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from weddings to bar mitzvahs to History Department parties. “Whatever event you can think of, we have bartenders who are certified to bartend [the] event,” said Fenton, who also serves as bartending manager of PSA. While PSA Bartending may be a small group, a huge interest in bartending is growing among students on campus. For this spring’s Bartending 101 preceptorial, hosted by PSA Bartending, there were around 500 applications for some eight spots, according to Engineering freshman Benjamin Blumenstein, the preceptorial’s organizer. ‘It’s just a lot of fun,” Blumenstein said. “They teach you how to make pretty much anything
— how to free pour, how to pour with jiggers, shots, layered shots, Long Islands, different mixed drinks. Also, it’s a pretty expensive standalone course, [but] with the preceptorial, it’s free.” Becoming a bartender for Penn requires only a few steps. You have to be at least 18 years old, take a bartending course from PSA or a similar institution and pass a test to obtain your official bartending certification. Student bartenders get paid $20 an hour, and each event, known as a “gig,” usually lasts for two to four hours. Sometimes, clients will also give generous tips. Fenton once received a $100 tip for an event that totaled up to a $200 bill. The agency fields around two gigs each week. Event descriptions are sent out through a student bartender listserv and claimed by
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Penn Student Agencies Bartending demonstrates how to make different popular drinks.
whoever is free to work those times on a first-come, first-served basis. “You can work regularly, but not crazy regularly,” Fenton said. “We definitely aren’t requiring you to work the day before you have a final.”
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“At a time in American society when there’s so much racial tension, modeling that people from different backgrounds can actually work together, teach controversial subjects together and even be married and have children together — I think it’s a phenomenal message to send to the student body,” Allen said. In her role as vice provost of faculty, the topic of partners is something that Allen must often address in the process of recruiting potential faculty hires. When Allen hires new faculty, she’s always thinking about accommodating for a spouse or partner. “When I hear that we might be interested in recruiting a brilliant new neuroscientist or a brilliant new art historian, my first question is, is there a partner or a spouse that we need to be thinking about as well? Because we’re not going to be able to recruit this person unless we can offer some help with the placement of the other partner,” Allen said. “It’s hard sometimes to find, within Penn, jobs for both people. But it happens quite
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If you took “Ethics” sometime in the past few years, you might have seen something unusual: two professors teaching at the front of the classroom. More unusual? Those two aren’t just colleagues — they’re husband and wife. Anita Allen and Paul Castellitto are one of many faculty couples at Penn. Like most other faculty couples, they are private about their personal lives, but students can often pick up on their relationship; Allen sometimes goes by the surname Allen-Castellitto. Like many faculty couples, the two teach in overlapping areas: Allen, the vice provost for faculty and a professor at Penn Law School, holds a secondary appointment in the Philosophy Department, where Castellitto holds an adjunct position. “When the opportunity came up ... to teach [“Ethics”] together
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back in 2009, I just leapt up because I wanted to know — what would it be like to work with my spouse?” Allen said. Allen and Castellitto cotaught an evening section of “Ethics” in the College of Liberal and Professional Studies that covered topics ranging from animal rights to abortion and torture. The unorthodox practice of having two teachers in the classroom helped add a level of depth and diversity of opinion to the controversial topics covered in class. “I’m a black woman; he’s an Italian man,” Allen said. “I am a little more liberal, progressive, feminist than him — I wouldn’t say he’s conservative, but he comes from a Catholic background, and he’s not instinctively feminist or instinctively social reform [minded] like I am. So we bring different politics in the classroom.” Allen hopes that by co-teaching the class, they show students the importance of working with people whose ideas are different from your own.
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frequently that it does work out.” Penn has policies to make it friendly to faculty with families such as its dual career program, which helps fund the hiring of a new faculty member’s partner or spouse, as well as parental leave for both parents and benefits for LGBTQ couples. Penn’s history is sprinkled with faculty couples. One such couple is retired linguistics professors Gillian Sankoff and William Labov, the “father of sociolinguistics.” Sankoff was previously married to renowned sociologist and former Penn professor Erving Goffman, who died in 1982. Their daughter, 2006 College graduate Alice Goffman, now teaches at the University of Wisconsin. CIS professors Steve Zdancewic and Stephanie Weirich were married in 1999 and came to teach at Penn together in 2002. (Tiffany Pham) Computer science professors Stephanie Weirich and Steve Zdancewic, who both currently teach at the School of Engineering and Applied Science, are also married.
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CIS professors Steve Zdancewic and Stephanie Weirich were married in 1999 and came to teach at Penn together in 2002.
For students with busy schedules like College sophomore and Daily Pennsylvanian staff photographer Arabella Uhry, bartending is an ideal way to earn some extra cash. Uhry works another job on campus and is part of the varsity fencing team, and she has been a bartender at Penn Student Agencies since her freshman year. “It’s not a stable income, but it’s totally worth it,” Uhry said. “Honestly, it’s the best job on campus. Even though we don’t work often, you’re paid so well.” Bartenders are paid not only to pour shots, but also to provide social, friendly service to customers. Fenton cites people skills as an essential quantity student bartenders must have. When too many patrons are crowding the bar or a belligerent customer demands yet another round, bartenders must
“We don’t do the same research projects, but we’re in the same field, so that means that I always have somebody to talk to about my research,” Weirich
said. “You can develop that support anywhere — through your friends or through your colleagues — but it’s really nice to have a spouse in that role.”
stay amiable but keep the situation under control. “When you’re a bartender, it’s your job to keep everyone happy no matter what happens,” Fenton said. “It’s really, really important that you’re able to hold a conversation [and] be polite. You want to keep on engaging people.” Bartenders are also required to have a firm knowledge of safety standards. A program known as Training for Intervention Procedures ensures bartenders know how to ID clients, serve correct portions of alcohol, discern when someone is too drunk to be served and know how to deal with a host of other tricky situations. “If they go crazy on you, you learn in safety training different techniques you can use,” Fenton said. “One common technique is you put it on you. You go, ‘Listen,
I would serve you if I could, [but] I can’t legally.’” Overall, however, bartending is a relatively conflict-free job that Uhry calls “really fun and social.” Fenton said he loves talking to people who come hang out at the bar, while Uhry agreed that bartending helped her develop communication skills and deal with a wide range of situations. “You have people asking you to make things you don’t have the ingredients for, at the same time you have a group of people asking you to dance with them, at the same time you have another one of the staff who’s supposed to be working showing you the marijuana plant he’s growing in his house on his iPhone, and you have to serve drinks to everyone,” Fenton said, laughing. “It’s just funny. And you do it.”
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Saturday, February 20, at 1:00 PM African American Read-In 2016 During the month of February, schools, churches, libraries, bookstores, community and professional organizations, and interested citizens are urged to make literacy a significant part of Black History Month by hosting an African American Read-In. The Penn Bookstore is participating in an event led by Dr. Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, Assistant Professor at Penn’s Graduate School of Education. For more information about the 2016 National African American Read-In, visit: www.ncte.org/aari.
Thursday, February 25, at 6:00 PM Dr. Asali Solomon, Disgruntled Dr. Asali Solomon, author of Disgruntled, grew up in West Philadelphia. Her book is an elegant, vibrant, startling coming-of-age novel, for anyone who’s ever felt the shame of being alive. A portrait of Philadelphia in the late eighties and early nineties and an examination of the impossible double-binds of race, Disgruntled is a novel about the desire to rise above the limitations of the narratives we’re given and the painful struggle to craft fresh ones we can call our own.
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