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Liquor police:

‘Our presence was

REQUESTED’ Many student groups will not hold parties with alcohol on or near campus due to an increase in state police activity

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crackdown on underage drinking will change the landscape of this year’s Spring Fling.

Officers from the Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement will patrol on and around campus this Fling at the request of the Division of Public Safety.

“Specifically for Spring Fling, our presence was requested” by DPS, said BLCE Sergeant Dan Steele, who is the commander of the Philadelphia district office.

As a result of increased police activity, many student groups have decided to not host parties with alcohol on campus. As of press time, over 1,400 students have also said on Facebook that they will attend a peaceful “Free Fling” protest on College Green today against the “administration’s crackdown” on the annual Penn celebration.

Last year’s Fling saw a new collaboration between the BLCE and DPS in enforcing alcohol regulations over the weekend, with over 30 students cited for underage

BY MELISSA LAWFORD Staff Writer

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[If you walk into a large party this weekend], know that you are probably going to meet a [Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement] officer.

— Maureen Rush,

Vice President for Public Safety

Faculty, security guards brace themselves for Spring Fling

BY KRISTEN GRABARZ Staff Writer Students aren’t the only ones preparing for Spring Fling this weekend. Faculty and security personnel are getting ready as well — but in different ways.

With student safety a top priority, faculty and security officials are preparing for the inundation of Flinging students and visitors, particularly in and around the Quad.

A security officer at the Lower Quad gate noted the busy atmo-

sphere of the Quad during Fling weekend.

“It’s bananas for us. There are a thousand — a couple thousand — kids in the Quad. It’s our busiest weekend, next to move-in and move-out days,” he said.

The security team will be supplemented with extra staff on duty. Although they could not disclose the full extent of their security plan, security officers will be checking PennCards at each of the restricted entrances to the Quad buildings. They will have lists

of the students who live in each house to prevent non-residents from entering.

Security personnel will also perform bag checks on each individual entering the Quad, and will check visitors’ guest passes at Quad entrances. They are also responsible for ensuring that excessively inebriated students do not enter.

“The biggest challenge for us is crowd control,” said another security officer stationed at the Upper SEE FLING PREP PAGE 6

Delayed opening for development with new food options on 40th and Sansom

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FLINGING IN ’85

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The Spring Fling of 1985 included a performance by the British punk ska band General Public.

Penn posts contingency plan for SEPTA strike

The building, set to open this month, will open in late summer or early fall

If there is a strike, the plan will give free transit to Penn employees

BY CLAIRE COHEN Deputy News Editor

BY JILL GOLUB Staff Writer

Penn students will have to wait a few more months for the pizza, frozen yogurt and donuts promised at 40th and Sansom streets.

The building is estimated to open in late summer or early fall. In September 2013, the developers, P&A Associates,

As a potential strike looms over SEPTA, Penn has already taken steps to ensure that employees are able to get to work everyday should a strike occur.

Penn Transit Services has released a SEPTA Strike Contingency Plan outlining what Penn will do if SEPTA goes on strike.

Through the contingency plan, a campus bus service and parking

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Courtesy of P&A Associates

The development coming to 40th and Sansom streets will open in late summer or early fall. The development will include a Zesto Pizza, Whirled Peace Frozen Yogurt and a Dunkin’ Donuts.

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areas will be available to people who can no longer use SEPTA to get to work.

Penn T ra nsit Ser v ices has partnered with Drexel University, Penn Health System and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia to provide free transit to all employees of these institutions.

The possibility for strike stems from contract negotiations between Transport Workers Union Local 234 and SEPTA. The union’s contract with SEPTA expired in mid-March, and there has not yet been a new deal put in place.

While the 5,000-plus workers in SEE SEPTA PAGE 5

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DPS honors officers at ceremony

Conference seeks to broaden definition of ‘Asian America’ Award-winning writer Moustafa Bayoumi was the keynote speaker

BY ESTHER YOON Contributing Writer

Sam Sherman/Associate Photo Editor

The Division of Public Safety honored its officers last night at its annual Spring Commendations Ceremony. Outgoing Dean of the School of Nursing Afaf Meleis (left) was honored by Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush (right) in her “sincere appreciation” for Meleis’ partnership throughout her 12 years at Penn.

Officer Socks, DPS’ first canine officer, was sworn in on Wednesday night

BY COSETTE GASTELU Staff Writer Finding yourself in a room full of police officers is usually indicative of a bad situation.

This was not the case, however, for the dozens of people who assembled in Fagin Hall Wednesday evening for the Division of Public Safety’s Spring Commendations Ceremony.

The event honored a number of personnel from the Penn Police Department, the Philadelphia Police Department, PennComm Operations Center, campus security services — including Allied Barton and University City District — and the Medical Emergency Response Team for their commitment to promoting safety and security at Penn.

Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush kicked

off the awards by presenting a special honor to Afaf Meleis, the outgoing dean of the Nursing School, to show “sincere appreciation” for Meleis’ partnership with DPS over her 12 years at Penn.

“This building was the first building to be Operation Building Safe compliant ... because [Meleis] made security a priority,” Rush said of Fagin Hall. Rush explained that Operation Building Safe is an initiative that DPS created to bolster security at entry points of campus buildings.

Officer Socks, DPS’ first K-9 partner, was officially sworn in as part of the ceremony.

By touching the hand of her partner, Penn Police officer Julie Wesley, Officer Socks took her oath of duty, vowing to “sniff out danger wherever it seeks to infiltrate [the] community” by using the skills she learned over a 13-week training course in bomb detection.

Following Officer Socks’

initiation, the ceremony shifted to recognize the efforts of nearly 100 individuals for their responses to specific incidents that occurred earlier this year and in 2013.

“The thing that I am most proud of is that ever yone here has heart,” Rush said.

“We are in law enforcement, but we are law enforcement in a university environment where we are taking care of people and people’s children, and I think everyone here tonight recognizes that.”

