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magazine
Valentine’s Week Issue!
FEBRUARY 11, 2008 Volume 8, No. 85
FIRST dolls and dolphins
LOOK
shira bender
Shira thinks about the ultimate
expression of unrequited love.
11
S.e.p.t.a.
Erica Tobin
Erica braves mass transit for purely
– well, almost purely - unselfish
reasons.
8 photo spotlight: hug fairy
shelby prindaville
9 It’s a branded world out there
michael field
Michael goes to war against ads and tries to survive in our brand-name culture.
12 Review: in rainbows
steve waye
Steve listens as Radiohead breaks down musical and marketing boundaries.
12 Comic: glass Half Empty
Dan Markowitz
14 photo spotlight: bath at night
Michael sall
16 crossword: valentine’s day
The editors
cover Cartoon: yue wu
Contact Contributors
Editor-in-Chief: Michael Sall • Editors: Tim Potens, Benny Laitman, Erica Tobin, Dan Deutsch • Chief Design
Editor: Charlie Isaacs • Chief Art Editor: Dan Markowitz • Webmaster: Tim Potens • Business Manager: Anna
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www.firstcallmagazine.com Columnists: Shira Bender, Erica Tobin • Writers: Michael Field, Steve Waye
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2 FIRST CALL February 11, 2008LETTER FROM
THE EDITORS
Dear Lovers and Haters,
Welcome to the first First Call
no pink or red clothing items in sight,
don’t stress. But don’t call one of those EDITORIAL
Valentine’s Week issue. Now, most
of my FC team here would fall into
lame depressed people hotlines either.
(If there was a jkjkjkjkjk smiley face, POLICY
the second half of my addressees: the I would be inserting one here.) Read
snarly haters who believe that the First Call instead and listen to some F irst C all is the undergraduate
glass is half empty and the sun won’t Radiohead (see Steve’s review). It is magazine of the U niversity of
come up tomorrow. That is, in fact, okay if no one else loves you, because P ennsylvania published every
the reason behind our issue title: Val- we do. And we are better than every-
entine’s Week. one else anyway. other M onday . O ur mission
As it seems, most of the First Call So now that we have poured our is to provide members of the
team believes that Valentine’s Day hearts out to you, read on. Don’t leave community an open forum for
has become way overblown and far us unrequited in our lovin’. We are a
too big of a deal. Too C-O-M-M-E- fun-loving bunch of writers - not so expressing ideas and opinions .
R-C-I-A-L. Too much branding (see much of a Romeo-and-Juliet-killed- T o this end , we , the editors of
Michael’s article). They say it’s not a themselves crowd. It’s not like read-
day anymore; it’s a week. An expen- ing us is hard work. Our articles rock,
F irst C all , are committed to a
sive week. A stressful week. A useless and you know it. policy of not censoring opin -
week. Speaking in extremely vague And in this issue we tackle new, ions . A rticles are provided by
electoral terms, the majority of the modern, racy issues. Like interspe-
regular columnists and writ -
FC team hates Valentine’s Day. They cies relationships (see Shira’s article).
really hate it. Seriously, no one else on campus will ers . T hey are chosen for pub -
But, they aren’t here to introduce teach you about that. Maybe the Bio lication based on the quality
you to Valentine’s Day — I am. You Department, but they definitely won’t
might be on a suicide watch list if they be as entertaining. You might even of writing , and , in the case of
were. So we, the real lovers of Valen- sleep through their version. commentaries , the quality of
tine’s Day, aren’t going to talk about If Valentine’s Day was like Christ- argumentation . O utside of the
all of those “we hate Hallmark” cynics. mas, not reading First Call would leave
Instead, we will chat about Valentine’s you with lots of coal in your stocking. editorial and other editorial
Day’s fabulosity. Yes, fabulosity. Maybe we can work something out content , no article represents
On Valentine’s Day, everyone can with Godiva. “You’ve been naughty,
wear pink and red from head to toe. now you get coal in your chocolates.”
the opinion of F irst C all , its
How many other days can you do that Eww. As I have already established, editorial board , or individual
without looking like an Easter Bunny? we here at FC are real lovers. Don’t members of F irst C all other
Okay, you might still look like an Eas- make us go all doom and gloom be-
than the author . N o content
ter Bunny, but people can’t poke fun cause we have to punish you.
