November 3, 2015

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Watching television and writing about it may seem like a dream job. But on Monday night, TV critic Todd VanDerWerff explained how his job isn’t just Netflix and chilling.

The Kelly Writers House hosted VanDer-Werff in the first event of its annual “Writing About TV” series. VanDerWerff is the former TV Editor at The A.V. Club and is now the Culture Editor at Vox Media.

VanDerWerff read two of his own pieces: a recap of the season four finale of “The Sopra-nos” and an article about today’s new golden age of television. He then answered several questions from the audience, focusing on his career and his thoughts about the future of the television industry.

Although VanDerWerff’s original goal

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College and Wharton sophomore Lorenzo Bonfiglio, the student arrested last week for allegedly committing arson at the Psi Upsilon fraternity house, also known as Castle, is being charged with 24 criminal counts by the Com-monwealth of Pennsylvania. Nineteen of the counts are for recklessly endangering another person, and the remainder are for simple assault, possible instrument of crime with intent, crimi-nal mischief, causing catastrophe and arson — danger of death or bodily injury, according to court documents.

According to United States common law codes, arson is generally defined as “the mali-cious burning or exploding of the dwelling house of another, or the burning of a building within the curtilage, the immediate surrounding space, of the dwelling of another.”

Bonfiglio was arrested on Oct. 29 by Penn Police, according to the Division of Public Safety. He was arraigned the same day and bail was set at $100,000. Bonfiglio posted 10 percent of the bail that same day and was then released, according to the court docket.

Bonfiglio has been placed on a leave of

Lorenzo Bonfiglio was charged on 24 criminal countsLOWELL NEUMANN NICKEYStaff Reporter

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2006 College graduate Rachel Senturia is on a mission to make sci-ence cool.

In early 2012, Senturia founded STEMsocks, a company that pro-duces unisex science-themed socks for adults. Designs include every-thing from electrocardiogram socks to DNA socks to even bacterium socks.

A biochemistry major , Senturia said she wanted to get other people as excited about science as she was.

“I felt like I was learning all of this really interesting stuff, but so many people didn’t really know what I was learning and didn’t know what I was talking about,” she said. “I really wanted to make science more acces-sible for people.”

With that mindset, she launched STEMsocks.

Although Senturia wasn’t a Wharton student, she found other ways to nurture her entrepreneurial spirit while at Penn. She was the captain of the club water polo team for two years, an experience which she said taught her about leadership and how to build a more rigorous,

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For most students, mid-term season is stressful enough as is.

Religious Jewish and Muslim students, how-

ever, face an additional stress factor on an annual basis with the possi-bility of midterms being scheduled on the same day as a religious holi-day.

A number of observant Jewish students faced a dilemma this se-mester when midterm schedules

overlapped with the holidays of Sukkot, Shemini Atzeret and Sim-chat Torah, which took place late September and early October. Ac-cording to Hillel Director Rabbi Mike Uram, more exams were scheduled on the holidays this year than had been in previous years. Uram said he heard of a few profes-sors who were unwilling to fairly accommodate students who wished to move their midterms to observe the holidays.

The Office of the Provost has strict guidelines that prohibit Penn’s academic departments from giving exams or assigning work on “several religious holidays that affect large numbers of University community members,” including Christmas, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, the first two days of Pass-over and Good Friday, according to the Provost’s website.

However, the rules blur for a number of “other holidays” that are

“of importance to some individu-als and groups,” as outlined on the site, such as Sukkot, the last two days of Passover, Shavuot, Shemini Atzerat, Simchat Torah, Chinese New Year, the Muslim New Year, Diwali and the Islamic holidays Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha. Stu-dents who plan on observing these holidays must let their instructors know within the first two weeks of

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was to become a film critic, he has never wanted to stop writ-ing about television. He said he thinks writing about TV is more interesting than writing about film because critics are always in conversation with the shows they write about. He added that they also have a lot more oppor-tunities to engage with readers than do film critics.

However, he pointed out that TV criticism requires

significantly more watching, thinking and writing because of its frequent deadlines. When VanDerWerff worked at The A.V. Club, he was following around 67 shows at one time.

In an interview before the event, VanDerWerff said that TV criticism is more work than people would expect. “You have to watch a lot of stuff you hate,” VanDerWerff said.

Although he said he does not enjoy some popular shows in-cluding “Two and A Half Men,” “Glee” and “American Horror

Story,” he feels the need to keep up with them because he knows that many other people are watching. VanDerWerff added he understands that he can’t always write about his preferred shows.

“The shows TV critics want to talk about, which are often way off the beaten path, are not the shows that our readers are actually watching,” VanDerW-erff said.

VanDerWerff told Monday night’s audience that he hopes his writing on popular shows

will guide readers to his pieces about the lesser known shows that he’s more passionate about.

When interviewed about his advice for aspiring TV critics, he recommended reading and writing often. “I don’t neces-sarily mean read 15 novels a day;reading interesting stuff about TV on the internet is certainly working toward that goal,” VanDerWerff said.

He also suggested that aspir-ing TV writers write not only about the television they love but also about the television other people love, and try to figure out why others love it. He told aspiring critics to expose themselves to new television as much as possible.

“Try writing about some-thing you’ve never heard of, or something people don’t really pay attention to,” VanDerWerff said.

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each semester so that alterna-tive arrangements can be made regarding missed assignments and exams. Once the students inform their instructors, faculty then “must provide reasonable opportunities” to make up the missed work, according to the policy.

But this year, some students felt that they were not given “reasonable oppor tunit ies” to make up their work. Hillel President and College senior Michael Mitzner recounted stories of his friends who had issues with the policy this year. “A close friend of mine was in a class where there are three

midterms, and the class allowed for one drop midterm. When my friend told the professor he had to miss one midterm because of holidays, the professor told him that the missed midterm would just have to be the drop, adding pressure to do extremely well on the other two,” Mitzner said.

Another friend of Mitzner’s was not offered an opportunity to take a midterm on another day when it conflicted with a holiday. Instead, the professor redistributed the percentage of the missed midterm (30 per-cent of the entire grade), putting 15 percent of the weight on midterm one and the other 15 percent on midterm three.

“The Provost policy differ-entiates ‘smaller’ holidays like

Sukkot and Shemini Atzerat, but the problem with this from a Jewish perspective is that there is no difference in how they are observed from Rosh Hashanah or Passover,” Mitzner said. “Ob-servers are not able to write or use their computers. And it’s not necessarily fair that there is some sort of hierarchy for the holidays. And while students are flexible and have worked through it, these situations can cause a lot of stress.”

