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I don’t know about you, but I have never appreciated Fall Break more than I do right now.

Perhaps it was because I went on vacation instead of just going home for the first time in four years. Or perhaps it was because I skipped Vegas and instead went to bed by 11 p.m. for four nights in a row.

Or maybe it was because I had a lot of positive interactions that I was not expecting to have… Honestly, though, I think it was because I just really needed a break from Penn.

Over the summer, as I was getting ready to come back to school, my friend who had graduated the year before warned me that senior fall was absolutely the worst time of college. I scoffed at him—nothing could be worse than all of freshman year and fall had always been my favorite semester, so he clearly could not be right.

Guess what? He was right, I was wrong. This semester blows.

But now I finally understand Fall Break. It comes at the perfect time and it forces you to let go—at least temporarily—of at least some of the stressors that have been

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menacing your weeks leading up to it. Regardless of your year, Penn has a sneaky way of knocking you off your feet and holding you down while you get hit with midterm after midterm or interview after interview. Without Fall Break it would never really stop, and while the break certainly does not do away with any of your deadlines, it does suspend some of your other responsibilities, like that fucking 9 a.m. Psych class in Irving.

Fall Break is a much, much needed reset. I came back from mine more relaxed and in a better mood than I have been for the entire semester (seriously, ask my friends) and it has provided me with a healthy dose of perspective, not just about my relationships but also about how I manage my stress.

So with that, I bring you a very loving, relaxed and happy week from Street. Let’s all come back from Fall Break on a better foot than which we left on.

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Because the suggestive eggplant posters only tell you so much.

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We like the sanitary aspect of the no–button elevators— very on–theme for the whole don’t–spread–sick–person germs. However, we do have a secret fear that the lady at the front desk will accidentally send us to a floor where there’s a cult meeting and we’ll unknowingly wander in and be sucked into membership only to come out three years later thinking it's 1875.

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Free condoms. This is truly a glorious thing. It might be extremely inconvenient to have to walk all the way here to get them, but since we’re already en route to get sinus infection meds anyway, we might as well grab a handful. This would arguably be less awkward than soliciting them from the RA you've only known for a month.

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We’re curious about the distance from campus because that walk is an ordeal. Was it perhaps a purposeful attempt at getting sick people to breathe air that’s not just the Penn bubble’s specialty cycle of germs, stale beer and pizza? Possibly.

A random Subway in the lobby? Frankly, this is the third time I've been to SHS in six days for strep and I'm not having it. I'll have a monster BLT, please. Might grab some Axis on the way home because this week sucks and I deserve it.

THEROUNDUP We may only be a few days in, but things have already started getting pumpkin spicy this fall.

With the first round of midterms behind us, and for most of us, and a lot of repentance before us, it’s time to check our last few sins off our list before it’s too cold to wear crop tops. Highbrow’s here to turn up the heat with our Fall Break faves and remind you not to freeze over your social plans just because it’s parents weekend.

While we know that what happens in Vegas is supposed to stay there, a few daring souls decided to (fall) break that code of silence. A senior girl paid extra for a room with a view, but we think she got more stories than she asked for.

On the first night, she was joined by an over– served ZBT dude hoping to take a break before rallying. Like a true Penn pre–professional, he

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It must sting a little when flu shots are offered at pop–up places on campus. We feel like that was your domain and it was sort of stolen out from under you. For us college students, convenience is key. Sorry.

So the real chicken–and–egg dilemma is this: Does Penn like PNC because SHS is inside their building and it just wants to continue the trend, or is SHS in a PNC building because of their little ATM flirtation on campus? Food for thought.

There’s free Plan B? Why did we not take advantage of this when both the CVSs on campus ran out during NSO? So many hours of, “I mean I know I had my period but what if I’m pregnant?” could have been saved. Bless you, SHS, your name will never be blasphemed again.

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Do you ever just look around the waiting room at all the other people and you think, "Damn, odds are one of these people here is for chlamydia or something?" Right??? Just me? Okay.

sat down in the hotel room and spewed Sin City’s finest meal onto the desk, the chair and the floor—but don’t worry, his rolled–up khakis remained pristine.

In other vomiting Vegas news (and in that very same hotel room), an APES senior launched his puke over the balcony, letting 31 floors worth of guests see his night’s regrets pass them by on the way down. Joining that purging instance on the ground floor, a Tri–Delt senior seemed to be enjoying her burger and sweet potato fries until she tri–felt a TEP senior projectile vomiting on her. This SWUG apparently had all the chill and simply said “excuse me” and proceeded to keep eating her meal.

Turns out, it really is better with the lights off. One senior girl hoping to reclaim some lost summer sexytime got down, dirty and undressed with a boy she met in a cabana by a Vegas hotel pool. What started out as a private affair behind closed curtains turned into a public

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Drunk girl who's done with softboys: Fuck you and your fucking tortured artist and your fucking writing your own poetry on your headboard.

Future serial killer on Locust: No, I really prefer to be emotionally stunted.

Boy who's asking the right questions: Doesn't Pottruck do ass massages?

They should.

Law student who believes in the fountain of youth: I don't have time for your birthday dinner. Just stop aging.

Fabletic betch: I just wear my Fitbit so boys think I'm fit.

viewing with a security guard shining a spotlight on their performance. As the sole audience member to their cabana show, he called another security member for backup and was asking the couple for more than just their autographs.

Luckily, our heroine was not without improv training and started to cry, thus getting her and her co–star off scot–free.

We won’t let Vegas get all the glory, though.

On the home front, a smashed A’s junior made what was probably not his first mistake of the night. He attempted to get into an empty Smokes' on Thursday by handing a girl standing in the entryway (who was not a bouncer) a condom as a cover charge. He made it into the bar, but it’s still unclear as to whether that was the only place she let him in that night.

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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EULOGY FOR THE LIVING

I spend a lot of time in the hospital nowadays.

My official title is Research Assistant, but my unofficial one is daughter. Being the daughter of a cancer patient means that every time I enter in data or run across a file with the same stats as my father, I think about sterile waiting rooms, fluorescent lighting and the way the breath caught in my throat when I first saw his CT scans.

