Talent knows no bounds here at Penn.
The problem with college is that there is just too much going on.
Locust is crawling with Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs and even a Wiccan or two. ABP, Gia, Savory, Einstein, as well as all the dining halls, are just some of the dozens of mealtime options. There are obviously too many academic disciplines to study them all. And there are certainly too many creative outlets to fully explore one’s potential.
It would be a real blessing to be surrounded with such a wide array if only college were longer than four years and every day lasted for hundreds of hours.
But time is not on our side. And to take it all in — to feel, hear, taste, smell and see all that Penn has to offer — we need to start condensing this university’s cultural offerings into sardine-sized pockets of time.
What we need, more than a new health services building, is a weekly variety show.
It’s simple, really. SAC appoints an MC each semester. Season passes are sold — an innovation which eliminates the need for petty cash on Locust where performing arts groups hock their shows.
And one night a week, the whole student body has a giant dorm and quad exodus to Franklin Field, where a few groups strut their stuff.
And there you have it. My brilliant plan to lick up every morsel of this overflowing pot of artistry and have no graduating senior wistfully saying, “Damn. Wish I’d made it out to see Penn Baroque and Recorder Ensembles.”
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