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Maira Kalman's latest opinion art piece loves on Benjamin Franklin. Hard. While Penn doesn't get a shoutout by name, Franklinia does. And so do bifocals, the odometer, the American Philosophical Society and much, much more. Even Ben's success with the ladies is noted. B-Frank RULES!
Today we needed to use the new and oh-so-improved Penn InTouch to rearrange our fall schedule. But, to our dismay, we were denied. We're assuming registration is closed since freshman course requests are being processed, following the frosh advanced registration period which ended Friday at midnight.
Over at Philly.com, former DP ed Zoe Tillman tells us a depressing tale of blood, sweat, tears...and recessionomics.
This is your midday Penn-in-the-news roundup. Because we love reading about ourselves. The Penn Club is probably going to become a New York landmark. Yale owned it first, but Penn bought it 20 years ago. And it's 11 stories tall, which apparently is a big deal. [NY Observer] Penn grads rank 10th as far as mid-career salary is concerned, with a $118,000 median, and 8th for starting salary with a $60,400 median. While that's nice to hear, we think it gives us liberal arts kids false hope. [Economix] Jews love Penn because the school didn't discriminate against them back in the day. Also, Penn is all about legacy admissions. But Yale is sometimes more Jewish than Penn anyway. [The Daily Beast]
Starting tomorrow and ending the 30th, University City Dining Days bring you 20 of West Philly's finest restaurants. We'll give you the lowdown on why we think U City Dining Days are awesome in tomorrow's Summer Street (though we bet some people are pissed they aren't called West Philadelphia Dining Days). For now, here is your guide to the week's best deals.
As you know by now, John Legend went to Penn. Fellow Quakers take pride in this fact, and as such, the Penn Alumni Relations people are making it even easier for Penn alum to support their own. Legend is performing August 15 at the Mann Center in Philly, and Penn Alumni Relations has reserved a bunch of tickets for the show. Want one? For just $25, it can be yours. Alums, click here for more info.
While few things are more convenient than getting cupcakes delivered right to your door, Cupmakes is banking on South Street foot traffic to make their latest venture a success. Tomorrow they open a bricks-and-mortar incarnation of their make-your-own-cupcake concept at 2nd and South. They've added new bases, icing flavors and toppings, and have even begun including Philadelphia Brewing Co. beer in a some of their batter.
Being an unpaid intern means you leave the summer behind with but one tangible bit of compensation: the recommendation letter. While this non-monetary reward can't buy you, well, anything, it can in fact help you get a job. Career Services used to keep students' rec letters on file for free and send them out to potential employees for a small fee. It was a nice service, and being as though these documents take up what we assume is insignificant server space and that we pay $45,000+ a year to attend Penn, we took the whole no-filing-cost thing for granted.
While you may see the occasional kid biking from their off-campus digs, Penn is not a particularly bike-friendly campus, due in large part to Locust's no-bike policy. In fact, Philly in general is not especially kind to bikers. This, however, is about to change.
Philadelphia scored rather abysmally in a Trojan-commissioned survey about sexual behavior and satisfaction. Of the top 10 largest metropolitan areas in the U.S., Philly ranked 9th in terms of sexual frequency, with residents having sex an average of 73 times a year, and 8th in sexual satisfaction with a 64% satisfaction rate.
David Grazian, the professor of Penn's not-as-cool-as-it-sounds Sociology of Media and Pop Culture course once called out a certain Street editor in front of a 300-person lecture for surfing the net during class. The problem with this accusation was that Grazian indeed saw said ed online...five minutes before class was scheduled to start. Said ed, a wee frosh, cried in front of the other 299 students and never quite forgave the Gladwell-worshipping prof.
The Posse Foundation has announced a partnership Penn — and no, this is not relating to insane clowns or any sort of Regina George-led clique. Rather, the Posse Foundation creates 10-12 member "posses" of teens from underprivileged schools who in turn get full rides to top schools. Until now, most of the schools that participated were liberal arts colleges. Penn will be the first Ivy to participate, recruiting students from the Miami-Dade public school system. According to Inside Higher Ed: Students in the six cities served by Posse are nominated to be in the program by principals, teachers and counselors, after which they proceed on a track to one of the program's 33 institutions that recruit students from their city. After a multi-part interview process, selected students apply to their school of choice, and, if admitted, also receive an acceptance letter to the Posse Foundation. Once accepted to college but still in high school, they go to weekly supplementary education sessions, where they are taught college preparatory, conflict resolution, and leadership skills. Since the Ancient Eight don't award merit-based scholarships, Penn will award need-based scholarships instead, with the first class entering as members of the class of 2014 next fall.
