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A 2014 Penn graduate and former Quakers linebacker reportedly died while lobster diving on Wednesday in Pom-pano Beach, Florida.

Joseph Grosso was lobster diving with a large group of people along Pompano beach when he decided to go into the water alone, according to an article written by Broward County’s Local10 news. When the staff realized he hadn’t

resurfaced, they searched for him and found him non-responsive, the article said.

Grosso was brought to the Hillsboro Inlet marina, where paramedics were wait-ing to take him to Broward Health North, the Local10 article said, and he was pro-nounced dead at the hospital.

T he Browa rd Cou nt y Sheriff ’s office would not confirm the circumstances surrounding Grosso’s death. The Broward County Medi-cal Examiner’s Office was unavailable for comment by press time.

Grosso graduated from the

Members of the Penn and West Philadelphia community are fighting to help keep the University City High School Garden from becoming a

parking lot.The garden, which is lo-

cated near the intersection of 36th and Warren streets, was founded in 2000, and has been described as the spirit of the “Black Bottom Community”, according to a recent Drexel press release.

The garden produces about two tons of fruits and vegeta-bles each year. Ten percent of the yield is donated to local

communities and 25 percent is sold to low-income Phila-delphians. It also provided education for local elemen-tary schools and hundreds of part-time jobs for high-school students.

The garden has stood as a source of pride for the chil-dren and grandchildren of the community members who were affected by university expansion in the late 1960s.

Now, members of this com-munity believe they are ex-periencing the same lack of respect as they have in the past.

One year after the 2013 clos-ing of the University City High School, Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell approved a bill that allowed Drexel University to purchase the 14-acre area for

After leaving Penn, in part because of criminal charges against him, former Penn student and varsity basket-ball player Anthony Bagtas faces four more charges of burglary that were reported in the Quad last year.

The charges were brought against Bagtas on June 9, 2014, according to court documents. He now faces a total of 14 burglary charges related to the theft of laptops, cash and other items.

Back in April , Bagtas was charged for eight of the burglaries that occurred in March of this year, one from September of last year and one from January of this year — all reported in Quad residence halls. The felony burglary charges accompany several misdemeanors, in-cluding multiple counts of theft, receiving stolen prop-erty and criminal trespass-ing charges, according to

court documents.The Division of Public

Safety confirmed that these new charges are for the bur-glaries that occurred over Thanksgiving break in 2013. Three of the burglaries oc-curred in Riepe College House and the fourth in Ware College House between No-vember 25 and December 1, as The Daily Pennsylvanian reported back in December.

Bagtas was charged by an Indicting Grand Jury as op-posed to at a preliminary hearing, meaning that some form of witness intimidation was involved or was suspect-ed to be likely to happen in the proceedings against him. A spokesperson for the Phila-delphia District Attorney’s Office said that Bagtas is not currently charged with wit-ness intimidation, but noted that doesn’t mean he won’t be charged in the future.

According to court docu-ments, Bagtas is in custody at a correctional facility. His formal arraignment is sched-uled for August 4, 2014, at which time his charges will be read against him and he will have the opportunity to enter a plea. ■

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Former student charged with

four additional burglaries

Drexel University trades community garden for parking lot

Professors call Hobby Lobby decision a “setback” for equality

Former basketball player Anthony Bagtas now faces 14 charges

BY JENNIFER WRIGHTStaff Writer

Carolyn Lim/File Photo

Anthony Bagtas is currently in custody at a correctional facility with a formal arraignment scheduled for August 4.

Luke Chen/Editor-in-Chief

The community garden near the intersection of 36th and Warren streets produces about two tons of fruits and vegetables each year. Drexel University bought the garden with plans to convert it into a parking lot.

Drexel bought the 14-acre area for over $25

millionBY EMILY OFFIT

Staff Writer

Two Penn professors ar-gued in a recent paper that the Supreme Court’s contro-versial Hobby Lobby decision — which allowed closely held, for-profit corporations to be exempt from contraceptive coverage under the Affordable Care Act — impedes progress

on women’s healthcare.Medical Ethics and Health

Policy professor Jennifer Prah Ruger, Law School pro-fessor Theodore Ruger and Boston University professor George Annas collaborated in an article released in the New England Journal of Medicine called “Money, Sex and Reli-gion—The Supreme Court’s ACA Sequel.”

In the article, the three dis-cuss the controversial five to four ruling and state that the majority decision “…is a set-back for both the Affordable

Care Act’s foundational goal of access to universal health care and for women’s health care specifically.”

“Drugs and devices critical to health should be available to all,” Annas said in an email, summarizing the paper’s ar-gument.

The authors emphasized the importance of a uniform set of healthcare benefits for men and women.

“I think that for many decades now the U.S. has lagged behind other leading democracies…in our failure

to provide universal health coverage to our citizens,” Theodore Ruger said. “The current U.S. system that pre-dates the ACA left huge gaps in coverage for a number of groups — both individuals of low income and also indi-viduals who had preexisting conditions and other health problems.”

Jen n i fer P r a h Ruger echoed his sentiments. “I think that a uniform set of healthcare benefits is impor-tant for equity reasons so that individuals across the country

— regardless of their back-grounds or where they live or what sort of demographic characteristics apply to them — have [an] equal opportunity to be healthy,” she said.

While many women use birth control for medical reasons other than contra-ception, the Hobby Lobby case primarily concerned a religious groups’ objection to abortion — the owners of the Hobby Lobby chain be-lieve that contraceptives that prevent fertilized eggs from implanting pose a religious

violation.“We emphasized in our

article that while this is re-ally a question of reproductive health and methods of contra-ception, [it] became an issue of abortion,” Jennifer Prah Ruger said.

The scholars noted the gender split of the final court decision — the Court’s three female justices and Justice Breyer dissented, while five men composed the majority opinion.

