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Bagtas charged with 10 burglaries, no longer a Penn student
Suspect in 40th St. shooting charged with murder
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simple assault for Tuesday morning’s incident. Gaynor attempted to flee the scene, but was apprehended near 40th and Pine streets, where he was taken into custody and where Penn Police also found a semiautomatic gun that matches the ballistics from the scene. Multiple witnesses
After Tuesday morning’s shooting near 40th and Spruce streets, administrators described their efforts to keep students safe around the time of the incident. An email sent out to parents of Penn students during the day on Tuesday described the details of the shooting. “Because of its nearness to campus, we wanted to be sure that you were aware of the facts surrounding this tragic loss of life,” the email from President Amy Gutmann, Provost Vincent Price and Executive Vice President Craig Carnaroli said. Neither the victim nor the suspected shooter are affiliated with Penn, according to the Division of Public Safety, nor were any of the 15 patrons in the bar at the time of the shooting. There were no other injuries reported, police said. The email to Penn parents specified that a UPenn Alert was sent at 1:42 a.m. to the “campus community” and that the victim was pronounced dead at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania at approximately 2 a.m. The exact time of death was 1:43 a.m., according to the Philadelphia Police Department — one minute after the UPenn Alert and 18 minutes before the approximated time sent in the letter. The UPenn Alert itself was sent to Penn students 12 minutes after the gunshots were fired. During the 12-minute delay, DPS said, officers were arriving on the scene, verifying the report and searching for the suspect. UPenn Alerts are sent out “as soon as DPS becomes aware of an incident that has the potential of posing ongoing danger to the University,” Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush said. DPS added that it can sometimes take seven or eight minutes for all of the messages to get sent to students because the messages need to “build up once the button is actually pressed.” According to DPS, it took just under five minutes from when the UPenn Alert was issued to when students received the alert. The exact amount of time it takes an alert to reach people also depends on a person’s cell phone carrier and how many people will receive the alert, Rush added. Students always receive UPenn
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BY COSETTE GASTELU Staff Writer The former Penn basketball player who has been charged with committing a total of 10 on-campus burglaries is no longer a student at the University, according to the Division of Public Safety. Anthony Bagtas — who goes by Tony — was arrested for a second time on April 10 and has now been charged with all eight of the burglaries that reportedly occurred in the Quad on March 22, as well as two other burglaries dating back to September 2013 and January of this year, Penn Police Deputy Chief Michael Morrin said. Bagtas is currently in custody at the Philadelphia Industrial Correction Center. He has a status hearing for the April 11 charges scheduled on May 12 and a preliminary hearing for the March 25 charges on May 29. Then still a College freshman, Bagtas, still a College freshman at the time, met with personnel from the Office of the Vice Provost for University Life on April 4, Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush said. At the meeting, VPUL officials and Bagtas “came to a mutual agreement that because of a combination of issues — partly his criminal investigation — [Bagtas] would take a voluntary leave of absence,” Rush explained. In taking this voluntary leave of absence, Bagtas’ status as a Penn student was revoked. As The Daily Pennsylvanian reported on Monday, Bagtas was released from the men’s basketball team prior to his March 24 arrest. Rush added that Penn Athletics and administrators were notified of the possibility of Bagtas’ criminal activity “at the appropriate time” once Bagtas was initially arrested on March 24. “There are never any notifications made to non-law enforcement personnel during an ongoing criminal investigation,” Rush said. On March 24, Bagtas was arrested for two of the eight burglaries that reportedly took place in the Quad on March 22, but the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office declined to press charges on one of the burglaries at the time. Bagtas, a former resident of Riepe College House, was removed from the Quad and was released on bail following his first arrest. SEE BAGTAS PAGE 10
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Twenty-six-year-old Corey Gaynor was charged Tuesday night with the murder outside of Copabanana early that morning. (Top) Police talk near the scene. (Bottom) The victim’s blood and baseball cap lie on the ground outside of Copabanana minutes after the incident. BY JILL CASTELLANO Staff Writer Corey Gaynor, a 26-year-old man, was charged Tuesday evening with murder for the homicide he allegedly committed near 40th and Spruce streets early Tuesday morning. Gaynor was also charged with aggravated assault for Tuesday’s incident near Copabanana,
as well as altering identification marks on a firearm, carrying a firearm without a license, carrying a firearm in public in Philadelphia, possession of a criminal instrument with intent to use it and resisting arrest. His preliminary hearing is set for April 30 and he was denied bail for these charges. Gaynor was also charged separately for aggravated and
Applications to Healthcare Management increase 360% BY BRENDA WANG Deputy News Editor One group at Penn should actually be saying “Thanks Obama.” There was an approximate 360 percent increase in applicants to the undergraduate health care management and policy concentration in Wharton for the class of 2018, and some professors say the raging health care reform debate drove the growth. The cause of the unexpected spike in interest has “obviously been healthcare reform and the Affordable Care Act,” Wharton professor and Chair of the Health Care Management Depa r tment Law ton Bur ns said. “People are getting more exposure to all the intricate infrastructure of health care reform.” In recent years, the department typically saw around 28
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students apply to the concentration each admission cycle, Dean of Admissions Eric Furda said. This year the numbers shot up to around 130 applicants. This may partly be because, in a difficult economy, the job outlook for people with a background in health care is bright. The Bureau of Labor Statistics predicted in 2013 that the health care and social assistance sector will add five million jobs by 2022, and one-third of all new jobs in the United States will be in health care. The concentration’s newfound popularity may also be because more students recognize that health care reform is a global concern, Burns said. “Health care is just a big ticket issue for everybody,” he said, pointing out that China is in the process of enacting reforms as well. “It is big in the East as well as in the West.”
