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What is the one thing in the world that you fear the most? If your answer is “animals that strongly resemble dinosaurs” or “compound eyes,” we empathize wholeheartedly but are sorry to say that we can offer no solace at this point in time. However, if your response is “West Philadelphia” and/or “the dark” we’ve got news that will brighten your day! (Note: This pun and those that follow, italicized for emphasis, unintended.)
It’s early in June, which means that some people are still surfing Craigslist for the perfect job, while others pass long days in the halls of General Hospital and the audience of Maury Povich. We’re confident, however, that you, our loyal readers, Penn-Linked your way into internships across the country.
It seems that our very own namesake was home to the 18th performance in Anthology Project's "Dance: 31," an exhibition in which artist Thomas Choinacky will spend the entirety of May dancing to a different song in a different location each day. For a group that describes its purpose as "keeping the audience on their toes with edgy work...and innovative performance spaces," we'd expect a little more than this failed-flash-mob-esque display. However, we do find the graduate poking her head out of the button hole, assumedly for an embarrassing picture, pretty entertaining.
NASA has announced its crew for a space shuttle set to launch in April of 2010. On this list is astronaut Garrett Reisman, who graduated from Penn in '91 with majors in Econ and Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics. According to this sport-y article in The NY Times that we can't be bothered to read thoroughly, and The DP ca. 1998, he was a member of ATO and the president of the Interfraternity Council.
Has finals season left you stress-eating your way through Hill's buffet line? Do you feel guilty for all of those times when you chose a slice of Allegro's Buffalo Chicken over the lamp-warmed frozen pizza at Commons?
Starting around 9 p.m., the corner of 40th and Walnut started to flood with West Philly teenagers. Hundreds of them. McDonalds, Fresh Grocer, and Greek Lady closed their doors to business while the police barricaded Walnut between 39th and 40th, and 40th between Walnut and Market. Tipsters reported seeing nightstick-wielding police officers attempting to herd the mob away from campus, as well as helicopters circling the area at around 10:30. By 11:00, the mob had dispersed and the line outside of Smokes (protected by a security guard) was back to its usual Saturday bustle. According to the DP, the Philadelphia Police Department has reported an assault against an officer.
UTB was busy getting flung with the rest of campus, but now we're back to report on the aftermath. First, a strange-but-true dispatch from last night...
For those of us looking to funk up our lives a little, SPEC-TRUM and SPEC Jazz and Grooves are providing the perfect opportunity. Enjoy the confusing but beautiful weather tonight in Wynn Commons, where Little Brother will open for Robert Randolph & The Family Band. Doors open at 7:00 and Little Brother is set to go on at 7:30.
It would seem from the image on the right, taken in a study cubicle in Huntsman Hall, that some sad soul has reached his business breaking point. Sure, we’ve embraced Huntsman vandalism before. But scrawling “FML” in a number-2 pencil just doesn’t make the cut. Instead it leads us to the following rant.
Each May, right after the end of finals, hoards of Penn students gallop south to Baltimore, Maryland for the Preakness Stakes.
Arts and Letters requirement got you down? Worried about whether or not your business casual slacks will cut it in Fisher Bennett, or even (gasp), the Kelly Writers House? Sell your vintage Retro Ramones Tee to the first angsty tween you pass on Locust Walk. We’ve got shopping to do!
As I hunkered down to start writing a response paper with a 6 AM deadline (ca. 12:53 AM), the four cups of black coffee I chugged with dinner caught up to me. Happy to have chosen the Harrison computer lab for its vicinity to both my house and a bathroom, I made my way down the hall, stopping briefly to glare at the excessively chatty clique seated near me (Friendship is for Rosengarten, kids.) Upon opening the restroom door, I was greeted by the following scene (see Exhibits A & B).
Lost kicked off its new season last Wednesday, leaving fans throughout campus disoriented, befuddled and disheartened. If you have a roommate who would judge you for lying in bed all day watching Lost online, missed the recap, or feel like it's been gone for so long that your memories of it are black-out-esque, there's still hope for enjoying Season 5.