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Coffee shop celebrates 33rd anniversary on Penn’s campus LUIS FERRE SADURNI Senior Reporter

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ohn bangs his aged Italian espresso pucker to make sure the previous customer’s coffee grounds are out — the beginning of his timeless ritual.

He twirls the pucker and fits it into his coffee grinder, letting a perfect mound of ground beans fall into his instrument. He gracefully jerks it out, placing a cup under the spout of his rusty espresso machine. He clicks it on and a low, rumbling noise takes over his Avril 50 shop for the next twenty seconds as dark, then tan, then lucid colored coffee rains down into the cup, exuding its unique scent.

That is why the first thing that hits you when you walk into Avril 50 is the rich aroma emanating from the pots of coffee with the day’s brewed offerings.

If you’re a coffee drinker, you go for the kettles with the handwritten labels that list the day’s offerings: “Vienna Roast”, “Italian Roast”, “Blueberry” and, of course, “Avril 50 Blend.”

If you’re a reader you go for the

racks, neatly stacked with magazines and newspapers you won’t find anywhere else in the city. Danish architecture digests, French fashion magazines and Scandinavian literary journals sit side by side with the day’s issues of The Guardian and The New York Times.

If you’re a smoker and want to replenish your arsenal, you go for the top shelves, where the eclectic brands of cigarettes, tobacco, rolling papers and filters sit behind the counter.

And behind the counter is John Shahidi, the 1980 Wharton MBA graduate from Iran who has faithfully run the coffee, tea, chocolate, magazine, newspaper, postcard and tobacco shop for 33 years.

“This city had nothing like this,” says Shahidi, who customers can always expect to see sporting his thick, black-trimmed glasses and old school SEE AVRIL 50 PAGE 5

SHS director disputes Penn’s sexual health rank

New political club offers place for students with ‘no labels’

Vice ranks Penn as 10th worst University in sexual health

Founded this year, No Labels is a nonpartisan political club

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In today’s political climate, it can sometimes seem impossible for the two major parties to come together on any issue. One new Penn political club is hoping to change that.

According to its website, No Labels was founded in 2010 with the aim of “channeling the nation’s frustration with the Beltway’s idea of business as usual into a productive effort to change D.C.’s way of doing things, while offering dozens of constructive solutions to the nation’s problems along the way.”

Now, under the leadership of Wharton sophomore Alec Goldberg, Penn is home to a chapter of No Labels.

“Basically what No Labels’ mission is is to fight partisan politics in D.C., in state elections [and] locally,” he said. “For the past ten years we’ve seen party politics get more and more heated with Democrats and Republicans.”

Goldberg also clarified that No Labels does not condemn the two-party system; rather, it merely aims to bring the two major parties together on certain issues.

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Student Health Service Director Giang Nguyen disputes Penn’s recent ranking on a list of universities with the worst sexual health.

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When Giang Nguyen, the director of Student Health Service, saw that the University of Pennsylvania was ranked No. 10 on a list of universities with the worst sexual health, he was puzzled.

A recent article published by Vice’s video channel Motherboard ranked the best and worst United States colleges by sexual health, taking into account factors like

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sexually transmitted infection rates and average campus sexual assault rates.

However, the data used in the article presents several issues, Nguyen said. It draws its information from a report done by The State of Education, which it calls a “data science startup.” The website’s disclaimer calls itself “a free service which makes no warranty of accuracy of data, large collections of data may have varying levels of statistical significance not all of which are explicitly noted.”

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Wharton model: Trump’s wall will not be cheap The plan would cost the U.S. 4 million jobs MADELINE MCCALLUM Staff Reporter

Donald Trump has said he would deport 11 million undocumented workers in the United States. But his alma mater predicts large economic repercussions based on his immigration plan.

An online simulator created by the Wharton School predicts that Trump’s immigration reform would result in the loss of nearly 4 million jobs. This online tool, the Penn Wharton Budget Model’s Immigration Policy Simulator, allows users to better understand the predicted economic impact of future immigration reform in the nation.

“A lot of undocumented workers are taking on jobs that frankly no one else wants, so it’s

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Because universities don’t release the STI rates of the student body, the report used what the Vice author called a “Macgyverlevel resourcefulness with data,” by instead using a STI rates of the surrounding region — in Penn’s case, the entire city of Philadelphia.

Using county-wide data for

unlikely those jobs are going to be filled,” said Wharton economics professor Kent Smetters said in a CNN interview. Smetters led the team that created forecasting tool by using census data.

Sociology Professor Amada Armenta — who researches how government bureaucracies respond to the presence of Latino immigrants and how Latino immigrants adapt to life in the U.S. — was not surprised that the model would predict that Trump’s plan would devastate the U.S. economy.

“We are talking about people who have built their lives here, and who have kids and who have families and are very much a part of American society, and so Trump’s immigration plan of enforcement first is part of a long tradition of failed immigration policies,” Armenta said. “Border enforcement and deportation for example, they

don’t stop people from coming, but they trap people in place once they get here.”

The simulator allows users to adjust for changes in factors such as the nation’s net legal immigration, the percent of skilled and educated immigrants, rates of deportation, new paths to citizenship for current and then view the probable effects on the U.S. gross domestic product.

If Trump were to deport 10 percent of undocumented workers per year during two terms in office, based on the limitations of the model, the U.S. would have about 156 million jobs in 2030, compared to the 160 million jobs that the country would have with the its current immigration policies.

Sociology professor and research associate at Penn’s Population Studies Center Chenoa Flippen said the national debate over the impact of immigration and wages is about

whether people who immigrated to the United States compete or complement people who are native to the United States. Flippen said that immigration into the country can also bring more jobs and services.

“There’s an argument that they create what we would call upstream jobs, so not only more low-skilled jobs, but also create highly skilled jobs like teachers, accountants, dentists, doctors, etc.” Flippen said.

