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The Love Survey

It’s going to be the best time of your life: We were freshmen when your father said he could spend the rest of his life with me until death or incarceration do us part. Beneath those Locust lights, I knew he was the one.







Miles to Go

It's up to Miles Cartwright to restore Penn Basketball's former glory.




The Dissidents

Penn's brochures would have you believe that starting freshman year is like walking onto the set of some combination of "Good Will Hunting," "The Social Network," and "A Beautiful Mind." For many, disenchantment sets in as the classes are more boring and the people less thrilling than advertised.


Striking a Pose

Penn's student bodybuilders take to the stage and show off their hard work.





From Prep to Clean-Up, 8 Hours in the Vetri Kitchen

Fine dining is a little like yoga, or meditation, or floating on your back in the middle of a Jacuzzi: the world gets really small when you do it. At Vetri, on 1312 Spruce St., it’s a world of glass from Murano, of wooden tables and floors.



If These Walls Could Talk

A heated back-and-forth between Penn and West Philadelphians leaves the future of an historic building up in the air


What We'd Tell Ourselves Three Years Ago

Listen up: once upon a time, everyone here at Penn was just as confused as you freshmen are now — we’ve all at one time or another legitimately tried to avoid the Compass or purposefully touched the Ben Franklin statue.