Herd Is the Word: How One Junior’s Ranching Club Is Shaking up Campus

It's well known that Penn is full of city slickers and folk from the North East, making it easy to forget that the school is home to people of a wide variety of backgrounds. If you're part of the majority, you'll have no trouble finding your niche at the school, whether that be in a Wharton club, a performing arts group, or The Walk.

Adam Sherif (C '20), a native Nebraskan and proud farm kid, decided that there ought to be more options for students like himself. 

"As soon as I arrived at Penn, I noticed a disturbing lack of cattle," Sherif shared. "How could the university operate without some kind of financial backing?"

Ranching generates $12.1 billion for Nebraska's Economy, slightly less than the value of the University's $13.8 billion endowment. If Penn could just acquire and maintain a large herd of cattle, think about what that could do for that fund. 

With University backing, Sherif plans to get this ranching club started — the only problem is that there is no green space left for the herd.