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Penn and the University of Cali-fornia, Los Angeles are the two schools initially chosen by the federal government to develop and test implantable devices to facilitate memory recovery after brain injury.

Penn will receive up to $22.5 million in funding over four years for its role in the research.

The Defense Advanced Re-search Projects Agency (DARPA) announced the launch of the Re-storing Active Memory (RAM)

program yesterday.RAM is only one of DARPA’s

programs supporting President Obama’s Brain Research through Advancing Innovat ive Neuro -technologies — or the BR AIN Initiative. It is “part of a new Pres-idential focus aimed at revolution-izing our understanding of the human brain,” according to the National Institutes of Health. The BRAIN Initiative seeks to create a “revolutionary new dynamic picture of the brain” that will “fill major gaps in our current knowl-edge” of the human mind.

The RAM program ultimately seeks to create implantable neu-roprosthetics — artificial exten-sions to the body that restore

In a statewide poll of Pennsylva-nia, Harper Polling has released survey results that found Penn-sylvania State University to be the most respected school in the state.

In its “Our Commonwealth Poll”, 24 percent of participants chose Penn State over Bucknell Univer-sity, Carnegie Mellon University, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pitts-

burgh, and Villanova University.Penn and Carnegie Mellon were

tied for second with 17 percent each.The survey, conducted between

June 25 an June 26, also found that schools received higher percent-ages in their respective regions. In the Philadelphia and Southwest regions, Penn and Temple claimed about 60 percent of the votes to-gether.

“It doesn’t tell us a whole lot about anything,” economics professor Francis DiTraglia said. “It’s a light hearted poll and it doesn’t say a lot about the universities involved.” He went on to list the different crite-ria people might use to determine respect. “A school like Penn State

has a lot more students than Penn. There are a lot more graduates and there’s a tendency for people to refer to what they know,” he said.

DiTraglia used the polling re-sults to do some further digging of his own and noted some of the disproportionality in the results. Penn’s class of 2017 had about 2400 students with about 16 percent com-ing from the state of Pennsylvania. Penn State, on the other hand, had 8400 freshmen at University Park alone, with more than 60 percent in-state students.

Wharton professor Abraham Wyner was not impressed. “A sur-

At 8:26 p.m. on Sunday, Philadel-phia Police and Fire Department and Penn Police responded to a fire at the Chestnut Hall Apart-ments on 39th and Sansom streets, according to the Division of Public Safety.

The building was evacuated while the fire — which appeared to have been caused by cooking — was contained.

The fire was extinguished and residents were allowed re-entry at approximately 9:45 p.m.

No injuries were reported.Rising College sophomore Mal-

lory Kirby, a resident of Ham-ilton Court Apartments across the street from the Chestnut Hall complex, was walking home at the time of the fire and said that the scene seemed surprisingly calm.

“None of the fire was visible from the street — at least from my perspective,” Kirby said. “They evacuated the whole building and there was a large police and fire department presence, but no one was panicking on the street.” Q

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Univ. budget sees highest financial aid to date

Penn’s budget for the 2015 fiscal year includes the largest financial aid budget in the University’s his-tory.

Allocating $197 million toward undergraduate financial aid, the recently enacted budget — which took effect July 1 and will termi-nate with the fiscal year on June 30, 2015 — saw a 4.5 percent in-crease in undergraduate financial aid.

“The overall financial aid budget has increased by 4 percent to $444 million,” Vice President of Budget and Management Analysis Bonnie Gibson said, adding that the $197 million allocated to undergradu-ate financial aid is a 4.5 percent increase compared to the 2014 fis-cal year and a 150 percent increase since 2004.

According to the budget over-view released by the Off ice of Budget and Management Analy-sis, Penn is “one of fewer than 50 private institutions in the United States maintaining a need-blind admissions policy while upholding its commitment to meet full dem-onstrated need with the all-grant, no-loan packages.”

Penn has seen a marked in-crease in financial need, with the number of grant-aided undergrad-uates growing by 30 percent since the 2008 fiscal year.

The graduate and professional financial aid budget for this fiscal year totals $155 million, with an additional $92 million budgeted as stipend support.

Tuition and fees are budgeted to increase by 3.9 percent to $47,668. This is the sixth consecutive year that the increase has been be-low 4 percent. According to the budget overview, peer institutions report tuition and fee increases ranging from 2.9 percent to 4.3

$197 million will go toward undergraduate financial aid

in the 2015 fiscal yearBY KRISTEN GRABARZ

News Editor

DPS reported that the blaze was caused by cooking

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Evacuated residents of Chestnut Hall Apartments stood outside Sunday night while the

Philadelphia fire department extinguished the blaze.

Pennsylvanians vote Penn State most respectedPenn received only 17

percent of the votes

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The Philadelphia Museum of Art was illuminated by an explosive firework display on July 4, following the free Wawa Welcome America concert.

