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Theodric Reed, 22, died Sunday

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College senior Theodric Reed died suddenly on Sunday at his home in California, according to an email sent out Monday to students who knew him. Reed, whose friends called him Theo, was 22 years old. The Los Angeles County Department of Medical ExaminerCoroner has not released Reed’s cause of death because they have

yet to speak to his next of kin. Reed’s death marks the sixth student death this calendar year. The University said in a statement, “We were all deeply saddened to hear of his death, and Penn staff have reached out to his family in California to do everything we can to be supportive.” Reed knew that he wanted to come to Penn since the beginning of his college search process. “As soon as he set foot on Penn’s campus, he knew that was the school for him,” Linda Douglas, Reed’s mother, said. “He was a good kid, and a mother couldn’t ask for a better son.”

When Reed first got to Penn, he was a student in the Huntsman Program in Business and International Relations. But after taking a year off from school following his freshman year, Reed rethought his major and decided that he wanted to pursue his true passion — English — since he enjoyed writing. Concentrating in Law and Literature, Reed wanted to become a lawyer after college, his mother said. He was interested in studying contracts law, possibly negotiating deals for a publishing firm. Anyone wishing to contribute comments should email the author at cooperman@thedp.com.

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History professor Michael Katz died Saturday BY KRISTEN GRABARZ News Editor

Michael Katz, the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History and a former co-director of the Urban Studies department, died Saturday of cancer at Penn Hospice of Rittenhouse. He was 75. Students in the Urban Studies program were informed of Katz’s death via an email Tuesday. Current department co-chairs Elaine Simon and Mark Stern also posted a reﬂection on Katz’s Penn career to the Urban Studies site.

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Innovators of disruptive technology will be a focus of the Oct. 31 event BY JESSICA WASHINGTON Staff Writer

The grand opening of the Pennovation Center — Penn’s innovation center on the South Bank Campus — will be celebrated on Oct. 31 at a Universitywide event, Penn President Amy Gutmann said on Tuesday. To mark the opening of the center, Gutmann will host the 2014 David and Lyn Silfen Forum, where she will interview author Walter Issacson about higher education and innovation. Issacson, who wrote the biography of Steve Jobs and “more importantly,” Gutmann joked, the biography of Benjamin Franklin, is also the author of the forthcoming book “The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks SEE PENNOVATION PAGE 7

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Engage the world, Gutmann tells 2018 Admins talked to freshmen on College Green at Convocation last night BY VICTORIA MOFFITT Staff Writer

The Class of 2018 seems almost perfect — with record high SAT scores and percentages of

international and minority students, they represent the top 9.9 percent of the largest application pool that the University has ever seen. But at convocation last night, Eric Furda, Penn’s dean of admissions, welcomed the new class with advice that is often hard for Ivy League students to swallow: They need to shed the need for perfection. “Life is not perfect,” Furda said. “And we do not expect or want you to try to be perfect.”

Not all students’ paths at Penn begin in a perfect way. In his speech, Furda mentioned Kylie Murrin — a senior in the college and the drum major of the Penn Band — who admits that before her freshman year, she was on the waitlist “until the very last day.” Furda told the incoming class that Murrin “reminds [him] to be good to the waitlist students.” As a leader of the Penn band, the director of philanthropy in Zeta Tau Alpha and a member

of the Soundworks Tap Factory dance group, Murrin still found time to complete an honors thesis with the Center for Autism Research at CHOP. “A lot of it is coffee and enthusiasm,” Murrin said on her ability to manage so many different tasks. “It’s amazing what people will excuse if you show up with a smile on your face every day.”

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NSO hospital transports increase 65 percent over 2013 Three parties shut down, three students cited for underage drinking BY JOE LI Staff Writer

This year’s New Student Orientation saw a 65-percent increase in hospital transports compared to last year’s NSO, according to the Division of Public Safety.

