As you may have heard from the videos of President Gutmann’s visit to Los Angeles, the campus will be undergoing a pretty massive expansion shortly. In my days (’92-’96), there was lots of construction on campus, but my biggest memory had to do with it taking my 4+ undergrad years to redo the exterior of […]
I was just checking Google’s new “Street View” option for Penn’s Spruce Street and was dismayed to see this! Do you see the empty lot next to Allegros pizza? (Click on the image above to get a better view.) That lot used to be where (my fraternity) AEPi (3940 Spruce Street) once resided. Apparently, a […]
For my “Now and Then Thursdays” series, I wanted to share one of my most favorite films I created back in 1996 about an obsessed woman who stops at nothing to find her man. Her man happens to be Waldo from the popular children’s book series and finding him on Penn’s campus may be a […]
Over the decades there’s always been competition in the Penn libraries. It is true now as it was back in my day. As we saw in one of my previous posts, Ben Grinberg (C’11) shows us that there are all sorts of characters one can find in Penn libraries. Specifically, he noted the “Library Ostrich” […]
Back in September I saw a great video of a classic sketch that Mask and Wig did from their 2007 Free Show. It was especially fun to see how that sketch had evolved from when we did it in my day. Having been in Mask and Wig as an undergrad and having seen the shows […]
1995 Hey Day Next week, the Juniors will be taking part in the Penn tradition of Hey Day. As I look through my pictures and videos from when I took part in Hey Day, every year I’m happy to see the tradition continue. …Lots of red. Lots of bitten hats. And lots of drunkards. My […]