September 15, 2016

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

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‘Nowhere can you find this’ …except here. 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

GENEVIEVE GLATSKY Staff Reporter

BOWMAN COOPER Staff Reporter

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. “We have two sides that need to work SEE CLUB PAGE 2

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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

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

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.” SEE SHS PAGE 2

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