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ShutterButton: Hey, Hayden Hall

(11/21/12 6:12pm)

Recognize this building at all? Nobody ever does! Originally built as Dental Hall in 1896, this building once served as the School of Dental Medicine. Push came to shove, someone donated, blah blah, and we flashfoward to 1915 when this building became The School of Fine Arts. Take that, rewind it back (foward), and the hall was renamed Hayden Hall. The Department of Geology was established here, as well as the Department of Bioengineering, and the building continued to thrive relatively unnoticed by the student body. Check out the University Archives for more cool photos like this one.






A Sandy Segue

(11/01/12 7:29pm)

Shown here is an impact of this week's Sandy. Almost three times the normal volume of leaf litter plagues the ground outside of Huntsman. Some of these leav OMG IS THAT A SEGWAY? Looks like someone does't mind locking $7,000 to a metal pole. Who wants to bet the owner lives here?




(Former) Lionsgate Producer To Speak At Penn

(10/30/12 2:00pm)

The Undergraduate Media & Entertainment Club (UME) and AKPsi (AKPsi) is bringing back Media and Entertainment Week to Penn, a five-day series of events that will not be ruined by an impending hurrication. Although the list of fun events has not yet been revealed, Allison Shearmur, the former President of Production and Development at Lionsgate, will be giving the keynote speech.



Please, Do Touch The Statue

(10/25/12 2:30pm)

Ever had the urge to grab a sphinx by the headdress and pick its nose? No, we're not talking about a member of the senior society (although that urge is still justifiable). We're talking about the Egyptian man-lion you learned about in grade school. The Penn Museum is offering "touch tours," an exhibit that allows visually impaired visitors to touch select artifacts. They don't even have to wear a rubber! (on their hands). So far, the exhibit brought in the Overbrook School for the Blind (DP video here) with the help of the coordinator of special tours, Trish Maunder, as reported by Philly.com.



Bridge Cafail

(10/19/12 3:45pm)

Well, that's depressing. WTF, Bridge Cafe? We knew you were going to revolutionize Huntsman Hall with your organic products, but not this organic. Organismic, really. Fly-infused curry chicken. What's next? French flies? Ladybites? Baked Alastinkbug? Whatever it is, just make sure the inset carcass has been cooked through evenly. Metro Bakery might be able to help ya out.


STOLEN CLASS DEVICE!

(10/15/12 2:00pm)

Wow, there are nice people that go here! It appears that this email sent by an ECON 101 student not only reveals his/her altruism, but it also clues us in on the fact that this professor only has one office hour. What? Isn't that totally against the Penn motto? Laws Office hours without morals actually being "hours" are in vain. We hope this pilfered pencil makes it back to its owner before someone reports this student for theft.


Shutterbutton: Campus, A Century Ago

(10/10/12 3:35pm)

Here's a campus map of Penn in 1912. Talk about improvement! Oh, the days when Locust Walk was Locust Street (trolley included) and Woodland Ave. = the hypotenuse (ya know, that giant diagonal across campus that takes you from Hill to Leidy?) Anyway, in the words of Prez Gutmann herself, "Here's my challenge to you, smartest class of all time blah blah" -- what can YOU find that's different in this photo? Comment below! Here's a clue: We know one thing that wasn't around, and it rhymes with "Man Felt."




Family Weekend: Translating Your Lies

(10/05/12 4:45pm)

It's finally that time of the fall: PARENTS EVERYWHERE. While you're busy re-labeling your porn folder “Multivariable Calculus” and hiding the lube, condoms, and toys (let’s be real, your parents don’t know what you do with a stuffed rabbit and a poptart), we've come up with some great tips on how to lie to your parents in a way that's almost truthful:






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