http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jezebel.com.png http://jezebel.com/tag/universityofpennsylvania http://jezebel.com/tag/universityofpennsylvania News from my alma mater! They're naming a building after the late gossip columnist Claudia Cohen, who a dropout has no business mocking for majoring in Communications. Anyway some students are pissed. "I, as an academic, am accustomed to seeing buildings with names like Newton, Copernicus, Darwin," says a chemistry major named Ponzy Lu, adding: "Then to see the name of this person, who is very fresh in our memory, who is not associated with a pursuit of knowledge — a gossip columnist: it strikes me as being totally idiotic." Um, babydoll, this feels redundant to be telling someone named after the inventor of the pyramid scheme, but did you notice Penn doesn't really like the names of its facilities to be associated with the pursuit of things other than money? (Or did you just assume the guys behind the Lehman Brothers Quandrangle were an early order of learned monks?) Anyway, I personally think the Claudia Cohen building represents a great stride, which is to say, one of their mogul graduates officially abstained from treating his ex-wife like shit! I eagerly await a Barkin dining hall. [NYT]

]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5022629&view=rss&microfeed=true In the latest news about women hating their bodies, a study out of UPenn reports that women often bypass medical procedures from routine check-ups to mammograms for fear of having to step on a scale in front of others. The thought of having to be weighed in a hallway or under the potentially-judgmental eyes of a nurse is enough to make women not see a doctor, even if they need help. The heavier the woman, the study found, the more likely she is to avoid a medical office; not surprisingly,overweight women may be prone to greater health risks because they are less likely to get preventative care they need. [NYT]

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