Locust is known for many things — flyers, tour groups, bad luck and B-Frank — but today we can add one more to the list. Apparently a couple is taking advantage of the weather and, uh, getting married on the Walk. Is this legit? We have no idea, but we’re really digging the girl with a pancake on her head (assuming she’s even involved). Maybe they’ll honeymoon on Spruce. One more shot of the newlyweds after the jump.
Oh man, everyone is loving the nice weather! Everyone wants to sing! Counterparts even put on what seems to have been an impromptu enjoyed the sunshine for their concert preview on the High Rise field. Holy floral dresses and flip flops, it’s Spring! (At least until it rains on Monday. Enjoy it while it lasts!)
Tipster Abigail Jonhston sends us this picture of some brave soul dressed up as an astronaut near the Tampons today. Um, is he dying of heat exhaustion?
Like a groundhog seeing his shadow, the start of spring elections campaigning can only mean one thing- candidate videos are here! Watch as our favorite StudGov hopefuls attempt to wow you with puns, graphics, and a whole new variety of discomfort.
We’re trying to get as much use out of our arbitrary point system as possible, so bear with us if things get a little competitive. Meet Matt, Jake, and Jon after the jump!
For too long we’ve put up with Metro’s hard-as-a-rock bagels and the unbearable lines (and even worse service) at Einstein. So we were excited when we passed this sign outside of Capogiro today. Still a little skeptical, we did some investigating – and it turns out the bagel fairies have finally decided to bless Penn’s campus! Capogiro pulled out the big guns and is now offering New York’s iconic H&H Bagels in various flavors. To top it off, they’re serving them with a variety of spreads and toppings – including organic peanut butter and avacado. All we can say is thank you, Capogiro. THANK. YOU.
Via Hill College House’s Wikipedia page, we dug up this gem of a fact: “In common with other buildings constructed at the height of the Cold War, the basement of Hill contains a fallout shelter, which links to the University’s utility tunnels.” According to a 1996 DP article, “The Geology Department has used it for rock storage, Hill residents have filled it with personal belongings and several escaped pets reportedly call the tunnel home.” Charming.
Because we more than occasionally browse Penn Wikipedia pages.
Welcome back, dear readers, from your far off beaches and emerald-clad day drinking. Welcome back from your villas, your cruise ships, your volunteer high-horses and your parent’s couches. Welcome back to the grim (but Spring-ish!) clutches of reality.
We could dwell on the impending doom of finals and graduation and internships and cankles, but to be honest we’d rather talk about ourselves. And thank goodness, because this week’s issue of Street is anything but grim. Our feature is the story of Giovanni’s Room, the country’s oldest gay book store, and its fight for first acceptance and now survival. Food gives us the granola bar lowdown, Music helps you find a summer job in the Music industry and Bobby Valentino checks in with a post- Spring Break message to the bodacious shorties among you. Ronald Jordache (yes, Jordache!) Wynn of Mask & Wig is Ego of the Week, and of course there’s the usual gossip (omgbestbreakever), reviews and general wonderfulness.
Pick up the issue! Or download the .pdf. Regardless: our weekly Writers’ Meetings will resume tonight, 6:30 p.m. at 4015 Walnut. If you have any interest in contributing to Street, stop on by!!
SPEC finally announced the final two artists for this year’s Fling concert: LA-based rapper Snoop Dogg will be headlining, and fellow Californian rapper Shwayze will open for Kid Cudi.
According to a press release, SPEC “chose 3 hip-hop artists because students have responded well to the dance party vibe that shows have had in the past.”
For ticket and event information, see after the break.
So, basketball didn’t work out this year, but Penn beat Princeton where it hurts: the money game. According to Philly.com, Penn has more billionaires on Forbes list of the world’s 1,000+ billionaires. With at least 25 billion-izz-aires with ties to Penn, the Quakers handily top the Tiger’s nine. The list includes some notables: the world’s 3rd richest man (Warren Buffett), a Quadrangle namesake (Ronald Perelman), and a casino mogul (Steve Wynn). The list also includes some not-so-notables, including supermarket heir Charles Butt. Mr. Butt, we’re glad you fell into foodstuff fortune, because we’re not sure if success was otherwise playing in your favor.
With all this sunshine, it’s just too easy to play on the word “spring.” Last weekend, father time told us to “spring forward.” And we’re all looking forward to that (sexual or intoxicated or both) “spring fling” in the coming month. So, it’s no surprise Pottruck joined in. Tomorrow night’s Late Night event at Pottruck, “Spring into Fitness,” features new releases of the unnecessarily capitalized (but necessarily intensified) “BODYPUMP” and “BODYCOMBAT” workouts.
Gym rats, rejoice. If free BODYCOMBAT doesn’t get you going, we’re not sure what does. For the rest of us, the timing of this free workout session is prime–especially considering how many calories will likely be consumed today.
Every year, Street does a little thing called the Best of Penn. It’s simple, really: There’s a survey. You have opinions. You vote. We count your votes. And then we print your votes, along with words and pretty things in the April 1st issue of the magazine.
Whether it’s Penn’s technological failures, music venues, fro-yo, or places to secret poop, as students you know this campus best. Here’s the chance to have your say.
What about the Midbest?
Hey, here’s one summer internship you might qualify for! This Google Ad for an “Ivy League program at Wharton for high students” was spotted yesterday on the DP’s homepage (whattup, tipster Corey!). Seriously, folks – it’s like they try to make it easy for us! What’s next? A class called Perform Anal? An internet-scam-like email from the Provost? Oh wait…
Penn Grad Malcolm Dorson (C’04) is following in the footsteps of underlings-turned-authors Lauren Weisberger and Lizzie Grubman—but this time covering the Wall Street beat after getting booted from Deutsche Bank back in 2009:
Given the similarities between Dorson and his protagonist Callum Littlefield (boarding school prepster, Ivy Leaguer, Wall Street whiz), we’d expect this was a “screw you, Deutsche” roman à clef, but the author has only denied any truth behind his pages.
Really? The striking real-life similarities only remind us of Weisberger’s Miranda Priestly/Anna Wintour conundrum.
Perhaps even more surprising, however, this finance guy is not a Whartonite. Maybe that’s why the book is actually being touted as “the beach read of 2010” by the very literary-minded site, Guest of a Guest.
We’ll let you know when if we read it. No word yet on whether the “Ivy League university” in the book’s description is Penn.
Today was the best day for Seniors! It all started with an e-mail from the Office of the Provost with the subject, “Was Penn all you hoped it would be? Tell us! Take the Senior Survey.” Right off the bat, they baited us with a depressing use of the past tense, three different types of punctuation in one subject line, and a chance to take a critical look at our regrets from the past four years. But wait, there’s more! Turns out there is a major incentive for taking this survey, which takes a whopping “less than thirty minutes.” For every senior who completes it, $1 will be donated to the Seniors for the Penn Fund.
Hold on a second, Provost Vincent Price and Vice Provost Andrew Binns. Is this some type of internet scam? What’s next? You tell us to click on George Bush with a boxing glove cursor and promise us an iPod if we aim correctly? Promise us $1,000,000 for being the three hundredth Penn student to open your e-mail? Unfortunately we were unable to complete the survey due to severe, severe boredom, so there’s really no way of knowing.
The only question that really got us thinking was, “Would you encourage a high school senior who resembles you when you were a high school senior to attend Penn?” It wasn’t an option, oddly enough, but we would have answered “A high school senior with a face like that and a booty that does that belongs in Hollywood.”