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Burns also sees Penn as a leader in the health care management field, because it is “the only Ivy League school and the only major business school that actually has a department of health care.” The integrative nature of the concentration is unique to Penn, Burns said. There is “a lot of cross fertilization taking place” between the department, the medical school, the law school and the school of nursing, Burns added. “I think it’s a pretty happening place.” Penn’s Health Care Management Department is “one of the top reasons I came to Penn,” Wharton freshman Anina Oliver said. “At other schools, you can do business or public health but even if you do a double major it’s not integrated well at all.” “It’s already helped me in the internship market,” she ■ added.
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130th Year of Publication TAYLOR CULLIVER, Executive Editor AMANDA SUAREZ, Managing Editor JENNIFER YU, Opinion Editor LOIS LEE, Director of Online Projects FIONA GLISSON, Campus News Editor HARRY COOPERMAN, City News Editor JODY FREINKEL, Assignments Editor WILLIAM MARBLE, Enterprise Editor GENESIS NUNEZ, Copy Editor MATT MANTICA, Copy Editor YOLANDA CHEN, News Photo Editor MICHELE OZER, Sports Photo Editor CONNIE KANG, Photo Manager
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Hungry for impact: Penn Dining, Bon Appétit and students work together to implement food recovery
GUEST COLUMN BY ALYSSA DICKINSON, JOYCE KIM, CONOR NICKEL AND YAMINI NABAR
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enn is full of noteworthy initiatives. But we would like to highlight one in particular: Penn Dining and Bon Appétit’s efforts to work with students to implement a food recovery program. Starting this fall, our dining services providers, Penn Dining and Bon Appétit, will establish a program that transfers food unable to be consumed at dining halls to a local hunger relief agency. Despite Bon Appétit’s efforts to cook in small batches, some excess food is inevitable. The last person to dine must have as many options as the first person, and this generates varying amounts of unconsumed food, which is often tossed or composted at the day’s end. Though it is difficult
to quantify how much food is wasted at this stage, three Bon Appétit cafes on other campuses (significantly smaller than those at Penn) donated over 3,000 pounds of food in seven months. Given the size of Penn’s dining operations, our university should not have any problems finding food to donate. Although many types of programs exist, Penn hopes to establish Feeding America’s food recovery program, implemented by Bon Appétit at many of its other cafes. Created by the nation’s largest hunger relief agency, Feeding America, the program involves Bon Appétit staff packaging the food and members of the hunger relief agency retrieving it. Started in 2012, it has proven immensely successful: It has generated national press coverage for
other universities and been implemented by chains like Panera and Hilton. By not depending on students to package and deliver food, it avoids many of the continuity-related issues faced by student-run food recovery programs (students have a tendency to be too busy on weekends for food recovery, leave for breaks, etc.). This is not to mention the food recovery program’s other positive aspects. By implementing food recovery, Penn will join peer institutions Harvard, Stanford and Brown in tackling hunger and food waste. It will set the precedent for neighboring schools and gain an opportunity to showcase its leadership on issues related to food waste at the first national conference on the subject, to be held this December at Penn. It will also divert
food from landfills and reduce the CO2 emissions from rotting food, which align with Penn’s commitments to reduce waste through the Climate Action Plan and engage globally through the Penn Compact. Perhaps most importantly, establishing food recovery will enhance Penn’s ability to locally engage in addressing hunger, one of the most pressing problems in our vicinity. With 25 percent of its residents at risk for hunger, Philadelphia is the hungriest city in America. Congress’ recent decision to cut SNAP benefits (formerly known as food stamps) will only exacerbate the situation, eliminating 68.8 million meals in Pennsylvania. Though the Hillel soup kitchen and the Urban Nutrition Initiative’s efforts are a good start, they neither keep pace with the
spread of hunger nor address the related issue of food waste (40 percent of food in America goes to waste). More is needed to combat both issues, and the time to act is now. The Penn community has received this message. When we suggested bringing Feeding America’s program to Penn last semester as part of a research project for Mary Summers and Jane Kauer’s “Politics of Food” class, we received overwhelming support from 40-plus classmates and the Undergraduate Assembly (now headed by group member Joyce Kim). We gathered the backing of faculty members like law professor Theodore Ruger and organizational dynamics professor Steve Finn, whose students had previously organized a food waste awareness campaign. We also received the support of Penn Dining and Bon Ap-
pétit, who graciously agreed to read and listen to us present our project. They are now in the process of working with Feeding America and its local affiliates to find a partner that will receive Penn’s food donations. Food recovery takes a high level of coordination, organization and willpower. We commend Penn Dining and Bon Appétit for their responsiveness to student initiatives and their continued efforts to bring Feeding America’s program to Penn. We look forward to turning food recovery into a reality by fall 2014 and continuing to work together to engage locally, nationally and globally. ALYSSA DICKINSON, CONOR NICKEL, YAMINI NABAR AND JOYCE KIM are three College seniors and a College junior, respectively. They can be contacted at adic@sas.upenn.
