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BAGNOLI TO RETIRE FOOTBALL | The 2014 season will be Bagnoli’s final at the helm of the Red and Blue as Ray Priore prepares to succeed the coaching legend

BY STEVEN TYDINGS Senior Sports Editor 2014 will be Al Bagnoli’s last year at the helm of Penn football.

The Daily Pennsylvanian confirmed that Bagnoli will retire after his 23rd season coaching the Red and Blue. According to the Philadephia Inquirer’s Mike Jensen, defensive coordinator Ray Priore will succeed Bagnoli as Penn’s head coach.

In his 22 years as Penn football head coach, Bagnoli has amassed 232 victories, nine outright Ivy League titles and six undefeated seasons in Ivy play.

Priore summed up Bagnoli’s legacy when asked about it last fall.

“He’ll go down as the winningest coach in Penn history,” Priore said. “But he’s been able to be honest with kids, be up front with kids. Kids have done the job in the classroom, graduated and become great family people.

“I think his impact is more than just football. It is everything

that has to do with sports and in life.”

Reports of Bagnoli’s retirement surprised alums, including 2013 College graduate Joe Holder, a former walk-on who contributed to Penn’s most recent Ivy title.

“I was slightly shocked because it came out of nowhere, but when you sit back and think about the circumstances surrounding the year and everything, it begins to make more sense,” he said.

Holder also thought that Bagnoli’s change in attitude in recent years may have been an indicator that his time at Penn was coming to an end.

“You could kind of tell my senior year or so [that] he started to get a little bit more relaxed,” Holder said. “He was still very involved, but you could say he became little more of a player’s coach.”

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The winningest football coach in Penn history, Al Bagnoli will retire at the end of 2014. Bagnoli has racked up 232 wins and nine outright Ivy titles entering his final season at the helm.

Transgender students get OK to register preferred names

CAPS to relocate to Market Street

Ten years in the making, the Preferred Name Initiative launched on the VPUL website this month

BY LAURA ANTHONY Deputy News Editor It is now easier for students at Penn to use a “preferred name” if their legal name does not reflect their gender identity.

The Preferred Name Initiative has been launched on the website of the Division of the Vice Provost for University Life. The initiative provides a new systemized way for students to request that their preferred name be used in place of their legal or birth name in University systems.

“This is really important for our trans students to feel part of the community and to be safe and to really be recognized for who they are,” Senior Associate Director of the LGBT Center Erin Cross said.

Faculty and staff are not currently eligible for this process, Cross said. People who would prefer to go by their Hebrew name, those who are named after their father and use their middle name and international students who want to go by a different name also cannot request a preferred name, though Cross hopes to see the initiative expand to include them. “Personally I think anybody should be able to use their preferred name,” she said.

In the past, transgender students who wished to use a preferred name had to reach out to Cross and work with her to get their preferred name recognized by the registrar’s office, but there was no official system. Since this option was not publicized, trans students most often heard about it through word of mouth, Cross said.

Now, students who identify as transgender, gender noncomforming, gender variant and non-cisgender who would like to use a preferred name can fill out the Preferred Name Change Form online. This would allow their preferred name to be used on their PennCard, in the Penn directory and on class rosters. This process would not constitute a legal name change.

Students who wish to use a preferred name will also meet with one of three trans allies, who aim to “facilitate a confidential process,” Associate Vice Provost for Student Affairs Karu Kozuma said.

Kozuma, Cross and Associate Director of Activities for the Office of Student Affairs Rodney Robinson are the three allies that will work with students throughout this process.

A student’s preferred name will then be used “where feasible in all University systems unless the student’s birth name and/or legal name use is required by law or the student’s preferred name use is for intent of misrepresentation,” the VPUL website says.

The Preferred Names Initiative will be formally incorporated into Release 2 of the Next Generation Student Systems, a new database which will replace the three core student registration systems that are currently based on outdated technology: Student Accounts and Billing, Academic Records and Registration and Financial Aid, Executive Director for Education and Academic Planning at the Office of the Provost Rob Nelson said. http://www.sfs.upenn.

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Counseling and Psychological Services will move to a new office at 3624 Market St. in January 2015. The new office, shown here in a preliminary rendering by the architecture firm designing the office, will have 50 percent more space.

The new office, opening in January 2015, will be 50 percent larger than CAPS’ current space

BY SARAH SMITH Senior Writer Counseling and Psychological Services will relocate to the first floor of 3624 Market St. in January 2015.

CAPS will move over winter break next school year and has signed a 15-year lease at the new location, according to a University announcement Tuesday morning.

The move, necessitated by plans to build the Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics at the building at 36th and Walnut streets, where CAPS is currently housed, has been the subject of speculation among students this semester.

The new site will net CAPS 25 percent more

total square footage, according to an email sent out by Associate Vice Provost Max King, including a 300 percent increase in space available for group therapy.

“If it’s the same number of clinicians in a bigger space, it’s not an improvement,” said College junior and Penn Undergraduate Health Coalition member Elana Stern, who learned of the move through King’s email. She said she was glad, though, that there was finally an announcement on the location.

The Market Street building was the only building close enough to campus that met the space needs of CAPS, King said. The building gives CAPS the option of expanding its office space in upcoming years.

CAPS Director Bill Alexander, who was not closely involved with the moving process, said the new building has its fair share of pros and cons.

“If there’s an issue, it might be location.

In terms of the place itself, it’s a lot nicer and bigger than what we have now,” he said.

A potential plus of the location, he added, was giving students seeking help at CAPS anonymity.

Penn Undergraduate Health Coalition Chair and College sophomore Julie Bittar, too, thought the move was overall an improvement.

“Compared to the current space, it’s a big step up,” she said. “And students walking over can just say they’re going to Student Health.”

King, Alexander and others involved in the transition are in the early stages of meeting with Strada, the Philadelphia architecture firm overseeing the renovation to tailor the space to CAPS’ needs. The building is already set to have larger offices, and the waiting area will be configured so passersby SEE CAPS PAGE 6

Sometimes it’s better not to do your own stunts ‘New Girl,’ ‘Let’s Be Cops’ actors visited Penn

BY KRISTEN GRABARZ Staff Writer Jake Johnson and Damon Wayans Jr., the stars of “Let’s Be Cops” and television comedy “New Girl”, visited Penn last night for a meet and greet with students and an advanced screening at the Rave, followed by an exclusive Q&A session. The film’s writer, Nicholas Thomas, joined them in promoting “Let’s Be Cops,” which will be released in August. The DP selected some of the best questions from the Q&A session.

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Jake Johnson and Damon Wayans Jr, the stars of “Let’s Be Cops” and “New Girl,” met with fans in Houston Hall yesterday.

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Question: Did you do all your own stunts?

Damon Wayans Jr.: We almost did all our own stunts — I’d be like running, about to jump off the thing, and they would be like “cut” and bring in some dude and he’d hurt himself.

