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Parents are left stranded as Sheraton overbooks

Reservations canceled, hotel blames software glitch VIBHA KANNAN Deputy News Editor

the Starwood family of hotels. Le Meridien had promised to honor the same rate, $374, that Memmo had paid for per night for his Sheraton Hotel reservation. “I specifically booked the Sheraton so that we could be a convenient distance away campus, and Le Meridien is all the way at 14th and Arch,” Memmo said. “This is a long-time operating business and all of a sudden, in

In May 2015, Nicholas Memmo, the father of a current College senior, eagerly booked a room at the Sheraton University City Hotel for Penn’s graduation weekend in 2016. Memmo knew that hotel rooms on campus filled up almost a year in advance of This is a long-time graduation weekend, and operating business he wanted to be a conveand all of a sudden, nient walking distance from campus. To be extra cautious, in one night, 100 rooms are Memmo booked his room on the first day the hotel opened overbooked and no one up bookings for May 2016. notices — come on!” However, on the evening -Nicholas Memmo of March 7, 2016, 10 months after his reservation, he received an email from the Shera- one day, over a 100 rooms are ton. The hotel had overbooked overbooked and no one notices — rooms for the weekend of Penn’s come on!” graduation due to a problem in the Kelly said that the overbooksystem, the email said. ings were only found in March “We recently discovered an 2016 after a routine check that the issue with our reservations system hotel conducts within its reservathat affects your reservation with tions system. The Sheraton Hotel us in May 2016,” the email from had rebooked these reservations the Sheraton said. “A glitch in our to either Homewood Suites in system allowed more rooms to be University City or Le Meridien booked well above our available Philadelphia. However, other parinventory for your selected dates. ents expressed similar frustration We want to sincerely apologize for and disbelief over the cancellathis problem and alert you well in tions. advance of our efforts to take care The mother of a current College of you when you visit Philadelphia senior, who requested to be anonin May.” ymous, said that after her June Memmo called the hotel that 2, 2015 booking was cancelled same night, but was only able to this past March, she immediately get in touch with a representative reached out to the hotel, but wasn’t the next day. able to talk to the manager. “I talked to the manager, and Soon after, she called customer he told me that I was not the only service for Starwood Hotels and person this happened to — there Resorts. were about a 100 rooms that “I spoke to a woman from were overbooked,” Memmo said. customer service, and she was General manager of the Sheraton appalled because she had never University City Hotel Joe Kelly heard of that before,” she said. declined to confirm the number “The woman told me that she of cancellations due to privacy was going to open up a file on reasons. the Sheraton Hotel so they would According to the email, the ‘never do this to anyone else.’ She Sheraton hotel had rebooked told me, ‘They don’t like when Memmo to its sister hotel, Le Me- we open up a file because that ridien Philadelphia, a member of means they have to pay, so they’ll

probably give you points or something.’” The customer service representative promised that the hotel would call her back within five days. However, she never received a message back, and after contacting the Sheraton again, a representative informed her that someone from the hotel had emailed her already. “I never received that email, and they refused to do anything after,” she said. The hotel also refused to answer her concerns over the timeline of her reservation. She asked if very few people had booked after June 3, 2015, as she believed that her reservation was extremely early, but the representative declined to answer. “Whatever they did was not motivated based on reservation order,” she said. “It’s [hard to believe] that I was one of the last JULIO SOSA | NEWS PHOTO EDITOR few people to book when I booked Many parents had to be relocated upon discovering that the Sheraton had overbooked its rooms, and some almost a year in advance.” Kelly said that the Sheraton had their refund requests rejected. According to the hotel, the problem happened due to a glitch in its system. Hotel cancelled reservations based on the timing that people on my money for 10 months,” she hotel, Memmo said that the man- — I don’t really know.” Kelly said had booked and also based on said. ager he spoke to denied that the that the hotel had cancelled these their arrival date. She had also specifically hotel withdrew any money from reservations only because of the “The last folks who are arriv- booked a club floor room at the his card. Instead, he added, the glitch and there had been no other ing this Saturday, May 14, are the Sheraton, but her new reservation representative said that the hotel circumstances. ones who got relocated,” he said. was only for a regular room at Le only held the card number and The mother of the current ColAfter the lack of response from Meridien. billed people in the case that they lege senior also expressed similar the hotel, the mother of the current “The reservation at Le Me- do not show up on the day of their suspicion and disappointment reCollege senior filed a complaint ridien was non-refundable and reservation. garding the Sheraton’s response to with the Better Business Bureau However, Memmo said the the situation. in Philadelphia. information he was given by “They tout themselves as a It seems too “I heard from the Better Busithe manager was not accurate. company that wants business, ness Bureau that they reached He had checked his account wants to treat you nicely and cares coincidental out to the hotel twice and they and noticed that the hotel had about you,” she said. “We’ve been that this error heard no response,” she said. actually deposited the prepaid staying at that hotel at least three A few days after, she wrote happened specifically amount back to his card this or four times a year for the past a letter to Chief AdminisMarch. four years, and they showed absoon the weekend of trative Officer and General Parents did not believe that lutely no loyalty whatsoever.” Counsel of Starwood Hotels graduation.” the Sheraton Hotel had to Memmo also agreed that the Kenneth Siegel. She said that -Nicholas Memmo rebook rooms simply because situation made him hesitant to the response she received was of a glitch in the system. book a room in the Sheraton Hotel inadequate, and they essentially “It seems too coinciden- in the future. just apologized for the inconve- could not be cancelled, but Le tal that this error happened “I have a daughter graduating nience. The hotel also failed to Meridien showed a lot of class specifically on the weekend of next year, and I just can’t help but give her back any points or other and said ‘yeah, no problem’ and graduation,” Memmo said. ““I think about how this could happen rewards. refunded me the money.” don’t know if because Biden’s again,” he said. “I think the ques“They gave me nothing back. Memmo also attested to the granddaughter is graduating or tion that needs to be asked is, how They took my money and didn’t lack of transparency in the book- Trump’s daughter is in the class so does a business overbook 100 refund it until March, so they es- ing and cancellation process. they needed to bump out a bunch rooms especially for this specific, sentially had an interest-free loan Although he had prepaid for the of people to make room for them critical weekend?”

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Around 10 percent of Penn grads remain in Phila. At other Phila. schools, 64 percent of grads stay LUIS FERRE SADURNI Staff Reporter

Significantly fewer Penn students remain to work in Philadelphia after graduation as compared to graduates from other universities in and around the city. An estimated 10.67 percent of Penn students who accepted full-time employment offers after graduation remained in Philadelphia to work, according to Career Services reports on Penn’s Class of 2015. While a small percentage of Penn students remain in Philadelphia for work after graduation, 64 percent of recent graduates from local and regional universities stayed in the city after graduation in 2014, according to the nonprofit Campus Philly. In 2015, 189 Penn students answered Career Services surveys indicating they had full-time employment offers in the city after graduating. (While Penn conferred 2,773 degrees last year, 2,311 graduates answered Career Services’ career plans surveys.) An estimated 76.59 percent of the respondents reported accepting a full-time employment offer, while the rest went on to graduate school, part-time employment, travel or were still seeking employment. A higher percentage of

employed Nursing students, 44.90 percent, stayed in Philadelphia for work after receiving their diplomas. Penn Medicine and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia were the school’s top employers, according to the reports. Only 6.49 and 4.28 percent of employed students from the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Wharton School, respectively, reported plans of working in the city following graduation, while 12.33 percent of employed College students indicated the same. “One of the main reasons why I chose Penn as a city where I wanted to study was because of Philadelphia,” said Giancarlo Medina, a College senior who will work at a health care consulting firm in Philadelphia after graduation. “So, for me, I was definitely open to the idea of staying here after graduation,” he added. “Obviously when you get into school you don’t really think about where you’re going to work … but towards senior year, I definitely wanted to apply to jobs near Philadelphia.” New York was the most popular city for employed 2015 Penn graduates. An estimated 44 percent of respondents from the College that received full-time employment offers went to New York in 2015, according to the reports. The same data was not

available for graduating Wharton students, but would most likely be higher due to the school’s top employers being New York-based financial firms. “I think it’s mostly based on the type of positions that Penn graduates look for,” Medina said. “You look at OCR and you go through PennLink and the majority of the positions aren’t actually in Philadelphia. If you look at the finance industry, most entry-level positions in investment banking or consulting would lead you to New York.” Sarah Kho, a Wharton senior who will stay in Philadelphia after graduation to work at Boston Consulting Group, agreed with Medina’s observation. Kho noted that she ultimately chose to remain in Philadelphia due to the community and social connections she had developed while at Penn. “So many people go to New York,” Kho said. “Graduates go where there is an industry, and Philly doesn’t really have any major finance companies.” Campus Philly studies found that, out of the 64 percent of Philadelphia-area graduates who stayed, 79 percent were employed, 12 percent were in school, 7 percent were unemployed, and 2 percent were not working by choice. The report’s figures are based on a survey answered by 3,390 recent Philadelphia college graduates.

Philadelphia has done a formidable job at retaining its younger population. An estimated 31.40 percent of households in Philadelphia are occupied by 18 to 34 year olds, as compared to San Francisco’s 27.40 percent and New York’s 24.80 percent, according a study by Trulia, a real estate website. Millennials in Philadelphia are

also leaving the city at a reduced pace as compared to other cities nationwide. On May 5, Billy Penn reported that “people in Philly ages 18-to-34 are moving away at a rate lower than might be expected, compared to other big cities across the United States like New York, Washington D.C. and San Francisco.” Affordability and increased

urban development are factors that attract young graduates to the city. “As compared to New York and Boston, it’s pretty affordable,” Kho said. “It has character. It’s not the cleanest, but it has character and there is a lot going on. My job is pretty hectic and I wanted a city that I can call home and relax, unlike in New York.”

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The majority of Penn students choose not to stay in Philadelphia after graduation, but the city has done a good job in retaining those who do, which may be attributed to affordability and atmosphere.

