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Students, faculty fear new travel ban’s effects President Trump will implement a revised travel ban that goes into effect on Oct. 18.

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When Persian literature professor Fatemeh Shams woke up the morning of Sept. 27, she was devastated to hear that officials of the United States Embassy in Dubai had rejected her Iranian mother’s visitor visa without reason, prolonging the amount of time that she has been unable to see her mother in person.

This incident came just days after President Donald Trump signed a presidential proclamation restricting travel to the United States for certain nationals from Chad, Iran, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela and Yemen. The order was signed on Sept. 24 — the last day of Trump’s revised travel ban, which had barred most foreigners from six Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States for 90 days.

When Trump’s latest proclamation goes into effect on Oct. 18, Shams said that neither she nor her mother will be able to visit each other. Shams said she goes to sleep every night fearing that she won’t have the opportunity to see her parents, who are in poor health, while they are still alive. Even though the majority of the proclamation’s restrictions won’t be implemented until next month, Trump’s announcement included a provision that called for its immediate application to nationals who are not judged to have a “bona fide relationship” with someone in the United States. An immediate family member lawfully residing in the United States is a typical example of a bona fide relationship.

Even though her mother’s visa application contained solid evidence for such a relationship, Shams said officials of the U.S. Embassy in Dubai denied her visa application without opening her file and accused her mother of lying about her daughter’s visa status in order to get into the United States.

“Not giving a visa to someone is one thing, treating them like the way they treated my mom is another,” she said. “They mistreated her, they called her a liar, they told her, ‘You’re going there to stay and not come back.’”

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Hundreds of people joined together Sept. 30 to attend the March to End Rape Culture in Philadelphia. The march, which started at Thomas Paine Plaza, included speakers from prominent organizations like Take Back the Night that advocate for an end to sexual assault and provide resources for survivors. Various students from schools across Philadelphia attended the march, including many from Penn.

Penn will now accept alternative to Common App The Coalition aims to increase accessibility HARRY TRUSTMAN Copy Editor

Almost all current Penn students were admitted through The Common Application, an organization used by 731 colleges that offers a method for students to apply to multiple universities using one application. In the past, students could gain admission to Penn only through the Common App or, for a select few, through the QuestBridge National College Match program.

For the first time, however, the Class of 2022 will also have the option of applying through a new service: the Coalition Application.

The Coalition for Access, Affordability, and Success officially launched last year for the 2016-17 application cycle and offered 46 member school applications, including Yale University.

According to Coalition Executive Director Annie Reznik, roughly 100 confirmed member schools will accept applicants using the Coalition for the 2017-18 cycle, including the entire Ivy League and state flagship schools, such as

Pennsylvania State University and University of Pittsburgh.

“We’re really fortunate to have Penn as [a member] in particular,” Reznik said. “There is such a great opportunity for students in the state of Pennsylvania to have Pennsylvania’s Ivy League institution, as well as Pennsylvania’s leading public universities.”

While Penn is a member of the Common App, Penn State and Pitt are not. Reznik said the Coalition has made it possible for students to apply to all three using one application.

“It’s a really nice setup for students who want to stay in their home state, and the state in general to retain talent,” she added.

Part of the Coalition’s mission is focused on making the college application process easier and more affordable, particularly for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

For College sophomore and Penn First Co-Mentorship Chair Daniel Gonzalez, the Coalition’s transparent process of obtaining application fee waivers is an example of such an improvement. He said that when he applied to college, getting a fee waiver was “a fickle process, where you get it or

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Dean of Admissions Eric Furda said, “Students with both The Common Application and The Coalition are held to the same high standards and Penn Admissions does not favor one application over the other.”

you don’t, and you don’t even know why.”

Gonzalez said that, were he applying to Penn today, he would opt to use the Coalition Application.

As a newer program, the Coalition also has a couple key techno-

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logical advantages over the Common App. The “Coalition Locker” is a cloud-storage space that enables students to upload digital media, such as essays and resumes, at any point throughout high school, with

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the intention of eventually including these items in their college applications.

The feature is intended to be particularly useful for low-income students without access to a computer.

Nancy Griesemer, the founder of

college counseling service College Explorations LLC, highlighted the ability to upload a personal essay to the Coalition Application, rather than manually entering text into the Common App, as a major benefit.

“They can turn their essays into PDFs which gives them a great deal of flexibility in terms of content and also gives them the opportunity to really control how their essay looks,” Griesemer said. “That’s a real difference right there.”

But some critics say the service also has flaws.

Brian Taylor, the managing director of the college counseling service Ivy Coach, said the Coalition Application has a smaller number of member colleges than the Common App. “Why should you have to go to the great length of filling out this whole other application when so many schools don’t subscribe to the Coalition Application?” Taylor said. “Why not just do it all on one application? It’s easier for everybody.”

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Event observers have limited formal power

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They are unable to shut down parties on their own

Members encouraged administrators to divest

NATALIE KAHN Deputy News Editor

Among the young college students at a party hosted by the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity on Sept. 30, College sophomore Mitch Aronoff spotted an adult in a raincoat. He said this woman seemed out of place and did not appear to have attended the event to socialize.

Aronoff said he was sure that she was on patrol as one of the University’s new event observers, who make $35 per hour.

Event observers roam campus on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights from 10 p.m. until 2 a.m. as part of a University-wide effort to curtail risks associated with student social events. They work under Penn’s Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Program Initiatives, a division of the Office of the Vice Provost for University Life. Their roles are among those specified in Penn’s new Task Force on a Safe and Responsible Campus Community, which has expanded regulations on campus social gatherings.

The task force was formed earlier this year in response to an incident last fall when the off-campus organization OZ sent sexually suggestive emails to freshman women. Following the task force’s recommendations, Vice Provost for University Life Valarie SwainCade McCoullum said VPUL hired 24 event observers from a pool of over 200 applicants.

Of the 24, she said, about onethird are Penn graduate and professional students; another third are Penn staff members and the final third are otherwise affiliated with Penn — such as family members of Penn staff.

Event observers roam campus in pairs, and in general, two pairs work on a given night. Cade said they travel with “Event Observer” hats — so students know they are staff members — a notebook, and other information about safety.

The event observers were

trained in August and for the first few weeks of work, they performed their shifts alongside Penn Police to become more familiar with the terrain, Cade explained.

But now, the event observers wander on their own without police accompaniment.

“In retrospect,” Cade said, “it probably would have been great for us to maybe emphasize that [the event observers and Penn Police] partner constantly, but the roles are different.”

Before going out for the night, event observers are given a list of registered events, and are responsible for stopping by those locations to ensure that students are following University protocol.

But various students have expressed dissatisfaction with the role of event observers in student social gatherings. On Sept. 20, Penn College Republicans condemned the “encroachment upon student liberties” that the task force policies and event observers allowed for.

“The administration’s approach, including but not limited to the deployment of event observers, has effectively abrogated the right of students to freely assemble, unequivocally contradicting hallowed American tradition,” College Republicans wrote. “In so doing, the administration has neglected its inherent obligation to protect inalienable rights.”

Aronoff said he witnessed an event observer in action at the fraternity gathering on Saturday. The party was registered, and he said the event observers came for at least half an hour, walked around the party and talked to the bartenders, hosts and guests.

Event observers are also tasked with finding unregistered events that do not follow campus, or Philadelphia, rules. In these situations, the event observers approach the host and inform them of policies they may be breaking — perhaps related to noise or underage drinking — and suggest that the party guests may be at risk, Cade said.

At an Undergraduate Assembly meeting held on Sept. 17, students raised concerns that the Event Ob-

servers were working to surveil students at their events. Students speculated that Penn Police have started relying on event observers to bypass regular protocol, adding that event observers function as lookouts who can tell the officers if illegal activity, such as underage drinking, is occurring.

Cade clarified that event observers cannot shut down a party on their own, but can recommend that students shut down a party or notify Penn Police, who can — and who have been — enforcing the closure of events.

“It just seems to us that the highest priority of every Penn student is to take care of each other,” Cade said.

Administrators have been gathering student feedback on event observers, and recently revised the job description listed for event observers that circulated to the Penn community. Cade hopes the revised description clarifies what she perceives to be the main facet of the event observer job — to educate students about safety.

The initial description, attached above and posted in August, said little about the event observers’ role as a support system, but in a document provided by McCoullum, the revised description states that the first “duty” for event observers is to “support students, student organizations, and student activities.”

Also, the description of the event observers’ duties has changed — where it said before that the event observers’ job was to “shut down and report” unregistered events, the text now says event observers are to “refer unregistered events to Penn DPS for their action as they deem appropriate” and inform party hosts of pertinent policies.

Cade added that she expects event observers to stay on duty past the end of their shift if they encounter a student under duress.

“The whole point of us being there is because we love you,” she said of the event observers. “I see these folks as representatives of us to support you, no matter what time.”

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KELLY HEINZERLING Deputy News Editor

At the University Board of Trustees Executive Committee meeting on Sept. 28, Penn administrators seated around the boardroom table were accompanied by seven student protesters from Fossil Free Penn.

