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Three weeks ago, Oz sent an email to a select group of freshmen girls. Two weeks ago, a group of girls put up flyers 3 HIGHBROW all over campus that condemned the pros and cons of dorm email as perpetuating rape culture. One rooms, overheards, week ago, I decided to pull an article highbrow titled “Fraternities Across Penn's Campus Begin to Recognize Women as Humans” 4 WORD ON THE from Lowbrow.

STREET food for thought Why? The logical assumption is, of course, that I pulled the article because I found it offensive. Right? Wrong. I 5 EGO pulled the article for two reasons. First, eotw: Will Slotznick because I could see exactly how others if OCR were an emoji may have interpreted it as offensive, or insensitive or just in poor taste. And 7 TECH while I may have disagreed, I could hiding from Goldman already see the angry emails flooding my religion apps inbox at 9 a.m. the following morning. rejection Second, I pulled the article because, just as plainly as I could see those emails, I 10 FEATURE could also see the people who would be senior societies sending them shutting down, writing me and my magazine off as insensitive, unenlightened, sexist or simply as perpetuating 12 VICE & VIRTUE the worst parts of Penn. drunk, high, sober OCR, I pulled the article because I figured 7 maladies you will get that no one who found it offensive would this semester even bother to ask why I ran it in the first

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place. And that is the inherent problem in all of the dialogue surrounding Oz and the flyers.

When these controversies occur at Penn (and really, in most places), we see the same sequence of events occur: someone does something that offends someone else (Oz email), that someone else takes a public stand (flyers), the public stand gets backed by student groups, covered in the DP, Street, maybe picked up by the local and national news (Ashton Kutcher), we see an influx of op–eds and Facebook statuses from the protesters and their sympathizers, but those who caused the offense stay silent or issue a formal apology—nothing more. After a few weeks we all forget about it and move on. Nothing changes, and within a year something similar happens again.

It is easy to forget and unpleasant to remember that we all live in our own little echo chambers. We (consciously or not) surround ourselves with like–minded people who have shared experiences or similar interests to our own. So if you found the Oz email to be offensive, odds are that a lot of your close friends did, too. And while they may provide a com-

forting outlet for your frustration towards the male–dominated party culture at Penn, they may also have alienated you from anyone who saw things differently.

None of this is to say that Oz was right in sending that email, or that the email was not offensive. It is, however, to point out that the part of the conversation that is always missing from coverage of controversies like these is why don’t our protest efforts work? Why does rape culture persist, despite the fact that we are screaming so loudly that it must be eradicated?

I didn’t run the article because I didn’t think anyone would respect my reasons behind running it. I wanted to run the article because I thought that it provided a much–needed fresh and satirical take on the entire situation. I was willing to listen to those who disagreed, but I did not have enough faith in the Penn community to listen to me in return.

Here’s to hoping that this, along with many other characteristics of this school brought to light over the past weeks, can change soon.

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PROS AND CONS OF LIVING IN A DORM Pro: Getting to say things like “I live in the nipple.”

Pros

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If your current flame also happens to live in the same dorm as you, you get the privilege of an indoor walk of shame. This is a special time in your life and will most likely never happen again in your remaining three years––unless you come back and are “that RA.”

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Getting to say things like “I live in the nipple.”

Penn dining hall food may not be Philadelphia’s finest, but being attached to a dining hall makes getting up in the morning a little bit easier. Plus, it’s more socially acceptable to wear pajamas at these locations, which is always a benefit.

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Choosing to go “gender neutral” when it comes to bathrooms can be super awkward if you’re dropping a deuce and you recognize the shower shoes of your crush entering the vicinity. But, conversely, it also means you literally shower inches from them without it being some creepy stalker move (looking at you, attractive blonde boy from the hall next to mine).

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Being in the “sceney” part of your dorm and getting to hear all the gossip without having to “find the plug” because you literally live in it.

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Can someone please let us know why the new College House is the nicest thing to hit Penn’s campus? We’re down to sacrifice location for brand new singles and suites. Also someone please solve the mystery of how it took them practically a summer to build it while it took approximately three times longer to build Perry World House…

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Even if your hall is mainly composed of #NSOBesties, living in such close proximity to such a large portion of your class makes it really easy to get to know people. In later years you can create meaningless bonds with people by saying things like “Wait you were in Bodine? I was in Morgan!” Instant friendship.

THEROUNDUP Remember when this happened two years ago?

"While headed to Princeton, the St. A’s/Theta buses made a pit stop at a gas station. Sources tell us that one gas station employee accused an A’s brother of stealing, and subsequently called the police to deal with the situation. Upon their arrival, the policemen threatened to breathalyze the crowd of intoxicated

Cons

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Dirty looks of disappointment from the security when you come back plastered and try swiping in with a flyer you found on the ground but then realize it’s not your PennCard so you have to go to the check–in counter and face even more judgment.

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Swiping into your dorm in general #MertCentral but also #AnnoyingAF.

McClelland. It’s like you want to love it but you know that the sushi has been sitting there for days and that every person you pass with it in your hand is judging you for even considering it as a viable food option.

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Twin beds. Don’t even get us started on the romantic hindrances of those things… there are just too many.

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Most Relatable Girl Ever: I have no reason to believe this, but I'm like, pretty sure I'm pregnant.

Modern Economist: Why don't ZBT and SDT just combine to form one organization?

When Penn thinks they are slick and turn a single into a double so you literally sleep four feet away from your roommate. It’s basically like non–stop cuddling, which would be cute if you got along, but you don’t. So there’s that.

Explanatory Jewish Bro: My mohel fucked up–– that's my excuse for my small penis.

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Empathetic Friend: She got laryngitis from sucking too much dick.

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Future Sugar Daddy: I accidentally made out with a 14–year–old and it got posted on a makeout website.

RAs that take their job seriously and decide to host “mandatory” meetings every week. These are also the RAs that will cite you whenever they feel like it just because they have the power to do so.

Laundry is shit. It’s always overcrowded and inconveniently placed throughout the buildings. Also, laundry sharks are real people who suck and put your clean wet clothes on the nasty laundry floor and steal the dryers when it’s not their turn. Not that we’re bitter or anything, though.

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Being in the “left over” college houses. We’re still unsure where Gregory is… Also it takes way too long to realize that Stouffer is parallel to the Quad. Living in Stouffer is like hating from outside of the quad because you can’t even get in (past 2 a.m.).

students. One angry Theta senior seemed to think this was unacceptable, and yelled at the police to “fuck off.” She was promptly put in the back of a cop car and detained while the police proceeded to separate the students into buses based on those who were 21 and those who were not, breathalyzing those underage.

Meanwhile, some students fled out of the side door of the bus and headed for a nearby Italian restaurant to hide. But for one Theta sophomore in the process of obtaining a Green Card, the fear of deportation was too great. She felt that

this restaurant was too obvious of a hiding place so, she, two of her sisters and four A’s boys fled towards a nearby forest instead."