A group of officers were lauded for the work they carried out between Dec. 3, 2013 and Dec. 23, 2013. During this period, the officers investigated a string of armed robberies that struck two Cosi restaurants in Philadelphia — including the Cosi located at 36th and Walnut streets — as well as an IHOP in New Jersey. The officers’ persistent efforts led them to apprehend a suspect who later admitted to being involved in each of the robberies.

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Toward the end of the festivities, representatives from the Undergraduate Assembly and the Graduate and Professional Students Assembly presented Public Safety Recognition Awards to seven public safety employees who had been selected through a student-run nomination process.

Add it ion a l ly, F i r e a nd Emergency Services Chief Eugene Janda recognized members of MERT for expanding the organization’s presence at Penn. He praised MERT ’s improved social media presence, increased faculty outreach, work with the Greek community and enhanced CPR and first aid awareness.

The ceremony closed on a note of new beginnings, as Rush and Janda presented a new award — the John A. Cook Award — to Thomas Hauber, executive director of the Vice Provost for University Life Facilities. The award is named after John Cook, a former Penn Police officer who retired last spring after serving at the University for 28 years.

Fariha Khan wants to redefine what it means to be Asian American.

Khan, the associate director of the Asian American Studies Program, helped organize last weekend’s “Rethinking Activism” conference. The event, hosted by ASAM, focused on underrepresented groups within Asian America — the Asian communities within the United States — and the changing dynamics of activism that encompass them.

“We can use this momentum to think about ways that Penn students can leave campus and engage in some of this activism that is happening all around us,” Khan said.

The conference aimed to “try to broaden the definition of Asian America,” Khan said. “We try to move beyond the model minority myth, beyond the forever foreigner stereotype.”

For the students, Khan believes that it was a shocking as well as inspiring experience.

“I think the students were really shocked and speechless about Cambodian deportation,” she said. “They were shocked when the speaker from the Rhode Island [Southeast Asian Queers United for Empowerment and Leadership] talked about issues of prison corporations and how they’re targeting poor Vietnamese, Cambodian youth in order to make a profit.”

The program included workshops by activist organizations 1Love Movement and seaQuel, a keynote speech led by award-

winning writer Dr. Moustafa Bayoumi, a panel with community leaders and a performance by spoken word group Yellow Rage.

Founding members of Yellow Rage, Michelle Myers and Catzie Vilayphonh, performed pieces on Asian American women and the issue of exotification.

“It was a powerful punch at the end of the day,” Khan said.

Meyers performed a poem that she had written for a young man that was brutally beaten in Minnesota without charges filed against the perpetrator.

Yellow Rage also performed a piece called, “I’m Not Your Flavor.”

Not only is ASAM looking to shed light on the diversity within Asian America, but also to encourage students to become more engaged in the Asian American community, Khan added. She and the ASAM undergraduate advisory board are also looking for ways to be more involved in community service within West Philadelphia.

“Who is not represented within Asian America?” Khan said. “What are the communities that become invisible? Our hope was that we would see these communities: the refugee communities, the Cambodian deportees and the Asian Americans from the LGBT community.”

Students from Temple University, Swarthmore College and Princeton University also attended the conference.

“One thing that was very exciting at the conference here was increased dialogue between our undergraduate advisory board and these students from the different universities,” Khan said. “I really hope that we can continue to foster a broader dialogue.”

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Students honored for efforts to help transfers transition to Penn The Transfer Student Organization mentors, hosts events for transfers

BY AMELIA MACDONALD Contributing Writer College seniors Kim Gordon and Nikolai Zapertov have been creating a smoother transition for transfer students since fall 2011.

Gordon and Zapertov are t he c o - pr e sident s of t he Transfer Student Organization and recent recipients of the Abraham D. Cohn Senior Prize. They were recognized for using TSO to assist transfer students adapt to life at Penn. They are the f irst transfer students to receive the award, which honors outstanding students in the College annually.

TSO works to ensure that the approximately 150 transfers a year don’t fall under t he r a d a r. W h i le o ne o f TSO’s initial programs was an experimental chat room set up for asking questions, the organization now has a full blown mentor program where each transfer student has a mentor to help them adapt to life at Penn. Aside from providing mentorship, TSO hosts events for transfer students and represents them in campus politics.

The Transfer Student Organization was founded in fall 2011, when a small group of t r a n sfer st udent s felt that the existing resources for transfers at Penn were insuf f icient. One of these students was Gordon, who based many of the organization’s initiatives off of her

own experiences.

When she first arrived at Penn, Gordon said she found it “hard to navigate extracur r icula rs.” She wanted to “foster a community” for transfer students and give them a way to connect.

Zapertov had a similar experience when he first came to Penn.

“You are already well-established at your old school,” Zapertov said. "[When you transfer] you get lost very easily and don’t know where to turn to.”

TSO also assists transfer students during New Student Orientation. They felt this event was especially important because it’s a student’s first impression of the school. Due to TSO’s efforts, NSO now holds special late night events and informa-

tion sessions for transfers.

An event that is becoming an NSO tradition for TSO is their crêpe night. This was the f irst social event they ever provided for the transfer students and was where Gordon and Zapertov first met.

Smaller projects encompass editing the Road Map to Penn to include a sections for transfers. Another is ma k i ng sure the class board provides them with appropriate Penn gear and ensuring they receive apparel w ith their year and school. They have built communities within on-campus housi ng, wher e a s b efor e transfers were placed wherever there were vacancies.

Gordon and Zapertov expect to receive the award this coming May.

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Development to house yogurt, pizza BUILDING from page 1 estimated that construction on the building would finish this month.

“There’s just a lot of coordination with the adjacent properties,” Bob Shaw, a partner at P&A Associates, said in response to to why the building is so far behind schedule.

The development will eventually house a Whirled Peace Frozen Yogurt, Zesto Pizza and Dunkin’ Donuts. P&A Associates are currently in talks with a fourth tenant.