For the duration of the 20-minute meeting, FFP members stood silently along the wall across from Penn President Amy Gutmann, armed with computer printouts that read slogans such as “Divest Now” and “Stop Funding Climate Change.” Their presence was not acknowledged by any of the administrators, and the meeting continued as planned.

Once the meeting adjourned, some FFP members tried handing their 8.5-by-11-inch printer-paper flyers to those leaving the room, but were mostly met with dismissal. Penn Provost Wendell Pritchett smiled and accepted the offering.

According to FFP Campaign Co-Coordinator and College junior Zach Rissman, the only person who spoke to them was Chairman of the Board of Trustees David Cohen, who thanked them for coming as he exited the room.

“It really was creating a situation where they could no longer ignore our presence, and I think that was definitely achieved,” Rissman said. “There can be no option of ignoring us now. Let’s actually have a real discussion.”

Earlier this week, FFP held an event where over 15 members emailed Trustees with the same text, which reaffirmed FFP’s commitment to the cause. It also stated FFP’s financial assessment that estimated that, had Penn divested a year ago, the University would have saved $12.4 million. Rissman said the email could also have been sent out by up to 50 additional FFP

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The Trustees meeting lasted for 20 minutes. Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Wendell Pritchett were in attendance.

members not present at the event.

Cohen sent emails to members of FFP stating that he was aware of FFP’s efforts to contact board members, but that “the Trustees have no plans to revisit the unanimous recommendation of the Ad Hoc Committee on Divestment, as well as the final decision of the Executive Committee of the Trustees.”

“The Trustees have given this matter careful consideration, including considering explicitly whether we wanted to reconsider our decision at the request of Fossil [Free] Penn. We remain unanimous in our judgment that our original decision was correct and that we do not want to reconsider it,” Cohen wrote in the email.

This is not the first time a Trustees meeting has been protested by students. In 2015, Penn students interrupted a meeting to call out Cohen, who serves as the executive vice president of Comcast Corp., for the company’s lobbying against Title II, a federal policy key to net neutrality. Cohen was not in attendance at the 2015 meeting, but the filmed event was reported on in the media.

FFP has had a rocky history with the administration in the past.

Last semester, the group staged protests in November and in March, which ultimately ended in a walkout, with over 130 students

participating at some point in the multi-day sit-in.

Many members of Penn’s campus agree with the group’s message. A 2015 campus-wide referendum revealed 87.8 percent of undergraduates agreed Penn should divest and over 100 faculty members signed FFP’s divestment proposal that same year.

The group said despite the administrators’ lack of acknowledgement, they considered the protest on Sept. 28 a success.

“Our presence disturbed the meeting in the sense that we drew people’s attentions towards us,” College sophomore Jacob Hershman said. “I definitely caught people glancing at our signs.”

The Daily Pennsylvanian took a photo of the protest in action, which is attached to the top of this article. A University representative told the DP reporter to delete the photo immediately, but since Board of Trustees meetings are open to the public, the photo has been published here.

The Office of the University Secretary declined to give an official comment on the protest.

At the end of the meeting, the two sides left the board room in what Rissman called an “awkward situation.” Together, the administrators and students spent a silent elevator ride down the 15 floors to the lobby.

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Students remain confused about which groups and events Penn admins want to regulate HALEY SUH Deputy News Editor

When the Task Force on a Safe and Responsible Campus Community first published its report last spring, a hefty portion of its recommendations were designed to identify and regulate off-campus groups. “The particular groups we’re trying to work with to bring back into the fold are the ones where we have no oversight whatsoever,� said Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush in April.

One major recommendation was to create a new category for offcampus organizations called “Identified Off-Campus Groups,� though there were also other more general recommendations, including: “Update Penn’s alcohol and anti-hazing policies to ensure students know they are being held accountable for their actions, regardless of location or group affiliation.�

But while the discussion around the task force last semester seemed to center heavily around off-campus groups, the administration’s implementation of the task force recommendations this semester has affected nearly all on-campus organizations.

On-campus Greek organizations and even non-Greek groups have seen their social events shut down, prompting confusion among students regarding which groups the administration is actually looking to target.

In an email dated Aug. 17, Rush

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he would wait until this application cycle concludes before drawing any conclusions on the differences between the two platforms. “Students with both The Common Application and The Coalition are held to the same high standards and Penn Admissions does not favor one application over the other,� Furda wrote in an emailed statement.

Reznik commended Furda’s efforts to attract applicants from lowincome backgrounds and create more accessible pathways into the University, noting that “in the field of admissions, he is a celebrity.�

and the Vice Provost for University Life Dr. Valarie Swain-Cade McCoullum wrote that “recognized and registered student groups, such as fraternities, student government, and performing arts clubs, have long been required to register social events with the Office of Alcohol and other Drug Program Initiatives.�

But students said that in past years, the administration did not enforce this for on-campus groups nearly as stringently as they are beginning to this semester. They have also said that the administration has not clearly laid out which kind of social events are subject to these regulations and which are not.

Wharton and Engineering senior Matt Caltabiano, who is a member of the on-campus fraternity Delta Kappa Epsilon, said parties hosted at their off-campus location have been shut down more frequently compared to last year. “We’ve registered parties [at our on-campus location] before, so we knew how to do that, and we’ve been familiar with that process and the cost associated with it,� Caltabiano said. “What we are not familiar with is registering parties not necessarily hosted by the fraternity, but some members of the fraternity at an off-campus location.�

Although the fraternity has been complying with all the on-campus party registration rules so far, Caltabiano said it was unclear as to what events were considered a “party� by the administration and Penn Police. “If we want to pregame with some of the brothers before going out to a bar, do we need to register that? I’ve heard of instances where

events like that were shut down,� he said.

And Greek organizations are not the only groups who have been affected.

On Sept. 24, the Nominations and Elections Committee held a meeting at College sophomore and NEC member Lea Makhloufi’s off-campus house. Makhloufi described the gathering as an “ice cream social� and said that there was no alcohol involved.

About 50 people came over to her house around 8 p.m., and as people were starting to leave about 30 minutes later, a Penn Police car pulled up outside of her house. “[The police] told us they received a noise complaint,�

Makhloufi said. “They asked me what we were doing and I said just hanging out with friends.... I told them to leave because I didn’t feel like they had legal grounds to do anything.�

According to Rush, a “partyâ€? is not defined by the number of people, but the capacity of the venue and the behavior of those in it. “Let’s say you and your friends live in a house and we have some music on, we’re having fun with pizza, some friends pop in, and more and more come in, and now we have 50 or 100 kids ‌ depending on the size of the house and behaviors of the people in it, [the Penn Police] might tell you to shut it down,â€? she said.

Other student leaders said that in their experience, the task force policies seemed geared towards regulating all social activity on campus, instead of just those organized by off-campus groups.

One criterion for schools seeking membership for the Coalition App is a minimum graduation requirement of 60 percent. This requirement was originally 70 percent, but was lowered following the formation of a task force led by Bill Fitzsimmons of Harvard University and Zina Evans of the University of Florida. “I think a lot of times in the national media or in different guidebooks this idea of ‘fit’ can overemphasize things like ‘a lot of green space,’� Reznik said. “[These are] things that are important and might make students feel more comfortable, but they’re not as important a characteristic as something like graduation rate.�

Taylor, however, did not see a purpose for this arbitrary bar for membership. He said it was likely to be an advertising tactic and likened the minimum requirement to “maybe the same reason why an empty bar keeps a line outside.�

Griesemer compared the Common App and the Coalition Application to “Coke and Pepsi.� She believes that competition between the two platforms will ultimately benefit students as both platforms continue to adapt positive features from each other. “I think both platforms are working hard in [improving accessibility],� Griesemer said, “and I think both platforms are doing a great job.�

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A millionaire’s tax plan with a populist disguise

MONDAY OCTOBER 2, 2017 VOL. CXXXIII, NO. 75 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 VIBHA KANNAN Enterprise Editor SARAH FORTINSKY News Editor MADELEINE LAMON News Editor ALLY JOHNSON Assignments Editor YOSI WEITZMAN Sports Editor BREVIN FLEISCHER Sports Editor JONATHAN POLLACK Sports Editor TOMMY ROTHMAN Sports Editor AMANDA GEISER Copy Editor HARRY TRUSTMAN Copy Editor ANDREW FISCHER Director of Web Development DYLAN REIM Social Media Editor ANANYA CHANDRA Photo Manager JOY LEE News Photo Editor ZACH SHELDON Sports Photo Editor LUCAS WEINER Video Producer JOYCE VARMA Podcast Editor BRANDON JOHNSON Business Manager MADDY OVERMOYER Advertising Manager SONIA KUMAR Business Analytics Manager SAMARA WYANT Circulation Manager HANNAH SHAKNOVICH Marketing Manager MEGHA AGARWAL Development Project Lead

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PENN DEMOCRATS “No, I don’t benefit. I don’t benefit. In fact, very, very strongly, as you see, I think there’s very little benefit for people of wealth.” In a statement that is glaringly anathematic to essentially every aspect of the Trump presidency — from his administration, to his appeals to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, to his general demeanor and handling of his own wealth as a public figure — it’s not hard to imagine the deception underlying this claim. It becomes even more laughable, still, when considering it in the context of his proposed tax plan.

