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This March saw record-breaking increases in certain types of crime, according to Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush .

A total of 71 property crimes were committed this March, compared to 44 property crimes in March 2013 — an increase of 61 percent. While there were no robberies in March 2013, four were committed in March 2014, and total crime rose from 57 to 84 incidents compared to last March.

“We wish we had a better story to tell you,” Rush said.

In February, there were only 45 property crimes compared to the 71 in March, and the total number of property crimes committed so far this calendar year is 179 compared to 148 for the last calendar year from Janu-ary to March.

Rush attributed much of the signifi-cant rise in property crimes to the in-crease in burglaries, which rose from two in March 2013 to 16 in March 2014.

“We haven’t had big trends on bur-glary, period,” Rush said. “This is very

unusual.”Nine of the month’s burglaries oc-

curred in the Quad. College freshman and Penn basketball player Tony Bag-tas was arrested for two of the Quad burglaries. The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office did not press charges for one of the alleged incidents.

When asked why there was such a big increase in burglaries this month, Rush said that it’s hard to predict ma-jor changes. “Who thought that we’d ever see that many burglaries in the Quad?” Rush said.

Other burglaries included one at the Horizon House at 120 S 30th St., which resulted in the arrest of an ex-employee of the building and another in a student room in Du Bois College House. There was also a burglary against an affiliated individual in an off-campus house and another in the Restaurant School.

“What makes someone burglarize one dorm room over another? It’s the doors that are unlocked,” Rush said. “The easy fix is always to lock your door when you go to sleep at night and when you leave your room.”

In one of the burglaries, according to Rush, an undercover officer decided to surveil someone who looked like he was “casing” houses. When the officer saw him commit a burglary in an off-campus house, the officer arrested him.

Rush said that Division of Public Safety is “conducting very active in-vestigations into the burglaries that occurred this month,” but she was un-able to provide any information on the details of the investigation.

Rush also said that the rise in total property crimes is partly due to the increase in bike thefts, which rose from three thefts in March 2013 to 12 this March. The total number of bike

A hearing for College fresh-man Anthony Bagtas has been postponed. Bagtas, a mem-ber of Penn’s men’s basketball team, is facing charges for one of the eight burglaries that struck the Quad on March 22.

B a g t a s w a s or i g i n a l l y

scheduled to appear in court on Tuesday morning, but his preliminary hearing has been rescheduled and is now set to occur on May 29.

Bagtas is currently facing four charges — two felonies and two misdemeanors — for an alleged burglary that took place in Riepe College House. As The Daily Pennsylvanian reported on March 27, Bagtas is a Riepe resident but was re-moved from the Quad following his arrest.

As of press time, Bagtas’ attorney had no comment on the case.

According to the Division of Public Safety, Bagtas was initially arrested for two Quad burglaries. However, the Phila-delphia District Attorney’s Of-fice declined to press charges for one of the alleged incidents.

As of press time, a spokes-person for the District At-torney’s Office was unable to provide information as to why the charge was dropped.

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March crime statistics show rise from 2013Total crime increased from 57 to 84 incidents compared to

last March, and property crime is up 61 percent

BY JILL CASTELLANOStaff Writer

Thefts from buildings in March 2014BREAKDOWN

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Unaffiliated buildings in the Penn Patrol Zone

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Wendell Pritchett to be interim Law School dean

Hearing concerning Quad burglaries postponed

Wendell Pritchett, a recently ap-pointed Presidential Term Profes-sor, will step in for outgoing Law School Dean Michael Fitts as the interim Penn Law Dean.

Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price an-nounced on Tuesday that Pritchett, currently the chancellor of Rutgers

University-Camden, will succeed Fitts, who will become president of Tulane University on July 1, as in-terim dean for the upcoming 2014-15 academic year.

The search for Fitts’ permanent successor will begin later this spring and continue into the next academic year.

“We were looking for somebody with extensive experience in admin-istration and as an academic leader

and who would know the law faculty and would continue Dean Fitts’ tra-jectory for the year we conduct the search,” Gutmann said in an inter-view. “We also wanted someone who didn’t want to be a candidate for the deanship.”

As interim dean, Pritchett will not be considered for the dean position.

“I am grateful for Pritchett’s will-ingness to serve as interim dean and very pleased with the trajectory

of Penn Law, which will without a doubt continue under Dr. Pritchett’s interim leadership,” Gutmann said.

Pritchett, who served as the as-sociate dean for academic affairs at Penn Law from 2006- 2007, was also a member of the faculty from 2001-2009. He received his Ph.D. in his-tory from Penn in 1997 and his J.D. from Yale University in 1991. His re-cent appointment as a Presidential Term Professor makes him the first

professor of this designation to be appointed to a position at Penn Law.

Law professor Ted Ruger shared his excitement on Pritchett’s return to Penn. “I think the world of Wen-dell, and I think he’s a tremendous choice as interim dean,” Ruger said. “He brings the added experience of running a major university in the Philadelphia area and that will play

BY FOLA ONIFADEStaff Writer

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Wharton MBA graduate Neil Blumenthal, a co-founder of successful prescription eyeglass and sunglass company Warby Parker, spoke

yesterday at Huntsman Hall about his company's journey from pipe dream to popularity. Blumenthal's visit was coordinated by the Jay H.

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“We came up with the idea for Warby Parker upstairs in the [Huntsman] computer labs,” Blumenthal said.

The original idea was to sell prescription eyewear for around one-tenth of their competitors' prices, or $45. When Blumenthal and co-founders Andrew Hunt, Jeffrey Raider and David Gilboa — who all attended Wharton — went to a professor for advice, he quickly shot down their idea. But by surveying their classmates, they discovered that “the willingness to purchase [glasses] increased, and then plateaued at $100,” according to Blumenthal.

They settled on $95 per set of glasses, and the Warby Parker concept was born.

How did Warby Parker get its start?

Blumenthal said Warby Parker's co-founders never originally envisioned storefront locations for their business.

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1994: A ‘STRANGE’ FLING

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A student crowdsurfs in the Lower Quad during the Fling of 1994, themed Stranger Flings Have Happened.The sunny moment was apparently a rare one; rain consumed campus most of Friday and Saturday that year.

Penn women’s lacrosse coach Kar-in Brower Corbett issued a statement Friday saying “many of the allega-tions” that team members damaged Fado Irish Pub in Center City on March 29 are “unfounded or are not attributable to members of the Penn Women’s Lacrosse Team.”

Casey Neff, the general manager

of Fado Irish Pub, alleged that party attendees at a Penn women’s lacrosse team formal held at the bar behaved badly, stealing alcohol, breaking fur-niture and smoking marijuana in the bathroom.

Corbett wrote that she investigated the incident and received more infor-mation from Neff. The statement did not specify which of the allegations she deemed unfounded based on the investigation.

Corbett declined a request from The Daily Pennsylvanian for an in-terview for further clarification and members of the lacrosse program were not available for interviews.

Neff and the waitstaff at the Fado have also refused multiple requests for an interview after Corbett issued the statement.

