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(10/14/10 7:19am)
It’s graduate school application time for seniors right now, so I’m joining thousands of others in writing insipid essays about “leadership.” One of the classic ways to learn about leadership is to study the good and bad examples of others, so in that spirit I present the lessons we can learn from the leadership example of Harry Potter’s big bad Lord Voldemort. Whether you are a student group leader of the future or a grad school applicant of the present, I hope this helps to crystallize your thoughts. Spoilers ahead!
(10/07/10 6:20am)
“University politics are so vicious precisely because the stakes are so small,” Henry Kissinger said. How true this is of our Class Board elections, which contain more vitriol throwing than an Agatha Christie novel.
(09/30/10 7:31am)
The Common Application has a large and detailed section dealing with demographic questions, including race, ethnicity and gender. A question on sexual orientation is not included either in the main application or on Penn’s supplement. This is as it should be. Despite Penn’s recent success in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender recruiting, the University should not go the next step and include a sexual-orientation question on its Common App supplement.
(09/23/10 7:43am)
“What’s the one thing that brings every Penn student together?” demanded College senior Rachel Romeo in character during the Bloomers Skit at Freshman Performing Arts Night. “A shared love of intellectual engagement?” opined another character. “Wrong!” Romeo gleefully interposed. “Alcoholism!”
(09/16/10 8:45am)
Here is why I have not given to Seniors for The Penn Fund.
(09/09/10 2:41am)
I despise Ben Franklin. Not, as D. H. Lawrence did, because “Benjamin tries to shove me into a barbed wire paddock and make me grow potatoes,” but because at Penn, the distant descendent of the school that he played a role in founding, he’s everywhere. And he doesn’t deserve to be.
(07/15/10 7:18am)
One of the most worrying trends I have observed at Penn is the tendency of its student denizens to take everything seriously. (I will skip lightly here over my brief yet torrid love affair with student government as Undergraduate Assembly chairman.) Yet more ridiculous examples (maybe) abound. Few readers of this paper will have difficulty recalling a student group election that seemed to them as important as the election of the President of the United States. We’ve all had that class project that seemed to presage the end of a career before it began. And – I may be pushing the envelope here – more than a few of us have played in a sports championship that seemed more important than life, liberty or the pursuit of happiness.
(06/17/10 5:09am)
While Penn is quick to acknowledge the many inventions of Ben Franklin, it is slower to acknowledge its own, save perhaps for ENIAC, which is a pity since they are really quite extraordinary.
(04/06/10 9:57am)
*This column appeared in the 2010 Joke Issue. Alec Webley did not actually author this column.
(12/08/09 10:53am)
Before I start: if you haven’t voted in the Undergraduate Assembly referendum, put down this paper (or open a new tab on your browser) and go to pennstudgov.com. Log in and vote.