Well, nothing like that happened this week. We cannot be upstaged by our younger, healthier livered selves.

Highbrow counts on you degenerates to do dumb shit so we can make fun of you for it.

Try harder, Penn.

Preacher Describing Street: Brainwashed, liberal and hell–bound.

MBA at the Compass: My Seamless password is "Wharton."

Lost Engineer: What is JMHH? Small Child/ Future Player: Who said you could tell people you're my girlfriend? You ain't my girlfriend.

PSCI Professor: It's the type of thing John Locke would be pleased to know I'm doing.

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WORD ON THE STREET

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FOOD FOR THOUGHT

I have never eaten a vegetable. Almost any other person my age wouldn’t be able to name every food they’ve ever consumed. But for me, it’s simple. I have survived for my entire life off of nothing but pizza (specifically just cheese or pepperoni), macaroni and cheese, buttered pasta, chicken fingers and a few desserts. The idea of even touching another food almost makes me throw up.

I have a rare eating condition known as Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID). By definition, ARFID limits what someone can eat based off of food characteristics such as color, smell, taste or texture. Typically it is caused by traumatic experiences during childhood that occur while eating, such as choking or, in my case, consistently throwing up during childhood as a side effect of my epilepsy.

I have become accustomed to usually only eating once per day—normally around 1 a.m., when I finally get hungry. When I’m on campus, I rotate everyday between double–toasted chicken fingers with a side of mac and cheese from Wawa and a pepperoni pizza from Allegro.

The workers at Wawa start making my order as soon as I walk in.

Whenever I reveal my condition to someone, their initial reaction is to start asking about other common everyday foods, like PB&Js or hamburgers. My response is the same: No, I don’t eat that. No, not that either. Nope, also not that.

But what most people don’t think about is how much my condition affects me beyond the table.

I never went to sleep–away camp as a kid; I wouldn’t be able to live off the food a camp provides. While my closest friends were away, 4

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A slice of life with a food disorder.

but there are few things that annoy me more than when someone tells me to “just eat it.” That’s like telling a person with ADHD to “just focus and pay attention.” It’s not that easy.

This is not a lifestyle that I chose. I have tried many different forms of treatment, from hypnosis to cognitive behavioral therapy, but I haven’t found the right match. I would love nothing more than to be able to go to a restaurant with my friends without having to check the menu beforehand. I would love to go out with my family and know that I’m not forcing them to eat Italian when they would all rather have Asian. I would love not to have to worry about my health every day.

But with all that Illustration by Anne Marie Grudem said, I don’t want people to feel bad for me.

I stayed alone at home. I’ve gotten used to that My condition is an unfortunate circumstance, isolation. In fact, as I sit here writing this, my but I’ve learned to make the best of it. I’ve found parents and sister are out at brunch together, ways to take advantage of my pizza expertise, while I’m sitting in my apartment. There’s nothto have fun with it. Within the past three years, ing on the menu for me to eat. And while I’m I’ve travelled to 25 countries, looking around for very secure about my friend group, it’s still disthe best pizza place in the world. On random appointing when I tag along to restaurants and weekends during the school year, I have flown to can’t eat with them, or when I don’t go at all. My San Francisco just to get a pizza. And while that friends have adjusted to my eating habits, but may sound absurd, there are few things I relish dating brings along its own complications — more than these trips. how do you tell a girl you can only take her to My condition has given me a unique perspecpizza places? tive on the world. I take pride in the fact that I’ve learned to deal with the social problems my friends studying abroad text me for pizza recover time, but there is still one major misunderommendations in various countries. I love that it standing that bugs me every day: my label as a has come to define me and given me an identity “picky eater”. This term implies that I am able that people automatically associate with me. So to pick what I eat, but this is not the case. I receven though I would not wish ARFID upon my ognize that my condition is hard to understand, worst enemy, I can’t imagine my life without it.

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EGOOF THE WEEK: WILL SLOTZNICK

The Penn SID leader delves into his passions for international development, beanies and West African cuisine.

Street: So what are you involved in?

Will Slotznick: So, I’d say my main involvement is with a group called Penn Society for International Development, Penn SID. It’s a group of students dedicated to the international affairs and development and that can be across all different sectors, uh, global education, global health, human rights,

refugee issues. We take a look at all of it, and we have different activities and programming throughout the year. I think something that makes us a little unique among international clubs on campus is that we really try to make sure we have that education component and that action component.

Street: So with Penn SID, can you tell us a bit about the consulting program that places students with nonprofits?

WS: We have Penn Society for International Development which is kind of an umbrella organization of different committees that have different programming throughout the year. We’re holding the international development conference this November. We have another organization called Global Earth Benefit where we actually feature students’ international artwork and use that to raise funds for select philanthropic organizations. And then we have a committee called Global Impact Collaborative and that’s where we connect students directly to nonprofit organizations for multi–semester advising relationships.

Street: So what sparked the passion for international development [and] international affairs?

WS: It started in high INTERVIEW CONDUCTED BY school. I had this wonderful MIKE COYNE AND LIZ HEIT opportunity to travel to Ghana

after my sophomore year and junior year of high school to go teach in a small, rural primary school. I wasn’t given very much preparation at all.

I was just told: 'Teach what you like. Teach what you’re interested in.' At the time I was interested in art and art history.

So I delivered a course to 60 sixth–grade Ghanaian students on West African art–making.

I went back the following year because I had identified some issues in school culture that I wanted to try to explore and so I delivered a second course on conflict resolution. I felt very challenged and conflicted with that whole experience.

I was very unqualified to be there instructing these students on topics that I had no real familiarity with. So I was challenged by that, but then it also sparked this interest in studying international education and development, academically.

Name: Will Slotznick Hometown: West Chester, PA Major: International Relations Activities: Penn SID, Alternate Spring Break

which is a big group on campus that sends students out every single winter and spring break to work with different nonprofit organizations all around the country. I think if students are interested in learning about social justice, domestically, it’s a great entry–point. We include the education component and the service component, so I think it’s a really great way to engage with issues.

Street: Do you have a dream job?

WS: I don’t yet. I think many times I have. When I first entered Penn, I thought 'I’m gonna specialize in educational development and I’m going to work in the Office of Education and the U.S. Agency for International Development.'

And I was like, 'Am I gonna do that?' Like I wanna be up there.

Since then, I’ve just had a lot of rich experiences in this field, and I don’t think there’s a single job either in this career. So right Street: What do you find the biggest challenge is in actually now, it’s just, I want to be in a place that goes about its work making an impact in that in a really meaningful way. way?