Jake Johnson: The only baby stunts we both did, we both got hurt doing, so it was really nice to pass it off.

Q: How did the idea [for “Let’s Be Cops”] come along? Have you worked on other projects like this?

Nicholas Thomas: I did a hidden camera show with the director of the movie about 12 years ago. In the show, we dressed a guy up in a cop uniform, and he rolled around gave tickets to people for no reason. From there we knew it was like a super hero costume — you put it on and you could get away with all that great shit.

Q: When did you guys first get attached to the project?

JJ: About 15 months ago, that guy sent the script. ... For me it was important who the other guy would be. When they said Damon was involved, we talked on the phone, and I basically said I’d do it if he did it.

DW: That’s how it happened.

Q: Did you guys have any real firearm experience or training for the movie?

DW: In my teens I would go to the gun range all the time and shoot lots of guns SEE COPS PAGE 3

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Sex is not just for ‘the hot and the hungry’

Speaker Cindy Pierce wants college students to embrace healthy sex

BY SOPHIA WITTE Contributing Writer It’s OK to know what you want out of sex.

O n T ue sd ay n ig ht , t he Panhellenic Council brought sp e a ker Ci nd y P ier c e t o campus to offer a fresh perspective on sex in the context of college relationships.

Pierce tours college campuses across the country to

spark dialogue on sex and related topics that are often considered taboo. Her performances are inspired by her original comedy shows, “Finding the Doorbell” and “ K ids, Pa rents, a nd Sex: Who’s On Top?” Pierce immediately set a tone of candor and comedy for the explicit discussion to come. She described herself as a “mom-looking” woman and addressed the irony of her talking about the intricacies of sex from — a fact that attested to the ubiquitous presence of sex in today’s

society.

“Great, healthy sex is not reserved for the hot and the hungry — it is for everyone,” Pierce said.

Based on personal experience and interviews with young people, Pierce used comical storytelling to communicate the harsh truths that are engrained in the social conventions of college.

The room’s reaction made it clear that the Panhellenic communit y could identify with Pierce’s forthright analysis of sex, relationships and party norms.

To explain the perpetuation of unfulfilling relationships, P ierce highlighted divergent understandings of sex. Misleading thoughts about sex come not only from the media, but also from internalized pressures to uphold standards believed to be desirable.

“Sexual education is coming behind layers and layers of porn, media and certain motivations based on a disconnect about what people think their partners and others want,” Pierce said.

P ierce also emphasized

the drunken hook-up culture as a source of sexual discontent. By equating the pattern of random hook-ups to the insatiable high of drugs, Pierce stressed the growing void that comes with unsatisfying sexual relationships.

The casual party culture has expanded into a serious danger due to the correlation between “today ’s planet drunk” — normative binge drinking — and sexual assault, Pierce said. The blurred definition of consent combines with skewed judgment to reinforce the no -

tion that “alcohol becomes a shield against accountability,” she added.

A lthough the speech pr ompt e d sever a l f it s of laug hter, P ierce ex posed the disheartening reality of our sex culture. The lecture compelled the audience to reexamine their perspectives on sex by ex plor ing wh at ever que st ion s t hey might have.

According to Pierce, “The sooner you get into what you love about yourself and what you need to know about sex, the better.”

Today’s UPennAlert system was seven years in the making The need for alerts stemmed from the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre

BY COSETTE GASTELU Staff Writer In the minutes after shots were fired early last Tuesday morning at Copabanana on 40th and Spruce streets, thousands of students and other University personnel found their cell phones vibrating or ringing with a UPennAlert informing them of the danger in the area. But what many may not realize is that the UPennAlert that was issued last week was the product of a process that began with its inception more than seven years ago.

Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush explained that the need for electronic emergency alert technology at college campuses first came to light in the aftermath of the April 2007 Virginia Tech massacre, which left 32 dead and 17 wounded.

Before the UPenn A lert Emergency Notification Sys-

tem existed, members of the Penn community would usually find out about emergencies through an email sent from DPS, word of mouth, the network of police and security responders or simply from being near the scene.

The Virginia Tech incident effectively marked the birth of the emergency alert technology industry, Rush said.

“As the technology matured, universities learned more ... and [Penn] did a lot of research on different companies,” she added.

With the help of Mitchell Yanak, director of communications for the Division of Public Safety, the UPennAlert Emergency Notification System was up and running just seven months after the Virginia Tech massacre.

DPS performed the first UPennAlert campus test on Nov. 1, 2007. As The Daily Pennsylvanian reported on Nov. 5, 2007, “95.3 percent of the targeted individuals receiv[ed] a notification either by phone, e-mail or text-message.” As part of the drill, “DPS simulated a hazardous materials

incident in the Caster Building” and the system notified individuals “who either worked or had class in the building,” according to the Nov. 5 article.

A little over a year after the initial test of the system, the first UPennAlert was issued on Dec. 19, 2008 in response to a rape that occurred at an offcampus apartment located on the 4400 block of Spruce Street.

The DP reported on Nov. 9, 2010 that the perpetrator of the incident, serial rapist Domenique Wilson, forced himself into the apartment with a gun and a knife. Wilson proceeded to hold the residents, two female Penn students, against their will, binding their hands together with duct tape. Wilson also raped one of the students.

In relation to that incident, 71,115 emails and text messages were sent out in 10 minutes, DPS said.

In November 2010, Wilson was convicted of 14 charges related to the Dec. 19 incident as well as another home invasion and rape that he committed in Center City in 2008. Prior to his November 2010 conviction, Wilson was also convicted

of crimes related to a February 2009 incident in which he attacked three Lock Haven University students, sexually assaulting two of them.

When the system was first implemented, UPennAlerts were not without hiccups.

Originally, UPennAlert recipients were notified of an emergency by three modes of communication — email, text message and voicemail. The voicemail component, however, was eliminated after many people called the PennComm Operations Center back instead of just listening to the alert message themselves.

Since PennComm is responsible for communicating with officers as they respond to situations, the fact that “PennComm was being inundated with phone calls about the UPennAlert” had the potential to “negatively effect the tactical response” of DPS personnel,” Rush said.

“We know now that text messaging is the quickest and most preferred method of receipt among students,” Rush added.

As smartphones became more prevalent on campus, a

link to the DPS website was added to the UPennA lert messages. This new development also revealed the need for some other technological adjustments at DPS. “One of the first times that the link was included in the message, the surge that was created by so many people clicking on the link all at once caused the DPS website to crash,” Rush said.

To remedy this situation, DPS worked closely with Information Systems & Computing to expand the bandwidth of the DPS website so that the crashes are no longer an issue.

Since the early days of UPenn Alerts, the system has largely been streamlined.

Currently, students receive all UPennAlerts that are issued. Faculty and other University employees receive the alerts between the hours of 7 a.m. and 9 p.m. on weekdays, unless they are in a direct student support role, such as House Dean. This summer, DPS will be starting a new project that will allow faculty and other staff to opt-in to receive alerts at all times, Rush said.

