Spotted around campus this morning was a lovely chunk of what we assume can only be some sort of hair (and/or hair ball). Anybody need a faux tail for the day? Trying to grow a beard but just can’t make it happen? This is your chance to shine! Hurry over to 41st and Locust before some other lucky dog snatches it up.

Have you seen these new, somewhat attractive garbage/recycling units? There’s something about their being solar-powered, too. With any luck, they’ll help manage the mess in the Quad this weekend.

Know any details about these recently arrived receptacles? Tell us in the comments.

Upon leaving Hill this morning, my nose met with an unfamiliar and unwelcome stench. Why, I wondered, did our pristine campus smell like garbage? Were the freshmen from New Jersey that homesick that they had to defile Locust Walk with a trash mountain this morning? Was this comeuppance from the disgruntled former employees of the 40th Street McDonald’s? Either way, as I approached the piles of trash outside Van Pelt, all I knew was that I almost preferred that funky SEPTA smell to whatever it was that was hitting my nose.

UTB is personally insulted!

But none of my predictions were true. Instead, it was a demonstration encouraging me to recycle. In essence, further proof that our university is turning into Brown. Read the rest of this entry »