Penn Kids To Hang With Mr. Cooper

Do the kiddies still love Anderson Cooper? I guess so, because he’ll be at Penn next month, probably talking about the good old days on Channel 1 and wondering aloud where Serena Altschul went to.

Cooper is the “SPEC Connaissance Fall Keynote speaker,” which is apparently something they have at Penn every year. (I didn’t really know this. Was this the thing when Kareem Abdul-Jabbar came and nobody attended?) The Daily Pennsylvanian notes that “[r]ecent Connaissance speakers have included Karl Rove, Whoopi Goldberg and Henry Kissinger.” It’s nice Penn has finally brought a speaker to campus who isn’t a war criminal. (You know what you did, Whoopi!)

Now will one of you Penn kids have the balls to ask him if he’s gay during the Q&A?

Update: Brad Maule writes to let me know that Serena Altschul is a correspondent for CBS and appears on CBS News Sunday Morning. I think my mom told me this before, too, but I forgot. If I ever woke up before football I guess I would have known this (but probably not). Does anybody know if they have Keepin’ it Real with Serena on DVD?

Anderson Cooper to speak at Penn in October [DP]