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For some owners, Penn students are a welcome sight CAMERON DICHTER Contributing Reporter

It’s no secret that Penn students have an insatiable appetite for events that include drinking. But in the world of Penn social life where almost anything can (and probably will) be pregamed, there is no better example than the time honored tradition of the Bring Your Own. Yes the BYO, where college students venture out into the city, sometimes bringing their drunken antics with them. For the staff at some of Penn’s most popular BYOs, a group of Penn students is a welcome sight.

Manager John Lewis from Iztaccihuatl.

John is no stranger to the Penn social life.

“They come here to get drunk and wild,” he said of his restaurant.

Iztaccihuatl is perhaps the prime example of when a restaurant and the Penn students who go there are in complete sync. Lewis describes his restaurant as a “hall party with food that’s BYO.” After years at Iztaccihuatl, Lewis has developed a strong rapport with Penn students.

Even when they get rowdy, “Penn students are

When food trucks become food establishments PAT ZANCOLLI Staff Reporter

On a typical weekday around noon, lines of hungry students wait for delicious food from their favorite food trucks snaking down Spruce Street outside the Quadrangle. Meanwhile, right up the street similar lines can be seen through the windows of the various restaurants along Spruce toward 38th Street.

Whether you prefer an early morning breakfast sandwich from Lyn’s or Bui’s or a vegetarian meal from Magic Carpet, a large amount of Penn students partake in University City’s food-truck culture every day. With over 60 trucks to choose from, students and faculty alike can enjoy a variety of different foods, ranging from Asian to Mediterranean and from bagels to desserts.

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However, a lesser known fact about the food-truck scene at Penn is the big changes that have occurred around the University City food trucks. Specifically, a trend in more recent years sees thriving food trucks expanding from the truck model to full-time brick-and-mortar locations. Restaurants such as Greek Lady, HubBub Coffee and Pari Cafe Creperie in Houston Market have smoothly made the transition with the help of Penn Facilities and Real Estate Services.

Food trucks at Penn The food-truck culture at Penn has been vibrant for about five years, according to FRES Executive Director Ed Datz. Over this period of time, it has evolved quite extensively, Datz said.

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Minority leaders demanded changes from administrators at protest JESSICA WASHINGTON Staff Reporter

In November, Students Organizing for Unity and Liberation held a protest to stand in solidarity with students at the University of Missouri and Yale, who had been protesting the unfair treatment of minority students on their campuses as well as the failure of their administrations to proactively address the issue of racism.

SOUL leaders at Penn provided their own list of demands on the administration in order to address issues of racism. One of these demands was increased “underrepresented minority employees” at Counseling and Psychological Services.

"I think there’s value in talking to someone who looks like you or may have similar lived experiences.” said UMOJA President Ray Clark.

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A look at geographic diversity within the student body VIBHA KANNAN Staff Reporter

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While Penn prides itself on diversity, statistics reveal it isn’t quite so geographically diverse.

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As high school graduation approached, College sophomore Shelby Barlow was one of the few students in her small Mississippi town preparing to leave the state for college.

Many of her high school classmates from Long Beach, Miss. had recently enlisted in the military.

Others were heading off to the local community college.

What we learn in the exercise of giving thanks is that maybe it’s OK to fall short.”

Barlow, who grew up in Long Beach, described it as “a small town where Southern hospitality is still alive and families stay for generations.” As the only student from her high school to attend Penn in her memory, Barlow was excited to step out of the confines of her small hometown.

Her transition did not come without obstacles. “A lot of people don’t know anything about Mississippi, or they have a really disparaging view,” Barlow said.

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Penn Law School expects more applicants Law school admission is increasingly competitive SYDNEY SCHAEDEL Staff Reporter

Getting into law school this admissions cycle might be harder than it’s been in years.

Kaplan conducted its annual survey of 120 law schools and found that 88 percent are confident that their number of applicants will increase this year. In 2014, only 46 percent thought they would see a spike, and later saw the smallest pool of applicants in 40 years.

The Associate Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid at Penn Law School, Renee Post, said the survey results are “encouraging.” She said Penn Law has been watching numbers of LSAT takers, and that they saw an increase in test takers this past October. According to the Kaplan report, the number of test takers jumped in December 2014, February 2015 and June 2015 as well.

“The predictors are positive

so far,” Post said, adding that the number of applicants will not be certain until applications close late this spring.

Post said the biggest factor dragging down law school applicant numbers nationally in the past few years has been the aftershock of the 2008 recession. She added that Penn Law applications have stayed pretty consistent despite national numbers taking a hit.

“Penn has fared that storm very well,” she said.

College senior Brooke Rogers is applying to law school this year and said she didn’t know about the Kaplan survey.

“I’ve always been under the impression that it’s been competitive no matter what,” she said.

Rogers said the pre-law advisors at Penn told her to apply to at least 14 different schools, but not because of the jump in applicants. She said their recommendations weren’t different from those made in previous years and attributed the high number of recom mended

applications to factors that have stayed constant like the uniform nature of personal statements.

“Personal statements are pretty generic,” she said. “You have to somehow convey all these things in two pages double-spaced.”

She added that the number of schools a student chooses to apply to is also personal — it depends on factors such as the applicant’s LSAT scores and GPA. Rogers currently plans to apply to 18 schools, but she said the number might go down.

Most of them are in and around D.C. because she said she is interested in criminal law, litigation or working for the army or the U.S. Department of State.

But Rogers will only have to pay application fees for about four or five of the schools because certain schools have free applications to try to encourage more people to apply.

“Because not as many people are applying they’ve waived a lot of the fees ... if I get it in before a certain time,” she said.

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Counseling and Psychological Services Director William Alexander acknowledges the importance of diversity within CAPS and believes it to be adequately diverse.

is something that is acknowledged by CA PS Di rector William Alexander.

“With underserved minority populations, it is important to have representation on any staff, our staff, just because it portrays a more welcoming and open community to talk to,” Alexander said. “If you look at the counseling center and you see all white faces, and you’re an international student, you might be a little more hesitant.”

CAPS Director of Outreach and Prevention Meeta Kumar said that some mental health issues are more likely to effect minority students at Penn, an issue that might be better addressed by CAPS workers of minority backgrounds.