Between Aug. 21 and 26, there were 28 students who were transported to the hospital due to alcohol, an increase from last year’s 17 transports, Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush said. Of the 28 students, 21 were freshmen, 4 were sophomores, and 3 were juniors. Eleven students were men and 17 were women. Last year, 13 of the 17 students transported to the hospiSEE ALCOHOL PAGE 8

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Search for new SHS director under way BY TINA CHOU Staff Reporter

The search for a new executive director of Student Health Services has begun, acting Executive Director of SHS Dr. Max King said, after former Executive Director Evelyn Wiener died in May of this year. King is the associate vice provost for Health and Academic Services and has been with Penn for 17 years. He has taken over Wiener’s administrative responsibilities at SHS until a new director is named. Day-to-day operations have been distributed among other staff. Dr. King does not plan to institute any significant changes at SHS until the new director is hired. He assures the Penn community that services and management at SHS will continue to run smoothly. The search process for a new executive director is in its early stages. The position has only recently been advertised through listservs, and there are about a dozen candidates as of now. The position is expected to be filled by the end of the semester. “[We’d] want to have an ideal candidate and offer a position by tomorrow, but it never works that way,” Dr. King said.

He hopes that the search will yield four to six serious candidates whom will be brought in for interviews. Candidates both affiliated and unaffiliated with Penn will be considered, although Penn-affiliated candidates have an advantage since they are already be familiar with the Penn system. “We will look at the candidate pool and determine the most viable candidates. Whenever you have a search like this, you have a number of people who will apply for the position, whether they’re qualified or not, and we eliminate them immediately.” The search committee is composed of clinical staff, individuals from the Penn health system, faculty members and administrators from different schools. Students who are nominated by the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly and the Undergraduate Assembly will also have a voice in the search, as well as one student from the Student Health Advisory Board. King hopes the new executive director will be a “good fit for Student Health and understand [Penn] students, and take Student Health into the next couple of decades.” “[We’re] looking for someone to stay for a while,” he added.

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ast January, I assured you that this group of editors and managers would be “coming at you differently, with fresh eyes and new perspectives.” We have challenged ourselves consistently throughout the year, working to find ways to push the envelope and imbue our work and our products with a new sense of energy. Firstly, we’ve brought you a revitalized print product featuring the same great stories that we have always prided ourselves on bringing to you, but with a better, more vibrant presentation.

readers. The Penn community has proven that it is still engaged with our print product, and I believe that the print experience brings something to the table that the digital experience never will. We will continue striving toward an energetic and dependable print experience for all of our readers. That being said, the time has long been overdue for us to focus more of our efforts towards our digital future. A renewed and greater focus on our online presence will help bring us up to speed in an increasingly digital atmosphere. We have made

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We’ve brought you a revitalized print product featuring the same great stories that we have always prided ourselves on bringing to you, but with a better, more vibrant presentation.” This is especially evident in our new front page, which features a redesigned logo that we believe is the perfect blend of traditional and modern. We’ve placed a greater emphasis than ever on visuals, making a more consistent effort to pair stories with engaging pictures and graphics. Along the side of our front page, you’ll find a teaser rail highlighting the most relevant and hard-hitting content inside the paper that day. Throughout the paper, exclusively online content — including articles, videos and columns — are showcased, encapsulating our efforts to integrate our online and print products into one interconnected experience. All in all, we’ve simplified and cleaned up the layout of the paper in order to showcase our content in the most optimal way for our

the decision to eliminate the print edition of our Friday content. This is by no means a retreat from print. Although there are some modest cost savings in eliminating one print edition per week, this decision was not financially motivated. This is a part of a long-term strategy necessary for the DP.

no way for us to deny that our website had fallen behind the times. We wanted to make the web pages more aesthetically pleasing and accessible. We wanted the websites of our different products to work together — to compliment each other — and so we’ve also redesigned 34st. com and started featuring Under the Button and Buzz posts on thedp.com home page. Most importantly, we wanted to maximize reader engagement with our online products. The last piece of our strategy moving forward as an organization is media innovation. This starts by fostering a culture of new ideas and willingness to take risks. Every media organization in the country is finding new ways to bring content to their readers and create new revenue streams — and if not, they’re getting left behind. That is why I’m delighted to announce that the DP has pledged to spend up to $100,000 in the next two years on new, innovative projects that will create new revenue streams, enhance the experience of our student staff and create valuable, sustainable products for the benefit of the Penn community. I am particularly excited by this initiative because it truly begins and ends with the ideas of our readers.

