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Soon, the University will release the news that all seniors (okay, probably mostly their parents) have been waiting for with bated breath: Who will be the graduation speaker?
We citizens of the digital age hold these truths to be self-evident, that most young adults get their news online, that they are endowed by their internet service provider with certain unalienable rights, that among these are the unlimited access to information and the pursuit of never having to pay a cent for it.
According to the Huffington Post, Denzel Washington was at Penn State's Jordan Center last night to watch his son Malcom play in Penn's first basketball game of the year. Says the HuffPo, "Malcolm did not play and his team lost to Penn State, 70-55."
With the 11th annual Wharton Women in Business Conference kicking off tomorrow, you can count on some of the biggest (female) names in business to be heeling through the halls of the Park Hyatt for the "Unprecedented Times, Unprecedented Women" themed event.
After the buzz about the 2008 election died down on Locust Walk, nine Penn students followed the excitement to the District of Columbia for the Washington Semester Program - the study-abroad experience only a few states away.
Well, it seems that members of our fair blogosphere are descending upon Penn this week. First Christian Lander, now Nadine Haobsh! Nadine is a personal girl-crush of mine, and will be visiting the Penn Bookstore tomorrow at 2PM to promote her new novel, Beauty Confidential. See below for Nadine's bio (taken from her site, Jolie Nadine).
Street editor and arbiter of cool Hillary Reinsberg writes in to tell us about the splashy new blog from "queen of buzz" Tina Brown. Because you need something to read between UTB posts.
Two weeks ago, The Daily Californian, the independent student newspaper at UC Berkeley, announced that it would suspend its Wednesday print edition. The Daily Orange, the paper at Syracuse, announced days later it would do the same for its Friday edition.
Our country has found its poster villain.
Celebrated as one of the fallen heroes of Sept. 11, Mark Bingham joined other passengers that morning to storm the cockpit of United Airlines Flight 93.
In the name of political reform, hundreds assembled at Penn for Shadow Conventions 2000 to discuss issues they felt weren't being addressed at the GOP convention.
Though thousands will travel to Philadelphia for the Republican National Convention at the end of the month, another kind of convention -- led by those who denounced the official RNC -- will settle at Penn for the convention.
Anti-Democratic fervor reached its peak Tuesday as incumbent senators, congressmen and governors were sent packing by angry constituents. And many University students said last night that they were happy with the results of the election. Engineering sophomore Brad Hausman, a New York native, said he was happy that Republican George Pataki beat three-term Democratic incumbent Mario Cuomo. "I would have voted for anyone over Mario Cuomo," he said. "The joke on Long Island was that Mickey Mouse could have beat Mario Cuomo." College sophomore Ethan Bloom, also a Long Island native, agreed. "I'm glad Cuomo is out because I don't think he was taking the state in the right direction," he said. "It is time to give someone else a chance." Not all students had such strong opinions on the subject, however. "I am very glad that Cuomo was finally voted out, but I don't like Pataki either," said College freshman Steven Friedman. "He was basically the lesser of two evils. Hopefully, Pataki will exceed our low expectations like Rudy Giuliani did." College senior and former College Democrats President Abby Russell said she was particularly distressed by the decision because she worked on Cuomo's campaign over the summer. "I think this is really bad for New York State and especially bad for New York City because I don't think [Pataki] will be as concerned with urban interests," she said. Russell added that this is just another example of the flow of American politics toward conservatism. College senior Emily Gold said the election result also distressed her greatly. "Cuomo's been my idol since I was 10, and I am traumatized," she said. The Texas state gubernatorial race, in which Republican George W. Bush beat out incumbent Democrat Ann Richards, provoked positive reactions in students. "I am very happy to see Bush take the governorship now," said Wharton sophomore Jeff Estes. "I think he deserved to win because he ran a good campaign." College senior Glenn Nix had stronger feelings on the subject. "Ann Richards had her four years of ineffective crassness and now she can take it somewhere else because she did absolutely nothing for the state," he said. The result of the California election, in which Dianne Feinstein was re-elected over Republican Michael Huffington, also made many students happy. College sophomore Molly Quinn said she is satisfied that Huffington did not win even though he outspent Feinstein two to one. "I am very happy [about the result] because it gives me a little hope that a candidate can not buy a seat," she said. Undergraduate Assembly member and College senior Dan Schorr said he was satisfied with the overall results of the national elections. "I am excited that the Republicans are controlling both houses of Congress," he said. "I hope they stick to their conservative economic agenda and don't proceed with a conservative social agenda."
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