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We collected 2 full Harrison moving bins with food to donate to SREHUP (Student Run Emergency Housing Unit of Philadelphia) and moved 5 tons of logs, sticks, and debris at Morris Park.  Thanks everyone!

The infamous month for SENIORS is here…

Feb Club Introductory Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaWhX9KCtJQ&feature=youtu.be

Event List

The following is a brief description of every night’s events for February.

Wednesday, February 1 - THE FIRST TOAST: Pyramid Club, 9 – 11 PM

Thursday, February 2 - Vango Lounge & Skybar, 10 PM – Midnight
Friday, February 3 - Dave & Buster’s, 9 – 11 PM
Saturday, February 4 - Dock Street Brewery, 2-4 PM
Sunday, February 5 - Superbowl Pregame @ Blarney, 2 – 4 PM
Monday, February 6 - McGillin’s Olde Ale House, 7 – 9 PM
Tuesday, February 7 - Live Music @ World Cafe Live, 5 – 7 PM
Wednesday, February 8 - Distrito, 6 – 8 PM
Thursday, February 9 - Philadelphia Orchestra, 8 – 10 PM
Friday, February 10 - Penn vs. Harvard Basketball, 7 – 10 PM
Saturday, February 11 - Vagina Monologues, 8 – 10 PM
Sunday, February 12 - Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2 – 4 PM
Monday, February 13 - Drinker’s West, 9 – 11 PM
Tuesday, February 14 - Love Letter Mural Tour, 1 – 2 PM
Wednesday, February 15 - Yards Brewery, 7 – 10 PM
Thursday, February 16 - Mask & Wig, 8 – 10 PM
Friday, February 17 - Philadelphia 76ers vs. Dallas Mavericks, 7 – 10 PM
Saturday, February 18 - RiverRink @ Penn’s Landing, 3 – 5:30 PM
Sunday, February 19 - Community Service Day, 12 – 2:30 PM
Monday, February 20 - President’s Day Party @ City Tap House, 9 – 11 PM
Tuesday, February 21 - Cavanaugh’s, 9 – 11 PM
Wednesday, February 22 - Historic Philadelphia, 2 – 5 PM
Thursday, February 23 - Bingo @ Frankford Hall, 9 – 11 PM
Friday, February 24 - Reading Terminal Market, 2 – 4 PM
Saturday, February 25 - Sansom Pub Crawl, 8 PM – Midnight
Sunday, February 26 - Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens, 12 – 3:30 PM
Monday, February 27 - Millcreek Monday, 8 – 10 PM
Tuesday, February 28 - THE PENNULTIMATE: Water Works Restaurant, 8 – 10 PM
Wednesday, February 29 - THE FINALE: Smokey Joe’s Sink or Swim, 9 PM – Midnight

A Google Calendar with all events can be found HERE. Click the small button in the bottom right to sync with your personal calendar.

Feb Club Points (and how to get them)

There are two ways to participate in Feb Club every day:

1) Attend the event of the day (100 points per event stamp)

2) Facebook (10 points per activity)

- STATUS UPDATE: Write a status update about Feb Club and tag the “UPenn FebClub” profile in your status.

- EVENT TAG: Tag the current day’s Feb Club event page in your status.

- CHECK-IN: Check-in to an event location and tag “UPenn FebClub” as an attendee.

Rules for points:

1) Each point value can only be earned once per day (for a total of 130 possible points per day).

2) The opportunity to win Facebook points for a given day will end at midnight of that day.

3) Any Facebook activity must appear on the “UPenn FebClub” profile page in order to earn points for it.

4) Senior Class Board reserves the right to take action against any inappropriate Facebook activity on any Feb Club-related pages..

The Feb Club cards have been generously donated by The Penn Club http://www.pennclub.org/.

What you can do right now: Go on Facebook and friend request the “UPenn FebClub” profile.

Feb Club Prizes

Your participation in Feb Club will be rewarded with a variety of prizes.

Prize List:

500+ points: Sunglasses.

