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Most international students come to Penn and find an existing community. But students who came from their countries alone must make their own. YOLANDA CHEN/NEWS PHOTO EDITOR

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Qais Iwidat is a senior, but he has only gone home once since coming to Penn. “We don’t have Starbucks. But we have ‘Stars and Bucks,’” Qais said of his home in the West Bank, Palestine, as he sipped a grande iced coffee from the Starbucks at the Penn Bookstore. He misses his homemade Arabic coffee, usually thicker and darker than what he can get from a Star-

bucks. The “Stars and Bucks Café,” located in the city of Ramallah, offers Italian cappuccinos, Arabic coffee and hookah, in a country where Starbucks does not exist. Qais — like a few other international students — was the only one accepted from his country. As of 2014, Penn is home to international students from 69 countries. While countries such as China, India and South Korea have large representations on campus, there are 25 students who are their coun-

tries’ sole representative, according to the most recent data from fall 2013. They are from Albania, Lithuania, Iraq, Mozambique and Nicaragua, among others. Without a defined pathway, their experiences before and after coming to Penn differ — sometimes dramatically — from those of other international students. Because studying in the U.S. is uncommon in their countries, they have to figure things out by themselves while educating their parents

about their decision. Once they arrive, they don’t have any immediate support from other students with the same origin. Yet, the feeling of being the selected few gives them high self-expectations that often include giving back to their homes. For Qais, receiving an acceptance letter from Penn did not guarantee successful enrollment. “You don’t really know if you are allowed to travel from Palestine,” he

(Clockwise, from top left) Qais Iwidat from Palestine, Remy Manzi from Rwanda, Aye Nyein Thu from Burma, Arman Tokanov from Kazakhstan

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Ebola fears overshadow flu preparation

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The flu has similar symptoms to early stages of Ebola

ENGINEERS LACK STUDY SPACE Closure of Towne library has left engineering students in a bind PAGE 6

GUTMANN GETS NEW CHAIR Penn President Amy Gutmann elected newest chair of the AAU PAGE 3

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TINA CHOU Staff Writer

As Penn continues to prepare for potential Ebola cases, health professionals are keeping an eye out for the flu. The World Health Organization reports that 4,555 deaths have been attributed to Ebola this year worldwide,

whereas the CDC estimates a range between 3,000 to 49,000 flu-related deaths per year in the United States alone. The number of flu-related deaths varies due to the severity of the strain and estimates are difficult to produce since the flu is not often listed as the cause of death. Despite media attention given to Ebola, the risk of the virus spreading throughout Philadelphia and Pennsylvania is low. Ebola is not readily transmitted through the air,

however the flu is, said Ashlee Halbritter, a health educator at Campus Health Initiatives. Halbritter’s team organizes the flu clinics on campus, which will happen this Thursday and next Wednesday in Houston Hall . Although she expects more than 3,000 attendees this year, Halbritter’s team was challenged by the focus given to Ebola. “Unfortunately, [Ebola has] just overshadowed the start of the flu season and the importance of the flu vaccine,” Hal-

britter said. On Monday, the CDC released new protective guidelines for health care workers treating patients stricken with the Ebola virus. The guidelines will affect the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, which agreed to receive American medical workers who have contracted Ebola while working in Africa, according to a statement released last Friday. The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia will care for pediatric patients

within the region. The new CDC guidelines emphasize covering all exposed skin, wearing a respirator and having a trained person watch and instruct as the medical worker is “donning and doffing” personal protective equipment, said Darren Linkin, an assistant professor at the Perelman School of Medicine and an infectious disease expert. The CDC guidelines will SEE EBOLA PAGE 3

BEYOND THE SURFACE Discussing the ways in which intersectionality affects students’ mental health PAGE 4

SPORTS UNIFYING STUDENT ATHLETES Staff writer Laine Higgins looks at M. Grace Calhoun’s new initiative

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Next theme year lacks focus on race, critics say HUIZHONG WU Staff Writer

Langston Hughes was the only black child in a “white” school before he became an iconic musician during the Harlem Renaissance. In his autobiography, titled “The Big Sea,” he wrote about what it was like as a black man

growing up in the United States before the civil rights era. Now, this 74-year-old book, which was selected for the Penn Reading Project next year, is at the heart of criticism from Penn students. Since students were informed of the book selection, some have hoped that the theme year would focus on the themes of

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identity and race that were raised in ”The Big Sea.” They were instead disappointed to find out that the theme would be the Year of Discovery. Their disappointment has also raised concerns about the lack of student involvement in choosing the theme year and Penn Reading Project book selections.

“[In] choosing the theme of discovery, I almost feel as if it’s so broad it gives people a way out of approaching these topics altogether,” said College senior Oyinka Muraina, a member of the Penn African Students Association. “Being a person of color is so important in this book, and identity is so important as a

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theme in this novel.” Given recent events surrounding Ferguson, Miss., and the backlash against some protestors, it’s important to have mandated conversations on race, UMOJA co-chair and College senior Denzel Cummings said. The theme of discovery has “very little to minimal relation to the amount of

racial issues that are related in the book,” he said. These students, upon hearing the news, initially planned to approach the University to change the theme. Cummings, who has worked with administrators in his role with UMOJA, reached out to SEE THEME YEAR PAGE 7

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Several selective universities are accepting alternative application options after last year’s technical problems in the Common Application, but Penn has not changed its admissions policy. The new version of the Common App caused many universities to push back their application deadlines last year because of website glitches. Since then, several universities — includ-

ing Cornell University and the University of Chicago — began accepting the Universal College Application, a competitor to the Common App. Penn also pushed its early decision deadline last year from Nov. 1 to Nov. 11. But Penn still only accepts the Common App, citing low usage of the UCA in the past. “There are various ways an institution can decide how students apply,” said Admissions Dean Eric Furda, who is also the chairman of the Common App’s board of directors. He added that some colleges prefer having multiple avenues to offer more accessibility to applicants.

