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Campus is abuzz right now with the anticipation of rush. However, unlike the chaotic midget lap-dancing and secret crotch grabs of fraternity rushing, females have more rules and regulations with which to deal.
Recipe: Hold the mustard
Yesterday, all I ate was half a bag of Tostitos and a slice of cake... In this special segment of Recipe, fpp's food segment, formerly known as You Eat Like Fucking Pigs, we offer recipes created, written, devised and plagiarized by your fellow students, who have probably suffered the same misguided steps you have in simply trying to satiate those late-night munchies. Tonight, I am thinking Tabasco and mustard soup. The Most Delicious Mushrooms Ever (marinade is also great for steak) 1/2 cup oil (vegetable or peanut--not olive) 1/4 cup soy sauce 3 tbsp.
Lots of Fun in 2001: Scubbin's Year in Review
Penn's Eastward Expansion Thwarted Penn's eastward plans were thwarted by an uprising of the Postal Liberation Organization, after years of attempting to claim the land surrounding the U.S.
Don't order the blood pudding
Studying abroad can be a wonderful experience. Though it is easy to daydream of horticultural studies in Amsterdam and meeting enthusiastic whores in Thailand, this decision should not be made lightly.
Scubbin': Great Moments in Business History
Celebrating another year of Wharton domination atop the U.S. News & World Report "Top Undergraduate Business Schools in Southeastern Pennsylvania" rankings, we would like to take a moment to recognize some of the great moments in Western business history.
Streetscenes: Dig In
"As part of our community service activities for my professional business fraternity, Alpha Kappa Psi, a group of us went out and decided to help out UC [University City] Green and plant a tree.... It involved some physical activity and seemed like fun, and it was definitely for a good cause [for the victims of September 11]... I think it was a good way to make West Philadelphia little bit nicer." "It was pretty simple--they wanted us to go to this training session but that wasn't really necessary 'cause they had all these people helping out on the block...." "... It was just a... square space next to this tree, just a bunch of dirt, and they gave us a bunch of shovels and they gave us soil and so we had to dig out the dirt that was there into a space that could fit the tree... [put] in the tree... and then basically fill up the remaining space with the soil and the dirt and then put woodchips on top." "I got to hang out with my fraternity brothers, and that's always a fun thing to do, and it got me physically active--I always like to be physically active.... It was nice to see a lot of people outside that early in the morning.... I'm used to getting up early, but no one else is around here I guess."
Room: Toy People Are Small And Provide Companionship
On their painting: Lauren: We stare at that for a long time. Like whenever people come over we just stand and stare at it.
Voice: Enter the Winged Moose
On the way back from Washington, D.C, I found myself stuck in the routine Beltway bumper-to-bumper grind.
Her Coming Out Story
I would like to say that I remember everything, that I had picked over the details of that day the way my mother inspects her produce in the grocery store: stopping to push ever so gently on the firm fruits, to breathe in their scent and run her fingertips over their glossy ripeness, not hurrying over her selections but choosing with the utmost care only the very best pieces to bring home.
Street: Daytripping
Marijuana: You probably started out buying oregano or small bags of soil from Rastafarians. Now you're sitting in your room talking about the size of your bong and telling anyone who will listen about the time you had such primo shit that it was like holy shit. Ecstasy: You probably started out smoking weed.
Scubbin': Pennstitutions
It's that time of year again, time to assess the best and worst the University of Pennsylvania has to offer.
BEST OF PENN
Best Record Store: Spaceboy Music 407 South Street If you think the only place to buy some crazy off-shoot of a band or a rare EP is online, you're so very wrong.
Streetscenes: In 3-D
Tasnim Beg, College Senior "It's... Three Dimensional Design class. We've been focusing on geometrical shapes and how different forms relate to each other because there are actually, like, relationships between the human body and the basic forms in life that have mathematical relationships Plato and Archemides figured out back in the day... the distance from your head to your feet divided by the distance from your belly button to your feet is always 1.168.... Root 2 and root 5 relate a lot of aspects of the human body, like the segments of your fingers compared to the length of your fingers..." "They were kind of like costumes and they were kind of themed around Halloween, but it wasn't a Halloween costume thing--it's just that she [Professor Elizabeth Doering] wanted us to be able to wear them to really see how they are related to the human body.... I decided to do wings because I wanted to make them flap.... They were usually really abstract.
Guides: Friday, November 9th, 2001
CELEBRATE GOOD QUAT, COME ON! Kumquat Festival Kumquat Theater 3500 Lancaster Avenue Friday, November 9 8 p.m., Friday and Sunday $15, 8 p.m.
Room: Don't see the zebras at the zoo
Room: 1708 Harnwell College House Room Cohabitants: College juniors Shai Chu of Hong Kong, Carol Chow of Salt Lake City, Utah, Aliya Ansari of Mamaroneck, N.Y., and Elana Dvor of Philadelphia. Do the bears normally kiss? Shai: They're kissing bears. Which one is the female bear? Shai: I think the one wearing the skirt is the... girl bear? I don't know.
Get A Nightlife: Where's the Beef?
It's late, you're in Center City, hungry and there's no Wawa in sight. You see a sign on 15th Street between Walnut and Spruce for a place named "McGlinchy's," and underneath the name it says, "sandwiches." You walk in and see dim red lights doing their best to shine through the thick smoke that's suspended in the air.
Blind Date: How Did We Get On This Topic
What sports these kids were! Walking blindly into the most intrinsically awkward of situations and eating intimately in front of a stranger.
Guides: Sunday, November 11th, 2001
Lisa Loeb North Star Bar 27th and Poplar streets 7:30, $15/$17 DOS, 21+ (215) 922-LIVE And I do... think that while Lilith Rock and the whole girl power singer-songwriter genre of music has gone into remission, Lisa Loeb still has a few hits up her sleeve.