I could draw you a map of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Ask me about the vascular wing or the renal wing. I know the best café items, the peak dining hours. I know the smell of antiseptic and the stench of illness. When they diagnosed him, I bit my cheek so hard I drew blood and thought it was the taste of his love.

I found out about his suspicious mass on a Wednesday, during a transfer student get– together. When I read the words "CT scan," "suspicious findings" and "renal cell carcinoma," I thought back to the first time I told my father, “I hate you.” I was 12. I tried not to notice the way his face crumbled when I said it.

Even now, we fight a lot. He lets me win most arguments, because he loves me. Because for him, winning is seeing me happy. Because love is sacrifice, and that’s something I’m still learning, while he’s had his whole life to memorize this lesson.

Death happens in an instant; losing someone is an eternity.

I explain different procedures to my father with a detached coolness. Then I go home, do my own research, look at anecdotal evidence.

I bite my nails down to bloody stumps. I ask doctors clarifying questions that I don’t want to know the answers to. I hold his hand, or I catch his eye across the waiting rooms, and I think: I’m sorry.

Don’t worry.

Please stay.

But most often, I stay silent. I’m scared: What if I say something terrible and I never get to apologize? I love my father, but our relationship isn’t always easy; it’s not always fair or

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Losing someone is a lifetime of what–ifs.

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Illustration by Anne Marie Grudem kind. I’m not always fair or kind. What is there to say now? What words make suffering better?

What could I say that wouldn’t sound like an apology blanketed in years of regret?

Losing someone is a lifetime of what–ifs.

Every day is new news, more doctors, more reports, so many hospital waiting rooms. But I go to class. I try to make friends. I do homework. I write papers. I go out. I laugh. I smile.

I pull myself out of bed in the mornings. I get dressed. I say, you are not going to cry right now.

I say, you will not cry in front of dad. I do clinical research about renal hypertension at Penn Medicine. I pretend like it makes a difference.

I research doctors, take referrals, look up clinical trials, weigh the risks versus the benefits of different procedures. I Google and Google and Google and Google.

Sometimes, I pray.

We spend a lot of time together now. He’s always in the city, meeting new doctors, discussing treatment options, being defined as a “risky candidate.” After these appointments, we go out to dinner and feign normalcy.

Across from him at restaurants, I study his features. I look for those same qualities in my face, at night, before bed. I touch my low forehead, my sloping nose, and I think, these are the parts of you I’ll always be able to keep.

Last week, on the drive back to my apartment from the hospital, he turned the music down, and caught my eye in the rear view mirror. He said, “I can’t wait to see what the future holds for you,” and then he smiled. I thought about me, aged ten, playing basketball with my father in our front yard. I dropped the ball so many times; he laughed, ruffled my hair and said, "I can’t wait to teach my grandson some day."

All I could think then was, Dad, we’ve got all the time in the world.

And all I could say now was, “Yeah, Dad.” A pregnant pause, while I looked out the window at the landscape of college kids milling about, going to class, moving on with their lives.

Then, I met his eyes. “We’ve got all the time in the world.”

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A COMMONWEALTH OF MENTAL HEALTH EGO

Profiling just a few of the many voices speaking out for mental health on Penn's campus.

After a string of suicides in the past few years, students have banded together in a variety of ways to address issues of mental health. University-wide initiatives are often advertised, but smaller initiatives are all over campus, ranging from sorority-wide workshops to peer–run hotlines. Ego is here to give voice to those students who continue to bring mental health to the forefront of the Penn discussion.

PETER MOON (C '17)

KATHRYN DEWITT (C '17)

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Though he certainly sees progress in Penn’s dialogue around mental health, Peter Moon, co–president of Active Minds and Chair of Penn Wellness, a coalition of mental health–focused groups, notes some general elements of Penn’s culture that can affect students.

“There’s often a sense of competition rather than camaraderie which I think is, you know the stress is one thing… but I think what really makes that hard to deal with is when it feels like it feels like you have the perception that maybe you’re the only one going through this and that you don’t quite have the support system to help you through the challenges in your life. I think

“Not everyone has a mental health disorder, but everyone has mental health,” notes Active Minds co–president Kathryn Dewitt, and just as everyone has mental health, the mental health of every microcosm of Penn varies. As Kathryn explains, from Wharton, to Greek life, to the performing arts, mental health cultures are truly unique, not part of a monolithic Penn world of mental health.

Despite the unique circumstances of different groups at Penn, Kathryn believes there is a universal action students can take to improve mental health on campus. Kathryn explains that making an effort to be more connected people, to authentically check in with others and make “somebody feel heard,” can prevent “bigger issues later on by checking in early.”

Active Minds is tackling these problems, focusing their

that tends to bring out more mental health problems just because whenever you feel like you’re the only one dealing with anything that just kind of compounds,” says Peter, reflecting on Penn at large.

While he notes that students that are members of minority groups face particular mental health challenges related to their life experiences, there is a familiar isolation that can occur at Penn among many students, even though, as Peter notes, since the string of suicides in 2014 campus has generally been more supportive. Penn Wellness, for example, is working on initiatives to support freshman and enhance student education about avail-

able resources. When we discuss mental health, Peter believes in the power of asking how to solve problems instead of starting and ending discussions without future steps. “Again, it’s important to think about everybody else who’s going through things and how to permanently make that better instead of just having the same conversation two years from now.”

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efforts on leave policy advocacy, supporting Freshman, creating open dialogue about Mental Health on campus and honing in on specific community cultures of mental health with their “Mental Health Through My Eyes” initiative, partnering, among others, with Lambda, the Queer Student Association and the Latino Coalition. As Kathryn explains, “[E]veryone’s mental health story is different…” and while such uniqueness is vital in understanding mental health at Penn, student action and student resources exist across the board.