But having multiple application options can cause complications in managing the applications, Furda said. Penn used to be a member school of UCA when the service launched in 2007, but decided to discontinue its membership four years ago. UCA was not a big channel for Penn in receiving applications. Before opting out of the platform, Penn received a few hundred applications each year through the system, Furda said. “Penn’s not being on UCA will not affect its applicant pool at all,” he added. The alternate application system has more flexibility, allowing applicants edit their essays for each college — whereas the

Common App allows only one version of the essay. UCA currently serves 45 colleges, including Harvard, Princeton and Duke universities, compared to the over 500 that the Common App serves. “Our membership has grown thanks to our reputation for reliability in service and software,” said Joshua Reiter, the President of ApplicationsOnline — the company that launched UCA. Furda expected the Common App to be more stable this application cycle, though nothing can be without any flaws. “There can be system challenges whether you are talking about major post offices or websites,” Furda said.

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Penn President Amy Gutmann was elected chair of the Association of American Universities on Tuesday, placing her at a vantage point to vocalize and advocate for current issues in higher education. The AAU, a nonprofit organization comprised of 62 leading United States and Canadian research universities, elected Gutmann as chair at its semiannual meeting in Washington, D.C. Gutmann’s one-year term as chair, which begins today, follows a year as vice-chair of the AAU. As chair, Gutmann will represent the AAU in meetings with policymakers to lobby for important issues in education, such as research and funding. Gutmann is already a leading advocate for issues such as financial aid and educational engagement. “It is an honor to assume leadership of the AAU at a time when our nation, and, indeed, the world are in ever greater need of the creative knowledge and innovative discoveries produced by America’s research universities,” Gutmann said in a statement. “I look forward to working with our partner institutions as we constructively address the most important issues confronting higher education today.” Penn is one of 14 universities that founded the AAU in 1990. As a member of the AAU, Gutmann has advocated against gun violence and worked to diminish the nation’s “innovation deficit” by closing the gap between needed and actual investments in higher education and research. Over the past year, Gutmann and Cornell President David Skorton represented the Ivy League on the AAU executive board. Michigan State University President Lou Anna K. Simon will serve as vice-chair for the 20142015 term, filling Gutmann’s former position. Gutmann succeeded President

of the University of Texas at Austin Bill Powers as chair. “We are very pleased that Amy Gutmann will serve as our chair for the coming year,” AAU President Hunter Rawlings said in a statement. “She is extraordinarily articulate in explaining the value of research universities to communities and the nation. Moreover, she has demonstrated the kind of leadership for Penn and for the city of Philadelphia that serves as an example for all of our universities as they seek to fulfill their missions of undergraduate and graduate education, groundbreaking research, economic development and community service.”

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Penn Museum brings mummies to Philadelphia schools DIA SOTIROPOULOU Contributing Writer

Seventh grade hands shot up with each of the museum instructor’s prompts at the “mummification workshop” offered at the Penn Alexander school. “Yeah! I love dead guys!” shouted one student. There was a chorus of agreement. The workshop is part of a free program called “Unpacking the Past” offered by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. The museum is partnering with the School

District of Philadelphia, as well as with schools in the Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP) and Mastery Charter Schools to further integrate Penn into the city surrounding it. The program will help students “find out more about the world and about themselves,” said Jannie Blackwell, councilwoman for the 3rd District of Philadelphia. She delivered remarks at the unveiling ceremony for the program Tuesday morning alongside Penn President Amy Gutmann and Superintendent of the Philadelphia school district William Hite Jr.

Hite cited the program as an opportunity to “take advantage of a rich cultural environment,” also stressing the importance of its cost-free status. Unpacking the Past involves a classroom outreach session, which brings “mummy mobiles” to participating schools and delivers an anthropology and archeology lesson. Students later take a free trip to the museum for an interactive workshop, and the program culminates in a final project showcase, said Ellen Owens, director of learning programs at the Penn Museum. Students can show their relatives and

friends what they learned and built, and their families are additionally rewarded with a free year-long museum membership. Hopefully, students will be taught “basic deduction skills” through activities like these, Owens said, and learn “to tell things with their own eyes.” The program will also be supplemented with professional development sessions for teachers that allow the teachers to go behind the scenes at the museum. “It’s not often that a seventh grade teacher has access to an expert Egyptologist,” she said.

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Becoming a racist WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2014 VOL. CXXX, NO. 99 130th Year of Publication

TAYLOR CULLIVER, Executive Editor AMANDA SUAREZ, Managing Editor JENNIFER YU, Opinion Editor LOIS LEE, Director of Online Projects HARRY COOPERMAN, City News Editor JODY FREINKEL, Campus News Editor WILLIAM MARBLE, Enterprise Editor GENESIS NUNEZ, Copy Editor MATT MANTICA, Copy Editor YOLANDA CHEN, News Photo Editor MICHELE OZER, Sports Photo Editor

KEEN ON THE TRUTH | Penn culture pits white skin against black when it comes to race relations

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eople assume a lot about me because of the color of my skin. First off, I’m a racist. Then, I am rich, unaware, stuckup and out to keep the black man down. Now, it doesn’t matter if I say I’m not racist. And it doesn’t matter if I actively research social conditions. And while I earn social credit for attending Penn on more than 95 percent financial aid, mentioning my father’s Ph.D. strips that credit away. I’m a white guy. I’m a bad guy. And I’m all about keeping everybody down. But sometimes, I wonder how it was that I became a racist. I wasn’t born one, you see. And I wasn’t raised one, either. In fact, nobody thought I was racist because of the color of my skin until I got to the Ivy League. I grew up as a “foreigner” in China. I was occasionally a devil or a dog, but most of the time I was just a foreigner — or

to translate literally, a person from a country outside. It didn’t feel bad to be from a country outside, and I merrily learned to speak Mandarin with a bit of a Cantonese accent. But what was more important was that racism just wasn’t a “thing” for me. There were different colors in the international community, but being white didn’t “label” me. We were all just people from countries outside, and while I learned that Chinese sometimes despise blacks, I thought it was a ridiculous idea. After all, why? It was just plain stupid. When I came to Penn, I brought this mentality with me. But gradually I learned that here, I’m a white guy. And a white guy can be one of four things: gay, bisexual, transgender or racist. My introduction to this idea started in training sessions for tutoring at West Philadelphia High School. I was told that I was white and that over 95 percent of the students I was going to work

with would be black. I was told that meant something and was introduced to the phrase “rich white bitch.” That was Racism 101 for me — the first time I’d seriously met the concept outside of history.

