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Picture it: you're on your way to "Ideas in Mathematics" or some other unbearable class, and you decide to pick up a DP (newspapers? booooo!), but soft, what light through yonder DP breaks? It is Street, back from fall break for your reading pleasure!
It sucks that we only get two days off for fall break, but those two days tend to blur with the end of the previous week, resulting in two abbreviated weeks of classes, and, for one night only, a "This Week at Penn" post that starts on a Thursday rather than a day of the week closer to the week's beginning. Coincidentally, or maybe because we just fail to realize how biased we are, each of the following events pertain to feminism. Hooray!
A certain RSS junkie and friend-to-UTB wrote in to draw our attention to this contest, which she found via Geekadelphia. (Nerd!) We are now rethinking our previous Saturday plans of camping out on the fifth floor of Van Pelt, because, hello? An actual treasure hunt that might result in us winning a $20,000 diamond ring? Um, AWESOME.
We were strolling along Walnut Street a few hours ago between classes and happened upon what looked to be, this being West Philly, the unfortunately familiar silhouettes of some beggars. But when we looked closer, we saw that the bodies weren't moving, making them not homeless people but shabbily-dressed mannequins. We all know Addams is the Fine Arts building, so we have to ask: what kind of bizarre senior thesis project is this?
Everyone here at UTB hopes you had a splendid break! While you were eating at Applebee's with mom and dad, here's what various Street editors and blog gadflies were up to.
Anonymous UTB moles tell us that one Sacha Baron Cohen may pop up at Penn some time in the very near future to work on his follow-up to Borat, Bruno the Movie. Dorm staffers have been given strict instructions not to let his pesky faux-documentary camera crews inside any buildings:
We can't help but feel that campus activity has grinded to a halt in honor of Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement, and there's sadly no new issue of 34th Street this week to distract us. And not like we check the numbers obsessively or anything, but we've also noticed a major dip in this blog's traffic since sundown yesterday. We also feel a little sheepish being the only person around that's not fasting today. So, as usual, we decided to type our problems into Google and see what the search engine offered up in return.
We were doing some important research on Seventeen magazine's website (shut up) and we came across this item on Penn Badgley. Who is Penn Badgley, you ask? We wish we didn't know! He plays pretentious emosogynist Dan on Gossip Girl, and we completely hate him for lots of reasons, not least of which is that his first name is Penn.
A pigeon waits for the el line at 15th and Market--gotta get back to Penn before Sociology of Media and Pop Culture!
Welcome back to our abroad blog (=abrog) feature, Gentlemen, Scholars and Study Abroggers, in which we showcase one transatlantic blog each week. On the menu this week is Rachel Knight Squire's blog, Squiring Around London.
We haven't heard much about Amy Gutmann lately. How's she doing? What does she think of Sarah Palin? Since we'd like to catch up with Amy, but don't actually, um, know her, we decided to look up her horoscope and extrapolate from there. If this "public figure" Facebook page is to be believed, Amy Gutmann's birthday is November 19, making her a Scorpio. Scorpios are known for being intense and powerful, but also mysterious and secretive. According to our favorite astrologer, this month Scorpios are having a tough time forging ahead in their projects, and are even considering switching jobs! Oh noes!
CollegeOTR tipped us off to Trojan's sexual health report card, a glorified survey on campus resources masquerading as some sort of racy report rather than what it is, a press release that they hope will get picked up on blogs like this one. Mission accomplished! Penn ranks 21, behind Columbia, Cornell and Brown, but ahead of Harvard and Yale. We're not sure what the implications of this are--can we expect to get more severe STD's when we hook up with Yalies? Will this harm Penn's permanent sexual transcript?
Do you read Philadelphia magazine? Unless you are an upper-middle-class Main Line mom, the answer is probably no. However, if you tore yourself away from gchat for a moment, you would discover that it's quite a good magazine. But we know this is unlikely, so we're here to summarize!
Quick, check out the The New York Times's homepage, which currently features a big ol' story on none other than Philadelphia's Mural Arts Program, which this year is celebrating its 25th anniversary. "Community public art can knit people together in a way that other things can’t," program director (and erstwhile Penn prof!) Jane Golden tells the paper. An accompanying slideshow features more murals you may have noticed during your travels about the city. We offer a virtual pat on the back to all the community organizers out there who've contributed to this project (and would like to point out to Sarah Palin that community organizers, do, in fact, make a difference sometimes). Three cheers for murals!
Street editor and arbiter of cool Hillary Reinsberg writes in to tell us about the splashy new blog from "queen of buzz" Tina Brown. Because you need something to read between UTB posts.
From the looks of all the chalkings on the walk today, it seems that the senior societies were out in full force last night to welcome their fall inductees. The Sphinx mark is blanketing Locust from 40th street to 34th, while Mortarboard's "MB" stamp is slightly less ubiquitous. No sign of Friars yet--can we expect them to strike back tonight? Or will rain come and wash it all away?
Saucy, sassy and all-around fabulous Street editor and DP columnist Julie Steinberg managed to score an interview with our crush of crushes, Anderson Cooper, when he was on campus yesterday. Here's what he had to say.
We just returned from Anderson Cooper's speech at a packed-to-both-balconies Irvine Auditorium. Cooper was well-spoken, witty, self-effacing, and said he sounds "like a 12-year-old at an NSYNC concert" when he yells. It would not be an exaggeration to say he was adorable and perfect in every way.* Check out this clip from the opening of the speech:
In the last installment of our book club, we fawned over Curtis Sittenfeld's brilliant American Wife. Because we are apparently only capable of reading books with very similar-sounding titles, this time we're reviewing American Widow, by Alissa Torres.
We O.D.ed on cupcakes during our Vice Presidential debate eating game. (And every time Sarah Palin winked, an angel got its wings.) We laughed and cried with (but mostly laughed at) our compatriots in Wharton. We ignored all this semester's work and looked dreamily ahead to next semester. Our Sports for Chicks columnist decoded football. DJ Spooky came to the ICA and told us to expect "wild stylz" from him. We saw a naked frat guy on Locust Walk. We scoured the world [wide web] for the first installment of our abroad blog feature. Our sex columnist lamented a missed pill. We almost got to see Zach Braff and Drew Barrymore. See you next week tonight at Van Party.