December 6, 2016

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Senior wins prestigious Mitchell scholarship

Theodore Caputi will study at University College Cork in Ireland

MANLU LIU Contributing Reporter

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Sometimes he’s an aspiring poet hoping to share his work with a literary magazine one day. Other times, he’s an ordinary college student, hanging out with family and friends. Still other times, he’s doing research regarding the use of medications for people with substance abuse, an interest that has earned him first or sole-author publications in many peer-reviewed journals and a prestigious scholarship to graduate studies in Ireland. Recently named a George J. Mitchell Scholar, Wharton and College senior Theodore Caputi plans to pursue a master’s degree in public health with a concentration in health promotion at University College Cork in Ireland. Caputi said that he applied to the scholarship because of his specific interest in Ireland’s success at lowering smoking rates, which he hopes to apply to his future work SEE CAPUTI PAGE 2

HOW TO DESTRESS FOR FINALS PAGE 2

Squash’s BG Lemmon overcomes obstacles for program-record season NICK BUCHTA Senior Sports Editor

As students, we do have a say in what goes on in our classrooms, and we should hold our professors accountable. PAGE 4

- Michaela Kotziers

PENN WBB IS GOING HARD IN THE PAINT

If you have the best season in a program’s 87year existence and no one even notices, did it really happen? That’s what we’re at the Ringe Squash Courts to talk about. After a midweek practice, we head to the coaches’ office as if BG Lemmon owns the place. Gilly Lane, the men’s squash coach, gives us the room with a warning — this story is only going to give

Pe n n’s senior captain a bigger head than he already has. We’re about to find out if he’s right. But Lemmon shouldn’t really even be here at all. He shouldn’t be breaking records at Penn. He belongs in Cambridge. At least, that was what the squash world thought his senior year of high school. *** The child of not one, but two, Harvard squash captains, it was a foregone conclusion Lemmon

would continue his career with the Crimson after graduating from the Haverford School in 2012. Harvard coach Mike Way had other plans. Midway through the recruiting process, Way informed Lemmon that he wouldn’t be taking any American players for the Class of 2016. Simple enough. Lemmon was disappointed but shrugged it off — until two weeks later when Way recruited an American. Fortunately for the Main Liner, he only had to wait four more weeks to let off some steam. Competing at the U.S. Junior Open, he got the chance to take on the very kid Harvard had just SEE LEMMON PAGE 8

Penn lacks socioeconomic diversity Study shows zero undergrads from lowest income quintile YOSEF WEITZMAN Staff Reporter

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A recent study conducted by Brandeis University has revealed that the Penn student body is lacking in socio-economic diversity.

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Penn places a heavy emphasis on diversity in admissions, but according to a newly released study, undergraduates are far from socioeconomically diverse. A recent survey by Brandeis University of 1,113 randomly selected Penn undergraduates found that among students applying from the United States, zero come from a ZIP code with a median household income in the lowest quintile of income groups. Only five percent of such students come from ZIP codes in the second lowest quintile, while the vast majority of Penn students come from the top two quintiles — over 70 percent. According to these statistics, published in a study titled “Diversity, Pressure, and Divisions on the

University of Pennsylvania Campus,” the Penn undergraduate population does not reflect the socioeconomic diversity of either the United States or Penn’s immediate surroundings in Philadelphia. According to zipwho. com, 20 of Philadelphia’s 46 ZIP codes fall in the lowest quintile of income group, including Penn’s ZIP code, 19104. Penn Admissions was unavailable for comment on this story. The study’s suggestion that Penn is not socioeconomically diverse might not be surprising to some — but the magnitude of Penn’s socioeconomic homogeneity is particularly striking. This was certainly the case for College senior and West Philadelphia Tutoring Project chair, Neha Gupta. While Gupta pointed out that Penn was more diverse in other areas, she was troubled by the survey’s findings. “Penn gets a lot of backlash about not SEE DIVERSITY PAGE 3

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