Jennifer Prah Ruger and Theodore Ruger

criticize the 5 to 4 voteBY ARIEL SMITH

Staff Writer

SEE HOBBY LOBBY PAGE 3

SEE GARDEN PAGE 2

NOTE: This is the last 2014 issue of The Summer Pennsylvanian. Publication of The Daily Pennsyl-vanian will resume August 21, 2014. Recent graduate dies while

diving off Florida coastJoseph Grosso was

diving for lobsters with a group of friendsBY JILL CASTELLANO

Staff Writer

Rachel Easterbrook/File Photo

Joseph Grosso played football for the Quakers football team since his freshman year at Penn, finishing his Penn career with 43 tackles in 31 career games.SEE GROSSO PAGE 7

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The $25,000 reward for the arrest and conviction of the person responsible for the murder of Don Ly is now being advertised on two billboards across the city.

Ly, who was 68, operated a fruit salad cart that currently sits at 34th and Walnut streets. He was stabbed to death out-side his home on April 18, 2013.

One billboard advertising the award was unveiled above Tony Luke’s during a press conference on July 24 at the restaurant in South Philadel-phia, five blocks from the 400 block of Vollmer Street where Ly was murdered. Repre-sentatives from the Citizens Crime Commission and Clear Channel Outdoor, an advertis-ing agency, were present, as well as the Ly family and other supporters, including council-man Mark Squilla.

“We miss him so much,” said Don’s son Hoanh Ly. “We need to bring [his killer] to justice.”

The CCC is a non-profit and non-governmental organiza-tion that works with law en-forcement agencies to help fight crime. According to the CCC website, “The Citizens Crime Commission is adminis-tering a $5,000 reward posted by the victims family and the City of Philadelphia is posting up to $20,000 reward for any information that would lead to the arrest and conviction of the individual(s) responsible for the murder of Don Ly.”

Nary Ly, Don’s daughter, stated that she did not know of any updates about the ongoing investigation.

Barbara Bridge, Vice Presi-dent of Public Affairs for Clear Channel and board member of the CCC, said that she and Nary were connected by the CCC six weeks ago in prepara-tion for the billboard.

“When they’re really dry on the leads this can open up whole new avenues,” Bridge said.

“Many, many thanks to Barabara,” Nary said. “I don’t want people to forget.”

There is an identical bill-board at Washington Avenue and 9th Street. The billboards

will stay up for 45-60 days, and anonymous tips can be phoned in to 215-546-TIPS.

Clear Channel Outdoor is one of the world’s largest out-door advertising companies. In collaboration with the FBI, Clear Channel digital bill-boards have helped to catch 51 criminals throughout the country since 2007. “It’s a pro-gram that really does work,” Bridge said. “Sometimes it just takes something that simple.”

“Like the saying goes: it pays to advertise,” added John Apeldorn, President of the CCC. He was not authorized to comment on the ongoing investigation.

more than $25 million. Black-well has also enabled major zoning changes to the area, putting the fate of the UCHS garden into question.

The Powelton Village Civic Association has proposed al-ternatives to preserving the legacy of the garden. “PVCA is advocating for keeping the garden in place for as long as that would be possible amidst construction and de-molition on the site or finding an alternative site so that the wonderful work the student gardeners do can continue,” PVCA President John Phil-lips said.

2011 College graduate Lan Dinh, who expression frus-trated towards the proposal

for a relocation of the gar-den, has worked at the garden through a work-study position in the Urban Nutrition Initia-tive since 2008.

“A garden is the joining of land and people in a symbiotic relationship,” argued Dinh. “The idea that the garden can simply be relocated does not allow for an understanding of the history, culture and rela-tionship power that goes into making a garden.”

Many University City High School and Penn students be-lieve they have had little input in this matter. Co-founder of the garden and faculty mem-ber of the Urban Nutrition Initiative at Penn, Danny Gerber, was angered by how Drexel addressed the gar-den conflict and expressed his disapproval of Drexel’s closing of the garden without community input.

“Drexel has been very disrespectful in how they’ve handled the garden,” Gerber said. “They claim that it is a huge part of the Black Bottom

community, but then they say it will be impossible to keep. It doesn’t make sense.”

Yet Phillips of the PVCA claims that no one from the garden attended any of the several open community planning meetings that were held in May and June. “So the garden, while vital in all the ways we know, was not specifically noted in the hectic atmosphere surrounding the passage of the UCHS Bill in Council,” he said.

Dinh has written a let-ter to Penn President Amy Gutmann — which collected over 160 signatures — hoping that Gutmann will advocate to keep the garden where it is. Gerber has also started a Facebook group called “UCHS Garden is Sacred, Parking Lots are Not!” which has acquired over 850 mem-bers.

As of today, Drexel has told the garden team that they need to evacuate the space before the beginning of Sep-tember.

Garden team must evacuate

before Sept.GARDEN from page 1

New billboards stress need for community help in murder case

The April 2013 murder of fruit cart owner Don

Ly remains unsolved BY TAYLOR CULLIVER

Executive Editor

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The Ly family stands under the new billboard during the press conference, holding posters that read “Justice for Don Ly.”

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Rising College junior Jesús Pérez said he never really considered himself a “run-ner.” But that didn’t stop him from and five other students from running 136 miles — the equivalent of about six mara-thons — through the desert in six consecutive days.

Pérez — who is president of the Class of 2016 — completed the run with the nonprofit organization impossible2Pos-sible, which strives to edu-cate and inspire students of all ages through its extreme expeditions.

His group ran through the Atacama Desert in Chile, the driest place on Earth. Their mission was to educate youth on astronomy and the ori-gin of the universe, with the clear skies of the desert as the perfect backdrop for on-

site lessons.“When we weren’t running,

we were teaching,” Pérez said.

W h i le t he g r oup r a n , around 12,000 local students tracked their location. When the group took breaks, they treated those students to edu-cational lessons.

Pérez heard about the i2P program through two friends who had previously complet-ed the challenge. He first ap-plied for the program as a senior in high school, but was not chosen to participate.

“I didn’t get it, but I was se-lected as an alternate,” Pérez said. He continued to follow the organization and learn more about its mission, ulti-mately deciding to reapply in fall of 2013.

“I feel like this time I was much more prepared…I wasn’t really afraid,” Pérez said. “Obviously, I was a little anxious…but I knew people who had done it in the past. I was ready to take on the challenge.”