Many Penn students made their way to the Benjamin Franklin Parkway to see Ed Sheeran and Nicki Minaj perform.

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Penn to lead research project to restore

memory lossThe University will receive $22.5 million in research funding over four years

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Ed Sheeran, Nicki Minajand a multitude of other performers helpedPhiladelphians celebrateIndependence Day on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway with the “Largest FreeConcert in America” and a

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One class of Penn students pushed the community to see things differently this sum-mer by altering public spaces

around campus.Foundations of Art Design

and Digital Culture, a class taught by Design professor David Comberg, recently fin-ished up a summer session project in which each cre-ation had to intervene in a public place.

Students were urged to consider the behaviors of the

members of the community who frequent their public area of choice. They were also asked to “provoke a re-sponse in the viewer, creating questions or thoughts, laugh-ter, delight, re-examination of assumptions, etc.,” accord-ing to the course syllabus.

“The Penn community, in general, is kind of conserva-

tive.” said Comberg. “So this is trying to push that a little bit, trying to get students to think about the campus as a form for dialogue and to stop people in their tracks and have them think about other things.”

Laur ie Zimmer man, a student in the class and an employee at the Perelman School of Medicine, was in-spired by her mother’s strug-gle with Alzheimer’s when creating her public interven-tion project.

“I recently found out that the National Institutes of Health spend $3 billion on AIDS related research and $504 million on Alzheimer’s and other age related de-mentia,” Zimmerman said of the motivation behind her project. “This is insane given the fact that Alzheimer’s af-fects five times the number of people that HIV does.”

Zimmerman’s 100-foot long project — which includes granite blocks featuring a question mark and a ratio of the funding spent on HIV and Alzheimers related research — was installed on Hamil-ton Walk, just outside of the Perelman School of Medicine.

Although her project — true to the objective of the class — “intervened” in the public walkway, Zimmerman said that passerby did not seem particularly perturbed.

“I did not experience any negativity,” Zimmerman not-

ed. “A fair amount of people stopped to look at it. A larger number just walked by.”

Each student brought his or her distinct strengths to the project.

2014 Wharton graduate Shawn Zamechek used his background in math when coming up with the idea be-hind his project, which he said he hoped would “expose people to a secret.”

One instal lment of Za-mechek’s project was a sign

attached to Claudia Cohen Hall which encouraged on-lookers to rethink their con-ceptions of the College with its message reading, “The College offers 64 majors and 76 minors. There are 4,864 unique paths of study.”

Although most of the proj-ects were taken down soon after they were installed, the class will bring a slew of new conceptual interven-tions when it is offered again in the fall.

Class projects use art to intervene in public spacesThe projects were

supposed to inspire re-examinationBY EMILY OFFIT

Staff Writer

Courtesy of David Comberg

One student in David Comberg’s Foundations of Art Design and Digital Culture

class created this piece of art to “intervene in a public space.”

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China closed out the month of June by holding its first think tank summit.

The conference was co-hosted by Penn’s Think Tank and Civil Societies Programs and the Shanghai Academy for Social Sciences in Shang-hai, from June 25 to 26.

Think tanks are research organizations that examine political and social policies. Because many Chinese think tanks are state-funded, how-ever, they currently play a much closer role with govern-ment policy than they would in most other countries.

“In the US, where think tanks can be contacted for consultation with the govern-ment, think tanks in China really do play a direct role in giving all the information necessary to legislate policy,” rising College junior Stepha-nie Herrmann said. “That very direct connection not only sheds new light on how the Chinese government’s structure works, but also on how think tanks are actually integral to developing law.”

The goal of the summit was “to offer both internal and external perspectives on how to improve the profile and ef-ficiency of China’s think tank system,” said Herrmann, who is also an intern for both SASS and TTCSP. The confer-ence was attended by 28 Chi-nese think tanks and 24 other organizations representing 15 countries. There were three panels; two related to gener-ally improving think tanks around the world, while the third was China-specific.

Much of this discussion was focused on steering away from a solely government-affiliated think tank system and expanding to more uni-versities and independent institutions.

“This was designed to serve as a catalyst to stir the think tanks, and part of the reason for having the meeting was to have all of the think tanks in China to think about other ways that were less gov-ernment controlled that are

critical if China is to effective-ly deal with the many policy challenges it faces,” Director of TTCSP and Senior Lec-turer in International Stud-ies at the Lauder Institute James McGann said. “Moti-vation [came from] an array of policy problems, and they have a limited, narrow set of institutions that are pro-viding advice, and they un-derstand that they need the greater policy innovation and diplomatic advice to grapple with the fundamental policy changes they face.”

Overall, the conference was considered a success that exceeded expectations, according to McGann.