“Many of the issues are those common to any Penn student,” Kumar said. “Others that

are more specific are national incidents and issues of racism or homophobia, which have a negative impact on students and communities.”

Kumar argued that stigmas sur rounding menta l hea lth are often prevalent in minority communities, which could prevent students from seeking treatment.

“There are a range of stigmas in various minority communities” Kumar said. “Lack of mental health discussions; dichotomous ideas of illness, being ‘strong’ means capability to deal with any adversity and ‘weak’ as in needing support; feelings of guilt in disclosing personal problems to others, et cetera.”

These stigmas can affect the extent to which students are able to discuss mental health within their families.

“Family members of minority students may not be attuned

or sensitive to mental health issues that may create additional challenges,” she said.

Kumar also believes that a “Wester n lens” on psychology m ight not f it a ll cultures, which is why CAPS employs “cl i n icia ns w it h ex p e r t i s e /c e r t i f ic a t io n i n specific group care, such as A f r ica n-A mer ica n, Lat i na , Asian-American, Pacific Islander, African, Asian and multiracial identity issues and counseling.”

Despite CAPS’ insistence that its staff is diverse, minority student leaders at Penn are calling for a CAPS staff that is more demographically representative of the Penn community.

“The administration should make sure that representation of CAPS workers matches the demographics of Penn’s population at least. It’s definitely within their reach,” Clark said.

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popularity of food trucks at Penn and West Philly at large to the uniqueness of retail in the area.

“We’re proud in West Philly of this mix between the national retailers and the small mom-andpop retailers,” Sorrentino said.

Additionally, Sorrentino believes that the growth in food truck popularity within the past decade comes in part from the recession, during which consumers were looking for “a delicious, but inexpensive product.”

With cheap prices and quick serving time, food trucks are perfect for universities such as Penn that have “grab-and-go cultures,” Sorrentino said.

Furthermore, food trucks bring variety to University City’s food culture. “If you’re an undergraduate student, we have really great dining halls, but sometimes you want something that the dining hall doesn’t offer. If you’re an employee, there are really great restaurants to choose from.

Sometimes you want something that isn’t one of our restaurants,” Sorrentino said.

Why food trucks in the first place?

Food truck vending has expanded nationally due to the low barrier to entry for entrepreneurs interested in the the restaurant industry.

“It’s a way to get into the mainstream economy for people who are immigrating and for people who are learning American business and commerce,” Sorrentino said.

Additionally, owning and operating a food truck is a viable option for those interested in opening their own business but incapable of committing the time and resources into keeping a fulltime restaurant running.

For example, Dean Varvoutis and Deb Carson, owners of the popular Magic Carpet food trucks located at 36th and Spruce and 34th and Walnut Streets, opened their first location on Spruce back in 1984. They employed the food truck model because they had a growing family and couldn’t devote enough time to operating a full-time retail location.

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Schmear It, the philanthropic bagel food truck, plans on expanding to a brick-and-mortar site in the near future, following HubBub and Greek Lady’s lead.

Since the restaurant business is difficult and costly to enter, emerging food entrepreneurs, especially in the University City, are incentivized to start their business in a food truck. According to Pricenomics, a blog about data, economics and business, 25 percent of restaurants fail in their first year and 60 percent in their first three years. Food trucks are cheaper, less risky, and make for a situation in which it is easier for entrepreneurs to break out into, as seen in a number of food trucks around University City.

An important component of FRES operations with food trucks around Penn over the past couple decades has been the development of “open-air food courts,” also known as “food truck plazas” around campus. There is one plaza outside Meyerson Hall at 34th and Walnut Streets, one next to Pottruck Fitness Center located at 3701 Walnut Street, one outside Weightman Hall at 235 S. 33rd Street and one at 40th and Locust

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As opposed to operating under Philadelphia regulations on the street, vendors at these locations operate on Penn property.

They pay rent to Penn, and they are able to leave their trucks after hours instead of having to move them.

One of Magic Carpet’s locations is at the plaza at 34th and Walnut. Roughly 23 years ago, Penn invited Magic Carpet to this private location, Carson said. Operations are roughly the same at both locations, Carson said, but there tend to be more grad students over at 34th and Walnut.

provided guidance over the years to multiple entrepreneurs seeking to move from a food truck to a ‘brick and mortar’ location.

Two have successfully made this

regulations due to the nature of operating out of a truck.

“It made sense to go to brick and mortar,” Crockett said.

In 2010, Crockett met with FRES to move forward with expansion. Datz worked directly with Crockett to secure a storefront on campus, as locations tend to be competitive.

FRES focuses on helping entrepreneurs, including food truck operators, come up with a business plan and find a location on campus to get started. They believe it is important to help small business thrive on campus.

“We help formulate the business model for them,” Datz said.

“We believe in entrepreneurship, and we promote it.”

The Office of the Executive Vice President, which oversees FRES, then steps in. FRES typically tries to place businesses in suitable Penn-owned retail spots if possible. If none are available, they leverage connections with other local property owners to find spaces for the entrepreneurs.

“Craig Carnaroli, the executive vice president, is involved with the retail leasing decisions that are made and campus planning decisions that are made,” Sorrentino said.

While operating as a food truck proved to be “a good type of testing ground,” for Crockett with Hub Bub, the business is happy with their new brick-and-

Streets, and donates a part of his weekly profits to selected nonprofits.

“I thought that was a very compelling model, and I wanted to see if it could be done in the food industry,” Fine said.

Schmear It began featuring a bi-weekly cause immediately after opening, and in operating on this model, Fine allows consumers to “do good while eating the food.”

“We’ll automatically donate a percentage of your purchase to our featured nonprofit organization,” the website states.

After operating for a couple of years and examining businesses such as Hub Bub Coffee that thrived on the opportunity for growth model, Fine made the decision to look into expanding to brick-and-mortar.

“It doesn’t work for everyone, but I want to be able to provide greater capacity,” Fine said.

Opportunity arose for Fine to expand into a full-time location with new construction bringing real estate to 36th and Market Streets. The development known as 3601 Market is a new apartment building next to the University City Science Center. When completed, ground level retail will include Schmear It as well as a number of other restaurants including Herban Quality Eats, Danlu,

“We’re proud in West Philly of this mix between the national retailers and the small mom-and-pop retailers.”