The building is taking the place of the former Methodist Episcopal Church. While the church was demolished in Januar y, P& A A ssociates has owned the property since 2007.

“I think it’s going to be a great addition to the area in terms of amenities and architecture both, so we’re looking forward to it,” Shaw said.

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Peace, love, Fling

SARA, STRUGGLING | Fling is an awesome experience to take advantage of

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t wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that I’ve been planning for this Fling for over a year.

For the first time, I went out and bought myself a fling tank. My parents were very confused as I tried to explain how the bandeau top worked with the large armholes.

But I’m pumped to get flung this year. (Is this the proper terminology?)

With help from my sorority sisters, I’ve begun mapping out my plans — how to get fried Oreos and where to take selfies. I’ve been educating myself so I can sing along with the new songs.

This time of year, though, I hear a lot of negativity about Fling. A sort of insane hype spreads through campus. The big question is: Who will be the main Fling performer?

I was abroad last year, so I missed what I have been

promised was an epic upset.

Other students abroad kept asking me if I felt bad missing any spring events.

My friends back at Penn promised me I wasn’t missing much — they didn’t even know the name of the performing group.

In fact, sometimes I feel like 90 percent of the hype surrounding Fling is the announcement. People dream about Fling performers.

And, even worse, people complain about the artists selected even before they are announced.

These are the skeptics. I used to be in this group.

It all seemed ridiculous to camp out in line to get try to get to a concert where, chances were, I’d be elbowed in the head. (As I had been freshman year.)

I’ve also taken to griping about the weather and won-

dering if I won’t just be happier staying in with my fuzzy blanket, a cup of tea and some “How I Met Your Mother” on Netflix.

But since with age comes great wisdom, as a senior I’m learning to look at the upcoming weeks differently.

This year, I’m looking forward to Fling, and not just because I really rock out to David Guetta. Fling is so much more than just a musical group — and even more than just a concert.

As much as I’m excited to jam out to “Play Hard,” I’m trying to focus on what Fling means.

Fling is one of the few holidays that we can celebrate as a campus. Even the teachers get into it. (“Don’t drink before coming to class,” my Spanish teacher warned us.

Ironic, considering the opposite attitude was the norm

in Spain.)

Some people have the attitude that Fling isn’t for everyone, that only freshman go because they are naive and seniors because they are nostalgic. Or perhaps the common sentiment is that only partiers go, or only students who usually don’t party or …

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So the next time you start to complain about Fling — the next little whine or snark or comment — remember how freaking awesome it is.”

Fling is amazing. It’s one of the things that makes me

proud to go to Penn.

SARA SCHONFELD I was talking to my mother, an alumna of Penn, and she will be on the same campus recalled her own fond Fling as me. memories.

And I get to hear him sing.

I’m going to remember this To me. And my classmates. concert years from now. I’m I don’t think I’ve fully progoing to remember dancing cessed this. with my friends and singing So the next time you start along even when I don’t know to complain about Fling — the the words. A nd I’m going next little whine or snark or to remember seeing David comment — remember how Guetta. freaking awesome it is. Even David Guetta. if the concert isn’t your jam As a former reporter, I real- or the fried Oreos don’t sound ize how hard it is to get some appetizing, consider Flinging sources to call you back, and in your own small way.

I can’t wrap my head around All I’m asking is: Let’s give the idea that somehow we’re each other this. This weekend getting celebrities to come — or week. To be a University and sing to us. and fist-bump to the same I find this as amazing and beat. strange as if I returned home SARA SCHONFELD is a College to my quad in Rodin to find Enrique Iglesias serenading senior from Philadelphia studymy three roommates. David ing English. Her email address is Guetta, whose music I pur- s.schonfeldthedp@gmail.com or chased for $1.29 on iTunes, follow her @SaraSchon.

Turn down for what, exactly?

THE QUAKING POINT | Enjoy Fling, but save some Banker’s for the rest of the year

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t’s that time of year again.

This weekend, students of all shapes and sizes come together to drink, party and gallivant for a few precious days. We offer sleep and brain cells as tribute to the gods. Freshman and senior pass out together as equals. Drink a highball to the best and brightest.

Yes, Fling is in the air. Save that one girl at Guetta who will be screaming her lungs out — not to mention your eardrums — everything will hopefully be going our way. For all intents and purposes, all is right in the universe.

But as our communal rites draw near, it’s hard not to wonder why the joy of Fling is so elusive — why it’s so difficult to distill that sense of fun and freedom throughout the academic year.

Some places succeed at

keeping the volume loud year round. Literally. So loud, in fact, that one contemplates calling the police and busting that party across the street in hopes of a single good night’s sleep before that upcoming exam.

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People often are either working too hard or playing too hard.”

Others cannot help but absorb the Flingery with a hint of disdain. Is this really becoming of the Ivy League? We pay thousands of dollars for an elite education bragging rites, and these ungrateful he-

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donists blow it away (some take that more literally than others) without a second impaired thought.

There is definitely something funny about the excitement that surrounds Fling.

While every school has its big celebration, ours almost seems like a purge — a campus wide get-out-of-jail card for hardworking overachievers in which anything goes and excess is lauded. For one weekend, we throw our neuroses to the wind. Come Monday, we will return sluggishly to the routine and overwhelming demands of Ivy League life.

People often are either working too hard or playing too hard. Some students are all about going out, and they struggle to hold a conversation beyond describing what they did the night before. Others lose themselves to the academ-

ic routine and the job grind; a fair number of them even fail to make what they study matter outside the classroom.

On the one hand, we really ought to take our studies seriously. There is too much to be learned, too many opportunities to be gained, for us to drink and sleep away these eight precious semesters. And we shouldn’t feel ashamed of our intelligence, either.

That said, a life lacking in enjoyment hardly strikes me as a life worth living. Our undergraduate years are about growing up, of which intellectual development is only one component. We should be having fun frequently and in moderation. While indulging is healthy from time to time, we shouldn’t need to rely on a purging period to escape an overwhelming work life. College is just as much about social experiences

as it is academics.