Uram has noticed problems tend to arise mostly in large classes where it is harder to find space for exams, where grades are on a curve and the creation of the exam is labor-intensive for the professor.

Muslim students also face a

tricky situation during midterm season each year when they cel-ebrate Eid al-Adha, a holiday that has no set date and changes yearly according to the lunar calendar. This year, the holiday fell on Sept. 24.

Muslim Student Association Chaplain Kameelah Rashad said that during Eid al-Adha, students must decide between devoting time to family and worship or doing homework and taking exams. “Some students are reluctant to take advantages of exceptions because they don’t want professors to think they can’t keep up or even because of the perception of being too reli-gious,” Rashad said. “So while students want to devote the time to acts of worship, just the fact

that the holiday falls on a dif-ferent day every year and that they have to ask for the religious exception, when it should be just available to them, makes it dif-ficult.”

To help alleviate potential issues, the Office of the Chap-lain sends out an email to staff at the beginning of every year with a list of religious holidays so staff can be mindful of stu-dents who celebrate.

“My sense is that the Pro-vost’s Office and the Chaplain’s Office are looking to improve the situation and better train various faculty so they can be more sensitive to students of religious backgrounds,” Uram said.

Like Rashad, Uram also

commented on how the students feel when they must ask for reli-gious exceptions. “What I hear from students is that they feel scared to ask their professor to accommodate them because they’re worried it’ll affect their grade, and others are just un-comfortable asking,” Uram said. “While this may only happen to a professor once in a while, for the orthodox students, this is something that happens every fall, and it can create a set of experiences that make them feel other and different in a univer-sity that wants to make people from different backgrounds feel welcome. If a student is made to feel different because of who they are, we’re failing to meet the needs of students.”

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For college freshmen, the fall semester typically marks a series of welcoming activities — ori-entation, student trips and floor events. But at Cornell University, approximately 125 students will join the community in January 2016 through its First-Year Spring Admission program.

This will be the first time that such a program will run since 2003, when Cornell had a similar program called “J Frosh.” Cornell is one among the growing number of colleges adopting spring ad-missions programs, according to the National Association for Col-lege Admission Counseling. It is currently the only Ivy League university to reinstate its spring admissions program.

Historically, Penn also had a similar program, according to Dean of Admissions Eric Furda. Reviving the program does not seem to be a priority.

“From an admissions stand-point, there is a very short period of time and a greater volume of work that you would have to care for if you wanted spring admis-sions,” Furda said.

But Educational Consulta-tion and Admissions Strategist Steven Goodman explained that spring admissions programs hold an appeal to universities because they bring in more revenue.

“Cornell is trying to make better use of its facilities that it has available and get more money,” Goodman said.

He added that Cornell’s adop-tion of a spring admissions program may be notable to its peer institutions, as schools like Penn might reevaluate its ben-efits.

Founder of IvySelect College Consulting Michael Goran stated that spring admissions programs

are just one more thing that the Ivy League universities do not agree on.

“Just like the Ivies have differ-ent opinions over whether they want to count the writing compo-nent of the new SAT or not, spring admissions don’t offer a universal appeal,” Goran said.

Furda said that spring admis-sions might be more successful at Cornell because the university is a larger and more decentralized in-stitution than Penn. He added that the program also allows Cornell to open its doors to students who might take a more atypical col-lege track.

But some experts say that this new form of admissions allows universities like Cornell to take more special admits like athletes and legacies without counting them in fall admissions statistics.

President of Hernandez College Consulting Michele Her-nandez noted that students with credentials not necessarily up to the general admissions level can now be accepted in the spring.

But Goodman added that since the number of spring students is only a small part of Cornell, spe-cial admits would not change the university’s overall statistics pro-file.

And for some students, spring admissions is a second opportu-nity to get into their first-choice school, Hernandez said. How-ever, she also added that it might be harder for some of these new students to adapt to college life.

Goodman agreed: “Some stu-dents do feel like they’ve been left behind,” he said. “Their peers have started college and they haven’t.”

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Event to stress African-American issues

An inside look at the hip-hop industry, a pitch competition and an analysis of diversity in tech are all in store at a conference this weekend.

Hosted by the African Ameri-can MBA Association, the Whitney M. Young Jr. Memo-rial Conference will be held this Saturday at the Center City Ritz-Carlton. The conference celebrates humanitarian and civil rights leader Whitney M. Young Jr., who fought for full participation of African Ameri-cans in social and economic sectors. This year’s theme, The New Black: Creating Impact in Business and Society, aims to highlight the scope of social, political and economic issues facing the African-American community.

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as technology and urban devel-opment,” said Marketing Chair and Wharton MBA candidate Monica Myers.

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“One of our panels — Diver-sity in Tech — will discuss the state of the union of the tech industry in places like Silicon Valley, what things we can do to get more diversity and minori-ties in that industry,” Myers said.

The 41st conference wel-comes the return of a venture competition. This weekend, current graduate and recent graduate students launch-ing a business will compete to pitch their business plans. The winning students will gain auto-matic entry as a finalist in Black Enterprise Magazine’s Elevator

Pitch Competition as well as a one-hour consultation with a Google Venture.

AAMBAA is also launching new events this year, includ-ing a high school business plan competition. Modeled after the venture competition, high school students from Philadelphia will compete to pitch their business plan idea to win a $3,000 grant. Furthermore, AAMBAA has in-vited representatives from local businesses to talk about their ex-periences on a panel.

“In an effort to expand the borders of the Wharton com-munity, we wanted to reach out and connect with many minor-ity-owned and local businesses in Philadelphia,” Co-Chair and second-year Wharton MBA student Brian Rikuda said. “We launched a procurement event that caters towards local businesses as well as repre-sentatives from University of Pennsylvania and from the city of Philadelphia that will sit on the procurement panel and pro-vide information and insight into these businesses, and how to do business with them.”

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A Penn graduate’s quest for the White House has ended.

Democratic presidential can-didate and 1983 College and Wharton graduate Lawrence Lessig announced Monday that he was suspending his campaign amidst changes in presidential debate rules that prevented him from participating in the next Democratic debate.

“I was eager and happy to ask for support for the campaign when there was a prospect of getting into the debates. When there wasn’t, I couldn’t in good faith make that ask. When that’s true, a campaign must end,” Lessig said in a statement posted on his Tumblr page.

A distinguished activist and Harvard Law School professor, Lessig launched his campaign on Sept. 2 after raising $1 mil-lion from supporters. His campaign focused on reform-ing federal campaign finance

policies and improving voter access and equality.

