02.23.2017

February 23, 2017 34st.com

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LETTERFROMTHEEDITOR

2017

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For the first time in two and a half years at Penn, I’m trying to do my reading. For all my classes. Seriously. All of it. Are you surprised? I was too—but we shouldn’t be.

I worked my ass off to get into Penn. I spent hours pouring over textbooks and novels. I wrote and rewrote and rewrote again my notes. I didn’t just need to learn the material, I needed to master it. But as soon as I got to Penn, my commitment to reading and absorbing took a nose dive.

I always complain about how much reading I have. Don’t professors know I have other classes? Yours isn’t the most important one. I do other things.

And then I realized how horribly, horribly obnoxious that is. It wasn’t that I was frustrated by the amount of work I was assigned. I was mad that I got assigned work at all. Which makes no sense. Because this is a university. I didn’t come to Penn to sit in my bed and watch Mad Men for the fourth, fifth, and sixth time (which I have done my freshmen, sophomore, and junior year respectively). I came to learn. I came to be pushed harder by my classmates and my professors, and to absorb as much useful knowledge as I humanly can in four short years.

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hit it or quit it, overheards, strange penn addiction

4 WORD ON THE STREET sisterly love

5 EGO

eotw, beheading of a legend

7 MUSIC prince

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franzia, drake night

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10 FEATURE

internationals

12 TECH

geek of the week

14 F&TV oscars

16 ARTS

fine arts majors

18 LOWBROW LOL

professors, midterms, feb club

Orly Greenberg, Editor–in–Chief Dani Blum, Managing Editor Chloe Shakin, Audience Engagement Director Sofie Praestgaard, Design Director Corey Fader, Photo Director Remi Lederman, Features Editor David Murrell, Features Editor Emily Schwartz, Word on the Street Editor Nick Joyner, Film & TV Editor Elena Modesti, Highbrow Editor Michael Coyne, Ego Editor Zoe Albano-Oritt, Vice & Virtue Editor Talia Sterman, Music Editor Morgan Potts, Tech Editor Katie Marshall, Lowbrow Editor Jillian Karande, Music Beat Mark Paraskevas, Music Beat Angela Huang, Music Beat Jamie Gobreski, Music Beat 2

My professors don’t care that I need to look for a job. They don’t care that I spend most of my time working on Street, and they certainly don’t care that I really, really want to go out on Thursday. Nor should they. And honestly, I shouldn’t either. This is a school. How ungrateful, how childish it is of me to demand that my academic life orbit around everything else I have going on.

Penn accumulates hundreds of unbelievable professors, people who have spent their life’s work on research and the mastery of one subject. So instead of staring at them blankly when they ask me any question (which they do not deserve), I’m going to open my book and do my damn reading for once.

And you know what? It’s been great. I feel engaged in class. I don’t have to scramble during midterm season (this is a slight lie, I am still scrambling, but it’s definitely a more organized scramble). I don’t dread being called on anymore. And, of course, I’m learning. And isn’t that the point?

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WE DON'T HAVE ACCESS TO IT. SORRY. BUT YOU CAN STILL WRITE FOR US. BYO PUPPY. COME TO OUR MEETING, TN, 6:30, 4015 WALNUT Dalton Destefano, Film & TV Beat Michaela Reitano, Film & TV Beat Brooke DiGia, Film & TV Beat Annika Iyer, Ego Beat Julia Bell, Ego Beat Jackie Lawyer, Ego Beat Caroline Harris, Highbrow Beat Nick Castoria, Highbrow Beat Alix Steerman, Highrow Beat Claire Schmidt, Lowbrow Beat Andrea Begleiter, Lowbrow Beat Andreas Pavlou, Vice & Virtue Beat Gomian Konneh, Vice & Virtue Beat Aliya Chaudhry, Tech Beat Annabelle Williams, Tech Beat Colin Lodewick, Arts Beat Linda Lin, Arts Beat Staff Writers: Emily Rush, Haley Weiss, Lily Snider, Meerabelle Jesuthasan, Michelle Pereira,

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HIGHBROW

MY STRANGE PENN ADDICTION: HIDDEN GEMS

We all do it and it's weird.

ELENA MODESTI

over heard PENN at

A girl who actually knows what goes on inside of that place: Last week I threw up in Perry World House.

Photo: Creative Commons If people saw how much joy I get over these four things, I would lose a lot of friends in a very short amount of time.

Nonetheless, live and let live.

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.THE GREEK LADY SODA MACHINE

From the outside, the joint looks like a simple Greek delicatessen. From the inside, however, Greek Lady proves to us that it is the way of the future. You want Cherry Coke with a splash of Fanta Grape and Sprite Zero? Too easy. For $2.85, any flavor of carbonated water can be yours. And it feels GOOD.

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. BRIDGE SOUP

There's a reason we've seen Kwed-

er eat his daily meal at Bridge Cafe more than once. "It's the only way" to get your soup fix on campus, without forcing yourself to brave the line at Frontera. Trust us, this shit is delicious. But fair warning: the aroma of your chicken noodle soup will stick to your clothing for the remainder of the day.

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. SNEAKING QUEST BARS INTO FISHER

Oh, you checked my bag and my Penn ID to ensure maximum security? You walk around every 20 minutes to make sure someone isn't inhaling a breakfast sandwich in the nick of time?

Well, not only did I choose to bring the loudest bar to unwrap on planet

HIT IT OR QUIT IT HIT IT: MEDIUM QUIT IT: BIG LITTLE

When did Greek life become so size discriminatory? There’s a small, medium, and large for a reason. The exclusionary practices of big– little week have gone too far. We’re calling for reform! Big, little and in–the–middle week is up and coming, just you wait.

HIT IT: ORCHIDS QUIT IT: ROSES

After a wildly anti–climactic (or climax–ic, if you feel us) Valentine’s Day, we’ve come to appreciate those who stepped outside of the red

Earth into Fisher, but I'm also not going to get caught doing it 78% of the time. #Sorrynotsorry, a girl's gotta eat while taking Buzzfeed "What Does Your Pizza Preference Say About Your Sex Life" quizzes.

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. WEARING OVERSIZED HEADPHONES ON LOCUST

Don't even try to strike up a conversation or make eye contact at this point.

What, are you going to remove one side of the headphone and hold it over your ear while you chat? Are you gonna press the weird button on the side and take the whole contraption off? No, you ain't. You're safe, keep walkin'.

rose box and opted for something a little more classy. Orchid plants are an important gift because they not only show thoughtfulness, but can also pose a challenge to your significant other. The orchid plant is hard to maintain, but if taken care of properly, will last quite awhile. By keeping track of how long the plant lives, you can see just how ready you are to take it to the next level (aka buying them a succulent). Don't let your love orchid die.

