I have a confession to make . . .
I am a recovering Management 100 TA addict.
At first, this job looked like a dream come true.
Where else in society can you have a somewhat unhealthy obsession with the lives of young students and not have to register with a governmental agency?
What is this crowd of hungry Penn students doing in Huntsman on a Thursday night?
And no, they are not there just for the free pizza.
Straight from the pages of today’s DP:
“We chose The Roots because they’re a group that attracts a wide audience,” College junior and SPEC-TRUM co-director Efe Johnson said.
Ironic how it was the organizers of the DP-dubbed “Minority Fall Show” who figured out this elusive formula for success.
Hopefully SPEC was taking notes.
In a clever marketing move, the Weiss Tech House kicked off yesterday their annual week dedicated to the most over-used and clichéd word in business today — Innovation!
Taking a cue from the Teach-For-America playbook, the high-tech club has littered campus with a flurry of low-tech posters advertising their events, which will take place all throughout this week.
College students are encouraged to attend — this looks like a perfect opportunity to put those B-FLAT skills to use!
Every family is a little dysfunctional, and Penn is no different.
On the eve of Family Weekend 2007, it is ironic that we have what appears to be some sibling rivalry between administrators in the College of Arts and Sciences and Wharton.
In today’s DP, there is a front page article detailing a plan by College Dean Dennis DeTurck and the Dean’s Advisory Board to create a business minor in the College. The catch is, it would not be sponsored by Wharton. The program, named B-FLAT, stands for budgeting, finance, leadership and teamwork.
In one of the funnier quotes of the semester, a College senior was quoted as saying the minor was warranted given that College students view Wharton classes as “too difficult and not worth their time.”
*Note – When trying to justify the legitimacy of your program, saying Wharton classes are “too difficult” is probably not the best way to make people sympathetic to your cause. It just supports the stereotype that College students don’t want to work hard and rely on grade inflation.
Wharton Vice Dean Phillips had it right in saying the program would be a “disservice to the school” and a “dilution” to Wharton.
Here at the DP, we work tirelessly around the clock. Such front page gems range from our alert of students peeing on statues to today’s a full-page tutorial on how to super-soak that special someone in your life.
But then we miss a story like this…
Wow, what a crazy weekend.
It’s during times like these we have to take it back to basics. Time for another edition of a Penn favorite…Buy, Sell, and Hold.
Buy
Ivy League Guard-Dogs: According to today’s DP, “Unattended theft has gone skyrocketing,” on campus in areas such as Van Pelt library. Turns out Ivy League kids, despite having everything they want, still find a reason to commit petty crime. Who knew? Look for confused parents, unable to accept the truth their babies have sticky fingers, to blame this on the West Philadelphia community.
As the only Spin blogger belonging to a Greek-letter organization, I felt it was my fraternal duty to report on the propaganda-fest down Locust Walk yesterday known as Greek Week. From my observation, this week had two completely different meanings for fraternities and sororities. For the ladies, it was a frantic contest to see who could put the most random crap on a middle-school display board. I think I felt an epileptic seizure coming on, from the sensory-overload of colored construction paper.
For the guys…it was just another excuse to miss class.
My momma always said you can tell a lot about an organization by what paraphernalia (or lack thereof) they choose to display on a makeshift table. You had the creative…
While everyone around me appears to be wetting their pants like spoiled little brats who can’t get in on a secret, I for one would like to applaud the Penn administration for keeping their mouth shut about the whole Dean Stetson departure.
They have successfully adhered to Wharton Business Principle # 1 – No Snitching.
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