My thoughts and prayers go out to all those affected this week on the east coast by Hurricane Sandy.

Apparently, the storm didn't seem to keep the students at Penn down... '

After the jump, check out this video of Hurricane Sandy hitting the Penn campus and see what some students did in the Quad to pass the time!

Also, see what the windtunnel did to one girl's umbrella and check out the enormous amount of leaves I've probably ever seen at one time on Locust Walk.

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We've seen other stellar Penn promotional videos in the past, but this one is truly classic as this 30 minute(!) video comes from 1957!

At first I thought it was a prank where someone ran a viddy-like filter through a video, but as I got deeper into the video I realized it was the real deal! It even has that narrator's voice you'd think it would have. The biggest thing I've noticed was that the campus was much more green and lush --ivy growing on everything, huge trees on Locust Walk.

Check out some highlights of the video

• 11:00 - the DP staff and offices
• 11:38 - the lost tradition of freshmen wearing "dinks"!?
• 17:30 - the Quad
• 19:54 - Franklin Field
• 18:56 - Mask and Wig!
• 22:10 - Pre-football game activities

There's way too much goodness here...

Get transported back to 1957 after the jump!

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Earlier this week, we saw what a 1972 Penn dorm room looked like and how little dorms rooms have evolved since.

After the jump, go on a journey with four 1996 alumni who return to Penn for their 15 year reunion and hunt down their freshman dorm rooms, only to learn something significant has changed... (minute 1:32)!

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Last we heard from Kelly Diamond (C'13), our on campus correspondent, we were introduced to a singing Penn professor and the annoying and often pointless Van Pelt bag check exercise.

Today, Kelly's back with a new logo and some fun 15 second clips from this weekend's Spring Fling.

After the jump check out the videos.  They'll bring you right back to those drunken fling days! (plus catch zany Fling posts from past years HERE)

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Recently, musician Jay Matsueda (W'95) sent me a video of a bunch of random footage taken during various public entertainment events on and near PENN campus in the 1994/1995 timeframe.

The video includes:

• music by The LIDDS, Jay Matsueda (W'95), Pete Lee (C'95) and a band at a block party
• jeans wearing dancers at the Quad during Spring Fling
• two random guys adlib singing, a pig roast on Locust Walk, some black-lit party footage, a big beige block party and much, much more. 

Check out the video after the jump!

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This video came to me a while back but I was holding onto it for Spring Fling time... which happens to be this upcoming weekend.

Apparently the video above took place during Spring Fling 2004 and the guy in the video for some reason didn't have a key to get into the dorm building to use the bathroom.

See what alcohol mixed with desperation will do!

Speaking of Penn students relieving themselves, remember THIS unsettling story from back in 2007?

My past Spring Fling posts HERE

My Now and Then Thursday posts HERE

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Did you know that there was a Time Capsule buried in the Quad in 1940?

Who knew?!

According to the American Time Capsule Database, the contents of the capsule apparently contain:

• President Roosevelt's speech at the University of Pennsylvania's bicentennial celebration
• Letters from each administrative officer of the university to his successor of 100 years hence

Anyone know where in the quad this was buried exactly?



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As Laura K. Mack (C'89) prepares herself for celebrating her 20th class reunion at this weekend's Reunion Weekend (May 15-17th), she posted some videos (see below) she took from being on campus during last year's (2008) reunion weekend.

If you haven't been back to campus in a bit, Laura takes us for a walking tour down her memory lane as she reminisces about the High Rises, Locust Walk, and the Quad to name a few of her tour stops. She then journeys into some video in the 2008 reunion tents as well.  I thought her video back into Hill House was most interesting as she attempts to visit her freshman dorm room. 

It seems like Laura has lots of great memories!  She looks forward to reuniting with her class this weekend! (fyi, Laura has organized a Hill House mini-reunion at the 1989 tent this Saturday at 1 pm)

For more info about this May 15-17th weekend's reunion weekend (it's not too late to register!), click HERE!

And be sure to check out

• some of DT's 2008 reunion videos in the scroller above from the Class of 1993 reunion tents.
• DT videos from the 2007 Reunion weekend HERE
  

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A few people sent me tweets on my Twitter page about how the Quad appears at second 0:19 in the new Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen trailer.

It's cool to see how Penn looks in the trailer and will be even cooler to see it up on the big screen. 

Photo credit of Shia LaBeouf coming out of the Quad to the left: Patrick Wolff ('09)


Check out some exclusive Transformers 2:

• PHOTOS taken last summer on Penn's campus HERE
• VIDEOS taken last summer on Penn's campus HERE

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Check out 20 new photos from today's and yesterday's filming of Transformers 2 in the Quad and at The Castle!



Look out for Shia LaBeouf and director Michael Bay in the photos!





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Check out this video of the Quad I found online. Things have gotten way nicer in there since the mid 90s!

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I never really partook in these types of activities during fling, but they always looked fun.

Soon, I'll be uploading some great photos from my fling days.

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