<p>I got this thing in the mail from the Daily Pennsylvanian, the student newspaper at Penn. They are offering to subscribe for entire freshman year plus the remainder of this spring for a special, discounted price of $59!</p>
<p>I was just wondering. Is anybody else gonna get it?</p>
<p>I haven't got anything like that but I didn't know you had to pay for that paper. At our local uni, its free but noone really needs it so...</p>
<p>you don't need to subscribe, it's all online...</p>
<p>also it's free on campus, the subscription is for your parents...</p>
<p>I just got the letter. It is for your PARENTS to subscribe (the letter was adressed to my parents). Not worth the cash if your parents are the ones reading it because they have more important stuff to do like earn money to pay tution.</p>
<p>yes, I got the letter yesterday just after posting here. Reading getcrunk's post I thought it meant students had to suscribe to it to read it. </p>
<p>Anyway, I feel special now that I am getting official university student correspondence.
and venkat--have you been able to sort our the problem with your deposit?</p>
<p>Yes I have. My dad called a few days ago and they got my new check.</p>
<p>I don't think I'm getting it. First off, I doubt my parents will read it. Also, its not really the DP; its the "Weekly Pennsylvanian" which is a 8 page "best-of" newspaper that sums up the week.</p>
<p>The Weekly Pennsylvanian is a really good thing that you all should have your parents get. I know at least for my parents it has been a way for them to stay up-to-date with the happenings of campus without having to read the DP EVERYDAY.</p>
<p>I find the Weekly Pennsylvanian to be lacking. Really the editors do as good a job as is possible of distilling a weeks worth of stories into one paper that's shorter than a typical daily paper, but really the DP covers such a variety of on campus things, that it becomes hard to rank which stories are really the most important.</p>
<p>For all you admits so far, I recommend you start going to read the website, <a href="http://www.dailypennsylvanian.com%5B/url%5D">www.dailypennsylvanian.com</a> (yes, it's kind of ugly right now) and scanning the headlines. My favorite feature is actually the little sidebar on the left that shows most popular stories.</p>
<p>Throughout the year, if your parents want to keep up with what's going on on campus, I would recommend that they go onto the website in the evening each day, the data is the most accurate then, and read the most popular stories. </p>
<p>IMO, the DP's best stories are the student life features and the other in depth coverage of that variety.</p>
<p><strong>Full disclosure</strong> I write for the Daily Pennsylvanian but I'm not here as a marketer, I swear.</p>
<p>The DP isn't very good, don't bore your parents.</p>
<p>Yea sure it's not great compared to say the NYTimes or the WaPo, but for Penn community news, there's no better source.</p>