March 20, 2014

THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSIT Y OF PENNSYLVANIA

THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 2014

And the second Fling performer is...

RA RA RIOT The SXSW regulars will add their “feel-good sound” to the concert

BY KRISTEN GRABARZ Staff Writer

New dean announced for School of Social Policy and Practice Professor John Jackson currently has appointments in Annenberg and SAS

BY FOLA ONIFADE Staff Writer

JOHN JACKSON Incoming Dean of the School of Social Policy and Practice

Courtesy of the Social Planning and Events Committee

Ra Ra Riot, announced today as the Fling concert’s second act, was formed in 2006 at Syracuse University and is known for its indie take on orchestral sound.

COUNTDOWN TO

FLING 2014 Spring Fling is going to be a riot.

The Social Planning and Events Committee announced today that “indie-pop darlings” Ra Ra Riot have been added to the Spr ing Fling lineup as the second opener on April 11.

K nown for their songs “Beta Love,” “I Shut Off” and “Boy,” the group is associated with a signature “indie-band with orchestral strings” sound, although their most recent album, “Beta Love” marked a shift toward a synth-pop aesthetic.

“It was our aim this year to craft a diverse lineup and to represent different genres of music that students are interested in with our openers that may not have had a place in Flings past,” SPEC Concer ts Co -Director and Nursing

21

SEE DEAN PAGE A6

DAYS

APRIL 11-12

senior Melody Chiang said .

Current band members include Wes M i les on voca ls, R ebecca Zeller on violin, Mathieu Santos on bass, and Milo Bonacci on guitar. Originally established in 2006, the group came together while students at Syracuse University, where they began their stage presence by performing at houses and venues across campus.

Ra Ra Riot’s recognition developed from their early live shows, where Miles’ vocals coupled with integ rated orchestral ar rangements created a unique sound that caught fans’ attention. Their f irst t wo albums, “ The R humb Line” and “The Orchard” were

QUICK FACTS ABOUT RA RA RIOT From: Syracuse, New York Hit songs: “Beta Love,” “I Shut Off” and “Boy”

BY SAM BYERS Staff Writer

SEE RA RA RIOT PAGE A5

BY JODY FREINKEL Assignments Editor The race for student body president is heating up, with candidates taking shots at each other at last night’s debate.

Presidential candidates Joyce Kim and Gabe Delaney, both College juniors, faced off last night at the 2014 Undergraduate Assembly Presidential Debate in Steinberg-Dietrich Hall. The event was co-hosted by the Nominations and Elections Committee and The Daily Pennsylvanian and was moderated by College junior Fiona Glisson, the DP’s Campus News Editor.

Throughout the debate, Kim, a former UA secretary, mentioned results

achieved by her work as a member of the UA. She said that Delaney, the current UA vice president, has not delivered on promises he made during last year’s campaign.

“My job is specifically to be the external [representative for] the UA. And that job I have done very well, I think,” Delaney said. “I have worked on the same projects this year with you, Joyce. ... I’ve been as active as you are.”

Delaney cited his work on a centralized Penn mobile app, which is currently in production, and said that he recommended the mental health task force to Penn President Amy Gutmann, although his original suggestion was based on her presidential commission on student alcohol consumption.

Mental health on campus was a continued theme of the debate. For SEE UA DEBATE PAGE A7

Editorial (215) 898-6585 • Business (215) 898-6581

Sophia Lee/Staff Photographer

Undergraduate Assembly presidential candidates Joyce Kim and Gabe Delaney, both College juniors, debated student issues last night in Steinberg-Dietrich Hall.

Visit us online at theDP.com

Law grad’s campaign leaves impact on Pa. race John Hanger withdrew from the governor’s race, but current candidates now share his views

Albums: “The Rhumb Line,” “The Orchard” and “Beta Love”

Candidates face off at UA presidential debate College juniors Joyce Kim and Gabe Delaney are vying to be next student body pres.

John Jackson, the Richard Perry University professor at Penn, will be the new dean of the School of Social Policy & Practice, effective July 1.

Jackson, a senior advisor for diversity in the Office of the Provost, is a cultural anthropologist, author and documentary filmmaker. He will succeed Richard Gelles, who has served as the school’s dean since 2001.

“John is a distinguished teacher, a renowned scholar, and a visionary leader whose work crosses traditional academic boundaries and involves community partners in understanding and confronting societal challenges around the nation and the world,” Penn President Amy Gutmann said in a statement. “He is the best person to advance the School of Social Policy & Practice toward its goal of becoming

Even though 1984 Penn Law graduate John Hanger withdrew from the Democratic gubernatorial primary last week, he believes that his campaign’s message had a lasting impact on the dialogue between the candidates.

The former secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection withdrew from the race last Thursday because he no longer saw a path to victory in the primary.

Despite no longer being a contender for governor, Hanger is pleased that the remaining candidates have adopted some of his stances on various issues, such as marijuana legalization, the environment and education.

His views on marijuana reform were the most liberal of all the Democratic candidates — something he was wellknown for in the field. His ultimate goal was the full legalization of the substance. “We made marijuana an issue in this race when it wasn’t before,” Hanger said.

Several other Democratic challengers to Republican Governor Tom Corbett have come out in favor of steps one and two in Hanger’s marijuana reform plan: medical legalization and decriminalization of the possession of small amounts of the drug.

The remaining candidates do not support legalization to the same extent SEE HANGER PAGE A2

Send story ideas to newstip@theDP.com

PAGE A2 THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 2014

New dining plan gives students their choice

[9

Take your pick (TYP) plan

new dining plan combinations available for the 2014-2015 school year*

1 3

38 swipes 50 swipes 1

THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN

MARGINALIZED NO MORE

]

DINING DOLLAR$ OPTIONS

VISIT OPTIONS 26 swipes

NE WS

$1,750 dining dollars

2

4

$2,050 dining dollars

5 6 7 8 9

$2,140 per year

2 $2,440 per year 3 $2,740 per year

$2,350 dining dollars 4 $2,310 per year 5 $2,610 per year 6 $2,910 per year

7 $2,475 per year 8 $2,775 per year 9 $3,075 per year

*plan must be purchased for the academic year, but will be divided by semester for use

Graphic by Laine Higgins

The TYP plan gives students nine more dining plan options

BY JENNY LU Staff Writer A new, customizable dining plan will be available for upperclassmen next academic year.

Known as the Take Your Pick — or TYP — Plan, the new program allows students to create their own plan by selecting one of three options for meal swipes and one of three options of Dining Dollars.

Costs range from $2,140 per year for 26 meal swipes and $1,750 Dining Dollars to $3,075 per year for 50 meals swipes and $2,350 Dining Dollars.

With this plan, like others that are currently offered, students can still add on meal swipes or Dining Dollars at any time.

“We have heard from students that they wanted more f lexibility in their dining plans,” Pam Lampitt, director of Hospitality Services, which

Anna Rose Bedrosian/Staff Photographer

Panelists Nancy Dung Nguyen, Toorjo Ghosh, Rafael E. Alvarez Febo and Nina Harris, representatives of Penn’s cultural resource centers, spoke yesterday about how sexual violence affects historically marginalized communities.

oversees Penn Dining, said in an email.

The University Dining Hall Advisory Board played a key role in formulating the new plan and working with students and administrators.

Kosher Liaison to DHAB Hillel Neumark, a College junior, said the plan originated from a proposal last semester for a meal plan option that would allow students to create or customize the components of it. “[ They] presented enhanced-meal-plan-flexibility as a long-term goal that they believed would greatly benefit students and Penn Dining alike,” Neumark said.

UA representative and College sophomore Andrew Robertson said he initially had the idea for a “toggle” customizable plan which he presented to the board along with fellow UA representative and College junior Danielle Golub. Robertson and Golub then worked with Penn Dining to create the final TYP plan. “[Penn Dining] was really receptive,” Robertson said,

adding the process to finalize the plan was “surprisingly very easy.”

Lampitt said the timing of the proposal by the UA was good because Penn Dining is in the process of implementing a new dining plan management system that would allow for the increased flexibility of plans.

“As a result of the TYP plan, upperclassmen will now be able to choose from 15 possible dining plan options as opposed to this year’s eight options, which represents a dramatic upgrade in upperclassmen dining flexibility,” Neumark said in an email.

Robertson said he wanted more dining plan options to encourage students to frequent dining halls. “People eating in the same place develops more of a community,” he explained.

O vera l l , R ober t son is pleased with the result of all the combined efforts.“My goal with this project was to make a more customizable dining plan, and I think that we did a good job of that,” he said.

Hanger hasn’t endorsed other candidates HANGER from page A1 as Hanger, but he remains confident that support for legalization will continue to build if the first two steps in his plan are enacted.

In addition to his advocacy for marijuana reform, Hanger pushed for measures to strengthen Pennsylvania’s primary and secondary schools and reduce the cost of postsecondary education for residents of the Commonwealth.

Hanger remains proud of his proposed Keystone Opportunity Fund, a program by which any Pennsylvania high school student could attend two years of community college or one year of school at an in-state public university tuition-free. The fund would be replenished by the participants in the program who would agree to pay 1 to 2 percent of their income back into the fund for 15 years postgraduation.

“Student loan debt is crushing families,” Hanger said, calling his plan “a game-changer for Pennsylvania students and families.”

Besides policy issues, Hang-

JOHN HANGER er’s withdrawal statement last week cited winning the Democratic primary in May and unseating Corbett in the general election as critical goals for the campaign. Although his second goal is now out of reach, Hanger remains confident that whichever Democratic candidate eventually wins the nomination, they will be able to end “the long nightmare of the Corbett administration” come November.

In order to keep the race positive, Hanger has so far abstained from endorsing any of his former rivals; however, he cites businessman and former Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue Tom Wolf as the clear frontrunner in the race.

Wolf’s campaign has more money than any of the remaining Democratic candidates, in part due to $10 million he contributed to his own campaign.

“Wolf has blown the race wide open with his television campaign,” said Hanger, who raised just over $1 million for his cam-

paign. He said the ads were one reason he felt he could no longer win the primary. “We couldn’t compete.”

Penn political science professor Marc Meredith — who studies elections — says that it’s hard to say who Hanger’s supporters will back now, since most polls aren’t designed to take into account why voters support a candidate, only that they do.

He agreed with Hanger that money is playing a large role in the Democratic primary, noting that the extra money in Wolf’s war chest allows him to run ads early and often. This lets him increase his standing in the polls while other candidates must hold their funds in reserve to use in the crucial final weeks before the election.

“This kind of uncontested or one-sided message is most effective,” Meredith said.

Wolf currently polls highest of the four remaining candidates in surveys of both registered Democrats and likely voters.

All four of the Democrats remaining in the race, including Wharton alumnus Rob McCord, received more support than Governor Corbett in a February poll from Quinnipiac University.

At this point, Hanger is hopeful that whichever candidate emerges from the primary will be well-prepared to beat Corbett. “That’s the key right now,” he said.

Interested in Public Policy?

Do you want to work in DC this Summer?

Current Internship

The Penn Wharton Public Policy Initiative is offering funding to students working on Capitol Hill, in federal agencies, and at think tanks in DC this summer.

Opportunities Include:

Receive up to $500/week (undergrads) or up to $1,000/week (grad students) for up to 12 weeks!

and Republican Congressmen • Public Policy Think Tanks

Scan the QR Code or visit this link to learn more: http://bit.ly/MS9rj6

• Bureau of Economic Analysis • The World Bank Group • Offices of both Democratic

Whether you secure your own internship or use the Penn Wharton Public Policy Initiative job board,you can apply for funding. This is open to all Penn students. Check out the job board for info on internships at: (http://bit.ly/1dnLoxF)

NE WS

THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN

THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 2014 PAGE A3

New Coursera class helps foreign students apply to U.S. schools SUNDAY

12:01 a.m.

MONDAY 16

As of

11:30 a.m.

On Sunday, the course went live on Coursera

on Monday:

TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 17

18

19

20

21

22

15,000 students were enrolled 4,000 students had accessed the class The videos had 12,000 unique views

23

There were almost 2,000 discussion posts

Source: Erick Hyde, University Connection Counseling Specialist

BY LAURA ANTHONY Deputy News Editor Applying to college can be hard enough for American students. It’s even more difficult for international students but new Coursera class might help make the process a bit easier for them.

The course “Applying to U.S. Universities” aims to help familiarize international students and non-native English speakers who do not have the other forms of support throughout the application process — like guidance counselors — with the process of applying to undergraduate degree programs at American colleges and universities.

“In many countries, applying to universities is a centralized process, and here in the U.S. you couldn’t get more decentralized,” Erick Hyde, the course instructor and a University Connection Counseling specialist with the English Language Programs at Penn, said.

As of Sunday at 12:01 a.m., the APUSU course is offered in a four-week online format through Coursera, an online learning platform which pro-

vides free non-credit courses which partners with Penn. Already about 15,000 students worldwide are enrolled.

The course covers topics like what admissions officers look for in applications, strategies for self-assessment to find the right university and the logistics of planning and submitting all the necessary elements of an application.

The students are required to watch video lectures, read articles, submit weekly assignments and take a final exam at the end of the course. The capstone project in the final week of the course requires them to create an application plan, drawing on the knowledge and resources they have gained throughout the class.

The course has been offered in a classroom setting since 2004, when University Connection was first established to help international students navigate the application and admissions process, Jack Sullivan, associate director of programs for ELP, said in an email.

Hyde, who has been teaching APUSU for the past three years, said the content of the new version of the class is very

similar to the original classroom version.

Students will receive a statement of accomplishment after fulfilling the requirements, but Hyde emphasized that the statement will not help a student gain admission to Penn or any specific university. “We really want to emphasize it’s the knowledge, it’s what the student learns in these four weeks,” he said. “That’s what will be able to help them submit a stronger application.”

