March 26, 2014

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Ongoing Investigation: Mental Health at Penn

CAPS staff increase unrelated to suicides

BY JILL CASTELLANO Staff Writer

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ollowing the fifth student suicide in 12 months, the University announced in February that it would create new permanent clinical positions at Counseling and Psychological Services for this fall, a move that administrators say likely would have occurred even without the student deaths.

CAPS has come under scrutiny this semester after two undergraduates committed suicide several weeks apart. Much of the dialogue has focused on long wait times to schedule an appointment at CAPS, a function of high demand for its services.

In February, the University established a commission to study student mental health at Penn.

In an email sent to students and parents on Feb. 6, high-level administrators announced that CAPS would hire several new staffers to meet the increased student need.

While the announcement was expedited by several weeks due to increased mental health concerns, administrators said the budget request for more counselors was already submitted and was expected to be approved later this semester as part of the University’s tendency to adjust CAPS’ services over time.

Opening up positions Even though Penn announced the new hires shortly following student suicides this semester, the changes have been in the works for many months.

Each year, the budgeting process for CAPS begins in September with the Budget Steering Committee, a group that includes Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vince Price. The committee plans for the upcoming fiscal year, which begins on July 1 and ends June 30. It divides up the money in the general fee — the “fees” in “tuition and fees” — to organizations like the Division of Public Safety, the Annenberg Center and the Division of the Vice Provost for University Life, which CAPS operated under.

“Before the student deaths happened, because the budget process started a long time ago, we had in the budget a request for additional funds for additional counselors,” Associate Vice Provost for University Life Max King said. “Part of that is reflected in the University’s announcement that they are committing more money.”

Since the 2006 fiscal year — not including the new positions for the fall — Penn has increased its funding for CAPS by 82 percent, with an average annual growth rate of 7.8 percent per year, according to records kept

by Bonnie Gibson, Penn’s vice president of budget and management analysis. This includes 11 new full-time professionals, two part-time professionals and one postdoctoral position. In comparison, since the 2006 fiscal year, the average amount of funding for divisions that receive money from the general fee has increased by 17 percent over the same time period, or 2 percent per year.

Gibson declined to provide more specific information, including the amount of money CAPS receives in absolute terms.

Prior to the most recent hires, the last request was made for the 2012 fiscal year, when Penn provided CAPS with funding for four more staff members.

CAPS’ budgeting process starts every year when Director of CAPS Bill Alexander sends King a breakdown of the expected cost of running CAPS during the next fiscal year, which they discuss before sending the proposal to the Budget Steering Committee for approval.

“CAPS is under the microscope in this process,” Alexander said. “We are very poked and prodded.”

VPUL looks at the number of students who visit CAPS to determine whether additional counselors are needed, King said.

The close scrutiny of CAPS is part of VPUL’s increasing trend to make its departments accountable for the work that they do, Alexander said.

“It was easy for CAPS because as psychologists and social workers, we’re measuring our work all the time anyway,” Alexander said. CAPS has a depression screening measure and an outcome questionnaire to assess the severity of students’ symptoms and their progress in treatment. This information is aggregated and sent to VPUL in monthly reports.

CAPS’ monthly reports also include data on the demographic information of students who visit CAPS and the number of students seeing counselors, Alexander said. The Steering Committee reviews the information when it decides whether or not to pay for new CAPS staff, which helps weigh CAPS’ requests against the requests from other departments. The detailed information that CAPS provides for the Budget Steering Committee is more extensive than what other departments provide, Gibson said.

VPUL declined to provide any of CAPS’ monthly reports for the article.

“If they have a request, we need to know the justification for that request,” Gibson said. “We hear everybody’s requests and then we look at what resources are available and which requests are the top priorities. In any given year, there are requests that are funded and requests that are turned down.”

In the case of CAPS, however, Alexander and King couldn’t recall any requests for additional CAPS staff that had ever been turned down. CAPS has increased its staff every two or three years for the past 10 years, according to Alexander.

“It’s clear that more and more of our students use CAPS’ services — that’s the reason that they have tended to be funded,” Gibson said. “If they said to us, ‘Well, we’re not seeing any increase in demand but we’d like to add more people anyway,’ they probably would not get those resources.”

The staff members at CAPS vary widely in expertise and cost — they include social workers, psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, doctoral students and receptionists.

Psychiatry positions are the most expensive to pay for, while receptionist positions are relatively inexpensive.

In the fall, CAPS will hire either three or four new professional counselors, depending on the cost. This year, though, Penn announced its budget decision in February rather than the typical mid- to late-March due to the recent student suicides.

“We know that the needs of the community are placing greater than ever demand on our valuable student support teams,” the

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White, Penn hoops alum, remembered one year later His widow will negotiate outlines of plea at hearing on Wednesday

BY MIKE TONY Senior Staff Writer Rick Talisman was in Abu Dhabi on a business trip on Feb. 11 last year when a routine email check revealed that something had gone very wrong nine time zones away.

A friend had messaged him offering prayers to both him and the family of his childhood friend Matt.

“So I googled ‘Matt White basketball,’” Talisman said. “And lo and behold, here comes this article about Reyes having killed him.”

The news was as incomprehensible as it was true.

Matt White, 1979 College graduate and starting center on Penn’s 1979 Final Four men’s basketball team, had been stabbed to death at his Media, Pa., home, allegedly by his wife of 28 years, Maria Reyes Garcia-Pellon. Garcia-Pellon, who told investigators that she had caught him looking at child pornography, was charged

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(From left) Bob Astrove, Rick Talisman, Matt White, Jon Talisman and David Trebach gather at Rick’s Carderock, Md., home. The group remained close from youth until White’s death. with criminal homicide, possession of an instrument of crime and first- and third-degree murder.

Now, 13 months later, GarciaPellon’s lawyer, Kathy Labrum, is in negotiations with the Office of Delaware County District Attorney Jack Whelan, in hopes of both

sides agreeing to the outlines of a plea at a case status hearing to be held at the Delaware County Courthouse Wednesday morning, leaving the entry of a guilty plea and setting up sentencing for the SEE WHITE PAGE 8

PennApps An inside look Fellows wins at the Teach $25,000 prize for America catch-22 The prize will pay for the internship program’s housing

BY LAURA ANTHONY Deputy News Editor

TFA members try to help struggling schools — but do they deliver?

The PennApps Fellows Internship Program just got $25,000 richer.

PennApps Fellows, a new internship program launching this summer that will bring 10 students from all over the country to work at Philadelphia startup companies, was one of five winners of the second round of grants awarded by the Philadelphia Department of Commerce’s Startup PHL Call for Ideas.

These awards, which are intended to support entrepreneurship and student engagement with Philadelphia’s tech community, will grant up to $500,000 in totalto help jumpstart local startup projects.

“We fit that almost perfectly,” Engineering sophomore and PennApps Fellows co-founder Fabio Fleitas said. “We want to get people to come here to work on Philly startups and grow

Teach for America is one of the top three employers of recent Penn graduates. But how much good are corps members really doing?

Teaching for two years in an underfunded school, TFA instructors face challenges that some say cannot — and should not — be handled by non-certified educators, according to panelists at Tuesday night’s Teach for America Truth Tour. The nationwide tour’s stop at Penn was co-hosted by the Penn Education Society and the United Students Against Sweatshops national student labor organization.

2011 TFA Chicago corps member Chad Sommer and community engagement coordinator

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LAVERNE COX SPEAKS AT PENN

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Actress, writer and transgender activist Laverne Cox spoke at Penn Tuesday night as part of QPenn, the annual week-long celebration of LGBTQIA culture. Cox is the second transgender activist to be the keynote speaker of QPenn, following Janet Mock last year.