Corbett also said that the wom-en’s lacrosse program does not con-done any of the alleged misconduct, and she has taken the allegations of wrongdoing seriously. “This week has been a wake up call for all of us,” she wrote. “We hold ourselves to high standards of professionalism, and are deeply disappointed by our players’ poor judgment in holding this event.”

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a major role in keeping the campus running.”

Pritchett joined Mayor Mi-chael Nutter’s administration in 2008 as the deputy chief of staff and director of policy. “Wendell’s expertise in urban policy and education and fa-miliarity with the dynamics of government at the local, regional and national levels make him the ideal interim leader of Penn Law,” Gutmann said in a statement.

Ruger recalled the great strides the law school had tak-en under the leadership of Mi-chael Fitts and was confident that Pritchett would sustain that momentum. “We’ve done very well at the Law School un-der Mike Fitts, recruiting top scholars from other schools and developing innovative pro-grams for students,” he said.

“Wendell is ideal in that he will continue to build on that and bring strength to that while still bringing a differ-ent perspective given his role heading Rutgers-Camden. So he’s an ideal person to build on the tremendous success that Mike Fitts has brought to the law school.” Ruger said.

Law professor Sarah Gor-don, who worked with Pritch-ett during his time at Penn, shared similar sentiments. “We have a really strong law school right now and Wendell was part of making it strong so staying on that track is ex-actly what he’ll understand,” she said.

The University recently concluded a busy year of four dean searches for the Nurs-ing School, Graduate School, the Wharton School and the School of Social Policy & Prac-tice. In addition, a new athletic director was recently chosen. The search committee for the new Law School dean will mark the fifth dean search in less than a year.

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Michael Fitts was a budding law professor when he arrived at the Law School.

But nearly 29 years later — 14 of which he served as dean of Penn Law — Fitts is pre-paring to depart for his new post as President of Tulane University. And the impact he had in his tenure leading a distinguished law school will not be soon forgotten, as he left an indelible mark on virtually every aspect of the institution.

As the year 2000 signaled the start of a new millennium, Fitts’ deanship ushered in a new era of innovative leader-ship for Penn Law, one that the school desperately needed at the time.

“When [Fitts’] deanship be-gan, we had just went through two years without a dean, so there were a lot of jangled nerves here,” said Penn Law professor Sarah Barringer Gordon, who joined the fac-ulty in 1994. “The school really needed steady leadership and a sense of confidence.”

Once Fitts took the helm, the Law School found itself in more-than-capable hands. By 2000, Fitts had already spent 15 years at Penn Law, teaching students and fostering his pas-sion for legal education.

“What drew me to legal education was that it has both an intellectual and a norma-tive component,” Fitts said. “I don’t know of another field that teaches people how to think ... and at the same time focuses on coming to conclusions about what can make the world a bet-ter place.”

Fitts’ commitment to ever-evolving scholarship was the driving force behind a number of initiatives that he spear-headed throughout his tenure.

One of Fitts’ biggest achieve-

ments was his expansion of interdisciplinary programs at the Law School, which offer students the opportunity to earn a law degree and simul-taneously pursue advanced study in fields ranging from business to philosophy. In fact, Fitts oversaw the creation of 35 joint-degree and certificate programs over the course of his deanship, and two-thirds of the class of 2014 will graduate from one of those programs.

Fitts’ promotion of a cross-disciplinary approach dem-onstrated his key insights into shifts in the nature of modern legal practice.

His interdisciplinary pro-grams are at the “cutting edge of legal education,” Gordon said, reflecting on how this crossdisciplinary approach was beneficial to Penn Law graduates who in-teract with various fields on a daily basis.

“Lawyers are much less isolated and insulated than they used to be,” said profes-sor Michael Knoll, who is in-volved with the J.D./MBA joint degree program. “Lawyers today need an understanding

of substance so that they can understand where clients are coming from.”

The size of Penn Law’s fac-ulty also grew by 40 percent over the past 14 years, also in response to the emergence of new types of legal practice.

“There were all sorts of ar-eas in law that we just weren’t covering in new fields such as intellectual property, health law and communications law, and we had fewer people than we needed in the field of corpo-rate law,” Fitts said.

Several professors pointed out that the greater number of faculty members special-izing in a variety of disciplines has contributed to an engag-ing academic environment at Penn Law.

“It makes the intellectual atmosphere of the school more fruitful because now it is very easy if you want to find out what a first-class economist or a first-class historian thinks about a certain topic,” Law School professor Kermit Roo-sevelt said. “You can just walk right down the hall and find out.”

Aside from achievements at

the curricular level, Fitts im-proved other parts of the stu-dent experience at Penn Law as well. Financial aid avail-ability for Penn Law students doubled during Fitts’ years, as did the number of students who were guaranteed sum-mer funding for public service internships. The added appeal of Fitts’ student initiatives cer-tainly showed: The number of applicants to the J.D. program grew by 57 percent from 2000 to 2013.

Although he began his dean-ship with a few clear goals in mind, Fitts ended up surpris-ing himself with some of the projects that he undertook. One such endeavor was the $33.5 million creation of Golkin Hall, which added 40,000 square feet to the Law School campus.

“Initially I was not interest-ed in bricks and mortar, but I realized that building up the academic programs and the faculty required the bricks and mortar to support the nature of the complete Law School campus,” Fitts recalled.

Building projects such as the Golkin Hall addition were largely made possible by Fitts’ savvy fundraising strategies. Fitts’ Bold Ambitions capital campaign raised $200 mil-lion since it was publicly an-nounced in 2006.

As Fitts’ time at Penn Law comes to a close, it is clear that many at the Law School will be bidding farewell to not only a visionary leader, but also a trusted colleague and friend.

“[Fitts] has given unstint-ingly of his time and care to us at a very personal level, and he has earned our loyalty over the years,” Gordon said.

While Fitts, a native of West Philadelphia, is sad to leave the home that he has made for himself in his 29 years at Penn Law, he is excited for his next steps at Tulane.

“It will be fun to make the transition, but I love [Philadel-phia], and I will return often,” Fitts said.

Fitts’ intellectual, interdisciplinary legacyAfter 14 years as dean, Fitts will be President of Tulane University

BY COSETTE GASTELUStaff Writer

Yolanda Chen/News Photo Editor

Outgoing Law School Dean Michael Fitts created 35 joint-degree programs and grew the faculty by 40 percent over his 14 years in this position.

students have passed through the doors of the Law School during the Fitts years.

$200 millionAmount raised by the Bold Ambitions capital campaign, facilitating an intellectual and physical transformation of the Law School.

35 joint-degree and certificate programs offered at the Law School, increasing the opportunity for students to benefit from cross-disciplinary legal studies.

2/3 of the 2014 class who graduated with a joint-degree or certificate.

40 percentThe expansion in the size of the standing faculty, including interdisciplinary appointments in corporate law and finance, intellectual property, international law, health law, and science and technology.

70 percentProportion of the standing faculty who hold advanced degrees in addition to the JD; nearly half the faculty hold joint appointments within the University.