Going brick-and-mortar FRES helps many entrepreneurs, including food trucks, locate and move into real estate around University City when they express interest.

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transition: Hub Bub and Greek Lady,” FRES Executive Director Ed Datz said.

After opening and successfully operating his coffee truck on 38th and Walnut Streets back in 2009, Hub Bub owner Drew Crockett decided to expand into a full-time retail location.

“My goal was to build a brand and company,” Crockett, a 2005 graduate of the College said.

Crockett made an effort to provide his customers with a “high quality experience and product in a different way,” but found himself limited by weather and

mortar location at 3736 Spruce Street.

The next food truck restaurant Since opening in August 2013, Schmear It has become a staple in many Penn students’ breakfast diets, offering New York style bagels with a number of different topping options.

After graduating from the College in 2011, Dave Fine worked for a non-profit, but wanted to start his own socially conscious business. Now, he owns and operates the bright-red bagel truck usually parked at 38th and Locust

PWS, Dunkin Donuts, and Jimmy Johns.

“We’re still waiting [to move in],” Fine said. His goal is to be up and running this Spring.

But not all food trucks want to go brick-and-mortar. Magic Carpet hasn’t made the effort to expand into a full-time restaurant over the past thirty or so years, but says it’s not totally out of the question for the business to join Hub Bub and Schmear It. “The model we have here could be expanded into brickand-mortar,” Varvoutis said.

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OPINION Minding our manners

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TALKING BACKWARD | The case for a new American etiquette

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ecently, at the recommendation of a friend, I read author Rebecca Solnit’s essay collection “Men Explain Things to Me.” In the essay, Solnit tells a series of personal stories wherein various men condescendingly “correct” her about topics in which her expertise far exceeds their own.

She concludes that beneath their bloviation lies a socially ingrained presumption that women are ignorant and can’t possibly outmatch male knowledge.

What struck me about the men in Solnit’s anecdotes was their rudeness. Had I been in Solnit’s shoes, I’d have been less inclined to think “sexism” and more inclined to think “jackassery.” This is, of course, precisely Solnit’s point: Unlike me, she’s a woman, and so perceives such slights to be lesser cases on a continuum of misogyny that, at its extreme, includes countries that forbid female court testimony.

As with complaints of racebased “microaggressions,” one could argue that this per-

ception is unwarranted. Even if that’s right — and my mind isn’t made up on the subject — it still doesn’t address Solnit’s concern that repetitive condescension makes women hesitate to express their knowledge in public for fear of being dismissed. Enough women and racial minorities have testified to feeling that same hesitation that any egalitarian ought to be concerned.

Many of my free speechfocused compatriots are more convinced than I am that such slights represent nothing more than quotidian rudeness — the sort that white men also regularly experience. They argue that the best way to end these bad consequences is by refuting the claim that slights are harbingers of serious prejudice. If women and racial minorities don’t perceive slights as racialized and gendered, they argue, then rudeness is deprived of its power to frighten, and so to silence.

Many intelligent social-justice progressives sincerely disagree.

It occurs to me, however, that if we agree broadly that

discomforting remarks are bad in most cases, we don’t have to agree on whether or not they’re commonly prejudiced. Whether they’re mansplainers and microaggressors or just run-of-the-mill jerks,

But maybe something valuable was thrown out with traditionalism’s indubitably dirty bathwater. A broader set of non-legal, universal taboos might be a valuable tool in easing some of the discom-

If we agree broadly that discomforting remarks are bad in most cases, we don’t have to agree on whether or not they’re commonly prejudiced.” people who routinely say hurtful things probably don’t think they’re “being rude,” because there are so few broadly agreed-upon rules of rudeness. The prejudice question doesn’t have to be resolved to address this.

Modern America’s lack of extensive standard mores is rooted in recent history. Formal etiquette declined along with other rigid markers of social status which accompanied the sweeping cultural restructuring of the late 20th century.

fort which comes with living in our pluralist, multicultural society.

Take Solnit: Maybe it should be universally taboo to correct someone in casual conversation, even if they garble the facts. The stakes are low, and the risk of giving offense is high. Universal taboos against unsolicited questions and comments about physical appearance, wealth, employment and family might serve the same ends.

Crucially, these kinds of taboos are enforced by peers,

against peers. The consequences for violating them are purely social. They are not backed up by the coercive power of institutions or governments and violations are generally not widely publicized. Small-scale embarrassment is unpleasant, not life-altering. Importantly, it does not make martyrs the way public shamings often do.

Etiquette doesn’t arise overnight and isn’t propagated by authorities. It is consensual, rather than mandatory.

The formation of a new etiquette will require continued good-faith public discourse about rights and responsibilities, plus careful attention to both those who say they feel wronged as well as the defenders of the status quo. If we desire a society which is sensitive but unafraid, pluralist but harmonious, affirmative but not dogmatic, we need to know that where to draw the lines of taboo will never be obvious or uncontroversial. But that is no reason to abandon the exercise of linedrawing altogether. It seems we have done so at our peril.

Alec Ward Of course, manners can only obscure prejudiced attitudes, not eradicate them.

But if, as Solnit says, perceived expressions of subtle bigotry have direct negative consequences of their own, then targeting this “symptom” could have positive effects. It doesn’t solve the whole problem, but if ongoing harms can be mitigated, why wouldn’t we try?

ALEC WARD is a College junior from Washington, D.C., studying history. His email address is alecward@ sas.upenn.edu. Follow him on Twitter @TalkBackWard.

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ast week, I enjoyed a Thanksgiving meal with my family.

Every year, I find myself dissecting what exactly it is I’m supposed to be celebrating on this holiday. I wonder what the exercise of giving thanks is really meant to entail. It is this time of year when I typically breach the damning question, “How much of who I am is the blessing of my unearned circumstances?” It is this time of year when I typically feel excruciatingly indebted to the fortune of my place in the world.

