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Was This E-Mail From The Provost All You Hoped It Would Be?

(03/16/10 3:14pm)

Today was the best day for Seniors! It all started with an e-mail from the Office of the Provost with the subject, "Was Penn all you hoped it would be? Tell us! Take the Senior Survey." Right off the bat, they baited us with a depressing use of the past tense, three different types of punctuation in one subject line, and a chance to take a critical look at our regrets from the past four years. But wait, there's more! Turns out there is a major incentive for taking this survey, which takes a whopping "less than thirty minutes." For every senior who completes it, $1 will be donated to the Seniors for the Penn Fund.


As We Go On, We Remember

(02/24/10 10:58pm)

Today, 2010 College graduates received an e-mail from the Dean's Advisory Board, requesting photo submissions for a CAS Graduation slide show. All of the graduates are sure to get teary-eyed looking at pictures of their 1500 best friends in the world having four years of zany times. The DAB asks that the photos are "tasteful" and "[limited] to those of just College students since it will be shown only to parents of students graduating from the College of Arts and Sciences."







Righteous Dopefiend At Penn Museum

(12/04/09 10:58pm)

Righteous Dopefiend - a new exhibit at the Penn Museum that interweaves photographs, recorded conversations, and fieldwork notes - opens tomorrow. Here's the description, courtesy of the Museum website: Anthropologist Philippe Bourgois and photographer-ethnographer Jeff Schonberg document the daily lives of homeless drug users, drawing upon more than a decade of fieldwork they conducted among a community of heroin injectors and crack smokers who survive on the streets of San Francisco’s former industrial neighborhoods. We recommend heading downtown for First Friday tonight, then checking this out tomorrow. It's the perfect Arts and the City-inspired weekend!


Wynnter Funderland

(12/04/09 4:41pm)

Stop by Houston Hall (Wynn Commons) from 11:00 a.m. (a little bit before right now) to 3 p.m. for SPEC Special Event's Annual Winterfest. Hub Bub is handing out free coffee and hot chocolate, there's a synthetic ice skating rink with skates available to rent (we've received word from a Street ed on the ground that it "looks dumb"), and s'mores.



Marshall Matters

(12/02/09 4:56pm)

We're pretty shameless when it comes to like-liking The Excelano Project's Josh Bennett. When we made him Ego of the Week last fall, he probably thought to himself, "Wow! Me! Ego of the Week! Today I am as famous as I will ever be." Turns out he was wrong, because he ended up on Under the Button like, at least four times after that! There were also mumblings about him being featured in HBO's Brave New Voices and on The Daily Show (crush on Penn, much, Jon?), and performing at the White House and the NAACP Image Awards. But wow, four times! What is he, the cupcake truck?







We Did Start The Fire

(11/17/09 10:42pm)

Remember when Princeton totally zinged us during Homecoming? Well they were probably trying to retaliate after last year's game, when school buses full of kegs and Penn students took their campus by storm.  Unfortunately for the Tigers, our debauchery seems to have had a far more lasting effect than temporarily interrupting students in the library. The Daily Princetonian reports:








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