40,000Number of square feet added to the Law School campus by the $33.5 million Golkin Hall project. The Law School campus also underwent a $50 million top-to-bottom renovation during the Fitts years.

57 percentGrowth in the number of applications to the JD program, which rose from 3,391 in 2000 to 5,307 in 2013.

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He theorized that forced physi-cal labor improved blacks’ infe-rior lung capacity, so slavery was actually a necessity to bettering their health.

Penn Law School professor Dorothy Roberts first heard this anecdote from a talk by Brown University professor Lundy Braun detailing the history of the spirometer, a medical device used to measure lung capacity.

Some spirometers historically, and even in modern medicine, adjust the measurements ac-cording to the race of the patient. Cartwright used the device to justify the need for continued slavery to protect blacks’ health. Braun’s presentation included a picture of a modern spirometer with a button labeled “race,” and through numerous conversa-tions with medical students, Rob-erts has found that some medical students are still trained to use spirometers based on patients’ race.

For Roberts, this is a major problem. “My definition of race is that it is a political system to govern people based on invented biological demarcation, and it is not a natural division of human beings,” she said. “So it is much more plausible that inequities in health that fall along racial lines are caused by social determi-nants.”

Braun’s talk sparked an idea for a future project in the new program she developed at Penn this year called the Program on Race, Science and Society .

“What I’d like to accomplish is to bring together faculty from across the campus in the life sci-ences, the social sciences and the humanities to develop trans-formative, transdisciplinary ap-proaches to the role of race in scientific research and techno-logical development,” Roberts said.

The program works with the Center for Africana Studies and will host its inaugural sym-posium on Friday called “The Future of Race and Science: Re-gression or Revolution?”

“I called it ‘Regression or Rev-olution’ because I think we’re at a really important crossroads to determine whether science is going to continue on a path that uses an antiquated view of race as a natural category or whether

it’s going to revolutionize the way that race is understood and used in science,” Roberts said.

The new program hopes to help spur that revolution.

Roberts formed a faculty work-ing group to allow professors to share their relevant research and collaborate on future projects, like one inspired by Braun’s presenta-tion that would investigate the use of race in data collection and medical technology.

Sociology professor Tukufu Zuberi , a member of the working group, said that in his experi-ence, “Every time scientists pick [race] up, they make a mess of it.”

He said that studies have mis-used statistical analyses when looking at questions of race, which has perpetuated rather than helped alleviate examples of racism.

It has been shown that African Americans are over-represented in prison populations and African American drivers are pulled over by police more often than white drivers. But Zuberi said science often attempts to look at these discrepancies backwards.

While many would be inclined to ask why so many African Americans get pulled over, Zuberi said, “The real way of looking at issues of race — once we assume the common humanity of all — would be to find out why police are selectively stopping more African Americans than others.”

Medical School professor

Chyke Doubeni , another mem-ber of the working group, said that flawed understandings of race could also have medical consequences that lead to seri-ous health inequities.

Doubeni is currently research-ing colon cancer, and although there are racial differences in the incidence rates and death risks between Hispanics and African Americans, for example, he said it is more likely that those differ-ences are due to social factors

than genetic ones.“We believe that more than

anything else, this is because they are less likely to receive the preventive measures,” he said of African Americans, who have been shown to have the highest risk of colon cancer.

Doubeni said that some re-search suggests that there may be some racial differences in terms of health, but in his experi-ence, “these differences are the result of differences in behavior

or culture or socioeconomic sta-tus and all of these go back to the issues of social determinants of health more than they do for biology.”

Roberts aims to use this pro-gram to re-conceptualize race from a biological category to a social one in scientific research, which she said complements her role of advancing the “interdisci-

plinary agenda of the university” as a Penn Integrates Knowledge professor.

“We already have various cen-ters that can complement the work of the program and faculty across the campus who are doing related research, and so I think that we are perfectly situated to be at the cutting edge of this important topic,” she said.

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The exact terms of the par-tial lift of the moratorium will be released prior to the start of classes this fall and published on our website. In prepara-tion, SAC will be reviewing

the guidelines for recognition while closely consulting with all relevant governing umbrella boards including, but not lim-ited to, PAC, the Civic House Associates Coalition, the Pub-lications Cooperative, and the Sports Club Council, among others.

We are very excited to be able to announce a timeline for the moratorium to the Penn student body. We also really appreci-ate your patience as we evalu-ated and tested theories about what was happening and why. Ultimately, the problem we’ve uncovered is a good one — we realize that Penn students are more engaged and active than ever. As the SAC Executive Board, we will continue to en-courage and support a robust student life on campus, while upholding our duty to make fis-cally responsible decisions.

THE STUDENT ACTIVITIES COUNCIL is the branch of student government responsible for allocating funds to student groups. The chair of the SAC executive board, Kanisha Parthasarathy, can be reached at [email protected].

Social media sites have been flooded by “pray for MH 370” messages ever since the unresolved

disappearance of the airplane and its 227 passengers. Photos of the bereaved and Facebook statuses urging people to pray have become viral on media platforms. While there are few tangible means by which most social media frequenters can contribute to the search for the lost flight (except for absolute reliance on divine intervention), this kind of online activism is apparent in cases in which tangible change can indeed be made. What fascinates us, therefore, is the issue of people using social networks to advo-cate for a social cause.

Setting aside countries whose people use social networking sites to rally troops and orga-nize protests against oppres-sive regimes (e.g. Syria), the

primary purpose of online activ-ism often seems to be “to raise awareness” for a social cause. As middle-class international students who rarely travel to other countries for volunteer work, most of our so-called con-tributions to social causes over-seas manifest online in the form of Facebook likes and shares. The ease with which we can be activists through a simple “like” or “retweet” has been perceived as instigating a lack of real ac-tion. Organizers seem to focus more on simply raising aware-ness, and social media users falsely recognize their periph-eral social media involvement as significant activism.

The apparent futility of shar-ing other people’s photos or words in bringing about social change sparked an online de-bate after a controversial hit-and-run in Hong Kong. Kevin Lau, chief editor of a vocally an-ti-Chinese-government news-

paper, was sacked before being stabbed by an unknown assail-ant in Hong Kong last month. Concerns over freedom of press have started to fuel discussions across social networking sites as petition after petition has emerged.

We fall among the tens of thousands of overseas students who seek solace in the fact that we can support our home from thousands of miles away by signing the virtual petition on Facebook. Some of our interna-

tional peers held a dissenting opinion. They assert that this form of Facebook activism is a self-beguiling distraction that breeds complacency, aka slack-tivism. Dissenters who still maintain a modicum of idealism suggest more official channels of online activism (e.g. change.org, a centralized platform for petitions); the more cynical of them refuse entirely to partake in what they see as a futile and needless enterprise.

What confounds us the most, however, is our friend’s reac-tion to this petition. Instead of taking five seconds to type his signature, he began to wax elo-quence and justify his refusal to sign. “The ostensible contribu-tions to a social cause made by the pressing of the ‘like’ button on a Facebook post,” he argued, sipping his overpriced Star-bucks coffee, “gives us a feel-ing of having ‘done enough’ and hinders ‘actual’ activism.”