Pérez did not receive news

of his selection as a youth ambassador for the Atacama expedition until January 2014, but, in typical Penn student fashion, he started training in December, “just in case” he was chosen.

An athlete in high school,

Pérez remained active in college, but like all but one of the five other members of his expedition group, had never run a marathon. Pérez admitted that while “nothing can prepare you for [running in] the desert,” the program

did a great job of readying the group for the elements and exertion, providing him with multiple coaches and a nutritionist.”

“Once the youth ambassa-dors are announced, now its not just you,” Pérez said. “You

have all the other young run-ners from all over the world who are going through the same thing you are.”

Pérez was the only U.S. ambassador on the Chile ex-pedition, but he said that the teamwork was a key compo-nent of the challenge.

“I don’t think any single one of us could have made it by ourselves,” he said.

Pérez admitted that al-though he is the type who appreciates challenges, any-one — athlete or not — should “put [themselves] out there” if they are interesting in ac-complishing a goal.

“I think we shouldn’t put limits on what we can do,” he said. “You have to… really experience the unknown to even know if you can do it.”

The team’s mantra from the expedition speaks vol-umes about accomplishing goals — and not only those that involve physical exer-tion and desert sand — “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go to-gether.”

A recent Penn grad is striv-ing to pay it forward as he aims to empower young, black men one page at a time.

2011 Wharton graduate Mal-colm Evans recently reached his Kickstarter goal of $6,000 to publish his book “Brother’s Keeper: Lessons Learned in Gaining Access” — a book that offers personal insights to help young black men succeed.

According to Evans, “the con-text and experiences in the book are from the vantage point of a black male.” Although there is no type of male that is specifi-cally targeted, the core audi-ence is around the ages of 14-25. The book also aims to target black males and “any-one who has an investment in that individual and wants to see him improve,” he said.

Evans stressed that the book is not a how-to approach, but rather it offers “basic principles, philosophies and insights that are malleable and apply to vary-ing situations,” he said.

He has received overwhelm-ing support on his Kickstarter page, where he has well exceed-ed his initial goal. His stretch goals for the book will allow him to donate copies of the book to li-braries and schools and eventu-ally create an interactive online site with access to all the re-sources referenced in the book.

The Kickstarter campaign is set to end on August 11. “It’s sur-prising how much confidence people have shown in me and my ability to write this book,” Evans said.

Evans believes that the num-ber one thing black students on

campus can do to help each other succeed is to remain ap-proachable and transparent. “If we create this cycle of giv-ing back, that’s what starts it,” he said. “In a place like Penn where everyone is super ambi-tious and busy, it can be tough but it was something that I felt was so important and helpful.”

While at Penn, Evans served as the president of the Penn chapter of Alpha Phi Al-pha Fraternity, Inc. and was heavily involved on campus. He expressed his fears about coming from a small private high school and worried about “getting swept up in the tide of Ivy League academics.” The mentors he found through the Black Wharton Undergradu-ate Association “invested in me to the point that I was able to land internships and develop relationships with recruiters,” Evans said.

He has completed a virtual app and is currently assembling a Board of Advisors who will provide him feedback as the project develops. Along with his startup, Evans is currently run-

ning a private tutoring business where he helps kids prepare for the SATs, college applications and general coursework study. “The single underlying thread is that I’m really passionate about helping people obtain their goals,” he said.

Evans cited part of President Obama’s commencement ad-dress at the historically black, all-male school Morehouse Col-lege in Atlanta, Georgia as a cornerstone of his philosophy for this initiative. “Not because the bitter legacies of slavery and segregation have vanished en-tirely...” President Obama said in the speech. “It’s just that in today’s hyper-connected, hyper-competitive world ... nobody is going to give you anything you haven’t earned.”

So Evans aims to level the playing field for young, black men like himself.

Penn grad writes book to improve the reality of young, Black men

Malcolm Evans’ book offers insight into

succeeding as a Black man in today’s society

BY FOLA ONIFADEDeputy News Editor

Courtesy of Malcolm Evans

Rising junior runs six marathons through Chilean desertJesus Perez and fellow

runners taught children astronomy en routeBY MADELINE MCCALLUM

Staff Writer

“The men don’t see preg-nancy as a problem related to health,” Annas said.

Theodore Ruger said that it is important to exercise caution in attributing judicial decisions to “something as simplistic as gender.”

“However, in this particu-lar case, given the extremely lopsided effect of the ruling on women’s healthcare, it may well be telling,” Theo-dore Ruger said.

In the article, the profes-sors discuss Hobby Lobby’s investments, as the company invests its 401k plan heavily in companies that make birth control, such as Teva Phar-maceutical and Bayer.

“In the context of making money, rather than spending it, Hobby Lobby itself appar-ently has no religious objec-tion to an intervening agent making choices that funnel its money to the makers of contraceptives,” the authors wrote.

Theodore Ruger sees these investments — which are done by a fund manager — as so attenuated that they “don’t really burden the religious practice.” He also noted that a woman’s pursuit of birth con-trol should also be considered

an attenuated action and “the fact that the court was willing to say that even that... chain of events was enough to bur-den Hobby Lobby’s religious rights shows how extreme the court’s decision was.”

The article argues that our “incremental” and “frag-mented” health insurance system has only been further weakened by the Hobby Lob-by decision, which created another difference in health care policy on the basis of sex.

“I think it’s very important to give individuals autonomy to pursue their religious be-liefs,” Theodore Ruger said. “But [the] Hobby Lobby [deci-sion] took a rare step in say-ing that those religious beliefs extended into the sphere of commercial activity.”

Profs criticize unequal

healthcare HOBBY LOBBY from page 1

Courtesy ofEmma MorleyJesus Perez teamed up with the non-profit organization impossible2Possible to run 136 miles through the Chilean desert. He was the only American participant in his group.

The myth of the de-spondent intellectual requires no intro-duction.

It’s ubiquitous in the art world alone: van Gogh cut his ear off in a fit of depres-sion. Hemingway tried ag-gressively to drink away his troubles. Sylvia Plath purged her loneliness and morbidity into “The Bell Jar.” All three committed suicide. And those are just the artists.