at you for it. If they do, send them my in F irst C all unlessotherwise
way. I’m tough, you know. (See the Lots of lovin’ from the glass-half-full stated represents the official
SEPTA article inside this issue.) side of FC,
If you are miserable and alone in Erica Tobin position of the administra -
your room because there are absolutely Editor tion , faculty , or student body
at large of the U niversity of
a l l i s m P ennsylvania .
fir st c There are 3 things
First Call will never joke
about: the Underground Railroad, supported by
the kelly
Terrorists, and Michael Jordan. writers
house
FIRST CALL February 11, 2008 34 FIRST CALL February 11, 2008
DOLLS
&
DOLPHINS How to make your
interspecies
marriage
work!
Or not.
S haron and Cindy are in love.
Sharon is a 43–year-old Jewish millionaire from London. Cindy is a 35-year-old resort performer from Eilat, Israel.
They had a 15-year romance before getting married in 2005, during which time Sharon often traveled to Israel to visit
her sweetheart, according to the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth.
Oh, and Cindy is a dolphin.
At the wedding ceremony, Cindy’s trainers threw her some mackerel, after which Sharon herself jumped into the
water to swim with her new husband. Sharon says she is not a pervert. In fact, she claims to be “the happiest girl on
earth”. Only time will tell if Cindy is in fact the happiest Delphinidae.
Interspecies marriages. Kind of makes you wonder what the whole institution of marriage is really about. There are
many in this country who would say that Sharon and Cindy are just as “married” as any gay or lesbian couple would say
FIRST CALL February 11, 2008 5of themselves. There are those who humans who have sex for fun? Adds stories, and things get a bit more...
would say that they are just as “mar- a whole other sick layer to this story, intense. Take Terry and Lucy for in-
ried” as any man and woman could doesn’t it? stance: “I have had my Lucy (shes a
be. If marriage is strictly a legal con- The patrons of www.marryyour- yellow lab) for 3 years. She is the best
tract, then it’s up to your government pet.com certainly believe that love is thing that ever happened to me. We
whether you are in fact bound ‘till all you need. The site itself has a kind love going for long walks and fetch-
death. If it’s a spiritual thing, then of joking quality to it: the front page ing the bone. I was married until
maybe your local deity has to call the reads, “So you’ve found your partner Lucy came along. My wife met my
shots. And if it’s just about “love” in for life, only thing is - he’s an animal. needs, but she was nothing compared
all its pink, red, chocolaty, mushy Not just that he leaves hair in the to my little Lucy.” I don’t even want
glory, then Sharon and Cindy will in- bath and has abominable table man- to think about what kind of “needs”
deed be swimming side by side for all ners, but that really he’s an animal, little Lucy was meeting better than
of eternity. i.e. with feathers, scales or whatnot.” his wife could.
And did you know that dolphins But then you get to the section And then there’s Jacob and Sally
“
are the only mammals other than where people can post their own love McMan: “I went to Petco around a
year ago when I was looking through
the hamster section. I’ve always
wanted a hamster, I didn’t know I’d
be finding the love of my life. Jacob
was in the wheel, working out. He’s
I’m not just a strong little guy; very buff and has
a great body. I’d given up on men.
No one ever loved me! And I loved
writing to so much! But no man ever said he
loved me or cared for me or told me
I was amazing... So when I gave up
on men, I became lonely and bought
judge these Jacob. Jacob is a grey hamster. ..We
have fallen in love and I am about to
propose soon. He has given me love
people, al- no man could ever give! I know he
can’t say it, but I know he wants to,
he thinks I’m beautiful and amaz-
ing! He loves me, and boy do I love
though I do him!”
body.
Well, at least he’s got a great
But these people have found
have my own happiness, right? Isn’t that all that
really matters in this cold hard rat
race of ours? To find a warm beating
qualms with heart to sleep next to at night?
Actually, scratch that. There are
those who don’t even need the beat-
ing heart thing – they have found
using ani- love in inanimate objects, a phenom-
enon that was recently investigated
in a BBC documentary, “Love Me,
Love My Doll.” The movie follows
mals for… the lives of a group of men who have
fallen in love with their $10,000.00
life-size “real dolls.” The dolls are
untoward made to the buyers’ specifications,
from eye color to cup size to down-
there hair color and consistency.
