Bright, shiny junk.

I’m not a Mac user and thus don’t have direct experience of the new Leopard operating system. However, my indirect experience with the OS so far is as follows:

• My housemate went in on a license only to find that his computer didn’t have enough RAM to run Leopard smoothly.
• My professor (Sam Apple, ironically enough) was unable to print for our class on Wednesday because Leopard didn’t work with his printer.
• I read this story in the DP about students having trouble connecting to AirPennNet on Leopard.

Are we talking about Apple here, or Windows 98?

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I know you’ve seen them. They’re everywhere - littered on lamp posts, stamped on the pavement, even plastered on poor Ben Franklin’s statue. That’s right, I’m talking about that ubiquitous B, those orange, white, and black circle stickers.

For the past two months, I’ve been incredibly curious as to what these stickers stood for. Were they gang symbols? Band logos? Some sort of alien sign? I was completely baffled.

Last Friday, the mystery was solved.

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I’m sure you all remember the controversy that was stirred up across the nation in response to Islamo-Fascism Awareness week, or Terrorism Awareness Week as it was politically correctly re-dubbed here at Penn.

The president of the Muslim Student’s Association had it out with Bill O’Reilly, Santorum once again humiliated himself despite repeated attempts to sound like a legitimate politician, and we all were reminded of just how myopic some people’s world views really are.

At Dartmouth, this week is “Islam-Fashion Awareness Week.” It’s hard to believe that Al-Nur, the student group sponsoring the week, claims they don’t want “the event to be seen as a response to Islamo-Fascism week.”

After the jump: Hijabs, abayas and niqabs hit the runway.

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I wanted to puke when I read the “rants and raves” section in the latest edition of The WALK, Penn’s only (thank God) fashion magazine. I didn’t think “cool” could be used so many times in one piece of writing. Please, buy a thesaurus!

“Rainbow flip-flops: you all own them and you may think they’re cool now, but flip-flops … are not real footwear — no one wears them after college so please be the one step ahead, and just stop now”

“The typical Penn student has a going out look that can improve as well. When you see girls in the same outfit, it is boring and quite frankly unattractive.”

Pure gems of wisdom.

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