Being successful is great.

But sometimes, simply being is what we need.

I’m not complaining that I can’t have a Marxist debate at a frat party. I only mean to point out that our school isn’t quite as balanced as it would like to think.

What would be a good model for reconciling work and play?

Friedrich Nietzsche describes human culture through the tension between Apollo, the Greek sun god and Dionysus, the god of wine and disinhibition. The former embodies reason and logic, the latter emotion and raw experience. Most of us live our lives somewhere between these two extremes, but circumstance and habit push us further to one side from time to time. Our goal should be to incorporate both into our experience of the world and keep

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JONATHAN IWRY them in healthy moderation.

We should make the most of our time at Penn in all respects, and that means committing ourselves to the dual priorities of work and play.

Let’s not forget to live, as long as we can live with purpose.

It’s not easy to do, but I’d like to think that students at the social Ivy can strike a healthy balance of curiosity, ambition and fun — and that includes debauchery.

JONATHAN IWRY is a College senior from Bethesda, Md., studying philosophy. His last name is pronounced “eev-ree.” Email him at jon.iwry@ gmail.com.

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Students and diplomats talk Pakistan at first annual conference Reporting by Zahra Husain Graphic by Vivian Lee

Last Saturday, Penn Pakistan Society hosted the first annual Penn Pakistan Conference to open a dialogue about issues pertaining to Pakistan and its increasing global presence.

Special guests included the former Pakistani Ambassador to the U.S. Husain Haqqani.

Conference organizers hoped attendees would take away the following five things:

1) Students need to get involved with Pakistan Pakistan is becoming a global player, but there are a lot of issues facing the country, and students need to work to find solutions.

2) There has been a recent shift in power in the country In 2013, Pakistan had a presidential election, where Nawaz Sharif beat former cricket star Imran Khan, who was gaining popularity, especially amongst much of the youth. Previously, the Pakistan People’s Party controlled much of the country’s power after the 2007 assassination of Prime Ministerial candidate Benazir Bhutto.

3) Students and government officials should collaborate on Pakistan more frequently The club brought diplomats and government officials to the event to start a dialogue across disciplines and connect people to promote research on Pakistan. “We feel that enabling discussion and debate amongst academics, diplomats, government officials and students helps create the atmosphere for more focused research on Pakistan,” Penn Pakistan Society board member and College freshman Irtaza Ali said in an email.

4) Most have a skewed perception of Pakistan The media focuses on the terrorism and radicalism that are rampant, which creates a distorted view of the country, Ali added. Instead, organizers hope to show that Pakistan has potential for economic development through the session on economic prospects.

5) The society hopes to encourage more dialogue The conference also aimed to connect Pakistanis across the east coast to create a community and increase dialogue not only in the community but also with other people interested in global affairs and Pakistan. “We hope that this conference sets the precedent for more conferences on Pakistan in the future,” Ali said. “There is a strong need for platforms like this because they engender discussion that is constructive and solution oriented.”

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SEPTA is currently in negotiations with Transport Workers Union Local 234 over a new contract for SEPTA employees, since the old one expired in mid-March. In anticipation of a possible strike, Penn has created a contingency travel plan for its staff.

Strike wouldn’t impact LUCY, Regional Rail SEPTA from page 1 the union have continued to go to work for now, there are fears that if a new contract is not negotiated quickly, a

strike will happen.

S E P TA s p o k e s p e r s o n M a nuel Sm it h sa id t hat there is “no news so far” as to whether the union will strike. Union representatives could not be reached for comment.

If a strike does occur, it would not impact SEPTA’s regional rail ser v ices or LUCY bus routes, as different union workforces operate them.

SEPTA said it offered the TWU a two-year contract on Sunday night with wage increases of two percent in the first year and three percent in the second year.

However, under this deal, workers would have to spend an extra one percent of their wages on a health-care premium.

SEPTA is currently waiting for a response on the deal from the TWU.

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App encourages Penn students to post compliments anonymously Notice wants to go ‘deeper’ than Penn Compliments

BY CLAIRE GREENBERG Contributing Writer Next time something pops into your head — a compliment, feeling or observation — consider sharing it on Notice.

Founded by Wharton senior Edward Lando and Engineering freshman Yagil Burowski, Notice is a social networking app geared towards promoting positivity on campus. It allows students to anonymously post compliments, shout-outs or random thoughts.

Notice is different from other popular anonymous sites like CollegiateACB because it focuses on positivity, Lando said. The app ensures that every post is positive through a review system before it is published in front of users. App users can also take down any post which they are tagged in.

The idea for Notice was inspired by a discussion between Lando and Burowski on mental health issues at Penn.

“There are many people who are secretly stressed and need someone to speak to — we were feeling the stress as well,” Burowski said.

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Guard: Quad ‘bananas’ during Fling FLING PREP from page 1 Quad gate. “We want to make sure everyone’s here to have fun and not mess up anyone else’s fun.”

While the presence of the Bureau of Liquor Control En-

Compliments show a ver y interesting trend in ways to respond to a campus problem, which we learned from,” Lando said. “We are trying to universalize these experiences and make this type of communication deeper.”

Lando added that Notice has uses that other sites and apps do not provide — for example, users do not have to tag someone or post about a specific person.

Notice gives users a voice to say anything.

“We were having lunch one day and started looking at the people around us. What if I could say something about the person over there? What if I could flirt with that girl?”

Lando said.

According to the founders, this spontaneity differentiates Notice from other forums.

“It has to be spontaneous — something that you notice,” Burowski said. “For example, there was a post recently that said, ‘Who are those people at Smoke’s?’ It needs to be immediate.”

The founders hope that the anonymity of Notice will allow people to not be self-conscious when they use it.

“On Facebook, there is a super-awareness that everyone is judging you and it makes Facebook a self-branding

thing,” Lando said.

