Street: Who would win in a celebrity death match: Sphinx, Penn Track or QSA?
Anna Aagenes: Sphinx and QSA could unleash the power of sphinx and the rainbow respectively, but the track girls have some impressive muscles from our lifting.
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The daily email digest — featuring everything from event listings to shopping suggestions — sometimes provides Philly retail inspiration.
Philadelphia’s latest campaign has natives falling in love with our fair city all over again. Postcards, t-shirts and one-of-a-kind promotions have convinced us that loving the City of Brotherly Love is back in style.
After the Times outed the Ivy Plus Society as the ultimate pretentious dating pool — appropriate pedigree required — we thought we’d round up similarly gauche happenings on and around campus.
Street: Most underrated thing about Penn? Overrated?
Raja: Underrated: The WALK. Overrated: Penn boys.
Street: Favorite Penn designer?
RG: It’s great to see so many students designing.
Friars and presidents of the Panhellenic and Interfraternity Councils, seniors Alissa Eisenberg and Shawn Woodhull sit down to talk with Street about each other, their love of running Greek life and New Jersey.
Street: You’re both very involved and talented people.
Started just this semester, Penn Jugglers focuses on the practice and teaching of circus-style juggling (and no experience is necessary to join!). Not only will learn how to juggle, but you can also pick up a few other parlor tricks (Diabolo, a form of Chinese yo-yo, anyone?). And if you’re lucky, you may find yourself mastering juggling stunts like the Orbit and the Double Half Suicide.
Pattern Recognition
by William Gibson
Who: Casey McQuaid, Engineering ‘12
Why: “It’s a really recent book by the guy who wrote Neuromancer, the book that was the basis for The Matrix.
Our campus is home to what might be billed as the most important battle since good versus evil, the Phillies versus the Rays, or you versus everyone in Houston Hall at noon.
Marisha Pessl
Special Topics in Calamity Physics, 2006
After reading the first two paragraphs of Marisha Pessl’s debut novel, you will want to throttle the narrator.