“[The think tanks] were focusing on sharing their ex-periences so that China might benefit from that, and that was key and pretty dramatic. Again, that many institutions coming together in China, to discuss freely a range of options was pretty extraordi-nary,” said McGann. “And a very short period of time ago — just four or five years ago — that was not possible. So to me, it was really exceptional that this took place and that there was fairly free-flowing discussion about this critical issue.”

Unlike the summit, how-ever, conversations are far from over.

“Broad partnerships have been forged with the lead-ing think tanks in China that will continue. It was the ma-jor output of the meeting,” McGann said, referring to the new collaborative part-nerships between Penn and organizations such as the Development Research Cen-ter of the State Council in Beijing.

“Main viewpoints of par-ticipant presentations and discussions will also be sum-marized for policy recom-mendations,” said Iris Jin, an associate research pro-fessormade lowercase since the the title is after the name at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, in an email. “At the same time, we hope to hold the China Think Tank Summit every year and build it into a platform for think tanks all over the world to interact with each other and to network for further coop-eration.”

In the summer, everyone could use a good unrequited love story — especially when such a film features familiar places and faces.

A team of Penn students and their colleagues — all under the age of 24 — is nearly fin-ished producing Driving Not Knowing, a debut feature film and “a love letter to the place and people we grew up with,” according to the group’s Kick-starter fundraising page.

2014 College and Engineering graduates Dane Mainella and Dylan Hansen-Fliedner, 2014 College graduate Jay Jadick, and Temple graduate Benjamin Davis wrote and directed the film. Mainella and Jadick also star in the film, which is still in post-production.

Emily Rea — a 2014 College graduate — plays Jo, the lead role opposite Mainella and Jadick. Rea, along with other members of the cast such as 2014 College graduate Seth Schimmel and rising College seniors Alex Temme and Liz Baar met Mainella and the oth-er Penn cast and crewmem-bers through the fraternity Pi Lambda Phi.

“Pi Lam, for us, has always been a safe-haven for the artis-tically minded and free-spirited of Penn’s campus and beyond,” Mainella said.

Now that the film is finished, the cast and crew is focusing on their fundraising campaign on Kickstarter.com, through which they hope to raise $21,170 to finish production. The film is also up for Project of the Week on indieWire — a news site tar-geted at the independent film community —, with the win-ner being awarded a creative consultation with the TriBeCa Institute, among other things.

Mainella said that the team hopes to gain acceptance into top tier film festivals such as American-based Sundance and South by Southwest and Euro-based Berlin and Rotterdam.

Driving Not Knowing is a love story that “follows two lost young men and the blurred bor-ders of their relationship,” said

Mainella. Main characters Will and Lee are artists — one a musician and one a poet — who

are “at odds yet addicted to each other.” Will is “hesitant to make himself vulnerable to

Lee’s [violent and intense] af-fection.”

Very few of the film’s lines of dialogue were pre-written. Mainella said that the group wrote an outline of each scene and then “felt immersed enough in [their] characters to be able to improvise dialogue.”

Mainella added that much of the conflict in the film comes from disagreement among characters in their self ex-pression, a familiar conflict to college students at Penn and beyond.

“There is a big divide in the characters between living a life based on established prac-tices...and living one that is more free-form and intuitive, however risky,” Mainella said.

The first act of the movie takes place in Philadelphia, and some of its scenes were filmed in familiar buildings like the Institute of Contemporary Art in West Philadelphia, the Phila-

delphia Museum of Contempo-rary Art in North Philadelphia, and Penn’s own Kelly Writer’s House.

Many Penn professors have also acted as mentors and inspi-ration to the Driving not Know-ing cast and crew. Mainella said that Cinema Studies pro-fessors Nicola Gentili, Meta Mazaj, Tim Corrigan, David and Nancy Novack and Keir Politz and English professors Charles Bernstein, Kenneth Goldsmith and Deb Burnham offered encouragement and support throughout the pro-cess. Director of the Kelly Writ-ers House Al Filreis helped the crew through much of the mov-ie-making process and even appears in a cameo.

“We’re hoping [the film] will be received well,” Mainella said. “We think it has the potential to be universally enjoyable and relevant as an honest portrait of our generation.”

Team of Penn students and alumni produce debut filmThe group launched a

Kickstarter page to raise post-production funds

BY MADELINE MCCALLUMStaff Writer

China hosts first ever think tank summit28 Chinese think

tanks attended the conference

BY KATHERINE CHANGStaff Writer

Courtesy of Dane Mainella

The production team of Driving Not Knowing hopes to gain acceptance to top tier film festivals such as American-based Sundance and South by Southwest and Euro-based Berlin and Rotterdam.

