After a long, arduous selection process involving knocking on doors and lying about our motives, we finally have a new crop of bloggers for Spring 2008. Read about them here and keep checking back to get to know them over the rest of the semester; they’re a hilarious group of people from all over the place (the Deep South! England! the Linguistics Consortium!) who can’t wait to keep you giggling in class for a whole ‘nother five months.

Without further ado:

Vaughn Stewart is totally boss. A freshman hailing from Alabama, the state of blue skies and lynch mobs, he enjoys video games, earlobes, and Keith Olbermann. He consulted his Facebook to remind himself of his interests. He does not have a tattoo that says “THUG NASTY” on his chest. He thinks people talking on their blue tooths (blueteeth?) are actually trying to start a conversation with him. Occasionally, they are.

College sophomore Madeleine Kronovet is a newbie from New York. She studies history and anthropology when she’s not dancing her heart out. Look forward to constant witticisms and a unique perspective on random and varied Penn issues.

CGS Post-Bac and University employee Lauren Friedman works in linguistics but is pretty solidly monolingual. She supports the “singular they” theoretically but not in actual writing. Although she already spent four years going to college in the Philly area, another few can’t hurt. Her three great loves at Penn are tuition benefits, librarians, and — as of today — The Spin.

A rather irreverent blogger, Eric Sukumaran is a senior from London,
England majoring in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He enjoys reading and playing rugby, is a huge lover of good food and drink and lives to have energetic discussions with his fellow man (also known as arguing). Oh, and he loves ice cream.

Dan Diamond (C’02) lives in DC where he plays with words for a living and plays ultimate frisbee for fun. As our resident alumni blogger, he looks forward to chastising undergraduates for their atonal “indie rock,” reminding them how much harder life was pre-Fresh Grocer, and generally being cranky for a semester.

After providing new and interesting perspectives on everything from porn to cancer in 2007, College senior Nick Barr still hasn’t found a school club he likes, so he’s back for a second round in 2008. Look forward to comical vulgarity and an increasingly cynical point of view as his thesis due date draws ever nearer.

A College sophomore, Jon Wroble is known to lie about four things: age, weight and ability to count. He hails from Chicago, which seems a lot nicer after living in Philly. If you really want to get on his good side, buy him a birthday gift — he was born on Christmas Eve, so he never gets anything good (if anything at all). He likes music and film, but hates musicals.

And then there’s me, Lindsey Stull, heretofore referred to in the third person for continuity’s sake and my own amusement. A sophomore from Oklahoma who lies regularly about both her age and her childhood home, Lindsey takes copious amounts of pleasure in hyperbole, biology and many kinds of music. She is excited to abandon last semester’s sex(y) blog (and unsexy picture) and give her skewed, sarcastic, hippie vegetarian opinion on all things Penn. She fills Ali Jackson’s shoes as Opinion Blog Editor this semester. Get excited.

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