“They consume a lot of services, especially because they are a relatively young population and tend to have children in the U.S.” Hillary Clinton’s current immigration plan focuses on simplifying the path to citizenship for undocumented workers in America. If she were to offer legal status to 10 percent of undocumented immigrants, the model predicts the nation would lose 400,000 jobs by 2030.

STIs in place of data specific to Penn is what’s known as a proxy measure, explained Nguyen.

“I do find that it is easy to use numbers in creative ways and proxy measures can be very helpful in many ways, but you have to use them with a level of sophistication,” Nguyen said. “If the way you use it is too crude, it can lead you down a very misleading path.”

In this case, the report could

hypothetically have instead ranked Drexel University or Temple University, and would have listed the exact same STI rate.

“We know that the population of our campus is very different from the general population of the city of Philadelphia,” Nguyen said. “You can be misled tremendously if you were to read the headline alone.”

The statistics for sexual

assaults draw their data from the Association of American Universities Campus Climate Survey conducted in 2015. However, the survey measured various indicators of sexual assault on campus, and the report does not mention which indicator it is using.

The Director of Campus Health Ashlee Halbritter, was also confused by some of the methods used in the report.

“It almost seems as if they

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The repercussions of Trump’s plan to deport undocumented immigrants will harm the economy more than it will help, Wharton’s model says.

pooled a bunch of questions and their datasets together, which can be a very inappropriate use or communication of data results,” Halbritter said.

Also, sexual assault rates do not include incidents that go unreported, so a higher rate does not necessarily imply more sexual assaults, but could rather imply that more students are reporting them. The article even admits that unreported sexual assaults are “projected to be much higher than represented in these visualizations.”

Halbritter added that the report could have used college-based data from the National College Health Assessment data.

“Penn-specific data is not available publicly, but there’s already a dataset that exists primarily for the college population and it’s surprising that they didn’t use it,” Halbritter said.

The article was particularly surprising to Nguyen — he believes Penn has been a leader in sexual health. He pointed out that free condoms are available at various locations on campus, and other contraceptive care and STI testing is offered at SHS. Nguyen also noted that Penn is one of the first universities to offer transgender health services through the student health insurance plan, which includes coverage for hormone therapy.

The Campus Health program also participates in Sex Week, the sexual health programming required for members of Greek organizations.

The University has also taken

measures to address sexual assault on campus, and just this year, the Vice Provost for University Life added two new positions dedicated to sexual violence prevention and awareness.

When recent protesters posted flyers denouncing a suggestive email as perpetuating rape culture, the University supported the students’ actions as “consistent with the University’s ongoing efforts and the national conversation about preventing and responding to sexual misconduct.”

“I was really kind of baffled when I saw that headline and so that’s one of the challenges when we see these types of reports,” Nguyen said.

This is not the first time that Penn’s sexual culture has made headlines. The New York Times famously published an article in 2013 titled ‘She Can Play That Game Too’ that claimed that Penn women prefer casual sex over relationships to focus on career ambitions. The article was based on interviews with 60 women, and not on any statistical data.

“This is a startup that’s trying to get people to visit their website,” Nguyen said, referring to The State of Education. “I would caution folks to use the data with a grain of salt.”

“I do think that it’s important for consumers of media and especially pop culture media to view data with the appropriate lens,” Halbritter said. “I think this is a good example of a very gross misrepresentation of data.”

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season,” he said. “We have an opportunity to have a voice and put bipartisanship out there.”

The chapter’s treasurer Osiris Childs , a College sophomore, also saw Goldberg’s post in the Facebook group. He said that he joined for the opportunity to become part of a political group on campus after becoming more politically involved last semester. He said he was drawn to No Labels because of its bipartisan platform, as he is still learning and deciding where he stands politically.

“Even now, I’m still trying to figure out my political views,” he said.

Childs added that his primary goal for the chapter is to grow its presence on Penn’s campus, because he wants to promote and educate other students about the benefits of bipartisanship.

“No Labels can offer a fresh perspective on the political world,” he said.

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together to solve the many problems that our country has,” he explained. “We are trying to find nonpartisan solutions to these problems that get politicized a lot.”

Goldberg, who considers himself politically independent, started the chapter to help bring more nonpartisan political advocacy to campus.

“I feel like Penn is a very politically polarized campus,” he said. “There was no bipartisan political advocacy group.”

No Labels Executive Vice President Ethan Arbess, a Wharton sophomore, decided he wanted to participate in the organization after Goldberg posted about it in the Class of 2019 Facebook group. He said he had been familiar with No Labels since he was in high school.

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Penn Medicine succeeds in 1,000th lung transplant Lung transplant program most successful in region SHOBA BABU Staff Reporter

The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania has helped 1,000 people breathe again.

As of late August, Penn Medicine’s Lung Transplant Program completed its 1,000th lung transplant — a feat shared by only four other lung transplant programs in the country. The Penn Lung Transplant Program, which was established in 1991, is part of the Penn Transplant Institute, the largest multi-organ transplant center in the Philadelphia region.

“We’re excited to have reached such a momentous milestone for the Penn Lung Transplant Program,” said James Lee, medical director of the Penn Lung Transplantation Program, in a press release. “This milestone celebrates the positive impact we’ve had on the lives of our patients, and the difference we have

made for those who have received lung transplants at Penn Medicine.”

Penn Medicine has a history of breaking barriers in the field. The first successful isolated lung transplant in the Delaware Valley was performed at HUP on New Year’s Day in 1992 by Larry Kaiser, who at the time was one of the few surgeons worldwide trained in the procedure.

Since its formation, the Lung Transplant Program has performed more adult lung transplants than any other program in the Philadelphia area. The program has performed an average of 50 transplants per year in the last 15 years and is on track to complete 80 by the end of 2016.

The Program attributes its success to its multidisciplinary approach to patient care, which allows it to treat patients in a more swift, efficient manner. The evaluation process is the coordinated effort of Penn Medicine’s Lung Transplant Team, which consists of physicians, nurses, counselors and surgeons, among others.

