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Student-body president of St. Joseph High School and editor-in-chief his of school newspaper, The Falcon, Carter Coudriet seems like he is already a high-achieving Penn student, not a 17-year-old high schooler.

Just hours after being admitted, Coudriet has already ordered his Penn sweatshirt and T-shirt. Besides his work in student government and the newspaper, Coudriet is also the editor of his school’s literary magazine, The Vignette, one of the head anchors of the school news program, the editor-in-chief of the press corps and the public relations director of the New Jersey Youth and Government program. To top it all off, he is an Eagle Scout.

“I worked very, very hard the last couple years,” he said, reflecting on his journey to Penn. As a freshman, he hopes to be involved in Model United Nations and on-campus publications. “I love to write, and I love to speak,” he said of his two passions. Coudriet is planning on majoring in political science or English.

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Although Fakhri Abdullayev was born in Azerbaijan, a little-known country squeezed between Eastern Europe and Western Asia, he is already familiar with cram sessions at Van Pelt library.

Abdullayev, who now lives in Philadelphia and has a brother who is a sophomore in the College, participated in the Young Scholars Program run by the College of Liberal and Professional Studies at Penn since his junior year. The program lets high school students take classes at Penn, and Abdullayev has taken full advantage of this opportunity to explore his interests in human evolution, Russian, and environmental science.

“My parents wanted to get a better future, and I guess they succeeded,” Abdullayev said, reflecting on the fact that his parents have two children who were both admitted to Penn.

Besides being a scholar, Abdullayev is also the captain of his high school soccer team, which he founded and which has won games against much larger and established teams. At Penn, Abdullayev hopes to conduct research with a professor and study biology, with an eye toward medical school.

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BY COSETTE GASTELU Staff Writer Eight burglaries were reported in the Quad on Saturday, leading to the arrest of a Penn student for one of the alleged offenses.

Four burglaries were reported in Ware College House, and another four were reported in Riepe College House last weekend.

Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush said that all eight of the burglaries resulted from individuals leaving their dorm room doors unlocked, as there were no signs of forced entry. Electronics, such as MacBook Pros, and cash were among the items taken from the burglarized rooms.

College freshman Anthony Bagtas was arrested late on Monday night for one of the eight burglaries. He was not charged with offenses related to any of the other burglaries.

“As a result from good information from a couple of witnesses and as well as an investigation, Penn Police detectives centered on a suspect,” Rush said. “After an additional investigation and after the suspect was brought in for an interview, he was arrested on one of the burglaries.”

Rush said that at this time, she cannot assume that the eight burglaries are related, as the investigations are still ongoing. “At this point the pattern has stopped, and we are continuing investigations into the remaining burglaries to identify a suspect,” Rush explained.

Bagtas, who was released early Tuesday morning, is currently facing four charges for the single alleged incident. He has been charged with two felonies — burglary and criminal trespassing — and two misdemeanors — theft by unlawful taking and receiving stolen property.

Bagtas is a member of the men’s

Jaime Antonio Lopez, whose parents never attended college, will be starting a new Penn tradition in his family after finding out he was admitted to Wharton last night.

Although he was born in Texas, Lopez spent most of his childhood in Monterrey, Mexico, his parents’ home town, returning to the city of Pharr, Texas for middle school and high school.

Lopez has always dreamed big. “I knew I wanted to get out of Texas and seek a better fauture,” he said. Getting into Penn is “something I’ve looked forward to my whole life.”

Lopez has extensive experience in both STEM fields and business. He worked with a local startup’s engineering department to raise seed capital, and he has conducted clinical research at local universities on neural oncology and biomechanics, winning the selective Youth Award from the Hispanic Heritage Foundation. At Penn, he hopes to pursue his interdisciplinary interests by combining engineering and business and to “make a name for myself in the Latino voice around Philadelphia.”

Lopez also says he has always focused on having fun.

“If I’m not enjoying myself in life I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have gone as far as I would have,” he said.

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Outgoing dean Thomas Robertson : three pillars, seven years DEAN LEGACY | Lookng back at outgoing Wharton dean Robertson’s tenure

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served as the Wharton School dean from 2006 to July 2014.

BY YUEQI YANG Staff Writer Dean Thomas Robertson, who led Wharton since 2006, repositioned a business school faced with a number of challenges.

In 2014, U.S News and World Report ranked Wharton as the number

placement record in the school’s history.

Still, during Robertson’s tenure Wharton’s faced a changing business world and Robertson recognized that the school needed to shift.

He proposed three pillars for the Wharton school: Global Presence, Innovation and Social Impact.

one MBA program in the country for the first time, tied with Harvard and Stanford business schools. In 2013 97.8 percent of Wharton MBA graduates received job offers within three months of graduation, the best

Global and social impact As part of making Wharton more global, Robertson built up courses and institutional relationships to

send Wharton students and faculty abroad.

“You can’t just be domestic,” Robertson said. “But you can’t just talk about developed economies either. It can’t just be BRIC countries. Much of the growth in the world may come from Africa, or certain parts of Latin America.”

“We have to teach to a notion that there are 200 countries in the world, not just the few developed countries,” he added Along with the Office of the Presi-

dent, Robertson developed the Penn Wharton China Center, which is scheduled to open later this year Wharton also has alliances and collaborations with INSEAD, campuses in France and Singapore, the Indian School of Business and Peking University’s Guanghua School of Management .

Introduced in 2010, Global Modular Courses bring about 300 Wharton students, including undergraduates, SEE ROBERTSON PAGE 7

Friends, family remember Hackney The former Penn President’s colleagues and family spoke at Irvine on Thursday

BY FOLA ONIFADE Staff Writer As friends and family looked back on Sheldon Hackney’s life on Thursday night, they did what he would have wanted the most: they looked onward.

Penn President Amy Gutmann began a memorial service in Irvine

Auditorium for former University president Sheldon Hackney by remembering how he advocated for policies well-ahead of his time, shaping Penn’s future.

She shared an anecdote about how Hackney pushed for benefits for same-sex couples in the 1980s despite the obstacles that he knew he would face. This ultimately ensured that Penn became one of the first universities to extend benefits to LGBT couples.

Hackney’s wife, Lucy Hackney, said in an interview after the ser-

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vice that part of his legacy was the impact he had by moving into the President’s house on campus. The Hackneys were the first Presidential family to live right on campus “and that changed everything,” she said.

“We were at Penn all the time — good, bad and in-between,” she said.

Former Provost Thomas Ehrlich remembered the hostility Hackney faced when he first arrived as President, and how he never allowed it to shape his words or deeds.