To say that this proposed tax plan does not benefit the wealthiest Americans is one of the grandest lies of the Trump administration this week. From the scant nine pages of jargon emerge a few clear, early points that promise that Trump’s garbled statement of “not benefiting the wealthy” is entirely false.

To begin, the tax plan reduces the number of tax brackets from seven to three, with a “tentative” fourth tax bracket among the highest earners — a proposition that analysts suspect is unlikely to come to fruition.

From a superficial perspective, the promise of tax cuts for all seems good for every income level, dropping the tax rates to 12 percent, 25 percent and 35 percent, respectively, on federal income tax. However, beneath the administration’s eagerness to focus on these three numbers lurks the harsh truth that these numbers are deceiving, and the fact that the plan is riddled with loopholes and cuts that disproportionately benefit the elites who fill the Trump administration: it is critical to note that this is a wealthy man’s tax plan guised by populist rhetoric — and lower-income supporters will not see the same kinds of benefits that high earners will.

For example, the corporate tax rate is set to drop 15 percent.

During a period of economic expansion, and not depression, this Reagan- and Bush-style tax cut for the wealthy and highearning companies does not bode for a healthy period of economic growth, and it spells disaster for the national debt without the promise of encouraging increased investment. Simply put, Reagan and Bush enacted these plans in times of economic depression — when interest rates were not as low as they are now — and when Republicans hoped for an increase in investment with the extra incentive from a corporate tax cut. However, in a period of sustained economic growth as the United States currently finds itself, many analysts say that these sorts of cuts will only aggravate the national debt and fail to increase investment, and they will simply benefit the wealthiest corporations and continue to unnecessarily bolster the wallets of Trump and other corporate elites.

Likewise, groups labeled “pass-through entities,” a vague term that includes highperforming law firms and real estate companies, will see a tax

cut from 39.6 percent under the Obama administration to 25 percent under Trump. The plan also eliminates the estate tax, something that the vast majority of Americans likely are unfamiliar with, considering it affects only the slimmest minority of the uber-wealthy whose properties are worth more than $10.9 million — a few of these families have members serving in the Trump administration, including Trump himself.

Thus, it’s easy to see that this plan will generate a huge boost for Trump and people like Trump, saving his family nearly $1 billion in tax cuts if the plan is approved. What is also clear, in the finer details, is that this plan will do little for anyone else.

What a plan like Trump’s neglects is the third of the country that does not really benefit from any form of federal income tax cuts due to their income level.

What would benefit these lowerincome Americans, the likes of whom turned out for Trump and the Republican Party in comparatively high rates, would be any reduction in payroll taxes. And yet, nothing of this nature is to be seen in the nascent proposals.

The Earned Income Tax Credit, which is largely used to help lower-income Americans reduce their tax bill and get returns from the government, is in limbo, while many continue to speculate the plan is in grave jeopardy as it moves into its final stages. If Trump truly wanted to make a tax plan that would benefit this strata of the United States, any movement toward improving the EITC would be a critical place to start.

As for the middle class, there are still many questions and holes in the plan, with many details in deliberative Congressional purgatory. While it is clear that there will likely only be three tax rates, it’s not totally evident what earners of $80,000 or $60,000 will pay in taxes since the additional standard deduction is also set to be eliminated, as will be the personal exemption, negating any possible benefits that earners of this level might have seen from an increase in the standard deduction.

The glaring disconnects between Trump’s language of populism, of the middle class, of being a champion for those who are not the “1 percent” falls drastically short of reality. And yet, uneven benefits aside, another thing becomes clear: that this tax plan comes as a result of almost no political knowledge and, singularly, a desire to please his constituents at the expense of the very good of the country.

The very premises that the plan is predicated upon position us to reduce federal revenues by $2.4 trillion in its first 10 years, thanks to its business provisions and the repeal in the estate tax (which, alone, would accumulate to the loss of $240 billion in federal revenue in 10 years).

Like Trump, this plan shows two things: a blatant disregard for anyone who is not like Trump, and almost no foundation in fact whatsoever.

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PENN DEMOCRATS ERIN FARRELL is a College sophomore and the Penn Democrats communication director.

TOE THE LINE examines issues from two different sides. Both Penn Democrats and College Republicans argue why their collective positions on major political issues is best for the country.

MICHAEL MOROZ is a College and Wharton sophomore and a codirector of the College Republicans Editorial Board.

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A great start — with room for improvement COLLEGE REPUBLICANS Few topics in national politics are as long, complicated and dull as the United States Federal Tax Code.

Equally few topics, however, are as important to the lives of all Americans. Considering this importance, we must swallow its “boringness” to analyze President Trump’s new tax plan and the literally life-changing contents it contains.

The nature of the plan, however, makes formal scrutiny difficult. The framework released is exactly that —a general framework for a new tax code. It is therefore scarce in detail and exact figures, meaning that its analysis is hardly an exact science.

Nonetheless, we can still analyze this framework on a broader level, through its impact on three crucial categories: the simplicity of the tax code, individuals and families and, lastly, businesses.

The plan’s first main selling point is its simplicity. The current tax code is atrociously long — around 75,000 pages. Its various deductions and complications pave the way for corporate loopholes, lost production and lobbyists for special interest groups.

In fact, the White House estimates that each year taxpayers spend nearly 7 billion hours and over $250 billion in compliance costs. The new plan removes all but two itemized deductions each for individuals and businesses. This simplification alone would vindicate most tax plans.

The plan’s second primary goal is the relief it claims to offer individuals and families. Somehow, both liberal and conservative think-tanks and policy centers have published concrete numbers that they expect families to save. These numbers, including those that claim the wealthiest “1 percent” will make hundreds of thousands of dollars beg the question: How do they know? The plan does not specify the ranges of the tax brackets, meaning that any formal quantitative analysis is pure speculation. We will stick to what we know.

First, the plan nearly doubles the standard deduction ($12,000 for single-filers and $24,000 for married couples filing jointly). In other words, the plan stipulates that you get to keep the first $12,000 you make, tax-free.

It effectively creates a 0 percent tax bracket significantly larger than that which the current tax rates create. In fact, this deduction covers the entirety of the current plan’s 10% bracket.

Therefore, any claims that individuals paying 10 percent now will soon be paying 12 percent (the first bracket in the new plan) are completely unfounded. Anyone paying 10 percent now will soon be paying nothing, a clear and definitive boost to the most disadvantaged American citizens.

Second, the plan affords Congress the option of creating a fourth, higher tax bracket. The attractiveness of this option depends heavily on the ranges of the first three brackets.

Essentially, this option should be employed only if it is necessary to keep the plan revenue neutral. According to the Organization of Economic and Co-operation and Development, America’s tax system is already the most progressive of any industrialized nation. The rich already pay above and beyond their fair share in taxes — the top 20 percent of earners in this country pay 84 percent of the income tax. Taking from them simply because they can afford the loss is not the way to fix poverty in America.

That said, they are not the ones who need a tax break the most. If budgetary constraints make maintaining upper and middle class tax breaks mutually exclusive, Congress should enact this fourth, higher tax bracket.

Third, the plan only maintains itemized deductions for mortgage payments and charitable donations.

Why mortgage payments remain deductible calls attention to the President’s partiality for real estate. More importantly, however, is what is not included — namely, state and local tax deductions. Put simply, these deductions mean that the amount you pay in state and local taxes is subtracted from your income when you file federal taxes. In principle, removing this deduction means that you will pay taxes multiple times on the same dollar. In practice, it places an unfair burden on middle class residents of high-tax states like California and New York. This goes against all logic, as the cost of living in these states is significantly above the national average. $200,000 gets you a lot farther in Montana than in Manhattan. A balanced system that accounts for the real value of taxpayers’ income should be taking less from residents of these states, not more.

The plan’s third and final goal is to lower the tax burden on businesses. Small businesses have long been burdened by excessive taxation that limits their growth and stifles opportunity for American consumers and workers. This plan aims to fundamentally change this burden, stipulating a maximum 25 percent tax rate for pass-through businesses (i.e. businesses that are currently taxed at the same rate as their owners). The risk, however, is that it opens the door for tax evasion, as business owners in higher tax brackets may declare personal income as business profit, thereby paying 25 percent as opposed to 35 percent. While the plan vaguely promises to adopt measures to prevent against this tax evasion/recharacterization, it offers no concrete solution. Without such a solution, this maximum rate will presumably result in tax evasion that undoes the progress made by closing deduction loopholes.

