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Tackling the problem head-on Athletes talk concussion history as the anniversary of Owen Thomas’ death nears

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BY MIKE TONY Senior Staff Writer

t shouldn’t have been so hard for Taylor Brown.

It was senior year, after all. Sure, it was training camp, but the Quakers would go on to win the 2012 Ivy League championship that season and Brown had earned the right to enjoy the entire ride.

Instead, Brown was disconnected from the outside world.

He couldn’t stand up. Colors changed.

His awareness was low.

And so he spent football training camp of his senior year in 2012 in a dark apartment room. No TV. No laptop. No cell phone. Just enough experience to know he’d be suffering from anxiety and memory loss for months, even after this was over.

It shouldn’t have been so hard for Ursula Lopez-Palm.

It was her seventh consecutive year of taking French, after all. But nothing was sticking. There she was in French class, struggling like never before to translate piece by piece what her professor was saying.

Penn women’s soccer would go on to win the 2010 Ivy League championship that

season, and as the eventual team leader in goals, Lopez-Palm had earned the right to enjoy the entire ride.

Instead, she knew she was headed for a dark room too.

It shouldn’t have been so easy for Kameron Jones.

He knew all the symptoms. Dizziness.

Sensitivity to light. Forgetting playing half the game and throwing up at night.

So by the time he joined Penn football as a freshman defensive end in 2008, he knew how to hide all the effects of the multiple concussions he sustained before coming to Penn. He wishes now that he had been more forthcoming with his concussions then, but players want to play.

Today he estimates he suffered close to four concussions during his Penn football career, bringing his lifetime concussion total to six. Jones didn’t report any of them to Penn’s coaching staff.

He was too busy fighting in the trenches with his defensive linemate Owen Thomas.

One day after Jones had a bad practice, he found himself alone in the locker room with Thomas.

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Woman sues Penn over 38th and Spruce crash Natasha Mitchum’s arbitration suit deals with an accident that injured three Penn students

BY JILL CASTELLANO & HARRY COOPERMAN Staff Writer & City News Editor The driver of a car involved in an accident that injured three Penn students is bringing the University and another driver to court for alleged negligence.

Natasha Mitchum’s arbitration lawsuit, which was filed on April 17, deals with an accident at the intersection of 38th and Spruce streets on Feb. 22, 2013 at about 9:15 p.m., which sent three female students to the hospital.

Mitchum is suing Penn and Thomas

Parviskhan, a Penn employee who she alleges was the driver of the other vehicle in the accident.

According to the complaint filed

by Mitchum’s attorney, Mitchum was heading southbound on 38th Street when she drove past a green light into the intersection. Parviskhan, who was driving a Penn-owned vehicle northbound on 38th Street, turned left into the intersection against the right of way, the complaint alleges. It also claims that Parviskhan’s vehicle hit Mitchum’s on the back of the driver’s side.

Due to the impact, Mitchum’s car then spun counterclockwise until stopping on the southwest corner sidewalk of the intersection where it hit several

pedestrians, the complaint says.

Mitchum claims that Penn allowed Parviskhan to drive his Penn-owned vehicle recklessly and at high speeds, and that Penn failed to train Parviskhan to operate the vehicle.

As a result of injuries from the accident, Mitchum claimed she had to spend “large sums of money” on medical expenses. She is requesting a sum of $50,000 or less in the arbitration claims she filed against Penn and Parviskhan, according to court documents.

Mitchum, Parviskhan and the University, as well as a man named Gregory James, are also all being sued SEE 38TH & SPRUCE PAGE A6

End in sight for the SAC moratorium Only non-performing arts groups will be eligible for recognition

BY KRISTEN GRABARZ Staff Writer After two years, the Student Activities Council moratorium may finally end next semester — at least partially.

SAC has announced that if its finances remain in the black at the end of its fiscal year in June, the SAC Executive Board will recommend a partial lift of the moratorium at the first General Body Meeting of the fall semester, which typically falls in October, SAC Chair and College junior Kan-

isha Parthasarathy said. Under this proposed plan, outlined in a Daily Pennsylvanian guest column by the student government branch, the moratorium will be lifted for all non-performing arts groups if the general body votes in favor of the decision.

Under the moratorium, which has been in place since the fall of 2012, SAC does not recognize new student groups, although it has continued to support about 150 already recognized organizations.

In recognizing student groups, SAC facilitates group benefits including access to spaces and venues across campus and event funding. SAC is a branch of Penn’s SEE SAC PAGE A3

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Incoming freshman Amatullah Njoya’s parents are politicians in Cameroon

BY BRENDA WANG Deputy News editor Unlike most aspiring world leaders at Penn, incoming freshman Amatullah Njoya has already had a lifetime of political experience.

She is the daughter of Adamou Njoya, the leader of political opposition party the Cameroon Democratic Union. He helped found the party along with her mother.

“I was surrounded by the political movement growing up,” Amatullah said. “I’m a really active part of the

Politics are in her DNA political party that they founded.”

Her unusual upbringing gave her a unique perspective on issues facing Cameroon and sparked her desire to follow in her parents’ footsteps. But it did have some drawbacks. “Growing up with political parents meant not seeing them very often,” Amatullah said. “[But] it also meant that we attended all these meetings and rallies and got used to seeing the crowds.”

The political situation of Cameroon has also added a certain “controversial” aspect to her involvement in the CDU, Amatullah said. Cameroon only became a multi-party democracy in 1990, and the Brookings Institute, a well known private policy research organization, questions the legitimacy of the country’s elections and the actions of

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current president Paul Biya, who has been in power since 1982.

Her parents’ roles as opposition leaders “taught me about determination and drive even if the society you live in isn’t fair,” she said. “They taught me you have to say what you think is right.”

Amatullah’s sister, Amirah, who attends Washington Lee University, agrees. “[Amatullah] has a very strong personality and she doesn’t let people trample over her rights. And when she believes something she won’t be shy to speak up,” she said.

Another issue Amatullah is passionate about is overcoming Cameroon’s ethnic tensions. “Cameroon is really diverse ... we are still struggling to inSEE CAMEROON PAGE A3

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Son of local Congressman sues FBI, IRS, DOJ Chaka Fattah Jr. alleges federal agencies leaked info about his business

BY CLAIRE COHEN Deputy News Editor The son of a prestigious alumnus and local Congressman is engaged in a high profile lawsuit.

Chaka Fattah Jr., son of the U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania’s 2nd Congressional District, Chaka Fattah Sr., a 1986 Fels Institute of Gover nment g raduate, has filed a nearly $10 million lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of Justice and the federal government.

Fattah alleges that the defendants, among other violations, created a media leak that damaged his reputation and business.

Fattah’s complaint states that on Feb. 29, 2012, agents from the IRS and FBI visited his home at The Residences at Ritz Carlton in Center City and served him two subpoenas. The authorities were beginning a currently ongoing investigation into potentially unpaid tax liabilities of his management consulting firm, 359 Strategies, the complaint stated.

A little less than two years later, Fattah filed a lawsuit against the IRS, FBI and DOJ, on Feb. 21, 2014. He claims that officers from the federal agencies alerted the

media before they visited Fattah on Feb. 29, 2012 that they would question him, creating high media attention on his case. “I think that it’s common sense that the only person that knew about this was the government,� Fattah said in an interview. “It’s unfortunate, with all the hard work and time devoted to a positive reputation, that it was all taken away from me in a moment and even more over time as the media stories took on a viral effect.�

Fattah is seeking $928,001 in actual damages, $9,075,000 in punitive damages and a formal apology. He added that he felt targeted because he has a well-known father. “This wouldn’t have hap-

pened to me if I wasn’t the son of a Congressman,� Fattah said.

Since the media attention, Fattah said he has received “virtually no income� and decided to file the lawsuit after nine months of research. “I have lost personal relationships, hundreds of thousands of dollars in income and my positive reputation in the Philadelphia business community,� he said. “I am hopeful with this lawsuit that the public can take another look at a number of things that have been covered in the media regarding myself over the last few years.�

The DOJ and IRS did not respond to request for comment, and the FBI declined to comment.

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Chaka Fattah Jr., the son of Congressman Chaka Fattah Sr., is suing the FBI, DOJ and IRS over alleged media leaks that damaged his reputation and business.

Tell doctors medical stories, and they’ll remember more details Two Penn profs found doctors recall more facts from medical stories

BY ALEX GETSOS Staff Writer Everyone can remember the story of how Cinderella lost her glass slipper.

In the same vein, two Penn professors are investigating whether anecdotes can help doctors remember factual guidelines more easily.

The preliminary results of their study indicate that, indeed, stories embedded with medical guidelines help doctors recall more facts than reading straight guidelines.

Professors Zachary Meisel

and Jeanmarie Perrone are studying how doctors adopt medical guidelines, and how their adoption of the guidelines affects prescribing pain medications, such as oxycontin and percocet.

Meisel explained that past research has focused on patients, and how narratives and storytelling influence how often patients use medications.

His research aims, instead, to examine how this practice influences physicians’ actions. “We’re particularly interested in ... how physicians can be more motivated to actually engage in good guidelines [for opioid prescriptions],� Meisel said.

The researchers studied physicians attending a con-

ference in Philadelphia in 2012. At the conference, half of participating physicians were given guidelines in the format they were normally published in — the control condition —, while the other half were given guidelines embedded within a story — the condition being tested.

A few hours later, the Penn researchers administered a free recall test to the conference attendees, where participants were asked to write down everything that they remembered from the information previously given to them. “What we found was that people who had read the story were basically able to remember virtually every detail of the story,� said Austin Kilaru, a

medical student who worked on the study. “They were keyed in on the details, keyed in also on the important parts that we wanted them to remember.�

Kilaru also explained that unlike the participants given guidelines within a story, the control group did not remember as much and fabricated parts of the information they had read as well. “People were usually able to remember one or two of the recommendations and write those down but they didn’t remember a lot,� Kilaru said. “In addition, one of the most surprising things we found was that people thought they remembered stuff and would write down entirely new guideline recommendations.�

Perrone said the study is relevant to the prescription crisis at large — that doctors are overprescribing strong pain medications for patients who don’t necessarily need them.

Perrone explained that these guidelines were created to give physicians more information about prescribing medicine “safely and judiciously.� “Twenty years ago when I was in medical school, these medications were reserved for cancer patients and those in severe pain,� she said. “Now you can get significant medications because there is a big push to make sure nobody has pain ever.�

Perrone wants to change the nature of prescribing so that young people cannot easily ac-

cess strong medications for less-serious conditions. “There is a growing epidemic of opioid abuse and overdose and unfortunately physicians have something in general to do with this,� Kilaru said. “Opioids are probably the most potent pain medicine that we have and in the interest of balancing offering good pain control for patients and also protecting them and society ... we wanted to improve the adoption of guidelines by physicians.�

Ultimately Kilaru said that they plan to do further experiments to follow up this “preliminary study.� “We really want to study if narratives or stories can really change physician practice,� he said.