1000+ points: Keychain + Sunglasses
1500+ points: Shotglass + Keychain + Sunglasses.
2000+ points: Hat + Shotglass + Keychain + Sunglasses.
2500+ points: Flask + Hat + Shotglass + Keychain + Sunglasses.
3000+ points: Sweatshirt + Flask + Hat + Shotglass + Keychain + Sunglasses.
Attending all 29 events (regardless of points): Name on a plaque at Smoke’s + everything above.

As always, if you have any questions regarding the above, please do not hesitate to contact one of us.

Looking forward to an incredible month,

– Your 2012 Class Board —

www.penn12.com

Winners of Global Entrepreneurship Week, MTV, & NYSE Movers & Changers Competition

Recognized by CNBC and Mark Cuban

Sushanth and Karishma founded SkillHub this past summer just after they interned at Google. They both saw a need for an online platform to enable users of all backgrounds to share skills and knowledge. SkillHub, which is currently in alpha phase, is a disruptive platform that aims to bridge traditional knowledge disparities as well as enable the sharing of skills with “micro-lessons.”

Sushanth and Karishma applied on a whim to Movers & Changers and are incredibly grateful to have secured $25K in seed funding. After the exhilarating experience of ringing the bell at the New York Stock Exchange alongside Mark Cuban and receiving his mentorship, Karishma and Sushanth are looking forward to testing the first version of SkillHub in the Penn community before iterating and scaling.

Besides SkillHub, Karishma is Co-President of the Wharton Private Equity and Venture Capital Association and Captain of the Penn Raas team, pursuing a degree in Economics and Math. Sushanth has served on the Boards of Alternative Spring Break and Penn Society for International Development and is pursuing a degree in Physics and Math.

Seniors,

It’s time to officiate our SENIOR status on Penn campus and have it known to the rest of the school…

SENIORS 2012 T-SHIRTS!

on Sale M-F this week, 12-2 PM

@ Houston Hall 2nd Floor (outside Office of Student Affairs)

$10 each. Available in both regular and V-neck!

And V-necks for girls…

And of course, the shirt reps 2012 on the back:

Much love,

Your 2012 Class Board

If you are part of the great Class of 2012, then you are probably just as  baffled as I am at where the past three years have flown. Time has        been moving incredibly fast over our collegiate careers and this year    will undoubtedly zoom by faster than ever. It’s because of this that I    strongly emphasize taking as much advantage of this final year at  Penn as possible. Penn, college, and the school environment we are   in now will all be over before we know it.

Check out some new clubs for this year, trying out activities you would  have never thought of doing before. Or, heck, make your own club –  after all, once you’ve landed that job/grad school/research grant/etc,  what are you going to do with that new free time? If you’re trying to l  learn outside of classes, there are some great preceptorials you should check out on PennPortal. Maybe your more interested in seeing what your fellow peers have been up to in their respective involvements. Hit up as many sporting games (in the process, check out the new Penn Park!), performing arts events, and other campus on-goings as possible. With so many things going on all the time, there’s no excuse to ever find yourself bored this year.

In addition to pursuing more on-campus events, definitely take advantage of the everything Philadelphia has to offer this year. If you’re into the arts then definitely check out a Symphony or the Philadelphia Film Festival this year. If you’re a sports fan, there’s no better time to be rooting on the Phillies. Most of you are 21 now, so why not check out the Sugar House Casino some night? And let’s not forget the endless dining adventures to be had in the City of Brotherly Love.

All in all, really push yourself to make the most of this year. It will probably be, for most of us, the last opportunity to freely explore and learn without being constrained by work, family, and other obligations. We as the Senior Class Board are working to do as much as possible to maximize your ultimate college year experience and hope you really do maximize this year. Get amped, 2012!