He remembered that Hackney

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boldly refashioned undergraduate admissions in order to diversify a campus that was largely composed of students from the Northeast. He also said Hackney’s work made Penn a place where extended conversation and thoughtful dialogue about difficult issues could take place.

Reverend Timothy Stafford of Christ Church, where Hackney regularly attended, gave insight into the spiritual man that Hackney was.

“He was a prisoner of hope and a believer in a better future,” he said.

Stafford recalled Hackney’s last words to him, as he sat in Hackney’s home in Martha’s Vineyard: “Onward.” Hackney was the historian who never looked backwards, Stafford said.

Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust said Hackney was an inspiration for her. She talked about his contagious passion and his belief in others that made them want to believe in themselves. “Sheldon believed in the redemptive power of SEE HACKNEY PAGE 2

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Penn Fashion Week to kick off Monday

Week will bring Barneys New York CEO, others to campus

BY SIOBHAN ROONEY Contributing Writer London, Paris, Milan ...

Philadelphia. Fashion Week is coming to Penn.

Penn Fashion Week will focus on how the fashion industry interacts with sight, sound, smell, touch and taste and will be presented by Delta Sigma Pi, the Penn Fashion Collective and the Wharton Retail Club. Events will take place from March 31 through April 5.

Hosted in multiple loca-

Hackney looked ‘onward,’ many remembered HACKNEY from page 1 education, of reason, of respect,” she said.

The Glee Club also performed a series of songs that paid tribute to Hackney’s Southern background.

Department Chair of Africana Studies Barbara Savage remembered meeting Hackney through his wife, since they both served on the Children’s Defense Fund. As a fellow colleague of Hackney’s in the History department, she spoke of his eagerness and humility that only caused people to love him more. “I saw someone who was tough, but fair and gracious in disagreement,” she said.

Hackney’s son, Fain Hackney, closed the ceremony with an emotional recollection of his father. He reminisced on his fondest memories —

tions across campus, the Penn Fashion Week schedule ranges from a panel discussion on brand capitalization to a tutorial on product design.

“It’s the most well-developed undergraduate fashion conference in the country,” Executive Director and Wharton senior Lennie Zhu said.

“It’s the event that keeps Penn at the forefront of the fashion industry.”

The week is about bringing Penn’s fashion-minded community together with the industry. “I know there is a very strong contingency of people [on campus] interested in fashion,” Zhu said. “It’s for students to find a niche between finance and fashion.”

the times they spent playing sports together.

He joked about his father’s imperfections, but took a more serious note as he invited the crowd to take a deeper look at who Sheldon Hackney was.

“He was courageous and strong in death ... however, sometimes I do wish that he’d been able to take off his armor a little bit and show us all of him — his worries and fears.”

Fain spoke of the poems he discovered in his father’s study after his death that revealed some of the emotions that the family had not always seen. There, they found poems about love, life, growth and separation.

In a personal interview, Fain Hackney shared his thoughts on how his father’s beliefs impacted the way he led the University. “I think he believed in treating everybody the same and treated people with respect,” he said, “and I think that translated into the way he governed Penn and the way he did everything in his life.”

He talked about the great example his father set for him and and his late sister.

The week typically attracts around 1,000 attendees. Director of Marketing and College junior Grace Guan, a philosophy, politics and economics major, emphasized that the events weren’t exclusively for the business-minded. “It’s for people from all different majors, not necessarily just the business way,” she said. “It’s a great way to meet people with a shared interest, from all different backgrounds.”

The organizers also aim to bring in students who are not specifically interested in fashion. “We want to create a buzz on campus,” she said.

Penn Fashion Week offers opportunities to network for future hiring, hear from fash-

ion experts and simply learn how the industry works.

CEO of Barneys New York Mark Lee, Executive Editor of Glamour Magazine Lauren Smith Brody and founder of e-commerce site Grungy Gentleman Jace Lipstein are among the week’s featured speakers.

The organizing committee was able to reach out through Penn alumni and personal networks to bring the events together. “It’s great marketing for these companies,” Guan said. It’s also an effective way for industry powerhouses like sponsors TeenVogue, Macy’s, Kipling, Calvin Klein, Cosmopolitan and L’Oreal to connect with “new customers and future

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recruits,” according to Guan.

A nd if that isn’t reason enough to get excited, there will be plenty of “amazing” giveaways including a Calvin Klein handbag and Pink Berry vouchers.

Zhu and Guan said they expect Penn Fashion Week to be “dynamic, fierce and stimulating.” Guan added that while the event is professional, they want attendees to have fun. “[If you’re] interested in fashion at all, it’s just a super fun set of events,” Zhu agreed.

Penn Fashion Week opens Monday and will end Saturday with “Rave New World,” the annual spring fashion show featuring New York model and emcee DJ Rahma.

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Multiple speakers, including Drew Faust, president of Harvard University, spoke at the memorial service to celebrate the life of former Penn President Sheldon Hackney yesterday. Hackney passed away in September last year.

“He treated people with kindness and respect,” Fain said. “He achieved some power and notoriety but did not bathe in it. He liked to

be appreciated but did not command it. If it served the greater good for others to get the credit, he let that happen.”

In a room filled with Hack-

ney ’s closest f r iends and colleagues, Fain ended his speech with words familiar to those who knew Hackney well.

“Onward we all go.”

basketball program and is a resident of Riepe, but he has been removed from the Quad since his arrest, Rush said. He is scheduled to appear in court for a preliminary hearing on April 8.

As of press time, Bagtas did not respond to two emails seeking comment.

The eight burglaries last week come after a string of four burglaries that were reported in the Quad in December of last semester, following Thanksgiving break. No arrests have been made in relation to the four 2013 Quad burglaries, Rush said.

Saturday’s incidents represent an unusual string of occurrences in the Quad.

“Burglaries in the Quad are rare,” Rush said. “When they have occurred [the perpetrator] has generally been someone affiliated with the University who had authorized access into the Quad.”

On Sunday night, the Division of Public Safety issued a safety advisory to Quad residents informing them that “several thefts of electronics that occurred within College Houses in the Quad” were under DPS investigation and that “in each case, entry was gained into the rooms through unlocked doors.” The message also reminded students to keep their doors locked.

DPS typically sends out safety adv isories when “there is an ongoing risk for more crime or danger,” Rush said.

“We did not have anyone in custody at that time, and we wanted to get a warning out quickly to make sure that no one left their doors unlocked and was victimized,” Rush added.

Rush emphasized that students should keep their doors locked at all times.

“By leaving the door unlocked, people are tempting someone to come in and take what they don’t have,” she said.