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SAC decision will be made in the fall SAC from page A1 student government and its annual budget is allocated each year by the Undergraduate Assembly.

There are no concrete plans to lift the moratorium for performing arts groups because of the nature of the Performing Arts Council’s budgetary process, Parthasarathy said.

PAC allocates the limited performance venues to performing arts groups for their shows.

Individual groups have no control over which spaces they are assigned. Because venues vary in cost, SAC pays for PAC’s facilities retroactively at the end of the year. For this reason, it is not possible to determine exactly how much funding each individual group should receive when SAC allocates budgets for other groups.

“It seems unfair to give a group a budget when they don’t choose how much money they

Njoya runs a summer camp for kids CAMEROON from page A1 tegrate and for everyone to feel like they’re Cameroonian,” she said. “That’s actually one of my goals: to make Cameroonians feel like Cameroonians.”

However, Amatullah is not just a political activist — she is active at her American school in Cameroon, which she attended from pre-kindergarten to high school. President of the student council, she is currently busy organizing senior prom. She plays both basketball and soccer and is involved in community service for the

spend on their venue,” Parthasarathy said.

The two groups will brainstorm effective methods of funding performing arts groups in the future before lifting the moratorium on recognizing new PAC groups can be considered, Parthasarathy said.

Student group debt accrues as a combined result of increasing facilities costs and excess group spending.

Parathasarathy said that after assessing the financial state with the Office of Student Affairs, SAC determined that actual costs have been rising by about 10 percent, not the originally reported 15.

Last year under Jen Chaquette, the previous chair, SAC instated debt-resolution plans for groups in the red.

“We feel that it’s more important to make individual groups responsible for the debt they accrue,” Parthasarathy said.

SAC’s budget rose for the 2014-2015 school year to about $1.15 million, an approximately 7% increase. “This is the reason that we’ve pushed for increases in our budget — to cover debt and build some room,” Parthasarathy said. “Not only do we feel like

our finances are stable right now, but we feel that we have enough room to offer new groups money.”

“If we continue to be fiscally responsible, it won’t be a problem,” she added.

A previous moratorium was enacted in January 2011 in response to accumulating debt among student groups. When it was lifted in September 2011, SAC relieved all of its recognized student groups of their debt.

In contrast, Parthasarathy said, such a resolution was not a favored during the tenure of her predecessor, Chaquette.

“There are more sustainable ways of solving debt problems,” she said.

If SAC remains in the black in June, it will mark two years of financial growth and present the plausibility for new groups to gain SAC recognition for the first time in two years.

“I know that there are a lot of really amazing new student groups that have been forming and deserve recognition and funding for the work that they do, and I hope that we will be able to support that aspect of student life,” Parthasarathy said.

National Honor Society.

She spends her summers organizing a summer camp for more than 50 kids from her village with her sister. “There aren’t many activities to do in rural villages ... [so] we try and create activities for them so they can also have a good time during the vacation,” she said.

Amirah sees Amatullah’s natural leadership skills emerge during the summer camps they run. ”It really surprises me how she’s able to make the little children listen to her and learn what she tells them,” she said.

In her busy life, Amatullah says that music has always been her solace. “Music is the way for me to express my emotions. It’s just my thing and I feel comfortable when I play music,” she said. This year, she recorded a “mini-album” in the

studio and hopes to be involved in music at Penn.

“I’ve always dreamed of coming to the University of Pennsylvania,” she said. For Amatullah, Penn represents hope not only for herself, but for Cameroon. ”[I hope to] really get all the tools I need to bring change to my country and the world, and I can’t wait until August.”

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Student discusses surprises of China’s economic development Political Science senior Alice Xie presented her research Wednesday

BY JOE LI Contributing Writer The Western world has traditionally held the perception that law building facilitates economic growth. This seemed to be the reverse in China as economic growth spurred legislation, said College senior and political science major Alice Xie at a presentation of her research findings last night.

In her presentation, titled “Becoming an Economic Superpower: the China Paradox,” Xie argued that from 1979 to 1989, the Chinese economy grew significantly with the absence of a sufficient legal system, even though the government emphasized the importance of law.

That a lack of law enforcement due to the huge, spread-out population became an obstacle to the building of an effective legal system. In the late 20th century, people also witnessed their peers making money by breaking the law without repercussions and decided to do the same. This forced the government to take law enforcement more seriously, she said.

In the future, economic growth may further impact legislation as the transformation of the economy from a manufacturing-heavy one to a high-tech, service-centered one

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Alice Xie is a senior in the College studying Political Science. She presented her research findings on contemporary China at Stiteler Hall on Wednesday. approaches, she said.

Xie also noted while “rule of law” aims to protect citizens in Western societies, the law in China is used to serve the interests of the state. The law varies greatly for different groups and different regions, making it extremely difficult to conform to a single standard. This inconformity, however, might have allowed versatility that helped facilitate growth.

China’s model of development with its interaction between the economy and the law has a profound implication to the entire world. For the Western world, it challenges the assumption that a democratic social system is most effective. For the rest of the world, especially the developing countries, China’s model

could inspire them to explore another path of development.

“The United States may need to prove that democracy has not only moral integrity but practical advantage,” Xie said.

College and Wharton sophomore Yanru Chen, who was born and raised in China attended the event, which was part of the Emerging Scholar Talk series coordinated by the Communication Within the Curriculum program. Chen expressed her appreciation for Xie’s presentation. “It’s really inspiring to hear her talk about the distinction between China’s ‘rule by law’ and the Western ‘rule of law,’ as that’s not something I learned about from my Chinese high school textbooks,” she said.

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Breaking up with the idea of the friend

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ara Schonfeld’s column (“In Defense of the friend breakup,” April 20 ) isn’t out to make any friends.

She’s OK with that. Friendship isn’t about qua ntit y, right? It’s about quality. But intimate and frank discussions about friendships are at best awkward, which often drag with them hostile responses. So maybe the reflex to argue with her logic just goes with the territory.

How va luable it is t hat Sara, never theless, de mands that level of ref lection! It’s timely, too. The semester began unhappily.

A lot of people, in a lot of different ways, expressed a lot of dissatisfaction towards the caliber of attention and ca re they receive as students here at Penn. To make it worse, the cold, isolating winter just wouldn’t let go.

Now, at t he end of t hese lonely months, a long break appears ahead, one that will

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interrupt, though hopefully only temporarily, the relat ionsh ips t hat have been slowly and often deliberately forged during this time.

Looking forward to summer’s approaching separation, her idea of “friendship” deser ves not more def inition, but more fleshing out.

The category of “friend” is expansive. Sometimes usefully, sometimes not, it’s also vag ue. It rarely excludes, but it also rarely clarifies, either.

Sara’s article courageously insists that we take our friendships more seriously.

She contrasts friendships w ith erotic relationships, which tend to be considered with greater discourse and greater delicacy. For Sara, one symptom of friendship’s relative low wor th among college students is the reluctance to end friendships definitively, with a closure that romantic relationships, by contrast, evidently merit.

It doesn’t help that the category of “friend” is now experienced alongside digital representations of the category, like those proliferating on Facebook. The idea used to be that “friends” on Facebook represent friends in real life, but of course, friendships are variable, not only among acquaintances, but also through time. Never t heless, t hat Facebook has persisted as a dynamic resource for social life suggests that the category, even if artificial, is comforting in important ways.

Sara’s argument derives rhetorical force from tapping into a similar desire, the desire for categories by which to define the somet i me s u nc om f or t a ble at tachments and compulsions that animate all relationships, not only the erotic.

Still further, the categor y is desirable for its use in asserting control over how those attachments change

over time.

But to define brings with it the power to limit, to outline, to draw the boundaries. That power is also a power to declare an end, and this degree of control can be valuable, even necessary, for self-preservation, for mental and social health, as Sara describes.

Accordingly, she encourages readers to imagine “breaking up” with “toxic” friends. But the definition of a friend — specifically what disqualifies someone from that title — as well as the instability of such a category, remains unchallenged.

To define a “friend” goes against the grain of what is so rich and valuable about friendships — qualities like flexibility, pliability and resilience. She acknowledges these qualities when she begins narrating imaginary scenes of first arriving at college: Among all the new acquaintances, it’s nearly impossible to tell with cer-

tainty which of these will turn out to be the closest, dearest friends.

Furthermore, it’s a chimera to identify which friends did, over the years, emerge as dearest: It only identifies them in their present condition. It is not a comprehensive description. Sara values the mutability of friendship, its ability to change over time, certainly, but her eagerness and desire to define or assert control over her experience of friendship seems to express dissatisfaction with these variables. It is an understandable fear, the fear of change, but her prescription appears perilously similar to the problem itself: the fiction of an ideal and consistent friend.

Perhaps a more productive line of inquiry, although a no less awkward one, would be to consider friendships on an individual scale, probe and inquire into what makes each satisfactory — or not.

Then — and it would be a long then — one might assess from personal experience: What do I want from my friendships? What defines the experience for me?

Beyond what boundary will I refuse to extend the name of “friend”? And, perhaps most importantly, how might my future relationships affect my confidence in this boundar y? This might , in some cases, require rejecting previously held standards or ideals of friendship, breaking up with abstractions in favor of reality.

T her e a r e no a n s wer s to t hese quest ions, as of course, there can never definitively be. Sara’s opinion, however, has and will probably continue to have an effect on many f r iendships, making her, in a small sense, friend to many.

HECTOR KILGOE AND ANA SCHWARTZ are a College senior and a doctoral student studying English, respectively.

The aesthetic takeover CREATIVE VOICE | The world of images has stolen our humanity

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rt is often laude d a s a so c i a l good that helps overcome the divisions in our world. It allows people of diverse heritages to come together for the common experience of viewing a performance, film or painting.

Art cuts across the boundaries of language, location a nd t i me. It a lso br i ngs communities together with festivals, exhibitions and other social activities. In a way, art is the very essence of humanity.

However, art is also the greatest hazard we face. It is beautiful, seductive and dangerously manipulative.

Art has the power to present elegant lies that bur y the truth under the static fixation of aesthetic beauty.

Perhaps the best manifestation of this happens in advertisement. Take Penn’s advertising as an example.

Brochures targeted at pros p e c t i v e st u d e nt s s ho w bright, f lowering shots of campus that make it look impeccably beautiful. Images show Penn students of all ethnicities gathering together in circles on immaculately groomed lawns.

What could be better?

As we all know, this is contrived imagery. It presents Penn as a perpetually warm, green place where people of all heritages come together in the pursuit of knowledge.

This narrative is a lie. Penn is not a particularly diverse place. Most Penn students come from the Northeast of the United States or California and were born into fami-

lies that reside within the wealthiest echelons of society.

Although Penn’s campus may be visually appealing, poverty mires much of the surrounding city, whose infrastructure and public schools are crumbling. Meanwhile, Penn continues to add billions of dollars to its endowment.

Penn’s advertisements, however, tend to hide these social and political realities beneath a facade of manufactured visual beauty.

However, Penn is not alone.