I often feel guilty asking such a question when I’m supposed to find clarity as I ground myself in some expression of immense gratitude. It feels that such a question complicates the relationship between thankfulness and personal influence. Is it trite to be thankful for that which is out of my control? Given that I am

Leftovers | Finding solace in our hypocrisy thankful for my unearned fortune, who is it that I am thanking? Does challenging the premise and practice of gratitude somehow distract from the sanctity of the Thanksgiving holiday and its accompanying family time? I believe the two need not be mutually exclusive — it is the nature of Thanksgiving that invites a discordant experience. In fact, it is what the holiday requires of us.

The Thanksgiving holiday reminds us that we hold many intentions and values that we do not and will not always live up to.

This failure to measure up to our ideologies does not mean we should reject them wholesale. It also does not mean that we must begin to see ourselves as bad people for failing to live up to our values in the way we would like. Instead, what we learn in the exercise of giving thanks is that maybe it’s OK to fall short.

Asking tough questions of ourselves helps remind us that what we seek when we attempt to find some kind of resolution through giving thanks is not some-

be a graceful hypocrite is a challenge worth tackling.

It is OK to fall short because it is not the goal of the practice of gratitude to look for a way out of

… what we learn in the exercise of giving thanks is that maybe it’s OK to fall short.” thing that can be categorically reduced to just good or bad. While I may firmly root myself in a belief system, living my life by some moral compass, not all I participate in can be said to be good or bad. And I would venture to suggest that most of us are not ready for the kind of sacrifices living religiously by a values system requires — which means, we must find a way to be content with our contradictions. Determining how to

our contradictory nature.

Perhaps the resolution we seek is not about giving ourselves a path towards absolution, balancing gratitude with hypocrisy. Instead, we should engage in an exercise of profound self-awareness that forces us to live with our tensions.

Who do we allow ourselves to be when we understand that the match between our values and how we lead our lives is less than ideal, let alone feasible?

I am less concerned with the ramifications of not living up precisely to a moral code than I am with the ramifications if we do not even breach the tensions between our lifestyle and values. That kind of curiosity regarding our own hypocrisy prevents us from opting for merely idealism or cynicism. Idealism applies our values in a perfect, but closed, system and negates a consideration of the damning reality in which we live.

Cynicism, on the other hand, opts for an effortless position that fails to see humans as agents of historical change. Instead, this view contends that humans are merely the inheritors of the world’s harsh blows.

Perhaps the Thanksgiving table we should strive to sit at is the one that treats gratitude as an attempt to comprehend our own existence and place it

clara jane hendrickson somewhere meaningful in an otherwise indifferent universe. Nothing is going to inherently make us better people without our effort. While Thanksgiving is one day out of the year, it is a manifestation of the everyday struggle over the choices we make that define who we are. clara jane hendrickson is a College senior from San Francisco studying political science. Her email address is clara@sas.upenn.edu.

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This fact was shared in a progress report released by the Mayor’s Office of Community Empowerment and Opportunity on Nov. 20, when the group hosted a Uniting to Fight Poverty Summit at Huntsman Hall on Penn’s campus. The event focused on poverty, inequality and race, as well as the city’s future.

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The only issues that Lewis ever had with Penn students is that sometimes they break things.

“One week I went through three toilet seats,” he said.

One restaurant where you hopefully won’t find Penn students breaking toilet seats is La Viola. La Viola is another one of Penn students’ favorite BYO locations, although dining there is a very different experience than dining at Izaccihuatl.

The manager of La Viola, who would not allow his waitstaff to be interviewed for this article, had kind words for Penn students, saying, “The students are respectful. They sing and like to have fun.”

Respect was not mentioned at another popular BYO restaurant, Banana Leaf, where the waitstaff said, “Groups with only boys can get kind of rude.” They added that larger groups were

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Genderqueer student shares unique story Current student outlines their daily life at Penn ISABEL KIM Deputy News Editor

Male and female are terms that everyone knows, but genderqueer is a term that might turn a few heads.

I met up with the student at Greek Lady. As we sat down, I asked about their pronouns, and they told me he or she was fine, but then corrected themself.

“Use they. I always feel like gender pronouns are kind of a statement in the community.”

They it is. While there are no standard pronouns for nonbinary or genderqueer, people often go by pronouns such as they, ze or hir.

Like much of the other demographic information for the LGBTQ community at Penn, all population numbers a re self-reported and anecdotal.

“Anecdotally we know that the population has increased in recent years,” LGBT Center Senior Associate Director Erin

Cross said. “More folks are starting to know about nonbinary/genderqueer.”

So what does being nonbinary or genderqueer mean? It’s a term that has multiple definitions, and different people have different experiences. For the student I met, they took a moment to think about what it was like for them.

“The most direct way would be I don’t feel feminine but I don’t feel masculine enough,” they told me.

“I have something of both sides, but I’m not on fully both sides,” they said. “For the female end of the spectrum, since I’m born as a female, it’s kind of already ingrained into my system, and I’m leaning toward the masculine side of nonbinary, but I’m just too used to being female. On the other side, inherently I feel like I’m more of a male. It’s kind of a weird feeling to describe.”

They might have a different experience from many genderqueer people in the community very different. They gestured to explained that they had been since they are from Hong Kong, their short hair and more mas- known as a tomboy in Hong where the LGBTQ culture is culine-leaning clothing, and Kong, and that being a tomboy

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observation I’ve made is that there’s a lot less tomboys with short hair here. I find myself a minority in a way,” they said.

“Back in Hong Kong, nobody talks about this ... short hair probably means you’re a lesbian.”

At Penn, being nonbinary is not really an issue for them, although there are the occasional inconveniences.

“At Penn, I guess being nonbinary itself does not bring a lot of inconvenience,” they sa id. “The bigger inconvenience would be brought about by gender noncononformity.”

In some ways, they feel that being genderqueer has different challenges than being trans, because of the ambiguity. The gendered nat ure of for ma l clothing, business clothing and parties at Penn is also something that concerns them.

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Students like Barlow from underrepresented geographical areas say that the transition to Penn can be initially jarring, both socially and academically.

And unlike many of their peers, they usually enter college without knowing anyone.

Increased recruiting efforts in recent years have created a diverse undergraduate population at Penn. But the student body’s geographic distribution is still far from representative of the United States population. According to the Admissions Office’s profile for the Class of 2019, only 10.8 percent of students are from the Southeast, while 44.4 percent hail from the Northeast.