He initially promised that if elected, he would step down once he had achieved those goals, but later changed his mind and announced in October that he would be seeking a full presi-dential term.

The Lessig campaign ini-tially believed that in order to qualify for the televised Demo-cratic debates, Lessig had to have the support of 1 percent of Democratic voters in three national polls conducted within six weeks of the date of a given debate.

After considerable effort, Lessig managed to reach the 1 percent mark last week in a Monmouth University poll, fol-lowed by similar rankings in polls by the National Broad-casting Company and the Huffington Post. Under the pre-viously understood rules, this qualified Lessig to participate in the next Democratic debate on Nov. 14.

But late last week, the Dem-ocratic National Committee contacted Lessig’s campaign

with a new explanation of the debate rules. To participate in the November debate, candi-dates had to have reached 1 percent in the polls “six weeks before the debate.”

“Under this new rule, Lessig obviously cannot qualify for the Nov. 14 debate. He would have had to qualify four weeks ago!” campaign general consultant Steve Jarding wrote Monday in the Huffington Post.

Lessig has previously pro-tested unfair electoral practices in his academic and professional work. One of his books on the subject, “Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress — and How to Stop It,” has inspired a Penn writing seminar taught by Critical Writing Program Senior Writing Fellow Christo-pher Phillips.

“At the core of our democracy there is a hole where the Fram-ers meant there to be a Congress. That crippled and corrupted institution will block progress until it is fixed,” Lessig said of his old platform. “It is an agenda for reforming a failed institu-tion.”

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Wharton alumnus drops Democratic presidential bid

The 41st annual Whitney M. Young Jr. Memorial Conference was held at Penn last December and will be held again this year on Nov. 6 and 7.

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It’s no surprise when Penn increases the cost of be-ing a student every year. In February, the University

typically announces a tuition in-crease, then spins it as only rais-ing the tuition by less than 4 per-cent. The Trustees typically raise housing and dining prices, too, generally around when students start thinking about where they’ll be living the following year.

But this year, Residential Services announced a significant change in room pricing structure right after fall break. Nearly all freshman rooms will now be one standard price, but rooms with more amenities — namely per-sonal kitchens, bathrooms and private bedrooms — will cost nearly $4,000 more than that price.

Penn says that these changes

will benefit students, especially students on financial aid, because it will make it easier for families to plan for freshman year know-ing the set price they will have

to pay. While under the previous system students could be placed into higher-priced rooms they might struggle to afford, all in-coming freshmen will pay the same amount for their first-year housing. The University even cites the fact that this new rent structure will lower profits as evidence of its good intentions

for students.While we question whether

this price change will adversely affect profits — the average room rate last year was $8,688, and the

minimum price next year will be $800 higher than that, so how are profits decreasing, again? — we are willing to accept Penn’s posi-tion that this change is supposed to benefit students. However, we think that the new pricing system is still the wrong choice to make, and in the long run, it won’t be good for students.

Under the new pricing scheme, a large single in Fisher-Hassenfeld costs the same as a cramped double in Hill College House, when the two rooms don’t really provide the same experi-ence (or amenities). On the flip side, over 37 percent of high rise rooms will now be priced at lev-els comparable to elite, off-cam-pus residences — about $1,470 per month over the academic year — which doesn’t reflect the true value of the rooms.

What these measures re-ally will do is discourage students from staying on campus as upper-classmen. The majority of rooms that will experience price increas-es are in the high rises, where a large number of on-campus resi-dents move after freshman year. While some high rise rooms will be priced at the lower of the two

options (which will still be higher than the current price of $9,062), a large number will see a price jump by about $1,500. At a new price of $13,234 per academic year, living in some high rise rooms will be akin to living in the Radian ($16,140 for the cal-endar year) and would be more expensive than living in the Hub ($10,380 for the calendar year).

The new pricing system will make it simpler for freshmen on financial aid to plan for their first year — and that is a good thing. However, it also makes it im-possible for students to opt into a room that costs less than their financial aid in order to put extra money towards other expenses they might have. Some off-cam-pus residences, on the other hand, cost less than Penn’s cheapest rooms, which will prompt stu-

dents to move off-campus in or-der to save money.

Instead of creating uniform prices that will increase every year, the University should pri-oritize managing price increases so that student costs don’t au-tomatically rise each fall. The average dorm price at Penn has nearly doubled since the 2000-01 academic year, when the aver-age room cost was only $4,754. In fact, the projected minimum room rate for next year is $2,883 more than the inflation-adjusted price in 2000.

While Penn’s new changes are well-intentioned, in reality they won’t be as beneficial as in-tended. The new prices will hurt students financially — and the Penn community more generally by encouraging students to move off-campus.

As someone who grew up in Cali-fornia, I thought I would be some-

thing of a novelty at an East Coast university. But as I intro-duced myself to different people during my first weeks at Penn, I was overwhelmed by the va-riety of responses I got when I asked where they were from: “I grew up in Dubai.” “I went to high school in Egypt.” “Board-ing school in London.” “South Korea.” “Panama.” Suddenly, California didn’t seem exotic — and it sure didn’t feel cool to tell people that I’d lived in the same suburb for 18 years. I felt this pressing need to globalize my-self, to make up in college all the time I’d lost in suburbia.

I was not alone in this feel-ing. In a survey conducted across a random sample of Penn under-graduate and graduate students, 19 out of 33 students indicated that after entering college, they felt pressure to become world-lier. But what does it mean to be worldly? One student, Sophia*, predicted responses to this ques-

tion: “Obviously many people will say all the international stu-dents or the ones who traveled are worldlier. However, I think we should define [worldliness] based on what you know about the world rather than who went to Lycée in NYC or traveled more.”

Student responses indeed reflected the two viewpoints de-lineated by Sophia. One group stressed that worldliness often manifests itself in external, ma-terialistic norms; for example, 42 percent of respondents cited characteristics like being well-dressed and smoking cigarettes as evidence of what worldliness looks like. In this vein, Donna* responded that worldliness is made obvious in “accent, the way people dress (‘worldly’ people tend to be wealthier, are more fashionable, skinnier, pret-tier, sceney-er, et cetera).” She also emphasized that interna-tional Asian students are often excluded from common concep-tions of worldliness because they are seen to be “FOB-y” rather than “worldly.” In her opinion,

worldliness is often “restricted to European or white international students, which can be seen in Theta’s pledge classes.” Curtis* agreed that fraternities and so-rorities like Owls, Tabard and Theta appear worldlier than other Greek associations.

