent seasons and rise to top-tier status.

There's a lot to catch up on, but here's an overview of the seven Penn Athletics programs in competition this fall:

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Last season ended on a very odd note, with the Quakers’ Senior Night being canceled following the termination of Harvard’s season due to a sexist scandal. Penn instead had to play Columbia in a match at a neutral site to make up for the cancelled seventh Ivy League contest.

The Quakers lost, falling to fifth in the conference table, when just two games earlier, a league title was still a possibility.

But in many ways, there is cause for optimism in Penn’s ranks this fall. Having only graduated two seniors, the team should only improve with time. A huge freshman class should also add a good deal of depth to the squad in the event of any injuries.

Strong play on the flanks from Jerel Blades, Dami Omitaomu and Sam Wancowicz boosted by a wall in between the sticks in goalie Etan Mabourakh could drive the Quakers to newfound heights in 2017.

Nicole Van Dyke’s team has a remarkably stingy defense.

At points last year, the Quakers were near the top of the entire NCAA in the goals-allowed ranking.

But this season will be about building attack on top of their sturdy defense. In 2016, Penn scored one or no goals in six of its seven Ivy League games.

Conceding just five goals in seven conference matches was good enough to secure fourth in the league, but the Red and Blue will need more to rise up the table again in 2017.

Junior Sasha Stephens and sophomore Emily Sands will lead the attack, with an extra year under their belts to develop their chemistry due to pay off when Ancient Eight play kicks off in a month. A 1-0 win over West Chester to start their season last week suggests things are looking good for the Red and Blue.

After winning the national championship last year, expectations are very high for Penn sprint football this season, but it’s not clear if they’re the odds-on favorites to repeat. Army and Navy are always solid and both nearly took the Quakers down last year. Of course, it also doesn’t help that Mike McCurdy, the back-to-back Collegiate Sprint Football League (CSFL) MVP, has graduated, but sophomore Eddie Jenkins showed a lot of promise as a dual-threat in his limited snaps last season, so there is reason to hope there won’t be a huge drop-off.

Barring any major surprises, this year should be another three-headed race between Penn, Army and Navy, and the addition of the CSFL’s first ever playoff should only make things more exciting.

Fresh off a 6-1 blowout at rival Princeton to conclude the 2016 season, this team will have no shortage of motivation as it seeks to snap a 13-year Ivy championship drought. It’s no secret that if the Quakers are to improve upon last season’s third-place finish, those efforts will start with first team all-everything senior forward Alexa Hoover, who already holds program records with 56 career goals and 131 assists.

But fortunately for the Red and Blue, Hoover will have plenty of help returning from last year’s squad. All three of Penn’s reigning All-Ivy selections are back, with junior defender Paige Meily and sophomore midfielder Alexa Schneck joining Hoover, as nine of 11 starters return. Though Penn’s non-conference schedule includes the two most recent NCAA champions, the goal is clearly Ivy title or bust.

New season, same team. Penn volleyball didn’t have a single senior on last year’s squad, so the entire group returns for 2017 (with a freshman class added to boot).

The real change comes at the top, where longtime coach Kerry Carr has been replaced by the new hire, Katie Schumacher-Cawley.

The six seniors, including 2016 captains Kendall Covington and Sydney Morton, will be complimented by younger players such as junior Courtney Quinn and sophomore Caroline Furrer, who both starred on last year’s team. The 10-16 mark (5-9 in Ivy play) a year ago was a disappointment, but the players always referred to the squad as a ‘two-year team,” and now they’ll have a chance to make good in their second act following a very extended halftime.

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It’s hard to follow up a season like last year’s.

The men won their first Ivy League title since 1973, while the women made their first-ever appearance at the NCAA Championships, placing 24th in the nation. It was, in no uncertain terms, historic.

The biggest problem facing the program is the inevitable one: graduation. 2017 graduates Nick Tuck and Brendan Shearn featured in the Quakers’ top three at every meet in their final season, while the women lost all three of their top trio in Ashley Montgomery - who finished 13th at the NCAA Championships - and the Whiting twins, Cleo and Clarissa.

It isn’t all bad news for the Red and Blue, though. Rising sophomore Erin Feeney should continue to improve after a breakout freshman season, while senior Abby Hong will provide the women steady leadership from the front. The men will also have a seasoned senior to lead the pack in Patrick Hally.

All eyes will be on the teams in the first few weeks to see if 2017 will be a rebuilding season, but both the men and women have shown capacity to surpass expectations before. They’ve tended to finish races stronger than they start them - see the Ivy Championships in 2016 for reference - so time will tell whether they find a similar approach to the season as a whole.