Six years ago, I sat in a crowded theater and watched Will Smith wander through a

blighted Manhattan with only a German Shepherd for com-pany. He spends most of “I Am Legend” in this isolation; since a mutant strain of the measles virus spread across the globe three years earlier, he has watched everyone around him become infected and die, leav-ing him to believe he’s the only healthy person left on Earth. Now he passes time fending off measles-stricken wild dogs and attempting to develop a treatment for the virus from his own blood.

Spoiler: At the end of the movie, he learns he isn’t en-tirely alone, successfully tests the treatment and passes it off to his newfound compatriots just before dying in a blaze of glory. The movie ends on that hopeful, if tragic, note, with the treatment going out into the

world to ensure the continua-tion of the human race.

As far as epidemic films go, this plot is fairly typical. Virus spreads, survivors trek through barren landscape in search of their fellows and some sort of cure. Sometimes they meet a doctor in the wil-derness. Or they make it to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or another white-walled, high-security beacon of hope. Success var-ies, but the pursuit remains essentially the same. It’s un-derstood that once the cure is found, the world will be saved, the suffering will end, a new and brighter era will dawn.

In reality, a vaccine was de-veloped for the measles virus (un-mutated by idealistic and misguided scientists) over half a century ago. Before vaccina-tion became widespread and routine, approximately 2.6 mil-lion people died worldwide as a result of measles infection

each year. The vaccine’s influ-ence set in more slowly and less dramatically than it might on screen, but by 2012 annual global fatalities had been re-duced by roughly 95 percent.

The most recent strain of

the vaccine, which targets the mumps and rubella as well, has been found to successfully im-munize 95 percent of people af-ter receiving one dose. It costs less than a single dollar to vac-cinate a child.

This is one instance in which I wish reality was more like the movies. Unfortunately, Ameri-cans are abandoning the script and exercising their right to opt out of inoculation — and preventable diseases are now making a comeback as a result.

By May 23, the United States logged its highest number of confirmed measles cases in any one year since 1994. From a record low of 37 cases just 10 years ago, we reportedly climbed back up to 288 with more than half the year left to go. The vast majority of those infected contracted the virus for the simple reason that they had not been vaccinated.

Measles is highly conta-gious, with a predicted 1-in-500 fatality rate in the unvaccinat-ed children who contract it and an additional threat of serious complications such as blind-ness, deafness, encephalitis and pneumonia. For many, the decision to opt out is rooted in

religion or philosophy; for oth-ers, it’s borne of health risks associated with vaccines, both real (though infinitesimal) and fabricated.

Similar resurgences of mumps, whopping cough and chicken pox have been re-ported in communities whose denizens are choosing to forgo vaccination.

Parents defend the decision not to vaccinate their chil-dren as a matter of personal choice. But I have a hard time reconciling myself to a per-sonal choice that increasingly endangers those for whom in-oculation is not an option due to age, medical fitness or lack of access, and that also endan-gers the small percentage of people whose vaccinations fail to immunize them against these viruses. Of the 26 cases of measles registered in New York City in February and March, seven of the patients were under a year old. The

right to expose them to infec-tion is, I think, a dubious one. Particularly because when time goes on, the infection bal-loons, and that seven becomes 10, 50, 100.

Somehow I can’t quite see people lining up to buy tickets for a persistently-preventable-disaster film, one in which the hero bravely exercises his right to stand by and watch as the world burns. “I read that water has been linked to drowning,” I imagine him shouting, just loud enough to be heard over the plaintive cries for help. “I heard that fire extinguishers can cause concussions.”

A classmate and I de-cided to get lunch together as a break f rom our f ra nt ic

f inals study sessions. She sug gested a veget a r ia n restaurant that specialized in food made from local or-ganic ingredients. “I’m just trying not to pump chemi-cals into my body and die of cancer at 40,” she explained. Her words came to me as a surprise. I had always seen her as a very critical think-er, and I never expected her to make such a baseless statement.

She choked a little when I asked her if she knew that organic farms use pesti-cides as well and that there is no conclusive evidence that GMOs have any harm-ful effects on human health. “No way! Wait, we have to Google this,” she said and whipped out her iPhone. Af-ter perusing a few reputable websites, her face turned

a little red. “I never knew that. I just always thought that organic was 100 per-cent chemical-free and that GMOs were bad for you,” she said in a sober tone.

I’ve had many a conversa-tion like this. I find that many people — who are otherwise well-informed — seem to have a very misinformed view on GMOs. A professor once told me, “It’s disgusting what they do with food in this country.” “The Europeans are smart. They’ve banned all of those engineered mu-tant crops,” she continued. I just smiled in response, hiding my disapproval. It was then that I wondered: If some of the brightest minds in the country are so mis-informed about this issue, then how can we expect the general public to participate in this conversation in a ma-ture manner?

“GMOs cause cancer.” “The DNA from the GMOs

pass to human DNA.” “GMOs are less nutritious than their organic counterparts.”