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LINES OF PERSPECTIVE | How the Philly AIDS Thrift store offers more than cheap clothes
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s ma ny of you k now, Philadelphia has a lot of thrift stores — whether in our bubble of University City, in Center City or on South Street. Among all of these, Philly AIDS Thrift, located on South Street not too far from Penn’s Landing, stands out for its two-floor building full of cheap prices, furniture, books and clothes — including suits and wedding and prom dresses. The store is run by both staff and volunteers. A few days ago, I became one of those volunteers. I first considered joining Philly AIDS Thrift because I was looking for volunteer opportunities, and working in a thrift store sounded like it could be an interesting experience, especially in a neighborhood like South Philly. Some of my friends had already worked there, and they all loved it.
Philly AIDS Thrift, a nonprofit business, was founded in 2005 and quickly grew over the next few years. It offers rapid HIV testing every other Friday in the Mazzoni Center in addition to providing donations to the AIDS fund, which organizes the Philadelphia AIDS Walk every October. It also has a HIV testing space at Washington West Project. I immediately applied, given that I feel AIDS awareness is not considered as important as it used to be and wanted to be part of such a movement. In 2012, Women With a Vision, a nonprofit in New Orleans whose focus is on HIV prevention, especially for women of color, was burned down. This incident shows the uncertainty these groups face, largely due to the ignorance of certain people in the Deep South about the epidemic. While the American South
accounts for less than a third of the entire population, it also accounts for nearly half of the AIDS diagnoses nationally. However, both there and throughout the nation, the disease is thought of as something that happens to other people or something simply read about in books or seen in movies such as “Philadelphia” or “Dallas Buyers Club.” This incident and these cultural references demonstrate both the lack of awareness of this issue and the lack of funding for prevention, treatment and education. Many small, local nonprofits such as Philly AIDS Thrift exist, but there are few that are national organizations. After the fire, the owner of Women With a Vision went to different cities and met with funders, an approach approved of by Elton John, who gave money to the nonprofit through the Elton John AIDS Foundation.
Similarly, Lisa Biagiotti filmed a documentary called “deepsouth,” for which she interviewed more than 400 people across 13,000 miles. This documentary demon-
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I feel that AIDS awareness is not considered as important as it used to be.” strates the stereotypes associated with people affected by AIDS with comments made in the ’80s, when AIDS was first clinically observed. AIDS is “God’s curse to homosexual life” — the people affected can’t be approached because they’re contaminated. These comments show the
underlying issue with AIDS awareness, given that 30 years have passed and none of the views have changed. The disease is not isolated to the gay community. It is actually predominantly spread through heterosexual sexual activity. The issue here is the ignorance about the disease and its real causes and consequences. Indeed, because of this ignorance, little funding is provided to resolve what truly matters. The people affected unfortunately live in vulnerable environments with no access to health insurance, the highest mortality rates, the most sexually transmitted infections and the least access to health care, whcih prevents pathways to proper treatment and care — both now and in the future. It is not about saving, but about assisting. Volunteering at Philly AIDS Thrift may not directly save the lives of
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DIANE BAYEUX those affected with AIDS in Philadelphia, but perhaps doing so will help mentally — for the community will know that it is thought of, understood and funded. I chose to talk about the American South — instead of New Orleans, which has suffered primarily due to natural disasters — becuase its choice to avoid discussing and treating the epidemic is man-made and results in more damage to its communities. DIANE BAYEUX is a College freshman from Paris. Her email address is dbayeux@sas.upenn. edu.