The team works with patients

and their families to determine eligibility for transplantation, works with Gift of Life Donor Program — the regional organ procurement organization and the largest organ procurement organization in the country — to match patients and donors, and follows patients closely after post-operative care to ensure that the transplanted organ is working properly and that patients are recovering strongly.

“With the expertise our team has gained over the years, we are committed to offering all available treatment options, and alternatives, that allow patients to receive a lung transplant swiftly,” said Christian Bermudez, the surgical director of Lung Transplantation and Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in a press release. “Following this tremendous milestone, it is my hope and the goal of the program that our multidisciplinary team continues to further our expertise, advance the field of transplantation and give our patients the opportunity to really get their lives back.”

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The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania has reached a momentous milestone in completing its 1,000th lung transplant, a feat only accomplished by four other institutions in the country.

Students rave about new Amazon@Penn location and services The location offers students speedy deliveries JACOB WINICK Staff Reporter

The new Amazon pickup location might seem like something out of a science fiction movie, but no traces of laser beam transporters or intergalactic involvement have been discovered. Just a lot of happy students.

The Amazon@Penn location opened last May and has since impressed students with its convenience and use of new technology.

“This is what the future looks like,” College sophomore Isaac Dayan said. “Whenever I talk with people about this place, we even call it ‘the future.’ Want to come see the future with me?”

As if magic doors and fast service weren’t enough, the site also has couches and tables where students can try to work or play on one of Amazon’s video game consoles.

“It’s an overall very nice place to work or just hang out,” Engineering sophomore Evan Weinstein said. “Maybe people haven’t figured out that they can work in here. Once they do, I’m sure it’ll be packed.”

The Amazon location works by emailing users a bar code when their package arrives. These barcodes can then be scanned from a phone at a kiosk, causing a small door to swing open, and uncovering a package, as if beamed in from a different dimension.

“It works like magic,” College junior Kathy Zhang said.

Deborah Bass, an Amazon

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Amazon@Penn offers students fast and even same-day delivery all from the convenient location under 1920 Commons.

spokesperson, said she was glad to hear that students were fully utilizing the space.

“It’s great to hear from students that they are loving it because it is our first interactive space that

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we have on a campus. It’s nice to know that people are enjoying the convenience of the service,” Bass said.

Located directly above Starbucks, many students have been

impressed to find that they can pick up their packages faster than it takes a barista to spray a pile of whip cream atop their caramel frappuccino.

“I’ve had everything shipped here,” Wharton sophomore Savi Joshi said. “It’s super convenient and much faster than a package room. You come in, a door swings open and you’re done.”

The Amazon pickup location also gives Penn students who are Amazon Student or Amazon Prime members the option to get free same-day delivery on many items if ordered before noon, and free next day delivery if ordered before 10 p.m.

“I love Amazon in general, so this seems like a very convenient place,” College senior Caroline Boehm said. “I especially like that I can make returns without

paying a shipping fee.”

Shipping directly to Penn’s campus is especially important for students who live off campus and are worried their packages could be misplaced or stolen.

“It’s a super convenient place.

Sometimes when I ordered things to my house they were lost, but now I can just have them shipped here,” said Seung-Ryong Shin, a second-year Ph.D student studying economics.

This was one of the main reasons Penn was interested in renting the space out to Amazon.

“Our public safety has had concerns about packages being stolen off the front stoops of students’ houses,” said Executive Director of Business Services Doug Berger. “This way students have a convenient and safe place to pick up their packages.”

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OPINION Overlooking opioids CUP O’ JOE | We need to pay more attention to the heroin epidemic

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Opioid dependency — and subsequent heroin addiction — has skyrocketed over the last 15 years. Yet there has been relatively little coverage when compared to the scope of the problem.

This crisis predominantly affects people outside of the Penn sphere — mostly ages 25-59 and those without any college education. We are too young and, by virtue of even attending university, too educated to be the main demographic affected. You may not even know about it — but you should, because its effects are causing the whole country to suffer.

Opioids are a class of drugs with analgesic effects, aka painkillers. They include both legal and illegal drugs, such as oxycodone (OxyContin), hydrocodone (Vicodin), morphine and heroin. They are arguably the most addictive drugs that exist, with severe withdrawal symptoms.

Although this problem cannot be traced to a single cause, a major factor in creating this epidemic was overprescription. Due to pharmaceutical pressures and systemic issues

in health care delivery, there has been a tendency for doctors to liberally recommend painkilling drugs which are highly addictive.

The statistics are alarming.

Information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows the number of legal painkiller prescriptions has increased by over 300 percent, yet the amount of “pain” to “kill” has not significantly changed, let alone quadrupled. Since 1999, the amount of overdose-related deaths have quadrupled. Opioids are involved in 61 percent of overdose deaths.

Some pharmaceutical companies are to blame. The manufacturer of OxyContin, Purdue Pharmaceuticals, knowingly hid evidence that its alleged 12 hour delayedrelease pill faded sooner than expected in order to protect profits. With instructions to take every 12 hours and the effects fading sooner, patients suffered withdrawal. When someone develops opioid dependency and runs out of legal means, they turn to illegal means, e.g. street heroin.

The drugs they use as al-

ternatives in the United States are almost exclusively provided by Mexican and South American drug cartels, who are not held to the rigorous safety standards that legal pharmaceutical companies

overdose deaths, of which opioids are the primary cause.

Once isolated to a small pocket in Appalachia, over the last 15 years it has permeated the rest of the nation as well. According to the Philadelphia

Opioid dependency – and subsequent heroin addiction – has skyrocketed over the last 15 years.” must follow.

Thus, cartels are free to engage in dangerous practices, such as mixing in compounds like fentanyl, a version of heroin 50 times more clinically potent, or carfentanyl — better known as elephant tranquilizer — approximately 5,000 times more powerful.

These drugs create a more intense high, but at increased risk of overdose, such as in the recent high-profile death of the musician Prince.