We simply cannot fathom why a person would go out of his way to avoid online activism when he is already aware of its possible side effects. That aside, while it may be true that certain so-cial cause oversimplify social problems, are myopic in scope (e.g. Kony 2012) and depthless in agenda, it is publicity that catalyzes extensive discus-sions into their subject matter. Most of us would likely still be oblivious to the Kony 2012 issue had it not been for the infamous campaign, however controver-sial it was.

The legitimacy of a social cause and solutions to the ills it targets are more likely to be addressed if public discourse encourages it. Instead of avoid-ing an online social campaign because it is flawed, say why it is so. Start the discussion and spread the word, regardless of how marginal the change you may bring. Even though slack-

tivism should still be addressed, it is at worst a preferable sub-stitute for actually slacking. Activists and organizers need to recognize social media ac-tivism as a possible entry point to their campaigns. It is their responsibility to show “likers” and “sharers” the concrete steps they can proceed with to contribute beyond the click of a mouse. In an era when media corporations are increasingly criticized for being biased and having a stranglehold on infor-mation, there is no time for sti-fling our own voices.

WILLIAM ZHANG AND JASON CHOI are a Wharton freshman and a College freshman, respectively, from Hong Kong. They can be reached at [email protected] and [email protected].

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thefts so far this calendar year is 25, up from seven up to this point in 2013.

“Bike theft is an ongoing is-sue,” Rush said. “It’s some-thing we will be hitting hard next year.”

DPS will be working closely with Penn Cycle to encourage students to leave their bikes at home. By renting cheaply from Penn Cycle instead, Rush said, students can avoid their bikes getting stolen.

March saw other increases in crime as well. Retail thefts rose from nine to 13 thefts com-pared to March 2013, with six arrests made for the 13 thefts seen this year. Theft from buildings also rose from 22 in March 2013 to 28 this March.

Of the 28 thefts from build-ings this March, 11 of the thefts occurred in University academic and administra-tive buildings, six in buildings that are part of the University health system, five in retail es-tablishments and another six in buildings unaffiliated with the University.

However, not all types of crime this March increased. There were no thefts from mo-tor vehicles this March, while there were four in March 2013. Rush attributed the decrease to the new “theft from auto task force,” a partnership be-tween the Drexel University Police Department, the Penn Police Department and the Philadelphia Police. The task force was created when the police departments noticed an increase in thefts from ve-hicles at the end of this past winter break.

Each year, some types

of crime tend to increase in March compared to Febru-ary and January, according to Rush, including unattended theft. “[This is] when students are getting ready for exams and studying longer, and they leave their belongings out and they walk away from them,” she said.

Rush said another issue is spring weather and Spring Fling, which often leads to increases in alcohol-related activity. “We’re trying to keep students physically safe,” Rush said.

This Spring Fling, some of-ficers will be paid overtime to educate partygoers and their neighbors about alcohol safety as part of a $25,000 grant that DPS received in the fall along with the Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Program Initia-tives.

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The statement was sent to Penn women’s lacrosse’s alumnae base, parents of cur-rent players and incoming re-cruits.

In his original email to the University President’s office, the Athletic Director, Coach Corbett and the DP, Neff wrote that he hoped the University would “help me recover damages for both the pub and for my staff.” Neither

of the parties involved are willing to discuss if a solution was reached.

Neff did not file a police re-port because he was unable to single out an individual re-sponsible for the alleged inci-dent. He said DPS contacted him. DPS deferred comment to Associate Vice Provost for University Life Hikaru Kozu-ma, who said in an email that he was “unable to comment on any situations or incidents that involve our students.”

Crime Log: March 28-April 3Theft

Retail theft: 1Theft from building: 2

Bike theft: 1

Liquor LawMarch 28, 2014: A 19-year-old

affiliated male was seen with an

open beer bottle on the 4000 block of Irving Street at 10:50 p.m. and upon investigation was found to be underage. He was given a citation.

March 29, 2014: The police ob-served an intoxicated 19-year-old affiliated male on the 300 block of Preston Street at 12:20 a.m. When

he was found to be underage, he was given a citation.

March 29, 2014: The police ob-served an intoxicated individual on the 300 block of Preston Street at 12:20 a.m. When he was found to be underage, he was given a citation.

March 30, 2014: An affiliated 19-year-old male was seen carry-ing an open container of alcohol on 40th Street at 2:30 a.m. Upon investigation he was found to be underage and was given a cita-tion.

March 30, 2014: An 18-year-old a f f i l iated female was seen carrying an open con-tainer of alcohol on the 3900 block of Baltimore Avenue at 12:50 a.m. Upon investigation, she was found to be under-age and was given a citation.

AssaultMarch 28, 2014: A 47-year-old

affiliated male reported an al-tercation with another individual which occurred on March 27 at 422 Guardian Dr. at 12:00 a.m.

BurglaryMarch 28, 2014: An affiliated

21-year-old female reported hearing glass shattering in her apartment at 4039 Baltimore Ave. at 11:00 a.m. She saw someone unknown to her attempting to

enter through the broken window. When she yelled, the individual fled the scene without entering the property.

March 28, 2014: An affiliated 21-year-old female reported that she was woken when she heard someone in her apartment in the Radian rifling through her be-longings at around 6:45 a.m. The individual, a 21-year-old affiliated male, was arrested. There were no signs of forced entry.

March 31, 2014: An affiliated 19-year-old male reported a miss-ing laptop from his unlocked room in Ware College House, which occurred on Jan. 15, 2014.

April 2, 2014: An affiliated 19-year-old male reported that personal items were missing from his room in Ware College House, which occurred on March 31, 2014 at 10:00 a.m. There were no signs of forced entry.

DUIApril 2, 2014: A 23-year-old unaf-

filiated female was seen engaging in a possible narcotics transaction

on the 4000 block of Walnut Street at 12:00 a.m. Upon investigation the police found that she had slow speech and bloodshot eyes, and she smelled of burnt marijuana.

Public UrinationMarch 29, 2014: A 19-year-old

affiliated male was seen urinating in public in plain view on the 300 block of Preston Street at 11:40 p.m. He was given a citation.

Other OffenseMarch 30, 2014: A 24-year-old

unaffiliated male was seen walk-ing with an open container of alco-hol. He was given a citation.

VandalismApril 3, 2014: An individual was

playing with a rock and acciden-tally broke the rear window of a female’s vehicle on the 100 block of S. 41st St. at 4:10 p.m. The fe-male, an unaffiliated 67-year-old, declined to press charges.

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Today Penn students will be able to get a “taste” of different cultures — literally.

T he 2 014 Celebr at ion of Cultures will feature 28 booths with foods from dif-ferent minority groups and cultures as well as perfor-mances and music. The event will take place today from 5 to 7 p.m. on College Green and is free for all students.

The United Minor it ies Council puts on this annual event in order to encourage collaboration between differ-ent constituents of the UMC and to showcase the differ-ent cultures to the general

student body.Celebration of Cultures is

considered UMC’s biggest event of the semester and prospective students were able to attend a smaller scale version of the event earlier in the week.