Hyde and Rock said this course has a different demographic than most Coursera courses, which he described as attracting “professionals who have already completed advanced education.” Hyde has not seen any other Coursera offerings that appeal specifically to high school students or to English language learners.

While Hyde does not yet know how often the course will be offered in the future or if it will impact international application numbers, he hopes that APUSU will give them a better chance at success. “My hope for the class is that it gives students confidence in applying,” he said.

Graduation Fair March 19-21 Purchase or Order Your Cap and Gown at Graduation Fair!

Representatives will be on hand to answer questions and take orders for

. Announcements . Class Rings . Diploma Frames

3601 Walnut Street

. 215.898.7595 . www.upenn.edu/bookstore

President Amy Gutmann Is delighted to invite you to celebrate the life of

Sheldon Hackney December 5, 1933 — September 12, 2013

Thursday, March 27, 2014 University of Pennsylvania Irvine Auditorium 3401 Spruce Street Philadelphia, PA

Program 4:00 – 5:00 P.M. Reception 5:00 – 6:00 P.M.

Please RSVP to ofcsec@pobox.upenn.edu

THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN

PAGE 4 THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 2014

Opinion VOL. CXXX, NO. 37

The Independent Student Newspaper of the University of Pennsylvania

130th Year of Publication TAYLOR CULLIVER, Executive Editor AMANDA SUAREZ, Managing Editor JENNIFER YU, Opinion Editor LOIS LEE, Director of Online Projects FIONA GLISSON, Campus News Editor HARRY COOPERMAN, City News Editor JODY FREINKEL, General Assignments Editor WILLIAM MARBLE, Enterprise Editor GENESIS NUNEZ, Copy Editor MATT MANTICA, Copy Editor YOLANDA CHEN, News Photo Editor MICHELE OZER, Sports Photo Editor CONNIE KANG, Photo Manager

STEVEN TYDINGS, Senior Sports Editor RILEY STEELE, Sports Editor IAN WENIK, Sports Editor HAILEY EDELSTEIN, Creative Director ANALYN DELOS SANTOS, News Design Editor VIVIAN LEE, News Design Editor JENNY LU, Sports Design Editor JENNIFER KIM, Video Producer STEPHANIE PARK, Video Producer

GIANNI MASCIOLI, Business Manager CHANTAL GARCIA FISCHER, Credit Manager ERIC PARRISH, Marketing Manager

SELMA BELGHITI, Finance Manager KATHERINE CHANG, Advertising Manager

THIS ISSUE PAOLA RUANO, Associate Copy Editor ALLISON RESNICK, Associate Copy Editor AUGUSTA GREENBAUM, Associate Copy Editor JENNIFER KOPP, Associate Copy Editor

CASSIDY LIZ, Associate Copy Editor ALEXIS ZIEBELMAN, Associate Sports Editor SHAWN YOUNGSTONE, Associate Layout Editor SAM SHERMAN, Associate Photo Editor

SIYUAN CAO is a College senior from Bronx, N.Y. Her email address is caos@sas.upenn.edu.

Follow the (tech) jobs

THE INTERNET EXPLORER | Whether it’s Silicon Valley or the American South, let’s learn how to be OK with making a living someplace else

A

ccording to Career Services, a survey of the 2013 graduating class reveals that less than 10 percent of students went to technology jobs.

But that’s not for lack of want. It’s no secret that today, the technology sector has a burgeoning and growing hunger for full-time employees.

The Start-Up Career Fair held last month in Houston Hall featured over 50 companies looking for programmers, product developers, data-literate strategists, etc.

Those companies need young people who can think fast and fix mistakes faster. They want smart, and they want plucky too. Penn students fit the bill, but our culture is geared more toward OCR and Wall Street than networking and Silicon Valley. Bain will hire a fresh crop of Penn students

every year like clockwork.

But here’s the thing: startups need consultants, too.

‘‘

New York City lore says: If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. Penn students have proven that we can make it in New York. Why don’t we want to go anywhere else?”

As far as I can tell, that’s an untapped job market. Flip through Bloomberg Businessweek’s round-up of the best B-schools in the country.

While finance and financial

services remain the top industry for many MBA programs, the McCombs School of Business in Austin, Texas represents a unique trend: 25 percent of their graduates go into consulting and 18 percent go into the technology sector. Similarly, their Executive MBA program — for those who want to get an MBA with one hand and climb the corporate ladder with the other — features similar stats.

Of course, we are all graduating with a Penn degree in hand (and in some cases, more than one). Whatever industry we break into, we will be fine. But as students graduating into a recovering post-recession economy, we should think about going where the jobs are — and we should realize that, if you’re interested in tech, the fastest growing jobs may not be in New York City. New York City

lore says: If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. Penn students have proven that we can make it in New York. Why don’t we want to go anywhere else?

We should open ourselves up to the possibility of making a living — and making a life — somewhere else. Our successes cannot be confined to the Northeast Corridor.

And these days, it cannot even be confined to the Bay Area. When Forbes published a report on which cities in America were creating the most technolog y jobs, the results were surprising. The San Jose region — which holds 40% of the nation’s venture capital — came in 25th in their report. San Francisco came in fifth. But the top four cities for tech jobs were all in the American South. Austin, Raleigh, Nashville and Houston all experienced double-

digit growth in tech industry FRIDA GARZA employ ment from 2001 to for space and cash, so host2013.

Nashville takes the cake ing pop-up shops isn’t high with a whopping 65.8 per- on their priority list. Instead, cent increase in tech jobs. t h e P h i l a d e l p h i a - b a s e d But I don’t see anyone in my start-up has found a robust graduating class rushing to boutique community here in take a job there. Friends have Center City and in 28 other turned down employment of- cities across the nation. And fers because they were south they’re growing. Maybe the Big Apple isn’t in the cards, of the Mason-Dixon line.

But in over-saturated mar- but sustainable markets in kets, sometimes it pays to be Chicago and Dallas and other somewhere else. Wharton American cities are.

The same is true for us.

MBA students Allison Berliner and Roopak Majmu- Whether we’re graduating in dar know the importance of seven weeks or in seven segood location. They started mesters, we should be open PopInShop, an online service to variety when it comes to that matches retail cloth- employment — even if it takes ing stores who want to host us west (or north or south!) pop-up shops with boutique brands. You won’t find them FRIDA GARZA is a College in New York City, even if it senior from El Paso, Texas, is the fashion capital of the studying English. Email her at world — brick-and-mortar frida.garza@gmail.com or follow stores are already scrapped her @fffffrida.

Unproductive dialogue

GUEST COLUMN BY J STREET U PENN

P

rogressive student voices are under attack.

Hillel of Greater Philadelphia, the parent organization of our campus Hillel, is participating in the screening of a film called “The J Street Challenge,” which attacks and maligns the work of J Street U Penn, a progressive student organization dedicated to Israel and a future state of Palestine. HGP decided to do this without consulting any students, and their actions are akin to the Office of Student Affairs attacking one of its own member groups.

On a campus where myriad ideas and opinions abound, no larger institution should ever try to delegitimize its own students. Hillel’s involvement in this event is unprecedented and unacceptable, and must be corrected at once.

J Street U Penn was founded to empower Penn students who want to end the IsraeliPalestinian conflict through a two-state solution. We encourage the American government to take a more active role in securing a safe Israel beside a vibrant Palestine in a climate long dominated by belligerent and extreme attitudes. Over the years, we have become one of the largest and most active student groups in Penn’s Hillel.

Despite representing a significant constituency of Penn students, HGP nonetheless deemed it appropriate to attack us. We cannot imagine a scenario in which HGP would attack a conservative pro-Israel group, and we would condemn it if it did so. Why then is HGP targeting us through a movie filled with far-right critics of our work? HGP is actively promoting this screening

to the wider Philadelphia Jewish community, and is helping operate buses from local campuses to encourage student attendance.

We believe in an intellectually rigorous conversation around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with open debate and disagreement. We welcome discussions about the substance of our work for two states, which is why J Street leaders have debated many of our critics featured in the movie. Despite the movie being a direct attack, we do not even oppose it being screened.

On a college campus, all have the right to have their voices heard. However, HGP’s active participation sends a chilling message to thousands of progressive Penn students.

The Jew ish community has a long and storied history of progressive activism and leadership, from the labor movement to the struggle for

women’s empowerment. We are gratified that Penn Hillel supports student groups that represent the best values of the Jewish community, including a Jewish LGBT group and many social justice-oriented initiatives. But by participating in this, HGP turns its back on this commitment . Whether for the

‘‘

We need to demonstrate to HGP that maliciously stifling its member groups is not acceptable.” sake of far-right donors or on their own accord, the heads of HGP are abdicating responsibility for empowering a diverse Jewish campus leadership.

Sadly, HGP’s participation puts the organization in unsavory company. One of the other co-sponsors of the film is the David Horowitz Freedom Center. The Anti-Defamation League and the Center for American Progress have both condemned the Freedom Center’s work on campus as extreme. The ADL reported that the Freedom Center’s campus work “promotes anti-Muslim views and features events with anti-Muslim activists.” While we are not equating HGP with the Freedom Center or its work, HGP ought to consider whether it wants to be associated with an organization that has long been a bad actor on Penn’s campus and others around the country.

Thankfully, many among the student leadership of Penn Hillel disagree with HGP. They are calling on Penn Hillel’s staff to reject HGP’s participation in this attack on progres-

YOUR VOICE

CONTACT

HAVE YOUR OWN OPINION? Write us! The DP encourages guest submissions from the Penn community. Submissions can be up to 700 words long. The DP reserves the right to edit for accuracy, clarity, grammar and DP style. The DP does not guarantee publication of any submission. Send submissions to Opinion Editor Jennifer Yu at yu@ thedp.com or 4015 Walnut St.

By mail or in-person:

By phone:

4015 Walnut St. Philadelphia, PA 19104 Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

News/Editorial: (215) 898-6585 Advertising: (215) 898-6581 Fax: (215) 898-2050

sive students.

We need to demonstrate to HGP that maliciously stifling its member groups is not acceptable. If you agree that opinions on campus should be generated by students and reflected in institutions, not generated by institutions and imposed on students, then join us in building a progressive voice for two-states. Amplify this voice by signing our petition supporting current US-led negotiations to end the IsraeliPalestinian conflict.

As we come under this unprecedented attack, we hope the staff of Penn Hillel will finally listen to its students. Every other Hillel in the country has refused to screen this film, and we expect Penn to be no different.

J STREET U PENN is Penn’s pro-Israel, pro-peace student organization. Sign their petition at tinyurl.com/penn2.

The DP wants to ensure that all content is accurate and to be transparent about any inaccuracies. If you have a comment or question about the fairness or accuracy of any content in the print or online editions, please email corrections@thedp.com.

NE WS

THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN

Comcast VP talks “digital divide” David L. Cohen is also the Chairmain of Penn’s Board of Trustees

BY JESSICA WASHINGTON Contributing Writer Comcast, Penn’s Center City neighbor, is pioneering several corporate responsibility initiatives.

Yesterday, David L. Cohen, Executive Vice President at Comcast and Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Penn, spoke at the Law School. Cohen, a Penn Law graduate, has had an extensive career in both politics and law. Law professor Jerry H. Goldfeder moderated the talk, which focused predominantly on Cohen’s insight into politics and the communications industry.

Cohen wants to see more financial transparency in political campaigns, based on his experiences first as campaign manager and then as chief of staff for former Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell during Rendell’s Philadelphia mayorship.

“Long-term solutions for the political system as a whole lie in the structure of elections,” Cohen said. He pointed to the “corrosive impacts of super [political action committees]” on elections.

“I won’t give to a super PAC on a moral level ... and [not giving to super PACs] is

a policy at Comcast, as well,” Cohen said.

Cohen talked about the potential upcoming merger of Comcast with Time Warner Cable. The merger has received criticism — in particular, a petition against it

by Senator Al Franken — for creating a monopoly.

“He has no case,” Cohen said. “Absolutely no competition exists between Comcast and Time Warner Cable.”

The merger has also been criticized for being a “gatekeeper against innovation on the internet,” according to Cohen. But he maintains that Comcast has “no market incentive to throttle innovation, as broadband is our largest cash flow.”

Cohen arg ued that the merger would also not hurt consumer prices.

One point Cohen was particularly passionate about was the digital divide. “Broadband is the civil rights issue of the modern era,” he said, echoing civil rights activist John Lewis.

“The internet has the transformative potential to equalize access to health care, education, news and entertainment,” Cohen said. “However, currently the Internet is exacerbating differences rather than leveling the playing field.

We should all be embarrassed about that.”

Comcast’s Internet Essen-

Joe Li/Staff Photographer

Executive Vice President of Comcast David L. Cohen spoke yesterday about how the company is bringing internet access to low income families.

serving Philadelphia

for 25 years!

City’s Most Popular Indian Buffet Lunch Buffet $8.95 Dinner Buffet $11.95

Welcome Welcome CLASS OF 15% offOF CLASS Exp.2/23/12 4/11/12 Exp. Exp.2/23/12 4/11/12 Exp.

with this ad For Fast Fast Delivery Delivery Call Call 215-386-1941 215-386-1941 For Expires 4/30/2014

2016

For Fast Delivery Call 215-386-1941

4004 Chestnut Street or Order Online @ newdelhiweb.com Exp.2/23/12 4/11/12 Exp. Exp.2/23/12 4/11/12 Exp.

For Fast Fast Delivery Delivery Call Call 215-386-1941 215-386-1941 For

(corner of 36th and Haverford Ave) Grace Church is a multi-ethnic community of rich and poor, undergrads and PhDs, blue-collars and no-collars, Americans and internationals, all united by the good message of Jesus.

tials program is intended to close the digital divide. “Internet Essentials is the largest comprehensive broadband program for low-income [citizens],” Cohen said. The program attacks the three main causes of the digital divide — “absence of understanding of the internet, cost of equipment and cost of services.”

