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Only Got 40 Minutes to Save the World—Okay, not really. But Advance Registration ends at midnight. So go, go, go!
Well, while we were off having a bitchfit yesterday about the whole Penn/Penn State mix-up, scientists from both schools were actually putting the 150-mile difference aside, and teaming up to teach us all a little something about sleep paralysis. Sleep paralysis is a condition in which you feel like you are awake, but you are unable to move. Episodes occur in the stages between wakefulness and sleep and can last just a few seconds or up to several minutes. Some individuals can see and hear things (hallucinations), but they are not able to respond physically to them. [It] may occur only a few times during a person’s life, or as often as every night. The best part of the study is that experts at Penn and Penn State deduced that psychiatric patients and students have a lot in common. It turns out that these two groups are most affected by the condition.
In the one-minute clip above, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, communications professor and Director of The Annenberg Public Policy Center, speaks with the The Washington Post about Stephen Colbert's controversial Super PAC. She notes "the potential dangers of [his] money-in-politics parody" and discusses "whether or not his routine was indeed an innovative approach when it comes to educating the electorate"
Playlist of the Week: Did you miss it yesterday? It's okay, because it's on the internet, so it's still there and will be forever. Just like those naked pictures of you. Check it out today. Or tomorrow. Or in ten years. But really, today would be nice.
Well, the tweet speaks for itself. James Franco: out. Jeff Mangum: in. The indie rocker is coming to perform at Irvine Auditorium on January 25th, in some sort of collaboration with the Perelman Quad. Either way, get your tickets online this Friday and stick around for updates.
Eastern Standard Time begins tomorrow—Don't forget to fall back when the clock strikes midnight! Or one? Anyway, whatever your interpretation, we can all agree on the extra party hour.
You've always got old geezers (lookin' at you, Homecoming) lamenting the rapid deterioration of the English language, and yesterday was no different. In this Atlantic article, notable linguist and Penn alum Noam Chomsky duked it out against Penn linguistics prof Mark Liberman.
According to this grainy picture snapped by the folks on the 8th floor of Harnwell (who could see it better than their camera), two kids are goin' at it on the roof of ATO. If you have a better pic please send it in, because this one is not nearly obvious or shameful enough! It's not creepy at all, we promise.
Friendly PennInTouch Reminder: Kids, get all your immunizations in and finances sorted, because tomorrow, October 31st, is the start of Advance Registration for spring semester courses. We can't imagine anything spookier than being put on hold.
A joint project brought to you by the people at Punch Bowl, UTV13 and the Kelly Writers House, Classless is a new comedy about Steve, a senior who decides to create and run a second school paper to compete with the existing, established campus paper that he's got some sort of beef with (hmm...) and all the humorous shenanigans that such an endeavor would entail. (Like getting funding from an eerily SAC-esque committee.)
Great, well now you have. Check out this poster for yourself next time you're at Hill, and keep your eyes (and Kraft slices) peeled for Gilligan.
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This chick in the latest series of Computer Connection ads could've easily played Isabella in The Lizzie McGuire Movie.
Looks like renaming campus buildings isn't just for rich, stuffy Wharton grads anymore. A few of you have taken matters into your own hands.
The Kimmel Center, where the Philadelphia Orchestra's opening night was scheduled to take place this coming Thursday, is still in negotiations with union workers since their contract expired last week. But the show must go on!
Breaking News—Steve Jobs, Apple CEO and co-founder, died today.
A swarm of police cars, firetrucks and ambulances have closed down Walnut Street, where two cars crashed outside of PNC bank. The situation seems pretty serious, with the cars significantly damaged and people being pulled out on stretchers. Passersby are urged to keep on passing by to avoid any hindrance.
Vikram Chatwal was born in Ethiopia to Indian Sikh parents who moved to Montreal and then finally settled in New York. In other words, during his stint at Wharton, Chatwal was just one operation short of a Tabard bid.
You might by now have heard of Occupy Wall Street, an anonymous movement in New York City meant to put an end to the corrupt relationship between government and Wall Street.
If you were hanging around Fisher Bennett yesterday and felt like you encountered more hipster-clad individuals than the usual English majors that make their home there, you were right.