Additionally, for many re-spondents, the notion of worldli-ness was inextricably correlated with the stereotype of the rich international student. In Yolan-de’s* opinion, this was especially true “given that international ad-missions is need-aware, so there’s even more of a selection bias to-ward wealthy students.” College senior Jordi Rivera Prince added, “Many international students are very wealthy in countries with extreme economic disparities.

They don’t intend it maliciously, but they can’t begin to appreciate that their way of life isn’t a given for other people.” David* agreed: “I think the type of global expe-rience that many Penn students live by is a sheltered one — not necessarily a true embodiment

of what it’s really like for the average person to live in those countries.” Other students cited “Facebook pictures of unafford-able vacations” or “endless talk-ing about study abroad experi-ences” as further indicators of how worldliness and wealth are often connected.

The second camp of students acknowledged that while these external definitions of worldli-ness exist, true worldliness is in-stead reflective of deeper internal

qualities. College and Wharton freshman Ruhy Patel underlined this by saying, “Worldly people have an inherent curiosity that, regardless of being well traveled or not, manifests itself in knowl-edge about and appreciation for other places in the world.” An understanding of different per-spectives, as well as an innate desire to discover and learn about new cultures, were two qualities that this group of respondents deemed necessary for worldli-ness.

As our world becomes in-creasingly global, there is more pressure upon us to do the same. But this doesn’t necessarily mean we have to spend big bucks or travel extensively to become more global. We are surrounded by — we are ensconced in — diversity. Within our dorms, on SEPTA, our neighborhoods at home, any street on which we walk, we are brushing arms with so many different types of peo-ple. It’s similar to something I learned in calculus: As you count higher and higher, the numbers become infinite. But in be-

tween 6 and 6.000001 there is just as large of an infinity. As such, there is no “common” ex-perience. Diversity can be dis-covered and globality attained in the smallest microcosm, just as it can in the world at large. All that’s required is an open mind, open ears and an open heart.

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unified team. Under Senturia’s guidance, the team went to the Nationals meet twice.

“Penn was also the place where my scientific passion really developed,” Senturia said. She added that her fresh-man chemistry class with professor Andrew Rappe and physical chemistry with

professor Michael Topp par-ticularly nurtured her love for science and helped her engage with like-minded peers.

“I made a lot of friends who were scientists and realized that scientists come in a lot of dif-ferent flavors instead of what’s normally presented in stereo-types in the media,” she said. “There was definitely a desire to combat the stereotype of scientists being these frumpy,

awkward, generally uncool people.”

2006 College graduate Alyssa Zackler, who played club water polo with Senturia at Penn, is an avid consumer of STEMsocks today.

“Science does tend to have sort of a nerdy stereotype, but I think bringing it into public life and giving it that visual cue makes it more public and more acceptable,” Zackler said.

An obstetrics and gynecology resident at Temple University, Zackler said she likes to wear the socks with her scrubs, as it is one of the few ways she can individu-alize her style at work.

Though he is not directly in-volved in the business, 2006 Wharton graduate Michael Brozman also supports STEM-socks. Brozman first met Senturia during their freshman year, when they both lived in

Stouffer College House. With a concentration in both Finance and Insurance and Risk Manage-ment, Brozman sometimes offers advice in product positioning and pricing for STEMsocks.

In the future, Senturia said she hopes to grow STEMsocks by diversifying the product line and increasing its accessibility. The company also donates a por-tion of its sales to a nonprofit in California that increases STEM

education for K-12 students.Although Senturia didn’t enter

Penn with the intention of start-ing a business, this did not deter her from following her passions later on.

“Don’t be influenced by what you see around you — even if your peers may be going into high-paying, Wall Street jobs, that shouldn’t deter you from going the route that you want to go,” she said.

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Campus ministries more mindful of consumption

The Penn Religious Com-munities Council is teaming up with Penn’s Environmental Sustainability Director Dan Ga-rofalo to discuss ways to make campus ministries be more green.

While the Office of the Chaplain had initially planned to issue a green challenge to the ministries for a duration of two months, it decided instead to encourage the ministries to consult with Garofalo and find ways to save energy that are best suited to their unique situ-ations.

“It’s a half notch less formal than we were making it out to be at first, but we realized that

there’s no one-size-fits-all so-lution because some ministries are housed in their own build-ings, but many just meet in a room a couple times a week, and some groups meet and wor-ship off campus,” University Chaplain Chaz Howard said. “We want this to be an open-ended call to be more green, as opposed to a challenge that will just end after two months.”

After Garofalo’s presenta-tion, many showed interest and began making concrete action steps to reduce energy or re-source consumption. One of the Christian ministries decided to bring and reuse plates, silver-ware and glasses at every one of its food events instead of buying and dumping disposables. “It’s an easy thing to do, it’ll save money and is fantastic for the environment,” Howard said.

The Chaplain of the Muslim Student Association Kameelah Rashad said that she also plans

to ask students and commu-nity members to make small changes that will go a long way. “Something as simple as not leaving the water on for the ab-lutions before the daily prayers, or asking people to bring their own utensils during the month of Ramadan when we feed people every night aligns with the tradition of the prophet, which emphasized simplicity and mindfulness,” Rashad said. “We have a hand in shaping the future of conservation, and the best way to bring those remind-ers to the Muslim community is to emphasize that it is aligned with our faith, and it always has been the case that we should not take more than our share, that we care about future genera-tions and about the land.”

Rashad also plans to be mind-ful of consumption during big events that MSA has coming up

this semester, such as the annual MSA Winter Wonderland, a free skating event. “There’s going to be treats and hot chocolate, and we’re going to ask people to bring their own mugs, and we’re going to think of ways to reuse materials and containers we al-ready have.”

For the skeptics, Howard con-siders an important question: Does this really make a differ-ence?

“Does one Jewish or Muslim or Christian student cutting down their shower time, power-ing down their computer, riding a bike instead of a car make a huge difference? Maybe not,” Howard said. “But if all of Hillel or Newman, if an entire religious fellowship, if all of the religious groups that make up a big portion of our campus try to do something environmentally positive, it’s a big deal.”

The Office of the Chaplain is urging a greener lifestyleEUNICE LIM Staff Reporter

The Office of the Chaplain is calling for campus ministries, like the Newman Center, to make strides towards a greener Penn.

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Penn’s Innovation Prize largest in the Ivy League

Top American universities are be-coming the “Shark Tank” for social entrepreneurs, and Penn is no excep-tion.

Announced last Wednesday, the President’s Innovation Prize will recognize ventures that fulfill three requirements: 1) produce a “posi-tive and important social impact,” 2) commitment to innovation and 3) viability as a long-term com-mercial venture. Each year, one winner will receive $100,000 in prize money, along with a $50,000 stipend.