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Students welcome the story of Hamilton at Penn The musical’s plot has caused fervent conversation

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Ever since the announcement of Lin-Manuel Miranda, the composer and star of the hit Broadway musical “Hamilton,” as this year’s Commencement speaker, Penn has been eager to embrace Alexander Hamilton’s legacy into the University’s history. PennNews representative Amanda Mott wrote that Hamilton “evok[es] Penn’s own spirit, referencing rap lyrics such as ’I’m just like my country/I’m young, scrappy and hungry/And I’m not throwing away my shot.’” While the city and Penn prepare to welcome Miranda, the Founding Father’s shadow looms in Philadelphia’s history. Through Hamilton’s political career, the nation’s capital was traded away from Philadelphia. Also at the hands of Hamilton, Philadelphia played host to one of the country’s first sex scandal.

While ascending to national historic importance, Hamilton traded Philadelphia’s then-almostcertain slot as the future nation’s capital city for a congressional vote. On June 20, 1790, while facing tough political criticism, Hamilton, James Madison and then-Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson to keep the country’s future in tact, orchestrating what historians would eventually name the Dinner Table Bargain. The famous bargain of 1790 forced the country’s leaders to choose a national city out of 16 potential options, according to PBS. At the time, Philadelphia, then the clear cultural capital of the country and the home of previous conventions, seemed the obvious answer. The deal is also a significant plot point in Miranda’s musical, conveyed in “The Room Where It Happens.” The lines describe Hamilton “selling New York City down the river” as the nation’s capital in exchange for passing his debt plan. What the song ignores,

however, is that Philadelphia was also a considered location of the capital. It is just one of several instances of Miranda’s musical glossing over Philadelphia’s crucial role in Hamilton’s political career. “Hamilton trades New York for D.C. They don’t mention anything about Philadelphia, even though that’s what was actually on the table,” College senior Eli Pollock, who grew up outside Philadelphia, said. “Ultimately, the whole musical takes small creative liberties … It’s all for the sake for telling the narrative. It doesn’t really matter that it was supposed to be Philadelphia. It makes a better story that it was in New York, which is Hamilton’s own city.” As they dined, the men moved toward agreement. In exchange for reducing Virginia’s tax responsibilities and Hamilton’s help pushing the Potomac plan through, Philadelphia was ditched in favor of the area near Virginia. By the next month, the House of Representatives passed a bill

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Alexander Hamilton served as the United States’ first secretary of state under George Washington. He was known for mobilizing the U.S. economy in the first few years of the nation’s formation.

now maintained by the Library of Congress, that made Philadelphia a 10-year capital until the creation of the permanent capital in Washington D.C. For a decade, the country’s top politicians would find a temporary home in Philadelphia. When Hamilton moved to Philadelphia to begin working as the country’s first secretary of state, he settled on South Third Street, according to the country’s first census in 1790. Previously, he’d visited the city during the Revolution and the Constitutional Convention, but in 1790, he brought his young family and wife to stay. It was also in Philadelphia that, in the hot summer of 1791, only months after Hamilton’s arrival, a young woman appeared at his door. Maria Reynolds was a married 23-year-old woman who needed help. Her husband had left JULIO SOSA | NEWS PHOTO EDITOR her with a young daughter, and she desperately wanted to return With the upcoming arrival of Lin-Manuel Miranda as the Commencement home to New York. Taken with the speaker, student interest in his musical, “Hamilton,” has exploded. young woman’s pleas, he vowed to financially support her. Later that wife’s relationship with Hamilton. and revealing his infidelity to the evening, he would visit her home, Rather than pledging divorce, he entire country while the Philadelprepared with government money. saw the opportunity to exploit the phia press tarnished his name. When Hamilton arrived at the young politician’s secret, for the Through Miranda’s retelling of Reynolds house, young Maria hefty sum of a $1,000. Hamilton’s story, the Founding invited him up to her bedroom, beThe three developed a common Father has been a popular topic of ginning a two-year affair. understanding: In exchange for conversation on campus. For College freshman Hannah Hamilton’s hush money, Maria College sophomore David Spear, also a Philadelphia native, could invite the married father DeLacoste-Azizi first listened to the musical’s coverage of the to her home when James was out “Hamilton” in late August, after Reynolds affair brings to light of town. But by November the he heard friends from the theater a realistic depiction of the community discussing the Founding Fathers, who are show at a social event. He was Ultimately the traditionally idealized in hishooked immediately. tory courses. While she had “It’s something I feel like a whole musical always been interested in lot of Penn students relate to,” takes small Broadway and history, and he said. “Alexander’s strugadmired Miranda’s “In the creative liberties... It’s all gle in the musical is having Heights,” “Hamilton” was difa lot of ideas and not be able for the sake of telling the ferent. to make things happen as “In the show, they objec- narrative.” quickly as you want them to in tify women; they cheat on -Eli Pollock the current system.” their wives. That’s something Pollock agreed. “I didn’t that like, you wouldn’t learn listen to it until January, then in class,” Spear said. “You never next year, James’ need extended I got really into it … From the first hear about the bad qualities of the beyond what Hamilton could listen on Spotify, I just thought it Founding Fathers. It’s just a really provide, and he was arrested for was one of the most well-written fresh perspective and a more real- forgery. works of music I’ve listened to.” istic perspective.” Enraged, James called James Coming to college, only a 25By the winter, Maria’s hus- Monroe to his jail cell, where he minute drive from his hometown, band James had discovered his promised to reveal information Pollock never thought musicals that could bring down Hamilton, were his thing. He also never enhis political enemy. After visit- countered much of the history of ing Maria, who provided Monroe Alexander Hamilton and Philawith incriminating letters, delphia beyond a traditional trip to Monroe had them copied and, the Constitution Center. years later, the documents were “They do a fantastic job. Again, ultimately leaked. In 1797, Ham- it’s not entirely historically accuilton published his “The Reynolds rate.” Pollock said. “But it makes Pamphlet,” humiliating his wife for very intense story-telling.”

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How much does an application letter match the future? Two seniors found their passions by changing plans SOPHIA LEPORTE Staff Reporter

Plans that hopeful high school seniors write on their college applications rarely end up falling in line with what they actually do at Penn. For two graduating seniors, changing plans was a good thing. College senior Aliza Caplan When Caplan initially applied to Penn, she was undecided but thought she would be studying psychology and Spanish, since she didn’t want to do any heavy math or science, and loved her Spanish high school classes. But in her freshman year, Caplan realized that psychology involved too much science, and she wasn’t as good at Spanish as she thought. So she changed her studies to sociology and Jewish

studies. “I landed on sociology as a broader framework to look at the issues that I care about like urban education,” she said. Caplan also planned to pursue Jewish life at Penn, which she did end up doing. But she also found another extracurricular she never expected. During her freshman spring, Caplan spontaneously took a job at Williams Cafe and, reflecting on it now, Caplan said that this job has completely defined her Penn experience. She said her job has benefited academic life since it helps structure her day and stay on top of her work, but also she’s loved the social aspect. “It’s a fun thing,” Caplan said, “A lot of our regulars are professors so I feel like I’ve known these professors for four years, and I see them outside of the Cafe.” Caplan is not leaving Penn quite yet, though. She is will be sub-matriculating and earning a master’s

degree in nonprofit leadership next year. Engineering senior James Howard Academically, Howard’s Penn experience has not changed from what he wrote on his application to Penn. Howard applied to Penn as a bioengineering major, and that’s what he’ll be graduating with. But he says it has been his nonengineering classes that have been his favorite classes at Penn, so he’s grateful that he’s been able to take electives. Outside of class, though, Howard said that what he wrote on his application was not at all what he ended up doing. “You just don’t know how much stuff is here,” Howard said. “You look at the Penn website and try to fluff your essay with all this stuff you might have heard of, but you still don’t know what’s out here.” During his freshman year,

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Howard said he had a tough time transitioning to college and afterwards he decided he wanted to make sure that other incoming freshman did not have the same experience, so he applied to be a residential advisor. Howard said that though he never saw himself

doing this before coming to Penn, it has been one of his best experiences. Howard also said that he thought he would have been able to explore the city of Philadelphia a lot more, and didn’t quite realize how big it was and that Penn

wasn’t right in the middle of the city. Howard will also be staying around at Penn for another year, since he is sub-matriculating and will be earning a master’s degree 76303 in material science and engineering.

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The last four years in news, pop culture and lingo

Seniors witnessed 2nd Obama term, Ebola virus NICOLE RUBIN Staff Reporter

Over the past four years, Penn seniors have bore witness to a series of cultural events. Here’s a year by year look at what events have influenced the formative years of this weekend’s newly minted graduates. Freshman Year: 2012-13 The top songs included “Payphone” by Maroon 5, “Titanium” by David Guetta ft. Sia, “As Long As You Love Me” by Justin Bieber ft. Big Sean, “Thrift

Shop” by Macklemore, “Somebody That I Used to Know” by Gotye, and pretty much all things One Direction. The big things to watch were “Pitch Perfect,” a film about a cappella groups, and Harlem Shake videos on YouTube. It also included the last season of the MTV classic “Jersey Shore.” As for news headlines, it was also a significant year. President Barack Obama was reelected, so the entire college experience of the graduating seniors took place over a full presidency. It also, unfortunately, included the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, the Boston Marathon bombing and Hurricane Sandy.