HIT IT: MEATLOAF FOR ALL QUIT IT: MEATLOAF FOR ONE

If you haven’t heard by now, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was “forced” to order meatloaf when dining with the President at the White House. After the guests were told

by Trump that they could order anything

A devoted lettuce smoker: I really want some weed but I don't want to sit in a sketchy frat bedroom while some guy tries to grab my ass.

Girl in FroGro: I don't feel comfortable with getting baptized!

I'm a hoe! *Dog barks in class* Polite Professor: Bless you.

Failing flirtatious freshman boy: Hey congrats on getting into Owls.

Confused girl: What?

I'm in OAX.

they’d like, the President then went back on his words and ordered the meatloaf for both the governor and himself. While we’re wildly unsurprised that Trump would make decisions for someone without their consent (i.e. every executive order thus far), we can’t help but wonder: meatloaf? Really? At least spend our taxpayer dollars on a nice filet, not jumbled– up lunch meat leftovers.

HIT IT: ROSÉ ALL DAY QUIT IT: WEEKEND WARRIORS

Who says you have to wait until the weekend?

What even is the weekend at Penn—we've got a social calendar from Kweder Tuesdays to Saturday night shindigs. Let's stop pretending there's a non–acceptable day to kick back, shall we?

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WORD ON THE STREET

word on the STREET I don’t claim to know much about love.

Growing up in a stoic, Asian household where even hugging was pushing the line of too affectionate, I rarely thought much of the topic.

Though my parents and sister never overtly say “I love you,” I always just assumed love was part of the equation: they’re my family, so naturally, they have to love me, right? I never looked too hard into the signs—until college came around.

When my family left me in August at Penn to start my pre–orientation program, they didn’t shed a single tear or wrap me in their arms.

They smiled at me, carried the things I didn’t need back into the car and told me to call them if I needed anything. To some, this might seem cold, but it was just enough for me—anything more would have been overkill. It was enough because before starting college, I was naive and optimistic, truly believing I could take whatever life had in store for me by myself. Not only did I underestimate college, I underestimated what the world could dish out in the coming months.

The first few months of freshman year brought highs and lows, identity crises, sleepless nights and struggles unlike anything I’ve ever encountered.

The first huge blow, though, happened not only on the collegiate level, but on the national scene—like many of us, I was left shocked and grief–stricken in November post–election. I watched not only the Penn bubble come crashing down, but my entire world and everything I’d ever known. I was very much a part of the public mourning, and for many days, I felt like a bottomless void.

My parents, always far removed from the political turmoil, didn’t understand the helplessness I was feeling. Wanting to connect with my somebody, anybody, I turned to my sister, often the person I would go to when we both were feeling annoyed with our parents and everyone else. I called her on the phone out of the blue.

It was the night of November 9th, and we ended up talking for at least two hours, well past midnight. We ranted together, cried together, and all

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CITY OF SISTERLY LOVE at once, I felt tangible relief escaping my body.

“Sleep in, skip classes, do whatever to take care of yourself first,” she said to me as we ended our call. “Please, stay safe.” Never have I felt so loved before in that very moment, when we were miles apart, just voices in our devices. I realized my sister wasn’t just family by name—she was truly my flesh and blood, there for me when I needed her the most. She didn’t even have to say “I love you,” and her love saved me that night.

I have experienced other personal crossroads since college began. Penn is arguably one of the most pre–professional spaces one can be in. As a freshman completely undecided about the future, I’m aware that crises about who I am will often come and go. But there was a brief stint when this feeling overcame me, and I was unable to recover on my own. I kept thinking about the road my parents wanted me to be on (pre–med) and the road I wanted to be on (no clue), and what I would do if these roads didn’t align. Was I letting everyone down? How could I be so aimless, directionless?

During this time, my sister and I were tex-

Finding the love I left back home.

ting each other about a Netflix series, dissecting the ins and outs of A Series of Unfortunate Events, complaining about how we would have to wait until next year for the next season. One day, however, I decided to come clean about how I was feeling, casually bringing up that I had scheduled an appointment with CAPS because I was feeling so unsure about my future to the point of being mentally unwell. To my surprise, she jumped right into action, texting me paragraphs about how it was okay to not know what to do, how she was in my shoes just a few years ago, and how everything, ultimately, would be fine. We talked about how much pressure our parents could put on us, criticized America’s (and especially college’s) culture of working hard to the point of extreme stress, and ultimately started digressing and talking about anything, everything. She wrote me a mini–book through her iPhone, and seeing those three little dots before receiving such words of encouragement and reassurance meant more to me than I thought possible.

Ultimately, my sister showed me her love for me in countless, little ways, even if that didn’t entail sappy hugs and showy affection.

Lately, I’ve been thinking about these times in my life.

Living at home with my family never forced me to consider how important they are to me, but in college, the distance speaks louder than words. Reflecting back, I realize that even my parents, as much pressure as they exert, just want the best for me. Though misguided and sometimes ignorant, my awkward parents love me, and not just on paper, or because they have to. They love me through their actions, their “remember to wear a coat” texts, their desire for me to have a stable, and therefore, good life. They love me through all the times they didn’t say “I love you,” but could have. My family’s love is a part of me, and truly, I could not exist without it.

EGO

EGOOF THE WEEK: RICH CHAUDHARY

JULIA BELL

Apparently there are only 24 hours in Rich Chaudhary's day too?!?! Weird.

“Here,” Rich texted when we were supposed to meet, “looking really grungy.”

"Really grungy" might have a different meaning for most Penn students though; Rich looks put together. He's even arrived a few minutes early— which is particularly impressive, considering the number of activities that fill the slots on his calendar. Rich's extensive involvement means that he has branched intomany, many of different groups at Penn.

“Penn has a problem with self–segregation of communities,” he admitted. “People with similar backgrounds or interests tend to gravitate towards each other.”

Consciously or not, Rich

has developed the ability to float between different crowds at Penn. He blends two vastly different majors into one course schedule (while fulfilling all of the pre–med requirements), is a member of two different senior societies (serving as the president of one), and was the president of the 200+ member South Asian Society at Penn, which brings different Asian–identifying groups together into one collective.

When he talks about his involvement with different communities on campus, he speaks deliberately, twisting a class ring on one finger. He has only positive things to say about each group: each one, according to Rich, has su-

perlative qualities. He doesn’t pick favorites among his senior societies—even though he is the president of Friars and wears a crewneck with the hooded Friar symbol during our interview.

Rich admits that his two majors—Biology and South Asian Studies—don’t have a lot in common, but he hopes to combine them one day by working to improve public health in India. His Indian heritage and love for Indian culture is what prompted him to add the major in South Asian Studies.

