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LETTERFROMTHEEDITOR

2016

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Did you ever have to do those stupid self–evaluation exercises in middle school where your teacher made you pick out a piece of work the demonstrated a strength, and another that demonstrated a weakness? I always had the most obnoxious problem of not being able to find something that I was bad at because I was getting A’s in everything. It wasn’t until college that I figured out what I was bad at, but as soon as I did, it seemed like it stopped being okay to be bad at anything.

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Penn rejections, overheards, roundup

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Now, when you walk into a job interview, they ask you to describe a personal weakness. But they’re not actually asking for a weakness, they’re asking for a strength disguised as a weakness. For example, my weakness is that I don’t like to be wrong. This means that I will do everything I can to ensure that I’m right, which would make me an asset to the company because I won’t make mistakes. I.e., this is not a weakness.

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eotw: Nicolas Garcia, feb club

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My question is, why did it stop being okay to be genuinely horrible at something? I suck at singing. That doesn’t mean I won’t succeed at your consulting firm, unless you were planning to make me sing in every client meeting. I’m also terrible at saving money and I have an addiction to $12 salads, but apparently that's not a good answer to the question.

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Last week my dad told me that I like to make other people feel better with my letters. I told him he was wrong, and that I’m really just trying to make myself feel better. This is true, but the other truth is that I don’t always have the answers to my own problems. Maybe it’s your turn to make me feel better.

research, weird drugs, donuts

male nurses

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Reggie James, photo editing apps

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late night, week in film and tv

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fashion bloggers, mask and wig

18 LOWBROW LOL

starting a band, beatles, musician facts

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TEN PENN REJECTIONS

HIGHBROW

If you can get through these moments of rejection, you can also look past your crappy love life or the job at Bain you didn't get.

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YOU FACE ALL THE TIME In order from slightly annoying to absolutely heartbreaking, here are the ten Penn rejections you face all the time.

Jobless Junior: I stress bought a rotisserie chicken.

Blarney. Just hit up your football hookup from freshman year, and you’ll be good. This is solvable.

Every interesting SPEC speaker event you’ve tried to get tickets to. You consistently underestimate student demand (looking at you Catilyn).

The downtown your stupid roommate dragged you out to. Now you’re stuck outside of Recess and you're $20 poorer.

The Penn InTouch enrollment system. You really, really need this wildly popular/low–difficulty anthro class for your Econ major.

The Quad. You live in Hill, but your hookup tells you she wants to get freaky in Fisher. Too bad it’s 2 a.m., and the Quad guards give negative fucks that you’re a plebe and can’t get in.

McDonald’s after midnight. What do you mean I can’t get a snack wrap because it’s not on your value menu???? Ugh fuck it, give me a Big Mac.

THEROUNDUP Cue the candy, balloons and strip teases: Big–Little weeks are upon us. While the girls get showered with gifts and lin love, freshmen boys are busy reading 50 Shades bedtime stories and making package deliveries (wink, wink) all over campus. It’s hard to imagine anything more humiliating than rubbing your genitals up on some random, red–faced freshman girl in front of her whole sorority, but being in the Round Up comes pretty close.

At an SDT and Theos mixer, one unknown partygoer let his or her liquor loose on some Canada Goose.

That’s right. On a trip to the communal coat closet, one SDT girl was troubled to discover everyone’s jackets, including an extensive collection of the high–end outerwear, splattered in pink vomit. So who was the pepto– bismol puke perpetrator? We hear the mystery is still unsolved, as sources say Theos insisted it wasn’t them, and it's hard to believe any girl would inflict such horror

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Smokes’. This is doubly worse because your two other friends got in and while their faces read as concerned, they’re still slowly backing into the bar…

Member of the lonely hearts club to a friend in Huntsman: I posted an ad to find you a valentine on craigslist. Don't worry, I didn't put your name or number—just linked to your Facebook.

NSO frat parties. Why two sophomores at the door who were probably not that cool in high school can determine your plans for the night is beyond us.

Theta freshman 1: OMG I love your boots where did you get them?

Theta freshman 2: Israel.

GSRs in Huntsman. The kid who actually booked it is a Whartonite carrying three different backpacks and looks like he’s just not having it today. You can feel his glare burning through his Warby Parker’s and also through your soul.

Music prof: Can anyone tell me where Bohemia is?

Daddy's yacht girl: Is that in the Bahamas?

ANY DOOR EVER ON CAMPUS. Can we all just end the push–pull madness and agree which way a door should open?!

This is straight up embarrassing and no matter how many times you have a class in Annenberg, you will just never get it right.

Undesirable No. 1: I'm an awful cook, but I'm really good at standardized tests.

and pain on her fellow sisters. What we can definitively say, though, is that frackets are out and yak–ets are so in.

Speaking of scenes of horror, after getting out of the shower, one Hill resident thought it would be a good idea to shave her legs in her room. Unfortunately for her, upon starting to shave, the girl made a deep cut in her shin and ended up fainting due to the extreme loss of blood. A short time later, the freshman, laying on her floor and still wearing her towel, finally regained consciousness and did what we all aspire to do when we pass out: rally. Highbrow is waiting on word about the supposed huge gash on her leg and how she still managed to go out that night. Seriously, please Gillette us know.

While our Hill friend might be in need of some shaving cream, we hear some freshmen girls got an unhealthy dose of the whipped variety. At SK study hours, some Phi pledges were strip–dancing to Beyonce’s song “Partition” for a few lucky littles. One particularly PHIesty pledge shoved a whipped cream canister in his pants and started spraying his cum–cream everywhere. Little did he know, the slip in his boxers and the excessive jerking revealed the pledge’s penis to the en-

tire sorority for a solid thirty seconds (Ed. note: This is the same kid who brought the lobster the Roxxy last week). We doubt Huntsman Hall had ever seen such risky jizzness before.

Bodily fluids continued to dominate this past week at Friday's Feb Club event. One senior, who Highbrows hears had gotten white–girl wasted at Copa hours before, felt a strong urge to relieve himself en route to Atlantic City. Realizing that he had no other options after the bus departed from Penn, the guy allegedly chugged the rest of his handle of Svedka and then attempted to pee inside of it. Unable to Cop–a with his level of drunkenness, he totally missed the handle and instead peed all over the floor. The pee then trickled towards the front of the bus and got the shoes of other majorly pissed riders wet. Let's just say that when you gamble on a good night and lose, all you can really do is go with the flow.

The Round Up is a gossip column and the stories are gathered though tips and word of mouth. Although we verify all the information in the Round Up with multiple sources, the column should be regarded as campus buzz and not as fact.

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WORD ON THE STREET

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WHY I'M UP ON TRUMP MACKENZIE MOORE

Let's address the elephants in the room: Donald Trump, and why I support him.

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watched the first Republican National Deborder control and bate at 2:30 a.m. on an Italian live–streamstringent immigration ing portal while abroad last fall. I had begun reforms. Of all criminal to consider the pool of Republican presidential cases initiated by federal candidates beforehand, but afterwards I was prosecutors in 2013, 40 embarrassed to admit that, of the participants, I percent were filed in thought Trump clinched the win. Yet in Faceticourt districts neighborming my mom the following day, I learned—to ing the Mexican border my extreme surprise—that she felt the same way. for drug–related and vioThe fact that just one educated human existed lent crimes. Ultimately, who wouldn’t label me a pariah gave me the Trump aims to uphold reassurance I needed to explore Trump’s policies the endowed safety that further. And so I arrived at the highly unsettling the American border conclusion that I support Trump above all anprovides. nounced candidates in the 2016 presidential race.