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What happens at Fight Night, stays at Fight Night Wharton and the Law School are teaming up for a boxing night that benefits charity

BY CHRIS WU Contributing Writer T he f i r st r u le of F ig ht Night is — well, it’s not like that.

The Wharton Boxing Club and the Penn Law Boxing Club are hosting the 10th annual W har ton vs. Penn Law Fight Night, an amateur boxing charity event that attracts students from all around Penn. Fighters pr i ma r i ly come f rom t he Wharton School and from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, but students from other graduate a nd professiona l schools have also participated in the past . The organizers expect over 1,800 attendees at this year’s event, which will be held at the Class of 1923 Ice Rink on Saturday.

“J.D.s and MBAs are careers that are kind of intertwined. As a future lawyer, I’m mostly going to be representing a lot of MBAs and t he busi nesses t hat t hey work in, and there’s going to be a lot of battles across the boardroom,” H.T. Flanagan, manager of Media Relations for the Penn Law Boxing Club, said. “It’s really cool that before we [will actually] spend a career in a way fighting each other and also working with each other ... we get to step into a ring and box each other.”

About a week before the event , Pen n L aw Box i ng

Club and the Wharton Boxing Club have a joint weighin where all the fighters get up on the stage and “fake trash talk each other,” according to Flanagan. “A lot of the marketing and the publicity that goes forth is the idea of this being the business school versus the law school.”

The two boxing clubs often hold joint workout sessions at the Sporting Club at the Bellevue with professional boxing trainer Clif Johnson.

Workouts are intense. “Every workout, you’re going to have some combination of mountain climbers, pushups a nd some t y pe of ab work,” Co-President of the Wharton Boxing Club and second-year MBA Kareem Howard said.

This is the first year Fight Night is at an on- campus location. F lanagan heard that Fight Night was originally held where Rocky was filmed. “Bringing it on campus required a lot of work with the University to make everyone comfortable that t h is wou ld be a wel l-r u n event,” Howard said.

P roceeds f rom F ight Night go to charity. According to Howard, Fight Night is the second-largest indiv idua l f und ra iser for the Boys and Girls Club of Philadelphia, a nonprofit that provides after-school programs for youth in the community.

L a st ye a r ’s F i g ht N i g ht ra ised about $ 8 0,0 0 0 a nd drew over 1,600 attendees.

A f t er F ig ht N ig ht t h i s year, there will be an afterparty with R&B artist Nelly at SoundGarden Hall.

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‘And’ over ‘or’

CREATIVE VOICE | Einstein and Picasso can teach a more valuable lesson together than in separate classrooms

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sually when I tell people that I am studying chemistry and fine arts, they respond by turning their head at a funny angle and saying something like, “That’s an interesting combination,” along with a comment about the lack of overlap between the subjects.

They often then inquire about the practical use of the combination, suggesting science textbook illustration or art restoration.

This reaction encapsulates a major flaw in how we are taught to think. Rather than embrace the world as a uniform place to understand, we are encouraged from an early age to partition the world into autonomous bits and consider each portion separately. The area outside the home is different from the area inside the home. The Atlantic Ocean is different from the Pacific. Math is different from history. Art is different from academics.

Society sets up barriers between perceived parts of the world, and we tend to simply accept them without a second thought. The human mind finds comfort in organization and in a world of cubicles.

However, the compartmentalization of our world is a major impediment to progress.

By dividing up the world, we turn it into a place of disunity in which knowledge is developed in narrow, unconnected channels. We tend to celebrate this specificity as desirable and aesthetically pleasing. Children are taught at an early age that they must “grow up” to fill some kind of cookie cutter position: a firefighter, a police officer, an astronaut, a lawyer, a doctor and so on.

In limiting our development to an incredibly narrow band of knowledge, we end up blocking out most of the world in favor of our one small specialty. But in order to truly understand it, we must tear

down the arbitrary barriers that society has imposed upon it. By considering the world in its entirety, a more comprehensive program of thinking is possible in which collective thought replaces narrow thought.

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is how similar their work is in effect. Both Einstein and Picasso investigated perception as a function of location.

Einstein considered the issue with mathematical equations, while Picasso cut up the world into pieces and rearranged

I study chemistry and art not for the purpose of finding some superficial link between them such as art restoration, but rather to open my avenues of exploration of the world in a larger way.”

Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso illustrate the merits of collective thinking. While Einstein was publishing his theory of relativity, Picasso was painting his cubist canvases. Both relativity and cubism have had profound and lasting effects on our world.

What is most interesting about these two thinkers

them in his paintings.

Although Einstein and Picasso did not work together, they engaged in an implicit form of collective thinking in that they applied similar approaches to traditionally different fields of study. This kind of collaboration must become commonplace in our world, as research into the na-

ture of our existence cannot rely on a single field of study but must engage all of the pathways we have at our disposal — language, art, math, science and so on. It is our job to participate in all of them.

Recently, there has been a great deal of discussion about the prospect of a quantum computer. Rather than working under a binary system in which the computer can only assign values of 0 and 1, quantum computers have the ability to superimpose multiple states onto one another, allowing for 0 and 1 to be encoded simultaneously as a single value. By debinarizing the operation of computers, the rate at which they can perform tasks increases astonishingly. A problem that would take a classical computer many years to solve could take the quantum computer only a few seconds.

Our society needs to be able think like a quantum computer. It needs to be able to

SAM SHERMAN synthesize multiple pieces of information simultaneously.

I study chemistr y and art not for the purpose of finding some superficial link between them such as art restoration, but rather to open my avenues of exploration of the world in a larger way. I am able to explore my thinking simultaneously in multiple areas of study, each with its own merits, in order to gain a more complete picture of the world.

It is for this reason that progress lies in the “and” rather than the “or.”

SAM SHERMAN is a College sophomore from Marblehead, Mass., studying chemistry and fine arts. His email address is samsherman6@gmail.com.

Majoring in Wikipedia @ the University of Google GUEST COLUMN BY JEREMIAH KEENAN

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ou were brilliant.

You took 16 APs in high school and got fives on every one. You knew the SATs so well you could score a 12 on an essay without looking at the prompt. You won about six science fairs and divided your summers between RSI, PROMYS and a couple of internships. If the sky was falling you could hold it up, and if the world spun backwards it would correct itself at your command.

Then you took your first midterm for Math 104.

Now, the guy in front of you just lays his head down on his desk and cries. But you are a resourceful type. Your eyes burn into the sheets in front of you, searching for a

word, a symbol, a collection of numbers that might look like something you remember from high school. After 15 minutes you figure out that the sheet was handed to you upside-down. That gives you an edge on the other students.