RACHEL ORLINSKY (C '17) SDT Wellness Workshops In fall of 2015, Rachel Orlinsky decided that addressing wellness on a smaller scale would be more beneficial than some of the university–wide initiatives that were happening at the time. As risk manager of the Sigma Delta Tau sorority , Rachel decided that wellness could fall under her domain, so she started wellness workshops within SDT with two other members.

“I decided to plan the workshops in a smaller setting where people already know the members of the community and would feel it was an intimate, safe enough space to speak candidly,” she notes.

The issue is important to Rachel because she knows that

everyone struggles: “The truth… is that everyone, including myself, deals with mental health issues and when no one talks about it, it can be really lonely and isolating.” She believes that the best way to cope with mental health issues is to talk with people, whether that be friends or professionals and finding positive coping mechanisms.

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EGOOF THE WEEK: NICK DEMES

Catch him at Franklin Field, in the depths of Towne or perhaps in the line at Chipotle. Nick Demes just has one request: Stop worrying about Penn stresses and come out and watch a football game, dammit.

INTERVIEW CONDUCTED BY stupid.' Someone at this school MIKE COYNE AND LIZ HEIT who I knew in high school made Street: How do you think football has shaped your Penn experience overall?

Nick Demes: Well other than [football] being the 30–40 hours a week I spend on it… it's kind of like a full–time job. It’s been something that I really love to do and it’s definitely not the typical Penn experience. I don’t think a lot of people at Penn have a great understanding of what the student athlete, football player, varsity athlete life is like.

a comment to me and my friend, 'Oh athletes are just taking away spots from qualified students.' You kind of see them sleepy–eyed in class and dressed in the Penn Athletics sweats and you think, 'All their energy is going towards their sport.' And most of it is, probably, but they’re also here to do the same thing every other student is.

Street: Are there many athletes that are also mechanical engineers or is it a pretty small minority?

ND: Yeah, my boy Dan Harris is on the tennis team. It’s definitely a minority within a minority. We’ve got to stick together and bitch about our schedules to the other. I’ve made it work somehow, Dan’s made it work somehow… He’s going through his masters course right now, too, so I don’t know how he does it.

Street: You said people were avoiding you on Locust. Do you think that they're weirded out that you’re an athlete or…?

ND: No, no, no, it might have just been rush hour and I went up to them and I was like, 'Hey we’re playing a football game on Saturday, ever heard of the sport?

Ever been to a tailgate before?'

They just kind of walk around and don’t say anything to me. It’s definitely kind of disappointing that more of the student body isn’t into it, because there’s guys like Werner Glass and the Red and Blue Crew and that whole crew that really want to support Penn athletics and have great student sections. I can tell you firsthand having a huge student section at a game, at the Princeton game last year for example, and at the Cornell game where we clinched the championship, it makes a huge difference for us.

I think it’s a great opportunity to bring everyone together, when there’s so much divisiveness on campus. Stop worrying about OCR and all the social issues that we all need to solve right now.

Maybe we can just get away from it for a second and go watch a football game.

Street: Do you think athletes get a bad rap at Penn?

ND: TThere’s a lot of people I meet for the first time and I know how they thought of me before they met me, and I was like, 'Oh they think I’m an athlete who is

Street: If you are what you eat, what are you?

ND: I just recently completed the Chipotle Rewards Special, which I’m super proud of. I ate 11 burritos a month for three straight months. Which is probably one

Street: How do you balance being a student and also being an athlete full–time?

ND: It's tough. I was just talking to my friends about this last night.

When you’re in season, even small tasks seem like monumental obstacles to overcome. You just sit down and your body hurts and you’ve been thinking about the playbook, the opponent and the prep for the game week. You go back to working on class stuff and it’s like, my brain can’t even wrap my head around this.

of the fattest things I’ve ever done but I get six more weeks of being a fat person and then I’m a regular person. I just completed that and I got a nice 20–person catering for free. We had an awesome offensive lineman dinner the other night, so I guess I’m a Chipotle burrito.

Street: There are two types of people at Penn…

ND: Engineers and those with robust social lives.

Name: Nick Demes Hometown: Western Springs, Illinois Major: Mechanical Engineering Activities: Varsity Football, Sigma Chi, Friars, Big Brothers Big Sisters

and I got a smoker two years ago. have it in the backyard at the Stoop—best off–campus houses at Penn. [The] football houses on 42nd St. 208, 210. You gotta shout out the Stoop in your article. But yeah, we got a smoker in the backyard and I’d do briskets and pork shoulders and ribs.

Street: What was your first screen name?

ND: I’ll tell you my current screen name, because… bringing up AIM in fifth grade, that’s just sour memories for me. Current screen name: air_brisket.

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

ND: One question you forgot to ask me… Are the Quakers gonna win this weekend?

Street: Air Brisket? What does that mean?

ND: So I’m into like barbecuing

Street: Well what’s the answer?

ND: Absolutely.

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It's important to stay in touch with the Lorelai Gilmores and Phil Dunphys of your life.

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My mom is my best friend. We're like Rory and Lorelai in Gilmore Girls except farther apart in age (she had me at 39) and geography (we live on opposite coasts). My dad is the real–life Phil Dunphy—doler of hugs, advice and some seriously bad dad jokes. We're also close.

My parents live 2,900 miles away in California. When I first got to Penn they FaceTimed me at frat parties and called during class. Over time, we established a better system for staying in touch:

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CALLS WHILE WALKING TO CLASS: You may think you're too busy to talk to Mom and Dad, but the 15–minute walk from Huntsman to Fisher–Bennett is a perfect time to update them on your life. Plus, you'll have an exit strategy.

SNAPCHAT: Photos of your homework or the gourmet meal you made.

Just be careful what you story.

DOWNLOAD BOND: Bond is an app that works with different messaging and communication services to help users stay in touch with their loved ones. Bond sends customized push notifications like "Call Mom" or "Text Dad." Clicking on the notification automatically connects you to your parents, so now you have no excuse for going MIA. LONG–DISTANCE MOVIE NIGHTS: Rabbit is a group chat service that lets you watch movies and TV shows on the same feed as other users. You and your Mom can still giggle your way

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SPONTANEOUS HEART EMOJIS: You may be eight shots deep, but at least you're thinking of them.