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In many ways, the build-up to the 2017 season is similar to that of the last two campaigns.

Ranked third in the preseason poll for the third time in a row, the Quakers managed to upset expectations to win shares of back-to-back championships in 2015 and 2016. But can Penn beat the odds again?

So much will depend on the quarterback situation. It's unclear who is expected to fill the position vacated by Atlanta Falcons quarterback Alek Torgersen, and it's unclear if anyone will be able to fill Torgersen's shoes. Preseason AllAmerican Justin Watson has the top receiver slot locked down to provide the next quarterback as much stability as he can.

But other areas of the team enjoy continuity from 2016's triumphs.

The Quakers return more All-Ivy honorees on defense than any other rival. Seniors Louis Vecchio and Colton Moskal, alongside junior Sam Philippi, will form the core of what should be a league-leading defense.

Penn's one Ivy League loss last year came in a lame 28-0 shutout at Princeton. If a third straight title is to be had, the Quakers will have to rely on solid defense if the offense takes time to gel, meaning that they'll likely need something like a 28-0 scoreline themselves over their biggest rivals, the Tigers and the Crimson of Harvard.

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Lacrosse history was made this past weekend, and one former Quaker was right at the center of it.

The Ohio Machine were crowned the new champions of Major League Lacrosse, the team's first title in its six year existence. After falling just short of a championship last year, the Machine broke through against the Denver Outlaws, winning 17-12 in a thrilling comeback.

Finishing the regular season with a record of 9-5, the Machine were led by reigning two-time League MVP Tom Schreiber, midfield legend Kyle Harrison, former Tewaaraton winner Peter Baum, North Carolina great

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McMahon, in only his second full MLL season, has developed into one of the best lacrosse players in the world. The rangy six-foot-four cover man who led the 2014 Quakers to an Ivy League Tournament title has since become a takeaway artist and the backbone of the Machine Defense, and as such, he was named to the All-MLL Team.

Only a few days after achieving these heights, McMahon, a 2015 Wharton graduate, was kind enough to talk with The Daily Pennsylvanian.

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Daily Pennsylvanian: We at the DP first wanted to congratulate you on the Championship and the AllMLL recognition.

Matt McMahon: I appreciate it.

Thanks a lot. It was a lot of fun this year, and I'm glad that it worked out as well as it did this past weekend.

DP: Where do those accomplishments rank among your other lacrosse achievements?

MM: You know, each accomplishment kind of has its own special place, and you kind of end up thinking back to who you accomplished them with. So, obviously the accomplishments I was able to achieve at Penn have a special significance because those were the guys that I spent four years with and lived with, so winning that Ivy League championship will always have a special place in my heart. But, at the same time, it was really special to be able to take home the championship at the highest stage of the sport. I had never really ended a season with a victory like SEE MCMAHON PAGE D6

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In the recently released Ivy League Preseason Football Poll, media from around the Ancient Eight predicted the final standings for the upcoming season.

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Princeton received the most first place votes in the poll with six, while Penn and Harvard each received five. This is the third consecutive year the Crimson have finished first or tied for first in the poll.

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DP: That must've been quite the rush, especially considering that you played a pretty important role in the game yourself. You guys gave up 12 goals in an MLL championship game. That's a pretty impressive stat line for a defense in this league.

MM: The more this group has played together, the better we've played. We kind of set out before the game to make this last game our best performance of the year. I think that defensively in this sport, the more that you play with the same group of guys, the more you're going to be able to anticipate what they do and make plays off of that. So as our group continues to play together and gel together, it should be no surprise that our last game was our best, our masterpiece.

DP: With the All-MLL honors, you've established yourself among the best players in the world. Did you have any doubt you would do so, and how long did it take for it to really sink in that you could thrive at the highest level of lacrosse?

MM: [Laughing] Honestly, it's something that I'm still a little bit sur-

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that in a championship game at any level, so it's tough to say which one stands out between the two championships, but they both mean a heck of a lot to me.

DP: Can you describe the feelings you were experiencing immediately after winning the title?

MM: Well, honestly it was a bit of a shock. In the third quarter, we were in dire straits, down a couple of goals with things not looking too good.

But then, we just battled back in a way we had been doing all season. A couple leaders of the team stepped up with some big plays and were able to give us a bit of separation down the stretch. So, even though the game had kind of been decided by the final two minutes or so, I was in a state of disbelief even by the time the final whistle blew. It was a really special moment for a lot of guys that have been playing in the league for years and years, with some even playing over a decade without having won before. So, disbelief, relief, euphoria — all of those were kind of rushing

prised about. Each accomplishment this year on the individual level has been a pleasant surprise for me. That being said, I do hold myself to a very high standard, and that goes back to my days at Penn with coach Murphy.