And the class is curved fair and square (10-10-10-70) so you’ve got a fighting chance.

But by the end of the semester you’re struggling with calculus. It doesn’t have to do with your weekend routine; everybody knows you don’t use your liver to study (friends, it’s a science). It’s not related to the fact that you only sleep eight hours a week; primary insomnia is a catalyst for creativity. It’s something awfully elusive. So you ask an upperclassman. The answer:

“Google it. Wikipedia will be at the top of the first page.”

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As far as incentives are concerned, your teacher is a research scientist who works as a part-time proctor.”

Strange advice, but not always bad. Sometimes, after all, your teacher’s slides are copied from Wikipedia to begin with.

A junior in biochemistry told me his professor occasionally had difficulty understanding his own slides. Curious, a fellow student copied a sentence into Google. On one tortuously

precise and wordy slide four consecutive sentences came straight out of a paragraph in Wikipedia. They were made into bullet points for appearance’s sake, but content and order remained untouched.

My first semester of freshman year there was one section of Math 114 that was so bad it might have been improved

by Wikipedia. I knew about five people in the class (one of whom took third place in the Mexican math Olympiad) and spent about three hours a week listening to them complaining about their professor.

In the first half of the semester he reputedly completed about three problems correctly. Most of the time he made a mistake half way and then gesticulated through the rest of the problem, “So change this to that, replace these symbols with their inverse, carry through

with the correct answer, and any questions, OK good, next problem?”

My friends fumed that they were learning nothing that semester, but they really had no reason to feel bad. In point of fact, there is no statistically significant difference between student scores on the mathematics diagnostic test before and after taking the standard calculus sequence! (The “Active Learning” program originated, in part, from this embarrassing fact.)

All this seems shocking until you find out what it means for Penn to be a research institute.

If a professor gets a $1.6 million research grant, perhaps $600,000 of it goes to the university. That kind of money speaks much louder than a bunch of disgruntled freshmen. Furthermore, tenure is linked to research performance — not

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teaching ability. As far as incentives are concerned, your teacher is a research scientist who works as a part-time proctor.

Now, there is a place for intellectual inquiry outside of profit-driven industry. But research at the University of Pennsylvania should not marginalize teaching. I know some dedicated teachers at Penn who do great research. They deserve a raise. But there are also professors who do great research and don’t teach. They should be identified on Penn Course Review and dumped on the job market. After all, your parents don’t pay $60,000 a year so that you can read textbooks and type your questions into Google.

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But you don’t really care for music, do you?

Alan Light analyzes the ascent of Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’

BY MEGHAN MILLER Contributing Writer

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Journalist and author Alan Light examined the ascent of classic rocker Leonard Cohen’s famous song “Hallelujah” last night at Kelly Writers House.

“I can’t overemphasize how l it t le i n f luence t h is [song ] had when it came out.”

Journalist and author Alan Light of “The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buck ley and the Unlikely Ascent of ‘Hallelujah’” talked about Leonard Cohen’s popular single “Hallelujah” Thursday evening at the Kelly Writers House.

According to Light, “Hallelujah” was initially rejected by record labels. Cohen’s version of the song includes him speak-singing the words and during the refrain, a chorus appears on a balcony to accompany him.

The instrumentation includes “a weird ’80s sy nthesizer and vocal chorus,” Light said, “and Leonard doing his Leonard thing.”

Cohen wrote more than 70 verses, Light said, and when the song struggled for recognition he continued to rearrange it.

It took a d if ferent per for mer a nd d i f ferent a r rangement for the song to gain popularity. Singer and songwriter Jeff Buckley discovered a version of the song

by John Cale on a Cohen tribute album.

“Leonard penned it, but Jeff owned it,” Light wrote of the song in his book. Light played Buckley’s version for the audience. Each time a version of the song came on, the audience was entranced by the music — some people even quietly mouthed the words.

Only after Buckley’s death did “Hallelujah” rise to fame.

“The song became his own epitaph,” Light said.

At this point, the song became a musical force and could be heard everywhere — movies, TV shows, covers by various artists, weddings, funerals and religious services, according to Light.

VH1 played “Hallelujah” in a 9/11 video and the song “became this shared mourning anthem for ever yone,” Light said.

The song evokes spiritual and painful feelings, according to Light. It possesses a certain ambiguity, allowing people to listen to it during

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Light said that what he enjoyed most during his study of the song was learning how it affected ordinary people.

“Everyone has some story or connection, where they needed a feeling,” he said, “and this is what they turned to.” That is what music can do, he added.

Before Light ended his portion of the evening, he concluded with a quote by Cohen from his book. “When o ne lo ok s at t he w o r l d , there’s only one thing to say and it’s ‘Hallelujah,’” Cohen said. “That’s the way it is.”

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senior and team member Noor Bosch said, emphasizing the simplicity and affordability in Digitect, a senior design proj- using the device. ect team in the bioengineering However, team members department, is developing an stressed that the device will inexpensive device that quan- also be highly accurate. “Main tifies specific types of proteins novel point about our technolpresent in human blood to keep ogy is that we’re combining track of cancer patients’ health paper microfluidics, which is status. Team members say the very affordable, with carbon device will be an inexpensive nanotubes which are very accuchoice for doctors and patient rate in measuring biomarkers,” in developing areas.

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Paper microfluidics is currently put into use in many detecting devices, such as pregnancy tests. Whereas pregnancy tests use a more basic form of basic paper microfluidics that only gives a yes or no answer, the team is “enabling the technology even more so that it can give quantitative and electrical read out,” Engineering senior Peter Bacas said.

The device is also similar to blood glucose monitoring device diabetes patients use, which takes a small amount of patient’s blood to measure the level of sugar flowing through the vein. The carbon nanotubes in the device will detect the types of protein present in the blood and will convert the concentration of the protein into quantitative measurements the patients can understand.

Carbon nanotubes have receptors to specific types of protein that allows the device to be precise in measurements.

Conductivity of the carbon nanotubes changes when the

protein binds to the nanotubes.

Carbon nanotube is very expensive, but because the amount of carbon nanotube in the device is so small, that price is going to stay cheap, Engineering senior and team member Arielle Clynes said.

The device will also be versatile, team members say.

By changing the receptors attached to the carbon nanotubes, the device can diagnose various types of diseases.

One possible application of the device other than detecting biomarkers for cancer is diagnosing malaria. Doctors in rural areas or in developing countries without advanced medical devices can use the device to test potential patient’s blood to detect proteins related to malaria, allowing “fast screening of mass amount of patients,” Martin said.

