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Locust Swarm

On Locust, the roles are clear. If you’re walking, you’re dodging — burying your head in your phone or your hands in your pockets.

by LEAH STEINBERG

Ego of the Week: Sourav Bose

A recent winner of the Thouron Award, which sponsors Penn students to study in the U.K. after graduation, Sourav Bose led MERT and volunteers at the Philadelphia Animal Welfare Society.

by 34TH STREET

WaWa What?

Street hit up Wawa at 2 a.m. on a Saturday night and asked the post–party customers where they see themselves in five years.

by LEAH STEINBERG

Word on the Street: OCR for a Film/English Major

After analyzing gender dynamics in Eliot’s Daniel Deronda, I left my 19th Century Lit class and went home to retrieve my slightly oversized suit jacket.

by NICK STERGIOPOULOS

The Sunday Talkies

Talk radio can sometimes be a bit geriatric. Listening to talk radio here at Penn, though, is an entirely different experience.

by SHELBY RACHLEFF

Ego of the Week: Chaia Werger

You may know her as Face Paint Girl, because when there are neon swirls on your forehead, that tends to precede you.

by 34TH STREET

Word on the Street: Netflix Has Taken Over

It all started out so innocently.

by MICHAEL GOLD

Word on the Street: Home Alone

My name is Tucker Johns, and I live by myself.

by TUCKER JOHNS

Ego of the Week: Alex Toumayan

Although Alex Toumayan, Mask & Wig’s head writer, claims he isn’t very funny, Street finds him amusing enough to make him this week’s Ego.

by 34TH STREET

Top 5 Reasons to Drop Your Class

5 — Your class always goes until the time it’s scheduled to.

by 34TH STREET

Web Presence, Reviewed

Street critiques the Penn–centric websites that let us anonymously post our gripes, crushes and naps online.

by JACKKLEIN

Word on the Street: Emphasis on the Study

"Did you have, like, the time of your life?” When I tell people that I studied abroad last semester, this is the near–unanimous opening question.

by TUCKER JOHNS

Ego of the Week: Meredith Bress

Meredith Bress, this year’s VP of Recruitment, handles everything rush–related, from registration to bid cards.

by 34TH STREET

Top 5 Ways to Stay Warm

5. Avoid the wind tunnel at all costs, but if you can’t, walk behind someone tall… humans make great windbreakers. 4.

by 34TH STREET

Looks on Locust: 1.20.11

We'll be honest, Street stopped a lot of homeless people and 70–year–old WASPs in sick furry get–ups before we stumbled upon these bundled–up babes. Added bonus: they're actually enrolled here

by LEAH STEINBERG

Ego of the Week: Corey Feldman

Corey Feldman, best known for smooth talking and his future plans to join the Israeli Defense Forces, chats about his indiscretions (under the Button ... or so he claims) and freshman shenanigans.

by 34TH STREET

Ego Of The Week: John Pennypacker

Joke Issue: John Pennypacker, captain of the football team, loves underground lairs and dance floor spotlights.

by 34TH STREET

How To Depression–Proof Your Wardrobe

Joke Issue: In these times, it takes a little creativity to spice up your wardrobe — food stamps don’t apply to boutique shopping.

by 34TH STREET

Life In A Hooverville: A Reflection

Joke Issue: By Tom Joad Four months ago when my family lost our house, we moved in with cousins and patiently awaited the day when we would move back home to indoor heating.

by 34TH STREET

Word On The Street

Joke Issue: Thoughts by Cholly Knickerbocker Yesterday evening, in what can only be proclaimed as an offense against my rather placid senses, a certain co–resident of mine — a man who we in the Quadrangle are ashamed to call one of our own, although he shall remain unnamed — disdained me for foregoing the traditional shirt and cummerbund combination in favor of the slightly marvelous backless waistcoats, seen on Savile Row this past year.

by 34TH STREET

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