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A look at Corbett’s decision to back down on gay marriage

Wedding bells rang out statewide following Gover-nor Tom Corbett’s Wednes-day announcement that he would not appeal the fed-eral judge’s decision striking down the ban of same-sex marriage in Pennsylvania.

As an opponent to same-sex marriage on the grounds of his religious beliefs, Cor-bett said in a statement, “I continue to maintain the be-lief that marriage is between one man and one woman. My duties as governor re-quire that I follow the laws as interpreted by the Courts and make a judgment as to the likelihood of a successful appeal.

The Daily Pennsylvanian examined some of Corbett’s possible motivations for

choosing not to challenge the ruling.

Election on thehorizon

With a gubernatorial elec-tion looming in November, the issue of same-sex mar-riage is now off the table as ammunition for Democratic nominee for governor Tom Wolf.

Rogers Smith , Penn pro-fessor of political science, explained that since Corbett

is seeking re-election and “his poll numbers are low,” his decision may impact his campaign for re-election.

“He correctly decided they were likely to lose on appeal and there was no point in extending state funds to end up on the losing side of a con-troversial issue,” Smith said.

When it comes to the reac-tion of those who supported the ban, “They will be dis-appointed,” Smith said, but

Corbett chose not to appeal the court decision legalizing gay marriage

BY JENNIFER WRIGHTStaff Writer

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With a gubernatorial election on the horizon, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett announced in a statement that despite his religious opposition to same-sex marriage, he will not appeal last week’s federal court decision overturning the state’s Defense of Marriage Act.

Presidential Prof. to join

Africana Dept.

When Africana Studies department chair Barbara Savage came to School of Arts and Sciences Dean Steven Fluharty to suggest hiring historian Heather An-drea Williams, “I think my reaction was ‘wow, can we get her?’” he remembers. “My reaction was immedi-ate. Let’s do it.”

Williams specializes in Af-rican American slavery and has written two books on the topic, the first of which started as her dissertation and became, Selt-Taught: African American Educa-tion in Slavery and Freedom. On July 1, Williams will join the Africana Studies depart-

ment as the sixth recipient of the Presidential Profes-sorship. The professorship is sponsored in part by a $2 million grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts, and was conceived as part of the Ac-tion Plan for Faculty Diver-sity and Excellence.

“She brings a much-need-ed dimension of history,” Africana Studies depart-ment chair Barbara Savage said. The multi-disciplinary department also includes professors specializing in political science, sociol-ogy, and music among other fields.

Her latest project, sup-ported by a grant from the Andrew Mellon Foundation, breaks the boundaries of the page. She is creating a documentary and archive of interviews with Jamai-cans who migrated to the

Kelly Writers House to build new recording studio

A su m mer ex pa nsion project at the Kelly Writers House is sure to make waves — sound waves, that is.

The Kelly Writers House broke ground last week on the new Kelly Family Annex and other improvements. The house’s staff teamed up with the Facilities and Real Estate

Services to plan a two-story addition that will include a new digital studio for audio and video recording. The addition will also include an exterior porch, oriented to-ward the garden area, that will accommodate small-size outdoor events including per-formances.

Currently, the Writers House gives students free access to online digital re-cordings of poetry, fiction and other literary materials. This summer’s expansion will greatly increase its ability to distribute the free materials

to students.According to a representa-

tive from FRES, the addition will maintain the character and structure of the original building.

“[FRES] is pleased to be working with the Kelly Writ-ers House on this impor-tant project,” said Michael Bausch, FRES executive director of design and con-struction. Bausch noted that the Perry World House and the 38th Street bridge — for-mally known as Generational Bridge — will also be under construction this summer. ■

The new recording studio will be part of a

two-story additionBY JESSICA WASHINGTON

Contributing Writer

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The addition will bring a new digital studio for audio and video recording, as well as an exterior porch, which will accommodate small-size outdoor events and performances.

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Charles Plaza bids farewell to loyal students and alumni

This summer, Penn stu-dents will have to find a new restaurant with seven-course meals and red solo cups. Af-ter over 20 years of service to the Penn and Philadelphia communities, popular China-town restaurant Charles Pla-za closed its doors on May 4.

Voted “Best BYO to Get Rowdy” in the Daily Penn-sylvanian’s 2013 Reader’s Choice Best of Penn, many Penn students frequent-ed Charles Plaza. Owner Charles Chen recounted fond memories of the Penn frater-nities, sororities and clubs that dined there. Over the years, he has served many students from their fresh-man years to their gradua-tions, as well as many alumni upon their return to Phila-delphia.

Chen recounted the disap-pointment he felt when noti-fying a 2011 graduate that his May 17 reservation during graduation festivities had to be cancelled after the res-taurant closed for business.

“He always brings peo-ple back to the restaurant. It’s like he’s bringing them home,” Chen said of the loyal patron. “...Then I was can-celling the reservation, he

almost cried.”Chen attributed the ter-

mination to a 2013 change in building ownership, say-ing that the new rent was “sky high.” However, he is currently looking for a new location to continue his res-taurant.

“It doesn’t matter if it’s in Chinatown, out of Chinatown or in University City — my first priority is to come back for the students,” he said, laughing.

In the meantime, Chen plans to continue his daytime work in traditional Chinese medicine. He has been work-ing with various chiroprac-tors for the past 30 years, and is preparing for a teach-ing position in anatomy and physiology.

“From my heart, I appre-ciate all the Penn students these years. They’ve sup-ported me and helped me,” Chen said. “I love them all. Every single one.” ■

The “Best BYO to Get Rowdy” shut its doors

for good on May 4BY KATHERINE CHANG

Staff Writer

Courtesy of Under the Button

Due to a “sky high” rent following a change in building ownership, Charles Chen closed his restaurant. He hopes to reopen at another location in the future.

Heather Andrea Williams will join the department on July 6

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Her Instagram is full of pic-tures fit for the cover of Real Simple Magazine. Her website features delicious yet nutri-tious dishes such as rutabaga hummus and chai shortbread cookies. She’s a first genera-tion American and has family on five different continents.

Emma Frisch, a College alumna, currently resid-ing in upstate New York, is a food blogger and the owner of Frisch Kitchen, where she showcases her culinary tal-ents and brings nontraditional, healthy food back to the table. She will be a contestant on the Food Network’s show “Food Network Star”, premiering this Sunday, June 1 at 9 p.m. East-ern time.