They originally intended to work with osteopontin, a specific type of protein related to cancer metastasis — the spreading of cancer from one part of the body to other parts. Because of

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This senior design project, designed by bioengineering students on the Digitext team, identifies and quantifies proteins in the patient’s blood. the difficulty in accessing the protein, the team moved on to work with Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor, another type of protein that signals tumor growth.

Digitect is currently almost finished with creating the device and only needs to get the protein receptor for the carbon nanotube.

The senior design teams complete capstone projects

for all students who are pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Engineering. Students apply class material to make a functioning device. The teams then compete in departmental competitions and a school-wide competition.

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hot topic among students and faculty at Wharton who are interested in social impact,” said Katherin Klein, the vice dean of Social Impact.

ROBERTSON from page 1 MBAs and executive MBAs, to destinations abroad for a three- to seven-day workshop.

Past courses include “Conflict, Leadership and Change: Lessons from Rwanda” and “Luxury Branding and Retail in Italy and Beyond”.

The Wharton Global Initiative sends Wharton faculty abroad to two different places each year through the Faculty International Seminar, where they meet with leaders, senior government officials and senior executives. The possible destinations for 2014 are China and Thailand or Myanmar.

“Before, Wharton had several international activities spreading across different places, but putting them together gave Wharton focus and leverage,” said Professor Harbir Singh, the vice dean of Global Initiatives.

The school also saw an increase in international students on campus. They now constitute 36 percent of the MBA student body and 21 percent of the undergraduate body. Thirty-five percent of faculty members are foreignborn.

After Robertson leaves, Wharton’s newfound global presence will continue. “Global investments will continue to be important. It’s likely we will maintain and enhance these activities, ” said Singh.

Socia l I mpact , a nother pillar that Robertson introduced, has been well-received by students.

Over 40 percent of the incoming MBA class — more than 300 students — signed up to attend an August pre-term program designed to introduce them to the Wharton Social Impact Initiative. “Impact investing is a particularly

Weathering the financial crisis Robertson took over Wharton just before the 2008 financial crisis and led the school through a difficult time for business schools.

After the financial crisis, Wharton added courses about the financial crisis and risk management to prepare students to face a risky and uncertain market . The school also focused more on business ethics. “This wasn’t the first [financial crisis] to ever occur.

We were able to help students think about the financial crisis,” Robertson said.

Despite the pessimistic economic situation, Robertson led the School’s $500 million fundraising campaign and exceeded its fundraising goal.

Wharton also increased the number of faculty members, built an addition to SteinbergDiet r ich Ha l l, renovated Vance Hall and moved its San Francisco campus to a new location.

“We were able to continue to develop resources so that we can do all the things we wanted to do,” Robertson said.

Innovating Wharton Last year, The Wall Street Journal published an article titled “What’s Wrong with Wharton,” reporting that the applications to Wharton’s MBA program declined 12 percent in the previous four years. Some business school experts and applicants interviewed for the article attributed the decline to a shift in students’ interests from finance to technology and entrepreneurship.

“Business school experts and students say [Wharton] has lost its luster,” the article said.

Under Robertson, Wharton did place stronger emphasis on “innovation,” one of the

three pillars. Innovation applies to both the school itself and its students and faculties. Key projects include new teaching methods incorporating technology, as well as the Innovation Fund for student-led projects. In the last six years, the percentage of MBA students starting a business upon graduating has increased from 1.5 percent to 7.7 percent, surpassing Harvard Business School.

“If we don’t reinvent ourselves, we will fall behind,” said Robertson. Twenty-five years ago, “half of our students would work in industries that don’t exist. Students graduating 25 years ago now work in private equity or Internet based business or green technology that just didn’t exist then. ” Robertson believes that online initiatives will play a larger role in the future.

Wharton just launched business radio on SiriusXM last week a nd of fer s fou nd ational business core classes on Coursera, a website that offers MOOCs, or massive open online courses. The future of Wharton MOOCs is fairly open. The school is investigating how to monetize online education.

“We’re experimenting a lot,” Robertson said. “So far it’s been philanthropy, we are giving them away for free.

Given that we are a business school, can we make money on it? Moving forward, the question is, ‘How does teaching change because of online?

How do we develop the branding further? How do we breakeven online, or maybe even make some money?’”

Though Robertson didn’t seek reappointment, he will remain at Wharton, taking a sabbatical year before coming back as a marketing professor. He also served as a marketing professor from 1971 to 1994.

“As wonderful as this job is, I don’t control my own calendar,” he said. “I am taking back my calendar, and I will schedule what I need to do.”

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Three students petition to run for local ward committees Elections to fill the ward committee seats will occur on May 20

BY SAMUEL BYERS Staff Writer Three Penn students — t wo Democr at s a nd one R epublican — submitted petitions to run for their respective parties’ local ward committees, according to ward committee leaders.

Penn’s campus is part of Philadelphia’s 27th ward, a political division used to determine representation and administer elections.

Both of the major political parties are represented in the ward by a party committee, which is made up of residents elected to represent their neighborhood, or “division.”

College of Libera l a nd Professional Studies student Barbara Nolan is running for re-election to her seat in the 23rd division of the ward, which is located south of Spruce Street b et we e n 4 2 nd a nd 4 5t h streets.

Nolan has served on the Democratic Committee for the past three years after being appointed by members of the committee to fill a seat left vacant after the last committee election in 2010.

“I joined the committee because I had a genera l sense of frustration about politics,” Nolan said. She initially became involved after she emailed Democratic Committee Leader Carol Jenkins in response t o a message i n a wa r d newsletter seek ing community members to get involved.

In addition, College junior Kelly Stine is running to fill a vacant seat in the division representing the several blocks directly west of campus.

Jenkins, who teaches political science at Temple University in addition to her duties as ward leader, says that having two students running for the ward committee is typical for most years. “Young people have a negative v iew of political parties,” she explained, noting that the ward committees are political entities first and foremost.

The committees represent their party on the local level by registering voters, disseminating information and working to get out the vote on Election Day. P residentia l election y e a r s u s u a l l y ge ne r at e t he most pol it ic a l act ivity among students, a fact which was especially true during P resident Barack Obama’s first campaign in 2008, Jenk ins said. However, she cannot remember a time when she had more than five students serving on the committee at once.

B ot h St i ne a nd Nol a n agree that it is detrimental to the University that more students aren’t involved in local political life.

“A lot of people who are interested in politics simply don’t know how to get involved, which is why the education of Penn students [about] the ward is so important,” Stine said in an email.

Nolan described what she

sees as “a tension between the town and gown” — a divide between the University and the wider West Philadelphia community. In her mind, having more students serving on the ward committees could be a way to foster discussion and community and bridge the gap between Penn and the surrounding neighborhood.