This year marked the first time that DPS issued UPennAlerts for school closings due to snow.

“This year we had an exceptional winter and the University considered the snow to be a safety issue,” Rush added.

In addition to the UPennAlert text message and email notification system, the University retains the Penn Siren Outdoor System, a network of 19 speaker systems that are placed throughout campus.

Rush said that in the event of an immediate life-threatening condition, such as a tornado, messages could be transmitted through the speakers as well as the public address systems in newer buildings like the Singh Center for Nanotechnology or the newer wings of the Law School.

The University runs regular tests on PennSOS, but the system has never actually had to be put to use.

“The value of PennSOS is that it is an instantaneous communication system that we can use in a situation where every minute is important,” Rush said.

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CHOP’s expansion sparks controversy CHOP is building a research center and garage near the Schuykill

BY ALEXANDRA GESTOS Staff Writer

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Former supervisor for Goodyear Tire & Rubber Lilly Ledbetter, whose lawsuit against the company resulted in legislation for wage equality among genders in 2009, was hosted on campus by SPEC Connaissance yesterday.

‘Let’s Be Cops’ comes out August 13 COPS from page 1 because it was funny. I would try to get the biggest guns possible and see how much kick they have.

Q: What are some of the major differences in filming this movie as opposed to filming “New Girl?”

JJ: First of all, this is rated R. Second of all, there was a dick on Damon’s face. That’s not going to happen on any deleted scenes of “New Girl.” Our characters are very different from our characters on the show. But you know the similarity is in our working together.

Q: Any upcoming projects?

JJ: I’m doing “Jurassic World” later this summer, and then this comes out August, so we’ll be moving around all summer trying to push it.

DW: I did a Disney movie I did a voice for coming out in November. It’s going to be a pretty dope movie. It’s from same people who did “Tan-

gled” and “Frozen.”

Q: Was the entire [Let’s Be Cops] film scripted or was any of it improved?

NT: Yeah, I’d say 60-70 percent was improvised. Not only are these guys writers, but they’re on weekly TV shows that are heavily improved, so they’re like the best at it in the world. So there’s tons of it. Note every scene could be that way because not everyone in the film has those skills, but all Jake and Damon’s stuff was — was the hardest part of editing.

Q: This is a “New Girl” related question — Is Coach going to stay?

DW: I’m definitely going to be there for next season.

Q: If you guys were real cops for a day, what would you do?

DW: I would text a lot while I drove, I would be on the phone, like handheld — no one would pull me over. I would harass white people a lot.

Q: Nick, what part of the script do you think Damon and Jake acted out the best?

NT: All the way through, man. These two had dialed in from the get-go. I truly think it’s the best duo since “Wedding Crashers.”

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The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is proposing expansion near the South Street Bridge, and it is causing conflict with local residents.

In addition to a research center CHOP plans to build near the edge of the Schuylkill River, it plans to add a parking garage as well as a surface lot, both with approximately 250 parking spots each, to the property. The garage will be from the ground level up and will additionally serve as a podium for a future building CHOP will add in a later building plan.

“CHOP operates clinical research programs and administrative services in a leased building at 3535 Market Street and our plan is to try and consolidate our employees into one location and that location is Schuylkill Avenue,” Vice President for Government Affairs, Community Relations and Advocacy at CHOP, Peter Grollman, said.

But its proposal to add two driveways leading onto the South Street Bridge that would allow drivers to access the expressway directly has irked members of the nearby community because of safety concerns.

“This looks like a real estate play, not a health care play — creating something very car-friendly at the expense of everyone else,” said Michael McGettigan, the owner of Trophy Bikes and a resident of the southwest section of Center City. “In the mornings, people will come up from the expressway and make a right turn into the driveway, which is the most deadly maneuver to cyclists.”

Although McGettigan noted that CHOP has heard community members’ concerns about increased car traffic, Grollman

has said that only 25 percent of their employees actually drive to work, resulting in less congestion.

Another community member, James Campbell, an architect at Campbell Thomas & Co., said that local residents want to be engaged with CHOP. “The neighborhood and business associations want to activate a connection between their facilities and South Street and Schuylkill Avenue by incorporating active commercial buildings,” Campbell said.

“The consensus is that everyone wants there to be a more urban connection, meaning not a pretty berm with a huge parking garage behind it.”

Grollman has assured that the new addition to Schuylkill Avenue will benefit community members and CHOP employees alike, despite the building being an office for employees.

“The first floor on the plaza level will have a cafe open to the public,” Grollman said. “What we’ve agreed to do is also pilot the use of our garage in the off peak hours for a fee, comparable to what we’d charge employees, and try to make it available to the public.”

The driveway is necessary in order to allow firetrucks, employees who take UCY shuttles and taxis dropping off and picking up people to access the new property efficiently.

“What we’ve tried to do is balance the need to mitigate traffic and the need to get these cars into the property by creating the flow of traffic from the Schuylkill Expressway into the garage through the south street bridge,” Grollman said. “This is the best way to do that without being more disruptive to the neighborhood.”

Grollman added that although some people think this will impede the flow of bikes east and west on the bridge, the development will improve the community as a whole.

“On something like this we felt it was important to come to the table early and often,” Grollman said. “Our goal is to be a good neighbor but ultimately our mission is to conduct this research, provide excellent patient care, and provide training for future pediatricians — that’s why this property is important to us.”

“In order to keep the bike lane safe, there are some changes that need to made in terms of where the bike lane is on the street,” Executive Director of the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia, Alex Doty, said.

“We are asking that the bike lane be moved to the left of a right-hand turning lane.”

Doty further explained that the proposal calls for extra protection for the lane, something done in other cities but never in Philadelphia.

However, McGettigan said he doesn’t agree with Doty’s proposal intending to accommodate CHOP’s expansion plans.

“When it comes to this kind

of dispute, bike facilities tend to lose,” McGettigan said. “[Doty] wants to design around it and you can’t design around 500 cars.”

Campbell noted that, when the South Street Bridge was recently redesigned, the sidewalks were made broader and bike lanes were improved.

However, he said that CHOP’s new proposal would go back on some of that progress.

“CHOP is proposing to direct a fair amount of traffic across the bike lanes and sidewalks that we fought really hard to make usable,” Campbell said.

Community engagement with CHOP has been going on since 2009, according to Grollman.

“We think the dialogue with the community has been a good and honest one and we look forward to being a good partner,” Grollman said. “Certainly there are concerns ... but I think most people will agree that we’ve done a good job of working together.”

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CORRECTIONS An April 22 article in the Daily Pennsylvanian (‘Mean Girls’ actor: If you don’t like what you study, drop out) incorrectly stated that Steve Callahan survived on a life raft in the Caribbean for 76 days.

Callahan was rescued near the Caribbean islands but drifted through the Atlantic Ocean. The article also stated that Rajiv Surendra worked as a sheep shearer. Surendra demonstrated sheep shearing at a historic site. The Daily Pennsylvanian regrets the errors.