This was also the year of Miley Cyrus’ new haircut and the birth of “YOLO,” “swag” and “ratchet.” Sophomore Year: 2013-14 The top songs of sophomore year were two of Miley Cyrus’ hits: “We Can’t Stop” and “Wrecking Ball.” Lorde also crashed the music scene with her Grammy Award-winning song, “Royals.” The diverse range of movies hitting theaters included “We’re the Millers,” “Frozen” and “The Wolf of Wall Street.” The major news included the death of former South African President Nelson Mandela and

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OPINION So it goes SENIOR COLUMN BY MATT MANTICA

FRIDAY MAY 13, 2016 VOL. CXXXII, NO. 58 132nd Year of Publication COLIN HENDERSON President LAUREN FEINER Editor-in-Chief ANDREW FISCHER Director of Online Projects BRIELLA MEGLIO Director of Internal Consulting ISABEL KIM Opinion Editor JESSICA MCDOWELL Enterprise Editor

But, this being Penn, we’ve spent so much time stuck in GSRs or windowless offices or practice fields or seemingly endless club meetings that it feels like we haven’t had the time to reflect and grow. Who has time to think about weighty topics like life and regret when there’s an econ exam coming up in six hours and you’ve barely been to class and I’VE JUST REALLY GOT TO STUDY, OK?? Maybe you regret all this. Some of you do. You feel bad that you spent all those hours studying when you should have been flirting over margs or taking more day trips to Atlantic City. Or maybe you’re

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have this theory about life and regret. Senior year — senior spring in particular — seems to be a perfect, natural time to think through these types of existential questions. It’s this inf lection point, one where we break out from the bubble of college into full-on adulting, where we start to feel even more pressure to “figure out who we are.” Because that’s what college is for, isn’t it?

really beating yourself up over the fact that you spent a little too much time getting to know Joe and Kweder and too little in that class (yeah, you know which one I’m talking about). Maybe you had a breakup that really sucked, or a relationship that never even happened because you were too anxious to talk to that guy in your psych recitation. When you leave this place, and as you continue throughout the rest of your life, I urge you to not regret a thing. Not because all your decisions were perfect; I guarantee that a decent number of them weren’t. But because of my theory. It goes like this:

Life is about loving yourself always. If you regret, it’s impossible to fully love the person that you are. Our lives are the culmination of our past experiences. Regardless of how awful or amazing those experiences are, they mark us and shape us. Without them, we would not be the individuals we are in the present. If we begin to regret — even the god awful, unspeakable moments — we reject the effect they have on who we are today, and in turn we reject part of ourselves. It becomes impossible to fully love yourself if you are not able to accept all that has made you who you are.

This is, of course, not easy. Life is hard. It is a constant struggle that leaves scars and marks that are hard to ignore. We all struggle with the past, every day. There will always be memories that challenge your attempts to fend off regret. But as you breathe and have the space to finally reflect on your time at Penn, try not to regret. If you succeed, you will find that you can love yourself even more. MATT MANTICA is a College senior from Okemos, Mich. He is a former copy editor, social media director and president of The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at manticam@gmail.com

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ast year, I was privileged enough to attend convocation for t he incoming class of Penn freshmen as an honorary guest. My role as DP editor-in-chief made me a campus leader, according to the invitation. I sat on the stage, staring at the audience’s faces as distinguished administrators promised that the next four years of their lives would be everything they could hope for. These amazing, bright young students were destined to accomplish great things. Now, here I am again, ref lecting on my time at this university and trying to remember if it was what I expected coming in as a wide-eyed freshman. The answer is a resounding no. I surprised myself, once a wa it-l isted st udent, by

excelling in my academics. But I could never understand the complex social scene at Penn, and this became an undeniable source of stress. The Daily Pennsylvanian was the only place that seemed to calm that stress. It was also the place where I slowly discovered how many other students felt lost at Penn, some to a much worse extent than I did. During my time working for the DP, 10 students took their own lives. I might have covered the crime beat, but around the office, it was sometimes referred to as the “death beat.” I called grieving parents and friends and asked, almost in a cruelly formulaic way, if they wanted to share something about their loved one for my article. I have heard so many of them cry, and I cried for many of them after our conversations ended. The loss of each of these students has been a tragedy, and at times I couldn’t help but feel it take me over. As the end of college approaches, I’m not obsessing over what’s next, because I

can’t stop thinking about the students who will never reach their own graduation days. I wonder about what could have helped them. I know mental illness is too complex of an issue to have an easy solution, but I also know the administration has let these students and their families down. I know this because I am one of the few students who knows how Penn really operates. It is laughable how many times I’ve gotten a desperate phone call or email from a director or communications person in one of Penn’s absurd number of departments trying to convince me that the DP should not publish something. I was told that a story about financial aid officers lying to students wasn’t relevant. I was told that writing about hazardous conditions for college house residents was just bringing an internal dispute unnecessary attention. I was told that writing about how the administration (mis)handles the issue of suicide was irresponsible because it could

cause other students to take their own lives. What I have learned is that this university’s top priority is protecting its image. Plenty of administrators and professors do care greatly about students, but it will never be the number one concern in Penn’s top offices. Undeniably, this is a huge factor playing into why so many students here feel disconnected and lost. For example, in an attempt to recruit the best professors in higher education and appease the ones they already have, the administration puts no requirements on faculty to learn how to approach their interactions with students, leading too many professors to behave inappropriately, which ultimately ostracizes their students through insults. Optional mental health training for professors wasn’t even offered until this March. I only had three mentors during my time at Penn and none were professors. My first DP editor when I was a beat reporter, Sarah Smith, taught

me how to not back down from a source or story. My second editor, Ha r r y Cooper ma n, taught me how to consider all perspectives and be fair to all sources. My third editor, Will Marble, taught me how to be skeptical of everything. I owe them for inspiring me more than any professor or university speech ever did, and I hope that during my time on the 131st board of the DP I was able to inspire others too. In the end, Penn has left us “amazing, bright young minds” with too many unfulfilled promises. Fortunately, I know the DP will continue to speak up for students and push for change with the same fervor that the publication instilled in me.

JILL CASTELLANO is a College senior from Ardsley, N.Y. She is a former beat reporter, senior reporter, and editor-in-chief of The Daily Pennsylvanian.

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he day I decided to run for managing editor of the DP was the day my life changed forever. I walked into Brysi Cafe to meet Ellen, the girl whose position I hoped to have in a month. The meeting was a formality because we both knew what I was going to say before we even sat down. It was something I knew I was going to do as far back as a year before, when in my first days as news photo editor Ellen told me about her banquet dress. Red has always been my favorite color. So I made it official, said aloud for the first time that I wanted to do the insane and run for managing editor. Ellen didn’t even miss a beat. She told me what I needed to hear, and I told her I’d see her a few hours later at ranking. I left that meeting with a spring in my step, ready for the race ahead. It was a Thursday. It had become tradition to end the week’s production at Tap House. I didn’t usually go, but I

wanted to that day. After ranking, I told Ellen I was going home to shower and I’d be back in an hour. (To this day I don’t remember if I ever actually took that shower. It amazes me what I remember in clear, cinematic detail and all the pieces that are forever missing.) As I walked into Harrison to my dorm, my phone rang. An unknown number. I never answer unknown numbers. Yet in that moment, I knew I had to. Subconsciously, instinctively, in some fucked-up way I knew I had to answer the phone. It was my aunt, a woman I hadn’t spoken to in five years, and she told me I needed to come home now. And not home, but to Fox Chase Cancer Center where my mother had been admitted earlier that morning. She told me that I needed to get there as soon as possible and that I was responsible for relaying the message to my little sister. Next thing I know, I’m on Locust, calling my father, two, three times to no answer. So I called his new girlfriend, finally got ahold of him and through stammered words I told him he needed to get Erica, my sister, to Fox Chase as soon as possible. Before it was too

late. I would find a way to get there, I would call everyone, pay an expensive taxi if I had to. He just had to get Erica there and we would work everything out afterwards. I hung up the phone, in hysterics — crying on Locust and terrified my mother would die before I got out of University City. My next phone call was to Ellen. It’s laughable now, but my second thought after getting Erica to the hospital was The Daily Pennsylvanian. Ellen was actually one of the few people I had told how sick my mother was, a diagnosis of lung cancer which had come the first week of freshman year. She met me, held me and asked no questions. In that instant, we were a lifetime away from the lunchtime conversation when I told her I wanted to be her successor, when I thought I knew what the next year would hold. Twenty-two days later, I buried my mother. Two months later, I was elected the 130th managing editor of the Daily Pennsylvanian, and three years, later I am here writing my senior column. I’ve never told that story before. I could write 100,000 inches on the stories never

told during my years at the DP. And that’s the beauty of the Daily Pennsylvanian. Nowhere else on campus will you find a group of people more selfless than those in the Pink Palace. Every day, day in and day out, passionate individuals leave their own stories at the door to spend hours working to tell other’s stories. Stories that matter. Stories that demand to be read. Stories that capture Penn — the good, the bad, the in-between. And even in the rose-tinted glasses of hindsight, I know sometimes a story was just an article and things were often very far from perfect. But despite all the love letters and obituaries of that year, the DP was the place where I learned the importance of my voice. It’s the place where when I lost my sense of self, I found strength in beautiful people striving for something bigger and I was able to take a deep breath, steady my voice and continue on. I have many people to thank. To the 129, Clare, KRoss, EJ & Dave: Thank you for being my foundation for so many different things at this amazing place. To Lau ren & ACom m: You should have fired me the

moment you learned I would be doing 1:30am nights at the DP and then *attempting* to be helpful in the office the next day. Thankful for all the laughs because you didn’t. To Taylor: For that first night in Allegros when we let our egos talk about “blowing shit up, turning the paper into a tabloid and killing a day of print” and every day that followed. 2 out of 3 ain’t bad. To Carolyn, Travis: Thank you for never questioning the tears, the breakdowns, the missed dinner dates. Your friendship means more to me than you can imagine. To the 130: I still feel blessed for all the hell, highwater and happiness you brought me. I hope you’re as proud of all we did as I am and will always be. And finally, to my dad and Erica: I love you more than the world and could never have done any of this without you.

AMANDA SUAREZ is a College senior from Philadelphia, and is a former 34th Street features editor, and Daily Pennsylvanian news photo editor and managing editor.