The plan also lowers the corporate tax rate to 20 percent. This lower rate will incentivize domestic corporate growth by reducing tax avoidance and offshore sheltering. More important, however, are the specific incentives offered. The plan allows businesses to deduct research-and-development costs and to write-off investments in depreciable assets (i.e. capital), making the marginal tax burden of capital investment zero, and therefore incentivizing capital investment. The importance of this reduction in cost cannot be understated. GDP growth has stagnated around 2 percent for the last decade. The United States needs an economic boom, like those that followed the tax cuts of the Kennedy and Reagan administrations.

Increased capital investment drives up efficiency and productivity, which in turn drive up GDP. Additionally, an increase in worker productivity increases worker value, which will lead to a raise in real wages, which have been largely stagnant since 2001. In fact, the wage and production benefits are so important, that in face of budget constraints, these deductions and write-offs should be prioritized over a lowered corporate tax rate.

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Why are we ignoring Asian-American studies?

ROAD JESS TRAVELLED | On the administration’s refusal to sustain the ASAM program Students rally for the causes they care about: Cries of protest surge around $6 chicken over rice. Petitions and Facebook rants surround the infamous new task force. So where are the rallying cries for the dying Asian American Studies Department? More importantly, what is the Penn administration doing to save it?

Academic programs are the focal point of college. Penn — and its students — prides itself as a beacon of higher education, a symbol of progress and learning. Yet, as a significant cultural studies program declines, administrators refuse to respond to the program’s immediate concerns: hiring a new ASAM director, providing a physical space to house the program and increasing funding for permanent ASAM professors.

The former director of ASAM, Grace Kao, left the department last spring for Yale University.

After Penn failed to adequately assure that they would properly replace Kao, students and advocates for the Asian American studies program held a protest demanding that Penn hire a standing senior

Asian-American sociology professor to serve as ASAM director.

However, the existing professors in the ASAM program do not hold the right qualifications to succeed Kao, and thus students have called for Penn’s administration to step in and save the program.

The ASAM Undergraduate Advisory Board has sent emails to the dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, the former interim dean and the associate dean. Action has been taken, but no response has been received from the administration. To replace the ASAM director that left, the program has finalized interim directors for the next two years — but after this, if no permanent replacement is found, students and professors fear the entire program will cease to exist.

Without a director, faculty members of the ASAM program will no longer have incentives to keep the program alive. As a result, the opportunities for students to take Asian-American courses will essentially disappear, leaving those passionate about the subject matter, or those interested in the minor, in the dust.

The fact that an entire ethnic studies program is in jeopardy of losing its ability to offer courses is outrageous. The silence of Penn’s administration speaks volumes about what its priorities are. At this point, if our education isn’t

necessary for any liberal arts education that offers unique perspectives to any student, regardless of gender, ethnicity and field of study.

In my Asian-American literature class, there is a huge number

There is no program too small to deserve attention.

There is no education that is deemed unworthy of resources or funding, or the time it takes to ensure the continuity of that program.” worth fighting for, what is?

I feel as though there is an underlying belief that Asian-American studies is a niche area of study, only available or relevant to Asian-American students. However, the availability of resources for cultural studies is extremely

of students enrolled — students who hail from every school, year and major. Though many students take this course to double-count requirements, I have seen students learn more than they thought they would. The chance to critically examine literature written by people

of color, especially by a severely underrepresented community, opens the doors to new perspectives and new realizations.

For such a small program, the ASAM department has served as a home for many students and many of my Asian-American friends. In a Penn education that sells itself as pre-professional and career-oriented, the ASAM minor and many ASAM classes were a manifestation of students’ passions, a way to engage formally in cultural studies and connect with their roots on a deeper level. For non-Asian-American students, many of the courses are an opportunity to look through a new lens, to explore history and literature in a way they hadn’t considered before.

There is no program too small to deserve attention. There is no education that is deemed unworthy of resources or funding, or the time it takes to ensure the continuity of that program.

Students have a responsibility to take action as well. By continuing to push for petitions, engage in thoughtful discussion and partake in protests, true change can oc-

JESSICA LI cur on campus — and the ASAM program, no matter how seemingly small or insignificant, can be saved.

Despite the College’s claims that it is “firmly committed” to ASAM, their actions speak louder than official-sounding statements via email. Direct action must be taken to save this program that is essential to the fabric of our university.

JESSICA LI is a College sophomore from Livingston, N.J., studying English and psychology. Her email address is jesli@sas.upenn.edu. “Road Jess Travelled” usually appears every other Monday.

The pursuit of gratefulness MERICAN IN AMERICA | Learning to count our blessings More often than not, opinion columns at The Daily Pennsylvanian involve an angsty columnist (i.e. me) jabbing furiously at the keyboard, on another godforsaken Saturday night, riddled with regrets of procrastination.

He or she is fueled by some campus issue (“this week, students protested … ”), some policy (“the Penn administration … ”) or some other thing about Penn students (“Penn’s climate of pre-professionalism”).

But this week, I choose to be grateful.

No, nothing extraordinary has happened to me this week.

I struggled with the same few things. I got annoyed at the same few things. But for some reason, I felt that this was going to be “Stop and Smell the Roses Week.”

It’s hard to be grateful at Penn. Whenever a semester starts, I feel like I am on a train, hurtling relentlessly forward, with no stop or station in sight.

No time to reflect, to re-evaluate or to be grateful. It’s hard to feel

settled, to feel completely satisfied, to “count my blessings,” instead of the number of clubs I got rejected from.

Don’t get me wrong, becoming more grateful doesn’t mean suddenly ignoring that certain problems exist or dismissing all the grievances we have. It means acknowledging the little deeds and silver linings alongside the problems we face.

Gratefulness is a bit like a muscle — you have to use it or you lose it. It’s something you get better at with practice. I have begun trying to catch myself whenever I am upset and come up with a “gratefulness statement” instead.

For example: I am grateful that CVS was trying to get rid of some nearly expired stock of the usually pricey Nature Valley bars this week, allowing me to snag boxes at a wonderful price.

Though traffic lights usually work against me, I am grateful when they turn at just the right time, allowing me to absolutely

blaze my way to class.

Though I have to plow through stacks of readings every week, I am grateful for my classes. On some days, I would very much prefer to take a nap instead of writing a response on

Though friendships often require effort and patience, I am deeply grateful for my friends, with all their quirks, insight and humor. I treasure their company, and they make Penn more than just a school.

Gratefulness is a bit like a muscle — you have to use it or you lose it. It’s something you get better at with practice.

I have begun trying to catch myself whenever I am upset and come up with a ‘gratefulness statement’ instead.”

Canvas for English class, but I genuinely feel like I am getting an education here. Education isn’t cheap or easy or painless, and I have to remember that.

I am grateful that it became a little cooler this week, so I am not drenched in sweat when I (finally) arrive to class. I know my friends in non-air-condi-

tioned college houses are sleeping a little more comfortably these past few nights as well and I am happy for them.

Though the changing of the seasons reminds me of the passage of time and the transience of life, I am grateful for it, for very soon it will cause the campus to erupt into its parade of fall colors, trees decked in their red, orange and yellow dresses.

Though sunlight bursts fiercely through my feeble window blinds early every morning, rousing me, bleary-eyed, I am grateful for my room, for it has become a nook of comfort and rest from the frenzied life outside of it.

Though Philadelphia is sometimes a sweaty, messy beast, I am grateful for the city. It has helped to instill a sense of normalcy and serves as a reminder of the larger world beyond Penn.

Though Penn has its faults — like any other institution, really — I am grateful for the world of opportunities it has provided. I have never had too few classes

SARA MERICAN to choose from, too few professors whom I could reach out to, too few activities to be involved in, too few events to attend, too few places to eat, too few avenues to start something new or fight for change.

This week, and hopefully for the rest of my time here, I choose to be grateful, to slow down, to reflect, to settle, to be satisfied, to stop and smell the roses.

SARA MERICAN is a College sophomore from Singapore. Her email address is smerican@sas. upenn.edu. “Merican in America” usually appears every Monday.

Are students taking too many courses outside of their home schools?

GROUP THINK GROUP THINK is The Daily Pennsylvanian’s round table section, where we throw a question at the columnists and see what answers stick. Read your favorite columnist, or read them all.

This week’s question: A recent DP article found that many Penn students end up taking around half of their classes in the College of Arts and Science even if they are in different schools such as the Wharton School, the School of Nursing or the School of Engineering and Applied Science. Should Penn change course requirements so that students in Wharton, Nursing and Engineering can take more classes in their home schools or is the system fine as it currently is?

Alex Silberzweig | Brutally Honest Simply put, it is more than fine for Wharton, Engineering and Nursing to take a great deal of their classes in the College. It definitely helps them achieve the same level of well-roundedness that College students already seek to achieve by completing their general education requirements.

A student concentrating in electrical engineering or finance should not be far worse at writing than, say, an English major. Writing is, should and will continue to be a universal skill that is important for almost any job. Just because your major doesn’t directly require essay writing, that doesn’t

mean that you will just never write again.

The College’s students have many career-oriented aspirations that are level with those of Wharton, Engineering and Nursing.

