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Would You Like An STD With Your Latte?

(11/13/08 3:21am)

When my friend Emma rolled into class today with her skinny vanilla latte from the bookstore, her bright yellow coffee cozy caught my eye. Not only was it not cardboard-brown, but it had writing on it... about VD. That's right. Courtesy of Merck, our Bursar-loving bookstore is providing caffeine-hungry coeds with HPV facts alongside their mochas. So what did we learn? That today 12,000 people in our age bracket got infected with HPV. Come on now, Gardasil and condoms, people!



Vote This: A Rant

(10/29/08 5:33am)

Like many of you, this is the first presidential election that I get to vote in. And it's a big one. When it came time to register, I had to make a pivotal decision: Philly or absentee? As a reluctantly proud Midwesterner, I decided to vote in that seemingly swingiest of states this election... good ol' Missouri. According to the statistics genius over at FiveThirtyEight.com (seriously, this guy is a baseball stat whiz turned political projection wunderkind), Missouri is clinging on to the Obama blue. But barely. Read: my vote counts. A lot.



At Least It's Better Than Easy Mac?

(10/20/08 6:20pm)

So. We've gotten yet another mention from the folks at NY Mag. Well, Wharton got a mention. Which we kind of hate. But given the context, we're okay with it. It appears as though everyone's favorite transfer student Ivanka Trump is promoting some sort of icky-sounding Healthy Choice microwavable meals. Asks Daily Intel: "Why would Ivanka promote something that hopelessly disgusting? She went to Wharton! Shouldn't she be worried about sullying the brand?" Yeah, she probably should be. But she's a Penn girl, meaning she is most likely just trying to watch her figure and please Daddy Trump. Plus, we actually kind of like her because she seems pretty smart, modeled for Versace and is relatively sans entitlement. What's a few bad marketing moves? We'd totally sip Pinks with her.


Because Chuck Would Totally Join Owls

(10/18/08 12:48am)

The only thing we enjoy more than watching Gossip Girl is reading NY Mag's Daily Intel reality index of each episode. They're fucking brilliant. But now they've started to tally up commenters' points at the end of every week. And we don't like it. Especially not this one... "The only Ivy League school this ragtag crew of friends and enemies would be accepted to, en masse, is Penn, not Yale. Minus 2." Ouch. We're going to pretend it's because they're all just so beautiful.





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