Dean of Admissions Eric Furda said that Penn has no set standards for geographic diversity that it has to meet, but that “the University touches every state during college recruitment.”

Despite Penn’s efforts, however, undergraduates from highly underrepresented areas face social and academic challenges — ones that many of their peers never experience — when they arrive to Philadelphia.

Penn’s Geographic Profile Only in the last few decades has Penn become a truly national institution. Originally, it was a local college for young men in the surrounding Philadelphia area.

While diversity at Penn today has progressed far past its founding days, the geographic distribution of the undergraduate population is still imbalanced.

College Factual ranks Penn as the 35th most geographically diverse school in the country, with all the other Ivy League schools except Cornell ranked above it.

According to the profile for the Class of 2019, 53.2 percent of non-international students at Penn come from just four states: Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and California. However, these states only make up 25.2 percent of the population of the U.S., according to 2014 population projections based on the 2010 U.S. Census.

While 371 students hail from Pennsylvania in the Class of 2019 — 17.4 percent of the class — only two are from Mississippi.

Barlow is the only person from her state in the Class of 2018.

Admissions office data also notes that students who attend boarding school in the Northeast are still counted as residents of their home state. Disparities between geographic regions, therefore, might be even greater than the data suggests.

A College Prep Culture The day Penn early decision results came out, Wharton sophomore Eddie Zilberbrand, who is from Brooklyn, N.Y., waited at Shake Shack after classes ended.

Right before 5 p.m., Zilberbrand swiped back into Stuyvesant High School to open his decision with all his friends.

“You could hear screams in the hall and people were even crying with their friends,” Zilberbrand said with a chuckle. At the elite Manhattan public high school, which Zilberbrand and others call “Stuy,” the tradition of opening college decisions at school contributes to a pervasive precollege culture.

“It was unimaginable that someone wouldn’t go straight to college after high school,” he said. “For a lot of people, Cornell was almost like a ‘safety’ — 50 or 60 people get in every year [from Stuyvesant].”

New York, Zilberbrand’s home state, is the second most represented state in Penn’s undergraduate population.

According to data from the Admissions Office, 314 undergraduates, or 14.7 percent of non-international students, hail from New York in the Class of 2019.

Zilberbrand said that geographic location plays a large role in creating this culture.

“Stuy is really close to so many of the Ivies, so there is a greater awareness about college,” he said, adding that his school’s college open house was ten floors and filled with representatives from all over the world.

There was no Ivy culture — there wasn’t even a college culture at my ” school.

- Shelby Barlow College sophomore

At Stuyvesant, every homeroom has its own guidance counselor, and there are also three separate college counselors.

“They really take care of their students,” Zilberbrand said.

Barlow, a graduate of her town’s public school, recounts a starkly different experience of applying to college. Only about a third of her graduating class went to a four-year college. Barlow said that in her town, enlisting in the military was probably more common than heading off to

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is an advantage because a lot of students have prior connections that help them get set up,” Hsue said.

Barlow also remembered the moment when she realized that most of her peers had friends at other elite schools.

“People would reference their friends at other Ivies like Harvard or Cornell, and I realized that the only person I know is my ex-boyfriend’s older brother who got into Harvard a few years ago,” she said.

Hsue, in contrast, said that he has at least one good friend in almost every single Ivy League school.

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After the Transition Period Barlow and Hsue both agreed that after the first few months at Penn, geographic association became less important.

“In some sense, people almost forgot my geographic region,” Barlow said. “Some of my friends were surprised I like country music — but it’s like, I’m from the South.”

Zilberbrand and Hsue said that their friend groups are relatively diverse and they are close with people outside of the Northeast.

“I still get to be the city-snob when I go to New York with my friends, but it’s not my defining characteristic,” Zilberbrand said.

Barlow said that although her Southern origins have affected many of her experiences at Penn, it is not her defining characteristic.

“It might have been a little bit difficult at first, but I think it’s not just my background that affects how prepared I am for Penn,” she said. “There’s also my work ethic and personality.”

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She also remembers that her high school never made an effort to see that students go out of state for college. All of the information and scholarships she could find were confined to Mississippi.

“There was no Ivy culture — there wasn’t really even a college culture at my school,” Barlow said.

Reaching Out Barlow’s journey to Penn reflects the difficulties that the University faces when recruiting students from underrepresented areas.

“A lot of students do have fairly tight circumferences about where they are going to college,” Furda said. He added that Penn uses a variety of recruitment methods, such as collecting names from standardized testing services.

Through standardized tests like the PSAT, Penn can use the data they receive from College Board to mail and email prospective students. However, even this outreach method has its limitations in attracting students from remote geographic locations.

Barlow said that she was one of the few students in her high school to enroll in a college outside of her home state.

“There is a kind of stigma about leaving Mississippi,” Barlow said. “My friend’s parents refused to let her go to art school in New York because they thought she was abandoning her hometown.”

Barlow had to take her own initiative to apply to schools outside

of Mississippi. She looked into different scholarships and used the QuestBridge program to connect her with elite institutions outside of Mississippi. However, she said that her road to Penn was not neatly paved.

“I had to seek out teachers to talk to and college information,” Barlow said. “You really had to take an initiative to go out of state.”

A Social Safety Net When Barlow arrived at Penn as a freshman, she did not know anyone on campus.

Although this didn’t bother her, she recalls feeling socially isolated initially because most people could not relate to her experiences.

“I met this freshman girl from Mississippi, and talking to her about our home state is incredible,” Barlow said. “So many other people get to experience this, but it’s not like that for me.”

Barlow has adjusted well to social life at Penn. But after growing up in a small town where she knew everyone since childhood, Barlow still remembers the novelty of having to form a new friend group.

In Long Beach, people are familiar with each other’s backgrounds, Barlow said, but at Penn, most students do not know anything about her home state.

She recalls one instance in her linguistics class. While the instructor played recordings of different accents, a barely understandable Southern accent arose as an example.

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“Someone blurted, ‘I think that person is from Mississippi’,” Barlow said. “It’s like Mississippi and parts of the South are a different world for people here.”

Barlow’s experience is starkly different from her peers from well-represented areas.