We always scheduled the toughest competition and set out with the highest expectations for the season.

Our stated goals were always to win an Ivy championship and a national championship, so [Murphy] kind of impressed upon all of the players the importance of pushing yourself to the furthest of your abilities. It's really been an honor to gain some recognition at this level.

DP: I was actually just about to ask you how your experiences at Penn and with coach Murphy prepared you for that level, so I'll instead shift to asking you how your experiences at Penn helped prepare you for post-college life in general, beyond the field.

MM: Coach Murphy tells the recruits, the alumni, and the players that he's trying to prepare you not only to be the best lacrosse player you can be but also to be the best young man that you can be. I think

that his lessons have definitely been felt in my day-to-day. Even looking at what my former teammates have done these past couple of years, I think that everybody goes about their lives with a really strong foundation.

He really set us all up with a set of skills that make success all but inevitable for a lot of us, and that should come as no surprise because he's a terrific mentor and a great leader of young men. I definitely owe a lot of my success to him, and I know that my teammates feel the same way.

DP: Sticking with the Penn program, do you still follow the team closely? If so, would you share some thoughts you had about last year's performance?

MM: Absolutely. The program is definitely one of the things the alumni care about a ton. We find ourselves getting together in the spring to watch a lot of the games on TV. We all monitor the program very closely.

Actually, speaking of which, I had the opportunity to spend some time with rising junior attackman Simon Mathias this summer, as he worked with us a bit, which was terrific. It's always great to spend some time with

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2015 Wharton graduate and former Penn men’s lax star Matt McMahon was honored as an all-MLL defender in his title-winning season.

these guys in the program. We get to see that they're the same high-quality individuals as my teammates were.

It's all just a function of the program that coach Murphy has put together. I think they're poised to have an excellent season this year. I think that the have some tremendous leaders com-

ing up. In particular, Kevin McGeary and Simon Mathias are two of the best players in the Ivy League. I think that they're really setting themselves up for a big season this year. You'll definitely see a lot of their hard work pay off, so I'm pretty optimistic about this year for Penn.

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Penn teams and fans can finish setting their calendars for fall sports' seasons.

Red and Blue teams have released their 2017-18 schedules throughout the summer, and with the earliest teams beginning to arrive on campus, all fall schedules have been completely finalized.

Student-athletes and coaches can begin gameplan preparations and fans can clear their schedules for all the marquee games.

Penn men's soccer will begin the season with four of its first five games at Rhodes Field, though the team's season opener comes on the road in its first-ever matchup against Monmouth. The season

features three games against local rivals, La Salle, Villanova and Drexel, while also including firsttime showdowns against Bowling Green and SIU-Edwardsville.

The non-conference slate, which also includes a tough road match at West Virginia, leads up to the first Ivy League matchup at home against Cornell. October and early November are filled with Ivy League play, culminating in a visit to Harvard on Nov. 11.

The Quakers return 16 studentathletes from last season, including eight starters and three AllIvy selections. Penn also features an incoming freshman class led by midfielder Joseph Bhangdia, from Lewisburg, Pa., who was recently named the male NSCAA High School Scholar Player of the Year. In his twentieth season, coach Rudy Fuller leads a team that finished 5-6-6 (3-3-1 Ivy) last season, tied with Brown for third

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place in the standings only behind Dartmouth and Columbia, who shared the Ivy title.

Penn volleyball also released its 2017-18 schedule, hoping to improve from its sixth-place Ivy fin-

ish last season, at 10-16 (5-9 Ivy).

Coach Katie Schumacher-Cawley kicks off her first season at Penn, after fourteen years coaching at the University of Illinois-Chicago and winning an NCAA Champi-

onship as an All-American playing at Penn State.

The Quakers begin the season with three tournaments, starting on Sept. 1 with the George Mason Tournament, where the Quakers will face Campbell, Central Michigan and Houston, all first-time opponents. Penn, which returns every single player from its 2016 roster, then returns home for the Penn/La Salle Tournament beginning Sept. 8.

Ivy League play opens with three conference road games in Princeton, New Haven and Providence. The Quakers have a huge test early on against the Tigers, who finished at the top of the Ivy League last season, at 19-5 (13-1 Ivy). After a stretch of seven consecutive weekends of Ivy action, the regular season ends on the road against Harvard on Nov. 11.

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