However, the liberal arts education associated with the College detracts from that air of pre-professionalism to some, though it shouldn’t. In other words, by allowing or even mandating nonCollege students to take more classes in their home schools, Penn will be drawing an even deeper divide between the College and those schools that are deemed more pre-professional.

This question about a wellrounded liberal arts education versus a seemingly more rigorous pre-professional one leads to a conversation about the extent of the divide between schools. Do Wharton students really want to gain an entire package of skills, or just the ones that may seem marketable in the short term? Do Engineering students take some College classes just for an easy A or two, or do they actually crave intellectual stimulation?

For many, it could be the former.

For others, there is definitely an intellectual hunger that comes with taking College classes and even pursuing a second major that either aligns with or completely opposes their central area of study. The four years you spend in college are probably the last four

years that you can spend exploring and taking courses that pique your interest.

Jacquelyn Sussman | The Objectivist As a student in the College, I’m not qualified to say whether students in Wharton, Nursing or Engineering should be required to take more or less classes outside their home schools. In applying to these schools, students opt for a pre-professional degree as opposed to one rooted in the liberal arts, so I understand why College course requirements seem unnecessary and may be frustrating.

Conversely, I also understand why Penn would feel an obligation, in accordance with its One University Policy, to give all students who come to Penn a well-rounded and interdisciplinary education, even if that means combining pre-professional and liberal arts degrees — and yes, I am biased, because I clearly want and value a liberal arts education as an undergraduate.

But what I will say is that Penn was my first choice school and I applied early decision because of the connections and integrations between its four undergraduate schools. I find it unique and intellectually exciting to be able to understand how the world works through the angles of a business, engineering, science and humanities perspective, all of which I can develop and hone as a student in

any of Penn’s schools. How lucky are we that we can take advantage of the incredible resources all of Penn offers regardless of your primary academic interests? It is imperative to remember that before we are College, Wharton, Engineering or Nursing students, we are Penn students, and while that may mean specializing in one area to some, I think it’s pretty great that that can mean being an interdisciplinary learner to others.

Carlos Arias Vivas | Convos With Carlos Penn’s liberal arts curriculum is a focal point of a Penn education and has an impact in the four undergraduate schools: the College, Wharton, Nursing and Engineering. The level and the extent that this factors into each school varies. A good balance in the curriculum within each school is to have two-thirds of a student’s classes in their home school and the remaining third outside of their school to fulfill any necessary requirements. The College would be students’ primary choice to take these classes due to the array of subjects offered there.

The importance of a liberal arts curriculum is to engage students and promote intellectual discovery in other disciplines outside of their current major or concentration. The delicacy of this system is much more important at Penn than at other Ivy counterparts because

of the four distinct undergraduate schools. The balance is very hard to calculate because each student has a different preference. One student might enjoy taking all the classes related to his or her major.

On the other hand, other students like to branch out and pursue their interests in completely different fields by taking some interesting classes that happen to fulfill their requirements for their degree.

College is the epicenter of exploration. So, there shouldn’t be students who are chained to their major from the start of their freshman year to the end of their senior year. At the end of the day, everyone is a Penn student. Although we are students in different undergraduate schools at Penn, we share the same community, take some of the same classes and contribute to scholarly discussions we learn through our respective major or even from the classes we happen to take at the other schools.

Jessica Li | Road Jess Travelled Penn prides itself on offering a liberal arts education, and by requiring Penn students to take a wide range of classes in the College, I think that is doing what they advertise. As the One University Policy suggests, students get a wider breadth of knowledge and perspective when they take a good amount of classes that do not directly relate to their field of study or their school. At

its very core, Penn is trying to structure an education that isn’t solely focused on direct careerbuilding skills, contrary to its pre-professional stereotype — it is an institution that aims to give us a “well-rounded education,” and that means a wide variety of courses that offer different ways of thinking and lends itself to different skillsets.

Without the number of College classes students have to take, a lot of students may not find what they truly want to study. Most students come in unsure about what their course of study will be for the next four years, and taking College classes is the first step to exploring every subject and discipline.

There is so much opportunity in the classes we think aren’t relevant to what we want to do in the future, and by carefully considering other options, we are getting one step closer to finding an education that suits us.

I’m not advocating that we force students to take too many classes that digress from their main studies, but I do believe taking a number of classes in the College, regardless of which school or major you’re in, is extremely important in receiving the kind of education that prepares you for an unpredictable future with a multitude of possibilities. That is what a liberal arts education strives to achieve, and I think we should appreciate Penn for that.

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Many other Penn students, faculty and affiliates are also dealing with the effects of the travel restrictions.

“As I read it, those who have existing F1 [student] visas are admissible,” Transnational Legal Clinic Director and Penn Law School professor Sarah Paoletti said. “[However] if they wanted a family member to come visit, if they wanted their parents to come to graduation, their family members are not going to be able to get in to attend their major milestones.”

Paoletti said any international students from the affected countries who wish to stay in the United States after graduation will likely not be able to do so under the ban. She added that it will probably be more difficult for nationals of the affected countries to obtain visas and pass through

customs and border patrol.

“We are in the process of determining the specifics of the new ban and what it will mean for current Penn students, staff, scholars, and faculty from the named countries, as well as for potential applicants, visiting scholars and faculty recruits going forward,” University spokesperson Stephen MacCarthy said in an email. “We will be reaching out to people impacted by the ban and increase advising for affected constituents.”

Several affected students declined to comment, citing the sensitivity of the issue.

Chair of Penn for Immigrant Rights and College senior Pamela Fuentes Rodriguez said in an email that although no undergraduate students have reached out to her for assistance, PIR planned to meet to discuss “possible advocacy efforts” for affected students.

College freshman Roberto

Kern, a Venezuelan citizen, said that he is not concerned about the ban.

Kern said he was certain the proclamation, which bars the entrance of some Venezuelan governmental officials and their immediate family members from entering the United States with certain visas, is targeted at corrupt political officials in Venezuela and not international students.

He does not believe Trump will extend the ban to include Venezuelan civilians in the future.

A Penn researcher from Libya — who requested that his name not be used because he was speaking about private family matters — said that under the new ban, his mother-in-law will be unable to enter the United States to visit his wife.

“Three years after our last visit, [my mother-in-law] developed some mental issues because she’s not been able to see her daugh-

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ter,” he said. “She has this case where she thinks and believes that she will die before she’s able to see her daughter.”

He added that due to the current level of tension between the United States and Libya, he and his wife fear that they will not be able to obtain visas to re-enter the United States if they leave.

He said the ban has prevented him from attending international conferences to give talks on his research, affecting his career.

However, the researcher also said that the ban is “reasonable” for Libya, as the Libyan government’s lack of reliable records would make it much easier for a foreigner to pretend they are from Libya and cause destruction in the United States under a fake identity.

The researcher added that he hopes Trump will revise his policies to exclude those who have records in the United States, like himself, or Libyans who attended

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Persian Program Language Coordinator and lecturer Mahyar Entezari said that because he and his immediate family members have dual citizenships in Iran and the United States, they would not personally be affected by the ban.

But he added that under the ban, Fulbright language teaching assistants from Iran would not be allowed in the United States

under State Department funded programs such as the Critical Language Scholarship Program, even though Persian is considered a critical language.

“It is highly problematic for a university to have to contend with this where the focus and energy should be on education, research, knowledge,” Paoletti said. “To restrict who participates in our community because of where they’re born is distressing, and I think universities will suffer.”

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International students face internship visa hurdles Some students are forced to give up summer positions ALIZA OHNOUNA Deputy News Editor

For many Penn students, the search for summer 2018 internships has already started. On top of attending recruiting events and writing cover letters, numerous international undergraduates have to add another laborious process to their to-do list: extending their student visas so they can legally remain in the United States over the summer to complete their internships.

About 14 percent of each undergraduate class are international students. Not only do they face additional difficulties settling employment post-graduation, they also have to navigate internship options with visa requirements in mind.

Students said obtaining summer visas can be particularly stressful because each undergraduate school and even each department may have different

processes when it comes to authorizing students for internships in the United States.

According to the website for International Student and Scholar Services, international students are able to intern over the summer in the United States if they successfully apply for, and receive, an F-1 Curricular Practical Training visa extension, or F-1 CPT. The CPT is "intended to provide work experience in the [United States] in situations where the work serves as an integral part of a student's academic program and an established curriculum, prior to completion of that program,” the website reads.

In order for such internships to qualify as part of the co-curricular experience, some students can enroll in an online summer course where they must spend five to 10 minutes every day, for the duration of the internship, viewing slides and taking short quizzes.

College and Wharton senior Freda Zhao was forced to temporarily adjust her academic choices to acquire this visa. Zhao

is a Canadian citizen who studies marketing and psychology, but she added a management concentration this summer to justify her management consulting internship and enrolled in a 0.25 credit online course called Management 891. Zhao does not intend to complete the other requirements for the management concentration.

Wharton senior Kyu Park, a student from Seoul, South Korea, who is studying finance and statistics, said the process of enrolling and passing the course is “not difficult at all.” Both Kyu and Zhao said they received several emails from Wharton advisors instructing them on the process.

