A certain tall, bespectacled freshman male must have been stoned out of his mind last weekend. While attempting to swipe into Mayer Hall, he lamented the fact that he wasn't getting in. When the friendly SpectraGuard asked him to show him his PennCard, freshman pulled out... his room key. He had been trying to swipe the room key in the PennCard ...

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Penn students will have a semi-legit excuse to tune into The CW's Beauty and the Geek-

Will, a "geek" contestant this season, is a proud Penn graduate.  Sure, he might have been a Computer Science Engineering major.... but "reality TV contestant" sounds almost as impressive, right?

You know you're at an Ivy-Leage University when your school's Facebook Marketplace is selling Porsches.....

Overheard in the crowd of students watching the almost-suicide at FroGro last Thursday-

Frat Boy: "Dude, I have a class now... But I feel like I should be here for this!"

and

Guy on phone: "Come down here now, you have to see this! No, she hasn't jumped.... Well, not yet."

The Dueling Tampons have just gotten creepier.

After their unsettling headshot gallery, the folks at this Penn-related blog have decided to add a section where you can upload pictures of your dorm. Invasion of privacy has never been so easy to upload...

Question- how long until this turns into a "try to catch your roommate naked" picture site?...

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To the red-shirted, spectacle-sporting freshman looking for textbooks at the bookstore-

The Star Wars Theme ringtone you so proudly programmed into your undoubtedly new phone will only get you laid if used ironically and in the presence of mucho alcohol. 

And as an addendum- "Wanna see my lightsaber?" is a pickup line you should seriously cons

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The Dueling Tees Forum has set up a special section devoted to headshots from the Penn entertainment community.

Talent scouts be warned- if you are in need of naked snowsurfers, vaguely-Jewish best-friend-types, or the next big terrorist-of-ambiguous-Middle-Eastern origin to be seen on this season of 24?

Look no further, 'cause Penn gives gr

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The U.S. News and World Report has ranked Penn Number 5 on its 2008 listing of top colleges in the country.

The Fighting Quakers came in at a tie with the California Institute of Technology, and is still outranked by Princeton, Harvard, Yale, and Stanford. 

Still, though, what other college can claim to be in the smack-dab in the middle of a

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The DP is reporting that a gunshot was fired on the unit block of South 40th Street the night of August 15th.

A few choice nuggets from the article-

- "A detective at the scene said that a spent shell casing and some blood were found."

- "No victim has come forward, nor has the victim been found after a search of area hospitals."

- "The inci...

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