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CELEBRATING THE ARTS AND SCIENCES

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The College Dean’s Advisory Board hosted College Palooza 2014, a showcase of the liberal arts at Penn that coincides with Quaker Days, yesterday in Houston Hall.

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Spring Fling in 2001 could only be described as “The Sweetest Fling” for Penn students at the time, who partied up the weekend with boxing, cheesesteaks, fried oreos and the Fling Concert’s two headliners —The Black Eyed Peas and Ben Harper. Check out this week’s front pages for a look back at four decades of Fling photos.

Programming music that

you’ll want to remember

You wouldn’t think that glob-al real estate funding and ways to assess and reduce financial risk would be taught in an el-ementary school cafeteria.

However, every Thursday night at the Lea School at 47th and Locust streets, a Wharton professor teaches these very tools and more to West Phila-delphia adults.

The course on adult finan-cial literacy taught by Profes-sor of Strategic Management Keith Weigelt is a partnership between Weigelt, the Netter Center for Community Part-nerships and Lea. It focuses on teaching adults the best ways to invest and manage their money.

The weekly lessons include: how to make better use of your money, how to save money more wisely, how to accumu-late more wealth, how to better protect your wealth and how to reduce your debt.

Each week, participants receive colorful packets filled with pertinent information and graphs. If they finish the six-

week course, they are auto-matically enrolled in Weigelt’s Investment Club, which helps participants act on what they have learned.

Two Thursdays ago, nine women were there, some with their children. Last Thursday, at the most recent class, 16 people showed up.

“I’ve already done invest-ments, but the options he’s talking about I’ve never heard of,” course participant Dorothy Long said.

The idea follows the work of Engineering junior Mark Harding and College sopho-more Gina Dukes. Last sum-mer, the pair proposed that more adult education courses should offered through the Net-ter Center. Throughout the fall, Harding and Dukes worked on implementing such courses in local schools.

Dukes described some dif-ficulties of working with the Lea School, saying that in the beginning of the year the prin-cipal was not willing to bring new classes to the school.

A six-week Penn-sponsored class the Lea School teaches adults how to manage their money

BY JILL GOLUBStaff Writer

Teaching financial literacy to West

Philadelphia adults

Got a tune you can’t get out of your head? Three computer science seniors designed an algorithm that will replace that melody with a better one.

The creators of the User Input Based Algo-rithmic Music Platform project are develop-ing algorithms that take a melody and create supplemental tunes to form a distinct harmony.

The algorithm created by Engineering se-niors Jiten Suthar, Israel Geselowitz and David Cerny is for their senior design project — which Engineering students must complete before graduation. The three seniors were tasked with developing a creative product while apply-ing the various skills and knowledge they had learned in class.

“We thought it would be cool to intersect music with what we’re learning in computer science,” Suthar said.

All three seniors have a background in music, playing either the piano, harmonica or guitar. Suthar also composes his own music. “It’s the

A senior design produces new, better melodies from a single original harmony

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April 9 Etienne Benson Assistant Professor of History

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The Anthropocentrocene: Narcissism and Humility in the ‘Age of Man’

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Tax Day Blues: Reflections on U.S. Debt and Deficits

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Studying up on Frida Kah-lo can come in handy in the kitchen.

Billy Peelle, a 2005 College graduate, double majored in art history and political science before delving into hospitality and eventually restaurant management — which he says his Penn edu-cation made possible.

“I think what I’ve learned is the opportunities out there — how much Penn has to offer,” he said in a phone interview. “What helped me was look-ing at all the options I have. I know at first glance that [my degrees don’t] seem like they would help much, but all the things I learned are now applicable.”

He served as a lecturer at Penn’s Mentoring Meal event on April 1, where he spoke to

students about his experi-ences in the industry.

Following his graduation, Peelle worked for the Ritz Carlton in Philadelphia be-fore deciding to focus on the restaurant industry. He moved to New York, where he began in the kitchen of Eleven Madison Park, mov-ing up from server to captain. The restaurant has racked up three Michelin Stars, four James Beard Awards and has been named on countless “best of” lists.

After his tenure at Eleven Madison Park, Peelle opened a sister restaurant and ho-tel, NoMad, with chef Daniel Humm and Will Guidara. No-Mad opened in 2012 and has already earned one Michelin Star and glowing endorse-ments from The New York Times. He has since returned to Eleven Madison Park as its service director.

When asked if he is inter-ested in opening other estab-lishments, Peelle’s answer is immediate: “If another opportunity comes up, defi-nitely.” Though he has chosen New York as the epicenter for his work thus far, he has not ruled out the possibility of moving to other cities. Phila-delphia is included among his prospects, particularly if he can find a space near his alma mater.

“You always have to be open to more ideas. I’m not sure if the people I’m working with right now are interest-ed in moving down to Philly, but I definitely am,” he said. “Especially with the growth down [in University City] — places like Drexel have got-ten so much bigger — it would pretty much be a dream come true.”

As he contemplates the idea of returning to where

his career in hospitality be-gan, Peelle has a few words for any students at Penn who are interested in entering the restaurant industry. He warns that one should not ex-pect instantaneous success and should instead be open to any possible opportunities that come along.

“I think a lot of people I met didn’t start in the most glam-orous of places — they just took what they could find,” he added. “You definitely have to start in the kitchen. You don’t just start as a manager; you have to work your way up. You just have to get your foot in the door and see what hap-pens from there.”