In addition to the Demo c r at ic c a nd id at e s , one student is running for the Republican Committee — a separate body. Penn Law student Car y Dav is, who will graduate this semester, is running in the hopes that he can help change the way Philadelphians interact with their government.

Davis, who grew up north of the city in Cheltenham, believes it is a problem that the average citizen can’t get their ideas heard by member s of t he gover nment. He wants to use this position within the Republ ic a n pa r t y t o f ac i l it at e greater dialogue between the people and government and greater political and civ i l engagement i n t he community.

He says that his father, who immigrated from Germany to the United States in 19 52 , always told him growing up that “if you want to fix the broken things in the world, you have to start in your own home, your own bac k y a r d a nd you r ow n neighborhood.”

Elections to fill the ward com m ittee seats w i l l be held on May 20.

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M. TENNIS | The injury-plagued Quakers go into the matchup shorthanded

BY TITUS ADKINS Staff Writer How can the Penn men’s tennis team get past a recent spate of injuries?

Perhaps a little positive thinking will do the trick.

This Saturday, the Quakers will host Princeton to kick off the Ivy League stretch for the Red and Blue.

The battle-bruised Quakers (4-9) will look to start the Ivy season right with a rebound win over the Tigers (10-7) after their 5-2 loss against St. Johns on Wednesday.

Already shorthanded with normal first singles Nikola Kocovic out due to an ankle injury, Penn received a double dose of ankle trouble when his replacement, sophomore Vim De Alwis, suffered an identical injury and had to retire in the second set of his match against the Red Storm.

But the Red and Blue know better than to hang their heads low. “We just need to show a lot of positive energy,� sophomore

Bowman and Polykoff still on Allen’s staff M. HOOPS from page 10 The Quakers struggled in Pera’s time at Penn, going just 17-42 in two seasons. Pera has been a part of Penn’s last couple recruiting classes, including this year’s freshman class

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Blaine Willenborg said, who has also missed time due to injury this season. “Especially for us going against Princeton this weekend, it’s key. “If you show a lot of positive energy, especially in the Ivy League, you do a lot better. I think if we play well this weekend we’ll get four points, which is a win.�

Princeton started off its season strong but has since gone through some rough patches along the way.

Princeton will be looking for redemption of its own after a sub par showing at the USD Challenge, where the team lost to Drake and Purdue, and its only win came over San Diego State.

With this matchup on the horizon, the injury-riddled Quakers are hoping that they can pull out a victory even in such a dismal situation. “I think we’re going to surprise some people,� coach David Geatz said, “Blaine’s going to be two days better and I hope Vim plays, but if Kocovic doesn’t play and Vim doesn’t play and Blaine can’t play then

comprised of guards Tony Bagtas, Matt Howard and Preston Troutt, as well as Dylan Jones and Dave Winfield Jr..

Pera is close with senior captain Miles Jackson-Cartwright, directing the Double Pump Skills Camp that Jackson-Cartwright and his brother Parker attended at a young age.

Before coming to Penn, Pera coached at Annville-Cleona and Artesia High School (Calif.) before joining the staff at Arizona State. Pera began his time at Arizona State as the director

W. TENNIS | Red and Blue will take on Princeton, hoping to reverse history

phia, with Penn only drawing one win in doubles play and one in singles, thanks to thenfreshman Sonya Latycheva.

Now, the Quakers see themselves as underdogs entering hostile territory, ready to turn the tides and shed the burns of last year’s defeat from memory. “I honestly expect ever y match will be down the wire,�

Kunovac said. “We’re teams that are fairly matched on paper, [but] you have this added tension and rivalry that’s kind of built in once you sign up to go to Penn. It’s kind of what’s in your blood. Also, it’s on the road so in a sense that gets us much more fired up going and doing some damage. It should make for an amazing match.�

If there’s one thing in favor for the Red and Bue, it would be their doubles pairings this year. With adjustments to the lineup and the addition of freshman Kana Daniel to the team, Penn has found great success in all pairings and positions this year, coming away with doubles points victories in its last nine matches.

Last Saturday’s win against Temple saw the return of the dangerous duo of junior Sol Eskenazi and Latycheva, who were the Ancient Eight’s topranked pair last year. If the Quakers deploy a similar lineup and catch fire in doubles, they can establish a dominating tone early in the game and capitalize on that momentum during singles play. “The doubles point is crucial,� Kunovac said. “From the start of the season, we recognized that and invested a lot of energy and training into the doubles. I think the results came: We’re better and faster than we expected to be. “We know who they are, we know who we are and we expect a great battle.�

BY ELLIS KIM Contributing Writer No. 66 Princeton 11-5 Saturday, 1 p.m.

Princeton, N.J.

Penn women’s tennis won’t have to dig deep to find the motivation to beat its next opponent; the rivalry is already bred in its bones and the only thing on its mind is vengeance after last year.

This Saturday, the Quakers will travel across state lines to face Princeton in both teams’ first Ivy matches of the year.

After surviving an injuryplagued start to the year, Penn (7-4) has since caught fire, prevailing in five of its last six contests and posting impressive victories against ranked teams. Last Saturday, the Quakers trampled Temple by a convincing 6-1 score at home. “We feel very good going into the Ivies,� coach Sanela Kunovac said. “The season started with a fair amount of adversity.

But the way we started and how we feel now mentally and physically [are] ideal. “I feel like we’re piquing at the exact right time.�

Of course, this is the Ivies, when the competition is at its fiercest. The No. 66 Tigers (115) are sure to bring out their claws, and if records are any indication of what the outcome will be, then the numbers are not particularly encouraging for the Red and Blue.

Last year, P r inceton — which boasts a 25-11 overall record over Penn — dismantled the Quakers, 6-1, in Philadel-

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The Quakers head into their matchup against Yale with major injury issues, most notably with normal first singles Nikola Kokovic out due to ankle problems. we’ve already lost. Ismael [Lahlou] can’t play and Stu Little can’t play, if we lose those guys it would be a miracle to win.�

This weekend may end up being the bright light at the end of the dark tunnel for the Red and Blue as they may have some more of their much needed players cleared for action.

“Our number one went out today [De Alwis] and our regular number one [Kocovic] got injured last week, but if we get our top two players back playing well, we will do well,� Willenborg said. “I’m confident they’ll come back healthy ... I assume they’ll both be back Saturday.�

of basketball operations before working his way to full-time assistant and eventually recruiting coordinator.

Pera coached NBA All-Star James Harden at both Artesia and Arizona State, becoming a mentor for the future Gold Medal-winning basketball player.