TRAVELING DISPOSABLE CAMERA: Someone needs to be the recipient of the fifty identical photos of your and your girl squad.

VIRTUAL CARE PACKAGES: Your parents gave you the gift of life so they shouldn't care if your selfie collection is "narcissistic" or "obnoxious."

Ditto to your emoji usage.

THE THUMBS UP EMOJI: So your parents know you're alive and thriving.

THE DATAFACE Jack Beckwith (W '16), Nick Sorscher (C '16) and Aziz Kamoun (C '16) describe themselves as “data junkies who like to investigate topics in music, politics and sports.”

Their tech startup, The DataFace, publishes data analysis stories with data–based visuals on various topics.

“It boils down to: What are we interested in?” said Jack.

“What do we think we can get data about? And how rigorously can we use the data to test our hypothesis?”

The site started as Jack’s personal blog during his senior year at Penn. Now he, Nick and Aziz still work almost entirely with data that is readily available online. Many social media sites, such as Facebook and Twitter, have an Applica-

tion Programming Interface (API), which allow anyone with rudimentary coding experience to access a snapshot of data from those sites.

And so, on Sunday, during the Presidential Debate, the three team members analyzed Twitter’s API to write a story testing the hypothesis developed beforehand that Twitter will react negatively to Trump during the debate in light of the recent tax return and sexual abuse scandals while Clinton will fare more positively. The DataFace analyzed a large sample of tweets about both Clinton and Trump and determine the positivity or negativity of the tweet using a computer algorithm.

Other stories on The DataFace include “Are the

Three Penn alums bring statistics to people who hate math and journalism to people who love it.

2015–16 Warriors the Best NBA Team Ever?”

“Mapping the Hometowns of Billboard Hot 100 Artists” and “Determining the “Lifecycle” of Each Music Genre.” One story was even picked up

by The Washington Post: “Trump and the Media: a Text Analysis.” Each article employs interactive visual representations of the data collected as well as explanations for how and from what source.

It is, essentially, statistics for people who hate math and journalism for people who love it.

“There is so much data out there and a lot of places are making their data more readily available than

people realize,” said Jack.

He hopes that, in the future, The DataFace will work with

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he won’t sleep tonight, but she doesn’t know it yet. It’s Labor Day Weekend, and Kailey Zitaner (C '17) sits on her couch watching The Immigrant for class. A young boy enters the screen to see Marion Cotillard curled up on the bed, far too drunk to give consent. He reaches out his hand to touch her, casting a shadow over her face.

That’s when Kailey’s vision goes black. Overproduction of cortisol in her adrenal gland raises her blood pressure and insulin levels.

Adrenaline builds. There’s a sensation of paralysis, hands holding her down. The tears come and somehow her hand breaks free to slam her laptop shut. And suddenly, once again, Kailey is safe in her apartment. But just as her laptop and class syllabus still contain the triggering material, her memory still contains the trauma of her past sexual abuse. When Kailey told her teacher she was triggered, she didn’t just mean she was offended—she meant she had a visceral, physical response.

Hao Jun Tam, Kailey’s teacher for her junior research seminar, “Immigrant Narratives,” was surprised by her reaction and her subsequent inability to sleep or complete other schoolwork in response to the film. “There’s no explicit depiction of gender violence or

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misogyny,” he said. But he respected her experience and held a class discussion about it. He highlighted materials on the syllabus of a similar nature. “I saw my job as opening up the space so students could take ownership of their own learning and of the class. That’s my rationale behind adding trigger warnings,” he said.

Trigger warnings pose a fascinating grey area in academics: Does the protection of students from potentially disturbing material inhibit a more enriching learning environment?

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he phrase “trigger warning” is largely a blanket term. Although most agree that a trigger warning is a statement alerting someone to disturbing material, there is widespread disagreement about when one should be used, and in what context. While some see them as a protective measure for students who might be disturbed by graphic content due to past traumas, others view them as a threat to free expression and an open, challenging learning environment.

“It could range from anything from putting

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a warning before—or not showing—very graphic depictions of violence, brutality, sex,” said Stephanos Bibas, a Penn Law professor of Criminology and former chair of the University Committee on OpenExpression. “[It could mean] putting a warning in front of vivid word descriptions in works of literature that use sexist or racist words, that talk about situations that either students themselves may have suffered or more generally things that a lot of students will find objectionable,” he said.

While trigger warnings are often placed in the category of intellectual and ideological coddling on college campuses, many Penn students and faculty see them as a facilitator for confronting uncomfortable topics that students might otherwise find unnecessarily traumatizing.

Trigger warnings have, in recent years, become a loaded term on college campuses nationwide. The University of Chicago issued a statement in August informing the class of 2020 that they should not expect trigger warnings or safe spaces. Oberlin College introduced a policy requiring trigger warnings, only to repeal it in the face of widespread faculty opposition. The University of California Santa Barbara introduced mandatory trigger warnings at the request of the student government.

And while the University of Chicago letter drew both praise and criticism, Penn has taken a similar approach to intellectual freedom for almost half a decade, albeit not as publicly. The Faculty Handbook’s Guidelines on Open Expression affirms Penn’s commitment to “the freedom to experiment, to present and examine alternative data and theories; the freedom to hear, express, and debate various views; and the freedom to voice criticism of existing practices and values.” Essentially, Penn explicitly states its commitment to an open academic dialogue—however, it’s unclear how trigger warnings fit into or threaten this commitment.

Citing this, Bibas views the requirement of trigger warnings as “in serious tension with Penn’s commitment to abiding by the first amendment.”

Aaron Rips, a junior in the College, feels as though trigger warnings diminish the freedom to have the balanced, difficult conversations necessary for learning. “I’m against [trigger warnings] because I think

they come at the cost of knowledge and academia… it’s really hard to have any sort of meaningful conversation with people who want to avoid hard topics.”