The New York Times released an infographic showing the geographic spread of

Department of Public Health, the number of overdoses has doubled since 2003 in Philadelphia County. In addition, the proportion of Emergency Department visits attributable to overdose has risen from 40 percent to 67 percent.

This problem has also created a collateral AIDS epidemic. HIV can be transmitted by the needles involved in heroin use. This is most egregious in places such as Austin, Ind., a town of 4,000 with 190 confirmed HIV+ cases, most of which were transmitted within the last two years.

However, there are solutions to combat this problem — but we have to work to implement them. First and foremost, we cannot continue to treat drug addiction as a crime.

Pharmacies like Walgreens and CVS have taken a necessary step by allowing naloxone, the antidote for opioids, to be available over the counter without a prescription in many states. States must make it easier to access the antidote.We can also consider the policies that other countries who have faced similar problems, like Switzerland, Portugal and Uruguay, have implemented. Plans such as supervised injection sites or opioid substitution therapy with methadone (a weaker, longer lasting version of heroin that can curb withdrawal) can prevent unnecessary deaths.

Finally, we must attack the barriers addicts face in getting treatment. There is a massive stigma in even discussing the issue, let alone admitting you have a problem and seeking help. Furthermore, there are few clinics that specialize

JOE THARAKAN in treating heroin addiction, and oftentimes patients do not have the resources, such as reliable transportation, to consistently go to such health care centers.

Nonetheless, overcoming this problem will take time, effort and significant commitment. Even if we implement all of these solutions, it appears as though it is going to get worse before it gets better.

But we cannot continue to sit on our hands as this problem rages on.

JOE THARAKAN is a College senior from the Bronx, in the Biological Basis of Behavior program. His email address is jthara@sas.upenn.edu. “Cup o’ Joe” usually appears every other Saturday.

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Penn’s “gender wage gap”

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Two weeks ago, The Daily Pennsylvanian highlighted a claim in a recent Senate Committee report that there is a gender wage gap at Penn. This “2-3 percent” gap — favoring male professors with extra pay for apparently equal work — was underscored as gravely concerning due to its “compounding effect ... over a faculty member’s career.”

I began investigating this startling allegation on the assumption that a reporter had misrepresented the mathematical statements of the Senate Committee.

To my surprise, I found instead that the Senate Committee had constructed a “distressing” “gender bias in salary” at Penn by making two numerically illiterate arguments, one muddled and the other — as written — plainly false.

Naturally, I doubted myself — and tried to contact the Office of the Faculty Senate with no response.

But after consulting with friends and getting second and third opinions from professors, I concluded that the report did, indeed, assert an impactful gender wage gap at Penn without

data-driven support.

The report draws on two separate studies of earnings by gender at Penn — one conducted externally and the other by the Senate Committee itself. The external analysis, after correcting for field, rank and time in rank, found a gender earnings gap of “less than 2 percent.”

Accordingly, the Committee did not use the external analysis to claim a gender wage bias at Penn.

Instead, it underscored its own finding of a “2-3 percent” earnings gap, adjusted for field and rank. But the Senate Committee explicitly states that this gap was “not statistically significant on an annual basis.”

Nor could they claim it was statistically significant on any other basis — for their analysis did not incorporate data from previous years.

Statistically insignificant results, as professor Abraham Wyner of the Statistics Department explained, indicate that the test applied to find a difference between male and female wages failed to prove any probable disparity between the two. That is, the 2-3 percent

wage gap in the particular sample of professors studied might have been the result of random chance. A different sampling of similarly situated Penn professors — in a different fiscal year, for instance — might produce no gap at all, or even show men earning, on

states that “an annual 2 percent difference in salaries would result in 22 percent more total earnings for a typical male faculty member over 10 years than a typical female faculty member, and a gap of 48 percent more total earnings over 20 years.”

... the Committee’s assumption that their statistically insignificant results represents systematic ‘gender bias in salary’ is unsubstantiated at best.” average, less than women.

Thus, the Committee’s assumption that their statistically insignificant results represent systematic “gender bias in salary” is unsubstantiated at best.

But the report builds upon this assumption an even more incredible claim.

Apparently conscious that a 2-3 percent wage gap — if statistically significant — still might seem unalarming, the Committee

As Wyner explains, in order for the gap to compound over time as the Committee assumes, the percent difference between male and female salaries could not remain constant at 2 percent every year. Instead, men would have to enjoy 2 percent higher raises annually. “So, if men were getting — say — 4 percent raises, women would have to be getting less than 2 percent raises.” But the report

specifically investigated the possibility of difference in “annual salary increases” and found a “general parity” — both male and female professors receiving approximately 3 percent raises every year.

This leaves no room for reinterpreting the reports’ absurd assertion that a constant 2 percent annual difference in salaries would result in “48 percent more total earnings over 20 years” for men. And even a high schooler can calculate that if Jill earns exactly 98 percent of Jack’s salary every year, the difference in total earnings between Jack and Jill will remain at exactly 2 percent, no matter how many years may pass.

Thus, the “gender bias in salary” of “2-3 percent” at Penn — purported to have enormous significance on a typical female professor’s total earnings — turns out to be quite possibly nonexistent and, even if we brashly assume it does exist, an inconsequential percentage of total earnings over a career.

How did a panel of professors at Penn make such simple mistakes smack in

JEREMIAH KEENAN the middle of a sophisticated examination of salaries at one of the most progressive institutions in America?

It is hard to say. But the error made Wyner recall Richard Feynman’s first principle of science: You must not fool yourself, for you are the easiest person to fool. It is just possible that someone wanted so badly to find consequential gender wage bias at Penn that they fooled themselves into discovering the result they were looking for.

JEREMIAH KEENAN is a College senior from China, studying mathematics and classical studies. His email address is jkeenan@sas.upenn.edu.

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ties seven days a week at 3406 Sansom Street.

“Still no one has nothing like this in the city or the [Penn] campus,” says Shahidi, who prefers to keep his sentences curt and to the point. “Nowhere can you find this.”