WS: I think first you gotta Street: If you are what you eat, check your ego. When I was what are you? a 17–year–old, I felt that I’m WS: Um, let’s just call it the coming from a middle–class fufu and goat curry at this Philadelphia suburb, and I West African place not because had a great education and I I think I’m anything like fufu have so much wisdom that I and goat curry but because I could impart when I traveled love the experience. to support the school in rural Ghana. I was totally wrong. It Street: There are two types of was a totally different cultural people at Penn… and educational systems, WS: Those who are original different ways of living, different ways of understanding free–thinkers and those who are getting there. the world. There’s no way that everything I grew up with could just easily translate to the Street: What would you be world–views of my students and infamous for?

WS: When it comes to fashion I was totally naive in that way.

I’m very seasonally confused. I Street: What else are you like to wear a lot of flannels in involved in? the summer. During the winter WS: Alternative Spring Break,

time, I’m definitely infamous for wearing several varieties of beanies. I’m definitely a winter fashion person...all the time.

Street: Do you remember your first screen name?

WS: It’s not very exciting. For AIM, it was ws9226, so I wasn’t very creative but I think more funny is my first email address, I think people like to have fun, creative email addresses, but my Dad told me I needed a very professional email, just, you know, when I started seeking internships—my first email address was wslotznick@ comcast.net when I was ten years old.

Street: What do you love the most about Penn?

WS: Um, so many things. I think it’s certainly challenging but you grow so much personally and intellectually.

Nobody leaves Penn in the same place that they entered freshman year. It is so awesome to see how people’s interests develop over these four years.

And second, there is incredible opportunity here and incredible resources that students tend to—you just have to be a little ambitious about it.

Street: What’s one question we forgot to ask you?

WS: Hmm, maybe just like a hobby? Things beyond academics...art. I love to draw, I love to sketch. Um...I unfortunately wasn’t able to pursue that at Penn. I tried to freshman year but I ran out of time. Whenever we go on an outdoor adventure, obviously I’m carrying my sketchbook in my backpack. So that’s just another side of me that not as many people know.

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YOUR OCR IN EMOJIS EGO

How many different crying emojis are there again?

Several interviewees chose to describe OCR with this emoji. Pretty self–explanatory.

That face you made when you walked into the Bain info session and saw 1,500 other eager undergrads. Or maybe when you realized this company takes 0.1 percent of all applicants.

Ego took to the Street(s) to ask Penn students what they thought about on–campus recruiting. Keep reading to see what Quakers chose when it came to describing OCR via our favorite collection of emotions.

Why specifically a kitten crying? One male student couldn't quite understand why it came to mind, but Street imagines it has something to do with a sad, sad loss of youthful innocence.

The quintessential "What am I doing?" emoticon was offered up by one student foreign to the OCR process. Street is well–aware this is technically not an emoji, but honestly it was too accurate not to include.

One's natural response when you've been asked, "So, why investment banking?"

In retrospect, we're not exactly sure what one freshman meant by the needle emoji to characterize OCR. Interpret this one as you will.

Ego's Emoji Picks When OCR steals your soul.

We have no idea what we're doing but we'll buy this padfolio so it looks like we do.

Because it's a black hole abyss.

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WORSHAPPS

TECH

I would be lost without my religion. And my iPhone.

I am sometimes concerned about whether I would be able to practice my religion as frequently or as well without technology. Would I read the Qu’ran as frequently if it wasn’t online? Would I be able to understand, pronounce and recite verses if it wasn’t for the translations and transliterations on quran.com? Would I be able to remember to pray at the right times without the notifications that pop up on my phone screen? How would I know which direction to face while praying without the Qibla function on my Athan app? It is a little surprising just how much I rely on technology to do something as spiritual as praying or reading and understanding holy texts, and yet these tasks would be so much harder for me to perform without it.

There’s an app for literally everything and anything you can think of, including practicing your religion, and in highly specific and helpful ways.

Although we tend to think of religion and science as separate, if not opposed, these religion apps highlight a powerful intersection between faith and technology, helping people to focus on certain aspects of their religion and perform specific tasks. Here are some examples of interesting apps with a religious focus:

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Equanimity Price: $4.99 Equanimity aims to help with Buddhist meditation. It includes a meditation timer, along with a journal function for logging and recording thoughts and reflections after meditation sessions. It encourages daily meditation by generating charts and graphs to show how regularly you’re meditating and for how many hours. What’s great about this app is that Equanimity also works in the background while you’re using other apps.

Word Alert: Daily Bible Verses Price: Free Word Alert: Daily Bible Verses sends verses from the Bible to users every day. The app sends them as notifications, so that they appear right on your phone screen, and you can read them without opening the app. Also, users can program when to receive the alerts. This app is configured for iPhones iPads, and Apple Watches, so there’s really no way you’ll miss your verse of the day.

MuslimPro Price: Free Muslim Pro provides users with prayer times and the call to prayer— but that’s not all it does.

It includes the complete Qu’ran, with translations and audio recordings. Not only can Muslim Pro locate the Qibla, but it can also locate halal restaurants and mosques nearby. And it has an Islamic calendar, providing users with a variety of helpful features all within one app.

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Menorah—Chanukah– ‫חנוכה‬ Price: Free This app allows users to virtually light candles for each day of Chanukah, guiding users as to which way to light the candles and how many to light.

In addition, the app provides prayers for Chanukah in both Hebrew and English, along with the transliterations. Users can also listen to traditional songs and audio recordings of prayers.

Kosher Near Me Price: Free Kosher Near Me helps users locate Kosher restaurants and stores in over thirty countries. The app also allows users to view and write reviews.

In certain locations and for certain establishments, you can even use the app to order kosher food online.

Zabihah Price: Free Zabihah is primarily an app for locating halal restaurants, but it can also find markets and mosques nearby. The app also helps users discover special offers, discounts and coupons from nearby halal restaurants.

Users can see and submit reviews, check hours and prices, get directions and share restaurants with friends.

Puja: A Virtual Hindu Temple (Android Only) Price: Free This virtual simulator for the Hindu ritual of pujas also includes information about 21 of the deities. The app provides the user with information about the significance of various puja tasks, but most importantly, it allows the user to perform the tasks digitally through the app, such as offering flowers or burning incense.

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HOW TO HIDE FROM GOLDMAN SACHS ON SOCIAL MEDIA There's water in this solo cup.

GO PRIVATE

Change your name. If you know you have photos or things that shouldn’t be seen but you don’t want to delete them, then change your name. Get creative here.

Also, if you haven’t already, make your Twitter and Insta private. A 2014 survey from Jobvite.com showed that 93 percent of job recruiters are likely to scroll through an applicant’s social media pages. If your pages are public, this just makes their jobs so much easier.

EDIT YOUR PICTURES Pretty self–explanatory.

If you’re not 21, then don’t have alcohol in your pic-

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tures. Either put it behind your back or blur it out. We get it, you drink. But your potential employers probably won’t think you’re as cool as you think you are.

