Ivy League School Will Offer Class on "Wasting Time on the Internet"

Next year, at the prestigious University of Pennsylvania, a group of students will screw around online. Between lectures on thinkers like John Cage and Betty Friedan, they'll be asked to browse the likes of Tumblr or Twitter and hopefully, by they end of the semester, they'll have something meaningful to say about it…
Protesters Scare Eric Cantor Into Canceling His Income Inequality Speech
Well, duh. Why did we believe that House Majority Leader Eric Cantor would actually go through with his surprise speech on income inequality today? He always walks away just when things are getting tough. And apparently a lecture hall at Penn's Wharton School of Business wasn't secure enough to protect Cantor from the…
Lady Who Cleans Ivy League Frat Houses Is Getting Rich
Cleaning up after college kids is lucrative. A profile in The Daily Beast reveals that Kia Grasty, cheerful custodian of Penn frat houses, makes $140,000 by mopping beer from rich kids' floors.
Penn Frat Cleared of Camel Molestation
We hasten this morning to bring you the very latest on the Penn Frat Party Camel Abuse Controversy. What's that? You haven't been following the uproar at the Ivy League that erupted after the Zeta Psi fraternity went to a petting zoo and rented a camel for its "Spring Fling" party? And how some people objected to the…
Late Columnist Gets Own Ivy League Building
Here's a good argument for marrying rich: buildings named after you! If you are rich you can get big libraries and stuff, but the spouses of billionaires have to settle for century-old class buildings on Ivy League campuses. Ronald Perelman, recently in the news for his bitter divorce from Ellen Barkin, was once…
Penn Gone, Slater Forgotten
As you probably all know by now, actor Chris Penn passed yesterday. The above photo from a Reuters obit features "actor Chris Penn (R) and an unidentified actor." Without too much squinting, you should be able to discern that "unidentified actor" is obscure character actor Christian Slater, Penn's castmate in …