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Life after death SENIOR COLUMN BY HARRY COOPERMAN

HARRY COOPERMAN

always tell people that my semester abroad in Paris was the highlight of my time at Penn. That’s partly because I was able to live in another country, speak a foreign language and see the world. And I love French food. But it also was an experience I needed at the time, because I had to get away from the hopeless place that Penn had become for me. I left for Paris the semester after my friend, Amanda Hu, committed suicide. We met in math class freshman year. If she were still alive, she would be graduating with us. When people ask me what’s the one thing I wish I knew about college before I arrived

freshman fall, I generally tell them how hard it is to balance courses, extracurriculars, friends and sleep. But the recent suicide of Wharton junior Olivia “Ao” Kong has brought back memories of Amanda’s death. And it’s made me realize that the one thing I really wish I knew before Penn is how difficult it would be when one of my friends died. Since my freshman fall, 10 Penn students have committed suicide. Another six undergrads have died of other reasons. Each death has been just as difficult as the previous one. As a friend once put it to me, it’s so hard to deal with the death of a classmate because young people aren’t supposed to die. Everyone deals with grief in a different way. For me, going abroad was in part a coping mechanism. Being in a foreign country gave me time away from the sadness of campus,

and Paris became a new source of happiness. It allowed me to bring meaning to Amanda’s death and reflect on my life and what I really wanted from it. My friends also helped me deal with my grief after Amanda’s death. We were there for each other. We shared memories of her, and we continue remembering her as we move forward with our daily lives. But while Amanda is gone, we are still here. While Tom, Arya, Oliver, Joseph, Alex, Wendy, Alice, Kevin, Pulkit, Madison, Elvis, Theo, Timothy, Steven and Olivia are gone, we are still here. We owe it to them to remember their good qualities — and their bad ones — and let our memories of them shape us into better people. If there’s one thing I’ve

learned at Penn, it’s that life is precious, so you have to make the most of it. These past two semesters, I’ve started seri-

If there’s one thing I’ve learned at Penn, it’s that life is precious, so you have to make the most of it.” ously ref lecting on what I want from life and how I can find that at Penn. For me, that meant delving into my courses, teaching math as a TA, enjoying drinks with friends and watching John Oliver with my roommate. It meant traveling to Panama for spring break, calling home more often and — for

a while — praying every morning. It meant returning to the DP, my family on campus, to work on a data-based project about Penn Course Review. As I reflect on my time at Penn, I have put the sadness of death into perspective. I think about all of the things that I learned inside (and outside) the classroom, and all the friends that I made — both the ones still here, and the one that is gone. I am thankful for the comfort, support and love that my friends have given me. And most of all, I cherish the support of my parents and family who have always been there for me and who have loved me in all that I do and for all that I am. It is because of the people I’ve had in my life that I can say, in spite of the hopelessness I sometimes felt at Penn, I am happy to have spent these past four years here.

There’s a mantra that one of my best friends had posted on her bedroom wall freshman year that helped her — or, at least, helped me — remember why someone could be happy, even when they don’t want to be. Writing this column has made me think back on those three little words, and how meaningful they really are. Life is beautiful. It really is.

HARRY COOPERMAN is a College senior from Forest Hills, N.Y. He is a former beat reporter, city news editor, and opinion board chair for The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at harryc1112@gmail.com

Thank you SENIOR COLUMN BY ALYSSA BERLIN

ALYSSA BERLIN

o say I am bad with cha nge a nd end ings would be an understatement. I was that kid who cried on the last day of elementary school every year. So you can pretty much imagine how well I’m handling college graduation … However, there is something that feels different about this point of change in my life. While I’m obviously a bit older and hopefully my coping skills have improved, the biggest difference is the sense of gratitude I feel when I look back at these past four years. Looking forward to the future currently scares the crap out of me, but looking back fills me with a deep happiness and gratefulness that is hard to describe. These past few years certainly have not been easy, but I have so many experiences within

them to be thankful for. I am realizing that we don’t say thank you enough to the people who help us the most. Life moves too fast at this university to ever take a step back and just be grateful for all we have been given. Teachers bombard us with assignments, finals leave us stranded in the library for weeks on end and extracurriculars suck up every ounce of free time we may have left for ourselves. At a certain point in college, I wound up running on autopilot, just trying to put one foot in front of the other each morning and pretending that everything was great! But a lot of the time it wasn’t great. It was filled with moments in which I felt the weight of everything I had to accomplish come crushing down on my shoulders and moments where I just did not think I could handle the pressure any longer. But there were always people there to help me back up when I began to stumble. Those people are the ones I am thankful for. They are the friends who ate dinner with me,

texted me before a big exam to wish me good luck. They are the ones who left notes in my bathroom and signs on my bedroom door. They are the ones who went for runs with me and listened to my endless venting, letting me talk until I finally felt better. They are the ones who provided me with all the laughter, all the wine, all the snacks, all the movie nights, all the dance parties and all the moments that I will look back at college and remember. Because ultimately, college wasn’t about getting the grades and the job, but about finding the people who surround you and help you get there, coming out as your best possible self. To the DP, thank you for allowing me to find my place. I came into Penn thinking I would be the next Rory Gilmore and tried my hand at being a general assignment Reporter and then a beat reporter. I learned that journalism just wasn’t my thing and swiftly

moved over to 34th Street where I wrote, edited and worked on marketing with the most amazingly eclectic people I have ever had the chance to

I am realizing that we don’t say thank you enough to the people who help us the most. Life moves too fast at this university to ever take a step back and just be grateful for all we have been given.” hang with in one room at one time. Then, I was able to move over to business end and served as marketing manager under the guidance of Megan Yan, Katherine Ross and Eric Jacobs.

This position was where I truly belonged. I loved the projects I worked on, loved the team I managed and felt inspired by the work I was doing. The love made the long hours, the stressful nights and the hard work all worth it. Thank you, Megan, for always having chocolate in your office and helping encourage me to be bold and always try, regardless of the outcome. Thank you, Katherine, for legitimately being the shoulder I cried on and the ear that listened to my endless complaining. I will really miss our five minute meetings that turned into hour-long meetings filled with conversations about running, Iron Man and everything in-between. And thank you, Eric, for trusting me with this position and allowing me to spread my wings and see what I could achieve. To Mom and Dad, I have already sent you a long thank-you note for giving me this amazing opportunity. But as I am learning, there is really no such

thing as too many thank yous. This experience would not have been possible without your love and support. To Penn, thank you for allowing my love for learning to thrive here. For constantly encouraging me, allowing me to study my interest, forcing me to sometimes learn about rocks and giving me opportunities with some of the most brilliant minds out there. I’m pretty sure I will not miss the exams and homework, but I will surely miss feeling engaged by my professors, peers and academic material. I am really still in disbelief that I am graduating. I don’t quite feel like I am ready for the next stage in my life, but the one thing I can do is look back, be grateful and know that the people who helped get me this far will continue to help me in the years to come. ALYSSA BERLIN is a College senior from Great Neck, N.Y. She is a former beat reporer, 34th Street food and dining editor, and marketing manager.

Thank you, and farewell SENIOR COLUMN BY CLARA JANE HENDRICKSON

CLARA JANE HENDRICKSON

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t’s on / Again you nod your head and take my hand / Though I’m not sure where we’ll go (amen) / To worship more than what we know (amen) / As long as you’re there I won’t be alone (amen).” These lyrics come from the song “Familiarity” by the Punch Brothers. For me, these words capture the task I believe lies before our extremely discombobulated but extremely competent student body. Surrounding myself with poetry and song lyrics seems appropriate for my graduation season. It is a time that brings an odd combination of itching to move on from college and not being ready at all to leave. When I arrived in Philadelphia,

the airline lost my luggage. I remember the first time I made my way down Woodland Walk (before construction began on the new dorm). It was a sticky August day but I was surrounded by green and brick buildings (we don’t have brick buildings in San Francisco because they’re not earthquake proof, so this was a novel experience for me). I made my way to the Quad and my jaw dropped. “Ok, I guess I’ll be going to Hogwarts for the next four years,” I thought. I laid down on my green mattress in my dorm room completely empty-handed and utterly overwhelmed. While my time at Penn has not been without its tough moments, I grew up more than I ever wanted to, and there is nothing more magical than that. While alone in my dorm room and freshman hall that night, I soon found myself inducted into full-fledged membership at this university. Being part of a university community is a rather nebulous idea. The only thing we all seem to have in common

is a memorized hodgepodge collection of some of Benjamin Franklin’s more frivolous quotes from strolling down Locust Walk every day. What, if anything, does it matter or mean to be a student at the University of Pennsylvania? I believe there is something important to seeing ourselves as belonging here even if this community is imagined. But here are some things we do have in common: by virtue of having graduated from this university, we will possess an extraordinary amount of social capital. As political journalist Thomas Edsall writes, it is no longer the top one percent but the top 20 percent of earners who appear socioeconomically, geographically and educationally insulated. This insulation constitutes a social empathy crisis. As Penn students, we are nearly all in that isolated, insulated 20 percent.

According to new population estimates released this month by the U.S. Census Bureau and

The best thing we can do as students sharing classrooms, dorms, apartments and coffee shops is commit ourselves to the task of establishing open and thoughtful communication with one another.” analyzed by the Pew Research Center, millennials have officially surpassed baby boomers as the largest living generation in the United States. Until now, baby boomers, defined by the explosion of births after World War II

and born between 1946 and 1964, have constituted the U.S.’s largest living generation. It is our social and political moment whether we like it or not. At a time when political anger reigns and Donald Trump is likely to be the Republican nominee, it is appropriate to consider which of the old values we want to keep and what new ones we want to inspire. We have inherited decades of political disaffection and pain. Many of the forces that led to this moment began rumbling long before we were born. While we are not responsible for this exceptionally divisive climate, our generation and status as Ivy League students endows us with an exceptional amount of political and social clout. So here is my slightly patronizing message to you all before I leave and no longer have access to a platform that always allowed me to spew my thoughts out to thousands of my peers.

