It’s about time that the Daily Pennsylvania (Penn’s Student Newspaper) has an RSS Feed feed. I looked into it over a year ago and actually went to the effort to write my own script to generate an RSS feed from their HTML. Of course my script broke as soon as they changed their layout and I gave up trying to keep it up to date.

So check it out, subscribe to it, keep up to date on Penn Happenings (of course they wait until after Football and Basketball season, but at least it will be around for next year).

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Dear College Sports Television,

I want to start by thanking you for your coverage of the Penn vs. Princeton matchup this evening (3/8/05). It is hard for fans of Ivy League sports to get out-of-area coverage of our games. It would have been nice for it to have been a meaningful game, but I’ll take what I can get.

Ok, maybe I won’t take just what I can get. It would be wonderful if you could pick up more than just once Ivy League Basketball game a year. The games of the “Big” leagues are available on ESPN or Network Television. Slightly smaller conferences and you can at least pick up some of the games on Espn Full Court (for pay). But us “Small” [market] leagues don’t have an outlet like that. I always thought that your network had made a niche for itself by covering Small Market sports (like college baseball and lacrosse), so why not expand your coverage of small market leagues as well? It seems like a natural fit for me.

Sincerly,

Bill Napier
Penn ‘98

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One of my coworkers asked me an interesting question today. It turns out that he is going to a conference at Penn tomorrow and wanted to know if there was anything I could recommend for him to do on campus. Long story short, I drew a blank and was really pretty unhelpful. My first set of thoughts were places to eat (I tend to think with my stomach), but the conference is providing food for him.

• Get a Cheesestreak at Abners (if you don’t want to make the trip to Pat’s
• Get a nice meal at White Dog
• Go to the food court at 3401 Walnut (which I think is closed for renovation…)
• Check out the food at Houston Hall (which wasn’t nearly as nice when I was there)

The next set of ideas I came up with were more in the category of things prospective students would be interested in. He already has a masters degree, so those things really didn’t interest him that much either.

• Check out College Hall and College Green
• See Ben on the Bench
• See how cool the buildings at the Quad are
• See the Button
• Visit the Bookstore
• See Steinberg-Dietrich

At this point I was pretty much out of ideas. I ended up telling him to take the 2 minutes it takes to visit the Eniac museum in Moore before heading to the conference. There isn’t really much there unless you make an appointment, but it could be cool.

FOOTNOTE: About an hour after I had this conversation with him, I had another idea. The University Museum. When I was a student it was free to get in (which may have been because I was a student…) and had some pretty cool things and he is already at that end of campus. So I e-mailed him the idea.

HOMEWORK: If you are a Penn Alum, come up with what I missed telling him. If you are an Alum of another school, come up with what you would have told him if he was visiting your Alma Mater. Feel free to post your comments here, or just e-mail them to me. Maybe I’ll summarize them in a later post or something.

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