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Philadelphia is now enduring one of the greatest education crises in American history, and yet Penn, the city’s preeminent school of higher learning, isn’t helping. But it must.
It's no coincidence that my 2009 yearbook arrived in the mail the day Jay Leno's new show premiered. Both exemplify the mediocrity that passes for artistic endeavor in those cultural quadrants - that is, mainstream, infotainment-supplied America - which sonically, visually and spatially predominate today. As I'm no TV exec, I'll leave Leno's problem to others, though his utter fear of spontaneity and the scripted material it obliges him to accept should be noted.
By writing this column for the past year and a half, I've gleaned six specific rules about higher education and Penn.
You might have heard about last week's fracas between this newspaper and Penn's Division of Public Safety. It started when the latter group stopped releasing information regarding crime victims' exact affiliations with the University.
We at The Daily Pennsylvanian have always figured that few people read the paper on the day before Thanksgiving. And so this column has often been used to take a break from serious questions - like how much pressure a couple exerts on a window when fornicating in public view.
This week, Locust Walk flooded. And last month, the Undergraduate Assembly tried to prevent flooding, passing a proposal that urged Penn to install "new drainage."
By now, you've probably heard about the two Zeta Beta Taus.
Early decision applicants to Penn's Class of 2011 must submit their forms by today. And this year, those forms ask applicants to discuss a Penn professor with whom they'd want to study.
That was the question posed by a headline in this newspaper three weeks ago. The accompanying article noted that seven forcible rapes had been reported on or near Penn's campus in 2005. A year earlier, only one had been reported.
'Harvard is everywhere."
For certain AlliedBarton security guards, the stench of garbage and the sight of rats marked the start of every work day for the past several months.
Our country's most important ally in the war on terror is about to be killed, and most Americans don't even know it.
We all know that Penn is segregated.
This school year marks the 40th since Penn adopted its modern undergraduate-admissions policy. Not that you'd know: The University hasn't held any essay competitions or thrown any parties, as it did last year in honor of Benjamin Franklin's 300th birthday.