Every organization and every person in our world participates in these same dangerous artistic manipulations.

All companies use visual advertising to present carefully crafted false associations between products, services and happiness. For instance, Apple connects its products

to the creation of a “world story,” showing iPads and other devices capturing images of colorful cultural festivities. The truth is that Apple cares about profit margins, not some kind of harmonious global narrative.

On the individual level, we use social media to craft art out of ourselves. We take pictures of the luxurious food we eat and all the exotic locations we have seen. We only upload the most pleasurable of these photographs in an attempt to hide our real selves. Photographs with purpose exclusively govern our social world.

A flood of manipulative visual stimuli has entirely replaced real human interaction with aesthetic falsity. We have let social media become an advertisement for ourselves.

This is the century of the self-

commoditized human.

If there is a God in this world, it is the aesthetic, the one and only ruler and dictator of all relations. Never has beauty played such an all-important role in society.

While it may be futile to attempt an overthrow of this all-powerful force, it is possible to push against it within the confines of the system.

The first defense against the aesthetic is recognizing it. Instead of taking images at their face value, we must analyze them with the utmost level of suspicion. We must understand their origins and their purposes. We must interrogate their surfaces to isolate the falsities that lie beneath. It is our job to then expose these lies — such as Apple’s insistence that its products are unifi-

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THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 2014 PAGE A5

Crime Log: April 11 - April 17 Five liquor law offenses, one fire incident and one homicide were reported

BY JILL CASTELLANO Staff Writer Homicide: A p r i l 1 5 , 2 014 : T i m o thy Car y, an unaf f iliated 31-year-old male, was in a verbal altercation with the suspect, 26-year-old unaffiliated Corey Gaynor, in the Copabanana R estaurant.

The suspect went outside, approached the 31-year-old male and shot him multiple times at 1:30 a.m. Penn Police identified and arrested t he suspect on t he 4 0 0 0 block of Pine Street and recovered the murder weapon nearby.

Fire Incident: April 13, 2014: Someone set f ire to an item in the b a s e me nt o f t he S i g m a Phi Epsilon house at 4028 Walnut St., leading to a response by the Philadelphia Fire Department and DPS’ UPPD and Fire and Emergency Services Personnel.

The fire was extinguished, and the building was deemed safe for occupancy.

Other Assault: April 15, 2014: A patient at the Science Center (3701 Market St.) became irate and made threatening statements toward the health care staff at 4:20 p.m.

Burglary: April 14, 2014: An individual removed personal items from a room in the Alpha Tau Omega house at 255 S. 39th St. at 11:30 a.m.

April 14, 2014: An affiliated 21-year-old male repor ted at 10:0 0 p.m. that someone entered his residence at 4029 Locust St. and removed a speaker.

Robbery:

April 13, 2014: A n unaffiliated 40-year-old male attempted to leave the Fresh Grocer without paying at 2:40 a.m. When stopped by a loss prevention officer, he elbowed and bit the officer.

dr unkenness at F rank lin Field at 8:00 p.m.

April 11, 2014: The police cited an affiliated 21-yearold male for public drunkenness on the 400 block of Walnut Street at 12:10 a.m.

Fraud: April 15, 2014: An affiliated 20 -year-old male reported at 12:00 p.m. from 4049 Spruce St. that someone filed taxes with his social security number.

April 14, 2014: There was an electronic payment fraud at 11:00 a.m. at Blockley Hall at 423 Guardian Dr.

Liquor Law: April 12, 2014: The police cited a juvenile for underage drinking at the intersection of 36th and Walnut streets at 10:00 p.m.

April 12, 2014: The police cited a 20-year-old affiliated male for underage drinking at the intersection 39th and Walnut streets at 12:20 p.m.

April 11, 2014: The police cited an 18-year-old unaffiliated female for underage drinking at the intersection 40th and Pine streets at 3:30 p.m.

April 11, 2014: The police cited a 20-year-old unaffiliated female for underage drinking at the intersection 40th and Pine streets at 3:30 p.m.

April 11, 2014: The police cited an 18-year-old unaffiliated female for underage drinking and fake identification at the intersection 40th and Pine streets at 3:40 p.m.

April 11, 2014: The police

Disorderly Conduct: April 13, 2014: An unaffiliated 43-year-old male was asking for money outside of a business on the 3900 block of Walnut Street at 4:30 p.m.

W hen patrons ref used to give him money, he cursed and threatened them.

April 12, 2014: An unaff iliated 61-yea r - old ma le was seen panhandling at Smokey Joe’s at 210 S. 40th St. at 9:10 p.m. after he had been warned to stop. When the police approached him, he attempted to flee.

April 11, 2014: An affiliated 22-year-old male was causing a disturbance at 200 S. 33rd St. at 9:40 p.m. and was advised to leave t he a r e a . He yel led a nd sc r e a med at t he p ol ice , causing a disturbance.

April 11, 2014: A 22-yearold affiliated male caused a public disturbance on the 4000 block of Pine Street at 5:00 p.m. and interfered with a police investigation.

Public Drunkenness: April 14, 2014: The police cited a 4 2-year- old unaffiliated male at 4:15 p.m. for public drunkenness after loiter ing, screaming and cursing at police near the Wawa at 3744 Spruce St. Apr il 13, 2014: The po lice cited an unaf f iliated 22-year-old male for public

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Public Urination: April 11, 2014: Police cited a 26 -year-old unaffiliated male for urinating on the highway on the 300 block of S. 42nd Street at 12:40 a.m.

April 11, 2014: Police cited an 18-year-old unaffiliated male for urinating on the highway on the 200 block of S. 41st Street at 3:30 a.m.

April 12, 2014: Police cited a 22-year-old affiliated male for urinating on the highway.

April 12, 2014: Police cited a 21-year-old affiliated male for public urination on the 40 0 0 block of Chancellor Street at 3:50 p.m.

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Other Offense: April 14, 2014: A 47-yearold unaffiliated male was seen in a gated backyard at 4006 Pine St. at 10:10 p.m. without permission.

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Dem. state rep. hopeful talks schools Q&A | Algernong Allen believes that Pa. should have marriage equality

BY JILL GOLUB Staff Writer Algernong Allen is running for state representative in Pennsylvania’s 188th District, which includes University City, West and Southwest Philadelphia.

Allen was raised in Southwest Philadelphia and, after graduating Hampton University, he returned home and opened up a jazz club on Baltimore Avenue. Allen’s jazz club Elena’s Soul burned down on Christmas Eve in 2012. Allen also has a weekly radio show called West Philly Connects on WPEB 88.1.

The Daily Pennsylvanian recently spoke to Allen about his positions.

Daily Pennsylvanian: What is your stance on the legalization or decriminalization of marijuana?

AA: I am for decriminaliza-

Accident, the second that day 38TH & SPRUCE from page A1 in a separate lawsuit filed on April 16 by a woman named Maura Weber. It is currently unclear whether Weber was one of the three Penn students injured in the accident on Feb. 22, 2013. Weber is asking for over $50,000 in a jury trial, according to court records.

Parviskhan, the University, Mitchum’s attorney, Weber and Weber’s attorney could not be reached for comment on Wednesday night.

tion of marijuana but not full legalization … In the meantime it does not make sense to criminalize something that is so commonly and popularly used illicitly. I think instead of making it more criminal, and I’m taking about for small quantities for personal use, it doesn’t make sense to put people behind bars for something that is so common, it doesn’t match up with the current time.

DP: What is your stance on marriage equality?

AA: We should have marriage equality undoubtedly because we must respect the rights of all people to be who they are. Pennsylvania is regressing in that area of governing and in Harrisburg I will be a voice for that particular issue. I’ll sponsor, co-sponsor... however I can advance that particular agenda. There are other issues with the LGBT community especially when you talk about how detainees and prisoners are treated... oftentimes, especially for transgender people, they are classified wrongly in our penal

At the time of the Feb. 22 accident, a witness told The Daily Pennsylvanian that he saw a car driving southbound on 38th Street when it hit the students.

The accident, which the Division of Public Safety said occurred at approximately 9:07 p.m., was the second to occur at 38th and Spruce streets that day. Earlier that day, a female driver knocked down a traffic signal after she lost control of her car while she was turning onto 38th Street from Spruce Street.

The 38th and Spruce intersection has historically been one of the more dangerous intersections on campus. The intersection saw 25 crashes between Jan. 1, 2013 and Oct.

institutions so there’s a lot of issues for fairness in the LGBT community that could be addressed. If my neighbors can’t be treated fairly then maybe one day I won’t be treated fairly.

DP: How can the Philadelphia school system be fixed?

AA: In the long term, in terms of legislation, we can fund them adequately first.

In order to do that we need to get a new governor which will require us to mobilize voters … In terms of challenges, there are immense challenges but once we solve funding we need to make sure they are utilized effectively. Whatever public school vehicle we are using we have to make sure to be transparent and get results for students and parents. The second part of that is how else can we do it...I believe that community empowerment, figure out ways to get neighborhoods involved in your local school and making that process easier to do and getting that done in a much shorter term.

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14, 2013, 12 of which were statereportable — meaning that someone was either taken to the hospital or a vehicle was towed.

In order to make the intersection safer, the Philadelphia Streets Department has planned to install bumpouts — segments of sidewalk protruding into the street designed to improve intersection safety.

While the bumpouts were set to be installed by the end of 2013, the Streets Department has twice delayed construction of the safety installation. According to a DP article from January, construction is set to begin this summer.

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“Tiger Mom” discusses factors that make some cultural groups successful Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld spoke at Penn yesterday

BY COREY STERN Contributing Writer Yale Law professor and selfproclaimed “Tiger Mom” Amy Chua spoke at Penn yesterday as part of the Wharton Leadership Program’s Authors@ Wharton series about characteristics that drive some cultural groups to success.

Chua and her husband, Yale Law professor Jed Rubenfeld, introduced their “triple package” theory, an explanation for the disparity in success among cultural groups. Chua and Rubenfeld address their theory in their new book, “The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America.”

“It’s just a fact about America today — an uncomfortable fact — that some ethnic and religious groups are doing much better than the rest of the country,” Rubenfeld said. “I’m talking in terms of income and professional and educational attainment.”

The husband-wife duo explained that Jews, Indians, Persians, Lebanese, Chinese, Cubans, Nigerians and Mormons, among other groups in America, tend to achieve greater success than others. They spent several years trying to understand what these handful of cultural groups had in common.

In the end, they determined that each group they studied had not one, but a mixture of three characteristics in common: “the triple package.”

The first two traits include a superiority complex, a collective feeling of exceptionality over other cultural groups, and insecurity, the feeling of needing to prove oneself to others. While these two elements may seem contradictory, Chua argues

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Chua and her husband promoted their book, entited “The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America.” that cultural groups require the unique balance of these two characteristics to succeed.

“It’s weird to think of somebody simultaneously feeling insecure and superior,” Chua said. “And yet, it’s that unlikely, almost unstable combination that generates drive, this kind of hunger to be respected, this need to prove yourself and show everyone, almost like a chip-onyour-shoulder mentality.”