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Work-study, undercover BY FIONA GLISSON Campus News Editor In 1977, a work-study student moonlighted as an undercover cops. On Apr il 13, The Daily Pe n n s y l v a n i a n r e p or t e d that Campus Security had sent a work-study student to do a drug bust. The student was sent by police officers to “make a buy,” Donald Shultis, the director of Security and Safety, said at an Undergraduate Assembly-sponsored open forum. “This was one of those
episodes in which there was some pressures — immediate pressures — and a couple of officers made a judgement at the moment and sent a workstudy student to make a buy,” he said. Shultis said it was an isolated incident and that the student had not been coerced into participating. He did not specify if a narcotics arrest resulted f rom the staged bust. The article also included continued coverage of University efforts to monitor student political groups. Work-study
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students and plainclothes detectives attended campus political meetings and Campus Security kept files on these groups for “six or seven years,” the DP reported. The same April 13 issue of The Daily Pennsylvanian also included an article about work-study students working undercover to catch shoplifters at the bookstore. University Bookstore manager Gerald Ritchie said that losses due to shoplifting decreased from $310,000 to $90,000 in 1976 because of this and other new securities measures.
RESPONSE from page 1 Alerts, but in the late night and early morning, only faculty and staff in “student support roles” will receive the alert in addition to the students. During the day, the message will likely go out to all the individuals signed up to receive UPenn Alerts, which could result in a greater delay in the time it takes for the message to be received. The UPenn Alert did not mention the shots fired near 40th and Spruce streets — it
only said that the area was “still under investigation,” although the information about the shots fired was available on DPS’ website. “We are making judgment calls in split seconds, and the most important thing at that split second is not to give you the most information possible,” Rush said. “It is to get you out of that area as quickly as possible.” Philadelphia Police said the victim was shot in the chest and torso at point-blank range multiple times from a semiautomatic weapon. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, the victim was a 31-year-old male named Timothy Cary. The most recent controversy surrounding a UPenn Alert occurred in 2011. No alert was sent out to Penn
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Crime Log: April 4-10 Theft: Bike theft: 1 Theft from building: 5 Retail theft: 3 Other theft: 2 Arrests from theft: April 6, 2014: An unaffiliated 28-year-old female was arrested in connection with a retail theft. April 7, 2014: An unaffiliated 20-year-old female was arrested in connection with a retail theft. April 10, 2014: An unaffiliated 65-year-old male was arrested in connection with a retail theft. Burglary: A p r i l 4 , 2 014 : A t 11:1 5 a.m. an affiliated 30 -year-
old female, an unaffiliated 27-year-old female and an unaffiliated 24-year-old female repor ted that prop er t y was removed f rom a residence at 4224 Pine St. and that the front door was found open. April 4, 2014: At 11 a.m. an affiliated 18-year-old male reported that his property was missing from his dorm room in the Rodney building of Ware College House, located at 3700 Spruce St. T he r e w e r e no s i g n s o f forced entry. April 8, 2014: At 11:40 a.m. a n a f f i l i at e d 19 -ye a r - old male repor ted that items were missing from an unlocked room located at 4000 Pine St.
April 9, 2014: At 12:00 p.m. two af f iliated 20 -year- old females and an af f iliated 21-year-old female reported t hat a n u n k now n per son gained entry into an apartment lobby at 4011 Chestnut St. and entered their unlocked apartment. Property was removed from the apartment. Robbery: April 5, 2014: At 8:00 p.m. an unaffiliated female repor ted that two unk now n males who she picked up as cab fare ordered her to w ithd raw money f rom a n ATM on the 3800 block of Market Street. April 7, 2014: At 2:00 a.m. an unaffiliated female re-
por t ed t hat she was t attooing a male in his home, located at 3908 Market St., when he began threatening her. The suspect then took the female’s cell phone from her hand and further threatened that he was getting his gun. The suspect chased the female out of his house with a gun in his hand. Police ar r ived and ar rested the suspect, an unaffiliated 25-year-old male. Vandalism: April 6, 2014: At about 9:20 p.m. PennComm obser ved graffiti painted on the Coven a nt sc u lpt u r e , loc at ed on the 3900 block of Locust Walk. April 10, 2014: At 11:00 p.m.
an unaffiliated 34-year-old m a le r ep or t e d b ei ng i n volved in a n a rg ument w ith his f r iend, who then smashed his car windows with a 2x4 piece of wood on t he 370 0 block of Spr uce Street. As there were no injuries and the damage was under $5,000, a private criminal complaint was advised. Sex Offense: April 7, 2014: A confidential sex offense was reported. Fraud: April 8, 2014: At 3:20 p.m. an unaffiliated 19-year-old female attempted to cash a f raudulent check at TD Bank, located at 3735 Walnut
St. The suspect was subsequently arrested. DUI: April 8, 2014: At about 1:00 a.m. a person was stopped for a traffic violation at the intersection of 43rd and Locust Streets and the officer observed that the suspect’s eyes were bloodshot. The officer also smelled the odor of burnt marijuana ejecting from the vehicle. A green leaf y substance in a bag, suspected to be mar ijuana, was also observed. The su s p e c t , a n u n a f f i l i at e d 21-year- old male, was arrested. - Cosette Gastelu Staff Writer
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TENEBRAE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16 7:00 pm in the Sanctuary MAUNDY THURSDAY, APRIL 17 7:00 pm in the Church Footwashing and Holy Communion
EASTER SUNDAY, APRIL 20th THE FEAST OF THE RESURRECTION 11:00 am in the Church Choral Eucharist with Renewal of Baptismal Vows Reception following. The Great St. Mary’s Easter Egg Hunt gather on the sanctuary steps (Locust Walk side) promptly at 12:45PM. All children & their families are welcome. This is a BYOBasket event sponsored by St. Mary’s Church & Sunday School.