Those eligible are families with children who qualify for the National School Lunch Program — which, according to Cohen, is 80 percent of

students in the Philadelphia area. Internet Essentials offers those families a lower rate for their Internet usage, subsidizes equipment and gives digital literacy classes.

Ninety-four percent of Internet Essentials participants, about 1.6 million Americans, have seen academic improvement in their children.

“We will do everything in our power to close this digital divide. If we don’t take this issue on, then no other company will,” Cohen added.

THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 2014 PAGE A5

Ra Ra Riot released “Beta Love” last year RA RA RIOT from page A1 released in 2008 and 2010, r e s p e c t i v el y, a nd m ad e waves on the alter native airways with a distinguishing “chamber pop” sound.

Ra Ra Riot appeared at South by Southwest three separate years before Magic Man appeared there last week. They have also performed throughout the

United States and across the international festival circuit. Following the release of “Beta Love” last ye a r, t hey accompa n ied The Shins and The Postal Service on a fall tour across the nation.

Fling will not be the first time Ra Ra Riot will share a stage with Magic Man, either. The two bands performed together in Maine last spring, along with electronic indie pop band The Other Bones “Ra Ra Riot are veteran per for mers who w ill add their feel-good sound and instrumental talent to the show,” Chiang said.

NE WS

PAGE A6 THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 2014

THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN

Helping the homeless, one case at a time Reporter’s Notebook | Penn Law students help locals with free legal work

BY COSETTE GASTELU Staff Writer To passersby, St. Agatha-St. James Church may seem like nothing more than a quiet sanctuary at the corner of 38th and Chestnut streets.

But if you were to venture into the multi-purpose room on any given Wednesday evening, you would see, as I did one night, a place bustling with activity: volunteers doling out hot meals, friends exchanging stories and a team of legal aid workers diligently helping clients solve their legal issues.

What is noteworthy about these legal aid workers, however, is that none of them are officially lawyers — at least, not yet.

In fact, they are Penn Law students who collectively form Penn Law Advocates for the

Homeless, also known as PLAH, a group that meets at St. Agatha-St. James every week to offer its pro bono services to the dozens of homeless Philadelphians who find refuge there between 6 and 7 p.m. each Wednesday.

Not long after the weekly announcements and opening blessing were said, clients starting making their way to PLAH’s row of tables and chairs. One man, who must remain anonymous due to PLAH’s confidentiality policies, was seeking to obtain a copy of his birth certificate.

“For a lot of people who become homeless, life is dangerous and they may lose track of their identification documents,” third-year law student and PLAH Director Sherri Golkow said. “Since you need identification to get the identification necessary to apply for things like a driver’s license, housing and other benefits, it becomes a horrible loop, but attorneys can help to break that cycle.”

As Golkow retrieved a thick packet of paperwork from a folder, the client expressed his dismay. “We have to fill out every single one of those?” he asked, eyes widening. Golkow assured him the process wouldn’t take long.

Surprisingly, the task was indeed quite simple; the only thing the client really had to do was provide personal information such as his date and place of birth, parents’ names, income and citizenship status. In less than 10 minutes, he had completed the once daunting pile of forms and was well on his way to receiving a crucial piece of identification.

Though a couple of repeat clients stopped by PLAH’s station, as second-year law student and PLAH Clinic Coordinator Lauren Henderson pointed out, short-term cases like the one I sat in on are the most common.

But releasing copies of personal records is just one among a range of services that PLAH members can perform under

the guidance of their supervising attorney, 1990 College and 1994 Penn Law graduate Michael LiPuma.

“The students have really grown [PLAH] so that they are able to help a lot more clients with different issues,” said LiPuma, who was one of PLAH’s founding members in the early 1990s.

LiPuma currently sits on the Board of Directors of the Homeless Advocacy Project, a legal aid organization that partners with soup kitchens, shelters and clinics like PLAH to ensure that free legal help is easily accessible to homeless individuals throughout Philadelphia.

Both LiPuma and HAP attorney Morgen Black-Smith, a 2006 Penn Law graduate and former PLAH director, hold monthly training sessions to educate PLAH members about some of the areas of practice that are particularly relevant to working with the homeless and underprivileged. The skills they teach include helping clients with their

taxes, resolving landlord-tenant disputes and applying for government benefits such as food stamps and social security.

Black-Smith emphasized that the training PLAH members receive goes beyond just covering the basics of certain legal procedures.

For instance, the PLAH representatives need to know “how to talk to people who, by definition, are in crisis” and be aware of any “special circumstances” that could indicate that a client needs help in more than one area, Black-Smith explained.

As the night came to a close, it became clear to me that the PLAH clinic allows law students to gain valuable hands-on knowledge that they will surely be able to carry with them in their careers.

“Being in PLAH is one of the earliest experiences with direct client contact you can have,” Henderson said. “It’s nice to get out of the law school bubble and get a taste of what a career could be like.”

Climate change scientists discuss political resistance

enhancement Prague Prevention

Histories battery

treatment Biopower Patterns Micropolitics chewing

cancer Philadelphia Adoptability Foraging regulating Dominican Tailored Birthing No-Kill Cats

EGFR Radio

Research Kangaroo

Urban

lithium Churning Nudges Ethiopian Self-care kinase Rescue Immigration Segregation Pelizaeus-Merzbacher

Resistance

ion

he said.

During the question-and-answer session, an audience member raised doubts about whether developing countries like China and India are actively fighting

climate change. Mann clarified that China is actually ahead of the United States in exploring sustainable resources.

Developed countries sustained practices that caused carbon dioxide emissions for about two centuries before developing countries started to burn coal. This sort of “buck passing” is another example of bad faith discussion, according to Mann. “The U.S. should set a good example in the world,” he said.

Horton and Mann emphasized that modern society bears an intergenerational responsibility on its shoulders. “We should make sure that we don’t leave behind a broken planet for our children and grandchildren,” Mann said.

DEAN from page A1 the leading center for interdisciplinary teaching and research on social innovation, impact, and justice.”

Jackson arrived at Penn in 2006 as the first Penn Integrates Knowledge professor.

PIK is a program designed to recruit faculty members for appointments in two Penn schools and who focus on interdisciplinary research.

While Jackson’s current primary appointments are in the Annenberg School of Communication and the School of Arts and Sciences, he holds a secondary appointment in SP2. He is also affiliated with the Graduate School of Education and the Penn Institute for Urban Research. Jackson has written and taught about the effects of mass media on urban life, racialization and media technology.

Jackson makes the second dean announced this year who has been involved in diversity efforts. Antonia Villarruel, who was appointed the next dean of the School of Nursing in late February, has served as the president of National Coalition of Ethnic Minority Nurse Associations and is the founder of the National Association of Hispanic Nurses.

The hires come after a group of senior faculty in the Africana Studies Department wrote a guest column in The Daily Pennsylvanian last January claiming Gutmann has “failed to show leadership in diversifying the highest levels of University administration.”

Jackson is the third dean to be named this semester.

In addition to Jackson and Villarruel, the University named Geoffrey Garrett the new dean of Wharton on Monday.

Toward

Effect Dominant cell

Launch

Residential

Ice Europe

glioblastomas Monster Republic

lung

Grey Harm Medicaid inhibitors Spring

Digital

Sustainability

HealthDorms Policy Housing survival Herodotus Murmur giganteus SHP2 Romantic small Macropus mutations disease Public nanowires Organization

Do

Heart Failure Shower Reduction

we will get past this poisonous and meaningless debate about whether [global warming] does exist or not and turn on the worthy discussion of what we can actually do about the problem,”

Penn Undergraduates

Free Promote Melodrama European

Invention Reproductive Development Reforming

Henry Lin/Staff Photographer

Rutgers University Professor Benjamin Horton and Penn State climatologist and geophysicist Michael Mann spoke yesterday at the Penn Museum.

Connexin47 Interventions Evaluation Point W03 Timers

Last night at the Penn Museum, two leading climate change scientists presented the political resistance scientists face in combatting climate change.

The event was part of the Penn Humanities Forum, which features a series of panels and speaker events meant to educate members of the Penn community in wide-ranging academic topics.

Rutgers University Professor Benjamin Horton talked about the nature of climate change and related problems, showing statistics and pictures that convincingly illustrated the seriousness of climate change and global warming.

He said awareness of the problem in the political arena is apparently skewed, as many politicians deny the existence of climate change as a serious threat to people’s lives.

Penn State climatologist and geophysicist Michael Mann continued to focus on the political side of the climate change problem. Mann pointed out that politicians who have vested interests in the fossil fuel industry often abuse their power to force scientists to refrain from publishing research that might hurt the politicians’ partners.

Mann is deeply concerned that society suffers from a “loss of good faith discussion” because a huge amount of time and effort have been put in the wrong place. “Hopefully,

Lens Effects

BY JOE LI Contributing Writer

Jackson started at Penn in 2006

Summer GJA12

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

The School of Social Policy & Practice Cordially Invites You to the

Class of 1954 leCture In Memory of Dr. Anita Faatz

“strategiC PartnershiPs and Marginalized CoMMunities in the affordable Care aCt era” Presented by

5

robert Cordero, MsW BOOM!Health, Bronx, NY

during Penn Quaker Days (formerly Penn Previews)

presented by the Center for Undergraduate Research & Fellowships and College Houses & Academic Services

ATTENTION UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHERS! We’re looking for undergrads interested in sharing their research with the University community–as well as with prospective Penn students– through a 12-minute formal conference paper or a 60-second lecture.

Papers and lectures will be presented at the Quaker Days Research Conference on April 7, 2014.

To apply, visit www.upenn.edu/curf/pprc-app and submit your proposal online.

DEADLINE EXTENDED to Wednesday, March 26

Monday, MarCh 24 Registration and Refreshments: 5:00 - 5:30 PM Lecture and Discussion: 5:30 - 7:30 PM Claudia Cohen Hall, Terrace Room 249 S. 36th Street Two Free Social Work CEUs for Attendees Free and Open to the Public Advanced Registration Is Not Required Questions and Additional Information: www.sp2.upenn.edu/1954

NE WS

THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN

THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 2014 PAGE A7

Study shows rain and snow might be speeding up global warming Increased precipitation slowing ocean convection

BY BOOKYUNG JO Staff Writer A small change in Antarctica is affecting the entire globe.

A study recently published in Nature Climate Change explains how the convection cycle in the ocean is slowing down, which will likely exacerbate global warming.

The study was conducted by professor Irina Marinov and postdoctoral student Raffaele

Candidates talked efficacy, mental health UA DEBATE from page A1 his part, Delaney said that he would advocate for adding even more clinicians to the Counseling and Psychological Services staff. Following two student suicides early in the semester, CAPS announced that it is adding at least three permanent staffers, but Delaney said that he would like to see between 35 and 40 additional staffers and would like to see CAPS moved to a larger facility.

Plans to move CAPS are already in the works, but its new location has not yet been announced.

Kim countered that mental health initiatives should be “proactive, not reactive” and said she intends to ask those with the most expertise what they think is best for the campus community. She also suggested that “CAPS should be integrated within the College

Bernadardello in collaboration with researchers from McGill University.

O pen- ocea n convect ion stores a nt h ropogen ic , or human-produced, heat and carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in dense water which sinks to the bottom of the ocean. This dense water forms when surface water freezes in the winter, leaving behind all the salt for much denser water which sinks to the bottom of the ocean, known as Arctic Bottom Water.

With climate change and global warming, there has been more rain and snow

near the poles over the past few decades, including at the Southern Ocean. This increase in precipitation makes water fresher at the surface, making it more difficult for open-ocean convection to take place, which then takes less heat and carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. Currently, more than half of the extra heat and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is stored under the Southern Ocean.

One sign that open-ocean convection is slowing down is the disappearance of polynyas, ice-free zones in the polar regions of the ocean. One

Houses so that freshman have that resource right there.”

UA efficacy was also called into question. During the question and answer session, UMOJA representative and Wharton junior Christina Hardison asked how the candidates planned to make themselves available to student groups so “the UA doesn’t feel like the airport shuttle club.”

Delaney suggested implementing a liaison system that would pair each UA representative with a student group so that students’ concerns are more directly presented to the UA. He also wants to give the UA a more horizontal structure and create more leadership positions within the organization in order to offer incentive to members to bring their projects to fruition.

Kim, on the other hand, emphasized having concrete foundations.

“Honestly, I think it comes from this: We campaign on promises that we can’t deliver,” Kim said. “That’s why I’m running on issues I’ve already worked on. I’ve proven results.” She mentioned her work both with administrators

to save Multicultural Scholars Preview when it was nearly eliminated and her ongoing work on the creation of a separate “space” for international students.

Kim also criticized Delaney’s campaign focus on internal UA structure and culture. “There’s another name for that position — it’s UA Speaker,” she said.

“I don’t want to engage in the attack stuff,” Delaney responded. “I don’t want to focus on what I’ve done or what you’ve done, but on what we can do together.”

In her closing statement, Kim told the audience that they should have faith in her because of work she has already done. “At the end of the day, my work speaks for itself,” she said.

Delaney encouraged audience members to vote for the candidate they feel is most enthusiastic about representing the student body to administrators. “I live by a certain phrase. The phrase is ‘Purpose is power,’” he said. “At the end of the day, you don’t vote for plans. You vote for people.”

Voting will open on Monday, March 24.

example is the Weddell Sea Polynya, which disappeared in the 1970s. Marinov thinks people should be more aware of the disappearance of polynyas.

“When the polynya happened in the ’70s, people paid attention for a while but hasn’t been mentioned for more than twenty years,” Marinov said.

She expects to resuscitate the interest through the recent findings.