Trump has already I bet a large share of you have already classified shown that he can me a racist bigot, and those who know me are deliver on his more probably reevaluating my morals and our friendfeasible and commendship. I recognize that Trump’s words have offend- able promises. Though ed much of the American population. Yet because some discount his decision to withhold from the of the tenets on which our political system was GOP debate preceding the Iowa caucuses as a founded, I can comfortably overlook Trump’s rac- loud charade, Trump actually used the time more ism and sexism. The 14th Amendment guaranconstructively than his opponents. Rather than tees the extension of all Constitutional rights to squabble for 120 minutes, he raised $5 million those “born or naturalized in the United States, for the administrative reforms of the Departand subject to the jurisdiction thereof.” So long ment of Veterans Affairs (VA). This figure shows as a person was born an American citizen or Trump’s commitment to extending healthcare to has obtained citizenship legally, none of his or all veterans, whose suicide levels are double the her rights may be suppressed. Furthermore, the national average. Thus, Trump calls attention to a Senate and House neglected political agenda and of Representatives demonstrates that behind his TRUMP CALLS ATTENTION TO A words lie substantive action. together voice the NEGLECTED POLITICAL And this quality is the scarcest interests of their constituents, so yet most important that any AGENDA, DEMONSTRATING it is unlikely that future leader of the United THAT BEHIND HIS WORDS LIE any racist or sexist States can boast.

SUBSTANTIVE ACTION. legislation will gain Even David Axelrod, forthe Congressional mer Senior Advisor to Barack approval needed for Obama, argues that we should enactment. take Trump and his policies more seriously. In his Under these pretexts, I ask you to look closer recent New York Times op–ed he stated: “Relentat Trump’s campaign. You may notice that it is lessly edgy, confrontational and contemptuous underpinned by the common notion that Ameri- of the niceties of governance and policy making, can citizens’ rights must, above all things, be Trump is the perfect counterpoint to a president protected. In his words, “A nation that does not whose preternatural cool and deliberate nature serve its own citizens is not a nation.” drive his critics mad.” In the wake of an eight– Take perhaps the most infamous pass Trump year Congressional stalemate, perhaps Trump’s has made: “We’re going to build a wall...we’re go- crudeness can garner the same rise it already ing to have people come in, but they’re going to has from the American public out of Congress. come in legally.” Wall or no wall, Trump unearths Maybe then we’ll see the laundry list of pendan important political issue: the need for stricter ing Congressional bills materialize into legisla4

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tion that advances the interests of the American public.

Rather than consider Trump’s sound policies, however, most media coverage has obsessed over his politically incorrect disposition. Refinery29’s recent article, “The Top 12 Most Insane Things Donald Trump Has Ever Said,” thoughtlessly pandered to the bloc of uninformed readers who believe that Trump is unfit for the Oval Office.

Buzzfeed circulated, “Who Said It: Michael Scott or Donald Trump?”, likening the presidential candidate to comedy’s least–capable office manager. Such headlines perpetuate social taboo, equating a nod for Trump to an appeal for social ostracism, and this undermines the basis of a free election.

Vested implicitly in voting rights is the responsibility to become adequately informed on each candidate’s platform. Party lines notwithstanding, this is one of the most meaningful manifestations of our governance and power as American citizens: to take a comprehensive look at all campaigns independent of our peers’ political clout and media bias (Fox, CNN, NYT, WSJ etc.).We can’t tell ourselves that we had an instrumental hand in shaping America’s future if we do not approach the task objectively. It’s under this pretext that I ask you to reconsider what Trump can offer this country, and, more importantly, reconsider why you wrote him off in the first place. And remember, he’s a Quaker too. Hurrah, hurrah.

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ON THE MYSTERIES OF "Does 'Feb' stand for "Fuck Every Body" club?"

Close enough. ELENA MODESTI

FEB CLUB EGO

We asked freshmen what they thought Feb Club was. Here's what they said: Demetrius Thorn: "I have Hill Boy: "Does 'Feb' stand for no idea. Something related 'fuck every body' club?" to February." (Ed note: Bravo Demetrius, good to know you got Hill Girl: "Is it a new BYO?" into Penn.)

Josh Goldenberg: "It's a club Autumn Wynde: "Probably where people go online, look like fanatically eating booty." for a person of the opposite *shrugs and head nods* sex (or same sex if you are into that), meet up with that person Stefano Roccasecca: "It's like a in a room of their choosing random senior party with Amy and then say a number from Gutmann as its bouncer." one to ten...if they both say the same number, they then have Jordan Fromm: "Honestly intercourse." have no clue. Maybe something with like Federal Reserve idk." Sophie Pu: "A club for February–born babies?"

Naive Frosh #1: "A club for leap years or something?"

Thomas Dillinger: "I think it's some club thing. Like doing Naive Frosh #2: "Feminists for things in February. Def the Jeb!" right move to sign up." (Ed note: Why are boys now allowed Engineering Girl: "It's where to use the word "def" in everyday seniors go to Smokes' every sentences?) night of February and then get a cool t–shirt." (Ed. note: This Tyler Dun: "How many guys was actually a junior.) you can get with in the month of February."

Demetrius Thorn: "A club having to do with black history Noah Gelles: "It's a club month?" downtown like Rumor or something."

Allie Trazska: "A club that promotes love because Valentines Ray Kukelis: "A club for peoDay is in February?" ple who don't have valentines."

Naive Frosh #3: "It's when it's February and people decide to be part of a club and do fun things."

Feb Club is a month–long senior tradition. This year the senior Class Board has scheduled events at venues ranging from famous restaurants and bars, to athletic arenas and night clubs and even famous Philly landmarks and attractions, all for seniors to take part in at a discount.

(Ed. note: Who can blame these youngins for not knowing? I didn't know alcohol had calories until my junior year of high school.)

Andrew Statchel: “Sounds like a fitness thing, like a workout thing.”

Grace Lee: "A group of fat entitled bitches."

Justin Straggi: "It sounds like a high–class escort service."

Jacob Söderstjerna: "Seniors going to Atlantic City for the night."

Zoe Colbert: "It's a club that celebrates the month of February but meets year–round, I think."

Ben Weimer: "Fucked egg and bacon?" (Ed note: Jesus Christ, Ben.) Darya Nematic: "When people get shitfaced because they’re cold."

Sripad Kodukula: “I think it’s like an activist club or something."

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EGOOF THE WEEK: NICOLAS GARCIA

In between classes while you're trolling Facebook, Nicolas Garcia is garnering votes for his campaign for Florida State legislature.

Street: Tell me about your campaign.

Nicolas Garcia: I’m running for the Florida State House of Representatives for District 41.

It’s where I grew up and lived.

It’s pretty much the center of the state.

Street: Has running for office changed your experience at Penn?

NG: I’ve always thought about the future and what I can do for others. I don’t know if it’s changed. That’s why I did a lot of different things at Penn just because I was really invested in Street: When did you decide to making sure things happened run for Florida state legislabefore I left. ture?

