CHEERS
• To the Panhellenic Council for voting to add a ninth sorority.
• To the University for hiring Jerome Allen to be head coach of the men’s basketball team.
• To the Penn community for its quick and generous response to the earthquake in Haiti.
• To the Admissions Office and the Lambda Alliance for reaching out to accepted students who clearly identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.
• To the University for giving students, faculty and staff two consecutive snow days in February. Thank you. Thank you.
• To the University for finally getting around to starting renovations on Sansom Place East and Sansom Place West this summer, and for completing the Music Building renovations. Improvements to these facilities were overdue.
• To state and city government officials for proposing to allow more stores to sell six- and 12-packs of beer and to reduce penalties for possessions of small amounts of marijuana. We like these initiatives not because we want to smoke and drink, but because they’ll help improve the economy and the court system.
• To the University for expanding the Penn Student Insurance Plan to cover gender-reassignment treatments for transgender students.
•To the University for switching to Direct Lending and to Congress for passing student loan reform.
•To Penn’s women’s lacrosse and golf teams for winning Ivy League championships.
JEERS
• To the University for selecting Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman, Jr. to be the graduation speaker. Vice President Joe Biden — who is speaking at a smaller ceremony — will outshine him.
• To the food retail on- and off-campus that were found to have health-code violations — and to the mice who had the audacity to leave their droppings in dining halls.
• To the Division of Public Safety for not sending a UPennAlert after the shooting at the Bridge Cinema de Lux.
• To the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs for trying to place graduate advisors in greek chapter houses. We don’t need a campus version of The Baby-sitters Club.
• To Penn students for recycling less than students at other Ivy League schools.
• To Penn Student Government for failing to get students excited about its organizations. Despite the new Undergraduate Assembly presidential and vice-presidential elections, voter turnout remained stagnant.
• To City Tap House for waiting until after many students have already left for the summer to finally (supposedly) open.