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Prevention Point P h i l a d e l p h i a , tucked away in a basement space at 2nd and Lehigh,

has been quietly offering ser-vices to the Injection Drug User, or IDU, population of Philadelphia since 1991. PPP is one of 203 syringe exchange programs, or SEP, operating in 34 states. Today is Friday, and about 175 people will come through to exchange their used syringes for new, clean ones. These men and women are saving their own lives.

Nationwide, there are an estimated 50,000 new cases of HIV infection each year, 14 percent of which are attributed to the sharing of used injection equipment between IDUs. Giv-en the choice, an IDU would prefer the safety that comes with using a clean needle. It is easy to underestimate the incredible physical and mental need that an IDU experiences when the beginnings of with-

drawal take effect.Drug addiction is an irra-

tional affair, leading people to engage in all manners of be-havior that their former clean selves could not have dreamed of. Syringe exchange is a ratio-nal response to the real dan-gers of blood borne pathogens, such as HIV and hepatitis, that affect not only the IDU, but their sexual partners and children as well.

There is a mountain of evi-dence showing that SEPs are highly effective in lowering the instances of new HIV in-fections. In Philadelphia, for example, the percentage of new HIV cases attributable to injection drug abuse dropped from 47 percent in 1991 to 8 percemt today. Not only that, but there are ample studies showing that SEPs do not increase drug use or crime, that they reduce the number of discarded needles left on the street, that they reduce the number of “needle sticks”

experienced by police and that they are often an IDU’s only point of access to health care and drug treatment. The economic figures are stagger-ing as well. The average cost of servicing an individual at a SEP for a year is $4,000 com-pared to the lifetime cost of medically treating HIV, which is conservatively estimated at $488,000. With all of this evidence in mind, President Obama lifted the 21-year ban on federal funding for SEPs in 2009. Two years later, in a stunning example of morally charged politics trumping sci-ence, economics and public health, the ban was reinstated by Congress.

An IDU will inject drugs an average of 1,000 times per year. That is 1,000 opportuni-ties to contract HIV or HCV. Multiply that by the 620,000 people who reported injecting drugs in the United States last year, and the health dangers are startling. SEPs have been

able to make a substantial im-pact in reducing the transmis-sion of blood borne pathogens, but operating at times in a legal gray area and on shoe-string budgets limits what they are able to accomplish.

I have not stuck a needle in my arm in four-and-a-half years and it is due to a miracle of luck and my own fastidious-ness that I am not living with HIV or any other blood-borne disease. Heroin addiction took

me to places and had me do-ing things that my former, sober self would never have dreamed of doing. I am an edu-cated man, and was well aware of the dangers that come with sharing needles. I avoided the practice whenever I could, but when that need would take hold of me, I would use what-ever was available. I was very secretive about my addiction, did not know about places like Prevention Point and did not even think to ask because I was so afraid of being found out, judged, punished. Preven-tion Point serves about 7,000 people, but I wonder how many others they have not reached because, like me, they did not know where to go for help.

Drug addicts have long been a stigmatized population, not valued by lawmakers or much of society as a whole. One ar-gument against SEPs is that, because they were already engaged in such high-risk be-havior, IDUs had no concern

for their health and well-being and would not use SEPs any-way. IDUs are not self-harm-ing lunatics to be forgotten and abandoned by the larger soci-ety. They are children and par-ents, co-workers and friends. They are our neighbors, and they have found themselves in a cycle of behavior that is dangerous, scary and very difficult to break away from. Congress must lift the ban on allowing federal dollars to be spent on SEPs. Congress must do this to keep people caught in the trap of addiction, make the communities they live in safer and offer them expo-sure to treatment when they are ready to pursue it. Please stand on the side of compas-sion and reason and urge Con-gress to lift the ban.

SAM JANNEY is a first-year student in the School of Social Policy & Practice. His email address is [email protected].

When OkCupid users visited the site using Mozil la last we ek , t hey

were greeted with a message: “Mozilla’s new CEO, Brendan Eich, is an opponent of equal rights for gay couples. We would therefore prefer that our users not use Mozilla software to access OkCupid,” adding that “if individuals like Mr. Eich had their way, then roughly 8 percent of the relationships we’ve worked so hard to bring about would be illegal.”

In 2012, Chick-fil-A, a com-pany founded upon “biblically-based principles,” came under fire after its Chief Operating Officer, Dan Cathy, issued a statement that the company was “very much supportive of the family — the biblical definition of the family unit.” In response, mayors of cities like Boston and Chicago issued

warnings to Chick-fil-A, advis-ing that they not attempt to build restaurants in their cities.

On the flip side, there are companies like Honey Maid, whose new “This Is Whole-some” campaign has also gar-nered a lot of attention. The ad, which portrays a variety of family situations, including an image of two fathers and their newborn baby, led many to send vicious messages to the company for attempting to “normalize sin.” Instead of of-

fering a conciliatory message to dissatisfied Honey Maid cus-tomers, however, the company simply created another ad — this one expressing their un-equivocal support for LGBTQ rights in a voice even louder than the first.

There comes a moment in time and history for every successful movement of social change when its goal becomes so widely accepted that no mat-ter whether you’re behind it or against it, you’re assisting its cause when you openly take a stance on the issue. Our politi-cal institutions frequently do not reflect the majority opinion; they are often the last to see the waves of history come crash-ing down on them. That applied to both the Civil Rights Move-ment and the Women’s Rights Movement. It will be the same for LGBTQ rights.