NG: It’s always been a plan that Street: How do people back I would run for office at some home respond to an underpoint. I was always thinking graduate running for office? it would be much later in the NG: They’re pretty open to the future. Last summer I interned idea. I think they’re really interat the White House and really ested in seeing someone different got the bug for doing public run. Lots of times the people service and doing it now. Some that run are really connected to of my mentors really pushed me politics, and aren’t as connected to think about running for office to the community. as a younger person instead of waiting ten or 15 years down Street: Have you met anyone the line. else that’s run for office while they were in school?

Street: Did you think about NG: Not while they were in waiting until after you gradu- school. ated?

NG: The one thing that I don’t Street: Do you recommend like about politics is the money. that more people do it?

You have to have money to run. NG: Yeah! If you care about So you have to start so much something I think it’s really imearlier than the election actually portant for young people to run happens to have everything. So for office and make their voices we had to start fundraising back heard. Not many people do it in October because it takes so just because most young people long to get all that to happen. aren’t as involved in politics.

The other issue is we graduate May 16 and to be on the ballot Street: Why do you think more I have to get approved by May 1 people don’t? or 2. I have a lot of people back NG: It’s kind of scary. Because home are doing the groundwork you never know what someone’s while I’m not there. going to ask you. You always have to be ready to be a politiStreet: How do you manage cian. Which isn’t the most fun running a campaign while be- thing in the world to do, because ing a full–time student? you have to have scripted NG: I think anyone that runs for answers all the time. I’ve been office has other commitments. trying to push away from that.

School is technically my job.

I don’t want to be a politician; I If I wasn’t in school I would be just want to talk to people. working and running for office.

So I just see it as a commitment Street: What’s the platform of that anyone else would have your campaign? while running.

NG: I’m running on three 6

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big issues: Education reform, bringing jobs to my district and protecting the environment.

The campaign slogan is ‘Build a Brighter Future for the Sunshine State.’

sheer amount of Taco Bell I eat.

Street: Tell me about your involvement with the Latin@ Coalition and MEChA. NG: MEChA is a MexicanAmerican student group. While Street: What’s your dream job? I was involved we worked to try NG: If I was going to go in poli- and reignite community involvetics and stay in politics, being ment. The LC is the umbrella Governor of Florida would be group for all Latino students on my top spot. campus. While I was the chair on that we tried to increase the Street: Do you travel back and number of Latino faculty on forth to Florida? campus.

NG: I’ve been going back a little bit and slowly ramping up as the Street: Describe yourself in 3 semester goes on to go knock words. on doors. But here I’m calling NG: Driven, passionate, people up, asking for money, steady. working on social media and connecting with people that way. Street: What was your first AIM screen name?

Street: Is it weird running a NG: Gorgonite928 campaign while being a college student?

Street: Who was NG: I think people have a little your first more freedom while I’m focused celebrity on trying to raise money, and crush? write speeches or make camNG: paign videos. So that’s always in Mila my head. Some issues might not Kunis seem as big to me because I’m on That thinking of these other issues '70s that affect hundreds of thouShow. sands of people back home.

Street: If you could Street: What do you love most have any superpower, about Penn? what would it be?

NG: The opportunities it gave NG: The power to me. I came from a really low– teleport would be reincome background and didn’t ally cool. It would make have much. Neither of my the campaign way easier. parents went to college, so I’m a first–generation student. And Street: There are two Penn gave me so many resources types of people at Penn… and opportunities that really NG: Those that have helped shaped me. with the campaign and those that are yet to help Street: If you were going to be with the campaign. famous for something what would it be?

Street: What do you think NG: Well running for office as a your chances are of winning?

23–year–old in school is already NG: I think we have a good kind of different. But among shot. People are naturally intermy friends I’m notorious for the ested in someone who isn’t tied

Name: Nicolas Garcia Hometown: Haines City, Florida Major: Political Science Activities: Latin@ Coalition, MEChA, Cipactli, Penn Model Congress to the establishment. The other people I’m running against are connected to politics in a way that I’m not. They’re out raising me plenty, but the thing that I have is I’m from the area. I know what it’s like to face the issues that normal people face in the county.

People want something different, and I think we can give it to them.

FOOD BOY:

VICE & VIRTUE

Damn, you a sexy chick(pea)!

ROASTED CHICKPEAS Raise your hand if you’ve ever felt personally victimized by your snacking habit. Literally same. I mean, what’s a Netflix binge without snacks to keep you awake? Street suggests starting the latest seasons of Baking Bad and American Horror Story: Oven, and discovering your new favorite binge snack. These roasted chickpeas are salty and crunchy, so you won’t even miss that bag of chips that’s mostly air anyway. Plus, with loads more fiber and protein than chips, this snack will keep you fuller longer and help keep you ~regular~

(bye, Activia). Try out this recipe and snack smarter while study(15–25 mins) ing, streaming or as a mid–afternoon pick–me–up! Your body 1. Preheat the oven to 425°. will thank you.

2. Drain the chickpeas and run under water to rinse off the ratchet liquid from the (2 servings; $0.90/serving) can.

One 15–oz. can of chickpeas 3. In a bowl, toss the chickpeas ($1.29 from FroGro; make with the olive oil, salt and pepsure to get cans with pull tabs if per.

4. Spread out the mixture on the you don’t have a can opener. I learned this the hard way...) baking sheet in an even, single 1 tablespoon olive oil ($8.49/ layer bottle at Fresh Grocer or CVS) 5. Roast for 10–20 minutes Salt and pepper to taste. depending on your desired level of crispiness.

PROCEDURE:

INGREDIENTS:

TIPS & TRICKS

As with any baking/roasting, you can also use a toaster oven.

Set the dials to “Bake” and 425°, and you can skip the preheating.

Line the roasting pan/baking sheet with aluminum foil so you don’t have to wash it in your dinky kitchen sink. Also, try experi-

menting with different flavors by adding spices you like. I’m Italian so I usually toss in a few pinches of garlic powder before baking and sprinkle on some Parmesan cheese after baking.

You can also use dressing mix packets or taco seasoning packets to #TURNUP the flavor.

FRANK AUGELLO

PENN RESEARCH TO WRITE HOME ABOUT People smarter than you discovering cooler things than Wharton laptop printing.

There are more men with mustaches in medical leadership roles than women, period.

While this sounds like it could be an Onion headline, Penn researchers actually analyzed over a thousand pictures of department leaders at the top 50 medical schools receiving NIH (National Institutes of Health) funding. They defined and categorized mustaches to standardize the process, with options such as Dali, Fu Manchu and Super Mario.

They then came up with a “mustache index,” the proportion of women/proportion of mustachioed department leaders, so as

to produce statistically significant results. The overall mustache index was a meager 0.72, and mustachioed men outnumbered all women by six percent. The researchers drew conclusions from these less–than–shocking data to recommend more women be appointed to leadership roles, in particular in academic medical environments.

OMG wait are exercise and healthy eating good for me? Tell me more.

Okay, okay we get it. We all know that sitting on our asses watching Netflix and stuffing our faces with Allegro's all winter may not be the best thing for us, but as long as it’s 20 degrees out, why should we care? Isaac Perron, a Penn PhD student, showed that mice eating higher fat

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how great exercise someone is found to be high risk or BRCA–positive doctors may is, Penn researcher Kathryn recommend a life–altering double Schmitz showed mastectomy (think Angelina that exercise can Jolie) and removal of ovaries to reduce estrogen– be safe. While exercise may not diets slept a lot worse and napped sensitive breast tissue (associated prevent breast cancer, it can delay with breast cancer) in women. If the onset and severity. more than those eating regular meals. Even just a week of unhealthy eating had mice sleeping as poorly as if they’d been chowing down for nine weeks straight, regardless of their weight. So basically if you have a hell week and are stress eating like crazy, not only will you feel gross and pimply, but you’ll also be tired and fall asleep in class. Great!