It’s pretty much become a cliche, at this point, for men and women of ideas to be mo-rose and misanthropic, stuck inside their own melancholy heads. If you’re not bitter, you’re not a serious thinker, or so the questionable logic goes.

To be sure, there might be a few underlying scientific factors. Neuroscientists in Austria found structural sim-ilarities in the brains of cre-ative individuals and mental health victims, specifically schizophrenics. Apparently,

the creative experience more intense waves of ideation, syn-thesizing larger amounts of disconnected information in a manner verging on the insane.

But hard-wired brain sci-ence can’t be all there is to it. There have got to be more nu-anced forces at play, many of which are social, situational and largely surmountable.

For one thing, not all gifted people fit the profile — this special brand of malaise is largely a symptom of solitude. A priori reasoning doesn’t lend itself to group projects. Philosophers and artists strive to express the way they personally see the world, and their lines of work select for mavericks who value their own perspectives over collab-oration with others. Scientists, by contrast, aren’t typically thought of as jaded or antiso-cial. (Some physicists and biol-ogists are indeed irritable, but you would be too if you spent your weekends dealing with Creationists.)

Social alienation almost definitely plays a contributing role. Historically depressed geniuses are remembered distinctly for their poor social skills and failed relationships — many of them were pro-foundly lonely.

Smart children realize at a young age that they’re unlike their peers, almost as if they speak a different mental lan-guage. They have difficulty describing their ideas on oth-ers’ terms or finding people who share their unconven-tional interests. Their peers have just as much trouble re-lating to them and see them as overly serious.

This inaccessibility gap makes it dif f icult for the critically minded to get along with others, especially since the people with whom they coexist are often those they criticize. Many of them back away from the constant mis-understandings, giving up on sociality to settle into a life of quietude.

Not only that, but brilliance requires more than a little dissatisfaction. The intelli-gent can easily imagine how much greater the world can be, and their idealism leads to constant disappointment.

Trenchant social criticism often requires being on the margin, which gives people perspective. People in the thick of it, swimming along-side the rest of the school, don’t have the wherewithal to make incisive critiques. The one with the most interesting and comprehensive vantage point of the river is the one sitting alone on the bank.

This is especially true of so-cial critics and public think-ers, who occupy themselves with such manageable topics as civilization, its flaws and its discontents. The outstand-ingly creative are frustrated with the ordinary; that’s what drives them to do extraordi-nary things.

In truth, the stereotype endorses a false dichotomy

between intelligence and hap-piness. Not only is it unfair to the people it caricatures — reducing the gravity of their perspectives to mood swings — it also perpetuates untrue and unhealthy assumptions about what it means to be smart. Were the gifted un-happy because of their gifts, or because of their lack of bal-ance?

Being intellectual need not equate to being a pariah. Instead, the gifted might put their gifts to use to improve their own sociability, work-ing on their emotional intel-ligence as a personal project. If anything, acquiring a bet-ter emotional outlook and fostering meaningful social interactions can help them to make their thoughts acces-sible, as well as keep a pulse on what’s really relevant.

Besides, the unsettl ing effects of serious thought shouldn’t necessar i ly be avoided. And although there are definitely self-hating in-

tellectuals out there, many people embrace the dis-comfort that comes from questioning our beliefs and peeling away the layers of our own assumptions. If the life of the mind is so painful, why do they endure? Perhaps be-cause they appreciate some-thing that is not immediately obvious: that the truth is valu-able in itself.

Truth is an acquired taste — at first bitter and hard on the gut, but something to eventually crave, with its own special caste of sweetness. Sometimes it’s worth moving beyond perpetual happiness in search of something abso-lute.

Since coming to Penn, I’ve been a fairly fre-quent reader of The Daily Pennsylvanian.

Last year I joined the paper as an associate copy editor and began reading the paper ev-ery day — not just for my job, but to support my colleagues as well. This summer I took on the task of being an opinion columnist. The experiences have been rewarding, but they have also made some-thing glaringly obvious — that informed debate is taking a backseat to blind disparage-ment.

This is an issue that has been brought up a few times in the past couple of years, espe-cially in regards to online pub-lications. While I know the DP has a broad reader base, Penn students, faculty, and alumni make up a large majority of it. As educated people we are taught and understand that

informal fallacies — also ap-propriately called irrelevant appeals — have no place in intellectual debates.

Yet read any comments sec-tion of nearly any column in the DP, and there you will find a plethora of argumentum ad hominem attacks. As a jour-nalist, it’s expected that what you write will be scrutinized and come under attack. This process of criticism is also part of what makes things like doctoral dissertations so important. However, you’ll never find a member of a doc-toral committee discredit a Ph.D. candidate because they believe the candidate is “part of what’s wrong with the Ivy League” or is “unaware of what happens outside of [his] yacht club suburbia.” Yet those are two exact comments I’ve seen used to criticize DP columnists.

I have a special dislike of ad

hominem fallacies because they are assaults on individu-als without basis. The people who make the accusations more often than not do not

know the person whom they are bashing. This ref lects poorly on the accuser because it demonstrates laziness and a weak premise. Degrading the composer of a piece does not

disprove the validity of their statements.

True discourse can only be achieved through ratio-nal arguments and counter-arguments. While we can feel strongly about a topic, it is imperative that we always speak from a firm founda-tion of reason. Former Texas politician Barbara Jordan is a prime example of this. As a leader of the civil rights move-ment, she had a lot of passion for what she did. However, as a lawyer and educated woman, she knew that proof and facts were required to make persua-sive arguments. At the end of her opening statement to the House Judiciary Committee regarding the impeachment of Richard Nixon, she said, “It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate and guide our decision.”

I don’t always agree with my

colleagues; however, it is these disagreements which lead to lively debate. I believe I speak for all of my colleagues when I say we would love to debate our stance on an issue. By holding open forums and discussing topics, we open ourselves to many points of view, some of which we may not have con-sidered. When those points of view are strengthened by sound arguments and proof, we are able to affect the knowl-edge of both parties, as well as audience members.

