Yo, Basketball Fans
(10/08/09 1:21am)
As per an email from Penn Athletics:
Below are your search results. You can also try a Basic Search.
As per an email from Penn Athletics:
As if the Penn v. Penn State thing didn't confuse people enough, looks like we have another case of mistaken identity on our hands. Apparently the library called Fisher Fine Arts Library is in the building called Fisher Fine Arts Library, which is not in fact the same thing as Fisher-Bennett Hall. Thus endeth this most unnecessary PSA.
The University Archives are rife with amusing images that we like to share with you, dear readers. Please join us as we dissect how students used to live, in a feature we call "Dorm Living Throughout The Ages."
When Sprinkles opened a few weeks ago, we were excited about the prospect of a campus fro-yo spot, but were disappointed about the flavor selection (and specifically, we lamented the fact that there was only one tart flavor among a host of artificially sweet ones). Today we stopped by to pick up some vanilla with peanut butter sauce, and saw this sign:
Spring advance registration doesn't begin until November 9th (and fall drop period doesn't end for another two weeks), but spring courses are up on Penn InTouch already! Yeah, you're due for a requisite course browsing time suck right about now. Enjoy!
Remember the first week of freshman year when you signed up for about a billion listservs because you were so excited about all of the cool things you could do and the cool people you could meet? A few months went by, and you were all, "Um, no thanks," but you forgot to unsubscribe and just created a Gmail filter that sent all that annoying crap straight to your trash folder. But what about those listservs that you magically appeared on? Yes, we're looking at you, Slavic department listserv.
For the past month or so we've been hearing just how clever Penn is when it comes to investments. Amy filled us in on the numbers before we even got to school, and every news source in the country has been yammering on about how awesome it is that Penn's endowment only went down 15.7%.
In honor of last weekend's "Talk Like a Pirate Day" and this weekend's pirate party, we bring you this awesome photo of three Penn students en route to the "Pirate's Ball" in 1939. Yes, even 70 years ago Penn knew how to throw slutty pirate-themed parties. Thank you, University Archives.
Radian retail is notorious for taking forever to open, but the Kaplan Test Prep Center (which apparently is right near Smoke's now?) is relocating to that prime spot between Chipotle and the still-under-construction Bank of America. We hear it will be opening the week of November 8, but we won't be holding our breath (coughtaphousecough).
Glamour sponsors an annual "Top 10 College Women" competition, and this year one of Penn's own made the cut. Deemed "The Visionary," College senior Sohani Amarasekera wowed the magazine (and us) with her impressive stats.
Our intrepid Features editor Paul Richards sent us this photo of a firetruck zooming up Locust Walk. Turns out there was some smoke coming from a building near The Arch, but no actual fire to speak of.
Sure, they may love themselves, but we love them too. Yes, we're talking about the men of Mask and Wig, who put on a free show for the frosh last week. While UTBTV wasn't there, our friends over at the DP were. Though we sadly can't embed the footage, click here to check out the Wig boys in all of their cross-dressing glory.
We (along with our cupcake-loving compatriots) have been begging the Cupcake Truck (aka Buttercream) to come to Penn for weeks. Our prayers have been answered, as Buttercream will be making an appearance at 34th and Walnut from 12:30 to 2:00 today. There is a limit of six per person, and each cupcake will run you $2. Check out the menu here.
Last week the DP was all, "Yo, some kids got the swine flu." And we were all, "Ew. Even though the swine flu vaccine doesn't drop till mid-October, we should probably protect ourselves against the regular flu, since it's equally as gross." And our mom was like, "Duh. Sign up here ASAP."
We heard about it back in June, but the new kid on the (Spruce) block finally opened today. Taglio, the pizza concept from the people who brought you Gia, is the latest spot to open on campus. The verdict? DELICIOUS.
In honor of Rosh Hashanah, we present to you "Twitteleh: Twitter For Your Jewish Mother," starring former Ego of Week Reg Tigerman, C'07.
Yesterday marked the long-awaited opening of Sprinkles, Penn's very own self-serve fro-yo shop. As frozen yogurt obsessors, we clearly had to check this out for ourselves. Fourteen flavors, a billion toppings and strawberry water (!) served in a bright, clean space left us satisfied.
Summer is a time for change. After a four-month hiatus, we all want to come back to school looking better than we did in May, when finals left us in the fetal position on the floor of Van Pelt. You may have noticed that a girl from your freshman hall got a nose job, or that Dubois got a facelift or that the Love Statue is super shiny.
With NSO well under way, we bring you our favorite video of the week. Philly's ABC affiliate produced this little piece about move-in, and it is a gem. We have no clue why they filmed it in Hill (seriously, the Quad is so photogenic), but we're glad Amy makes an appearance. And the kid at the end is too cute.