Next up are two hopefully less applicable to Penn students (but still pretty cool) findings. there’s like a 50% chance you’ll blackout Neha Vapiwala found that the side effects of radiation therapy for men with prostate cancer can be mitigated by yoga. Attending (but we’re cool with that) classes twice a week helped relieve cancer–related fatigue. Prostate cancer is second only to skin cancer among men, so chances are this could someday help $20 to enter • Show PennCard & Pay in Cash for 8% off someone you know.

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25I, 2CB AND 2C, OH MY!

For when regular old drugs just don't cut it anymore.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to take acid and molly at the same time? As more and more drugs get outlawed, people have turned to less conventional compounds to trip on. One of these drugs is a research chemical (which are chemical compounds synthesized by scientists in fancy–ass laboratories) called 25I–NBOMe that has only been taken recreationally since about 2010. 25i, and its close relatives 2cb and 2c, have been experiencing a steady increase in popularity as people search for new ways to get high. Many people who take 25i describe it as a comfortable cross between acid and molly, experiencing effects of both but at a lower intensity. It can be taken in a variety of different ways, including sublingually, in the buccal space (Ed note: that means in your cheek, #educateyourself) or nasally. In the United States, 25i (and other members of the 2c family) has been added temporarily to the list of Schedule I controlled substances, such as DMT, LSD, MDMA, PCP and even good ol' THC. That doesn't mean, though, that Penn students don't have access to it.

I first took 25i when I was a sophomore in high school.

My friend gave me a tab and a half, and I put them both under my tongue, nervous for what was to come. When I started to come up after about 30–45 8

minutes, I didn't feel great. I was in my friend's house, and I felt intensely claustrophobic. I needed to get out of the house as soon as possible. As soon as I stepped outside, I was instantly relieved, and more importantly, amazed.

Colors were brighter, shapes were more defined and mundane noises even sounded different. There was a slight crest–like pattern that appeared outlined over everything, but I knew that it wasn't real; it was only part of the visual effects of 25i. It was a chilly February day, but I didn't notice the cold. Instead, I was focusing on the lines and colors popping out at me like I was at the movie theater wearing 3D glasses. My friends and I walked up from Broad Street deep in South Philly all the way to South Street, and up and down South Street many times. I remember gazing out over the South Street Bridge, staring down at I–95, and watching lines in the parking lot slowly float up to my eye line. I felt the amphetamine–like rush, and it kept me energized for around six to eight hours. A side effect of this rush, however, was that I didn't eat all day, and when the drug finally wore off, I was starving. By the time I went home that evening, I could only feel traces of the drug, but it had left a profound effect on me, as everyone's first trip does.

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and like all the trees that were around it were talking to me but I couldn't understand what they were saying...I also found out like later that day that it was the anniversary of John Lennon's death or birthday or something, which I had no idea about when I was tripping."

One boy took a different drug, 2cb, on the day that Penn won (well, tied for) the Ivy League football championship last semester. 2cb has almost the same exact effects as 25i, as they're only very slightly chemically different. His experience was more trippy than mine: "People's faces seemed like they were melting but unlike acid or shrooms. You're able to be social on 2cb because you feel like you're rolling, also. When I came back to my frat house the coolest things to look at were the Oriental carpets because everything just seemed like it was moving and shifting and felt like walls and the floor were moving in weird directions."

A different boy who also took 2cb spoke very eloquently about his trip. He took it before going to a horse race, and to him, the horses turned into the most beautiful,

what to expect and looking forward to it. This time, I took it in my friend's car while we ran errands in the suburbs. It hit me faster than it did the first time, and I was hit again by that unshakable claustrophobia, only worse this time because I was in a much smaller space. I thought I was going to throw up, and when we finally pulled up to an empty golf course, I threw open the door and jumped out almost before my friend had parked.

After the initial uncomfortable come up, the rest of the trip was much like the first, with the same visual and physical effects.

One thing about 25i that's important to note is that though some things appear to look different, there's no actual hallucinating taking place (unlike when you're on more traditional hallucinogens, such as acid or shrooms).

That being said, one girl who I talked to experienced a very strange phenomenon on one of her 25i trips: "I was in Rittenhouse at one point, and in my trip I saw John Lennon's face kind of projected on the side of a building with florets and bright colors around him, Illustration by Nadia Kim

powerful creatures he had ever seen. He spoke about tripping in general, and how it affected an important decision he had to make: "I've tripped before some of my major career and academic life decisions because it gives you a perspective that you can't experience through any other means."

But there's a dark side to these drugs as well. The last boy I talked to described two incredible times he had with 25i, but how after those times, he noticed that he was starting to get hooked to the amphetamine aspect of the drug. "I showed up to one of my classes still tripping a bit 'cause I had a binge where I did it three days in a row and wasn't able to sleep more than just a few hours. Also, every time you take it in a short period, the required dose almost doubles due to tolerance, but the lethal dose stays the same, so I think I got pretty damn close to it. Like, my vision was fading in and out and shit and I almost vommed."

That is an almost universal sign on any drug that one has gone too far. At one point, he vomited into the toilet and started hallucinating that his vomit was Yoda. What certainly didn't help his habit was the fact that it was so accessible; he ordered it online, easily, costing him only about $2-2.50 per tab, and only one tab is required to experience the high for a beginner.

While 25i sounds like a fun time, it's important to keep in mind the risks that one takes when they decide to take an experimental, relatively new drug. The dosage is so small that it's incredibly easy to overdose, and there's not much research out there showing exactly what it does to the human body.

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3. Rise and fucking grind: Beauty doesn’t need its sleep at Federal Donuts.

Even before 7 a.m., trays upon trays of donuts had already been layered with

4. If you think getting a final round interview is hard, try making it onto the final tray of donuts.

If the doughy cake plop doesn’t come out of the hot oil with the same dimensions as the other beautiful donuts, it gets thrown into a big blue bin, much to our dismay. When we first saw this happen, we looked at each other in mild confusion and our hearts sank. So many donuts, so much opportunity.

Our actions grew unpredictable after discovering this bucket of discarded donuts. Would we take them while the employee wasn’t looking? Would we hold everyone hostage in the name of free donuts? Unclear.

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every morning at their 7th and Fairmount store kitchen.

After the donuts have cooled a little to the perfect icing temperature (didn’t know this temperature existed, but we’re really glad it does) they get hand–dunked into a big bowl of hot icing that has been bubbling over a double broiler while the donuts cook. The extra icing slips down the side of the donut or is absorbed by the hot dough for extra moistness (use of this word is not optional in this case). Next, the donut chef rolls them in or dusts them with the topping of choice. The Milk and Coffee donut got coffee grains, the Chocolate Eclair got Nilla wafers melted in hot butter and salt, and crunchy pecans went to the Butter Pecan. In our opinion, you could dunk the donut in gasoline, and we would probably still eat it at this point.

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Ask for the Appolonia and watch your donut get rolled in spices from the same famous spice guy that Zahav uses to blow your mind. The mix begins with cocoa, orange blossom, cloves and sugar.