Eich, unable to quell the flames surrounding his anti-

gay stance, was forced to re-sign. Ensconced in national controversy, Chick-fil-A is-sued a statement saying that it “treat[s] every person with honor, dignity and respect — regardless of their belief, race, creed, sexual orientation or gender” and would “leave the policy debate over same-sex marriage to the government and political arena.”

To be clear, Eich and Cathy have every right to voice their opinions. When those opinions run contrary to the values of the majority of Americans, however, there are conse-quences. It is not merely un-wise for a company or its CEO to openly harbor anti-gay senti-ment; it is suicidal. With a ma-jority of Americans in favor of gay rights, these days it seems that to be anti-gay is to be un-American.

The reality is that LGBTQ equality, thankfully, is inevi-

table. While complete equal-ity may not occur tomorrow, there has been a dramatic shift in American public opinion to-ward LGBTQ rights. In 2003, only 32 percent of Americans supported the right to same-sex marriage, and 59 percent were opposed. This year, with 17 different states approving same-sex marriage unions, 53 percent of Americans now fa-vor marriage equality and 41 percent oppose it.

I would like to take a mo-ment to thank Brendan Eich. And you too, Dan Cathy. With-out your very public anti-gay statements and fiscal support for anti-gay organizations, the progress that has been made in American society would not have been as obvious as it is now. We may not have arrived at our destination just yet, but it is clear that we are certainly on our way there.

In a country where outspo-

ken homophobia has become unacceptable, those who give it harbor are only assisting the progress toward LGBTQ equality. The tide of history has turned on this subject, just as it did with civil rights and wom-en’s rights, and just as it will for the next movement of social change. As CEOs of major cor-porations continue to come out of the closet with their anti-gay perspectives, we as a society are provided with a clear line, distinguishing moral from im-moral, right from wrong and loving from hateful.

ALEXANDRA FRIEDMAN is a College junior studying history from Atlanta, Ga. Email her at [email protected] or follow her @callme_alfrie.

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On the day after the sev-enth anniversary of her ac-cident, Huffington was on campus to talk to the Penn community about her new book as part of the Whar-ton Leadership Program’s Authors@Wharton series. Huffington’s awakening ex-perience inspired her new-

est book, “Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Suc-cess and Creating a Life of Wel l-Being, Wisdom and Wonder.”

In the immediate after-math of her accident, Huff-ington asked herself what actually defines success.

“Success by the conven-tional measures of society is just about two measures — money and power. And by those measures, I was successful,” she said. “But by any sane definition of suc-cess, if you’re lying in a pool of blood on the floor of your office, you are not success-ful.”

This realization put Huff-ington on a mission to change the culture that views sleep deprivation as a symbol of achievement and prioritizes to do lists over mental and physical health. She realized that success needed to be reimagined to mean more than just money and power.

In her book, Huff ington introduces four pillars she believes are crucial to suc-cess — well-being, wisdom,

wonder and giving.The pillar of wisdom fo-

cuses on being mindful of self and surroundings — a necessary ability Huffing-ton thinks technology has destroyed.

“Especially now when we are so hyper-connected to our devices and technology, we have lost our ability to connect with ourselves,” she said. “Right now we treat ourselves much, much bet-

ter [than our smartphones]. My iPhone begins to give me alerts at 20 percent remain-ing battery ... By about 14 percent remaining battery, I get really worried, I begin to look around for a charging shrine.

“We get really worried that our phones are going to die. We don’t worry about our-selves because we believe we are immortal,” she added.

Wonder, another pillar to success, deals with the abil-ity to break free from tech-nology and obligations and observe the world around us.

“We are so buried in our to do list and our devices that we lose our capacity for wonder and joy,” Huffington said. “You walk down the street and there is so much to wonder about. But people are buried in their devices, which is why walking is now a calamity.”

Huffington feels that peo-ple are wrongly driven to overload their schedules, as if it will help them attain greater success.

“Busy-ness has become

such a badge of honor and impor tance because the more busy you are, the more important you are,” she said.

According to Huffington, giving — another pillar — is crucial to living a life of fulfillment. It has been sci-entifically proven to make us happier and healthier. She explained that our genes are actually wired so that we feel rewarded when we give to others.

Huff ington is conf ident that recognizing her four pillars can help individuals rethink how they operate in a fast-paced world, but her own experiences made her realize that major changes don’t happen overnight.

Nevertheless, Huffington believes that the best way to get on the path to success is starting with a good night’s sleep. One of the things she is most proud of is adjusting from four to f ive hours of sleep each night to a healthy seven to eight hours.

“The evidence might over-whelm you, but sleep is a miracle drug,” she joked.


Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington spoke in Huntsman Hall yesterday. She authored a new book, “Thrive,” that was published in late March.

Arianna Huffington on sleep: Get eight hoursAn exhaustion-fueled

collapse led the HuffPo founder to re-evaluate

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“She wasn’t open to hav-ing the school open later hours so [we] were at a loss,” Dukes said.

Director of the Lea School University Partnership Car-oline Watts said in an email that “with a new leader, new students, new staff, we need-ed to know our community better in order to plan pro-grams that would meet their needs and interests.”

F inal ly, in the spr ing, the class was able to begin after Weigelt approached Watts and the Netter Center, expressing an interest in teaching this course.

Weigelt — who found-ed “Bui ld ing Br idges to Wealth,” a program that

teaches youth and adult en-trepreneurial and life skills — was inspired to suggest this class to Watts because he “looked at the school, went to some parents’ meet-ings and thought there were other issues [including a] lack of parental engage-ment” that he wanted to ad-dress.

