Remember the first week of freshman year when you signed up for about a billion listservs because you were so excited about all of the cool things you could do and the cool people you could meet? A few months went by, and you were all, “Um, no thanks,” but you forgot to unsubscribe and just created a Gmail filter that sent all that annoying crap straight to your trash folder. But what about those listservs that you magically appeared on? Yes, we’re looking at you, Slavic department listserv.
Apparently any and all students who have taken a class in the department are automatically added the department’s listserv, and today a fed-up senior finally asked to be removed. Except, instead of pressing the unsubscribe link, she emailed the entire listserv… alums included. This then set off a flurry of reply-all emails to the listserv by dozens of students asking to jump ship as well.
Yes, Penn students are listserv abusers. And don’t understand the concept of reply-all. We have to say we were pretty entertained by the responses asking if anyone was going to Sink or Swim tonight though. The best part? The Slavic department contacted the girl who started the chain and warned that sending “pranks” over the listserv was grounds for discplinary action.
Listen, we understand that OCR is stressful and that getting a job is hard, and so we’re usually totally understanding of the fact that you do what you have to do to secure future employment. However, we just stumbled upon this pair of underwear in front of Huntsman, and considering that interviews start today, the whole thing feels a little suspicious.
We have some words of wisdom to impart, as well as a close-up of the garment, after the jump.
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We were psyched when US News & World Report gave us fourth place in their annual rankings, placing us alongside such famous #4′s as Brett Favre, Georgia, and The Color Purple at the 1985 Box Office. But we wondered, “Did they actually talk to people who go here?” Turns out: yes!
Check out the magazine’s CollegeClickTV for a bunch of interviews they did with students earlier in the year. Important topics discussed include how great our dance teams are, how much walking students have to do, how we treat the French and how we have short people and tall people that can stand next to one another for comedic effect.
It's like a drive-in movie, but a lot scarier and not as comfortable
UPDATE: This event has been canceled due to rain. Don’t cry. If you had your heart set on seeing a movie in the 4000 Block of Walnut tonight, there’s still hope.
Tonight at 7:30 Campus Apartments will be hosting an outdoor screening of I Love You Man, starring our very own Paul Rudd. The event is for residents and friends of residents, and since some of us are residents, and all of our readers are friends (aww), that means you!
But where will it be, you ask?
Well you know that parking lot on the corner of 41st and Walnut, down the street from Lee’s Hoagie House and right across from Campus Apartments?
Yeah, we didn’t either. It’s not exactly the biggest, or the nicest, or the most well-lit place we’ve ever considered parking illegally. But that’s where it will be. Really and truly.
On the plus side, we hear that popcorn will be provided, that attendees are encouraged to bring a beverage, and that the movie is intended for mature audiences. Check out the E-vite after the jump. And listen, friend, if you do decide to go, be careful. We mean it.
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If you want to write for us, tonight is a big night! At 5:30, we will be holding our first Under The Button Writers’ Meeting at 4015 Walnut. We’ll go over how we plan on assigning posts, guidelines for writing, and lots of other fun stuff. There might even be some candy. Candy, guys.
So please send your RSVP to underthebutton@gmail.com and let us know if you’ll be attending, so we can make sure to have enough candy and a big enough room. Also, if you can’t make it to the meeting but are still interested in writing, email us.
See you then!
One of our biggest and most important responsibilities is finding out what people are saying behind your back and telling you. I mean, what are friends for, right?
That’s why today we’re back with a third installation of TwitPenn. The Twitterverse has been talking about your school, and as hard as it is to repeat, we think you should know what they’re saying.
So keep reading, and maybe stop rolling one pant leg up.
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Like real life Rock Band!
A couple of weeks ago we told you about how to enter the Fall Festival Battle of the Bands, and now our friends over at SPEC have clued us in to who made the cut. On Saturday, Oct. 10, each of the seven bands will play a 20-minute set. The battle is going down from 2:30-6, and will take place on College Green.
Your battlers are:
Mask & Wig
Pan-Am
Penn Rock
Redheads are Trouble
Sex Panther
Stone Kansas
Young Broke Romantics
Make sure to check out the band bios in the October 8th issue of Street.
Everyone gets to try Penn Vet Ice Cream!
Today at lunch Bon Appetit will be hosting an eating challenge. But it’s not going to be like that time Kobayashi went head to head with a Kodiac bear in a hot dog eating contest, or like the impending burrito-eating contest at Fall Fest. This “Eat Local Challenge” is hardly a challenge at all.
The gist of the event, which will take place at Commons, Hill, Kings Court and Houston, is that Bon Appetit will prepare a meal using 100% local ingredients, and you will have the chance to stop by their station to eat it.
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Finally, a Locust Walk Arts Fair! When Penn announced that this would be the Arts and the City Year, we were like, “Fine, whatever, have fun discussing your painting. Let us know when there’s an Arts Fair on Locust Walk.” And now that day has come.
Today, over 30 arts and culture organizations will set up shop and tell you about all the fantastic things they have to offer. Representatives from the Opera Company of Philadelphia, Kelly Writers House and the Philadelphia Ballet, among others, will be in attendance, so make sure to browse on your way to class.
And don’t be a jerk and put the volume up on your headphones and pretend you don’t hear them calling your name and then accidentally make eye contact and feel obligated to take a flyer and smile and then just throw it out at the nearest garbage can because even though it’s just one piece of paper, it is super annoying to have to carry it. Just don’t, okay? Embrace this, and instead of worrying about the flyers, you can focus all your attention on improving your cultural awareness and avoiding that compass (it’s on 37th St.). The event will run from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., with October 11 as a rain date. But let’s hope the weather stays fair. No, wait…sunny.
We're here to recruit you.
It’s the first week of interviews for On-Campus Recruiting, and we are sorry to report that here at Under the Button stress levels are high.
We are so stressed, in fact, that this morning in some kind of delirium we accidentally set a trip wire outside of Huntsman and all of our classmates are probably going to fall right over it and some may even sustain minor injuries. We are so stressed that we are incapable of remembering the simplest of things! Like, for example, this very same morning we forgot to not put a huge vat of lukewarm porridge directly on the other side of that trip wire! And, get this, then we forgot not to take Polaroid pictures of each porridge-covered student, and to not write across the photos in Sharpie “[Name] is unable to attend interviews today. Probably drunk,” and to not distribute these to recruiters! The stress is taking its toll on us indeed.
“OC-Are you serious?” you might ask. Well, come to think of it, no. OCR is not really our thing. We had to ask the president of Wharton Women to explain it to us (seriously). But you know what is our thing? Giving advice!
We gave readers Ben Rosen the chance to ask questions about interviewing. Questions that are weighing heavily on all of our minds right now.
“This will be a great Q&A and because of it everyone will get a job!” we thought to ourselves. Were we right? Find out after the jump.
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