Frisch transferred from the University of Maryland to Penn because “she wasn’t able to customize what [she] wanted

to study.” At Penn, she “felt so supported by the community to follow [her] passion and build whatever [she] wanted to.” While a student, Frisch took advantage of every kitchen she found — whether tiny, commu-nal or lacking in cleanliness — to further develop this passion that had been instilled in her since childhood.

“I was raised cooking with my mom, and she just made phenomenal food. I don’t think I was really able to appreciate it until I went to college,” she said. Being on a meal plan def-initely brought out the creative side in Frisch’s cooking. She became a vegetarian to ac-commodate for the high price of meat, although she admits she is the “biggest omnivore” now.

“I realized that food was re-ally important… I was missing the flavor and the healthy feel-ing I had growing up,” Frisch said about the beginning of her college experience. The first dish she mastered was sauté and stir-fry. She recommended this cooking style as a great way to start off, because “you

can put everything in one pan and end up with a complete meal.”

While at Penn, Frisch co-founded the Farm to Table

program, which has taken off in the Philadelphia area. With help from the Fox Leadership Program, Frisch helped create the Farmecology club, which

taught members about food distribution in Philadelphia.

She spent a couple months traveling around the Philadel-phia area to learn how food

travels between farms and the city. Now, Frisch wants to teach what she learned to oth-ers since farm to fork currently sounds “really intimidating and more romanticized to peo-ple.” One of her goals is to help people find simpler and more accessible avenues to living a farm to fork lifestyle.

Frisch started an online cooking show on her blog, www.emmafrisch.com, last summer. Her cousin recom-mended that she apply to be on “Food Network Star”. “It seemed like such a great fit,” Frisch admitted. “It has more of a positive feeling to it than most reality shows...[it was] something I was willing to get behind.”

As for her goals for being on the show, Frisch said that she hopes to win. “I’m excit-ed about being able to share what I love about food with so many more people,” she said. Frisch admits that cooking and experimenting with food has become trendier. “Cook-ing as a career is something that people are getting excited about,” she said.

For Tansylu Gimadeeva, a new member of the Class of 2018, Penn is worlds away.

Growing up in the Repub-lic of Tatarstan in south-western Russia, Gimadeeva is used to the “rustic” feel of nature and her village at home. She comes from “Mus-lim family with strict moral rules and regulations,” she said, and wasn’t even sure she wanted to leave Russia for college until she received her acceptance from Penn.

Despite what she expects will be a “small cultural and mentality shock,” Gimade-eva has remained positive and open-minded about moving to the United States to attend Penn.

“It might be difficult for me to get used to the overly free American society, but I hope to get used to it and become an even more open-minded person,” she said. “I guess in the USA I will have more freedom, more prospects for development and even less free time than I have here.”

Gimadeeva was convinced to join the tens of thousands of students who apply regu-lar decision to Penn each

year by her cousin, who also studied at an American uni-versity. Her cousin intro-duced her to “the American educat ional system and Penn in particular,” she said.

As an international stu-dent, Gimadeeva did a sig-nificant amount of research about the University before applying. In particular, she found biology professor Bri-an Gregory’s research on

RNA silencing pathways to be fascinating. She hopes to major in biology and has expressed interest in mo-lecular biology and genetics in particular.

She ended up deciding between Penn and Johns Hopkins University, and eventually committed to Penn.

“It was a hard decision to make, but I always knew I would choose Penn because

it appeals to me. I do not know how to express it; just my gut feeling is that I have to be there,” she said.

Throughout high school, Gimadeeva was involved in countless extracurricular activities, which she thinks made her application stand out to the Admissions Office. “I took part in every possible activity in my city … scientif-ic clubs, community service, charity organizations, mu-sic, and I even organized a tutoring program,” she said.

Just a few weeks ago, Gi-madeeva participated in the National English Olympiad of Russia, where she was recognized as one of the best English-speakers in the en-tire country.

While at Penn, Gimade-eva hopes to continue with a number of the activities she did in high school, as well as try new activities like sports. Overall, she hopes to enrich her undergraduate experience with new experi-ences that she has not tried in Russia.

“I am looking forward to meeting new people from all over the world and getting new knowledge. I am a total bookworm,” she said.

“Surely, as I already said, the culture will be differ-ent, the society will be more diverse and the people at Penn will be more interest-ing. That is what I hope for,” she added.

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added, “The bet he’s making is that their disappointment will not be strong enough to determine their vote.”

Not worth the fight...

John Stapleton, Attorney for the law f irm Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schil ler, represented the plaintiffs in the case.

“The writing on the wall is that it’s a matter of time be-fore we have marriage equal-ity in all 50 states,” Stapleton said, noting how 44 percent of the U.S. population cur-rently lives in a state with legal same-sex marriage.

The case saw a quick turn-around — having been filed just last summer — and fol-lows a high rate of success seen for attempts to strike down bans on same-sex mar-riage cases in federal courts around the country.

“Given the h ig h lega l threshold set forth by Judge Jones in this case, the case is extremely unlikely to succeed on appeal,” Corbett said in his statement.

Law School professor Ker-mit Roosevelt noted that the issue of same-sex marriage is becoming a “legal question rather than a factual ques-tion.”

Smith said: “Since there is no evidence of harm, there is no real argument other

than people have religious or moral objections and that isn’t sufficient to deny people these rights.”

... Or worth the money

“It also makes a lot of sense for a state that has a lot of issues going on right now. [Pennsylvania] can focus its resources on good things rather than trying to support discriminatory laws,” Staple-ton said.

H av i ng a l r e ady spent $558,000 to defend the ban, it would not have been fiscally responsible to keep the battle going, according to a Penn-sylvania Treasury Press Re-lease from May 21.

Roosevelt explained how not a single state court de-cision regarding same-sex marriage has been over-turned since United States v. Windsor, the landmark Su-preme Court case that put the decision in the hands of the states.

“It’s still an issue that could motivate part of the Republi-can base to go out and vote,” he said, but he added that there is a younger generation of Republicans who might not have supported the ban.

“It would not have helped him [politically] to be in oppo-sition to same-sex marriage,” Roosevelt said.

With the standing prec-edent of success in other states, Pennsylvania State Treasurer Rob McCord ad-vised Corbett in the Trea-sury’s press release prior to to Corbett’s statement on Wednesday, “Here is an easy choice: Don’t waste any more money on court battles the majority of Pennsylvania citi-zens don’t want to wage.”

Gay marriage now moot for Nov. election

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U.S. in the 1950s and 60s. She seeks to answer the question of “what’s it like to come to a place struggling with racial discrimination where in Ja-maica that had not been an issue,” Williams said, empha-sizing that class conflict was a more prominent struggle in Jamaica at the time.

