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Today the DP reported that Savory (you know, that place that takes Dining Dollars between Beijing and Wawa) is being replaced by a pizza joint in late August. The as-yet-unnamed restaurant is the brainchild of Gia dude (and Wharton alum) Marco Lentini.
Celeb chef and Penn fave Jose Garces (of Amada and Distrito fame) hung out with Meredith Vieira and the rest of the Today crew this morning, showing America how to make fish tacos. The recent James Beard award winner was promoting his cookbook Latin Evolution. Click here to check it out.
The Inquirer reported that the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts in Center City is leading an effort to preserve Bruce Springsteen's notebooks. Apparently one of them is from "a University of Pennsylvania shop."
We don't always have the nicest things to say about Penn InTouch, that archaic tool that makes it difficult for us to register for classes, check our transcripts, and change our contact info (seriously, we don't still live in the Quad!). However, this weekend the new Penn InTouch was unveiled (just in time for the frosh to start using their PennKeys and freaking out about advanced registration). And it is such an improvement we won't even complain that the worksheet function still needs a makeover.
In our own version of Gawker Stalker, as per a tipster: "Just saw Amy Gutmann on Walnut between 37th and 38th holding hands with her husband Michael Doyle. They were on their way from Pottruck, and yes, she is wearing a cutout black leotard and white basketball shorts."
In PSYC001, you were taught that you choose friends based on how cool, popular, and attractive they are. You learned that birds of a feather flock together, and thus similarity and proximity were super important factors when it came to picking your crew. Now the geniuses over at Penn have decided to go all Survivor on our ass. According to Robert Kurzban (an associate professor who teaches Human Sexuality):
You know how it goes: it's May, your flight home is leaving in an hour, and you just barely finished packing a year's worth of essentials. You don't have time to sell back your books, store your futon, or really do anything other than frantically hail a cab and hope the plane doesn't leave without you.
Our thoughts about COMM125 aside, it looks like Vincent Price has turned his interim provost term into a permanent one (Penn put a ring on it, if you will). Penn's Twitterati was abuzz about the announcement that came to students via a glowing e-mail from Amy Gutmann herself (we love her e-mail address, by the way: president@upenn.edu). Granted, much of the tweeting was in relation to former provost Ron Daniels's "dreaminess." Daniels left Penn in February to be president of Hopkins, at which time a collective sigh was heard from Penn's male-loving population (or at least from those who knew who the hell he was). While we won't vouch for any sort of Price yum-factor, we have posted the following video in his honor (our first choice was "Thriller", but Michael Jackson's manservants have disabled embedding):
As the incoming freshmen anxiously await their housing assignments, us upperclassmen are feeling a bit nostalgic. We've reported on the Penn YouTube channel before, but we came across this video just recently. Maybe we're huge nerds at UTB, but this clip gives us goosebumps (well, up until the five minute mark, when it becomes a fundraising plea). The shots of the Quad! And College Hall! And all the smart people! And the music! You're killing us, Amy.
Sometimes us undergrads forget about all of the impressive post-grad stuff Penn's involved with. For example, despite our horrific student health experiences ("Are you sure you're not pregnant?" "I just told you my throat feels scratchy!"), Penn has an impressive health care system, no doubt due to their sick med school.
Who doesn't love swag? I mean, when you're paying like a gajillion of your parents' hard-earned dolla dolla billz to go to school here, a few kickbacks (besides that whole world-class education thing) would be pretty cool. A few years ago, Duke gifted frosh with iPods. Earlier this month we learned that those kids over at Princeton would be getting Kindles. Now we hear that Indiana University MBA students will get special deals on BlackBerrys. Not to get all Veruca Salt on you (I want one NOW, Amy!), but can you imagine what would happen if Penn got in on such a program? (That was a rhetorical question, but HUP would probably have to build a BBM addict wing or something.)
This makes us sad (and reminds us of last summer's shenanigans), courtesy of the Philadelphia Daily News:
We love college, but we hate school. That is, we love Smoke's and Fling and the Quad and living as quasi-adults sans any real responsibility, but we hate exams and term papers and idiot TAs and sleep-deprivation. Summer is the time when we relish in the lack of schoolwork (though some of us are getting a taste of that whole 9-5 thing...which is another story), but miss that late night trip to FroGro after Kweder. Fear not! There are not one but two ways you can get your college-not-school fix during these long summer months.
We finally got our hands on a video of John Legend's post-Blarney College commencement speech. And it makes us wish we graduated this year. (Well, not quite. But still, the man is cool.)
So today the class of '09 was all like, "See ya, suckaz!" And A-Gut was all like, "Imma wear this silly velvet hat. And some bling that will make Flava Flav mad jealous."
First he has Josh Bennett perform at the White House, then he taps Jon Huntsman for an ambassador post, and then he hosts the Phillies in DC! Check out highlights from Friday's visit (or see the whole thing here):
Rumor has it College grad speaker John Legend was hanging out with his bodyguard at Blarney last night. We had pegged him as a Smoke's guy, but whatev.
University of Pennsylvania commencement ceremony, 1953. Image courtesy of Life Magazine.
Sticking around Philly this summer? This week Philadelphia Weekly came out with their annual summer guide. In true alt-weekly fashion, said guide lets you know about the summer's best concerts, art exhibits, and food events...and clues you into the best places to do it in public, the wonder that is Masturbation Month, and what "intimate" piercing entails. Hot and bothered, indeed. Oh, and here's the titillating cover:
Jon M. Huntsman, Jr. — governor of Utah, son of that Huntsman, and proud Penn pop — is expected to be named the U.S. ambassador to China today. Interestingly, Huntsman became fluent in Mandarin during his Mormon mission to Taiwan (just like some other Penn students we know).