Every media organization in the country is finding new ways to bring content to their readers and create new revenue streams — and if not, they’re getting left behind.” A significant step forward in this strategy was taken yesterday with the launch of our new, redesigned website, thedp.com. There was

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The DP has pledged to spend up to $100,000 in the next two years on innovative p roje c ts that will create new revenues s t r e a m s , enhance the experience of our student staff and create valuable, sustainable products for the benefit of the Penn community.”

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warm welcome to the brand new Class of 2018, just beginning their journey of a lifetime at Penn. Welcome back as well to the great Classes of 2015, 2016 and 2017. May you all make the most of the semester to come! I have a special message for members of the senior class, and to all students who will themselves be seniors one, two or three years from now. I know your last year of undergraduate life is especially busy, with a perfect storm of theses and senior design projects, OCR and job interviews, grad and professional school applications, social events and above all, the pressing question of ‘What’s Next?’ Beginning this year — and for future years to come — there is an unprecedented new opportunity I hope you will consider. This summer, we created and I announced the President’s Engagement Prizes. These are annual, competitively-awarded prizes for Penn seniors to design and undertake fully-funded local, national or global engagement projects during the first year after they graduate from Penn. Prize recipients will receive $50,000 for one year of living expenses after graduation and up to $100,000 in project expenses. With these Prizes, we have created a one-of-akind startup fund for fulltime civic engagement. It will enable exceptional Penn seniors to put their knowledge to work for the betterment of humankind. We hope to award one prize each for proposed local, national and global projects. Eligibility for the first year of awards is open to undergraduates in the College, Wharton, Nursing or Engineering who will graduate in May, August or December of 2015.

AMY GUTMANN portunity for graduating seniors to “do well” by applying their Penn education to public service. Of course, this is an area in which Penn students already excel. In just the last couple of years — without the motivating focus of a prize — you and your peers have embarked on some truly extraordinary self-initiated projects ranging from creating an institutional food recovery program, to a public policy initiative to reduce Medicaid expenses and improve patient health, to empowering youth in Southern Sudan. I am convinced that the best is yet to come. The scope and scale of President’s Engagement Prize projects will be limited only by the imagination and resourcefulness that each of you brings to the process. Not only does this represent a profound opportunity to embark on your professional lives by working to transform the lives of others. The act itself of developing a proposal — whether it wins or not — will provide an invaluable ‘leg up’ in how each of you can make a meaningful difference in your lives post-graduation. The Prizes are an invaluable opportunity to make that difference sooner rather than later. Seniors: I hope you will make time to visit a fall information session to learn more about the unique opportunity the President’s Engagement Prizes represent. Further information can be found

In just the last couple of years … you and your peers have embarked on some truly extraordinary selfinitiated projects ranging from creating an institutional food recover y program, to a public policy initiative to reduce Medicaid expenses and improve patient health, to empowering youth in Southern Sudan.”

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Penn Law announces Latino studies certificate BY JILL GOLUB Staff Writer

The Law School announced the launch of a certificate program in Latin American and Latino studies on Aug. 25. This program was launched in recognition of the growing global legal market in Latin America as well as the ongoing U.S. immigration debate, according to a press release from Penn Law. “Today’s law graduates face challenges that cross boundaries and borders, whether they work on issues of immigration, global transactional law or the environment,” said Wendell Pritchett, interim dean of Penn Law, in the press release. “The new certificate in Latin American and Latino studies is emblematic of our interdisciplinary approach to educating the next generation of lawyers and our ongoing commitment to international legal training.” The new program will consist of

five courses, two of which will be taken through the Law School and three through the School of Arts and Sciences. Certificate recipients must also demonstrate proficiency in Spanish, French, Portuguese or less common languages such as Yucatec Maya, Quechua or Haitian Creole. Penn Law cited the recent border crisis and the DREAM Act — which would grant a path to citizenship for people who were brought to the United States as children — as national debates that make Latin American studies relevant in law. Other law schools have similar Latin American law programs. American University’s Washington College of Law offers students the opportunity to study abroad in Chile and Argentina for the summer where they focus on trade and investment in Latin America and comparative legal perspectives on social problems. Yale Law School’s program encourages exchange between Yale Law and seven

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“[Katz], more than any individual, is responsible for the current contours of the undergraduate program,” Simon and Stern wrote. They credited him with restructuring the Urban Studies curriculum during his term as co-director between 1983 and 1996 and with prioritizing the major’s senior seminar, which is still a requirement. Katz was also the chair of Penn’s history department from

DP FILE PHOTO/SHIRA EPSTIEN Penn Law School announced on Monday that it was launching a Latin American and Latino studies certificate program. law schools in Argentina, Brazil and Chile. Additionally, Tulane University, the University of Texas at Austin and

New York University, to name a few, all have joint degree programs between their law schools and master’s programs in Latin American Studies.