Despite her technologically ambitious undertaking, Wil-liams said, “When I bought the video camera to do this project, it was the first time I ever used a video camera.” She said that by taking class-es and getting tutored by her students on how to use the technology, she learned to empathize more with her stu-dents who come to her with different levels of knowledge.

Still, some of her students

already see her as a compas-sionate and understanding teacher.

“Her greatest asset is that she leads by example,” sixth-year UNC doctoral student and one of Williams’ advisees Shannon Eaves said. “She doesn’t expect anything of you that she doesn’t also ex-pect of herself.”

One of these expectations is creativity, which she says is her favorite part about teach-ing. In one of her classes, stu-dents participate in a mock trial, where she also employs her legal background. Before her ten-year-long professor-ship at the University of North Carolina’s Department of His-tory, Williams practiced civil rights law and litigating. She found her passion in teaching at Saint Ann’s, the Brooklyn private school she attended after moving from Jamaica when she was 11 years old, which led her to pursue her PhD in history at Yale.

In a “Maymester” class, a three-week class over the summer at UNC, Williams brought students to Charles-

ton, SC to experience first-hand the place where many slaves lived.

“One of the things that Heather has always conveyed to me that kept me motivated and going is that the stories of the people we’re studying are important and need to be told,” Eaves said. “Even when there were times when I wanted to give up, I remem-bered that if I didn’t keep go-ing, this would be a story that someone would never know.”

Her colleague and depart-ment chair of History at UNC, W. Fitzhugh Brundage, rec-ognized Williams’ unique tal-ent for making her research relatable.

“She keeps her eye on the human dimension of the sto-ry,” Brundage said. “It makes what she talks about very poi-gnant.”

Williams’ commitment to the lives of her students as well as the lives of her re-search subjects is also note-worthy. Mishio Yamanaka, a third-year graduate student at UNC who moved from Ja-pan just before entering her

graduate program, said that Williams helped her make the transition to life in the Unit-ed States. When Yamanaka found it difficult to adjust, Wil-liams, her advisor, suggested she find a non-academic hob-by to enjoy, so Yamanaka took up biking.

“She did not only care about students’ academic ability, but also about students’ lives,” Yamanaka said.

At Penn, Williams said she is most excited to engage with students and the Philadel-phia community. “Philadel-phia will end up becoming a classroom for us,” she said. She also hopes to create an oral history project, similar to the one she is creating for her documentary, of the African Diaspora, a project that would be “something that is singu-lar to Penn,” Savage said.

Although her colleague and advisees said they are sad to see her go, Williams is hope-ful for her future at Penn.

“I’m leaving a place that I love and I’m going to a place where I have a lot of anticipa-tion of loving it,” she said.

“I have a lot of anticipation of

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Penn alum to compete on Food Network StarEmma Frisch has gone from small kitchens to

national televisionBY MADELINE MCCALLUM

Staff Writer

Courtesy of the Food Network

Emma Frisch is currently a food blogger and owner of Frisch Kitchen. As a student at Penn, she co-founded the Farm to Table program and the Farmecology club.

Incoming freshman Tansylu Gimadeeva prepares for ‘overly free American society’

Penn is much different from her home in

southwestern RussiaBY JESSICA MCDOWELL

Staff Writer

Courtesy of Tanslyu Gimadeev

Tansylu Gimadeeva was recognized as one of the best English speakers in her country after she competed in the National English Olympiad of Russia.

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Heather Andrea Williams is excited to engage with students and the Philadelphia community when she takes her new position on July 6.

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The University announced that Law School professor William Burke-While will be the inaugural director of the upcoming Perry World House.

Burke-White plans to shape the initiative — scheduled to open at Locust Walk and 38th street in January 2016 — into an international hub. He sees the House as a place to connect different facets of Penn’s international rela-tions research as well as ex-pose the University to global discussions.

“[The] World House will be able to create connections and cross-fertilize ideas around the University,” Burke-White said, “not by offering degrees or becoming a pure public policy school, but in terms of a place to convene conversa-tions and link the global and the policy world together.”

Burke-White said that he plans to embark on a ”‘listen-ing tour” around the Universi-ty to take the pulse of current international pursuits in order to transform the World House into a useful resource.

“I want World House to be a catalyzer and help bring the extraordinary academic knowledge that Penn has to bear on serious global chal-lenges of all sorts,” Burke-White said.

He also described several important tasks that World House will strive to achieve. It will serve as the first physical location on Penn’s campus to connect international profes-sors, students and research-ers. The house will also host visiting scholars from all over the world.

“It will be a kind of gateway to Penn for the world,” Burke-White said.

Additionally, every year World House will hold confer-ences, in which Penn scholars and students will join with in-ternational experts to discuss different issues ranging from global health to environmen-

tal issues.“It’ll be a place to think

through and develop public policy approaches to major public issues. There’s a whole variety of major activities that could go on — we might even hold an international music or film symposium,” Vice Pro-vost for Global Initiatives Eze-kiel Emanuel, who was also involved in the World House’s development, said. “It’s going to be a wonderfully beautiful and attractive space — there’s no limit to the kinds of things that we can do in it.”

Burke-White hopes to apply his extensive background in foreign affairs, which “cuts across many different coun-tries and regions,” as director of the World House. Currently a professor at the Law School, he hopes to supplement the initiative’s “think-tank policy” with his experience working in policy planning for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. He’s also worked for other organizations including the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

“With his real world policy

experience in Washington D.C. and proven academic credentials, Professor Burke-White is well positioned to en-sure that Perry World House both expands UPenn’s global profile and becomes a center of excellence for the Univer-sity,” professor of political science Michael C. Horowitz, who was also involved in the creation of the Perry World House, wrote in an email statement.

Currently, Burke-White encourages students and faculty to get involved in the creation of World House and take advantage of the many resources that it will provide, as he views global issues as an important factor in a variety of disciplines.

“Whatever area of aca-demic work one is interested in today, international ele-ments have become and are continuing to become more important. Whether that’s in business, philosophy, history, law or medicine,” he said. “Consider my office door open to anyone who has an interest in World House.”

“You have to go all in,” Grammy-award winning mu-sician and philanthropist John Legend told Penn’s graduating class in his Commencement address on Monday.

The 1999 College graduate spoke to this year’s graduates and their guests about love, happiness and following their passions at the 258th Com-mencement Ceremony on Franklin Field.