For College students however, the process is more complicated because they do not have a standardized online course that most Wharton students use to obtain their CPT. Instead, many have to apply through their own departments for an independent study or research course that directly relates to their internship.

College sophomore Saad Al-

bawardi who is from Saudi Arabia, is studying chemistry and found it difficult to stay at Penn over the summer just before school. Albawardi took some classes at Penn before his freshman year and was frustrated by the lack of clear information disseminated by ISSS. "The website [of ISSS] is not helpful," he said, "You don't get people to tell you exactly what to do, [and] students end up being confused."

ISSS did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

Albawardi opted to return to Saudi Arabia the following summer, but hopes to be able to stay at Penn this summer.

Park and Zhao have only spent one summer working in the United States. But for students who return to the United States for a second or third summer, the process is more complicated.

College and Wharton senior Justin Kagotho, who is from Kenya, needed to propose an independent research project supervised by a Wharton faculty

member related to his position before he could legally begin interning as an investment banker this summer.

“It was pretty tough,” he said, on finding a faculty member to supervise his work and getting the Wharton administration to approve the project.

Kagotho is expected to submit a research paper five weeks into the semester analyzing how global investors have rethought European labor policies following Brexit.

On the firm’s end, Kagotho said many smaller businesses make the process more difficult for international students to be employed. “The process is harder for a company that hasn’t handled international students before," he explained.

Dhruv Agarwal, an Engineering senior and president of the Assembly of International Students, echoed Kagotho's sentiment.

At one point during Agarwal’s internship search, he received an offer that he was very excited to

accept. A week later, a recruiter called him informing him that the company does not hire international students.

“Sorry, not sorry. Your internship is not going to happen,” he said.

Agarwal, who attended high school in Kenya, had enough time between this rejection and the beginning of summer to find another position. Some of his international friends were rejected by companies in February or March and were left with no internship.

Agarwal, like Kagotho, also had to register for an independent study course in order to complete his internship, but the process he had to go through to register for the course was more complicated. unlike that for his Wharton peers, and he said he “bounced back and forth” several times between ISSS and the Engineering School to figure out the paperwork he needed to complete.

“Most advisors in Engineering have no clue how to deal with this,” Agarwal said.

UA aims to create a computer science certification program Previous plans to make CIS a foreign language failed JAMES MEADOWS Staff Reporter

The Undergraduate Assembly is considering creating a new computer science certificate for those who want to have computer science qualifications, but are not able to pursue a computer science major or minor.

College and Wharton sophomore Max Grove is the College representative for the UA. He said that he has heard from some College students who want a record of their skills in computer science on their official transcript, but are not able or do not

want to commit to fulfilling the six course units required for the CIS minor.

Grove said newer courses such as CIS 105: “Computational Data Exploration” have inspired students who do not intend to pursue a full major or minor to gain a theoretical proficiency in the subject and hoped to have proof of their experience as well.

As of 2017, some 40 percent of Penn’s undergraduate population takes at least one course in CIS, said Computer and Information Science Department Chair Sampath Kannan.

To assist this growing group of students, Grove originally proposed making CIS courses

count towards the language requirement for students at a UA meeting two weeks ago.

Christina Frei, the executive director of language instruction for the College, said she is opposed to the notion that computer science languages are comparable to traditional ones.

“I understand that argument, but these computer languages do not fall into the category of languages, so to speak,” Frei said.

“Language is about intercultural communication and intercultural competence.”

With these views in mind, Grove and other members of the UA began considering a new CIS certificate that would be rewarded to students after com-

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pleting three computer science courses. While the certificate would not replace the language requirement, it would recognize basic computer science skills for students who do not want to pursue a computer science major or minor.

The prospect of a certificate garnered mixed reactions from students.

Wharton and Engineering senior Kashish Gupta, who is also pursuing a master’s degree in computer science, said he was

enthusiastic about the concept of a certificate since it could attract more people to take courses in CIS. “From a university perspective, I think it would [be] good to have it in general,” Gupta said, “because it will encourage people to pursue more computer science classes. People like labels and accolades for stuff.”

Others like College freshman David Hong found that a threecourse certificate might not provide enough information to be

useful in a professional capacity.

“A lot of program[ing] expertise depends on what programing language you know,” Hong said. “Honestly, I’m not sure how applicable a certificate would be since the introduction classes might not be comprehensive enough.”

Whether the proposed certificate will ever come to fruition will be decided in the upcoming weeks as UA members meet with the administration to discuss such a possibility.

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VOLLEYBALL | Penn loses to Yale, beats Brown

against Brown (25-11, 15-25, 25-22, 21-25, 15-6). It was an impressive effort in the second half of a back to back road trip.

The match saw Hayley Molnar, Raven Sulaimon and Parker Jones register double digit kills while the team posted a .221 hitting percentage. Sydney Morton had 42 assists to bring her average to 9.5 assists per set. Kendall Covington also had a good bounce-back game with nine kills and five blocks. “I thought we had some great play this weekend,� Coach Katie Schumacher-Cawley said, “I was happy to see the team bounce back on Saturday and compete hard against a competitive Brown team.�

The result against the Bears should be encouraging for Penn and first-year coach Katie Schumacher-Cawley as it is the team’s first Ancient Eight win in three tries.

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Some good. Some bad. That is how the weekend went for Penn volleyball.

The Red and Blue dropped their first match against Yale on Friday, before bouncing back on Saturday to take down Brown.

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Junior setter Sydney Morton registered 42 assists in Penn’s 3-2 victory over Brown, but wasn’t able to do enough to defeat Yale.

against Brown was, things were not as pretty against Yale (8-4, 2-1) the night before. The Red and Blue simply did not have an

answer for the Yale attack, falling in four sets (15-25, 22-25, 25-23, 13-25). “Defensively we were a step

slow against Yale,� Schumacher-Cawley noted. “Defensively we need to be quick aware of what is going on around us.

They moved the ball well and finished plays.�

In the first set, the Red and Blue’s attack was balanced with kills from Courtney Quinn, Brook Behrbaum, Covington, Jones and Molnar. Despite the balanced attack, Yale exploited holes in the Quakers’ defense and used a barrage of kills to pull away and take the first set.

The second set was a back and forth battle where both teams were largely unable to create much separation from each other. At 21-22, it looked like the Red and Blue had the momentum and might be able to steal the second set, but unfortunately for Penn, Yale struck back and won three of the next four points to close out the set.

Set three was the opposite story. After losing six straight

points to fall behind 2-7 in the early goings, the Quakers managed to come back and steal the set. Kills from Quinn and Jones helped close the gap, and freshman Raven Sulaimon got in on the action as well, adding two kills of her own. A kill by Molnar gave the Quakers the late advantage at 24-22, and that was enough to propel them to a 25-23 win in the set.

The fourth set was less of a contest, as Yale overpowered the Quakers to close out the match.

The Red and Blue, in search of a more consistent showing, will be back in action next weekend, as they take on Harvard and Dartmouth at the Palestra. “This team needs to continue to work every day.� Schumacher-Cawley said. “I am proud of what they have done so far. We will continue to push them to get the very best.�

Quakers battle to tight 1-1 draw against Cornell in Ivy opener

M. SOCCER | Junior Jerel Blades scored Penn’s goal

one,� Penn coach Rudy Fuller said after the game.

The Quakers pressured the Big Red (4-3-2, 0-0-1) throughout the first half, outshooting them five to three in the period. Their lone goal in the match came in the 18th minute off the foot of junior forward Jerel Blades, who capitalized on a put-back opportunity to give Penn the early 1-0 advantage.

Fuller praised his team’s first half execution. “We just wanted to come out with some energy and enthusiasm and really try to get the upper hand in the game, which I think we did.�

The Quakers struggled to maintain their level of play throughout the match as Cornell stormed back after the break. The Big Red were constantly in Penn’s defensive half and eventually evened the score on a corner kick in the 77th minute, fin-

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Overtime was not enough to decide Penn men’s soccer’s Ivy League opener against Cornell, as the match finished in a 1-1 draw.

Despite the season’s early woes, the Quakers (1-6-1, 0-0-1 Ivy) entered the competition with energy and confidence. However, Penn’s early dominance was met by an offensive onslaught by Cornell in the second half and overtime. “The result was probably a fair

ished by Cornell’s Caleb McAuslan.

Multiple shots narrowly missed the target, as the Quakers looked to convert the game’s deciding goal.

Both sophomore midfielder Dami Omitaomu and junior captain Gavin Barger had shots rejected by the crossbar. “We were disappointed not to get that second goal in the first half that would’ve probably given us the three points,� Fuller said. “But, we felt good about it at half; credit to Cornell, they came out in the second half and responded with a lot of energy.�

The match served the Quakers well, as the team’s youngsters got their first taste of Ivy League play in 2017 and held strong against a talented Cornell squad. The defense stood tall in front of Etan Mabourakh, the Quakers’ junior goalkeeper, who combatted Cornell’s offensive

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Despite having to settle for a tie, Penn women’s soccer remains in control of its own destiny on the journey for an Ivy League title.