7. Get ‘em while they’re hot because the flavors switch out every six to eight weeks.

It would be hard to forgive yourself if you missed out on the chance to revel in butter pecan donut–induced heartburn because you have to wear a bikini in PV in a few weeks.

Screw PV. These donuts aren’t going to eat themselves, and rumor has it that a new flavor is on its way. Chef John’s been thinking about a dark chocolate habañero donut.

may come out of the same creepy looking dispensers that you see in Mark’s Cafe, but it is damn good. It features a flavor profile of “juicy melon, black tea and sweet caramel.”

Unlike wines that claim they have an “aftertaste of leather” or a “savory oak flavor,” you can actually taste the hints of black tea and caramel in this Elixr brand blend, 'specially made for Fed ‘Nuts. Next time you’re hermit-ing in VP, walk right past Starbucks and never look back. The extra minute won’t kill you, and it’s a whole different ballgame. And yes, they have cold brew.

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Homemade cake batter dough is softly placed in a small dispenser over a tub of hot oil that plops out donut shaped cake rings one at a time. The donuts slowly begin to gain volume as they cook in the oil. A conveyer belt keeps them moving and flips them over before being hand placed on a cooling tray for their icing–dunking or sugar–dipping. One machine.

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homemade icing, coated with the topping of choice and placed on a rack to be admired.

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“ so few of you.’” He adjusts hen you say ‘nurse,’ we ask his glasses and chuckles. people, what do you think? And they’ll say, ‘female,” says Dr. Christopher Lance Coleman, Fagin Term Associate Professor of hen you think of Nursing and Multi–Cultural a classic caricaDiversity. “And so it’s the ture of a nurse, whole gendered thing, beit’s the long white dress with cause when you say ‘doctor’ the cap and the stockings,” people say ‘male.’” says Christian Perucho (N There are currently ‘17). His Penn sweatshirt, 10,406 full–time undergradjeans and baseball cap are a uate students at Penn. Of the sharp contrast to what most entire undergraduate popula- envision when they think of tion, 587 are in the School nurses. “It’s definitely someof Nursing. And out of all of thing that is very ingrained in the nursing students, only the public.”

37 are male—men comprise So what happens when a mere 9.1 percent of the men start to enter this nursing population. female–dominated field?

Ian laughs now as he looks Marcus Henderson (N ‘17) back on how the people he crosses his legs and reflects met during NSO of his fresh- on a moment when a female man year treated his being in classmate asked him why he nursing was going into nursing. “She as a “fun turned to me and said, ‘You fact” beknow, it’s okay that you’re in cause they nursing school because you’re feminine anyway, so it works had never even heard out for you.’” His soft voice of a male grows quieter. nurse.

“My RA came up to me the first day, n a society that many he didn’t view to be dominated even ask by men, nursing is a my name rare field of work in which yet. And being a man is not necessarhe goes, ily an advantage. When it ‘Oh. comes to female–dominated You’re subsets within nursing like the male maternity, male nurses often nurse. find themselves excluded and You’re like stranded on the sidelines. a uniIan shifts in his seat. “We corn on were talking about the role of campus— nurses in the hospital, and [a there are female student] made some Ian McCurry (N' 17)

t was junior Ian McCurry’s second time setting foot in HUP’s Cardiac Surgical Unit. He entered the examination room to introduce himself to his patient of the day, a middle–aged man who had recently undergone a heart transplant. The doctor was already in the room, busily explaining the side effects of her patient’s medication. Once she finished, the patient cocked his head and turned to Ian. “Well, what do you think, doctor? Does she know what she’s talking about?”

The doctor balked beneath her white coat. Ian adjusted his navy blue scrubs.

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comments along the lines of, ‘nurses need to mother their patients, and that’s a trait that males don’t have,’” he says.

“She made comments about how males are better in critical care, but males don’t belong on other floors because they don’t have that mothering effect.”

He shrugs it off and insists that, at this point, such micro–aggressions don’t really faze him anymore.

“Men have been socialized to be more aggressive whereas women have been taught not to be that way,” Dr. Coleman says from his office in Fagin Hall. He tells me he’s heard of men being pulled out of other nursing schools because they were seen as “too aggressive” to be nurses.

Ian shares that he and his male peers are regularly called in to lift or turn patients.

“They always just assume that the males are going to be stronger, when half of my female classmates are probably stronger than I am,” he says.

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Andrew Dierkes (N'15PHD) aggressive stereotypes, their attempts can backfire. In Dr. Coleman’s words, the male nurse “...has to soften himself almost to the point where he loses himself. One patient asked one of my [male] students one time, ‘Oh, so do you have a boyfriend?’ And the student was married [to a woman] and had kids.”

As a nursing student, Dr. Coleman and his male peers were often told they couldn’t work with postpartum patients, even though learning about how to care for new mothers composed a sizable portion of their state exams. “Particularly when I would see the male gynecologist go back there, I would be like so, what’s the difference? What’s the difference if he goes in and I can’t?”

He shakes his head, as if still in disbelief. “I just couldn’t understand.”

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mean, I would never date a male nurse,” a sophomore girl discloses over coffee. “I think the main reason I wouldn’t date a nurse is because of a certain stereotype that comes along with it.” She cites Gaylord “Greg” Focker from Meet the Fockers as she recalls how male nurses are often dismissed or mocked. “I feel like a guy who is interested in medicine normally goes on to become a doctor,” she says.

Nesta Marley is in his fourth year of Penn’s Nursing and Health Care Management Coordinated Dual Degree Program. Like Antonio, his decision to become a nurse has been met with skepticism. He notes, “I think most people think, 'Oh, he wanted to be a doctor but didn’t get into med school.'” Nursing graduate student Andrew Dierkes shares that people can be even more judgmental when he discloses where he attended school: “If you share that you’re at Penn, an Ivy League institution, they think, 'So you could’ve done medical school, but you chose not to.'”

So the question goes back to nursing itself. Many believe that Penn’s School of Nursing has a reputation on campus of being—“the backdoor to Wharton,” Ian interrupts with a knowing smile. For some students, applying to the nursing school is simply a means of later switching into one of Penn’s

by CHLOE SHAKIN other three undergraduate schools. “People are sneaky,” Ian says. “It’s hard to pick out the people who are going to do it, because people are really good at painting a picture of who they are.”

However, nursing is anything but easy. “Definitely nursing is more emotionally difficult to handle than a business class,” Nesta says about how the schools in his dual degree program compare. “A business class I can just get up and go to and once class is over, class is over, and all I have to do is homework. Things that happen in clinical can stay with me for like a week or so.”

This resonates with Christian Perucho (N ‘17). Last semester, one of his patients passed away during his shift.

“It’s very daunting to be able to take care of someone’s dead body,” Christian says now, his voice soft but steady.

“It’s something very psychologically heavy, but I’ve learned to not take it home with me. When the clock is up, just wash your hands.”

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enn’s male nurses are first–generation college students, pioneers of research on Philadelphia’s homeless, members of fraternities and presidents of sizable student organizations.

They are snatched up by top PhD programs, hospitals and medical consulting firms straight from graduation. So why are there still so few of them?

For Dr. Coleman, it traces

back to the public’s misconceptions of what being a nurse actually can mean.

He shares that his father was initially extremely against the idea of his becoming a nurse, because “he also had this image that all nurses pretty much just changed bedsheets and bedpans and so, they don’t do, they don’t think; they just kind of follow doctors’ orders.”