While last year’s Commence-ment speaker Vice President Joe Biden urged graduates to develop their potential to be-come world leaders, Legend ad-vised the Class of 2014 to “open your mind and heart to love.”

Founder of the Show Me campaign, a movement dedi-cated to improving access to education across the globe, Legend spoke about inequali-ties that exist today, saying that it is important to “make sure all [children] have the resources they need.”

He also offered the gradu-ates a lesson from his father, saying that success is “mea-sured in love and joy and the lives you’re able to touch.”

Penn President Amy Gut-mann tailored her speech to suit Legend’s career, using mu-sic as an overarching theme of her opening remarks. The cer-emony’s musical undertones were an appropriate ending for Penn’s Year of Sound.

“Music marks the defining moments of our lives,” Gut-

mann said.Highlighting themes of cour-

age, community and freedom, Gutmann punctuated her speech with clips of popular songs, including Psy’s Gang-nam Style and Katy Perry’s Firework. The musical inter-jections were met with ap-plause and laughter from the crowd.

“When respect takes root, freedom flowers,” Gutmann said following a clip of Aretha Franklin’s Respect.

Legend recalled his upbring-ing, sharing how he focused his time in high school and at Penn on musical endeavors in an effort to avoid troubles in his personal life.

“When you actually care about something, you want to lead. Apathy’s not so cool any-

more,” Legend said.Graduates cheered when

Legend parodied his song All of Me with a Penn twist. Dur-ing the opening of his speech, he jokingly sang, “All of you / are so over me / you’re tired of hearing that I went to Penn / why’d they bring him back again?”

“I thought that [Legend] was awesome, I liked that he sang that little snippet. He was re-ally inspiring,” Nursing gradu-ate Victoria Williams said.

Legend also spoke at the Col-lege of Arts and Sciences grad-uation in 2009, but returned this year to receive an honor-ary Doctor of Music degree at this year’s ceremony.

Also among those who re-ceived honorary degrees were Olympia Snowe, the first wom-

an to serve in both houses of Congress and both houses of a state legislature, and Raymond Perelman, who endowed $225 million to the Perelman School of Medicine — the largest sin-gle donation in the University’s history.

Other speakers over the weekend included President and CEO of Williams-Sonoma Laura Alber at the College graduation ceremony and Lilly Ledbetter, namesake of the fair pay bill signed into law by Pres-ident Barack Obama in 2009, at the Law School ceremony.

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Gangnam Gutmann, jesting John Legend rock 2014 Commencement ceremony

Music punctuated the proceedings, ending the Year of Sound in style

BY JENNIFER WRIGHTStaff Writer

1. University of Pennsylvania2. Harvard University3. Columbia University4. University of Chicago5. New York University6. Stanford University7. Northwestern University8. UCLA9. UC Berkeley10. Boston College11. Cornell University12. MIT13. University of Michigan - Ann Arbor14. University of Virginia15. Yale University

A new report by analytics company eVestment demonstrates popularity by measuring the amount of Penn alumni in asset management firms.

Careers in finance are a popular choice for many Penn students, especially for Wharton undergradu-ates and Wharton MBA students.

Penn ranks first in the "total number of alumni work-ing as key professionals at asset management firms." according to the eVestment report. Penn is also ranked first by eVestment as placing the most alumni as "key professionals at asset management firms" out of all American universities.

Penn grads apt for asset management,

ranking shows By Luke Chen

Nationwide universities ranked by number of graduates in investment management firms

29% 24.8%of Penn graduates go into finance

of Whartonundergrads go into i-banking

6.7%of Wharton

undergrads go into investmentmanagement

* data from Penn 2013 Career Plan Survey Report

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As inaugural director of Perry World House, William Burke-White plans to shape the iniative into a conjunction of Penn’s international pursuits. “The World House will be able to create connections and cross-fertilize ideas around the University,” Burke-White said.

University announces Law Professor as inaugural director of Perry World House

William Burke-White will turn House into an

international hubBY ALISON ELLIOT

Staff Writer

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Inever noticed the im-pact of my whiteness until I came to Penn. This is a problem.

My experience at-tending the United States Na-val Academy has given me a backdrop in front of which my current Penn experience un-folds. Memories from the mili-tary float through my mind as I stroll down Locust, chuckling at the stark contrast.

At the Academy, the uni-for ms a re the sur f ic ia l representation of internal standardization. Individu-als walk though the gates on Induction Day and exit four years later as a product of the United States government. The buzzword “diversity” — as I now understand it — does not exist there.

The attendance require-ment is American citizenship, so the overwhelming majority of the student population has a similar background and belief

system. Even the wild cards quickly conform to the rules of the road. Obedience is a neces-sary ingredient for success.

Tired of taking orders with-out question and starved for intellectual stimulation, I ar-rive on Penn’s campus to find a cultural carnival displayed ev-ery day. I now scream from the rooftops and savor the echo of “Diversity!”

Plastered on every college brochure, this word carries the weight of a heavy history — human differences have sparked wars and holocausts. And yet, here at Penn between ten city blocks there exists a safe haven. Here, differences are celebrated and encour-aged.

A whole new world opened up to me in which I could join hands with my peers and sing “Kumbaya.” Or so I thought.

With this newfound free-dom to explore such diversity, I attended many spoken word

events and open discussions. I engaged with international and exchange friends, prod-ding their perspectives to gain insight into their worldviews.

The more I listened, the more I noticed a trend: minor-ity struggles within a white-dominated society. I heard stories of non-white girls get-ting rejected from white fra-ternity parties and how peers have grown up pressured to emulate white models. I learned of friends’ continuous struggles with appearance “because their nose doesn’t look like mine and their eyes will never be blue.”

At charged spoken word events, I would sit in the au-dience, watching waterworks flow down the presenter’s face, and think: “I am so glad to be white because I haven’t had to shed those tears.”

Here is the problem: Penn mimics society’s structure; therefore, society’s issues are

mimicked as well.From what I have learned,

the white privilege on this

campus propagates the cycle of racism. Unfortunately, by recognizing the status quo, we run the risk of giving more power to it. However, even though speaking out against injustice may reaffirm this dominance, it is still better than silence. And to those who are willing to listen, especially those previously unaware like I was, there is hope for change.

Maybe then, exclusive

events like white frat parties would no longer be coveted and those rejected would no longer feel a sting. I am advo-cating for a social system in which there is no single stan-dard for inclusivity. I admit that the solution to this prob-lem is elusive, but ultimately, dialogue is key to eventually solving the issue.