This talent for bringing disparate things together underscores almost everything he’s done at Penn. When he was the president of the South

RICH IN HIS OWN WORDS NAME: RICH CHAUDHARY MAJOR: BIOLOGY AND SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES HOMETOWN: BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS ACTIVITIES: SOUTH ASIAN SOCIETY, FRIARS SENIOR SOCIETY, ORACLE SENIOR SOCIETY, PAN–ASIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY HOUSE, UNITED COMMUNITY CLINIC FAVORITE GROUPCHAT: MY BULLSHIT IS YOUR BULLSHIT

Asian Society (SAS), Rich would coordinate events between different Asian–identifying groups on campus. He has been involved with the organization since his freshman year and served as the president of its 200+ members.

Last year, he was a leading organizer of the SAS Game of Thrones–themed fall culture show, a massive performing arts exhibition featuring Penn Masala and ten other acts.

Even his solely recreational activities have the scheduled precision of someone who is adept at managing their time.

“I am in Copa every Wednesday at 6:00,” he explained.

And of course, he takes his food truck choices just as seriously. Picking a favorite food

Street: There are two types of people at Penn, what are they?

Rich Chaudhary: So, I thought about this, and I’d say the two types are the people who eat from Don Memo's, which is my favorite food truck, and people who don’t know what a good burrito tastes like.

Street: So that leads nicely into the second question: if you are what you eat, what are you?

RC: I like spicy food, so I would say either that or...I eat a lot at Indian buffets.

Street: What’s something that’s changed about you since coming to Penn?

RC: I think since freshman year, I’ve became very comfortable in my own skin.

When I came to Penn I was very intimidated by the culture and the types of people that were here and I tried to be someone who was appealing to other people but that wasn’t me, and some time between my sophomore and junior year I became very much myself.

Street: How would you suggest Penn students take a step back?

RC: I think we just need to remember why we came here and what we really

truck or Indian buffet is not a trivial matter; both preferences are informed by meticulous tasting research.

Next year, Rich will take a year off to apply to medical school. He’s not yet sure of exactly what he’ll do, but he’d like to draw from his experience working in Philadelphia and Boston health clinics to volunteer in India.

“I’m really interested in public health problems that exist there, like social determinants of health. For primary care especially, there’s a lot to be said for things outside of medicine that affect your healthcare—behavior, diet, poverty, lifestyle," he said, once again combining two distinct interests into one goal.

want out of our college experience. And for me that was a lot of focus, sometimes even at the expense of classes, on relationship–building and getting to know people and understanding different perspectives.

Street: Humanities majors are better than science majors at...?

RC: Interpersonal skills and reflection.

Street: Do you have a favorite meme?

RC: I’ve recently started loving the Kermit the Frog memes when he’s looking in the the mirror and it’s like "me at me." And I like the ones where the guy is sprinkling something on something, like sprinkling glitter on something. Memes are a way of life, though, honestly. I love them.

Street: If there was a Kermit meme about you, like the bad side of you to the good side of you, what would the meme be?

RC: The meme would kind of center around the internal struggle I face most nights if I want to stay in and do work or go to Copa and drink double margaritas.

Street: What’s cooler than being cool?

RC: I think being nice. That’s really underrated.

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PENN'S QUAKER MASCOT The beheading of a legend.

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ric Tepper (C '17) was beheaded last weekend.

“I wanted to come to Penn and do something different that I could never have imagined,” he says. It's a statement more than a few Penn students have said before, often before following a friend to a GBM or signing up for listservs on Locust. But Eric went beyond the usual measures to branch out: He became the Quaker mascot.

The identity of the Quaker is traditionally kept secret until the official “beheading” ceremony during senior year.

There are usually around 3–5 students that rotate in their role as mascot, agreeing not to disclose their involvement. This anonymity is meant to foster a cohesive Quaker persona, not including the person inside.

Riad Hamade (C, E '17), a friend of Eric’s, had no idea Eric's alter ego existed. “We met freshman year before NSO, during Pennacle,” Riad says. “So I knew one of our leaders was the Quaker. But I didn’t know he passed it to Eric. He would always be like, ‘You guys should come to the basketball games,’ but no one really took it seriously. In retrospect, I should have known. He had so much school spirit.”

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try out as a joke or if it was a serious attempt.

He suspects it was partly both. Quaker tryouts consist of behavioral and practical components, with a Q&A period and time to show what you can do in the actual suit.

The Quaker is officially part of Penn’s cheerleading team, a varsity Division I athlete. “...I see the work that goes into it,” Eric says. “Cheerleading is the only team that technically gets to 'play' in both the Palestra and Franklin Field, which has been really cool.”

Eric is also involved in student government, the Orthodox community at Hillel, Prism and Pennacle. Serving as mascot captain over the past two years, Eric has been in charge of logistics and making sure all events are covered. His “beheading” took place this past Sunday at the men’s basketball game. “It’s definitely something I’ve been looking forward to,” Eric shares, “Since I started, I’ve thought it’s a really fun tradition, going along with it being secretive. In some ways it was a normal game, but very different and exciting in that moment.

The announcer spoke a bit about me. During the last time–out, all the cheerleaders lined up and created a tunnel. I walked out onto center court, and they took off the head.” Eric smiles.

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“It was an amazing feeling.”

Eric says he's still in awe every time he steps onto Franklin Field. “I think it’s the kind of rush a lot of athletes get.

Once again, it’s harder in the suit being really hot and smelly. You trip a bunch of times too,” Eric laughs. The Quaker team also does athletic promotional events. “One time I even did a bar mitzvah in South Jersey.

It was mascot madness– themed. We’ve been asked to do weddings.

Today, they filmed a Valentine’s Day video, and I even gave flowers to Amy Gutmann," Eric says.

“Eric is a very serious person when it comes to work and getting things done,” Riad says.

“He's one of the most accomplished people on the Undergraduate Assembly. We call him the grandfather of the UA. He’s definitely a chill, calm person, but isn’t timid.” Eric admits that he feels more comfortable being bold in the suit.

Eric will remain at Penn to get his master's degree here next year, but he has mixed feelings about leaving the mascot costume behind.

“It's a bittersweet ending," he says. “But it's been a great experience: being part of a small and secretive tradition at Penn while also sharing it with a close group of friends.”

MUSIC

FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE: PRINCE'S MUSIC, HIS LEGACY AND THE GRAMMYS Paying tribute to his sound, image, and spirit.

It was a sunny April day—a Sunday. I was hungover. The trek to Bui’s food truck was pleasant enough. The warm, fresh air smelled of summer.

For my parents, it was Amy Winehouse. For my older cousins and friends, maybe Michael Jackson; I think I was too young. For me, though, it was Prince.

Standing there, waiting in line for my egg and cheese sandwich, my ungloved hands numbly scrolling through my news feed, I found out Prince was dead.

After April 21, 2016, Prince’s thin frame, lustful hips and lanky limbs would never strut the stage again. And likewise, after a short flurry of heartfelt tributes and tragic elegies, Prince’s legacy—of blending pop, funk, R&B and soul as easily and effortlessly as he owned the stage; of a delicate

mixture of flair and command, reminiscent of David Bowie’s flamboyance and Jimi Hendrix’s power; and of course of "Purple Rain," an iconic song performed in even a more iconic purple suit—retreated into the ether. Unlike many other artists who died young, Prince did not become a legend or an icon after his death—instead, his legacy evaporated, and his image disappeared almost entirely. People stopped talking about him.

