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As you may have guessed from the sporadic number of posts over the past few days, UTB is winding down for Spring Break. We'll only be updating intermittantly over the next week, but by all means, continue to send us tips from Acupulco/New Orleans/a cob web-laden corner of Van Pelt/wherever you're spending your break. Now, if you'll excuse us, the button's been looking a little white lately, so pass the tanning oil.
Even as campus gradually de-populates in anticipation of spring break, pledges have not stopped doing ridiculous things. A tipster sent us this shot of a gorilla chasing a banana down the walk. We assume the banana is running in the direction of the fruit stand at 40th and Locust.
Today in random campus desecrations, Penn's very own fashion club presents a promotional image for its spring show that manages to offend, baffle and entertain us all at once.
Gee, Time magazine, thanks for pointing out that there won't be any jobs for graduating seniors this year. We kind of had an inkling that something was up re: our future unemployment this morning when Career Services sent out a lovely pep talk in the form of an e-mail blast to the senior class. The subject line was: "Seniors -- Freaking out about your post-grad job search?" Um, 1) Why shouldn't we be freaking out? We are coddled college students who expect everything in life to be easy for us. Life is hard!!! 2) Wait, so if you're saying we shouldn't be freaking out, that means some people must be freaking out, and that freaks us out even more. So now that you mention it...hey seniors, let's all freak out about this!
The Art Club's squirrel installation kicked off today, as evidenced by the big plaster squirrel chillin' on College Green. The critter is surrounded by paint and paintbrushes, so anyone can leave their mark.
It's Sophomore Skimmer day, whatever that means. Waiting outside in the cold for some cupcakes? Go Penn '11!
While we all trudged to campus in the snow, classes were canceled for students in the College of Liberal & Professional Studies (the artist formerly known as CGS, as it were). The decision was made at about 2 p.m. today, after the brunt of the storm. Lame, but considering that a lot of LPS students commute to campus, understandable. (We're not jealous of the LPSers, just bitter that College kids slummin' it in LPS courses got a day off.) Check out the e-mail, after the jump.
UTB contributor Janice Dow's shot of 59th street.
The DP reports that Grammy guy John Legend will speak at the College's graduation ceremony. Top that, Wharton!
Here it is, conclusive evidence that our prez has a sense of humor. Guess who was spotted enjoying a Saturday night performance of Penn's all-female musical and sketch comedy troupe's spring show, "O Bloomer, Where Art Thou"? The one and only Amy Gutmann! Our fair president was in attendance with her husband, and it would be fair to say she was laughing her little heinie off. (As a disclaimer, we should mention that several Bloomers girls are former Street editors.) Check out some pics below.
The shenanigans continue! We're not sure if this was pledging-related or just a regular Wharton display of blowing off some steam.
As one of the twentieth century's great intellectuals once said, "Monday, one day. Tuesday, two day. Wednesday, when? Huh? What day? Thursday!" Yes, Thursday is the day of days, for it is when new issues of 34th Street arrive and your life improves by a factor of 34. The stakes are high with today's issue, because the cover story is about gambling. Put on your poker face and/or your reading glasses and have a look. Also a safe bet? Ego's got roller (derby) rage, Food & Drink reviews Chifa, Guides jet-sets to Gay Paree, and Lowbrow is a hymn to foxy boxing (or maybe just foxy boxes). Plus lots, lots more!
The latest plague of Memes That Need To Die is currently sweeping Facebook: posting a picture of a bunch of cartoon characters and tagging your friends in the image, yearbook superlative style. Click the image at right for a full-size view. The drama queen! The one with the bad memory! Ha ha ha, we can hardly stand the hilarity of it all! Or, wait, yes we can. Now can we please halt the proliferation of this poor-quality jpeg?
America's crazy uncle Joe Biden will be speaking at Irvine on Friday, we hear. The vice president will be participating in a "middle class task force," our tipster reports (which sounds a little more Penn State than U. Penn, if we don't quell our impulse toward Ivy League snobbishness). Check out a White House press advisory here. We also hear there will be no tickets for students. So you can't go. But you will get the chance to be within 1,000 yards of Biden, whoopdeedoo.
A classically-inclined tipster sent in this camera-phone snapshot and the following tidbit: "This is pledges in togas interrupting Greek and Roman Mythology this morning to perform a scene from the Odyssey, including such memorable lines as 'Odysseus, come sheathe your sword and let's go to bed together, mount my bed and mix in the magic work of love.'" UTB is addicted to frat antics -- hook us up with our next fix.
The DP reports that this year's graduation speaker will be Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Definitely an imaginitive selection. We're not passing judgement yet, but we'll note the following: 1) This will make three white males in a row. 2) Google wasn't good enough to replace Webmail, but apparently it's just dandy for commencement.
Campus Apartments--where cool people live! as per their ubiquitous advertisements--is having a Mardi Gras celebration tomorrow. Holiday theme parties are an interesting perk, but frankly we would prefer HBO. Here's the e-mail they sent reminding tenants to pick up their beads for the festivities:
An e-mail announcing that Philadelphia Media Holdings CEO Brian Tierney will be speaking on campus this Friday just landed in our inbox. This is, uh, kind of inauspicious timing considering that he filed for bankruptcy yesterday. Don't get us wrong, we're definitely pulling for the Inky and the Daily News -- this just reminds us of the time MTV asked Britney Spears (still very much in her hot mess stage) to perform at the VMA's in that it doesn't really seem like the best idea at this particular moment.
We'll be holding office hours again this afternoon. Catch us online (underthebutton@gmail.com -- on AIM or Gchat) around 3 p.m. Tell us about your weekend, submit an overheard, talk shit, give us your Oscar predictions, send tips, whatevs.
Foobooz reported this week that The Blockley Pourhouse is opening up shop right here in University City. (U. City trivia: Blockly refers to William Warner Estate of Blockley, which is what our lovely home was known as before Penn bought it.) The target date for opening is March 21, and according to Craigslist, open house for job seekers will continue through tomorrow. They describe themselves as a "live music/beer garden/gastro pub." It'll be tough to out-class Chili's, the reigning restaurant on the 38th and Chestnut block, but we're excited to see Blockley take a shot.