Dukes and Harding then began getting the word out about the course, by hand-ing out flyers to parents at the Lea School and to local businesses. However, only about five people showed up to the first class.

“[Mark and I are] looking for ways to get parents more engaged and for us to show them how important of a re-source this is,” Dukes said.

However, Weigelt was dis-appointed with the lack of attendance at the course.

“The Netter Center did a bad job with outreach,” Weigelt said.

One of the things Weigelt cited in his disappointment in the Center’s outreach is that the f inancial literacy course is not listed on the Netter Center website.

“This was the f irst pro-g ra m of i t s t y pe so we weren’t sure the best ways to go about [advertising for] it — not only the Netter Cen-ter, but both Gina and I as well,” Harding said.

The Netter Center could not be reached for comment.

Although Weigelt was up-set about the class turnout, Watts feels that although the class has started out small, it will grow through word of mouth among com-munity members and class participants.

“We have been working to bring in parents in differ-ent ways,” Watts said. “It is always a slow process as you come to read the community and the best ways to com-municate. We are starting smaller than hoped but word is spreading and we get more parents every week.”

Meanwhile, Harding and Du kes hope t hat i f t h is course is successful, Lea will continue to offer adult educat ion courses. They are looking to use Penn re-sources to bring classes in history, art and culture to the Lea School. A course based on “12 Years a Slave” will begin at the Lea School in late April.

“Our overall goal is to cre-ate the school as a social center of the community,” Harding said.

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College relationships don’t always end happily ever after — but there’s more to them than just sex.

On Monday evening, stu-dents gathered for the last dis-cussion of the lecture series “That Thing We Never Talk About” to discuss whether “God want[s] us to live happi-ly-ever-after” and the role that religion plays in relationships on campus. The conversation was hosted by the Christian Association and Penn Inter-Varsity fellowship.

“It is important for us to dis-cuss issues not only in terms of growing in faith. We have

to talk about the hard things like sex and relationships,” said discussion moderator Chaz Howard, the University chaplain and a 2000 College graduate.

The media’s depiction of dating relays the message that “one is not complete until there is another person to ful-fill him or her. However, these expectations are harmful and unrealistic,” College sopho-more Catalina Mullis said. A clip from “Frozen” drove com-mentary on whether represen-tations of fairytale romance are actually healthy.

Since Howard was an un-dergraduate on campus, he has noted a shift in the way faith communities address

sex and relationships in con-versation. Instead of focusing on “what one should not do, dialogue has transformed into what is appropriate,” Howard said.

An attendee noted that Penn students may seem dis-tracted by their commitments, but Howard said he has heard Penn students marry each other at a higher rate than at peer institutions.

“Students do a lot of think-ing about sexuality during their time in college,” said Ellen Williams, a staff mem-ber of the InterVarsity fellow-ship group and a 2011 College graduate. “The more you talk about these things, it becomes less taboo.”

Participants noted the main takeaways from the conversa-tion. “Although religious texts may instruct people on what to do or how to live, they do not advise you on how to coexist with others,” College senior Zach Burchill said. “It helps address the tough-to-answer questions.”

Organizers said the demand for the weekly series stemmed from student interest. “Rela-tionships, or lack thereof, is something students want to talk about,” Megan LeCluyse, the campus minister of the Christian Association, said. The series “creates a space for people to ask questions through real and honest dis-cussions,” LeCluyse added.

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The algorithm determines what music to add to the origi-nal harmony by searching a database of 400 Bach Chorales, a type of German Lutheran hymn-tune, and comparing previously entered chords to to the chord patterns of the Bach Chorales.

Once the user gives input in the form of MIDI files, a type of file that carries notation, pitch and other sound-related infor-mation, the algorithm decides which chord should come next by comparing recent chords with the Bach Chorales. The newly-generated melody is random, so the algorithm pro-duces a different outcome for each trial.

Bach Chorales currently de-fine the music produced by the algorithm, but the team would like to “extend [it] to feature more genres from different musicians,” Geselowitz said.

The algorithm uses machine learning, a type of artificial intelligence that constructs categories from the data, to come up with a new melody. Their machine learning pro-gram is similar to the spam filter email servers employ. Through these filters, comput-ers analyze words that are fre-quently used in previous spam

emails to predict whether or not a new email is spam.

The music algorithm divides the Bach Chorales groups into many more categories than an email server would, though. Since the Bach Chorales do not contain every possible chord, the algorithm also uses prob-ability to produce a chord most similar to one contained in the Bach Chorales.

This is not the first time computer science seniors tried to incorporate music into their project. One senior design project team last year devel-oped an app that translates pictures into music. However, this year’s team members said their project is different be-cause it creates new chords that sound good with the previ-ous ones rather than analyzing certain images.

“We’re the only group in CIS that is doing something music-based this year,” Cerny said.

The team’s current algo-rithm can currently only cre-ate one supplemental melody given an original set of notes. However, Suthar said that the group’s next step is to add capabilities to create a third and fourth additional melody through machine learning.

“It will be written left to right, all three at the same time,” Cerny said, indicating that the chord generation of several melodies takes place at the same time.

As the algorithm continues to generate new chords, the accuracy will increase accord-ingly.

“With each new note, we have more and more data to refer to,” Geselowitz said.

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Normalizing infant blood pressures through code

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Doctors may now be able to determine whether an infant’s blood pressure is within normal range under anesthesia, thanks to a senior design project by two Penn School of Engineering and Applied Science students.