The best thing we can do as students sharing classrooms, dorms, apartments and coffee shops is commit ourselves to the task of establishing open and thoughtful communication with one another. We are in a scholastic environment full of extremely smart individuals, but that doesn’t matter at all if we can’t listen to one another. While I am a proponent of social criticism, I think it is important to remember that being a critical thinker is not about constantly rejecting and dismissing. Being critical is about refusing unconsciousness and paying attention more than is comfortable. I’m in if you are.

CLARA JANE HENDRICKSON is a College senior. She is a former opinion columnist at the Daily Pennsylvanian.

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Graduation SENIOR COLUMN BY ALEX STERNLICHT ALEX STERNLICHT

raduation is the biggest cliche. It’s paper plates in aisle one of Party City. It’s the “Keep Calm and Carry On” dorm room poster of momentous occasions. It’s the Murray Hill of post-grad addresses.

So here’s some advice you’ve heard before that I’ve regurgitated for you: It’s not the end, it’s only the beginning … Oh, the places you’ll go … If you dream it … You are the future … Graduation is vom-inducing like a night at Smokes, but that doesn’t mean I’m not crying when it ends. I have no idea what’s going to happen after graduation, but here’s what happened at Penn.

At Penn, I became more of myself. I started Penn as an amoebalike blob, and now I’m more of a Flubber (RIP Robin Williams). Still, I have much to learn before I stop being green goo and corporate America starts taking me seriously. But if there’s anything I’ve learned at Penn, it’s that it’ll happen — if you stay in Van Pelt long enough. What I love about Penn is that we make plans to get dinner and

we cancel them. We collaborate on Google Docs and are prohibited from going to sorority formal because we don’t have enough points so we have to carry the customized flask party favors to the venue. We’re stuck in a windowless building with limited ventilation together (Huntsman, Addams, The Daily Pennsylvanian, etc.). And having spent our last four years in windowless spaces, we’ve been forced to confront the reality of our existence and that of our

co-inhabitants. Without having to face the outside world, we’ve learned to be ourselves. In my next life, in New York, I want to be as entrenched in my reality as I was — as I am — in Penn’s reality. It’s that thing you never think about — that you probably matter to the people at Penn and they matter to you. I want that — need that. I want to matter to my next world as I have to Penn. To Penn: Never stop serving

Van Pelt sushi. To Amy Gutmann: I will never forget that time we hugged. Love and many double-cheek kisses, Alex

ALEX STERNLICHT is a College senior from Newton, Mass. She is a former highbrow editor, features editor and editor-in-chief for 34th Street.

Learning to stand back up SENIOR COLUMN BY KATHERINE CHANG

KATHERINE CHANG

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e are unable to offer you a position on the 131st Board. Sorry.” I stood in silence, phone to my ear, as the already fragile world of my junior fall completely crumbled. The Daily Pennsylvanian had been my defining activity at Penn. Most of my friends were on the board. My non-DP friends knew me as the “newspaper girl” from the 35-plus hours a week I spent in the windowless office. Throughout my term as advertising manager, it became a well-known fact that I could be the next executive editor. I knew that the only reason my peers would not elect me would be a political one: I

had spoken out against decisions by higher management. But the pain wasn’t simply because I felt that my work had been overlooked. That semester had been the most difficult in my life. On Sept. 28, 2014, Amanda Hu, one of my roommates, took her life in our house. For the next few months, I lived without a place that felt like home and felt empty inside. I didn’t understand how someone whom I felt I had known was gone just a few hours after we sat talking about our futures. Amanda had always been someone I aspired to be like: smart, kind, loving, pretty, fun, poised and humble. Just like that, an integral person in my life was gone. Just 24 hours after I left the Philadelphia Police station at 8th and Race with my roommates, I was back at my desk in the office on 40th and Walnut. I had a department to manage and ads to sell. Doing work was

a way for me to forget that life wasn’t normal anymore and gave me some sense of purpose. I still occasionally burst into tears while looking at sales reports or sending emails. But the DP felt like a safe haven. I was surrounded by my friends, doing work that I enjoyed. When DP board elections rolled around in early November, I decided to run for business manager — a job most thought I would be a shoe-in for — rather than my original plan of executive editor. Even though I felt qualified for the top job, I was scared that there would be more stories of suicide that I would be mentally and emotionally unprepared to deal with. When I found out at 3 a.m. that a less-experienced staff member had been elected over me, I silently stood alone in my friend’s bathroom. I was scared of where my mind would wander without the DP’s daily

responsibilities to occupy me. I didn’t understand how my safe bet had backfired. But most of all, I felt betrayed by the friends who I had confided in. They knew everything I had been through, but they still actively took the floor from beneath my feet when I already felt like I had no roof or walls. In my years at 4015 Walnut, I learned how to sell, lead a department (in which I was the only female), hire, fire, speak up for myself, leave non-awkward voicemails, keep going after rejection, navigate office politics and so much more. But in the months it took for me to come to terms with my DP failure — whether or not it was deserved — I also learned to get back up, the last of many lessons that the DP taught me. Standing back up is not something I could have done alone. Gratitude is something that can never be adequately expressed, but thank you to:

4046/3937, for always sticking by me even when I didn’t and for showing me that strength comes in many different forms. My depa r tment, for the laughs, memories and making every moment spent at the DP worth it. T h e Blu e r o o m a n d DPOSTM, for taking in someone from biz as one of your own. Dave and Donna, for being my DP parents and always putting a smile on my face. My hockey team, for being by my side, demonstrating true friendship and selflessly showing me what it meant to love and be loved. My fellow Eggscrubbers, for the gift of music played from the heart. ASB, for showing me that it’s never too late. My freshman hall, for being a source of comfort and for being there for me despite me

not doing the same. Cru, for showing me the value of faith, even when nothing makes sense. My parents, who always put me first. So many other friends, who showed their love and support through hugs, food, texts, comforting words and the generous gift of time. And finally, Amanda, who in her life and death taught me the value of love and life itself. Loving you always.

KATHERINE CHANG is College senior from New York, N.Y. She was a former advertising manager for The Daily Pennsylvanian.

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Penn alumni’s contribution to LGBTQ community LGBTQ graduates use their skills and education to help

the LGBTQ community and, in really difficult time because I was community, so that’s a huge bulk particular, LGBTQ youth. struggling with my own sexuality. of our patients,” Nguyen said. “We “What I’ve been able to do at And I just didn’t want to think about also have a large number of monoThe Attic is work directly with the my sexuality because to think about lingual Spanish-speaking Latino CHLOE CHENG Staff Reporter young people who come there — to my sexuality, I’d have to think about patients from the Mission district.” collaborate with them on how to fix why I was so attracted to my male Despite the bureaucratic tendenPenn alumni who identify as the sickness of the institutions cies associated with public LGBTQ pursue careers in a diverse that serve them,” Kroehle said. healthcare and the slow rate I was 22, and I array of fields. The Daily Pennsyl- “So looking at embedded hetof change, Nguyen said he vanian caught up with two alumni erosexism, cissexism, racism embraces the chance to help think you can who have used their Penn education and adultism in schools, child Castro Mission Health only hide who you the to work toward improving condi- welfare and juvenile justice.” Clinic provide care for his own tions for the LGBTQ community. Kroehle conducts two to are for so long before community — the LGBTQ three training sessions in an community — as well as other Kelly Kroehle, 2010 School of average week. “It’s interesting it just doesn’t hold in disadvantaged, often ignored Social Policy & Practice graduate because I didn’t come to The anymore.” groups. Kelly Kroehle grew up in Olm- Attic anticipating or thinking - Chris Nguyen Before arriving at the Castro sted Falls, Ohio, and attended the that I would be doing public Mission Health Center, Nguyen University of Wisconsin in their un- speaking, and now I can talk worked at the Tom Waddell dergraduate years. During college, to 250 homophobes and feel okay,” friends,” he said. Urban Health Clinic, which serves a they worked at a homeless shelter, they said. After high school, he attended large homeless population. “I don’t which in part drove them to major In addition to their work at The UCLA, where he majored in mo- know that I could ever work in a priin social work, as well as women’s Bryson Institute, Kroehle writes lecular, cell and developmental vate practice because I would miss studies with a certificate in LGBTQ for Everyday Feminism. They are biology. He came out in his last the level of complexity that comes studies. also working with Senior Associ- year, noting, “I was 22, and I think with working with that patient popThe homeless shelter that ate Director of Penn’s LGBT Center you can only hide who you are for ulation and the feeling that you’re Kroehle worked at showed a “lack Erin Cross, along with a number of so long before it just doesn’t hold in of interest on behalf of the institu- other organizations such as SP2, anymore.” tion to actually curb homelessness,” to “begin to think about the role of He recalled how his friends they said. “Like I find in a lot of gender and sexuality in Penn edu- dropped hints questioning his nonprofits, they rely on the problem cation and graduate programs. How sexuality and now says he was in to continue funding streams; a glass closet. “You feel safe they don’t actually engage in behind the barrier but everyone any structural change or any can look in,” he said. “That’s a self-reflection because they statement that many gay people need homeless people to keep experience because they think happening. they’re hiding, but they’re “It’s a sickness that I see all really only hiding from themover the place,” they remarked. selves.” Kroehle decided to apply to Once he moved to Philagraduate school for social work delphia for medical school, in order to participate in the - Kelly Kroehle he was able to more fully ex“systems-level conversation” plore his sexuality, especially instead of remaining in directwith the support of the LGBT service work, which led them to does Penn as an institution — par- Center, Penn Medicine and the attend Penn’s School of Social ticularly its grad schools — really vibrant LGBT community presPolicy & Practice. reflect its verbalized commitment ent on campus. Nguyen noted that Currently, Kroehle works as the to [diversity of] gender and sexual- a surprising number of students in director of The Bryson Institute at ity?” his year at the medical school were The Attic Youth Center. The Attic “The goal of any diversity initia- queer, as well as within the medical is based in Philadelphia and “is in tive should be to eliminate the need school as a whole. large part a social-services commu- for diversity as, otherwise, control is After completing his medical nity space for queer young people,” never ceded,” Kroehle said. residency in San Francisco, Nguyen Kroehle said. Services include supbegan working for the San Franport groups, a counseling program Chris Nguyen, 2001 Perelman cisco Department of Public Health and the provision of activism intern- School of Medicine graduate and currently serves as the Mediships. Chris Nguyen, who immigrated cal Director for the Castro Mission The Bryson Institute aims to to the United States at six, grew up Health Center. “Most of our patients train individuals, groups and or- in Orange County, Calif. come from one of two neighborganizations on how to create and Nguyen wasn’t out in high hoods — the Castro or the Mission. maintain more inclusive spaces for school. “For me, high school was a In the Castro, we have a huge LGBT