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Immune to reason THE DEVIL’S ADVOCATE | The anti-vaccine movement, whether religious or secular, needs a dose of reality

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hen the first measles vaccine was introduced in 1963, the t ot a l nu mber of a n nua l measles cases in the United States topped 450,000.

By 1968, the number had dropped below 30,000, and by 2000, the disease had been eliminated from the United States entirely.

Vaccines are arg uably t he si ng le most i mp or tant and successful public health achievement in history. Unfortunately, the last few decades have seen a startling resurgence in anti-vaccine hysteria.

The anti-vax movement is fringe but not inconsequential. Recent outbreaks of measles, mumps, whooping cough and more vaccine-preventable diseases have appeared across the nation due in no small part to “philosophica l objectors,” who reject inoculat ion ba sed on spu r ious anti-scientific claims.

Before such secular objections took hold, however, most resistance to vaccinations came from religion.

The English theologian Edwa rd Massey a rg ued that diseases were divine retribution poured out upon sinners and attempting to prevent smallpox by inoculation was resisting God’s will.

While the divine punishment angle still pops up from time to time, “modern” religious objections tend to come from appeals t o G o d ’s s av i ng g r ac e .

Faith healing churches, like the Texas megachurch that was responsible for a measles outbreak last summer, eschew most or all forms of modern medical treatment — including vac-

cines — and instead pray for divine healing.

More mainstream Christ i a ns h ave c a mpa ig ned against the HPV vaccine Gardasil on the grounds that giving girls the shot would encourage sexual promiscuity — the same argument often put forward against other public health measures like condom distribution, comprehensive sexual education and readily available birth control.

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Perhaps the most ironic claim made is that vaccines are unneeded. Rather, the success of vaccines allows such myths to f lourish in the first place. Thanks to i no c u l at ion c a mp a ig n s , most anti-vaxxers lack personal experience with the horrors of smallpox, pertusis, measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, tetanus and other diseases that used to routinely kill and maim our cet by Andrew Wakefield, children and neighbors.

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Not only have countless p o p u l a t i o n i s i m m u n e follow-up studies directly t hat t he d ise a se is u ncontradicted this result, able to spread to vulnerbut The Lancet actually able populations — most retracted the original ar- anti-vaxxers have thus far ticle in 2010 when it was been spared such personal revealed to be fraudulent. tragedy. But as recent outWakefield was also stripped breaks and studies have demonst rated , herd i mof his medical license.

But the destruction of the munity in some par ts of kindling did little to fight the United States is at its the f ire, which was now breaking point.

As the body count consustained by the twin fuels of scientific illiteracy and tinues to rise, we can no anti-establishment fears. longer afford to accommo“Big-phar ma” and “con- date baseless objections — ventional med icine” be - whether rooted in religion came bogeymen that use or pseudoscience. their overwhelming political power to suppress the COLLIN BOOTS is a master’s “natural healing” wonders student studying robotics of Supplementary, Comple- from Redwood Falls, Minn. mentar y and A lternative Email him at cboots@seas. upenn.edu. or follow him Medicine (SCAMs).

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‘Big pharma’ and ‘conventional medicine’ became bogeymen that use their overwhelming political power to suppress the “natural healing” wonders of Supplementary, Complementary and Alternative Medicine (SCAMs).”

However, the most upsetting example of religion interfering with public health is the continued existence of polio.

Just a decade ago, norther n Niger ia had been prov isionally declared p o l i o - f r e e . H o w e v e r, a group of extreme Islamic religious leaders issued a fatwa declaring the vaccine drops to be a conspiracy by Western powers to sterilize true believers of the Muslim faith. Within the year, polio was back. Pilgrims also carried both disease and conspiracy theor y to Mecca, allowing both the v i r us a nd it s sy mbiot ic meme to spread to Yemen, Pakistan and other countries.

If not for this intervention, polio may have joined smallpox as a globally eradicated disease.

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Publications Preview: Synapse and Penn Appetit

Both student-run magazines have spring issues out this week

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Keep your eyes peeled and hands open to grab copies of the spring 2014 Synapse and Penn Appetit magazines on Locust Walk this week.

On Tuesday, Synapse held its launch party to celebrate the theme of this semester’s issue, “Mapping Your Health: The

Role of the Individual in Medicine Today” with Vice President and Head of U.S. Medical Laura Bessen as the keynote speaker.

College junior Sahil Doshi, the co-editor-in-chief of Synapse, said Bessen’s visit is “one positive step in expanding the student body’s conception of health care as a field with more than just the clinical and academic aspect.” Bessen also represents medicine’s less acknowledged business components.

Doshi added that he is especially excited for students to read the magazine’s coverage of

relevant issues at the moment: Adderall usage on college campuses, the anti-vaccine movement and the organ donation process.

If you missed the Synapse launch, there is still Penn Appetit’s launch on Thursday to look forward to. This semester, it’s all about pie.

“I really wanted a theme that could incorporate recipes, features on Philadelphia chefs and restaurants, personal narratives, scientific perspectives and historical accounts,” Editor-inChief Katelyn Behrman said.

“Pie best fits the bill, and has the appeal of being both comforting and culturally entrenched.”

Behrman suggests keeping a special eye out for the interview with Kevin Sbraga from “Top Chef” and the article featuring people’s responses to what their final meal on Earth would be — Amy Gutmann included.

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“The problem is actually motivated by some data from The Daily Pennsylvanian’s crime reports,” Starr said. “We found in a given month that there were 23 bike thefts, 43 percent of which were due to incorrect usage of personal locks.”

PubLock, essentially a public bike locking system, removes the expense of purchasing U-Locks or chain locks and eliminates the possibility of not securing the bike properly.

PubLock’s strength is its simplicity. A cyclist simply rolls the bike up to an available rack and aligns the frame with the rack. He then grabs the handle, pulls out the chain and inserts it in the locking bit. The handle is held in place by a magnet but does not lock until the owner uses a personal RFID card to “wake the lock up and activate our electronics.” Once secured, the handle cannot be pulled out

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PubLock is a senior design project by four current Penn engineers that aims to be a more cost-effective and secure alternative to current bike locking systems. by another RFID except the one used to lock it, Polin explained.

The team believed that this system was especially beneficial to the University because of the implementation of RFID technology occurring next year. “Theoretically, if Penn were to implement this idea, you could bike around with a Penn card and lock your bike up using a PennCard,” Hill said.

RFID technology was used in Gregory to replace keys with PennCards, which function like hotel keys.

The team tested various ways to make the chain retract reliably. “We did fatigue testing and found that elastic waistband — which you have in your underwear — was the best material for that,” Hill said. Additionally, a steel cable is in place that prevents the chain from being pulled all the way out.

PubLock was created to be “really interchangeable and modular” so that any damage would be easily replaceable.

Current estimates indicate that the baseline manufacturing

costs would be about $150 per unit, if produced one hundred units at a time.

