Campus Life
Word on the Street: Majoring in Porn
I heard the myth. I read the syllabus and noted the word “pornography.” I read feminist theorists.
Visitation Rites
With the weather becoming less horrid, friends from other schools may come to visit. Good! This is your opportunity to put on a show.
Highbrow Poll: Who is Having the Worst Week Ever?
You can thank the dudes over at MeepMe for only being able to vote once. Sorry!
Street's Guide to Scoring Awesome Internships: Rookie Edition
DO Be proactive OCR excluded, a really great internship won’t exactly come to find you.
Ego of the Week: Dave Dobkin
A self–proclaimed fratstar, Dave Dobkin leads a double life — he is both the AEPi president and the infamous Penn mascot: the fightin' Quaker.
Word on the Street: Admitting is the First Step
If you were to poll the average female Penn student on her study techniques and procrastination methods, I assume she would, reluctantly, admit to high volumes of Facebook stalking, online shopping, perhaps a little Netflix and some New York Times for the sake of being informed.
Losing Her Tour-Ginity
A sophomore goes on her first ever college tour.
Ego of the Week: Raya Jalabi and Maya Tepler
These are the women that cry vagina.
Word on the Street: Late to the Party
One text message just changed my life.
Locust Swarm
On Locust, the roles are clear. If you’re walking, you’re dodging — burying your head in your phone or your hands in your pockets.
Ego of the Week: Sourav Bose
A recent winner of the Thouron Award, which sponsors Penn students to study in the U.K. after graduation, Sourav Bose led MERT and volunteers at the Philadelphia Animal Welfare Society.
WaWa What?
Street hit up Wawa at 2 a.m. on a Saturday night and asked the post–party customers where they see themselves in five years.
Word on the Street: OCR for a Film/English Major
After analyzing gender dynamics in Eliot’s Daniel Deronda, I left my 19th Century Lit class and went home to retrieve my slightly oversized suit jacket.
The Sunday Talkies
Talk radio can sometimes be a bit geriatric. Listening to talk radio here at Penn, though, is an entirely different experience.
Ego of the Week: Chaia Werger
You may know her as Face Paint Girl, because when there are neon swirls on your forehead, that tends to precede you.
Word on the Street: Netflix Has Taken Over
It all started out so innocently.
Word on the Street: Home Alone
My name is Tucker Johns, and I live by myself.