These are just a few of the many myths that people cite as valid points when debat-ing on the issue. Sometimes the conversation is steered away from the ef f icacy of GMOs to the legal history of b ig biot ech cor pora-tions. To a few people, the alleged campaign by Mon-santo to sue farmers whose crops have been contami-nated with patented genes through pollination is evi-dence enough to prove that GMOs are bad for mankind. T he “ Ter m i nat or ” seed technology, a proposal that never came into existence, is also fair game. Amidst all these myths and fallacies, the debate suffers.

T he a nt i - GMO pr opa-ganda machinery has been highly successful in mis-leading the public. With a great incentive to discredit

GMOs, there are many sci-entists around the world — using questionable meth-odologies — working hard to prove that GMOs will kill you.

A prime example is the GMO corn rat study led by French scientist Gilles-Éric Séralini. The study, which is often quoted by GMO skep-tics, was actually retracted by the journal after it drew

censure from the scientific community. There are also scores of anti-GMO web-sites and social media ac-counts disseminating false information to advance the cause.

The last few years have seen a lot of interesting de-velopments on the policy front. It is very disturbing that various state legisla-tures and other councils have time and again been considering blanket bans on GMOs. While it is certainly understandable that certain GMO products or related practices might be harmful, it baff les me that someone can consider banning an entire technology that has helped not only millions of farmers, but consumers as well.

This is definitely the di-rect result of fear monger-i ng a nd m isi n for mat ion from the anti-GMO camp. This is highly dangerous be-

cause it not only threatens to decrease the food output of the country — which is still grappling with Califor-nia’s severe drought — but it may also make encroach-ing on forests and woods in-evitable to meet the demand for more cultivable land.

Don’t mistake me. I’m not saying that organic is bad or that GMOs are the key to our salvation. I’m not suggest-ing that the anti-GMO camp is the antichrist either. Food is an important issue, and we definitely need to have a lot of caution and discus-sion when acting on it. All I’m saying is that there is a dire need to educate people about the issue, and there is no place for myths and lies in this critical debate.

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VAISHAK KUMAR is a College junior from Mysore, India, studying political science and economics. His email address is vaishak@seas.upenn.edu.

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percent, placing Penn within the range.

Salaries are forecasted to increase by 3.6 percent in the 2015 fiscal year.

Compensation comprises

slightly over half of Penn’s total expenditures in the aca-demic budget, and student aid represents 11 percent. A projected 36 percent of rev-enue for the 2015 fiscal year is expected to come from tu-ition and fees.

“The 2015 Fiscal Year Op-erating Budget demonstrates Penn’s commitment to man-aging growth while continu-ing to invest in our faculty, students, staff and campus infrastructure,” Gibson said.

While f inancial aid con-

tinues to rise, sponsored re-search funding expenditures — which comprises close to 30 percent of the total bud-geted expenditures — are budgeted to decline for the fourth consecutive year while non-research grows.

Gibson said that the mod-est decrease in research funding can be explained by decreases in funding by the

federal government.Following the recession in

2008, the federal government issued stimulus funding, al-locating the University mil-lions of dollars for research support. Now, the cessation of those funds has contribut-ed to the decline of research expenditures. Additionally, Gibson said that the federal government is not contribut-

ing as much funding to base research programs — such as the National Institutes of Health — as in past years.

Penn’s budget for the 2015 fiscal year includes a pro-jected $7.1 billion in expen-ditures, split 55 percent to 45 percent between the Health System and the academic budget, respectively.

Overall, expenditures are

projected to increase by 6.5 percent.

In the 2015 fiscal year, gift revenues are projected to increase by 7.3 percent com-pared with the 2014 f iscal year, most of which is ex-pected to come from higher capital gifts. Investment in-come is budgeted to increase by 10.1 percent compared to the previous year.

BUDGET from page 1

Undergrad. tuition and fees rise 3.9 percent

or supplement function of the nervous system — that wi l l restore the memor y of those humans suffering from brain injury or disease.

Teams at Penn and the University of Cal i for nia , Los Angeles will receive a total of $37.5 million to cre-ate these memory-restoring devices.

U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah ( D -PA 2), supp or t ed t he launch of the BRAIN Initia-tive and commended yester-day’s announcement.

The two leading teams are coalitions of universities, government research insti-tutions and private compa-nies.

Psychology professor and Director of Penn’s Computa-tional Memory Lab Michael Kahana will lead the Penn team.

In an of f icial press re-lease, Fattah expressed his enthusiasm for the “ex-traordinary proposals” of the Penn and UCLA teams.

“I look forward to watch-ing this research progress, while continuing to cham-pion funding that acceler-ates the development of treatments and technology for patients — including our nation’s ser v icemembers and veterans — suffering from brain disease and dis-orders,” Fattah said.