Wharton sophomore Derek Hsue, a New Jersey resident and graduate of the Pingry School, said that he came into Penn knowing at least ten students.

In just his graduating class, six people enrolled at Penn.

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For Penn (4-2), one bright spot from the weekend was the reemergence of senior guard Jamal Lewis, who missed the entire 2014-15 season due to a staph infection and has gradually returned to peak condition since.

Lewis posted a season-high 18 minutes in the loss and scored 10 points, securing his first doubledigit scoring performance since February 2013 and providing optimism that he will be able to fill the departed Tony Hicks’ role as the lone upperclassman leader of an extremely young backcourt. “It’s great to have someone who’s been through as much as he’s been through,� Donahue said. “I think he’s in game shape now, and I would assume he’s going to play more minutes as we move along.�

While Penn is coming off of a disappointing setback, Navy (6-2) will enter today’s matchup with strong momentum. The Midshipmen took first place in the inaugural Spartan Showcase tournament at UNC-Greensboro last weekend, giving the program

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After Penn men’s basketball’s first loss of the season on the road against Washington, the Quakers responded emphatically, playing arguably their best game yet in an 80-64 victory over Big 5 foe La Salle.

Today, following a 92-86 upset at the hands of Lafayette, the Red and Blue will have another chance for a strong rebound.

Penn will welcome Navy to the Palestra, looking to repeat last week’s performance and keep its home record unblemished. “I think our energy level was so great for La Salle after the disappointing loss at Washington,� coach Steve Donahue said. “Conversely, at Lafayette, they beat us to the punch. We learned a tough lesson because we didn’t

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teammates for her skill. “Not only does she hit it hard,� head coach Jack Wyant said. “She hits it consistently as well.� “And precise too,� associate head coach Gilly Lane added.

With two sweeps to her name already, Salah’s squash career is off to a great start. The Hammer’s dominance has been on

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certainly influenced him along the way. His father, Will Andrew, was a three-time All-American swimmer at Williams College, and his mother swam there as well.

its first six-game win streak since 2008.

Fifth-year coach Ed DeChellis has brought a Navy program that went 3-26 in his first season back to respectability, as the team has increased its win total in each of his four seasons and is on pace to comfortably continue that streak this year.

“It’s such a difficult coaching job at the military academies,�

Donahue said. “Ed was a great coach at Penn State [where he won the 2009 Big Ten Coach of the Year], and he has built this program back up. He’s a hardnosed coach, no B.S., and the kids play hard and unselfishly.�

Penn’s Sunday defeat was

an offensive shootout, but today’s matchup with the red-hot Midshipmen will likely be far from it. Navy has only allowed 58.9 points per game thus far – its lowest mark since College Basketball Reference began recording such data in 1995, and the 14th-best out of 351 Division I teams. “We have to be efficient breaking the press and we have to push the ball in transition before their defense can set,� Donahue said. “When we’re in the half-court, we have to cut hard and move the ball, keep attacking but keep sharing. We can’t relax in terms of moving the ball half-speed.�

One key figure in Penn’s offensive attack will be sophomore guard Antonio Woods, who led a frantic comeback effort at Lafayette by scoring 11 points in the game’s final 75 seconds.

Like the team, which is shooting 28.5 percent from three-point range, Woods has struggled from beyond the arc, converting 5-for27 so far. But Sunday’s closing effort has the squad confident that it can get back on track. “My teammates and coaches tell me to keep playing regardless

display early on, as she has allowed an average of only three points per set.

Salah has had many opportunities to sharpen her skills before eventually coming to Penn. On top of winning the most recent U-19 U.S. National Squash Tournament, she has also represented Team USA for the annual World Junior Championships every year since 2013.

In squash, pace of play is often

dictated by the power behind the opponent’s hit speed. The same way Serena Williams dominates opponents with blistering hit speeds, Salah has done the same on the squash court. “The Hammer� has backed up her impressive moniker by using her strength to overpower her opponents. Known for tattooing the back wall with her shots, the sheer power exerted by Salah during matches has earned her

the nickname straight out of the toolbox.

The world record for the hardest squash ball ever hit is held

by Cameron PiIley, currently the world’s 24th-ranked men’s player, at 176 miles per hour.

Salah isn’t quite ready to break any world records with her shots just yet, but that hasn’t stopped her from using her speed to force opponents into committing errors.

At fastest, her hardest hit came out to 134 MPH, but her velocity continued to climb as measurements were taken. Lane set the benchmark for the team with a team-high speed of 151 MPH, and sophomore Marwan Mahmoud on the men’s side came in right behind him with a blistering 150 MPH. Speedometer ratings aside, Wyant made sure to stress that what separates The Hammer

“I’ve been swimming for about as long as I can remember,�

Andrew said. “My dad introduced me to the sport when I was really young.�

His success so far is due to more than just talent, something to which coach Mike Schnur can attest.

“He works hard every day, he’s talented and he’s confident,�

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Andrew agrees with this, but feels that there is something else that he learned from swimming in high school that helps him succeed. “What I’ve retained from high

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Sophomore guard Antonio Woods has been effective for the Quakers this season, scoring 9.8 points per game along with a team-high 19 assists.

of whether shots fall or not, so that’s what I try to do,� Woods said. “The shots we took on Sunday were mostly good shots, and they just didn’t fall. All we can do is keep shooting and they’re eventually going to go in.�

Inside the paint, a key battle of senior centers will unfold between Penn’s Darien NelsonHenry and Navy’s Will Kelly, who ranks 17th in the nation with 2.8 blocks per game. Following a double-double in last season’s 57-46 win at Navy, NelsonHenry will face a stiff test in the 6-foot-9 Kelly.

Ultimately, in a battle of evenly matched teams — Navy is only 20 spots ahead of Penn in the Pomeroy rankings — the Red and Blue’s home-court advantage may provide just enough separation. “You always have that advantage when you’re used to the court and used to the atmosphere,� Woods said. “I’ve always believed that you have to protect your home court, and I really think we’re going to be back on our game on Wednesday.�

from others is the fact that she can translate her skills directly into the game settings. “Anyone can hit the ball hard in practice,� Wyant said. “But she does it in the game as well.�

The thunderous sounds of her shots are enough to strike fear into any opponent that draws the Hammer. In order to preserve her perfect 2015 squash record, Salah will have to continue to channel her inner Asgardian deity.

