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Sign up for our newsletter. And its just a staple for growing up in Philly. Alan Jinich, Ants [composite] Elyssa Chou, Voronoi. In 2021, he took a leave from Penn, during which he worked on the PBS primetime docu-series La Frontera as a photographer, and began driving across the country with his roommate, writer Max Strickberger, to interview young people about how they felt about the pandemic and the future. In Circleville, Utah, they faced two particularly skeptical subjects who were cousins. Through the daughter, you glimpse the mother. Definitely not.. I ate a lot of burgers, thats the one thing youll find anywhere. They were willing to super put everything on pause and take a leave of absence, which I think was gutsy, said Jinich, a chef. Trust is always the implicit bargain, whether it is ever stated as such or not. Experience in writing long-form nonfiction gives the student-writer, who might one day try to make a vocation of this work, a sense of how hard it is to do something long and sustained, says Hendrickson. At first glance, his face reminds me of my younger brothers. The fireplace is turned off tonight. The prom was one of dozens of unexpected experiences shared by seniors Max Strickberger and Alan Jinichbest friends and Penn roommates who grew up on the same street in Chevy Chase, Marylandduring their journalistic endeavor. A plastic barrier put up for COVID shields us from each other. Jean-Christophe Cloutier, an associate professor of English and comparative literature, and Sam Apple, who teaches creative writing, were among others that Strickberger and Jinich turned to for advice. During the spring of 2021, Alan Jinich and Max Strickberger conducted over 80 interviews with 18-25 year olds, meeting people across 16 states and . For a weekly dose of ideas, solutions and practical action steps, sign up for our newsletter: (function($) {window.fnames = new Array(); window.ftypes = new Array();fnames[0]='EMAIL';ftypes[0]='email';fnames[1]='FNAME';ftypes[1]='text';fnames[2]='LNAME';ftypes[2]='text';fnames[3]='ADDRESS';ftypes[3]='address';fnames[4]='PHONE';ftypes[4]='phone';fnames[5]='BIRTHDAY';ftypes[5]='birthday';}(jQuery));var $mcj = jQuery.noConflict(true); And follow us on Facebook, Twitter & Instagram. He spent his gap year studying Jewish Diaspora and Middle Eastern History. Wake up one day and were driving 10 hours, Strickberger says. The result is Generation Pandemic, a stunning online archive of oral histories and photographs that screams to be turned into a National Geographic spread, a Discovery Channel documentary, the foundation for an updated take on Arnetts theories. I like the barrier, she says. It appears time will expire on the tenure of Scott Petri as executive director of the Philadelphia Parking Authority today. During the summer they edited the narratives and photos, working with Penn alum Daniel Fradin to build their website. So we would kind of switch. Patience and perseverance combined with chance and a little luck as they stopped in Circleville, Utah. Alan Jinich: We didnt really know how the project was going to take shape. CityStep Penn hosts students from BB Comegys School and Southwest Leadership Academy in West Philadelphia in presenting a performance to the theme of Fantasies.. I couldnt be a bottle service girl or server because there are no boundaries. Took semester off from school to interview young Americans about their lives during the pandemic. Enlisting his friend and roommate, disillusioned Penn English major Max Strickberger, the two took off their spring semester, loaded up Jinich's mom's SUV with food and . Neither got COVID-19 on the road. There was so much happening in the world, and were sitting in our apartment in Philly.. And Im proud of what they've been able to achieve, he says. And Max really pushed me because he was the one who really had the guts in the beginning to go up to people and approach strangers. Once she got out of quarantine, everyone kept at a distance until the sheriff hugged her.. We each had chosen a room when we moved in, which we meticulously and unintentionally personalized to become a physical manifestation of ourselves. Before he leaves the deckhe has to get back to his girlfriend and the life of a 32-year-old adulthe tells me and Sam that he can see that we love each other and that it makes him happy to see. And then, at the same time, there was the opposite where, because you were a young person, you werent financially secure, and you still relied on your family in a lot of ways. And I had the time since I was staying home a lot.. Send your guess our way at morningnewsletter@inquirer.com. All together. They just captured my interest, Peiss said. We were looking for different kinds of places, big cities, tiny towns, places with racial, ethnic, political, religious diversity, Jinich says. Having taken approximately one human development class more than two decades ago, I only know about Arnett, and his (oft-refuted) research, because Im on a video call with Penn seniors Alan Jinich and Max Strickbergerand, mid-call, they receive an email from a Penn professor asking them to talk to a class about this very subject. [She laughs]. We kept talking for 