It wouldnt be just a monument to us, it would be a city. 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. Nasir poses in front of the West & Down nightclub, where he used to be a bouncer. David provides a running analysis on how the fashion trends have changed (guys dont wear tank tops anymore) and how out-of-place he feels on campus (I dont remember the last time I went to a party). A third responded with just two words: Breathe again.. Our comprehensive, progressive curriculum is known for experiential andhands-on learning, college-prep level math and STEM courses, and innovative programming. 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 . Deveraux visited Penn Museum to study the complicated legacy of the photographic genius of Edward Curtis, the premier photographer and ethnologist of indigenous Americans in the early part of the 20th century. There is a theory in the field of developmental psychology, popularized by . No one in their age range was there, but the person there suggested they go on up to the Daltons farm. Senior Max Strickberger, co-creator of Generation Pandemic. I ask Amber if shes ever left Philly. For Lily Stein, C22, Alan Jinich, C22, and their classmates, it wasnt merely an academic experience, but a deeply personal one. There arent neat quotes that show me who these women were when they lived in my house as much as there are actions. MS: Too much music, and too few Audible books. Sam lying in bed surrounded by her collected and carefully-sourced antiquities. The flooding was so severe that Secchia Stadium's infield and outfield had to be replaced. When COVID-19 hit, these Penn students got creative, Scott Petri is out at the Philadelphia Parking Authority. And Julius, who moved from Wisconsin to a town in Santa Fe. Jinich grew up in Chevy Chase, Maryland and attended Georgetown Day School in Washington, DC. Theres even a TV. He sent me a link to Round Midnight by Thelonious Monk and it set my mind loose.. It was fall 2020, the era of pre-COVID-19 vaccines, and Jinich's roommate Max Strickberger, an English major who also reveled in his classes, was similarly disillusioned. We worked with a history professor from Penn, Kathy Peiss; just out of the kindness of her heart, shes very generous and met with us outside of school. 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. 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. Who knows how this will percolate in the long run for them: exhibitions, photographs, maybe works of non-fiction down the road? The 23-year-old bouncer of the West & Down nightclub is vigilant and assertive. 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. J.M. Think you know? After that, everything was more spontaneous and challenging. It was really energizing to be out there and trying to find someone who was generous enough to share a part of their life with us., As they settle into their senior year at Penn, they are continuing work on the Generation Pandemic archive. In the more immediate future, Jinich and Strickberger already have summer plans. A PPA spokesperson said general counsel Dennis Weldon will assume the responsibilities of executive director while the board announced plans to launch a national search for Petris replacement. 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. 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. You look outside and youre nearly on Locust! And they were super down to chat, they were interested in why we were in Circleville and we got to talking, but when we told them Oh were interested in doing these interviews for this project, they were way more skeptical. And theyd tell us no, or yes, or I can but not right now, or Im not in that age range but try the church down the street, or the hotel, or the grocery store.. Its the reason that people end up saying later that disruptions like a pandemic can invite growth and enable possibilities that wouldnt have existed otherwise.. Neither got COVID-19 on the road. He spent his gap year studying Jewish Diaspora and Middle Eastern History. I see some tendrils of Kerouac and the Beat Generation in Max and Alans project, Cloutier says. But during the interviews, what really stood out to me was how a lot of young people recognized, in a really empathetic way, how lucky they were to be young during the pandemic. I'm an editor passionate about amplifying the stories that emerge from the city that raised me. In chicken-scratch handwriting, he has written Scroll at the top of the folder, followed by Birth certificate, then Social underlined. JBP: Do you think there are misconceptions about this age group you chose to focus onyour age group? Im in the middle of the dance floor and well aware that everyone is looking at me. Lewis sits up on his raised twin bed. Pati is fond of her sons and has an endearing way of calling . Like youre gonna pass somebody that might not talk like you, look like you, dress like you. and student profiles, research updates, and the latest happenings on