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school is just the ability to race, which is such a key aspect in swimming,� he said.

Andrew also believes he brings more to the table than just his ability in the pool. “What I like to bring to the team is a positive energy,� he said. “You want to be the guy that’s up cheering, but you also want to be the guy that people are up cheering for.�

The main event for Andrew is the individual medley, which combines the four strokes: butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and

freestyle. Because of this, he does not have a particular specialty, which opens up myriad possibilities for his role on the Penn team. “When you have someone like Mark, his greatest strength is his versatility,� Schnur said. “The most difficult part about him is figuring where to put him, because he can do so many things for us.�

Andrew is not alone in envisioning himself having a very successful career with the Red and Blue. “I think Mark has unlimited

potential,� Schnur said. “He could be an Ivy champion, he could be an NCAA qualifier, he could be an All-American, he might be NCAA champion some day.�

Andrew heads a freshman class that was ranked seventh in the nation last year by CollegeSwimming.com, so others will find success as well. However, he has the opportunity to do something special here at Penn: to compete, win and leave his mark on the record books of not just Penn, but the NCAA.

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Watson and Drake named Bushnell Cup finalists

FOOTBALL | Award

honors top Ivy players HOLDEN McGINNIS Sports Editor

Awards season isn’t quite over for Penn football.

A week after coach Ray Priore was named Ivy League Coach of the Year, two Penn players — senior linebacker Tyler Drake and sophomore wide receiver Justin Watson — have been announced as two of the four finalists for the Asa S. Bushnell Cup. Watson joins Harvard senior quarterback Scott Hosch as a finalist for Offensive Player of the Year, while Drake and Dartmouth senior linebacker Will McNamara are the finalists on the defensive side.

The last time a Penn player

was honored with the Bushnell Cup — which honors the Ancient Eight’s players of the year each season — was in 2009, when linebacker Jake Lewko shared the award with Brown wide receiver Buddy Farnham.

The award will be announced on Monday, Dec. 7 at 12:30 p.m. with a press conference and reception at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City.

Wa t s o n , a u n a n i m o u s first-team All-Ivy selection, finished the season as the Ivy League’s leader in all major r e c eiv i ng cat egor ies a nd has already made a dent in Penn’s career receiving records through his first two s e a son s. T h e sophomor e from Br idgeville, Pa., already ranks seventh all-time at Penn in receptions and receiving yards with 116 and

1,579, respectively, and stands at eighth in career receiving touchdowns with 11.

“You could see during his freshman year that he was going to be something special,” Priore said earlier in the season.

Meanwhile, Drake has been a disruptive force on the defensive side of the ball for the Quakers all season. The senior pass rusher led the league in sacks (8.5), tackles for a loss (12.5) and forced fumbles (4), while also tallying a pair of interceptions and a team-high 80 tackles.

“When your hardest workers are your really good players, that’s a really good thing,” Priore said in late October.

“You’ve seen that rebirth and re-energization on that side on the ball thanks to a lot of the plays that Tyler has made.”

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Linebacker Tyler Drake was a force to be reckoned with for Penn’s defense in 2015. The senior finished the season leading the Ivy League in sacks (8,5), tackles for a loss (12.5) and forced fumbles (4).

Which team is most likely to improve?

DP SPORTS EDITORS

Discussing Penn Athletics... with more personal pronouns Penn Athletics saw its fair share of improvement this past fall. After finishing in the bottom half of the Ivies last year, Penn football won a share of the Ancient Eight title, while Penn men’s cross country had possibly its best season in program history.

But now, the fall season is behind us. So, which of the Red and Blue’s team will see the biggest improvements this winter?

Sports Editor-elect Tommy Rothman: Women’s basketball has a chance to make a big improvement this season.

Of course, the Quakers finished second last year and won a game in the WNIT, so handing them Most Improved honors wouldn’t be the same as rewarding the horrible kid in little league who shows up almosthalf-decent the next year. Even if the Red and Blue just tread water, they’ll post yet another strong season under coach Mike McLaughlin. But the jump from second to first is a huge one, and it’s one the Quakers have a real chance to make.

Knocking off Princeton, coming off an undefeated regular season, won’t be easy, but the Red and Blue have looked great in non-conference play, and if they handle business against the rest of the Ivy League, they’ll have a shot to knock off the Tigers head-to-head and claim their second Ivy title in three years.

President-elect Colin Henderson: I’m going to keep things in the Palestra and go with men’s basketball.

Last year, the Red and Blue finished tied for last in the Ivy

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While freshman Thomas Dillinger has been swimming sprint freestyle events for the Quakers in dual meets, his biggest strength might be in the 200 IM when Ivy League Championships roll around in February.

League. But coming off of three straight years on single-digit win totals, the 2015 Quakers look like a completely different team. In fact, sitting on four solid wins only six games into their seasons, they look like they may even be able to contend for a spot in the top half of the Ancient Eight.

In his opening salvo leading the program, coach Steve Donahue has wasted no time making his mark on the team’s style of play. Penn’s ball movement is crisper than it has been in years — and it is paying major dividends. Helped by impressive individual scoring displays from Sam Jones and Darien NelsonHenry made possible by team offensive play, the Quakers have already broken 75 points in four games this year.

Yes, the team still needs to improve defensively. And it

needs to get more individual production out of its primary ball handlers. But with a strong start already behind them, the Red and Blue look fully poised to improve mightily from a disappointing 2014-15 campaign.

Sports Editor Holden McGinnis: I think the men’s swim team has the most room to exceed expectations this year – at least the expectations that everyone else in the Ivy League swimming world has set for them. Given the historic dominance of Princeton and Harvard, picking one of those two teams as the conference champion would be the safest bet. But the Quakers aren’t going for safe this year; they’re going for the crown.

After a thrilling third-place finish in 2014, the Red and Blue settled back to fourth in the Ivies in 2015. But with the deep talent

and untapped potential the team has this year, 2016 could be the year that an Ivy title finally comes within clinching distance for Penn.