BE POSITIVE

As easy as it is to complain about how far DRL is or how crowded Houston is, just try to be positive in your social media posts. Contrary to popular belief, job recruiters who scroll through social media aren’t only looking for incriminating evidence.

They are also trying to get an inside look as to what person you are. If you’re just constantly complaining and bad–mouthing other people, they’re probably not going to hire you.

POST WHEN YOU'RE SOBER

Just wait until the next morning to tweet about how dope the backlot party was, how good your Allegro's pizza was, etc. Nobody really wants to see your misspelled shenanigans on their Facebook feed, and it’s definitely not a good look for future employers.

DON'T BE CONTROVERSIAL Obviously everyone is entitled to their own opinion and is allowed to post whatever they want to, but employers don’t want to see their applicants starting World War III with their posts. Just be cool.

EDIT YOUR TAGS This is huge. Make it so that you have to accept requests for people to tag you in pictures. This prevents those horrendous 3 a.m.

pictures from making it onto your profile. Even if you aren’t hiding from Goldman you should probably do this.

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F E AT U R E

inside senior societies rances Patano, currently a College senior, had just gotten out of rehearsal when her friend called her with bad news. “I don’t know what happened, you had an amazing application, it was just so competitive this year, I feel awful.” Her friend asked to meet up with Frances at 40th and Spruce Streets, where she put her arm around her and slowly walked her around the block. Frances’ stomach dropped.

Had she really not gotten in? Several minutes later a group of people wearing togas and carrying handles ran towards her and shouted “Get on the ground!” She was filled with relief. She had gotten into Friars Senior Honor Society.

“I was like ‘Finally!’” Frances recalls. “I’ve never been so happy to hear that shouted at me.”

Senior society recruitment seems to comes out of nowhere. Whispers swirl about “smokers.” The lucky ones might receive a “tap” from one of the dozen senior societies. The luckier still receive admission to the society. Strange chalk markings appear on campus, made by members scribbling out their society mottos on initiation night.

Senior Societies in Brief Friars - Leadership Sphinx - Leadership Hexagon - Engineering Mortar Board - Leadership Onyx - Black Leadership Omega - Greek Leadership Lantern - Wharton Cipactli - Latinx Leadership Oracle - Asian/Pacific Islander Leadership Nightingales - Nursing Osiris - Performing Arts Carriage - LGBTQIA Leadership Bell - Entrepreneurship Kinoki - Entertainment 1 0 3 4 T H S T R E E T M A G A Z I N E S E P T E M B E R 2 2 , 2 016

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by Genevieve Glatsky

“Senior society” is a term that’s used loosely to refer to a variety of organizations at Penn that recruit juniors and seniors to reward leadership and involvement on campus. Some are steeped in tradition, while others were created only recently out of a need to recognize cultural groups or to create interest–based communities.

Some people expect to be tapped, just the recent in a long line of club presidents who have been in a certain senior society. Others don’t expect to get tapped at all, and are pleasantly surprised or even confused.

Senior societies in concept are not unique to Penn. Yale has several secret societies, and Harvard has its so–called “Final Clubs.” Unlike these counterparts, though, which are often cloaked in secrecy and elitism, Penn’s senior societies are relatively transparent and theoretically meritocratic. Membership is published on the groups’ websites and Facebook pages, students proudly display their affiliation on sweatshirts and baseball caps and students are candid about the recruitment process.

By all counts, senior societies at Penn are a public affirmation of success, so they pose an interesting paradox: They aim to make their organizations inclusive by gathering members that represent all facets of campus, but in doing so they create another layer of exclusivity.

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riars and Sphinx were both first recognized by the university in 1901, although there is a friendly rivalry between the two over which one was formed first. Both were all–male until 1971. Mortar Board, on the other hand, was originally an all– female society. Now co–ed, Mortar Board and the colloquially named “on–campus” Omega represent the only two senior societies that are affiliated with national organizations.

The “on–campus” designation is intended to distinguish between Omega, the honor society with a National chapter for leaders in on–campus Greek organizations, and Omega, the informal senior society for members of affiliated and off–campus Greek organizations—which was referred to by one member who chose to remain

anonymous as “a blacking out society.”

Admission to Sphinx and Friars is based on general leadership—essentially, members are rewarded for holding high–level leadership positions in various clubs or organizations. Past Sphinx members include Jon Huntsman Sr. and John Legend, while Friars counts former Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, Walter Annenberg and Elizabeth Banks as alumni.

Most senior societies members are tapped in the spring semester of their junior years by the members of the graduating class, and a smaller number join in the fall of of their senior years. During both the spring and fall recruitment periods, existing members can tap one or two students that they feel would be a good fit by extending invitations to “smokers”—social events designed to introduce prospective members to the groups. Usually less than half of those who are tapped will actually get in, and that percentage gets considerably smaller in the fall.

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n a school already steeped in exclusivity, senior societies and their rush processes represent yet another competitive system that rewards those who succeed with connections and networks. The integral nature of exclusivity to the senior society experience is widely acknowledged, even by those on the inside. “When you think about how top institutions are, they love exclusivity. I feel like that’s kind of embedded in Penn’s DNA,” said Temilola Ransome–Kuti, a Wharton senior who is a member of both Sphinx and Onyx (a senior society that recognizes black leadership).

“I think it’s very Penn...It’s an environment that is both competitive and collaborative. To me it makes a lot of sense that we have this,” said Emily True, a College senior who is a member of both Friars and Osiris.

Exclusivity permeates our campus in every aspect. Students compete for membership in almost every community at Penn—for Greek life, for performing arts groups and for publications.

But most groups are competitive for a purpose: to do community service, to entertain or to

create a product. Senior societies are exclusive, but without a clear mission. “[Senior societies are] like the kind of very ultimate form of Penn...honestly we’re just competing for status,” said Trudel Pare, a College senior and member of Osiris, a senior society for students in the performing arts.

“It’s just sort of being very self–congratulatory, being like, ‘We’re all really good at this thing, let’s tap all of our friends and have like a cool kids club basically that people can’t get into’.

So I love it, but I also get why people don’t like [senior societies],” said Trudel.

This competitive process for a group without a clear mission draws parallels to Greek life, the other competitive social organizations that dominate Penn’s campus.

Abbie Starker, a College senior and member of Sphinx disaffiliated from her sorority because of the arbitrary exclusivity of Greek life, and was initially skeptical of senior societies. “I felt like this was sort of just another one of those exclusive clubs that made people feel bad about themselves for superficial reasons.”

Sphinx President, or ‘Chief,’ and College senior David Scollan felt similarly about Greek life after initially pledging a fraternity his freshman year. “I didn’t like the idea that...everyone was quite similar, everyone had similar backgrounds, and I was uncomfortable in that position of exclusive privilege and then dropped.”