But it wasn’t just Prince’s image or spirit that was gone: it was his sound, too. Prince’s explosive voice was silenced from the public ear, and was largely unavailable electronically. Even the year before his death, Prince was famously protective of his music, and actually pulled most of it from online streaming platforms such as iTunes, Spotify and SoundCloud in 2015. In an age where cassettes are ancient history and CDs

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are recently extinct, pulling his music from the digital meant Prince only existed in dusty record shops, in garage sales of old CDs or, perhaps as he most wanted to be seen, in person.

Though Prince himself may have seemed to vanish from the spotlight, the same cannot be said of the legal battle for his music. After pulling his music from streaming services in June of 2015, Prince got on board with Jay Z’s Tidal, an online subscription–based music streaming service similar to Spotify Premium. But a few months into the deal, Prince unexpectedly died, giving rise to a legal dispute between Tidal and the Prince estate, which Prince had left without any legal heir. The estate fell chiefly into the management of his family. In November, the Prince estate sued Tidal, arguing that since Prince had died mid–deal, Tidal was streaming his music without legal permission.

The lawsuits continued to play themselves out, moving at inchworm pace.

Fast forward a few months, though, to the Grammys last Sunday night: in a spot–on, joint–cracking, knee– shaking tribute, Bruno

Mars, backed by soul/funk group Morris Day and the Time viscerally brought Prince back to life. In Prince’s signature purple suit, a crisp white guitar and altogether absurd cheetah– print sash, Mars reincarnated Prince’s voracious stage presence to the T. Mars sways to the beat, relentlessly swinging his hips to the drums in the background, adding a handful of fast, screaming solo notes on his shrill white guitar to boot.

Although he performed a number of Prince's hits, including "Jungle Love" and "The Bird," it was "Let's Go Crazy" that was most timely. Nearly a year after Prince's passing, "Let's Go Crazy" asks us to consider the fine distinction between life and death, and has acquired a new meaning. In a full, confident voice, Mars sings, "Dearly beloved / We are gathered here today / To get through this thing called "life"/ Electric word, life / It means forever and that's a mighty long time /But I'm here to tell you /There's something else /The afterworld /A world of never ending happiness / You can always see the sun, day or night." Through Mars, it's al-

most as if Prince is speaking to us from beyond the grave, here.

While Mars' performance of "Crazy in Love" perhaps made us look backwards and reflect on Prince's tragic passing, it also showed us that Prince is far from finished. In an almost prophetic way, Mars' performance signaled what was to come: Prince's music would once again be streamable. During the whole Tidal lawsuit, the estate negotiated another deal on the side, which, for the most part, was kept under wraps.

Prince’s family signed with Universal Music, an international corporation that has acquired the rights to stream artists such as Sam Smith, Lana Del Rey and even Bob Marley. Prince's music would soon follow in a long line of successful streamed artists.

Although Prince was protective of his music, and its release is bittersweet in that it might not have been what he wanted, it also means that his legacy will endure; that perhaps, from even under six feet of dirt, his swagger, his erotic sex appeal and of course his transgressive audacity will live on.

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DRAKE NIGHT: "SO FAR GONE" It's fukin lit, fam.

“POP THAT FUKINPUSSY POP THAT FUKIN PUSSY POP THAT FUKIN PUSSY POP THAT FUKIN PUSSY POP THAT FUKIN PUSSY” The words—projected onto every LED display in the Foundry—flash sporadically throughout the room in pink neon lights.

“TRUSS MI DADDY TRUSS MI DADDY TRUSS MI DADDY TRUSS MI DADDY TRUSS MI DADDY” An image of the Champagne Papi himself materializes on the colossal projection screen elevated above DJ Dirty South’s exalted booth.

“IT’S FUCKIN LIT FAM IT’S FUCKIN LIT FAM IT’S FUCKIN LIT FAM

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IT’S FUCKIN LIT FAM IT’S FUCKIN LIT FAM” It’s Drake Night at the Foundry. And it’s pretty fucking lit.

Seas of young, college–age partygoers crowd the entrance of the Fillmore—one of Philadelphia’s metal factory–turned–concert venues.

Adorned in baseball caps, oversized flannel shirts, blue jeans and graphic tanks, the seemingly–hipster crowd chatters anxiously and waits to get in.

The Fillmore rests in the heart of Philadelphia’s buzzing Fishtown district. The 25,000 square foot venue hosts its infamous “Drake Night: So Far Gone” within its 2,500–capacity music nightclub, located on the second level of the nightlife complex.

The crowd ascends the neon blue staircase and enters two distinct dance halls. The first: a bar room. It's a more subdued

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world of deep blue lights, black leather couches and glowing orange chandeliers. The bartenders—draped in black and embodying an aesthetic equal to that of the hip crowd—rush behind the bar counter to make drinks, while in direct juxtaposition, young couples lounge languorously on the couches across the bar, sprawled, laughing and cuddling in the seat.

The music—faint in sound— rings softly against the speakers as attendees lightly sway back and forth to the Drake tunes currently on loop.

“How y’all doing tonight?”

DJ Dirty South Joe’s voice blares from the second room of the dance hall. The crowd— jolted and revitalized—gathers itself and races up the smaller, silver staircase and enters the main floor: The Foundry.

Enter a world of thundering music, sweltering heat, dance circles, DFMOs and

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passionate, lascivious grinding interspersed in the dance–floor mass. The bartenders—tall, model–esque and wearing noticeably tighter black tanks and tops—are in higher demand here, exerting vigorous effort to carry out drink requests over the blaring Drake music and deafening screams of many an inebriated customer.

Cue the favorites. Remixed music. Inverted music. On repeat. Cue the mellow music, the upbeat. "Fake Love." "One Dance." "Know Yourself."

"Jumpman." "Back to Back."

"0–100." Sound and light become one as perfectly calibrated light displays accommodate Drake's melodies. Absurdity and spectacle collide as, interlaced between the sound, music videos and bright light shows, cat videos monopolize the LED displays—adding an element of incontrovertible bewilderment, and yet…awe.

Drake Night: So Far Gone was launched during the November of 2013 by Dirty South Joe, Gun$ Garcia and Magglezzz—all D.C. transplants who moved to Philadelphia to kickstart careers in the electonic music arena.

Dirty South Joe — who has worked alongside Diplo, DJ Low Budget and other prominent artists—headlined the event. “People really gravitate towards the party and the celebration; and it’s great to celebrate success through the celebrities through whom we live vicariously,” explains Dirty South Joe. “People connect to Drake; they understand Drake.”

