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Ivy League Mentors Give Advice to College-Bound Students

We can give students all the advice we want about the college-application process, but what they really listen to are other students.

Now, a group of 45 students at Ivy League schools are offering their services as mentors to college-bound students through a new website called IvyAlly. Some of the advice is free; some requires a fee.

“Our vision is to level the playing field in the admissions process and shift it from one that favors those whose parents can afford advice,” says Greg Klimowicz, a junior at the University of Pennsylvania and co-founder of the new site. The idea is to connect current undergraduates who got into their dream schools and can share their recent experience with high school students looking for a community of support.

Klimowicz says he got the inspiration for Ivy Ally from working at the Netter Center for Community Partnerships at Penn in a program called College Access and Career Readiness. There he helped Philadelphia high school students with advice and support in the college-application pro

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George Smart is on a mission to save mid-century modern houses. He believes the structures are works of art that people should respect—if they only realized their significance and knew how to preserve them.

Smart relies on the Internet Archive to maintain his open digital collection of modernist residential homes along with back issues of architectural magazines. He uses the Wayback Machine to find architectural firm websites and search for vintage publications.

“I find the Internet Archive is great…curated in a certain way and very organized,” Smart said. “They are trying to innovate all the time and figure out ways to archive different kinds of materials.”

About 10 years ago, Smart launched USModernist Archives, a nonprofit dedicated to chronicling the work of notable architects and educating the public about their masterpieces built roughly from 1945 to 1969. Its Architect and House Archives includes the life work of 150 architects, such as Frank Lloyd Wright and John Lautner, and details of 21,000 houses, including photos, address and renovation histories.  

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Will Jawando

American politician (born 1983)

William Opeyemi Jawando[1] (born January 2, 1983) is an American politician and author who has served as an at-large member of the Montgomery County Council since 2018.[2]

Background

Jawando was born in Silver Spring, Maryland,[2] on January 2, 1983.[3][4] He is biracial, with a white mother from Kansas, Kathleen Gross, and a Nigerian father, Olayinka Jawando, who divorced when Jawando was six years old.[5] He attended the Catholic University of America, where he earned a B.A. degree in sociology in 2004 and a J.D. degree in 2007.[2]

In May 2022, Farrar, Straus and Giroux published Jawando's autobiography, My Seven Black Fathers.[6] The book follows his early life and career, with each of the book's chapters describing each of his "fathers".[7][8]

Political career

Jawando first got involved in politics as a student at Catholic University, where he made efforts to establish a campus NAACP chapter, which was res

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