We are the champions! The football team brought home a 17-7 win over Harvard on Saturday, which guarantees Penn at least a share of the Ivy League Championship. Perhaps more importantly, the team (and Penn football’s six-year championship dry spell) was profiled by the New York Times on Friday. The story delves into the emotional hurdles the team has faced since Al Bagnoli took over as coach (grab some Kleenex), but it seems to us that – as of Saturday – the football boys are nothing but cigars and smiles.
More photos of that post-victory glow after the jump.
From zero to sixty in two-ish weeks, Capogiro sure got its act together quick. The store opened today! Just in time for…well, nothing, because everyone just went home for the summer. Still, though. Gelato!
We’re not given to obvious displays of geekery (that one time we said “Frak” doesn’t count), so when we went to see the new Star Trek movie, we were nervous. Would everyone in the audience be wearing Federation uniforms? Would they be speaking Klingon? Sure, mad scientist director J.J. Abrams, the mastermind behind sci-fi lovechildren Lost and Fringe (and Felicity!), promised us that this film would rejuvenate the Trek franchise. But still, visions of Star Trek conventions haunted our dreams.
Several readers have written in to alert us that the trailer for Transformers 2 is online, and Penn’s quadrangle makes a rather prominent appearance about 20 seconds in. Penn geeks, what would we ever do without you? Check out the trailer below, or for a more clear version, click here.
Feast your eyes on this year’s list of prize winners and honors society inductees, which can be found in the print edition of today’s DP and conveniently reproduced below (click to enlarge). Some highlights: senior honor awards went to Drew Feith Tye, Rahima Dosani, Erica Evans, Mia Kumagai, Brett Perlmutter, Jamie McCarthy, Noah Apektar and Wilson Tong, all of whom are either Sphinx, Friars, Cultural Elite or Ego’s of the Week. Street sure can pick ‘em! Also listed are this year’s Phi Beta Kappa inductees and a bunch of other honors. Congratulations to everyone!
Add/Drop period is live! While you’re swamped with the end-of-the-semester crunch, don’t forget to add those classes you got screwed out of or drop the ones that you found out were harder than you thought. It’s only once a year where we can feel this entitled to get (almost) all of the classes we want. Senior-less competition to fight for that coveted seminar… Plus, we got dibs over those 2013′s.
Here at UTB, we’ve been known to stalk Addams from time to time, which is why we’re so excited to report the following: that awkward entrance walkway of wooden planks is no more! The walkway remains in place on 36th Street, where construction for the Annenberg Public Policy Center is underway, but now you can enter Addams by approaching from the west side of the building and walking on solid ground the whole time. Guess all the MFA’s will have to get together and vote on a new “Official Spot To Smoke And Look Anguished.”
Phillyist informs us that tomorrow Rita’s will be giving away free water ice, which is what Philadelphians call Italian ice. (We don’t want to get into this discussion, but seriously, water ice and Italian ice are the SAME THING.) Although we aren’t lucky enough to have a Rita’s right on campus, there are locations throughout the city. We’re particularly fond of the Rita’s next to Church’s Chicken and the PNC Bank ATMs at the City Hall SEPTA station. The promotion goes from noon to 10 p.m. Gelato, here we come!
As a welcome back from Spring Break, Lovers and Madmen is finally open on the corner of 40th and Ludlow, giving us yet another place to sip coffee and work/procrastinate on homework.
The pastry cabinet was a little bare with just two little plates of croissants and the wireless was having some issues, but the staff are extremely friendly and the coffee is tasty. Power outlets are plentifully scattered around, and there’s a nice flat TV on one wall. The Beatles are playing and they’ve promised to get the wireless working soon, but for now we’re skipping off to Saxbys to post this.
In Obama’s “not-the-State-of-the-Union” State of the Union, he name-dropped Wharton alum Leonard Abess (father of Matt Abess, C ’08) as an example of a selfless and responsible member of the finance industry. Abess distributed bonuses to past and current employees of Miami’s City National Bank based on years of service to the company. Some received up to $100,000. You may have caught a glimpse of Abess last night, seated with First Lady Michelle Obama in her private box. Quothbama:
“I think about Leonard Abess, the bank president from Miami who reportedly cashed out of his company, took a $60 million bonus, and gave it out to all 399 people who worked for him, plus another 72 who used to work for him. He didn’t tell anyone, but when the local newspaper found out, he simply said, ”I knew some of these people since I was 7 years old. I didn’t feel right getting the money myself.’”
Right on! Whartonites, there still is hope for your souls.
The DPreports that senior Alexander Jacobs has snagged a Gates Scholarship. (“Snag” might not be the best verb choice for something so scholarly, but um, that’s why we didn’t win one.) At Cambridge, Alex will pursue an MPhil in History, Philosophy & Sociology of Science, Technology & Medicine. More importantly, as the article mentions, Alex is a onetime Street staffer–he used to edit the music and features sections, and we believe he still lives with at least one current staffer. He’s also really tall and some people call him A.J. and his Street articles are available here. Congratulations, Alex, you are officially the most successful former Street editor ever.
Our favorite meme of the past few weeks (narrowly beating out Paste Magazine’s Obamicon generator) is this little doodad that allows you to make all your photos look like scale models. It’s called a tiltshift maker, and while we have no idea why blurring half an image tricks our brain into believing it’s been miniaturized, whatever, ’cause it’s SO COOL. Check out some of our handiwork, with more after the jump.
From zero to sixty in two-ish weeks, Capogiro sure 
You can stun me with your phaser anytime. 
Add/Drop period is live! While you’re swamped with the end-of-the-semester crunch, don’t forget to add those classes you got screwed out of or drop the ones that you found out were harder than you thought. It’s only once a year where we can feel this entitled to get (almost) all of the classes we want. Senior-less competition to fight for that coveted seminar… Plus, we got dibs over those 2013′s.
Phillyist 
In Obama’s “not-the-State-of-the-Union” State of the Union, he name-dropped Wharton alum Leonard Abess (father of Matt Abess, C ’08) as an example of a selfless and responsible member of the finance industry. Abess distributed bonuses to past and current employees of Miami’s City National Bank based on years of service to the company. Some received up to $100,000. You may have caught a glimpse of Abess last night, seated with First Lady Michelle Obama in her private box. Quothbama:
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