BEN CLAAR is a College sophomore from Scarsdale, N.Y.

Freshman shot put and discus thrower Maura Kimmel has blazed her way into Division I athletics with an absolutely dazzling debut to her career. In just her third meet of the indoor season, Kimmel knocked off the school record in the indoor shot put — and she was quite literally just getting started.

With some of the world’s best athletes descending on Franklin Field for the Penn Relays, thousands will be in attendance to seem them compete. Although they might not be the main attraction, Penn track and field’s distance runners are hoping their performances will catch fans’ attention too.

Simply put, the Penn Relays is not only a bucket list experience, but it’s one that should keep you coming back, too. The roaring — and conspicuously Jamaican — crowds, the star power, the fanfare, the atmosphere and so much more provide everyone in attendance something to enjoy.

One protester, who did not want to be named for fear of retaliation from the white supremacy groups, said she and others who participated were angered by what they saw as Penn's nonchalant attitude towards the neo-Nazi flyers put up around campus earlier this week. 

Pritchett, a scholar of urban policy, education and race relations, is currently the Presidential Professor of Law and Education at Penn Law.

The year has seen some incredible moments for the University — but which ones were best? Here are our year-end awards for the best athletes, coaches, upsets and more.

Administrators have not made it clear how the University hopes to incentivize registration for off-campus groups, while students remain skeptical that some of the task force recommendations can truly change campus culture.

2016 Wharton graduate Anastasia Lee works in the technology division at Morgan Stanley — but to her surprise, despite her position as an investment banker, much of her time isn’t spent working on finance at all.

A sizable group of students — approximately 11 percent of 2016 graduates who did not graduate Penn with a full-time offer or a spot at a graduate school — choose to break the mold and do something different with their first year after graduation.

Career Services data over the past six years consistently lists Penn as one of the top employers for recent Penn graduates: for every year since 2010, 16 to 43 students have been employed full-time by the University. This is not counting the many other students who juggle part-time work at Penn with other jobs.

“There is a whole life experience that predisposes children to be more successful, and get into these more successful schools, and get drawn into careers that feel like their childhood and feel like the elite trajectory that they have been on throughout their childhood," said Alexandra Michel, a Graduate School of Education professor who used to work at Goldman Sachs.

The decreased funding for research will force academics to be more strategic about their research proposal topics in the future, Alain Plante, an associate professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science said. 

“The Ethnic Studies field in History and Literature emphasizes histories of racial formations within and beyond the United States,” the department’s website states. Students entering this field will be required to take eight courses concentrating on ethnic studies. 

A witty music video produced by Penn Law Revue, a new Penn Law School student group, has reached the finals in an online competition hosted by Above the Law. 

The duo started speaking to administrators about their ideas following the presidential election, which Gonsalves said “really hit home.”

“It was a 20-minute walk to and from DRL,” College freshman Jackie Wexler said. “It’d make planning my schedule very difficult, it’d make going home when I have an hour between classes difficult, and the Radian seemed a bit more convenient."