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vey conducted in this man-ner is not necessary and not meaningful,” he said. “An au-tomated, computer generated phone system will provide nothing remotely represen-tative.”

Both professors agreed that the methodology was done correctly, but neither saw any real value to its re-sults.

DiTraglia suggested alter-nate ways of making such a survey more interesting. “Anytime you use rank order, people who are indifferent are ranked the same way as those who are extremely pas-sionate,” he said. “It might be more interesting to ask about people’s positive or negative feelings towards a univer-sity.”

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July 19th: Feeling Beatnik? Groove at Powelton Vil-lage during the 8th annual Lancaster Avenue Jazz and Arts Festival at Saunders Park Greene from 12:00 to 7:00 PM. Listen to acclaimed jazz artists such as Azar Lawrence, the West Powelton Steppers, Shakera Jones, the Charlene Holloway Band and more.

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August 8th: In case you missed Chance the Rapper’s visit to Penn this past year, twerk your way back to the Festival Pier at Penn’s Landing for the Mad Decent Block Party. Featured artists include Diplo, Dillon Francis, Flosstradamus, and more. Sounds, well, decent. Doors open at 3:30 PM.

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Valenti ultimately fell short in the quarterfinals to Danny Irwin of Wabash College 1225-1170.

The SMOY award was cre-ated during the 2012-2013 season to honor those who make the best use of social media to increase the rec-ognition of their program. The award has categories for head coach, assistant coach and athlete.

In each award category, there is a five round bracket to decide who will be the vot-er’s champion. While this dis-tinction doesn’t definitively earn one the SMOY award, the efforts shown during the voting process certainly help the case.

Valenti faced tough local competition in the first round as he was matched up against a fellow Philadelphian in Drexel’s Frank Cimato.

However, thanks to avid campaigning and the twitter support of Penn Wrestling and associate director of ath-letic communications Chas Dorman, Valenti prevailed 425-338.

With the success of the #VoteValenti campaign in day one, Valenti progressed into a round two matchup with 5th-seeded Garett Kiley of Wayland Baptist Univer-sity.

The two-time NCAA champ came through once again, tal-lying the second-most votes of the round with 1078. Valenti’s 1078 easily toppled the 900 votes for Kiley, allowing him to advance to the quarterfi-nals.

Among the best Valenti-related tweets of the first two rounds were references to Valenti being an “ambi-turner and ridiculously good looking” (Zoolander) and the similarity of his face to one of the aliens in Men in Black.

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Assistant wrestling coach Matt Valenti found plenty of success during his time as a wrestler for Penn, winning the NCAA Tournament twice.

VALENTI from page 8

Twitter jokes lead to early

round success

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got to put in there.

DP: Now that you’ve had some time to ref lect, what does this past 2014 season mean to you?RB: I w a s f o r t u n a t e

enough to be a four year starter at Penn, so I played under coach Cole and got a season under Yurkow. You can definitely tell the paradigm shif t [ between

the team under Cole and Yurkow]. I can honestly say this past season was the most fun I’ve had playing baseball my entire life. The chemistry was just better, we had a great coaching staf f , and the players re-ally battled behind coach Yurkow. He’s a great lead-er. With the guys we have in place now, and with the current coaching staff, with coach Yurkow leading the way, the sky’s the limit for Penn baseball.

DP: You had an All-Iv y season in 2013, but you took it to the next level this sea-son, becoming arguably the best power hitter in the con-ference. What do you attri-

bute that surge to?RB: I think it was definite-

ly due to being healthier for the most part. Considering I was a senior this year it was really time for me to step up and be a leader — lead by ex-ample. So I just tried my best and let the younger guys follow behind me. Also just playing relaxed. We’d just go out there, have fun, and not be stressed out or worried about anything. Playing free and loose like that was a real benefit for me.

DP: One of many fun as-pects of this season was the Boring Brebs Twitter ac-count [which quoted Breb-ner throughout the season]. Can you ta lk about that

whole saga?RB: I don’t know why I

was chosen for that, but I was really honored. It was funny, because everyone on the team knew who it was except for me. So I was a detective the whole season trying to figure out who it was. But it ultimately ended up being Matt Greskoff. At practice around the guys I like to be myself, have fun, be goofy, be funny, just say whatever’s on my mind. And I guess people enjoyed that. So one day I’ll be talking, and later on it’s on Twitter. I think that’s another way the team was able to have fun.

DP: You experienced a tough end to your Penn ca-

reer in the playoff against Colu mbia . Ca n you t a l k about the emotions you ex-perienced after the loss?RB: The end to this season

was the most disappoint-ing I’ve had during my time playing at Penn. Because in the past few years, when the season comes to the end, we’re already eliminated. But this year we had a real chance to win and everyone had that mindset. We truly believed that we would win. When it came down to that one game playoff, I was just heartbroken. Unfortunately I made the last out of the game. So as soon as I made the out, I just started cry-ing. I was so disappointed. It was such a fun season, I

didn’t want it to end. And that was the end of my ca-reer at Penn. It just all hit me at once, and I wasn’t able to control the emotions.