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Crime Log: March 14-20

Science and art collide high above the atrium floor

Theft: Bike theft: 3 Theft all other: 1 Theft from building: 4 Retail theft: 3

The statue — called ‘Homologous Hope’ — depicts DNA

Arrests from theft: March 14, 2014: A 33-yearold unaffiliated male was arrested in connection with a theft in the category “theft all other.”

March 17, 2014: A 37-yearold unaffiliated female and a 38-year-old unaffiliated male were arrested in connection with a theft from building.

March 19, 2014: A 34-yearold unaffiliated male was arrested in connection with a retail theft.

BY BRENDA WANG Deputy News Editor Blurring the boundaries between art and science, a monumental new sculpture was unveiled on March 12, inspiring hope for cancer research.

Called “Homologous Hope,” the structure floats “like a cloud” in the airy glass atrium of the Basser Research Center for BRCA, artist Mara Haseltine said.

Its delicate appearance belies its weight — the sculpture consists of almost 560 pounds of carbon fiber suspended from the ceiling by a stainless steel ring weighing almost 400 pounds.

“Homologous Hope” is also remarkable because it is a scientifically accurate reproduction of DNA repair through the process of homologous recombination.

Through an LED light show, the sculpture depicts the protein BRCA2 repairing a damaged strand of DNA, a process crucial in preventing breast, ovarian and pancreatic cancers.

Roger Greenberg, the Director of Basic Science at the Basser Center and professor of cancer biology at the Perelman School of Medicine, was one of the researchers who lent their scientific expertise to the design of the sculpture.

Those involved in the project wanted the DNA repair process to be “depicted artistically but still be faithful to the process,”

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Robbery: March 16, 2014: People who were meeting an unknown person at the University City Sheraton, located at 3549 Chestnut St., reported at about 5:00 a.m. that three unknown males arrived and demanded money. The unk nown males f led with a wallet, laptop and money.

This statue, “Homologous Hope” by Mara Haseltine, was unveiled on March 12 at the Basser Research Center. It is a scientifically accurate representation of DNA repair.

Greenberg said. “It’s really a beautiful capture of how these proteins work to prevent cancer.”

Haseltine, who worked on “Homologous Hope” for a year and a half, said she set out to “create hope.” Her work demonstrates her fascination with sculpting scientific narratives.

“I come from a family of scientists, so I was always around science growing up,” she said. “I love science and I worked in my father’s lab growing up.”

After studying studio art and art history at Oberlin College and receiving her master’s degree at the San Francisco Art Institute, Haseltine went on to develop her own work inspired by the “grand gestures” of environmental work like Robert Smithson’s famous sculpture Spiral Jetty.

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“I really like making sitespecific work so that it’s about the story about what the science is at a particular university or lab,” Haseltine said. Molecular structures in particular inspire her because their “forms look really abstract because they exist in a reality where gravity doesn’t really pull on them.”

“Homologous Hope” was commissioned by the University to commemorate the research done at the Basser Center, which is the first of its kind to focus on BRCA. The center was established with a $25 million gift from Mindy and Jon Gray, 1992 College and 1992 College and Wharton graduates, respectively. In January, the Grays committed an additional $5 million to an external grant project run by Penn to expand BRCA research.

Defiant Trespass: March 14, 2014: A person was found loitering at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, located at 3400 Spruce St., at about 5:30 p.m. after being warned to leave and not return. The suspect, a 59-year-old unaffiliated male, was issued a citation.

Public Urination: March 15, 2014: Police observed a person urinating on a wall in public view at

the intersection of 39th and Chestnut streets at about 3:30 p.m. The suspect, a juvenile, was issued a citation.

March 15, 2014: Police observed a person urinating on a wall in public view on the 3900 block of Walnut Street at about 4:10 p.m. The suspect, a 20-year-old unaffiliated male, was issued a citation.

March 15, 2014: At about 5:30 p.m. a person was observed urinating on the highway at the intersection of 39th and Chestnut streets. The suspect, a 23-year-old unaffiliated female, was issued a citation.

Disorderly Conduct: March 15, 2014: At about 4:20 p.m., a 23-year-old unaffiliated male was arrested at Cavanaugh’s, located at 119 South 39th St., for fighting on the highway.

March 20, 2014: At about 11:50 a.m., a person created a disturbance on the highway on the 4100 block of Walnut Street, which created a hazardous condition.

The suspect, a 50-year-old unaffiliated female, was issued a citation.

Fraud: Ma rch 17, 2014: At PNC Bank, located at 200 South 40th St., a 23-year-old affiliated female reported at about 9:30 a.m. that she received a fraudulent check in exchange for a valid money transfer.

ugh’s, a 44-year-old unaffiliated male reported at 5:00 p.m. that he received threatening phone calls.

Assault: March 15, 2014: At about 3:30 p.m., an unknown person struck a 21-year-old unaffiliated female in the head with a bottle at the intersection of 39th and Chestnut streets. The strike caused a laceration.

Other Assault: March 17, 2014: A confidential incident in the category “other assault” was reported.

Sex Offense: March 14, 2014: A male exposed himself to a person who reported the incident.

Public Drunkenness: March 15, 2014: At 6:45 p.m. on the 3800 block of Walnut St., a 25-year-old unaffiliated male who was involved in a fight was cited for public drunkenness and disorderly conduct. The witness to the incident refused to press charges for assault.

March 15, 2014: At about 8:20 p.m., a person was told to leave Drinker’s Pub, located at 1903 Chestnut St., but refused to comply. The suspect, a 21-year-old unaffiliated male, was arrested for public drunkenness and disorderly conduct at the intersection of 39th and Chestnut streets.

Harassment: March 20, 2014: At Cavana-

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TFA terms are only two years long TEACH from page 1 for the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers Evette Jones said that TFA’s methods may be hurting America’s education system. TFA attempts “to eliminate the educational inequalities that currently exist along our nation’s racial and economic divides,” according to their website. However, according to the event’s panelists, there are inherent problems with TFA’s system that undermine their efforts.

“So many recent undergrads with no job experience, no work history, no track record of success besides their academic careers are getting hired after five-minute interviews,” Sommer said. “TFA actually organizes interviews

like speed-dating ... It was like American Idol. Somebody would come out into the room like ‘Woohoo, I got a job offer!’ literally after a five-minute speed-dating session.”

Schools can exploit TFA for cheap labor, said Sommer. TFA requires a member to accept their first teaching offer after interviewing with school principals. These members are often in debt from recent education loans and don’t want to risk expulsion from the program by rejecting their first offer.

Knowing that TFA members are under pressure to accept an offer, the school principals have no incentive to offer corps members any training or salary beyond what Teach for America offers them, Sommer said.

“Forty-nine Chicago district schools closed down. So now ... you have a teacher who maybe is an experienced teacher with five to six years of experience making a decent middle-class living of $60,000 to $70,000 a year who has to compete for a job being offered to a corps

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member for $32,000,” Sommer said. “That’s the mechanism that undermines the labor market in big cities like Chicago.”

Many of the schools also lack adequate programs to support the endeavors of TFA teachers, Sommer said. Their low salary in combination with a lack of material resources, such as curriculums, libraries and classroom supplies, places the burden on the teachers to adequately supply their students.

Furthermore, some charter schools factor spots for TFA members into their business model, which encourages the installment of temporary teachers in place of those more entrenched in the education system. TFA terms are two years in length.