To explain this apparent contradiction, Chua and Rubenfeld point to American Mormons as an example. Mormons are a group that has long been persecuted and marginalized in the United States, creating a collective feeling of insecurity. Yet, at the same time, followers of the religion, like followers of Judaism, believe that they are “the chosen ones.” Chua and Rubenfeld claim that this combination of feeling insecure and exceptional can in part explain how a group that makes up 1.7 percent of the population includes prominent leaders like Mitt Romney, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and the CEOs of many major corporations.

The third element of the triple package is impulse control, the ability to delay gratitude in order to work toward achieving

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“Instead of viewing childhood as a time to be carefree and have fun, parents in triplepackage cultures, view childhood more as a kind of training period, a time to prepare for the future,” Chua said. “All of the groups we looked at, in very different ways, tend to impose much stricter practices of selfdiscipline, hard word and focus in their children and at a much earlier age.”

Chua and Rubenfeld both stressed that as these three elements come and go in each culture, as do the collective success of each group. Additionally, they believe that the triple package can be learned by any individual — something that could have even stronger implications for understanding inequality in America.

“If we could figure out how these working class kids are experiencing so much upward mobility when the rest of the country isn’t, we’d be in a position to transform this nation’s approach to inequality and poverty,” Rubenfeld said.

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THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 2014 PAGE A7

Feeling the daily grind? A ‘Careercation’ can inspire, alum says Q&A | David Niu talks about happiness, business and his new book

BY YUEQI YANG Staff Writer David Niu sold his properties and bought a one-way ticket for his family to take a year of “Careercation” — career and vacation.

The 2002 Wharton MBA alumni sought advice from entrepreneurs from around the world, including a wine maker in New Zealand, a fruit trader in China and a financial services consultant in Korea, on leadership, culture and managing people. Now Niu has written a book called “Careercation: Trading Briefcase for Suitcase to Find Entrepreneurial Happiness,” sharing their wisdom and discussing how to create a positive company culture. The “careercation” also inspired him to found TINYpulse, part of his company TINYhr, which provides cloud-based solutions to retain clients and employees and make them happier.

The book is available for free in installments online and can be purchased in print and ebook form. The Daily Pennsylvanian skyped with Niu, who now lives in Seattle, about his new book and entrepreneurial philosophy.

Daily Pennsylvanian: What gave you the inspiration and courage to take the journey and write a book?

David Niu: When I told most people that I would buy a oneway ticket to New Zealand and travel with my wife and my 10-month old daughter, most people thought, ‘You are crazy,’ or they said ‘I wish I could do that.’ I think the truth is somewhere in the middle. The reality is that if people really want to, they can do it.

Before my wife and I got married, we took a marriage counseling course together and got a package of cards ... one that really stumbled me

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David Niu is an entrepreneur and a Wharton MBA graduate. His new book is called “Careercation: Trading Briefcase for Suitcase to Find Entrepreneurial Happiness.” was this card that says ‘What are your significant other’s dreams in life?’ So I had no idea. If we don’t know [what] someone else’s dreams are, we can’t make them become true.

So we started to talk about what her dreams were and what my dreams were.

One of my dreams was I didn’t want to wait until 67 and have to collect social security, [to] have a little bit wealth, but not a lot of health. Society tells me that I should work really hard and save some money.

But I don’t care. I am going to take this retirement and cut it into small slices throughout my life. So that’s why I call it careercation – a career vacation ... It was so valuable for me in terms of allowing me to reconnect with my family. And there’s no way that I would have started TINYhr and TINYpulse the way it is now without having [taken] that time off to talk to other people and be very intentional about what I want to do with my life.

DP: You dropped out of the Wharton MBA program and then returned. What’s your

advice to students who are considering dropping out of school and starting their own business?

DN: I dropped out in 2000, and I re-matriculated in 2001, and graduated in 2002.

I think there’s a lot of the

romantic stuff about dropping out of school ... But there’s also a lot of negatives, the dark sides. There’s depression.

There’s loneliness. There are suicides that we don’t read about. One of the best things about school is that you get the opportunity to learn and meet people, who have the potential to be co-founders. And when you are at a school, you can almost call up any person in the world, and you can say, ‘I am a student, and I would like to find out more information.

But if you are from a company, it’s a different barrier that you have to go through. So there’s definitely pros and cons ...

It’s definitely not something to do flippantly. I will be very intentional about why I am dropping out. Is there really [an] attraction around this idea? ... I am a big believer that focus is so important that if you really do believe in something, you probably should drop out of school and go for it, because [going] to school and [working] on it is probably not going to have the same type of outcome as someone who is 100 percent focused on it all

the time.

don’t need to.

DP: Is the book going to be free? So far the first chapter is free.

DN: Yes. The book is going to be entirely free. We are going to give one region out every week. When I [travelled] and [reached] out to these people, they were so selfless and so welcoming to give me feedback and allowed me to come into their life to talk to them. So I just don’t feel right about profiting from their advice. I should amplify what I’ve learned and give that to the entrepreneur community ... People who want to buy the kindle version, or hardcopy, they can. But they

DP: Is there anything else you want to say to Penn students?

DN: When I was cleaning my files, I found this folder from my time at Wharton. There was this article about pursuing dreams. I remember cutting it out and putting it into a plastic sheet cover.

We come to this school with so much idealism. But over time we are convinced that this is the norm of the society and what expectations are given to us. The reason why I cut it out is to be a constant reminder for me. We should pursue our own path of happiness. No one should pass judgment on what we want to do.

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Priore officially to succeed Bagnoli as coach FOOTBALL | Steve Bilsky officially announced Bagnoli’s retirement after

BY STEVEN TYDINGS Senior Sports Editor It’s official: there is just one more season left in Al Bagnoli’s tenure with Penn football.

Outgoing Athletic Director Steve Bilsky announced that the longtime Penn head coach would retire after the 2014 season at a press conference. Bilsky also officially revealed defensive coordinator and associate head coach Ray Priore as Bagnoli’s successor.

“It’s obviously bittersweet when you’ve been here for so long, and you get the opportunity to call Franklin Field your home and you get the opportunity to work with some great student-athletes,” Bagnoli said. “I’ve been truly blessed.

Not many people have the opportunity to be head coach as long as I have.”

Bilsky began the press conference by reeling off part of Bagnoli’s impressive resume, highlighting his Ivy titles and numerous accomplishments, which includes 232 victories. However, that isn’t what stood out to the AD about the only football coach he had during his 20-year tenure.

“It doesn’t really reflect well what a pleasure it is for me to have been the athletic director during my 20 years,” Bilsky said. “Sometimes you take it for granted when you have a program that runs so smoothly, that produces great results, great people, both as under-

graduates and after they leave the program.

It won’t just be Bilsky that will miss Bagnoli, as Penn football alums also appreciated what he brought to the program for over two decades.

“He’s an absolute Ivy and Penn Hall of Famer, and there has never been anyone like him,” said William Constantine C’66 WG’68, who is the chair of the Penn football board.

“Hopefully that coaching staff, and Ray in particular, have kind of soaked up that Bagnoli quality.”

Bagnoli reiterated that it will be “business as usual” until after Penn’s final game — coming on Nov. 22 at Cornell — at which time Priore will assume all the duties as head coach.

“I’m certainly excited for Ray,” Bagnoli said. “He’s been an invaluable member of my staff. He’s a guy that is more than ready to be a successful football coach.”

Priore said that he was informed about Bagnoli’s possible retirement in December, saying: “Coach and Steve said that something may be brewing and to stick tight.”

Priore, who is entering his 28th season as an assistant at Penn, was very appreciative of the opportunity, thinks the transition process will go well thanks to his obvious familiarity with the program.

“The fortunate thing is ... where most head coaches, at the end of the year, [are] taking over a program that you know about but don’t know the ins and outs,” Priore

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Al Bagnoli made the official announcement Wednesday morning, saying that he will step aside as Penn football’s head coach after the 2014 season while his long-time assistant coach Ray Priore takes over. Bagnoli expressed interest in the possibility of an undefined position within Penn Athletics after his retirement.

Quakers will fly safely with Priore at helm

Legacy of selflessness for Al Bagnoli

pilot.’

“He said, ‘It’s all about timing.’”

The message is clear: Ray Priore is the right man, in the right place, at the right time, to succeed the greatest coach in Quaker history in the retiring Al Bagnoli.

The legacy that Bagnoli leaves behind is tremendous — nine outright Iv y titles, 232 victories and the secondhighest winning percentage in Ancient Eight history, to boot.

For an external hire, it very well could have been impossible to step out of Bagnoli’s shadow.

But that’s why Bagnoli and Athletic Director Steve Bilsky planned this move two years in advance — to pare down the candidates slowly, carefully and, most importantly,

season, Bagnoli was similarly nonchalant, joking around to begin a presser that focused squarely on him.

“There’s no truth that Ray [Priore] and I choreographed our ties together,” Bagnoli said with a smile as he stood beside Priore, his future successor.

As much as he may not like to hear it, Bagnoli’s legacy stretches far beyond just his student-athletes. And his legacy certainly isn’t about ties.

While there have been individual players that had stood out during Bagnoli’s time at Penn, his winning culture and his ability to avoid losses (and ties) has been consistent, no matter who has been on the field.

Quite f rank ly, you don’t get to 146 wins in 22 seasons

IAN WENIK Standing at the podium for the most important — and first — press conference of his career, Penn football coachin-waiting Ray Priore decided to take a moment to talk about ... airplanes.

“Flying in with my daughter last night from Fort Myers [Fla.], we’re coming down, the pilot says, ‘Get ready for some rough turbulence,’” Priore said. “We land, it’s smooth as can be. I said, ‘Great job,

internally.

And in doing so, they’ve found the perfect man for the job.

Priore has learned from Bagnoli over the past 23 years, serving for the past nine seasons in a right-hand man position as an associate head coach. They coach alike. They think alike. They even wore matching ties to the press conference. “[Al’s] taught me so much as a mentor and a person,” Priore said.

That philosophical similarity is the best possible thing that the Penn football program can ask for, which has been a model of stability under Bagnoli while the rest of the athletic department has

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STEVEN TYDINGS In his time as Penn’s football coach, Al Bagnoli has never been about himself.

Whenever someone asks him a question about himself at a press conference or after a practice, Bagnoli immediately deflects the question, preferring to speak about his student-athletes and his fellow coaches.

And at Wednesday’s press conference to announce his retirement following the 2014

through one player. Or one recruiting class. Or one assistant coach, as essential as people like Priore or Jim Schaefer have been to Bagnoli’s staffs.

Instead, with just 10 games left in an illustrious 33-year coaching career that began at Union in 1982, it is time to put the spotlight on Bagnoli and his accomplishments.

Bagnoli has a resume on the football field as long as the eye can see. Nine Ivy League championships. Twice winning three Ivy titles in four years. And that doesn’t even mention his time at Union, where he went 86 -19 while making it to the Division III National Championship game twice.