This makes the prize among the largest social entrepreneurship awards offered by American col-leges. This is how Penn’s latest prize compares to similar awards at other Ivies.

President’s Challenge (Harvard):Up to $100,000 in grand prizes

10 $5,000 prizesEstablished in 2012, the Presi-

dent’s Challenge is held each spring through the Harvard Innovation Lab. In addition to competing for prize money, all challenge participants receive opportunities to consult with Harvard faculty throughout the course of the contest.

Entrants must address one of five pre-determined topic areas. The 2016 topic areas will be educa-tion innovation, affordable health, energy and environment, economic development and sustainable em-ployment or food and agriculture.

Unlike Penn’s prize, the money is awarded to multiple people in smaller sums. In the initial round in March, judges award $5,000 seed grants to 10 entries (two from each topic area) that advance to the April final round. In the finals, judges award additional prizes

totaling $100,000 to one grand prize winner and three runners-up.

Thorne Prize for Social Innova-tion in Health or Education (Yale):

One $25,000 prizeThe Thorne Prize focuses on a

narrower field of social change than Penn’s Innovation Prize. It is offered every spring by InnovateHealth Yale, a group of Yale faculty, stu-dents and program directors who focus on a specific type of social entrepreneurship addressing the health care industry. Both indi-viduals and teams with at least one Yale student can enter the contest.

Entrants submit a proposal ad-dressing a specific problem facing either health care or education. Se-lected entrants are then invited to present live proposals to an expert panel, which selects the winning venture.

Ventures are judged based on their potential for social impact, innovation, sustainability, team

dynamic and how thoroughly they define their product and target popu-lation, according to the 2016 Thorne Prize information packet.

Past winners include a proposal to expand health care literacy using cell phones and a team developing necklaces for infants containing vaccination records that can be updated from a smartphone app, Yale School of Public Health Com-munications Director Michael Greenwood wrote in April.

Global Technology Challenge (Columbia):

Total prizes: $50,000Sponsored by Columbia’s Fu

Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, the Global Technology Challenge is awarded every spring as part of the Columbia Venture Competition. The challenge is open to all Columbia students and recent alumni, unlike Penn’s, which is open to only current undergrad-uate students. Entrants choose a

problem that represents “global challenges” and pitch a technol-ogy-based solution to that problem.

“Those competing in the global challenge [are] more geared at problems such as en-vironmental challenges, health, sustainability and disaster relief,” wrote Columbia Engineering Associate Director of Communi-cations Melanie Farmer in a press release.

The Global Technology Chal-lenge especially encourages entries addressing cross-disciplinary prob-lems. This year’s entries included a suspension system for freight trucks that reduces fuel consumption and an inexpensive system for maintain-ing infant vital signs in developing countries.

Social Innovation Fellowship (Brown):

15 to 20 $4,000 prizesAlthough Brown is less pre-pro-

fessional than any of its Ivy League

siblings, Brown’s Social Innovation Fellowship is one of the most well-regarded social entrepreneurship awards for undergraduates. The program won the Ashoka U-Cordes Innovation Award in 2014. While Penn’s Innovation Prize stresses a commercial component, Brown’s prize welcomes nonprofits and other social endeavors.

Selected students receive a $4,000 stipend to work on a social venture during the summer — a markedly lower amount than the other prizes. They also receive extensive mentor-ing and networking help during the spring.

In addition, the Brown fellow-ship encourages applicants pursuing intrapreneurship (starting ventures within an existing organization). Since its establishment in 2009, the Social Innovation Fellowship has supported 75 students, including 43 intrapreneurs, according to the program’s 2013 Fellowship Impact Report.

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DO YOU PAY PER VIEW?Film polled you to fi nd out how you are getting your Sunday afternoon movie fi xes. Here’s what we learned. BY ANTHONY KHAYKIN

Though we all know the Internet is for porn (thanks Avenue Q), the

bedroom is no longer the only area being ceded to digital terri-tory. For every girl with daddy’s AmEx, window browsing on Fifth Avenue has been replaced with online shopping. And FYEs everywhere have virtu-ally been rendered useless (pun intended) with the existence of the multifarious iTunes store.

Things are no different here at Penn, where the Rave gets nearly half the traffi c for the midnight screenings of block-buster hits like Twilight as Hulu does the day after the newest episode of 30 Rock airs. This makes sense. We Penn students are too busy procrastinating on Penn InTouch and design-ing funny lacrosse pinnies for the clubs we’re involved in to leave the comfort of our beds to

watch Hugo in theaters. And we fi t this mold of overworked Ivy League students well, with only about 17% of Penn undergrads watching movies at the Rave ev-ery semester.

But how about the other ste-reotype, the one that says all col-lege students are poor? The free movement of information made possible by the interweb makes

entertainment accessible and inexpensive to anyone with an AirPennNet account. Wouldn’t

you guess then that Penn stu-dents would prefer to get their RomCom fi x online with free streaming websites like SideReel and Ch131 rather than pay for services provided by Netfl ix and Redbox?

While 75% of us watch mov-ies online, nearly 50% pay for it. I hear Horrible Bosses — a new release on iTunes — is hys-

terical, but is it worth the 1.5 salads at Sweetgreen it would have cost if I had seen it in theaters? Ramen noo-dles aren’t that bad, I guess.

The average Penn student (who is anything but average, if you ask Amy Gutmann) watch-

es seven movies, more or less, every semester. Simple arithme-tic proves that it’s $40 cheaper to watch said movies on Netfl ix than at the Rave, and an addi-tional $20 less on iTunes (cost of popcorn and Mike and Ikes not included in these calcula-tions). The low cost of watch-ing seven movies on iTunes for less than 30 bucks is worth the many conveniences that online paid services afford us: not be-ing interrupted by incessant buffering and commercials, the immunity to computer viruses and most importantly, not hav-ing to wait 54 minutes after watching 72 minutes of a movie on Megavideo.

Not to mention, it’s a small price to pay when you look at the big picture — the combined savings of the 47.7% of Penn students who pay for their online services rather than going to the movie theater is somewhere be-tween $196,136 and $295,344, depending on whether they use Netfl ix or iTunes, respectively. Moral of the story is: we won't judge if you just stay in bed.

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absence by the Office of the Provost, during which time he is barred from entering Penn’s campus, Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush said. This is an administrative measure that does not involve DPS. The Office of Student Conduct will be performing its own follow-up in-vestigation into the incident.

