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(11/16/08 9:24pm)
Hurry up, registration procrastinators, because you've only got about eight hours left to request spring courses. After that, it's add-drop Russion Roulette for you! Because UTB always has your best interests at heart, we've put together a smorgasbord of classes that sound cool, interesting or otherwise worthwhile. Behold, your totally ballin' last-minute registration guide (and yes, all of these are real classes):
(11/14/08 5:11am)
So you've probably heard the totally lame-o news that BMOC-- shorthand for AXO's popular annual philanthropy event, Big Man on Campus--is on the verge of being cancelled, which would make its record 2 for 4 over the years that seniors have been at Penn. Maybe you've even joined the SAVE BMOC group on Facebook, which points out that each year the event raises thousands of dollars to support victims of domestic violence. But have you stopped to consider that a lack of BMOC would leave our campus, like a fish without a bicycle, sadly BMOC-less? The chair of the UA and the president of the senior class serve as our elected leaders, but he who is BMOC is our unofficial spiritual guide. How will Street editors know who to put in Cultural Elite? Will the role instead fall to the Big Asian on Campus? And then who will fulfill the duties of the big Asian--Mr. and/or Ms. Penn? We truly fear that BMOC's cancellation could result in a social power vacuum. Hey, Ron Daniels, if you agree to stay, we'll let you be BMOC!
(11/14/08 4:20am)
Spending all your time at Van Pelt will give you a pretty skewed vision of Penn life, and spending all of that library time in the same cramped little study carrel working on a senior thesis will just make you that much more cracked out. You get used to leaving all your stuff there, and since you have permission to kick people out when you need the carrel, it becomes a weird little makeshift home. It's basically real estate consolation for all the stress you've elected to endure to graduate with honors.
(11/13/08 10:19pm)
Today's Street features an interview with The Whigs, which you can read here. Not all of it could fit into the magazine, but luckily this blog serves as a repository for excess magazine goodness, much like the deleted scenes on your favorite DVDs. And now, the interview!
(11/13/08 5:45pm)
Ah, Shoutouts, it's been too long! For the uninitiated, Shoutouts are sort of a Street trademark, one of the things we are best known for around campus: they're basically a collection of anonymous, reader-submitted expressions of love/vitriol/both that we publish once a semester, and the meaner, the better. Sometimes people worry that 34th Street has lost its edge, that we're just not as gloriously bitchy as we once were. Each semester, Shoutouts reaffirm our place as the most cynical people around.
(11/13/08 5:15pm)
Greetings from Van Pelt, where we have hunkered down to wait out this dark rainy abyss of a Thursday. The only thing keeping us going is the new issue of Street, which conveniently has Smoke's right on the cover. Let's take a peek inside, shall we?
(11/12/08 10:21pm)
And you know what that means: the holiday season is upon us. Thanks to eagle-eyed Street editor Eliza Rothstein for snapping this pic--if you have a better one, send it to us!
(11/12/08 3:30pm)
Do you possess brute strength, a superior grip and the desire to strong-arm our neighbors to the north? Then congratulations, you may be eligible to participate in the epic tug of war, billed as the "Battle of 33rd Street," that PennRec is organizing in conjunction with next week's Penn-Drexel basketball game (set to be part of ESPN's all-day college basketball marathon). The following e-mail is currently winding its way through Penn's most muscular listservs:
A couple of weeks ago, I sent out an email regarding a tug-or-war that PennRec is organizing against Drexel the night before the Penn-Drexel Basketball game during ESPN's 24hrs of basketball. They're looking for 20 guys and 10 girls to participate in this event and all participants get free tkts to the game the next day.
I know I got a couple of responses about this earlier, but are other people interested in doing it? You simply have to be an Penn Undergrad. If anyone is interested, please let me know.
Think you've got what it takes to compete? Apparently the person to contact is Ronny Abbo.
(11/12/08 2:32am)
Zoinks! We just heard that Google launched a video chat option for Gmail today. Um, this is totally going to transform our lives and force us to stop posting false status messages that we are in the library when in fact we never actually left the house. Since we had so much fun testing out PennCourseReviewED.com and the new BlackBerry Bold, we decided to take this new video chat thingamabob out for a spin.
