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On her first real date with her high school semi–sweetheart, Jo Howard (C '24) already knew their relationship’s expiration date. The pandemic provided the perfect opportunity to finally find closure from the drawn–out, will–they–won’t–they high school relationship that existed between Jo and her now–ex.
Penn's most celebrated dermatologist experimented on incarcerated people. The University still hasn't owned up to his legacy.
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Andre Brown never expected to see his name in print. Though he knew he possessed a natural flair for writing, Andre didn’t think that he would have an audience for his work.
The first year of college is supposed to be unforgettable, liberating, and most importantly, in person.
Caroline*, a junior professor at the School of Arts and Sciences, works two full–time jobs at once. With her daycare center closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Caroline must teach multiple Penn classes and conduct research while watching her two children, both of whom are under the age of five.
The advent of a new year in the turbulent aftermath of the last comes, at least, with a dose of certainty: Street's annual transition of power is again complete. Beatrice Forman (C ’22) will take command as editor–in–chief, overseeing the operations of the magazine and managing an executive board of three other senior editors. Campus editor Chelsey Zhu (C ’22) will supervise Street’s Features, Word on the Street, Ego, and Style sections, culture editor Mehek Boparai (C ’22) will direct Street’s Focus, Music, Arts, Film & TV, and special issues content, and assignments editor Karin Hananel (C ’22) will mentor and train the magazine’s team of staff writers.
Hopefully, by now, you've checked out Street's Favorite Albums of 2020. This list is a little different: It's a collection of my favorite albums of the year that either went unnoticed or were underappreciated in some way. This list skews pretty heavily toward dream pop–type bands, but there's some post–rock, some synthpop, and some country mixed in as well. Each entry is also accompanied by some similar bands that you've probably heard of (or listened to) before, so hopefully one of these entries aligns with an artist you know and love.
“When we came to America we faced severe poverty ... My activism is connected to my family and my lived experience. Between experiencing poverty, being an immigrant in this country, learning English, struggling with English, and having parents who struggle with English, it helps me to recognize that the bare minimum is not provided for folks to even begin to have a dignified and humane living.”
It’s Jan. 18, 2020, only a couple months before the pandemic begins. On OAX bid day, new members are gathered inside the sorority house. They receive their bid day t–shirts, embellished with OAX’s logo, and get to know the unfamiliar faces. It’s snowing, and the older OAX members are waiting outside.
‘Holden Caulfield’ is a name that’s strewn about in literary analysis with as much frequency as there are blades of grass in a field. He's the teenage narrator and protagonist of J.D. Salinger’s infamous The Catcher in the Rye, a novel that everyone either loves or loves to hate.
The closest you’ll get to heaven in West Philadelphia is a sizzling vegetarian meatball dripping in hot sauce and cheese. It’s a Monday afternoon in the fall, and you’re starting to feel the weight of the work that you didn’t do over the weekend. Between your 11 am and 1 pm lectures, you wander over to Houston Hall, hunching your back to the cold and tucking your hands into the sleeves of your sweater. Students bustle around you, whining about a class, lusting after a Hinge match, chuckling through a story of last night’s drunken mistakes. But you can’t hear anything except the growl of your stomach.
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Philadelphia police recently shot and killed Walter Wallace Jr., a 27 year old Black father and aspiring rapper who suffered from bipolar disorder. This event inspired a statement from University President Amy Gutmann, Provost Wendell Pritchett, and Executive Vice President Craig Carnaroli. Unfortunately, statements like these have become a common response to the unjustified—and often violent—deaths of Black people at the hands of police, and most of them are just performative.
Jason Shu (C ‘22) walked into the main concert hall with his cello on his back. Instrument cases filled the first few rows of seats as the musicians unpacked, bringing the first breath of air into their saxes or the first sweep of the bow across their violins. The stage, lined with row after row of black chairs and music stands, quickly filled as members began to warm up. At first, the sound was loud, chaotic: a flute here practiced a solo, a few trumpets there rehearsed another line of music. As Jason found his way to the cello section and gathered his music, conductor Thomas Hong took to his stand at the front of the stage, baton in hand.
When the pandemic began back in March, it was easy for students to joke about being stuck inside during spring break and preparing for a triumphant return to campus parties in a matter of weeks. But as weeks turned into months and the future looked increasingly bleak, the date for a return to normalcy fell back further and further: dreams of an in–person fall shifted into hopes for a hybrid fall. With those hopes dashed, students are now holding onto an in–person spring semester that may or may not happen.
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It’s rare to feel yourself standing in the middle of history. Rarer still to know that you could have been a casualty. On July 5, 2009, Alim* experienced both.
Mehmed Can Özkan (C ‘24) may be spending his first semester of college at home in Istanbul, Turkey, but his body is living on Philadelphia time.
Street Eats: Embracing Homemade Meals in Quarantine
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