It doesn’t matter if I say I’m not racist, [or if ] I actively research social conditions. And while I earn social credit for attending Penn on more than 95 percent financial aid, mentioning my father’s Ph.D. strips that credit away.” At Penn, there is a seething sense of race. If a white person writes on a topic dealing with the so-called “underprivileged”

class, and a reader disagrees, it is internet custom to label the writer as a white privileged idiot — instead of just a regular ignoramus. Correspondingly, blacks are stereotyped as one of four things: criminal athletes, panhandlers, dumb affirmative-action students or wealthy Whartonites from Nigeria. By the time I completed my freshman year at Penn, I caught myself thinking in terms of white and black. And I found myself a worse man for doing so. While many recognize these problems, it seems the only response is a black call for special treatment on account of race. Affirmative action is, perhaps, the most famous example of this in the collegiate atmosphere. Special programs, fraternities and organizations to house racial interests are also ubiquitous. TaNehisi Coates recently came to Penn to argue for straight-up racial reparations. I do not pretend to have the

same knowledge of racism as Ta-Nehisi Coates, and I can understand the well-meaning attempt to address historical structural racism with compensational structural racism. Did a governor once stand at the door of Alabama to block black students? Well, then, the current governor should be there to make sure their grandchildren are the first to enter! But when this laudable idea is racially coded, it does much to reinforce racial tensions and little to solve real-world problems. Wealthy first and second generation African immigrants flood the Ivy League to fulfill diversity quotas, but they never faced systematic discrimination to begin with. Meanwhile, Asians and whites — especially males, theoretically competing against gender-based affirmative action — are left with a sour sense of unfair treatment and smug feelings of superiority. Many assume themselves to be spectacular performers if they could get into the

JEREMIAH KEENAN Ivies despite their racial or gender “handicaps.” And so the spiral of racial tension continues on down. According to campus culture — whether I want to be or not — I’m a white guy. I’m a bad guy. I’m a racist. But, personally, I’d really rather not be.

JEREMIAH KEENAN is a College sophomore from China studying math. His email address is jkeenan@sas.upenn. edu. “Keen on the Truth” appears every Wednesday.

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THE VISION | Reading between the lines of mental illness

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S to r i e s m a t te r. Many stories m a t te r. S to r i e s have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity. —Chimamanda Adichie As I sat in class, I stared at a chart presenting comparative depression rates across countries. My eyes instantly went to

my parents’ country, Nigeria, whose depression prevalence was 5.2 percent. In an attempt to explain this number, a student theorized that “maybe people are just really happy over there.” I shook my head and explained that while mental health is stigmatized worldwide, it is something that no one dares to openly discuss in my culture. Mental health does not exist for us. I had trouble wrapping my mind around how my experience on campus might be different depending on my identity. I often think about what it means to have my body present on campus. As a woman, I don’t always feel safe walking home late at night, as I have been a target of street harassment. As a person of color, I always wonder how others perceive my existence within the campus space. I have been questioned for my presence, mistaken for not being a Penn

student, as well as the object of blame for “unfairly being here only because of affirmative action.” And in the context of my academic privilege, I wonder how my experience in a black body might be drastically different if I didn’t carry a PennCard at all. With increasing attention towards campus mental health, students have come together to grieve and mobilize. The mental health conversation is not an easy one. And while it’s difficult to understand every single person’s narrative, the current conversation has been fairly surface-level for some: Penn’s cutthroat culture, Pennface, etc. No one doubts the validity of these concerns. However, this aspect of the conversation is simpler to relate to for many students, hence why it has monopolized the conversation. What is not as easy to discuss? Race, gender, sexuality, religion, ableism, culture,

socioeconomic status, microaggressions, intersectionality, amongst countless other variables. These nuanced paradigms are essential for many to have a holistic conversation on their mental health. This inspired me to ask a simple yet daunting question: What does mental health mean to you? There are countless organizations on campus dedicated to promoting mental wellness. But many of these organizations don’t deeply explore the ways in which intersectionality may affect students’ mental health. In attempting to appeal to as many people as possible, organizations such as the Mental Health Initiative, Active Minds and Cogwell can consequently only devote so much time to this specific focus within mental health culture. This is not to say that what they do is not important — in fact, it is crucial to starting the conversation and promoting

openness and dialogue. And while these organizations are constantly making attempts to further incorporate these nuances, this leaves it up to us as a student body to further the conversation and take it to a level where we can regularly talk about microaggressions, what it means to feel othered and also what it means to celebrate the very things that make our narratives unique on campus. Motivated by this void in our mental health discussion, I founded the Penn Initiative for Minority Mental Health in the fall of 2013, an organization that strives to integrate Penn’s minority and underrepresented populations into the conversation of campus mental health. Our intent is to create a sustainable safe space to discuss the ways in which intersectionality may affect students’ mental health. In collaboration with various cultural resources and or-

THE VISION ganizations, PIMMH was launched as a support forum for students of all backgrounds to explore cultural considerations and implications to the mental health approach. The goal is simple. I hope that every student who stumbles upon our organization feels empowered by our message: My mental health matters.

STEPHANIE JIDEAMA is a College senior studying health and societies. Her email address is sjideama@ sas.upenn.edu. “The Vision” is a column for black voices that appears every Wednesday.

