Campus Life
Highbrow Can't Even: Name–Dropping
We get it, Gretchen, your dad is the inventor of Toaster Strudel. But are you realllllllllly putting your best Stuart Weitzman–clad foot forward when your fun fact at your SPEC Connaissance meeting icebreaker consists entirely of the fact that your parents donated one of the shitty study lounges in the quad? Never do you hear more “my ‘father/uncle/second–cousin/ex–boyfriend's family friend’....is ...” than during OCR.
Summer Spotlight: Cindy Lou
Cindy Lou is a rising sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences looking to major in economics and considering minors in both law and society and East Asian Studies.
Street Book Club: A Wild Sheep Chase
Book: A Wild Sheep Chase (1982) by Haruki Murakami Recommended by: Cătălina Drăgoi Genre: Magical realism Synopsis that won’t give away the plot: While not necessarily one of the first works that come to mind when thinking of Haruki Murakami, his third novel is arguably the most famous in the “Trilogy of the Rat”. The plot of this relatively short book—approximately 300 pages, depending on which publisher you choose—is rather simple.
Summer Spotlight: Jisoo Kim
Rising senior Jisoo Kim has been involved with the green scene at Penn from the very beginning—and now she’s in Paraguay doing amazing, sustainable things for the future.
Penn Students Celebrate Pride
With June, better known as Pride Month, almost over, Street spoke to Thomas Calder (C'20), who is living in Philly this summer and attended some of the city's Pride celebrations the weekend of June 16.
Summer Spotlight: Alexis Masino
Alexis Masino (C'20) chose to spend two months of her summer to work in Calcutta, India, with a sex workers' collective.
Summer Spotlight: Louis Lin
Since the most recent election, Penn has gained a new representative in government other than POTUS—Louis Lin (C’20). He will serve as a Judge of Elections in Philadelphia’s 27th ward, the zone in which Penn falls, serving Division 20 as a Democrat.
Ask the Class of '21: Hanna Yang
Hanna Yang (W’21) is a polymath. She excels at painting, aced the SAT and curates the hell out of her Instagram.
Why I Love Greek Life at Penn and Want to See It Be Better
A Call to Action to the Greek Community
The Definitive Penn Bucket List
DO IT, THE OLD YOU WOULD HAVE.
Religious Studies—It's for everyone! (Even if religion isn't.)
Yes, religious studies is a thing, and yes, they have an undergrad journal now.
Ego of the Week: Emily Johns
Street's former HBIC returns one last time.
Fight Trump with Fling
The proceeds from Make America Fling Again hats will be donated to the ACLU.
An Anniversary Letter to a Deceased Friend
Reflections on the year since it happened
Second to Last: Letter from the Editor 4.20.17
Second to last means that not only is the end coming—it means that the end is coming soon.
Highbrow Campus Quiz
You're all so damn predictable.
Penn 10: Alex Sands
There's no businessman on Penn's campus quite like Alex Sands.