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PennPraxis leader heads to Drexel Harris Steinberg will start at Drexel on Nov. 1, Philly Mag reported BY HANNAH NOYES Staff Writer

Drexel University will announce to trustees and senior staff tomorrow that Harris Steinberg, currently executive director of PennPraxis, will become the executive director of the Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation at Drexel, according to an article in Philadelphia Magazine. Steinberg, a 1978 College and 1982 School of Design graduate, will start the new job — along with a faculty appointment at Drexel’s Westphal College of Media Arts and Design — on Nov. 1, according to the Philly Mag article. PennPraxis was created by PennDesign to further the mission

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Murrin’s experience at Penn exemplifies the main message that Penn President Amy Gutmann wished to impart to students at convocation. In her speech, she encouraged freshmen and transfer students to “engage” with the world around them and to join new clubs and activities. “The special purpose that you now share … is engagement,” Gutmann said. “To engage what we know and engage what we do to create a better world.” To illustrate her point, Gutmann demanded that everyone in the

crowd stand up and greet someone they hadn’t met before. “This is not a drill,” she said when members of the crowd hesitated to jump to their feet. “No exceptions!” She even summoned a few students up to the podium to introduce themselves and shake hands with her, promising to take photos with them after the ceremony. “Engagement begins quite simply — it begins like we just began, with a brush of humanity,” Gutmann said after the students reclaimed their seats. “Take that seriously,

because we build great things from that.” The new class seemed ready to accept the challenge. They were, at the very least, engaged in the ceremony. As Off the Beat, Penn’s modern rock a cappella group, performed their rendition of Paramore’s “Ain’t it fun,” the crowd began clapping along with the performance — at the exact moment when the group sang the lyrics, “Now you’re on your own in the real world.” Even before the ceremony began, some freshmen were already displaying their eagerness before walk-

ing over to College Green. A group of students stood huddled in the Engineering Quad, singing “Hurrah! Hurrah! Pennsylvan – i – ah!” — the lyrics to “The Red and Blue,” which the whole class would be asked to sing together during convocation. After finishing their practice session, one of the freshmen expressed his excitement for the semester to begin. “I want to start classes because that’s we came to Penn to do,” Wharton freshman Josh Michnowski said. “I’m excited for something more engaging.”

novators of disruptive technology will be a major focus of Issacson and Gutmann’s discussion, Gutmann said. Plans for the new Pennovation

Center were announced last August. The center, located along the Schuykill River, is designed to be a future hub for technological innovation and is intended to incentiv-

ize students and professors to bring their research into the market. The University will provide free transportation to the South Bank campus for the event.

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‘Pitch Perfect 2’ lands Penn Masala for cameo BY EUNICE LIM Staff Writer

Lend them your ears: Penn Masala, Penn’s internationally renowned South Asian all-male a cappella group, will be joining the actors of “Pitch Perfect 2” on the big screen as their musical rivals next May. Penn Masala is the only collegiate a capella group in the movie and one of just two real-world a cappella groups alongside the famous Pentatonix. “Pitch Perfect 2,” set to be released on May 15, 2015, is the sequel to the first “Pitch Perfect” movie, which revolves around

Anna Kendrick’s character Beca, who goes to Barden University and spices up the all-girls a cappella group, the Barden Bellas, while searching for a way to fit in at college. (Spoiler: She fits in at the end). Penn Masala’s journey to the big screen began when the movie’s director, 1996 College graduate Elizabeth Banks, reached out to Masala through Deke Sharon, a notable a cappella producer. “We all ﬂew into Baton Rouge for a week this summer, where we filmed by night and mostly slept and hung out by day,” Penn Masala Presi-

dent Dilip Rajan, a College and Wharton senior, said in an email. The members of Penn Masala do not have any scripted lines in the movie, but Rajan stated that a few impromptu interactions were filmed. While Rajan did not reveal what song, or songs, the group will be performing in “Pitch Perfect 2,” he said audiences can look forward to the “combination of English and Hindi music” that will be performed “in a different way than our usual style.” Some of Rajan’s favorite aspects of being in the film were meeting Banks, Pentatonix and

