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(11/23/09 10:21am)
One million, seven hundred eighty-two thousand, two hundred and twelve dollars. Drawn from the General Fee we pay with tuition, this is the funding Penn student government received for the current academic year. Most students are oblivious to the inner-workings of that six-tentacled creature, student government, though interest has been raised in the past few weeks. But this our money. And we should demand better accountability in how it is spent.
(11/09/09 9:36am)
What amuses me most about the SEPTA situation is how liberals who typically champion workers rights, oppose them when they become an inconvenience. Of course the Transit Workers Union’s week-long strike was completely outrageous.
(10/26/09 9:14am)
Like any Penn student, I swipe my PennCard several times a day to access buildings or to make purchases. Whether I’m using a public computer or my own laptop, I’m on Penn’s Internet network practically all the time. And my Penn e-mail account has gradually become my identity online. I’ve used it to receive tens of thousands of messages, and send thousands more — some academic, many personal.
(10/05/09 8:19am)
In a commercial I’ve been seeing a lot on television recently, a jittery investor asks his broker how he should react to the unease in the financial markets. The broker tells him not to panic and suggests that he make only small adjustments to his portfolio. After all, acting on fear in an environment of uncertainty inevitably results in regret.
(04/27/09 9:00am)
Penn has always seemed a bit out of place in West Philadelphia. The privileged students of this Ivy League University practically live side-by-side with some of the city's most economically impoverished families. We are, to put it simply, two harshly different worlds.
(04/20/09 9:00am)
One of the first lessons we all learn as freshmen is that you can bursar an iPod at Computer Connection, then have your parents unknowingly pay the bill for it later. Devious, aren't we?
(04/13/09 9:00am)
When I first heard about Ward Churchill's dismissal from the University of Colorado, it was hard to suppress my glee.
(04/06/09 9:00am)
If Huntsman Hall had an anthem, it would be the Beatles classic Eleanor Rigby. "All the lonely people, where do they all come from? All the lonely people, where do they all belong?"
I've caught myself subconsciously humming the song leaving Huntsman in the wee hours of the morning, walking by far too many project groups holed up in study rooms.
(03/30/09 9:00am)
In a report released two weeks ago by the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers, most colleges in the U.S. were found to knowingly admit illegal immigrants.
(03/23/09 9:00am)
Spring break was a much-welcome respite, more so than it's ever been for me in the past.
(03/02/09 10:00am)
Many have been arguing that "Harvard Narcissists With MBAs Killed Wall Street." In a recent Bloomberg News column, Kevin Hassett, director of economic policy studies at the neoconservative think tank American Enterprise Institute, alleges just that.
(02/23/09 10:00am)
This year marks the 20th anniversary of a famously controversial free speech incident involving Penn. No, I'm not speaking of how FBI agents observed club meetings during the 1970s or the theft of an entire run of The Daily Pennsylvanian in the early 1990s - it might be hard to imagine, but Penn was once a recurring backdrop for national debates about free speech. There's another one.
(02/16/09 10:00am)
'Vagina." There, I said it. I'll be honest - deep down, I'm an immature 5-year-old boy who gets more than a little squeamish about certain topics and . words.
(02/09/09 10:00am)
Yale University Chief Investment Officer David Swensen and financial analyst Michael Schmidt wrote an op-ed in The New York Times late last month that caused quite a stir. No, their piece wasn't about university endowments or the state of the economy. They reached outside of their immediate comfort zone and made a case for dramatically changing the newspaper industry's business model.
(02/02/09 10:00am)
For over a year now, a quiet but heated dispute has been taking place literally on the periphery of campus: On one side, Penn and its partners are trying to clear the way for a hotel development at 40th and Pine streets; on the other, a committed group of neighborhood activists are saying "not in our backyard."
(01/26/09 10:00am)
First there was the massive rescue of the financial industry - the $700 billion fund set aside to scoop up troubled assets from banks. Then in December, the American auto industry secured an emergency reprieve from the government to avoid bankruptcy worth billions and still possibly more. And now, if President Barack Obama's economic stimulus is passed into law, higher education gets to win an ill-conceived bailout of its own.
(01/23/09 10:00am)
From the Pennsylvania primary to the World Series, The Daily Pennsylvanian's 124th Board of Editors and Managers has witnessed an exhilarating year of news.
(12/05/08 10:00am)
Wharton students celebrated the end of classes in style yesterday with the school's third-annual Winter Whartonland.
(11/24/08 10:00am)
This past Friday and Saturday, The Daily Pennsylvanian held elections for its next leaders. After holding interviews and deliberations for nearly 20 hours, we chose the members of the DP's 125th Board of Editors and Managers. The new Board will officially commence on the occasion of our annual banquet, which will be held January 24, 2009.
(11/10/08 10:00am)
Last Tuesday, as I watched the voter turnout numbers come in and then observed the march on City Hall by Obama supporters, I couldn't have been more proud of Penn. It was deeply gratifying to see the entire community so engaged in the democratic process.