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The Real March Madness. Pen and ink. Originally published in the Daily Pennsylvanian on March 22, 2007. Shepherd vs. Sloan? The hair… or that towel? Yes, this was topical in 2007. Like The OC two years prior, Grey’s Anatomy in its prime was one of those cultural phenoms best watched in a group. Guilty pleasure plot lines aside, I applauded the equal-opportunity casting and enjoyed learning about bizarre but true medical cases. Before the plot became too implausible to follow,

Spring Broke. Pen and ink. Originally published in the Daily Pennsylvanian on March 15, 2007. Whether you were going home for a week, backpacking across Europe, or fleeing the frigid East Coast weather for Cabo San Lucas, traveling during spring break was bank-breaking to students on a budget. Even the most savvy travelers were pretty much at the mercy of the airlines… Pretty self-explanatory cartoon. Making a cameo here was a classmate who commented on my cartoons every week

Huntsman Locker Room Talk. Pen and ink. Originally published in the Daily Pennsylvanian on March 1, 2007. The glass doors outside the Wharton building (Jon M. Huntsman Hall, or “Huntsman” for short)  made a “whoooshing” noise when the wind slid through the crevices in between them. “That’s the sound of the souls being sucked out of Wharton,” my friend Adela would stage-whisper as we entered the building. Plenty more cracks where that came from. Another opinion artist for the

Crime Fighting, Penn-Style. Pen and ink. Originally published in the Daily Pennsylvanian on February 22, 2007. The crime rate at Penn served as fodder for a lot of my cartoons. OK, compared to the rest of West Philadelphia’s, it was pretty low — kudos to the administration’s efforts to beef up security. Still, relative to other campuses across the nation, well… to put it in the words of a friend: “We’re number one! We’re number one!” In addition to coverage of cases such as t

Sorry, Cupid. Pen and ink. Originally published in the Daily Pennsylvanian on February 15, 2007. The idea for this Valentine’s Day-themed cartoon came from a great Nokia ad* done in 2002 by Bates Advertising Singapore.  I tweaked the basic concept — instead of the cellphone as the culprit, we had the crazy college workload to blame for foiling the cherub’s plans. The student in the cartoon wears Penngineering sweatpants, a nod to the fact that my Engineering friends were some

Mad Scramble. Pen and ink. Originally published in the Daily Pennsylvanian on February 8, 2007. On-Campus Recruiting (OCR) was both a blessing and a curse to undergrads at our university. The process allowed companies to come directly to campus to interview students early each semester (full-time job interviews in the fall and summer internship interviews in the spring). On the plus side, students were able to apply for, schedule, and view all their interviews (which took pla

Let Them Eat Cake. Pen and ink. Originally published in the Daily Pennsylvanian on January 25, 2007. To combat the problem of illegal downloads* on campus, Penn proudly announced that it was offering Ruckus, a non-iTunes compatible (!) music streaming service. While I’m definitely a music lover and appreciated the effort on their part, the service seemed to be a total frivolity when there were so many other issues that needed fixing on-campus. Forget free music — I’d have pre

SAS vs. Wharton. Pen and ink. Originally published in the Daily Pennsylvanian on January 11, 2007. Getting an A at Wharton (Penn’s business school) was definitely not a cake walk, particularly for core subjects that were graded on a curve. I remember being ecstatic to score 13/15 on a Stat problem set, only to find out that the median grade was 14.5, meaning that I’d essentially gotten a B-. (Different professors had different ways of curving… The cartoon is a generalization.