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the Barden Bellas and having the opportunity to represent Penn “to the millions who see the movie.” Rajan and the other Penn Masala members also got other perks, like being able to hang out with each other on set and a Barden University banner autographed by the cast. “Right now, we’re just grateful for the incredible opportunity we had. The impact [of being in the movie] on our group remains to be seen, but we’re hoping that our family, friends and fans enjoy our performance in ‘Pitch Perfect 2’ when it comes out next May,” Rajan said.

tal were freshmen. Rush declined to speculate on the cause of the increase in hospital transports over last year without further research. DPS also shut down three parties over the weekend, Rush said. There were no arrests for public drunkenness, but the Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement — a branch of the Pennsylvania state police — cited three students under 21 years old for underage drinking. During NSO, DPS gives a 90-minute public safety presentation to incoming freshmen. The alcohol session within the presentation is carried out by the Medical Emergency Response Team.

“It’s not just the Division of Public Safety who is concerned about this,” Rush said. “The whole University is concerned about this.” The University takes a proactive stance in its alcohol-related measures, she said. “There is a lot of work has been done, will be done, continues to be done. But we are also grateful that people did come forth to get other people treated in hospitals. ” Other crimes during NSO include one off-campus burglary, one disorderly conduct, one contempt of court, and two thefts. The suspects in all of these cases were arrested, and none were affiliated with the University.

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Penn graduates can hang their degrees with pride for another 10 years, thanks to the University’s reaccreditation earlier this summer. On June 26, the Middle States Commission on Higher Education reaffirmed the University’s accreditation after a rigorous process which started in October 2012. To obtain reaccreditation, Penn prepared an in-depth self-study report and was reviewed by an evaluation team consisting of faculty members and administrators from peer institutions in late March. The evaluation team was led by Georgetown University President John DeGioia. Although there was little doubt that Penn would receive reaccreditation — as it must every decade — administrators utilized the selfstudy as a means of reviewing undergraduate education on campus. While in 2004, the reaccreditation committee concentrated its efforts on Ph.D. education, this round focused on undergraduate academics. The self-study report outlined six objectives to be completed within in the next five years, including increasing undergraduate socioeconomic diversity, facilitating research opportunities and integrating innovation into instruction with new methods and technologies. Students also played a larger role throughout the process. A student steering committee consisting of 16 students helped to shape the self-study, and a student representative sat on each of the self-study’s seven working groups, excluding finance. In preparation for the 2014 reaccreditation, Penn also instituted a schedule change for the 2013-14 school year. The Pennsylvania Department of Education issued new

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Chillura both wore the number 11 jersey for the Red and Blue. But after Grosso died as the result of a diving accident off the coast of Florida in late July, Chillura opted to switch jersey numbers — he will now wear number 12 — while the Quakers elected to keep the number off the field to remember the twotime Ivy League champion. The decision to move forward in 2014 without the number 11 jersey on the field was one of several notable announcements to come out of Penn’s media day. While speaking to reporters, coach Al Bagnoli — who will retire at the end of the upcoming season — confirmed that sophomore quarterback Alek Torgersen will start the Red and Blue’s season opener against Jacksonville on Sept. 20. The Huntington Beach, Calif., native has seen limited action in his Penn career. In his only appearance, which came in the season finale against Cornell in 2013, he completed six of 10 passes for 197 yards and two touchdowns. “Alek Torgersen is our number one guy, and Patton Chillura is our number two guy,” Bagnoli said. “Alek has a world of ability and it was a nice two-man competition, but if we had to start our season tomorrow, we’d go with Alek backed up by Patton.” Unlike in previous years, Bagnoli does not expect to consistently utilize a two-quarterback system. “If you look back to recent history, we had to protect ourselves in the event that a running quarterback got hurt,” Bagnoli said. “That’s what really got us into a two-quarterback system. If your number one quarterback is going to carry the ball 15 or 20 times per game, you need to treat him like a tailback. “This is a little bit different — our

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If Penn basketball is going to reverse course and rebound from two subpar seasons in 2014-15, junior guard Tony Hicks figures to be an extremely important part for the Red and Blue. Hicks led Penn in scoring last season. However, he will need to be more consistent after the graduation of captains Miles Jackson-Cartwright and Fran Dougherty.