At first you might think of them as
purposes. glorified sex toys, but after watching
these men literally groom, change,
bathe, and cook for their dolls, I’ve
started to question the whole unre-
6 FIRST CALL February 11, 2008“
quited love thing. I mean, if it really
hurts that much to be in love with
someone who doesn’t love you back,
then how do these men get by? Their
women don’t even have a pulse.
At first you
When it comes down to it, most
people believe that love must go
both ways. If you love someone who
doesn’t love you back, then you are
might think of
someone to be pitied and hopefully
empowered to leave the relation-
ship. And if you love someone who
them as glori-
can’t love you back, like your pet or
your doll, then you are immediately
labeled as a bit off-kilter, if not certi-
fiably insane.
fied sex toys, but
But I’m not just writing to judge
these people, although I do have
my own qualms with using animals
for...untoward purposes. Rather, my
after watching
point is to consider their actions in
terms of what it really means to be
happily in love. Can a relationship
these men literal-
really ever be truly happy if it is a
completely selfish existence? Let’s
say I love my cat, and I convince my-
self that my cat loves me back. Then,
ly groom, change,
haven’t I done this entirely for my
own pleasure? I may believe that my
cat is also gaining from the relation-
ship (beyond his food and scratchy
bathe, and cook
post thing), but unless I truly am
clinically insane, I have to know and
understand deep down that my cat
for their dolls, I’ve
does not and cannot love me the way
that human beings love one another.
That’s nothing against cats - they
just don’t have the upper brain func-
started to ques-
tion. And if you’re one of those be-
lievers in cat souls, then fine, use the
doll example instead. A doll cannot tion the whole
love. Simple as that. A man in a re-
lationship with a doll is in it entirely
for his own happiness. And maybe
he’s actually happier than the man
unrequited
in a relationship with a live woman
who doesn’t love him back – at least
this way he doesn’t have to deal with
feelings of inadequacy. But really,
love thing.
they all say it right there in the docu-
mentary that they are happier with
their dolls than they’ve ever been good a day (editor’s note: week) as I guess this is all just a roundabout
with real women. They are happier any to recognize how lucky we are way of saying: don’t take people for
to not have to actually give anything to love people who have their own granted. Because the next time your
of themselves to another person. Or agendas and lives and hopes and pet is giving you that sexy “I want
so they say. I don’t buy it. dreams. They don’t exist for our you” look, he’s probably just asking
If these people can teach us any- pleasure; they’re not our dolls and for food. And that’s it. FC
thing, it’s to appreciate the human- dolphins. We’re just lucky enough
ity of the people we love. I know that to have bumped into them, to get to Shira Bender is a senior in the College.
sounds cliché, but Valentine’s is as know them, and to be close to them. You can write to her at shiratb@sas.
FIRST CALL February 11, 2008 7photo spotlight:
Hug Fairy,
Shelby Prindaville
Shelby Prindaville is a senior in the College. You can write to her at shelbyp@sas.
8 FIRST CALL February 11, 2008It’s A Branded World Out There
Surviving the Advertising Onslaught
Michael Field
I was browsing newsstands the other
day looking to supplement my fix of
The New York Times, Sports Illustrat-
Ford’s next adventure as the in-over-
his-head professor and archeologist.
I bought the magazine and head-
zine was filled with failed attempts at
political humor and essays on spoiled,
wealthy, European royalty.
ed, and the final issue of Y: The Last ed home, my journey for nighttime It was then that I came to a grim
Man when my eyes happened across reading successful. I settled in and, realization. Vanity Fair isn’t about
a glorious sight. The February issue of with a madman’s fervor, began to dive the articles, but rather the hundreds
Vanity Fair sported a cover adorned into the magazine. of pages of advertisements. To get
by Harrison Ford wearing a classic fe- Slowly, page by page, my enthu- to the articles in the magazine I was
dora hat, brown leather jacket, and a siasm lessened. It wasn’t until page forced to flip through page after page
bullwhip. 58 that I found the first article, a less- of designer ads flouting pictures of
The cover loudly proclaimed, than-satisfying letter from the editor. half-dressed celebrities sporting ei-
“INDY’S BACK!” and I immediately The real first article of the magazine ther ball gowns or underwear.
