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    "content": "<h1>Hakan Sen</h1>\r\n<h4><img src=\"irl://2398//\" alt=\"photo of Hakan \" style=\"float: left;\" width=\"250\" />Desiring an outlet for his high energy and love of sports, second-year Widener University Commonwealth Law School student Hakan Sen founded a popular, student-run campus activity club.</h4>\r\n<p>&ldquo;I work out to de-stress,&rdquo; said Sen, a native of Brooklyn who graduated from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. During his first year at Widener, he reached out to <a href=\"ipl://173//W10=////\">Assistant Dean of Students Randi Teplitz</a> to see if the law school could create more social opportunities around activities.</p>\r\n<p>Teplitz&rsquo;s appreciative response? She appointed him the student representative to the law school&rsquo;s wellness committee. An organization was born.</p>\r\n<p>Reflecting Sen&rsquo;s playful humor, the club is known as &ldquo;PHEW,&rdquo; or Physical Health Exercise Wellness. He is its co-president.</p>\r\n<p><img src=\"irl://2393//\" alt=\"photo of the soccer team\" style=\"float: right;\" width=\"250\" />&ldquo;We started with a student survey,&rdquo; Sen said. The result was the creation in the fall of a co-ed law school soccer team that plays in a local adult league at the Yellow Breeches Sports Center in nearby New Cumberland.</p>\r\n<p>&ldquo;We couldn&rsquo;t believe how many good athletes we had at Widener,&rdquo; Sen said. Team &ldquo;Widener&rdquo; is made up of 12 women and 12 men, including a male goalie who played for his Division 1 undergraduate soccer team.</p>\r\n<p><img src=\"irl://2394//\" alt=\"photo of the soccer team's jerseys\" style=\"float: left;\" width=\"250\" />&ldquo;Until our season was cut short by the pandemic, we were undefeated and heading to the league finals,&rdquo; Sen said. He added that the team is all about fun and that many Widener students come out to support the team at its games.&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>Sen said that his fellow PHEW board members have become his closest friends and include co-president Rachel Finnegan, Carolyn Dreer, Jessica Layton, Laura Rutledge, and Mikki Pelkey.</p>\r\n<p>&ldquo;We have had so much fun getting people up and moving,&rdquo; said Sen.</p>\r\n<p>Other PHEW activities included a bowling night at nearby ABC North Lanes, several in-class wellness activities featuring health experts speaking on nutrition, stress, and mental strength, and a post-lockdown, Zoom-based virtual &ldquo;Yappy Hour&rdquo; for students, faculty, staff and their pets.</p>\r\n<p>&ldquo;We had so much more planned for the spring,&rdquo; Sen said, including mini-golf and an archery tournament.</p>\r\n<p>Sen said that he has loved law school so far.</p>\r\n<p>&ldquo;Widener is really good at seeing potential and building on it, creating great students and attorneys,&rdquo; he said.&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>He would encourage any student considering law school to visit the Harrisburg campus. &ldquo;Once you come to the law school, talk to the students, it&rsquo;s a done deal,&rdquo; he said, adding he&rsquo;s developed so many great relationships at the law school that he is even considering taking the Pennsylvania bar exam, in addition to the New York and New Jersey tests.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>",
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