Dirty South Joe is no newcomer when it comes to Drake. A self–proclaimed fan, Joe explains his reasoning for pinning Drake at the center of the internationally–acclaimed

Drake Night at the Foundry Cover: $5 before 11p.m., $10 flat onward When: once a month event. “He’s the most prolific artist of this generation. The guy’s got more Billboard hits than the Beatles,” Dirty South exclaims. “He’s incredibly relevant not only in his music, but in the popular culture in general.”

The event spans twenty–five cities in the United States and Canada (Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Atlanta, D.C., Baltimore, Boston, and Calgary, to name a few) and only arrives in Philadelphia once every month.

While appealing to most, many attendees still hold reservations about the timing of the event. The idea of partying on Wednesday nights poses formidable concerns for people who have morning and afternoon responsibilities on Thursdays; however, there are many people who valiantly defy social obligation and choose to turn all the way up.

“I thought it was Friday today…but who says you can’t get lit on a Wednesday?” Alice K., Joe’s girlfriend, jokes.

So forget your worries, your 9 a.m. classes, your early meetings and your morning routines (or at least break out of your Sink or Swim comfort zone) and experience the spectacle that is Drake Night: So Far Gone at the Foundry.

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WHAT THE FRANZIA FLAVOR SAYS ABOUT THE BYO YOU JUST CAME FROM Not all Franz is created equal.

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Crisp White—“A Solid BYO” If this easy to drink but not–too–sugary (for Franzia standards) wine is on the table, you probably just came from a pretty satisfactory BYO. Sure, the food may have sucked and you may have never interacted with the other half of the table, but you made a few new friends and are riding a happy buzz. That’s all we really expect from these kinds of things, right?

Fruity Red Sangria—“What Was That?”

Like a Crisp White BYO, you can’t say that this was a bad time, but something about this super sweet red sangria paired with cheap Chinese takeout just isn’t right. Something was off about this BYO; maybe there wasn’t enough wine, the food sucked or you ended up vomiting in the bathroom midway through your entree. You probably left this BYO thinking that it was a good night in all, but alas, you were wrong my friend. Oh, were you wrong.

Sunset Blush—“A Lit BYO” If there’s Sunset Blush, you are guaranteed a pretty great night. This pink, sweet and easy to drink (read: chug) wine is almost as fun as the BYO you just left. This “dinner” may have ended with your party hijacking the aux cord, slapping the bag, and pulling all your friends in for a blurry Snapchat with a random filter. These are never as funny as you think they are.

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I’d also be remiss if I didn’t at least suggest picking up a box of Girl Scout Samoas before heading to Tap House for the Cookie Swap.”

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For the first four months, the last room in Harnwell 908 was empty.

Then in January, Irene Miranda (C'17) showed up with a single suitcase filled with clothes perfect for the warmest city in Europe. Fortunately, her three sophomore roommates knew of a place on Penn’s campus with a familiar 32 degree Celsius climate. And so, in her fourth year of college, Irene walked into a frat party for the first time.

“Oh my god, it’s like the movies,” she thought to herself as a freshman boy queued up the Chainsmokers and people chugged Bankers from red cups. At one in the morning, it was still early for her. Back in Spain, where Irene attends the University of Seville, she starts “pre–drinking” at midnight. “Gin or whiskey with ice,” she says. “And then we leave for the club at four. When the club closes at eight, we go for churros. That’s like our breakfast.” On this night, she was in Harnwell College House by 2 a.m.

Irene is on a semester abroad at Penn, along with 208 other exchange students. Upon arrival, Irene half– knew what to expect of stereotypical Penn students. “We watch Gossip Girl in Spain, and the characters went to the Ivies,” she says. “So I thought, they must be smart and they must also have money to come here.” To attend Cornell, exchange students pay half the regular tuition, but Irene saw that University of Seville’s program to Penn allows undergrads to pay the same as what they pay for school in Europe—around 6,000 euros a year, compared to Penn’s $60,000. These students come in under a bilateral student exchange agreement, so “tuition is waived for visiting students on each side of the exchange,” according to Director of Penn Abroad Nigel Cossar, making it possible for Penn students to pay only their Penn tuition when abroad.

There are two students from Seville on this semester’s program.

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(C’17)’s friends from Seville went on Erasmus, a program where European students go abroad to other EU countries, Luis wanted to improve his English level and “get into American culture.” The attractiveness of a cheaper Ivy experience and the historical reputation of Philadelphia is much of what brings students from twenty different countries to study abroad at Penn.

Terry Lin (C’17), the Exchange Orientation Leader for Penn Abroad, has taken up the challenge of helping visiting students navigate their new school lives beyond orientation. Terry returned from studying abroad in Belgium with a firsthand understanding of what it’s like to be transplanted in a foreign country and handed a class schedule. He started a Facebook group for exchange students on his own time, which now has 35 members, using it to alert them to campus happenings, to answer questions, and to organize social events.

Terry explains the Facebook group was a helpful addition to the formal Penn Abroad program. “They prepare them for America,” he says of the program, “but they don’t prepare them for Penn.” From an academic standpoint, Dimitri Kremp (C'18), from the Parisian political science school Sciences Po, had never seen so many problem sets and readings due each week. “In France it’s more like you do nothing for the whole semester and you freak out the week before the final exam.”

Terry has noticed that when Penn students go abroad, they have time to consider exactly what they want to get out of their experience. But for students abroad at Penn, “They don’t have time to think, ‘Who am I right now? Where do I want to be? What do I want to get out of my abroad experience?’ They’re more focused on, ‘Oh shit, I have to get this assignment turned in. I have to be joining these clubs.’”

Class atmospheres also surprise exchange students.

Dimitri was shocked to find that Penn students in class “participate all the time, and it’s weird because they say things that aren’t interesting at all. To earn points.”

Class participation was also foreign to Devin Deng (C’18), who attends Nanjing University in China. “People in China don’t talk in class,” he says.

“We don’t have seminars. We have homework, but we don’t have so much due.” Terry often also hears confusion over Penn students’ inefficient study habits. Why would we leave our stuff in Van Pelt, go do something else, and then come back? Why don’t we

go to the library, get our work done, and then actually relax?

For Devin, the difficult adjustment is “not just about language”—it’s also about culture. He’s studied English grammar since grade school—but interactions are completely different between his country and the U.S. In China, you can’t talk to just anybody. Here it seems, striking up a conversation with a stranger is the norm. When you do address a friend in Chinese university, you call them “brother” or “sister.”

Devin’s given name is Yaowen—when he was born, a Suan Ming Xian Sheng, a kind of fortune teller, proclaimed him an “earth” spirit. His Chinese name has the same character as that for soil. But when he was in high school, he was given the American name “Devin” so that he would have an easier time in a Western culture.

Devin is talkative in the right environment. “Some daily greetings are fine” in most social situations, he explains. “But if you want to have some deeper conversation you need to find some common point. It’s a little bit hard.” He can’t discuss the latest Netflix original series, for instance, because there’s no access to the website in China. He can’t sing along with you to the song playing at the bar, since music has never been a communal experience at Nanjing. He’s become used to prefacing his stories with, “I guess I’m a little bit weird.”

