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Student founds Penn Feminists Group aims to be more ‘comprehensive,’ to include different viewpoints and agendas BY ELIZABETH HORKLEY Staff Writer Despite the more than 20 women’s rights groups on campus, one student thought something was still lacking. For Ellen Hansen, a graduate student in the School of Nursing who received her undergraduate degree at the University of Vermont, the absent element was a strong community of feminists. “Here, I just wasn’t feeling that,” she said. “I felt like there were a lot of splintered women’s rights groups on campus, which is excellent, but I wanted a group that could talk about all subjects relating to women’s rights. I felt
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like we were missing an activist community.” Penn Feminists is the newest women’s rights group on campus. Hansen, the groups’s founder, hopes to set members of Penn Feminists apart from those of similar organizations on campus in the range of issues they discuss. “Our generations of feminists are trying to advocate more for LGBTQ people, and minorities, and people of lower socioeconomic status and trying to find out how these factors play into oppression,” she said. “Feminism now is all about equality
said on the national level, immigration is a divisive issue. However, in terms of its actual influence on his constituents’ lives, he remarked, “when you look under the hood, there’s not much there.” Even if it is unclear just how many undocumented immigrants would be affected in his district — which includes Penn — U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah expressed his support of “comprehensive immigration reform” highlighting immigration bureaucracy and employment practices, among others, as areas needing improvement. But some communities have more at stake than others. As many Americans believe that undocumented immigrants take jobs away from citizens, the issue has only grown more heated in the current economic climate.
at all levels and places, and no one can deny that there are still gaps for women around the world.” For Ashley Arens, a graduate student in the School of Social Policy and Practice, this broad focus was part of the group’s appeal. “Once it gets up and running, I think it can be really comprehensive and pull in people of a lot of different viewpoints,” she said. “That is one of the reasons I would be more likely to attend a group like this rather than a very specialized group.” Another element which Hansen believes works toward individualizing the organization on campus is its embrace of the word “feminism.” She points to the stigma attached to the word and its connotations of radical-
ism as a reason for the few campus organizations that identify themselves as such. “Using the word feminist is important in terms of a historical sense,” she said. Hansen added that the term better acknowledges the history of women’s rights and the oppression women face under a patriarchal society. For Benjamin Goodrum, a graduate student in the School of Nursing, the term was the main draw for his joining the organization. “It’s good to be around people who aren’t afraid to call themselves feminists or to say that they are for social equity in its true sense,” he said. “Not just Amrit Malothra/DP Staff Photographer for men or women, but for everybody on the outside of that, Students discuss the future of Penn Feminists at the group’s first meeting at the Penn Women’s Center. too.”
Arthur Read, general counsel for advocacy group Friends of Farmworkers, explained that there are a number of ways for undocumented workers to get hired. Individuals may use Social Security numbers that are not their own or businesses may contract labor from temp agencies. Additionally, there are workers who are simply paid in cash. “All workers ‘grow’ the economy, but that is not to say that the economy is healthier as a result of an increased number of low wage workers — which is the case with most illegal workers,” Jack Martin, special projects director for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a Washington, D.C.-based group that advocates improved border security and immigration reform, wrote in an e-mail. In a post dated May 13, FactCheck.org, a nonpartisan think tank and fact-checking organization associated with Penn’s Annenberg Public Policy Center, stated that neither legal nor illegal immigration hurts American workers. According to the article, “Study after study has shown that immigrants grow the economy.”
Scott Gans is staffing manager at the Philadelphia-based temporary employment agency Staffing Now, a company primarily involved with placements in upper-level jobs. He doesn’t believe he has encountered applicants who are undocumented because they generally enter the workforce in traditional blue-collar professions, he said. Peter Karvounis, manager at Allegro’s Pizza, explained that he hires the hardest workers. “We offer jobs to who wants it more than the other. We don’t look at where you come from.” While it remains unclear what rights illegal immigrants have, Read explained that “if they perform work, an employer is required to pay … The U.S. Department of Labor does not consider [immigration] status as influential on people getting wages they’re due.” But often, these individuals worry that expressing their concerns might lead to discovery and prosecution, he added. Fear of backlash can also keep illegal immigrants from reporting violence to authorities. Philippe Weisz, managing attorney at Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society and Council Migration Services of Philadelphia, said victims of domestic violence and assault in undocumented populations are also “fearful of reporting those crimes to the police.” Weisz explained that there must be a distinction made between violations of criminal and civil law. Undocumented immigrants have broken civil laws by entering the country illegally or overstaying visas, but he said there have been a number of reports that conclude “undocumented populations are by and large not the cause of crimes.” ICE looks for “dangerous criminal aliens who present a risk to security in our community,” Medvesky explained. “We don’t do indiscriminate enforcement.” The enforcement body targets “criminal offenders, national security threats, recent border violators and those who gain in the system or gain status by fraud,” he said.