Sommer learned from an anonymous TFA alum that the principal at his charter school welcomed him by saying, “I have you for two years. I am going to work you to death. And then someone else will come and replace you.”

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CORRECTION A front page story in Tuesday, March 25th’s issue (UA passes budget increasing SAC and Hey Day funds) incorrectly stated the increase in SAC’s budget. It increased by 6.94 percent, not 10.39 percent this year and increased 6.87 percent last year. It also incorrectly stated the increase in class board budgets. The junior class board budget increased by 4 percent and the freshman class board budget did not change. The DP regrets the error.

HANNAH ROSENFELD is a College freshman from Tokyo, Japan. Her email address is hannahro@sas.upenn.edu.

Trigger happy?

WHAT’S THE T? | Trigger warnings may take a little thought, but they’re a matter of being considerate

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n a recent article published on New R e public, author Jenny Jarvie expresses her c onc er n s over t he quickly-spreading supposed “overuse” of trigger warnings.

For those who may not know, trigger warnings — sometimes called content warnings — are brief descriptors placed at the beginning of a piece of media whose purpose is to alert the reader that potentially harmful or triggering content lies ahead. Some common tr iggers include sexual assault, blood, alcohol, food and death. (In the coming paragraph, I will briefly describe what it can feel like to be triggered, which in and of itself can be upsetting to some, so take caution.)

To be triggered is an experience that varies greatlyfrom person to person, but it is something that is very serious and unpleasant. It often takes the form of involuntary physical and/or emotional reactions, such as flashbacks and panic attacks, when one

is exposed to something that reminds them of a particular traumatic experience or fear.

Jarvie’s article critiques the spread of trigger warnings in places like the classroom and argues their use is going too far, preventing students from engaging with important material. Since this article has been circulating around, many have been supporting Jarvie’s argument and agreeing that trigger warnings are getting a bit out of hand.

The idea that trigger warnings are getting out of hand is simply false. They may be drawing more attention than they used to, but they are still far from widespread, and many people who are triggered by certain things would tell you that the use of trigger warnings should continue to grow. College sophomore Rob’n Laurelli recalls a recent personal experience in which trigger warnings would have made a world of difference.

“I was talking with one of my friends, and we were discussing how we both felt triggered

by the suicide articles that were showing up on our Facebook news feeds without any sort of trigger warning,” she recalls. “You never know what

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true that people who are triggered by certain things will inevitably face those things in their lives, why wouldn’t we do everything that we can to

Oftentimes, it is not simply a matter of someone needing to ‘get over’ their trigger. It may be impossible or extremely difficult to do so, and in any case, it is not up to someone else to decide that it is time for someone to face these issues.” experiences people may have had with mental illness, selfharm, etc., and I think it’s — at the very least — considerate to be conscious of those things when posting on social media.”

One of the main arguments I have heard against the use of trigger warnings is that since the real world doesn’t come with them, using them prevents people from “toughening up” so that they can face the things that will inevitably harm them. While it is

lessen the number of those instances?

This argument ignores the very real lived experiences of people who are triggered by specific things. Oftentimes, it is not simply a matter of someone needing to “get over” their trigger. It may be impossible or extremely difficult to do so, and in any case, it is not up to someone else to decide that it is time for someone to face these issues.

Furthermore, this argu-

ment is based on a flawed logic that says it is either all or nothing: that we would either have to censor everything or force people to face their triggers all the time. In reality, we can — and with trigger warnings, we do — help one another out in individual instances.

Jarvie concludes her article by saying that structuring our discourse around “the most fragile personal sensitivities” only serves to restrict society as a whole. Not only does this mislabel and simplify a diverse group of people who suffer from triggers as “fragile,” but it forcibly reframes the situation so as to put the focus on those who will not benefit from trigger warnings. We must remember that even though it may take a bit of effort and time to incorporate trigger warnings into our media, we cannot forget the immense benefits that they have.

It’s very disappointing that people are getting upset at this display of people looking out for one another’s comfort and safety. I challenge you to ques-

RODERICK COOK tion why it is so important for you to say that trigger warnings are a bad thing, despite the fact that they exist for important reasons and many people appreciate and benefit from their usage.

We must stop the pervasive thinking that we can possibly know what is best for others more than they know what is best for themselves. If somebody says that they are triggered by something, we need to listen and respect that. In doing so, we display our ability to empathize with others and make our interactions safer for everyone.

RODERICK COOK is a College sophomore from Nesquehoning, Pa. studying gender, sexuality and women’s studies. Cook can be reached at rodcookdp@gmail.com.

Could the real Gabe Delaney please stand up?

GUEST COLUMN BY XAVIER FLORY

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is biceps bulging in a tight black butt onup, Gabe Dela ney ask s us whether we think he will be a doormat or matador if elected to be President of the Undergraduate Assembly at Penn.

With the UA rocked by the near impeachment of its current president and student apathy towards student government at a peak, what is Gabe Delaney tr ying to achieve by basing his entire campaign off the TV show, “House of Cards?” The TV show epitomizes everything people hate about politics in general and the UA in particular: corruption, self-serving

members and inefficiency.

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[Delaney’s] current persona not only contradicts his past compaigns, but also Gabe himself.”

Del a ney is no pol it ic a l novice — he has been campaigning ever since he got to Penn, and his image has changed with every election.

In his unsuccessful bid to be the 2015 Class President, he addressed his voters in a

suit, grandiosely proclaiming in his campaign video that “Our moment is here; ou r moment i s now.” He was defeated by a vibrant Ariel Koren campaign that focused on the community rather than on herself. Delaney learned some lessons from his defeat, and the slogan of his successful campaign to be vice-president of the UA was “Gabe Delaney, Make Honesty Your Policy.”

In his video, he mainly let supporters do the talking, and at the end of the video, even dances w ith a baseball cap on. The hues of his promotional materials were war mer and the message was clear: Gabe is an honest , dow n-to - ear th leader who cares about Penn and knows how to have fun.

This year, however, Gabe tries to balance two contrived and contradictory images. In the colorful A4 posters hung up around campus, a beaming Gabe in a bow tie tells voters to “Be the change you want to see.” On his websit,e he says he aspires to “reconstitute what it means to be a UA member — our work should be about service, advocacy and action.” Meanwhile, in his campaign video and most of his other promotional materials, the colors are dark, and the music and images are taken from “House of Cards,” which of course is all about rank ambition and corruption.

W hat’s ba f f l i ng is why Gabe felt the need to change the image that served him so well last year. The current

persona not only contradicts his past campaigns, but also Gabe himself. As ambitious and self-serving as he may be, he also is honest about his goals and motives. In his UA profile, he admits that serving on the UA is a learning opportunity for his larger ambition of holding elected office, and in conversation, he asks for my number “because you seem like someone important to know.”

But beyond t he hea r t y slaps on the back and the firm handshakes, there is more than just another politician. Gabe enjoys the process of politics and admires the rhetoric of the greatest presidents of the past, but even a short conversation with him shows that he is informed and cares about the issues

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His hand gestures become animated and his voice determined when talking about mental health in person, and yet in his campaign video, he talks about the problem while imitating the accent of Frank Under wood, the slick and self-serving hero of “House of Cards.”

Gabe isn’t slick, and he’s misread the Penn community if he thinks that channeling that image can help him get elected. He, and the rest of us, would be better served if instead of a cheap persona, he introduced voters to the real Gabe Delaney.

XAVIER FLORY is a College junior from Nokesville, Va. His email address is xflory@sas.upenn.edu.