Seniors Deepthi Shashidhar and Mingzhe Lin designed a program that can generate graphs using data collected from infants under anesthesia to determine if an infant’s blood pressure is too high or low, a feat never before accomplished, the seniors say.

“I’m surprised that some-thing like this doesn’t already exist,” Shashidhar said. “It’s a critical thing to know what a child’s blood pressure is dur-ing surgery and what’s critical or not.”

Radoslav Ivanov, an Engi-neering doctorate student and

advisor for the project, ex-plained that this project “tries to provide such norms and aid young anesthesiologists when they are unsure whether a cer-tain blood pressure value is dan-gerous or not.”

The goals of the project were two-fold: First, to establish a baseline graph of blood pres-sure levels against other factors, such as age, height, weight and medications taken, that affect a patient’s blood pressure. Sec-ond, to write a code that would let doctors input realtime pa-tient information to produce a graph that would show whether the patient’s current blood pres-sure was too high or low.

Shashidhar and Lin worked with two data sets, both ob-tained from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s An-esthesia Information Manage-ment System. The data sets came from patients between 30 and 364 days old who underwent two different types of surgery, lobectomies — a removal of a person’s lobe — or pyloric steno-sis — a corrective surgery to re-pair a narrowed small intestine.

Shashidhar and Lin, after ob-taining the raw data, split it into five groups based on the time of the surgery so that they could better analyze it: pre-induction — or before the patient is given anesthesia —, pre-intubation, pre-surgery, surgery and post-surgery.

“We calculated one blood pressure value per patient and grouped those values based on different factors,” Lin said. “We wanted to try and find a correla-tion between time spent under anesthesia and blood pressure values during surgery but it’s hard to find an actual correla-tion.”

The Engineering team pro-grammed their project in Py-thon, Shashidhar said. However, she noted that the results can-not be generalized to all surgery types because the graphs were based on only two distinct data sets.

Ivanov was there to provide guidance on both sides of the project in addition to the doc-tors themselves, whom the se-niors met with constantly as part of the collaborative effort.

He also helped Shashidhar and Lin clarify their questions for CHOP doctors.

“Even though [doctors and engineers] are trying to tack-le the same problem, our ap-proaches are very different, and it is sometimes surprisingly dif-ficult to find common ground,” Ivanov said.

Although the seniors had a very large data set to work with, the data was still somewhat lim-ited in scope. Lin even said that a “lack of data was probably one of [their] biggest problems.”

Additionally, the project was less computer science-oriented and more geared towards the medical side, requiring both students to brush up on some background medical knowledge.

Both students recognized a need for this kind of analysis in the medical world.

“Usually [doctors] have to guess or estimate based on past experience or the blood pres-sure at the beginning of sur-gery,” Lin said. “We wanted to try and develop normal values so that doctors had a reference during surgery.”

Two seniors compared infant blood pressure

levels against other factorsBY ALEX GETSOS

Staff Writer

The Undergraduate Assem-bly held internal elections on Sunday afternoon to elect its executive board for the upcom-ing year.

Newly elected UA President Joyce Kim and Vice President Joshua Chilcote, both College juniors, will be joined on the executive board by College

sophomore Andrew Robertson as speaker, College freshman Natalie Hernandez as secre-tary and College junior Amanda Acosta Ruiz as treasurer.

In the wake of this semes-ter’s impeachment scare and the dramatic unfolding of elec-tions, the next cycle of UA lead-ers will serve as spearheads for the future of Penn’s student government.

As speaker, Robertson will re-place Chilcote in running weekly UA meetings and facilitating UA discussion and debate. Acosta will head the new budget com-mittee, and Hernandez will man-

age UA records and attendance.The executive board mem-

bers were elected through an internal election in Irvine Au-ditorium, in which only newly elected members of the UA were permitted to vote. Members of the public were welcomed to attend and ask questions of the candidates.

Hernandez is excited for the year ahead. “My goals are two-fold: one, to make the UA more transparent to the greater Penn community, which I hope to do through increasing our pres-ence online, and two, to increase the feeling of unity within the

UA through being a co-social chair with Andrew Robertson and increasing the communica-tion between the secretary and committee directors,” she said.

Ruiz said she is looking for-ward to budgeting earlier in the academic year than this year, which should faciltate better communication between gov-ernment branches.

“I am very excited be the UA’s fifth speaker—I’ve got a lot to live up to. What I am looking forward this term as Speaker is truly uniting the UA body both socially and professionally,” Robertson added in an email.

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tainly anything but boring. A season after the outfielder finished tied for the team lead in home runs, Brebner has picked up right where he left off — although arguably with even more success in 2014. Playing on a team that packs quite a bit of pop at the plate, Brebner has led the charge of Penn’s home run crusade. In 25 games, the veteran has smacked seven homers and piled on 25 RBI. Brebner’s seven bombs account for slightly more than 10 percent of the home runs hit by the

entire Ivy League this year, as the conference’s eight teams have combined for 69 homers overall.

T he Qua kers on the mound: Everyone knows Con-nor Cuff is a star on the rub-ber. But the way Cuff has been neutralizing opponents this season is downright impres-sive. The junior righty leads the Ivies with a 1.12 ERA and is tied for second with three wins. But juniors Dan Gautieri and Ronnie Glenn and fresh-man Jake Cousins have all been on top of their games as well this season, combining for a 7-5 record in 14 starts.

