Campus Life
Word On The Street: 9.30.10
When you go out, do you: a) have fun with your friends, or b) snap pictures on your cell phone to post on Facebook?
Ego Of The Week: The Smoke's Bouncers
Meet the five most powerful people on Penn’s campus. The Smoke's bouncers are full of advice on how to not get in (read: they don’t want your sister). These Boyz II Men wannabes chatted with Street this week to share some of their best and worst experiences guarding those golden gates. Street: What’s the lamest excuse for an ID you’ve ever seen? Matt Machucki: One night I was handed a birth certificate with a baby picture attached to it. Kenny Csaplar: A kid tried to give me my old fake that I used all freshman and sophmore year.
There Is A FIrst Time For Everything
This week, a few freshmen took some time away from their Van Pelt worship to reminisce on some classy Penn firsts.
Ego Of The Week: Rachel Romeo
Head of Bloomers and SMAC, Rachel Romeo is so over Shakespeare jokes and over-priced desserts, but welcomes any challengers for a good jello-wrestle.
Books On Locust
This week, Penn students took advantage of the warm weather to enjoy some light reading. Ego brings you recommendations from some campus bookworms.
Adolf Biecker Is The New Man[icure] On Campus
Penn’s well-coiffed crowd flocked to Adolf Biecker this week for some spa treatments straight out of Rittenhouse.
Dear Penn, I Hate Society.
I walked in to room 329 of the Anthropology department a little late on the first day of classes. Sure, it was a little unsettling that everyone around me looked prepubescent, but I just assumed I was feeling a little more senior than usual. It wasn’t until the professor asked how we were finding freshman year that I realized: I was in a freshman seminar.
Ego Of The Week: Adam Behrens
Senior class prez, Adam Behrens, is really sorry about all of those 2011 emails he’s sent out.
Popping The Penn Bubble
“When is it appropriate to say hello to someone because they’re wearing a Penn sweatshirt?” I asked a friend this summer while we ate dinner at a sidewalk cafe in New York.
Playing Dress Up Every Day
Young aristocrats in elegant pearls and extravagant feathered headpieces laugh in unison over strong cocktails, flouting societal norms with their wild debaucheries as the world teeters on the brink of World War II.
Hot Summer Reads
Beatrice and Virgil Yann Martell 224 pages Random House Man Booker prizewinner Yann Martell’s third novel focuses on an author named Henry who is struggling to meaningfully portray the horrors of the Holocaust in his latest fiction.
Gaga Fashion in Philadelphia
Three words describe “Carmelita Couture” on North 3rd Street: Tame Lady Gaga. If you have admired any single feature of Gaga’s traffic-stopping ensembles, you will likely find it at this newly opened boutique.
Ego of The Week: Julia Rubin
Julia Rubin, Street's washup/former Editor-in-Chief, has her final say in our last issue of the year.
Comic Relief
On May 1, shops across the nation will be laying out stacks of comic books for the hungry public.
I Don't Wanna Grow Up
April has been a month of lasts. Last week, I suffered my final round of college midterms. This past weekend I took my last day stumble through a Flinged-out Quad.
To Fling Or Not To Fling?
There is nothing like a spell of clement weather to bring out the uncompromising Brit within. Every day I wake up with Al (as in Roker) and depend on his soothing voice to dictate my choice of attire and more importantly, my mood.
Ego of The Week: Patrick Looby
Patrick Looby, a jolly giant, has had an obvious blast the past four years and hopefully in May will remember to close out his Smoke’s tab.
Sitting Pretty
In the midst of spring-cleaning, you might find it advantageous to clean out your make-up bag and replace some of those drab winter colors with sprightly new hues.
Put Some Spring In Your (Fashion) Step
Do This: Sundresses on the Green Not That: Bikinis on the Green are, simply, tacky.