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Alek Torgersen will have enough around him to succeed from the start, turning last year’s 3–4 Ivy finish into a distant memory. I’ll say the Quakers stumble at Dartmouth but take the rest of their six Ivy games. 2. Penn basketball finishes in the bottom half of the Ivy League This wouldn’t be the finish that most diehard fans are looking for, but it is also the most likely. The team loses eight contributors to last year’s squad, including arguably the two most consistent players in Miles Jackson-Cartwright and Fran Dougherty. The only way this prediction ends up going wrong is if Penn’s junior class takes the step forward that many think it can. Guard Tony Hicks and center Darien Nelson-Henry highlight

that class and will be keys to any resurgence for the Red and Blue. 3. Women’s basketball finishes second to Princeton I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but Princeton is still really good, regardless of last year’s finish. Coach Mike McLaughlin’s squad will be a top contender for the Ivy throne after winning it all last year, but Courtney Banghart’s Tigers return more experienced after faltering under pressure last year. I expect it to come down to the final game once again, but with Princeton prevailing this time. 4. Women’s soccer overcomes last year’s finish, makes NCAA Tournament Let’s be perfectly clear: Women’s soccer deserved a bid to last year’s NCAA Tournament, yet somehow the Quakers’ resume was deemed unworthy. One loss to Harvard shouldn’t have kept Penn

out, but this year will be different. Expect the Quakers to finish on top of the Ancient Eight this year and not leave a bid up to chance. 5. Baseball takes the next step and wins the Ivy title Coach John Yurkow’s first season at the helm was full of improvement for the Red and Blue, yet Penn finished without an Ivy crown. Why? One man: Columbia pitcher David Speer. Speer shut out the Quakers twice in the final week of the season, including in a Gehrig Division Playoff that decided Penn’s fate. Speer graduated and no one in Penn’s rotation left, so look for the Quakers on top of the Ancient Eight. 6. I will revisit these predictions in late April and cringe I’ll admit it: I’m going to mess some of this up. But as Taylor Swift suggests, I’ll just shake it off.

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

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quarterbacks are going to be asked to run, but not as much as we relied on Billy [Ragone] to run last year.” On the other side of the ball, senior defensive lineman Jimmy Wagner will not be on the field this season. Defensive coordinator and head coach-in-waiting Ray Priore ruled the veteran tackle out for the season due to a shoulder injury. It will be difficult for the Red and Blue to replace the Wagner’s production this year. The Victor, N.Y., native started all 10 games for Penn in 2013, recording 16 tackles, four tackles for loss and three sacks. In addition to Chillura’s change, several other key Quakers will also be sporting different numbers this season. Torgersen, like Ragone before him, will wear number 10 as he attempts to bring the Red and Blue back to the top of the Ancient Eight. Junior wide receiver Cam Countryman — who wore number 3 as a freshman before switching to 13 following then-senior quarterback Ryan Becker’s return from injury last season — will again sport number 3 in 2014. Senior Spencer Kulcsar, the team’s second-leading rusher in 2013, has shifted from running back to wide receiver and will now wear number 18. Along with Countryman, Kulcsar will attempt to fill the void left by wide receiver Ryan Mitchell, who graduated in May. Perhaps the biggest news of the weekend, though, came from the revelation of the team’s new fourth jersey — grey duds with blue numerals. A video capturing the Red and Blue’s reaction to the uniform reveal went viral earlier this week, and the Quakers took a team photo before the media day began while wearing the new jerseys. “They’re awesome, they’re clean and I hope we wear them a lot,” Kulcsar said. “I love them, they’re sick.”

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MEN’S SOCCER

2013 record: 8-8-2, 5-1-1 Ivy Ivy finish: 1st Key returnee: Senior forward Duke Lacroix In a nutshell: A heartbreaking home loss to Providence in penalty kicks ended Penn’s NCAA Tournament appearance after one game but couldn’t dispel the optimism around the program following a rally from a 2-6 start. The Red and Blue face questions about their back line following the graduation of three seniors.