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Ye st er d ay, however, Mon mouth featured a bit too much offense, and Penn was unable to claw out of an early hole, falling 4-2.

The Quakers (15-18, 10-5 Ivy) had to fight an uphill battle the entire game and almost managed to come all the way back due to some defensive miscues by the Hawks, but in the end, they were unable to even the score.

A f ter the Red and Blue offense was turned aside in the top of the first, Monmouth (1517) pounced quickly in their first turn at-bat.

After a lead-off walk issued by sophomore starting pitcher

A manda Gisonni, the Hawk s wer e able t o put t oget her a string of run-scoring at-bats, with the biggest blow coming from an RBI double from freshman Justene Reyes. When the dust settled in the f irst , the Hawks had plated three runs a nd t a ken t he ea rly lead on Penn.

The Quakers would continue to fight and demonstrate the fortitude that they have shown all year. In fact, out of its 17 losses, Penn was within three runs of its opponent by the end of the game in 10 of them, showing that the Quakers seem to always be in the game until the very end.

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vs. Columbia Two down. One to go.

After its loss to Princeton last week, the No. 15 Penn women’s lacrosse team was in need of three straight league wins to pull into a first-place regular season tie with the Tigers. After Wednesday’s 17-4 destruction of Columbia, only one remains.

Despite a slow start, the Quakers (9-4, 5-1 Ivy) pulled away late in the first half to Michele Ozer/Sports Photo Editor dispatch the lowly Lions (3-10, 0-7). The result was certainly Senior midfield Tory Bensen scored six goals in Wednesday’s 17-4 expected for the Red and Blue trouncing of Columbia, setting a new career high in the process. against an opponent that has struggled to put together any picked that up,” Corbett said.

“It’s always great to get success against Ivy League “We talked about shooting everyone in,” Corbett said. opponents. where we thought their goalie “They just work so hard, and “You get nervous with a was a little bit weaker. We had you hope that you can have a midweek game against Colum- a good shooting day.” game like this a year or two, bia, who’s struggling a little A nd once t he Q ua ker s where they all really feel like bit, as a coach,” coach Karin started to heat up, they really it’s worth it. That they get that Brower Corbett said. turned up the tempo. Ahead opportunity to represent Penn “Carly Churchill, a senior, just 3-2 with 5:54 left in the on the field.” spoke before the game and first half, Penn poured in Though many Quakers got said: ‘We can’t think about three goals in a three-minute involved, the biggest impact the future and we can’t think span to go into the half ahead, came from senior midfield about the past, it’s about to- 6-2.

Tory Bensen, who notched day and what we do today,’ “At first they were slow- six goals on just six shots. and that was a great way ing the ball down and I said, Bensen — the team’s leading to get them excited for this ‘It’s not about their tempo it’s scorer — has 28 goals on the game.” about our tempo,’” Corbett season, surpassing her previPenn opened up w ith a said. “And I think we picked up ous season-high of 23 from quick goal on a free position our tempo and really attacked last year. shot from sophomore midfield them. That’s our job to set the “A lot of energy came from Brooke Kiley — the first of her tempo.” the bench, the defense was career — just 39 seconds into The second half began just coming up with stops, Lucy the game. The Lions would as the first half had ended, as [Ferguson] was coming up respond quickly, however, and the Red and Blue notched four with saves,” Bensen said. “So stay within one goal through goals in the first five and a half it was really a full-field effort the game’s first 24 minutes. minutes. The Quakers went — we definitely couldn’t have “We started off a little bit on to finish the game on a 14-2 done it without all 11 people slow, I felt like we weren’t mov- run and saw eight different on the field and 31 people on ing that well on attack and players score goals. the bench.”

FOOTBALL from page B1 said. “Our transition will go so much smoother because I’ve been in charge of recruiting for 15 years, I’ve dealt with the admissions [and] financial-aid people, I’ve recruited all along the west coast so I have that background there with a lot of great relationships with folks on campus.”

Priore will have the difficult task of trying to follow Bagnoli, even though Priore has played a role in Penn’s success for the last 22 years.

“The biggest challenge is coming behind the most successful coach in Penn history,”

SOFTBALL from page B1 The same can be said of this game.

In the top of the second, Penn showed fight by scratching out a run on an RBI double from sophomore Korinne Raby, and the Quakers in prime position to get back a couple more against t he H awk s’ pitch i ng st a f f and take advantage of some shoddy defensive play.

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Penn fails to overcome early deficit

Priore said. “I’m confident. I will surround myself with a staff of people who are equally as talented and have the same goals in mind.”

“But it’s just not one person. I think the most important thing is that success at Penn is not built on [one person], whether it is George Munger or Al Bagnoli or Ray Priore. It is about the family. It is about the group.”

When asked about his reasoning for retirement, Bagnoli said it was due to numerous factors and made clear that it had nothing to do with a new athletic director coming in.

“I was always really concerned that I didn’t want to overstay my welcome,” Bagnoli said. “I happen to be my own biggest critic and at a certain point in time, you kind of feel when it’s right and move and do something else.”

That something else may include a role in Penn Athletics

as Bagnoli expressed interest in pursuing a position within the athletic department under incoming-Athletic Director M. Grace Calhoun. Bagnoli said he needed to speak with Dr. Calhoun before anything could be nailed down.

With 2014 being Bagnoli’s final season, there will be a lot of attention placed on the head coach in his last 10 games as he tries for a 10th Ivy League title.

“I think there will be a tremendous energy into winning one more ring under Al, and I think they’ve got the talent to do it,” Constantine said.

“I can’t think of a better ending for his career at Penn than to hold up that trophy in November after we play Cornell,” Bilsky said.

“Or it’s OK if he wants to clinch it early [against Harvard],” he jokingly added.

“That’d be alright with me, too,” Bagnoli said.

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Baseline tests now the norm for concussions CONCUSSIONS from page A1 after Jones had a bad practice, he found himself alone in the locker room with Thomas.

“He came up to me and said, ‘Kamdog Jefferson, you know what they say…When there’s white water in the morning…’

“Yes?” Jones asked.

“That’s it!” Thomas responded.

It was a quote from Thomas’ favorite movie, “Almost Heroes,” starring the actor most reminiscent of Thomas according to his teammates: Chris Farley.

“While most would have given a half-hearted, ‘It will all work out,’ Owen knew I would get through it on my own and a laugh would be the best first step towards a better mood,” Jones said.

Like Jones, Thomas was never diagnosed with a concussion. But Saturday will mark the fourth anniversary of Thomas hanging himself in his off-campus apartment, a tragedy that resulted in a brain autopsy that summer that made Thomas the first case of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in an active college football player.

Unlearning Habits CTE is a degenerative brain disease most likely caused by repetitive brain trauma whose effects are chiefly neurobehavioral, including impaired memory, erratic decision-making, depression and the possibility of suicide.

In September 2010, Rev. Kathy Brearley of Allentown, Pa., told her son Owen’s story before the House Education and Labor Committee, her son’s Parkland High School helmet sitting before her on the hearing room table. The summer following Thomas’ death, the Ivy League limited the number of full-pad contact practices that can take place throughout the football year, also enacting new in-season practice limitations permitting no more than two full-contact days per week, a 60 percent reduction from the NCAA maximum.

But hitting will always be a part of football. For many players, it’s the whole point of playing the game. They’re used to “getting their bell rung” and ringing their opponents’ bells in return.

“By the time you’re at Penn, most players have been playing for 10 years,” 2008 Penn football graduate Naheem Harris said. “It’s extremely difficult to unlearn some of those habits.”

“I can’t wait to hit the guy tomorrow!” Thomas would exclaim to his mother after the first day of contact at Parkland High summer practice every season. “Owen, that’s your teammates,” Brearley would point out.

“I know, but I can’t wait to hit them!”

Out of 14 Penn football alumni interviewed for this story, seven said they sustained concussions while playing for Penn. Of those seven, five said they concealed what they suspected were concussions from the Penn coaching staff. Moreover, 12 out of 44 Penn alumni athletes from the last decade across five different varsity programs interviewed said they sustained at least one concussion at Penn, and the vast majority of them said they knew teammates who had been

THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN Unfortunately for the Red and Blue, one of the main stories today was a lack of timely hits with runners in scor ing position, and w ith the bases loaded and only one away, a strikeout and ground out ended the threat without any harm.

The battle continued in the fourth inning after the Quakers allowed the fourth Monmouth run to cross the plate.

The Quakers answered back with a run on a Raby groundball that chased freshman Vera Barnwell home due to another error from a Monmouth infielder, this time an errant throw from Reyes.

From then on, both teams’ bats were qu iet , w it h t he

biggest threat coming from the Quakers in the top of the sixth when they stranded a pair of runners on the bases in a critical two- out opportunity to cut further into the Hawks’ lead.

W hile the pitching st af f certainly kept Penn within striking distance throughout the entire game, the Quakers were unable to muster up enough offense to come back from the three-run first inning deficit.

T he R e d a nd Blue w i l l look to right the ship with two weekend doubleheaders against Ivy League rival Columbia Lions and try to claim the Ivy South Division title with a couple wins.

concussed. While these numbers are by no means wholly conclusive, they do beg the question: How do you fight players’ impulse to keep playing?

“Seeing the trainer is like going to the dentist,” 2005 Penn graduate and former football player Mike Recchiuti said.

“You try to avoid going as long as possible until you are in so much pain you can’t handle it and are forced to go.”

was,” Brown said.

Still, Brown laments the “handful” of concussions he hid from coaches.

“I know I definitely swept some under the rug in order to keep my playing time, which in hindsight was a terrible idea,” Brown said.

As a result of his mounting concussion history, though, Brown was barred from playing as a fifth-year senior in 2013.

That’s why Brown’s former teammate and 2012 graduate Jason Schmucker speaks up these days.

“I am still in touch with guys on the team and if I ever hear that one of them got a concussion, I implore them to take the extra time to fully heal,” Schmucker said.

Like Jones, Schmucker has suffered at least six concussions in his lifetime even as a safety, a position requiring fewer headto-head collisions than most. He sustained three of them during game action at Penn, two of them in back-to-back games in 2011. As a result, he missed the final four games of his senior year.

“My family noticed a stark contrast between my normal happy-go-lucky, positive self and the person who came home over Thanksgiving and Christmas break that year,” Schmucker said.

Between the Baselines Al Bagnoli can see Franklin Field from his spacious Weightman Hall office.

“It’s a great view,” he says wistfully the day before word leaks that he plans to retire as Penn football coach following the 2014 season.

And in his 22 seasons at Penn, he’s seen it all. In fact, seeing used to be believing when it came to concussion testing on the sidelines during games. If a kid looked and talked OK, back into game action he went. “‘How many fingers do I have up?’ ‘Count backwards,’” Bagnoli says. “You don’t say that anymore.”

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I am still in touch with guys on the team and if I ever hear that one of them got a concussion, I implore them to take the extra time to fully heal.”