picked it up. After growing up on a did not begin until page 96. While You might think I’m being a bit
steady supply of Star Wars and Indi- the Indiana Jones article was satisfy- over the top here, but let me take you
ana Jones, I was ready for Harrison ing, albeit brief, the rest of the maga- on a little walk through the beginning
FIRST CALL February 11, 2008 9of this magazine. When you open it stead of majoring in Cinema Studies being about wasn’t my experience with
up you are immediately assaulted by I had to switch to Wharton - no, to a Vanity Fair, which I’ll never repeat,
ads for Emporio Armani, Estée Laud- dual-degree program. It would be a but rather a brand-name lifestyle. It
er, Gucci, Christian Dior, Saks Fifth dual degree of Political Science and has permeated our society so deeply
Avenue, Louis Vuitton, and Prada. Business. With a minor in Legal Stud- that it has become impossible to es-
It continues unhindered like this for ies. Then, when I make six-figures cape. In 1997, over 200 billion dollars
more than 20 pages before you finally my first year out of an Ivy League law were spent on advertising. It is be-
come across the table of contents. The school, I can return to King of Prus- cause of this that now, when you buy a
barrage of ads then continues in the sia and spend the four-thousand dol- shirt with a Nike swoosh or a Lacoste
vain hope that one of them will rise lars needed to buy that one coat that I alligator on it, you are not only buying
above the rest and convince you to didn’t even like that much. a piece of clothing but also a lifestyle.
spend absurd amounts of money on But you don’t even need to travel We are all living it now. That’s why
perfume or clothing. all the way to King of Prussia to come we’re at Penn, why your neighbor is
Reading this issue of Vanity Fair to the same conclusion that I did. A in Wharton, and why you are going to
reminded me of a similar experience trip down Walnut St. will suffice. In law school.
last semester. I had just attended a the course of a simple afternoon, one It is with this in mind that I urge
panel run by Career Services entitled could easily spend hundreds of dollars you: fight against brands. Ignore the
“Major In What You Love.” After the after stops in Starbucks, Gap, Barnes advertisements, the slow movement of
panel I was psyched for my Cinema & Noble, and American Apparel on your hand being drawn to your wallet,
Studies major, which would allow me the way to or from classes. and the smug Wharton student who
to be happy the rest of my life even if The saddest part of all of this is lives in the dorm room next to yours.
I was waiting tables in L.A. hoping that even in a piece deriding the abun- Major in what you love and get your
someone would discover my over- dance of advertising and brand labels medium-wage job regardless of what
looked screenplays. in every aspect of our lives at Penn, post-undergraduate education any-
Then I took a trip to King of Prus- I still couldn’t help but drop brand one else thinks you should get.
sia mall. names left and right throughout the Either that or go to law school.
It was somewhere between La- article. I make fun of Vanity Fair for After all, that’s my plan. FC
coste and Burberry (so around Cart- front-loading the magazine with ads,
ier, Tiffany’s, Armani Exchange, and while at the same time I name drop
Hugo Boss) that I realized I couldn’t brands all through my first sentence. Michael Field is a freshman in the College.
live that sort of life to be happy. In- I guess what this article ended up You can write to him at fieldmb@sas.
I love the beach,
but I wish I was
at First Call...
Come to our
next meeting,
Tuesday,
Feb. 12th at 8pm
in the Harnwell
(HRE) upper lobby.
10 FIRST CALL February 11, 2008S.e.p.t.a.
super exceptional people take A-Train
Erica Tobin: To-Bin Or Not To-Bin
I might seem tough. I might seem
like the kind of person who picks
fights and makes people shake in their
is underground. If you ask me, all
things underground are sketchy. Ex-
cept the Underground Railroad. But,
than ten dollar cab rides. I’m also
saving my life; the locked cab doors
convinced me of that fact.
boots with one icy glare. I might seem let’s ignore that exception to the rule. Most importantly, though, I am
so tough that you’d imagine people Before taking SEPTA, I had seen saving the world! (Insert goofy high
cross to the other side of the street lots of creeps. The difference now five here.) That’s right. I am keeping
when they see me. (Well, that is, if with SEPTA was that I wasn’t locked the air clean with my newfound love
pink lip gloss and pastel sweaters re- in a vehicle with those creeps. So, I of mass transit. At least this was my
ally freak you out.) But I’ll let you in braced myself for my first real SEPTA initial grandiose belief. So I checked
on a little secret: I actually the facts.