CROSS-COUNTRY

2013 record: 13-4, 5-2 Ivy Ivy finish: 2nd Key returnee: Junior attack Elizabeth Hitti In a nutshell: Perhaps inspired by the construction of sparkling new Vagelos Field, Penn made a run at the Ivy title, only to be smacked down by Princeton at the end of the season. Repeating such an effort in 2014 will be tougher, as key contributors like goalie Carly Sokach and attack Jasmine Cole have left the team.

2013 Ivy Heptagonal finish: Men-6th, Women-6th Key returnees: Junior Thomas Awad, sophomore Cleo Whiting In a nutshell: Steady progress continues to be made in coach Steve Dolan’s rebuild of the program. In 2013, both Awad and Whiting made the trip to the NCAA championships, with Awad being the first Penn men’s runner to qualify since Courtney Jaworski in 2005.

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2013 record: 4-6, 3-4 Ivy Ivy finish: T-4th Key returnee: Senior defensive back Dan Wilk In a nutshell: Four straight Ivy losses to end the season killed any hopes of repeating 2012’s championship effort. Quarterback Billy Ragone is gone, but Penn returns a deep defensive back seven and receiving corps for coach Al Bagnoli’s final season in command.

SPRINT FOOTBALL

2013 record: 3-4, 2-0 Ivy CSFL finish: 4th Key returnee: Sophomore quarterback Mike McCurdy In a nutshell: Though the Quakers couldn’t keep up with the service academies, 2013 provided plenty of highlights, including a 72-29 trouncing of Princeton. Senior running back Mike Beamish will once be asked again to be the bell cow of Penn’s backfield in his final season.

2013 record: 14-11, 8-6 Ivy Ivy finish: T-3rd Key returnee: Junior outside hitter Alexis Genske In a nutshell: Stellar defense across the board propelled Penn to another solid season, albeit far behind 13-1 champion Yale. Losing Arielle Winfield and the now-graduated Dani Shepherd hurts, but a strong junior class should be able to pick up the slack.

WOMEN’S SOCCER

2013 record: 12-1-4, 5-1-1 Ivy Ivy finish: 2nd Key returnee: Junior back Caroline Dwyer In a nutshell: Despite ending the season on an 8-0-2 run, Darren Ambrose’s squad was left out in the cold by the NCAA tournament selection committee. Returnees like Dwyer (a 3rd team All-American last year) and goalkeeper Kalijah Terilli should keep the Quakers in contention for an Ivy title — as they perennially seem to be. GRAPHIC BY JENNY LU

Predicting the future STEVEN TYDINGS

t’s a new year for Penn Athletics — and with a new year comes new predictions. Previous sports editors have hit and missed on their prognostications to various degrees. My goal is to beat all my predecessors, giving everyone some top-notch predictions that can’t be proven wrong (but very likely will). Without further ado, here’s are some fool-proof predictions

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for the 2014–15 sports season: 1. Penn football will send Al Bagnoli out on top … sort of What does that mean you ask? Simple: Penn football will win the Ivy League title in 2014 but have to share it with one of their Ivy foes. In this way, I can stick with my ballot for the Ivy League Preseason Media Poll and keep Princeton atop the Ivy League. W h ile Pen n was ra n ked fourth initially within that poll, the Red and Blue are as good as any team in the league. With a ton of experience returning at the skill positions and on defense, sophomore quarterback

Over the course of four seasons with Penn football, Joey Grosso left his mark on Franklin Field. Now, less than a month after the 2013 College graduate and former Red and Blue linebacker’s death, the Quakers have crafted a plan to honor the recent graduate’s memory. At the team’s media day on Monday, Penn revealed that no player will wear Grosso’s former number 11 jersey in 2014. Since 2011, the linebacker was one of several Quakers to share a number with a teammate; Grosso and now-senior quarterback Patton

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With a new season comes new uniforms for Penn football. The team displayed its new gray uniforms on Monday’s media day event. The Quakers honored former teammate Joey Grosso, who died this offseason, by not wearing his jersey number 11.

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