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entered Penn feeling more experienced, prepared and better at time management. “When you live alone in the third world, you learn responsibility,” he said. “Moving into a dorm seemed incredibly easy.” Gaps years “broaden perspective,” Dean of Admissions Eric Furda said, which is why Penn Admissions makes the process of deferring for a year very simple. “I just wrote the Dean [of Admissions] a letter, and he wrote back telling me to go ahead,” Wharton sophomore Amelia Wilson said. “He only asked that I send him a letter midway through my gap year with an update.” Since the number of requests hasn’t changed dramatically in the last five years, these students are factored into admissions projections in advance, and therefore do not affect waitlist numbers. Unless these numbers “swung much higher or much lower than expected,” Furda plans to continue accepting most applications to defer. Once students are given permission, they take full advantage of 15 months without formal education. Annually, about 40 to 45 of the students who take gap years spend their time in Israel, according to Furda. Of his 180 person graduating class at the Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto, College sophomore Jacob Shiff was one of 31 who delayed matriculation at their respective universities. Different people go to Israel for different reasons, according to Shiff. He went to “find a stronger Jewish identity” by traveling and taking classes. Looking for another sort of experience, Wilson, who
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worked for one of AmeriCorps’ City Year programs in Los Angeles, took a break from formal academics before entering the “very focused and preprofessional” Wharton environment. During her 10 months of service, she taught young students of varying backgrounds about civics and social issues. “My year off changed my outlook of the world,” she said. “I loved what I did, but we worked long hours. I realized that I couldn’t do something that I wasn’t passionate about, like maximize share-holder profits for 60 to 80 hours a week.” Her reaction is in line with what Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Dennis DeTurck values most about a year off — a “more sophisticated world view.” College freshman Catalina Ramos took last year off to learn Arabic in Egypt with a program associated with the U.S. Department of State. She reported, like several others, that taking a gap year not only changed her view of the world, but also altered her idea of learning. College freshman Michael Lautman, who took classes at the New York Film Academy, earned a certification in ski instruction and lived in China for six months, ended his journey with a similar conclusion. “Coming back, it was a lot easier to see the value and purpose of spending 12 hours studying in Van Pelt,” he said. Like Walsh, some students choose to defer matriculation due to young age. College and Wharton sophomore Julia Dworkin, who was only 17 when she came to Penn, wishes she had considered taking a gap year. Coming from a small private school in New York City, Dworkin felt like she had lived “in a bubble,” and was overwhelmed by everything new she was exposed to at Penn. “Having a worldly experience before college definitely would have helped me mature,” she said. “I think I would have been much more prepared.”
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One winner will be chosen to receive a Grand Prize of $500 and will perform in concert with the Penn Symphony Orchestra on Saturday, February 26, 2011. The competition is open to Penn undergraduate students only. The competition is open to strings, winds, brass, piano, guitar and voice. All auditions (including piano) must be accompanied (2 pianos will be available). Players are responsible for providing their own accompanist. Previous winners of the competition are not eligible to apply. The student should supply 2 copies of the score to the audition committee. Final repertoire selection for the winning concert performance will be chosen in consultation with PSO Music Director, Dr. Brad Smith. The audition committee reserves the right to select more than one winner or to select no winner at all. All decisions of the audition committee are final. Instrumentalists should select portions from each movement of their concerto for the audition but must be prepared to play any portion of the entire piece if asked to do so. Vocalists should select portions of the aria(s) (or comparable works) for the audition but must be prepared to sing any portion of the entire piece if asked to do so. Audition times are first come, first serve. Registration opened on Monday, October 11, 2010. Register by emailing performance coordinator Veronica Jurkiewicz at vmj@sas.upenn.edu
Registration will close at 4pm on Monday, November 22, 2010
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