One possible implication of the slowing down of openocean convection is that less anthropogenic heat and carbon dioxide from the atmo-

sphere will be stored in the ocean, warming the planet further and increasing global warming in a “positive feedback” loop.

The decrease in open-ocean convection might also affect ocean ecosystems. Nutrients and oxygen that are needed by life in the ocean sink down with Antarctic Bottom Water, reaching not just oceans around Antarctica but around the world.

“This is one place in the ocean that is connected to all parts of the world,” Marinov said.

Marinov and Bernardello

started the research from a model they were running which showed the changes in the ocean over time.

“We thought that the results from these models were coming out around the world and wanted to see if they were consistent,” Bernardello said.

They are now working on follow-up research focusing on the implications of change in open-ocean convection.

“We anticipate a slowdown of Arctic Bottom Water will affect both the uptake of heat and anthropogenic carbon into the ocea n,” Ma r inov said.

Join us for a special series of master classes with Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Fellow

STANLEY NELSON

Spring 2014 Center for Africana Studies Artist-in-Residence Thursday, March 27, 2014 5:30 p.m.

Master Class: Stanley Nelson will discuss his upcoming PBS ‘Independent Lens’ film on the Black Panther Party with rough-cut clips from the film.

Annenberg School for Communication 3620 Walnut Street, Room 109

Earn a master’s degree from a leading American university while experiencing life in the heart of Rome, Italy.

Complete M.B.A. programs available in Marketing, International Business and Finance.

For more information, please call 718-990-1345 or visit stjohns.edu/tobinrome14.

Rome Campus: Via Marcantonio Colonna, 21 00192 • Rome, Italy

Thursday, April 3, 2014 5:30 p.m.

Master Class: Stanley Nelson will discuss his work process using film clips to help illustrate the discussion, including technical and personal narratives developed over the course of his filmmaking career.

Moderated program with the graduate student group CAMRA. Annenberg School for Communication 3620 Walnut Street, Room 109

Thursday, April 10, 2014 5:30 p.m.

Final Film Screening and Post Film Q&A: Freedom Summer Annenberg School for Communication 3620 Walnut Street, Room 110 All programs are co-sponsored with the Annenberg School for Communication.

All events are FREE and OPEN to the public.

For more information, contact the Center for Africana Studies at 215-898-4965 or africana@sas.upenn.edu **If you require reasonable accommodations, please provide at least 5 days notice.**

Stanley Nelson is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, MacArthur “genius” Fellow, and member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.

Nelson is the director of twelve documentary features, including Freedom Riders, Jonestown: The Life and Death of People’s Temple and The Murder of Emmett Till. He is also cofounder and Executive Director of Firelight Media, which provides technical education and professional support to emerging documentarians. Nelson is currently finalizing a new film, Freedom Summer, which will air on PBS’ American Experience in June 2014 and in production on The Black Panthers: Seize the Time, which is the first in a series of three films Nelson will direct as part of a new multi-platform PBS series entitled America Revisited. With seven of his films having premiered at Sundance Film Festival and multiple industry awards to his credit, Nelson is acknowledged as one of the premier documentary filmmakers working today.

>>theDP.com

PAGE A8 THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 2014

THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN

DISCOVER PENN DOWNLOAD THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN

MOBILE APP

MAPS

EVENTS

NEWS

DEALS

THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 2014

{ }

Sports

online at thedp.com/sports

37.2

minutes per contest

Had exactly

100

assists in Penn’s 28 games this year, including four against Princeton on Mar. 11

{ } Game-high

Led both Penn and the Ivy League in minutes per game during Ivy season with

Unheralded McCullough leading Quakers at the point The senior point guard has been out of the spotlight while playing an essential role for Penn

BY STEVEN TYDINGS Senior Sports Editor With 35.8 seconds left in Penn women’s basketball’s Iv y L e ag ue cl i nch i ng w i n over Princeton, coach Mike McLaughlin took out senior captain Meghan McCullough for the first time all game.

Signaling the beginning of Penn’s celebration, McLaughlin gave McCullough an enthusiastic hug, recog nizing the accomplishments of one of his most essential players.

“It’s a culmination of a really special person,” McLaughlin said of the moment. “When you have a player on your team who is selfless, that worries about everyone else first, that doesn’t care what the stats are, with all the publicity we are getting, Meghan should be the one at the front of the classroom because without Meghan, we wouldn’t be in this position.”

SEE MCCULLOUGH PAGE B3

23

Improved win total every season with Penn women’s basketball

HELPED QUAKERS TO

64 WINS OVER FOUR SEASONS

Each started all

28

of Penn’s games this year

Baron ready for final chapter

points in Penn’s Ivy title clinching win over Princeton

second all-time in program history with

1,781 points

After four years of scoring and success, Alyssa Baron looking towards biggest game of career

BY SUSHAAN MODI Senior Staff Writer Four years is a long time.

For A lyssa Baron, an Iv y League title and a chance to rebuild a program is no longer a dream that brought her to Penn from Gulliver Prep.

It’s reality.

After all, when the Quakers take on Texas in the first r ou nd of t he NCAA Tournament on Sunday in College Park, Md., it will not only mark the Ivy Player of the Year’s first tournament appearance — but also the final chapter in Baron’s long journey with Penn’s basketball program.

The DP article after her first game read “Strong Start from Freshman,” but even then nobody expected her to have such a lasting

SEE BARON PAGE B3

Graphic by Jenny Lu

Young Penn squad confident for NCAAs Quakers fall to

WRESTLING | Despite lack of experience, Quakers ready to prove themselves in Oklahoma City

BY KARL BAGHERZADEH Senior Staff Writer

In every sport, come the postseason, there’s an old cliche that says “experience matters.”

Regardless of whether or not that statement is accurate, experience will be a big question mark for Penn’s wrestling team as it prepares for this year’s edition of the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships. The Quakers will be represented by a group of grapplers without national tournament experience for the first time since 1991.

“It’s hard being a first-timer coming in because you don’t truly know what you get yourself into,” coach Rob Eiter said. “So that’s where we as coaches come in and try to make sure that if we see them getting a little caught up with everything, we’ll take them out. The guys are super exited to be here and that’s the most important, to have that positive attitude.”

Last year, Penn entered the NCAAs under the guidance of senior grapplers Micah Burak and Mark Rappo, both of whom had already accumulated significant experience in the tournament,

with Burak reaching All-American status a year earlier thanks to a seventh-place finish.

Nevertheless, the Red and Blue came out of the 2013 NCAA Championships empty-handed, with Burak barely missing out on All-American honors due to his 4-3 defeat against Iowa State’s Kyven Gadson.

This time around, Penn’s grapplers hope that, contrary to popular belief , experience does not matter. And maybe a wave of fresh faces won’t be a bad thing.

The Quakers are sending four wrestlers to Oklahoma City’s Chesapeake Energy Arena, including 2014 Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Assocation Championship runners-up junior Lorenzo Thomas (184 pounds) and senior Brad Wukie (174).

Thomas and Wukie will take the mats along with sophomore Casey Kent (16 5), who a lso clinched an automatic bid to the NCAAs by virtue of his fourthplace finish at the EIWAs. Penn’s lone at-large selection was freshman Caleb Richardson (125).

The Red and Blue’s only seeded grappler, Thomas, will enter the tournament ranked No. 11.

Two weeks ago, the junior sent a message to the wrestling nation by taking Cornell’s Gabe Dean to the wire in the EIWA finals.

Thomas ultimately fell, 3-1, in a very controversial match. “[Thomas] can go as far as he

Sports Desk (215) 898-6585 ext. 147

southern foe in rainstorm

W. LACROSSE | Though a force to be reckoned in the Ivy League, Penn struggled against ACC-power Maryland

BY IAN WENIK Sports Editor

vs. Maryland

in time for the most important meetings of the year, reaching the finals at the EIWAs. At the NCAAs, like at the conference tournament, he will be able to count on the element of surprise, having flown under the radar for most of the season.

“If I’m on top of my game, I don’t think anybody can wrestle me,” Wukie said after EIWAs. “Brad’s probably wrestling

No. 12 Penn women’s lacrosse has dominated the Ivy League in recent years.

But against elite opponents, it’s been a different story.

Taking on No. 2 Maryland at home, the Quakers were thoroughly outclassed by the Terrapins, falling, 15-5, in their eighth loss to a top-five team in the last three seasons.

With a driving rainstorm pounding the turf at Franklin Field from the opening draw, Maryland (10-0) pounced on Penn (4-2) quickly, as redshirtjunior attack Brooke Griffin charged down the left wing and ripped a rocket of a shot past Penn junior goalie Lucy Ferguson’s shoulder just 14 seconds into the game.

It was all downhill from there for Ferguson and Penn’s defense.

A little under 90 seconds later, senior midfield

SEE WRESTLING PAGE B2

SEE W. LACROSSE PAGE B2

Michele Ozer/Sports Photo Editor

Senior Brad Wukie surprised many at EIWAs, making a run to the finals at 174 pounds.

Wukie now heads to NCAA Championships for the first time in his career. wants, he’s capable of beating anybody in the country at the weightclass and he’s wrestling with a lot of confidence right now,” Eiter said. “The match [two weekends ago] against the Cornell kid, he felt that he didn’t come off as strong as he could have, so I told him that he had to come out with the same fire that he had in the semi-finals of the EIWAs.” Wukie, a senior, overcame an injury-plagued season right

Visit us online at theDP.com/sports

Send story ideas to dpsports@thedp.com

SP OR TS

PAGE B2 THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 2014

THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN

Rain washes away games for baseball and softball Baseball’s game at ’Nova and softball’s games vs.

Lehigh postponed due to weather conditions

BY STEVEN TYDINGS Senior Sports Editor

Both Penn baseball and softball had planned to resume play after a productive spring break but Mother Nature had other plans.

Penn baseball’s matchup at Villanova and Penn softball’s doubleheader against Lehigh at Penn Park were postponed on Wednesday, and no makeup date has been announced for either game.

Penn softball (4-7) had be-

gun its first game of the day against the Mountain Hawks but the rain washed away the Red and Blue’s ugly start. The Quakers had surrendered seven runs in the first inning, forcing coach Leslie King to change pitchers.

When the game was called in the second inning, the Red and Blue were down, 10-3, with their Ivy League and Big 5 Player of Week, freshman Leah Allen, at the plate. At that point, the rain may have started to affect Lehigh’s pitchers, who issued two walks to the Quakers before the postponement. Furthermore, puddles had begun to form on the field, creating hazardous conditions that forced the umpires to can-

cel the rest of play.

The Red and Blue have nine consecutive home games scheduled, beginning with a doubleheader at Penn Park this Sunday against St. Joseph’s.

Penn baseball (2-9), on the other hand, didn’t start its game and will hold its season opener on Saturday against Lafayette. The Quakers have back-to-back doubleheaders against the Leopards this weekend.

The Red and Blue have yet to play a home game under new coach John Yurkow, playing one series against Dallas Baptist before spring break and eight games against a variety of opponents over break.

WHO IS THE BEST GRADUATE STUDENT TEACHER YOU EVER HAD??

The Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching

by Graduate Students Recognizing excellence in teaching by graduate students across the University, the Penn Prize is unique in that it seeks nominations specifically from the undergraduates. This is your opportunity to acknowledge the graduate students who, through their dedication to teaching, have had a profound impact on your education at Penn.

Ten $500 awards will be made at a reception in April.

Submit onlineatat Submityour yournominations nomination online http://www.upenn.edu/grad/ta/taprizeNOMform.html https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CB6JPBJ http://www.upenn.edu/grad/taprize.htm DEADLINE FOR NOMINATIONS: Monday, March 24 11:59pm.

DEADLINE FOR NOMINATIONS: 9 AM, Wed March 25, 2009 DEADLINE FOR NOMINATIONS: 9 AM, March 24,at2008

GREAT READS at the Penn Bookstore

Browse and Discover a World of Literature...

Penn Faculty Author: Based on a ground breaking cross-generational study, Baby Bust: New Choices for Men and Women in Work and Family by Stewart Friedman draws upon research to explain why so many young people are not planning to become parents and offers ideas for society to make it easier for men and woman to choose the lives they want.

Local Interest: Philadelphia Mural Arts @ 30 by Executive Director Jane Golden and David Updike is a celebration of the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program’s success, tracing its history and evolution from a summer youth program to one of the largest and most successful public arts organizations in the country.

30% Off National Campus Best-Seller: In this endlessly entertaining debut collection of short stories, One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories by B.J. Novak has at its heart the most human of phenomena: love, fear, hope, ambition, and the inner stirring for the one elusive element that just might make a person complete.

New Release: Brought together again to their small hometown in Wisconsin, four childhood friends learn the true meaning of adult friendship and love in the midst of heartbreak, hope, healing and heroism in Shotgun Lovesongs by Nickolas Butler.

VISIT Penn Bookstore Café, serving Starbucks, baked treats and more!

3601 Walnut Street | 215.898.7595 | upenn.edu/bookstore

Michele Ozer/Sports Photo Editor

Junior goalkeeper Lucy Ferguson has started in every game the Quakers have played in her time at Penn and earned Unanimous First-Team All-Ivy and Second-Team IWLCA All-Region last year, yet she struggled on Wednesday evening.

Terps scored five times in three minutes

by sophomore midfield Taylor Cummings, the Red and Blue finally got on the board after sophomore midfield Iris Williamson worked her way in close and scored easily to close the gap to 4-1 with 16:40 to go in the half.

W. LACROSSE from page B1 But that was as close as the Quakers would come for Beth Glaros pick pocketed the rest of the evening, as the Penn junior defender Meg Terps poured in five goals in Mark ham at mid f ield and a span of two minutes and 22 charged in on a breakaway, seconds to put the game thoreasily beating Ferguson to her oughly out of reach. left to make it 2-0.