Never before have I been so blatantly told by friends and peers — those same people who are victims of white domi-nance — that white is the stan-dard of beauty and the image of power. This is depressing because the more it is said, the more it is believed. Before seeking out events that focus on this very issue, I never would have been so aware that the way I look holds such importance and dictates social opportunities.

Though not perfect, Penn should still be praised for the safe spaces it establishes in

which these issues can be discussed. I hope that the dialogue will continue and compassion will spread, ulti-mately leading to a society in which there is no exclusive sta-tus quo. I want my friends to see in themselves the beauty that I see in them. Generally, Penn students are supportive, open-minded and interested in what their peers have to say. Unlike at the Naval Academy — where these issues were not talked about — I believe that at Penn change is an attainable goal. Through those willing to listen, maybe there’s a Kum-baya within reach.

M emorial Day. De-pending on who you ask, the day will have a differ-

ent meaning. For most stu-dents at Penn — or students in general — it signifies the start of summer vacation. It’s part of a three day weekend that includes barbecues and parties. Yet for myself and many others, there is a much deeper significance.

Memorial Day is a day we remember those who gave ev-erything in defense of some-thing they loved. Whether it’s patriotism, family or a loved one, it all boils down to protecting what you love. Some take the day to visit the graves of family relatives, oth-ers just to pay their respects. I take the time to remember those who I served with.

If it’s not immediately ob-vious yet, I’m not your typi-cal Penn student. I enlisted

in the Navy while I was a senior in high school. Dur-ing my time in the service I took part in the enforcement of the Iraqi no-fly zones and had friends deployed to assist in operations in Kosovo and East Timor. For some it was their final deployment. After five years I left the military, only to be confronted with the choice of reenlistment a year later after the Sept. 11 attacks. Again, those I had served beside were deployed, and not all returned. While I carry their memories with me every day, Memorial Day holds a place in my life for me to really thank them for everything they did, both in their duty and through their friendship.

The experiences I’ve had have made friendship difficult at times. I don’t think I’m the only veteran that has felt like only veterans could under-

stand. In part I still believe that those unique experienc-es we go through create an unbreakable bond.

Returning to school 14 years after graduating high school created new challeng-es, mostly in my interactions with other students. Attend-ing Penn I wondered how I’d be able to communicate with

someone half my age, with such a disparity in experience between us. My first year here I felt some of that ap-

prehension and didn’t speak out too much. However, this year Penn experienced some losses felt by a large number of the student body. As I saw those affected, I recognized that pain. I began to focus less on differences and more on similarities. I opened up more to those around me. By do-ing so I’ve made some great friends. I encourage both my fellow veterans and the Penn student body to communicate and support one another.

Still, I feel there has been a disconnect along the way — that we’ve lost sight of the meaning of Memorial Day. I asked some of my friends re-cently: What does Memorial Day mean to you? Not sur-prisingly, a majority of them responded with “parties,” “picnics with family” and “catching up with work.”

Case in point, not many know that Memorial Day was

moved to the last Monday of May simply to give Americans a three-day weekend. Daniel Inouye, the second-longest serving senator, as well as a World War II veteran and Medal of Honor recipient, in-troduced a bill into legislation calling for a return of the day to May 30. In his introductory remarks, he says:

“Mr. President, in our ef-fort to accommodate many Americans by making the last Monday in May Memo-rial Day, we have lost sight of the significance of this day to our nation. Instead of using Memorial Day as a time to honor and reflect on the sac-rifices made by Americans in combat, many Americans use the day as a celebration of the beginning of summer.”

I have to agree with the former senator. I fully believe that as a nation, we already have plenty of holidays we

use to do the same activities that are currently partaken in during Memorial Day week-end. Yet we have only one day that we have set aside to re-member the sacrifices made by those in defense of what they loved. Let us take that one day out of all our lives to commemorate and reflect on the parents, siblings, chil-dren, relatives and friends that deemed that sacrifice worthy.

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Penn’s latest student-run exhibition at the Arthur Ross Gallery celebrates the lasting artistic presence of two Native American cultures. Located in Fisher Fine Arts Library, On the Wings of Eagle and Raven: Tlingit and Haida Traditions highlights the rich visual tradition of the Haida and Tlingit tribes of the Pacifi c Northwest Coast. The exhibit is the fi nal product of the most recent Kaye Curatorial seminar, taught by Dr. Larry Silver, Farquhar Professor in the Department of the History of Art and Dr. Robert St. George, Associ-ate Professor in the Department of History. Over the course of the spring semester, students were involved in curating the exhibit, as well as writing its brochure.

On the Wings of Eagle and Raven seeks to tell the story of the attempt of both the Haida and Tlingit to preserve their cultural craftsmanship. European colo-nization of the Pacifi c Northwest region threatened the homelands of these Native Americans in the 19th cen-tury, as Christian missionaries sought to change the natives’ ways of life. Potlatches – the tribes’ primary gift-giving feast and economic event – were banned, and thus the language and art of the two indigenous groups weakened. Luckily, there has been a resur-

gence today of Native American artists who assert the tribes’ creative heritage.

The exhibit features 41 cultural and material objects that date from the late 19th century to the present. The highly stylized artifacts reveal the remarkable artistry of the Haida and Tlingit, with objects crafted in wood, shell, hair, pigment, sinew, feather, and spruce root. The series of totem representations also marks an im-portant aspect of the two tribes’ traditions. The Haida and Tlingit organize their societies into two matrilin-eal moieties: Ravens or Eagles. Families within each moiety recognize an animal to identify their clan, after which they develop crests on objects such as head-dresses, bentwood boxes, and Chilkat blankets. 33 of these artifacts are lent generously from Penn’s Muse-um of Archaeology and Anthropology.

A series of lectures and programs by various uni-versity professors, curators, and native artists have already taken place throughout the spring semester. However, it is still possible to appreciate the skill and beauty of these Native American masterpieces this summer. On the Wings of Eagle and Raven will remain in the Arthur Ross Gallery until early July.

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PHILLY BEER WEEKWhen: May 30-June 8Where: The entire cityPrice: Varies by venueWhy you should go: Philly Beer Week is an annual celebration of Philadelphia— one of the country’s oldest and best beer cities.

The celebration has hundreds of participating venues and restau-rants across the city—in fact, they even made an app to help you keep track the booze–palooza. In short: it’s good alcohol for a lot less, so grab some friends, download the app and explore what Philadelphia Beer has to o� er.