Another component to the app is the community.

“Notice is like a masquerade ball in your town. You know who is present at the party, but at any given time, you’re only able to make a few guesses about who it is,” Burowski said. “The person is comfortable enough to dance like no one is watching,” Lando added.

Notice currently limits its users to the Penn community by requiring a Penn email address to register. Lando said they wanted all the users to have something in common because “you only care about the people you care about.”

Notice has already made a mark on the Penn community.

The app already has over 500 downloads since its launch on March 31st and 80% of users access it at least once a day.

The founders attribute Notice’s early popularity with the service that it delivers along with the design of the app.

They wanted the continuousscrolling feed of posts to seem like a “natural way to experience the content,” Burowski added.

“It’s a comprehensive experience,” Burowski said. “If you create a happy and beautiful product, people are not going to hate on it.”

forcement will seek to reduce underage drinking on campus, security personnel will man the gates to the Quad to keep the events inside as safe as possible.

“I’ll be at the Upper Quad — it’s like ground zero,” the security official said. “Especially when the sun comes out. It gets bananas.”

Faculty members who live in the Quad, such as college house deans and faculty masters, will see students celebrating Fling outside their windows this weekend. As Quad residents themselves, they too will be subject to the increased security presence, as well as the deluge of Fling tank-clad students.

“The increased security

will have some minor impact on routines, but it’s not something we consider a problem or annoyance,” Riepe College House Fellow Ralph Rosen said in an email. He noted that the worst part of Fling weekend is that it “can be a little gross stepping around the occasional vomit!”

Not even those responsible for student safety are immune to the positive Spring Fling spirit, though. Rosen declared the “energ y and vibes” to be the best part of the weekend.

“I look forward to the fried Oreos,” the Upper Quad Gate security officer said. “A lthough honestly, I can’t wait for it to be over.”

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Fraternities were warned of more police PARTIES from page 1 drinking.

Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush said that DPS invited BLCE to campus for Fling this year because “it’s much more effective for Penn officers to work with BLCE.” “With or without us, they will be here,” Rush said. “We have the same intentions ... our goal is not about being punitive.” She stressed that DPS’s primary aim is student safety. “Our goal is not to spend our time citing students,” Rush added.

The crackdown on underage alcohol consumption has been especially prominent in the Greek community.

On April 2, Penn requested that the BLCE meet with students f rom the Greek “problem houses” — a group of about 12 houses affiliated with on- and off-campus fraternities on DPS’s radar. At the meeting, DPS and BLCE emphasized that liquor enforcement officers would be handing out citations and felonies.

People host i ng pa r t ies where alcohol is being served to minors can be arrested for a misdemeanor of the third degree, Rush said. Hosts “will actually be taken in handcuffs,” Steele added.

Fraternity members were also warned at last Wednesday’s meeting that officers who looked like students will be infiltrating Fling parties to see if alcohol is being supplied to minors. “Undercover work is our speciality, so to speak,” Steele said. If you walk into

a large party this weekend, “know that you’re probably going to meet an BLCE officer,” Rush added.

Many students feel that this year’s policies were communicated in an unreasonable way. “‘We are coming to get you’ is the tone everyone left that meeting with,” said a College junior and member of an on-campus fraternity who wished to remain anonymous because he did not want his comments to be affiliated with his fraternity.

Fraternity members are also confused with some of this year’s policies.

“Everyone has a responsibility to make sure people have fun safely,” the College junior said. “But people are going to drink elsewhere,” he said, outlining the dangers of drinking further away from support services.

He added that there is “a disconnect between what everyone is trying to accomplish out of Fling and the policies to try and get there.”

Fraternity members also expressed concern with how difficult it is to register parties with alcohol. The University does not allow registered parties on the Friday of Fling, for example.

Julie Lyzinski Nettleton, director of the Alcohol and Other Drugs Program Initiative, explained in an emailed statement that it is University policy that parties do not clash with classes during the day and the concert on that night.

Only two parties with alcohol have been registered for Thursday night, three for Saturday afternoon and one on Saturday night, although Nettleton said that more student groups could have applied to register parties. Four fraternities are planning to host dry events on Saturday as well, Nettleton added.

Members of Penn’s ad-

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ministration do not notice a significant change in the University’s approach to alcohol regulation at Fling this year.

“We’re following the blueprint from the last few years,” Rush said.

Director of the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life Scott Reikofski added that he hasn’t “seen anything that’s radically different [in the University’s approach].” He noted, however, that with regards to the BLCE, the “sense is that they’re going to be more visible” this weekend.

Last year’s collaboration with the BLCE began after the agency’s new commanding officer reached out to all universities in the area saying that BLCE would be “putting major emphasis on problems at university campuses,” Rush said.

An off-campus fraternity member and College senior who wished to remain anonymous described last year’s Fling regulations as the “apex of the crackdown.” But he said that this year’s regulations are “really taking it to a new level.”

As a result, off-campus fraternities are moving most gatherings “further away from University campus,” said a College senior in an off-campus fraternity. A few other fraternities have decided to organize a party in New Jersey this weekend. “We’re trying to stay quiet this week,” the College senior added.

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Ivy title helps moving into 2014-15 season W. HOOPS from page 12 ing to miss them.”

McLaughlin saw the four seniors as hallmarks of the developing Penn program.

“What can I say?” he said after losing to Texas. “They changed the complexion of the program. They helped recruit, they helped us bring unbelievable character and they defined our program as a classy program.”

The season With strong senior leadership coming into this season, the Quakers were set to challenge for the Ivy title, especially coming off of the first postseason victories in program histor y at the 2013 Women’s Basketball Invitational.

Penn also had a schedule worthy of its pursuit of an Ivy title. No. 2 Notre Dame, Drexel (the reigning WNIT champions) and Army were among Penn’s tougher nonconference opponents to come to the Palestra.

