THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSIT Y OF PENNSYLVANIA
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TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 2014
CLASS OF 2018
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Reporting by Brenda Wang Designed by Analyn Delos Santos Source: Dean of Admissions Eric Furda
The admitted class of 2018 is a diverse group, both in its interests and its origins. Members hail from all 50 states and from countries as close as Canada and as far away as Kuwait. And while no students are planning to study Geology, over 300 have applied undecided, giving them plenty of time to consider switching in.
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CELEBRATING THE ARTS AND SCIENCES
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Programming music that you’ll want to remember A senior design produces new, better melodies from a single original harmony
A six-week Penn-sponsored class the Lea School teaches adults how to manage their money
week course, they are automatically enrolled in Weigelt’s Investment Club, which helps participants act on what they have learned. Two Thursdays ago, nine women were there, some with their children. Last Thursday, at the most recent class, 16 people showed up. “I’ve already done investments, but the options he’s talking about I’ve never heard of,” course participant Dorothy Long said. The idea follows the work of Engineering junior Mark Harding and College sophomore Gina Dukes. Last summer, the pair proposed that more adult education courses should offered through the Netter Center. Throughout the fall, Harding and Dukes worked on implementing such courses in local schools. Dukes described some difficulties of working with the Lea School, saying that in the beginning of the year the principal was not willing to bring new classes to the school.
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Wharton professor Keith Weigelt teaches a financial literacy class to West Philadelphia adults at the Lea School.
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Teaching financial literacy to West Philadelphia adults
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You wouldn’t think that global real estate funding and ways to assess and reduce financial risk would be taught in an elementary school cafeteria. However, every Thursday night at the Lea School at 47th and Locust streets, a Wharton professor teaches these very tools and more to West Philadelphia adults. The course on adult financial literacy taught by Professor of Strategic Management Keith Weigelt is a partnership between Weigelt, the Netter Center for Community Partnerships and Lea. It focuses on teaching adults the best ways to invest and manage their money. The weekly lessons include: how to make better use of your money, how to save money more wisely, how to accumulate more wealth, how to better protect your wealth and how to reduce your debt. Each week , par ticipants receive colorful packets filled with pertinent information and graphs. If they finish the six-
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The College Dean’s Advisory Board hosted College Palooza 2014, a showcase of the liberal arts at Penn that coincides with Quaker Days, yesterday in Houston Hall.
Got a tune you can’t get out of your head? Three computer science seniors designed an algorithm that will replace that melody with a better one. The creators of the User Input Based Algorithmic Music Platform project are developing algorithms that take a melody and create supplemental tunes to form a distinct harmony. The algorithm created by Engineering seniors Jiten Suthar, Israel Geselowitz and David Cerny is for their senior design project — which Engineering students must complete before graduation. The three seniors were tasked with developing a creative product while applying the various skills and knowledge they had learned in class. “We thought it would be cool to intersect music with what we’re learning in computer science,” Suthar said. All three seniors have a background in music, playing either the piano, harmonica or guitar. Suthar also composes his own music. “It’s the SEE MUSIC PAGE 7
2001: ‘THE SWEETEST FLING’
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Spring Fling in 2001 could only be described as “The Sweetest Fling” for Penn students at the time, who partied up the weekend with boxing, cheesesteaks, fried oreos and the Fling Concert’s two headliners —The Black Eyed Peas and Ben Harper. Check out this week’s front pages for a look back at four decades of Fling photos.
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