The fire took place in the early hours of Oct. 23 at the Castle house at 250 S. 36th Street. It was initially reported to DPS and the Phila-delphia Fire Department via the house’s built-in alarm system. The built-in sprinkler system went off and the fire was contained before officials arrived, DPS Chief of Fire and Emergency Services Eugene Janda said. After authorities en-sured the safety of all occupants, the investigation into a possible arson began. Penn Police worked with the Philadelphia Fire Marshal in order to determine the cause of the fire, as well as possible suspects in case of an arson attempt, Rush said.

After gathering evidence over a

period of several days, University Police submitted what it had gath-ered with the Fire Marshal to the Philadelphia District Attorney’s office, which then defined the charges against Bonfiglio, Rush said. The charges were then sub-mitted to a judge by Penn Police detectives. The judge then swore out a warrant for arrest and Penn

Police carried it out, Rush said.A preliminary hearing is set to

occur on Nov. 13 at 8 a.m. in Room 703 of the Criminal Justice Center at 1301 Filbert St.

Bonfiglio’s attorney did not re-spond to a request for comment by press time. Castle president and Wharton senior Michael Pozzuoli declined to comment.

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Penn travels to continue stretch run against Mountaineers

Country roads are taking Penn men’s soccer away from home down to West Virginia.

Having gone a month since their last victory on Oct. 3, the Quak-ers hit the road again to face off against the Mountaineers for their final mid-week, non-Ivy match of the season. The Red and Blue (2-9-2) take on West Virginia (6-10-0) having just returned from Provi-dence after falling to Brown, 2-1, on Saturday.

Despite the extensive travel over the past several days, there is little time for the team to dwell on its disappointing weekend loss to the Bears.

Coach Rudy Fuller noted that he is “glad [for] a quick turnaround.”

Though the Mountaineers are seemingly out of place among the Red and Blue’s Ivy-dominated schedule since the end of Septem-ber, the Quakers are no strangers to competing against a tough out-of-conference opponent at this stage in the season.

“The intention of the game in the schedule was it being against a quality opponent,” Fuller said. “Over the past two years, West Virginia has been a good team with a good RPI.”

Last year Penn hosted the Mountaineers at a similar junc-ture, but fell in a match at Rhodes Field, 1-0. Like most of the Quak-ers’ non-conference opponents, West Virginia is no easy foe.

“They dropped a couple of

games here recently,” Fuller said, noting that the Mountaineers are on a four-game losing skid. “But they are a very similar team to who we played last year at home and ended up losing [to] on the restart, so we expect a good game

and a good environment.”West Virginia comes into the

game with only distant memories of what victory tastes like — simi-lar to Penn, the Mountaineers have not won since a 3-0 victory over Penn State on Oct. 13.

For both squads, a win means little in their respective league rankings. But in looking to their ends of season, a win could be a significant morale booster, es-pecially leading into each team’s final matches of the season.

But for the Red and Blue to end their slide, they need to be able to convert game control into more balls in the back of the net, something they were unable to do against Brown.

“We were in a really good spot against Brown and a good perfor-mance overall,” Fuller said. “But we were not able to put the game away with some opportunities after we got the first goal and were up 1-0.

“We had one or two goal op-portunities early in the second half and really could have put the game to bed at that point. [But] we weren’t able to take advantage of those chances so it’s a learning ex-perience for a lot of our younger guys.”

The Quakers’ youth certainly factors into their experience this season, with so many players fresh to collegiate action nonetheless playing major minutes due to a plethora of injuries.

In 2014, Penn’s matchup with West Virginia took a very dif-ferent form — a dominant senior class accompanied by experienced younger members took the field for the Red and Blue. The current reality of Penn’s squad indicates that the players on the field make up a very different demographic while the Mountaineers have sev-eral returning players.

“Hopefully we are able to get off to a good start,” Fuller said. “[We need to] give ourselves an opportunity to get a goal on the board and look to finish the game off a little bit better than we did against Brown.”

Perhaps only then will West Virginia seem like almost heaven.

M. SOCCER | Quakers aim to snap losing streakALEXIS ZIEBELMANSenior Sports Reporter

Junior forward Alec Neumann will look to ignite a Penn soccer offense that hasn’t had a multiple-goal game in the last month. Over that span, the Red and Blue have been able to generate plenty of scoring opportunites but have struggled mightily to finish them.

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during their club volleyball days in high school while playing in the San Jose, Calif., area.

“We’ve kind of grown up to-gether,” Caldwell said. “It’s been a lot of fun playing with her.”

Keeping the hitters happy is one of the most important jobs

a setter has to take on. Making sure the ball is lofted perfectly and mixing up the looks to give the other team is something that is also improved by that constant communication.

“[Bither] does a good job asking for feedback from the hitters,” Caldwell added. “After every point she’s asking if the ball is in the right place.”

As of late, Bither has been spot on. Last Saturday against Dartmouth, before fellow senior Jasmine DeSilva’s kill put Penn up, 2-0, over the Big Green, Bither had to place the ball per-fectly. She did just that.

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This past weekend, Bither showed off her versatility on both ends of the court with back-to-back double doubles. With a mind-boggling 61 assists to accompany 26 digs, the senior

provided a bright spot in the team’s Ivy weekend split.

Sometimes the setter gets a chance to contribute to the kill column as well. In order to keep the opposing squad on its toes, the setter can use deception to sneak the ball over the net while the team backpedals to prepare for a kill.

“A lot of it has to do with

looking at the other side of the net,” Bither said. “If we get stuck, you have to mix it up from time to time.”

A largely unheralded position, the setter is often the linchpin of a successful squad. Coming down the stretch of the Ivy sched-ule, the Red and Blue can look to Bither to help the team finish strong.

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season on Penn’s coaching staff, has been heavily involved in the continued growth of analytics within the program.

For example, when looking at offensive stats in volleyball, it’s easy to pick up on the importance of kills, point-scoring plays pro-duced by a given player. But from a deeper analytical perspective, a lot of factors go into a player notching a kill.

Rochlin and the rest of Penn’s staff are able to look into a hitter’s position on the court, where and who the set came from and where the hitter drove the ball in order to find ways for more effective at-tacks.

For the players, it’s an adjust-ment from the way that they’ve been coached in the past — most high school programs don’t take analytics as seriously as the

Quakers. According to Carr, the coaching staff has been working to make sure that players don’t necessarily take a positive or neg-ative out of any given number, but rather view it as something they can learn from and improve upon.

Every player learns differently and responds to statistics dif-ferently, and the coaching staff is able to provide these insights through different media, whether it’s graphical representations or just cold, hard numbers to help their players grow.

