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But some things never change. The Daily Pennsylvanian's editorial page was still criticizing the student government, and Penn's Greek system was still plagued with disciplinary action -- when Rendell pledged with Pi Lambda Phi his sophomore year, the fraternity was on probation for branding its pledges' buttocks with the pi symbol the year before.

"Mooning became a fad," wrote then-student Marty Wiener in the Senior Class Prophecy of Poor Richard's Record, Penn's yearbook, for 1965. "But we always felt bad because the Pi Lam pledges were afraid to join in."

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