This year’s event will be different because the UMC board is encouraging more disparate groups to collabo-rate for the event. For ex-ample, the Penn Philippine Association might be encour-aged to work with the Black Student League instead of a more culturally similar group, as in past years.

The change in for mat goes along with the theme of “Common Threads.”

The theme emphasizes that all students — including those who are not involved in UMC — have similarities. When planning the event,

UMC’s main goal was to in-crease attendance among students who normally are not involved with UMC.

“We want to reach other audiences that wouldn’t know UMC. We came up with [the theme] ‘Common Threads’ so even if people aren’t in UMC, they see there are commonalities be-tween UMC and them,” UMC chair Reginald Stewart said.

UMC intentionally plans the event during the week of Spring Fling so that there will be more traffic on Col-lege Green. Fling tanks will be given out at the event.

Instead of having students simply show up for free food and leave, Stewart and other members of the UMC board changed the format of the fair this year so that the booths are more interactive and teaching-based. They

will include maps and en-gage the visitors in conversa-tion more than in previous years.

Addit ional ly, a per for-mance by WAVE, an African

dance group, will hopefully inspire students to stay dur-ing the event, while learning more about different dance styles.

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Though we all know the Internet is for porn (thanks Avenue Q), the

bedroom is no longer the only area being ceded to digital terri-tory. For every girl with daddy’s AmEx, window browsing on Fifth Avenue has been replaced with online shopping. And FYEs everywhere have virtu-ally been rendered useless (pun intended) with the existence of the multifarious iTunes store.

Things are no different here at Penn, where the Rave gets nearly half the traffi c for the midnight screenings of block-buster hits like Twilight as Hulu does the day after the newest episode of 30 Rock airs. This makes sense. We Penn students are too busy procrastinating on Penn InTouch and design-ing funny lacrosse pinnies for the clubs we’re involved in to leave the comfort of our beds to

watch Hugo in theaters. And we fi t this mold of overworked Ivy League students well, with only about 17% of Penn undergrads watching movies at the Rave ev-ery semester.

But how about the other ste-reotype, the one that says all col-lege students are poor? The free movement of information made possible by the interweb makes

entertainment accessible and inexpensive to anyone with an AirPennNet account. Wouldn’t

you guess then that Penn stu-dents would prefer to get their RomCom fi x online with free streaming websites like SideReel and Ch131 rather than pay for services provided by Netfl ix and Redbox?

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terical, but is it worth the 1.5 salads at Sweetgreen it would have cost if I had seen it in theaters? Ramen noo-dles aren’t that bad, I guess.

The average Penn student (who is anything but average, if you ask Amy Gutmann) watch-

es seven movies, more or less, every semester. Simple arithme-tic proves that it’s $40 cheaper to watch said movies on Netfl ix than at the Rave, and an addi-tional $20 less on iTunes (cost of popcorn and Mike and Ikes not included in these calcula-tions). The low cost of watch-ing seven movies on iTunes for less than 30 bucks is worth the many conveniences that online paid services afford us: not be-ing interrupted by incessant buffering and commercials, the immunity to computer viruses and most importantly, not hav-ing to wait 54 minutes after watching 72 minutes of a movie on Megavideo.

Not to mention, it’s a small price to pay when you look at the big picture — the combined savings of the 47.7% of Penn students who pay for their online services rather than going to the movie theater is somewhere be-tween $196,136 and $295,344, depending on whether they use Netfl ix or iTunes, respectively. Moral of the story is: we won't judge if you just stay in bed.

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Blumenthal also discussed Warby Parker’s social impact initiatives.

The company currently has a “Buy a Pair, Give a Pair” program that gives a pair of glasses to someone in need every time a pair is purchased.

“I know that a pair of glasses has a great impact on someone’s life," Blumenthal said. He added that one

pair of glasses can increase earning potential by 20 percent.

"It’s important to create a company we want to work for,”

he said of the company's social initiatives.

Setting the bar for social impact

Blumenthal gave advice to the Wharton students in attendance on how to better capitalize on their time here and succeed in the job market. “If you are thinking about going into management, I would encourage you to take management, leadership and, most importantly, feedback-driven courses,” Blumenthal said.

“We hire a lot of millennials ... one of the characteristics we have found is that they are very conflict-averse,” he added.

He encouraged students to take full advantage of the teamwork-oriented nature of the Wharton program because it helps them to deal with conflict and negative feedback, which are major issues Blumenthal sees with people confront in the workforce today.

Capitalizing on the Wharton experience

PARKER from page 1Demand for a retail location grew over time as the company

became more popular. “We started off selling glasses on my dining room table,” Blumenthal said.

They expanded gradually — selling from Blumenthal's wife’s jewelry store, then pop-up shops and finally full-scale retail locations. “Each one of these steps gave us more confidence to do brick and mortar," Blumenthal said. "Sales were insane."

A lie detector for online listings

If you think online real estate websites are playing tricks on your eyes, check out a new program four Engineer-ing seniors are developing.

The project, called Scor-ing and Correcting Geomet-ric Distortions in Images, is an algorithm and a com-prehensive tool that can de-tect artificial mutations that are applied to images. The team — made up of Engi-neering and Wharton se-niors Tanay Mehta, Boris Treskunov, Grace Wang and Joseph Zhong — is currently focusing on distorted room pictures, primarily because brokers and retailers have a high incentive to make online images of rooms look bigger than their original size.

The tool will be distributed as a browser extension — a computer program that pro-vides additional functions to a browser. The extension will give scores for pictures found online based on how much they are distorted from their original image.

The algorithm is a senior de-sign project, which Engineer-ing students must complete before graduation. Seniors usually work on topics of inter-est to them, applying the vari-ous skills and knowledge they have acquired during their undergraduate years.

The initial idea for the proj-ect came from a personal experience. “I lived in New York last year and the room was much smaller than what it seemed to be online,” Mehta said.

The team did some re-search and realized there are several distortion techniques people use to make rooms seem larger, the easiest being “panoramic stitching,” — a process that combines several images to give a 270 or 360 degree view of an area.

The group found other tech-niques that are more difficult to detect, including taking pic-tures from a low angle and using wide angle lenses that have shorter focal lengths and capture a wider view. People may also use specific graph-ics programs to manipulate a picture that causes radial distortion to the image.

To discern if any of these techniques were employed to distort a photo, the program uses computer vision, a field of computer science which stud-ies how to discern the focal length of a given image.

“It’s an intersection of math and computer science,” Treskunov said. “It deals with image manipulation and analysis.”

“It’s getting the computers to see the way humans do,” he added.

The team members ac-knowledge that there was a “learning process” to fully un-derstanding computer vision, even though they had previ-ous math and programming experience.

The group has finished stand-alone ways of detecting each type of image distortion, and it now needs to integrate these techniques into a single tool.

With some adaptations, the program can also be used with other e-commerce web-sites such as e-bay, Craigslist or Amazon to analyze other types of images.