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he phrase “trigger warning” has itself come to yield from many critics a knee–jerk reaction of derision for inhibiting open and intellectual discourse in classrooms. Professors—even those open to including trigger warnings for certain material—are only willing to go so far to protect their students.

However, trigger warnings do not necessarily have to mean censorship. They are also a means of simply reducing shock in regards to disturbing material—the material is still taught, but without the surprise.

“If you read something and you’re upset for 24 hours and don’t want to read it again, I’m okay with that,” said Deborah Burnham, Associate Undergraduate Chair of the English Department. “I’m not willing to go to great lengths to avoid that.”

“While I think all of us should not be afraid of texts and ideas that might dislodge our prejudices or our ignorance, there are some instances where disturbance goes over a line and becomes injury,” said Burnham.

“That’s not an easy line to draw, and it requires tough communication and honesty on both sides.”

Kenneth Goldsmith, an English professor who teaches a class called “Wasting Time on the Internet” in which students participate in internet social experiments, views trigger warnings as an enabling agent to covering certain topics in the classroom.

“Those of us who deal with the humanities often encounter difficult material,” he said.

“It is difficult, but then the Internet is difficult and courses at Penn are difficult. We may run into disturbing things but I don’t want to use filters and I don’t want to limit what we can do.”

He gives his students the freedom to leave the room if the content causes distress. “We don’t want people to be uncomfortable for the sake of being uncomfortable,” he said. “I just want them to learn.”

Jamie–Lee Josselyn, another English professor, also reached this same understanding long before the term “trigger warnings” became controversial.

“I don’t think [trigger warnings] need to

be institutionalized. I think this is much life. And literature brings those silences more about conversations between people into the open so that we can talk about than conversations within a large organithem and think about them.” zation or institution and a large body of anonymous individuals,” she said.

Topics covered in her memoir writing class include death, suicide and sexual ast seems that students and faculty with sault. opinions that at first seem contradicto“If you’re going to have a problem engagry are actually able to reach a consensus ing with difficult material, you might want on the issue. While trigger warnings should to ask yourself if it’s a good idea for you not be institutionally required, they do to take this class right now,” she says at have the potential—when used properly— the beginning of each semester. She does to protect both the mental wellbeing of not, however, require her students to warn students and the open exchange of ideas in one another about potentially difficult the the classroom. To this end, professors must content within these essays. recognize the value of trigger warnings as “We can’t anticipate every difficult moenabling agents for students who might ment. It’s just impossible. We just need to otherwise be unable to participate and take a generally humane approach in how contribute. we interact with each other,” said Josselyn. “[Trigger warnings exist] to foster a space Some professors see the warnings as a where, regardless of your mental health stapotential step on a slippery slope towards tus or trauma you might have experienced, classroom censorship, which would intereveryone can participate in the discussion,” fere with the open intellectual space that a said Navya Dasari, a College sophomore classroom is supposed to be. who has been in several Penn classes with “Generally, it’s a good thing to be unsettled, disturbed, even frightened by what we trigger warnings.

“The discussion learn. We can and the debate recover from around trigger being upset “We don’t want people warnings has been or scared, distanced from to be uncomfortable and may the actual be better for the sake of being of them…purpose and thinkers as a uncomfortable,” he how they benefit result,” said who are Burnham. said. “I just want them people neurodivergent Bibas to learn.” and people who worries that have experienced the culture trauma—and, surrounding actually, every student,” said Navya. “They trigger warnings might come at the risk of promote intellectual growth and enable the learning environment. important discussions.”

“I do worry that there are pressures in “For example, I don’t think anyone is the academy to make professors walk on saying that we shouldn’t have discussions eggshells around that and deprive a lot of about homophobia in our classrooms. The students of what they need to learn here,” very people who have been harmed by it said Bibas. “Trying to sensitize it and are the people who want to have those formalize it risks accommodating certain conversations,” she said. student sensitivities at the expense of disAaron believes that trigger warnings as cussing things that need to be addressed.” a form of censorship are damaging, but Bibas continues, “The fact that [subject matter] is troubling and the fact that it’s af- useful in the form of a pre–emptive alert.

“If we just whitewash everything, nothing fecting are part of the educational value.”

Tam agrees. “This is what literature does. can be learned or gained. We can’t progress without some sort of meaningful conversaIt exposes you to the daily dramas of life tion, and that requires people confronting that people have to go through. It’s a lot of hard topics.” things that people don’t talk about in real He continues, “If it’s

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something as simple as, ‘The imagery you’re about to see is graphic, but you’re expected to interact with it anyway,’ then that’s fine.

As long as it doesn’t detract from engagement with the material and the class.”

Victoria Brown, a sophomore in Wharton, often experiences intense anxiety when seeing graphic visuals of racialized violence, and feels the purpose of trigger warnings can be misconstrued. “I’m not saying that we shouldn’t acknowledge slavery or that we shouldn’t talk about the atrocities that happened in slavery, just like I’m not saying that we shouldn’t talk about the fact that police brutality affects a large segment of my cultural group,” she notes. “What I’m saying is that there’s a way to talk about it that’s more sensitive than others. The question is about whether or not we should have trigger warnings, and whether or not you should get a choice in whether or not you’re exposed to a certain visual.”

“It’s ableist not to include trigger warnings,” Kailey argues. “It’s like allergen warnings: ‘May contain traces of trauma.’

You can’t just be like, ‘It’s getting in the way of other people eating peanut butter.’”

She continues, “Not including trigger warnings is a kind of erasure. It invalidates the fact that I exist, my PTSD exists, my trauma exists. It’s erasing my identity as someone who is a sexual assault survivor who does suffer from PTSD. To erase those students and their experiences is really an injustice.”

While many college students respond to such injustices with anger towards their professors or classmates, Kailey sees this as counterproductive. She does not feel that she is demanding protection from her past traumas. Rather, she sees trigger warnings as a necessary step on her road to healing.

“If you feel like you need trigger warnings and you’re not actively learning to deal with your triggers, that’s a bigger problem than anything else,” she said. “Trigger warnings are there for people whose trauma is a work in progress.”

Stephanie Barron is a junior from London studying English and History in the College.