As Penn students, faculty and alumni, I believe we are all well-educated, which is why it saddens me to see at-tacks on authors rather than their ideas. There are some commenters out there who provide detailed accounts of why they believe an argument is wrong. These are the people setting an example for the rest of us. I consider the DP to be a

public forum for the exchang-ing of ideas. Instead, though, I get to a comments section and discover an elementary school-yard. We are better than petty name-calling.

It is time to take a stand against the debasement and trolling that has been gaining popularity in online forums. It is time we stopped the verbal battery of others because we disagree with their opinions, and instead tackle the ideas with which we take issue. Civil-ity is just as important in the world outside of academia as it is within.

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From research to startup, a Penn team is hoping to improve computer software by taking humans out of the equation.

Professor of computer and information science, Boon Thau Loo, co-founded Gencore Sys-tems with former Penn students from his research group after conducting six years of com-puter science research on how to make computer networks run more efficiently.

Now, the Gencore team — containing 10 people who have all studied or worked at Penn — has created a technology that does just that, the team says.

While usually engineers have to constantly monitor the large amounts of data that make web-sites and computer apps run smoothly, Gencore’s technology automatically checks through the data to find and fix perfor-mance problems. The Gencore team even developed a new pro-gramming language to make the technology work.

“The most expensive part of maintaining software is the human cost of making sure it runs at tip top performance by providing defense against real attacks,” Loo said. “We build an intelligence layer in the soft-ware to fix the problems in real time and take the human out of the loop.”

Gencore is part of a much larger systematic change taking place in the world of technology startups, the en-thusiastic team members said. Now, companies are relying on complex software, like com-puter programs that collect large amounts of data, and are moving away from complex hardware — physical products that may have to be repaired or changed over time.

“If something’s wrong with the physical technology, you have to open up the product and try to figure out what’s wrong,” fellow team member and 2014 Wharton and Engineering grad-uate Charu Jangid said. “It’s not easy to hook up the parts together. You can reprogram software, but hardware is a lot more challenging.”

With the growing amount of data that companies rely on to maintain their products, Gen-

core is working to make the data easier to manage.

But putting this idea into practice is harder than it looks, Loo said. After spending years trying to build the product in Penn laboratories, turning the research into a startup and marketing it to customers is a separate challenge.

The company officially spun off from the University in Janu-ary 2014, and is currently pilot-ing for an east coast Internet Service Provider to test por-tions of the technology, in prepa-ration for taking their product to market.

“It’s very rewarding to take what we’ve learned for so long in school and apply it in the real world,” said co-founder Hardor Gil. “It’s a very different setting that requires us to think about the customer base.”

Gil, a once-Penn PhD stu-dent, dropped out to work at Gencore full time.

“I have hand-picked this team very carefully,” Loo said, looking around the room to his teammates. “They are the best of my students and researchers. They probably all had the oppor-tunity to take on better paying jobs, but they’re here because they really believe in this.”

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Gencore Systems, co-founded by Boon Thau Loo, automatically checks through data to find and fix performance problems.The company officially spun off from the University in January 2014.

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Williams College, a liberal arts institution, took the top spot, followed by Stanford University.

Penn is the fourth Ivy on the list, with only Princeton, Yale and Harvard ranked above it.

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Street: Heard you’re doing something cool this summer! What are you doing?

AF: Immersing myself in the world of cinema! And for the fi rst time, I’m not referring to binge watching Netfl ix… although, admittedly, Netfl ix still does take up a good portion of my time. This summer, I attended the 67th Cannes Film Festival with the amazing Penn-in-Cannes program. After briefl y stopping in Philly to repack my bags, I shipped out to Los Angeles. I’m currently interning at two sepa-rate companies: Allison Shearmur Produc-tions and Menemsha Films.

Street: You must be quite the movie buff! What kind of work did you do during the Penn-in-Cannes program?

AF: We had different writing assignments to complete throughout the program; however, the bulk of the “work” was attending screen-ings and logging our daily activities in a journal. I saw 35 fi lms in two weeks and ate close to 35 cups of Speculoos ice cream.

Street: What are your specifi c roles and tasks at Allison Shearmur Productions and Menem-sha Films?

AF: I am a TV/Film Development Intern for Allison Shearmur Productions, where I read and write coverage on everything from short stories to feature length scripts. At Menemsha, I work as a Film Marketing Intern. I am currently helping to market a fascinating documen-tary, The Outrageous Sophie Tucker.

Street: Cool! Last – and most important – question: how many selfi es have you taken with celebs this summer??

AF: (Laughs) Not as many as you’d think. The day I moved to L.A., I met Robert Pattinson on the way to the grocery store. He was super nice, and he offered to take the selfi e of us! That’s technically the only selfi e I have. There’s sort of an unspoken pact in L.A. where you let the celebs carry on without hustling them for pictures. That’s why I’ve stooped to the level of taking my own stealth paparazzo pics. I’ve got everything from Rosario Dawson on the beach to David Spade at the mall.

For more of the interview visit 34st.com/ego.

There are few places that can make you feel both like a founding father and a hipster, both classic and new age cool. National Mechan-ics is the best of these special few. The building’s architecture is from 1837, and the venue has stunted as churches, banks, and even clubs, but just a few minutes in National Mechanics proves the joint was meant to be a bar.

It has the dynamic, rustic feel that perfectly matches a hoppy beer and steak cut fries. The interior gives off equally mechanical and homemade vibes that attract both a professional and more artsy crowd.

The place has a varied crowd, misleading at fi rst because tourist groups are often stopped on the front steps to observe the historic landmark that is the building that houses National Mechanics. Inside, though, are not many tourists, but rather a smorgasbord of people getting off work in Old City for a late happy hour and crowd of young people who dress as though their occupa-tion has the word “freelance” in front of it.

The bar is also a restaurant and the food is quite good. The

menu features mostly americana cuisine – burgers and steaks – but everything is cooked to perfection. Plus, the kitchen is often open late, especially if there’s a special event.

There’s also a slew of entertaining events that take place there each week-- everything from live music and DJs to hair cutting competitions. The truly unique part of National Mechanics is the rare ambiance, that seems to be an honest refl ection of the type of varied place that Philadelphia itself is.

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Where founding father meets hipster.