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In second climate action plan, student involvement is seen as key JESSICA WASHINGTON Staff Writer

After five years of improving environmental sustainability on campus, Penn announced on Tuesday afternoon the University’s next steps to make the campus as environmentally friendly as possible. As part of Penn’s Climate Action Plan 2.0, the University will invest hundreds of millions of dollars in projects that span from remodeling the top 20 percent of campus buildings that have the highest energy use to increasing the number of zero-waste events on campus each year. While the University does not have an exact dollar amount for how much it plans to spend on sustainability efforts over the next few years, several aspects of the University’s plan include $190 million earmarked for making campus buildings more ecofriendly, as well as other annual facilities funding for sustainability efforts. The new plan’s goals build on those in the University’s first Climate Action Plan, which was published in 2009. Under the new plan, Penn aims to reduce energy use by 10 percent, increase campus-wide recycling from 24 percent to 30 percent and reduce carbon emissions by 7 percent by 2019 . By 2042, the University aims to become carbon neutral — producing net-zero carbon emissions. One of main tenants of the plan, though, is to increase student and faculty knowledge about environmental stewardship on campus. “There is an intangible benefit that you can’t measure, which I think we all believe is the biggest benefit of all — education,” said University Architect David Hollenberg, who oversees Penn’s

sustainability efforts. “That’s what the mission of this place is: education [and] research. You’re all going to graduate and you’re going to be leaders in whatever you choose to do and you’re going to come from a place where this [environmental sustainability] is part of the culture, and you’re just going to spread that.” The new action plan will increase student involvement in sustainability efforts through an expansion of several programs, including the Eco-Reps program — students and faculty who promote recycling and energy conservation — and the Green Living Certification Program. The University also plans to create both a speaker series or symposium dedicated to sustainability and a faculty working group on sustainability to help faculty interested in teaching and researching sustainability. “There are a lot of opportunities for the students — and the staff for that matter — to get involved in sustainability efforts under this new plan,” Dan Garofalo, Penn’s sustainability director, said. This is important because the success of the new plan is incredibly reliant on student involvement. “It is very contingent on student behavior,” Vice President of Facilities and Real Estate Services Anne Papageorge said. The new climate plan comes seven years after Penn President Amy Gutmann signed the American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment, which required Penn to drastically reduce carbon emissions, promote environmental educational opportunities, reduce energy use and to create climate action plans to achieve these goals. While Penn is one of 600 universities to sign this pledge nationwide, the only other Ivy League school to sign the pledge was Cornell University.

“There was a lot of debate among universities” about whether to sign, Papageorge recalled. “I can speak to how Dr. Gutmann viewed it — or at least how she talked about it back in 2007 — and that this is an aspirational goal and we will do our best to get to get to this goal.” Since signing the pledge, Penn has achieved or came close to many of the goals set out by its original climate plan. Penn’s carbon emissions have decreased by 18 percent since 2007. Penn’s campus has also seen a roughly 10 percent reduction in the amount of waste transported to landfills, and all new buildings on campus have received LEED Gold Certification. In terms of education, Penn now offers 170 courses related to sustainability and has created a minor in Sustainability & Environmental Management, a masters in Environmental Design and the Vagelos Integrated Program in Energy Research. However, there are still a few goals the University did not reach within their intended time frame. The rate of recycling has decreased by 7 percent since 2011. Currently at 26 percent, the rate of recycling on campus is 14 percent lower than the target rate of 40 percent outlined in the 2009 Action Plan. FRES Director of Maintenance & Operations Ken Ogawa said this was because “we are a victim of our own success.” Since Penn has reduced its overall waste, students and staff have been using fewer products — and therefore fewer recyclable materials — which Ogawa said could have contributed to the lower recycling rate. Penn’s absolute energy usage has also risen by 5.1 percent since 2007. However, after adjusting for the University’s expansion — Penn expanded by over 1 million square feet in this time frame — as well as weather discrepancies, Penn’s adjusted energy usage is down by 6.6 percent.

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After the partial closure of the library in the Towne Building earlier this year, Engineering students have struggled to find study space in the Engineering Quad. At the end of last semester, the books from the library were removed and a portion of the library was closed to make way for active learning classrooms, leaving students with less study space. During an event to solicit student concerns, the Engineering Dean’s Advisory Board heard many questions about the amount of study space. “In response to students’ questions about where to study,

EDAB created a pamphlet of where to study that provides a list of study spaces in and near Engineering,” said Engineering senior Natalie Eisner, the president of the board. “There really aren’t that many places around the Engineering Quad to study,” Engineering sophomore Grace Memmo said. “But a lot of Engineering students that I know will just study in other areas, like Starbucks or the high rises.” In response, Ira Winston, the chief infrastructure officer for SEAS, said there is ample space for Engineering students to work. “I would love students to use the Education Commons [in Franklin Field], but people don’t like walking across the street. The Singh Center for Nanotechnology is also open to students from 8 a.m to 7 p.m. during the week,” Winston said. “If anything, the amount of study space has increased.”

There are also tables still in the Engineering library, without books, for students to use. While the new Singh Center has been touted for its topnotch facilities, some are not as pleased. “There are no provisions for any faculty members’ offices, no lounges for students or employees and little work space,” said an employee, who wished to remain anonymous. This employee also contended that there is not enough room for students in Levine or Skirkanich halls. The Towne Library will be transformed into several active learning classrooms that will open in the spring, Winston said. The classrooms will hold classes during the day and will be open to students from noon until midnight to allow for more study space. The library’s closure came as a surprise to many students

and faculty members when Engineering Dean Eduardo Glandt announced it last March. At the same time, the Math-PhysicsAstronomy Library in David Rittenhouse Laboratories was also set to close. Graduate students and faculty protested the closure of the Math-Physics-Astronomy Library, arguing that they should have been consulted and that research would be harmed without quick access to books. The closing of the Towne Library got grouped into the negative reaction of the Math-Physics-Astronomy Library closure, but there was not as much protest over the loss of books, Winston said. “I haven’t heard a single student complain about the loss of books [in the Engineering library],” he said. A petition to save the libraries was signed by nearly 1,000 students, leading to a compro-

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changed.” “It wasn’t perhaps handled as well as it could have been,” Winston said. “The announcement didn’t go into the specifics of where there would be additional study space. This was more of a 73092 communications problem than an actual problem.”