In actuality, however, the field of nursing is far from simple. “We’re in one of the few professions where you can start off on the floor and end up in the boardroom.

How many professions can you say do that?” The nurse, professor and author answers his own question: “Very few.”

In 2006, Dr. Coleman founded MAN–UP, an organization on Penn’s campus dedicated to supporting men in nursing. “We were probably the first in the country to start a male nursing group on campus,” he says, adding that the resulting media attention garnered the group prestigious national awards and “generated thousands and thousands of dollars for the university because we attracted a lot of males to come to the nursing program.”

MAN–UP is currently inactive because Dr. Coleman is on sabbatical. But Andrew, who is the former president of MAN–UP, thinks the group’s break may also be because it indirectly perpetuated the stereotypes it sought to break down. “The biggest function for us was just having an internal peer advising group. But again, that’s something that’s not unique

to men,” he says.

“There were times when I think it just didn’t seem practical, or maybe it was even counter–productive.

There’s not a ‘women in nursing’ group. It’s just called the nursing group, in which case we should just be there.”

“In my own opinion, the focus should be on the science, because in a way that’s not gendered, and it’s something that everyone can do,” Andrew adds. “Why are we focusing on male and female when we should be focusing on clinical excellence and excellence of inquiry and patient outcome?”

Ian agrees. “I feel like [MAN–UP] fell out of vogue, because people were like—what does it matter that you’re a guy in nursing?”

He says. “You’re here, you’re doing it, you’re doing the exact same work as everyone else is. Why should it be a difference?”

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very nursing student at Penn has to endure 12–hour clinicals,

Marcus Henderson (N ‘17) time–consuming anatomy courses and emotionally trying interactions with patients. And on top of all of that, male students have to grapple with constantly being told that they don’t belong in the field that they love.

Yet even though these male students have all come across female nursing stereotypes or gender discrimination at some point or another, none of them seemed to be too hung up on it.

“I think once you make that realization that, I’m here, I’m gonna do just as good a job as everyone else, and nothing is working against me because I’m male, you come to this realization that…” Ian’s voice trails off.

He finds the phrase he was thinking of and grins. “It’s nothing.”

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Last year, Jennifer wanted to make a picture of her group of friends from Spring Break her cover photo, but you could see acne on her face.

Her friend introduced her to an app that would make her face flawless.

“Basically, you can make yourself a lot prettier than you are.” She laughs, “Facetune impedes natural selection.”

Most pictures she was uploading were of her and her friends out at parties, which can often be less–than–stellar photos. Jennifer explained the process of beginning to use apps like Facetune. She pointed out that a lot of the

app consists of simple picture editing stuff; if it's too dark in a frat basement, you can make it so that you're actually able to see people in the picture.

However, Jennifer realizes now that she went overboard in the early days of Facetune.

“Stalk my pictures back, all of the faces were blurred, bright white eyes…I’ve gotten a lot more subtle at using them, but its debatable if they’re all that subtle.”

She tells us that her friend actually called out on social media for her use of the app, commenting on pictures that are over edited.

“I don’t want people thinking that we think its okay to be that edited,” she says.

She also explains some flaws of the app.

“If you drag your stomach in you can make your friends

look fatter, and be a bitch…

If you’re not a bitch you won't make your friends look fat.”

Jennifer isn’t proud about this, and knows that it probably isn’t the greatest for her self esteem or body image.

But then again, she explains, no one ever claimed Facebook was real life anyhow.

Jennifer thinks that celebrity usage of photo editing apps is a lot more acceptable.

Celebrities have teams of people to make sure they look beautiful. They’re subject to a lot more scrutiny.

“I have shit to do as a full time student, they have to look beautiful. It's their one and only job, they should look good.” *name has been changed

CON: PHOTO EDITING APPS CREATE UNREALISTIC STANDARDS Hope Mackenzie is a college junior. She is a skilled photographer, and is familiar with all types of photo editing.

“In general, if it's a matter of enhancing the lighting, colors, contrast—I’m all for it. You go girl. But as soon as we talk about body morphing, like making yourself skinnier, your eyes bigger, getting really intense about it, then those are just some lying visuals,” Mackenzie says, laughing.

Hope thinks about this in photography a lot. Whether it's something serious or a selfie, she really enjoys when things look like a moment captured in time.

“If you wanna make the sky bluer and your lighting better, I’m all for it! It’s like the idea of wearing makeup, but for your picture. Enhancing naturally. When it comes to making your eyes bigger, or your butt bigger/smaller, making yourself skinnier, instead of an enhanced moment in reality, it is a bold faced lie,” Hope explains.

“Makeup for your picture?

Sure. But am I getting plastic surgery? No, I’m just trying to enhance what my mamma gave me.”

When it comes to celebrities' Instagram presences, Hope shares that she doesn't think over–editing is acceptable, but it is sadly normal.

An unsaid rule of magazines is that everything is photoshopped in some way.

Photos that aren’t edited on Instagram by celebrities are usually a big deal. Hope thinks that it is up to the consumer to understand that celebrities are putting out false images of themselves in general. For normal people to go to the same lengths to make a distorted version of their online self is kind of just weaving their own lie.

“I think most humans looking on Insta and they see some Kardashian picture, there is some sort of thought saying it’s probably edited.

But if I’m looking at one of my best friend’s pictures from a date night or something, I probably think that they woke up like that. People in society are not using the same tricks of the trade as celebrities are using.”

Mackenzie also addresses body image issues with these apps.

“If I’m someone who uses these apps and see people liking that I made myself skinnier, if I get all of these likes/comments on distorted version of myself, I can only imagine how I view myself is effected. It would make me believe the people who like my picture don’t like the 'real' me."

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LATE NIGHT TALK SHOW We talked with the leaders of The Late Night about nipples, Fallon and licking things.

On Saturday, February 13, students milled around the basement of the Platt Student Performing Arts Center from 6-8:30p.m. Some sipped on coffee or tea, some rearranged chairs and couches and others shuffled around stacks of stapled papers. No, this was not an attempt to find a study spot other than VP during finals week—this was preparation for the live taping of The Late Night’s fourth episode.

an online web series. The show includes everything from a monologue to guest interviews, sketches to performers and even a few audience–involved games. This month’s Valentine’s Day–themed episode featured an interview with the producer and directors of The Vagina Monologues, a game called “Guess The Nipple" and a dating game that tried to find true love for a lucky few viewers.

Those who attended the The Late Night is Penn’s first show on Saturday night or monthly talk variety show, new who have seen shows in the this year and created by current past most likely picked up on the show’s Fallon and Kimshowrunner Emma Soren (C mel vibes. Daniel Locker (C '16). The show is filmed in front of a live studio audience, '16), the show's host, worked making it both a live show and for The Tonight Show follow-

ing his junior year and now incorporates Fallon's style on The Late Night.

“Being around Fallon, I really picked up his vibe and saw what worked for him,” Locker said. “It’s a lot of energy. A lot of its unconscious, that’s kinda me. I just try to bring as much energy as I can.”

Soren also recognized how Fallon inspired The Late Night team to make their content unique to Penn students. “We sort of talked about how we could do games that aren’t boring to watch,” Soren shared. “People like watching them because there are celebrities playing them, so that was a cool challenge to do. How could we come up with games that are fun to watch when it’s random students?”

outside of Penn’s performing arts world. “We want to create this event that anyone at Penn can come to and just a community of people who like to laugh,” Soren said. “We really want to create a community that people come out to each month and try and create a fun, welcoming atmosphere.”