campus. Meek Mill has a song called Oodles O Noodles Babies. Then came another place, another challenge. One of the most powerful interviews was with Sharon, a young woman in Santa Fe who came back to live with her mother and older brother and his baby during the pandemic, struggling to help them while trying to keep up with college classes. But its not home. I didnt know how meaningful I would find it, he says. Generation Pandemic, an oral history archive undertaken by Penn English major Max Strickberger and Penn English minor Alan Jinich, featured in Penn Today. There are times where I look good and I feel good. Gallery. And check out their powerful, sweet and hilarious mix of post-pandemic wishes. AJ: People were really grateful. (LR) Green Monsters donning their custom-made Spring Fling apparel. Alan Kurt Rillema arrested in 23-year-old cold case for attacking Like I cant get a cheesesteak around the corner. I can tell you immediately how the pandemic affected people my age, but I think the more interesting take-aways will come when we have time to process it and also when we see the changes that happened with the people we interviewed. We didnt want to be home, we didnt see as much value to what wed always loved about school, and there was stuff thats so much bigger going on in the world. For Lily Stein, C'22, Alan Jinich, C'22, and their classmates, it wasn't merely an academic experience, but a deeply personal one. So language was just one barrier that we faced from an inaccessibility standpoint. The Arts Lounge at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, 3680 Walnut St. Penn Park Parking Lot, 3100 Lower Walnut St. JBP: Max, youre an English major, and Alan, youre a neuroscience major. Its not crooked or straight, but sways with the pulse of music and breaks as bodies cut in. Glitter and pink makeup smudged across Sandras desk next to her sewing machine, where she expertly tended to hemming her dresses shorter and shorter. Alan Jinich - Intern, The Pulse - WHYY | LinkedIn In high school, I started a culture and identity magazine that was predicated on personal storytelling. 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. So trying to introduce some humor into the situation helped. The second I ask about his keeper status, he is walking to grab it. The first week was loosely planned, and the rest unfolded as they went along. If I was older right now, if I had five kids, if I had a mortgage, I would be so much more worried. Pati and husband Daniel Jinich have been blessed with three sons, whose names are Julian, Sami, and Alan. And some of those stories were some of the best ones that we got. I dont send Alan stories and quotes when I think back to our trip; I send him pictures that pop up on my phone that he took. Her job went remote, she realized I can take my entire life and move somewhere else. AJ: When we were in Circleville, a small town in Utah, we were driving around different farms trying to meet people. Well give a shoutout to a reader at random who answers correctly. Waking up in that type of environment I thought how could you ever be sad? Our little class would meet once every two weeks over the dinner hour. Alan met their grandfather who started the family business, got invited over for dinner, Strickberger said. GENERATION PANDEMIC | Creative Writing Program Penn After Midnight By Alan Jinich, C'22. It felt like it had more weight to it, and felt like an accomplishment.. At first glance, his face reminds me of my younger brothers. Though he is a neuroscience major with an English minor, Jinich, who took the photos, found the journey so fulfilling, hes interested in pursuing similar work as a career. Funeral services were held yesterday for TJ Siderio, the 12-year-old South Philly boy shot in the back by police. I smile and it reminds me of something he had said to me in an interview about the Monsters a few weeks ago: I love them and I tell them I love them everytime I see them and everytime I say goodbye to them. He still sees many of them every weekend. By signing up for The Philadelphia Citizen newsletter: All memberships to The Philadelphia Citizen are renewed annually. With our strong commitment to financial aid, an independent school tuition is affordable. 2021/10/12. 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 . Or, if you ask Max Strickberger (C '22) and Alan Jinich (C '22), the word of a generation. Winner: Alan Jinich, "'You never get that smell off your clothes.'" Second Place: Pamela De La Cruz, "Sheltering Hope at a Violent Border for Migrants" Third Place: Sophia DeGrands, "Higher Thinking" So when they come outside they just wanna let go of all that. We didnt come in with a list of questions. How can I represent the living and breathing campus that never sleeps?, Steins piece, The Immortal Life of the Green Monster, delved into the storied history of her housing at Penn, which she and her roommates have affectionately dubbed the Green Monster., Ive always loved learning about history, says Stein, so hearing first-hand about what it was like to be 20 years old and a student at Penn in 1970, or imagining what it might have been like to raise a family under the Green Monsters roof during the Great Depression was such an amazing and all-consuming experience.. 