10, 20, 30 minutes, they showed us around their garage and stuff, and then eventually we told them What were doing now? I felt so frustrated that I wasnt doing something that was engaging more seriously with what was happening around us. And Faith, 23, who told them she was the first person to test positive for COVID-19 in her Utah county: I was the guinea pig.. Philosophizing with a club bouncer, comparing wall decorations with the woman who occupied the same campus housing space 35 years priorthese are just a few of the epiphanic moments that grew out of Paul Hendricksons Advanced Writing Projects in Long-Form Nonfiction course. They asked each person to write in a notebook the answer to the question: After the pandemic I want to Strickberger says he got the idea from a conversation with novelist Jennifer Egan about the project. This is already such a precarious time in our lives, now exacerbated by the pandemic, and we wanted to capture a segment of what that would be like for other Americans our age, Strickberger says. Arfaa, whose grandfather was once highly connected at Annenberg, used storytelling to create a portrait of the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts. Their Generation Pandemic is an oral history archive that documents the impact of COVID-19 on young adults in America. I cant just pull up on my cousins.. . RELATED: New film captures a Philly familys struggle with opioid addiction. MS: After our first stop in Tennessee, nothing else was lined up. Rodin security guard? It probably was more worthwhile dont tell Penn than a semester online, said Deborah Miller, Strickbergers mother, a former television producer. Collectively, this power couple had an eye on West Phillys well-being for more than 50 years. For some people, the pandemic reinforced being in a place that wasnt really safe or secure for you and you couldnt leave home. So for her, the pandemic meant the opposite of movement, and it meant she had to be home, and home didnt feel safe. Waking up in that type of environment I thought how could you ever be sad? It felt luxurious to get on the road and drive 250 miles when we had just spent the last 12 months in our bedrooms, Jinich says. Love this. View the profiles of people named Alan Jinich. Before coming to Penn, where he received a Provost's teaching award in 2005, Hendrickson worked as a staff feature writer at The Washington Post from 1977 to 2001. So I come to a club with a whole bunch of college kids who are fresh outta their parents cribs, have had zero time to rectify all the trauma that theyve been through, and theyre trying to figure out how to be an adult, pay for college. Before coming to Penn, where he received a Provosts teaching award in 2005, Hendrickson worked as a staff feature writer at The Washington Post from 1977 to 2001. In pursuing the story of Jesus, a cattle rancher on the Texas-Mexico border, Jinichs interviews spanned several days. They read and talked about Studs Terkels Working, a 1974 collection of oral histories from workers around the the country, James Agees Let Us Now Praise Famous Men about poor tenant farmers during the Depression, and Washington Post reporter Eli Saslows narratives, Voices from the Pandemic. Their first stop was Chattanooga, Tenn., where they conducted three interviews they had arranged in advance through a friend. No one would talk with them, but then a grocery store manager agreed to help and went up and down the aisles asking people their ages, introducing them. We loved transcribing these interviews and editing down these stories. Awarded to the best original poetry by a graduate student. Im in the middle of the dance floor and well aware that everyone is looking at me. Yes, of course they should, and they did, at the invitation of a local farming family, joining most of the town, population 600, that spring evening. It wouldnt be just a monument to us, it would be a city. Sriracha. Department of English University of Pennsylvania Fisher-Bennett Hall, room 127 3340 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA, 19104-6273 Phone: (215) 898-7341 He is the author of numerous books, the most recent of which, Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright, was published in 2019. The athletics program offers competitive sports for student athletes, including cross-country, track, soccer, lacrosse, and crew/rowing. Thats when they began to plot something they found much more meaningful a journey across America, from rural towns to cities, from the deep South to the Midwest, to interview a diverse group, mostly ages 18 to 25, on how the pandemic had impacted their lives. Sam lying in bed surrounded by her collected and carefully-sourced antiquities. They started by reaching out to several Penn faculty, including Kathy Peiss, history professor, Margo Natalie Crawford, English professor, Jean-Christophe Cloutier, associate professor of English and comparative literature, and writer Sam Apple, who teaches creative writing. Speaking of which, the timing couldnt be better for this Penn study suggesting that just one drink per day is enough to cause brain shrinkage. Round 3 (No. They read several classic texts and recent writings included Studs Terkels Working, first-person interviews