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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.



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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.


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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.


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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.


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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.



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Comic Relief

On May 1, shops across the nation will be laying out stacks of comic books for the hungry public.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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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.




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Zum Zum Zum

For two girls who rarely — if ever — enter the gleaming doors of Pottruck, Zumba’s motto held infinite appeal.


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Politics Schmolitics

Last week at our Passover Seder my family got into a political discussion (read: screaming match). Someone brought up Israel and before you knew it Grandma was foaming at the mouth yelling something about Palestine.


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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.


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Black And White And Inked All Over

BLACK and white and Inked all over Tatting it up at the annual Philadelphia Tattoo Arts Convention by Lucy McGuigan Last weekend, the Philadelphia Tattoo Arts Convention took over two floors of the Sheraton Hotel in Center City, cramming over 400 artists from around the world into a 20,000 square foot ballroom.