If you find yourself with The creative bunch at The nothing to do one Saturday Late Night seemed to do just that—one game, Lick It or Leave, required that contestants either lick something gross or just leave. “It’s amazing what peer pressure does to people because everybody licked everything,” Locker said.

“A hairball, the floor, I licked someone’s nipple. We have a nipple thing at The Late Night.”

Beyond the show’s body– part oriented antics, they are doing something few other campus clubs can pride themselves on doing—building a community. Whether you become a part of the show or a loyal audience member, there is a place for you at The Late Night, even if you are 1 4 3 4 T H S T R E E T M A G A Z I N E F E B R U A R Y 1 8 , 2 016

night, head over to Platt to watch a taping of The Late Night. You might learn about a cool group on campus you hadn’t heard of before and maybe wparticipate in a game or two, but you’ll definitely get a good laugh. Just keep your nipples protected.

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YOUR WEEK IN FILM AND TV

Y'all know the drill.

WHAT TO STREAM: Starting this Friday, you can stream Judd Apatow's new Netflix original series Love. Continuing his trademarks of awkward realistic dialogue and immature adults who look like they just moved out of their Jewish parents' basement, the 40–Year–Old Virgin director tries his hand at midlife romanticism yet again.

Season one of Better Call Saul just hit Netflix. Since all the bros have changed their conversation starters from, "Have you seen Breaking Bad?" to "Did you see Better Call Saul?," make sure you see it so you have something to talk about other than sports.

Might as well clean out Netflix while you're at it. The World of Tomorrow is a sixteen–minute Oscar–nominated short about a little girl who goes on an animated journey of her distant future. It's pretty lit.

WHAT TO GET YOUR ASS OUT OF BED FOR: Riding a wave of universal acclaim into theaters this weekend, Robert Egger's The Witch is set to make your Friday night extra spooky and Puritanical. Set in New England long before the Salem Witch Trials, this movie has it all: inspo from The Shining, period–accurate sets and a scary goat.

As part of QPenn Week: Power, make sure to hit up Queer and Asian Movie Night on Friday at 8p.m. They'll be watching Eat With Me, the story of a gay Chinese American man and his complicated maternal relationship.

WHAT TO BRING UP IN FILM CLASS: The Twin Peaks reboot is gaining some serious star–power with the purported addition of Naomi Watts, Amanda Seyfried, Laura Dern and more. T–minus approximately one year until we're back in upstate Washington with the Log Lady and some giants.

There's a new trailer for Paul Feig's Ghostbusters and we're not sure how to feel.

Besides looking militarized and corny as hell, the teaser has a total of zero ghosts and no marshmallow men.

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THE PENN FASHION BLOGS YOU SHOULD BE FOLLOWING ARIELLE WINFIELD OF HEYLIFESTYLEE Instagram: @heylifestylee Year: Junior Major: Cognitive Science

What sets apart her blog: “I want my blog to be fashion for the person that wants to keep up with trends but doesn't want to spend thousands of dollars. I want to show people that you can dress trendy and cute without spending a crap–ton.”

The staple she can’t live without: “Converse. White Converse. I’m from LA, and that’s such a staple over there.”

Her favorite stores: “Zara! It’s my

whole closet. Maybe a little Urban Outfitters, too, and NastyGal (when it’s on sale).”

On finding her own inspiration: “Honestly, I don’t like pulling from other people. Of course, I like trends and I follow trends, but if I see something I like, I’ll wear it. If I don’t like it, I won’t.

I don’t care about brand names” If her sense of fashion was a food: “Lasagna. It’s got layers.

There’s different layers to my style; it definitely isn’t just one thing. I’m not just boho, or classic or edgy. I want my style to connect to different kinds of people.”

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If you’re trying to revamp your wardrobe, are unsure of what to wear tonight or are really just looking for a much–needed breath of fresh air from the endless parade of study abroad blogs popping up on your newsfeed, these people are doing something creative, fashion–forward and helpful. Street chatted with a few of Penn’s style bloggers to learn about what inspires them and (hopefully) to soak up some of their fashion sense.

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What made her want to start a blog: “I'm pre–dental, so most of my classes in undergrad were science–based courses. While I love science, I did not want to lose sight of my other two passions—fashion and photography."

What got her interested in fashion: “My mom was always really big on letting me dress myself from a very early age.”

Instagram: @besttrendsforlife Year: 2015 Graduate Major: Biology/Pre–dental

On her early love for fashion: “I’ve been obsessed with all things fashion from before I can remember. My parents have photos of me as a toddler playing dress up—I was such a little diva! Fashion is important to me because it's a way for me to express myself and tell the story that is my personal style."

Her current favorite item in her closet: “Because it's so frigid outside, my current favorite piece is the Bonnie & Clyde coat by Bandits!”

Where she finds most of her wardrobe: “Small/independent shops and vintage boutiques—I really enjoy finding unique pieces.”

Why Best Trends For Life is different: “My personal style is distinct from that of other bloggers'—it incorporates many different trends and definitions of what fashion is. My blog features products from small independent brands..”

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Instagram: @ericaligenza Year: Senior Major: Marketing and Management

How Coming Up Roses is more than just a fashion blog: “I do have style posts, but that’s not necessarily the main focus of my blog. I started Coming Up Roses with the intent of it being a hub of community and inspiration."

On the importance of connecting to her readers: “A lot of times in this day and age, fashion blogs will just be really expensive clothes, or all gifted products, or it’s straight out of Vogue. Or these blogs will just be really pretty pictures and then three sentences that say, 'Hey. This was my weekend. And I’m flying around the world having a great time.' I really pride myself on making strong connections with my readers."

How she would define her style: “My accessories will take it in one direction or another. If I want a simpler look, I’ll have the same outfit but just daintier jewelry. If I want something more glamorous, I’ll put on a big statement piece."

The three pieces everyone needs in their closet: “A chambray shirt. It goes with absolutely everything under the sun, you can dress it up or dress it down and it’s so comfortable. A great black blazer. And a statement piece that’s unique but makes you feel really confident."

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THE MEN BEHIND THE MASK (AND WIG) ARTS

The Mask and Wig Club has been a hallmark institution of Penn for the past 128 years.

What exactly goes into the execution of The Mask and Wig Club’s annual production? Street had the opportunity to talk to Mask and Wig section heads to shed light on the magic that goes on every spring at 310 S. Quincey Street.

CAST:

Writing the spring annual production is a process that takes around eight months.

The Junior and Senior Clubbies of the cast are in charge of these efforts, as Teddy Lavon (C ’16) and Patrick Romano (C ’16), Head Writer and spring Cast Director respectively, explain.

In March, the cast members come up with five to ten potential settings for the play.

Over the course of April and May, the group writes multiple treatments (prose pieces typically written in short story form that function as the first draft of a script). The cast then narrows it down to a single treatment which will, over the summer, be discussed and developed. By the time August rolls around, there is a writers' retreat where the first draft is hammered out. The spring show script is then polished over the course of the semester. Lavon noted that this can get hectic, however, because during the first semester, the group is simultaneously writing and producing its fall show. By December 31 the spring show script comes together through the results of their hard efforts.