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Penn healthcare research interacts with Obamacare Prof’s academic paper was used to defened the Affordable Care Act BY ALEX GETSOS Staff Writer As health care has finally begun to expand over the past few months, fewer Americans are now without health insurance. “It could be [on] the order of nine or 10 million in the past year or two. The big trend is that there are fewer uninsured,” Daniel Polsky, executive director of Penn’s Leonard Davis Institute of
Health Economics, said. Polsky is one of many Penn professionals who interact directly with health policy and the legislation that has come out of the Obama administration. The Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, was passed and implemented in 2010. Although the rate of increasing health care costs has been declining over the past five or six years, only recently have more people obtained insurance. Perelman School of Medicine professor Jennifer Ruger explained that the government has interacted a lot with
the academic community, especially those who do research in health policy. “ T he O b a m a ad m i n i s tration is reaching out to academics to provide their research in relation to health policy issues that the Obamacare law is addressing,” she said. Ruger wrote a paper titled “The Moral Foundations of Health Insurance,” which the government used to defend the Affordable Care Act after it was being contested by the Supreme Court and multiple states. “What health insurance is doing for people is providing good conditions for health and providing them with a sense of security that is important for people’s well being,” Ruger said. “Avoiding the anxiety and risk of becoming ill ... [and] not having the ability to pay for health
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care that one needs is really part of what insurance is helping to address in supporting peoples’ health and security.” While Ruger focuses on the moral and ethical issues surrounding health insurance, Polsky is currently researching the bigger question of whether primary care providers “have sufficient capacity to handle the potential increase in demand in care that may result from health care expansion.” Polsky worked in conjunction with Karen Rose, a doctor in emergency medicine at Presbyterian Medical Center, to conduct a survey of over 13,000 physicians to see whether they could sufficiently accommodate patients. “We posed as a patient, and we asked if we could schedule an appointment ... Half the time we had Medicare
and half the time we had private insurance,” Polsky said. “Eighty-five percent of the time you could get an appointment if you had private insurance.” Although there have been challenges in patients getting appointments in the era of Obamacare, Polsky explained that they believe these challenges have always been present and that a change is unlikely to occur. Wharton professor Mark Pauly researched the desirability of the individual mandate, the requirement that a person obtain health insurance or pay a tax penalty. His work on this concept was picked up by the first Bush administration and its influence has carried over into current policy. Pauly has also researched how people get health insurance through their jobs and how insurance
payments vary with income levels. “In the current arrangement, we overcharge highrisk people, mostly young people, and this is a less desirable way to help out highrisk people because it drives them to try and avoid being insured, which is contrary to the most important purpose of the legislation,” he said. Although some Penn professors have worked closely with health care issues relevant to Obamacare, they are not necessarily wholly in support of the legislation. “A system that was less fragmented and didn’t have five different styles of insurance to fill all the holes would be better,” Polsky said. “I’m a cheerleader for the goal of reducing the number of people who are uninsured ... but I’m not a cheerleader for Obamacare,” Pauly added.
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arms. T her e wer e add it ion a l charges filed against Gaynor when he was arrested in 2007 which were not brought to trial — they were dismissed at a lower court due to lack of evidence. The dismissed charges included altering identif ication marks on a firearm, carrying a firearm without a license and the use or possession of drug paraphernalia. In the past, Gaynor has had a total of seven other charges filed against him in Philadelphia court, but all of the charges have been dismissed.
In March 2008, Gaynor was also arrested for receiving stolen property, a charge that was dismissed due to lack of evidence. Later that year, Gaynor was arrested on a number of drug charges, including the use of drug paraphernalia, possession of marijuana and the intent to manufacture or deliver a controlled substance. The charges were dismissed when the prosecutor’s office failed to file relevant papers by a certain date, indicating to the court that the office was no longer interested in pursuing the case.