PubLock is not limited to Penn. Team members say they could sell it and RFID cards to cities, companies and bike share programs. “For bike share programs like Citi Bike, this could allow for much cheaper installation,” Neier said. “We think that they could have great use for them because you can use their bike with this system and it would be less costly.”

The team filed a provisional patent earlier this week with the help of Law School student Kevin Chung to protect the intellectual property of their system.

While there are some patents filed for similar systems, there is currently no product on the market that fills the same role as PubLock, Polin said.

The team won the William K. Gemill Memorial Award for outstanding creativity at yesterday’s senior design presentation, and will compete in the All-SEAS competition on May 1 at the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

Director of CAPS: new space ‘nicer’ CAPS from page 1 will not be able to see in.

“We don’t have a room big enough to seat all our staff, let alone our workshops,” Alexander said of CAPS’ current location. “It’ll be nice to have rooms large enough to have groups of students.” He also aims to improve CAPS’ technology in the transition.

King denied earlier reports that the administration was considering moving CAPS into the same building as Student Health Service at 3535 Market St. Alexander, however, said that they may have hoped to put it in the SHS building but could not find empty space.

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Award-winning Jake’s Sandwich Board will open in Fall 2014

BY CLAIRE COHEN Deputy News Editor Award-winning slow-roasted sandwiches are coming to University City.

Jake’s Sandwich Board announced yesterday that they will join the development at 40th and Sansom streets, which is opening in Fall 2014. Philadelphia Business Journal crowned Jake’s cheesesteak the best in Philadelphia in 2013. “ We thought bei ng on Penn’s campus or as close as we could get to it would be ideal,” co-owner Gary Dorfman said. “We thought it was like a no brainer.”

Jake’s allows customers to build their own pork, brisket and steak sandwiches. Cus-

tomers can “roll it” on bread, or “bowl it” — eating the meat “naked” in a bowl, on top of greens, or on a “haystack” of fries. Sandwich favorites include the Village Turkey, a sandwich made with roasted turkey, bacon, arugula and black cherry spread, along with The Mensch, a brisket sandwich with horseradish sauce, fried onions and melted provolone.

“We’ve been taking a simple approach by finding great bread that we’ve been using, house roasting meats and finding great toppings,” Dorfman added.

The 50/50 sandwich, made up of half pork and half bacon with sriracha and provolone, was included on BuzzFeed’s list of 11 Wonderful Sandwiches in Philadelphia. Foxnews.com also named Jake’s Garlic Bomb steak sandwich one of the best new sandwiches of 2012.

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Jake’s will be open Sunday throug h Wed nesday from 11 a.m. until 10 p.m. and Thursday through Saturday from 11 a.m. until 3 a.m. The restaurant will also deliver lunch and dinner, including to dorms.

The eatery will join Whirled Peace Frozen Yogurt, Dunkin’ Donuts and Zesto Pizza in the 40th and Sansom development. It will be Jake’s second location, with the original located at 12th and Sansom streets.

“We’re excited to come out there and are looking forward to meeting a lot of new people once we open the doors,” Dorfman said.

edu/ngss/background.html Although there is no definitive timeline for the database overhaul, Nelson expects it to be implemented in five to seven years, at which point the preferred names project will be formally incorporated into the new system.

Cross said that conversations about a preferred name initiative have been in the works for about 10 years, but they have “picked up speed in the last four or five years as the number of self-identified trans students increases on campus.”

More recently, she brought up this issue with College junior and Lambda Alliance Chair Dawn Androphy in 2012.

Androphy started working with the Undergraduate Assembly to solidify student support for the project and then moved on to conversations with administrators.

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Torn oblique ended MLB dreams LUBANSKI from page 10 came along for the ride during Lubanski’s playing career, whether it was in the form of a book’s pages glistening under the dim reading lights of a team bus or a magazine article stashed away in a locker during batting practice. “You do get to a point where you plateau intellectually if you’re not keeping up with it, and I felt that,� he recalled. “So I did start early in my career, 20, 21, just getting back into [learning], so I really think that helped in my transition from baseball to school, [in that] for five, six years, I was intellectually stimulated. “So I wasn’t just going from doing nothing for 10 years to ‘Oh, shit!’�

And that quiet intellectualism didn’t go unnoticed in the clubhouse, a locale better known for hot-foots and fart jokes than scholarly debates. “His areas of interests were kind of varied,� laughs Ed Lucas, a former teammate of Lubanski’s at four separate stops in the minor leagues. “But he was very dedicated to that cause of making sure that he was doing something to enhance his mind every day. “Chris is a very intelligent guy, and I think there was a chip on his shoulder that he hadn’t gone to school, so he really wanted to prove to people that [education] was something in his future.�

A Dartmouth grad, Lucas was the perfect intellectual bedfellow for Lubanski when the two met during Single A ball in the bustling metropolis of Burlington, Iowa.

Yet their once-parallel careers have diverged sharply.

While Chris walked away from baseball, Lucas pushed forward, making his MLB debut with the Marlins last year and earning a spot on the club’s Opening Day roster this season.

Lucas still finds time to keep his mind sharp while rehabbing his way back from a hand injury — he does a crossword a day, sometimes more — yet he can’t help but invoke the “what if?� question when reflecting on his friend’s career. “You hear stories all the time about guys who [say] — maybe their careers were in pro ball, or they got ‘screwed’ in college or ‘screwed’ in high school — ‘I tore my knee and it put me off course,’ and you kind of just grin and chuckle and agree with them,� he says. “But in Chris’ case, that’s really 100 percent the case. He was well on his way to getting called up.�

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lies’ AA affiliate in Reading and smacking his final home run with his father in the stands, Lubanski walked away.

hundreds of times in a season, thousands of times in a career.

But it was the distance between home and first base that derailed Lubanski’s Major League dreams in 2009.

After being sent to AAA by the Royals in the last round of spring training cuts, Lubanski responded by hitting the cover off the ball, posting a .309 average after April with seven stolen bases. A call up to “the show� seemed inevitable.

But an attempt to beat out a routine ground ball in the hole spelled disaster. “It just felt like someone took a shotgun and shot the back of my knee, popped my hamstring fully off the bone,� Lubanski winces. “That was the end of my season,� he adds with a chuckle.

The healing process was delayed by another pop in the knee he felt while rehabbing at the Royals’ spring training complex — “I remember trying to take batting practice after that and I couldn’t even stand up.�

Unable to even bend down enough to pick up a tube of toothpaste at Target, Lubanski’s 2009 came to an end — and so too did his time with the Royals, who declined to re-sign him after his contract expired following the season.

After latching on with the Blue Jays in the offseason, Lubanski was assigned to Toronto’s AAA affiliate in Las Vegas and once again placed himself in position to make the big leagues, becoming the leading vote-getter in the fan ballot for the AAA All-Star Game. “I knew the only thing that was going to stop this from happening was an injury,� he recollects.