— Jason Schumucker Former Penn football player

Since 2006, Bagnoli’s players have taken a computerized neurological baseline test just upstairs from his office.

When a player receives his first concussion, an automatic three-day window begins in which the coaching and training staff cannot do anything with him whatsoever. After the three-day window passes, players are available to go through baseline testing and remain shut down until they pass the test. The next day, players go out in a T-shirt and shorts to be put through physical drill work by trainers who determine whether the players still show concussion symptoms.

The day after that — now the fifth day after getting concussed — players determined to be symptom-free can return to practice in a limited capacity with shorts, shoulder pads, helmet and a red shirt indicating that they cannot be hit. Players whose return to practice goes well are then fully cleared.

That’s six days from concussion to full clearance.

“It kind of takes the guesswork out of when you return to play,” Bagnoli says.

The Penn medical and coaching staffs record every diagnosed and reported concussion a player sustains throughout his career, dating back to high school.

But how do you fight players’ impulse to hide their concussions?

“You gotta educate the kids,” Bagnoli says.

By NCAA mandate, one of the very first things Penn coaches do during the preseason every August is show players a film outlining all the traits potentially associated with a concussion.

And indeed, most alumni commend the program for staying on top of concussion health.

“The coaches and training staff were very on top of sitting players out with concussions, no matter how good the player

It’s Your Brain Concussions change people.

Prior to his suicide, Owen Thomas had been an air guitarwielding warrior. He lived for the adrenaline of the sport until it helped kill him.

Spreading the word about the potential for such terrible change is former Penn football team captain Nick Cisler.

He volunteers with the Sports Legacy Institute, an organization founded in 2007 that is dedicated to furthering awareness of and research on sportsrelated head injuries. Cisler got involved after learning that the institute had partnered with Brearley to heighten concussion awareness following Thomas’ death.

Fortunately, there’s been positive change on the concussion front since Thomas’s CTE changed him forever for the worse.

“There is far more attention going into diagnosing, identifying causes and understanding the physiology and chemistry inside the brain [than five years ago],” Cisler said. “Only a few years ago it was a much different world and a much smaller pool of knowledge about the injury.”

Indeed, the slew of NFL alumni with CTE symptoms who have committed suicide in the past decade has pushed the issue of concussions firmly into the public consciousness. But it will only stay there if each new generation of athletes is filled in on the tragedies of the ones that came before.

Thomas’ brother Morgan and his wife are expecting a boy in August.

“It will be interesting to see what happens if they allow him to play football,” Brearley said.

“He’s going to have to be told the whole story, and that’s just all there is to it.”

Telling the story is what matters now. As the fourth anniversary of Thomas’s death approaches and the temptation of playing through anything remains for current players, it’s up to coaches, trainers and alumni to keep awareness high.

“It’s my brain that we’re talking about,” Cisler said. “And I’d prefer for it to keep working well.”

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Quakers' throwers take over For the Red and Blue's throwing program, it is finally time to reap the benefits of a four-year rebuilding process

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Middle-distance coach Robin Martin (right) has made several appearances in the Penn school record books, but he would like nothing more than for his athletes to surpass his own athletic accomplishments.

Penn's middle-distance coach has used his experience as a successful runner at Penn to prepare his runners for the season's big moments

BY COLIN HENDERSON Associate Sports Editor Act like you’ve been there before.

It’s a maxim that is often thrown around by coaches, regardless of the sport. Whether it comes to handling victory or defeat, success or failure, familiar or uncharted territory, coaches always seem to think that it is best to approach athletics with an air of experience.

Of course, it always helps — for both coaches and athletes — to actually have been there before. On both accounts, Robin Martin has Penn track and field covered.

Martin is currently in his second year serving as Penn’s middle-distance coach for both the men’s and women’s squads. As only a secondyear middle-distance coach, the Penn Relays may seem like a monumental task to tackle.

But Martin has been here before.

He also attended Penn as a student-athlete from 1996-2000, excelling on the track in middledistance running events throughout all four years.

Over his collegiate career, Martin earned AllAmerican status twice and was an Ivy-League champion 11 times.

And that’s just getting started.

Martin still currently holds the school’s indoor 500-meter record and top-six positions in four other middle distance events. He was also a world junior champion in the 4x400m and a top three 800m runner at nationals.

It suffices to say that Martin is no stranger to

big-time college track and field competitions.

In fact, it wouldn’t be too much of an exaggeration to say that he lives for it. Even when struggling with his potential elays lineups and a horde of anxious athletes sorting through boxes of new spikes a week ahead of the relays, he could hardly contain his excitement to be on the Franklin Field track.

“It’s an exciting next couple weeks for Penn track,” Martin beamed. “I feel honored to be able to coach here.”

Although he certainly has the energy and charisma to compete once again, Martin has hung up the spikes and is all-in on coaching. His experience as an athlete has clearly helped him in his transition.

“It’s a lot easier to take to heart what the coach is trying to sell you if you know he’s been there and he’s done it himself,” junior middle-distance runner Mato Bekelja said.

As a former Penn athlete, Martin brings a unique perspective to his group of middle-distance runners.

“He goes through not only the physical aspect of practice, but also coaches you through the mental aspect as well,” sophomore middledistance runner Kirk Webb said.

“When you’re under the watchful gaze of 52,000 fans, it’s tough to not be excited,” Martin added.

“So I just try to keep them as calm as possible.

I always want to remind them of the destination ... and that we’re gonna have a lot of fun getting there.”

It’s tough to know exactly what to expect from Penn’s middle-distance relay squads this year.

Penn has plenty of talent in certain areas, such as the men’s 4x400m, which features speedy juniors Bekelja and Tom Timmins.

However, there are also quite a few question marks. Both the men’s and women’s 4x800m

stronger than ever, featuring several nationally ranked athletes and a deeper field than ever before.

So how exactly has the program pulled off such a dramatic turnaround?

In the beginning, there was one...

If throwers are normally the most secluded members of the track and field team, it must have been especially tough for current-senior Jake Brenza four years ago.

“When I came in, I was by myself,” he said.

To be more precise, as he noted, the throwing program consisted of only two athletes four years ago.

But instead of letting the situation get the best of him, he seized the opportunity to become the foundation for Penn’s throwing program, eventually becoming team captain.

“Jake’s a great captain and a great person, too.

He works harder than anyone else I’ve ever seen.

He’s always there helping us, kind of like a second coach,” Mattis said.

But Brenza is only one piece to the puzzle, and the program had a long way to go to get to where it is today.

Rebuilding the program With 27 years of experience at Penn under his belt, throwing events coach Tony Tenisci has seen it all, and he is certainly no stranger to change.

Tenisci — who is credited with creating the women’s hammer throw in America — had Brenza as the foundation for his program and knew that is was time to start building the program up.

Over the past three years, Tenisci has found strength in numbers, increasing the total number of throwers from a mere two to its current total of 13.

“We are all close together. We all watch out for each other and make sure everyone’s doing well,” Brenza said. “It’s really nice knowing that everyone can stay together.

And as the team has grown, Tenisci’s goals have changed.

“Since I have recruited [the current throwers],

It’s hard out there for a thrower.

“We’re certainly not in the middle of Franklin Field. We never get the chance to compete in front of 50,000 people,” sophomore Sam Mattis said.

That’s an understatement.

Far from the middle of Franklin Field, the Quakers’ newly renovated throwing facility is an arduous walk down South St., tucked away between Penn’s soccer and baseball fields.

It is a fact of life for throwers that other track and field athletes — particularly runners — receive the majority of the time in the limelight, especially during the Penn Relays.

And just four years ago, to further compound the problem, it seemed that the limelight was doomed to permanently burn out on the program, as it seemed to be on the verge of extinction.

But things are getting better. Now, the program is looking teams have been relatively unknown entities all year, plagued by injury and inexperience.

Regardless, Martin anticipates strong performances from all of his athletes at this year’s Penn Relays and beyond.

“I think our best overall performance is yet to come,” he said.

“Our middle-distance program is really on its way to being one of the best in the country. Maybe it’s not this year, but in the next year or two, we’re looking to hold a trophy in the center of the infield and do a victory lap at Franklin Field.”

In the face of uncertainty, Martin’s experience has remained a constant all year.

“It’s nice to have somebody who’s been to all these great meets and done all the things you’re trying to do as an athlete,” Webb said.

Additionally, Martin has encouraged his athletes to seize the moment and enjoy what the Penn Relays have to offer.

“I was lucky enough to go the USA Championships and multiple NCAA Championships. I raced in Europe,” he said. “But all of my favorite experiences came from Penn Relays.”

Who knows, one of the new Quakers just may end up becoming the new Robin Martin.

And he wouldn’t have it any other way.

Penn Relays? Robin Martin has been there, done that

I have always had great aspirations for them,” he said. “I recognized their talent.”

But the on-field results had not been immediate.

“I want them to be the very best they can be, and when they’re freshmen, that is very hard. It’s very different from high school,” Tenisci said.

As is common amongst rebuilding programs, Penn was brought down by inexperience. But all of that would change this outdoor season.

Rewriting the record books This outdoor season, Penn’s throwers have delivered on the promise they have shown over the past couple of seasons.

Sophomores Mattis and Kelsey Hay have recorded new school records in the men’s discus and women’s javelin, respectively.

Mattis and Hay may have stood out as individuals, but each throw has been a total team effort.

“It’s a big accomplishment for me, and for my teammates too,” Hay said. “They’ve pushed me this whole season, with Lisa [Sesink-Clee] and Serena [Graf] around me.

“Having [the upperclassmen] around for support has been really nice, and the underclassmen have been able to push me.”

Tensisci largely attributes his athletes’ newfound success to increased experience.

“What you have here is a very mature group of athletes,” he said. "They have worked very hard to achieve their goals, and they are on track.”

The Penn Relays and beyond With its emergence this year, the throwing program has abandoned any old insecurities.

“We know we’re one of the best groups on the team, and we know we can make an influence,” Brenza said.

So where does the program go from here?

“Everyone on the team just wants to keep improving,” Mattis said. “We all have our own individual goals, and obviously that’s to throw farther and to our potential.”

But it just isn’t that simple.

Going into the Penn Relays, the Penn throwing

program may be entering one of the most exciting periods of its existence.

Mattis, Brenza and Hay will all compete in the championship divisions in their events, a division in which only the top 12 in each event qualify.

“To have three representatives in that standard is very hard to do for any school,” Tenisci said.

“They want to be good, and that’s something that can’t be coached.”

“It’s a huge honor for me,” Brenza added. “I’ve always wanted to get there, and it just means a lot to me.”

To add to the significance of the meet, schools will compete on Penn’s brand new throwing facility.

“It brings a whole different vibe to the throwing area. We have fans right on top of us,” Hay said. “Having the hype around the throwing facility will hopefully bring some of the fans over to the throws.”

But Tenisci knows that becoming great is a process that takes time, and he is not about to let the expectations that come along with the hype of the meet get the best of him.