Brian O’Keefe: St. Joe’s ju-nior catcher leads the Hawks with a .363 batting average and four home runs and is second on the team with 23 RBI. The Hawks star behind the plate has also generated 13 walks this year, and his .431

on-base percentage is third-best on the team. The Albany, N.Y., native was named Atlan-tic-10 Player of the Week after last weekend’s series in which he hit .857 and scored seven runs against St. Bonaventure.

Three Down:St. Joe’s on the road: While

the Quakers may be the ones getting most of the spotlight right now, the Hawks have had their fair share of success this season. St. Joe’s has won seven of its past 10 games, and currently sits in fourth place in the A-10 after dropping two of three to VCU over the weekend. But the Hawks have struggled on the road, losing five of nine contests away from Smithson Field, and are look-ing to rebound against Penn at Meiklejohn Stadium.

Penn’s schedule: The past week has been packed for the Quakers. After Penn’s first

two Ivy doubleheaders had to be pushed back to March 31 and April 1, respectively, due to rain, the Quakers played five games in a three-day period, including a win over Lafayette to advance in the Liberty Bell Classic. Throw in Penn’s four games against Harvard and Dartmouth, plus Tuesday’s game against St. Joe’s and Wednesday’s match-up with Saint Peter’s, and the Red and Blue will have taken the field 11 times in 10 days.

K’s ever y where: T he Hawks are a solid hitting team, as evidenced by their .285 batting average that ranks second in the A-10. But St. Joe’s also strikes out quite a bit — the squad has fanned 170 times this year, 18 more times than its opponents and 11 more times than Penn, a team that has already played one more game.

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finally break through as the game progressed, tossing a short pass near the sideline to Kulscar. He broke a tackle and outran a host of blue jerseys for a 60-yard touchdown scamper.

After the score, the teams moved to the red zone to prac-tice goal line situations. Torg-ersen was able to rack up a second touchdown for the Red team with a pinpoint, 19-yard pass to junior tight end Mitch-ell King in the corner of the end zone.

Later, with Chillura under center, the offense scored again, this time on a short grab by sophomore tight end Ryan Kelly. Chillura finished 5-for-15 passing for 58 yards, with one score and one interception.

“We’ve had essentially two fifth-year seniors since I’ve been here, so there’s a huge power void at the top,” Chillura

said. “The five quarterbacks here have been working our asses off all spring [but] you can’t have any substitute for in-game action.”

Chillura also noted the ben-efits of having veteran receiv-ers return for the upcoming campaign.

“Having Conner [Scott] back has been big,” he said. “We get Conner and Ty Taylor back. You’ve got guys coming off of a redshirt year like Cole Stern and Spencer [Kulscar] moving to that position.

“All of those guys are great, and I think we’re going to have a pretty good passing game next year.”

The defense controlled the rest of the scrimmage. Sopho-more cornerback Trent Den-nington met running back Kyle Wilcox in the backfield with a powerful hit to force a fumble that rolled out of bounds. Soon after, sophomore defensive back Ian Dobbins recorded the Blue team’s second intercep-tion of the game.

Stern led the offense with two catches for 33 yards. Wil-cox finished with 14 rushing yards on six tries, and Lisa recorded a game-high 20 yard run at the quarterback spot as well.

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men — it’ll be the women. See, the funny thing is that despite losing to then-No. 6 Northwest-ern on Sunday, 7-2, the Quakers actually moved up in the IW-CLA rankings this week, up to the No. 9 slot. Entering the bulk of Ivy play sitting at 6-3, Penn’s

only losses this season are to the No. 1 (UNC), No. 2 (Mary-land) and No. 5 (Northwestern) teams in the country.

What does that spell for the Ivy League? Pretty bad news, considering that the Red and Blue are entering conference play with two wins in hand after toppling Harvard and Yale back during spring break. Making matters worse for the Ancient Eight is a sterling Quakers de-fense that has really buckled down after giving up 15 goals in that loss to Maryland — goalie Lucy Ferguson’s third Ivy De-fensive Player of the Week nod

is proof enough.Senior Sports Editor Ste-

ven Tydings: No. 11 Penn men’s lacrosse doesn’t seem to be in position to win the Ivy League title but the Quakers’ postseason hopes are invari-ably intertwined with their Ivy performance. The Red and Blue sit at 2-2 in Ivy play, losing to arguably the two best teams — Cornell and Princeton — while pulling out key wins over No. 13 Yale and Brown. And the Quakers’ biggest test will be a matchup with Harvard at Franklin Field this Saturday as the Crimson come in with a 3-0

Ivy record.At two losses, the Red and

Blue aren’t likely to win the regular season title but a win against Harvard would go a long way to getting Penn into the Ivy League Tournament, which is a must. At least one win in that tourney is likely the barrier for entry to the NCAA Tournament, if not winning the Ivy League.

Penn’s senior leadership will be key down the stretch, wheth-er it’s Brian Feeney in goal or Zack Losco in the midfield, as the Quakers pursue that elusive NCAA bid.

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After recording a total of 26 saves against two ranked opponents, junior goalie Lucy Ferguson was named co-Ivy Defensive Player of the Week for her efforts, the third time this season she has received such honors. Ferguson made 17 saves in a win over then-No. 19 Georgetown, and nine saves in a loss to then-No. 6 Northwestern.

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“They are very talented kids,” he said. “They’ll learn from this. They’ve got to grow from this. They’ve got to prog-ress from this. We’ll go as far as they allow us to go but the good news is that they’re pretty talented so we’ll just keep work-ing with them.”