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THE ROOTS PICNICWhen: May 31, 1 p.m.Where: Festival Pier at Penn’s LandingPrice: $65Why you should go: While this recommendation may come on the late (and expensive) side, the Roots Picnic always o� ers a good time for music lovers. The annual concert is (shockingly enough) hosted by The Roots, and the Philadelphia natives always put on a damn good show. This year’s line up includes Snoop Dogg and Janelle Mo-nae, among others.

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PHILLY CYCLING CLASSICWhen: June 1, 12 p.m.Where: The race takes riders through Manayunk, East Falls, Kelly Drive and Fairmount Park neighborhoods.Price: FreeWhy you should go: The Philly Cycling Classic is actually a trimmed down version of Philadelphia’s original annual bike race. The neighborhoods that the race runs through usually get pretty spirited, with lots of day drinking and street food to be found. Unless you or a friend has a house along the route, the best places to watch are Lemon Hill in Fairmount Park, along Kelly Drive (bleachers provided) or along Boathouse Row.

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If you are looking for new summer dancing rhythms, Afrojack’s new album came at the right time. This debut compilation of his beats features the vocals of Sting, Chris Brown and Wrabel among others. The 26-year-old’s signature styling stays true to form with a remix of Thirty Second To Mars’ “Do or Die” as a bonus track. The lyrics themselves have little effect with generic talks about “never coming down” and “touching the sky” with backdrops of high octave beats in “Ten Feet Tall”. On the other hand, only Sting’s “Catch Tomorrow” offers some light pul-sating beats compared to the other twelve tracks. Some of the other songs are bass driven with loud, dirty beats, such as Snoop’s “Dynamite” and Khali-fa’s “Too Wild”. It is an album deeped in a feel of pop from the past decades, a promising debut album after four years in the game.

Grade: BDownload: “Dynamite”Sounds best when: as the please–all soundtrack at your summer block party

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PHILLIES GAMEWhen: May 29-June 2Where: Citizens Bank ParkPrice: Rooftop Bleachers and Standing Room; tickets for under $20Why you should go: Baseball in the summer is stereotypical American fun, and a Phillies game is one this city’s greatest pastimes. From the Phanatic to Chickie’s and Pete’s Crab Fries, Citizens Bank Park o� ers due compensation for attendees that aren’t exactly “into sports.” Make sure to pregame, though, in order to dull the sting of the Phillies’ near–guaranteed loss and make the cheap seats a bit more bearable.

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PICK A PICNIC: CLARK PARKBy Diane Bayeux

Clark Park might just be the perfect place to picnic one week-end when you want to keep it in the neighborhood. With its full view of the colorful and window–patterned porches of Baltimore Avenue, Clark Park provides a convenient place for families to relax on the grass, and youngins to sip their summertime sodas. For you, Clark Park sits in close proximity to Baltimore’s best restaurants, so you and your friends can grab food from different places.

On 42nd and Baltimore, if you’re in the mood for Indian food in lieu of traditional picnic fare, Desi Chaat offers a variety of delightful dishes including mango lassi and chaat. If you stick around while waiting for your order, you might score free rice pudding. Another option, Best House Pizzeria (always believe what you are told), has a menu too diverse for your own good, but stick with pizzas, mozzarella sticks and fries right while on the go. Finally, on 44th, Milk and Honey offers fresh bagels, egg sandwiches, soups and paninis (spicy thai tofu comes highly recommended).

To BYO, depending on where you’re coming from, you can stop at Allegro’s on the way for Italian beer, Best House Pizzeria offers cold beer or go to 49th and Baltimore at PA Wine and Spir-its.Across from the park, Green Line Café offers Italian sodas and a diverse range of iced drinks to quench your thirst, and brownies and cookies mixed with peanut butter and the like can top off any meal.

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Penn softball had a banner year in 2013 but it looked like the Quakers were a sure bet to fall this year after an impor-tant senior class graduated. However, despite a majority of the players on the roster be-ing underclassmen, the team found a way to repeat atop of the Ivy South and made its way to the winner-take-all Game 3 of the Ivy League Championship Series.

While Penn ultimately lost that final game and ceded the Ivy title to Dartmouth, coach Leslie King and her team proved that Penn is still a pro-gram on the rise and that 2013 was not an anomaly.

With that in mind, here are some of the players and mo-ments that defined the upstart 2014 Penn Quakers.

The Yale sweep: Going into their March 31 matchup with the Elis, the Red and Blue were playing just like a freshmen-laden squad is expected to play, going 4-11 in their first 15 con-tests. The team had lost seven straight games going into the two-game set at Penn Park and was in desperate need for a turnaround.

So when Penn swept the Elis by identical 3-0 margins, it was a big moment for the team. Junior Alexis Borden and freshman Alexis Sargent each pitched shutouts, combining to give up just nine hits in 14 innings. Sargent also contrib-uted with her bat, hitting two home runs to power the Red and Blue while fellow fresh-man Leah Allen belted a long ball as well.

Player of the Year — Leah Allen: Penn lost so much tal-ent to graduation that things looked somewhat bleak head-ing into the year. While Borden, Penn’s all-time leader in wins

and strikeouts, was expected to carry the load in the pitching circle once again, there were legitimate questions as to who would hold down the fort on the offensive end.

Allen made all those worries wash away, hitting .383 for the season while setting Penn pro-gram records for home runs (13) and runs batted in (43). Allen took home Ivy Rookie of the Year and made Penn’s offense feared within the con-ference. Moving forward, it should scare everyone in the Ivy League that Allen could get even better during her sopho-more year.

Most indispensable — Alexis Borden: Borden proved herself once again, shrugging off early season losses to post another strong season at pitcher. The junior posted 12 wins to go with a 2.26 earned run average. She also pitched every game of the ILCS, win-ning Game 2 and falling just short in Game 3. Teaming with Sargent, Penn rode both pitch-ers named Alexis to a strong season.

Player Penn will miss the most — Elysse Gorney: While Penn’s senior class was small-er in 2014 than in 2013, the class still had a large impact, espe-cially thanks to a first-team All-Ivy catcher in Gorney. The senior batted .304 on the year and upped her game in Ivy play, batting .356 during that 20 game stretch to help propel Penn to its third straight Ivy South title.

Gorney was also the Quak-ers’ captain and her leader-ship will certainly be missed. Her presence was a notice-able one after spending two years as team captain and the rising senior class will need to find a way to replace her. Penn will also miss seniors Kirsten Johnson and Kayla Dahlerbruch, who was named the team’s Defensive Player of the Year.

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Lacrosse sends stars to Baltimore

Penn men’s lacrosse was represented at Baltimore’s M&T Bank Stadium on Mon-day. However, it wasn’t quite the way they had imagined it.

