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There were two events that became quite the kerfuffle on Penn's campus this weekend. One was the proliferation of a picture of President Amy Gutmann with Engineering senior Saad Saadi, a "suicide bomber" at her annual Halloween party and a DP photographer. The other was Borat.
As a high-school senior in Texas, Justin Allen knew he wanted to study art in college, but family finances left him without a lot of options. Expensive art schools were out of the question, and remaining in-state seemed very likely.
On June 12, 1987, Ronald Reagan gave a famous speech at Germany's Brandenburg Gate, where he challenged Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall. And, just four days ago, President Bush signed a bill authorizing the construction of a 700-mile fence along the border with Mexico. Now, it's Bush's wall that's being challenged.
It started when former Penn student and current Harvard University junior Dhruv Singh wanted a classmate's opinion on his Penn econ homework.
After a long night of filling out job applications, Engineering senior Jonathan Lehr sat down at 1 a.m. yesterday morning to play some good, old-fashioned video games with his three roommates.
We at the Solomon Asch Center for the Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict worry about refugees, what causes ethnic conflicts and how to resolve them. Sept. 11 added something important to our agenda: What is the optimal response to the type of threat posed to America and its allies by militant Islamic fundamentalism? Fortunately, research psychology can shed some light on responses to terrorism.
Seven weeks after Penn said goodbye to its top real estate officer, the search for his successor is heating up.
Penn was not the only college sports program with a coaching search this year.
Police are giving up their search to discover the exact cause of a fire that gutted six students' Sansom Street home in March.
Rankings like those of U.S. News and World Report only confuse the college search process, a new Department of Education report says.
Darren Daulton, the star catcher for 1990s Philadelphia Phillies, has recently been labeled by the media and friends as "crazy." He's been featured in numerous publications, and, just last week, ESPN's SportsCenter carried a feature program about the catcher, known as "Dutchie." The program went out of its way to make Daulton look like a complete nut job -- using props and graphics to exaggerate its point.
As Penn officially says goodbye to its top real-estate administrator today, officials are starting to look for someone to fill his shoes.
We come from the suburbs. Our parents -- doctors, lawyers, engineers -- are well off, but not filthy rich. We major in psychology, history or international relations. In terms of how much time and money has been invested in our personal development, we stand at the apex of human progress.
P enn students would have a lot of trouble imagining a world without the Fresh Grocer, the Bridge: Cinema de Lux, the Penn Bookstore, the 40th Street corridor and Wynn Commons. But less than a decade ago, that was the world Senior Vice President of Facilities and Real Estate Services Omar Blaik inherited when he assumed his post. Largely thanks to his department -- which plans and carries out development projects for Penn and which employs 850 people -- University City has been transformed from an underdeveloped neighborhood with a crime problem to a vibrant destination with some of the priciest real estate in all of Philadelphia. The Washington Post even ran a front-page story earlier this year lauding Penn as the example of a university leading urban development.
You've seen the ads from Campus Apartments that declare, "Cool people live off campus." And given that roughly 4,000 of Penn's 10,000 undergraduate students live off campus, our coolness ratio is about 40 percent.
For the University's top real-estate official, life after Penn comes with a price tag.
In Michael Crichton's recent science-fiction thriller Prey, tiny self-replicating machines turn murderous and wreak havoc on a scientific experiment.
The media have covered a lot of bad news lately. War. Natural disasters. A hunting accident that seems more tragic than funny in retrospect. Even this page has become gloomy, albeit on a smaller scale. Last Thursday, Jeff Shafer wrote a column about the low attendance rates at Philadelphia high schools. The following day, I wrote about how Penn Transit buses burn cancer-causing fuels.
Sometime back in the early 1980s a group of computer administrators at Penn made a decision that has, over time, fed into the University's identity crisis.
The news anchor was talking to two guests as a ticker scrolled along the bottom of the screen. "Do Democrats cause cancer?" it asked. "Find out at Foxnews.com."
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