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State senator on Philly schools: Why have ‘artificial boundaries’?

Anthony Williams advocates school choice and education

BY JENN WRIGHT Contributing Writer Penn Democrats hosted Pennsylvania State Senator and Democratic Whip Anthony Hardy Williams Monday night in the LGBT Center as part of their Fireside Chat speaker series.

The discussion centered on the current situation of education in Philadelphia, among other topics related to current and future legislation in Pennsylvania. State Rep. Jordan Harris attended the event with Williams.

In Philadelphia, students must attend neighborhood schools, but Williams is an advocate of school choice. “Why do we have artificial boundaries of where a person goes to school?” he asked. Williams is in support of restructuring the distribution of funding among schools, but expressed a bigger concern about the everyday effects of irregular school funding on students and families.

Williams said that students relegated to poorer neigh-

borhood schools want to see problems like security and curriculum addressed now.

Discussing the issue in the State Senate, Williams said, is not an adequate response for students who feel the impact every day.

“You can’t put upon a poor person that we’re going to argue about this in the legislature,” he said. “Somebody who is in Clearfield County who doesn’t care about a kid in Philadelphia is not going to vote for the bill, [anyway].”

“Choice is not the toolbox, it’s just a tool in the toolbox,” Harris added, emphasizing that parents are taking their children out of local schools rather than advocating for changes.

One member of the audience said that some Philadelphia students are ill-equipped to enter the workforce due to lack of basic skills. “Everybody gets defensive when you talk about this, like it’s an indictment against teachers and principals — it’s not,” Williams said. “Everybody has some skin in this game.”

Harris believes it is important to first discuss what is being done with the current allocations of money

before talking about how education in practice is being approached. “We have to separate the rhetoric that we read and that we hear from what is actually happening on the ground,” he said. Williams agreed it is important to look at “what we’re doing with the money we have.”

Williams also discussed his views on the legalization and decriminalization of marijuana, the advancement of legislation on sex trafficking and the privatization of liquor sales in the state.

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BY JENNY LU Staff Writer After on-campus housing selection concluded on Feb. 27, only two residents chose a new room type being piloted in Du Bois College House. As a result, the proposed new room configurations will not be offered next year.

At the end of last semester, Du Bois and Residential Services announced that some triples in the college house would be offered as quads for the next semester. The current triples consist of three singles with one room much larger than the others, and the new quad room type would convert the larger room into a double.

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Du Bois House Dean Trish “The students who selected Williams said this result of the singles were not impact- the room type pilot was not ed at all by the change,” he unexpected. “While I really added. hoped the pilot would work As part of the pilot pro- for students seeking a better gram, the room configuration option financially, it was not change would have come with a surprise to me,” she said in a rent decrease from $9,810 an email. a year to $8,330 . When the She said that years ago, Du pilot was announced, Eckman Bois did have three-bedroom explained it intended to offer quads for freshmen, but they what may be a more finan- discontinued that room type. cially feasible option for some Students seem to have always students. valued personal privacy, she In December, reactions said. from Du Bois residents about Despite the results of the offering the new room type room type pilot, Williams is were mixed. All students in- confident it won’t affect Du terviewed at the time indi- Bois. “We remain the same cated they likely would not opt tight-knit community we’ve WISDOM TEETH for it during housing selection, always been,” RESEARCH she said.

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CAPS from page 1 Feb. 6 email from Gutmann, Price and Executive Vice President Craig Carnaroli said. “As a result, we are taking immediate steps to expand our mental health efforts and to ensure that we are doing everything possible to reach and support students in distress.”

Gutmann declined to discuss the specifics of the CAPS hiring decision, instead deferring to the Provost’s Office. The Provost’s Office, in turn, declined an interview request, deferring to Gibson.

“The decision was made earlier to allow CAPS to move faster on the interviewing and hiring people,” Gibson said.

Still, Alexander expected that Penn would have chosen to provide the counseling positions even without the student deaths, just in an announcement a few weeks later.

The tradeoff Even when new counselors are hired, students may still face a substantial wait time to get an initial appointment.

There’s a tradeoff: CAPS’ capacity to take on more students increases, but more students also request appointments — so the wait time doesn’t decrease significantly, Alexander said.

The wait time at CAPS has grown over the years due to a gradual increase in demand for CAPS’ services, Alexander added, which is why CAPS requests new counselors so frequently. Even when the new counselors cut down the wait time initially, it soon starts to rise again as more people request appointments. CAPS is currently at the highest demand in its history.

The average wait time in fiscal year 2013 was 13.2 days, Alexander said in a January interview. However, The Daily Pennsylvanian reported last week that some students have had to wait over five weeks for an initial appointment.

The new CAPS positions created in 2012 followed backlash from students on the significant growth of wait times since 2008, when a budget freeze kept CAPS from hiring any more counselors. For the 2012 hires, CAPS sent more extensive information on wait times to VPUL than usual, and Penn made the new positions that year specifically to help cut down the wait, Gibson said.

“If there is growth in the number of people you are serving, and if adding additional resources would make that easier and better for students, then that’s what we’re going to do,”

Gibson said.

At some point, CAPS will have enough staff to fulfill the entire demand for services.

But CAPS has yet to reach that “saturation point,” so when it adds counselors, more students request appointments.

Any estimate of when the University will reach that point would be “pure speculation,” Alexander said.

At peer institutions — Ivy League universities and other schools similar to Penn — the saturation point is somewhere between 18 and 22 percent of the student body, according to Alexander. Last year, CAPS saw at least 13 percent of the student body, and this year it expects to see at least 15 per-

how rigorously CAPS follows that policy. In the 2011 fiscal year, 54 percent of patients attended between one and five therapy sessions, and only 9 percent of CAPS clients attended more than 25 sessions, according to the 2011 DP article.

Case notes provided to the DP by Nick Garg — a former CAPS psychiatrist who was fired in 2012 — describe an undergraduate who visited CAPS in the September of 2011. She had been previously diagnosed with depression and bipolar disorder and initially agreed with the psychology trainee working on her case to go through short-term treatment, the notes read.

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on the resources available at CAPS, how to identify signs of depression and who to turn to if someone needs help.

“One of our biggest challenges is just the decentralized nature of this campus. It’s so hard to get access to students,” Meeta Kumar, director of outreach and prevention at CAPS, said.

CAPS works to solve this problem in part through its liaison program, which links CAPS workers to about 80 liaisons — like professors and assistants in the Weingarten Learning Resources Center— who engage with students in different ways.

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already seeing a counselor.

“I don’t think they get many depressed students who need help,” she said.

Rachel never went back to Weingarten after her first meeting. She decided to stay at CAPS until she felt better a few months later, and her grades eventually picked up, she said.

Similar to Rachel’s experience with Weingarten, referrals to CAPS by liaisons are common, Alexander said.

The liaison program and other CAPS outreach initiatives allow CAPS to reach more students in need, meaning the demand for its clinical services continues to grow, Kumar, the outreach director, said.

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cent with the new counselors.

In 2006, CAPS served 9.5 percent of the student population, compared to 13 percent in 2011.

The percentage rose in part because of the addition of new counselors in 2008 who could take on more patients, according to a 2011 DP article.

Penn currently has about 600 students per staff member at CAPS, according to the CAPS staff directory website, ranking fifth-best in the Ivy League in terms of student-to-staff ratio.

According to information on the websites of the other Ivy League counseling centers, the average number of students per staff member is around 550.

Yale has the lowest ratio, at around 215 students per staff member, and Harvard has the largest ratio, at around 880 students per staff member.