Exchange students are especially curious to place Penn in a larger cultural context. Since arriving in May, Dimitri has been to Boston, New York, Chicago, and Miami. He’s hoping to go to Texas, New Orleans and Nashville with other French students before the end of the year.

“I don’t want to be a normal traveler,” Devin says about leaving Penn’s campus. “I want to know what economic inequality looks like.” After taking a flyer from the LGBT Center, Devin signed up to travel to Kentucky with Alternative Winter Break. “I thought racial inequality... yeah it’s a problem...but it cannot be so serious. Then when I got here…” he trails off.

“One thing that is definitely better in America is people have rights to protest and express their voices.”

In China, people don’t. “You can, but then you’ll get arrested.” Is on–campus activism punishable? “Yeah,” he deadpans. “I mean, not so serious. Just for 15 days.” His friend who organized an LGBTQ protest at his university was put in jail, translated as “detention.” Another friend, part of an activist group that calls itself the Beijing 5, was arrested for over 40 days last year for protesting domestic violence in China.

Studying abroad at Penn has also led students to reflect on the connections between America and their home countries. As a political science major, Dimitri sees America as having a domino effect on the world, including France, and so being here for the election’s “historical moment” was important to him.

“We have elections in France in May with the candidate Marine Le Pen, who would be like the Trump of France,” he explains. “I thought, if this happens in France, I’m just leaving the country.” His reaction may sound familiar.

For many full–time students, the Penn social structure can seem rigid. “People get caught up in [Penn culture],” Terry says. “People are afraid to break out of their existing social circles.” Exchange students aren’t.

“Anything that we consider taboo, they’ll go ahead and do, because they don’t know any better.” He corrects himself, “It’s not that they don’t know any better. They just don’t care about the norms.” The divide between the Penn student and the Penn exchange student is evident even in the dark aisles of Smokes’.

The first night Terry took his new friends out, foreign students went around introducing themselves to tightknit groups and two girls ordered wine at the bar. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone order wine at Smokes’,” Terry later said.

Dimitri is one of the exchange students who frequents Smokes’ as much as Kweder. When he first arrived on campus, he casually printed an international ID on the internet, walked into the FedEx on Walnut Street and asked, “Can you laminate this for me?” After one semester, Dimitri already prefers bars to frat parties. “At the beginning of the year,” he remembers, “everyone was like, 'let’s go to this frat party, Castle, it’s amazing!’ And it’s always really nice

but it’s so American.” His adjective “American” refers to a party where people are wasted and “where people carry those red cups. We drink beer, but it’s not this shitty Lager.”

He recounts discovering frat parties one night of first semester. “Once I was inside [Castle], I was pretending I was a brother. I was the king,” he laughs.

“This system is so weird, there are these guys who own the house and they decide whether you can go in and you have to have this ratio? People here seem to find it normal. We’d rather just chill in the old European way.”

Although roughly 12% of the undergraduate population is international, those students have never had a non–American college experience. Those who study abroad at Penn, though, bring a fresh perspective since Penn isn’t the first and primary college experience of their adult lives. Many universities outside America have a huge commuting population— college becomes a place where you go to lecture, and then you come home to your other life.

It’s natural for abroad students to gravitate towards places that feel closer to home. Dimitri has enjoyed spending time with the French society, where he’s met full–time French students. In search of a similar bridge, Luis and Irene immediately went to a GBM for the Wharton Latino Society. Among the many Latin American countries lining the wall, they saw

no Spanish flag. “I always considered myself Latina, but Penn students from Latin America don’t seem to think so,” says Irene. Luis also comments on the American understanding of Latin identity.

“Someone told me only one grandmother was born in Puerto Rico. And he didn’t speak Spanish at all. But because of his origins, he feels like he is Latin.” Still, Luis appreciates that Wharton Latino is a place where exchange students and full–time students can come together to talk in Spanish about Spanish issues.

Devin finds familiarity in ingredients rather than language societies. His alternative to Fresh Grocer isn’t Whole Foods—it’s venturing into Chinatown.

“It’s so expensive here to buy groceries!” he says, admitting that, as “unauthentic” as Chinatown may be, “there are some great markets with great sauces, very familiar to me.” His trips there are often solo.

Penn itself doesn’t have a formal system for introducing exchange students to Americans. “Right now a lot of it is on the onus of the exchange students to go and meet people,” Terry says. “And if you think about it, it is kind of weird. If you’re a new student who’s not a freshman anymore trying to meet people that are your age...21, 22...that already have those existing friend groups, existing clubs, existing whatever, that they’re apart of. How do you break into that?”

“We also come here to speak English and to discover the American culture so it’s kind of dumb to stay amongst ourselves. But that’s just what happens,” Dimitri confesses.

As much as abroad students come to Penn for its resources, they can be a resource themselves, for those who have the opportunity to meet them. It’s not an opportunity many Americans take. Dimitri says he’s found it easier to form close bonds with Penn’s international students, even though he speaks English with them. “I feel like they are so much more open towards us.” Even after joining the club swim team and the running club, Dimitri hasn’t gotten to know Americans. Like Terry, Dimitri’s perspective on the value of temporary students has changed from being one himself. “When I was in France I wasn’t hanging out with exchange students at all, so I can understand this,” he says.

Even though they recognize the social disconnect, exchange students are usually willing to integrate themselves into Penn culture however they can.

Dimitri shrugs. “Since you’re here for only one year, when you have those opportunities, you take them.”

Penn students who have gone abroad themselves are more likely to see the value in reaching out. “If you ask students at Penn who haven’t just gotten back from abroad, they have less of a buy in for why should they be doing something like this,” Terry says.

“But we had native students back in our countries who helped us out in our environment and helped us to have a really good time.”

Terry sees the same value for all full–time Penn students. If you haven’t grown up in a foreign country, he says, “you could just never know about it and your experience will be limited.”

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MAKE DATING GREAT AGAIN For better or for worse, Penn’s most famous grad is shifting the online dating game.

The day before the election, businessman David Goss thought he would have to rebrand his brainchild, TrumpSingles.com.

Shut it down, even. It seemed like a lost cause.

But we all know how this story goes—a surprising victory this November. And so the site survived en masse: 35,000 users strong (and counting). This week, Street attempts to understand the phenomenon that is political or ideological dating websites and gain insight on what kinds of people self–identify as "Trump Singles."

NPR recently did a Valentine’s Day piece on the rise of partisan dating websites. There’s TrumpSingles.com, LiberalHearts.com and even MapleMatch.com (for those damn Canadians). With the Trump phenomenon sweeping his alma mater, looking at his own dating website as a Penn student provides an interesting perspective.

Creating an account, I soon discovered, is not an easy feat.