Ultimately, students found that senior societies distinguished themselves from Greek life by the more organic nature of the recruitment process and the diversity of their members. While students join clubs to find a place to fit in, senior societies enable them to branch out, resulting in very real benefits, including networking opportunities with alumni and the chance for valuable collaboration amongst groups.

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he idea of a supportive community of diverse leaders isn’t a bad one, and many members feel as though admission to senior societies is a reward for years of leadership. ”I think that the people who’ve put in the

David Scollan time and the effort to run organizations, be the captains of teams, sacrifice blood sweat and tears metaphorically for their organization...we should be honoring all the good work that you as individuals and through your organizations have contributed to the university,” David said.

However, not every leader on campus gets tapped. With classes that are usually capped around 30 students, senior societies cannot offer membership to every qualified applicant— meaning that people who deserve to be recognized inevitably fall through the cracks.

Maria*, a College senior, was tapped for Friars last spring. She had known about senior societies for years from talking to upperclassmen, and had always hoped that she would be in one. “It’s really flattering to be tapped. It feels special… that somebody thought of you and identified you as not just a leader on campus but someone they would want to join their exclusive social group,” Maria said. She left a board meeting early to wait in her house at a certain hour, as all applicants are told to do. But instead of a group of members in togas serenading her at her home, she received a phone call telling her she hadn’t gotten in. “It absolutely felt like a personal rejection,” she recalls.

While selection for senior societies is in theory based on leadership, some students say that personal connections play a role. “You happen to be in the right community, you happen to be in that community at the right time that someone in that society saw you do something and was like, ‘Oh, this is worth recognizing’, or you were just friends with the right people,” said Michael Karam, a College senior and member of Oracle, which was founded in 2002 to recognize leaders of Asian descent, referring to senior societies in general. Frances also felt that oftentimes groups recruit by “just friends tapping friends.” She

Frances Patano admitted, “I wouldn’t have been tapped if the director of Bloomers weren’t in Friars.”

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ultural senior societies add another dimension to the mix. Onyx, which was founded in 1974 to recognize black leaders, does not issue taps. Any black student on campus can apply, and membership is based on academic excellence and campus involvement. And Temilola felt that although it doesn’t accept everyone, that exclusivity is not “something that people would automatically when they think about Onyx.” Rather, she felt the opposite was true. “I see Onyx as a place where we try to build community, and that involves engaging the people outside of Onyx,” she added.“It’s really one of those special spaces where we’re all bonded by the experience of being a person of color, a black student at Penn.

There’s a lot of specific difficulties that we go through and that we definitely celebrate each other more than the normal Penn atmosphere celebrates us.”

Similarly, Cipactli, which was founded in 2001 to recognize leaders in the Latino community, advertises meet–and–greets on Facebook and has open applications. “We try to access as many listervs as possible to invite people from both in and outside of the Latino Coalition,” said College senior and Cipactli member Avi Colonomos. They also have a GPA requirement to apply, and a community service requirement for members.

As it stands now, aside from annual fundraisers, the traditional leadership societies typically do not mix with the rest of campus. “We’re not outward facing,” said Erina of Sphinx. “I think we’re much more of a support system.”

Erina Shan David felt that the way to improve senior societies is to simply have more of them—sentiments echoed by others on campus, as the number of senior societies has exploded in recent years. Carriage for LGBT students, Osiris for performing arts, Kinoki for students interested in the entertainment industry and Bell for those interested in technology and entrepreneurship, were all founded in the past three years. “I think that people are realizing that instead of getting rid of them, why not just have tons and give everyone a community to be a part of instead of not letting anyone have that space?” says David.

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lthough status or prestige might be what senior societies are most known for, to dismiss them as unnecessarily exclusive would do a disservice to their intended purpose: to bring together different kinds of students and form a completely new, unique community.

The benefits of senior societies to those in them are manifold in terms of networking and new opportunities for friendships, but people tended to be unsure whether or not seniors would be willing to expand their social circles at this point in their college careers without the added bonus of prestige.

“I actually do think a lot of people would be happy to go and meet other people, but I think that with inclusivity comes an innate lameness.

Being inclusive is not cool or exciting,” Maria said. “And God forbid we not be cool for a moment.”

Geneveive Glatsky is senior in the College sudying International Relations. She is a Features editor for Street.

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VICE & VIRTUE

DRUNK HIGH SOBER: OCR EDITION A political science major and two freshmen walk into the Hall of Flags for a Goldman Sachs information session...

For some Penn students, junior year means one thing: the institutionalized torture that is on–campus recruiting. For other Penn students, it just doesn't. So Street decided to send three people—Drunk, High and Sober—to check it out. Here are our observations.

High: 4:28 p.m. – I have just conducted the classiest drug pick–up of my college career.

The edible I’ve picked up from a friend of a friend isn’t the brownie I expected—instead, it’s a lemon cake the size of my hand that looks like it came out of a Whole Foods box.

5:04 p.m. – My head is exactly the same kind of fuzzy as the outside of a peach.

5:06 p.m. – The Goldman

logo is ugly. Also ironic. Why is it a gold man? Are we all just trying to become gold men?

Or does the gold take our humanity?

5:09 p.m. – Guy who is in my poetry class and unmatched me on Tinder is in front of me.

Why you gotta be so cruel?

5:23 p.m. – So many fucking pinstripes I could dance in them.

5:43 p.m. – OH MY GOD THERE ARE COOKIES.

5:51 p.m. – Now my hands are oily AF. Does Goldman invest in oil??

5:55 p.m. – Are we all just pawns of a corporate machine?

We make our way out.

6:00 p.m. – Everything is trying to tame us.

Sober: 5:05 p.m. – I’m late. But, since I’m not actually using this as a networking opportunity, I don’t have to run in a blazer.

Yay. 5:06 p.m. – Suits. So many fucking suits.

5:10 p.m. – The music on this informational video sounds like a health class video about our changing bodies.

5:11 p.m. – This is way less interesting than a health class video about our changing bodies.

5:12 p.m. – Wow Goldman Sachs workers are really diverse!

5:12 p.m. – Not in terms of financial situation but in terms of accents.

5:28 p.m. – How diverse can Goldman employees really be if everybody comes from Penn?

5:31 p.m. – Yes Q&A time.

5:33 p.m. – Indian kids never get the scholarships :( 5:37 p.m. – Networking time. What do we do now?

5:42 p.m. – I just saw a guy with animals on his tie.

5:42 p.m. – He’s hip.

5:45 p.m. – Drunk and High are embarrassing me.

5:46 p.m. – This Indian guy approached me probably thinking, “Hey, there’s another severely underdressed brown boy!”

Drunk: 4:28 p.m. – Very sober, drinking alone in room.

5:04 p.m. – Excited to be in the fourth row, a spot sober me would never have taken, probably encouraged by alcohol consumption and the fact that the seat was in between two young men dressed up in suits.

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5:05 p.m. – Not happy everyone is talking about the food. Feeling nauseous and overwhelmed, aware that this is not the place to be drunk.