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VICE & VIRTUE

Work (Out) Hard, Play Hard.

EMILY CIESLAK

Going out is all about going over the top. Too many shots. Too much makeup. Too great an Uber surge. Besides getting shit–faced, you’re also putting a ton of shit in your belly. After drinking your weight in alcohol, you scarf down greasy goodness—Allegro's Pizza, Wishbone, a Wawa quesadilla or perhaps a combination of all three. A hearty brunch is only mandatory the next morning to curb the hangover.

Yet one night shouldn’t pack on your whole Freshman 15. With intention and a little creativity, you can find plenty of ways to stave off calories and even torch them in the wee hours—I managed to burn 700 in one night according to my FitBit. Who knew staying in was actually the activity costing you?

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Embrace “taking a lap:” No matter how much you wanted to strangle the “frat stars” who told your freshman crew to come back in a couple minutes, you have to accept the idea if you want to squeeze the most exercise out of your night. Like taking the stairs, it's all about the little extra steps that add up to big results.

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Uber a little farther: If your night involves a BYO or downtown, set the tone right by going the extra mile. That’s right—choose a pickup or drop off that’s a bit of a trek from the ideal location.

Hello Franzia—your new hand weight: So you made it to the BYO, everyone has ordered, but you’re going to wait forever for all 30 dishes to get here. Before the table jumps on the solo cups, grab the Franzia to throw in some arm curls.

DIY Zumba: Whether in a club or a crowded frat house, the dance floor is the ideal spot for a workout. Think about it. It’s hot like a sauna. Crowded like an obstacle course. And dim enough that you can’t be ashamed of your sweat or skills. Drag your friends to the center of the party like you drag them to Zumba class.

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Climb that elevated surface: Keep up that gym class mentality and approach the next elevated surface not as a basic b’s object of affection but as a step box. Channel your Jane Fonda and hop up that table without any help. Jump down. Repeat.

Hike the frat house: You probably already do this without much thought, but make a conscious effort to explore every inch of the frat houses you visit. Go to each floor, peer inside all the rooms and quickly slam the door if it’s getting too busy in there (arm workout).

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SEX: Did you know that sex can burn anywhere from 85 to 100 calories in a steamy half hour?

Stairs of shame: After your orgasmic workout, you can’t just let the walk of shame go to waste. Take the stairs if stranded in a High Rise (hey, it’s better than the Quad) regardless of the floor number. Speed walk along Locust. Consider this your trial for the Sceney Olympics, complete with a body–con dress and heels in hand.

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Heels of hell: Speaking of heels, there’s this notion that wearing them burns more calories. While the final word is up in the air, it’s certain they make calves look amazing yet hurt like a mother by the end of the night. That has to be worth something, right?

Carry service: Be grateful for that friend that always becomes dysfunctional in a couple of hours; he/she provides the perfect occasion to bench a few pounds.

Carry them to their room, whether in piggy back or cradle form.

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QUAKER ALUM GAVIN O'CONNOR DISHES ON HIS NEWEST FILM

'THE ACCOUNTANT' The newest cinematic offering from one of Penn's very own.

Another day, another Quaker film on the silver screen. Gavin O’Connor, the director of new action–thriller The Accountant, attended Penn from 1983–1986 and came back in 1991 to finish up his sociology degree.

He broke into the filmmaking scene with his 1999 com–dram Tumbleweeds, and has since been honing his craft of making muscular action movies including 2011’s Warrior and last year’s Jane Got a Gun. The Accountant is a work in the same sleek and brawny vein. It follows Christian Wolff, played by Ben Affleck, as a modest number–cruncher living in Middle America. He served a stint in prison, where he was schooled by an inmate in how to correct fraudulent account histories and given the contact information for a network of international criminal organizations. He amasses a fortune that he funnels through his accounting front and leaves in airstream in a storage unit, while living a nondescript life in suburbia. But his consulting services tip off the US Treasury Department, who begin snooping into his life while he begins a dangerous audit of a robotic prosthetics company called Living Robotics.

Much of the film is built on slow–reveal flashbacks of Christian’s tumultuous relationship with his father and his coping with high–functioning autism.

In many aspects, his disorder is the central driver of the film; the reason behind both his accounting genius and his father bringing him up to fight like a mercenary. It’s about how he navigates this internal difference, which is posed as something he can and should conquer without

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negotiation.

This father–son relationship and its portrayals of near abuse give the audience the deepest insight into what formed Christian as a character and led him to this self–imposed austerity. This same character duality is reflected in everyone he comes across in his financial adventures, including the Treasury Department analysts hot on his trail and the corporate managers at the company he’s consulting. But at times, the characters morally unravel in such a rapid succession that it becomes difficult for them to stay grounded in their motivations.

Sprinkled in as welcome release throughout are deadpan humorous moments, much of which draw their punch from the comedy of a neutered looking accountant curb stomping people. O'Connor explains that many of these were ad–libbed by Affleck, and he was grateful for their final inclusion in the film.

If he didn’t display such agency as a character, Christian would be both the plot’s vehicle and its main joke.

The film works best in the instances when it veers away from classic action or thriller tropes.

It would have been so sweet, though, I guess, if Chris had ignited a fiery short–lived relationship with Dana Cummings, the junior analyst at Living Robotics, played by Anna Kendrick, who discovered the hiccup that Christian has been called in to audit. Despite its weaknesses, The Accountant works best as a puzzle movie, so well so sometimes that the action seems grossly misplaced in comparison to its smarter moments.

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NICK JONAS' GOAT MOVIE Your favorite Jo Bro is examining hazing and masculinity on campus.

"That movie with Nick Jonas about hazing," or Goat, highlights the modern pressure to be masculine through the lens of fraternity brothers and hazing. Goat follows Brad (Ben Schnetzer), a college freshman, who pledges a fraternity to follow in the footsteps of his older brother, Brett (Nick Jonas). Brad is subsequently hazed by Brett and other members of his fraternity.

Brad’s situation is complicated, however, by the assault he experienced the summer before his freshman year.

