TwitPenn Volume III
(09/29/09 11:05pm)
One of our biggest and most important responsibilities is finding out what people are saying behind your back and telling you. I mean, what are friends for, right?
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One of our biggest and most important responsibilities is finding out what people are saying behind your back and telling you. I mean, what are friends for, right?
Today at lunch Bon Appetit will be hosting an eating challenge. But it's not going to be like that time Kobayashi went head to head with a Kodiac bear in a hot dog eating contest, or like the impending burrito-eating contest at Fall Fest. This "Eat Local Challenge" is hardly a challenge at all.
It's the first week of interviews for On-Campus Recruiting, and we are sorry to report that here at Under the Button stress levels are high.
Long ago, during the International Year Of Older Persons, which happened to also be the standard-setting year for all future partying, there was this way cool group of Urban Studies students at Penn. With the help of Profs Benson and Harkavy of the Center for Community Partnerships, these go-getters took their aforementioned cool, mixed it with some good ole' fashioned passion, and created what we now know as The Rotunda. We're pretty sure they got an A+ on the project, since this music and arts venue has now hosted over 2,000 events, all organized by a group of volunteers and staff members who are "fueled by the belief that art is a catalyst for social change."
We learned how to locate and woo a bashert at Hillel Speed Dating this week. After much deliberation and repetition of the phrase "there are many fish in the sea," we have decided to share our accumulated knowledge with you. Mazel Tov!
Earlier today we told you about SPEC's Battle of the Penn Bands. Almost immediately, an argument (Mask and Wig vs. any other musical group) raged in several passionate comments. Unfortunately, it will be awhile before we find out who will win, or even participate in, that part of Fall Festival. But there's more to this event, which will take place on College Green Saturday, October 10. More than Penn bands doing covers of pop songs, you say? Why yes!
Weird things were going on in front of Van Pelt today. Check out the video for a less than investigative report with shoddy camera work.
Mayor Nutter will be on campus tonight at 7:30 in the Terrace Room of Claudia Cohen Hall, to talk to the Penn community about Philadelphia and the issues that matter to us, not some stuffy old politician with white hair and a jar of dentures beside his Tempurpedic and an absolutely boring personality. His speech will be followed by a Q & A session, so come prepared to ask hard hitting questions. We've got "What is your lunch meat of choice?" and, "Is it true that angels cry when I use bad language?" covered, so don't steal those.
SPEC Jazz and Grooves will take over the Rotunda on Thursday, October 1, for a night that will make any indie music fan's heart skip a beat. Brooklyn natives The Antlers, who we got a chance to check out at the Pitchfork Festival this summer, will be joined by Holly Miranda, a vocalist loved by Kanye West and Vanity Fair alike. More information about the musical acts, courtesy of SPEC, along with the music video for The Antlers' "Two," after the jump.
Registration for Preceptorials - free, non-graded seminars that usually meet three times over the course of the semester - is finally open! Sign up is through Penn in Touch and you should do it quickly, because why risk missing your chance to become a member of the complaining-about-not-getting-into-the-wine-tasting-preceptorial club? A large and powerful, though not exclusive, campus organization.
Let's face it. The majority of us spend way more time on campus than we should. We're in a city, for Pete's sake! A city with lots of fun goings-on around every turn. So in an effort to bring Philly to you, we'll be posting weekly weekend roundups, chock full of events that make crossing the Walnut St Bridge (or 41st St) totally worth your while. Enjoy the first edition, and be sure to check back for more!
Let's face it, we kids grew a lot this summer, and you know what that means: cargo khakis falling right at the ankle bone, lacy sleeves hardly covering second knuckles, and too-small shoes that have us tripping in more ways than one. Even the clothes that do still fit are teeming with out-of-style catch phrases and outdated cultural references. Donate it all to charity, student. We're going shopping!
While skipping to class this morning, we stumbled upon a large group gathered on Locust Walk. Since we were running late - it was our second class so we were already totally over the "first day of school, let's be on time," enthusiasm - we weren't able to check it out. Some research later on, however, clued us in that the crowd was gathered to listen to biology professor Nancy Bonini give a lecture entitled Drosophila and Human Disease: How the Fly Provides Insight into Brain Disease and Injury.
In our first of many video reports from Penn events, we hit last night's Convocation and learned a lot about the new freshman class. Enjoy, take notes, and discuss in small groups.
Good day to you, student body, and welcome to the first day of the rest of the year. It sure is early out! By this point, you probably have your morning routine down to a science. We sure do! (Wake up, take off jeans, hot shower, brush upper teeth with Aquafresh, cold shower, brush lower teeth with Crest, hot shower, do roommate's hair without waking him up, skedaddle, you're late!) And of course, without a cup of coffee somewhere in there, we'd never have the nimbleness of hand to get the braids quite right!
Our relationship with Penn's newest watering hole, The Blockley Pourhouse, has been rocky, at best, from the get-go. At first we were totally excited! Excited in that about-to-go-see-a-horror-movie-that-will-haunt-your-dreams-forever type way, but excited, nonetheless. Then, upon checking the ex-asylum, ex-almshouse out, we were unpleasantly surprised.
Nothing helps us college kids place a value on our education (and selves) more than highly relevant rankings and not at all arbitrary point values assigned by respectable publications. In fact, ever since this one, we've been feeling about as special as the 83rd item in any list does.
This year, Center City District Restaurant Week will take place from September 13-18 and 20-25. During this time, restaurants across the city offer their three course prix-fixe menus for $20 at lunchtime and $35 in the evening. Some quick mental math (That's a lie. An abacus, an unsuspecting DRL loiterer, fingers, toes, and tears all came into play here) tells us that this should start about two days after the smell of on-campus dining has lodged itself permanently in the walls of both of your nostrils, and three days after you have exhausted every feasible Commons salad bar combination.
Long, long ago, Founding Father John Adams (stud alert!!!) had the following to say:
Unless you've figured out how easy it is to sneak into the pool at the Sheraton on Chestnut St. the chances of you taking a dip in Philly this summer are slim. But worry not, my beached friends, because you are cordially invited to R5's Pool Party!