And you thought your Macbook air was heavy. Get a look at this monster of a computer otherwise known as ENIAC: the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer… or the first computer at Penn. We’ve heard about it through the years, but get a great 2 minute video summary of its beginnings at Penn after the […]
Remember the good old days when you got your acceptance letter from Penn in the mail? Well this week, some select students received a video about their “likely” acceptance to Penn. Find out about what this “likely acceptance” is all about …and watch the video after the jump! This week a couple hundred students received a […]
Recently, musician Jay Matsueda (W’95) sent me a video of a bunch of random footage taken during various public entertainment events on and near PENN campus in the 1994/1995 timeframe. The video includes: music by The LIDDS, Jay Matsueda (W’95), Pete Lee (C’95) and a band at a block party jeans wearing dancers at the Quad during Spring […]
Last weekend Mask and Wig came out to LA to perform its 122nd Annual Production “A Cheshire Catastrophe”. And in case you missed it, DT has some exclusive highlight clips for you. Above, check out the show’s finale number followed by Mask and Wig’s traditional kickline (wait until you see their costumes this year!) …And […]
This could be one of my favorite “Now and Then Thursdays” series posts thus far… There is a 1937 film called Varsity Show which references Penn and The Mask and Wig Club (thanks Anthony Maggio C’09!). As you’ll see in the short somewhat hokey clip above, the group of band players chant Mask and Wig’s […]
Another Fling, another year of cheers and hisses over some clever “dick” jokes from Mask and Wig. Watch above to find out how the group incorporated Canada and other popular references into this year’s (2009) Spring Fling “Nude Bit”. (for those Friars and Sphinx members out there, stick around for the last joke!) …If you […]