“It’s all getting us to having a better student athlete and a better experience for them,” Rochlin added.

“We’re trying to give them the tools to be a better volleyball player and to be a better student athlete, whether it’s in the weight room, in the classroom or specifi-cally on the volleyball court in set three.”

PERFORMANCE>> PAGE 12

Quakers tackling Castleman disease one big play at a time

Winning percentage isn’t the only thing Penn football is rais-ing in Ray Priore’s first year at the helm.

Led by junior linebacker Sam Tullman, the Quakers have started a chapter within Uplift-ing Athletes, an organization comprised of 24 Division I foot-ball programs, each working to boost awareness and research funding for diseases. Indi-vidually, the Red and Blue are raising money for the Castleman Disease Collaborative Network, co-founded by Penn School of Medicine professor David Faj-genbaum.

“Between Vhito [DeCapria, a 4-year-old cancer survivor serving as the team’s honorary captain] and this, there’s a lot of extra motivation,” Tullman said. “It’s fun when everybody’s win-ning and we’re having success, but, in addition, you’re possibly saving lives.”

To fully comprehend why Penn chose Castleman disease, which only has an estimated 6,500 annual cases in the United States, one must take a trip back to the mid-2000s, when Faj-genbaum was a quarterback for Georgetown under then-head coach Bob Benson.

“Like any player-coach rela-tionship, we developed a pretty close bond,” Benson — who is now the Quakers’ defensive coordinator — said about Fa-jgenbaum, a 2006 All-USA College Academic first team se-lection. “Sadly his mom passed away, and we experienced that grief together.”

Although they went their separate ways after Benson left Georgetown and Fajgenbaum graduated as a Rhodes Scholar, the two stayed in touch through social media. But things took a

turn for the worse in 2010.Fajgenbaum, then a Penn

medical school student, was diagnosed with Castleman dis-ease, an illness with a 35 percent mortality rate that he described as “the immune system attack-ing the organs.”

However, since staring death in the face and even being read his last rites in November 2010, Fajgenbaum has responded strongly, starting the CDCN in 2012, earning an MBA from Wharton after medical school and being named to Forbes’ “30 Under 30” in health care in 2015.

“He’s always been an inspira-tion to me,” Benson said. “One of the most courageous people I’ve ever met.”

Consequently, when Benson — who had coached with Priore at Albany in 1986 — was hired last winter, he and Fajgenbaum were finally reunited, helping facilitate Penn’s initiation into Uplifting Athletes as the latter continues his battle.

“When I found out that he was coming to Penn, I was so

excited, because he’s such a great leader, and I’d get a chance to reconnect with him,” Fajgen-baum said. “When I told him about the work I’m doing to take down Castleman disease, he im-mediately asked how he could help.”

Fajgenbaum spoke with play-ers during the summer, and the rest was history.

“I got a chance to meet Sam, [junior defensive line-man] Tyrone [Quarterman] and Hendo [junior defensive back Matt Henderson], and I loved seeing the motivation in their eyes,” Fajgenbaum said. “I then spoke with the whole team, and it was clear that this was a really good group of guys.

“I came to them needing their help, and they stepped up.”

Currently, the fundraising system involves donors pledg-ing custom amounts to CDCN for either offensive touchdowns or defensive turnovers in Ivy League games. As of Saturday’s win at Brown, the donations were at approximately $184 per touchdown and $82 per

turnover.Of course, this method de-

pends on the success of Penn’s on-the-field product. And the Quakers have held up their end of the bargain, already securing 33 touchdowns and 19 turnovers through seven games — both higher than their marks of 26 and 14, respectively, from all of 2014.

“The players are starting to get confident, understand the system and they are respond-ing,” Benson said. “We’re a disguised pressure defense that wants to force turnovers, and it’s great along the way that we can help someone like Dave.”

Overall, Tullman estimated that the team would raise at least $8,000 during the season.

“As we break it down and figure out how this disease works, we will save lives,” Faj-genbaum said. “But you can’t do that unless there’s funding for research.”

Although only three games remain in 2015, Tullman already has some ideas cooking for the team’s next fundraising tactic.

“We’re trying to reach out even more across campus, hoping to get some fraternity or sorority support,” he said. “We’ll be doing another event related to spring training since we definitely want to continue our success.”

Ultimately, even as Fajgen-baum approaches 22 months since his most recent relapse — his longest stretch since being diagnosed — there’s more work to be done.

“We’ve already been ben-efitting from the research, but I still live in a constant state of fear, so I just cherish every day so much,” Fajgenbaum said. “As optimistic as I am about the progress we’ve made, I live trying to make the most of every single second to try to win this battle.”

With Tullman, Benson and the Penn community behind him, he won’t be fighting alone.

FOOTBALL | Penn joins Uplifting Athletes pushCOLE JACOBSONSports Reporter

Money raised will go to support Castleman disease research in honor of David Fajgenbaum, one of Bob Benson’s former players.

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On top of that, imitation is the greatest form of flattery. And, at least from the perspective of this section, no higher compliment can be paid from us to a place like Grantland than that our writers and editors consistently strive to be like it, to replicate its quality.

“If you ask most writers what they think about writing, they will say the same thing: It sucks!” said Andy Greenwald, one of the Grantland writers suddenly out of a job, on Twitter on Monday. “Writing is hard — not coal-min-ing hard, but hard. And deeply lonely.

“The thing everyone loves is having written and, despite im-pressive technological advances, it’s still impossible to skip straight there.”

But for us, Grantland showed that the process, the steps taken to get “straight there,” were all worth it. The experience of work-ing to a point where an article is good is invaluable.

Genuinely, as the DP’s senior sports editor, it’s my overarching goal to make sure that everyone involved with the section enjoys what they are doing. And no site demonstrated that a publication can still be well-regarded and taken seriously while also having fun like Grantland.

Where they had Shea Serrano writing weekly about the Hous-ton Texans on “Hard Knocks,” we had a writer last week delve into why Penn women’s soccer is wearing bucket hats. Hard hitting journalism? No. But bringing to your attention the fun aspects of Penn sports is equally as impor-tant for us as informing you if the field hockey team is still in the Ivy title race (Note: They are.).

I’ve been writing for this newspaper for almost three and a half years now. I’ve covered a lot of different teams, games and events. And in virtually every one of those articles, I’ve tried to em-ulate Grantland’s quality. Would Bill Simmons use this kicker? Am I breaking things down as well as Zach Lowe would? Is my story relatable in a way Rembert Browne would make his?