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Copabanana resumes usual business after Tuesday’s shooting Students near the scene reacted to the shooting with fear, caution BY JENNY LU Staff Writer Both Copabanana and Penn students are continuing to regroup after a fatal shooting last night at 40th and Spruce streets. An unaffiliated 31-year-old male, who the Philadelphia Inquirer reported was Timothy Cary, was shot multiple times at point-blank range just outside of Copabanana
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Hearings scheduled for May 12, 29 BAGTAS from page 1 After further investigation into the remaining March 22 Quad burglaries, Penn Police detectives found more information that led to Bagtas’ second arrest on April 10, Morrin said. On April 11, Bagtas was charged with the other seven
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of 40th and Spruce, and while many could hear the gunshots, others could clearly hear the screams from their homes. College junior Ariel Breton, who lives on the 3900 block of Pine, heard four gunshots, then voices. “I heard a guy’s voice yelling ‘I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe!’� Breton said. “And then I heard a girl’s voice that kept yelling ‘Oh my God!’ and then she just started yelling and crying and I couldn’t tell what she was saying.� The alleged shooter ran down Pine after the incident, and Breton and her housemates watched Penn Police officers capture him and take him away in a police car. College sophomore Ariel Fieldman heard several gunshots from the first floor window of her house on South 40th Street, right across from Copabanana. Fieldman added that the police showed up within about five minutes, and that the fast response was “comforting.�
burglaries that reportedly struck Ware and Riepe College Houses on March 22 — including the burglary that the District Attorney’s Office previously declined to charge Bagtas with after his first arrest. Officials from the District Attorney’s Office were unavailable for comment as of press time. Bagtas was additionally charged on April 11 with a burglary that allegedly occurred in the Quad on January 15, and another burglary that allegedly happened on September 20, 2013 at the Zeta Beta Tau
chapter house, located at 235 South 39th St., Morrin said. Morrin added that the September 20 burglary at ZBT involved laptops being stolen from the house. Bagtas’ 10 burglary charges are accompanied by multiple counts of theft, receiving stolen property and criminal trespassing. 11 Penn students were the victims of all of the burglaries with which Bagtas has been charged. Bagtas’ attorney issued a “no comment� in regard to his client’s criminal charges. In attempting to find a suspect for the September 2013 and January burglaries, Morrin — who oversaw the investigation — said that Penn Police worked backward from the March 22 incidents. When Penn Police began to look into the March 22 Quad burglaries, Morrin said that from the start it was “very possible� that the incidents were related because “they had the same manner, same method and happened in the same vicinity within the same specified time period.� Morrin said that Penn Police are still determining whether other students may have been involved with the crimes for which Bagtas was arrested. Rush expressed that the series of burglaries with which Bagtas was charged represent a “highly unusual situation.� She emphasized that students should never exit their dorm rooms without locking their doors.
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Tigers’ star defender poses threat to Penn W. LACROSSE from page 12 Corcoran has been a key part of that effort, scoring five goals and assisting on five more in three Ivy contests so far. “For us it’s about good ball movement and creating a lot of opportunities and second chances,” coach Karin Brower Corbett said. “We did a good job of that against Dartmouth and I hope we can continue to do that [against Princeton].” Penn certainly showed that ability to its fullest against Dartmouth last weekend, attempting 20 shots on goal to the Big Green’s 10 in a game that could have easily been more of a blowout had a few post shots gone the Quakers’ way.
And it will be difficult to get anything past Princeton junior goalkeeper Annie Woehling, who boasts a 7-1 record since taking over midseason. The junior leads the Ancient Eight in save percentage. The Quakers will also have to deal with sophomore defender Liz Bannantine, who earned co-Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week for her efforts in limiting Maryland and Harvard to a combined 14 goals last week. On the other side of the field, Penn has a whole different challenge in front of them as it faces a Princeton offense teeming with weapons. The Tigers boast eight different players with at least 13 goals on the season, a number that only three Quakers have reached. “They have a lot of threats and they have a pretty well balanced attack and obviously [Erin Slifer and Erin McMunn] are leading the way,” Corbett
said. “For us, it really comes down to eight people playing together and when we play that way, we’re ready for what they’re going to do.” The Quakers have had Princeton’s number in recent history, winning seven of the past nine meetings between the teams after going winless in the previous 13 matchups before that. Both teams enter the game ranked in the top-15 overall in RPI, with Penn sitting at No. 8 and Princeton at No. 15. This is an opportunity for both teams to take down a rival and further their chances of both winning the Ivy League regular season title and reaching the NCAA Tournament. “For us to win the [Iv y] league, this is always one of the biggest games,” Corbett said. “We know Princeton is a top team and the only way we can reach our goal of winning the league is through them.”
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If Penn women’s lacrosse is going to beat Princeton on Wednesday, the Quakers will need to rely on the offensive prowess of sophomore midfield Nina Corcoran. The Point Lookout, N.Y., native has scored five goals and racked up five assists in Ivy play.