5:06 p.m. – I just overheard the guy next to me say, “Wow, that guy isn’t even wearing a tie.” I guess that’s a big no no at a Goldman info sesh.

5:07 p.m. – I forgot to write my name on my name tag.

“Hello my name is...” then nothing.

5:11 p.m. – I seem to be getting quite aggressive!

5:12 p.m. – “Job is defined, but impact is not.” Whoever thought of this line for that video got a pay raise #deep.

5:14 p.m. – I took a fuzzy off my shirt and put it on the pants of the guy next to me.

5:15 p.m. – Despite his qualifications, Vivek is a short man.

5:18 p.m. – Vivek said Goldman Sachs is interesting and fun. I disagree. Vivek is a lying bastard.

5:28 p.m. – How is Vivek still talking?

5:31 p.m. – Even though I have no idea what’s going on I think I should apply for a job.

5:47 p.m. – After stealing three water bottles, a coke and an avocado from the display, I have made myself a coffee and some abstract art with creamer and coffee stirrer.

5:56 p.m. – The opportunity cost of me taking the avocado vs. the opportunity cost of me not taking the avocado. Same thoughts on eating a second brownie. In both cases the opportunity cost of taking another one was lower therefore I did it. I will mention this in my Goldman interview.

6:01 p.m. – The avocado I stole is overripe. I will ask my GA for toast and use it tonight.

Great cheese selection at this event. The food is better than most dining halls. Just put some cheese on my phone. It’s a cheese charcuterie plate.

6:03 p.m. – I still have a blank name tag on.

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MALADIES YOU WILL GET THIS YEAR VICE & VIRTUE

Everyday I'm Sniffilin'

COMMON COLD

It seems that every year, everyone has come down with runny noses and sore throats by this point in the semester. To worsen the problem, weekends of all day and all night partying can lead to dehydration and lack of rest, preventing your body from recovering.

How to avoid: Swap out shots of vodka for cans of beer to avoid accidentally swapping germs. After shaking hands with hundreds of new people you won’t remember the name of anyways, investing in a bottle of hand sanitizer is essential. If you already start to feel under the weather, spend the night in.

Your body and first semester GPA will thank you.

FLU

Lving in a dorm is all about bonding. However, this shouldn’t have to include you and your hall–mates spending quality time in the communal bathroom for 24 hours straight.

Unfortunately, the closer the quarters, the more likely this is to happen. Maybe this is why everyone who lived in Hill says their hall is still so tight.

How to avoid: In this case, practicing good hygiene might not be enough to prevent the inevitable. Penn offers free flu shots at Houston Hall in October, saving you the time of googling where the hell Student Health Services is for another year.

MONO

"Mono" earns a spot because everyone knows at least one person that got mono Freshman

year (Ed. note: And at least two people on Street exec got it senior year). The disease lasts for weeks and even months, robbing you of many freshman year memories (and potential hookups).

Nothing kills the mood like telling someone you are infected with something that is nicknamed the “kissing disease.”

How to avoid: Since it can spread from saliva, sharing cups and utensils can cause mono as well. Think of it as just another reason not to share a slice of chocolate cake in the dining hall.

UTIS

Half of women will get a UTI at some point in their lives, and some guys will too.

Even though it’s the first time you can go wild in the bedroom without fear of your parents walking in, rougher sex might make you more likely to catch a UTI. If you do catch one, just be thankful that the burning feeling when you pee isn’t from something worse.

How to avoid: It's unproven whether cranberry juice truly can cure your UTI, but there’s no harm in using it as a mixer.

What has been proven to prevent it? Peeing after sex, so excuse yourself to use the bathroom post–intercourse.

Choosing whether or not to come back and share an extra– long twin bed for the night is up to you.

STOMACH ULCERS

Considering that the top three causes of stomach ulcers are drinking, smoking and stressing, it’s no surprise

that this one makes the list.

Common symptoms include heartburn, bloating and a burning feeling in your stomach. Getting adjusted to college life is hard, so don’t make it harder by stressing over your pre–reqs.

How to avoid: Everything in moderation, my friend, and that includes binge drinking.

STDS

Not to be confused with the sorority that you’ll probably pronounce incorrectly for the rest of the semester, STDs are a serious issue on college campuses. Stats have shown that one in four college students have an STD, which shows the dire need for frequent testing.

Honestly, there is nothing sexier than hearing, “I’m clean,” before tearing off each other’s clothes.

How to avoid: Even though

condoms don’t always prevent against STDs, take advantage of the free ones your RA is required to give out.

When you see how expensive condoms are, you’ll miss the days that you could get them for free down the hall or at one of these places.

ALL–DAY HANGOVERS Between Tequila Tuesdays, Wine Wednesdays and Thirsty Thursdays, there seems to always be a reason to drink on a weekday. Your freshman tolerance has yet to adjust to this level of alcohol consumption. This means debilitating hangovers that

can even prevent you from attending classes.

How to avoid: Hydrate, duh. But for really severe cases drink PediaLite (an over–the– counter medicine designed to ameliorate the dehydrating effects of diarrhea in babies) in the morning (Ed. note: Make PediaLite pops the night before, you'll thank us later). Also, don’t waste your excused absences on a hangover. That is just weak, and you’ll probably need them later for one of the real diseases on this list.

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OPERATION AVALANCHE INTERVIEW Because sneaking into NASA is the new thing to do.

One might think movies about Apollo 11 landing on the moon in the 1960s could 1) be extremely expensive to produce (Ed. note: Because recreating realistic space stuff ain’t cheap) and 2) have been done way too many times before. Operation Avalanche, however, is the first narrative, quasi– documentary that tackles both obstacles with a new, innovative twist: Secretly filming a movie inside of NASA about NASA scientists of the 1960s secretly filming a fake moon landing. Street spoke to director/actor Matt Johnson and producer Matt Miller about Operation Avalanche and their controversial filming tactics.

Street: What made you guys want to delve into this conspiracy theory about [America’s first] man walking on the moon?

Matt Johnson: As opposed to another story? We liked it because it sort of combined a lot of things we really liked. Lying, I really like movies about liars. I really like movies about people who are trying to do something impossible and people who are

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incredibly ambitious.

Matt Miller: And obsessed.

MJ: And obsessed! And we don’t believe the moon landing was faked, but we thought, 'Oh, if it was, the team who did that would need to have all these qualities of people that we like a lot.' And the actual footage that was put on television— that everybody in the world watched—would be, almost in a way, the greatest movie ever made. And so the story of the people who did that was really intriguing to us.

MJ: Some people ask, 'Why did you make it about the moon landing and not something more pressing?' Like some people think that 9/11 was a conspiracy, that type of thing, something with a little bit more urgency. And our answer is, 'Well, there are way too many layers of politics invested in those types of conspiracies.' This one was so much safer. It was a way for us to be very critical of the C.I.A. and the United States Foreign Policy, without turning off a lot of viewers.