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said. “Sometimes the borders are really controlled by the Israeli forces, so they have the say.” He kept the news of his acceptance within his family and a few close friends, while still working hard for the college entrance exam in Palestine — just in case he had to stay and enroll in the university a few blocks away from his home. But months later, after obtaining a visa to study in the United States, he embarked on the long trip to Penn, the only student from Palestine entering his freshman class. *** Arman Tokanov, a Wharton junior, did door-to-door internet sales in his gap year before college. “Hey, you have Internet?” Arman would knock on the doors, family by family, trying to start a conversation. “I basically said, ‘Your Internet sucks, you know. I have the one that’s cheaper and faster!’” Most of the time people asked him to go away, but sometimes he would make a sale. During his unconventional gap year, Arman — who spoke Russian and Kazakh in his daily life — spent time catching up on his English to get better scores on the SAT and the International English Language Testing System. He went to a public high school in Astana, where English was used only in science classes. When his senior year arrived, he was not prepared for applying to U.S. colleges. Although he got acceptance from one of the top universities in Kazakhstan, he decided to take a gap year and apply to American colleges, despite concerns from his parents, who thought it was a risky decision. Penn’s admission results came out in the early morning, before the sun rose in Kazakhstan. When he opened the website and saw the word “Congrat-

ulations,” he knew that the gap year was worth it. Arman came to Penn as the only student from Kazakhstan in his class. Aye Nyein Thu, a Wharton senior from Burma, also managed to convince her parents to let her study in the U.S. Her parents thought she would be lonely and wanted her to go to college in Singapore, where her brothers were studying. So Aye made a deal with them: She would only come here if she got into an Ivy League university. “Why are you going to this no-name school?” her mother asked after Aye showed her the Wharton acceptance letter. In Burma — like in Palestine and Kazakhstan — the only U.S. colleges that are household names are Harvard and Yale. But getting into a U.S. college at all was worth celebration. Aye showed her mother the college rankings, and four months, later she found herself on a campus where she knew no one. *** International students have a natural need to find familiarity once they arrive in the U.S., said Rudie Altamirano, the director of International Student and Scholar Services. But for students like Qais, Arman and Aye, that task can be particularly challenging. “If there’s no other person from your country, it’s harder in a sense that there’s no immediate connection,” Altamirano said. “They would look for that, but there was none. So they will go to the next level — which is the closest to my culture?” In her freshman year, Aye would frequently visit Rangoon Restaurant, the only Burmese eatery in Philadelphia. The restaurant, located in Chinatown, served as a quick fix for her homesickness. Arman noticed differences in culture right when he arrived at the gate of the Quad with his suitcases. In Kazakh-

stan, people tend to be reserved with strangers, which entails no smiling and no small talk. But he quickly learned that same rule does not apply in the U.S. “There was a big guy, the guard, there. I was helpless and didn’t know what to do. I looked at him briefly,” Arman said, “and he looked back and smiled!” “It was so weird — why is this big guy smiling at me?” he said. However, a year later, when Arman went back home, he often found himself smiling to strangers and getting weird looks in return. But certain things don’t change. Arman tries to keep up with praying five times a day. A Muslim, he knows by heart the direction of Mecca from all the buildings in which he takes classes, and he has discovered secluded spots in Huntsman Hall, Van Pelt Library and the Engineering Quad where he can pray between classes. Sometimes at these secret places, he meets his Muslim friends to pray together. On a Wednesday afternoon this September, Arman brought a black foldable mat in his backpack and headed to the Lippincott Library on the second floor of Van Pelt. He walked toward the spiral stairs, took out his mat and laid it on the ground in the dim area beneath the stairs.

It’s really safe back home. It’s actually safer than West Philly. ”

- Qais Iwidat, College senior, comparing the West Bank to West Philadelphia

Before praying, he looked out the window to Walnut Street to

check that he was facing in the right direction. During Arman’s five-minute prayer, a girl strolled down the staircase, but she didn’t notice him praying. Qais, on the other hand, knew what to expect coming to the U.S. because he had watched Hollywood movies and listened to American music, like many other Palestinian teenagers. “It’s funny that you live in what you saw in the movie. It actually makes you excited,” he said. Qais has noticed one difference between West Philadelphia and the West Bank, though: how safe the neighborhood is. “It’s really safe back home. It’s actually safer than West Philly,” he said, mentioning that, unlike at home, he does not feel secure walking alone here after midnight. People often ask him about the safety of his home country and are surprised to hear his answer. “But I understand. I have skewed views on other countries, too. Coming here is a great chance for me to listen to other people,” he said. “To see through others’ lenses.” In the summer after his sophomore year, Qais went back home for the first time. There is no international airport in Palestine, so he had to fly from New York to London, then to Jordan and he finally traveled to Palestine by land. When he hung out with his old friends, he started to realize how studying in the U.S. had changed him. Qais saw himself becoming more assertive and individualistic about what he wanted to do in the future rather than “collectively planning” with his family, compared to those who stayed in Palestine. “I mean, my family is always my top priority,” he said, placing his right hand over his heart. “But if I have a vision, I want to do it. Because I believe eventually it will be better for everybody, for my family.”

I mean, my family is always my top priority. But if I have a vision, I want to do it. ” - Qais Iwidat, College senior, on becoming more individualistic in America

*** Sitting on a bench on High Rise Field and dressed in a business suit with a black messenger bag, Remy Manzi, Penn’s firstever student from Rwanda, was preparing to head to a Wharton career fair in Huntsman Hall. The College junior wanted to see the representatives from UNICEF. Studying in the U.S. is opening up doors for him to realize his dream — international development in the short term and being a diplomat for Rwanda in the long term. Growing up in a country that had been ravaged by genocide, Remy developed a knack for solving conflicts. His school accepted children from both main ethnic groups involved in the genocide. “I have to interact with kids whose parents participated in the genocide and learn their motives behind it, and also become friends of these kids,” he said. Remy’s experience in a postconflict country sparked his interest in a career in development and diplomacy. At Penn, Remy is involved with so many cultural groups that he couldn’t say which he identified most closely with. When he went back to Rwanda after his freshman year for an internship in the Rwandan government, his friends looked at him and called him a “rich guy.” He had gained 40 pounds and grown two inches taller. “In my culture, when you are bigger, it really means you are rich. Your social status has changed,” he said. During his internship, Remy got to know President Paul