But the Red and Blue received the most attention after their victory on New Year’s Day against Miami, the program’s first win ever over an Atlantic Coast Conference team.

“It just gives us a lot of experience playing those high caliber teams, especially Notre Dame, who is a No. 1 seed and a possible contender for the title,” Baron said before the NCAA Tournament. “And then the Big 5 games. Those are always tough competition as well.”

Yet, after the Quakers excelled in nonconference play, they fell to Princeton by 31 points in their first Ivy game.

But McLaughlin refocused his players, telling them that they would add all the wins up at the end and look at one game at a time.

While that philosophy may be cliched, it certainly worked, as the Red and Blue won 13 of their last 14 games to win the Ivy crown, finishing it all off by beating Princeton on March 11.

The final result of the season was the final loss to Texas, but the list of accomplishments is too long to count. The team broke program records for win streaks, highest seed in the NCA A Tournament (No. 12) as well as numerous individual awards that were racked up by Baron (Ivy and Big 5 Player of the Year) and Stipanovich (Ivy and Big 5 Rookie of the Year).

“Each year, we’ve gotten better and better,” McCullough said after playing Texas. “It has been a great four years and winning the Ivy League was what we aspired to do, and we achieved that goal. So having the chance to come [to Maryland] and play against a Big 12 school was great.”

Taking notice When a program has the suc-

cess that Penn had this year, it is easy for those on the outside to take notice. With creation of the Ivy League Digital Network, more people were able to see Penn’s games, including Nwokedi, whose father bought the package so she could watch her future team.

But alumni also felt the excitement of the Quakers’ success. Caramanico got to the Palestra for a handful of Penn’s games, and she was particularly proud of the team’s performance on ESPN in the NCAA Tournamment.

“It was a fantastic game,” she said. “They weren’t just on TV. They handled one of the best teams in the country for three quarters of the game.

It’s a great sense of pride being a former Quaker and for the school as a whole.”

Stan Greene, a 1978 Penn basketball graduate and another member of the basketball board, was also quick to point out the team’s success against Texas.

“I’m so very proud of them,” he said. “This year, the ladies showed what happens when you focus and play with confidence. You can beat almost anyone. They had a 15-point lead against Texas, which shocked the world.”

Foundation for the future However, the Quakers’ success doesn’t come to an end with this senior class, as the team has a foundation in place for next season.

While the team is losing some of its significant guards in Baron and McCullough, it has a strong frontcourt in place to make the rest of the Ivy League miserable in the post.

Along with Stipanovich, who led the Ivy League in blocks by a significant margin despite not joining the starting lineup until January, the Quakers have juniors Kara Bonenberger and Katy Allen ready to take on leadership roles in the post.

And the most heralded member of Penn’s incoming recruiting class is Nwokedi, a 6-foot-3 forward who will play an important role right away for the Red and Blue.

“I’m very versatile,” she said.

“You could put me at guard or at the post at any time.

What people don’t know is that I’m tall, but I can also guard guards. I think over the summer, when I get to Penn, I’m going to work on getting stronger.”

With that foundation for next year, the Quakers will be able to compete for an Ivy title once again, although with a target on their backs and Princeton looking for revenge.

But in the end, this season — which came to an abrupt end in College Park, Md. as McLaughlin shared the podium with his players — will be one to remember for Penn women’s basketball, not for how it ended, but for the achievements of its players and how it will change the program moving forward.

“I think we are leaving the program in good hands,” Baron said at the final press conference. “And I see continued success in the future.”

Cuzick picks up a highpressure save SOFTBALL from page 12 the pitcher’s circle.

Penn’s ace struck out at least one batter in each inning she pitched, finishing with eight in the afternoon. Even more impressively, she held the three through seven spots in Brown’s lineup hitless.

“It was a good outing for Alexis, she pitched real well,” King said. “We scored lots of runs early, which helps. When you score in the first inning, it makes a big difference.”

For a while, it appeared as if game two would go the same way.

Penn built a 3-0 lead on Bears pitcher Gina Chieffallo in the first inning when junior left fielder Sydney Turchin scooted home after Brown catcher Alex Scott threw the ball away on a Gorney bunt.

Freshman left fielder Leah Allen followed it with a tworun double.

After senior third baseman Kayla Dahlerbruch and Datan added in RBI singles of their own, it was 5-0 Quakers after four innings.

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early going, allowing only one ball out of the outfield and appearing in line to pick up a complete game two-hitter of her own.

“Early on, I felt they were being aggressive, which works in my favor,” she said. “My balls break late, and so with them being aggressive, that got us a lot of pop-ups and easy outs for my team, which really helped our defense out, I think.”

Things changed in the fifth inning, though.

After a Gorney error on a perfectly placed bunt by Brown’s Lauren Hanna loaded the bases with nobody out, Sargent nearly escaped the jam unscathed, but a two-out single from Christina A ndrews plated two. Against the next batter, though, Sargent responded, inducing a harmless popout to end the inning.

“It was a little tough,” Sargent said. “It’s hard to walk into that situation, but I just really beared down — I’ve been in situations like that beMichele Ozer/Sports Photo Editor fore and I know I have a great Freshman pitcher Alexis Sargent befuddled Brown’s bats in the second game of a team that has my back.”

Brown would try to mount a doubleheader, surrendering no earned runs and nearly pitching a complete game. rally one last time in the seventh inning, forcing Sargent gent’s stead, getting Brown’s Cornell and put last week’s out of the game after a single Trista Chavez to pop out to struggles firmly in the past. and double with two outs al- short after one run scored on “[This sweep] was really lowed the Bears to bring the a Gorney passed ball. important,” Sargent said. “We tying run to the plate.

With the doubleheader vic- really wanted to come out and Freshman Courtney Cuzick tory, the Quakers can look really show that’s not who we would pick up the save in Sar- ahead to Saturday’s date with are.”

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Back line key to Ivy League title defense

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And this season has just shown the continuation of that development. Ferguson is posting a career-high .485 save percentage and careerlow goals against average of 8.20.