Although other university counseling centers have been able to reach their saturation points, Alexander said, that doesn’t necessarily mean that they have more counselors or more support from their universities. Instead, some schools put a cap on the number of sessions for each student before referring them to an outside provider — a practice that Alexander said CAPS rejects.

In at least some cases, however, there are questions about

break, she sought out her previous therapist for help, who advised that she stop seeing CAPS because “she always felt pushed out of CAPS,” according to the notes.

With new counselors beginning in the fall, CAPS could add a permanent increase of 15 more sessions a week — but the initial dent in the wait time from the new hires could rise again, meaning CAPS still might need to request for more counselors.

“It’s the chicken and the egg — if you build it, they will come,” Alexander said. “But not forever.”

Splitting staff Most of the money that CAPS receives from the Steering Committee goes to salaries for staff members. But not all of each counselor’s efforts are devoted to counseling, which also makes it more difficult to reduce the wait time.

CAPS recommends that counselors devote at least 65 percent of their time to seeing patients — the rest can be devoted to clinical work or to work done outside of the office as part of CAPS’ outreach and prevention services. The outreach and prevention work involves meeting with student groups and professors to educate them

with faculty and staff a lot,” Alexander said. “When they are wondering, ‘I think I have a student in my class who might be depressed, but I don’t know how to talk to the student,’ they call us all the time. They say, ‘Can you come talk to us about how to manage a student we’re worried about?’”

However, some students have spoken about a lack of communication between CAPS and other departments.

“It kind of seemed like every department was separate to me,” said Rachel, a College junior who requested her name be changed for confidentiality reasons.

In the spring of 2013, Rachel went to CAPS when she developed depression after the death of her grandfather. CAPS recommended that Rachel speak to her academic advisor because her depression was affecting her schoolwork. When she contacted her advisor, she was told that advisors don’t communicate with professors on behalf of students. The advisor recommended she go to Weingarten for more help with her academics, Rachel said.

“So I went to Weingarten, and they didn’t know what to do with the situation,” she said.

Weingarten referred Rachel back to CAPS, where she was

“In theory it sounds like yes, maybe we want you to carve out some time and make yourself available for outreach activities, but once you take on X number of clients, you’re just booked for those hours in a week,” Kumar said. “And for many staff who are doing outreach there’s a little bit of a double whammy because once you’re out there ... you then end up bringing many of those students over as your clients.”

CAPS measures the satisfaction and efficacy of its outreach initiatives and its clinical work and sends the data to VPUL, so administrators can see how CAPS uses its money and how

effective its efforts are before deciding the next year’s budget.

“Obviously this year CAPS is doing a lot of outreach,” King, the associate vice provost at VPUL , said. “Every day they are going to various student groups, to departments, to the college houses — they’re meeting with different groups and working with them to try and process people’s reactions to the campus climate right now.”

CAPS refers to these efforts as “postventions,” which follow times of high stress on campus.

Most of the efforts happen on nights and weekends, when student groups meet.

“In the last few months, everyone’s just been incredibly stretched,” Kumar said.

Before Penn ultimately decided to hire new counselors for the fall, CAPS received money for three temporary counseling positions for the rest of the school year to help with outreach initiatives, Alexander said. Since CAPS did not receive money from the general fee for these temporary positions — because it was not expecting to hire these counselors — VPUL paid for them with its reserve of undesignated funds, which it can use throughout the school year at its discretion.

“We keep some money in a reserve pool because things happen during the year, and so when we saw a need for getting some additional counseling ability at CAPS right away, we were able to free up money,” King said.

When CAPS hired the temporary counselors, Alexander said, the wait time instantly dropped to three days from the usual two to three weeks. But it will rise as the counselors fill their time slots with students in need.

“Day to day, year to year, we look at this stuff,” King said. “Here’s that big pile of requests, and here’s that not as big pile of money, and we have to make decisions.”

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White known for his straight talk WHITE from page 1 very near future. “We are hopeful that the Court will agree to a sentence that recognizes the absence of any criminal intent on the part of Mrs. Garcia-Pellon,� Labrum said.

According to Labrum, Garcia-Pellon was suffering from schizophrenia at the time of the murder and is “totally mentally competent� when medicated.

Garcia-Pellon has been staying at the George W. Hill Correctional Facility in Thornton, Pa., since last February.

Whelan said in February that investigators did not hear any reference to child pornography in their initial interviews with Garcia-Pellon, and White’s friends have been angered by the still lingering association between White and child pornography from her initial accusations. “The whole story about what his wife said and all the things about why she had to do it and stuff, none of it ever made any sense to anybody who knew Matt,� White’s former Penn basketball teammate Bruce Bergwall said.

None of it makes any more sense now to White’s closest Penn basketball teammates and childhood friends, all of whom wrestle daily with the memory of Matt and the shock that still remains.

From ‘Leave it to Beaver’ to the Final Four On Feb. 22, 1966, third-grader Bob Astrove walked from his new house at 7909 Park Overlook Lane to the bus stop and met Matt White for the first time. It was the start of a 47-year friendship.

Astrove and Talisman were White’s neighbors growing up in Carderock Springs, Md., a subdivision of Bethesda. They were classmates at Carderock Elementary School and Cabin John Junior High School. “Have you ever seen ‘Leave it to Beaver’? That was our life growing up,� Astrove said. “We had the stereotypical happy childhood.�

It was a happy childhood that included plenty of sports from the very beginning. “Basketball was never fun,�

Astrove said. “We’d have to make it five-on-two to make it fair.�

White always won anyway.

Of course, it didn’t hurt that White, who eventually grew to be 6-foot-11, towered over his peers from elementary school on. As a wide receiver, first baseman, ping pong player and, later, drinker, White always used his colossal frame to his advantage. “He could hold it better than the rest of us,� Astrove remembered.

White and his younger broth-

er, Michael, were both adopted

by Howard and Betty White, who already had a daughter, Sally.

White’s father was a physicist who worked for the federal government, having been educated at the prestigious Choate Rosemary Hall boarding school in Connecticut, the same private school that John F. Kennedy attended.

Howard White made sure his son was shipped off to Choate too. “I always got the feeling at Choate he felt a little bit like an outsider,� Talisman said. “I think he felt a little bit awkward not being a preppy kind of kid in what was certainly a preppy school.�

Still, White was able to come home during academic breaks, including summers, and he excelled while starring on the Choate basketball team. “That’s really where he developed into the athlete,� Astrove said.

Howard White had followed up his Choate education by attending Princeton, and Matt wanted to do the same. But longtime Princeton basketball coach Pete Carril wouldn’t guarantee White a spot on the team, so he joined the Tigers’ archrivals instead as a walk-on. “He grew two inches and earned his way into the program,� White’s former Penn basketball teammate, Randy Eckman, said. “It wasn’t given to him.�

Bergwall was White’s backup in the frontcourt and had to deal with White’s physicality in the paint every day in practice. “I knew I was basically in hand-to-hand combat with him every day,� Bergwall said. “He made basketball a contact sport.�

White went on to win two Ivy titles during his Penn basketball career from 1976-79, also earning first-team All-Ivy honors for the 1978-79 season. He remains Penn’s all-time leader in field goal percentage, shooting 59.1 percent for his career. The Quakers won five NCAA tournament games during his three seasons with the program.