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. Jed Esty, Vartan Gregorian Professor of English, on the radicalism and relevance of the T.S. Penn State waited a little bit longer than it expected to have its first selection in the 2023 NFL Draft, but cornerback Joey Porter Jr. won't have to go too far to begin his NFL career.. Porter . Penn Students Travel Cross-Country to Collect Pandemic Stories. 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. JBP: What overarching insights have you each taken away from the experience, and how has this journey changed you? He experienced a lot of bad things this year related to custody of his child and not being able to stay physically fit in the way that he wouldve liked to. He had taken Peisss class, Modern American Culture, and she agreed to collaborate on this project, creating an eight-week syllabus of readings and meeting with them virtually once a week. And what you can do about it. MS: Theres always kind of this idea of older people thinking the younger generation is lazy, not as ambitious, or, in the case of our generation, stuck on screens or maybe too idealistic, right? They stayed at Airbnbs and homes of family friends, and camped in South Dakota a $2,000 trip mostly covered by their parents. 73 overall), Jalin Hyatt, wide receiver, New York Giants. Browse more than 80 pandemic vignettes from 18-25-year-olds across the country. I mean, Phil-a-del-ph-ia, the City of Brotherly Love, the Independence Hall, the bookthe textbook Philly, sure. Two Penn students road-tripped across America to document how the 2022 Creative Writing Prize Results | Creative Writing Program Philadelphians of all stripes share what the past year of pandemic living has taught themfor better and for worse, Generation Pandemic creators Alan Jinich and Max Strickberger | Photo by Susan Korec, By signing up to our newsletter, you agree to our, Philly man sets out on a daunting mission to meet 10,000 strangers, 10-year Philly project explores the power of empathetic listening, New film captures a Philly familys struggle with opioid addiction, New book spotlights tattooed Philly women sharing stories of trauma, Listen: Ali Velshi Banned Book Club with Julissa Arce, Listen: Ali Velshi Banned Book Club with Julia Alvarez. Tennessee football's 2023 NFL draft picks: Round 1 (No. They were really just very open-ended conversations. Once she got out of quarantine, everyone kept at a distance until the sheriff hugged her.. We loved transcribing these interviews and editing down these stories. MS: I think it also helped to just point out that it was a weird situation. AJ: It got me so excited to do more of this stuff. But the one Im used to, the culture, no. Its an exciting, and fitting, invitation, given that the two young men have become de facto experts on young adulthood in their own right: Last spring, they took off from college to roadtrip across the country, interviewing and photographing people ages 18 to 25 about their experiences during Covid-19. The Scroll comes first. The music will be unrecognizable, the styles will have changed, and we will have changed with them. The fields flooded again in May of 2020, but those baseball and softball seasons had been canceled due to . Over the course of six weeks, with a bit of funding from Penn and their own money too, they drove 7,300 miles, stopping in 23 states to interview more than 80 people, recording the interviews and capturing photos on Jinichs beloved Fuji XT1. We wanted the peoples stories to speak for themselves.. 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. And we made a loose syllabus with her and she kind got us thinking about an archive. I felt so frustrated that I wasnt doing something that was engaging more seriously with what was happening around us. What becomes quickly apparent in his class is that there is no difference between writing well and living well.. Every new town we were starting fresh, Strickberger said. We wanted something tactile, something more physical in that way. When there was no longer space in the world for us, we had to make our mark somehow. Having that bar between me and the guest gives me more confidence. Would I follow the quiet moments of students walking home from Smokes? Theres a line on 39th. 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. Wake up one day and were driving 10 hours, Strickberger says. a. We didnt really know what we were going to find and what would come out of it. I wanted to do something. David cant wrap his head around this. Jazz or folk would be playing in the background, the five of us nestled into plush chairs in the faculty lounge of the English building. Alan Jinich couldnt do it anymore: Sit at a desk in his rented residence, taking his University of Pennsylvania classes online. 