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Crime rates this March rose by approximately 66 percent as compared to last March’s statis-tics, according to data provided by the Division of Public Safety.

Year-to-date data indicates that crime rates have under-gone an overall increase of 34 percent compared to the same period last year.

As a category, “crimes against persons,” or violent crime, ex-hibited a 75-percent increase, rising from eight incidents re-ported last March to 14 reported last month.

Three cases of robbery were reported last month, as com-pared to two reports of robbery filed last March.

The number of assaults re-ported more than doubled, as six more simple assault incidents — which involve less severe in-jury than aggravated assaults — were reported last month than in March 2009.

According to Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush, four of the eight assaults

reported involved police offi-cers on duty and two were at-tacks on medical personnel at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Penn Pres-byterian Medical Center. The other two incidents occurred between individuals who knew one another.

Of all crimes against prop-erty, burglary saw the most sig-nificant percentage increase, rising from one case reported in March 2009 to six reported last month.

Theft from automobiles saw a similar increase, exhibiting a rise of 70 percent.

Rush emphasized the correla-tion between the rise in crime rates and heightened opportu-nity for criminal activity during the spring semester.

“We tend to have problems at this time of year because stu-dents are preoccupied with ex-ams, spring break and Spring Fling,” she said.

She urged students to make an active effort toward “target-hardening” the campus by remaining aware of their pos-sessions at all times and not

leaving items unattended.Rush further cautioned

against the practice of “piggy-backing” — permitting an in-dividual without a PennCard to enter a building after one has swiped in — which is thought to have caused several burglaries on campus.

If students encounter some-one attempting to piggyback, Rush said, they are under no obligation to confront the indi-vidual.

“We invite 511 calls from stu-dents informing us that some-one just came into a building behind them with no PennCard [and] they’re on the first floor,” Rush said. “When we get those calls, a police officer will go im-mediately to that location to check it out.”

In addition, Penn Police has deployed “extensive tactical teams” to monitor problem

areas in collaboration with the Philadelphia Police Depart-ment, according to Penn Police Chief Mark Dorsey.

Thus far, DPS is in the pro-cess of pursuing and arresting about 45 individuals who rou-tinely commit unattended prop-erty thefts in University City and travel to the suburbs to make purchases with stolen credit cards, Dorsey said.

He added that DPS is “aggres-sively pursuing” an individual suspected of instigating a num-ber of burglaries on campus, and that another key arrest was recently made near 34th and Chestnut streets as a result of the increased police presence.

Security and surveillance near 42nd and Pine streets and Baltimore Avenue have also been enhanced to address the rise in theft from automobiles reported in the area.

CRIME | Violent crime rose 75 percent last month as compared to March of last yearBY JENNY CHUNGStaff Writer

March crime rises 66 percentMinorities combat mental health issues

on craftsmanship. His clients include Sarah Jessica Parker, Ra-chel Weisz and Michelle Obama.

Rodriguez spoke of his begin-nings in design and his design process. He said that growing up, “I wanted to be an architect … I was always making houses out of shoe boxes … I was always eager to build something.” His desire led him to fashion. “I think

architecture may have been too tough for me,” he joked.

Concerning his inspiration, Ro-driguez said, “I like some influ-ence but in a very abstract way.” Sometimes “the best design time comes on the way to work … when you’re seeing the world around you,” he said.

Rodriguez also revealed that he brings a sketch book with him while running, something Hoke said he does too.

Rodriguez also spoke about de-sign today and its future. He said though there is advancement in fabric and technology, there is greater need for the craft. He added that fashion today is go-ing very fast, to the point where it’s become inexpensive “in the

sense that it’s not thought out properly — it’s disposable, it’s not well designed.”

Rodriguez explained that he’s “interested in things that make a lasting impression and last for-ever. That kind of craft is so beau-tiful … I think all things should be made beautifully.” He said, “I want her to love [my clothes] five years from now and 10 years from now.”

Students were excited to hear Rodriguez’ point of view. “I loved it, because his design relates to architecture,” said third-year De-sign student Andrea Gulyas.

Chi Dang, also a third-year Design student, added, “Penn Design emphasizes learning the process of discipline. Bringing

in a fashion perspective is new for us, but it’s been happening in other schools.”

Lisa Cohen, Wharton junior and president of Wharton Retail, said, “The other events we’ve had for Fashion Week focused more on the business side of fashion, so it was interesting to go back and hear the design perspective.”

Drexel student Nicole Coombe said, “I felt very lucky to even see him in person. To have the op-portunity to hear what he thinks was great.”

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A new multi-million dollar fa-cility will help care for the Vet-erinary School’s horses.