With 5:10 to go in the first “They’re very fast, they push half and the score 9-2, Corbett the fast break, they move very had finally seen enough, pullquickly and our defense was on ing Ferguson in favor of her its heels,” coach Karin Brow- backup, senior Carly Churchill. er Corbett said. “We weren’t “[Ferguson] wasn’t seeing ready from the first whistle, the ball,” Corbett said. “They and we found ourselves in a were shooting high and she was going back and not attackhole really quickly.”

After another Glaros goal ing it so we felt we needed a WISDOM TEETH RESEARCH and a converted free position change and Church[ill] comes DO YOUR TEETH NEED REMOVAL? VOLUNTEER FOR BONE AND TEETH RESEARCH

WISDOM TEETH RESEARCH Moderate stipends available

Eligibility: Male or female in good health

DO YOUR TEETH NEED REMOVAL? Contact 215-746-2395 Department of Oral Medicine VOLUNTEER FOR BONE AND TEETH RESEARCH

Eligibility: Male or female in good health

Moderate stipends available

Contact 215-746-2395 Department of Oral Medicine

Flyering is time-consuming.

Craigslist is sketchy.

T E L B U S with s t e l n n Pe Find a subletter at pennlets.com.

Posting is free!

It’s trustworthy, easy to search, and time-saving.

Visit pennlets.com today!

in and saves the ball high.”

The sudden collapse on the defensive end was particularly befuddling given Penn’s sterling reputation in its own end of the field — the Quakers’ 7.40 goals against average entering the game was the 11th-best mark in the country.

Those struggles were compounded by an offense that managed to miss the net on 10 of its 21 shots, which left Penn with little hope of maintaining its three-game winning streak.

With three more nonconference games left before Ivy play resumes — two against ranked opponents — Corbett knows that her team needs to pick up the pace.

“It’s been plaguing us. Our shooting has really been a problem,” she said.

“We’ve got to be better.”

Wukie trying to pull more upsets in OKC WRESTLING from page B1 the best out of everybody right now,” Eiter said. “I told him [Wednesday]: ‘This is the Brad Wukie we recruited four years go, when we went and watched the state finals in Ohio and [you] just physically manhandled this kid in the final.’

“Brad’s wrestling very confident right now and very controlled, which he hadn’t been doing the last couple of years.”

Despite falling just short of the podium at the EIWAs, Kent has enjoyed a strong year so far, with a 19-7 overall record and only eight takedowns allowed.

Richardson, a much-heralded freshman coming into the 2013-14 season, is looking to prove he can bounce back from a disappointing 0-2 performance at the conference tournament.

Similarly to this year’s EIWAs, while none of the Quakers’ representatives enter the tournament a clear-cut favorite, the team is looking forward to a great performance.

In the end, it is quite unclear if experience matters. On the other hand, a national title or All-American status definitely does.

“My confidence is pretty high,” Eiter said. “I really, truly believe these guys have looked the best they have all year the past two weeks. And I’m not just doing a typical coach’s speech, I really think these guys have the potential right here.”

SP OR TS

THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN

Baron’s paved legacy as player and leader BARON from page B1 impact on the program.

“In the first half, I just kept taking it strong to the basket.

I knew the defenders couldn’t cover me as well as they should have been able to,” Baron said after that 70-59 win over Bryant in the 2010-11 season.

Well, they still haven’t figured out how to cover one of the most hard-charging, neverback-down guards whose jump floaters will remain the most iconic shot in Penn women’s basketball history.

As she has built up her resume — Ivy Rookie of the Year, second at Penn all-time in points, two first-team All-Ivy nods — she has done it with a smile on her face and the team at the forefront.

Baron has provided the Palestra with more than its fair share of memorable moments.

While not as crowd-pleasing as Ibby Jaaber’s dunk against Florida Gulf Coast or momentous as Steve Danley’s strip of Andre Logan to complete Penn’s 18-point turnaround at Princeton, Baron’s game-winning three-pointer in the Women’s Basketball Invitational over Fairfield last season will be forever remembered by those who attended as a truly dramatic moment in a historic building.

“It’s a shot I’ve taken hundreds of times, I’ve practiced almost every day of my life and I just pulled up for the shot and it luckily went in,” Baron said in a post-game interview after the step-back jumper.

For those who see her every day, it was a familiar sight — Baron just being herself and continually amazing others in the process.

“All my four years I’ve been waiting for this opportunity,” Baron said after Selection Monday.

“It’s just a huge accomplishment. We had an overall team effort and it’s what I’ve been

dreaming about for four years, we’ve been working towards it ... and tonight we were able to get it accomplished,” Baron said after the Princeton win.

“It’s just so gratifying for all our hard work.”

A nd now we’ve come to March. The end of the season may prove integral to shaping her legacy here at Penn. “[I’ve been impressed with] her overall basketball maturity, she has special skill, but she’s learned how to play for the good of the team,” coach Mike McLaughlin said earlier in the year. “If she needs to score, she’ll try to score more. If she needs to rebound, she’ll try to rebound. If she needs to be a better leader, she’ll try to do that.

“She’s always tried to take not only her basketball game, but her leadership to another level,” he added. “When she’s done in March, I think you’ll see not only a tremendous basketball player who has done well here, but someone who has become a leader for her teammates.”

While Baron’s legacy as one of the best Ivy players of all time may be up for debate, it’s not quite time to discuss it yet.

Instead, there are just three days to go before the biggest game of her life.

$200

McCullough ‘can’t stop smiling’ MCCULLOUGH from page B1 While outsiders tend to focus on the accolades of her teammates — Iv y League Player of the Year A lyssa Ba ron and Iv y Defensive Player of the Year Sydney Stipanovich come to mind — it is hard to say that anyone has had as big of an impact for the Quakers this season than McCullough.

That fact is visible from a statistical standpoint, with the senior guard leading the A ncient Eight in assist to turnover ratio while averaging north of 35 minutes a game for the Red and Blue.

Yet the senior point guard doesn’t put up flashy point totals, and her numbers may not jump off the page compared to her teammates.

Instead, it’s McCullough’s intangibles that have made the difference for a Penn squad that stands just three days away f rom its f irst NCA A Tournament game

THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 2014 PAGE B3

in 10 years.

“She is someone you can r ely on t o do a ny t h i ng,” McLaughlin said. “You want to change defenses? You tell Meghan and the whole team follows. You want to run a set? You tell Meghan and rest of the team follows.”

Last year, McCullough sat on the sidelines as the Quakers pulled out their first postseason victories in program history. The then-junior tore her ACL early in the 2012-13 season and had an arduous road getting back.

But instead of giving up, she worked through the rehab process and stood ready to regain her role as Penn’s starting point guard.

“You definitely go through pie c es wher e you t h i n k , ‘Wow, I don’t think I’ll ever

get back to full speed,’” McCullough said, “but you see other girls who have [gone through rehab] and other athletes ... who have done it, and it is motivating that you know there will be that light at the end of the tunnel.”

A fter Penn lost soundly to Princeton to begin the Iv y season, many doubted that the Quakers could dethrone the Tigers. Yet even after that game, McCullough said that the Red and Blue “were definitely equal talent,” displaying confidence in her team.

A nd the senior capt ain doubled down on her dedication, especially in Penn’s impressive win at Harvard on Feb. 21, when she took a plane flight directly from a job interview to the game,

making it just in time to put in a 39-minute effort.

Three weeks later, McCu l loug h scored just si x points in Penn’s win over Princeton, but her four assists, four steals and zero turnovers speak louder than her point totals ever could.

“Playing them and beating them at Princeton was awesome,” McCullough said.

“We worked hard all season.

To have the confidence to do that and to play our best on their court is incredible.

Now McCullough is ready for the NCAA Tournament, riding the good vibes of the team’s past week.

“I keep say i ng [t hat] I can’t stop smiling,” she said.

“It’s been super exciting this past week but we’re looking forward to Sunday.”

thedp.com/sports

PENN200

BRAND NEW Student Apartments!

Enjoy a furnished apartment featuring granite kitchens with all appliances, custom private bathrooms, hardwood floors, Flat Screen TVs in family rooms, alarm systems, front door monitors, & fire sprinkler systems.

With a FITNESS CENTER & STUDY ROOM!

FREE SHUTTLE SERVICE

to and from campus every 45 minutes!

38th & Hamilton: 3BR, 3BTH – $2,000.00 | 3BR, 2BTH – $1,950.00

.

38th & Spring Garden: 3BR, 3BTH – $1,895.00

Limited Availability. Call today!

855-205-0500 | universityrealtyapartments.com

Monday, March 18, 2013 Page 9

Page B4 Thursday, March 20, 2014

It’s Down to the Wire ‌ Make the Game Winning Play!

eds!

updos cure

It’s Not Too Late 9 8 Now Leasing Studio, 1, 2, and 3 Bedroom Apartments!

5pm pm

“ Wishbone in West Philly takes fried chicken to the next level.�

10% OFF

WIN NOW COUPON VALID IN-STORE ONLY; NOT FOR DELIVERY. EXPIRES 5/1/14.

ORIGINAL COUPON MUST BE PRESENTED AT TIME OF PURCHASE.

4043 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 866.739.1786

1526 SANSOM ST. | 215-751-2711 |

WWW.PULSEPHILLY.COM

$20

3426 Sansom St. 215-387-8981

Mon-Tues-Wed Wash not included

COLLEGE BASKETBALL BRACKET CHALLENGE 9

Pittsburgh

5

VCU

12 SF Austin 4

UCLA

13 Tulsa 6

Ohio State

10 Stanford 2

Kansas

ut? TRY OUR NEW MENU! aboCOME about?

1 Virginia t? the a bo ut? aboufor 16 Coastal Car 15 E Kentucky

Bring your appetite!

8

Memphis

Every Monday and !,, '!-%3 $2).+ PRUCE STREET 3736 SPRUCE STREET 3736 SPRUCE STREET Wednesday at 10PM. ON ENING OCTOBER 21 30%#)!,3 OPENING OCTOBER 21 OCTOBER 21 DAYS 6:30AM 8PM OPENING OPEN 7 TV DAYS 6:30AM - 8PM M-F:- 7AM-7PM | WEEKENDS: 8AM-7PM 4 First in Philly!

736 SPRUCE STREET 3736 3736 SPRUCE SPRUCE STREET STREET

PEN 7 DAYS 6:30AM - 8PM OPEN s .EW$ECK4AVERN COM s 3ANSOM 3T OPEN 77 DAYS DAYS 6:30AM 6:30AM -- 8PM 8PM hubbubcoffee.com

offee.com

ubbubcoffee.com

CING

The The

FOR Fa l L 2014

‘ TA K E YO U R P I C K ’ (TYP) PLAN Penn Dining’s FIRST customizable dining plan with nine different possibilities for maximum flexibility.

11 Providence 3

More details can be found at u p e n n . e d u / d i n i n g

Iowa State

14 NC Central 7

Connecticut

10 St Joe's 2

Available for purchase now

UNC

Villanova

15 Milwaukee

1

sored Sponby

Florida

na bana a p o C

12 SF Austin 4 4

1

1

New Mexico

2

4

Louisville

Michigan St

4

Louisville

Michigan St

Iowa State

Iowa State 3 Connecticut 2

Villanova

Michigan St

Iowa State

4

Louisville

BEAT OUR BRACKET and win a free mini hand

3

3

Duke

2

pie from WISHBONE

springfield Beer distributor we deliver!

(215)546-7301 Open 7 days a week!

1701 Spruce St. | 215.875.9990 | www.lafontanadellacitta.com

Come see us for March Madness!

Low�Fat 36 Calories/oz.

Buy one Fro-Yo! and get the second Fro-Yo! of equal or lesser value free. !"#$%#&'($#)%*+,%-./%01.-2% !34,%5+4(6%734,%+8%9:#33%47;+8(732

Quizo every Tuesday at 9pm!

Great specials!

3601 Walnut Street www.upenn.edu/bookstore . (215) 898-7595

$5 food menu starting at 10pm 3000 Market Street | Hours: 11am - 2am daily | www.SlaintePhilly.com

16 Weber State

Saturday & Sunday Open for Brunch at 10:00am

8

Gonzaga

9

Oklahoma St

5

Oklahoma

Proudly serving the Penn Community since 1983

Live music & Tuesday Quizzo 3131 Walnut Street | 215-883-0965

Drink specials @ Quizzo with photo of this ad

Select appetizers $5 with photo of this ad

Wichita State

Kentucky

T

Drink Specials at the Bar Monday - Friday3:00pm 3:00pm - 7:00pm

12 ND State 4

San Diego St

Watch all the NCAA games here!

13 NM State 6

Baylor

11 Nebraska 3

Creighton

14 Louisiana 7

Oregon

10 BYU 2

Wisconsin

Kitchen open every day, 11am-1am Bring your appetite!

215.386.4600 • NewDeckTavern.com • 3408 Sansom St

15 American

Philly’s Best Wings!

1

Wichita State

16 CaliPoly/TX So 8

Kentucky

34

DO YOU PAY PER VIEW?

How Penn Students Watch Movies Borrow from Library

24.6%

Don't Watch Movies

How Penn Students Watch Movies Theaters

Free Streaming hough we all know watch Hugo in theaters. And we you guess then that Penn stu47.7% Borrow from Library 5 the Saint Louis 16.9% Paid Online Services Internet is for porn fit this mold of overworked dents would prefer to get their 12 NCIvySt/Xavier Don't Watch Movies 24.6% Film polled youthe to fiLeague nd outstudents how you your Sunday afternoon (thanks Avenue Q), well,are withgetting only RomCom fix online with free 34 Louisville Theaters ST FILM

BY ANTHONY KHAYKIN movie fixes.theHere’s we learned. bedroom is no longer only what about 17% of Penn undergrads streaming websites like SideReel How Penn Students Watch Movies Free Streaming 4theaters.