This past Friday at Rhodes Field, Penn tied Cornell in a hard-fought but scoreless battle.

Coming off of a statement win against Harvard, the Quakers came out hot to start the game, firing off three shots to Cornell’s zero in the first 15 minutes of the contest.

Penn (2-5-3, 1-0-1 Ivy) continued to dominate the game,

outshooting Cornell (2-4-2, 0-1-1) 28-10. However, this high shot quantity resulted in no goals. The team now has a total of 4 goals in 10 games.

Coach Nicole Van Dyke believed that her team would have won the game, were it not for the heroics of Cornell’s goalkeeper. “Their keeper played unbelievable,� she said. “I think that she made some very good saves and kept them in the game.�

The team is still optimistic about its future despite the tie. “There are two teams we’ve played that we’ve been the better side. That alone shows how much this team has improved from last year to this year,� Van Dyke said.

With the tie, Penn now sits third in the Ivy League, a half game behind Princeton and Columbia. The Quakers entered the week tied for first — a position they in which haven’t fin-

ished since 2010.

Sophomore Emily Sands, with seven shots in the game, echoed the Quakers’ confidence in their ability to win the conference. “We’re still in the driver’s seat,� Sands said. “We still have just a good a chance as anyone.

And, the Ivy League is crazy, every game. You never know what’s going to happen. It’s really still on us.�

Van Dyke pointed out that the Ivy League is rarely a conference which sees the champion go undefeated, emphasizing her doubt that any team will perform such a feat this season.

Seven games decide the fate of the Quakers’ season, and so far, they are off to a strong start.

Friday’s league game against Columbia will be the next step on their journey to snapping a seven-year drought. But first, it is on to Delaware State this Monday at Rhodes Field.

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Instead, a 27-yard run up the gut from Gerbino saw Dartmouth find its way into the red zone, and on the next play to the goal line. The Big Green scored on the fourth time of asking to take the game. “There’s no excuse,� senior captain and defensive end Louis Vecchio said. “We were ready for everything. If that’s the offense that they wanted to play, then so be it.

We knew they were gonna try to throw tricks our way, and they still had to drive the field on us.�

The 4,000 fans in Franklin Field — and the hundreds of thousands watching across the nation on NBC Sports Network — were treated to a nail-biter in the end. Even if the home fans left disappointed, they were nonetheless entertained after the game initially seemed like it would be heading toward perpetual boredom.

Neither team scored in the first quarter, and big plays were at a premium throughout the game.

No interceptions; just one fumble from Dartmouth, recovered by a Big Green lineman before anyone could say the word turnover. Priore described the contest as an oldfashioned, smash-mouth kind of game.

Penn’s offensive stars Justin Watson and Karekin Brooks were bottled up for most of the game, registering 81 and 72 all-purpose yards, respectively. Watson’s 21yard catch was the second-longest play of the game, behind only Gerbino’s 27-yard rush.

It could have gone either way, but for a few marginal differences. “This will burn,� Priore said. “We’ll get through the evening, and we’ll get back to work on Sunday.�

The Quakers face Central Connecticut State in a bye week from conference play next Saturday.

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Dartmouth faced a 3rd-and-3 that, if unconverted, would have killed their drive just a couple plays after it started. Quarterback Jack Heneghan threw a 13-yard bullet down the middle to keep the drive going.

On the next set of downs, the Quakers forced their guests into a 4th-and-3. They managed to escape that do-or-die scenario, too.

Then, with just over a minute to go, Penn’s defense stood firm once again to put Dartmouth at a 3rdand-4 on Penn’s 42. As the clock ticked down, it seemed that this play could decide the game. “We needed to get out of that third down; we didn’t,� Priore said. “That would have been fourth down, and they probably would’ve went for it, and then you don’t know.

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What could go wrong, did go wrong for most of Penn sprint football’s game this weekend.

Penalties, turnovers and a missed field goal were a few of the many miscues that doomed Penn in a 24-14 defeat at home against Army.

The vaunted Black Knights’ defense proved nearly impenetrable for the Quakers (2-1, 2-0 CSFL South) who scraped together a meager 125 yards of total offense.

Sophomore quarterback Eddie Jenkins was often either under duress or unable to find receivers open down the field. On the night, Jenkins was only 12 of 33 for 157 yards with one touchdown and an interception through the air.

When his receivers got open, they failed to help their young quarterback, totaling three drops in the first half—two from sophomore tight end Billy Murphy and one from senior wide receiver Marcus Jones.

By the end of the first half, Penn was down 17-0. An offense that usually relies heavily on its run game put up only five rushing yards the entire first half.

“We did nothing as an offense to begin the game. The defense kept us in there,” Jenkins reflected. “We shot ourselves in the foot more than a couple times.”

In particular, the offense failed to put themselves in reasonable third down situations.

“Instead of being second and five, third and four we found ourselves in 2nd & 15 ’s, 3rd & 20’s,” Jenkins said. “It’s a lot harder to move the ball when you get in those situations.”

Conversely, the defense was the only thing keeping Penn in the game. One of the unit’s biggest moments of the first half came after a Jenkins fumble led to an Army recovery at Penn’s own

three-yard line.

At this point, Army (3-0, 2-0 CSFL North) was up 7-0 with 9:52 left in the second quarter on the verge of making it a twotouchdown game. However, Penn had other plans, holding Army to a field goal after stuffing a run up the middle on third down.

“We had a lot of gut checks throughout the game,” freshman linebacker Connor Ashton said.

“We just had to make big plays.”

On the Black Knights’ next offensive possession after the made field goal, Army quarterback Keegan West found wide receiver Clayton Carter on a 54-yard bomb.

An interception at the end of the first half by Ashton after a touchdown-saving shoestring tackle from junior defensive back Guesippe Bevacqua the play before kept the game from getting completely out of hand before the intermission.

But throughout most of the second half, Penn continued to get in its own way. After the offense once again failed to move the chains, the Red and Blue were forced to punt near their own goal line. With less

room to avoid the oncoming rush, Caltabiano was powerless against a herd of Army defenders who swarmed him and recovered the ball in the end zone for a touchdown. At this point, Army had a seemingly insurmountable 24-0 lead.

Following the botched punt, on Army’s next offensive possession, the Penn defense was finally able to force and recover a fumble.

However, Jenkins gave it right back, fumbling for the second time within his own 10-yard line. After another incredible defensive stand, Penn forced a missed field goal.

From that point on, the Quakers’ fortunes changed.

With 3:06 left in the game, freshman defensive back Michael Doulong gave Penn the spark it needed, returning a 65-yard interception for a touchdown. Following a failed quarterback draw by Jenkins, Penn found itself down 24-6.

Penn still needed more players to step up to have a shot at a comeback, and sophomore kicker Theodoros Papazekos (who is also a DP Sports staffer) was the man

Harvard field hockey destroys Quakers Penn fail to score in bitter visit to Cambridge TYLER SHEVIN Sports Reporter

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The Quakers hit a hard bump in the road this weekend in Cambridge.

On Saturday, Penn field hockey fell to No. 14 Harvard 6-0 on Berylson Field as the Crimson scored four goals in the first half and finished the game with six different goal scorers on 17 total shots. Junior goalkeeper Libby Manela earned the shutout in goal for her eighth win of the season.

This game was seen as a key test for the Quakers (4-5, 1-1

Ivy) as Harvard (8-2, 1-0 Ivy) is seen as a favorite to defend their 2016 Ivy League championship, and the loss represents a significant setback in Penn’s own quest for its own Ancient Eight title.

Penn’s entire team struggled against Harvard, but the offense was especially ineffective. The unit garnered only five shots during the entire game and could not establish a consistent presence on Harvard’s side of the field.

“We were just not destructive enough offensively. We just did not make their defense uncomfortable in the attacking third,” coach Colleen Fink said.

The loss snapped a string of momentum for the Quakers, who had won four out of their last five contests. Penn defeated American last weekend 3-2 on the road in overtime.

Prior to that thriller, the Quakers won their first Ivy game of the year against Cornell 2-0.

The Harvard loss also snapped senior forward Alexa Hoover’s six-game streak with at least one point.

“I think our offensive structure was not great,” Fink added.

But it wasn’t just the offense that faltered. In her first career start, sophomore goalkeeper Ava Rosati was besieged from the onset. The Crimson put pressure on the Quakers’ defensive unit early and often, culminating in the first goal in the just the eighth minute of play. Additionally, Harvard had eight penalty corners and took advantage of many of their opportunities.

“They just had a lot more energy to the ball and capitalized on their early opportunities,” the eight-year coach said.

Penn from the eight yard line, and a pass interference on a play intended for Jones led to a first and goal from the two yard line. But after three failed attempts to punch it in, Papazekos missed a chip shot field goal to seal Penn’s fate and leave a remarkable comeback effort just a bit short.