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Graduates Kelly Kroehle (SP2 2010) and Chris Nguyen (School of Medicine 2001) work to benefit the LGBTQ community in their areas of expertise.

actually doing good for a segment of the patient population that is frankly ignored,” he said. Nguyen emphasized how grateful he is for the environment he experienced at Penn. “Penn was

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Pop culture moments in the 2012-13 school year What happened when seniors were freshmen? SHOBA BABU Staff Reporter

2012 was the year Penn’s soon-to-be graduates first graced Locust Walk. It was also the year of YOLO, Linsanity and the infectious “Call Me Maybe.” The Daily Pennsylvanian looked back at the biggest trends of 2012 to remind you of freshman year: 1. The Age of Instagram It’s hard to imagine a time before food selfies and Valencia filters weren’t a fact of life, but in October 2010 Instagram was just a new app on the market. The app rapidly gained popularity, reaching the 100 million user milestone by April 2012, and user numbers have more than tripled since then. 2. The Hunger Games It’s been four years since Jennifer Lawrence made everyone want to learn archery after first taking stage as Katniss Everdeen, the fearless fighter from a dystopian society in which citizens are forced to entertain the government in a broadcast battle to the death. The franchise just ended with its fourth and final movie, “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2,” in November and has grossed nearly $3 billion worldwide.

5. The 2012 Summer Olympics What better way to celebrate the end of your first year than by watching the Olympics? The London Olympics, which took place from July 27 to Aug. 12, drew in more than 100,000 athletes from 204 counties to participate in more than 300 events. Plus, it brought us internet gold — like the queen skydiving into the opening ceremony and #McKaylaIsNotImpressed.

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8. “Gangnam Style” by Psy “Gangnam Style” was the song of the summer in 2012, becoming the most watched YouTube of all time. It currently has been viewed 2.5 billion times.

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6. Linsanity 2012 will be known to basketball fans as the year of Jeremy Lin. His quick rise to basketball success shocked both fans and analysts alike — he averaged nearly 25 points and 9 assists per game and won 38 points in his peak game against the Lakers. That year the New York Times dubbed him the Knicks’ “most popular player of the decade.”

10. Babeyonce On Jan. 7, 2012 the world welcomed Jay-Z and Beyonce’s daughter, Blue Ivy. Fun fact: Blue Ivy is the youngest person ever credited with a song that graced a Billboard chart. Less than 48 hours after her birth, Jay-Z released his song “Glory,” which is dedicated to Blue and includes the cries and coos from her first seconds of life.

7. Kim Kardashian’s 72-Day Marriage After marrying NBA basketball player Kris Humphries in a fairy tale wedding that was broadcast as a two-part, four-hour event on E! Network, Kardashian filed for divorce in October just 72 days later, citing “irreconcilable differences.” Now it’s hard to remember a time where she wasn’t happy with Kanye West.

11. Here Comes Honey Boo Boo The series, which revolves around Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thompson and “Mama” June Shannon, began airing in the summer of 2012. The series was one of TLC’s highest-rated shows in its first season. Its antics however — such as six-year-old Alana’s catchphrases like “redneckognize” — received mixed reviews.

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AROUND THE GLOBE Penn studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; summer plans | By Bowman Cooper While Penn sends another senior class off into the â&#x20AC;&#x153;realâ&#x20AC;? world, some undergraduates will be using the summer to work around the country and world. Check out where some of Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most enterprising students are using their time away from campus.

Megan Downey

This Wharton freshman will be traveling to Cologne, Germany, with Wharton this summer while earning course credit. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Basically, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to Germany for a week on a Wharton International Program which is a half-credit class. After the trip, you write a paper about what you learned about the industry of focus,â&#x20AC;? sheNew York Times Syndication Sales Corporation The said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This tripâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s focus is on retail, so weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to visit German companies like 620 Eighth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10018 Esprit and Zalando and take tours at their headquarters and hear talks from some For Information Call: 1-800-972-3550 of their executives. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re also going to relevant cultural sites in each city â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Berlin, For Release Saturday, May 14, 2016 Cologne and Dusseldorf â&#x20AC;&#x201D; like the Berlin Wall and other monuments.â&#x20AC;?

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his is the hardest article I have ever had to write. I always assumed my senior column would be easy to create. After all, I’ve been responsible for a lot of stories for The Daily Pennsylvanian, and while not every single one of those was a beautiful and free-flowing journalistic masterpiece, writing is something that has always come easily to me. I always assumed my senior column would be easy to compose. After all, I’ve never been short on things to say. I always assumed my senior

column would be easy to write. But I guess I just forgot how hard it is to say goodbye. In 21 years, saying goodbye has become commonplace, as I’ve moved everywhere from Iowa to Ohio to Switzerland to Puerto Rico. Unfortunately, that doesn’t make saying goodbye to the DP — and everyone who made my time here enjoyable — any easier. At this point, however, I’m prepared to graduate having become acutely aware of a handful of lessons throughout my four years at this company, lessons that transcend the difficulty of leaving Penn behind. Most importantly, my work within DPOSTM — the DP’s Only Section That Matters — taught me that you never need to know all of the answers. Because you know what truly

makes a good reporter? A knack for learning. Since my freshman year, I’ve become increasingly confident in interviewing subjects for my articles. Over time, it became clear that I was good enough on my feet that there was no need to script out questions. I learned that writing about someone should involve a legitimate conversation with that person, and the best type of journalist is one who does not know exactly where his piece is going when he sets out to write it. Among a handful of different organizations and people in my life, the DP has also taught me what true happiness is like. As I prepare to graduate, I

have no earthly idea what I will be doing three weeks, three months or three years from now. There’s no particular job

future, that chaos after four years at a prestigious Ivy League institution is taboo. But whenever I get bogged down worrying about what lies beyond the familiarity of Locust Walk or the offices at 4015 Walnut, I’m reminded of a certain comic strip made famous by a world-class Sudoku finisher. When Charlie Brown asks Linus if he ever thinks about what he wants to be when he grows up, the latter is concise, yet clear. “Outrageously happy,” he says. Ultimately, my time with DPOSTM has demonstrated that no matter how sober, how underpaid or how stressed I ever was, a job is nothing but a blessing when surrounded by truly remarkable people. It is those individuals — and many others — to whom I owe a great deal of thanks. Mike Tony, John Phillips and Ian Wenik: Thanks for establishing a standard within DPOSTM to which I continue to and forever will hold myself. Alexis: Thanks for sticking around and being my rock in so many ways. Thanks for anchoring the Bro Line. Oh, and sorry I gave you mono. Ilana: Thanks for making DPOSTM better than it has ever been in more ways than one. And for DHRUV! Bea: Thanks for constructing the path upon which I somehow managed to become a formidable writer. Who knew? Matt, Amanda and Genesis: Thanks for being there when I needed you, and for caring about the DP varying amounts at exactly the appropriate times. LCL: Thanks for making the end equally as fun as the beginning. I couldn’t have gotten through all of this without you. Books: Thanks for Cincy, Bruce and so much more. Carol knows. And don’t worry: It gets easier. Friars: Thanks for making a one-time athlete feel like something special again. And thank you for opening up my eyes to the life of student-athletes more times than I could count, helping me become a better senior

I always assumed my senior column would be easy to write. But I guess I just forgot how hard it is to say goodbye.” or additional degree on the horizon at the moment. Undoubtedly, the pressures at Penn have taught us that we should fear this unknown

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sports editor along the way. Especially you, Hitti and Xinny. Colin: Thanks for taking a chance on me when you didn’t have to. I hope it paid off. Respect ... and love for you, brother. Laine: Thanks for keeping me grounded. You’re the best pure person in that office and I’m glad we got the chance to work together. Steven: Thanks for the beginning. And for the 130. We’ve come a long way. Dual byline forever. Holden: There aren’t enough words, so I’ll just say this: Thanks for being the only ten I see. And I love you like Kanye loves Kanye. Munson, Nowlan, Memes, Anna and all my other writers: Thanks for making every day as senior sports worth it. Thanks for meshing together in the melting pot that is DPOSTM. Just remember: One day, I’ll be living in a big old city ... and I’ll never forget any of you. When I interviewed former Penn football coach Al Bagnoli before his final home game with the Quakers in 2014, he gave me a quote that symbolized what he thought he meant to his program. Little did he know I would end up re-appropriating his words to describe my own relationship with the DP. “To be in one place for 23 years, it’s somewhat unusual, but I’ve loved it and I’d like to think we’ve had more good moments than bad,” he said. “We’re all caretakers to a program that is over 130 years old, and the seniors and I are happy to pass it on to the next guys.” Ditto. I’ve had myriad titles while with the DP — associate, editor, senior sports editor, photographer, etc. — but given that I’m passing off something that is also over 130 years old, I couldn’t ask to leave DPOSTM as anything different than what I have been for a long time. Caretaker. RILEY STEELE is a College senior from Dorado, Puerto Rico, and is a former senior sports editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at steele@sas.upenn.edu.