The 2013 Ivy League sea-son displayed how important the quarterback position is, as

Princeton thrived with the sta-bility of Quinn Epperly at the helm, while Penn struggled in large part due to Ragone’s in-juries.

Yet while 2013 retaught ev-eryone the importance of the QB, Penn’s quarterbacks were teaching their successors a few things about what it’s like as the man under center.

“You learn two different things from those guys,” Chil-lura said. “Billy will make a mistake here or there but he’ll never let it show. Billy could throw eight interceptions in a game and win it on a last-second drive. Becker was very much into preparation, very much into knowing exactly what was going on.

“If you take both those things, you know exactly what is going on ... and [when] you’re cold-blooded ‘Iceman Billy Ragone,’ you can’t go wrong.”

That preparation and poise will help these five quarter-backs come September, but more important than any les-son, whoever takes the job will have weapons at his disposal.

Whether it is junior Kyle Wilcox as the incumbent at running back or fellow junior Spencer Kulcsar transitioning to a role as a wide receiver, the Quakers will have an experi-enced backfield for 2014. Add to that seniors Conner Scott and Ty Taylor at wide receiver, as well as a group of tall and talented tight ends that were on

display throughout the Spring Game.

Penn’s current stable of QBs threw a total of just 11 passes last season. And when the Red and Blue take the field next year, there will be a few kinks to work out in what Chillura said was a more up-tempo offense.

Yet, while next year will fea-ture the changing of the guard at quarterback, Penn’s veter-ans surrounding the QB as well as a spring full of practice will put the Quakers in a good posi-tion this fall.

TYDINGS from page 10

New QBs flanked by veterans

Penn turns in solid effort

at Pirate Invitational

Fresh off a successful out-ing at the Hoya Invitational, Penn women’s golf competed at the Pirate Invitational, which was held at the New Course at Trump National in Bedmin-ster, N.J.

The Quakers’ lineup fea-tured junior Amanda Chin, senior Michelle Lee and fresh-men Marissa Kay, Erin Lo and Franchesca de la Torre in the 36-hole tournament hosted by Seton Hall.

The Quakers f inished in sixth place in the field of 17 teams with a total score of 646 strokes. Columbia (631) won the event by one stroke over Yale.

“It was a great tournament.

We played well the first day and unfortunately did not play well on the second day,” coach Mark Anderson said. “One highlight of our event was Amanda Chin. She was tied for fifth. She shot a great 73 today.”

Led by Kay’s score of 75 — good for a second-place tie in the entire field — the Quakers finished the first round in third place behind Princeton and Columbia.

“Marissa played very well in the first round,” Anderson said.

In the second round, Chin shot a 73 to lead the Quakers to a 322 score, and her low round tied for second best in the field on Sunday.

However, competitors Seton Hall and St. John’s would shoot rounds of 311 and 305, respec-tively, to best the Quakers by Sunday afternoon.

Chin finished tied for fifth place indiv idual ly with a 10-over-par 154, while Kay placed 14th with a 15-over-par 159.

W. GOLF | Amanda Chin posts fifth-place

finish in field filled with Ivy competitors

BY DANIEL RICHStaff Writer

Joshua Ng/Staff Photographer

Freshman quarterback Alek Torgersen is one of five quarterbacks competing to be the starter for Penn football next fall. Torgersen and junior Patton Chillura received the most reps during Saturday’s Spring Game, struggling to complete passes as strong winds affected the play of each quarterback.

STEVEN TYDINGS is a Wharton sophomore from Hopewell, N.J. and is senior sports editor for The Daily Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at [email protected].

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Remember watchi ng Billy Ragone and Ryan Becker play quarterback for Penn football? What

about a time when everyone knew the starting quarterback before the season even began?

Well, the times are certainly changing for the Red and Blue, as Saturday’s Spring Game gave us a look into a different version of Penn football, one that features a five-man race to be the Quakers’ starter at quarterback.

After an era where Billy Ragone reigned supreme and a few other QBs came along for the ride, the 2014 Quakers will have an entirely new look under center.

“We’ve had essentially two fifth-

year seniors since I’ve been here, so there’s a huge power void at the top,” said junior quarterback Patton Chillura , one of the leading candidates to take over at QB. “The five quarterbacks here have been working our asses off all spring.”

On Saturday, the signal-callers had their first audition in game action, dealing with strong winds while throwing passes in the Spring Game, which amounted to a live-action practice for the Quakers.

And when the dust (and wind) cleared, there wasn’t a clear cut winner to the quarterback battle.

Chillura and freshman Alek Torgersen each threw touchdowns, but also dealt with waves of incom-pletions. Sophomores Andrew Lisa and Alex Matthews saw limited reps. And coach Al Bagnoli admit-ted that the team is still trying to define freshman Adam Strouss’ role after he continued to run Wild-cat-esque run plays like he did all season.

Overall, Bagnoli seemed sat-isfied with each of the five QBs’ performances.

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coming out of Saturday’s Spring Game.

The 6-foot-3 sophomore may be the least likely to see playing time of the

five QBs, but he had a solid performance in limited practice time

on Saturday. The Oregon native’s role remains to be seen.

Alex Matthews Sophomore

The second-year QB didn’t play much on Saturday but did show

off his skills on the ground, rushing for 20 yards, which was the largest carry of the day for

any of the Quakers.

Andrew LisaSophomore

Torgersen took many of the snaps at Saturday’s Spring Game and is one of the few candidates that got some time under center this year,

throwing for over 100 yards on just 10 passes and completing two

touchdown throws.