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. Next came a four-hour tour of the turkey farm, and Jay and his wife invited them for dinner. After stopping at a little caf for directions they found the farm, and two young people outside, who turned out to be Tyler and Jay Dalton. Jinichs ultimate piece, Penn After Midnight, saw him exploring nocturnal happenings around campus. Enlisting his friend and roommate, disillusioned Penn English major Max Strickberger, the two took off their spring semester, loaded up Jinichs moms SUV with food and supplies, and embarked on a six-week, 7,300-mile journey across the country, interviewing a diverse group of young people about the impact of the pandemic on their lives. Maybe its just liquid courage. But behind this barrier shes invisible. 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. Jaden Cloobeck | Let's archive our COVID-19 experiences Id basically say Hi, my name is Max. By signing up for a basic membership, we agree to never give or sell your information to any third party. . Sign up for our newsletter. A new report suggests a sizable undercount of Black, Hispanic, and Native Americans during the 2020 Census. Initially I was thinking of just following one person around for the entire semester, but he seemed to be really excited by the idea of a tone poem, a sort of noir perspective of Penn after midnight. 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. Advance registration is required and opens April 3. He pulls out a tattered green folder. Im working on an oral history project, talking to young people all over the country. Two students took what they've learned at Penn - and pressed onward out of the shell to see if their learned backgrounds can translate to real-world Department of EnglishUniversity of PennsylvaniaFisher-Bennett Hall, room 1273340 Walnut StreetPhiladelphia, PA, 19104-6273Phone: (215) 898-7341Fax: (215) 573-2063, 2023 The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, Generation Pandemic, an online oral history archive by senior English major Max Strickberger and senior English minor Alan Jinich, featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Washington Post. It was the best feeling. Harrison Dorm. Eliot poem. But in the bar, people can become drunk and aggressive. She used to bartend early morning shifts before becoming a security guard. JBP: What was your sustenance on the road? Only by doing interviews, getting better at interviews, getting rejected a bunch of times, could something more concrete come into focus. The first big test was in Greensboro, Alabama, a town of about 2,500. They had a tentative itinerary. Strickberger is an English major with a concentration in creative writing and Jinich a neuroscience major and English minor. We used that to inform a long list of potential stops that we could hit.. Alan Jinich - Department of English Welcome to whats expected to be a sunny Friday, with temperatures making a run at 60 degrees. Audiobooks, less so. It was fall 2020, pre-COVID-19 vaccine times, and Jinichs roommate, Max Strickberger, an English major who also used to delight in his classes, was similarly disillusioned. RELATED: 10-year Philly project explores the power of empathetic listening. Although I feel like maybe I was in control? Contact the Operations Office at (215) 898-6933 for . Eight girls, planning to live there until graduation. It felt really good when we could get people to speak with us, because every time we got to a new town, it was just like: restart, Strickberger says. Photography by Alan Jinich . about Generation Pandemic Alan Jinich Profiles | Facebook Alan will receive a full Nora Prize award of $4000 and mentorship from a large web of Penn alums in the media and their colleagues. [Hendrickson] has a rare gift for finding beauty and significance in everything. Send your guess our way at morningnewsletter@inquirer.com. 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. What follows is a condensed and edited version of that interview. Hendrickson, Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, is a veteran author and journalist. As Ive grown older, I started to realize that not everybody has those opportunities to be able to process what theyve gone through and then release it. No one gets in unless they comply. MS: One big theme that came out of it for us was about movement. 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. 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. The Allegro delivery driver? By 6abc Digital Staff Sriracha. In a simple world, the house was already a monument in the history of our livesthe last stop on our way out of college. We ended up going the more broad route. Through the daughter, you glimpse the mother. Who knows? We had a lot of rejections. 