Best,

Jibran Khan

President, University of Pennsylvania Class of 2012

Thanks to the charitable donations from our Juniors Tap for Charity event, the Penn Class of 2012 was able to raise over $1700 for educational development! Though funds were originally to go to Save the Children’s Rewriting the Future Campaign (for international educational development), this campaign had already been fulfilled by the time our fundraising was complete. Instead, the funds have been donated to Kitab Korner, a non-profit organization based out of India founded by Penn senior Poorvi Kunzru. We as the 2012 Class Board selected Kitab Korner due to its incredible dedication to educational development and KKEF’s ability to fully maximize the $1700 that has been donated. As you will read below, thanks to the Class of 2012′s partnership with Kitab Korner, hundreds of school children in India will be endowed with the gift of books for years to come.

The Kitab Korner Educational Foundation (KKEF) is a non-profit organization with the mission of helping underprivileged children read their way to a better life.  KKEF works towards this mission by establishing sustainable library centers in underprivileged communities including slums and government schools in India.  Till date we have established 11 library centers, across 2 Indian states (Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra), which have brought 3000 children an incremental 5000 books and 100 workshops. Over the years we have partnered with several reputable Indian organizations including Zensar Technologies and the Akanksha Foundation and have received extensive coverage in the media for our work.  For more information, please visit www.kitabkorner.org.

Each Kitab Korner library center costs approximately $850 to create.  Thanks to your generous contributions totalling $1700, Kitab Korner will be able to establish two Kitab Korner library centers, bringing them closer to their goal of 50 libraries by December of next year. The “UPenn Class of 2012” library centers will be set-up this June, in two government schools located just outside of Mumbai. Each library will benefit approximately 200-300 school children. We look forward to sending you updates and pictures of the library centers once they have been set-up!

COREY METZMAN and JACOB “COBI” BLUMENFELD-GANTZ (both W/C’12)

Founders of Dorm Room Diplomacy

Recognized by President Clinton at the Clinton Global Initiative University Conference (April 2, 2011)

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Corey and Cobi founded Dorm Room Diplomacy (DRD) with a group of American and Middle Eastern college students who believe that mutual understanding and intercultural dialogue are key to the pursuit of peace between the West and the Arab World. DRD was inspired through a series of conversations that they had with Middle Eastern students, when Corey studied Arabic in Jordan and Cobi attended the Seeds of Peace camp. Each week, DRD connects American college students (from Penn and other schools!) to our peers in the Middle East using online videoconferencing, and students discuss everything from American foreign policy to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict to the role of the news media. Starting this spring, DRD will partner with the U.S. State Department, which will invite a prominent diplomat to join monthly online conversations and answer questions from students in the Middle East. Last weekend, Corey and Cobi—along with the rest of the DRD team—were recognized by President Clinton for their work, and they are excited to continue expanding to new campuses in the U.S. and abroad.

Besides DRD, Corey is a student in the Huntsman Program, the co-chair of the Wharton Dean’s Advisory Board, a brother in Sigma Alpha Mu, a MGMT 100 TA, and a member of the Huntsman Student Advisory Board. He was recently awarded the 2011 Truman Scholarship, and he also works on international development projects in Nicaragua, Tanzania, and Kenya. Cobi is pursuing degrees in Diplomatic History and OPIM, serves on the board of Penn Model Congress, and dances for Soundworks Tap Factory. He is currently studying abroad in Israel, where he is researching the connection between the West Bank economy and public perceptions of Salaam Fayyad, the Palestinian Prime Minister in the West Bank.

YouTube Clip of Award from President Clinton

Congrats to Sining Zhou, SAS’12 for having her Hey Day T-shirt design selected as the design contest winner!

Hey Day Package prices will be as follows:

$35 for the T-shirt, Hat&Cane, and Picnic

$20 for the T-shirt and Picnic

$15 for the Hat&Cane and Picnic

- More details with regards to the Picnic, Hat/Cane, and Package sales to come soon -

Get Amped,

– 2012 Class Board –

This Friday (3/25) at City Tap House…

a $20 donation will get you:
- a (glass) Penn 2012 Beer Mug

- 3 Craft Beers (you know City Tap knows its crafts)

- Free Food

*** proceeds will be going toward Save The Children Foundation’s efforts for educational development in the 3rd world**