For those of you who are not incarcerated in Van Pelt for the next week and a half (we hate you), you can venture to President Gutmann’s Holiday Party tonight. Her socialite assistant, Leah Popowich, sends these details:
President Gutmann’s Holiday Party!
Monday, December 8th, 2008
8-9 pm
President’s House, 3812 Walnut Street
Come for great food and a study break!
Don’t forget your Penn ID!
Finally, the glorious day has come to pass: November 19, also known as our fearless leader’s birthday. We wish you a great day, Dr. Gutmann! On our birthday, we don’t usually drop 100 g’s, but then again maybe that’s why no one ever asked us to be president of Penn.
Because we find astrology very compelling, we took the liberty of checking out President Gutmann’s horoscope for the day, which is available here.
OMG, we found a time capsule that contained Amy Gutmann’s and Ron Daniels’s high school yearbook photos! Just kidding, we made them on yearbookyourself.com, but we still think they’re very cool.
Amy G., Class Prez
Ronny D., Hopkins-bound
Zoinks! We just heard that Google launched a video chat option for Gmail today. Um, this is totally going to transform our lives and force us to stop posting false status messages that we are in the library when in fact we never actually left the house. Since we had so much fun testing out PennCourseReviewED.com and the new BlackBerry Bold, we decided to take this new video chat thingamabob out for a spin.
Made-for-UTB dramatization.
The verdict? People will think you’re super cool for having a little video camera as your icon, but after the novelty wears off, we don’t actually want to see the people we’re chatting with. That’s like, the whole point of the internet. Still a cool way to waste time, though. Happy videochatting, everyone!
Amy Gutmann just sent out a looooong e-mail to all Penn undergraduates. This only happens once or twice per semester, so it’s safe to assume something’s up, despite the fact that all said e-mail seems to say is that Penn has $476 million in cash-money but we should all try to be a little thriftier. Um, ok…care to read in between the lines?
Dear Members of Our University Community:
Over the last few weeks the world has seen the American capital and credit markets experience their worst turmoil in three generations. It is no wonder that the state of the economy is on everyone’s mind, even as we go about our day-to-day work of studying, teaching, conducting research, volunteering in our communities and supporting the mission of this great university.
I would like to take this opportunity to communicate with you about how we at Penn are being affected and how, together, we will weather this challenging time in our nation’s history.
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Our fair president in Glamour magazine last year.
We haven’t heard much about Amy Gutmann lately. How’s she doing? What does she think of Sarah Palin? Since we’d like to catch up with Amy, but don’t actually, um, know her, we decided to look up her horoscope and extrapolate from there. If this “public figure” Facebook page is to be believed, Amy Gutmann’s birthday is November 19, making her a Scorpio. Scorpios are known for being intense and powerful, but also mysterious and secretive. According to our favorite astrologer, this month Scorpios are having a tough time forging ahead in their projects, and are even considering switching jobs! Oh noes!
So crazed might you be at the office, if you’ve never liked your job, you may be tempted to quit and change jobs near October 14. That wouldn’t be a wise idea - you are likely to jump into a job with many of the same problems. Also your new job would be on a par with this one, not a step up. In other words, you’d be making a lateral move - who needs that?
This weekend’s New York Times Magazine has a photoshoot of fashionable professors (titled “Class Acts”–LOLNYT!). Among the featured is our very own Wendy Steiner of the English department and the Penn Humanities Forum, looking like a sassy cross between Nina Garcia and Cruella De Vil. This is just like when Amy Gutmann was in Glamour last year, but we think Professor Steiner looks even more fierce! Check her out:
The spread also pictures profs from Columbia, Brown, SMU, Harvard and a few others. Props to Bwog for noticing the feature!