That Craigslist sublet is too good to be $300 per month

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An online picture of an apartment can be distorted to make the room look bigger and more attractive to potential renters and buyers. Four engineering students created a browser extension to detect this as their senior design project.

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“We had a few chances to come away with the win,” Yurkow said. “We had chances and couldn’t do anything with it.”

The vaunted Penn offense was held to less than three runs for the first time since its match-up with Richmond on March 16. The Hawks’ pitching staff held the Red and Blue to only six hits on the day.

One of the lone bright spots of the day came from the Red and Blue’s pitching staff. Senior Cody Thomson hurled five in-nings while allowing only one hit and striking out seven.

Sophomore Brian Schwarz-bach also pitched well in three innings of work, surrendering

two hits and zero earned runs.“I think our bullpen depth is

getting stronger,” Yurkow said. “It was nice to see Thomson go five innings for us today.”

With just one more matchup before starting their Ivy slate in the Lou Gehrig division, Penn will look to get back to its win-ning ways sooner rather than

later.“Tomorrow I want to see

their focus from the first pitch,” Yurkow added. “We didn’t have that today.”

The Quakers will take on Saint Peter’s this afternoon and will be looking to turn their brief losing streak back into a winning streak.

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Pitching staff holds its own

against St. Joes

Bet recalled his thought process, which he vocalized to Yurkow when the first year head coach first proposed the move: “Whatever I’ve got to do for the team — this is my senior year. I really just want to win this year.”

Schwartz explained why he and Yurkow tasked Bet with the new role.

“[Throwing submarine] is a really effective tool to have out of the bullpen,” he said. “We came across Pat Bet’s name for two reasons: one, he’s selfless, and two, he’s really tough.”

Bet has done his best so far to settle into his role and help the Quakers win: the senior has yet to give up an earned run in his seven appearances.

“He’s been very effective down there getting ground balls,” Yurkow added.

Another senior who has seen a smooth transition to the bullpen is Cody Thomson, an imposing righty who hails from Thousand Oaks, Calif.

A starter the last two sea-

sons, Thomson’s move to a relief role happens to be fa-miliar.

As a freshman for the Red and Blue, Thomson was called upon to come out of the bull-pen after exclusively starting in high school.

“In my high school career, I never came out of the ‘pen,’” he said. “It was definitely a transition.”

The senior went on to ex-plain the demands of relief pitchers, which he was forced to get accustomed to.

“ You’ve gotta get ready quicker,” Thomson said. “You could come in any given situ-ation, and you have to throw strikes when you do.”

Thomson was able to re-spond to those demands quickly, as he served as the squad’s primary closer his first year, making 15 relief appearances and posting a 3.35 ERA.

And while Thomson is back in the bullpen this year, a freshman has once again as-sumed the closer role for the Quakers.

Growing up,shutting it downRookie lef ty Mike Reit-

check has come along quickly as a closer, delivering some of the gutsiest Penn pitching performances of the young season.

The I l l inois nat ive has earned an Ivy League-high five saves thus far — three of which came in important conference wins over Brown and Harvard.

A fellow freshman who also

hails from Illinois, righty Jake Cousins has also stepped up in relief for the Quakers.

Cousins leads the Red and Blue bullpen with 19 innings pitched, and has given up just two earned runs in that span.

Cousins made a key relief appearance in Penn’s second game against Yale, in which he entered facing a 5-1 deficit. The rookie was able to stifle the Bulldogs’ bats in his four and one-third innings, giving up only one run to keep the Quakers in the game and se-cure a win.

The freshmen, Reitcheck and Cousins, are at the top of the bullpen in both walks and strikeouts, indicating that the ‘stuff’ is there, and it’s now just a matter of finding better command and locating more consistently in the big spots they face.

“[Reitcheck’s] made some big pitches when he’s needed to,” Yurkow said. “He’s got good stuff. It’s about him get-ting some more confidence with it.”

Cultivating confidenceThe veterans of the re-

lief staff have embraced the promising young hurlers in addition to their adjusted roles.

“It’s been awesome,” Thom-son said in reference to the performance of the freshmen.

“The young guys are really talented. It’s been a breath of fresh air to have a lot of guys we can go to.”

And while the seniors have led by example, they have also provided the younger arms

with valuable advice.“Us seniors really preach to

the younger guys to be confi-dent in everything you do,” Bet said. “Don’t be afraid. Just come in and challenge people.”

“Its really nice to have all the older guys,” Cousins added. “The wisdom is really what helps out.”

Reitcheck — who entered the season seeking a start-ing role — also showed ap-preciation for the veterans of the bullpen.

“The upperclassmen have really helped me out with get-ting in the mindset of coming in and closing games out,” he said. “The big thing is confidence.”

Standing undefeated atop the Ivy League, there is a clear air of confidence sur-rounding the entire Penn baseball team at the moment.

And having confidence in key groups on the team, such as the bullpen, makes the ex-perience better for everyone.

“It’s nice to know, as a coach, what you’re gonna get when those guys go out on the mound,” Yurkow said. “It makes it fun to coach.”

As long as the Red and Blue’s relievers keep deliv-ering, the fun times should continue to roll on for Penn baseball.

BULLPEN from page 12

Veterans instill confidence in newcomers

can prepare for a specific op-ponent, neither can Penn’s rivals.

All that suggests the Quak-ers have something to look forward to next year. Sure, they’ll lose two top-four play-ers in seniors Nikola Kocovic and Zach Katz, but — assum-ing Lahlou makes it back from surgery — they’ll get a proven one back, as well as essen-tially one and a half recruiting classes.

“I expect us to be really good next year,” Geatz said.

In the meantime, the short-handed Red and Blue can try to do what they haven’t done since 2007: finish the season with a winning Ivy record.

Because as much as Geatz has bemoaned ill luck this sea-son and as much as he can’t wait for a full-strength squad next year, he won’t stop re-minding us, “This year ain’t over yet either.”

M. TENNIS from page 12

Red and Blue still have

plenty ahead

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Senior reliever Cody Thomson has been an instrumental part of Penn’s rejuvenated bullpen, helping provide veteran leadership to the freshmen members of the staff.

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does unionize and Northwest-ern loses its appeal, the process wouldn’t end there. Rather, it is likely going to federal courts

— possibly even the Supreme Court — a while down the road.

But regardless of which way the appeal goes or whether the team actually votes to union-ize, the NCAA has been put on notice that college athletics, as we have known it for the last 100-plus years, may be in for quite the shakeup.

So what does this mean for Penn? In the short-term, not much.

Penn doesn’t give out ath-

letic scholarships and works off a true student-athlete model, as has been trumpeted by ev-eryone at the University from Provost Vincent Price to new Athletic Director M. Grace Calhoun. The lack of scholar-ships is a concept that the Ivy League was founded upon and definitely won’t be changing any time soon.

And without scholarships, there isn’t an employment con-tract or any formal compensa-tion for Penn’s athletes, making unionization impossible for any of Penn’s varsity sports.

Yet Penn, like the rest of the NCAA, needs to be wary of the change that will invariably be coming to intercollegiate ath-letics.