Louisville 9.2% area being cededhough to digital terrimovies Rave ev- weandyou Ch131 thanPenn pay stufor we all know watching the watch Hugo at in the And guess rather then that 47.7% 16.9% tory. For every girl with4daddy’s ery semester.

by Netfl ix and Paid Online Services Louisville Internet is for porn fit this mold of overworked Ivyservices dentsprovided would prefer to get their Borrow from Library AmEx, window(thanks browsing onQ), theButLeague how about the other ste-onlyRedbox?

Avenue students well, with RomCom fix online with free 1.5%Movies 13 Manhattan Don't Watch 24.6% Film polled youbeen nd out you are17% getting your SundayWhile afternoon 1116 Walnut Street | 215.627.7676 | www.moriartyspub.com 34 bedroom is to no fireplaced longer the how only about of Penn undergrads streaming websites like SideReel Fifth Avenue has reotype, the one that says all col75% of us watch movST FILM Theaters 9.2% BY are ANTHONY KHAYKIN movie fiarea xes.being Here’s weterrilearned. cededwhat to digital watching movies the Rave Ch131 rather thanStudents payfor for Watch Movies How Penn with online shopping.

And lege students poor?atThe free ev-ies and online, nearly 50% pay 6 Umade Mass Streaming tory.we Forallevery girl withwatch daddy’s erytheaters. semester. provided Netfl ix FYEs hough everywhere have movement of information it. services Ithat hear Horrible Bosses —and a know thevirtuHugo in And we you guess then Penn stu- by 47.7% WhyBorrow do from youLibrary go Free to the movies?

16.9% AmEx, browsing on Close to Campus howinterweb about other ste-new Redbox?

Paid1.5% Online Services Internet iswindow for porn fit thispossible mold of But overworked Ivy the dents would prefer to geton their 11 Iowa/Tenn ally been rendered useless (pun by the makes release iTunes — is hys3.1% 6.3% Don't Watch Movies 24.6% Fifth Avenue been replaced reotype, the your one says allafternoon col-fix online While watchbut movAvenue Q), students well, with onlythat RomCom with75% freeof us Film (thanks polled you fihas ndthe out League how you are getting Sunday intended) with thetoexistence of terical, is Other 11 Iowa/Tenn Theaters onlinethewhat shopping.

And students are poor?

The free online, nearly 50% pay for bedroom no longer only we 17% oflege Penn undergrads streaming SideReel BY ANTHONY KHAYKIN movie fiiswith xes.

Here’s learned.

Whose recommendations do youwebsites take?ies like the multifarious iTunes store. about it worth the 24/7 Maintenance 9.2% It's a way to hang out with friends area being FYEs ceded to digital terri-have watching at the Rave ev- and Ch131 rather payHorrible for everywhere virtu-movies movement of information made it. than I hear Bosses — a Why doStreaming you go to the movies?

Free Duke hough weno all know the watch Hugo in50theaters. And we you guess then 47.7% that Penn stu47.7%1.5 salads at 25% Things are different here tory.

ForInternet every girl with daddy’s ery semester. services provided by Netfl ix and ally been rendered (punof overworked possible Ivy by the interweb makes release on iTunes — is hys16.9% Paid Online Services Other It's a good study break is for porn useless fit this mold dents would prefer to get new their 40.6% 3.1% 3 Duke 6.3% at Penn, where the gets students Sweetgreen AmEx, window browsing on existence how about theonly otherRomCom ste- Redbox?

1.5% 40% intended) with the of40 well, terical, but is (thanks Avenue Q),Rave the LeagueBut with fix online with free Free Shuttle Other Friend It makes you feel relaxed and happy Duke Fifth Avenue been replaced reotype, oneundergrads that says all streaming colWhiledo75% of usA watch mov- it it worth nearly half the traffi c3iTunes forabout the would bedroom is nohas longer the only 17% ofthe Penn websites like SideReel Whose recommendations you take? the multifarious store. the It's a way to hang out with friends 9.2% Cinemapay Studies 25% area being ceded to digital terriwatching movies atare the50poor?

Rave evCh131 rather than pay for with online shopping. lege students The and free iesMercer online, nearly 50% for midnight screenings ofAnd blockhave cost if Required for Class 14 25% 30 Things are no different here 1.5 salads at 47.7% Major 25% provided tory. For every girl with daddy’s ery movement semester. of26.2% services

by Netfl ix and 25% Other — a It's a good study break On-Site Laundry FYEs everywhere have virtuinformation made it.

I hear Horrible Bosses 40.6% Whyseen doityou go to the movies? buster hits Twilight asthe Hulu I Sweetgreen had at like Penn, where Rave gets Professor or TA AmEx, on But how about the 40other ste- makes Redbox?new release on iTunes 40% 1.5% ally beenwindow renderedbrowsing useless (pun possible by is hys20 the interweb A— Friend It makes you feel relaxed and happy 6.3% nearly half the traffi c for the it 3.1% would does the day after the newest in theaters?

Fifth Avenue has been replaced reotype, the one that says all colWhile 75% of us watch movStreet intended) with the existence of terical, but is Other 25% with online shopping.

And lege poor?30The free ies7online,Texas nearly 50% pay for Cinema Studies Ramen midnight screenings ofstudents block-are have cost Required for Class episode of 30 Rock airs. This Internet Access noo-if Major Whose recommendations do you25% take?

10 the multifarious iTunes store. thedo you 26.2% surveyed were 25% Bosses *Students It's a way to hang out with friends FYEs everywhere havelike virtumovement of information made it. I hear Horrible — ita worth Why goaren’t to the buster hits Twilight as50Hulu I had seen it movies? allowed toProfessor choose more orat TA dles 10 Arizona St20 makes makes sense.

We Penn students es seven movies, more or less, 25% Things are no different here 1.5 salads ally been rendered useless (pun possible by the interweb new47.7% release on Other iTunes — isthan hysone option. 3.1% It's a good study break 6.3% 40.6% does the day after the newest in theaters?

0 at Penn, Rave of gets are too where busy procrastinating that bad, I every intended) with thethe existence terical, but is Street Other semester. Simple arithme40% 10 Arizona StSweetgreen Close to SEPTA 40 A Friend It makes you feel relaxed and happy ofcstore.

30 airs.

Ramen noo- ticIt'sproves WhoseThis recommendations do you take? thePenn multifarious it worth the nearly halfepisode the iTunes traffi for Rock the it wouldwere guess.

10 *Students surveyed a way to hang out with friends on InTouch and designthat it’s $40 cheaper Michigan Cinema Studies allowed to cost choose more 25% 25% Things makes are no different herePenn50students 1.5 salads at 47.7% sense.

We dles aren’t es seven movies, more or less, midnight screenings of blockhave if Required for Class 30 Major Other a good study one option.

40.6% ing funny lacrosse pinnies for 26.2% entertainment accessible and Thethan average Penn student toIt'swatch saidbreak movies on Netflix 25% 25% at Penn, where the Rave Sweetgreen 0 40% buster hitsare like Twilight as gets Hulu too busy procrastinating I had seen it that bad, I every semester.

Simple arithmeProfessor or TA 2 with Michigan 40 It makes feel relaxed andand happy an addinearly the traffiinvolved c for the in to 20 inexpensive to anyoneA Friend would the clubs we’re an it (who is anything butguess. average, if than atyouthe Rave, does thehalfday after the newestand designin theaters? on Penn InTouch tic proves that it’s $40 cheaper Cinema Studies Street 25% Make the right play by choosing midnight screenings of blockhave costask if Amy Gutmann) watchRequired$20 for Class 30 2 Michigan Major leave the comfort of our beds to AirPennNet account.

Wouldn’t you tional less on iTunes 26.2% 25% 25% episode ofing 30Twilight Rock airs.

This pinnies Ramen noo- Penn student to watch said movies on Netfl(cost funny lacrosse for entertainment accessible and average ix 10 *Students surveyed buster hits like as Hulu I hadwere seenThe it Professor or TA allowed to choose more 15 Wofford 20 of popcorn and Mike and IkesUniversity City Associates makes sense.

We Penn students dles aren’t es seven movies, more or less, does the the day after newestinvolved in to in clubsthewe’re inexpensive to anyone with an theaters? (who is anything but average, if than at the Rave, and an addiStreet than one option.

0 are too ofbusy procrastinating that bad, I every semester.

Simple arithmeepisode 30 Rock airs.

This Ramen noonot included in these calcula10 beds to leave the comfort of our AirPennNet account.

Wouldn’t *Students surveyed were you ask Amy Gutmann) watch- tional $20 less on iTunes (cost Studio’s, 1 and 2 bedroom units available allowed to choose more sense.

We Penn students dles aren’t es seven movies, more orthat less,it’stions). onmakes Penn InTouch and designguess. tic proves $40 cheaper Theand lowMike cost and of watchthan one option. of popcorn Ikes 0 are funny too busy procrastinating that bad,Penn I every semester. ing lacrosse pinnies for entertainment accessible and The average student toSimple watcharithmesaid movies on Netflix Book Your Tour Today! ing movies on iTunes not seven included in these calcula-for on Penn InTouch and designguess. tic proves that it’s $40 cheaper the clubs we’re involved in to inexpensive to anyone with an (who anything but average, if than at the Rave, and an addi>> Total amount of For analysis onisthe bracket ing funny lacrosse pinnies for The costisofworth watch-the accessible and The average Penn student to watch said movies on Netflix tions). than 30low bucks leave the comfort of our beds to entertainment AirPennNet account. Wouldn’t you ask Amy Gutmann) watch- tional $20 less onless iTunes (cost money |spent in movie 4106 Walnut St |for 888-605-1045 www.campusapts.om/UCAREALTY the clubs we’re involved in to inexpensive to anyone picks, with an (whosee is anything but average, if than at the Rave, and an addi- many ing seven movies on iTunes page B7 that online ofon popcorn and Mike andconveniences Ikes >>theaters* Total amount of leave the comfort of our beds to AirPennNet account. Wouldn’t you ask Amy Gutmann) watch- tional $20 less iTunes (cost

by Penn less than 30 bucks is worth paid services afford us: notthebe- money spent in movie notMike included in these calculaof popcorn and and Ikes students each semester many conveniencesby thatincessant online low cost of interrupted watchnot includedtions). in theseThe calculaing theaters* by Penn paid services afford us: not be-the tions). The low of movies watch- on ingcost seven iTunes for buffering and commercials, students each semester >> Total amount of ing seven movies iTunes for ing interrupted by less on than 30 bucks is>> worth the Total amount of incessant money spent in movie to computer viruses less than 30 bucks worth the immunity manyisconveniences that online buffering and commercials, the money spent intheaters* movie Penn many conveniences that online and most importantly, notby havpaid services afford theaters* us: not be-by Penn viruses paid services afford us: not be- immunity to computer students each ing to wait minutes aftersemester students each54 semester ing by interrupted incessant and most importantly, not having interrupted incessant by >> Total amount of andthe commercials, the watching 72 minutes of a after movie buffering andbuffering commercials, ing to wait 54 minutes to computer viruses immunity to immunity computer viruses spent of watching on Megavideo. >>money Total amount watching 72 minutes of a movie and most importantly, havand mostnot importantly, not havonline, if allwatching people who spent to mention, it’s a small money onNot Megavideo. ing to wait ing 54 minutes to waitafter 54 minutes after allonline peopleservices who paid iffor Not mention, it’s small at ofonline, price totopay when youa amount look amount of Total watching 72 minutes of a72 movie >> watching minutes>> of Total a movie Dine-In, Catering & Delivery money spent watching paid for online services on Megavideo. price pay when youcombined look used iTunes* bigtopicture — the money spentatwatching on Megavideo. the online, if all people who Dine-In, Catering & Delivery Not to mention, it’s a small the picture the combined savings ofonline the— 47.7% online, ifofallPenn peopleused who iTunes* Notyou to look mention, it’sbig afor small paid services price to pay when at Happy Hour:&Mon-Fri 5-7 savings ofwho 47.7% of online Penn paid for Dine-In, Catering Delivery pay whenstudents you atthepay for their onlineservices usedlook iTunes* the big pictureprice — thetocombined Happy Hour: Mon-Fri 5-7 Dine-In, Catering & Delivery students who pay for their online used iTunes* big picture — the combined savings of thethe 47.7% of Penn services rather than going to the Happy Hour:Special: Mon-Fri 5-7 Lunch Mon-Fri $8.95 services rather than going to the students who pay for their savings of online the 47.7% of theater Penn movie is somewhere beLunch Special: Happy Hour: Mon-Fri 5-7Mon-Fri $8.95 services ratherstudents than going to the movie theater is somewhere bewho pay for their online Lunch Special: Mon-Fri $8.95 $196,136 and $295,344, movie theaterservices is somewhere Total amount ratherbethantween going $196,136 to the tween and $295,344, Early Bird: Bird: Sun-Thur $10.95 >>>> Total amount of of Lunch Special: Mon-Fri $8.95 tween $196,136 and $295,344, depending Sun-Thur $10.95 onwhether whether they >> Totalbeamount of movie theater is somewhere Early Bird:Early Sun-Thur $10.95 money spent watching depending on they useuse money depending on whether they use spent watching money spent watching Netfl ix or or iTunes, iTunes, respectively. tweenrespectively. $196,136 and $295,344, Netfl ix Netflix or iTunes, >>respectively.

Total amount ofonline, online, if people all people online, if all people who if all whowho Early Bird: Sun-Thur $10.95 on whether they Moral ofuse thestory story won't Moral of the depending story is: we won't money spent watching Moral of the is:is:wewe won't paid for online services paid online services paid for for online services Netfl iTunes,judge respectively. judge if you just stayixinorbed. ifNetflix* youjust juststay stayininbed. online, ifbed. all peopleused who usedif judge you used Netflix* Netflix*

T

DO YOU PAY PER VIEW?

