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Street Feature: Anonymous and alone

It got so that he could finish a bottle of vodka on his own. His addiction, though, seemed more like a mixed drink than a straight shot: multiple blackouts, messy breakups, angry bosses calling home. No bars here, just basements, buddies and booze.

by JO PIAZZA

Street Feature: Fighting Quakers!

My alarm goes off at 5:25 a.m. on a Wednesday morning. I don't have classes on Wednesdays, and, unless my housemates are having a fire drill, there is absolutely no reason why I, your average second semester College senior, should be up this early.

by TIM DONZA

Last Call

It all began as a naive attempt to unveil the Penn experience from within. Five editors and a lone photographer immersed themselves in a bar crawl along the edges of campus--observing, writing, drinking, observing, drinking, writing, drinking and drinking--with the belief that when morning came around their notes would be insightful, if decipherable.

by OLIVER BENN

WOTS: Dead On Arrival

Note: Normally, this column is not so disturbing. However, this summer, I found a murdered man in Central Park and it's been messing up my head ever since.

by DAN KAPLAN

Streetscenes: Caricatures with pizazz by olympia

Cacky Calderon, Wharton freshman (left) "We waited in line the entire time for the caricature.... It was the two of us and also two of our good friends, and so she just put four of us on a page.

by BETH FALKOF

Bathed in the Limelight

In the past, your friendly neighborhood Street has not been known for its bubbling Penn Pride or its standards of human decency.

by 34TH STREET

Head of the Class

There are numerous customs a Penn student may exploit in order to finagle a good grade. If you're into the Zach Morris modus operandi, for instance, you'll get your closest Screech-like friend to hack into the elusive Penn InTouch interior and click your B to an A.

by MACY RAYMOND

Fame, and a full ride

Chris and Luke are not hulking figures. They neither look like football players nor have an athletic scholarship for college.

by SUSAN COOK

Swimming Upstream

On an autumn afternoon in 1971, two students and two German Shepherds walked into the office of Penn Provost Curtis Reitz. The students explained to Reitz that Penn had a problem.

by BINYAMIN APPELBAUM

Philadelphia at 4 a.m.

Bensalem, PA Philadelphia Park Race Track By Robin Friedlander It's still dark at Philadelphia Park Race Track and in each of the 25 barns on the backside of the track, Mexican barn hands are muttering in Spanish as they muck stalls and fill water buckets.

by 34TH STREET

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