Romano, “the father of the cast,” illuminated on the laborious task that begins after finishing the script. Over the first few days of the year, the cast members congregate again at the Mask and Wig Clubhouse. They rehearse every single day until the beginning of classes. In the case of the 2016 production,

each rehearsal had three different components; first, the cast members would work on scenes with Director Matt Pfeiffer. The rest of the time was spent practicing routines with the choreographer, Karen Pauro, and rehearsing music and vocals with the Musical Director, Gene Bender (though the script is written by the cast, the Annual Show is professionally choreographed and directed).

BAND:

Dimitri Antoniou (C ’16), current Band Leader and tenor saxophone player, received the final set of sheet music from annual production composer and arranger of over twenty years, Neil Radisch (‘86), on the first of January. The band reunited shortly after to learn and play the complete repertoire of Flight Club.

Though the band writes original music for the fall show, the spring show is professionally composed, orchestrated, and arranged by Radisch. The cast and Radisch work on the lyrics mostly, as well. The complete repertoire is finished by the start of the new year.

Besides functioning as the pit band for Mask and Wig performances, the band also performs at a series of other functions and events, such as fraternity and sorority formals and the freshman toga party at the Penn Museum. It is also the annual headliner for the Spring Fling Festival in the Quad.

BUSINESS:

Sam Rowland (E ’16), Business Manager, organizes rhe business and sponsorship efforts for the annual production. As Rowland explains, biz staff is in charge of “advertising, website and ticketing.”

For the 2016 show, the business staff solicited ads from over 145 businesses throughout the city for the impressive 50–page playbill—the largest amount of businesses ever reached.

Biz staff also creates all of the printed promotional items,

such as flyers and posters, as well as the virtual promotional campaigns, including Facebook profile pictures and promotional videos. The section is also in charge of finding props for the set.

CREW:

While the Wig thespians are memorizing lines, the business boys are calling restaurants in Rittenhouse and band members are jammin' out, Billy Clarke (E ’16), the Stage Manager, and the rest of the crew are in charge

of constructing a set that will function for a variety of scenes and environments. In the case of Flight Club, M&W created a ceiling that could double as both an airplane and airport ceiling.

Additionally, the stage crew runs the tech for every show— from operating sounds and lights to managing the stage.

According to Clarke, there is a lot of creativity which goes into the creation of such sets simply because of the versatility that they must have. Just as well, there are a lot of long days and nights of cutting, hammering, painting and screwing together bits and pieces.

Besides creating the sets before the shows, the crew also creates unique props for the performances, maintains the Clubhouse and takes parts of the set on tour.

Similar to the band, which plays other gigs besides Mask and Wig, the stage crew also operates and manages shows for other student and performance arts groups, such as SPEC Sound and Strictly Funk.

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YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT YOUR FAVORITE MUSICAL ARTISTS

1. Nirvana was the first band to be made up entirely of raw vegans

2. Cher possesses a genius– level IQ

3. Drake survived a gunshot wound in high school

Yep, it’s true! Before the likes of Green Day and Linkin Park came along, Nirvana broke ground for the thousands of musically inclined raw foodies.

Inspiring.

Cher claims that if she hadn’t become a Grammy award–winning singer, she’d be a mathematician.

She reportedly knows at least three distinct digits of pi, including three, five and seven.

The world’s favorite rapper almost didn’t make it to adulthood. Learn all about the incident in the critically acclaimed documentary Degrassi: The Next Generation.

4. Shakira’s hips were convicted of perjury in 2003

5. Marilyn Manson wanted to be a dentist, but his father made him become a musician

6. Meat Loaf is allergic to meatloaf

Guess they do lie after all.

At least he can flash those pearly whites on stage!

Even though it makes him break out in hives from head to toe, the brave singer remains loyal to his fans by eating the prepared food upon request.

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HOW TO START A BAND For when you want to take your #squad to the next decibel level.

Step One: It is recommended that you buy an instrument.

Preferably one that you already know how to play, but if you haven’t shown any talent in the musical area of life, then we suggest the cowbell. It has a great sound to it, it’s shiny and it’s Will Ferrell endorsed— what more can you ask for?

Step Two: Look for potential band mates.

If you can’t think of anyone right off the bat, just go to your classes and start playing music in the middle of your lectures. The people who either

sing along or have the best air guitars are probably the ones you should talk to. Bonus points if your guitarist has long hair and will inevitably go solo.

Step Three: Stalk everyone from step two.

This way you can get to know them without them knowing you. You can fabricate a connection based on your observations when you do eventually talk to them. Also, if you find out they’re already in a different band, you can seduce the head of said band and dismantle it so that your target

is in need of a new group.

Step Four: Get a flyer advertising auditions.

If you aren’t in Wharton and don’t have free printing, just go to the quad, steal as many Mask and Wig posters as you need, write your information on the back of it and slip it under the doors of the people you want.

Step Five: See who shows up.

Seeing as your flyers are double–sided, some people might get confused and actually go to the Mask and Wig

show rather than your planned auditions, so you might just have to take the lot of them.

Step Six: Pick a band name.

Ask half the band to write an adjective on a piece of paper, and the other half to write a noun. Randomly select one of each. Voila! You have a band name! It’ll probably be something cool like Flirtatious Bagels so get ready to have your mind blown.

Step Seven: Find a student organization that’s too nice to say no to having you perform for them.

If you’ve followed the steps exactly up until this point, you should be comparable to One Direction or Little Mix in talent so your career will take off from here. Be sure to thank Street when you accept your first Grammy.

QUIZ: WHICH MEMBER OF THE BEATLES ARE YOU? Hope you don't get Ringo.

Your significant other tells you his/her favorite song is Satisfaction by the Rolling Stones, how do you react?

1. Never talk to him/her again 2. Let him/her know that everyone’s different and it’s okay 3. Paint the city red with his/ her blood 4. Tell him/her that’s a silly choice You finish all of your homework for the day and have a few hours of free time. How do you spend it?

1. Treat yourself to some bourbon and smooth jazz 2. Go to your local supermarket and take advantage of the buy one, get one free papaya deal 3. Finally get rid of that pesky toe fungus 4. Catch up with the neighborhood crackhead You see an old lady struggling to cross the street, but are in a rush to get to class. What do you do?

1. Push her into the street while chanting, “Natural selection

must run its course.”

2. Jump on her back and demand a piggyback ride 3. Help her across the street, get her number in the process, marry into her family’s fortune and drop out of college 4. Say you would help if you could but you have a phobia of the elderly

2. Cockapoo 3. Pug 4. The one that looks like your uncle Larry

What’s your ideal romantic date?

1. Homemade meal followed by a walk under the starlit night sky 2. Sexy skinny dipping in your favorite toilet 3. Midnight syrup tasting at grandma’s house 4. Romance is dead

Which of these first–graders is most likely to become a famous musician?

1. Garrett Hopkins 2. Jimmy Watson 3. Gerald Williams 4. Ricky Clark

Which of these sounds like the best April Fool’s prank to you?

1. Switch your roommate’s Froot Loops™ with Raisin Bran™ 2. Turn off all the carbon monoxide detectors in your house 3. Berate your sister for her choices 4. Survive an assassination attempt Which is your favorite dog breed?

1. Golden Retriever

Finish this lyric: Imagine…

1. All the people 2. If Steve Irwin were still alive 3. Unlimited breadsticks 4. No possessions

Which member of the Beatles are you most like?

1. Ringo 2. George 3. The dead ones 4. Dung beetle Now, tally up your score! Each 1 is 1 point, each 2 is 2 points, and so on.

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