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I feel that Penn has that perfect balance between academics and basketball. DP: When you visited, what were your interactions like with the coaching staff? MN: They basically told me things that really helped with where I would fit in at Penn, not just on the team but they wanted the best for me ... academically [as well]. As for the team, I bonded with them a lot because they were really easy to get to know. They were very honest with me about academics, basketball, how everything is. And now, I still interact with the coaching staff and they tell me how I’ll fit in and [the coaches] are always checking in on me, so I know I picked a great school. DP: How have the coaches said you will fit into the team next year, especially with a lot of solid forwards coming back? MN: They said that coming in as a freshman, it is obviously going to be hard and for my position ... I can play a bunch of different positions so they think I’ll really help as [I’ll be able to] get a rebound and start a fast break instead of hitting one of the guards. As for the many forwards we have, they’ve already told me that playing time – they haven’t really discussed that – but everyone has to work equally hard in order to get a starting spot. DP: How much did you follow the team this year? MN: My dad actually got the Ivy League Network so we were updated with every game, watching almost every game. And when they played Texas [in the NCAA Tournament] on
weight to the inexperience of much of the program. “I k now something I’ve done and something I think all the upperclassmen have done is try to impart to the freshman just how much we care about this team and how muc h t h i s pr og r a m means to us,” she said. “I think the underclassmen definitely notice how hard I and all the juniors and seniors work, and I think that was impor tant in helping
Devils are winless on the road BASEBALL from page 12 ers’ success against Cornell this past weekend in multiple ways. The captain got the Red and Blue going in the early game of the Sunday doubleheader when he laced a triple off the first pitch he saw and soon scored the first run of Penn’s 4-2 victory. And while he sparked the Quakers’ momentum with his bat, Engelhardt would add to the charge later in the game with his glove when the Big Red threatened. It looked as if Cornell was going to tie the game after JD Whetsel singled to center with a runner on second, but Engelhardt had other plans, gunning the runner down at the plate to keep Penn’s lead intact. Three Down No longer a perfect Bet: Senior submarine reliever Pat Bet, who has been one of the best stories on this year’s Penn squad, finally showed this weekend that he is indeed human. Entering the last game of the series with a perfect earned run average, Bet gave up his first two runs in the ninth inning before closing out
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After winning the Ivy title in 2013-14, coach Mike McLaughlin has another strong recruiting class coming in, led by 6-foot-3 forward Michelle Nwokedi. TV, we watched that. We were pretty updated. We even flew in for their games against Columbia and Cornell, so we were really on top of their game, rooting for them. DP: What was it like to see your future school on ESPN in the NCAA Tournament? MN: I thought it was actually really cool because a lot of people really underestimate the Ivy League with basketball. So seeing them [give] Texas a hard time was really cool to show people that yes, the Ivy League [schools] play basketball too, and they’re not only academic. DP: What does that Ivy title and overall season in 2013-14 mean for the program moving forward, especially with the next four years while you are there? MN: I think that winning this year and yes, we’ll have the target on our back next year, but it’ll make it even more fun because we’ll still want to prove people wrong. I think the next four years will be just the same. I think we’ll do everything we
did last year with a few minor changes and come in this year even stronger, knowing we have a target on our back. DP: Was it tough deciding to go to a school so far from home? MN: Yes it was tough but when I thought about the big picture and when I graduate from an Ivy League school, I quickly got over it because staying in Texas versus going to an Ivy League school, getting this opportunity that not many people have, obviously I’d go to an Ivy League school over staying home. And I’m the last child so my parents have already promised [to come] visit a bunch of times. DP: How would you describe yourself as a player and what are your strengths and weaknesses? MN: I’m very versatile, so like I 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.
the Quakers’ third straight win. Lack of production in losses: As potent as Penn’s offense has been this year, its bats struggled rather heavily in two losses last week to St. Joe’s and Cornell. Against St. Joe’s, the Red and Blue notched only six hits in 13 innings and could not get any clutch contributions. In the first contest of the weekend against Cornell, the Penn bats failed to produce a run for the first time
in conference play and scraped together a mere five hits. USciences on the road: This season has been a struggle for the 5-25 Devils, especially on the road. USciences is 0-6 when it visits opponents and has been outscored 43-10 in those contests. Things won’t get any easier for the Devils when they face the Quakers at Meiklejohn on Wednesday looking for their first road win.
them realize that this is Division 1 softball, and that this is the real deal.” However, despite having the third-highest batting average on the team this season (.313) and the third-most career games played of active players on the roster, Turchin doesn’t necessarily think her place on the team has changed much in her time at Penn. “I don’t think my role on this team has changed all that much over the past two years,” she said. “I still do the same things that I always have which is to go out there, work hard and try to make a difference on this team. That’s all any of us every really try to do.” Penn’s game with Drexel will be the Quakers’ last
chance to try and buckle down on its defense before the team hits the road for a pivotal divisional series against Princeton this upcoming weekend. “We treat every game like it’s an Ivy competition,” King said. “But this game is nice because it allows us to give some players who are banged up a short rest while giving us the opportunity to stay sharp, work on those things and keep taking steps forward.” The Quakers proved last year that they could win a championship with an entirely veteran lineup. This year, Penn is out to prove that it can do the same thing with a considerably younger team. A nd w it h pl ayer s l i ke Turchin leading the charge, Penn might just have what it takes.
