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Wednesday marks Penn’s tenth year under Amy Gutmann as university president. On page 2, take a look at how her predecessors guided Penn. On page 3, find out what the world was like when Gutmann took over.
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n paper, Steven Markowitz was the typical Penn student. The 2010 Wharton graduate concentrated in finance, landed himself a job at Google and learned how to work hard, play hard. But today, Markowitz — more commonly known as Hoodie Allen — is anything but typical. Besides being a brother of Alpha Epsilon Pi and a member of the sprint football team, Allen spent most of his college years working on a start-up — his music career. He often played shows at fraternity parties and Student Planning and Events Committee concerts, and gained instant fame on campus upon releasing the single, “UPenn
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Girls” in 2009. After a slew of critically acclaimed EPs, Allen today is releasing his first full-length album, “People Keep Talking.” With only pre-orders, it is currently at number four on iTunes’ hip hop album charts and includes a collaboration with Ed Sheeran. Despite his notoriety at Penn, Allen entered the corporate world post-graduation. Less than a year after starting at Google, however, four of Allen’s performances on Long Island, where he grew up, completely sold out. Riding the coattails of that success, he left the tech giant’s coveted campus to pursue music full time. “There were a ton of opportunities to pursue music in a real way
and it allowed a leap of faith to see what it would be like,” Allen said. “It was really a timely thing, things were continuing to grow and grow.” Allen’s degree, though, did not contribute to his decision to jump into the music industry. In 2008, when Allen was a junior at Penn, 34th Street Magazine asked him how his degree would help him in the rap world. “Um. Zero percent, not at all,” he said. In March 2012, Allen released his first EP, “All American,” which debuted at number one on iTunes. The “Crew Cuts” mixtape followed in February 2013, which included collaborations with Chiddy Bang, Shwayze and Chance The Rapper. SEE HOODIE ALLEN PAGE 8
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Marijuana decriminalization has minor effects on Phila. colleges HANNAH NOYES Staff Writer
As Philadelphia prepares to decriminalize possession and consumption of marijuana next week, students and staff at local universities say the decision won’t change their school’s marijuana policies. Penn will continue to prohibit marijuana use on campus as its use violates federal law, Interim Director of the Office of Student Conduct Julie Nettleton said in September. At Temple and St. Joseph’s universities, the policies towards marijuana will also remain the same as before the SEE MARIJUANA PAGE 3
MERT extends weekend service to 24 hours/day The service increase is meant to accommodate MERT’s growing staff CASSIDY LIZ Staff Writer
Penn’s student-run Medical Emergency Response Team will now be running a 24 hour service on weekends to accommodate MERT’s growing membership. MERT, which usually runs between the hours of 5 p.m. and 7 a.m. seven days a week, will remain active during those hours on weekdays. However, the organization hopes to extend its 24 hour service to all seven days of the week in the future, said MERT Lieutenant Royce Reeves-Darby, a College senior.
“We ideally would like to be 24 hours at all times for the entire week, but due to having to abide by certain rules” — like how long a student organization can be active on campus — “and having certain sponsors on campus, that hasn’t necessarily been the case,” Reeves-Darby said. “This is hopefully a step to reaching that goal.” Reeves-Darby said that as a result of growing membership, there are more members on shift per hour. As a result, MERT leadership felt that it was time to expand its service in order to offer more shifts to its members. Reeves-Darby believes that the service change will increase MERT’s presence on campus. SEE MERT PAGE 8
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