Penn Graduate and Professional Students to Hold Annual GradFest Celebration
WHO: Penn graduate and professional students and their families
WHAT: GradFest
WHEN: Saturday, May 2, 2009 Noon-2 p.m.
WHERE: University of Pennsylvania Penn Commons, between Spruce Street and Locust Walk, near 34th Street
Penn graduate and professional students will compete in a variety of friendly non-academic competitions in a day-long festival. Students and their families can suit up in puffy sumo wrestler outfits and wrestle like the pros or try out the mechanical bull or battle in the pie eating contest or poker tournament.
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