“We continued to play, we continued to go after them, we didn’t pack it in all the way up to the last play of the game,” Wagner said of his team’s ferocious comeback.

“We’ve got to protect the quarterback, we’ve got to block for the guy that’s carrying the ball and we didn’t do that. [But] I think our defense played extremely well.”

Looking forward, Penn’s season is not over. However, it will need to to win out in the regular season if it hopes to win the South Division and face Army, the probable North Division champion, in the Collegiate Sprint Football League championship.

For now though, Penn is worried about fixing its own issues, particularly on the offensive end, before it worries about repeating as CSFL champion.

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particularly as it relates with the time of possession, will be important for the Quakers as they open high’s porous defense which has the conference campaign. allowed an average of 51.25 points Like Penn, Dartmouth’s offense Penn hopes to learn from per game, but that doesn’t take begins on the ground. Running the game and improve as Ivy away the success of a balanced back Ryder Stone is a yard short League play continues. The Penn attack. of averaging 100 per game. As a Quakers next chance to show The balance of this Penn of- team, the Big Green have run the their improvement will be next fense was a concern before the ball almost 70% of the time. The Saturday when they host Dartseason began. With a first-year Quakers are more balanced but mouth. quarterback holding the reins and have gaudier statistics thanks to Despite the demoralizing great positional players in Tre the emergence of Karekin Brooks. lose, Fink seems confident in Solomon and Justin Watson, one Priore also hinted at the possible her team’s ability to bounce might be forgiven for assuming return of senior running back Tre back. the offense would run through Solomon against Dartmouth, giv“I think there are one of two them. Instead, Fischer-Colbrie has ing the Red and Blue perhaps the ways a team can take this,” spread the ball around admirably: most formidable rushing attack in Fink said. “It can take this four receivers are averaging over the conference. with a defeatist attitude and 20 yards per game.

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On the ensuing onside kick attempt, he dribbled the kick until it shot up over the line of the Army onside recovery team and into the grasp of the Quakers. Jenkins later found senior wide receiver Aiden Kelly for a 17-yard touchdown, following that up with a two-point conversion to Jones. With 2:02 left, Penn found itself down only 24-14.

Once again, the Red and Blue needed another onside kick to keep the comeback alive. However, instead of going back to Papazekos, the coaching staff instead elected to have Papazekos fake the onside attempt and have freshman Benji Robinov attempt a pooch kick.

Army recovered the kick, but Penn coach Bill Wagner defended the decision to not let Papazekos attempt the same onside kick that had worked the first time, insisting that the second play failed in execution and not in concept.

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FOOTBALL | Quakers lose on final play against Dartmouth WILLIAM SNOW Senior Sports Editor

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It was a tale of two 4th-and-1s.

Two plays in the last five minutes — one on each end of the field — made the difference

between Penn football and Dartmouth as the Quakers came out on the wrong side of a 16-13 loss under the Friday night lights of Franklin Field.

With 5:37 left on the clock, Penn (2-1, 0-1 Ivy) had a 4th-and-1 chance on Dartmouth’s 4-yard line. Tied at 10-10, a conversion would have given them four chances to score a touchdown and put the game potentially out of reach.

A false start brought the Quakers back five yards, however, and coach Ray Priore elected to kick instead to give his team a 13-10 lead.

Five minutes and 36 seconds later, Dartmouth (3-0, 1-0) had a

4th-and-1 chance on Penn’s 1-yard line. The Big Green’s wildcat quarterback Jared Gerbino hammered through his line, which made a strong surge forward, and took the game on the final play.

It was that close for the Quakers, who will rue missed chances in their second loss to Dartmouth in three years.

Though Priore recognized that the scoreboard was final, he did cite his team’s 4th-and-1 with five minutes left as a key moment in the game when things could have been different.

“We probably would have scored a touchdown that play,” he said of the

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play that was whistled dead after a false start.

“Shoulda, coulda; that’s sport. If you had one more time, one more chance, but you don’t get that second chance.”

Still, Penn went into the game’s final drive leading, 13-10. Dartmouth had to drive 80 yards in five and a half minutes in order to win the first contest of the Ivy League season.

At any number of times the chains moved on that final drive, it might have been that they didn’t.

Stuck in their own half of the field, SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 8

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WENDY SUN | DESIGN ASSOCIATE

Penn football is down, but certainly not out

76ers take over packed Palestra for scrimmage Scrimmage featured local debuts of two #1 draft picks

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YOSEF WEITZMAN Sports Editor

Anything can happen on any given Saturday. Or in this case, Friday night — under nationallytelevised lights.

That is especially true in Ivy League football. With parity in the Ancient Eight arguably the highest in recent memory, a single play could spell the difference between a championship and fourth place.

Dartmouth, who plays Penn on Friday night in a game televised nationally on NBCSN, gave a great example of this last week.

The Big Green (2-0) held on to beat No. 25 Holy Cross 27-26 in overtime due in large part to two blocked kicks in the fourth quarter. One play – a blocked extra point with three seconds on the clock – was the difference.

Penn (2-0) coach Ray Priore has a pretty good understanding of league parity. In his first two seasons as head coach, the Quakers have won fractions of the Ivy League title. Last year, the margin between champion and third place was one game.

Priore also understands the importance of special teams and stressed the large role they play in what forecasts to be a tight conference matchup.

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Penn football senior Justin Watson failed to get it done offensively against Dartmouth in the team’s Ivy League opener.

“I think special teams – in big games it typically comes down to being really important,” Priore said. “Making sure we are covering kicks well, making [extra] points. That’s how Dartmouth came through against Holy Cross last week.”

The man that should be most concerned about Dartmouth’s two blocks is junior kicker Jack Soslow. Soslow, who is perfect on PATs two games in, is unfazed by the threat of Dartmouth’s kick blocking unit.

“I’m comfortable with my kicks that I’ll always get it over the [defensive] line and always get it off before the people on the outside get to me.” Soslow said.

“There’s nothing that I’m worried about. I don’t think the two blocks are going to affect me at all.”

The mental toughness and

confidence of Soslow is matched by the team’s first-year starting quarterback, senior Will Fischer-Colbrie. With two nonconference wins under his belt, he feels much more comfortable now than he did at the start of the season. “[Against ODU], I think I came out and put a lot of pressure on myself to perform. The first half that didn’t really work out too well for me,” Fishcer-Colbrie said. “But having some success against Lehigh, and gaining a lot of faith in the guys around me during a live game means a lot entering Ivy play.”

With a more relaxed quarterback leading the offense against Lehigh, the Quakers’ offense put up an astounding 63 points. Part of that can be attributed to LeSEE COLUMN PAGE 9

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The Palestra just saw a new shade of Red and Blue.

On Sunday, the Philadelphia 76ers held their Blue x White Scrimmage with the White squad squeaking out a nail-biting overtime victory in front of a raucous, packed- to-the-rafters Palestra crowd.

“The first reaction that I had when I came out and saw the Philadelphia crowd was how loud they were,” 76ers coach Brett Brown said.

The scrimmage, which sold out of free tickets within hours of being released, was the 2017-2018 team’s first public appearance of the season. Every healthy player on the roster got court action, but fans were most excited to see the highly anticipated local debuts of rookie #1 NBA Draft picks Markelle Fultz and Ben Simmons, as well as the sharpshooting veteran JJ Reddick, who left the Los Angeles Clippers to sign with the Sixers in July.

The scrimmage saw strong attendance from Penn affiliates, including several members of the Penn men’s basketball team and Dean of Admissions Eric Furda sitting courtside.

It was not only a rare, monumental occasion for the fans, but it was

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Philadelphia 76ers small forward Justin Anderson drives to the hoop for the Blue team in front of a sold-out Palestra crowd .

also a unique and valued experience for the Sixers themselves, as it was most of the team’s first time playing in the historic arena.

“You know you wake up and it’s sort of cold, and you remember it’s basketball season, and you come into this building — it’s a great day to see our scrimmage after 4 good days of practice,” Brown said.

As for the scrimmage itself, the competition featured modified rules intended to give every healthy player on the roster time to play. In addition to playing only three quarters and two abridged overtime periods, several players switched teams midway through the game to give both the fans and the coaching staff different looks.

By the final quarter of regulation, though, it was clear that players on both teams were hungry to get a win. On one play, point guard TJ McConnell dove on the floor to try to steal an in-bounds pass, before

yelling emphatically at the referee when the ball was not called out-ofbounds.

A few minutes later, Simmons scored for the Blue team on a putback floater to tie the game 117-117 with just a few seconds left and sent the game to overtime.

In the extra period, forward Justin Anderson hit a tough three pointer to tie the game with six seconds left for the Blue team, but guard Nik Stauskas responded with two free throws on the other end to give the White team a thrilling 124122 victory.

Despite the losing effort, Simmons took control of the microphone just after the buzzer and thanked the crowd for its support.

“We’ve had a couple of tough years, but we’re looking to forward to this year and having a great, successful year,” Simmons said as the Palestra erupted into one final applause.

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