The Quakers return two star seniors in co-captains Eric Schultz and Chris Swanson, who racked up four individual Ivy titles in 2015. While the junior and sophomore classes are deep in talent, particularly in the distance and breaststroke events, the freshman class could be the boost Penn needs to breakthrough to a top finish.

Rookie IMers Mark Andrew and Thomas Dillinger finished the 200-yard individual medley last weekend in blazing fashion, taking first and second, respectively, against a tough Tigers squad. If the duo and the rest of the Class of 2019 can step up in February, the sky is the limit for the Quakers.

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everything I had to do was on my own,” Mattiace said.

“No one kind of made me do anything, so I had to do it all myself.

“I think that’s a big part of the wrestling world, since even though we’re on a team, you gotta be able to do it for yourself or you’re not gonna get it done.”

Undoubtedly, both grapplers are simply thankful to rejoin Penn’s squad and get back out on the mats.

Kent summed it up best, saying, “The most exciting thing is being able to go out and wrestle again. When you sit out, it’s just a whole different experience sitting in the stands and watching. I just wanna go back out there and wrestle.”

As enthusiastic as the guys are about returning to competitions, Quakers’ coach Alex Tirapelle rivals their excitement — their wins were the things he missed most last season without them.

“They’re two really experienced guys, they go out and

get the job done for the team,” Tirapelle said. “Obviously, we miss[ed] their wins individually, but the team feeds off their success as well, so it’s easier to compete at a high level when you see your teammates around you doing that already.”

Despite the duo’s time away from competition, Tirapelle is optimistic about what Kent and Mattiace can do for the Red and Blue moving forward. Although both wrestlers “got dinged up” in their first competitions of the year, the second-year coach recognizes how beneficial Kent and Mattiace’s contributions can be in the long run.

“It [was] November and the season goes through March, so it’s more of a marathon than a sprint,” he said. “So we want to make sure they’re ready to compete at a high level when they step back on the mat.”

And with Penn preparing for an important matchup this weekend at the Nittany Lion Open, only time will tell if the previously fallen athletes can complete their long road back up.

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Kent back after year off GREG ROBINOV Sports Reporter

When you get knocked down, you get back up again.

For Penn wrestling, this is true both on and off the mats, as two of its mainstays return to the lineup after significant time away. Heading into the season, the comeback kids are senior

Casey Kent and junior Frank Mattiace, neither of whom competed for competed for the Quakers last year.

It is here that their stories diverge. Although the duo missed the entirety of 2014-15 for the Red and Blue, Kent remained in the bleachers while struggling through injury, while Mattiace left school for the year.

For Kent, the time off allowed for a perspective change: For once, the two-time second

team All-Ivy winner had the chance to be a spectator.

“It was a lot different of an experience last year, because I don’t think I ever sat out a wrestling season,” Kent said. “That was the longest break I’ve ever taken [from] wrestling in my whole life. But I think it got me more motivated, because I got to go to all the tournaments and watch everyone wrestle.

“It got me excited to get back out there.”

He made quite an impact in his first competition back, resulting in a semifinal finish at the Bearcat Open for the 174-pounder early in November. Although Kent suffered a minor setback to his knee and thumb during the contest and was forced to sit out during the Keystone Classic, he should be back up for the next competition at Penn State.

“I think I’m ready to go for next weekend. I had a couple

Quakers ready to drop ‘The Hammer’ SQUASH | Salah snags

top spot on ladder COREY HENRY Sports Reporter

Thor isn’t the only one with a hammer, one that can strike fear into the hearts of opponents.

The Norse God of Thunder has some company now that freshman Reeham “The Hammer” Salah has taken over at the No. 1 position for Penn women’s squash.

Freshmen are no strangers to occupying the apex of the Red and Blue ladder. Senior co-captain Yan Xin Tan as well as junior Anaka Alankamony both saw action at the No. 1 position during their rookie campaigns. But as she holds down the top spot on the ladder for the women’s team, the Sammamish, Wash., native will have her hands full going up against the best college squash has to offer.

Despite having only competed in two matches thus far in her nascent squash career, she has quickly become revered by her coaches and SEE SQUASH PAGE 8

of injuries, but they’re getting better,” Kent said.

Meanwhile, Mattiace spent the 2014-15 season dedicated to his personal training, taking advantage of the region’s top facilities and elite coaches.

“I was able to train here at Penn through the Regional Training Center, which opened up last year,” Mattiace said. “I went to some tournaments on my own unattached, and I got to wrestle that way. I also got to

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Freshman Reeham Salah has already made her name known on the international squash stage. Now, as No. 1 on Penn’s ladder, the rookie is taking the collegiate squash cirucit by storm with her high-velocity attack.

spend some time at the Olympic Training Center.”

A side f rom i mprov i ng his technique and physique, Mattiace, a top-10 Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association finisher two years ago, believes his mental edge got a significant boost while outside the program.

“Last year was really good for my confidence because

When all is said and done, he just wants to leave his Mark.

That is the mindset of freshman swimmer Mark Andrew, who has the potential to have an illustrious career here at Penn.

The Middletown, Ohio, native has set lofty goals for himself during his time for the Red and Blue, both for this season and those to come.

“This year, I’m shooting for a couple Ivy titles in both the 200 and 400 IM, looking to make it to NCAA’s,” Andrew said. “By senior year, I’m shooting for All-American, so top six in one of my events.”

Such high goals might be hard to attain for the average swimmer, but Mark Andrew is no average swimmer.

Andrew’s list of accolades

is already quite impressive.

At the Speedo Junior National Championships this past August, he placed first in the 400-meter individual medley with a time of 4:22.10, and second in the 200 IM with a 2:02.60 performance. He also captured a gold medal in the 200-yard IM at the Ohio Championships, and in September he was named to the U.S. Swimming Junior National Team.

Here at Penn, Andrew has already etched his name into the record books, breaking the Sheerr Pool 200-yard IM record that had stood for over 20 years with a time of 1:50.13 in the meet against Columbia — his first college meet for the Red and Blue. He also placed first in the 200 IM in the trimeet against Cornell and Princeton.

Andrew comes from a family with a history of success in the pool, and that has SEE SWIMMING PAGE 8 CONTACT US: 215-422-4640