much that she called her father one day to apologize. “I am so sorry I’ve spent this much,” she told him. “I promise I will pay you all back. I just need to find a job.” Her father, a successful businessman from a rural village in Burma, has always been an inspirational figure to her. “Our family lives very fortunately for my generation. My parents had to go through a lot,” Aye said. She has had several jobs on campus, including working as a research assistant and as a management TA. Every so often, she visits the Wharton Behavioral Laboratory for some pocket money. “In small ways, I tried to not spend,” she said. Aye is currently going through the on-campus recruiting process for a consulting job and sees herself going back to Burma after years of working experience. Like Aye, Arman also wants to stay in the U.S. for a few years after graduation. Wearing a T-shirt reading “<see what you can build/>”, Arman looks more like he should be walking out of the Engineering Quad than Huntsman. Although he has not decided his concentration at Wharton, he intends to do a computer science minor. “I am not into Wall Street, but I am into Silicon Valley — that’s like another bubble,” he said, half jokingly. Arman is keenly aware that working in “banking, consulting or those good jobs people get at Penn” will be a “social lift.” He expects himself to get one, too. “That kind of salary simply doesn’t exist in Kazakhstan,” especially at the entry level, he said. “It’s a social lift, pretty much, for middle class [students] in America, too.” The students who left home and came to Penn alone from their home country might not have known what to expect when they opened the acceptance letter from a university in a faraway country. Aye is never going back to a high school with 16 students in the graduating class. Arman will not be a door-to-door internet salesman. Qais will probably get more

The president...he’s expecting so much from me. Because there’s not a lot of Rwandese who have opportunities that have been really opened to me. ” - Remy Manzi, College junior, from Rwanda

Kagame personally. “The president ... he’s expecting so much from me. Because there’s not a lot of Rwandese who have [the] opportunities that have been really opened to me,” he said. “So sometimes I say I don’t deserve it — that it’s overwhelming.” Remy is not the only one with high expectations. Without receiving any financial aid, Aye has always felt guilty for spending so much family money and wants to pay it back. The feeling haunted her so

coffee from Starbucks than Stars and Bucks. And Remy, with the addition of 40 pounds and 2 inches, will likely to be regarded as a “rich man” by his old friends from now on.

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But she did not stop there. Calhoun also stressed to athletes a sense of accountability; if they want to be a part of a vibrant athletic community in University City, then they need to help make it. “If we’re going to grow attendance at all sports, then [athletes] are personally responsible for helping grow attendance,” she said. “If it’s inviting their classmates, their residence hallmates, their faculty, they need to be engaging in those conversations, getting information out about their sporting events and being personally accountable to trying to help bring people in. We all know that people have a better chance of wanting to go if they feel like they’re invited or they feel like they know people that they’re watching play.” Tied to this element of accountability is athletes’ behavior off the field. According to Calhoun, “for student athletes, just always making sure that they understand that there are privileges, but also responsibilities that come with the role.” “One of those responsibilities is being high [in] character and good citizens. Because if they’re not, it’s an embarrassment to not only themselves and their family but also the team and the division if something goes wrong.” Recently, quite a few things have gone wrong. The last calendar year has been one of bad press for the Penn athletics community in the Greater Philadelphia area. To name a few, the women’s lacrosse team got into trouble last spring for allegedly damaging a bar and behaving vulgarly in Center City. This fall,

linebacking corps had their way with Columbia, keeping running back Cameron Molina inside the tackles and generating consistent pressure on quarterback Trevor McDonagh. Defensive coordinator Ray Priore unleashed a number of blitzes that set his rushers up nicely to beat Columbia’s protection. Without standout pass rusher Sam Chwarzynski this season, the Quakers have relied on more of a collective effort to get to opposing quarterbacks. Saturday was a prime example of that, as the defense’s two total sacks were made by players who had not yet brought down an opposing quarterback this year — senior Joe Naji, and juniors Dylan Muscat and Luke Nossem. Penn’s sack total didn’t properly reflect the pressure its pass rush got on McDonagh, however. The Columbia junior was hurried often and nearly taken down sev-

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eral more times. The unit also was able to take advantage of Columbia’s numerous pre-snap mistakes and give Penn’s offense a number of short fields to work with. It wasn’t anything exceptional, but it was more than enough to keep the Lions scoreless for nearly the entire game. Saturday’s solid defensive effort will also serve to establish a blueprint the unit must follow for Penn to neutralize the better offenses in the Ivy League. Unfortunately for the Red and Blue’s title hopes, the challenges for the Quakers’ defense don’t mount gradually: the Red and Blue face the Ancient Eight’s top offense, Yale, this weekend. The Bulldogs boast a balanced and dynamic attack lead by the Ivy League’s top passer, Morgan Roberts, and rusher, Tyler Varga. But if the Quakers’ defense is able bring its toughness and intensity that were on display against Columbia into New Haven, the Elis won’t have it easy on Saturday.

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One of Athletic Director M. Grace Calhoun’s primary objectives during her tenure is to improve the unity of the student-athlete community. In doing so, Calhoun hopes to improve attendance at athletics games and an overall involvement in sports campus-wide.

junior wide receiver Cam Countryman was charged with simple assault after an altercation with a fellow student-athlete. “Unfortunately we’ve had our fair share of neighborhood disturbances,” said Calhoun. “I’ve had enough of that.” Through these policies it is clear that Calhoun is on a mission to establish a tangible presence in the lives of student athletes on

campus. Although the semester is just shy of the halfway mark, her plan is already flourishing. As a student athlete myself, I can attest to the success of Calhoun’s four short months in office. Her policies have already had a greater impact (no pun intended) on my life than anything done by former athletic director Steve Bilsky during the 20132014 school year.