have an inner wimp. As it turns out, the
This inner wimp has Environmental Protection
been taking a real hold of Agency estimates that traf-
one particular aspect of my fic jams alone waste nine
life lately. Here’s a clue: billion gallons of gas a year.
it’s not a bird or a plane… I’m a gas-saving commuter
it’s SEPTA. A girl can only now. WOOT! Further-
walk so far when she is more, the UrbanPlanet In-
wearing five inch heels. stitute estimates that every
I’ll be the first to admit one dollar invested in pub-
that I thoroughly enjoy our lic transportation projects
“Penn Bubble.” Not to slap generates between four
too much praise on our su- and nine dollars in local
per campus, but all of the economic activity. So, you
essentials are here. Star- see, I’m investing in our
bucks? We have two, or City of Brotherly Love and
three. Breakfast? Au Bon avoiding crazy locked-door
Pain muffins rock my world. drives when I take SEPTA.
Real food, with a little less I understand the urge
sugar? Check. Clothing to stay within the comfy
stores? I didn’t leave the confines of our “Penn Bub-
“Bubble” until recently, and ble” as much as anyone.
I haven’t had to run any er- And those of you who al-
rands naked yet. Speaking ready take SEPTA have my
of running… Pottruck Gym, permission to laugh at me
people! (even though I am now of-
Well, this semester I found myself trip. I headed over to Fresh Grocer ficially tough because I use SEPTA).
going downtown more and more of- and bought my tokens - cash only. But, if you don’t already take
ten. I also found my cab drivers be- Looking back, it seems so simple. I SEPTA, I suggest that you try it out.
coming increasingly weird. (Red eyes, buy tokens all the time now. At that You’ll feel so accomplished. You’ll fi-
scary radio, and locked doors. There time, however, I was sure that I was nally be able to tell the SEPTA survey
were no real issues, but I felt like my about to die. I could see the newspa- people on Locust Walk that you do use
luck was bound to run out eventually.) per headlines: “Student SEPTA Ride SEPTA. You will sleep like a baby at
I thought about SEPTA. I know most Takes Turn for the Worst.” night because you know you are sav-
Penn kids don’t think safety and then I trembled the whole way to the ing Mother Earth. And (chances are)
immediately think of SEPTA, but subway station. Then, I used a token. you won’t end up being the material
trust me. If you met my cabdrivers, I waited for the subway. I made it for that dreaded headline on the front
you too would suddenly think “SEP- down to Center City alive and in one page of the Inquirer.
TA = safety.” piece. It was fabbuloousss. Fingers crossed. FC
There is only one problem. My I am a SEPTA junkie now, and
past experiences with SEPTA have also I’m okay with it. I’m saving my pen- Erica Tobin is a junior in the College.
included creepy people. Plus, SEPTA nies; SEPTA tokens cost much less You can write to her at ericamt@sas.
FIRST CALL February 11, 2008 11REVIEW: In rainbows
The Defining Work of a Band That Will Define Our Generation
Steven Waye
A s a rule, few events arouse ex-
citement within the hipster
community. It’s cool not to care,
unless it means caring about
something that has no right being
cool. Like androgyny. And soccer.
With this in mind, the frenzied
flocking of the indie masses to
the internet this past October to
get their ears on In Rainbows,
Radiohead’s most recent offer-
ing of sonic wizardry, was truly
an event worth taking note of.
It was a virtual Woodstock of
sorts for a 21st century audi-
ence, with hippies and hal-
lucinogens being replaced
by hipsters and hard-drives,
and the crashing of InRain-
bows.com speaking just as
loudly as Arlo Guthrie’s
now-famous proclama-
tion “The New York State
Thruway’s closed, man.”
Yet at this point
in their career, Radio-
head can no longer be
dismissed simply as the
darling of a niche group of scenest-
ers. The rousing commercial success mass appeal is
of Radiohead’s outside-the-industry such that they have become
release is clear evidence of much more an embodiment of the independent
than a sporadic burst of enthusiasm by ethos: become universally adored
an alternative audience. Radiohead’s by selling out to no one but your-
Dan Markowitz is a freshman in Engineering. You can write to him at idaniel@seas and visit his website at http://defectivity.comicgenesis.com.
