THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2014
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MIDTERM ELECTION RESULTS GOVERNOR TOM WOLF The Democratic candidate defeated Republican incumbent Tom Corbett
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR MIKE STACK The Democratic candidate defeated Republican Jim Cawley, who ran with Corbett
U.S. HOUSE REP CHAKA FATTAH The incumbent Democrat defeated Republican challenger Armond James
STATE SENATE ANTHONY WILLIAMS The incumbent Democrat ran unopposed
STATE HOUSE JAMES ROEBUCK The incumbent Democrat defeated Republican challenger Ernest Adkins
LPS group aims to form community for ‘nontraditional’ students ELLIE SCHROEDER Staff Writer
Undergraduates at Penn have easy opportunities to create a lasting sense of community through shared experiences — from the Econ Scream and late night Wawa runs from the Quad, to navigating clubs and sports team. But for some of Penn’s “nontraditional” students in the College of Liberal and Professional Studies — students who start at Penn when they’re over 21 — it’s not always as easy to find the same opportunities, according to some LPS students. That’s where Penn’s relatively new Liberal and Professional Studies Student’s Association comes in. LPSSA, which was founded in 2012, aims to create the same sense of community among LPS students, said Kathy Urban, director of BA and BFA programs at LPS. “It is really a touchstone for our students. It gives them the opportunity to all come together on a regular basis to network, identify common interest and share experiences,” Urban said. LPSSA creates this community through hosting events for LPS students and advocating for their interests with University administrators. LPSSA President Eddie Burns, an LPS senior, said that the organization’s most significant accomplishment so far was successfully petitioning the University to allow LPS students to apply for the newly created President’s SEE LPSSA PAGE A5
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PA. GOVERNOR Democrat Tom Wolf defeated incumbent Governor Tom Corbett by nearly 10 percent of the vote
Students gathered yesterday night to watch the election results come out at an event co-hosted by several political groups on campus.
JONATHAN BAER Staff Writer
With a new Pennsylvania governor and the Republicans now controlling the U.S. Senate, the midterm elections on Tuesday significantly changed local and national political landscapes. Democratic challenger Tom Wolf handily beat Republican Governor Tom Corbett by nearly 10 percent, marking the first time in over 40 years that a sitting Pennsylvania governor did not win reelection. Throughout the gubernatorial campaign, public education acted as one of
the most important issues to Pennsylvanian voters. “We need to make sure education is at the top of the list, not the bottom,” Wolf said in his acceptance speech at Utz Arena in York, Pa. “We need to make sure we fund our education system fairly, and we got to make sure that we raise the money that we use to fund our system fairly.” The issue of education funding resonated with Penn students who voted for Wolf. At campus polling stations, Wolf received 89 percent of
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Penn voter turnout drops 27 percent since last Pa. governor election About 1,060 votes were cast, as opposed to 1,460 cast in 2010 HANNAH NOYES Staff Writer
Penn’s polling stations saw less than one-third of the voter turnout this election cycle than they had in the 2012 presidential election and had 27 percent fewer voters than in the last Pennsylvania gubernatorial election. An estimated 1,060 people turned out to vote for Tuesday’s election at polling locations on campus, according to polling data posted outside campus stations. More than 3,500 student voters turned out to polling places in 2012 during the presidential election. The number of students voting in midterm elections
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President Amy Gutmann voted yesterday in Vance Hall at one of the on-campus voting locations, and spoke to members of Penn Leads the Vote.
has been on the steady decline for years. Campus turnout was 1,460 students in 2010, and 1,521 students
in 2006. “Even though we don’t have as much turnout as the residential neighborhoods,
for us this has been a big and exciting turnout,” said
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Tennis star Andre Agassi says he found his true passion in retirement Agassi spoke as part of Lauren & Bobby Turner Social Impact Executive Speaker Series GHINWA MOUJAES Contributing Writer
Andre Agassi wants you to pursue your own path. Speaking at the Annenberg Center on Tuesday as part of Lauren & Bobby Turner Social Impact Ex-
ecutive Speaker Series, the olympic gold medalist and former top tennis player encouraged Penn students, especially at this moment of their lives, to be open-
minded about their paths and chose a feld they are passionate about. “You will be uncomfortable in your own skin if you don’t find your own reason to wake up every day.” Agassi said. Surprisingly, Agassi’s reason is not tennis. He played the sport primarily to please
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The Lauren & Bobby Turner Social Impact Executive Speaker Series brought in Andre Agassi, former top tennis player, to speak about social impact.
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