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Best Week Ever: College
College, man, it's the best time of your life. Well, this week, college, you're having the best time of your life.
(In)Decent Exposure
Let's set the scene. It's Saturday afternoon, 1 p.m. People are crowding around kegs of Natty, and the smell of freshly-grilled hot dogs permeates the air.
Word on the Street
I am three weeks into my Sophomore Slump. You know, that icky, sticky feeling deep within the depths of your soul.
Word on the Street
I turned 21 this past weekend. Yes, bow before me, Penn is now my oyster: I can go to bars, order drinks and if there's anywhere to gamble on this campus, I can do that too.
(In)Decent Exposure
Let's talk about irony. What kind of graffiti enthusiast would throw down at a monarchical Ivy League fraternity?
Best Week Ever: Jeans
As New York Fashion Week comes to a close and temperatures on the East Coast begin to drop, it's time to finish assembling your fall wardrobe.
Best Week Ever: Identity Theft
The early days of NSO saw a curious character by the name of "Elizabeth Acker" surface on Facebook. Said figure has managed to friend request just about every undergraduate at Penn, with not one student able to confirm the identity of Ms. Acker.
Word on the Street
"Hey." When I visited Penn as a junior in high school, my tour guide leaped at each chance to brand Penn "the social Ivy." We all understood, according to legend, that the parties would be abundant and the nights out would outnumber the nights in.
Street Beats
Obama criticizes Republican VP hopeful Sarah Palin for Congressional earmarks. Here's a heads up, Barack: who cares about earmarks when your pregnant 17-year-old daughter has stretchmarks? Two teenage girls stab 75-year-old man to death in a robbery that got them $15, which they promptly used to buy four gallons of gas. Mexican Wal-Mart violates Mexico's constitution by paying workers in Wal-Mart gift cards.
Best Week Ever: Low-Carb Dieters
Don't you just hate how waiters sneer at you when you order your sandwich without bread? How everyone always wants to go to pasta-only BYOs?
Street Beats
Man spends 50 years in jail for killing his father, only to discover after release that his father is still alive.
Word on the Street
If there's any truth in today's headlines, America is currently clashing with every axis of evil on the planet, and it seems that rising temperatures are our latest enemy on this never-ending list of evildoers.
Street Beats
In the run-up to the Olympics, some opponents of China's regime are boycotting all Chinese products.
Word on the Street
Though it's not something she likes to admit at dinner parties, my mother wouldn't let me apply to Georgetown.
Best Week Ever
Despite Penn's Ivy League status, games of "spot the Democrat" usually play out a bit more like Hide and Seek, as Dems are found cowering in the shadows of uber-conservative Huntsman Hall, where Republican presidential nominee John McCain spoke last semester.
Word on the Street
The Franklin Building and me - we don't get along. It seems that every time I go in there, Penn figuratively does to my wallet what Eliot Spitzer pays top dollar to do to anonymous women.
Best Week Ever
Here's a fresh idea: a Fling concert for 10 bucks, where you can actually drink while watching the show.
Street Beats
A new study from the University of Michigan shows that having a husband creates an extra seven hours of housework a week for women.
Street Beats
Suffolk County Comptroller pushes for Long Island to become its own state. Official state quarter to have spiky hair, spray-on tan and mad 'tude. Weekend-long $4000-a-head "Porn Camp" comes to Tampa Bay.