The 1979 Final Four team’s first two NCAA tournament wins came in Raleigh, N.C., just 35 miles from Duke, which Talisman attended at the time. Talisman made the trip to Raleigh to hang out with the No. 9-seeded Quakers the night before they upset No. 1-seeded North Carolina, 72-71, in the second round. “I don’t think they were giving a moment’s thought to [North Carolina],� Talisman said. “They were having a good time at the hotel not worrying about it much.

Maybe that’s what helped them to win it.� “His own guy�

White also didn’t give much thought to asserting his independence at a moment’s notice.

One night after practice, White’s teammates discussed going out to eat. “We’d go, ‘Hey, Matt, where are you going?’� Bergwall said. “And he’d go, ‘I am so sick and tired of hanging out with you

guys.’ And he’d go off by himself.�

Following a win at Cornell that clinched the 1977-78 Ivy League championship, White had somewhere even more pressing to be immediately following the sixhour bus ride back to Penn: the Great College Hall Sit-In of 1978, an 87-hour, 800-student protest inside College Hall decrying imminent budget cuts, many to Penn Athletics-sponsored activities. “He went directly from the bus with his gear from the weekend and sat down in front of the President’s hall and joined in the sit-in,� Eckman said.

When he wasn’t trying to blend in with hordes of angry classmates, he was trying to squeeze his 6-foot-11 figure into his $500 Ford Pinto. “It looked like it cost $300,�

Bergwall said. “He parked it right in front of the house we lived in on 39th and Spruce, and it was just a piece of junk. It was just hilarious to see him in this thing. We could never understand how he got into it. But it was his pride and joy.� “His cars were forever breaking down,� Astrove said.

And White was forever breaking things himself, so much so that Astrove bought a tiled coffee table in the mid-1980s just so White wouldn’t have any glass to break out of clumsiness when visiting. The Astroves kept that table ever since as one less thing White could wreck.

Still, White was a master contrarian according to the many teammates and friends who argued good-naturedly with him throughout their lives. “He’d take any side of an argument as long as he could argue,�

Astrove said.

Perhaps the only thing White enjoyed more than arguing was telling it like it was. “I always thought of myself as being a pretty good basketball player,� Bergwall said. “I remember Matt very clearly saying, ‘You’re just about average on this team. If you want to get better, you better learn how to work on your skills and play a little harder.’ I never had a teammate talk to me that way.�

Of course, Bergwall knew that White was right. “He was his own guy,� Bergwall said.

Life during and after Spain After graduating in 1979, White played professional basketball in Spain for two years, returned stateside for another two years to earn an MBA from Wharton and then left for Spain again. He played once a week for Spanish pro teams based in Barcelona, Granollers and the Canary Islands, among others. “I think he realized that the physical rigor of playing an NBA schedule could easily take a toll on your body,� Bergwall, who was drafted by the Portland Trail Blazers in 1979, said of White.

White established many Spanish pro league connections during his time playing there, which he used to help jump start the

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White met Garcia-Pellon in Spain, and they married in August 1984. They had two children, Matthew Jr. and Ana. After White retired from professional basketball, he took over his in-laws’ glass business, but the Spanish economy soon plummeted just as the dot-com bubble reached its zenith. By the new millennium, White was back in America trying to find a job, followed by his wife and kids several months later.

White cycled through several jobs after returning to the United States., including a job writing documentation for a company that wrote software for credit unions. But since he was overeducated, under-experienced and fairly well-compensated from his pro days, he mostly got to be a parent. He was a fixture at Ana’s Lafayette lacrosse games, watching her earn Patriot League Rookie of the Year honors in 2011. “He never missed a single thing they ever did,� said Eckman, who was also the White family’s dentist.

White was just as much of a fixture at Penn basketball games, going out to New Deck Tavern before games and sitting right behind the scorer’s table at midcourt. “We used to have the whole front row,� Eckman said. “[Former Penn basketball player] Stan [Greene], Bruce, Matt, myself. We were at just about every game, sitting there harassing opposing coaches and cheering Penn on.�

White cheered Penn on even after a Dec. 2009 stroke that initially left his right side paralyzed. But he fought back. “He was not fully recovered, but he was recovering very, very well,� Bergwall said.

White did always remain close with his circle of close friends, watching the NFL playoffs and NCAA basketball tournament every year with Astrove, Talisman and mutual childhood friend David Trebach, routinely emailing them as well. “We would email back and forth, just joking around, shooting the breeze about something,�

Talisman said.

Warning sign And it was via email a week before his death that White let his friends know he was worried about his wife, who had had a history of mental health issues. “He wasn’t working, so he was keeping an eye on her,� Talisman said. “I don’t think he was worried that anything was going to happen imminently but he definitely wanted to get her in to see some doctors.� “Over the week, he started saying, ‘I think she’s insane,’�

Bob Astrove’s wife, Lyda, added.

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ed to Garcia-Pellon on the phone. “Just to say, I hope she got to feeling better, and you know, what I did today,� Lyda said. “A lot of times I had seen her, we had gone to the Art Museum in Philadelphia and [I said] that we needed to do something like that again sometime.�

Astrove describes GarciaPellon as having a “flat� effect during that phone conversation.

On Feb. 10, Garcia-Pellon went to a friend’s house claiming that the Chinese were ready to attack. Labrum says that her client believed that Nether Providence Elementary School, where she worked as an instructional support teacher, was especially vulnerable to the Chinese. “She thought that the Chinese were using computers to get into people’s minds,� Labrum said.

White then took Garcia-Pellon to Riddle Hospital in Media, where she was diagnosed as having had a psychotic episode and was given a prescription. “I do remember Matt sending an email saying, ‘Valentine’s Day is coming up,’� Lyda said. “And he said something like, ‘I don’t know if we’re going to make it that far.’� “I’ll see her someday�

Around 12:45 a.m. on Monday, Feb. 11, Garcia-Pellon grabbed a knife which she had concealed under her side of the bed and stabbed White in the neck after he had fallen asleep. The two struggled and White collapsed on the bed after saying, “I’m dying, I’m dying,� police said the next day. “She hadn’t slept for five days,� Labrum said.

Labrum also added that her client’s therapist had recently died prior to the murder, so Garcia-Pellon had no longer been receiving either therapy or medication for her schizophrenic symptoms.

But now that Garcia-Pellon is mentally competent, according to Labrum, she has had to live with the reality that she killed her husband. “She’s just devastated. They had a great marriage,� Labrum said. “When she’s in her right mind, [she’s] very sweet, very shy, religious. Just delightful.� “My wife and I love her,� Bergwall said. “We feel terribly sad for her and the circumstances that transpired. That’s not the Reyes we know. And that’s the tragedy of mental illness.�

Bergwall, Eckman and the Astroves all feel sorry for Garcia-Pellon. The Astroves would even like to see Garcia-Pellon released immediately, provided that she continues to get the mental health treatment that she needs. “I would like to see her out of jail with her family,� Bob said. “And I hope that can happen.� “I’ll see her someday and tell her how sorry I am for everything,� Lyda said.

To feel like part of the family Three weeks after White’s death, more than 200 friends and family members gathered at Trinity Episcopal Church in Swarthmore, Pa. to remem-

ber him. Every seat was taken.

The entire Lafayette women’s lacrosse team and members of the coaching staff attended in support of Ana. Dozens of former Penn basketball teammates and coaches showed up to honor White’s memory. Talisman gave the eulogy. “I tried to give them a sense of what a funny person he was,�

Talisman said.

Members of the Penn basketball and Lafayette lacrosse communities not only attended White’s memorial service but also worked together to care for Ana in the immediate wake of her father’s death, since White’s brother was vacationing in China at the time of the murder.