This is John Shahidi’s timeless oasis and to understand Avril 50’s story, you have to understand John’s.

You couldn’t find the quirky shop until 1984 when Shahidi decided to open it while he was working toward his MBA at Penn. Before coming to the United States to get his master’s degree, Shahidi obtained a bachelor’s degree in accounting in Tehran and performed two years of mandatory military service in the Iranian military.

“I didn’t want to, but I had to!” Shahidi says laughing, his Middle-Eastern tanned cheeks expanding below his slick black hair. “I didn’t mind. It was a great experience. You get to know the life, how hardship is.”

After his military service Shahidi left Iran with his wife Shiva Vakili, who also received advanced degrees from Penn, to study together in the United States. They had plans to study in the West and eventually go back to their home country.

That all changed when the the Iranian Revolution started in 1979, three years after they arrived in the United States.

The civil unrest that followed replaced a U.S.-supported, semi-absolute monarchy with an anti-Western authoritarian theocracy.

Shahidi hasn’t been back since.

“I have no interest [in going back],” says Shahidi, without going into much detail. “It’s a different country. I’ve lived here for about 40 years and over there for 25 years.”

During the revolution his family’s money transfers, which financed his education, were cut off. He had to get to work. He took classes during the day, had a part-time job in Penn’s linguistics department and managed

the different businesses housed at Penn’s Houston Hall at night.

That wasn’t enough for Shahidi, who runs on four hours of sleep and ten cups of coffee a day and “probably five or six [espresso] shots in between.”

In 1984, he rented an empty storefront he saw on Sansom Street and started Avril 50 — Shahidi was born in April, ‘avril’ in French and Persian, of 1950. Initially, the store had a sit-down cafe in the basement, run by two of his employees.

He was ambitious enough to open an Avril 50 in Rittenhouse Square and another in the Philadelphia suburbs.

Shahidi was forced to close the latter two shops soon after, however. Several robberies and his wife’s assault at the Rittenhouse location were the culminating points for his decision. He also realized that the shop’s edgy concept wasn’t compatible in the older, conservative city suburbs. Managing his coursework while running the sit-down cafe at the basement of the Penn shop became too overwhelming, so he decided to close that part of the shop for good.

The Avril 50 that remained, the first floor storefront now tucked in between a college sports bar and a BBQ joint, has become John Shahidi’s timeless refuge in the United States.

“I don’t know. I call it oasis,” Shahidi says. “It takes you off of the wilderness out there, out of the real world that is chaos. You come here, relax, and go.”

Customers seem to feel the same way. Mauricio Gandara, a College senior from Mexico who frequents the store every couple of days, uses Avril 50 as an escape within campus. He first visited the shop in August 2015 to buy tobacco, but he has become one of Shahidi’s regulars ever since trying a cup of the Iranian’s signature Avril 50 Blend on that first visit.

“It’s like a nice break from campus, inside campus,” Gandara says. “It’s very different from any other place you go on campus at Penn.”

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1980 Wharton MBA graduate John Shahidi has been running Avril 50 — a coffee shop that sells niche magazines and a vareity of tobacco products — for over three decades.

years has been Shahidi’s goal, yet his biggest challenge.

A declining print industry has affected the amount of newspapers he gets delivered to his shop every morning. Shahidi says he used to sell dailies from all over the country at one point.

As newspapers struggle worldwide, the business owner has been forced to cope.

“All these slots, they used to be for newspapers,” says Shahidi, pointing at a dozen shelves across the counter that are now stocked with art magazines, some outdated.

Although the magazine industry has also been hit hard by the advent of the internet and a generation of young readers more prone to reading from their laptops and cellphones, Shahidi says that his eccentric magazines sell to a niche market that has survived.

“Most of the people that buy them, they’re mostly designers and artists,” says the Iranian, who also received a master’s

in international relations from Penn. “You don’t see the detail of the stuff that is on a magazine on the screen of a computer.”

Even the change in the tobacco industry has made it increasingly hard for Shahidi to carry the variety of brands he used to sell before. He boasted selling more than 120 different brands from all over the world at one point.

Although Shahidi notes that living conditions in the city have changed for the better over the years, he yearns for the “little shops here and there” and is skeptical about the increased commercial activity around Penn’s campus.

Despite a changing economy, a transforming commercia l la ndscape a round

Penn’s campus and the distinct preferences of new generations, Shahidi is committed to being the steward of a bygone generation.

“Why do you think I stay the same?” repeats Shahidi when asked. “Nothing is the same, so I stay the same. Because things are old, it doesn’t mean they’re bad… being outdated is not bad.”

He is proud his coffee has remained virtually unchanged over decades. Shahidi continues to use the same Italian espresso machines he has used for over 20 years, noting he has to get them repaired regularly.

His signature secret ‘Avril 50’ coffee blend? The same.

“The Avril is one I blended myself here,” says Shahidi

proudly. “It took me two years to come up with that blend that everybody loves. I have never seen anyone not like it.”

For Shahidi, it’s his customers who keep him going. He says he doesn’t have a favorite customer and strives to see each one for who they are as an individual, not “as a number like a lot of these store chains do.”

He sparks short conversations with the most frequent ones that come for their daily caffeine boost. The new ones he acknowledges with his unfaltering attention from behind the counter, which has an assortment of chocolates from around the world along with remaining copies of the first “Charlie Hebdo” issues printed following the terrorist attacks on its Paris headquarters last year.

His former customers keep returning to Avril 50 — which he also calls a time capsule — long after they leave Penn’s campus. Shahidi constantly greets Penn graduates who stop by the shop “to get the feeling of old youth” when they visit the University.

“It’s the same thing that they went through as students,” says Shahidi, who is proud of his ability to remember the cigarette brands his most loyal customers bought during their time at Penn. “The smell is even the same. It takes them back to their youth. I’ve seen three generations almost. I’ve seen sons and grandsons.”

