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Bloomers Show Fails to Pass the Bechdel Test

NEWS | Natalia Joseph
Sun, Oct 20, 2019

That's all good and well, but, despite an all-female cast, the Bloomers show failed to pass the Bechdel Test. Even though every actress on stage was a woman, every skit was centered around a man, his penis, and how that penis potentially might be shrunken down to nothing.

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Bloomers Show Fails to Pass the Bechdel Test

NEWS | Natalia Joseph Sunday, Oct. 20, 2019Sun, Oct 20, 2019

That's all good and well, but, despite an all-female cast, the Bloomers show failed to pass the Bechdel Test. Even though every actress on stage was a woman, every skit was centered around a man, his penis, and how that penis potentially might be shrunken down to nothing.


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Students Reserve Group Study Room to Study Individually Together

NEWS | Darrion Chen Sunday, Oct. 20, 2019Sun, Oct 20, 2019

In an effort to squeeze a social life into the Penn academic schedule, students have begun to reserve group study rooms just to study individually together. “I think it’s a really effective way of socializing. I say hi to my friends when I enter the room, sit down, and start studying,” said junior Arseh Ole.



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YouTube Commenter Can’t Decide If He Wants to Be Racist or Nostalgic Today

NEWS | Elias Rappaport Saturday, Oct. 19, 2019Sat, Oct 19, 2019

On Tuesday night, Youtube commenter YungWiz69 sat listlessly at his computer and tried to think of what to comment on Katy Perry’s official music video for 2010 hit “Firework". How did he feel? Like a plastic bag. “I just couldn’t decide,” YungWiz69 later told UTB. “Did I want to write ‘like this comment if you’re still listening to this in 2019!!’ or did I want to say ‘the worst part of this video is the gays.’ How do I choose!”




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Sophomore Assures Friends That He’s Cuter in Real Life

NEWS | Caroline Curran Friday, Oct. 18, 2019Fri, Oct 18, 2019

She scrolled through his Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Pinterest to find a flattering, non-blurry picture of his face from the past three years to no avail. All she could find were group pictures from his middle school soccer team and blurry Photo Booth selfies with the sepia filter.








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Unpaid Alien Intern Who Runs Our Simulation Starting to Get Worried

NEWS | Arman Murphy Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019Wed, Oct 16, 2019

"I designed you guys to be intelligent, creative and compassionate. You’ve had a pretty good run so far — discovering fire, inventing the wheel, embracing democracy and all that. Very cool stuff. But what the fuck is going on? You’re destroying your planet, World War 3 is about to break out, and racism is somehow still a thing? I thought I patched that out a while ago."


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Penn Orchestra Stuns with Flawless Rendition of 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star'

NEWS | Ian Ong Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019Wed, Oct 16, 2019

According to conductor Jamie Coppola, the orchestra had been rehearsing for the minute-long performance since early last year. “The piece is no joke. Technically speaking, it’s up there with Shostakovich’s Fifth,” Coppola remarked with watery eyes. “I was nervous as all hell, but I knew I could rely on my students to pull through.”


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Dean Furda Skims Google Form Responses During Class-of-2024 Delibs

NEWS | Lauren Baron Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019Tue, Oct 15, 2019

This weekend, during the monthly Admissions Office GBM, ardent Eagles fan and Penn Dean of Admissions Eric Furda supposedly led the search for Penn's best and brightest new students. However, sources on the inside report that "nobody really reads the applications since we switched from the Common App to a Google Survey link."



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Hill Dining Hall to Open Food Truck

NEWS | Darrion Chen Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019Tue, Oct 15, 2019

The food truck will have the familiar comforts of a perpetually empty chocolate milk machine, tiny oranges that aren’t worth the effort to peel, and too much fucking pineapple.