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FIELD HOCKEY Croddick and Caniglia look back on Penn career BY CRISTINA URQUIDI Staff Writer

Looking at the team stats over the past four years, it is clear that Penn field hockey has really improved from 2011, when it struggled to a 4-13 record on Franklin Field’s turf. And seniors Helene Caniglia and MaryRose Croddick have been there every step of the way as the program has reinvented itself and gained a new home at Ellen Vagelos Field. “Being a senior on the team, it’s great to see how far the team has come and how the team has progressed over my four years

here,� Caniglia said. “Coach [Colleen] Fink wanted to build a new and successful program, and I was able to be here while she was doing that, so it’s just really great to see it all come together this year.� The program was in dreadful shape before Caniglia and Croddick stepped onto campus. In 2010, Penn scored only 20 goals all season and went 1-6 in the Ivy League. The pair was entering on the ground floor. “When my class of seniors committed to Penn, they had only won three games beforehand, so we were kind of coming in to a program that was really trying to turn around,� Croddick said. Since that rough 2011, the Red and Blue have only improved. The 2012 season ended with a winning 9-8 record and

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the following year, the Quakers finished one win short of an Ivy title. “Over the past four years, we’ve put in so much hard work during season and outside of season, working faster and getting stronger,� Croddick said. “The whole process has been really rewarding even though freshman year we only won four games. The year after that we wanted to be .500 and we got to that goal. “Every year we have really worked hard to move up a little bit.� Caniglia and Croddick hope to leave a legacy of hard work and dedication. “We want to keep the momentum going and keep everyone’s energy and spirits up,� Caniglia said. “We want to leave a strong work ethic and legacy for the girls,� Croddick added. With time running out on their careers, both Caniglia and Croddick have been on the field plenty. Both have seen action in all of Penn’s games this season. Croddick, a midfielder, has tallied five assists, while Caniglia, a back, has contributed to a Penn defense that surrenders only 12.3 shots per game. “The whole season has been a little bit bittersweet because every game is the last time I’m playing that opponent,� Croddick said. “It’s definitely been great to be one of the oldest returning players on the team.� This season, though, has not

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While Penn was eager to get Hong on its team, it took a long time for her to decide whether she wanted to be on any team after her high school career. “I visited here really late — I came here in mid-February,� Hong said, “Most girls came in the early fall, but I was kind of late to decide whether or not I wanted to run in college, because I kind of got better at running during my senior year. But when I visited Penn, I really liked the team dynamic, and how coach

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the leadership not only to talk, to say the right things at the right time, but he also can do it on the field.â€? Although, as McCurdy affectionately points out, there may be one thing that Beamish can’t quite do on the field. “My favorite thing about Beamish is that anytime he gets into the open field ‌ Mike Beamish is the only guy in the league who makes a direct route for the one guy who could tackle him and just bowls him over for five yards,â€? McCurdy said. “One time I think he tried to do a juke, and he kinda hopped and then he tried to hurdle this guy and he got upended.â€? But for a player who is a quar-

terback and punter by trade it’s hard to fault him for that. In fact it’s one of the things McCurdy praises him for. “He’s not the biggest dance and make ‘em miss guy,� McCurdy said. “But it says a lot about his personality that even when he’s in the open field he goes out and just tries to punish the other guy. It’s kind of how he leads.� Despite all of his success and his role on the team, nobody is ready to get sentimental about the last hurrah just yet. “We’re worried about playing Army right now. Next year’s down the road,� Wagner said. With two games left in the season, Wagner will enjoy Beamish while he’s got him.

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said of the man with whom he shares the backfield. One reason for that, which Wagner and McCurdy both commented on, is that he always brings his “A� game to practice. The first time McCurdy met Beamish was in a captain’s meeting with the freshman last year. “I remember thinking it must say a lot about a guy that he’s a captain as a junior,� McCurdy said. But, it was no hard choice to make Beamish a captain in his junior season, as McCurdy soon learned. “Every team needs leadership,� Wagner said. “And there’s different kinds of leadership Beam has

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Did Saturday’s win change Penn football’s season? BY SPORTS EDITORS

From The Daily Pennsylvanian’s sports blog, THE BUZZ Penn football finally got its first win of the year on Saturday, taking down lowly Columbia. This weekend, a much greater test awaits in a strong Yale squad. Our editors debate: Does the Columbia game change the outlook for Penn football, or are the Quakers bound to fall to the Elis? Senior Sports Editor Steven Tydings: Winning always changes things. Look, the Quakers aren’t going to look like world beaters overnight, but the team knows the formula to win now. They need to establish the running game, which should be easier with senior running back Kyle Wilcox back at practice this week and possibly ready to go to the Yale Bowl. Alek Torgersen will need to be just as strong with his decisionmaking, and the O-line needs to hold up its end of the bargain. But the defense was the most important change on Saturday. Yes, I know, Columbia. But that defense had floundered for four games and now the D-line looks

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like it has things together. Senior linebacker Dan Davis is healthy. All of these factors means Penn is a strong competitor to Yale. Favorites? No, but Dartmouth proved these Elis are beatable, even at Yale. Game on. Sports Editor Ian Wenik: I’m gonna have to be party pooper on this one. Penn’s secondary looked good against Columbia, yes, but I don’t see any reason to be confident in it until it shows up well against a competent quarterback. Yale senior quarterback Morgan Roberts is completing 69.4 percent of his passes this year, a ridiculously efficient clip. If Penn wants me to believe it has a shot at the Ivy title, it’ll need to have that pass rush show up again in force on Saturday, to make the secondary issue irrelevant. After all, you can’t complete a pass if you’re pile-driven into the Yale Bowl turf. But that pass rush didn’t show up against Dartmouth, and I don’t see it showing up against the Bulldogs, either.

Sports Editor Holden McGinnis: I’m with Ian on this one. Sure, Dartmouth proved the Elis are beatable, but Penn and Dartmouth are far from the same team. And remember how close that one was. If Big Green quarterback Dalyn Williams had made one fewer heroic play in leading Dartmouth back in the fourth quarter, then we’d be talking about a Yale team undefeated in the league and holding a win over Army. I don’t think a dominant win over lowly Columbia changes much of anything about Penn’s chances against one of the stronger teams in the league. Sure, it was by far the most complete game the Quakers have played all season, but the Lions aren’t a fearsome opponent. I think, if anything, Columbia helped cover up the flaws that doomed the Red and Blue in early games. We’ll see if Yale can expose them the same way that Dartmouth did, but either way Penn’s chances didn’t improve too much after a win that everyone saw coming.

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On Saturday, Penn sophomore quarterback Alek Torgersen put together his best game of the season, throwing for over 200 yards and rushing for 70 more. However, against Yale, Torgersen and the Quakers will have to outdo themselves to beat a strong opponent.