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. The two stayed in touch after he took her course, Self, Image, Community: Studies in Modern Fiction, when she was an artist-in-residence in 2019. Both, in the College of Arts and Sciences, are back on campus this fall for their senior year. AJ: A lot of cheese sandwiches for Max. I see it as a kind of extended research project that involves field work. Facebook gives people the power to. Trust is always the implicit bargain, whether it is ever stated as such or not. But they prepared with Penn professors and kept in touch with them along the way. Buy Volunteers Tickets. Some stories they didnt realize they needed until they found them, like Faith, a woman they encountered in Utah who told them she was the first person in her county to contract COVID-19. Charlie Oshinsky is the keeper of The Scroll. I just felt like I was wasting something that I previously loved so much, Strickberger said. In the following pages, Stein and Jinich share some of the most powerful passages from their pieces, giving us a glimpse into their work process and literary journey. c. His famous were talking about practice? news conference. Although we did hope that we would create some type of archive. Back at home at the University of Pennsylvania, seniors Alan Jinich (left) and Max Strickberger (right) pose on their front stoop last week. 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 . 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? Penn seniors cross the U.S. to collect young peoples' pandemic stories Maeve upstairs with a canvas photograph of planet Earth larger than her modest, sparsely decorated room. . Jays parents then invited them to Sunday lunch. A lot of granola bars. Curtis photographs had a big impact on Deverauxs mother, which made the project even more meaningful. Two Penn students traveled across America to document the pandemic's After a gap year studying in Jerusalem with the Kivunim Institute, he came to Penn, and immediately got involved in food photography and writing for Penn Appetit, and later became a music editor and writer at t-art magazine. MS: We definitely didnt win everyone over. Generation Pandemic, an oral history archive undertaken by Penn English major Max Strickberger and Penn English minor Alan Jinich, featured in Penn Today. Their kids call him Uncle Fried. 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.. Return to Borders and Boundaries Project Personnel. READ MORE: Penn receives record $125 million to offer free tuition to nurse practitioners to work in underserved communities, I thought it was a great idea, Egan said of the project, such a creative way of responding to a disruption of the education they were merrily rolling along with. When Nasir raises his voice, the line stands on its tiptoes and turns to the front like a pack of meerkats. And Im a big history guy. If your post is offensive, not only will we not publish it, we'll laugh at you while hitting delete. Like what youre reading? Home Arts & Culture Generation Pandemic. View the profiles of people named Alan Jinich. December 2021 - University of Pennsylvania 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. Generation Pandemic, an online oral history archive by senior English major Max Strickberger and senior English minor Alan Jinich, featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Washington Post. They want to revisit people they interviewed and look for new subjects in other towns and cities. And Im proud of what they've been able to achieve, he says. 68 overall), Hendon Hooker, quarterback, Detroit Lions. They used a demographic GIS map, Social Explorer, to determine a route with geographic and socioeconomic diversity, down through the Deep South, out west through the Rockies, and back through the Midwest. Stein and Jinichs classmates included Margaret Arfaa, C24; Makena Deveraux, C23; and Zachary Mullins, C24. Im sure if I was approached by two strangers in the middle of the workday, Id think it was pretty weird as well. Kathy Peiss is the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History in the School of Arts & Sciences. It had the most amazing weather. 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. As you can see by the room, Im a diehard Montreal Canadiens fan. He also balanced creative writing and longform nonfiction classes with his studies in neuroscience including his work at the Cullen Lab at Penn researching brain cell histology and traumatic brain injury. Like, if you were a young Black kid you grew up on that stuff. Alan is very, very steady. We will never give or sell your information to a third party outside of this partner program. So theyre definitely extremes in both ways. Permit holders will have access to their garage at all times during the Winter Break. We agree toonly ever use your information to send you Citizen news, updates, and offers. Vivian Ramirez on LinkedIn: A generation shaped by a pandemic | Penn Today Students engaged closely with Hendrickson on topics until they landed on one that really resonated.
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