It’s been 33 years since the Iranian opened his oasis, which he intends to continue running as long as he is still standing.

Since then, wars and revolutions have come and gone, generations of Penn students have come and gone, businesses on Sansom Street have come and gone, but John Shahidi and Avril 50 have not gone.

“Nothing has changed,” Shahidi says. “Tea, magazines, coffee, tobacco.”

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W. SOCCER | Quakers

and the previously undefeated Leopards by scores of 2-1, capitalizing on offense and weathering formidable attacks. All of the Quakers’ goals were scored in the first half, another sign that their firepower has been refined and they have the ability to go and grab the leads.

Perhaps the narrow margins might indicate room for improvement, as the Red and Blue were outshot by Delaware and conceded a goal on a set piece to Lafayette, but Penn coach Nicole Van Dyke is more than satisfied with her team’s efforts. “I don’t think any coach is concerned with success. It’s hard to score goals so anytime we put the ball in the back of the net we’re happy,� she said. “We’re off to a quick start in terms of scoring early and really putting our stamp on the game.�

The Tigers (2-5-1) and the Dragons (4-4) will not be pushovers, so Van Dyke’s squad will have to maintain their level of performance.

Towson is coming off a split decision at the Navy Invitational last weekend, and while their record isn’t too stellar, their 5-1 trouncing of Bowling Green proves they can cause problems. Meanwhile, Drexel was dominated by No. 23 Rutgers, 5-0, but wins against Villanova and Fairfield are impressive nonetheless.

Confidence is certainly high right now, but players know that past successes do not ensure future

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If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Penn women’s soccer is thinking just that heading into the weekend coming off a three-game winning streak.

The Quakers (3-1-0) will look to continue their recent dominance when they host Towson and neighbors Drexel on Friday and Sunday, respectively.

The Red and Blue are coming in with loads of momentum, after picking up two solid wins this past weekend at Delaware and at home against Lafayette. What’s more, the team is feeling the immediate impact of some of their youngsters, with freshmen scoring three out the team’s four goals in those victories.

On top of that, freshmen also put together two of the three assists that weekend.

Penn defeated both the Blue Hens

that it’s over now,� Loving said. “We’re gonna learn from those games and work on everything in practices and keep going forward.

The wins are great and all, but have to keep moving towards the next match.�

In discussing the goal tally of

late, sophomore Sasha Stephens, who picked up an assist against Lafayette, explained the next step to keep the streak going. “We just need to keep doing what we’re doing. We’ve been winning and we’ve been scoring,� Stephens said. “We’ve already scored almost

as many goals as last year so that you can already see we are on an excellent track. Everyone is getting up there and scoring and assisting, and just working their butts off.�

Results this weekend will be especially important for the Quakers, with the exciting Ivy League season looming. With only two more chances to shore everything up before facing the likes of Harvard and Cornell, Van Dyke is looking to get the kinks out right away.

She discussed her keys for these two tests ahead, really looking to get players to gel and find that rhythm with one another. “We’re trying to build on ourselves every weekend that we play,�

Van Dyke said. “We’re trying to improve our speed of play, and really connect the lines; our backs with the midfielders, our midfielders with the forwards, and being able to skip lines. Also building the relationships between the players, understanding each other’s tendencies like where they want the ball and what foot, and that continues to build day by day.�

With conference play on the horizon, the Red and Blue will certainly aim to keep the ball rolling. Wins this weekend would do wonders for their confidence going into the grueling stretch ahead, especially if they keep coming from the feet of the newcomers.

This begs the question: Is this just a hot streak, or are the Quakers here to stay?

WHITINGS

to try to get the best out of us. We always push each other.�

Thanks to their healthy competitive drive, the two have managed to approach fabled territory at the top of Penn distance-running record books. The two of them both have entries in the top-10 all-time records at the 3K and 5K distances, as well as the indoor mile. With any luck, their final year the Red and Blue could see them claim an all-time record or two. If not, perhaps they could still help guide team MVP Montgomery to yet another of her own.

But running isn’t the only thing the Whiting sisters have in common. Academically, their interests overlap significantly — they both even share the title of biology major. They’re also enrolled in the same genetics class this semester, in which they are learning the details of what it’s like to be a “carbon copy,� as Cleo put it, of one another.

The two may be identical twins, but they aren’t carbon copies in appearance. Sure, it’s hard to tell without knowing them, but they do have conventions for those who are unsure.

Cleo wears a nose ring on her left nostril, while Clarissa has one on

her right. Their hairs are different lengths. Some people close to them have even guessed that they are fraternal twins. “We did some testing [at Penn] this summer, because everyone likes to make bets on whether we’re actually identical or not,�

Cleo said. “It was really fun.�

Fun is something identical twins can have a lot of, if they’re mischievous enough — and while the Whitings said they’d feel too guilty to play serious pranks, they do enjoy having a bit of fun with their situation. “We do like to trick everybody sometimes,� Cleo joked. “I don’t let anybody off the hook, if they really want to know [which twin I am], I’ll have them guess.�

They’re also living together, after three years apart. The two share an apartment with a third teammate this year, so that they can keep each other accountable in their studies and their training.

It’s easy to assume that their training programs this year, much like their DNA, will be the same.

So if they can hold each other to it, the Whiting sisters could find themselves at the top of a podium or two this year.

And who knows — they could just even share it together.

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As Penn women’s soccer looks to continue its offensive success, Quakers coach Nicole Van Dyke will turn to sophomore forward Sasha Stephens, who led the Red and Blue in goals and points her freshman year.

victories, and are ready to get back to work. Freshman Emma Loving, who notched a key goal against Delaware, noted the team’s recent optimistic mindset. “I think that we’re really positive right now. We’re really excited about the three wins, but we know

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But as the twins put it, running side by side for them is second nature. “We’ve been running together so much that it is very easy for us to run close to each other, without tripping each other up,� Clarissa said. “Especially on the track, but even during cross country races, we can be a small little wall, because we’re so comfortable being next to each other. ... It is easier for us, because we trust each other so much.�

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Saint Joe’s will likely struggle to accomplish anything at the Big 5 Tournament this weekend, on account of not having a volleyball team, but Penn and the other three squads involved enter the round-robin affair with high hopes.