Alek Torgersen Freshman

He may be just a freshman, but none of the other players have the on-field experience that Strouss received this year as a run-based QB. However,

Strouss’ job remains uncertain as to whether he’ll do more than run the ‘Wildcat’ offense.

Adam Strouss Freshman

Chillura may not have game experience but he looked strong at

times on Saturday, overcoming some early woes to complete some impressive plays, including a

touchdown toss to sophomore tight end Ryan Kelly.

Patton ChilluraJunior

WHO WANTS TO BEOn a warm, windy Saturday afternoon at Franklin Field, Penn football took the field to culminate spring activities in its annual Spring Game.

Supported by parents, fans and alumni in the stands, the Red team (offense) squared off against the Blue team (defense) for several series and situations on the field.

With the wind on its side, the Blue team forced two interceptions and came up with five sacks to capture the win over the Red team, according to coach Al Bagnoli and his staff’s special scoring system.

Early observations showed that several play-ers sat out the contest, either due to injury or as a precautionary measure.

Junior cornerbacks Kevin Ijoma , Dexter Davis and Mike Laning , as well as sophomore receiver Cameron Countryman , freshman cornerback Lonnie Tuff and sophomore offensive lineman Jack York all rested for precautionary measures. junior wideouts Eric Fiore and Billy Lewis , who sustained injuries last season, also sat out.

“Once we’re healthy, we’ve got a chance to be really good . . . We’re very optimistic we can be pretty good on both sides of the ball,” Bagnoli said.

Freshman quarterback Alek Torgersen start-ed under center for Penn. On the third play from scrimmage, sophomore Kenny Thomas intercepted Torgersen and the offense remained stagnant for the next two drives, gaining only five yards on its first three drives combined and starting the game 0-for-8 passing.

Besides Torgersen , several other potential quarterbacks are looking to fill the shoes of last year’s starters Billy Ragone and Ryan Becker , including junior Patton Chillura , sophomore Andrew Lisa and freshman Adam Strouss .

Interestingly, junior tailback Spencer Kuls-car saw time at receiver throughout the game. Bagnoli spoke about Kulscar’s potential change of position from running back to wide out this season after the game.

“We wanted to move him out there because we wanted to take a look at some of these young tailbacks,” Bagnoli said. “We wanted to look at Brian Schoenauer and we wanted to take a look at some of these freshmen.

“Basically, we’ll take inventory of it. If we have to, we can move Spencer back to have a nice one-

FOOTBALL | In the midst of a quarterback battle, Torgersen offsets

pick with two touchdown passes BY DANIEL RICH

Staff Writer

STEVEN TYDINGS

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This past weekend featured a full plate of action for Penn’s spring sports teams. From John Yurkow’s baseball squad picking up its 11th consecutive victory to the men’s lacrosse team stav-ing off a comeback from pesky Brown, there have been plenty of highlights for the Red and Blue over the past few days. With the spring season far from over, some Penn squads are in better positions than others to compete for Ivy titles. But which team is in the best position? Our editors weigh in.

Sports Editor Riley Steele: When Yurkow was hired over the summer to take the reigns of Penn baseball, I don’t think anybody expected this kind of run from the team. In Yurkow’s first season as skipper, it was fair to expect considerable grow-

ing pains. And the Quakers ex-perienced quite a few of them, dropping their first six games of the season and returning home from spring break with a 2-9 re-cord. Since then, this team has been red hot. The Red and Blue have won 11 straight and 13 of 14 overall.

The Quakers strengths were all on display this weekend. Led by Connor Cuff and bolstered by the addition of freshman Jake Cousins, a deep and experienced pitching staff gave up only 13 runs in four games. Rick Brebner bol-stered his Ivy League-leading home run total to seven, and Austin Bossart and Mike Vilardo continue to produce for the Quak-ers. Now that the Red and Blue sit atop the Ivy League with an undefeated conference record, it’s time for the rest of the Ancient Eight to pay attention.

Sports Editor Ian Wenik: I’m going to pick a lacrosse team for this one, but it’s not going to be the Carolyn Lim/Senior Staff Photographer

Throughout Penn’s 11-game winning streak, senior outfielder Rick Brebner has been excellent at the plate for the Red and Blue. Brebner hit his seventh home run of the season last weekend, and leads the Ivies in long balls this year.

What a way to kick off the Ivy season. After starting the 2014 campaign with nine losses in its first 11 games, the Penn baseball team has rebounded, notching 11 consecutive wins, including its first eight in Ivy play. Not bad for a team that won seven Ancient Eight contests all of last season.

But the Quakers still have plenty of work left to do. Before four games against Cornell this upcoming weekend, the Red and Blue (15-10, 8-0 Ivy) take a break to host St. Joseph’s (15-9) on Tues-day in the second round of the Liberty Bell Classic. Let’s take a look at who’s up and who’s down entering the matinee.

Three Up:Rick Brebner: The senior

from Langhorne, Pa., is cer-

BY RILEY STEELE

THE BUZZ: THREE UP, THREE DOWN

From The Daily Pennsylvanian’s sports blog, THE BUZZ

Red and Blue look to push streak to 12

SEE BASEBALL PAGE 8

BY DP SPORTS EDITORSFrom The Daily Pennsylvanian’s

sports blog, THE BUZZ

Which spring teams have Ivy title hopes?

SEE ROUNDTABLE PAGE 8

St. Josephs15-9Today,3 p.m.

Meiklejohn Stadium

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