Northwestern’s football team isn’t the only challenge to the NCAA. Former UCLA bas-ketball player Ed O’Bannon is leading a class-action lawsuit against the NCAA, the goal of which is to allow athletes to cash in on the use of their likeness and image — something that is prevented by NCAA bylaws.

And while O’Bannon’s suit doesn’t go to trial until June 9, it may be something that the NCAA should fear more than unionization.

Unionization affects private schools that give out scholar-ships, so schools like Stanford, Duke and of course, Northwest-ern, are directly implicated by the NLRB’s ruling. And the unionization ruling may only affect revenue sports like foot-ball, as one of the key parts of the previous decision was that a sport had to bring money into

the institution.O’Bannon’s lawsuit, on the

other hand, affects every sin-gle school that is a part of the NCAA. Every single school benefits from the likeness and image of its athletes, using them for promotional efforts and making money through those efforts.

And the lawsuit would have the ability to affect non-reve-nue sports as well. Across town, Temple recently eliminated sev-

en sports and many schools, including ones in close com-petition with Penn, which may have to follow suit if the eventual O’Bannon lawsuit has a tangible effect on the money going into athletic programs.

Ultimately, extensive chang-es to the NCAA, which are nec-essary based on the current climate of college sports, may not be coming for a while thanks to an extensive system of ap-peals.

But with the pressure of unionization and O’Bannon’s lawsuit, Penn, the Ivy League and the NCAA as a whole are on notice.

Change is coming and the whole country better be ready.

Penn’s track and field cam-paign this year has been domi-nated by headline-getters such as Sam Mattis and Thomas Awad, breaking school records despite the team getting flung all over the East Coast. But what should we expect from the Quakers for the rest of the season? Sports Editor Ian We-nik and Associate Sports Edi-tor Colin Henderson discuss:

Sports Editor Ian Wenik: It’s tough to pin down specific expectations for the Red and Blue, considering just how big and diverse the team is, but if you’re going to force me to pick one event group, then I would have to say that people should expect bigger and better things from Penn’s relay teams in the coming weeks.

Consider Penn’s most re-cent relay performance at last week’s Sam Howell Invita-tional. The men’s 4x400-meter relay won with an impressive time of 3:16.74, a mark certainly aided by the presence of vet-eran sprinter Tom Timmins as the anchor leg. The women’s 4x400m relay team certainly did well in its own right, fin-ishing in fifth place. I expect those strong performances to continue.

And you should expect big things from the 4x100m relay teams looking forward as well, as sprinters like Heather Bong and Brandon Senior get shuf-fled into coach Steve Dolan’s lineups.

Associate Sports Editor Colin Henderson: I completely agree with you, Ian. I really think that Penn’s relay teams have what it takes to put up some strong times as we ap-proach some of the season’s biggest meets, especially the Penn Relays. Both the men’s and women’s sprint and mid-dle-distance teams have a lot of speed and, more importantly, a lot of veteran leadership from seasoned competitors like Lyd-ia Ali and Mato Bekelja.

But I also think that we would be remiss not to men-tion the throwers. They might not get as much shine as some of the runners, but they may be the standout athletes of the outdoor season thus far. I’m not sure that they have the depth to compete with some other Ivy throwing squads moving forward, but athletes like Sam Mattis, Jake Brenza and Nailah Hill could definitely make some noise as individu-als.

IW: The throwers have been solid for sure, but I think that Penn’s best non-running event squad has been its jumpers. I mean, we all know how strong Maalik Reynolds has been as

a high jumper, considering his All-American credentials, but he’s starting to get some company at the top. How about Thomas Pitt, who finished just .03 meters behind Reynolds last weekend? Or Noel Jance-wicz, who’s quickly established herself as the top high jumper on the women’s team in her first outdoor season?

And I would be remiss to mention the long jumpers, who are starting to round into form as well. Junior Jenny Thomp-son came in eighth place last weekend in the triple jump, while Pitt can also certainly transfer his high jump talents to the sand pit.

CH: All are certainly valid points. I think it will be es-pecially interesting to see how Reynolds, who underper-formed at indoor Heps, and Jancewicz, who is still learning her role as a multi-event ath-letes, finish the season.

But I also think that it’s im-portant to keep things in per-spective. Penn is still a young and inexperienced squad. It is unreasonable to expect either the men or women to make a run at an Ivy title for at least another year or two. But if the younger athletes can gain some experience and some of Penn’s stars can flex their muscles toward the end of the year, coach Dolan has a lot to be excited about moving for-ward.

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What can we expect from Penn track for the rest of the year?THE BUZZ: MANO-A-MANO

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Junior sprinter Tom Timmins hasn’t slowed down since qualifying for the NCAA championships in the 400 meter hurdles last year. Last week, he anchored Penn’s winning 4x400m relay team at the Sam Howell Invitational in Princeton, N.J.

TYDINGS from page 12

Lawsuit has major NCAA implications

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Penn Athletic Director M. Grace Calhoun will assume her role as the NCAA faces a major unionization effort from Northwestern football and a class-action lawsuit.

STEVEN TYDINGS is a Wharton sophomore from Hopewell, N.J. and is senior sports editor-elect of The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at [email protected].

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 2014 PAGE 11SPORTSTHE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN

On March 26, a National Labor Relations Board regional director made one of the biggest rulings in college sports history, declar-ing that Northwestern’s football players were employees of the school and therefore had the right to unionize.

Why was the decision so im-portant? Simple. By giving North-western’s student-athletes the

right to unionize, it is declaring the idea of the ‘student-athlete’ a fraud, an idea that the NCAA is founded and based upon.

The ruling says, in no uncer-tain terms, that the players can collectively bargain with North-western. And if a unionized team took the field next fall while re-ceiving wages in exchange for playing, every player would be ineligible, thus forcing the NCAA to change its rules on eligibility.

However, for now nothing hap-pens. Northwestern is appeal-ing the decision to the National Labor Relations Board and the team hasn’t voted to unionize yet, casting doubt over whether the team as a whole actually wants to unionize. Even if the team

Fresh starts and strong finishes. Such has been the story this season for Penn baseball, and no group em-bodies it more than the Quakers’ bullpen.

A diverse and color ful group featuring freshmen as well as seniors, and made up largely of hurlers transi-tioning from starting roles, the Red and Blue’s relievers have shown an exceptional ability to adjust and step up to new, demanding roles this year.

Penn’s coaches, who dras-t ica l ly reassembled the

bullpen this offseason, have embraced the array of char-acters in the group and have also been impressed with their performance thus far.

“There are def initely a lot of new faces [in the bull-pen],” coach John Yurkow said. “And they’re all so dif-ferent. We’ve got some loud guys, some quiet guys, some fat guys and some skinny guys.”

P i t c h i n g c o a c h Jo h n Schwartz expanded upon Yurkow’s thoughts, explain-ing: “There are a lot of per-sonalities, which makes it nice because we can mix it up a little bit and have fun with the guys. More than that, we have some depth, and that’s different than prior years. We have a matchup for every situation right now.”