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1. Being in a new city (*cough* New York) is exciting—so many free, outdoor activities to try and bars to be rejected from.2. Responsibility feels empowering! You are working for a real company and hopefully some of your work is being utilized/published/not completely disregarded.3. Your social life is thriving, from happy hours to rooftop parties.4. The polar vortex is fi nally gone, which means it’s time for outdoor movies, outdoor beer gardens and other free outdoor events.5. No midterms, fi nals or pop quizzes.

SUMMER SPOTLIGHT: Alexa FeccaBY CAROLYN GRACE

1. What is free time?2. You’re an intern, and thus sometimes forgotten about. There are long stretches of your day where you aren’t assigned any work, but Buzzfeed usually wins out over fi nding someone to ask for a task.3. Hangovers don’t count as sick days.4. Hot damn it is sweltering. Or raining. Often both.5. Ever heard of a midpoint touch-base, a fi nal review or an exit interview? Way worse than actual school.

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Top 5 Worst Things about Your Summer Internship

“I have an internship in the City. Actually, two. I rotate days between the offi ces.” This has been my response to the obliga-tory “what are you doing this summer?” question since it started circulating post-spring break. Sometimes the asker wants more, but usually, mentions of New York and having an offi ce are suffi cient.

Unknown to most people who ask, though, there’s approximately one month of my summer that is left unaccounted

for by that answer. During that time, I am a camp counselor. No, I do not want to be a teacher. To be honest, I don’t think my future involves any kids other than my own. And so, this job will never be seen under the employment section of my Word-template resume. However, being a camp counselor has had a bigger impact on my life than anything else on that one-page list.

Don’t get me wrong; my internships were everything I wanted. I learned a lot. My bosses knew my name, and I never knew their Starbucks orders. Most days, I left the offi ce feeling like I had accomplished something. Interning was a good experi-ence.

But you know what’s better? Being re-sponsible for ten lives instead of ten email

drafts. Cleaning up an “accident” instead of a conference room. Teaching a child how to have healthy interactions with peers instead of teaching yourself the inner work-ings of Microsoft Excel.

It takes a lot to deal with children en masse. A lot of patience, a lot of energy, a lot of enthusiasm, a lot of love. But all that effort is worth it when you get to see the world through your campers’ excited eyes. There’s nothing for them to worry about except what snacks are available, and I know that my co-counselors and I make that environment possible.

The job is actually very Penn in many ways. You always have to be on. When other people’s sons and daughters are in your care, there are no coffee or bathroom-texting breaks. You put a cheery face on

with your uniform. And occasionally, you and your co-workers play a round of my-campers-are-more-diffi cult-than-yours.

It’s funny that the one paying job I’ve had this summer would be considered time off by many of my peers. And in a way, it’s the most selfi sh job I’ve ever taken. Some counselors might say they do it for the kids, but I totally do it for me. It makes me happy. Don’t tell my boss, but this is a job I would gladly do for free.

Being a camp counselor builds charac-ter, even if it doesn’t build my non-existent LinkedIn profi le. Career Services would never give it a second thought, but they don’t know what they’re missing. It might not prepare me for future employment, but that doesn’t mean it hasn’t prepared me for life.

MY SUMMER JOB IS BETTER THAN YOURSEVEN IF MY RESUMÉ LINE ISN’T.

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35 Needle and cone producers

36 First president to live in the White House

40 Welles of “Citizen Kane”

43 Large coffee server

44 Sword handle

48 Understand speech without hearing

51 Letters on a wanted poster

53 Atlas page

54 “Micro” and “macro” subject, for short

55 Ha-ha producer in a sitcom

58 Sun. follower

59 “___ She Lovely”

60 Shakespeare character who says “I hate the Moor”

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Asian players held at UNLV’s campus.

Players were drafted by Euro and Asian league coaches onto different tournament teams before playing four games in the span of two days.

Picked 34th overall by Liam Flynn, head coach of the New Zealand National Basketball League’s Nelson Giants, Jack-son-Cartwright proceeded to play far above his supposed stock, averaging 9.5 points per game over the span of the camp.

Jackson-Cartwright was far from the only representative of the Philly hoops world or the Ivy League at the camp. Other ros-ters included Drexel’s Frantz Massenat, Temple’s Rahlir Hollis-Jefferson, Villanova’s Dominic Cheek and Princeton’s Ian Hummer.

All of that prime-time ex-posure to the top representa-tives of overseas basketball ultimately proved invaluable to Jackson-Cartwright’s profes-sional dreams.

“There were so many GMs and scouts there. Pretty much every Euroleague team. Al-most 150 different coaches and GMs,” Jackson-Cartwright said. “I just really played well.

“I was really grateful I was able to go to the camp because without it I don’t know if I’d be signed at this point.”

Also helping Jackson-Cart-wright along on his journey to the pros was the prestigious Impact Basketball Academy, founded by former Bobby Knight assistant Joe Abunas-sar.

Boasting alumni such as Kevin Garnett, Tayshaun Prince and Chauncey Billups, Abunassar’s programs have be-come a hotspot for NBA players as well as college grads.

And it was a pair of former NBA players that helped train Jackson-Cartwright before his showcase — ex-Clippers Ra-sual Butler and Craig Smith.

Going up against basketball’s best pushed Jackson-Cart-wright’s game to another level

— a step he needed to make be-fore plying his talents overseas.

“To really see what it really takes to become a pro, it was really great for me to really see that,” Jackson-Cartwright said.

The Penn alum doesn’t de-part for the Netherlands until August 30th. Until then, he’ll work out, mentally prepare himself for the jump, and may-be, for just a little bit, bask in the glory of a dream becoming reality.

“It’s really been a long jour-ney,” Jackson-Cartwright said. “And for it to continue in a great place like Holland with a great organization, it’s really a bless-ing.”

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hold plenty of excitement in its own right.

After all, Penn football will have its chance to hoist an Ivy League Championship trophy in Al Bagnoli’s final season with the program (and also rebound from a disappointing 2013 season).

It’s a department-wide goal, as Calhoun told The Daily Pennsylvanian earlier in the summer, “First and foremost, we keep saying that

we want to make sure coach Bagnoli goes out with a cham-pionship.”