Several of White’s former teammates, including Bergwall and Greene, attended Ana’s lacrosse games and stayed in touch with Lafayette Athletics to make sure that Ana was getting support at such a difficult time. “I was very impressed by the efforts of not only the athletic director [Bruce McCutcheon] and athletic department to clearly extend themselves to embrace and support Ana from what I could see,� Bergwall said. “They regularly made an effort to let us know how she was doing and stayed in touch with a number of us. When we attended games, they made us feel like part of the family.�

Reminders One of the most hurtful aspects of White’s death for his closest friends was Garcia-Pellon’s statement to investigators after her arrest that she had caught him looking at child pornography the night of the murder, triggering her to kill him. “For me, it was bad enough to lose my friend, but then to keep reading on the internet that he was some sort of sex offender really doubled the pain of it all,�

Talisman said. “It was not true.� “She was not in any state of reality when that all occurred,�

Eckman said. “[Reports linking White to child pornography] really put a black mark across his name.�

Nevertheless, White’s legacy remains for those who knew him best as one of natural athleticism balanced out by endearing clumsiness, quick-wittedness balanced out by an independent streak. “He really was kind of the whole package,� Talisman said. “I can honestly say I’m not healed,� Talisman said. “Almost a day does not go by that something doesn’t remind me of Matt.� “Everything reminds us of Matt,� Lyda said. “The coffee table,� Bob added.

With White no longer at his friends’ side come March Madness or Penn basketball season, they say that the tragedy has reminded them of what’s important in life.

But the lesson doesn’t get easier. “I just think it’s a very, very unfortunate circumstance,� Talisman said. “Just something you have to live with.�

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Swoopes has faith in Loyola program CALHOUN from page 10 hurt and disappointed that she was leaving because I see a lot of great things in her with our working relationship and what my plans are for Loyola, but at the same time [I’m] very happy for her.”

“You’ve always got to do what is best for you and your family and I think this is a great move for her.”

Quakers have transformed over four years MODI from page 10

St. John’s 8-5

Fresh off its 24th consecutive victory over Georgetown, the Penn men’s tennis team returns to action on Wednesday against St. John’s. The Quakers (4-8) will wrap up the nonconference portion of their schedule against No. 74 Red Storm (8-5) in a midweek match. Though the Red and Blue have struggled significantly thus far this season, Penn looks to build on the momentum it attained after its win over the Hoyas last weekend. Let’s take a look at who’s up and who’s down entering the match.

Three Up Penn’s record against the Red Storm: Though the Quakers haven’t dominated St. John’s the way they have obliterated Georgetown, Penn has historically had quite a bit of success against its New York opponent. While the two teams didn’t begin playing each other until 1992, Penn has taken six of eight meetings against St. John’s. The squads have split their past four meetings, however the Red Storm have been red hot this season. Wednesday’s match is up for grabs.

Hamlin Tennis Courts : It’s hard to find silver linings in Penn’s season thus far. Unlike 2012-13, the Quakers have gotten off to a dismal start, and have only captured consecutive victories once this year. Yet, even though the Quakers have only one home win in 2013-14, the Red and Blue will see one noticeable

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It’s been a difficult season for Penn men’s tennis coach David Geatz and the rest of his program. The Quakers have struggled during the nonconference season and have only one match remaining before the beginning of Ivy League play. change on Wednesday: they’ll be playing outside, weather permitting. The match with St. John’s marks the first time the Quakers will play at Hamlin. Maybe the change of pace will help Penn turn its season around.

S t . J o h n ’s r e c o r d i n March: The Red Storm have been on fire this month, capturing six of its eight matches since March 3. St. John’s only two defeats came to then-No. 43 Cal Poly on March 6 and No. 38 Cornell this past weekend. Don’t expect that success to end anytime soon.

Three Down Penn’s nonconfer ence record: Unlike last season, when Penn finished with an 8-5 nonconference record, the

Quakers have been unable to muster success this year.

Though Penn finished under .500 overall in 2012-13, the Quakers did have nonconference success. The same cannot be said this season.

R.J. Del Nunzio: Matched up against some of his team’s staunchest competition, the St. John’s sophomore hasn’t been able to rack up too many victories this season. Playing in the top two spots in the Red Storm’s singles lineup, Del Nunzio has notched only four victories in 12 matches in 2013-14. The New York native is 1-5 in matches at the No. 2 position, and is coming off a loss to Cornell’s Stefan Vinti on Sunday.

Looking Ahead: Without

a doubt, things haven’t been easy for Penn coach David Geatz’s squad this year. Junior Jeremy Court has won only five of his 11 singles matches this season, and his struggles haven’t helped the Quakers rack up wins thus far. As the Red and Blue enters Ivy League play at the conclusion of their match against St. John’s, Penn will be forced to prepare to take on several tough conference rivals, including a ranked Cornell team that just defeated St. John’s. After winning only one Ivy contest last season, it’s safe to say that Wednesday’s matchup with the Red Storm could be Penn’s last opportunity to win a match for a long time.

Swoopes admired Calhoun as a leader, saying she was “definitely the type of AD that coaches want to play for,” and that Calhoun would be missed by the coaches at Loyola.

Swoopes built a strong relationship with Calhoun in a short period of time, partly thanks to the women’s hoops team’s trip to Italy last summer.

“I would say our trip to Italy this summer was when we really developed a special bond, not just on the basketball court,” Swoopes said.

“We spent about 10 days in Italy. She was pregnant with her newborn. It was just a great time to be able to get to

know her off the court.”

T he t r ip t o It a l y w it h Swoopes and Loyola women’s hoops was not unique in Calhoun’s approach to her programs, as she promised to head out on the road with each of Penn’s squads early in her tenure.

“With 33 sports, it might take a cycle or two, but I will get out with each of [Penn’s teams] on a road trip at some point,” she said. “I’ve always said, once you spend seven hours on a bus with somebody, you get to know them pretty well.”

Calhoun will now be transitioning into her role as Penn’s next A D, ef fective July 1,

while still serving as the acting head of Loyola’s athletic department until mid-May. But even w ith Ca l houn le av i ng L oyol a , S woopes thinks that the R amblers should be able to transition well and continue to strive for success like they did under Calhoun.

“I hope it doesn’t affect it in a negative way,” Swoopes said. “I had a conversation with her and I said one thing I want to do is be able to take the first [Loyola] women’s basketball team to the NCAA Tournament and wanted her to be a part of that, and that doesn’t change. She is just a phone call away.”

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Sophomore Chris Swanson will be making his second trip to the NCAA Championships after winning the Ivy title in both the 500 and 1650 freestyle.

both the 500 and 1650 free events at the championship meet.

Swanson’s 14:54.07 mark in the 1650 free not only helped

him capture first place, but also allowed him to smash the meet, pool and his own Penn record in the event.

The sophomore’s victories at the Iv y Cha mpionships helped him earn the Phil Moriarty High Point Swimmer of the Meet award.

However, having improved upon his times from a year ago, Swanson certainly will be looking to add to his trophy case when he competes at the NCAA Championships this weekend.

quite sure it has seen that teardrop floater that has become a staple of winter weekends at the Palestra. I’m not quite sure it has been treated to the magic of a thrilling Ivy win, but I know now that at least it has seen its girl win in-person in college.

Thank you, Meghan McCullough, for making the team go and for taking care of the basketball and dropping dimes left and right.

Thank you Jess K napp, Jourdan Banks and Brianna Bradford for always being positive even when things were definitely not positive. It takes humble and selfless players to help a team turn around and build a champion, and while you may not get a ring or an Ivy sweatshirt, to not mention your sacrifice and effort would be a disservice to what you have meant to this program.

