Beyond Penn
City seeks citizens' input for next Philadelphia casinos
As the race heats up for a second city casino license, the Philadelphia City Planning Commission hosted three open houses this week to gather citizen opinion. “We’re trying to get these proposals to be as good as they can possibly be,” Deputy Mayor Alan Greenberger, who also chairs the PCPC, said. Posterboards displayed renderings of each casino, the projects’ statistics and maps of current land use in the area.Teach for America expands to allow junior applicants
With the implementation of a new spring deadline for juniors, Teach for America is widening the breadth of its applicant pool.
College freshman leads Antarctica conservation effort
Living in a concrete jungle like Penn’s campus, it can be easy to imagine the vast, uncharted, natural world with a distant passivity.
Penn graduate Vanessa Bayer and others perform at 'SPEC Does Comedy'
Wednesday night, students filled Harrison Auditorium for “SPEC Does Comedy,” a night of standup and improv featuring Bayer, fellow SNL cast member Kate McKinnon and Comedy Central’s Nick Vatterott.
Travel authors discuss publishing, bras at the bookstore
At the Penn Bookstore Wednesday afternoon, Kelly Lewis and Erica Arvizu of “Go! Girl Guides” spoke about their successful travel guidebooks written just for women, at an event that culminated their cross-country book tour.
Tostan founder shares stories of humanitarian work in Africa
Melching founded Tostan — meaning “breakthrough” in Wolof, a West African language — in 1991 as an empowerment program partnering with local villages to facilitate community-led social change.
After 12 years on the road, student returns to Penn
While students might find their study skills rusted after a long summer, College sophomore Erica Liebman faced an extreme version of this situation when she returned to her books after more than a decade. Twelve years ago, Liebman took a leave of absence from Penn after her third semester to become a car mechanic.