The Quakers will see some more local action this weekend, the final weekend before Ivy League play kicks off. Penn (3-5) will host La Salle (7-4) at the Palestra on Friday night before heading to the Explorers’ gym to face Villanova (7-3) and Temple (4-3) on Saturday.

Last year, Penn went 1-2 at the tournament, losing to Villanova at the Palestra before heading to Temple, where the Red and Blue lost to the Owls and topped La Salle.

“We really have settled down into a way to do it that’s fair for all four teams,” Penn coach Kerry Carr said of the mobile, multi-arena tournament. “It used to be in the Palestra every year, but everyone has nice arenas. We have to keep the Big 5 tradition of it being in the Palestra every year, but [we wondered] how do we make it so all four teams can have a home tournament?

“We came up with this: We’ll start in the Palestra every year on the Friday. And we’re going to rotate the Saturday among the three other schools. So last year it was Temple, and this year it’s La Salle, and next year it’ll be Villanova. It’s cool that everybody gets a turn to host.”

The Quakers are coming off of three wins in four games at last week’s Penn Invitational, a solid bounce back from the 0-4 trip to Houston that opened the season.

The Red and Blue were led by a phenomenal performance from freshman outside hitter Caroline Furrer, who had 20 kills in one match against George Mason on Saturday. But Carr thinks it could be the middle hitters who

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Although Penn volleyball has struggled to attack efficiently this season, freshman Zoe Macartney has managed to lead the team in attack percentage, hitting .321 in limited time so far in her rookie campaign.

break out this time around.

“I would say our middles really started coming on in the last game [a win against

Former assistant returns to Penn M. SOCCER | Rob Irvine

back at helm for La Salle

Lafayette], and they just started clicking with our offense and blocking great. We have three middles in there that all hit

600 percent but all had a small number of kills. We’ll try to get them the ball more so we can see a larger volume of kills from

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Rhodes Field

In 2008 and 2013, Rob Irvine was on the sideline as Penn men’s soccer won the Ivy League Championship. After an eightyear tenure from 2006-14 as one of head coach Rudy Fuller’s most trusted assistants, Irvine will once again be coaching at Rhodes field.

This Saturday, however, he will be standing in front of the away team’s bench, as head coach of La Salle.

The Quakers (0-1-3) will be looking for their first win of the season as they take on the Explorers (5-1-0), a team that, despite hiring Irvine as their head coach barely a month before its opening game, has had a tremendous start to their year.

When asked about going up against each another, Irvine and Fuller both showed respect for the other as a coach and friend.

“I don’t think there is a better mentor than Rudy when it comes to learning how to handle players and get the most out of them,” Irvine said. “It was such a meaningful eight years at Penn and it really shaped me into the coach I am today.”

“I was thrilled when Rob got the job at La Salle,” Fuller said.

“Obviously we are very close. He’s a tremendous coach and when he was going through the interview process I told him and the La Salle

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Penn quarterback Billy Ragone.

“Our defense has been preparing for this game for a while now.”

Saturday’s contest will be the first game under the captaincy of seniors Cam Countryman, Nick Demes and Donald Panciello, who were voted to the role in August.

The contest will carry particular weight for Demes, an offensive lineman who will be going face-toface — quite literally — with his high school teammate and “best friend,” Lehigh defensive lineman Jimmy Mitchell. Mitchell is also the brother of Ryan Mitchell, a former tight end for the Quakers who graduated in 2014.

“We decided on where we were going to college at about the same time,” Demes said. “When we saw the schedule come out before junior year, it was pretty exciting.

It’s going to be nice to get a [second] chance to play against him.”

Mitchell had a decent performance in the first matchup between the two, picking up a sack, though that was his only tackle of the game.

those people.”

One middle to watch in particular is freshman Zoe Macartney, who leads the team with a .321 hitting percentage.

With a solid performance, the Red and Blue can get to or even above the .500 mark, but Carr isn’t setting any benchmarks heading into the weekend.

“With our young team, I’m not going to put any numbers on them. We’re just going to try to improve every game, because our endgame is how we’re going to finish in the Ivy League. And we’re going to do whatever we need to do to keep improving to get to that goal.”

And even if things go poorly on the scoreboard at the Big 5 Tournament — if Penn emerges from its preseason finale against Delaware on Tuesday with an ugly record — Carr will have no regrets.

“It’s not about making the schedule super easy, and then, you know, you’re undefeated, but what would that prepare you for? We challenged ourselves in this preseason. We know we have a challenging weekend ahead of us, all three teams have done very well.”

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After eight years as an assistant for Rudy Fuller and Penn men’s soccer, Rob Irvine is coming back to Rhodes Field as a first-year head coach at La Salle.

people that he was one of the best young coaches in the country and if they were serious about winning, then he was the guy to do it.”

A few of the Penn players will be lining up against the coach who recruited them years before.

“Most of all I’m just excited to see him,” Matt Poplawski said.

“Alec Neumann and I are the only ones who were recruited by him, but a lot of the guys know him. It will be fun to see him, but other than that it will be a normal game.”

The Quakers struggled last season with injuries to their upperclassmen, including several that made up the core of their midfield and forwards. The injuries were magnified by the youth on the team that had to quickly be thrust into the heart of Ivy League play.

This season however, the sophomores have a year under their belt, everyone is healthy and their play

“We trained together and we’ve generally been supportive of each other, but when we get out on the field we’re definitely going to be competitors,” Demes said, laughing.

A year ago, Priore acknowledged that the team was playing at a bit of a disadvantage considering Lehigh had already played two games prior to the matchup, Penn’s first of the season. While the same will be the case in 2016, the second-year coach believes they will be confident and prepared Saturday in a way they weren’t a year ago.

