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And the SPEC Fall Connaissance Speaker is...BILL freakin' COSBY. Cosby will head to campus on October 20 from 8 to 9:30 p.m., to speak for a crowd in Irvine. A lottery for tix opens Monday at specevents.net.
Now that our football team is "good," or whatever, everyone's trying to make tailgating a thing. Day drinking? We're all for it! But before you go all Southern state school on us, we checked in with some authoritative sources to find out just how shady you'll have to be about your alcohol consumption.
The boys are not back in town. Along with its glitzy Entourage makeover, it appears the Coup De Taco gang are pulling a Vinny Chase and shooting for the big time. The truck's owners are blogging that they will be taking the truck downtown a few days a week, beginning tomorrow. Via the CdT blog: We will still remain at 40th and Locust for three or four days a week, ensuring that our home base customers know they can readily find us there. However, starting this week we will head to the famous and wonderful Love Park in Center City at 15th and JFK from 11am – 2pm one day a week (this week it’s Friday but it will usually be on Thursdays). We’re excited to give Center City a shot and to see if we can quickly generate a following there. We’re not sure if this will alienate our customers who walk up to our location on Friday not having read this blog or our Tweets to follow. I mean, yeah. We get it - trucks can drive places. But actually, we were kind of thinking of getting a taco today and now we can't and we don't feel good about it. If it's only going to be there sometimes for a quick lunch on the way to class, then yes, sometimes it will alienate customers.
Though UTB is not a political blog, and we hold no official political opinions today we woke up to read that WTF some guy is starting a Tea Party at Penn. Dan Chinburg, a grad student in the school of Education, tells the DP he has been promoting his Penn Tea Party branch on Locust Walk.
Blah blah blah, rankings. The Wall Street Journal has a ranking of Executive MBA programs, often geared to businesspeople looking to change careers, in which the Wharton program is ranked #1.
This just in: sources tell us Gia Pronto installed a soup bar on Tuesday evening. The soup bar will apparently offer ten soups on the daily! Photos, more investigation, etc, to follow.
Baby back ribs are coming to a street near you! Over the summer, we told you about Baby Blues BBQ, the barbecue joint that's set to open in the old Bubble House location at 3404 Sansom. Meal Ticket reports today that Baby Blues will open October 8. This happens to be the start to Fall Break, but a less busy weekend should allow some time to smooth out service and so on. According to Meal Ticket: The University City space itself has been overhauled to feature a centralized island kitchen, with counter seating, with a 1,000-pound meat smoker being the focal point. The restaurant, which can accommodate around 125, carries an industrial smokehouse feel, with original exposed brick and steel beams. Yum.
Extra, extra: it's good to be gay at Penn. This shouldn't be news to many of you, given our highly official status as the number one LGBT-friendly campus, according to Newsweek. But Newsweek's not the only one paying attention -- this month's issue of Details features a former 34th Street editor's profile of the LGBT outreach shindigs that go down during Penn Previews.
As we told you this Summer, Vanessa Bayer '04, is joining Saturday Night Live for its 36th season. Bayer, who was in Bloomers, Penn's all-female comedy troupe, made her SNL debut this weekend, in a skit called "Ladies Who Lunch." Though she doesn't have a major role in the episode, appearing alongside Amy Poehler and Kristen Wiig is no small feat. Check out the video above...Bayer's the one in pink.
The "write page 217 of your autobiography" essay prompt has died. The essay prompt, which was part of Penn's supplemental application, was well-known for driving eager high school seniors to confusion, tears, and on occasion, bouts of creativity.
Bemoan On Campus Recruiting and PennLink all you like. But before you write off job-browsing altogether, allow yourself a look between the lines of McKinsey and Goldman -- there are postings of jobs that take degrading to a whole new level.
Somebody Call 911 - A fire alarm just went off in Meyerson. Everyone was required to leave the building.
It's a paradox: DPS wants you to be safe, but they also want to track your location. Creepy? Just a little.
Things have come a long way for Penn coffee lovers in the last few years, with Hub Bub, Mojo, and Capogiro eclipsing the old Wawa fix. Dessert truck Sugar Philly is cashing in on the coffee beans too: they'll be offering the superb La Colombe brand of coffee starting today from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. They'll only have hot coffee today, but they say iced is coming shortly.
Writes a tipster:
In case you still believe there is a future for journalism (ha, ha - what up, job market!), the English department is now offering a minor in the journalistic pursuits!
The Daily Pennsylvanian and New York Times report that an autopsy performed on Owen Thomas revealed that the Penn football player had an early form of a disease that could possibly be linked to his suicide in April. As the DP explains, "The autopsy showed early stages of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, which has been found in over 20 deceased National Football League players. Thomas’ case is the first to be confirmed in a non-NFL player, and Thomas is the youngest known football player to develop the disease." The story is receiving national attention because of its implications for the sport and safety. Thomas' family said they chose to release the information to raise awareness and encourage education about the dangers of head injuries.
Things that sound dangerous when consumed together at MarBar: $1 Kamikaze shots and Free Ping Pong. MarBar, which has not been popular with Penn folk since circa 2007, may be making a comeback.
In today's Jobs sections of the New York Times, David Adelman tells the story of how he became the CEO of Campus Apartments. Obviously, obviously, Adelman got his entry into the company when he invested his Bar Mitzvah money in the company. It's a charming story really: " "Two years later, I gave Alan $2,000, my bar mitzvah money, to invest for me. He used it to help buy a building for off-campus student housing near the University of Pennsylvania. I probably had less than a 1 percent stake. Eventually I went to work for him. He’s chairman of the company now, and we still have that apartment building." It certainly takes some interesting foresight to invest your Bar Mitzvah money anywhere, and given the rent Campus Apartments charges, we have to imagine the investment yielded a good return.
Foodies, listen up. While we were away for the summer, lots of new spots opened up. There's now a juice truck and another coffee truck, a BBQ joint is under construction, and wine bar Biba should be opening any day now.