A favorite of Penn students for decades!

DO YOU PAY PER VIEW? T

• •

T

• • •

BY THE • NUMBERS BY THE NUMBERS

BY THE $153,701

BY THENUMBERS NUMBERS

$153,701

$153,701 $153,701

$196,136

8

8

8

Non�Fat 25 Calories/oz.

Late menu until 11pm Monday - Saturday

Film polled you to find out how you are getting your Sunday afternoon ST FILM KHAYKIN movie fixes. Here’s what we learned. BY 5 ANTHONY Saint Louis

22nd and washington ave

Authentic Italian Cuisine at Reasonable Prices

Wisconsin

Arizona

1

DO YOU PAY PER VIEW? 9 Kansas State

Is this the winning bracket? Can you beat it? The DP's sports department believes that it is. If your bracket scores higher than this won, you'll receive a coupon for a free WISHBONE mini hand pie, and serious bragging rights.

• Seats 150 people Fine Italian Cuisine • 5 lunches, 7 dinners, 7 days a week 1701 Spruce Street • Excellent for family and group Philadelphia, PA 19103 meetings 215-875-9990 B.Y.O.B. • Contact Management, they are www.lafontanadellacitta.com happy to meet your needs! • 15% off with Fixed Price Enjoy a complimentary glass of Sunday-Thursday wine with this ad!

BUY ONE GET ONE FREE

Oregon

8

Villanova

Experience a Touch of Italy At the Best BYOB In Philly!

La Fontana Della Citta

SAXBYS CREMOSO

7

34

4

UNC

La Fontana Della Citta

SAXBYS ORIGINAL TART

Creighton

ST FILMState Wichita

1

Michigan St

For analysis on the bracket picks, see page B7

3

Open 7 days a week!

11:30am - 10:00pm

Visit our University City location!

Florida

Virginia

Memphis

3

2

Baylor

1

4

7

6

Wisconsin

Virginia

4

3

San Diego St

2

12 Harvard

6

4

Wisconsin

New Mexico

4

4

Oklahoma

Baylor

Kansas

1 8

2

Florida

1 1

5

Arizona

6

Syracuse

Oklahoma St

San Diego St

Syracuse

7 2

4

Syracuse

3 7

Florida

9 Arizona

Ohio State 3

3

Arizona

UCLA 1

6

1

1st place: $100 2nd place: $75 3rd place: $50

UCLA

`

reet 9106

ODU INTR

Michigan St

13 Delaware 6

hubbubcoffee.com hubbubcoffee.com

G Wash

Pittsburgh

WIN Copabanana gift cards:

Arizona

7

Great Service!

t at our new store!

Check us out at our new store!

5 Cincinnati FREE QUIZO OPENING OCTOBER 21 G 21 s OCTOBER out at our new store!

GREAT Check us us out out at at our our new new7% 3(/7 store!

Check store!

12 Harvard 9

9

1

Florida

34TH STREET Magazine December 1, 2011

perfect shot (of espresso)

1

1

highbrow ego food & drink film feature music arts lowbrow

Colorado

Bracket predictions must be submitted TODAY by noon EST.

Florida

STREET Magazine December 34TH34TH STREET Magazine December 1, 2011 1, 2011

Open Wednesday-Sunday

8

1

34TH STREET Magazine December 1, 2011

16 UA/MSMary

Enter FREE online at theDP.com/bracket

ego food & drink film feature music arts lowbrow highbrow ego food & highbrow drink film feature music arts lowbrow

Florida

highbrow ego food & drink film feature music arts lowbrow

1

6

28 beers on tap

Valid at 34th and Walnut Street location.

Must mention this ad to redeem at store.

.

ss s

Men’s express cut

BUY ANY PRETZEL ITEM, GET A SECOND PRETZEL ITEM FOR ONLY $1!

e Dayton he 11 h t t l l l l a a s ’ s ’ t hat W 3 Syracuse e h e t h all a ll t 14 W Michigan s ’ t a h What’s W 7 New Mexico

U

FOR SPECIAL EVENTS RESERVATION: INFO@PULSEPHILLY.COM

OPEN DAILY • BYOB TAKE OUT • DINE IN • DELIVERY • CATERING

www.facebook.com/campusapts www.twitter.com/campusapts

WIn IN STYLE

DRINK SPECIALS $4 - $5 - $6

4034 WALNUT STREET • 215-921-3204

y

t

10% OFF

4:30pm

smart.living.

Hair Salon

PHILLY’S PREMIER HOT SPOT

OPEN THURSDAY-SUNDAY 11 PM - 3 AM

BRING IN THIS COUPON FOR 10% OFF YOUR NEXT MEAL. 10% OFF

22.9351

10% OFF

SCREW WAITING

The

IT’S ALWAYS A GOOD TIME AT

CITY PAPER, 2/27/14

10:30pm

livecampusapts.com

Thursday, March 20, 2014 Page B5

The Daily Pennsylvanian

8

$196,136

$196,136 $196,136

Your $295,344 March $295,344 $295,344 $295,344 Madness Headquarters paid for online services

Moral of the story is: we won't *A simple judge random sample PattayaRestaurant.com • 215.387.8533 if you just stay in bed. used Netflix* *$12.50/ticket at the Rave • random sample • PattayaRestaurant.com 215.387.8533 *A simple simple random sample of 100 Penn undergrads were PattayaRestaurant.com 215.387.8533 4006 Chestnut Street • University City to rent a movie on iTunes at theatSpruce Rave 3942 St. | 215.382.8158 surveyed to collect data about *$12.50/ticket the Rave of*$3.99 100 Penn undergrads • of 100 Penn undergradswere were *$12.50/ticket Chestnut Street University City *$7.99/month on Netflix • 215.387.8533 • University *A simple random sample PattayaRestaurant.com 40064006 Chestnut Street City *$3.99 to rent a movie on iTunes their film viewing habits. a movie on iTunes surveyedwere to data *$12.50/ticket at the Rave *$3.99 to rentwww.allegropizza.com surveyed to collect collect dataabout about of 100 Penn undergrads *$7.99/month on Netflix 4006 Chestnut Street • University City *$7.99/month on Netflix *$3.99 to rent a movie on iTunes their lm habits. surveyed to collecttheir datafi fiabout lm viewing viewing habits.on Netflix *$7.99/month their film viewing habits.

SP OR TS

PAGE B6 THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 2014

THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN

THE BUZZ

Coach Yurkow talks about baseball’s spring break

BY SEAMUS POWERS From The Daily Pennsylvanian’s sports blog, THE BUZZ We caught up with Penn baseball coach John Yurkow after a busy spring break in which the Quakers dropped six of eight games. The squad, which is seeking better consistency at the plate, battled the likes of Navy, Towson, Monmouth, Delaware State and

Richmond over the break.

The Quakers game at Villanova today was rained out and has not been rescheduled yet.

Daily Pennsylvanian: Your team had a busy break with eight games, some of them in cold weather. You were only able to win two, but they were all pretty close. Can you talk about how the team played and your biggest takeaways?

John Yurkow: It was good

keeping the guys together for a week. I think its good for chemistry, and you don’t have to worry about school as much.

They were able to focus on being good teammates and enjoying the game for a week. It was interesting because we did play in some really cold weather.

DP: Can you talk about how it felt to get your first win as a head coach?

JY: It was almost a feeling of relief for the team. We got the

first one, and then we really exploded in the second game [against Delaware State] and started swinging the bats a little bit. It’s definitely a good feeling to get the first win. You hope your guys then understand what it takes to win. I think right now we’re in a bit of a rut as far as our offense.

We just haven’t been able to get a big hit in a bunch of these games.

DP: In many of your early losses, the team fell behind early and was unable to come back. Is coming out stronger something you are emphasizing?

JY: When you get out to a lead, it allows you to be more aggressive in your offense.

You can play some more hit and runs, you can try to steal some more bases, you can start runners. When you get behind, you’re a little bit limited with what you can do offensively.

The way our offense is made up, we need to be a team that is consistent one through nine.

And that’s the one thing that we haven’t done a good job with so far this spring. We’re a team that has to pitch well, play good defense and have a solid offensive approach. We’re not good enough to fail in one of those areas and still be successful.

DP: Your pitching staff was able to keep you in a lot of close games. Can you talk about some of the pitching performances that impressed you over the break?

JY: Those guys are starting to settle in and that’s what I thought they would do. Connor Cuff has pitched great. Its kind of frustrating how we still haven’t been able to get him a win, as well as he’s pitched.

He’s been great, Dan Gautieri has been a lot better his last two times out. Ronnie Glenn has given us solid performanc-

es too. And some of the freshmen are starting to come along.

DP: Junior Jeff McGarry and sophomore Marshall Harden, two players who were not very involved at the plate last season, have been two of Penn’s biggest weapons this season.

Can you touch on their emergence, and whether it has surprised you?

JY: Jeff McGarry, he’s probably the best athlete on our team. There’s not much he can’t do. He goes over to first base, makes a couple of great diving plays. He can really throw for a first baseman. Obviously he’s gonna pitch some for us this season. He’s settled into the three-hole rather well.

He’s got great hand-eye coordination. He can hit the ball to all fields. ... It’s also good to see Marshall Harden because he didn’t get a ton of at-bats last year. He’s really developed into a solid hitter.

Courtesy of Penn Athletics

After seven seasons as an assistant coach for the Red and Blue, John Yurkow is in his inaugural season as W. Joseph Blood Head Coach of Penn baseball and will manage the team for the first time on its own turf this Saturday.

Classifiedads

1BR APARTMENT. 3400 Sansom St., across Penn Law. Call John at Avril 50, 215-222-6108 or avril.fifty@verizon.net 4043 SANSOM TOWNHOUSE. 5BR, 3BTH, hardwood floors, newer kitchen, baths, basement, storage, W/D. $3,750/month, includes water. 215-280-5512.

FOR RENT

44TH & SPRUCE. Large, newly renovated bi-level 4BR apartment. Available 6/1.

Laundry hookups, 2BTH, parking, large bedrooms. $1,600/month.

Please call 215-704-7036.

UNIVERSITY CITY/ 44TH & Spruce. Newly Renovated large 2 bedroom apartment.

Available 4/1. Central air, hardwood floors, laundry, $1,150/month. Please call 215-387-4137 x104

HELP WANTED

BUSINESS OPPS

EARN MONEY AND gain valuable experience selling advertising for The Daily Pennsylvanian’s print and Internet products. Positions available now and for the fall 2014 semester.

Email Katherine Chang, Advertising Manager, at chang@theDP.com to set up an interview.

FIND YOUR SUBLET THROUGH PENNLETS Visit pennlets.com today!

$$$$$

PENN ALUM SEEKING student or grad knowledgeable in stock, option, forex, binary trading to start investment venture. I provide all capital.

You receive 20% of net profits. Reply to wks620@aol. com GRADUATE RETIRED! Build a business database website in ASP. wgoshendirect@gmail.com

The New York Times Syndication Sales Corporation 620 Eighth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10018 For Information Call: 1-800-972-3550 For Release Thursday, March 20, 2014

NEWYORKTIMESCROSSWORDPUZZLE Crossword

ACROSS

28 Cinco follower

September Is Campus Fire Safety & Emergency 1Preparedness Month!

One way to stand 29 Wash. neighbor

SUDOKUPUZZLE Sponsored by: sponsored by

Hospitality Services Dining • Conference Services • Summer Housing

www.publicsafety.upenn.edu

SUDOKUPUZZLE

8 4

(215) 898-6581

www.theDP.com/classifieds

55 Boxster competitors

7 Sources of wool 30 One on the move 57 In situ, as stones 31 ___ the custom 14 Come up again, 58 “Psst!� follower, (traditionally) as a web page perhaps 32 1968 Beatles hit 15 Statement 59 Sonnet enders preceding a blunt 35 Backs, as a front truth 60 Corona 37 Member of the alternative 16 Title girl in a familia children’s book series set in Paris 38 Big name in DOWN plastic 17 Meter reading 1 Carrier of 42 Almond ___ 18 Like the first two plates? (candy brand) “Brandenburg�

2 Asset for a 43 Big hit Concertos mimic 44 Earth sci.

19 City known as 3 Notoriety “Florence on the 45 What shouldn’t Elbe� follow you?

4 Cry of mock incredulity 21 Prefix with -form 46 Macbeth or Macduff 5 Wedding staple 22 Trim 47 Golfer ___ Pak 6 River through 24 Plotter’s place Pomerania 25 Sportscaster who 48 Woman 7 “Evangeline� lent his name to 49 Ogle locale a popular video 52 Justice Dept. game series 8 More easygoing division 26 Unconvincing 9 Nabokov novel 53 “Modern Family� after “Lolita�

27 Fleet actor

Safety Tip Of The Week: Emergency Preparedness

LIVE AT PENN!

Are you a current undergrad or graduate student?

Prepare A Personal Emergency Kit: Flashlight, First Aid Kit, Etc. Taking summer session courses?

Interning in Philadelphia?

Know The Emergency Preparedness Plan For Your Building If you answered yes to any, look no further!

Edited by Will Shortz 1

4

In An Emergency: Don’t Panic - Follow Your Plan Skill Level:

6 1

6 3 2 8 6 6 8 2 7 1 3 4 7 8 5 7 5 8 1 7 9 4 7 2

Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit 1 to 9.

Solutions to Previous Puzzle:

ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE S H S H A T U R P T A T K C L I A E R T R I

Create and solve your Sudoku puzzles for FREE.

Play Sudoku and win prizes

at:

prizesudoku.com

The Sudoku Source of

“Daily Pennsylvanian�.

