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OP-ED: We Got Rejected From an LGBTQ+ Club, Now We’re Converting to Being a Straight Couple

Even now, sitting across from each other at boozy brunch, we are searching our minds for an answer to how we ever thought of ourselves as queer.


If Hazing Is Morally Wrong, How Do We Weed Out the Little Bitches?

After a surprising number of rush chairs and presidents took PHIL 1000, they realized that hazing is — at best — morally questionable and perhaps wrong.


Photo Essay: A Mouse’s Tour of the High Rises

Welcome to Rodin College House, where ambition meets concrete.


Op-Ed: You Smell Like a Huntsman GSR

What is that peculiar scent? 



Quitting Nicotine Is So Easy! I’ve Already Done It Like 6 Times

Vaping is bad for you.


Breaking: Donald Trump (W '68) Stalls Saxby's Closing by 90 Days in Unprecedented Executive Order

Order comes amidst fears of coming closure.


BREAKING: Cork and Candles Shuts Down After Management Realizes What a Dumbass Idea It Was

Marketing professor Barbara Kahn put it plainly: "I don't know what the fuck they were thinking."


Breaking: Icicle Falls, Piercing My Chest and Killing Me

Just last week, light struck me. 


After Successful Diddy Indictment, FBI Begins Preparing Case Against Penn Disney Acapella

They told me that if I'm looking to sing Disney songs, then Penn Disney A Cappella isn't the place for me. Penn Disney A Cappella is the place for hardcore deviant sex.


Now You Must Choose Between the Overcoat and Carhartt

It's Time to Choose.


Jealous: Student Who Ran Half Marathon Can Eat Whatever They Want for Next Two Days

When polled, students reported being extremely jealous of the student's incredible accomplishment: not the fact that they ran a grueling 13.1 miles straight, but their newfound ability to eat a full pint of Ben & Jerry’s Tonight Dough guilt-free. 


To Improve Mental Health, Penn to Hang Two More Icicle Lights This Year

This will give students a staggering thirty extra seconds of exposure to the finest mental health resource out there: artificial LED light.


Happy Homecoming!! My Red, White, and Blue Sweater from The Real Real is No Match for Yours

In girl world, Homecoming (and also the Fourth of July) is the one day a year when girls can wear red, white and blue and no other girls can say anything about it. 


Op-Ed: Please Stay Out of My Line of Sight When Waiting for the Hip Thrust Machine

The bad part about someone watching you do hip thrusts is that you’re doing hip thrusts while someone is watching you.


I Lived It: Eating at a Different Halal Cart Is Basically Adultery

I don't know how I can go on right now. 


Midterm Seasonal Depression Cured by Vaguely Ethnic Frozen Meal From Grommons

I know one thing will always be there for me: my culturally diverse but also culturally sensitive but also culturally accommodating Grommons frozen meal exchange section. 


Everyone on Campus Was Terrified by My Costume. I Was Poverty for Halloween.

I had to look up what "poverty" was in the dictionary. I wad appalled when I read the definition. 


Breaking: My Cat Costume Was So Good That When I Got MERTed They Took Me to Penn Vet

I don't think it helped that I was meowing instead of speaking... 


Under the Button Officially Endorses Whichever Candidate You Were Planning on Voting For

Our endorsement comes at a critical time for democracy. We need to choose progress over stagnation; people over profits; stability over chaos; profits over people; we need to choose [INAUDIBLE MUTTERING] to be the next President of the United States.


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