DP: How you plan on keep-ing the game of baseball in your life?RB: Because I live in the

Philadelphia area, next year I’m gonna go back to Penn and visit the guys. Go to some games and maybe stop by some practices. I don’t know.... maybe I’ll eventu-ally become a coach just to be around the game. Right now, I’m just trying to figure out what I’m doing next, and if baseball is a part of that, great, if not, I’ll just have to say goodbye to it.

Injuries derailed MLB

dreamsQ&A from page 8

in all but one.Last season, Tennessee

was the top seed in Penn’s r e g io n o f t he b r ac k et , though they ultimately lost to Final Four-bound Mary-land in the Sweet Sixteen.

While this may be the first meeting between the schools, it certainly won’t be the f irst high prof i le team on Penn’s schedule in recent years.

T he Q ua ker s t ook on the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame early last season at the Palestra, fall ing in a tough 54-76 loss.

The tough non-confer-ence schedule has been a staple of Penn women’s bas-ketball and a key ingredient for late season success, ac-cording to McLaughlin.

“It can only help when

you play against very good competition,” McLaughlin said. “It prepares you play-ing against different styles. Each league plays a differ-ent style of basketball, it’s good to see it and to be able to adapt to it and get some on-court experience.”

The past season was a historically notable one for the Quakers as they also tallied their first ever win against an ACC opponent with a late road v ictor y against Miami, as well as two wins against the Big Five.

The remainder of Penn’s schedule will be released l a t e r i n t h e s u m m e r, though according to Mike McLaughlin it will be fairly similar to years past.

“We’re going to play the f ive Philadelphia schools, the Big Five and Drexel. We ’ l l p l ay t w o P at r iot League schools. We’ll have Lafayette and we’ll be play-ing at Navy,” McLaughlin said. “It’ll be very challeng-ing, but it’ll be exciting for our team. Hopefully it pre-pares us for Ivy play.”

Quakers will seek first win against SEC

W.HOOPS from page 8

that there is a parallel be-tween Lebron’s comments on becoming a better team in practice and what Mike McLaughlin is doing with Penn women’s basketball’s nonconference schedule.

Still riding high off last season’s Ivy League cham-pionship and NCA A Tour-nament appearance, Penn At h let ics a n nou nced on Tuesday that the Quakers’ first game of the 2014-15 sea-son will take place on Nov.

14 against defending SEC champion Tennessee.

W i t h t h a t d e c i s i o n , McLaughlin and his assis-tants continue to demon-strate their willingness to match the Red and Blue up with some of the nation’s best teams.

And that’s the right move.A season ago, the Quak-

ers hosted then-No. 5 Notre Dame in their second game of the season. The Red and Blue fell by 22 in a game tak-ing place on the same day that Penn football ended its regular season against Cor-nell. It’s safe to say that not enough people paid atten-tion.

But years from now, that game may mark the turn-ing point for McLaughlin’s program. Sure, Penn lost.

But it hung in against a jug-gernaut, one that would go undefeated until the national championship game.

It also marked the f irst test in a brutal nonconfer-ence season for the Quakers. Five weeks later, on New Year’s Day, Penn stunned Miami in Coral Gables as Katy Allen’s layup with five seconds remaining gave McLaughlin’s squad its first win against an ACC oppo-nent. Ever.

And by the time the Quak-ers kicked of f the bulk of their Ivy matchups, Penn had two Big 5 wins under its belt for the second time in program history.

By now you’re probably aware of how successful 2013-14 was for the Red and Blue. In the words of one

Biggie Smalls, “if you didn’t know, now you know.”

For Pen n f a n s , t her e should be one takeaway from last season more than any-thing else: without the non-conference schedule, there would have been no Ancient Eight title.

The reality of the situation is that nonconference wins are equally as valuable as Ivy victories for the Quakers in the long run. By match-ing up with tougher teams — squads that are nation-ally ranked and hardened by their own conferences — that experience in turn molds “mid-major” teams. It helps make teams like Penn resilient.

It prepares them.When the Quakers fell to

Dartmouth on Feb. 22, they

put themselves in a precari-ous position. Sitting atop the Ivy League tied with Princ-eton, Penn had one option: win their final five games — including a contest against the Tigers the road to end the regular season — or go home.

It’s not a stretch to say that there’s no way Penn could have handled the pressure of playing essentially six con-secutive single-elimination games against Brown, Yale, Columbia, Cornell, Princ-eton and Texas without its nonconference experience.