12 FIRST CALL February 11, 2008self. The band’s airplay has stretched with all the great inconsistencies of ENTRY LEVEL HR POSITIONS
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Rainbows, their seventh full-length Track 1: subject line
release. Despite their artistic mean- 15 Step – Thom and the boys come
derings, they have enjoyed a wide base back kickin’ on the opening track, an
of support ever since the release of the open invitation to the manic dance
critically acclaimed OK Computer in party running through Yorke’s head.
1997. So what is it about Radiohead,
despite the band’s decidedly pioneer- Best line:
ing sound, that allows them to achieve “You used to be alright, what hap-
such widespread adulation? pened? Did the cat get your tongue,
In reference to the lyrical content
on the new album, frontman Thom
Yorke says, “It’s about that anonymous
did your string come undone, one by
one?” Submit
fear thing, sitting in traffic, think- Track 2:
ing, ‘I’m sure I’m supposed to be do-
ing something else.’” The sometimes
dreamy, sometimes danceable beats
Bodysnatchers – Greenwood lets
loose on the guitar as he hasn’t done
since OK Computer’s “Electioneering”.
your
photos
that serve as a backdrop for Yorke’s In the worst of the great 20th century
lyrical musings about paranoia, sub- poet Fred Durst, makes you wanna
urban entrapment and romantic disil- “break stuff ”.
lusionment recreate the sort of lyrical
tension that The Beatles often per-
fected. It takes a truly gifted lyricist
to write a sing-along about arson or
Best line:
“Do the lights go out for you? Because
the lights go out for me.”
and
heroin addiction, and like John Len-
non before him, Thom Yorke manages
to reconcile dark imagery with beauti-
ful melody more adroitly than any of
his peers. In Rainbows exhibits what
Track 3:
Nude – Lush, soaring, pop ballad.
The kind of song Chris Martin dreams
about writing. Their best work since
writing
is easily Yorke’s best work since OK
Computer. Without denying the bleak
mechanical brilliance of their output
“How to Disappear Completely”.
Best Line:
to
from the Kid A/Amnesiac era, the band
occasionally got too bogged down in
their experimentation with dub and
“You paint yourself white and fill in
the noise, but there’ll be something
missing.”
fcpaper@
electronica and churned out material
that was at times too inhuman to con-
nect with the listener. Yorke’s haunt-
ing wail is one of the band’s greatest
Track 4:
Weird Fishes/Arpeggi – Opens as a
minimalistic fingerpicking tune, tak-
gmail.com
assets, and when paired with Jonny ing the listener on a full tour through
Greenwood’s soaring string arrange- Yorke’s weird ocean, full of rippling
ments and biting guitars, the results starts and stops.
are stunning. In Rainbows sees Ra-
diohead laying down their synthetic Best Line:
drum kits and vox modulators, admit- “Turn me on to phantoms I follow to
ting that each new album does not the edge of the earth, and fall off. Ev-
have to be a complete reinvention in erybody leaves, if they get the chance,
order to be a masterpiece. They deal and this is my chance.”
FIRST CALL February 11, 2008 13photo spotlight:
bath at night
michael sall
Michael Sall is a junior in the College and Wharton. You can write to him at sallms@sas.
14 FIRST CALL February 11, 2008Track 5: Best Line:
All I Need – Crunchy synth bass line “I don’t wanna be your friend, I just First, I studied art history.
throbs over top of a thin layer of war- wanna be your lover, no matter how it Now, I manage operations.
bling strings. The quintessential ends, no matter how it starts. At McMaster-Carr, we welcome all academic back-
Radiohead atmosphere piece. What grounds. In fact, many of our successful managers were
happens when the self-deceiving sub- Track 9: led by curiosity to study such non-business fields as abstract
math, biology, or political science. Others pursued degrees
urbanite from “No Surprises” starts Jigsaw Falling Into Place – Their in fields like accounting, computer science, or industrial
being desperately honest with him- most straightforward rock song since engineering. Regardless of their majors, their intelligence,
creativity, and passion for details enable them to thrive here.
self. The Bends. It’s refreshing to hear
Our customers know us as a one-stop shop for indus-
Radiohead sounding like an actual trial widgets of all types and sizes. Our employees know
Best Line: band instead of a cohort of manic de- us as a unique business run like no other. We develop
“I’m an animal, trapped in your hot pressive computers. Maintains the our own catalog and engage in intensive market research.
