Add to that today's Daily News cover story about a Penn grad and a Drexel
student who financed a lavish lifestyle in a $3,000 month Center City condo by
way of identity theft committed against their condo neighbors. I don't think
that Penn-affilliated people are any more prone to being criminals, but they
are certainly not less prone. This may come as a shock to some, but they are no
different than us mere mortals who went to Temple or some such
hole-in-the-wall. So far, we've had a Penn economics professor convicted in
Federal court after being caught by US Customs in possession of photos of
himself having sex with underage boys, apparantly from the foreign countries he
had been visiting; another Penn professor who pled guilty in Montgomery County
court for bludgeoning his wife to death; and now alleged burglars and identity
thieves. But the image Penn tries to project, and the one that is accepted
without question in some quarters, both here in the neighborhood and beyond,
is one of a superior class of people. To them, it is somehow unthinkable that
someone associated with the almighty, all-knowing, all-powerful PENN could
possibly do such things. Pretty soon there will be a new warning: "Be
careful, dont go EAST of 43rd Street!"Karen Allen
http://www.philly.com/dailynews/local/20071203_LIVING_LARGE.html
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 14:19:16
-0500Subject: Re: [UC] More Penn crimeFrom: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In an interesting twist, this
Penn Junior - alleged Burglar
is also the current "Mr. Penn" a bodybuilder.
Check out the You Tube video of his winning muscle presentation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGwYfHFPGHE&feature=related
Anyway, it got me to thinking about the correlations between
narcissism and greater ease in taking things that belong to
other individuals
a larger community
narcissism and success
definitions of success.
This kid theoretically "had it all" and sold himself out for portable and
fungible 'luxuries' like small electronics and DVDs
His 'crimes' are not as bad as the Wharton Prof who battered his wife to death
with his "Chin up bar", but I wonder if the crimes are on the same continuum,
and if they can be prevented, through better parenting, education or therapy.
I don't want his next 'chance' to be back on a Campus that includes my
daughter, yet I hope his talents can be directed toward good and not lost.
What should Society do?
It also got me to thinking about the Narcissism that lets Developers build up
and over and to encroach upon and perhaps diminish the quality of life for
others.
Sometimes change is good, sometimes it profits few, sometimes it leaves a
bankrupt hole in the fabric of a neighborhood.
What is a community to do?
Liz
On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 12:44:14 -0500 Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
These kids really should know to lock their doors by now.
http://media.www.dailypennsylvanian.com/media/storage/paper882/news/2007/12/03/News/Harnwell.Thefts.10.Counts.For.Junior.In.Dorm.Burglaries-3128168.shtml?reffeature=htmlemailedition
Between Nov. 21 and Nov. 26, Myers, then a Harnwell resident, allegedly stole
items from 10 different dorm rooms on various floors of the college house. He
stole only from rooms that were left unlocked, taking mostly electronics.
Frank
