Good morning, Penn.
Welcome back from fall break! Students and community members attended an event celebrating the opening of the remodeled McDonald’s at 40th and Walnut streets, and watch parties around campus last week invited students to view the vice presidential debate — which included multiple mentions of the Penn Wharton Budget Model.
But first, here’s what to expect for the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel, including vigils, memorials, and demonstrations on and around campus.
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Photo by Chenyao Liu
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Penn community commemorates one year since Oct. 7, 2023
Throughout the day today, Penn community members will host and attend events to commemorate the one-year anniversary of Oct. 7, 2023.
On Oct. 7, 2023, an attack by Hamas militants killed more than 1,200 people in Israel and took another 250 hostage. The anniversary also marks one year since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war, during which Israel's retaliation and subsequent siege on Gaza has killed over 42,000 Palestinians and displaced nearly 2 million, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.
During the day, Penn Hillel, Penn Chabad, and the Penn Israel Public Affairs Committee will host a full slate of memorial events to commemorate the victims of the Hamas attacks in Israel, including a five-hour reading of the names of the 1,200 victims, an all-day art installation in memory of the lives lost, and a processing space.
The Muslim Students Association will host a memorial for "the innocent lives lost in Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, and Syria," and the Philly Palestine Coalition — in conjunction with Penn Students Against the Occupation of Palestine — will host a rally and march titled “One Year of Genocide,” which will begin on Drexel University's campus.
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FIVE MORE BIG STORIES
 The McDonald’s at 40th and Walnut streets hosted a grand opening event featuring student DJs from DJ@Penn, giveaways, raffles, and the McDonald’s mascot, Grimace.
 Penn students gathered across campus to watch and react to last week's vice presidential debate — and here’s what they said.
 Barbara Savage, the Geraldine R. Segal Professor Emerita of American Social Thought and inaugural chair of Penn’s Department of Africana Studies, has received national recognition for her book on scholar Merze Tate.
 The Wharton Behavioral Lab is beginning to see prepandemic level participation in its business-related research.
 Penn professor Rajeev Alur reflected on the personal significance of winning the Donald E. Knuth Prize, which recognizes contributions to the field of computer science, in an interview with the DP.
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Photo by Devansh Raniwala
COLUMNIST MIA VESELY expresses how Penn’s new discourse guidelines stifle student voices, on and off campus.
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SPORTS
 Penn football opened up its Ivy League campaign with a one-score loss to Dartmouth.
 Penn men's soccer senior defender Leo Burney is currently just one of two players who has played every minute this season.
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Photo by Chenyao Liu
In 2010, Ei-ichi Negishi, a 1963 chemistry Ph.D. graduate, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research related to pharmaceutical drug development. Last year, Penn Medicine researchers Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their research into messanger RNA technology that was critical to the development of Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccines.
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Click here to play this week’s edition of DP News Quiz, which was constructed by DP Puzzles staff. And click here to play today’s DP mini crossword (featuring our first ever rebus), which was constructed by Ethan Plague.
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FROM 34TH STREET MAGAZINE
 Queen of Penn Band — or I guess director, more officially — senior Sarah Oburu is a literal ray of sunshine. She defines herself by the question, "Who are you when you walk into a room and how can you honor that?" In a conversation with Ego writer Talia Shapiro, Sarah reflected on these past four years at Penn, which happened to include two semesters abroad. We very well might have just met the next United States Attorney General.
 September’s been a strange month for the world of K-pop, marked by bleak artificial intelligence endeavors, unprecedented label controversies, and genre veterans coming back into the fold. In terms of actual releases, though, not many huge splashes were made, with a litany of disappointing comebacks and a few outstanding ones. In this quick roundup, Music writer Will Cai goes over some of the best and the worst that Korean pop had to offer in September.
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Today's newsletter was copy edited by Diamy Wang.
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