with a variety of workers in the 1970s, and Hard Times, first-person accounts of daily life during the Great Depression. They were two of about four people wearing masks at the 300-person event. His stepover of Tyronn Lue in the NBA Finals against the Lakers. The door reads Lewis: Hampstead, QC. He opens the door with a smile and I introduce myself as a past resident. In chicken-scratch handwriting, he has written Scroll at the top of the folder, followed by Birth certificate, then Social underlined. Speak Papas truth, scribed another, who lost her grandfather to suicide during the pandemic. Harrison Lobby, 1AM. We looked at each other like Ok, this project could be over before it even started. So we wanted to learn about it from an academic perspective to prepare, Strickberger says. Curtis photographs had a big impact on Deverauxs mother, which made the project even more meaningful. Georgetown Day School is a coed, preK-12, non-sectarian private school in Washington, DC with small class sizes and a diverse school community. Her brother was addicted to heroin and her mother, who did not speak English, was trying to navigate the court system for custody of the baby. Eight girls, planning to live there until graduation. Contact the Operations Office at (215) 898-6933 for . They were really just very open-ended conversations. The first day they made it to Chattanooga, Tennessee and conducted their first three interviews, prearranged through a friend from Penn. Would I follow the quiet moments of students walking home from Smokes? My name is Alan and I hail from the Maryland outskirts of DC. It has been ten or eleven years since a Green Monster pledge wrote out the Monster commandments on a piece of paper and dubbed it The Scroll, but Charlie still knows where that slip of paper is at all times. Wed love if youd be interested in taking some time to speak with us. Strickberger says. They took the spring 2021 semester off from their formal Penn education, loaded up Jinichs moms burnt red, five-seater SUV with food and supplies, and headed out for a six-week, 7,300-mile, 23-state trek. I think the project just confirmed that I love asking questions and was in such a fortunate place where I could just go out and have an excuse to talk to people after a year of interacting with zero strangers. The result is a staggering archive that captures this precarious moment in time. A new report suggests a sizable undercount of Black, Hispanic, and Native Americans during the 2020 Census. Alan did some of the interviews in Spanish, for example, and if it had just been me doing the trip, I wouldve had no access to those. And some of those stories were some of the best ones that we got. He's photographed for PBS series Pati's Mexican Table and co-created Generation Pandemic, an oral history archive focused on COVID's impacts on young adults in America.His work has been featured in The Washington Post, Pennsylvania Gazette, and Philadelphia Inquirer. MS: Ive always loved stories. Alan Jinich couldn't take it anymore: sitting at a desk in his rented residence, taking his online courses at the University of Pennsylvania. Meek Mill has a song called Oodles O Noodles Babies. Though Strickberger and Jinich werent officially enrolled that semester, Penn professors lent a hand with the off-the-books project, including American history professor Kathy Peiss, who designed an eight-week syllabus and met weekly with them before they hit the road. Cloutier says even though the project focused on a particular generation, stories like Sharons make the archive a much wider and richer portrait of the American scene right now, glimpsing the experiences of other generations, he says. In Chicago they were rejected by everyone they approached in Chinatown. We agree toonly ever use your information to send you Citizen news, updates, and offers. Ashley Hoffman will deliver your Sunday Newsletter as always and Ill be back Monday to kickoff a new week. But in the bar, people can become drunk and aggressive. She used to bartend early morning shifts before becoming a security guard. He's also interested in GIS Mapping and quantitative image analysis. I loved being able to ask and get to a place of intimacy with someone else, Strickberger said. And later they invited us to the high school prom, because everyone in the town goes to the prommoms, dads, aunts, uncles, everybody, Jinich says. Duffin acting university archivist at Penn Archives shared that the project was started in May 2020 as a proactive step to make sure that the Penn community intentionally documents this pandemic better than . Penn After Midnight By Alan Jinich, C'22. The second I ask about his keeper status, he is walking to grab it. By signing up for The Philadelphia Citizen newsletter: All memberships to The Philadelphia Citizen are renewed annually. There was so much happening in the world, and were sitting in our apartment in Philly., READ MORE: Confirmed as the next U.S. ambassador to Germany, Amy Gutmann reflects on nearly 18 years as Penns president. For questions about membership or to opt out, please email [emailprotected]. I see in them a kind of pioneering drive, to want to do something in the world, to immerse yourself in that experience, and to kind