The Round Up: 3.19.09

Time flies when you’re having fun, but it’s been a while since we’ve checked in with our best and brightest. Way back before Spring Break, if your long-term memory serves you well enough, anyone and everyone raved to the musical selections of Girl Talk at the Starlight Ballroom on Saturday night. Reviews were seriously mixed, as were the bevy of contrived hipster outfits (neon headbands, mostly) purchased earlier that afternoon. Later that week, something called Sophomore Skimmer apparently occurred at the Rotunda, but given the combination of midterms and general Class Board apathy, we couldn’t tell you much about it. Alas, Spring Break finally arrived, and the usual came to pass: the WASPs went to Cabo, the JAPs went to Acapulco and the self-important (okay, the virtuous too) went to New Orleans. The attention-seeking Pulco revelers got a brief publicity flare when a taxi blockade obstructed the exit of the community where a Penn crew was playing for the week. Somehow, 12 hours later, the incident was mentioned in The New York Times. But frankly, we couldn’t be all that surprised by this Lizzie Grubman-esque behavior after receiving the much-circulated and also Times-mentioned alleged email from the former director of the CIA. According to the article, the e-mail that “has been making the rounds at the University of Pennsylvania” and in fact “exaggerated some of the facts.” Regardless, everyone seemed to return back to campus intact to party a little more for every frat star’s favorite holiday, St. Patrick’s Day. Because there’s nothing like green beer and the vomit stains it produces on your carpet.