Thank you coach McLaughlin and the rest of the coaching staff — coach Day, coach Laukaitis and coach Cassidy — for

McGarry has dazzled in the field so far BASEBALL from page 10 mentioned.

“What’s been surprising is how good a defender he’s been at first base,” Yurkow said.

“He’s made a couple of great diving plays, and he can really throw for a first baseman.”

McGarry, who patrolled the hot corner at Lenape High School, has flashed his range and skill at the opposite end of the diamond for the Red and Blue, as he boasts a team-best

.992 fielding percentage among regulars.

“It’s great to get out there and be involved in every single play, to be able to catch every out at first base,” he said.

McGarry thrives off heightened involvement — he’s already eager to get back on the mound more often.

“I’m definitely looking to pitch more,” he said. “I think it’ll be difficult for me to be a starter, but if it comes to that, I’d love to take that up again.”

It would be unwise to doubt McGarry’s ambitions, but the first baseman is more than content with where he is currently.

“Playing every day is the best,” he said. “I’m having a blast, and I just hope everything keeps working out.”

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letting me sit in on practice, talking to me on a daily basis and making my job much, much easier than you could have made it. It speaks volumes of your professionalism and commitment to helping your team improve in every aspect, even reacting to a tough DP article.

Thank you for losing by 31 points to Princeton at home. It only made March 11 that much sweeter.

I’ve had the privilege of covering this team for four years and I can’t believe the transformation that has taken place.

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Thank you for representing the Red and Blue proudly for all Penn basketball fans to see.

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HER coaching HIRES AT LOYOLA CHICAGO Randy Hasenbank Hired: 2011

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Calhoun was Loyola’s AD for three years, spearheading change, including a move across conferences

BY STEVEN TYDINGS Senior Sports Editor After four months of waiting, Penn tapped current Loyola Chicago Athletic Director M. Grace Calhoun as Steve Bilsky’s successor as the new athletic director.

Yet with Penn finding the person it was looking for, Loyola now has to start from scratch, searching for a new athletic director itself after Calhoun led the athletic department through three years of change before moving into a new conference.

“Grace has played an instrumental role in the rebirth of the Ramblers’ historic athletics program since joining us in 2011,” Loyola Provost John P. Pelissero said . “She

enhanced the integration of intercollegiate athletics into university life and fostered a transformative educational experience for Loyola’s student-athletes. She also successfully spearheaded Loyola’s move to the Missouri Valley Conference last July.”

In February 2011, Calhoun left her position as a senior associate athletics director at Indiana to take over as Loyola’s AD and assistant vice president . With the Ramblers’ athletic programs struggling, Calhoun was given a mandate to make changes, hiring new coaches in six of nine total positions and changing the leadership for 10 of Loyola’s 13 programs.

Those changes included a move to fire men’s basketball coach Jim Whitesell less than two months into her tenure when he had just one year left on his contract.

“I’ve been in college athletics long enough to know that when you have

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a coach in the last year of his contract, there’s no ability to recruit,” Calhoun said of the situation. “That would inevitably be used against that individual. It certainly would not have been my choice to make a change at that time. Personally it was very difficult. I was finishing a job, starting a new one, transitioning a family and then had to do a men’s basketball coaching search.”

In 2013, Calhoun made a high-profile hire, tapping three-time WNBA MVP Sheryl Swoopes as women’s basketball coach.

“I will always owe a lot of my coaching success to her because she is the one that gave me my first shot at a Division I head coaching job with no prior experience,” Swoopes said.

Swoopes is disappointed that Calhoun is on her way out at Loyola, but is excited that her current boss is getting the opportunity at Penn. “[There were] mixed emotions,”

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It’s impossible not to be thankful for Penn senior guard Alyssa Baron, a player who helped orchestrate a nearly improbable turnaround over the course of her four-year career.

Swanson back again to compete in NCAA’s M. SWIMMING | The sophomore will take part in the 500 and 1650 frees for the second straight year

BY RILEY STEELE Sports Editor One year later, Chris Swanson is back for more.

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ships in 2013, the Penn sophomore will once again do battle with the nation’s top swimmers after a stellar sophomore campaign.

As a freshman, Swanson competed in the 500 -yard and 1650 yard freestyle events at the NCAA Championships. The rookie came in 33rd in the 1650 free with a time of 15:12.85 and placed 44th in the 500 free as a result of his 4:23.89 time.

This time around, Swanson will participate in the same two events

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Jeff McGarry may be stepping off the mound, but he is sure stepping up for Penn baseball.

The junior Mount Laurel, N.J. native, who was one of Penn’s feature arms last season, has emerged as one of the Red and Blue’s biggest offensive weapons this year.

McGarry has proven to be productive in the number three spot thus far, as he leads the Quakers with 12 RBI and a .385 OBP. The Red and Blue are welcoming McGarry’s production at that spot in the lineup, which was vacated

by Ryan Dietrich at the end of last year when he transferred to Duke.

“We were hoping that if we moved Jeff in there he’d be able to pick up some of that slack,” coach John Yurkow said. “He’s done a great job with it. It’s worked out well.”

A number of factors have led McGarry to his current role as predominantly a position player.

Primarily, his athleticism, work ethic and experience playing both ways have made him “a very good candidate” to handle a new, more diverse role, as he explained himself.

“He’s probably the best athlete on our team,” Yurkow said.

“There’s not much he can’t do.

“When I recruited him, I thought

he’d have a good chance to hit and pitch here. It takes a special kid to be able to excel at both.”

There was a time McGarr y wasn’t able to do either.

The righty injured his elbow the January of his freshman year, a season-ending setback.

Utilizing his unique work ethic to get healthy and focus solely on pitching, McGarry was named the opening day starter for the Quakers last season.

In his sophomore campaign, he won four games as a starter and pitched a total of 52 innings.

However, he developed elbow pain after the season, which would prove to be a harbinger of less time on the mound in the future.

When he began summer league play in Atwater, Calif., instead of both pitching and hitting as originally planned, he strictly focused on his bat and glove (he played right field).

McGarry’s performance spoke for itself, and continued production at the plate in fall ball secured the junior a spot in the lineup.

“It was important that we gave him an opportunity this fall, and he really did well with it,” Yurkow said.

“I was able to stroke the ball a little bit,” McGarry added. “I think I made a strong argument to play a position instead of pitch.”

Although he had never played the position before this season, McGarry has made himself comfortable at first base.

It wouldn’t be fair to let his impressive defensive prowess go un-

when the Championships take place in Austin, Texas from March 27 through March 29. Swanson will compete in the 500 free on Thursday before wrapping up his time in Austin with the 1650 free on Saturday.

Swanson enters the Championships fresh off an incredible effort at the 2014 Ivy League Championships. The Tampa, Fla. native won

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hank you.

Thank you for being the team that never quits.

Thank you, for being a team that goes 0-2 and doesn’t panic even after a bad loss to an inferior opponent and a marginally better loss to the second best team in the nation.

Thank you, for reminding me that defense wins championships. Sixty points will forever be the mark by which I will measure the quality of future college basketball games. I never realized how fluidly a press could switch to a man-to-man, and hold the Ivy’s third best team to less than 40 points.

Thank you for hitting some timely three-pointers, setting tough screens, drawing some key charges and grinding out results — in short all the little things that you need to win.

Thank you for honoring Alyssa Baron in her hometown of Coral Gables, Fla. with a win. I’m not sure her hometown has seen her throw

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