The new James M. Moran, Jr. Critical Care Center at the Vet School’s New Bolton Center will become fully operational on June 1. The facility’s purpose is to provide better biosecurity and isolation for horses with infectious diseases in order to “increase capacity for critical care patience to provided the best patient care possible,” ac-cording to Communication Spe-cialist at the New Bolton Center Sally Silverman .

The New Bolton Center, locat-ed in Kennett Square , realized the need to create a facility to reduce the risk of transferring infections during the 2004 Sal-monella outbreak, explained Di-rector of Biosecurity at the New Bolton Center Helen Aceto .

The Center chose to build a separate facility because of the large potential for cross-con-tamination in the intensive care wing, Facilities and Real Estate Services Design and Construc-tion Project Manager Brenda

Loewen added .The funding for the $16,300,000

facility came mostly as a gift from Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell and partially from Elizabeth Moran’s donation in the name of her recently de-ceased son, according to FRES spokeswoman Jennifer Rizzi .

The money the state contrib-uted made the design process more complicated because Penn had to “play by the state’s rules,” Loewen explained. There were different regulations to acquire architectural and construc-tion service, FRES Director of Design and Construction Man-agement Mariette Buchman added .

Even though this is a “slightly unusual project for Penn” all as-pects of the construction have been successful, Buchman said.

Currently, the facility is “es-sentially 95 percent complete,” she said. “Everyone is excited about the opening of a facility that has been needed for long time,” Buchman added.

The architect Paul Steege was

selected because he was famil-iar with the New Bolton facilities due to his previous architectural projects there, Loewen said.

The building was oriented from a biosecurity perspective — it is close to the main hospi-tal and topographically lower to make it more private, according to University Architect David Hollenberg .

The specific design of the building is reminiscent of early 20th century historic buildings and is a combination of a barn and a medical hospital, Hollen-berg said. “It looks like a quint-essential barn on steroids.”

It is a single-story structure with two separate wings, one for isolation patients and one for colic patients. Both wings have their own procedure rooms, laundry rooms and small anti-chambers that are used for ster-ilization, according to Loewen .

The building has an environ-mentally controlled air circu-lation system and pressurized central corridors, according to Aceto . The stalls have plexiglass windows and web cameras, Ac-eto said.

“This facility is innovative and is another example of how we are setting the bar for bios-ecurity in veterinary hospitals,” Silverman said.

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Students browse the projects and presentations at Engineering Senior Design Day . The event was an opportunity for seniors to show off the projects they have been working on since September.

WRAPPING UP SENIOR YEAR

The James M. Moran, Jr. Critical Care Center to care for infectious horses will open June 1BY NIKKI SELIGMANStaff Writer

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Daily Pennsylvanian: Can you describe your role at Penn?

Charles Bernstein: I am a professor of poetry. I take that term quite literally. … Many readers — current students and long-ago graduates alike, those who have never been to school and those who teach school — have no experience at all with poetry and certainly little contact with poetry as an active contemporary art form. College is a crucial site for the introduction, the continuing re-introduction, to poetry in both its historical and contemporary particulars.

DP: Can you tell us about your new book All the Whiskey in Heaven?

CB: All the Whiskey in Heaven, just published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, is a selection from 30 years of my work. In putting the book together, I tried to emphasize the extreme range of different styles and forms I’ve used over the years; it’s almost as if each poem in the book has a different approach to how to write a poem. …

I wanted to juxtapose very disparate forms, in order to create a rhythm out of the movement among the discrepant parts; the meaning is as much in the space in between as in the poems themselves.

Each poem does have its autonomy, but the book as a whole reads, perhaps, more as an installation than a collection. The meanings of the poems are always rhetorical and performative and they move from the comic to the elegiac, the implausible to the all too real.

DP: Now that you are done with this book, what is your next project?

CB: I am working on a new essay collection, “The Attack of the Difficult Poems.” It is focused on the obsessions that anyone who has taken my classes will recognize: language reproduction technologies

from the alphabet to the web, the relation of spoken language (vernacular, dialect) to written language in poetry of the 20th century, the phobia of “difficulty” in poetry, poetry performance on and off the page and how poetry expresses various ideologies or world views through its form as much as its “content.”

DP: What do you enjoy most about teaching at Penn?

CB: The students! I mostly teach undergraduate historical or period courses … Each week students write creative and journal responses to the readings, all posted to a listserv that goes to all class participants. … So the responses are not directed to me but to the other seminar participants — the posts are part of a dialog among the participants (at least ideally).

I f ind these discussions/responses enormously interesting: the reflection of (and on) poems I love in the conversation of a deeply engaged group of readers. … Often there is a freshness, honesty to perception and direct engagement that I prefer to more professionalized critical writing.

DP: If you weren’t a poet, writer and professor, what would you be?

CB: A billowing wave / in the broad-blown sea

DP: If you could have dinner with any three people — living or dead — who would you choose?

CB: The Marx Brothers: Groucho,

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