Sure enough it happened again, this time a full tear of his oblique in his last at-bat before the All-Star break.

After getting off the DL, the call to the Bigs didn’t come, and it was all downhill from there.

A spring training tryout with the Marlins in 2011 was followed up by a disastrous stay in independent league ball (“The worst experience of my life�) and an overall feeling of burnout. “You become a slave to the game, really,� he says. “You get drafted out of high school, you

‘Half the teachers I had in high school are dead’ Though leaving baseball behind was easy for Lubanski — “I’ve never really looked back� — finding his way back into college was a different story. “You know, no one’s accepting 25-27 year olds with 10-yearold SAT scores, and half the teachers I had in high school are dead,� he laughs.

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But even in his first day of summer school, Lubansk i couldn’t quite escape baseball.

Sitting down in his theology class, a familiar face sitting down in the seat in front of him turned out to be Kevin Mulvey, a pitcher who had briefly played for the Twins and Diamondbacks after years as a top prospect for the Mets.

Suffice it to say, the “get-toknow-you� game had unexpected results. “[Mulvey says] ‘I played professional baseball,’ and I’m the next guy, and I’m like, ‘No one’s

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An opportunity once came along for Lubanski to join the coaching staff alongside Mulvey back in that 2012 summer.

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We grew up with someone like Chris, who has a work ethic that not many people in this world probably have. — Joe Lubanski,

Family ties There’s still plenty of baseball left in the Lubanski bloodlines.

Chris’ younger brother, Mike, played for Wake Forest as a catcher before calling it a career to take a job at Pepsi, and his youngest brother, Joe, is a junior outfielder at Yale.

And though Joe doesn’t have any pro aspirations, the memories of Chris waking up at 6 a.m. before school to take hundreds of practice swings against a mattress in the basement are still fresh in his mind. “[Chris] influenced my other brother and myself a lot,�

Joe reflects. “We grew up with someone like Chris, who has a work ethic that not many people in this world probably have. And we learned that from my own parents, who both work two jobs, even today. “For a while, I really wanted to use my baseball [ability] to get into a really good academic situation, and watching my brother, [I learned] it was going to take a lot of hard work, not just on the field, but in the classroom as well.�

And when talking about his little brothers’ aspirations, Chris’ face lights up like a kid on Opening Day. “ W hen I st a r t ed goi ng through my professional career and realized the ups and downs, I really started pushing to them: ‘Baseball could be your outlet, but let that get you into the best school you can get into,’� he says. “And I think they’ve both done that beautifully.�

After passing up the position at Villanova and a brief, unsuccessful sojourn as the head coach at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy —“I will never coach high school again� — Chris’ relationship with the game has been mostly relegated to that of spectator.

If the status quo holds, Yale will come to campus to play Penn for the Ivy League baseball title, and Chris will be in the stands, cheering Joe on.

The game doesn’t ever go away. “20 years of my life was dedicated to it, I kind of have no choice,� Chris says. “It is always part of me.�

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Lubanski allows the spotlight to shine on the speaker’s podium while his crisp black suit blends in with the crowd alongside his fellow interns. “We were there simply to note-take and stay out of the way,� he jokes.

And on the dark drive back to campus, Lubanski isn’t afraid to get philosophical with the undergrads along for the ride. “If you told me at 18 that your future’s in research, in writing, in academia, I would have been like: ‘You’re crazy, my future’s in baseball, that’s all I care about,’� he says. “I mean, I was a good student in high school,

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Mulvey reflects. “We both were in the same part of our life, close to the same age. He actually got married while we were in the class, and then I got married later that year, in January.�

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Now, a career in academia or at a think tank seems more real than ever. “I always joke with my wife that if I could get paid to learn, that would be what I want to do,�

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THE BUZZ: THREE UP, THREE DOWN

Red and Blue face must-win game vs. Columbia

BY IAN WENIK From The Daily Pennsylvanian’s sports blog, THE BUZZ

Columbia 3-9, 0-6 Ivy Today, 4 p.m.

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The Ivy League season is winding to a close, and Penn women’s lacrosse needs to win out in order to clinch a share of its eighth straight Ivy League championship. As a result, the No. 7 Quakers’ (8-4, 4-1 Ivy) matchup with Columbia at Penn Park has a newfound importance. Here’s what’s up — and what’s down — as the Red and Blue take on the Lions (3-9, 0-6).

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Junior defense Meg Markham is the leader of Penn’s back line effort, topping the roster with 39 ground balls, 27 draw controls and 34 forced turnovers.

Scott, Jackson captains in fifth year FOOTBALL from page 10 mixture of vocal leaders and those who lead by example.

They all have the intangibles.

They work hard, do things the right way and command respect.”

Scott and Jackson are both

returning for their fifth seasons with Penn football, each having won two Ivy League titles. Scott recorded his 100th career reception in last year’s finale against Cornell, while Jackson was named secondteam All-Ivy for his efforts in 2013.

Davis has played in all 20 games over the last two years, performing well enough to receive first-team All-Ivy honors in both 2012 and 2013. He led the team in tackles last year as well as tackles for a loss.

King has less on-field expe-

Three Up History: In terms of past records, it doesn’t get too much better for Penn than its all-

rience than some of his teammates but has reeled in two touchdowns over the last two years while playing a solid role at tight end for the Red and Blue.

The four seniors will lead the Quakers next year as they pursue an Ivy-record 17th conference title as well as the school’s second Iv y title in three years. Penn opens its season on the road against Jacksonville on Sept. 20, a week before the team plays Villanova at Franklin Field in its home opener.

Penn uses six straight goals to seize control M. LACROSSE from page 10 urday in its final Ivy League game before the conference tournament, the Quakers looked to build off its strong play over the past month with postseason play in sight.

But Towson junior midfield Justin Mabus had other ideas.

The Yorktown Heights, N.Y., native got the Tigers on the board just 47 seconds into the contest, and Penn found itself in an early 1-0 hole.

The two squads traded goals throughout the rest of the first quarter, as junior midfield Joe McCallion scored off an assist from freshman attack Kevin Brown before the rookie found the back of the net himself.

Knotted up at two, Mabus scored his second goal of the night and fifth in two games to put Towson ahead at the end of the period.

But as they have done several times this season, the Red and Blue fought back, utilizing consecutive goals from junior attack Isaac Bock in the first 5:06 of the second quarter to capture their first lead of the game.

After Mabus found freshman attack Ryan Drenner for an equalizer, the Quakers began to seize control of the game.

Penn was then boosted by back-to-back goals from Nick Doktor in a two-minute span, and the Red and Blue went into the break leading, 6-4.

Allen leads offense for Red and Blue SOFTBALL from page 10 This weekend, they have a four-game series against division-rival Columbia. If they are able to hold serve against the Lions, they will likely advance to their third consecutive Ivy League championship series.

But first, they need to take on Monmouth (14-17).