It’s not as though Ferguson’s success is the result of any sort of subpar competition. Unlike many NCAA sports, women’s lacrosse is one in which the Ivy League is ultra-competitive on the national level, with seven of the Ancient Eight ranked among the RPI top 40 and four teams in the top 21.

And that’s not even mentioning Penn’s nonconference schedule. Ferguson has gone up against three of the top five programs in the nation, including the NCAA’s best scoring offense in defending champion

Bet nails it down after entering game BASEBALL from page 12 The Red and Blue continued to find holes in the Peacocks’ defense the following inning.

Junior catcher Austin Bossart gave his squad the lead with an RBI double that scored Graul and then reached the plate himself when Jeff McGarry singled through the left side.

Freshman Mitchell Hammonds — who has seen his innings shoot up recently — took over on the mound for the Red and Blue in the top of the fourth.

The righty reliever quickly let two runners on, but he was able to get a double-play ball to keep the 3-2 Penn lead intact.

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Junior goalkeeper Lucy Ferguson is having a career best season in her second year with the Quakers with a .485 save percentage and 8.20 goals against average.

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Last weekend against thenNo.6 Northwestern, Ferguson held the Wildcats nearly four goals below their season average, though her efforts weren’t enough for Penn to come through with the win.

“The offense has to step up to win games,” Corbett said following wins against Harvard and Yale this season. “We can’t rely solely on our defense, even though it’s been stellar.”

In her second season with

the Red and Blue, that’s exactly what Ferguson is anchoring, a stellar defense. A defense ranked 19th in goals against average despite facing some of the toughest competition in the nation.

Even though an offensive outburst might be key to Penn picking up big wins this season, look for the team to continue to be steadied by the excellent keeping of Ferguson as it hunts for its eighth consecutive Ivy League title.

It wouldn’t be a Penn baseball game without a home run, and sure enough, Graul went deep over the left field fence with two outs in the fourth to extend the Quakers’ lead to 4-2.

After McGarry reached on an error, a hit-and-run single by Matt McKinnon gave the Red and Blue runners on the corners with two outs, but Mincher was unable to further the damage in the fifth.

Hammonds found himself in trouble in the sixth, as a wild pitch let a pair of runners advance to second and third with just one out. The freshman was able get a pop out before Yurkow called sophomore Mitch Holtz to the mound.

Holtz could not get the Quakers out of the inning unscathed, as he let up a game-tying single up the middle before Bossart gunned down a runner at second to end the inning.

Bossart dialed up some deja

vu in the bottom of the sixth, roping another RBI double to score Graul before making his own way around the bases on a Rick Brebner single.

In the bottom of the seventh, Graul stayed hot and stroked a two-out double to drive in Gary Tesch and Brandon Engelhardt to double up the Peacocks’ score, 8-4.

Yurkow’s next pitching change brought senior submariner Pat Bet to the mound in the top of the eighth.

Mixing up his arm slots, Bet struck out the side in the eighth with ease and sat down the Peacocks in order in the ninth to secure the win.

“Pat Bet was great again,” Yurkow said. “It’s amazing the turnaround he’s had.

“We came back today, we battled through it and at the end of the day, we got the win and got some momentum going into the weekend.”

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SOFTBALL | Borden tosses shutout, Sargent nearly matches her as Quakers sweep doubleheader

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Penn softball needed a win — and desperately — after it got swept on the road by Harvard and Dartmouth last weekend.

Thanks to their stoppers, the Quakers got two.

Junior pitcher Alexis Borden tossed a complete game, two-hit shutout, and freshman Alexis Sargent nearly matched her, as the Red and Blue swept Brown in a doubleheader by scores of 8-0 and 5-2.

In game one, Penn (9-14, 4-3 Ivy) got ahead early, putting up two runs in each of the first two innings. Senior catcher Elyssa Gorney singled in a run and Sargent had an RBI groundout in the first, while sopho-

more center fielder Kanani Datan smacked a two-run single in the second.

But it was Gorney who provided Penn’s biggest pop.

With the bases loaded and one out in the bottom of the fourth inning, the veteran smacked a double, knocking in three runs to give the Red and Blue a 7-0 lead on the Bears (2-22, 0-8).

“That kind of sealed the deal, put the nail in the coffin for sure,” coach Leslie King said.

Such a statement was especially true given Borden’s performance in

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Coach Mike McLaughlin embraces senior captain Courtney Wilson after Penn won the Ivy title on March 11. McLaughlin has led the Quakers on a remarkable turnaround in his five years at the helm, going from 2-26 during his first season to an Ivy League title and NCAA Tournament appearance this year.

W. HOOPS | The Quakers surprised many and changed the program moving forward with this season

BY STEVEN TYDINGS Senior Sports Editor On March 23, Penn women’s basketball played on a national stage, falling to Texas in the first round of the NCAA Tournament in College Park, Md. After the game, coach Mike McLaughlin sat at the podium alongside senior captains Alyssa Baron and Courtney Wilson and freshman center Sydney Stipanovich.

McLaughlin and his players were in a somber mood after a loss that ended their season and came after a two-week buildup to Penn’s first NCAA Tournament appearance in 10 years. Despite the loss, each player had her head up as McLaughlin began his press conference like he almost always does, speaking about his pride in his players.

“I’m so proud of our group,” he said.

“We played a tremendous first half and were in control in many ways.”

While Penn was unable to finish off the victory over Texas, the 15-point lead the Quakers accumulated in the first half was emblematic of the team all season: a squad that rose to the occasion and challenged top opponents, including the team’s season-defining victory over Princeton to claim in the Ivy League title.

‘Building a program’ It wasn’t always so apparent that the team was destined to make the NCAA Tournament. In fact, it was just four seasons prior that the team had gone 2-26 in McLaughlin’s inaugural season with the Quakers.