“There are advantages and disadvantages to it being the first game of the year. ... If we can keep things in check in that first quarter, survive that first bit of jitters, I think we’ll fare well.”

At this time a year ago, things were a lot different for Penn football. Coming off of a 2-8 season and the unretirement of Al Bagnoli, the Red and Blue were looking for little more than tangible improvement. Instead, they got a conference title.

Now, it’s time to prove that it wasn’t a fluke.

reflects that.

The improved play has led Penn to three ties against solid opponents, but the Quakers are still left searching for that illustrious first win.

“I think when this team gets that first win, they’re going to get a taste for it and go on a bit of a run,” Fuller said. “This is a talented group and they need to get that win, but when they do it will feed itself.”

And despite the relationship between the two head coaches, once the opening whistles sounds, it will all be about winning.

“We both want to beat each other, we’re both really competitive guys. But we it comes down to it, it’s just Penn versus La Salle.

Rob and I won’t be scoring goals or making saves, so it’s just our job to prepare our teams as best we can and the game is for the players.”

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Lehigh set to visit for season opener

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After unexpectedly posting a 7-3 record and cruising to an Ivy League title a season ago, Penn football will kick off its 2016 season Saturday, when it hosts Lehigh at Franklin Field.

The matchup represented an inauspicious opening act to the Quakers’ season last year.

The Mountain Hawks (0-2) scored early and often in a 42-21 win, Penn’s sixth straight loss to a non-conference opponent.

“It was really tough, to come out and get blown out last year,” said junior receiver Justin Watson, who tallied then-career highs with 10 catches for 143 yards in the loss.

“It was nice to experience a little personal success, but [this year] I’d like the team to experience something similar.”

While the Alek Torgersen-to-Watson combination will be alive and well for another year, the Quaker offense will be playing for the first time without its two tight ends from a season ago: graduated stars Ryan O’Malley and Ryan Kelly. The duo combined for seven touchdowns in 2015, and O’Malley is now in the NFL as a member of the Oakland Raiders’ practice squad.

“Coming in, that might be our biggest position of loss,” coach Ray Priore said. “But we have some young guys: [junior] Nick Bokun, who had some limited experience last year, and Logan Sharp, a sophomore who’s had a good camp.”

“I know [Bokun] is going to come out and give 100 percent, catch every ball and make some great blocks,” Watson added.

On the defensive side of the ball, the Red and Blue will be forced with containing Lehigh’s star senior quarterback Nick Shafnisky, who shredded the Quakers in last year’s matchup to the tune of 345 total yards and five touchdowns.

“What he’s really dangerous at ... is his ability to not only beat you with his arm, but his ability to scramble,” Priore said, comparing Shafnisky’s mobility to that of former

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A pair of Penn women’s cross country runners have been tearing up the trails in tandem, but their connection goes much deeper.

Seniors Cleo and Clarissa Whiting are entering their final year racing for the Red and Blue, and while some may find it hard to tell these twins apart, the stories of their college careers could hardly be more different.

In her freshman season, Cleo got off to a roaring start. After rising to the No. 1 spot on the team, she continued to rise into the regional rankings, until she ultimately got the chance at

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the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regionals to qualify for the 2013 NCAA Cross Country Championships. Cleo qualified and was the only Quaker to travel to nationals that year.

Clarissa, while still enjoying an undoubtedly impressive start to her college career, suffered through a few strings of injury problems her freshman and sophomore seasons. She found herself consistently in the top five of the team, but she wasn’t quite able to match her twin sister’s heights.

Until last year, that is.

With a full season uninterrupted by major injuries, Clarissa found herself

right on Cleo’s tail as they formed the core of the Quakers’ front pack along with fellow classmate Ashley Montgomery. Depending on the day, any one of the three could have stood at the top of the team’s ranking.

At the first meet of the season, Cleo finished third, with Clarissa in fourth.

One week later, Clarissa took tenth at the Main Line Invitational. Cleo took ninth. The two routinely finished within seconds of each other, usually either second or third for their team.

Montgomery hailed the Whiting sisters’ consistency as a key contributor to the her own success last year.

“They’re really good at consistency and maintaining a pace in the middle when I would sometimes want to fall off,” she said. “Honestly, I’m really lucky to have them as teammates, because I feel like I wouldn’t be able to do a lot of the things, or have the success I have without them.”

Montgomery then described how the three of them like to run together during races for as long as they can, so that they can bring out the best in each other. Packing up tightly, however, can carry its own risks, as trips and falls are SEE WHITINGS PAGE 6

MEMES DIDN’T START THE FIRE

[Disclaimer: Swamis is an exercise where The Daily Pennsylvanian’s editors make jokes and pick the Ivy League football games. Enjoy. – Books] Einstein, James Dean, Tommy’s got a funny meme.

PREDICTION: Nick will regret putting me in charge of Swamis for a week.

Bud & Folly, Ben-Hur, not enough space for Malia.

PREDICTION: There will be more teams tied for the Ivy League title than there are historical

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Tommy “Rosenbergs” Rothman

Tom “H-Bomb” Nowlan

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figures mentioned in We Didn’t Start The Fire.

Hemingway, Nick’s man, strangely proud of Cleveland.

PREDICTION: The Golden State Warriors became the first team to blow a 3-1 lead in the NBA Finals.

Jim from ACOMM, Funyak, Mike Mahoney, Kerouac.

PREDICTION: Print media will rise again.

Daniel Kurish, Charles de Gaulle, Arizona Fall Ball.

PREDICTION: Justin Watson will announce a stunning retirement

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Will “Panmunjom” Snow

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after junior year to join DP Sports.

Eric Dolan, lured away, what else do I have to say?

PREDICTION: Penn will top Stanford in the US News college rankings… and in football attendance.

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PREDICTION: In their second year under the greatest, most honest coach in Penn history, the Quakers will get off to a fast start.

Penn 27, Lehigh 17

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