Though the hazing in Goat is certainly not the worst that many college students have heard of or experienced, the filming leaves little to the imagination. Pledge tasks include being locked in a cage, peed on and crawling around naked. The fraternity that Brad pledges, Phi Sigma Mu, has an obsession with goats, perhaps because of the word’s use as an acronym for “Greatest Of All Time” frequently used in many fraternities. The brothers call every pledge a goat and, at one point, purchase a goat and threaten to make the pledges have sex with it. Brett fights against treating his scarred brother differently, while his fraternity brothers disapprove every time he slips up and helps his real brother out.

Goat exposes this choice between humane treatment of his brother and obeying his Greek brothers. In doing so, the movie both condemns hazing and condemns the harsh expectation that protective brotherly instincts should be suppressed.

Throughout all this hazing, Brad is struggling with the aftermath of the assault during the summer. He seems to be trying to

answer, both to Brett and himself, why he did not defend himself.

Through this profile of Brad’s psyche, Goat is not just a commentary on fraternity hazing, but a commentary on standards of masculinity in general. Director Andrew Neel focuses much of the movie on Brad’s personal struggle with feeling inadequate. Intimate

scenes of Brad switching from glasses to contacts and analyzing his wounds from his attack make it clear that Brad is torn apart by his need to feel manly. He needs to prove himself as a man to himself and to his brother, and hazing provides him with a way to do so.

It is crucial to consider this movie in the context of hazing culture on Penn’s campus. While fraternities and the hazing associated with them are often vilified, Goat raises the possibility that the rape culture and demeaning tasks are not a by product of fraternities but of masculinity standards.

Issues with fraternities that have faced Penn’s campus are perhaps less about fraternities themselves and more about Penn students reacting to the pressure to be manly.

Jonas’ performance was charming, as Jonas himself is.

Despite his muscular arms and errant behavior, he is still the little Jonas Brother he once was, and therefore slightly unconvincing as a menacing frat brother. He does, however, play the tenderness of an older brother quite convinc-

ingly in his scenes with Schnetzer.

Schnetzer and his longish hair appear truthfully reflective and introverted in his role as the insecure Brett.

While Goat is sickening to watch, it seems the film's graphic nature was a conscious choice in order to make a point about the pressures of masculinity. Starting from its first scene, shirtless guys chanting and jumping around something we cannot see, Goat exposes fraternity culture’s raw honesty. Goat’s criticism, however, is less directed towards the Greek system as it is towards the hyper–masculine expectations and culture that make the system possible. The fraternity brothers are at once attacked by and perpetrators of masculine expectations, so they haze to resolve their insecurities.

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LINDSEY ROSIN JOINS THE RANKS

Penn alum Lindsey Rosin can finally add "novelist" to her resume.

Lindsey Rosin filmed her first TV pilot the summer after she graduated from Penn in 2007, which is kind of a big deal.

“I realize it’s a very rare sort of occurrence,” said Rosin, “I’ve been fortunate to sell quite a few pilots since then, but it’s a hard

process, and it doesn’t just happen, and for me to be that young and happen? It was just sort of serendipity.”

But Rosin is more than just the lucky TV writer she often says she is. She’s a “multi–hyphenate,” or someone who somehow finds the

time and effort to do everything, meaning she’s a director, producer, playwright, novelist and former child extra on 90210. It’s no surprise that she has this talent for storytelling though, because it runs in the family. Her father was the show–runner of 90210

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Recently, she’s been getting recognized for her musical adaptations of popular movies and TV shows. Her musical, Cruel Intentions: The Completely Unauthorized Musical Parody, was not only popular among fans of the original movie, but the cast and crew of the original movie as well.

The show was sold out throughout its run from February to April 2015, and many of the cast members of the movie came to watch it as well (Sarah Michelle Gellar went twice!). Currently, Rosin and her writing partner, Jordan Ross, are hoping to bring the musical full of '90s pop tunes to a venue in New York.

In fact, the musical was so wildly successful that Rosin recently filmed a pilot for a Cruel Intentions spin off TV show which is being co–written and executive produced by Roger Kumble, the creator of Cruel Intentions. For fans of the movie, you’ll be excited to hear that Sarah Michelle Gellar will also be producing and reprising her role.

Just this past month, Rosin also became a novelist. Her debut novel, Cherry, is a young adult novel about four teenage girls in their last year of high school, on a quest to lose their virginity before graduation day. When she first pitched the novel to Simon & Schuster, Rosin pitched it as a “female American Pie,” but for her, the novel is much more than just about female sexuality and high school sex pacts that we’re all used to making.

“As a woman with wonderful female friends, going through any experience in your life, you need your friends—your executive committee,” she explained, “But I think especially in sexual relationships or romantic relationships or dealing with questions of identity and how that ties into sexuality, it just became apparent to me

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that it needed to be a story really about friendship.”

Back when Rosin was finishing up high school herself, she knew that she wanted to be a writer— which is why she came to Penn instead of a writing conservatory program.

“I decided at the end of the day what I really wanted was a broad liberal arts education, which is why Penn became my first choice,” she explained.

During her time at Penn, Rosin was a writer for Bloomers, and a member of the Excelano Project.

“That was a life changing experience,” she said, “And even though I don’t fancy myself a performer, it was sort of invaluable education in writing and performing to get up on stage and perform my poetry, and really just have to stand up behind anything I wrote. I had an incredible time.”

Even today, her time at Penn helps her create her stories and also evaluate her own success, perhaps a bit too harshly.

“I wrote a screenplay for my thesis, but I remember a lot of people writing novels,” she remembered, “And there are so many fun things about Cherry, but to really feel like I joined the ranks of authors is pretty cool.”

We're not entirely sure just how many hyphens she plans on adding, but keep an eye out for more of Rosin's work!

DESIGN PHILADELPHIA A festival showcasing Philadelphia as a home for design innovation.

