Since 1899, the writers at the Pennsylvania Punch Bowl have been tickling the funny bones—and sometimes offending the sensibilities—of faculty, students, staff, alumni and anyone else who may read it. This humor magazine, founded by members of Mask and Wig, is one of the oldest college humor publications in the United States, and through the years, has satirized everything from the Vietnam War to the University’s newspaper of record, the Daily Pennsylvanian.
You won’t find an illustration like this one above (from 1901), in today’s Punch Bowl. Instead, in most recent edition, there’s a handy “Guide to Life at Penn” and a collection of fake Penn admission essays. To check out this and more recent editions, visit the Punch Bowl website at www.thepunchbowl.net.
For more on this and other notable moments in Penn history, go to the University Archives web site at www.archives.upenn.edu.
Materials in the Annenberg School for Communication Library Archives include thousands of TV scripts, the first issue of TV Guide, and interviews about the early days of HBO—which help to chronicle TV’s 100-year story.
Centering joy in AI development and implementation
PIK Professor Desmond Upton Patton—of Annenberg and SP2—and collaborators introduce a joy-informed framework designed to initiate conversations among engineers, designers, and researchers.
Winter Storm Fern brought icy and snowy conditions to the Northeast and other parts of the country over the weekend. Penn Today asks physicist Robert Carpick about the unique properties of ice, the science of curling, and how close we are to ‘nonslip’ ice.
Organizations like Penn’s Netter Center for Community Partnerships foster collaborations between Penn and public schools in the West Philadelphia community.
Penn receives national distinction for community engagement
The recognition by the American Council on Education and Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching acknowledges Penn’s long-standing commitment to community-engaged scholarship and partnerships in West Philadelphia and beyond.
