New Republic Article on U. of Penn: "Most Insecure Ivy League University"

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<p><a href="http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120185/inside-americas-number-1-party-school-university-pennsylvania"&gt;http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120185/inside-americas-number-1-party-school-university-pennsylvania&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>This is a very shoddy news article, and hardly passes for journalism. This being said, it's interested to note that some of the stereotypes about Penn (e.g. it's very "pre-professional," with Wharton casting a "large shadow" over campus) refuse to die. Unfortunately, the college's admissions/student life teams will probably be answering questions about this article for the next few months. </p>

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<p>It’d be pretty easy to find examples and quotes from students to make a completely different argument. This is not very good journalism at all. Also, am I the only one around here who is working hard but not playing hard? Blaah.</p>

<p>By the way, looking at the author’s other articles: “Here’s What Happens When Hasidic Jews Join the Secular World: The world can be a scary place when you grow up thinking cheeseburgers will kill you.” Uuuughhhhhh. </p>

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<p>This is incredibly amusing.</p>

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<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-pennsylvania/448246-reps-of-different-sororities-at-penn.html”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-pennsylvania/448246-reps-of-different-sororities-at-penn.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I participated in a short discussion about the article last Friday, with a few of my partners who either went to Penn, had kids there, or both. All of them thought it was cheap, shoddy journalism . . . and not completely wrong about some of the gestalt at Penn. Of course, lots of students there have little or nothing to do with the fraternity system and don’t spend their evenings trying to stay half a block ahead of the police.</p>

<p>Also: I sort of assumed that there was some equivalent to those rate-the-frats threads in every forum for a college with a strong fraternity system. Is that not the case? I have a hard time believing that Penn prospective students who are interested in fraternities and sororities are more interested in their reputations than the equivalent prospies at, say, Cornell, Vanderbilt, UVa, Duke, Wake Forest, Northwestern . . . . Lots of them are going to be the same people . . . .</p>

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<p><a href=“New Republic Tries To Play The Undercover Penn Social Life Exposé Game | Under the Button”>New Republic Tries To Play The Undercover Penn Social Life Exposé Game | Under the Button;
This is the response from Under the Button, a blog in The Daily Pennsylvanian.</p>