Looking back, Lebron was probably wrong. After all, if it had been easy, the Heat likely wouldn’t have lost in the NBA Finals. Twice.

But the sentiment isn’t far off. When teams do every-

thing to push themselves and get better, champions are formed. For Penn, it’s the games against Notre Dame, Miami, the Big 5 and Tennessee that are just the tip of the iceberg. By win-ning those games, that’s when playing against Iv y opponents becomes “easy.”

McLaughlin has mastered the art of toughening his teams. And if he can ride those experiences for the next few years, maybe the Quakers will be in a position to win “not two, not three, not four...” Ivy titles.

RILEY STEELE is a rising College junior from Dorado, Puerto Rico, and is a senior spor ts writer of The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at dpsports@thedp.com.

Tennessee to be the perfect preparation

STEELE from page 8

It’s been a few years since Matt Valenti’s been in a wrestling tour-nament, though he’s had plenty of success in them in the past.

But this time it’s a different kind of tournament, one where Valenti’s

NCAA Tournament experience – he’s a two-time NCAA champion and three-time All-American – won’t necessarily help him.

Matt Valenti, Penn alumnus and current assistant wrestling coach, advanced to the quarterfinals of voting for the Elite Level Sport Mar-keting/National Wrestling Coaches

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After their f irst NCAA Tour-nament appearance in nearly a decade, Penn Women’s basketball has its sights set on another big game.

In the upcoming 2014-2015 sea-son, the Quakers will open on the road in Knoxville, TN on Nov. 14 as they visit the University of Tennessee to face the Lady Vol-unteers in the first ever meeting between the teams.

“To play in a very historical venue, against a team that’s won the national championship many times and a program that draws a great crowd, it’s a good experi-

ence for our players,” coach Mike McLaughlin said. “It’s an oppor-tunity to play against the best and something that they’ll remember for a very long time.”

Tennessee has a historically excellent women’s basketball pro-gram and has made it into each of the 33 NCA A Tournaments, advancing to the Sweet Sixteen

In the spirit of this summer’s NBA free agency period, maybe it’s wise to let the best basketball player on the planet do the talking. It’s not like his name has been in the news enough this week.

“The way we’re gonna challenge each other to get better in practice, once the game starts, I mean it’s gonna be easy,” Lebron James said as he was introduced as a member of the Miami Heat for the first time in 2010.

Oops.Alright, maybe Lebron put the cart

before the horse while inserting foot into mouth. But the idea made sense to a degree: if the most-talented basketball team in the country prac-ticed as hard against one another as it would play in games, the other 29 NBA teams with inferior talent would be helpless to stop the Heat.

Let’s look past the absurdity of the notion that winning basketball games on a consistent basis could be “easy”.

In doing so, it’s possible to see

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Tough games breed

success

Searching for a new direction

RILEY STEELE

All-Ivy outfielder Rick Breb-ner, a 2014 graduate, was at the center of Penn baseball’s success this past season. Relieved to give his body a rest but unsure of his next move after a sports-centric youth, Brebner ref lects on an exhilarating senior season, lost MLB dreams and having his own parody Twitter account.

The Daily Pennsylvanian: What are your plans for the near future?

Rick Brebner: Right now, I’m relaxing a bit, trying to gather my thoughts and give my body a rest after the season. I’m looking for jobs right now. It’s pretty tough. I don’t have much prior experience, because I’ve played sports my entire life. Right now I’m trying to figure out my next move and have some fun.

DP: What was your attitude as a baseball player coming into college, in terms of your hopes to play after college?

RB: My entire life I’ve been hoping to play professional base-ball one day. All throughout high school that was my main goal. My number one priority was to play baseball in college, and when Penn recruited me, it was a great opportunity to play Division I baseball and also get an excellent education. I feel like, through-out my career, there was a real possibility for me to get drafted, but I’ve had some injuries over the years. I pulled my hamstring sophomore year and missed some time, and then I tore my labrum my junior year, and had to have surgery in the summer. So it was a tough road back, trying to rehab. And I was able to come back for the season, and have a decent year. But I played with pain for a lot of the season. My shoulder isn’t really holding up, but I’m still thankful for the four years that I

BY SEAMUS POWERSSenior Staff Writer

Shichao Wang/File Photo

After emerging as a team leader and prolific power hitter in his senior season, 2014 Penn graduate Rick Brebner is looking to move in a new direction now that baseball will no longer dominate his life.

Women’s basketball slates Tennessee for opening game

Joshua Ng/File Photo

After last season’s trying experience against tough opponents like Notre Dame and Miami, Coach Mike McLaughlin hopes that yet another difficult non-conference schedule will help prepare his team for its Ivy League title defense.

W. HOOPS | Quakers will travel to Knoxville for first

ever meeting with Lady VolsBY HOLDEN MCGINNIS

Sports Editor

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