Street: To go now, towards the point of the production aspect of your film, how did NASA feel about you guys kind of tricking them?

MM: They just made a press comment today!

MJ: Yeah, with Wired Magazine saying they were upset with us for fooling them. I mean, it wasn't really much of a statement, but uh they didn't like that we did it. But that's obvious.

I mean we had to fool them. We were students with no money and trying to make a movie about NASA. We had no other access. But, I believe that once the individuals of NASA watch our movie, they're gonna be like, 'Oh this is great! We love this!'

MM: Yeah, it's not like we're making fun of NASA or y'know—it's a love letter to

NASA! And the people who took us to the moon! Even the people who appear in the movie kind of appear under a false pretense, y'know? They're not a part of the joke.

Street: How'd you get the equipment in?

MJ: We just brought out cameras.

MM: And, look, it wasn't that easy to get in. We're Canadians, so we're foreigners, so the security checks and passports. It's not like we just knocked on the door with our cameras. So, it took a lot of time to set up, but once we were there it was pretty easy to repurpose everything we were shooting for our own use.

Street: Did you go in telling them that's what you were doing?

MM: Uh no, same thing! We told them that we were making a movie about bullying for our university.

MJ: I mean there is a school shooting at the end of that movie.

Obviously, that was staged. We weren't gonna do that in real life in a high school. We're not THAT crazy.

Street: What advice would you give for young people who want to make documentaries MM: Film school. So we both did undergrad film school in Canada, which is like $4,000 a year. And that's where we all met.

We started experimenting and playing around.

MJ: He made a short first out of Bottle Rocket.

MM: And the movie clearly had no money behind it and yet he was just developing his voice.

I think a lot of people make the mistake of if they're going to do anything it needs to be the mega ultimate level movie with tons of money.

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FILM & TV

STREET ALUM ALAN SEPINWALL AND HIS NEW BOOK ON TV CANNON A former Managing Editor doin' some really big things.

“Are the walls still pink?” asked Alan Sepinwall, the former managing editor of Street (Ed note: His reign was in 1995, aka the year I was born). He cut his teeth writing for our beloved magazine, and is riding the wave of excitement following the release of his second book, TV (The Book): Two Experts Pick the Greatest American Shows of

All Time.

Sepinwall co–authored this compendium with fellow television critic Matt Zoller Seitz, whom he met while working at the Star–Ledger New Jersey in his post–Penn life in the '90s.

It all started about two years ago when Zoller Seitz called him up and seriously brought up the possibility of compiling a TV canon.

They signed the Grand Central Publishing book deal and spent a year and a half just going back and forth trying to cut down the nearly 250 titles in their shared spreadsheet to a ranked list of 100.

“We got together and we decided we were going to decide what were the 100 greatest shows of all time,” Sepinwall explained. “And we ultimately came up with this complicated rating system where we scored the shows according to a bunch of criteria that we felt that each of us valued in the TV shows that we loved the best.”

The original criteria they used to score the movies included Innovation, Influence, Consistency, Performance and Storytelling.

“After we did the initial tabulations, we looked at the rankings and we said ‘This doesn’t look right. Something is missing.’

So we decided to add a sixth for

Bad. But there are some other surprising selections, such as the inclusion of Frank’s Place, a show that was cancelled after one season and never got a video release.

And besides the road bump with the criteria, Sepinwall and Zoller Seitz saw the necessity to narrow what sort of programs they would be judging, so that The Sopranos wasn’t going up against The Wire in addition to Saturday Night Live. They arrived at the understanding that they would only judge American sitcoms and dramas, and not consider chilAnother interesting inclusion in Sepinwall hopes that it can be dren’s shows unless they had value the book is the "A Certain Regard" a guide for the weary watcher, for adult viewers, like SpongeBob, section, to include shows that they slumped into a mediocre series which falls as number 22 on the personally love but know shouldn’t that they feel obligated to finish. list. They also didn’t consider on– crack the list, or shows that are great “You can watch almost air shows like Game of Thrones and in pieces but messy as a whole, like anything at any moment with the Transparent, although they see the season one of Homeland. click of a few buttons and that ‘Peak Value’ which is basically at opportunity to create a second edican be kind of paralyzing choice– But more than a static its best over the course of a season, tion that includes these critical dar- declaration of what the two of wise,” he explained. how did this show compare to the lings once they finish their runs. them have deemed the greatest, NICK JOYNER other shows in our top 100?”

And they got it right the second time, agreeing on the ordering of the films and taking the next six months to write essays expanding on their placements and justifications for doing so. * Free admission before 1am with Penn ID * Their desire to compile such an exhaustive record of television Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays sprung out of desire to fill the 11pm - 3:30am | 21+ to enter same niche occupied by other catalogs of great cinema.

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ART INTO MUSIC AND MUSIC INTO ART

Muhal Richard Abrams (b. 1930 in Chicago; lives in New York) View From Within, 1985.

Collage and acrylic on canvas, 17 ¾ x 25 ½ in.

Courtesy of the artist.

A review of The Freedom Principle at the ICA.

Four monumental, hand– drawn musical scores, each accompanied by audio and video, make up Charles Gaines’ piece Manifestos 2 in the Institute of Contemporary Art’s The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now, a new show that opened Wednesday, September 14. Each musical score corresponds to a document of the civil rights struggle: Malcolm X’s last public speech; Peace, Power, Righteousness: An Indigenous Manifesto (1999) by Canadian Mohawk scholar and activist Taiaiake Alfred, Indocumentalismo Manifesto—an Emerging Socio­– Political Ideological Identity (2010)

by Raúl Alcaraz and Daniel Carrillo and the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen (1791) by French activist Olympe De Gouges.

For the piece, the text of each document was meticulously

transformed into music, with each letter becoming a note or silent musical rest. The resulting scores were then performed by a chamber orchestra and recorded.

Manifestos 2 is about synthesis.

It brings together different works of literature from different movements and different time periods. It manipulates form by inextricably linking the musical with the literary and the visual.

Manifestos 2 is an apt representation of The Freedom Principle as a whole. The show, which spans both floors of the museum, is about the boundaries between the visual and the musical, the political and the aesthetic. Based in the history of jazz, it takes its center around two African American collectives founded on the South Side of Chicago in the 1960s: the Association for the Advancement of Creative

Musicians (AACM) and the African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists (AfriCOBRA).

Featuring the work of over 35 artists, the exhibition follows how these two collectives have influenced art since their formations and continue to influence contemporary work.

It presents AfriCOBRA and the AACM as organizations of art for social change, as organizations very much attuned to the critique of social and political structures and as part of the cultural force that launched the greater movement for African American equality.