It’s definitely a possibil-ity for the Quakers, provided they fill the voids left by their graduated seniors. The most notable of these being quar-terback, where Penn students (who made the rare journey to Franklin Field) will struggle to remember anyone but Billy Ragone slinging passes.

Though at this point who takes the field under center for the team’s opening game against may be a mystery, coach Bagnoli and his staff have dealt with plenty of turn-over in the past and should continue to thrive.

Other fall sports may lack storylines of the same intrigue — not every team has a coach

retiring after his 23rd season — yet will provide plenty of entertainment.

And when fall begins to turn to winter, perhaps the most in-teresting season of all will be-gin as men’s basketball hopes to rebound from a few poor seasons and three underclass-men leaving following the past season.

Only time will tell for Allen, Bagnoli, Calhoun and the rest of Penn Athletics, though this summer set the stage for what should be an exciting fall and winter to come.

HOLDEN MCGINNIS is rising Engineering sophomore from Gladwyne, Pa. and is an the sports editor of The Summer Pennsylvanian. He can be reached at [email protected].

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ent, but at the same time he has embraced the opportunity to work with his new team-mates to improve his game.

“I’ve been learning a lot of stuff, which is probably one of the best parts [of the Cape

league],” Glenn said. “A lot of the coaching comes from each other. Playing with guys from programs across the country really teaches you a lot of things.”

Glenn, an Honorable Men-tion All-Ivy selection with a 5-2 record last season for the Red and Blue, has been working on several aspects of his attack that he hopes will make him more dominant in his senior campaign.

“I’m trying to be more consistent with some things, trying to add an extra mile

per hour of velocity here and there,” Glenn said. “A big thing is my changeup . Having that pitch working changes the game for sure.”

Glenn has done this fine-tuning while simultaneously making a temporary switch back to a relief role, some-thing that initially came with challenges but has since worked out. Glenn served in a relief role for the Quakers during his first two seasons before stepping up as one of the team’s starting pitchers last spring.

“[Switching to relief] was an adjustment,” Glenn said. “I had a little trouble with my command early on, but about a week and a half ago I broke down my delivery al-together and tried to repair some things.

“My last two outings I’ve felt really confident. I’m hon-estly very happy with where I’m at.”

Making swift and success-ful transitions is something familiar to Glenn — and Penn baseball — as of late.

In his f irst season as a

starter at Penn this past spring, Glenn emerged as a reliable southpaw who could win games with the best of the Ivy League competition for a Red and Blue club that more than doubled its conference win total from the previous year.

The tone shift for the Quak-ers started at the top with new skipper John Yurkow, but the veteran arms, includ-ing Glenn, played a large role readying Penn’s younger arms for Ivy League success.

“This past year was a big

transition into teaching the younger guys that we expect to win every time we’re on the field, and that’s helped us turn into a winning program,” Glenn said.

And with the band of arms the Quakers are set to return, the senior sees only more big things to come from the Red and Blue.

“With the talent we have — having our senior arms coming back and having some good young pitchers — I think we can really do something special.”

Glenn hopes to bring Cape

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to work equally hard in order to get a starting spot”

Nwokedi said she could play multiple positions, tout-

ing her ability to play both guard and in the post. Her versatility will be key to a team that not only loses Cheney, but a strong se-nior class that included the program’s second all-time leading scorer — Alyssa Baron — and a solid center in Courtney Wilson.

The 2014-15 squad wil l not only need a contribution from Nwokedi in the post but will also need continued

production from sophomore center Sydney Stipanovich and senior forwards Kara Bonenberger and Katy Al-len, the latter of whom is coming off a foot injury suf-fered last season.

McL aug h l i n may a lso look to rising sophomore forwards Jackie Falconer and Sade Gibbons for key minutes off the bench, with extra minutes available after Cheney’s departure.

McLaughlin surprised and disappointed

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Signing with Dutch team Aris Leeuwarden is a dream come true for Penn graduate Miles Jackson-Cartwright, who left Penn as the 13th all-time leading scorer.

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In the upcoming fall, Penn football will have the opportunity to send legendary coach Al Bagnoli off with a tenth Ivy League title in his 23rd and final season as head coach of the program.

Penn College of Arts and Sci-ences this May with a major in Politics, Philosophy and Economics. He was planning to attend law school at the

University of Miami in the fall.The six-foot, 220-pound

Penn linebacker played for the Quakers football team since his freshman year at Penn, finishing his Penn foot-ball career with 43 tackles in 31 career games and helping his team win two Ivy League championships.

“The entire Penn football family is saddened by the tragic news of Joe’s pass-ing,” Penn football coach Al Bagnoli said in a statement

given to Local10 news. “Joe was a terrific young man, an accomplished student and an outstanding player. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his entire family during this very difficult period.”

The Penn Athletics depart-ment could not be reached for comment. The University deferred comment to Penn Athletics.

Sports Editor Holden Mc-Ginnis contributed report-ing.

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On November 14, Penn women’s basketball will begin the road to its Ivy League title defense. However, that title defense will have to come without one of the team’s young developing forwards.

Rising sophomore Stephanie Cheney, who played in 22 games for the Quakers last season, has left the program, leaving the team without a piece in the post that coach Mike McLaughlin could have utilized.

Cheney will stay at Penn but told McLaughlin that “there’s other things at Penn she wants to expe-rience.” McLaughlin said he was disappointed in her decision and

that she wouldn’t be a part of the program’s future.

“I thought Stephanie had a good future with us in basketball ,” McLaughlin said. “She expressed that she had a tremendous experi-ence.

“Obviously there were chal-lenges and there were ups and downs like a typical freshman goes through.”

Cheney got off to a slow start in the 2013-14 season, playing just 16 minutes in the Red and Blue’s first eight games. She slowly be-gan to see more court time as the calendar flipped to 2014, beginning with a strong eight-point perfor-mance against Norfolk State in early January.

With junior forward Katy Allen, the Quakers’ top bench player, get-ting hurt prior to Penn’s roadtrip to Brown and Yale in February, Cheney stepped into a bigger role earlier than expected.

