Penn In The News!

This is your midday Penn-in-the-news roundup. Because we love reading about ourselves.

• Penn alums Stacey Bendet C'99, Tory Burch C'88 and Aerin Lauder C'91 made Vanity Fair's 2009 International Best-Dressed List. Other Ivy League notables include former Chicago-area lawyers Michelle Obama of Princeton and Barack Obama of Columbia. [Vanity Fair]
• Education prof Robert Zemsky is publishing a book in which he argues that college degrees should take three years to complete. This would make your parents $45,000 richer and Smoke's 95% less crowded. [The Choice]
• A creepy Penn grad student proposed to some chick in court...while he was on trial for stalking her. City Paper used the pseudonym "Amy" to refer to the alleged victim, which made us giggle inappropriately. [City Paper]