“They’re doing a really good job now of compet-

ing and throwing strikes,” Yurkow added. “There’s something to be said for that.”

Penn’s relief efforts, which have improved quickly as the season has progressed, have a lot to do with the pitching staff’s low 2.39 earned run average in Ivy play, as well as the squad’s 8-0 start in conference competition.

To the rotation and backSenior reliever Pat Bet,

who has gone through an un-orthodox and at times frus-trating career at Penn, has been tasked with the biggest adjustment of the group.

Coming out of high school in Whitehall, Pa., Bet was well on his way to earning in-nings before he started feel-ing elbow pain early in his first spring with the Quak-ers. He ended up needing Tommy John surgery, which

kept him off the mound for the rest of his freshman and sophomore years.

But Bet made sure he would see a return to action his junior year.

“I came back last year and worked my way back into the starting rotation, which was really important to me,” he said. “I really enjoyed it.”

Bet started eight games as a junior — the fourth highest total on the staff — and held opposing batters to a .275 batting average, the second- lowest mark among Penn starters.

Earlier this year, with the season still months away, Bet was asked to take on the new role of a submarine reliever.

Instead of questioning the adjustment, he embraced it.

Before the tennis season began, head coach David Geatz had a prediction for Senior Associate Director of Athletics Tony Vecchione.

“There’s no way we’re not going to be a top-40 team this year,” Geatz told him.

Then the injuries started piling up.

Junior Ismael Lahlou — Penn’s No. 3 player last year — was sidelined for the year after back surgery. Fresh-man Stuart Little , who Geatz predicted would fill a doubles spot, had knee surgery which put him out of commission for

the season as well.Sophomore Blaine Willen-

borg — who made a shaky comeback against St. John’s and returned for an ostensibly more permanent time against Yale this past weekend — has been out for two to three months with a broken finger.

“I think Blaine would have played at the top of our lineup too if he wouldn’t have been out for his broken finger,” Geatz said.

And as he came off the bench, freshman Marshall Sharp sat down in his stead, thanks to a hip flexor. Other singles players have missed playing time here and there for other short-term ailments as well.

So much for top 40. Penn would be lucky to crack the top 75 anytime soon.

“I’ve never seen so many guys hurt in my life for ten-

nis,” Geatz said.It’s hard to judge the pre-

cise effect that the Quakers’ misfortunes have had on their success this year. On the one hand, every single one of Penn’s losses could have been reversed with two more points, whether that would have meant picking up the doubles point or having a stronger singles lineup at each positional rank.

Of course, the Quakers wouldn’t have won all those matches, but Geatz isn’t crazy to think the disabled list has had some tangible effects.

Take Penn’s loss to Yale this weekend, the only blem-ish on their Ivy season thus far. The Quakers dropped a stunningly close doubles point — reversing either of their 8-7 doubles losses would have given them the point — and two singles matches went

to three sets. That’s the type of loss that a non-patchwork lineup helps solve.

“I thought that was a win-nable match anyway, and I thought we’d win,” Geatz said. “And I thought the doubles point just got away from us.”

On the other hand, from a bystander’s perspective, it doesn’t necessarily appear that injuries have hurt the Quakers all that much.

Penn sports a winning Ivy record for the first time since 2008 — a record that includes a much-sought after victory over No. 56 Princeton. In fact, this time last year, the Red and Blue were winless in Ivy play, having dropped matches to Princeton, Brown and Yale.

And while Geatz points out that a fluctuating lineup takes a toll on everyone as no one

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They say streaks are made to be broken.

And on Tuesday, that’s exactly what happened for Penn baseball. In the semifinals of the Liberty Bell Classic, the Quakers’ 11-game winning streak — as well as their unbeaten mark at home, came to an end at the hands of St. Joseph’s, 4-2.

Penn (15-11) didn’t give up easily though. The Quakers forced the game into extra innings and didn’t fall until the Hawks (16-9) scored two runs in the top of the 13th in-ning to put the game out of reach.

“I’m not too happy right now,” coach John Yurkow said. “We didn’t do very well with anything.”

The Quakers were able to draw first blood after sophomore short-stop Ryan Mincher’s RBI double brought in Mike Vilardo in the bottom of the second inning. St. Joe’s was able to tie the game at one in the next half inning before

Austin Bossart hit a solo home run to make the score 2-1 in the bottom of the 3rd.

After nine innings, the score was knotted at two apiece, sending the game to extras to settle the deadlock. Between the 10th and 12th innings, the two teams man-aged only one hit, a single courtesy of junior Jeff McGarry in the 11th.

“On the offensive side we couldn’t get anything going,” Yurkow said. “You gotta hit to win at some point, and we couldn’t get that big hit.”

In the top of the 13th, the Hawks were able to take control of the game after a leadoff single. Col-lin Forgey, the following batter, pounded freshman pitcher Mike Reitcheck for a two-run homer that proved to be the deciding fac-tor in the game.

Despite the fact that the Quak-ers fell in extras, Yurkow still praised the performance of his pitchers against the Hawks.

“We pitched pretty well today,” he remarked. “But it was the only

Penn falls to St. Joe’s as 11-game

streak ends

BASEBALL | With a mix of rookies and

seniors, Penn’s bullpen has been stellar in 2014

BY SEAMUS POWERSStaff Writer

Relievers driving Quakers’ successMeet the best arms out of Penn’s trusty bullpen

Pat Bet — 0-0, 0.00 ERAThe senior submariner has flourished after transitioning out of the rota-tion, maintaining a perfect earned run average through his first seven appearances of the season. Bet has become Penn’s top middle reliever.

Mike Reitcheck — 0-2, 5.00 ERAThough the freshman picked up the loss against the Hawks, he has excelled after being given the Quakers’ closing responsibilities. Reit-check has notched five saves while giving up only two extra-base hits.

Cody Thomson — 1-0, 2.45 ERAThomson’s versatility was on display in Tuesday’s 4-2 loss to St. Joe’s, as the senior came in and pitched five crucial shutout innings, striking

out seven batters while surrendering only one hit.

Jake Cousins — 3-0, 0.95 ERASplitting time between the rotation and the bullpen, Cousins has struck

out 14 batters in only 19 innings pitched, while maintaining a 2:1 strikeout to walk ratio. The freshman righty has a bright future as a part

of coach John Yurkow’s pitching staff.

Eclectic bullpen off to fresh start for upstart Quakers

SEE BASEBALL PAGE 10

SEE BULLPEN PAGE 10

Geatz, Quakers trying to make do despite injury bugM. TENNIS | With injuries piling up, Penn still has high

hopes for this seasonBY STEVEN JAFFESenior Staff Writer

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Penn men’s tennis has missed the presence of junior Ismael Lahlou in the lineup this season, who is out for the year after undergoing back surgery.

BASEBALL | Red and Blue fall to Hawks in 13th inning of Liberty Bell Classic second round matchup

BY COREY HENRYStaff Writer

Penn needs to be on notice with NCAA change upcoming

SEE M. TENNIS PAGE 10

vs. St. Joseph’s

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STEVEN TYDINGS

Graphic by Zoe Goldberg

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