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ROUNDTABLE Our editors discuss whether Saturday’s win over Columbia changes Penn football’s outlook >> SEE PAGE 11

LOOKING BACK Two of Penn field hockey’s seniors look back on their careers >> SEE PAGE 10

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Calhoun unifying Penn Athletics

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Throughout the season, senior linebacker Dan Davis has been a cornerstone of Penn’s defensive efforts. Against Columbia, Davis and co. went back to their fundamentals and found a way to put up their most complete performance of the season. The defensive front seven were at their best, putting consistent pressure on Trevor McDonagh.

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mentals. It took a drive, but that’s just what the Quakers’ defense did in its 31-7 win over Columbia on Saturday. BY SEAMUS POWERS After letting up a touchdown Staff Writer on its first series, Penn’s defense not only shut out the Lions, but After a difficult start to the also held their rushing attack to a season, Penn football coach Al measly 20 yards. Bagnoli stressed the need for his It was a display of resolve and team to get back to the funda- consistency that Penn fans had

gotten used to over the years, but missed so far this season after the Red and Blue had failed to hold an opponent under 31 points entering Saturday’s contest. Plain and simple, the Quakers returned to playing Penn defense. “We knew it was going to be a tough game,” Columbia coach Pete Mangurian said after the game. “That’s Penn’s identity.” It was the Red and Blue’s front

seven that truly got back to its identity. “We played assignment football and stuck our gaps,” safety Evan Jackson, who had six tackles, said. “The guys up front did a great job swarming to the football. It was a good performance for the run defense.” The Quakers’ front four and SEE FOOTBALL PAGE 9

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If you fight the urge to look at your phone while strolling down Locust Walk, you just might notice a little something different among the sea of hurried people. No, it’s not that the leaves are finally starting to turn. And it’s not that there are more pumpkin spice lattes in hand either. If you look closely enough, underneath the unzipped hoodies and jackets of Penn’s student athletes, you will find bold new navy T-shirts are the latest in newly minted athletic director M. Grace Calhoun’s attempt to unify the Penn athlete community. When it comes to bringing together upwards of 1,000 student-athletes, T-shirts may seem like a strange starting point. However, it is hard to walk more than a block across the heart of Penn’s campus without seeing a student proudly wearing one of these “IMPACT” T-shirts. Calhoun explains that the Tshirts were an attempt to make this sense of unity visible. “First and foremost, it’s been about building that [athletic] com-

munity internally,” she told The Daily Pennsylvanian. “[It’s that] they’re not a men’s lacrosse team, a women’s basketball team, a rowing team, that they’re part of the division of recreation and intercollegiate athletics. That they need to act as one community and support one another,” Calhoun said. The first step, Calhoun explained during Penn’s first ever all-athlete kick-off picnic on Sept. 22, is to get to know members of the athletic community outside of just the sport in which you compete. Calhoun didn’t waste any time getting started with this measure: during the picnic, athletes were instructed not to sit with other members of their team so that they could get to know other athletes. While the picnic was a galvanizing start, this athletic community will not form overnight from a few more Facebook friends. Calhoun wants athletes to make the time to attend fellow athletes’ competitions — and to do it for free. This year, for the first time, student athletes will not have to pay admission to men’s basketball games at the Palestra. This was done in hopes of reviving the passionate Quakers fan base that once thrived in the “Cathedral of Basketball.” SEE HIGGINS PAGE 9

Freshman Hong separating herself from the pack

Beamish continues running head on SPRINT FB | Senior gave up Division I punting to play for coach BY THOMAS MUNSON Staff Writer Penn sprint football coach Bill Wagner chuckles when he thinks about his favorite memory of his senior captain and running back Mike Beamish. “Wow,” he replies, “He’s had a lot of big games.” It’s hard to find someone who won’t smile when they talk about Beamish. Well, except maybe a Mansfield defensive lineman. Regardless, whether it’s his coach, his quarterback or his teammates, there is nothing but praise for the Quakers’ running back as he prepares to lace up his cleats in his home finale for the Red and Blue this Friday night at Franklin Field. Beamish is currently the program’s third all-time leading rusher, but it took an alignment of the stars for “Beam” — as Wagner affectionally calls him — to line up in Penn’s backfield. While Beamish was recruited by multiple Division I programs for his punting ability, Wagner was able to get his hands on a tape of the now-senior from Penn’s varsity team. Except in the tape Beamish wasn’t just punting, he was playing quarterback. That’s when Wagner stepped in and con-

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In her first collegiate race, freshman Abby Hong finished first, proving herself to be an integral part of the track & field program moving forward

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While he had hopes to be a quarterback or Division I punter, senior captain Mike Beamish adapted well to the role of running back and leader for Penn sprint football. Beamish is now Penn’s third all-time leading rusher and has been a captain for two seasons.

vinced Beamish to join his squad. When Beamish hurt his shoulder in his county’s all-star game and his quarterback aspirations were put on hold, Wagner had to improvise. “What can he play, what can he do?” Wagner remembers

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thinking, “He’s got great legs and lower body so I said: ‘Mike, why don’t you start running with the backs …’ and before you know it he ended up being a running back and that’s how that happened.” But as always, whether it was a position change or another trip

to his hometown to take on Mansfield, where his father played college ball, Beamish gave it his all. “He’s one of the most consistent guys on the team,” sophomore quarterback Mike McCurdy SEE SPRINT FB PAGE 10

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High School — is coming off of a senior campaign which saw her qualify for and place 30th in the Foot Locker Cross Country National ChampionBY TOMMY ROTHMAN ships in San Diego, a meet in Staff Writer which only 10 student-athletes apiece from four regions comOne of just two freshmen pete. Hong impressed students running with the “A-team” for and coaches alike during her Penn women’s cross country, fantastic senior year, including Abby Hong is no stranger to Penn coach Steve Dolan. finding herself in select groups “I actually went out to San on the track. Diego and watched her comHong’s reputation precedes pete in the National Championher, which is something the ships, so that was really a lot Californian’s opponents have of fun,” Dolan said. “We knew rarely managed to do when she’d be a great match for Penn, racing her to the finish line. so we’re excited she’s here.” The first-year Quakers runSEE XC PAGE 10 ner — fresh out of Mira Costa

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