At three games under .500 and most recently coming off of a 6-5 walk-off loss to Quinnipiac, the Hawks have had an uneven season thus far.

Despite their apparent inconsistency, Monmouth has the

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Against Towson on Tuesday, sophomore attack Nick Doktor notched a hat trick to lead the Quakers to a win in a game that was delayed over two hours due to weather.

Halftime did nothing to slow the Quakers down. Following goals from senior midfields Drew Belinsky and Zack Losco, freshman midfield Chris Hilburn beat Towson’s goalkeeper for his first career goal, and extended Penn’s lead to five.

After the Quakers sandwiched two goals around a goal from Towson’s leading scorer this season, senior attack Thomas DeNapoli, Mother Nature decided to get in on the action herself.

Following junior midfield Mike Power ’s score that pushed the Red and Blue’s lead to 11-5, thunderstorms and lightning began at Johnny Unitas Stadium. The game

was delayed for two hours, and didn’t resume play until just before 10:00 p.m.

Once the two squads made it back onto the field, it was more of the same. The Tigers added two goals while Penn senior Danny Feeney also scored, sending the game to the fourth period with Penn leading, 12-7.

As Towson attempted to put together a comeback, the Quakers defense clamped down, allowing only two more goals. Meanwhile, Hilburn added his second goal of the game and Doktor completed the hat trick with a score with 3:11 remaining.

Penn will complete its regular season with a game against St. John’s on Friday.

personnel to give the Red and Blue a run for their money, most notably freshman lefty starting pitcher Sydney Underhill — who has started 22 of her team’s 33 games — and sophomore Jill Freese — who boasts a teamhigh .329 batting average.

The Quakers have also faced their share of ups and downs this season.

After starting off the season a mere 4-11 in its initial nonconference stretch, Penn has rallied in Ivy play to put itself in position to make a run at its second consecutive Ivy title.

The Quakers have relied heavily on junior Alexis Borden and freshman Alexis Sargent to carry the load on the mound throughout the season. Over the weekend, they accounted for all three of the Quakers’ wins against Princeton.

Penn has also found an emerg-

ing offensive star in freshman outfielder Leah Allen.

On Saturday, Allen blasted two home runs, bringing her total to 11 on the year and eclipsing the school single-season record of 10 in her first year in a Penn uniform.

While the Quakers will certainly take today’s matchup against Monmouth seriously, they definitely have long-term matters on their mind.

With a healthy division lead in hand and only one Ivy game — against Harvard — remaining after the weekend, the Quakers could clinch an Ivy Championship berth with a strong performance this weekend against Columbia.

Like any great player, the Quakers know their time will come to step up to the plate, but in the meantime, they will take things one swing at a time.

time 17-0 mark against Columbia. Boding just as well for the Quakers, the Red and Blue have never lost to the Lions in Philadelphia, winning all eight matches between the two schools that have been played at in the city.

Meg Markham: The awards keep on rolling in for the junior, who picked up her second Ivy Defensive Player of the Week honor after forcing seven turnovers and picking up seven ground balls during Penn’s split week against Princeton and Brown.

Bagnoli built a championship program BAGNOLI from page 1 Bagnoli was previously the head coach at Union College, where he went 86-19 in 10 seasons while twice making it to the Division III championship game. Union’s football program excelled after Bagnoli left to take over at Penn, partly thanks to Bagnoli’s legacy.

“We were not a very strong football program prior to his arrival, and since he came here ... we are one of the top Division III programs in the country,” former Union offensive lineman and now-Athletic Director Jim McLaughlin said last fall.

Before coming to Union, Bagnoli was assistant coach under long-time Albany coach Bob Ford, working his way up to defensive coordinator. Bagnoli played football at Central Connecticut State, graduating in 1975.

It wasn’t all victories and sunshine during Bagnoli’s tenure, as the coach had to deal with the tragic suicides of two players — Kyle Ambrogi in 2005 and Owen Thomas in 2010.

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Kathy Brearley, was happy with how Bagnoli handled the situations, saying that Bagnoli made sure she got back Owen’s jersey and even gave her a 2010 season championship ring (the season Owen would have been a captain).

2006 College graduate Ryan Pisarri also praised how the long-time head coach managed the team in the aftermath of Ambrogi’s passing.

“Coach Bagnoli and his staff were an incredible support system and did everything they could to help us during the time,” Pisarri said.

“Coach Bagnoli was a great leader for us and he did everything in his power to try and make 100-plus players and coaches understand and deal

Paige Cuscovitch: Not much has gone right for Columbia in another lost season, but the senior midfield has been in a bright spot. Cuscovitch scored her 100th career goal in a loss to UMBC on April 9, and leads the Lions in goals, points and total shots.

Three Down Penn’s hopes of winning the Ivy title outright: After losing to Princeton last Wednesday, 9-5, the Quakers rendered their hopes of a solo Ivy title impossible. Though Penn has matches with both Columbia and Cornell remaining, the Tigers’ 6 -1 Iv y record and head-to-head victory reigns supreme.

Penn’s defense (but not

how you think): If the Red and Blue are to make a run in the Ivy League (and NCAA) tournament this year, it will be due to the strength of their back line. The Quakers are surrendering an average of eight goals per game — the 11th-best mark in the nation — and have not allowed more than 10 goals in a contest since March 23.

Columbia’s defense (in exactly the way you think): The same cannot be said of the Lions’ defensive effort.

Columbia’s 10.5 goals against average is the worst in the Ancient Eight, and the squad has surrendered double-digit goal totals in seven different contests, including an 18-4 thrashing at the hands of Albany last Wednesday.

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3rd among active FCS coaches

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with this situation the best we could.”

Meanwhile, P r iore has been an assistant coach at Penn since before Bagnoli arrived, as the long-time defensive coordinator will enter his 28th season as a Quakers coach. Priore has held numerous positions during his time with the Red and Blue, including defensive ends, defensive backs and special teams coach, along with recruiting coordinator.

Priore has been Bagnoli’s defensive coordinator since 1999 and an associate head coach since 2006.

“He’s vital to the team. He’s a real energetic invididual,” Holder said of Priore. “He loves the game. He gets fired up, he’s actively involved in practice. You should see him

winning percentage

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He’s oftentimes more hyped than the players are.

“That’s something that you need. He’s somebody that you want to go to battle with.”

Bagnoli’s final home game will be against Harvard on Nov. 15, and his final game will come against Cornell in Ithaca on Nov. 22.

When his career comes to a close, Bagnoli’s legacy will include making Penn football what it is today.

“When he came, the program was nothing,” Holder said. “He brought it up and look where we are now: probably the top program in the Ivy League.

His legacy will only be one of positivity and success.”

Senior staff writer Mike Toni contributed reporting.

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Chris Lubanski strokes a home run while playing for the Toronto Blue Jays during Spring Training in 2010. Lubanski was assigned to the AAA Las Vegas 51s and was named to the AAA All-Star Game before he tore his oblique. One year later, he was out of baseball.