DesignPhiladelphia is a festival celebrating Philadelphia as a place of creative innovation. From October 6 until October 16, it will highlight local artists, architects and other creative professionals in a series of events ranging from lectures, exhibitions, tours and hands– on experiences. The festival, now in its twelfth year, states that its mission “is to support, demonstrate and promote the ability that design has to generate innovation, solve problems, enhance daily life and influence both the perception and economics of the region.”

With over 100 events, DesignPhiladelphia will exalt the city’s history of engagement with design and present an image of how it will continue this history into the future. For Penn students, other college students and just residents of Philadelphia in general, the festival is an opportunity to learn something about the construction of the city, to learn about how it breathes and how it grows.

1. Stephen Burks Man–Made Stephen Burks is internationally recognized for his work in product design and won a National Design Award in the field in 2015. On his website, Burks states that he “has dedicated his work to building a bridge between authentic craft traditions, industrial manufacturing, and contemporary design.” Burks is an undoubtedly strong voice in the world of design, and his presentation at the Philadelphia Museum of Art is sure to give insight into what it means to be a creative professional.

Friday, October 14 5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.

Van Pelt Auditorium, Philadelphia Museum of Art 2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway Free with museum admission

2. PennDesign Fine Arts Lecture: Matthew Suib and Nadia Hironaka Though not officially affiliated with DesignPhiladelphia, PennDesign’s semesterly series of lectures and events coincides with the festival.

Matthew Suib and Nadia Nironaka “employ the tools and conventions of moving–image culture to offer counter–mythical visions of our contemporary world. In doing so they re–construct existing narratives and envision new images that challenge popular understandings of History and Culture.”

Thursday October 13 6:30 p.m.

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3. Texting and Tea The Fabric Workshop and Museum originally sought to create a space where artists could experiment with fabric as a medium, but today it is a contemporary art space devoted to collaborating with artists to create work in new media. With its current exhibition Ann Hamilton: habitus, the museum continues to prove that it is committed to this mission. Texting and Tea promises a fun time of dyeing and printing your own tote bag. And who doesn’t love a nice tote…

4. Horace Trumbauer Walking Tour The architect of the Gilded Age robber barons, Horace Trumbauer is celebrated as one of America’s premier architects. Some familiar works of his include Penn’s Irvine Auditorium, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Free Library of Philadelphia at Logan Square. His prolific works continue to be acclaimed to this day, and this walking tour promises to give an intimate look at the mark of a great architect on Philadelphia.

Saturday, October 15, 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

The Union League of Philadelphia 140 South Broad Street $20

Friday, October 14, 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

The Fabric Workshop and Museum 1214 Arch Street Free

5. Emergence of a Modern Metropolis: Philadelphia Philadelphia’s architectural wealth can sometimes be hard to see. This walking tour is the perfect way to actively go through the city’s different architectural styles and building technologies.

The tour not only focuses on the aesthetic or art historical relevance, but also seeks to present the social, economic and political forces that have created the metropolis that Philadelphia is today.

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CLEAN YOUR ROOM Hide the needles and throw out those skulls. The weekend will go much smoother if your mom doesn’t find your bondage paraphernalia.

BRIBE A VP LIBRARIAN to high–five you when you walk in. The more you seem like a regular, the better.

Pro tip: Hold a VP librarian hostage with said bondage paraphernalia in your room.

REPEATEDLY STAB YOURSELF WITH A FORK DURING MEALS Guaranteed to be less painful than the dinner table conversation.

GOUGE YOUR EYES OUT You won’t see the disappointment on their faces AND it’s something to talk about besides your classes. Win–win!

TAKE A SHOT Every time either parent says “career services.”

CHUG Every time either parent says “I.” SELF–IMMOLATE When they make you take a picture in front of the LOVE statue and/or button and/or Ben Franklin.

DON’T Take them on a tour of 41st and 42nd streets. They’re going to ask how you know the area so well. There are only so many urban studies homework assignments that you could have had this semester.

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October ain’t just for planning your Dynamic Duos outfit.

You walk outside and breathe the crisp autumn air. There’s still a faint smell of beer–tainted piss because, after all, you’re at Penn. YET, there’s a coolness to the atmosphere. Pumpkin spiced latte in hand, you think you’re winning. It’s only when you realize that you have to find a place to inhabit next year that your bubble o’ bliss pops. October is a frightening month––not because of Hallow’s Eve, but because you have to FIND HOUSING NOW, BITCH. Street welcomes you, your best friends and that friend you keep trying to get rid of to…

STREET’S OFFICIAL GUIDE TO HOUSING: STEP 1: Realize it’s no longer NSO, so you’re already behind on housing. Stress–eat Brookside chocolate–covered açai because they’re healthy enough for you to keep in your house but guilty–pleausurey enough to binge.

STEP 2: Call your best friends, and be like, “Oh shit, housing.” They’ll respond with, “Yeah, we really have to start thinking about that.” Then tell them who you hooked up with last night and don’t resume the housing conversation for another three weeks.

STEP 3: Three weeks have gone by, and your big is already giving her house to someone else because the different–sorority roommate "really wanted it to stay in the hands of a sister."

Kick yourself for not acting sooner and then kick yourself again for not pursuing a career in acting. Breathe because you know your friends who went to Harvard–Westlake definitely have parents in “the industry” who will help you out if consulting becomes too much.

STEP 4: Finally get a group of girls who want to live together, but realize you still have no house.

Pray to Campusa Apartmynt, the Greek God of Housing, in hopes that she’ll find you one of the newly–renovated Beige Block apartments.

STEP 5: Realize that there is another group of girls after the same– sized house. Simply kill them.

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answered your prayers, but only has a seven person house instead of an eight. Silently agree with all of your friends that there was that one chick you didn’t like anyway and sacrifice her. Strip her first though because you love the bracelet she’s wearing. It’s clearly a brand but not flashy which just IS your aesthetic.

STEP 7: Realize you want to go abroad which means you’ll have to sublet. Transfer to Northwestern (you were going to go there anyway if you didn’t get in here, be honest) because it’s too stressful.

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University City

Open 7am-9pm, 365 Days/Year 3602 Chestnut Street 215.222.0283

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