The first room of the show is a small one, dominated by a screen suspended in the center projected with a video

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of jazz musicians in the midst of a performance. The work, Hors–champs by Stan Douglas, does well to introduce the visitor to the show. It’s an immersive work of sound and video and features two AACM members performing. Beyond this first room, the galleries open up into much larger, connected spaces.

Paintings by various artists line the walls. Display cases filled with literature connected to the AACP and AfriCOBRA are scattered throughout.

Among the many works, one that immediately stands out is Catherine Sullivan’s Afterword via Fantasia. Enclosed in its own small room, the piece takes the form of a performance. Visitors enter and sit on a bench facing a screen where they can watch scenes from an opera by AACM member George Lewis. The experience is intensely sensual— the room is lit ultraviolet, creating a sort of living darkness that allows stage designs rendered in white chalk on the walls to glow. At the back of the room, across from the screen, is a thick bed of artificial flowers interspersed with microphones.

Other works in The Freedom Principle not to miss are Douglas Ewart, George Lewis and Douglas Repetto’s Rio Negro II, an interactive and monumental installation in the first floor high space; Terry Adkin’s Native Son (Circus), a piece that synthesizes the musical and the visual very succinctly and very loudly and Pope.L’s Another Kind of Love:

John Cage’s Silence, By Hand.

There is so much to see that the show can feel overwhelming, with the links between the pieces sometimes being difficult to understand. Despite this, the musical and visual experience that it leaves you with is something that sits deep inside of you.

For as long as The Freedom Principle is at the ICA, Glenn Ligon’s Give us a Poem will be on display. The large piece of neon features two words: Me and We, each alternately lighting up with a white glow. Approaching the museum from campus, walking down 36th Street, you can see the words beaming through the glass windows of the museum. The piece acts as a beacon, expressing ideas of the individual and community. Like Give us a Poem, the Institute of Contemporary Art is about individual experience as a part of something greater, something more beautiful. It’s about understanding your proximity to other people and events and movements, and what they mean in a greater context. The Freedom Principle and all of the various pieces that encompass it continue to support this mission.

Note: Visitors to the museum can also look forward to Endless Shout, a multi–artist performance project that will occur in tandem with The Freedom Principle. Endless Shout will explore the impact of collectivity and improvisation on contemporary performance.

COLIN LODEWICK

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As privileged Penn students, it can be easy to forget that the small corner of West Philadelphia that we call home is not representative of the rest of the neighborhood. Wander a bit farther west, and you'll run across many houses that are run down or otherwise neglected— an undeniably less pristine environment than what you would find near Rittenhouse.

But, if you pay enough attention, you’ll notice that there is one commonality between most Philly neighborhoods, regardless of demographics: mural art.

Jane Golden, founder of the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program (Mural Arts), has dedicated the past 32 years to changing the lives—and walls— of Philadelphia residents. Since its establishment in 1984, the Mural Arts program has overseen the creation of nearly 4,000 murals. The establishment has committed itself to turning around the lives of Philadelphians. An employer of convicts, community members and skilled workers—people from all walks of life—Mural Arts is responsible for bringing one of the largest art movements in the country alive.

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OCR DEFECTS CAUSES BIRTH

It's not just Zika we have to worry about.

Just yesterday, Student Health Services released new data revealing the spike in visits during On Campus Recruitment, Penn’s premiere occupational frenzy for the cold–blooded vampires of West Philadelphia.

It’s no surprise that the intense level of stress leads to an epidemic of flu–like disgustingness, yet researchers have managed to find something that does shock Knowitalls (Latin term for Penn students). In a recent study funded by literally every school at Penn except Wharton, OCR has been found to cause birth defects even years after leaving the University of Pennsylvania.

It’s not only the seven percent of women who do OCR who must worry about this new research. In fact, males who believe their dick to be larger and indestructible during OCR actually have a greater chance of this birth defect carrying over through their negligible sperm.

The research has everyone asking questions. Fortunately, Street was able to sit down with a few of the affected parents.

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and Joshua Levy (W & E ’98) showed us pictures of their first–born during the interview.

It was a lot to take in. “It’s not that we mind that he has two heads,” Rachel started off. “It’s just that it’s harder to tailor his suits.” Rachel and Josh lead a focus group for parents struggling with the same issue. Single father Joe Malotto (E '97) brought his daughter Julia along with him. With acute BBD, Julia, at age two, was smoking a cigar and yelling at kids from a rocking chair she always has on her. “Benjamin Button Disorder is tough to live with, but Julia’s an old pro when it comes to dealing with it,” Joe shared. No pun intended.

There are till many steps to be taken when it comes to combating this issue. Amy Gutmann has not released an official statement, though there are rumors that OCR will be moved to the summer. For now, researchers hope to continue studying this discipline by testing whether or not these birth defects will hurt the legacy Quakers’ chances of getting into Penn.

LOWBROW

WHAT THINGS ON YOUR RESUME Is wearing jeans to class a special skill?

1. DEVELOPED INTERPERSONAL SKILLS What you really mean: Learned to stop hissing when people approached you asking where the bathroom was, who you were and why the company had hired a cat to intern.

2. HELD LEADERSHIP POSITIONS You’ve never owned a ship!

REALLY MEAN

3. PROFICIENT AT EXCEL

Once figured out how to sort things alphabetically but has long forgotten. Can Google “How to sort things alphabetically in Excel” though!

4. RELEVANT COURSEWORK

5. SPECIAL SKILLS

Can assemble a snack between Netflix episodes without even pausing.

6. NOT A SERIAL KILLER Not not a serial killer.

Advanced pottery is relevant to something.

WHAT DO SHILOH, PAX, KNOX, ZAHARA, MADDOX, VIVIENNE AND LOWBROW ALL HAVE IN COMMON? THEY'RE ALL FAKE. OKAY, BRANGELINA'S KIDS AREN'T FAKE BUT THEY DO HAVE STUPID NAMES SO LIKE THEY MIGHT AS WELL BE.

7. FIND ME ON LINKEDIN You’ve given up.

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QUIZ: SHOULD YOU OCR?

It’s like waiting at the DMV but less fun and more frustrating.

Ah, the fall. The leaves are falling, the days are getting shorter and all your friends are wearing suits and concerned about their “futures.”

If you also want to descend into a spiral of self–doubt, anxiety and stress, then OCRing might be for you! Take this quiz to find out!

1

Do you know what consulting is?

2

Did your parents tell you to?

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Does it feel like your entire future depends on your summer internship?

Do you want that cute TA to see you in a suit?

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On a scale of one to “I ate Wishbone sober,” how much do you hate yourself?

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Why?

Can you do it ironically?

10

Which Hogwarts house are you in?

Do you enjoy being glared at/mocked/ hated while you walk down Locust?

Have you ever had an existential crisis and decided to shirk society’s norms by getting an internship outside of New York, DC or San Francisco?

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So you couldn’t answer the first question…it looks like OCR is definitely in your future!