We write our own software systems in-house. We run our
car.” tension and edge of the rest of the operations with passion and precision. We rely on our own
album without the usual dramatics. expertise for continual process improvement.
Track 6: Do you want to continue learning in a vibrant setting?
Our management development career path will give you
Faust Arp – Sticky sweet string bal- Best Line: the opportunity to learn all aspects of our unique business,
lad masks Yorke’s spoken-word ex- “The walls abandon shape, you’ve got from catalog development and market research to finance,
haustion. Mostly filler, the eye of the a cheshire cat grin. All blurring into software development, and product distribution. This cross-
functional exposure will allow you to build the knowledge
storm. one, this place is on a mission.” and experience that is critical to becoming a leader in our
organization.
Best Line: Track 10: We will be coming to campus to interview for this unique role.
Opportunities exist at each of our locations:
“It’s what you feel now, what you ought Videotape – More subdued than one • Atlanta, GA • Chicago, IL • Cleveland, OH
to, what you ought to. Reasonable expects from a Radiohead closer, Yorke • Los Angeles, CA • Princeton, NJ
and sensible, dead from the neck up, sounds restrained in both his lyrical
because I’m stuffed, stuffed, stuffed.” droning and his tired, repetitive piano
playing. An elegy of sorts, as close to www.mcmaster.com/careers
Track 7: “at peace” as we’ve ever heard from the Resume Submission Deadline:
February 13, 2008
Reckoner – Every now and then these band, and we get the sense that Yorke Info Session: February 21, 2008
guys write something that makes me is almost (gasp!) happy as the album Campus Interviews: February 22, 2008
wanna just start dancing for joy, and rolls away into the distance to the
I just don’t give a shit what Yorke is rhythm of a firing squad drum beat.
wailing about. A perfect ending to a masterpiece. U Penn 2.25x4.5.indd 1 1/25/2008 11:54:01 AM
Best Line: Best Line:
“Because we separate, it ripples our “No matter what happens now I won’t
reflection.” be afraid, because I know today has
been the most perfect day I’ve ever
Track 8: seen.” FC
House of Cards – A dreamy, punch-
drunk ode to the moment. Opening
lyrics sound kind of like they belong in
a Rod Stewart song. And I mean that Steven Waye is a sophomore in the College.
in the very best way possible. You can write to him at waye@sas.upenn.edu.
EARN MASTERS IN INTERNATIONAL
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WORKING IN CHINA FOR A YEAR!
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FIRST CALL February 11, 2008 15spreading some love
ACROSS
1. Faith Hill song: “Caught up in the
___, the slow and steady rush”
5. Title of song: “Killing me softly
with his ___”
11. Title of Marvin Gaye song: “We’re
all sensitive people”
12. Whitney Houston song: “I will
always love you... you are my ___”
13. Meg Ryan can’t sleep, so much
fucking rain.
14. Adam’s love. What guy wouldn’t
love a woman made of ribs? Mmmm...
ribs.
15. Ross FINALLY got together with
her in the end.
17. Movie heartthrob + UN
Ambassador = Lots of kids
18. She was too good for the Beast.
19. Scientology couple. Also, strangely
enough, a kind of housepet-gone-
wild.
23. Title of Sade song: “He’s loved in
seven languages”
24. William Shakespeare’s “star-
crossed lovers”
25. The Beatles thought all they
needed was love, until she broke up
the band.
26. Bonnie’s partner-in-crime
DOWN 6. She actually married a tobacco 10. Title of NSync song: “Keeping
2. Best-selling aphrodisiac on V-day, baron, not John Smith. Hey, money your faith when it’s gone”
besides Viagra, which comes in a close talks. 16. Elvis song: ____ Hotel
second. 7. Affleck couple name: both times 20. Marge’s hairless counterpart
3. These are forever (and fresh from 8. Meg Ryan has an orgasm (in this 21. Ken’s plasticized playmate
the De Beers mine in Rhodesia). movie - not in real life, of course). 22. Bert’s “partner” (Yes, we mean it
4. Celine Dion song: “Love can touch 9. Title of BSB song: “There you were, like that.)
us one time and last for a ___” wild and free”
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