The Facebook connection feature seems broken and making an account resulted in all forms of 404 errors. Luckily, the website caters to voyeurs and lets viewers see users’ public accounts, locations and profile pics. (Ed. note: meme–themed profiles abound.)

Even without an account, Street looked around the site and saw user profiles.

The website resembles a cross between MySpace and a seventh grader's first foray into HTML web design. Its header displays a beautiful, presumably conservative couple enraptured by the slogan emblazoned over their gleaming white faces: "Make Dating Great Again."

There’s a question of security and authenticity surrounding this site. Unlike Tinder, it doesn’t require Facebook authentication, so creating a fake profile is relatively

easy. There’s no way to tell who is using their real pictures. But that’s an occupational hazard of the online dating world, and one that is surely nonpartisan. Even without an account, people’s public profiles are visible, with hometowns, names and pictures arranged in an HTML–styled grid. There’s even a map feature with people's profiles geographically linked to their hometowns. And Republicans said Hillary was lax on cyber–security.

When setting a radius of 50 miles around zip code 19104 from ages 19–26, the page returns very few results. There’s only one male profile, in fact, in Philadelphia proper. I was surprised to see that no Penn for Trump supporters were on the site, but that's probably what Tinder's for.

With a higher age range, however, the site yields more potential matches—women and men aged 30 to 55 abound. Without access to their full profiles, it’s hard to tell exactly why they’re on here.

Presumably they’re looking for ideological companionship. A few have Trump apparel or references in their profile pictures. Many profiles, though, recall the age of MySpace—a visually–primitive site filled with people just trying to express themselves. The majority tend to be white and live outside major U.S. cities, though the map function shows a few profiles created in Indonesia and Germany.

Whatever your political affiliation, TrumpSingles is certainly an interesting way to stay inside a political bubble while dating, and I’m sure Trump (and all of his ex–wives) would appreciate the romantic, if not entirely presidential, branding exercise. No one can deny that the results of the 2016 election shape and inform the way we date, use technology and think.

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A wave of change

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Courtney Lang (C '17) hopes to be an environmental advocate to end the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, ocean acidification, overfishing and pollution. If the fate of this planet lies in the dedicated hands of people like Courtney, we have every reason to be optimistic.

As a California native, Courtney began scuba diving at the age of 11 with her father, who is also an avid diver. She immediately fell in love with the water and became a rescue scuba diver when she turned 13. Courtney and her father go to the Caribbean whenever they get the chance.

Over the years, Courtney took photos of the incredible reefs she encountered to show her mother and sisters.

In these photos, the devastation of pollution, and the withering reefs astounded her. Inspired, Courtney received her master scuba diving license at the age of 16.

Courtney used the pictures she accumulated to write an informative fantasy children’s novel, You and Me Saving the Sea, aimed at educating kids about environmental problems. The book is geared specifically towards young girls, as the protagonist, a young mermaid, travels through the ocean and slowly realizes the effects of pollution on her home. Courtney brought her published work to several schools in California to encourage kids to think of cool and creative solutions.

She fondly shares one boy’s solution for the Great Pacific Garbage Patch: “He suggested we build a fleet of robotic

sharks to eat the plastic and scare off the fish who would otherwise fill up with plastic and harm the food chain.”

Courtney is also involved with Food Crunch, a nonprofit online feeding program that connects people with sustainable ideas in agriculture with funders who have expressed that they would like to invest in such start–ups. This experience exposed her to innovative companies that were making a difference. She ultimately decided to attend Penn and pursue a major in Environmental Studies, concentrating in sustainability and environmental management.

As president of the Earth and Environmental Science Department for Undergraduates, Courtney is heavily involved in her major.

She is also involved in the major advising program to answer questions and help mentor fellow Penn students.

As an Eco Rep for Tri Delt, she developed sustainable solutions for the chapter house and encouraged people to be more responsible with their

energy use.

After her sophomore year, Courtney spent a month interning at the Little Cayman Research Center. There, she planted corals, cultivated in the reef nursery, worked to clean up marine debris and conducted dissections on a local invasive species, the lionfish.

For her senior thesis, she hopes to go to the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Science to dissect their lionfish and statistically compare the results to a previous comprehensive study. “Treating issues like they are the same everywhere is a huge mistake,” she said.

“We need to examine the differences between our many

ecosystems.”

Courtney opened up about her concern for a climate change–denying president.

“We are talking about the misinformation about climate change which is the fault of scientists that don’t communicate properly with the public,” she lamented.

“There will be huge impacts, such as sea level rise and extreme weather events. Basically, we have a short window to stop polluting as many green house gases, and we need concrete policy."

She emphasized the need for economic incentives to change the way people power their lives. It can be frustrating when the rest of the world and country doesn’t care as deeply about the issues she holds so dear. There is a stereotype about environmentalists and their activist protesting. Although she respects all forms of action, she prefers a different method.

Here at Penn, she hopes to give people a space to talk.

“How can we change our generation and the future if we can’t change the opinions those around us currently hold?” she points out.

Although she wishes that people would be more proactive about stopping climate change, Courtney is hopeful for the future, even under the administration of a climate change–denying president.

She described how surprised she was to discover that under Ronald Reagan's presidency, activist groups gained the most traction and the strongest follower bases, despite his anti–environmentalist platform. Courtney is hopeful that Trump's presidency might inspire a similar wave of change.

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ACADEMY AWARDS DRINKING GAME: TAKE TWO Break out the wine coolers, you're about to get sloshed.

The 89th Annual Academy Awards is upon us, so it’s time to pull out the champagne flutes, shot glasses, and a nice bottle of bubbly to drink while attendees can’t. New rules, same game.

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TAKE A SIP: EVERY TIME LA LA LAND WINS AN OSCAR It went seven for seven breaking records at the Golden Globes, and has been looking like the frontrunner of the evening. It’s tied with All About Eve and Titanic with another record 14 nominations. Now it’s just

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THE OSCARS ARE A MAN'S WORLD The Best Picture category has been a bro–fest for years, and it’s time to talk about it.

The Oscars are on Sunday Ridge (2016) land Best Picture, nization of 65–year–old men. or more acclaim) have to fight and La La Land is about to win Best Director and Best Actor Thus, complex movies about just to get nominated. It sounds 8–11 Oscars without batting nods with ease? the female psyche (Jackie) or a irrational to care this much an eye, including Best Picture.

It’s simple: movies about lesbian relationship (Carol) just about awards, but it’s not about It’s one of the biggest popu- women simply don’t get any- “don’t connect with” the Acade- the gold statues themselves: it’s list awards–friendly hits I’ve where near as many nomina- my as much as films about men about the stories our society ever seen, and a lot of this love tions as movies about men. being manly, stoic and violent deems excellent. And those stocomes from Emma Stone’s (Read: The Revenant, Hell ries are rarely about women. emotional performance "...IT’S NOT ABOUT THE GOLD or High Water and so on).