You may not know this, but Urban Outfitters was conceived in Philadelphia in 1970. The company is still headquartered in Philly, which makes the Penn Urban outpost a little less pseudo-hipster-annoying and a little more culturally significant. Today the Times' Moment blog profiled Dmitri Siegel, the managing director of Urban's website. He shares his Philly faves, which include Le Bar Lyonnais, the ICA and all things Old City (Amada, Reward and the Ritz 5 make the cut). We dig it.
Don't get us wrong, we love pizza, but sometimes you have to stop trying to reinvent the wheel. We told you about Gia's plans to open up a pizza restaurant, and today the NY Times' Frank Bruni makes us think that Stephen Starr may be following suit: Stephen Starr, the owner of Buddakan and an owner of Morimoto, two of the grandest and gaudiest Asian restaurants in downtown Manhattan, has lately spent much of his time in New York eating his way through the city’s older and newer pizza parlors, on a gut-busting mission to figure out what works best and how to replicate it in Philadelphia, his base. Interesting. Will he be able to top Lorenzo's?
At Penn, if the housing gods smile upon you, you will spend your freshman year in a spacious two-room Quad double replete with all the amenities your 18-year-old self could ever desire — a bay window, fireplace, mantle, hardwood floors, high ceilings, an awesome roommate, a kegerator. And while Hell Hill residents claim to love the women's-prison-cum-coed-dormitory (big ups to Eero Saarinen, who also designed the St. Louis Arch!), many still yearn for air conditioning, floor space, and the awesomely collegiate look of the Quad.
We're not sure if we even care anymore, but it appears as though Harry Potter Daniel Radcliffe went all loose-lipped over at the Guardian and spilled the beans that Hermione Emma Watson is officially headed to Brown. Scout Willis (Demi and Bruce's other daughter, who was born between the one who is all up in the tabloids and the one who is "interning" at Harper's") is going there, too. The Roundup is so jealous. But, hey, at least we get Denzel's kid!
With Summer Session II starting tomorrow, we provide you with this:
This afternoon the Times published a piece about New York City valedictorians. We crossed our fingers that one of the highlighted almost-frosh would be going to Penn, and lo and behold, our wish came true! Queens native Adrienne Edwards is the valedictorian of Spence (you know, the tony prep school that Gossip Girl is allegedly based on), and headed to Penn come September. From her bio we know she got a 2160 on her SATs and wants to be a lawyer: Outspoken and assertive, Adrienne commuted 90 minutes by bus and train to Spence, where she enrolled in 7th grade and was head of the hip-hop dance group and the multicultural awareness club. “I don’t think I’ll be able to function at my highest anywhere else but New York because I’ve met all my challenges and had all of my progressions here.” We also learned she quoted Asher Roth in her valedictorian speech. Adrienne, we have a feeling you will indeed love college.
Today our friends at Cornell found out something kind of bad happened. By "something kind of bad happened" we mean that their "confidential personal information was stolen." And by "friends" we mean "45,000 current and former staff and students." Yeah, that sucks. According to the website Cornell set up to deal with this crisis: In June 2009, a Cornell-owned computer that contained a large amount of administrative data was stolen. Our review of a current backup of the files on the system revealed that confidential personal data for about 45,000 current and former staff and students, and some dependents, had been present. The good news is that the data hasn't been misused...yet. And that Cornell is picking up the tab for any and all "credit reporting, credit monitoring and identity theft restoration services." Here's to hoping Penn has a more secure system.
Freshman year our favorite photography professor told us about this chick Sarah Stolfa who took pictures of the patrons of McGlinchey's Pub (just east of Rittenhouse) and subsequently won a New York Times photography contest. We forgot about the Drexel grad/Yale MFA's work (entitled "The Regulars") until our beloved New York Magazine name-dropped it in this week's Approval Matrix, dubbing the "intoxicating photos of Philadelphia's barflies" highbrow brilliant. We agree, and we're excited to see Stolfa's book of the project (with an intro by Jonathan Franzen!) when it comes out next week. If only she'd do a follow-up series, "The Regulars: Smokes Edition"