Campus Life
Top 5 Reasons to Drop Your Class
5 — Your class always goes until the time it’s scheduled to.
Web Presence, Reviewed
Street critiques the Penn–centric websites that let us anonymously post our gripes, crushes and naps online.
Word on the Street: Emphasis on the Study
"Did you have, like, the time of your life?” When I tell people that I studied abroad last semester, this is the near–unanimous opening question.
Ego of the Week: Meredith Bress
Meredith Bress, this year’s VP of Recruitment, handles everything rush–related, from registration to bid cards.
Top 5 Ways to Stay Warm
5. Avoid the wind tunnel at all costs, but if you can’t, walk behind someone tall… humans make great windbreakers. 4.
Looks on Locust: 1.20.11
We'll be honest, Street stopped a lot of homeless people and 70–year–old WASPs in sick furry get–ups before we stumbled upon these bundled–up babes. Added bonus: they're actually enrolled here
Ego of the Week: Corey Feldman
Corey Feldman, best known for smooth talking and his future plans to join the Israeli Defense Forces, chats about his indiscretions (under the Button ... or so he claims) and freshman shenanigans.
Ego Of The Week: John Pennypacker
Joke Issue: John Pennypacker, captain of the football team, loves underground lairs and dance floor spotlights.
How To Depression–Proof Your Wardrobe
Joke Issue: In these times, it takes a little creativity to spice up your wardrobe — food stamps don’t apply to boutique shopping.
Life In A Hooverville: A Reflection
Joke Issue: By Tom Joad Four months ago when my family lost our house, we moved in with cousins and patiently awaited the day when we would move back home to indoor heating.
Word On The Street
Joke Issue: Thoughts by Cholly Knickerbocker Yesterday evening, in what can only be proclaimed as an offense against my rather placid senses, a certain co–resident of mine — a man who we in the Quadrangle are ashamed to call one of our own, although he shall remain unnamed — disdained me for foregoing the traditional shirt and cummerbund combination in favor of the slightly marvelous backless waistcoats, seen on Savile Row this past year.
From To–Dos To To–Dones
The other day a friend tweeted “What if I wrote one page every day for my 20 page paper due Dec. 21?
Out Of Theme
From toga parties to underwater raves, Penn loves a good theme party. And since this is the land of extremes, the more outrageous the better.
Ego(s) Of The Week: Tyler Bernadini and Jack Eggleston
The cutest bromance on campus, Jack Eggleston and Tyler Bernadini, have mastered running the basketball team.
Review: Thefeast.com
Take a seat and indulge in the latest of “where to go” websites: thefeast.com. The premise of the site is to “take you to the best places to eat, shop and play in the city.” Luckily for us, Philadelphia is one of the cities on The Feast’s radar.
Carp My Diem
So I’ve never registered for classes during advanced registration before. No, seriously. I’ve always miraculously either slept through advanced registration or procrastinated to the point of Real–Housewives–of–D.C.–reunion–show oblivion, and watched advanced registration period become a blip in the distant past.
Ego Of The Week: Adie Remiker
Street: As chair of Strictly Funk, what exactly do you do? Adie Remiker: Delegate all responsibility to others and let them work their magic. Street: What is your signature dance move? A.R.: Hair Flip… with a body roll… end with a boom–ka. Street: Are you strictly anything else? A.R.: Strictly way too old to be living in the quad. Street: What’s the most underrated thing at Penn?
Ego Of The Week: BMOC 2010
The big men on Penn's campus took a break out of their grueling reahearsals for BMOC — AXO's annual philanthropy event — to let us in on some backstage dirt.