“I don’t like the word ‘expectation,’” he said. “‘Anticipation,’ I think, is more appropriate.”

Tenisci should have ample patience with which to handle the situation and enjoy his throwers’ current era of success.

After all, it has been four years in the making.

BY SUSHAAN MODI Senior Staff Writer No one seems to know where Moon calls home He just hangs out at the track but he’s never alone.

Spouting like a fountain he’s clearly not quiet or shy And if you get a word in at all you just say hi to Big Moon (Excerpt from “Moon” by Ken Deitz) With the 120th edition of the Penn Relays underway, the meet finally has a throwing facility that matches the international prestige of the competition.

It even has a name to honor a man that helped transform the Penn track and field program: the Irving “Moon” Mondschein Throwing Complex.

Nestled in River Fields adjacent to the new field hockey complex, the throwing complex will have a javelin, shot put, discus and hammer facility that hopes to attract athletes from all over the world.

“One of the things that will help us is the illumination of the fields that will allow us to expand

the schedule and include Olympic Development events and Olympic-caliber competition,” said CK Buddington, the director of the Friends of the Penn Relays.

Although the discus and hammer area opened in 2012, the facility had not yet been completed until this year. A large reason for the construction for better throwing facilities was 28-year throwing coach Tony Tenisci, who also pushed to name the complex in Moon’s honor.

“I’ve been here 28 years and waited a long time for this. To present a state-of-art facility in all of the throws,” Tenisci said.

“In my head, I’ve always wanted a facility that is comparable to Franklin Field, for the athletes that throw, who are not seen very often … But for those who love throws, we have designed a venue that is a destination for throwers.“ Some say he was a champion athlete on the international page.

Where Track and Field was his theater; the decathlon his stage.

He had a six-year run as one of the best on the planet.

Less the two days in London where his legs turned to granite.

Moon was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., just years before the Great Depression and attended Boys High School before he entered the Army in 1943 to serve in World War II. After he returned, he entered NYU where he competed in track and field and football. He set

the university’s outdoor high jump record at 6’7.75” — a mark that still stands to this day — and even earned All-East honors as an end for the university A three-time national AAU champion in 1944, 1946 and 1947, he competed in the 1948 Olympics as a 24-year old. From 1947 to 1949, he managed to hold a top-10 ranking in the high jump and decathlon.

He coached Israel’s first Olympic team just four years later and was even a member of the U.S. Olympic Coaching staff during the 1988 games in Seoul.

After that he turned to coaching and became the pastor Of the Athlete’s Temple of Higher, Stronger, Faster.

Each kid was his hump, his to carve, fashion and mold.

To develop and nurture until his message was sold.

In 1965, Moon joined Penn’s coaching staff and along with Jim “Tupp” Tuppeny, he helped turn a last-placed Ivy team into an athletics powerhouse. Under the tutelage of Tupp and Moon, Penn — which up to that point had only won a single outdoor Heptagonal Championship — won nine of the 10 years from 1971 to 1980.

“He did it with such a personable and easy manner, he wasn’t authoritative, you wanted to do well for Moon," said Deitz, a three-time heptagonal champion shot putter under Moon. “He

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This weekend, senior Gabby Piper and the rest of the women's 4x100-meter team have an opportunity to break a school record. Last year , Piper and two of her current teammates came within 0.15 seconds of the record.

Penn's women are ready to do something special with sprint relay With a combination of senior leadership and pure speed, the women's 4x100-meter relay team has high hopes heading into Penn Relays

BY SUSHAAN MODI Senior Staff Writer It’s tough to get four people running the fastest times of their lives in a single race.

But when Penn track's women's 4x100meter relay team enters Franklin Field on Thursday afternoon in the preliminary heats of the Penn Relays, it is about to try and do just that.

Together Lydia Ali, Heather Bong, Rachel Hlatky and Gabby Piper have the opportunity to do something special.

“I tell them, there is nothing like winning a championship or setting a record as a team,” assistant coach Porscha Dobson said.

“We know that we have potential for great success at the [Heptagonals] and at the Penn Relays, and that provides excitement, and we definitely set that as a goal at the beginning of the year and something for us to achieve together.”

The challenge of improving the 4x100m record is not something new for this group of athletes. L ast year, three of the four — Piper, Hlatky and Bong, along with now-graduated Nony Onyeador — came just .15 seconds off the school record in the Eastern College Athletic Conference finals at the Relays.

In fact, four of the

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Only a sophomore, Sam Mattis already holds the school's record in the discus throw, a testament to how far the throwing program has come under coach Tony Tenisci in recent track & field campaigns.

was a very easy, approachable guy with a funny sense of humor. He gave a hug to everybody, he was just one of the guys.”

During his time at Penn, Moon was known for working with athletes in weight room, on the field and even on Sundays. In short, he did all he could to bring the best out of Penn track and field.

“In my senior year of the Heptagonal Meet, I had an injury and … I wasn’t doing well that day,” Deitz added. “In my last throw in the Ivy League, Moon whispered to me, ‘You have to win this, because the team really needs these points … and I won by one inch.’ Everyone has a Moon story like that.”

On Saturday, Tenisci will lead a ceremony to dedicate the field to a man that has given so much to Penn track.

“He had the most remarkable connection to his athletes, and although my time with him was brief, he left a tremendous impact on me as a person and as a coach … He was here at Penn and represented Penn,” Tenisci said. “And more than anything I wanted his name on this facility."

So please stand for a moment as I’ve finished my roast.

And I’ll cap my comments with a short twoline toast.

From the millions come the thousands, from the hundreds but a few.

But in all the world there’s only one … Moon, this one’s for you.

school's five fastest times have been recorded in the past five seasons, a testament to the sprinting program's strength.

“We all bring something to the table and it’s really fun, we really have a great time being together and motivating each other,” said Ali, who will be competing in her first Penn Relays.

On and off the track, the group has developed a strong bond and hopes that that closeness and trust in one another will pay dividends.

“I’m probably the most serious ... I would call myself the mom,” Bong said. “The other three are goofy, but the mix of it all gives us a good result.”

The result the group has been chasing is a record that was set in 2010. But this year, it has a very strong opportunity to break it considering it is one of the fastest groups in Penn’s history.

Ali, Bong and Piper are first, second and sixth, respectively, in the event in Penn’s history and Hlatky, who primarily runs the 200m, is just outside the top ten in her event.

Furthermore, the team turned in a solid 46.5 second race just a week ago at the Larry Ellis Invitational at Princeton, and with the added benefit of clean handoffs and adrenaline from the large crowd, as well as two opportunities to break the record — in the trials and finals of Eastern Colleges — Penn has a real chance to break the mark.

“We have to adjust to how we know each other and how each other is running,” Hlatky said.

For Piper — one of the all-time great sprinters for Penn women’s track and the group’s only senior, — breaking the record would be a fitting end for her last Relays. The opportunity to compete one last time marks the end of her home career, but also a chance to leave a lasting impact.

“The relay is all about chemistry, and we spend way too much time together,” Piper joked. “This is the second year Rachel and I are doing the same leg, and she can tell the day I’m having by how I warm up.

“I’m looking forward to the races and this is the last time that I will run in a meet on Penn’s track, I’m just ready to get out there in a team meet.”

Together they are ready for the fastest race of their lives.

Out-of-towners set to steal Relays show

With new throwing facility, Penn shoots for the "Moon" The Red and Blue honor legendary decathlete Irving "Moon" Mondschein as namesake of improved throwing facility

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Franklin Field will welcome both 2013 NCAA cross country champions, in addition to one of the top triple jumpers in America

BY IAN WENIK Sports Editor

Michele Ozer/Sports Photo Editor

Named after one of Penn track's all-time great coaches, the Irving "Moon" Mondschein Throwing Complex is finally open after the discus and hammer throw areas first opened in 2012.

The Penn Relays are upon us, which never fails to bring out some of the best runners in the world at all levels. Here are a few top competitors to keep an eye on.

Edward Cheserek, freshman distance runner, Oregon Cheserek’s Penn Relays ended in disappointment last year, as his St. Benedict’s Prep (N.J.) distance medley relay team got off to a poor start and wound up finishing 10 seconds behind eventual winner La Salle College (Pa.). There won’t be a repeat of that this time around.

The freshman has taken the NCAA track scene by storm, winning the 2013 NCAA Cross Country Championship with a 10-kilometer time of 29:41.1, topping that off with an indoor national championship in the 3,000m with a time of 8:11.59.

Just last week, Cheserek won the 5,000m at the Oregon Relays, beating out team-

mate Eric Jenkins by just over two seconds.

“I was happy to run with my teammate,” Cheserek said after the race. “It was great.

I said, ‘Let’s just run together. We don’t have to run crazy.’”

With the Ducks entering teams into both the men’s distance medley championship and 4x1-mile relays, expect to see a lot of Cheserek near the front.

Abbey D’Agostino, senior distance runner, Dartmouth The Ancient Eight’s shining star at the Penn Relays may not hail from the Red and Blue, but rather the Big Green.

The 2013 NCAA cross country champion, D’Agostino is back for one final go-round on the Franklin Field track, where her 4x1500m team finished fourth in 2012.

Though the Big Green didn’t send any female runners to the Relays last year, D’Agostino didn’t miss a beat, winning the outdoor NCAA championship in the 5,000m.

“I would have laughed out loud if you would have told me I’d be here right now, four years ago,” she said in an ESPN.com profile. “But I think it’s one of those things.

I think as I started to gain confidence, and the fact that running is a gift that I’ve been given — I really feel that way — and every race is just an opportunity to use it. I’ve ac-

cepted this is a really important part of my life, a platform for me.”

D’Agostino will likely be a part of Dartmouth’s entries in the distance medley relay and 4x1500m relay, giving her two more chances to add to her legacy.

Keturah Orji, senior jumper, Mount Olive High School (N.J.) Mark this name down if you haven’t heard of her yet — Orji is about to become a household name in the world of track and field.

Orji enters the Penn Relays just over a month removed from the best performance of her career, a 44 foot, two inch mark in the triple jump at the New Balance Nationals that was second-best in U.S. indoor history.

Add that onto the long jump national championship that she won the previous day, and you have a recipe for greatness.

“I’m much happier with the triple jump than I was with the long jump [the day before],” Orji said after the meet. “An indoor PR is good, even though I was going for the national record.”

Bound for Georgia next year, which typically does not compete at the Penn Relays, this year may be the last chance to see Orji compete at Franklin Field for a long time.