Harden told MyFox Houston that Pera was his “mentor from ninth grade on,� and credited his former coach for getting him to where he is today. Harden was excited for his mentor’s new job.

“Definitely, top of the line, an amazing coach,� Harden said. �[He’s] soon to be a head coach one day. I’m happy for him. I’m proud of him.�

Penn coach Jerome Allen will now need to find a new recruiting coordinator and member of the coaching staff, with current assistants Ira Bowman and Jason Polykoff still on board. Allen has had the same three assistants for the last two seasons after having to replace all three of his assistants following the 2011-12 season.

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THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN

FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 2014 PAGE 9

Quakers move forward with Raleigh Relays TRACK AND FIELD Penn heads south for second time early in its outdoor season

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BY COLIN HENDERSON Associate Sports Editor With the Northeast’s inconsistent spring weather, many Penn students undoubtedly wish they could take a trip down South this time of year.

But Penn track and field is turning wishes into reality: It’s actually voyaging to North Carolina.

Both the men’s and women’s teams will take part in the Raleigh Relays this weekend, a meet that will start Friday morning and conclude Saturday night.

The Quakers are coming off of last weekend’s Philadelphia College Invitational, the first of the team’s two outdoor home meets.

Penn track coach Steve Dolan was pleased with his athletes’ performances last weekend. He hopes that the Red and Blue will leave the larger field and increased level of competition at the Raleigh Relays with similar results.

Dolan believes that last weekend’s warm weather in Philadelphia contributed significantly to his team’s success, and he is excited to get the Quakers down South for another outdoor meet.

“It’s gonna be nice to get dow n t here,” Dola n sa id .

“Whether you’re sprinting, jumping or throwing, weather really plays a factor in what you can do.”

The weather in Philadelphia hasn’t been ideal for the program this season. The inconsistent conditions have complicated the team’s early outdoor training program significantly.

“This has been a tough week

Red and Blue’s bats starting to heat up BASEBALL from page 10 in the third and fourth. But the sophomore reliever from Houston buckled down, forcing two double-play balls up the middle to preserve the shutout.

After the Quakers added to their total in the seventh, Villanova finally managed to plate a run and put some pressure on Penn. The Wildcats cut the deficit to eight and loaded the bases with no outs in the frame, but junior Steven Silvestri got out of the jam.

Sargent smacks homer in losing effort

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While two Penn underclassmen set school records in the men’s and women’s discus, senior thrower Jake Brenza provided the Quakers with a veteran presence. He placed in the top three in three different throwing events in last weekend’s meet. because the weather dipped down and got cold,” Dolan said.

“So we’ve practiced a little conservatively this week.”

Despite a long offseason for many of its athletes, Penn’s throwers were the standout group of last weekend’s meet.

“Throwing is one of the areas where we’re deepest on the team,” Dolan said.

At the Philadelphia College Invitational, sophomore Sam Mattis and freshman Nailah Hill were able to break school records in the men’s and women’s discus, respectively.

Meanwhile, senior thrower Jake Brenza also stood out, placing in the top three of three different events.

The throwers will look to build on their strong individual performances in Raleigh.

“For the most par t, we pitched it pretty well,” Yurkow said. “And the offense is starting to come around. The older players, some of the upperclassmen that we’re dependent on, are really starting to pick it up for us.”

Silvestri worked the final three innings without allowing a run, and the Quakers added three runs in the ninth on a two-run double from junior Paul Cotler.

Now that Penn has won four of its past five, the team’s collective attention now shifts to its two doubleheaders with the Bulldogs and Brown this weekend.

“We’re starting to get it going,” Yurkow said. “I thought we’ve struggled to score runs early in the season, but we’ve started to pick it up lately which is really good to see coming into this weekend.”

A majority of both Penn’s men’s and women’s distance runners ran the 3,000-meter race last Saturday, an unusual outdoor distance for most of the athletes.

Although they performed well in the 3,0 0 0m, Dolan hopes that race will help in the athletes preparation as they transition into their usual events.

“We saw it as a setup for this week,” Dolan said, explaining that the 3,000m represents a middle ground between the 1,500-meter and 5,000-meter distances that many of Penn’s distance runners will run this weekend.

As one might expect, the Raleigh Relays heavily feature relay events alongside individual races. Many of Penn’s middle-

distance runners and sprinters will get the chance to pass the baton around the track in live competition.

“That’s the beauty of the meet,” Dolan said. “It’s a very big meet, but it has a combination of relay opportunities and individual opportunities.”

This weekend will mark the third outdoor meet of Penn’s season, and Dolan’s expectations remain primarily focused on his team’s health and individual development.

However, as the season has gone on, his expectations have steadily increased.

“I’d love to see consistency, but I think there will be some breakthroughs too,” he said.

“With this competition ... we may even get a few NCAA qualifying marks.”

for the Ivy League tournament in May. “We know it’s going to be intense and we know everything is going to count,” senior third baseman Kayla Dahlerbruch said.

At practice on Wednesday, the team was experiencing the calm before the storm.

“On our side the nerves are not crazy,” Dahlerbruch said.

“A lot of us don’t know what to anticipate because we’re such a young team.”

Now that the freshmen have settled into the roster, Penn’s biggest challenge will be heating up the bats.

“When everyone’s clicking there’s no stopping us,” Dahlerbruch said.

Those bats weren’t clicking against the Explorers and Blue Hens on Thursday night.

In game one against La Salle, the Quakers were only able to record five baserunners, failing to plate any. The continued offensive struggles wasted a solid effort from ju-

nior pitcher Alexis Borden, who struck out seven batters while surrendering only three runs in six innings of work.

Things started to turn in game two against Delaware, but it still wasn’t enough.

The Red and Blue let the Blue Hens build up a 4-0 lead early on, but struck back in the bottom half of the third inning, when freshman pitcher Alexis Sargent — batting cleanup as a designated hitter — smacked a three-run homer to pull the Quakers within one.

But that would be the only offense that Penn could muster. Penn’s batters struck out 10 times over the course of the contest (17 times on the day), and only one batter in the bottom five spots of the lineup was able to get a hit.

Sargent would later come in to pitch the final three innings, and surrendered a run on four hits as Delaware’s 5-3 lead stood.

With the loss, the Red and Blue have now lost their last seven contests, scoring a combined total of six runs.

But the solution to Penn’s offensive woes may lie in the power of just one bat.

“With every team,” Dahlerbruch noted, “once you get the first hit, they all start coming.”

Penn hopes this weekend is a testament to that idea.