On top of that, as a senior, I’ve put a lot of thought into my future (although, given the dearth of interviews with prospective em-ployers on my calendar, clearly

not enough thought). I’ve men-tioned to people that, at worst, I could try and find a job working in sports media. I’ve been told that that is a stupid decision.

Yet it struck me over the week-end — as idols of mine in the industry lost their jobs while I, a far-less-deserving 21 year old, have the avenues to write this column — that trying to explore creative passions in the journal-ism world is an incredibly brave thing.

We are told frequently that journalism is a dying industry. A colleague and I have tried to figure out when the DP will only publish stories online. He says within two years, I say not until 2020.

But there are kids in high school and college who are good with words and skilled with the pen that will not go into journal-ism because of ESPN’s decision to shut Grantland down. There are good writers who will fail to find the inspiration to continue honing their craft because, hell, if Grantland — one of the best websites for quality journalism — can fail, anything can.

This summer, Serrano and I had an email exchange. I asked him how to maintain my own voice in stories and not simply copy what others do. I wanted to be able to pass that advice on to my writers.

He gave me good advice and made points that were sensible. And he ended his email saying, “I hope something here helps out some.”

He was talking about his email. He could have been talk-ing about Grantland. Either way, he wasn’t wrong.

The journalism and sports worlds are sadder places without Grantland, as well as the multi-tude of writers losing their jobs in the industry across the country, including people at media outlets here in Philadelphia.

Our jobs are to make sure that those jobs aren’t lost in vain. We at the DP are lucky to continue to have that opportunity.

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RILEY STEELE is a College senior from Dorado, P.R., and is senior sports editor of The Daily Penn-sylvanian. He can be reached at [email protected].

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Statistics have always been an integral part of sports. From the rise of Moneyball and the modern statistical revolution all the way back to the first box score ever recorded, the two

topics have been inseparable.For Penn volleyball, data an-

alytics have become part of the coaching staff’s routine both in between and during matches, leveraging insights from out-side the box score to produce tangible results.

“It’s a little bit of a tightrope walk because as a coach you have some instincts, very sub-jective ideas about what’s going on in the game,” head coach

Kerry Carr said. “Then you get stats that prove otherwise, you’re looking at objectivity.”

“I think it makes me a better coach getting to be objective about [the game], getting that distance from how I feel about it.”

Analytics tend to be a po-larizing subject in the sports world, coming down to com-peting ideas of the old-school ‘eye test’ versus new-school

analytics. Carr, currently in her 18th season as the head coach of the Quakers, fits somewhere in the middle of that spectrum, acknowledging the need for an-alytics while still relying on her instincts on game day.

These insights come from many different places. During games, the team has an as-sistant on the end of the bench furiously typing into a laptop, recording the outcomes of each

rally as it happens in real time. In between games, the coach-ing staff spends time analyzing video of practices and matches to offer insights into how they should prepare the team for the next weekend.

In the highly competitive Ivy League, every advantage matters, and the ability to go beyond simply counting stats on the publicly available box score is the focus for Penn.

“The stat program that we’re using enables us to see statistics that are more in depth than what we see on the box sheet,” assis-tant coach Seth Rochlin said. “It’s really about helping quan-tify what has historically been unquantifiable. We use all sort of programs to keep ourselves at the cutting edge.”

Rochlin, now in his sixth

Volleyball coaches using advanced data analytics

HOLDEN McGINNISSports Editor

SEE PERFORMANCE PAGE 10

Bither setting the table for Quakers

Dig. Set. Kill. The success of a volleyball team’s offense often relies on the relationship be-tween the setters and the outside hitters.

Penn’s primary setter, senior Ronnie Bither, has spent the past four years working to make sure the Quakers’ offense runs smoothly. From getting players in position for digs and kills to finding her own ways to con-tribute defensively, Bither has catapulted to the top of the An-cient Eight for the assists she has doled out thus far in 2015.

Out of Penn’s 984 kills this season, Bither has assisted on 680 — 99 more than the next highest assist total in the confer-ence. According to Bither, being responsible for setting up 69 percent of the Quakers’ offense comes down to one thing.

“A lot of it comes down to constant communicat ion,” Bither said. “Having something said after each play and giving

each other confidence helps a lot.”

After the setter lobs the ball up in the air, the responsibility then turns to the outside hit-ters to send the ball over the net for the kill. Senior hitters Alex Caldwell and Alexis Genske,

the top two players on the team in kills, have spent the past four years working with Bither to ensure that they know each oth-er’s tendencies down to a tee.

“They’re best friends,” coach Kerry Carr added. “They know what each other is thinking

which has really helped us this year.”

Bither and Caldwell go back even further than their fresh-man New Student Orientation in 2012, as they became friends

Senior captain Ronnie Bither leads the Ivy League with 680 assists. Her classmates and fellow captains, Alex Caldwell and Alexis Genske, are often the beneficiaries of Bither’s sets, leading the team in kills.

SUE ROY | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

VOLLEYBALL | Senior is Ivy leader in assistsCOREY HENRYSports Reporter

Grantland’s impact on student journalism

SEE VOLLEYBALL PAGE 9

The sports world was quiet on Friday afternoon.

It wasn’t too far out of the ordinary for the end of the week. Game three of the World Series was several hours away. “College GameDay” wasn’t until the next morning.

They say the best time to announce bad news is on a Friday. If someone gets fired at the end of the week, at least they have the weekend to grieve. Plus, it’s harder for those involved with sports media to get stories put together when games on Sat-urday and Sunday take place.

The sports world was quiet on Friday afternoon. That is, until Grantland died.

For those who only read The Daily Pennsylvanian’s sports section because they go to Penn, they have a child

who plays for Penn or they just really like our content, the de-cision by ESPN to shut down Grantland may not seem like a big deal. After all, given the climate in today’s media in-dustry, publications that have been far more entrenched in American culture have ceased to exist over the past decade as print journalism fights to sur-vive.

Tough, but fair. But as one of the most relevant sports and pop culture sites with a na-tional reach, you should care about Grantland’s death. Be-cause, whether you realize it or not, that publication directly impacts the DP.

The college newspaper and the journalism that accompa-nies it is the most pure form of media in existence. We are students. We do not get paid. Like the athletes we cover, we do this because we — some-times — are good at it and we love the game. There are no Pulitzer Prizes in our office.

RILEY STEELE

SEE STEELE PAGE 10

S TAT S A N DSP I

TACKLING DISEASE COUNTRY ROADSPenn football’s new initiative

helps the Quakers fight Castleman disease with big plays

>> SEE PAGE 10

Against West Virginia, Penn men’s soccer looks to snap a month-long winless streak

>> SEE PAGE 11

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