While winning has become a constant for this iteration of the Red and Blue, the 2009-10 team was on the other end of the spectrum, losing its first nine games of the year and waiting until the second to last game of the season.

But McLaughlin didn’t doubt his decision to leave Division II Holy Family, where he had the best winning percentage of any coach in the NCAA. “This is where I want to be for a long time,” McLaughlin said after the conclusion of his first season at Penn.

“I came here to build a program for years to come. I have absolutely zero regrets, and if I could do it over again, I would have done it again.”

Diana Caramanico, who graduated in 2001, is the all-time leading scorer in program history and is now a member of the Penn basketball board, spoke with McLaughlin before he was hired, and he told her how he planned on building the program. “[At Holy Family], he was able to recruit above the level people thought he could recruit at,” Caramanico said.

“He said his plan was to go after kids who … could play at a higher ranking conference than the Ivy League.

“To his credit, when he said it, I was like, ‘Oh, that makes sense, but that’s pretty tough to do.’ He was successful with it at Holy Family, and he’s done the exact same thing here at Penn.”

While it would take four years for Penn to make it to the top of the Ivy League, McLaughlin began laying the foundation down for the Red and Blue’s future success with his recruiting.

“It’s an opportunity to come in here and play,” McLaughlin said at the time. “You can impact this program quickly. But also buying into the philosophy. I’ve won where I was before

because we did it this way, this is the way we’re going to do it here.

“We’re not hiding and trying to say, ‘Well, don’t look at the record.’ We’re building a program. There ain’t no doubt. I’m not hiding the fact. You want to help us build this program, come on board.”

Penn brought in five players after the 2009-10 season, four of whom stuck with the program — Baron, Wilson, guard Meghan McCullough and forward Kristen Kody.

And in the 2010-11 season, it was Baron that made the most immediate impact, leading the team in scoring in her first season on campus.

But over the course of four years, each of the now-seniors developed into leadership roles, becoming the Quakers’ four captains this past season.

“We came in here, the four seniors, and the program wasn’t where we wanted it to be in terms of wins and losses,” Baron said after the NCAA Tournament. “But through all our hard work and through dedication from the coaches and the team, we were able to keep improving year to year.”

The senior class was integral to the Quakers’ movement up the Ivy League standings, going from 5-9 their freshman year to 9-5 in 2012-13 and, finally, all the way to a 12-2, firstplace finish this year.

Michelle Nwokedi, Penn’s top recruit for the incoming recruiting class, immediately noticed the leadership of the four seniors when she visited campus.

“I could tell automatically when I got there that they were leaders,” she said. “They got everyone going during scrimmages. Next year, we’re all goSEE W. HOOPS PAGE 9

BASEBALL | Penn piles up 14 hits against Peacocks, including four from freshman Tim Graul

BY SEAMUS POWERS Staff Writer

On Wednesday, Penn baseball used some help from a fresh face to embark on what it hopes will be a brand new win streak.

After having their longest winning streak in over 20 years snapped the previous afternoon, the Red and Blue used 14 hits — including four from freshman Tim Graul — to pick up an 8-4 win over Saint Peter’s at Meiklejohn Stadium.

“Timmy’s been really working hard lately in BP, and he’s been swinging the bat well,” coach John Yurkow said.

“He was a big lift for us today.”

Freshman pitcher Jack Hartman made his fifth start of the season for

vs. Saint Peter’s the Quakers (16-11), ringing up five batters in his three innings of work.

Saint Peter’s (7-21) wasted no time getting on the board though, as leadoff batter Jon Kristoffersen hit a home run off of the first pitch of the game, putting the Peacocks ahead 1-0.

“We kinda got punched in the face early on with that first pitch home run,” Yurkow said.

A pair of doubles in the top of the second extended St. Peters’ early lead to two.

The Quakers’ bats didn’t wait long to start chipping away, however.

Red-hot second baseman Michael Vilardo led off the bottom of the second with a double in the gap, and he was driven in two batters later by sophomore Ryan Mincher on a sacrifice fly.

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Sophomore second baseman Michael Vilardo was a key contributor to Penn’s abuse of Saint Peter’s’ pitching staff Wednesday, going 2-for-5 with a double.

Lucy Ferguson anchoring Red and Blue’s back line

W. LACROSSE | Junior goalkeeper continues improving in second season with Quakers

BY HOLDEN MCGINNIS Associate Sports Editor

For Penn women’s lacrosse, defense has always been a means for winning games. And at the heart of that stellar defense is junior goal-

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keeper Lucy Ferguson.

In just her second year with the Quakers, the William and Mary transfer has established herself not just as one of the best keepers in the Ivy League, but as one of the best in the nation.

And for those who have followed Ferguson’s career to any extent, this isn’t much of a surprise.

Ferguson began her collegiate career at William and Mary, spurning Penn due to her desire to play

immediately. Had she chosen Penn initially, she would have been stuck behind then-senior goalkeeper Emily Leitner.

“She was somebody we really wanted,” Penn coach Karin Brower Corbett said when asked about Ferguson last season. “As a freshman she knew she could play [at William & Mary] and that wasn’t the case here ... She just wants to play.”

During her freshman season at William and Mary, Ferguson showed

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exactly why Penn had coveted her.

Despite deciding to transfer to Penn prior to the season, Ferguson put on a very effective performance, ranking fourth in the nation in saves with 172 and fifth in saves per game with 10.12.

With the chance to join Penn and fill the shoes of Leitner, Ferguson rose to the challenge immediately and quickly established herself as one of the elite keepers in the Ivy League.

Last season saw the then-sopho-

more goalkeeper earn an unanimous first team All-Ivy selection along with Ivy League Tournament Most Outstanding Player, while playing all but six minutes of Penn’s 17-game schedule.

“We’re amazed, I would say at least three or four times a week [at] some of the saves that she’s had,” Corbett said last season. “It just looks like there’s nothing — she’s out of the SEE W. LACROSSE PAGE 11

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