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Lions Pantry volunteer

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Julia Loftus, a sophomore at Penn State, donates her time by helping to sort through food and stock shelves at The Lion’s Pantry. The Lion's Pantry welcomes donations of nonperishable foods, financial gifts, and time from volunteers throughout the Penn State community.

Professor Justin De Senso and his students

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Professor Justin De Senso has designed and is teaching the first upper-level face-to-face hip hop course offered within Penn State University.

Critical Approaches to Hip Hop course

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James Watts, a de facto teaching assistant in the hip hop course (far left), got to know De Senso as a first-year student and they have been freestyle rapping together for years.

Students learn hip hop is more than rap music.

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G. Mike Shott Jr. (far right), an amateur hip hop artist from Reading, is one of the most engaged students in the class.

Students studying the history of Hip Hop at Berks.

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Shott (far right) was a student in the first section of "Critical Approaches to Hip Hop" in 2019. He listens as Professor Justin De Senso (second from left) discusses the origins of the art form.