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College Women’s 400m Hurdles Championship High School Girls' 400m Hurdles Championship High School Girls’ 4 x 800 Small Schools High School Girls’ 4 x 800 Large Schools High School Girls' 4x100m Small Schools (Heats) High School Girls' 4x100 Large Schools (Heats) High School Girls' Prep School 4x100 Independent College Women's 4x100 (Heats) High School Girls' 4x400 College Women’s Distance Medley Championship of America College Women’s Distance Medley College High School Girls’ 3000m Championship High School Girls’ Mile Run Championship High School Girls' Distance Medley Championship of America College Women's 4x400 (Heats) College Women's 4x400 Heptagonal College Women's 4x400 Centennial/MAC College Women's 4x400 CTC College Men's 3000m Steeplechase Championship College Men's 3000m Steeplechase College Olympic Development Men's 3000m Steeplechase Olympic Development Women's 3000m Steeplechase College Women's 3000m Steeplechase Championship College Women's 3000m Steeplechase College College Women's 3000m Championship College Women's 5000m Championship Olympic Development Women’s 5000m College Men’s 5000m Championship College Men’s 5000m College Olympic Development Men’s 5000m College Women's 10,000m Championship Olympic Development Women's 10,000m College Men's 10,000m Championship Olympic Development Men's 10,000m

FIELD EVENTS 9:00 AM 10:00 AM 10:00 AM 10:00 AM 11:15 Am 11:30 AM Noon 12:45 PM 12:45 PM 1:00 PM 1:15 PM 1:45 PM 1:45 PM 2:30 PM 2:30 PM 3:00 PM 3:30 PM 4:00 PM 4:00 PM 4:45 PM 6:45 PM

College Women's Discus Throw College College Women's High Jump College College Women's High Jump Eastern College Women's Pole Vault College High School Girls' Discus Throw Championship College Women's Shot Put Championship College Women's Long Jump Championship College Women's Shot Put College College Women's Shot Put Eastern High School Girls' Pole Vault Championship College Women's Hammer Throw Championship High School Girls' Long Jump Championship High School Girls' Triple Jump Championship College Women's Hammer Throw College High School Girls' High Jump Championship College Women's Pole Vault Championship High School Girls' Shot Put Championship College Women's Long Jump College College Women's Long Jump Eastern High School Girls' Javelin Throw Championship College Women's Javelin Throw Championship

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///FRIDAY/// RUNNING EVENTS 9:00 AM 9:20 AM 9:40 AM 10:00 AM 10:04 AM 10:08 AM 10:12 AM 10:16 AM 10:20 AM 10:24 AM 10:28 AM 10:36 AM 10:40 AM 11:35 AM 12:25 PM 12:30 PM 1:00 PM 1:30 PM 2:00 PM 12:30 PM 12:40 PM 12:55 Pm 12:57 PM 1:00 PM 1:10 PM 1:30 PM 1:50 PM 2:10 PM 2:12 PM 2:15 PM 2:20 PM 2:25 PM 2:35 PM 3:05 PM 3:15 PM 3:25 PM 3:50 PM 4:00 PM 3:05 PM 3:08 PM 3:10 PM 3:30 PM 3:40 PM 4:10 PM

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///SATURDAY/// RUNNING EVENTS 7:00 AM 7:00 AM 7:00 AM 8:00 AM 8:00 AM 8:00 AM 8:00 AM 9:00 AM 9:05 AM

Olympic Development Men's 10k Racewalk Masters Men's 10k Racewalk Junior Men's 10k Racewalk Olympic Development Women's 5K Racewalk Masters Women's 5K Racewalk Junior Women's 5K Racewalk High School Girls' 5K Racewalk High School Boys' 400m Hurdles Championship Olympic Development Men's 400m Hurdles

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High School Boys' 4x400 USA vs. the World Women 4x100 High School Boys' 4x400 Philadelphia Catholic High School Boys' 4x400 Philadelphia Public USA vs. the World Men 4x100 USA vs. the World Women Sprint Medley College Men's 4xMile Championship of America College Men's 4x100 College College Men's 4x100 IC4A College Men's 4x100 Championship of America High School Girls' 4x100 Tri-State High School Boys' 4x100 Championship of America High School Boys' 4x100 Small Schools High School Boys' 4x100 Large Schools USA vs. the World Men Distance Medley College Women's 4x200 ECAC College Women's 4x200 Championship of America USA vs. the World Women 4x400 College Men's 4x200 IC4A College Men's 4x200 Championship of America USA vs. the World Men 4x400 Olympic Development Women's Mile Run College Women's 100m Hurdles Championship College Men's 110m Hurdles Championship Olympic Development Men's 110m Hurdles Olympic Development Men's 100m dash College Women's 100m dash Championship Masters Men's 100m dash 75 and older College Men's 100m dash Championship Olympic Development Men's Mile Run High School Boys' 4x800 Championship of America College Women's 4x800 Championship of America College Women's 4x800 College College Men's 4x800 Championship of America College Men's 4x800 College High School Boys' 4x400 Philadelphia Area High School Girls' 4x400 Philadelphia Area Masters Men's 4x400 40 and older High School Boys' 4x400 Championship of America College Women's 4x400 College College Men's 4x400 College College Women's 4x400 ECAC College Women's 4x400 Championship of America College Men's 4x400 IC4A College Men's 4x400 Championship of America

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Despite staying quiet in the wake of a string of departures from his program, coach Jerome Allen has remained active on the recruiting trail, inking verastile forward Dan Dwyer to play for the Quakers next season.

RILEY STEELE When Penn basketball ended its season against Princeton on March 11, it did so with a resounding thud.

Single-digit wins for the second consecutive year, including a decrease in overall victories. Tied for sixth in the final Ivy League standings.

Winless against the rest of the Big 5. A mere two wins away from the Palestra.

The numbers alone emphasized a disappointing campaign, one that failed to live up to the preseason expectations of an improved team with the potential to finish near the top of the conference standings.

Here’s the problem: Things didn’t exactly get better once the season concluded. Despite the fact that head coach Jerome Allen was not fired, top assistant coach Scott Pera left the program to join Mike Rhoades’ staff at Rice.

That proved to be only the beginning of the Quakers’ issues this offseason.

Immediately after forward Ryan Singer, one of Allen’s incoming recruits, decommited from Penn, freshman guard Tony Bagtas was arrested and

kicked off the team. Throw in the fact that the Red and Blue have since seen two other players — junior Henry Brooks and sophomore Julian Harrell — leave the program for unknown reasons, and Penn’s offseason hasn’t been any better than its regular season.

For starters, it’s downright unacceptable that Allen and the rest of the athletic department have refused to comment on the departures of three players from one of the most prestigious programs in basketball history. You’d get some sort of explanation if that happened at Kentucky. At Duke.

At Michigan State. At Harvard, even.

Yet while Penn’s coaches and players have remained tight-lipped about the program’s internal issues since the end of the season, the Red and Blue’s resiliency in recruiting has done some talking in its own right.

Based off Penn’s abysmal season in 2013-14, many expected the Quakers to struggle generating quality players for next year’s freshman class.

Singer’s decommitment and the loss of eight players from last year ’s team — either through dismissal, transfer or graduation — likely didn’t help matters.

But in the past week alone, Penn has received commitments from both point guard Darnell Foreman and power forward Dan Dwyer.

Dwyer’s ability to play away from the basket and knock

down mid-range jumpers in a way that Brooks was never able to do consistently will add an intriguing ripple to Allen’s offense in the coming year. He will also function as a complimentary piece in the post alongside center Darien Nelson-Henry.

Foreman, on the other hand, could serve as Bagtas’ replacement in the backcourt off the bench. In Penn’s three-guard lineup, Foreman will be able to not only score on his own, but also find open teammates while allowing Tony Hicks to play more at the shooting guard position.

Those two players, along with Mike Auger, Sam Jones and A ntonio Woods — the squad’s other three recruits — have helped the Quakers put together an intriguing incoming freshman class.

Who knows how much better things can really get for Penn basketball this offseason? After all, it will take more than a few recruits to set the Quakers up for a successful turnaround next year.

But while Allen and company remain quiet, at least the team’s recruiting of late says something, and it points to Penn doing everything it can to move away from the stains of recent months.

RI LE Y S T E E LE i s a C ollege sophomore from Dorado, Puerto Rico, and is a sports editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at steele@thedp. com.

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Yet Bagnoli has been just as impressive off the field.

Bagnoli and his staff dealt with two crises in a five-year spa n a f ter Kyle A mbrog i committed suicide in 2005 and Owen Thomas did the same in 2010.

And the experienced head coach dealt with each situation with grace, guiding his team to get help every step of the way.

“That was a dark time for all of us in Penn football,” said Joe Holder, a wide receiver at the time of Thomas’ death. “Being able to steer his team through that is pretty special. He made sure we had all the support that we needed, whether it be CAPS, whether it be religious support, emotional support, spiritual support.”

Penn football has found a way past tough times and it has a lot to do with Bagnoli’s ability to deal with adversity, whether on or off the field.

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Throughout his 22 years at Penn, football coach Al Bagnoli (left) has shown the ability to handle adversity while guiding his team to nine Ivy League titles.

And regardless of whether Penn gets its 10th Ivy title under Bagnoli next year, his legacy will be cemented — or bronzed if Holder has his way. “ I f u l ly ex p e c t h i m t o eventually have a statue at Franklin Field,” he said. “My window may be small, but I’m pretty sure he has the most outright titles in league history ... so I don’t see why he wouldn’t have the highest legacy that is possible.”

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nose. Bagnoli has made Penn football what it is today and made it the most prominent program in the Ivies.

So it is time to appreciate what he brought to Penn in his 23 years, even if he wants us to appreciate ever yone else.

STEVEN TYDINGS is a Wharton sophomore from Hopewell, New Jersey, and is the senior sports editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian.

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Priore is the right recruiter for Penn WENIK from page B1 been experiencing plenty of change as of late.

With M. Grace Calhoun due to come on as Penn’s new AD in July, the last thing she needs is a coaching search in one of the highest-profile positions in Penn athletics.

“Sometimes you take it for granted when a program ... runs so smoothly,” Bilsk y said.

But with Priore at the helm, it should be smooth operating for the Penn football program moving forward, especially from a recruiting and on-field perspective.

Specializing in California and par ts of New Jersey, Priore is well-tuned to the recruiting hotbeds that form the bulk of Penn’s roster — 34 of the Red and Blue’s 120 players this season hailed from those two states alone. “ It ’s h e l p f u l , b e c au s e [Ray’s] been part of this thing longer than I have,” Bagnoli said of Priore’s ability to snag

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Coach-in-waiting Ray Priore is in his 28th season on the Penn football coaching staff and has established himself as a top recruiter in New Jersey and California. talent. “He gets it. There are very few potholes that he’s going to hit that he won’t know about.”

W it h P r ior e on b oa r d , there’s not going to be a mass exodus of players that refuse to play for a coach that didn’t recruit them. There’s not going to be some drastic shift to an air-raid offense.

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34 First word of “Richard III” 36 Alias 37 Blood 42 More like sailors’ talk, stereotypically 43 – 44 Have a dip 45 Prominent feminist blog

47 Assigned position 49 Velázquez’s “___ Meninas” 50 Covers 51 What an astronaut may be in 53 What you might get for a party nowadays 54 Founded

55 Stage in a Ph.D. program 57 Tasteless stuff 58 Subjects of some 911 calls 59 Uncovered 62 Clodhopper 63 Like cherryflavored things

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