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Junior pitcher Alexis Borden surrendered only three runs in six innings pitched against La Salle, but received no run support and picked up the loss.

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In Penn’s matchup with Villanova on Thursday, junior third baseman Mitch Montaldo kick started the scoring with an RBI single in the second inning.

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Penn needs to polish up the little things M. LACROSSE from page 10 and credit to them — we played them tough but they got the upper hand on us both times.”

With losses in their first two Ivy games, the Red and Blue’s matchup against the Elis is critical. To improve upon last season’s 3-3 finish in the Ancient Eight, the Quakers cannot afford another loss. And if there is a year to show their strength, it is now with a talented senior class.

Facing the Elis brings with it a fresh opportunity for success. “[Yale plays] a little bit different in a lot of ways, a little bit more of a half field team, unlike Cornell. Cornell likes to ride up and down kind of like we do, and they are also a very good defensive team and offensive team but they are different from Princeton,” Murphy said. “Yale is different in that they are more free flowing, but at the same time they have a couple guys that we really have to be prepared for offensively, on attack in particular.”

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“We are pretty familiar with these teams, and they are pretty familiar with us. It’s always going to be a challenge,” Doktor said. “We play one of the hardest schedules in the country, and we have the past few years especially in the Ivy League.”

If the Red and Blue can pick up some significant conference

wins, then their victories earlier in the season against Denver and Villanova could be key in their hopes for a postseason run.

However, first and foremost comes the Ivy League slate.

“We are at a significant point here in playing the top three teams in the league in our first three games,” Murphy said.

“We’ve had some success but we’ve also had some setbacks

but we have to learn from both.”

If the Quakers can take what they have learned and apply it against Yale, then this will be their chance to turn it around.

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Will the third time be the charm?

BASEBALL | Penn busts out with a six-run fifth inning for fourth win since end of spring break

BY RILEY STEELE Sports Editor

at Villanova It looks like things are starting to click for Penn baseball and coach John Yurkow.

Following a spring break road trip during which they won only two games, the Quakers sat nine games below .500 and were struggling to consistently produce at the plate.

But after a week of rest, three Penn wins in four games against in-state rival Lafayette last weekend gave the Quakers a bit of momentum.

E nt e r i n g T hu r s d a y ’s r o a d matchup with Villanova, the Red and Blue hoped to build off their weekend momentum against another local rival.

With its first Ivy League contests of the season looming this weekend, Penn’s bats busted out against the Wildcats. The Quakers used a six-run fifth inning and strong pitching to knock out Villanova, 12-1.

The win marks the fourth time Penn (6-10) has won on the road in 2014, a much-needed victory that helps maintain the team’s momentum as it prepares for its upcoming doubleheaders with Yale and Brown.

Though the Quakers’ six-run outburst in the fifth was the tipping point of Penn’s win over Villanova (7-15), the Red and Blue applied plenty of pressure all game long.

After threatening in the first, Penn plated two runs off of RBI singles from junior third baseman Mitch Montaldo and sophomore right fielder Matt Greskoff. The Quakers also scattered hits in the third and fourth innings before forcing two pitching changes with their onslaught in the fifth.

Up until the Red and Blue put the game out of reach, Villanova refused to go quietly.

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Penn men’s lacrosse’s offense has flowed through the stick of sophomore attack Nick Doktor, who is currently tied for the team lead in points with seven goals and eight assists.

In last Saturday’s 17-9 loss to Cornell, Doktor scored a goal and dished out four assists, helping stake the Quakers to an early lead in the first quarter.

M. LACROSSE | Quakers aim to pick up their first Ivy win of the season in their third Ancient Eight contest

BY ALEXIS ZIEBELMAN Associate Sports Editor Third time’s the charm, at least that’s what the Quakers are hoping.

This Saturday, the Penn men’s lacrosse team will compete in its third

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Ivy contest. With two losses to two of the top teams in the league behind them, the No. 16 Quakers (3-3, 0-2 Ivy) will need to take down No. 11 Yale (42, 1-1) to stay within reach in the title chase.

“We are just trying to focus on the little things. There are no major chang-

Assistant coach Scott Pera leaving Quakers to join Rice coaching staff M. HOOPS | Pera is joining Mike Rhoades, Rice’s new coach, after two seasons on Jerome Allen’s staff

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After two years on Jerome Allen’s coaching staff, assistant coach and recruting coordinator Scott Pera has decided to leave Penn to take a position at Rice under new head coach Mike Rhoades.

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nonconference performance leading into the start of Ivy play. However, that momentum did not continue in losses to No. 14 Princeton and No. 2 Cornell.

“We had a good preseason which is why I think we were able to do that,” Doktor said. “The Ivy League is one of the toughest [conferences] in the country, and we started off strong against two of the toughest teams in the country, Cornell and Princeton,

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Penn aims to wake up bats after dropping doubleheader SOFTBALL | Quakers can only plate three runs on evening, lose sixth and seventh straight contests

BY STEVEN TYDINGS Senior Sports Editor After two years as an assistant coach for Penn basketball, Scott Pera is leaving for a new opportunity.

According to the Houston Chronicle, Pera, the Quakers’ recruiting coordinator for the last two seasons, will leave Penn for Rice, where he will be a member of new coach Mike Rhoades’ staff.

Pera has known Rhoades since Rhoades was a college basketball player at Lebanon Valley College (Pa.) while Pera was the head coach at Annville-Cleona High School (Pa.).

Rhoades was previously a member of Shaka Smart’s coaching staff at VCU, where he served as an associate head coach.

es that we need to make,” sophomore attack Nick Doktor said.

While the losses were not ideal, the team believes that they were not the result of a major error or mistake, but rather a function of the team slacking on some of the “little things” that ultimately caught up with it.

“We just need to adjust a few things and improve a few things and we’ll be in a good position to beat Yale,” coach Mike Murphy said.

The Red and Blue had a strong

vs. La Salle

vs. Delaware

“We started off the first practice in the fall with a piece of paper that said 199 days until we open with Yale,” coach Leslie King said. Now, Penn softball is down to just one more day.

The Red and Blue will open their Ivy League season today with a doubleheader at Penn Park against Yale, hoping to rebound after getting swept in a home doubleheader

by La Salle, 5-0, and Delaware on Thursday, 5-3.

For Penn (4-11), this game started long before Friday’s 2 p.m. start

time.

“This whole year we’ve been building, building, building, building up to this point,” King said. “[The team] is very cognizant of where we are and what it means.”

The doubleheader against Yale (3-13) is the Quakers’ first taste of Ivy League competition. How Penn fares in this game will likely set the tone for the postseason, as Ancient Eight matchups determine seeding

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