M I S T S

A D I E U X

C O L L I E

E E S H R P E I N I N G H O S N C T O O R O MM I N E E K D E L L I Z E I C O N L I N G T E T S S H

T O E T A G

N I H I L I S T

O M A T H H A U N

E P A L N D I A E T R I D L P O E O V T N E H E T R A Y E L E S A L A C G E D O E T R U N E R T M S

I N C I S I V E S H U T I N

A K A D E E T I T H E

10 Justice Dept. division 11 Italian actress Cardinale 12 Nickname for Michael Jordan, with “His�

13 Welcome to one’s home 15 1963 movie with the tagline “Everybody who’s ever been funny is in it!�

20 The Jetson boy 23 Disregard 25 Caused a stir

4

5

6

7

8

No. 0213 9

10

11

12

13

40

41

15 17

18

45

That Could Aect You

3

16

1 2 Know housing The Current Events And Weather Reports Registration for 2014 summer is now open.

3 Plan Ahead:

Apply online now at destinationpenn.com

2

14

22

Š Puzzles provided by sudokusolver.com

FOR RENT

Patrick Hulce/DP File Photo

Junior Jeff McGarry has been heralded as Penn’s best athlete by coach John Yurkow, displaying his skills as both a first baseman and pitcher for the Red and Blue this year. McGarry didn’t hit at all last year yet is batting third for the team in 2014.

19

20

23

21

24

26

25

27

29

28

30 32 35

31

33

34

36

37

42

43

49

47 50

54

39

44

46

48 53

38

55

57

58

59

60

51

52 56

PUZZLE BY DANIEL LANDMAN

27 Added stipulations 28 Nine-digit ID 31 Flying without ___

36 Witticisms 39 Summer drink 40 Pitcher’s woe

33 ___ loss

41 George Eliot and George Sand

34 Hold forth

43 Balance

35 Titian subject with Bacchus

45 Musical middle name

46 Time spent doing time, say 49 Dry 50 Marseille mates 51 “Glee� girl 54 Weirdo 56 Arabic name meaning “highly praised�

Annual subscriptions are available for the best of Sunday crosswords from the last 50 years: 1-888-7-ACROSS. AT&T users: Text NYTX to 386 to download puzzles, or visit nytimes.com/mobilexword for more information.

Online subscriptions: Today’s puzzle and more than 2,000 past puzzles, nytimes.com/crosswords ($39.95 a year).

Share tips: nytimes.com/wordplay.

Crosswords for young solvers: nytimes.com/learning/xwords.

SP OR TS

THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN

THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 2014 PAGE B7

THE BUZZ

Breaking down the NCAA men’s basketball bracket

BY IAN WENIK

From The Daily Pennsylvanian’s sports blog, THE BUZZ Ready for March? We are. Go region by region as Sports Editor — and bracketology minor — Ian Wenik gives you the details of the DP’s NCAA Tournament predictions.

SOUTH REGION Game to watch (Round of 64) VCU (5) vs. Stephen F. Austin (12). Havoc? Not so fast. VCU’s all-out press may rank second in adjusted defense by Ken Pomeroy’s metrics, but the Lumberjacks’ plodding pace is designed to avoid the turnovers and transition opportunities that the Rams thrive on. A Stephen F. Austin upset will be in the cards if junior guard Jacob Parker (46.7 percent from beyond the arc) can get going early.

Game to watch (Round of 32) Kansas (2) vs. New Mexico (7).

The Jayhawks dispatched the Lobos by 17 in Kansas City back in December, but that was in large part due to the presence of freshman sensation Joel Embiid in the middle, who scored 18 points and blocked four shots. But with Embiid out due to a back injury, there’s no one available to stop powerful forward Cameron Bairstow. The Lobos pull the upset.

Sweet Sixteen Florida (1) vs. UCLA (4). The Bruins, though, bring a much stronger backcourt to the table in Jordan Adams and Kyle Anderson. Anderson lights it up from deep, while Adams can create his own shot from anywhere on the floor. UCLA’s bugaboo? It can’t board to save its life. Against glass-crashers like Florida’s Patric Young and Will Yeguete, that’s a recipe for disaster.

Syracuse (3) vs. New Mexico (7). The Orange have garnered a reputation for thrilling finishes this season. Remember Tyler Ennis’ buzzer-beater against Pitt?

Or the duels with Duke? ‘Cuse will likely need some late heroics to hold off the Lobos. Look for a veteran like senior forward C.J.

Fair to be the difference down on the low block.

Elite Eight Florida (1) vs. Syracuse (3).

Did the Gators coast through a soft SEC this season? Plenty of detractors have being saying that all season, and those cries will be even louder against the battle-tested Orange. But in those disturbing late-season losses to Boston College and Georgia Tech, Syracuse forgot how to shoot from deep. Look for that trend to pop up again against Florida’s relentless perimeter defense.

EAST REGION Game to watch (Round of 64) Cincinnati (5) vs. Harvard (12).

Led by do-it-all Sean Kilpatrick, Cincy is essentially a one-man show. Harvard, in contrast, has the desirable problem of needing to figure out how to distribute the ball to its six different all-Ivy selections. The Bearcats simply don’t have the secondary scoring options needed to keep up with Siyani Chambers, Laurent Rivard and the rest of the Crimson.

Game to watch (round of 32) Villanova (2) vs. UConn (7).

There’s nothing quite like an old Big East rematch. The veterans on the Wildcats and Huskies are certainly familiar with each other, and UConn senior guard Shabazz Napier is chomping at the bit to crush coach Jay Wright’s NCAA dreams. But the Wildcats are too diverse on offense through their four-out motion to fall in the first weekend.

Sweet Sixteen Villanova (2) vs. Iowa State (3).

(DeAndre) Kane is able. Pardon the pun, but it’s been the efforts of the Cyclones’ senior guard that have resulted in coach Fred Hoiberg’s first Big 12 title. Kane has scored in double figures in 11 straight games and forms an outside-in threat with senior forward Melvin Ejim (18.1 ppg) that Villanova simply doesn’t have the firepower to keep up with.

Virginia (1) vs. Michigan State (4). No one rebounds quite like a Tom Izzo-coached team. And now that the Spartans are finally fully healthy, the preseason No.

Sam Sherman/Senior Staff Photographer

Sophomore guard Siyani Chambers will be a major factor for Harvard in its matchup against Cincinnati, as the Crimson look an NCAA Tournament upset.

2 team in the country is geared up to make another deep run.

The Cavaliers are strong inside, but don’t have the perimeter firepower to match up with guards Gary Harris, Keith Appling and Branden Dawson.

Elite Eight Iowa State (3) vs. Michigan State (4) Every recruiting class of Tom Izzo’s career has made at least one Final Four appearance in its four years on Michigan State’s campus. If this year’s senior class wants to keep that streak alive, it will likely need a herculean effort from senior forward Adreian Payne (7.4 rpg) on the defensive glass against Ejim to keep the Cyclones from getting secondchance opportunities. This could be the game of the tournament.

WEST REGION Game to watch (round of 64) Gonzaga (8) vs. Oklahoma State (9) The Cowboys have come alive since the return of star sophomore Marcus Smart from a suspension for shoving a fan, winning four of their last six games.

Smart’s presence, combined with the sudden emergence of Phil Forte on the wing, should be enough to handle a solid Gonzaga squad that was not tested heavily in the WCC. Game to watch (round of 32)

Creighton (3) vs. Baylor (6) The hits just keep on coming for Sports Illustrated cover boy and Jays superstar Doug McDermott, who captured the NCAA scoring title with a 26.9 ppg average. But the Bears are one of the hottest teams in the nation, having won six consecutive games before falling to Iowa State in the Big XII tournament final. It will take a village to stop Baylor.

Sweet Sixteen Arizona (1) vs. San Diego State (4) The Wildcats crash the offensive glass, grabbing 35 percent of offensive rebounding opportunities, and they already beat San Diego State on its home floor by nine points, grinding it out due to the presence of freshman forward Aaron Gordon. Unless the Aztecs come up with a way to deal with Arizona’s superior inside athleticism, they’ll be going home early.

Wisconsin (2) vs. Baylor (6) Bo Ryan’s Badgers have a history of falling to lower seeds in the tournament, but this year, his squad has caught a break. Wisconsin plays it safe, committing turnovers on only 11.1 percent of its possessions. Even though Baylor is far superior on the glass, the Bears won’t have nearly as many offensive chances as they would need to catch up.

Elite Eight Arizona (1) vs. Wisconsin (2) Arizona might be able to neutralize Wisconsin forward Frank Kaminsky with a combination of Gordon and forward Brandon Ashley, but can it keep up with the Badgers’ guard play? As long as junior guard Nick Johnson keeps up his high level of play, the Wildcats will be able to force the Badgers out of their tempo and earn a long-awaited trip to Arlington.

Midwest Game to watch (round of 64) Texas (7) vs. Arizona State (10) Very little separates these two teams, save for Texas’ overwhelming ability to rebound. But Sun Devils guard Jahii Carson has scored at least 20 points in 12 different games this season. You can’t rebound the basketball if it’s going through the bottom of the net. Arizona State survives and advances.

Game to watch (Round of 32) Wichita State (1) vs. Kentucky (8) How the mighty have fallen.

Once considered a foregone conclusion to win the national title, John Calipari’s Wildcats have crashed hard, as his fabulous freshmen have failed to truly coalesce. That lack of chemistry will be fatal against the talented, deep and, most importantly, united Shockers, who have been laserfocused all year long.

Sweet Sixteen Wichita State (1) vs. Louisville (4) Last year, the Shockers’ stunning run to the Final Four was halted by the eventual national champion Cardinals. This year, Wichita State has an even bigger target on its back that reads “340.” Criminally underseeded, Louisville will use the oft-spectacular play of senior guard Russ Smith to end the Shockers’ perfect season and keep hopes of a title repeat alive.

Michigan (2) vs. Duke (3) Will it be the Jabari Parker show in March? The Duke guard has quickly proven himself to be the best of a much ballyhooed

freshman class, averaging 19.3 points per game. If Parker gets hot, not only will he prevent an Elite Eight rematch of last year’s national title game, he’ll also give himself a shot at being picked first overall in the NBA Draft.

Elite Eight Duke (3) vs. Louisville (4) It’s tough to find too much separation between the Blue Devils and Cardinals. Both shoot efficiently from all spots on the floor and find ways to crash the boards on both ends of the floor. But Louisville is far superior at trapping and forcing turnovers, and its veteran backcourt will be able to flummox Parker and junior guard Quinn Cook.

Final Four Florida (1) vs. Michigan State (4) When healthy, Michigan State is the most talented team in the country. But there’s a big difference between “most talented” and “best team.” With eight different players receiving at least 10 minutes of action per game, it doesn’t matter who spreads out around elite point guard Scottie Wilbekin, the Gators will find a way to penetrate and get easy buckets.

Arizona (1) vs. Louisville (4) The Wildcats are the beneficiaries of the weakest region in the tournament, but will run into a cardinal-red buzzsaw when they tip off in AT&T Stadium. Louisville’s forward combination of Montrezl Harrell and Chane Behanan may be the best frontcourt duo in the country, and Arizona simply won’t have enough to answer the call on the post — or outside on kick-out passes.

National Championship Florida (1) vs. Louisville (4) Can Rick Pitino repeat? Well, Peyton Siva isn’t walking through that door. Neither is Gorgui Deng.

This year’s Cardinals are certainly comparable to last year’s champs, but the Gators have certainly proved themselves capable of fending off any challenge. The difference will likely be Florida’s superior three-point shooting, as the Gators claim the NCAA title.

GET THE DOOR, IT’S DOMINO’S

GET THE DOOR, IT’S DOMINO’S FREE! FREE! FREE! JUST FOR YOU!!!

Go ahead & Place Your Order Online & Receive a 2pc Order of our Delicious Chocolate Lava Crunch Cakes FREE! Enter Promo Code: 9152 Hurry! Limited Time Offer

Open Late

DOMINO’s

215-427-3000 3400 Aramingo Ave Philadelphia, PA 19134

215-535-1860 6391 Oxford Ave. Philadelphia, PA 19111

215-886-1300 538 Mt. Carmel Ave. Glenside, PA 19038

215-557-0940 401 N. 21st St. Philadelphia, PA 19130

215-457-5000 4229 N. Broad St. Philadelphia, PA 19140

610-734-1500 157 S. 69th St. Upper Darby, PA 19082

215-592-8534 716 South St. Philadelphia, PA 19147

Store Hours Sun - Thurs 10 am until 1 am Fri & Sat 10 am until 2 am

215-379-0800 503 Fox Chase Rd. Hollywood, PA 19111

Store Hours Sun - Thurs 10 am until 2 am Fri & Sat 10 am until 1 am

Store Hours Sun - Thurs 10 am until 1 am Fri & Sat 10 am until 3 am

215-662-1400 4438 Chestnut St. Philadelphia, PA

2-ITEM MINIMUM. Any delivery charge is not a tip paid to your driver. Our drivers carry less than $20. You must ask for this limited time offer. Delivery charge and tax may apply.

Prices, participation, delivery area and charges may vary. Returned checks, along with the state’s maximum allowable returned check fee, may be electronically presented to your bank. ©2012 Domino’s IP Holder LLC. Domino’s ®, Domino’s Pizza ® and the modular logo are registered trademarks of Domino’s IP Holder LLC.

Store Hours:

Sun–Thurs 10am–1am

Fri & Sat 10am–3am

Two Locations!

215-557-0940 401 N. 21st St.

215-662-1400 4438 Chestnut St.

PAGE B8 THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 2014

THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN

College Basketball Bracket CHallenge

Who will rise?

YOU DECIDE. JOIN:

GO TO THEDP.COM/BRACKET

prizes:

1st: $100 2nd: $75 3rd: $50

BY NOON TODAY TO FILL OUT YOUR BRACKET FOR A CHANCE TO WIN

to

FREe MINI hand pie if you score better than dp sports!