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My third column SENIOR COLUMN BY ALEXIS ZIEBELMAN ALEXIS ZIEBELMAN

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don’t like to write” should have been my first tweet. Writing and tweeting: two areas I should have learned to love and excel in after four years at the Daily Pennsylvanian but yet, I do not. Have they improved over the course of my time at the DP? For sure. And that’s enough. If we only spent time doing the things we were already good at, what would be the point? If you weren’t challenged or pushed to your limit in the past four years, you did this whole college thing wrong. It’s what we do when we are faced with those uphill battles that define us as people and push us to change and grow. For me, DPOSTM has been

certainly done that at many moments, and, as a result, I am a better person for it. But really at one particular moment. And when I almost let it defeat me, some wise people at the DP convinced me I was strong enough to keep going, to stand by my words, and they were right. Being a part of this department has not only improved my writing skills and enhanced my familiarity with the music of Taylor Swift and Two Chainz, but also offered me an avenue to learn about and engage with this place we called home for four years. Plus, it’s really fun. You get to sit at the finish line for Penn Relays and remove oxford commas from writing and get to know a group of people you never would have otherwise. Plus, in what other circumstance would you take half the journalists in the department to New York, to attend as fans, but not cover, Columbia’s homecoming game because the Lions’ coach

used to be our coach then retired and then unretired to leave West Philadelphia for a school whose sports facilities are a subway ride away, then sprint across New York City to catch a bus because of unforeseen “train traffic.” Can you imagine a more apathetic sports school than Penn? We found it. It’s called Columbia. Through the general Red and Blue indifference to Penn Athletics, my time spent on 33rd street have become some of my best memories. And yes, I like math, it’s my minor, so you might think I mean DRL, well I don’t. The Palestra, Franklin Field, Rhodes, Hutch (well it’s not called that anymore but the new name is a bit less catchy), have all become a familiar backdrop for both excitement and disappointment. Covering games might have first brought me to Penn sporting events, but it is not the only thing that kept me coming back. They are really fun. I promise. 33rd Street is really not that far.

Just go. Despite my own hatred of writing, a community that, on the whole doesn’t care about its sports teams, and a gender disparity that still very much so exists, I kept with it, through those around me questioning and being confused why I spent so many hours doing this. “If you don’t like to write, then why, on top of school, do you write for the DP?” The answer: though the written words are the medium, the point is to tell a story and that is what I love. The writing, though what everybody focuses on, is simply the last stage in the creation of the story. Behind the scenes, the story ideas and the interviews are the bulk of the time and effort in writing a good article. “But it’s sports.” I am a girl. I like sports. Get over it. “But it’s the Ivy League...” Once again, go to the games. I bet you’ll be pleasantly surprised how much fun you’ll have and how

impressive our student athletes are. Especially, men’s soccer, gymnastics and men’s lacrosse, trust me, I’ve been to a lot of them. My storytelling over the past four years has certainly been a journey, but I never would have made it without some help. To the coaches I’ve called and called and called, and probably disrupted your Sundays with your family, I’m sorry. But thank you for answering. To athletes, I know so much about your lives and you don’t know my name. It’s okay, I pretend like I don’t know you. Riley and Steven, it’s been the just three of us essentially forever. Sophomore me is really happy to finally be accepted in the Bro Line. Riles, I know you don’t actually think I’m stupid and you’ll never know how happy I am you tried to teach me to tweet because look what came out of it. Also, I forgive you for giving me mono, well maybe. To those who were mentors and

helped and pushed me to be better, thank you. Through it all I was never promoted to senior sports, never fired, just happily did my part, except for that one squash secondary beat assignment. I’m still salty. But in all seriousness, I’ve learned and gained so much through being part of this organization that I will carry with me as I run up, into whatever the future holds. As that future becomes more and more a reality, my fears and future challenges begin to feel overwhelming, but I know now that I know how to conquer them with determination and enthusiasm. And even though we are long past our time in youth soccer leagues, don’t be fooled, enthusiasm very much still matters. ALEXIS ZIEBELMAN is a College senior from New York and is a former associate sports editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian. She can be reached at azieb@sas.upenn.edu.

The story of us SENIOR COLUMN BY STEVEN TYDINGS STEVEN TYDINGS

’ve got approximately nothing for this senior column. This is after, I don’t know, 30 different ledes featuring jokes about Nick Buchta (email all complaints to buchta@thedp.com), my unrequited love for honeydew/ pure hatred for pineapple or highlight videos of a young Nat Graham balling on the mean streets of Ontario (Seriously, check him going hard https://www.youtube. com/watch?v=F6rGutZuq4c). But nothing really worked. So here’s some cool memories I’ve had while working for the DP

followed by some thank yous. I don’t really know why anyone who doesn’t know me personally is still reading now, but thanks anyway? Fun times Stopping by the DP’s table at the activities fair my freshman year and having the great Mike Wisniewski tell me that yes, the DP did have a sports department, but that it did not include anyone wearing a Derek Jeter t-shirt. I proved him wrong by writing a column two years later that featured Jeter way too heavily. Stopping on the way to Cornell at a part Long John Silvers, part A&Ws to watch highlights from the Ivy League Digital Network with Mike Tony, John Phillips and Riley Steele. This actually

happened. We also had the radio provide a perfect soundtrack to John’s life story and were given the opportunity to take a photo of Riley with a slice of pizza as big as his head. Driving all the way to Tennessee to cover women’s basketball against the No. 4 team in the country with Holden McGinnis and Riley. Of course, like any good college students, we decided not to stay over in Knoxville and instead drive straight back. We made it back to Philly on nothing but the power of Childish Gambino, Red Bulls, the music suggestions of Eric Dolan and a penguin-shaped hat. Having way too much fun doing absolutely nothing in the office with the aforementioned sports editors and plenty of oth-

ers like Ian Wenik, Nick Buchta, Colin Henderson, Laine Higgins and Smarf. If every new freshman class in DPOSTM is not exposed to Too Many Cooks, 30+ repeated showings of “Shake It Off,” and “We Can’t Stop” in G-Major, then we have truly failed as caretakers of the sports department. For Ian’s sake, I’ll include the CIA scene in Dark Knight Rises. Listening to Mike Tony ask for pop and trying like crazy to get him to say Coke or soda or something that normal non-Midwesterners say. Writing fake apologies and reading them in the John Phillips voice. Thank Yous To Harry Cooperman, Jody Freinkel, Sarah Smith, Will

Marble and the other chill people from News. DPOSTM stands for what it may, but y’all made being in other parts of the office fun anyway. To the good sports photo editors. You know who you are. Also, all of the sports design editors, particularly Jenny Lu for having to deal with me for two semesters. To all of the coaches and members of Athletic Communications who had the misfortune of interacting with me. I apologize (in the John Phillips voice). To the people I strongly disliked at the DP for fueling me like a young Kobe Bryant to become the grizzled veteran of the office I became. My equivalent to hoisting 50 shots to get 60 points is probably the plethora of columns

I wrote my sophomore and junior year much to everyone’s chagrin. To all the people who realize despite what some Starbucks baristas or Sweetgreen may believe, my name is not Stephen or Steph Curry and am in fact just an unathletic, sarcastic near adult from the state of New Jersey. Plenty of people have asked me what my plan is for life after Penn and what I want to do moving forward. I don’t really have a good idea, so my response is simple. If I had an answer for that, I’d put it in a bottle and sell it. STEVEN TYDINGS is a Wharton senior from Hopewell, N.J. He is a former senior sports editor for The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at stydings@wharton. upenn.edu

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Past stops define the present for Grace Calhoun AT THE HELM OF PENN ATHLETICS Part 1 of 2

Experiences in Big 10, SEC influence Penn AD

to pick a school, six of the Ancient Eight found their way onto her radar. Eventually, the gymnast-turned-runner settled on Providence as her home for the next four years. Although not heavily recruited â&#x20AC;&#x201D; she only started running her senior year of high school â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Calhoun soon found a home in Brown Athletics.

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After 20 years at the helm of Penn Athletics, Steve Bilsky stepped down as his alma materâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s athletic director in 2013. Be it as a star basketball player or adm inistrator, there werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t many people left who remembered life at Penn without Bilsky. Whoever was to replace him, they would to have to deal with a heavy legacy. Enter Grace Calhoun. A former member of the Brown track team who had - Grace Calhoun made professional stops in the SEC, Patriot League, Ivy League, Big 10, Horizon But the accolades wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be League and Missouri Valley coming on the track for CalConference, Calhoun came to houn. University City ready to reâ&#x20AC;&#x153;My coach â&#x20AC;&#x201D; half-seriously, shape what it meant to be a part half-jokingly â&#x20AC;&#x201D; said I was the of Penn Athletics. academic team captain,â&#x20AC;? she And she came in with a life- remembered. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And I knew my time of experiences to build role was really to ensure that upon as a model. people were staying on course with studies and help with all Finding her way of that.â&#x20AC;? Born in the Catskills of upWhen Calhoun would later state New York, Calhoun was make her name working in acaready for the Ivies from an demics and compliance, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d early age. When it came time find herself no stranger to the

field â&#x20AC;&#x201D; her time at Brown laid the foundation for a career she didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even know she would embark upon. Having participated in Ivy Athletics herself, Calhoun set herself on an early path to becoming an Ancient Eight administrator. Today, she is one of just two athletic directors in the Ivy League to have played in the conference. Even so, ending up in athletics was one of the furthest things from her mind. After her graduation from Brown with a degree in electrical engineering, Calhoun ended up in consulting. As someone who has committed her life to filling roles not traditionally held by women, Calhoun has found experiences from her youth all the way up through college as formative in combatting gender-discrimination. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whenever I felt like I was excluded based upon being a girl or a woman, I did feel like, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Well Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to prove them wrong,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; or â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to work harder,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? she noted. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So it became a motivator and I will say, when I chose electrical [engineering], in many of my courses I was one of the only girls, if not the only one. And

I think there was a sense of confidence that gender shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make a difference.â&#x20AC;?

then looking later and getting ideas. into athletics, I certainly was Harper, who in 2002 had just used to that environment, so it become the first female athletic didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t bother me. I think there director in Ivy League history, was a sense of confidence that decided she wanted to bring gender shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make a differ- Calhoun on board with the Big ence.â&#x20AC;? Green. But even at that point, it â&#x20AC;&#x153;Not too ma ny months seemed like it would be her after arriving, they had a lost engineering degree â&#x20AC;&#x201D; not her a longtime associate athletic time as an athlete â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that would director,â&#x20AC;? Calhoun explained. stick with her for life. For the â&#x20AC;&#x153;And I had agreed to help out first year out of college, she temporarily â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and temporarily worked for American Man- ended up being longer.â&#x20AC;? agement Systems, far removed And longer became a fullfrom the world of sports. blown career. 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Prior to coming to University City, Penn athletic director Grace Calhoun held a wide array of positions, ranging from serving as a grauate assistant track coach at Florida to associate athletic director at Indiana.

Athleticsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; recent brand refresh, it sounds oddly reminiscent of the new uniformity of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Champion Your Lifeâ&#x20AC;? campaign. The upheaval within the athletic department meant hitting the reset button on nearly the entire approach the University took to sports. Calhoun was a part of a ground-up process that, in her mind, helped define her approach to athletics administration. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The various exposures that I had in those formative years in Indiana had me feeling like, you know, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I can do this, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m ready for my own leadership challenge,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s when I started to throw my name in the hat and look at some AD positions.â&#x20AC;? She credits Indiana as being more critical to her approach at Penn than any other career stop, including her next home â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Loyola. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in charge There was another move in store for Ca l hounâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family, as they made the trip a state over to Chicago as Calhoun assumed the mantle of athletic director at Loyola University in 2011. She was determined from the start to have an impact. Within weeks on the job, Calhoun made the controversial decision to cut ties with Jim Whitesell, the Ramblersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball coach, mirroring the early decision she faced on the future of then-Penn basketball coach Jerome Allen. Unlike in Chicago, once in University City Calhoun would decide to wait, not parting ways until a full year after she took over. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The one thing that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve learned so clearly over time is that a solution isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a solution unless it fits in an institutional environment. â&#x20AC;Ś There certainly was a lot of learning at Loyola, but I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t say there was any modeling after that, just due to the fact that the situations were so different,â&#x20AC;? she explained. In 2013, she made the decision with the longest-lasting implications for Loyola: transitioning from the Horizon League to the Missouri Valley Conference. The move sparked criticism and debate over the effects on the University budget, but Calhoun stuck by her guns. Calhounâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time in Chicago lasted just three years, yet she walked away having gone through the one set of experiences she had previously lacked: being the one making the calls when the final decision had to be made. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The more times you deal with decision-making of that magnitude, I think the more comfort you get that you understand how to navigate though complexities,â&#x20AC;? she added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You understand how to build consensus â&#x20AC;&#x201D; I think the main things I learned was how to really listen for what was important to the University and figuring out and strategizing how to achieve the desired end goals.â&#x20AC;? She would only be around for the first year of the transition to the MVC, however. After Bilsky announced his retirement, University City came calling. Luckily for Penn, Calhoun was ready.

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SPORTS B 9

MAY 13-16, 2016 — GRADUATION ISSUE

PHOTO FEATURE

ENDURING IMAGES FROM 2015-16

NICK BUCHTA | SENIOR SPORTS EDITOR

With a 62-60 win over Princeton, Penn women’s basketball clinched its second Ivy title in three years.

AMANDA SUAREZ | SENIOR PHOTO GRAPHER

Penn football coach Ray Priore (right) meets his old boss, former Penn coach and current Columbia coach Al Bagnoli (left), after the Quakers defeated the Lions, 42-7, in their first meeting since Bagnoli left for New York.

TOP MOMENTS OF 2015-16 JUNE

Sam Mattis launched a 62.48-meter throw at the NCAA Championships to take home the college discus title

NOV

Field hockey took Princeton to overtime in the de facto Ivy title game, but fell just short, 2-1

NOV

With a 34-21 win over Cornell, football brought home its 17th Ivy championship trophy

FEB

Men's fencing took home a share of the Ivy title for the first time since 2009, splitting first with Yale and Harvard

FEB

Falling just short of a CSA title, women's squash took Harvard to the wire in the national championship

Women's basketball clinched its second title in three years, beating Princeton, 62-60

MAR

Chris Swanson became men's swimming's first-ever NCAA champion, winning the 1,650-yard freestyle

APRIL

With a 10-6 win over Cornell, women's lacrosse clinched its ninth Ivy title in 10 years

OUTSTANDING ITA OF THE YEAR

Gabrielle Blood,

Congratulations Superheroes

Harnwell College House

“Gabbie has been a fantastic ITA this year. During move-in she helped our entire hall out by connecting all of our devices right away. She helped explain the difference between AirPennNet, AirPennNet Device and AirPennNet Help. We all thought she was the GA since she was so helpful and professional! She goes above and beyond her work as an ITA and makes you feel like all of your IT issues are legitimate, even if it was just you making a dumb mistake. As a student in Wharton, whenever I had a presentation, I never had to worry about technology impeding my progress. Even if it is in the middle of the night or the middle of the day, she is happy to help, and she always seems happy during her shifts. All in all, Gabbie is ITA of the year in my eyes!” ~ Ben Blanco “Gabbie is incredibly dedicated to her job as an ITA. She brings a new spirit to the job that brightens everyone's day. ” ~ Annie Lai

Honorable Mention

Annie Sun, Riepe College House “In countless instances, Annie has made herself available to help with technology problems. She often does these things when not on the clock. Annie is very patient with those who are less tech savvy than she is. She is always considerate and makes sure we understand how she's solving our problems as well, so that we can troubleshoot in the future when she's not available.” ~ Lyndsi Burcham

Cole Purdy, Ware College House “Cole is a phenomenal ITA who is always there in the office working diligently. He is accessible and incredibly knowledgable about computers. He can fix any problem efficiently and thoroughly, never messing up. He is an incredible asset who works insanely hard for the ITA department.” ~ Karina Gunadi “Cole is smart, accessible, and extremely helpful! His hard work and enthusiasm earn him this award.” ~ Jenny Wang

The College House Computing staff hires and trains students to be Information Technology Advisors (ITAs) in the College Houses. ITAs provide convenient support for their fellow residents, and can help with almost any computer question, from diagnosing hardware problems to software support and getting connected to the network. ITAs also staff the College House computing labs, offering on-the-spot assistance in each lab. The ITAs are advised and supported by the College House Computing staff of IT professionals. For information about becoming an ITA, visit the College House Computing website below.

www.rescomp.upenn.edu www.collegehouses.upenn.edu

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Senior Elizabeth Hitti goes to the ground as Princeton field hockey celebrates their 2-1 overtime win over Penn in the final regular season game of the year — a game that also decided the winner of the Ivy League title.

Honorable Mention

MAR

AMANDA SUAREZ | SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Tom Awad finished off Penn track’s first relay win at the Penn Relays since 1974 in the 4xMile.

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Gregory

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to the graduating staff of the College Houses— best of luck, and thank you for your hard work!

Harnwell

Ana Bautista Alexander Bedrosyan S. Genevieve Bouchard Christine Chen Katie Clonan-Roy Isobeye Daso Christina Farley Aliyah Harris Gloria Huangpu Athena Lao Johnny Lee Stephanie Mark Kelechi Okereke Kriya Patel Andre Rosario Hassan Wilson

Harrison

Allison Bingham Jane Chung Danielle Citera Michael Donahue Kassandra Donnels Natalie Feigenbaum Lindsey Fiorelli Catherine Gonzalez Alina Grabowski Sherry Huang

Harrison continued Vera Kirillov Rohini Kopparam Alexander Kraik Ethan LaFrance Helen Pun Kendra Sandidge Vanessa Wagner Albert Xiao Kelly Yao

Hill

Michael Ernst Autumn Griffin Brandi Lupo Cherra Mathis Paula Narvaez Sean Plaskett Jae Slaby David Sun Taniel Winner

Kings Court English Hyder Alikhan Courtney Bliler Leah Davidson Bill Ding Lina Huang Sally Kong

Kings Court English continued Carolynn Sullivan Evelyn (Fifi) Yeung Kejia Wang Shreya Zaveri

Riepe

Jacob Abraham Peter Aun Mary Ibraham William Jackson Evy Kho David Lai Amanda Lee Erica Ligenza Jordi Rivera Prince Anne Stack Kim Walters

Rodin

Merv Arnold-Lyons Lianna Artessa Jeff Baker Erin Begg Jonathan Bryan Charlie Carr Alix Desch Jesse Ellingworth Jen Gable

Rodin continued

Nathan Hammitt Sierra Hirt Dan Kent Abigail McDonald Nikki Moorer Adrian Nelson Audrey Nuamah Divya Ramesh Vicky Ro Leslie Robledo Isaac Roszler Dylan Sun Hannah Watene Marianna Williams Angela Zhu

Stouffer

Isaiah "Mad Dog" Harris Demetri Morgan Teni Ugbah

Ware

Maddie Armer Chelsea Atkins Donna Castelblanco Shontel Gaskin Ashwini Gokhale Jacob Henner Lucia Huang Grace Macdonald Stephanie Mayo Allison Resnick Shevin Smith-Ward Katie Somers Suzette Wannikhof Eliana Yankelev

2015-16 AWARDS PLAYER OF THE YEAR

Sam Mattis & Chris Swanson TRACK & FIELD

SWIMMING

Nina Corcoran LACROSSE

ROOKIE OF THE YEAR

Reed Junkin LACROSSE

Reeham Salah SQUASH

COACH OF THE YEAR

Ray Priore & Steve Dolan FOOTBALL

TRACK & FIELD

Karin Corbett & Mike McLaughlin LACROSSE

BASKETBALL

FIRST TEAM

Casey Kent WRESTLING

Justin Watson FOOTBALL

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Tom Awad TRACK & FIELD

Tim Graul BASEBALL

Tyler Drake FOOTBALL

Yan Xin Tan SQUASH

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Michelle Nwokedi BASKETBALL

Leah Allen Alexa Hoover Sydney Stipanovich BASKETBALL SOFTBALL FIELD HOCKEY