Quakers take fifthstraight contest M. LACROSSE | Penn overcomes two-hour delay to take down Towson after early deficit

BY RILEY STEELE Sports Editor Mother Nature had her way in Towson, Md., on Tuesday night. Luckily, despite thunderstorms and flashes of lightning, No. 10 Penn men’s lacrosse also had its way with a struggling opponent.

Exactly one month after its last defeat to then-No. 4 Cornell, the Quakers (8-3) managed to push their winning

BY COLIN HENDERSON Associate Sports Editor If Penn softball’s season could be analogized as a single game, it’s tied up in the bottom of the ninth, and the team has gotten a runner on base and moved her into scoring position.

But before they get their shot at glory, the Quakers have one more round of batting practice to take. Meta-

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BY IAN WENIK Sports Editor There’s an old turn of phrase about baseball, first penned by former MLB commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti, that goes something like: It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.

It’s true. One click on baseball-reference. com, and you can find yourself lost for hours in lists of thousands of has-beens, neverweres, cups of coffee and AAAA players that washed out of the Majors.

But the game didn’t break Chris Lubanski’s heart.

“The great cartel that baseball has on its players is that people are willing to chase the dream,” he laughs.

The $2 million signing bonus negotiated by superagent Scott Boras? Long stashed away. The Gatorade National Player of the Year Award? A happy memory. The AAA AllStar Game selection? A jersey in a picture frame on a wall.

And nowadays, he couldn’t be happier chasing a new dream at Penn.

A new passion Do baseball and politics mix? Depends on whom you talk to.

If you’re a politician, the national pastime is best viewed as a quick photo op or a chance to boost national morale — remember the roar of Yankee Stadium as George Bush threw out the first pitch of the post-9/11 World Series in New York?

But it’s not normally a two-way street.

Unless you’re Jim Bunning, the former Kentucky senator better known for pitching a perfect game against the Mets than any particular legislative accomplishment, baseball players typically find disaster after wading into the world of politics.

Just ask former Oriole Luke Scott — now playing in Korea — how those Obama birther comments worked out.

Today, though, Lubanski feels more at home than ever in the realm of politics and the field of study that surrounds it. He’s a political science major in the School of Liberal and Professional Studies, interning through Penn’s Think Tanks and Civil Societies program and working with Dr. Dan Vining at the Population Studies Center.

“You know, I’ve found a new passion in research,” he said. “I love research, I love constantly learning.”

When drafted by the Kansas City Royals

with the 4th overall pick in the 2003 draft, Lubanski had a clause inserted into his contract that obligated the franchise to pay for any post-playing career college education he might receive. After all, he had passed up scholarship offers from Florida State, LSU, Georgia Tech and Duke.

Now he’s putting that apparent throwaway clause to good use.

But in the meantime, before Lubanski’s ultimate goal of a Ph.D. can become a reality, he writes — a lot.

Experience necessary Aidan McConnell didn’t know Chris’ claim to fame.

OK, he says he’d have figured it out in a week or so, but how was the College sophomore supposed to know that the 28-year-old applying to write for him was a professional baseball player — despite looking not a pound over his playing weight?

Still, the editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian’s resident political blog, The Red & The Blue, knew he had found someone valuable.

“I had no idea who this guy was,” McConnell recalls. “I just knew he was outspoken on certain beliefs ... and he had a lot of good things to say.”

After a brief life talk at Starbucks, Lubanski was on board and immediately got to work opining.

His first post — an analysis of the botched Obamacare rollout — displayed turns of phrase faster than the bat that got him named to the Baseball America Top 100 Prospects list.

“Mr. President, with all due respect, a glitch playing Candy Crush can not be compared to the glitches that can affect someone’s potential health,” read the post.

And he’s just as apt citing healthcare.gov data as he is at recalling his own statistics — name a year, and he can give you his batting average and home run totals.

“He’s been one of the better contributors to the blog,” McConnell lauds. “He’s not afraid to be a little controversial.”

There’s a hidden benefit to going into college at 27 — you get a head start on life.

“If I went to college out of high school, I would have been a totally different student — not that I didn’t care about education, but education was definitely to the back seat of baseball,” Lubanski says.

“And now, going through baseball, I know how important education is, and I just have a newfound love for it.”

Along for the ride Despite taking a back seat, education still

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Penn names QB coach, captains

vs. Towson streak to five games with a 15-9 road victory against Towson on Tuesday.

In a game that was delayed midway through the third quarter for over two hours due to lightning strikes, Penn overcame a strong first period from the Tigers (8-6) to take control of the contest and built on its momentum heading into its regular season finale on Friday.

After taking down Brown on SatSEE M. LACROSSE PAGE 9

One tune-up left before crucial Ivy matchup SOFTBALL | The Quakers will travel to take on Monmouth in preparation for series against Columbia

BASEBALL | Chris Lubanski has moved on from his days as a top prospect and embraced life at Penn

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Monmouth 14-17 Today, 3 p.m.

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The Red and Blue (15-17) will travel to New Jersey to take on Monmouth today at 3 p.m. in their penultimate nonconference matchup of the season.

The Quakers are coming off of their second consecutive South Division series victory, most recently 3-1 over Princeton. They are sitting on a twoand-a-half game lead in their division.

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Following a second consecutive season in which he was named first-team All-Ivy, senior linebacker Dan Davis was recently named one of four captains for the upcoming 2014 campaign. Davis has played in all 20 games over the last two years, and led the team in tackles in 2013.

FOOTBALL | Following the retirement of Larry Woods, Dan Swanstrom hired as new quarterbacks coach

BY STEVEN TYDINGS Senior Sports Editor While coach Al Bagnoli will be taking the headlines on Wednesday, his retirement isn’t the only news coming out of Penn football.

The Quakers announced earlier this week that Dan Swanstrom, formerly the offensive coordinator at Johns Hopkins, will take over for Larry Woods as quarterbacks

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coach. Penn also announced its four captains — all seniors — for next season: wide receiver Conner Scott, tight end Mitchell King, linebacker Dan Davis and safety Evan Jackson.

In a press release, Bagnoli was happy with the hiring of Swanstrom, but saddened by Woods’ departure.

“Dan adds new insight, energy and expertise to our staff and we are really excited to have him,” Bagnoli said. “It is bittersweet, personally.

We’ll miss Larry and all the things he has done and achieved here, but we benefit from adding another very accomplished, energetic coach who is a great fit for our program.”

Swanstrom will be dealing with

a whole new set of quarterbacks in 2014, as last year’s pair of starters — Billy Ragone and Ryan Becker — graduated. Freshmen Adam Strauss and Alek Torgersen have the most experience on the field, while junior Patton Chillura figures to also get some time behind center.

While Swanstrom will have an inexperienced group at QB, the team will have strong leadership with its four captains.

“This is a great balance of personalities and four good selections by our players,” coach Al Bagnoli said in a press release. “This is the ideal

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