“[ The USIL A A l l-Star game] was right before the championship game,” 2014 College graduate and goal-keeper Brian Feeney said. “If someone told me I was going to be in M&T Bank Stadium on Memorial Day, I would have hoped it would have been for the big game.”

Fellow 2014 College Gradu-ate and midfield Drew Bell-insky joined Feeney on the South team as the pair had one final hurrah to their colle-giate lacrosse careers. Their team prevailed in a close con-test, edging the North team by a score of 17-16.

“I knew most of the players that were there,” Feeney said. “It was a great day to play lacrosse, just to do that with a bunch of guys that I’ve grown up playing with or against was a great experience for me, especially because my room-mate [Bellinsky] came with me.”

Though many have the ex-perience of playing against familiar foes, Feeney and Bellinsky had the unique ex-perience of playing in their

final collegiate game with a close teammate.

“Having Drew there the entire weekend in Baltimore, having my best friend there made it a lot more fun,” Fee-ney said. “It was great to fin-ish my collegiate career with someone who I actually played with.”

And though Feeney is fin-ishing his collegiate career and moving into the work-force, he hopes this isn’t the end of lacrosse in his life.

“I’m still trying to figure out if I want to continue to play lacrosse, I’ll need to run

it by [my job], but I do have aspirations to somehow con-tinue my career,” Feeney said. “There’s plenty of summer tournaments that I’m doing and plenty of leagues, but if I were allowed to, I’d try out for an MLL team.”

For the Penn players, the All-Star game wasn’t the only Baltimore festivity as mem-bers of the team arrived on Saturday for the All-American banquet.

At the banquet, three 2014 Quakers – Feeney, Zack Losco and Maxx Meyer – earned third-team honors. This was

the first time that a Quaker had been named to the first, second or third teams since 1988 and the first time that three Penn players had been named since 1984.

For the Quakers to turn things around in the past few years, it took more than in-dividual talent. In the eyes of Feeney, it’s the team lead-ership and decision-making that has developed during his career.

“We decided amongst our-selves that [the social side] wasn’t something coach Mur-phy had to go ahead and [get involved in]”, Feeney said. “The players themselves got involved in making de-cisions that are best for the team without the help of the coaches and everyone abided by that.”

And for Feeney and the rest of the Class of 2014, that fate-ful Ivy League tournament title will always overshadow their early NCAA tournament exit and their individual ac-colades.

“It’s tough to go out the way we did in the first round, but in the end I’m always going to remember the Ivy League championship. That’s been our number one goal since I was a freshman, we had come close to it, but never made it past that first round hump,” Feeney said.

“None of the accolades that me or some of the other guys received at the end of the sea-son will amount to winning that championship as a whole and as a team.”

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2014 graduate Drew Bellinsky finished his collegiate lacrosse career playing with 128 of the best players in the country after finishing third in scoring for the Quakers in 2014.

MEN’S LACROSSE Feeney and Bellinsky represent Quakers in USILA All-Star Game

BY HOLDEN MCGINNISSports Editor

staff was just as potent and the bullpen helped close important games.

But what was most impres-sive of this team was the cama-raderie it displayed on a weekly basis while taking the field in the hidden gem of campus at Meiklejohn.

There was excitement at the stadium. There was ridiculous dancing whenever Brebner’s at-bat music was on. There was a true team on the field instead of a group of individuals, with that team fighting for a singu-lar goal that it ultimately came just short from achieving.

So while the plaque in Meiklejohn will likely change and rightly display Yurkow as Penn’s top man (especially now that I’m pointing it out), there won’t be much more than that

to immortalize Yurkow’s first year as coach.

Yet that doesn’t seem right. Just because the Red and Blue finished a game behind Colum-bia (which now goes to Miami for the NCAA Tournament) and didn’t get the chance to play for the Ivy crown doesn’t mean this season didn’t make a big impact on the program.

Penn baseball went from cellar dwelling in the Gehrig Division to top contenders all thanks to a change in philoso-phy and demeanor, as well as a few remarkable strides for-ward.

While players like Brebner, Brandon Engelhardt and Pat Bet won’t be a part of next year’s squad, it isn’t hard to see Yurkow continuing to guide his team to contention.

And the 2014 season was the unforgettable first step in that process.

TYDINGS from page 8

Successful season despite

playoff loss

It might not always end in success (see men’s basket-ball coaching changes in the past decade), but repeated disappointment needs to be addressed directly .

Second, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. While there are plenty of programs with room for serious improve-ment , there wil l st i l l be some, like women’s lacrosse, that are in a good place and moving in the right direc-tion.

While it should be obvious enough, there’s definitely a time and place to give a coach and a program plenty of space to operate and the spring showed a few more places where that’s the right approach.

There’s certainly no rea-

son to mess with the suc-cess that Karin Corbett and Leslie King have found with their teams, for example.

Third, sometimes it’ll just take a little time. It’s cer-tainly surprising that men’s lacrosse was able to turn things around so much this season after a few years of mediocrity.

Were there any significant changes? Not particularly, this year’s team was fairly similar to the year before, but the continued growth of the players and a tough schedule led Penn to a four seed in the NCAA tourna-ment.

When M. Grace Calhoun takes over on July 1st, she’ll have a lot on her plate, but looking back at the success-ful spring season she’ll def-initely have something to build on.

MCGINNIS from page 8

Success sets a blueprint for

future

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Freshman outfielder Leah Allen helped Penn maintain excellence after losing a strong graduating class by leading the Ivy League in numerous batting statistics.

BY STEVEN TYDINGS

THE BUZZ

From The Daily Pennsylvanian’s sports blog, THE BUZZ

Softball on the rise: season in review

HOLDEN MCGINNIS is a rising Engineering sophomore from Gladw yne, Pa. and is the sports editor of The Summer Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at dpsports@thedp.com.

STEVEN TYDINGS is a rising Wharton junior from Hopewell, N.J. and is the senior sports editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at dpsports@thedp.com.

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After six seasons as the head coach of Penn wrestling, Rob Eiter has decided to resign.

Eiter, who came to Penn as an assistant in 2006, chose to pursue other opportunities, according to a press release sent out Wednesday afternoon.

“We are sorry to see Rob leave,” Athletic Director Steve Bilsky said in a press release. “Our wrestling program has a proud history, and Rob has done his part to add to that legacy over the last six years. We wish him well with his future en-deavors.”

