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Ben Moss-Horwitz (C’ 23) has been trying to escape his fate for the past four years—but to no avail.
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Ben Moss-Horwitz (C’ 23) has been trying to escape his fate for the past four years—but to no avail.
Around noon on a quiet, overcast Saturday, people started arriving at high rise field with folded blankets and suitcases in tow, just waiting to be unzipped. The unpacking process revealed piles upon piles of people’s clothing from moving carts, backpacks, and even trash bags. In just minutes, the quiet lawn had transformed into a bustling crowd of students. Music to the likes of Wallows, The 1975, and Vampire Weekend was blasting from a hefty Bluetooth speaker. Early April marked the return of a highly anticipated event for a small niche of Penn students: Tina Zhang's (C ‘25) and Jill Li’s (C ‘24) spring closet sale.
What started as a sophisticated night at the ballet quickly descended into a near–riot: the audience throwing objects at the stage, shouting over the orchestra, and even breaking out into fights. This infamous night was the first premiere of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, which is now remembered as one of the most controversial performances in music history. To the audience’s horror, Stravinsky had broken all the rules of what was considered good composition, but now this piece is ubiquitous in concert music—being performed this year by the New York Philharmonic and The Philadelphia Orchestra.
At 42 years old, Lou Lozzi found himself as the “oldest kid in class” studying urban and multicultural education at Eastern University. Inspired by his childhood at his father’s auto repair shop in South Philly, Lozzi chose to leave the corporate world in order to teach. Upon completing his Master’s in Education, he worked for eight years at charter schools until Rich Gordon, the principal of Paul Robeson High School in West Philly, asked him to lead their math and science team.
As skateboarding and Slurpees turns to grief and darkness, the voice of a dead, missing girl retells the story of her own kidnapping. The story begins and ends with violence: the inherent violence of being socialized as a girl and the brutal ending of her short life.
If you’ve ever found yourself involved in any sort of fanbase, you’ve probably stumbled upon fanfiction. Maybe you were unhappy with the last season of Game of Thrones, so you searched for an alternate ending. Perhaps you’ve scoured the Internet for a blossoming romance between Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy and devoutly followed their (non–canon) journey from enemies to lovers. While many may grow out of their Harry Potter or Game of Thrones obsessions, fanfiction remains a fundamental part of fan communities, or “fandoms,” of all kinds.
Two climate activists, wearing shirts displaying “Just Stop Oil,” splashed Heinz tomato soup on Van Gogh’s Sunflowers and glued their hands to the museum walls on Oct. 14. After splashing the soup onto the painting, the protestor asks the onlookers, “Are you more concerned about the protection of a painting, or the protection of our planet and people?”
Climate change is afoot, but young people feel their voices are too small to make a change. But the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities (PPEH) is using their new project, "My Climate Story," to remind students, "know that your story is enough."
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