During that trip, she flourished, scoring 15 points in 27 minutes while racking up five rebounds. While she saw just 11 minutes over Penn’s final four games, her mid-season success made it seem like a sure thing that Cheney would see more of the court in her sophomore year.

Freshman for ward Michelle Nwokedi may see a bigger role to begin the season after Cheney’s departure f rom the program. Nwokedi joins the Red and Blue after a strong senior season at St. Agnes Academy in Texas.

Nwokedi said it would be tough to find playing time as a fresh-man in an interview with the DP in April.

“They said that coming in as a freshman, it is obviously going to be hard,” she said. “As for the many forwards we have … everyone has

Holland bound:Jackson-Cartwright signs contract

Stephanie Cheney decides to leave women’s basketball

Glenn stacks up to Cape competition

Looking forward, looking

backThe Facebook post that announced

it to the world didn’t show much — a 6’3” frame signing a stack of papers while hunched over a black desk.

But for Miles Jackson-Cartwright, it showed enough.

The former Penn basketball guard formally signed with the Dutch Bas-

ketball League’s Aris Leeuwarden on July 23rd, ending a search for a professional contract that began after Commencement.

“They really want to win, and they’re gonna do everything they can to win,” Jackson-Cartwright said. “So I’m really excited about this op-portunity.”

Founded in 2004, Aris Leeuwarden has quickly climbed the ranks of the DBL, having qualified for the league’s postseason in each of the past five seasons.

And Jackson-Cartwright will be far from the only American to be playing

for Aris Leeuwarden this season as well. The club’s 2013-14 roster included five players from the United States, the most notable being point guard Darius Theus, a member of the 2011 VCU squad that reached the Final Four.

Several days after inking Jackson-Cartwright, the club also announced the signing of one of the Penn cap-tain’s former AAU opponents and workout partners — former Boise State power forward Ryan Watkins.

The contract offer “came out of the blue” — his words — for Jackson-Cartwright, who had been aided in his

search for a professional contract by Quakers coach Jerome Allen.

“They expressed an interest and said they really wanted me. They wanted a scoring guard who could share the ball and also put the ball in the hole,” Jackson-Cartwright said. “It just really felt like a good fit from the get-go.”

Aiding Jackson-Cartwright’s search for a professional home was a trip to Las Vegas from July 13-15 to compete at the Worldwide Invitation-al, a camp for aspiring European and

W. HOOPS | Rising sophomore forward to pursue

other opportunitiesBY STEVEN TYDINGS

Senior Staff Writer

M. HOOPS | Former Penn guard signs with Aris Leeuwarden of Dutch BBL

BY IAN WENIKSenior Staff Writer

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After a successful junior season as a starting pitcher for the Quakers, rising senior Ronnie Glenn drove north to Cape Cod to play for the Harwich Mariners on a temporary contract. As a reliever for the Mariners, Glenn has found plenty of success (and a new contract), while focusing on improving his pitching mechanics.

HOLDEN MCGINNIS

After impressing on the mound this past spring, Penn lefty Ronnie Glenn was provided a summer op-portunity most college ballplayers only dream of — a chance to play

in the Cape Cod Baseball League.He’s made the most of it so far.Glenn, a rising senior from Sil-

ver Springs, Fla., has been getting significant innings of relief work for the Harwich Mariners, who cur-rently sit in a three-way tie atop the East Division with a 22-15-2 record.

Against the best competition col-lege baseball has to offer, he has posted an impressive 1.38 ERA in 11 relief appearances — each of which has been earned quite

literally.Initially signed to a temporary

contract with the Mariners, Glenn had to prove himself day in and day out from the time he arrived in order to stay on the roster for the duration of the summer.

“It was a little nerve-wracking coming into it,” Glenn admitted. “You drive from Florida to Cape Cod and you don’t know if you’re leaving the next day. They literally can release you at any point.”

Glenn pitched like he belonged in the Cape, allowing just one earned run while striking out seven in his first four relief appearances.

That turned out to be enough to satisfy Glenn’s club.

“Once I got a full contract in early July, I was as blessed as they come,” the lefty said.

Glenn is thrilled to be competing against the nation’s top college tal-

BASEBALL | Rising senior pitcher honing game in

MassachussettsBY SEAMUS POWERS

Staff Writer

As the summer winds down and students begin to wan-der back to campus over the

next few weeks, it only seems fit to reflect on the summer that was for Penn Athletics.

After all, it’s been an eventful sum-mer.

We’ve seen a new athletic director, Grace Calhoun, take the wheel for the first time in 20 years and with that a new direction for the entire program.

Coaching vacancies were filled.Former Stanford assistant Alex

Tirapelle became the next head coach of Penn Wrestling. A number of assistants were hired for positions throughout the program.

A fresh set of graduates moved on to other endeavors.

Some would find their way to op-portunities overseas, as in the case of former Penn basketball star Miles Cartwright. And plenty of others are still waiting for their opportunities.

Current athletes would find them-selves in new athletic situations.

Rising senior lacrosse player Meg Markham tried out for the U.S. Na-tional Team, while fellow rising se-nior baseball pitcher Ronnie Glenn had strong outings in the Cape Cod League.

It’s too soon to tell whether this summer was a successful one for the Quakers, as after all it’s hard to judge a coach until you’ve seen their team play.

To an even greater extent, it’s hard to judge an athletic director’s success from her first month on the job.

It may be a few months until we see the full extent of Calhoun’s plans to improve the campus presence of ath-letics and better defining the Penn experience for student-athletes.

While this summer likely didn’t consist of any decisions that will like-ly define the future of Penn Athletics (the decision to hire Calhoun was prior to the summer), it certainly laid the groundwork for what will be an interesting year to come.

In these coming weeks, Penn ath-letes will continue their training for the coming fall season, which should

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Though she was likely to have a significant role in the upcoming season, rising sophomore forward Stephanie Cheney decided to leave the program earlier this summer.

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Summer of Success

After a strong year as Penn’s second starting pitcher,

rising senior Ronnie Glenn worked on taking his game

to another level this summer while playing with the

Harwich Mariners of the Cape Cod League.

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