In Eiter’s six seasons, Penn wres-tling produced four All-Americans, including junior Lorenzo Thomas this past season. Eiter was also the top scheduler, putting the Quakers up against top competition each year to prepare for EIWA and NCAA Championships.

“At the conclusion of the season, I had a chance to step back from the daily grind a bit and evaluate my-self, and I realized that the energy needed to serve as head coach at a

program like Penn wasn’t there,” Eiter said.

“I am thankful to Mr. Bilsky, Al-anna Shanahan, and everyone at Pennfor six great years as head coach and eight years overall as a member of the Penn Athletics family. I am excited to be able to spend some time with my family and re-energize myself.”

Prior to coming to Penn, Eiter had worked as an assistant at Clarion

University of Pennsylvania as well as Northwestern, where he served as recruiting coordinator. Eiter also has coached the United States women’s team in international com-petition.

Eiter himself represented the United States in the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.

According to the press release, Penn will now begin a national search for his successor. ■

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S EAS O N O F S U CC ESS

ROWING Though their season has yet to finish, the past few weeks have been successful for Penn rowing. The lightweight freshman won the Eastern Sprints for the first time since 1976 and the women’s varsity 4 C won their race in the Ivy League championship as the team finished 6th overall.

BASEBALL The season started out slowly, to the tune of six straight losses, but under first year skipper John Yurkow, Penn righted the ship and finished the season with a 24-17, 15-5 record. Though they failed to advance to the Ivy League Champion-ship Series, the Quakers had their first winning league record since 2007.

TRACK & FIELDFor both the men’s and women’s teams, the spring season offered to highlight impressive individual performers as the Quakers had five athletes named first-team All-Ivy. The team will send 14 players to NCAA East preliminary, 11 men and three women. The record-setting performance by the men has them ranked No. 32 by USTFCCCA.

W. LACROSSEAnother successful season for the Quakers, who won their eighth consecu-tive Ivy League title and advanced to the second round of the NCAA tournament before falling to eventual champion and No. 1 ranked Maryland by a score of 13-5. The team finished the season ranked No. 10 in the IWLCA Coaches poll.

M. LACROSSEThough the year ended with a tough loss to neighboring Drexel in the NCAA tournament, the fact that the Quakers earned a four seed in the tournament speaks volumes to the program’s improve-ment. Just two seasons ago, Penn finished last in the Ivy League.SOFTBALL

For the third consecutive season, Penn advanced to the Ivy League Championship Series, where they faced a Dartmouth team that they had defeated to win the title last season. However, things would end differently this year for the Quakers as the team fell in a heartbreaking loss in the deciding game.

BY HOLDEN MCGINNISGRAPHIC BY SOPHIA LEE

There is an old saying that history only remembers the winners. And that’s a shame.

Penn baseball didn’t win the Ivy League Championship this year. The Quakers also fell just short of the Gehrig Division, losing in a one-game playoff against the eventual champion Columbia Lions.

But neither of those facts make the season that the Red and Blue had in John Yurkow’s first year as head coach any less remarkable and worth remembering.

Despite the fact that a plaque in Meiklejohn Stadium still says that John Cole is the current coach of Penn base-ball, Yurkow has taken the bull by the horns and remade the Quakers back into a strong program able to challenge for the Ivy title.

In fact, Yurkow, formerly the recruit-ing coordinator for Penn, had brought

in many of the players already on the roster and got to reap the rewards this season.

There were many players who took the next step forward this year, and there were contributors from the fresh-men all the way to a strong senior class.

Look at the lineup for example: se-nior outfielder Rick Brebner had a solid 2013 but became arguably the most feared power hitter in the conference in 2014, smacking eight home runs to help pace the Quakers to an 11-1 Ivy start.

And junior Jeff McGarry went from starting pitcher to full-time first base-man, leading the team in batting aver-age and providing the right-handed power to team with Brebner in the middle of the lineup.

On top of that, sophomores Ryan Mincher and Michael Vilardo (who were first and second-team All-Ivy re-spectively) were steady up the middle for the Red and Blue. And all of this is before you factor in junior captain Aus-tin Bossart at catcher or his capable backup, freshman Tim Graul.

All of this to say, Penn baseball had a lot of depth this year. The pitching

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Coach Rob Eiter served as an assistant to predecessor Zeke Jones for two years before taking over the program in 2008-2009. Eiter had previously coached at Clarion and Northwestern.

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Calhoun can learn from spring season

It was a tough winter for Penn and a long fall before that. But in the spring, the Quakers came into their own across all sports and found the success that we had long awaited.

There were the triumphant Ivy League titles for Men’s and Wom-en’s lacrosse, followed by strong ef-forts in NCAA tournament losses.

There was softball falling in the Ivy League Championship Series, yet showing a bright future with the success of freshman Leah Al-len and Alexis Sargent.

There was basebal l , which turned itself around in coach John Yurkow’s f irst season, coming within a win of playing in an ILCS of their own.

There was outdoor track, which continued to highlight incredible individual talents, like senior high jumper Maalik Reynolds and soph-omore distance runner Thomas Awad, while appearing poised to continue to climb the Ivy League standings with their bevy of superb underclassmen.

In short, it was one of the stron-

gest springs across the board for the Quakers in recent memory.

Now what does this all mean for Penn Athletics and for new athletic director M. Grace Calhoun?

To begin with, it might not be quite the same mess that many thought she would have to clean up when her appointment was an-nounced in March.

Sure, some marquee sports like men’s basketball and football are coming off rather disappointing seasons, but this spring season provided a building block. In fact, it should give Calhoun a few lessons on how to lead Penn into the future.

First and foremost, coaching can change everything. How else can you explain what happened to Penn baseball?

Last season, the Quakers fin-ished with a 7-13 record in the Ivy League and after a few seasons of futility, the decision was made to replace head coach John Cole. So with a relatively unchanged roster, his assistant John Yurkow took over.

As mentioned before, the team found its way to great success and finished with a 15-5 record in the Ivy League, their f irst winning League record since 2007.

So should Calhoun be afraid to make coaching changes when they’re necessary? Of course not.

Penn wrestling coach Rob Eiter resigns

WRESTLING| Under Eiter, Penn produced four All-

Americans, including junior Lorenzo ThomasBY STEVEN TYDINGS

Senior Staff Writer

Memorable season for Penn

baseball

HOLDEN MCGINNIS

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Courtesy of Penn Athletics

Behind coach John Yurkow, Penn baseball weathered an 0-6 start and turned its sights on the top of the Ivy League en route to a second-place finish in the Gehrid Division.

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