of shake off your own comforts or your own kind of prescribed path.. School of Arts & SciencesUniversity of Pennsylvania3600 Market Street, Suite 300Philadelphia, PA 19104-3284Phone: 215-746-1232Fax: 215-573-2096Email: omnia-penn@sas.upenn.edu, 2023 Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania School of Arts & Sciences, Seven Things to Know About "The Waste Land" at 100, Celebrating the Pastand Planning for the Future. We wanted to cover individual stories that could illustrate particular experiences from this year that we thought could be lost during a time of rapid change.. From midnight to 8am she pays bills, watches movies, writes goals, manifestations, to-dos, lists of people she would invite to her future wedding and people she would break money to if she ever won the lottery. Strickberger also reached out to Jennifer Egan, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author with whom he had taken a class when she was a visiting professor at Penn. And at a very base level she said its just embarrassing trying to turn on my Zoom and people are screaming in the background because of the tension between her mom and her brother. JBP: Do you think there are misconceptions about this age group you chose to focus onyour age group? I study neuroscience and Ive been undecided as to what I want to do after school, and now Im considering work that involves writing and interviews., The same is true for Strickberger. You look outside and youre nearly on Locust! They share some of the stories, photos and audio interviews on their website, Generation Pandemic, an oral history archive that they hope to expand and eventually turn into a podcast series. Stay updated on all our coverage. I love it. Towards the end we were able to say Weve spoken with 70 people and weve traveled to 20 states and wed love to include you, Jinich says. In all, the Penn seniors, now back on campus, conducted more than 80 interviews, some in Spanish Jinich is of Mexican heritage and bilingual. She had arrived two hours earlier for her midnight shift and stood out with her sparkly . Reading the testimonies you immediately see the array, the range of people that theyve been able to meet, and how Max and Alan have allowed them to tell their own stories, which I really, really admire.. When COVID-19 hit, these Penn students got creative, Scott Petri is out at the Philadelphia Parking Authority. We saw that in Santa Fe in an interview with Sharon who, prior to the pandemic, spent her whole life trying to stay out of her house. Our reporters Max Marin and William Bender deliver more on what could have persuaded the PPA board to give Petri the boot. Jays parents then invited them to Sunday lunch. Charlie Oshinsky is the keeper of The Scroll. I didnt know how meaningful I would find it, he says. Stein and Jinichs classmates included Margaret Arfaa, C24; Makena Deveraux, C23; and Zachary Mullins, C24. In the spring of 2021, they traversed the country to interview drastically different 18- to 25-year-olds, collecting oral histories which would come to comprise their "collective remembrance" storytelling project Generation Pandemic . Its now billed as the largest high school social justice publication in Washington D.C. Strickberger and Jinich who grew up on the same street in Chevy Chase, Md., and became good friends in high school and better friends at Penn had some early jitters. It was toward the end of their 7,300-mile journey across 23 states, on a quest to interview young adults about how the pandemic has changed their lives, when the two University of Pennsylvania students were faced with a decision: Should they go to the high school prom in Circleville, Utah? Ivys minimalist room with the white bay windows. Faced with another semester of virtual courses this past spring, they decided to take a chance and take the semester off from their Penn classes to pursue their Generation Pandemic project. Confirmed as the next U.S. ambassador to Germany, Amy Gutmann reflects on nearly 18 years as Penns president, Penn receives record $125 million to offer free tuition to nurse practitioners to work in underserved communities, California residents do not sell my data request. Then four hours later, Jinich said, we had a tour of their turkey farm, a tour of their mechanic shop.. They took the spring 2021 semester off from their formal Penn education, loaded up Jinich's mom's burnt red, five-seater SUV with food and supplies, and headed out for a six-week, 7,300-mile, 23 . But during the pandemic, she had to be home, and home for her meant a really tight trailer. So that was kind of the opposite of movement, it was really constrictive. They share some of the stories, photos and audio interviews on their website, Generation Pandemic. MS: I think it also helped to just point out that it was a weird situation. The course, offered through Penns Creative Writing Program, maintained a small class size to maximize time for collaboration. But going into it, it was all very open. In all, the Penn seniors conducted more than 80 interviews, some in Spanish. AJ: When we were in Circleville, a small town in Utah, we were driving around different farms trying to meet people.

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