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Charles Addams Fine Arts Hall sits tucked between Walnut Street and Frontera. If you’ve never taken an art class, it might be just another building you pass on your hike to Van Pelt, and the art department might hold a certain mystery. Street is here to paint the picture.

If you think an art class seems like a fun reprieve from lectures and recitations, you're in for a surprise.

With six hours a week of in–class studio time, plus outside project time, art classes are highly intensive.

The art department isn’t a laid–back, bohemian escape.

Although fine arts seems like the polar opposite of pre–professional, art students are not removed from Penn’s pressur-

ized environment. And for students without a clear–cut path after graduation, it's hard to avoid self–doubt.

We’ve all heard the joke about the unemployed artist, and in our pre–professional world, unemployment after graduation can sound like the end of the world.

Many art students tack on extra minors or majors, to be “more employable,” says Jolie Gittleman (C ‘19), who’s pursuing a minor in biology. She gripes with this, not finding herself as passionate about biology as she is about art. But she feels the need to “justify” her choice of major. Jolie worries that studying art is “irresponsible,” saying that she often feels condescended to

"I don’t care what other people think, but I want to be able to take care of my family once I graduate."

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in her hard science classes for being an art major.

Heidi Lee (C ‘19) also feels the pressure to make her education profitable. She says, “I don’t care what other people think, but I want to be able to take care of my family once I graduate.”

Heidi came to Penn as pre– med, but quickly realized that she didn’t want to spend the next ten years in school or paying off student loans. She heard a mentor say to “find the intersection of what you love and what you’re good at, and stay there,” and it was clear that art was at the center of her intersection. “My mom was actually really supportive,” says Heidi, who hopes to go into design.

Many students feel pressure to do more than just make art.

Caroline Kuchta (C ‘19) is a fine arts major who is double majoring in urban planning.

“I’m applying to internships at galleries, which is the business side of art,” she says. Caroline isn’t sure if she’ll thrive in a business environment, but feels that she should give it a try.

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Bianca Jimenez (C ‘18), a visual studies major, is currently at a crossroads, choosing between internships in the consulting world and in the design world. She feels caught between her passion for design and what she feels she “should do.” Bianca studied at Goldsmith’s College in London last semester, and studied in the art school. “I had a very different abroad experience. I was in the studio 10 a.m.–5 p.m. every day,” she says.

She “purposely went abroad during the fall to avoid OCR.” Even across the ocean, she felt second–hand stress, worrying about her summer plans instead of focusing on her art.

Fine arts majors are a small group. “I wish there was more of a community,” says Caroline.

She is part of a Fine Arts Major Facebook group, but even that only has a handful of people. Although she doesn’t know many other Fine Arts majors, Heidi has had a different experience.

She’s always become close with people in her studio classes, saying that the long hours provide great excuses to bond.

“My art classes are consistently my favorite classes,” says Jolie, covered in paint from her morning in the studio.

Other art students echo that sentiment. “I couldn’t imagine not doing art,” says Caroline. She’s found a way to follow her passion, even if it means straying from the path of most Penn students.

"Find the intersection of what you love and what you’re good at, and stay there."

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BARTENDERS Raising the bar You see them at networking receptions, devising drink orders from customers' shouts like an improv actor taking cues from an audience. You see them at celebration events, jamming with party–goers like a DJ dancing to his rhythms.

You see them at gallery openings, mixing layered shots like an artist blending paint on a palette. They are the bartenders from Penn Student Agencies (PSA), and they do more than just pour alcohol and check IDs. In some ways, bartenders are like versatile artists, expressing eclectic creativity while they enact a performance.

In order to join PSA Bartending as a staff bartender (and earn at least $20 per hour), you only need to be 18 years old, attend a one–day course ($189) and pass a bartending exam.

Although there is an official manual, mixology allows for creativity and customization.

Bartending Assistant Manager Eleanor St. John Sutton (C'18) loves to make layered shots— not only because of their eye– catching quality, but also because "they require delicacy and patience," she says. This allows her to "be creative in a way that's totally different" from her schoolwork.

Bartending Manager Jared Fenton (C '17) reflects on his source of inspiration in coming up with new drinks: “You can go online and look up cool drinks and see what other people have done and then do variations on that...but the thing

LINDA LIN that I try to do when I make drinks is that I try to tailor the drink to the person.”

Aside from understanding the customer and catering to their preferences, bartenders also need to know how to assess different situations. They need to respond accordingly and professionally. As Eleanor mentions, "I think bartending is a creative role because I draw from recipes, but also have to be spontaneous. There's improvisation involved, and I have to be adaptable because every gig is different." Jared echoes, “When there’s 100 people at the bar stand, you have to perform.

You have to figure out what you are gonna do...If you are doing some type of performance, then I would imagine...you are trying to do the art itself and please people at the same time.”

Bartenders live with the event, moving along with the vibes while adding their own sights and surprises. Bartending Deputy Assistant Manager Chloë Schwartz (C '17) remembers a time when she bartended an event hosted by the Greenfield Intercultural Center: "Everyone was just having a great time, coming in and hanging out with me...We were all enjoying the experience of this get–together," she says. Connecting with her past performing arts experience, she adds, "I would leave with the same rush [after bartending] that I got from performing, and I really love that feeling."

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In a closed–door meeting late last week, a collection of over 150 College, Wharton, Nursing and Engineering professors agreed to expand the definition of a “midterm” test—usually used to denote an assignment given at the midpoint of the

semester—to include “whatever we want, whenever we want.”

A professor who was present during the meeting, but declined to be named due to potential backlash from colleagues, explained that the new definition “greatly expands the

powers and capabilities of all professors, allowing them to assign a midterm literally on the first day of class and still justify it.”

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term to be expanded, and that assignments such as a scavenger hunt, doing the professor’s chores and a cage match–style face–off between students will all now count as “midterms.”

Associate Professor of American History Beverly Richards said, “I absolutely love this new rule. Once, I perhaps had to feel bad about assigning two essays within a 10–day period, but now I can proudly label them 'midterms' and watch my students suffer.”

While faculty reaction has been overwhelmingly positive, the student body has had a more contentious—and angry—reaction.

“It’s really an overreach of powers, in my opinion,” said Aaron Levitz (C '19). “I already have had three midterms in my Biochemistry class just in the

month that we’ve been back at school, and my professor announced yesterday that we have two more before spring break.”

Layla Ferguson (E '20) added, “I literally don’t understand how they’ve taught us enough information to be giving us midterms at the pace they are.

I had a midterm yesterday and another today. We didn’t learn anything in between. What?”

A spokesperson for the University released a statement early yesterday evening addressing the change, adding, “We at the University believe this is a tremendous step forward in the scope and scale of Penn’s prestigious academics. With this change, we believe students will graduate having completed over 200 five–point quizzes on Canvas—a true accomplishment for all of us.”

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