(11/10/08 5:17pm)
We love happening upon your papers, your resumes, and the gmail window you forgot to log out of on public computers--we even love reading Columbia students' junk in Bwog's Digitalia. We've learned that sometimes people can get a little proprietary about the computers they use in class, and the relative neatness or lack thereof of the desktop space can cause all sorts of little snits. Here's one such tiff we spied today in Addams, where most intro and intermediate level graphic design classes meet:
(11/10/08 5:00pm)
Cultural critic John Leonard died last week. One of the requirements of being a Street editor is being totally and irrevocably obsessed with New York Magazine, and Leonard was NYMag's TV critic, so we were greatly saddened to hear of his death. The following e-mail just came in over the Kelly Writers House listserv via its director Al Filreis, and it details the year Leonard spent teaching creative writing at Penn:
(11/10/08 3:26pm)
As Web Development Editor of the DP, Thomas Jansen is responsible for making sure dailypennsylvanian.com is running smoothly, and he has the additional pleasure of being hassled by html-incompetent Street editors every night over gchat. We made him write this BlackBerry review, and it was pretty good once we translated it out of javascript. J/K, gthom, write again soon kthx!
(11/10/08 2:30pm)
As soon as Obama picked his new chief of staff, UTB wasted no time (give or take a weekend) in appointing Dennie Zastrow to evaluate the prez-elect's pick. Zastrow weighs in, below.
(11/10/08 1:49am)
They say the only constant in life is change, and the same is definitely true of Facebook. You simply can't rely on Facebook to stay the same--it's constantly changing its look and adding features that we hate at first but quickly grow dependent on, and it all very much fits into some neo-Marxist paradigm in which we become complicit in our own media manipulation. The latest example? Over the past few weeks, we've noticed that we can now see entire albums that contain tagged photos of our friends, even we're not friends with the person that posted the album.
(11/06/08 4:00pm)
Everybody knows the best way to keep abreast of what's new at Penn is to look down. That way, you can kill two birds with one stone by avoiding eye contact with flyer-wielding classmates AND simultaneously checking out the chalkings. Which is to say, we noticed, or more accurately, stepped on, the URL "PennCourseReviewED.com" enough times over the past few days that it piqued our curiosity. So we checked it out. A UTB appraisal:
Straight off the bat, we were annoyed we had to register and make up a screenname. Our lives are complicated enough.
Aside from a rather spirited debate on the merits of Introduction to Cognitive Science (who knew?), the site is looking pretty empty. It relies on user-submitted reviews, but no one's going to start writing reviews until the site gets popular, and blah blah blah vicious circle.
Which brings us to another point: we already have Penn Course Review, and we read last week that that shit is going online-only, making this site totally redundent as of next semester, which we don't actually feel that bad about, since the site grew out of a class project and doesn't seem to have any kind of agenda. (But they could have named it whatever they wanted to differentiate it from PCR, and all they came up with was adding -ED? Really?)
The site is also not very intuitively designed--the majority of courses don't have reviews, but every class offered at Penn seems to be listed, and there's no way to limit searches to only courses that have reviews.
Bottom Line: An imperfect tool for selecting classes, but thanks for trying, guys!
(11/06/08 2:39pm)
Remember the part in Clueless when Cher and Dionne are washing the dye out of Tai's hair and picking out new clothes for her and stuff? The makeover scene! This week, Street is fashion-themed (with nary an Ugg in sight, we'd like to note). Here's what you have to look forward to:
(11/05/08 6:28pm)
Remember the last day of school before Christmas break in elementary school? When teachers would just say "screw it," and let us eat candy and watch videos (real movies, not even moderately educational stuff like Bill Nye)? Because that is today. Professors are bringing in snacks, putting on music, and generally acting like happy times are here again. Not that we mind.
(11/05/08 2:23pm)
Our overachieving friends at the DP captured the campus-wide euphoria that followed Obama's win. (Apologies to our Republican readers for going all MSNBC on you for the past few days. From here on out, we shun the liberal elite. Morning in America '84!)
(11/05/08 5:01am)
(11/04/08 10:00pm)
The Philadelphia Daily News posted a video earlier this afternoon, a tipster informs us, and we think it belongs right up there with the canon of ne'er-do-well former Spin blogger Stephen Morse.