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W. LACROSSE | Though Penn is undefeated in Ivy play, team knows importance of Princeton contest BY HOLDEN MCGINNIS Associate Sports Editor Princeton 8-4, 4-1 Ivy Tonight, 7 p.m. Princeton, N.J.
It all comes down to this. Though Wednesday’s game between the No. 9 Penn women’s lacrosse team and Princeton won’t necessarily decide the Ivy League regular season title, it will certainly have the most impact of any game played this season thus far. When the Quakers (7-3, 3-0 Ivy)
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Despite having to deal with yet another rain delay, Penn baseball looks forward to wrapping up its nonconference schedule against Division II University of the Sciences (5-25) on Wednesday afternoon. The Quakers (19-12) are coming off three wins in four games against Cornell over the weekend and hope to end their sevengame homestand on a high note. We see who’s up and who’s down entering Wednesday’s game. Three Up Rookies on a roll: Freshman righty Jake Cousins continues to prove himself as one of Penn’s top dealers. He’s displayed his versatility thus far this season, as he’s made four starts along with four relief appearances. In his most recent start on Saturday against Cornell, Cousins held the Big Red to two runs in five and two-thirds innings to improve his record to a team best 4-0. On the offensive side, rookie Tim Graul broke out last week, going 6-for-11 with four RBI. Before his banner 4-for-4
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day against St. Peter’s last Wednesday, Graul had gone hitless this season. But coach John Yurkow seems to like the East Greenwich, R.I., native a lot, so Graul should be able to continue to get his hacks. The freshman’s role moving forward, based on what he’s been asked to do so far, will be as a middleof-the-lineup designated hitter against left-handed pitchers. Home, Sweet Home: The Quakers are an impressive 11-2 at Meiklejohn Stadium this season compared to a pedestrian 8-8 mark in road and neutral site games. This comes a year after the Quakers went 7-9 at home. The Red and Blue will look to continue that success when they finish up their sevengame homestand against USciences on Wednesday. The way they’ve played at Meiklejohn, the Quakers should be especially excited if they can make it to the Ivy League championship series and get home-field advantage. Senior captain Brandon Engelhardt: The veteran centerfielder has more than made up for his slow start to the season with his stellar play in conference competition. The Pottstown, Pa., product’s .400 batting average is fourth-best in conference play among all Ivy players, and he also features the fifth-best slugging percentage at .600. Engelhardt was crucial to the Quak-
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Quakers ready for biggest test to date
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Leslie King said. “Locking down our defense is something that we definitely want to focus on in this upcoming game. “We are a young team, and unfortunately we are still making some young mistakes.” However, while the Quakers may have plenty of young faces on the roster, the team does have the benefit of having several talented veterans that are more than capable of bringing the freshmen up to speed. Junior outfielder Sydney Turchin is not only one of the team’s most productive players, but also one of its most seasoned. Turchin has been a staple of the Quakers’ outfield since her freshman year, when she was the only player to see time in all 50 games for Penn. Now, with 119 games under her belt halfway through her junior campaign, the two-time second team All-Ivy outfielder is an essential counter-
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travel to Princeton (8-4, 4-1), it will be only their fourth Ivy League game of the season. As such, there is still opportunity for serious movement in the standings, as Harvard and Cornell each sit at 3-2. But for the Red and Blue, the rest of the Ivy League standings are in the periphery. The upcoming game against the Tigers is the team’s main focus. “Everyone is really pumped for [the game],” sophomore midfield Nina Corcoran said. “It’s our biggest game of the season. Princeton’s always our big rival.” For the Quakers, one of the most important aspects of this game will be maintaining the offensive success that they’ve consistently found against Iv y League opponents.
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Q&A with Penn women’s hoops recruit Michelle Nwokedi Nwokedi spoke to the DP about why she chose Penn and how she fits in with the team as a forward next year BY STEVEN TYDINGS Senior Sports Editor
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After struggling early this season, senior captain Brandon Engelhardt has been on a tear lately, and saved a run with a perfect throw against Cornell on Sunday.
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Penn women’s basketball recently completed one of the best seasons in program history, going to the NCAA Tournament after winning the Ivy League title. For next year’s title defense, the Quakers will have a new weapon to unleash as forward Michelle Nwokedi will be a prominent part of Penn’s freshman class. Nwokedi spoke with the DP about why she chose Penn and following the team this year. The Daily Pennsylvanian: Being from Texas, you were recruited by local schools and received interest from higher profile basketball schools than Penn. So why did you choose Penn? Michelle Nwokedi: I met the coaches last summer for an unofficial [visit] and I really liked everything that they stood for. I really liked the campus and ... not many people have the opportunity to go to an Ivy League school. For me, academics come first. I felt that if I were to go to a big program, that it would be all basketball and
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