Search Results
Below are your search results. You can also try a Basic Search.
(11/25/08 10:00am)
I know very few people who entered college particularly comfortable with their religious identity. I knew - and still know - disillusioned atheists, people who felt trapped in the tradition they grew up with and some who were engaged in a particular faith but still wanted to go deeper. I, for one, knew I was uncomfortable with my Christian heritage and had a longstanding interest in Judaism but didn't have the knowledge or confidence to explore Penn's Jewish community right away upon my arrival here.
(11/18/08 10:00am)
If you have time, head to Chinatown with your friends for dinner some time soon. Take a good look around over the next 12 months, because by December 2009, you'll see something very different: a casino in the Gallery. And once the casino shows up, it won't be long before crime and decay set in.
(11/11/08 10:00am)
George Bush was inaugurated for the first time on my 11th birthday. I cried bitterly. A week ago tonight Barack Obama was elected president, to be inaugurated on my 19th birthday. I cried last week and I'm sure I'll cry again on Jan. 20, but this time with euphoria.
(11/04/08 10:00am)
Judaism's got it right. As per the Fourth Commandment (of the most-famous 10), observant Jews don't work on Saturday, the Sabbath (Shabbat in Hebrew). "Work" doesn't just mean paid work; traditionally this prohibition extends to housework, driving, writing and many other things. Shabbat is supposed to be one day of complete rest per week and is a rejuvenating break for those who observe it. But sometimes it's not enough.
(10/28/08 9:00am)
My refrigerator's not working. It's more like the outlet next to the refrigerator; for some reason it only works two days a week (seriously) and keeps blowing some circuit. The refrigerator before this made a lake on my floor every day for a month until it was replaced.
(10/21/08 9:00am)
It might seem easy for a school located in a city surrounded by great farmland to source its food locally.
(10/07/08 9:00am)
The other night, as I was walking home from rehearsal, I overheard a conversation that disturbed me more than anything I'd heard in a while (interviews with Sarah Palin notwithstanding). I was walking down 40th Street in front of a couple of guys, clearly Penn students, who were talking about a woman they knew. They were making up a list of what she smelled like: "cheap booze, that hoochie perfume and nasty pink nail polish." Then they continued talking about what a drunken, tacky-nail-polish-wearing "slut" she was.
(09/30/08 9:00am)
Quick, name an aspect of military policy that Obama and McCain agree on completely. It's not the war in Iraq or the best way to handle Iran. No, both candidates think Columbia University should bring back its ROTC program, as they both said earlier this month.
(09/23/08 9:00am)
For a long time, we've taken it for granted that AlliedBarton management isn't receptive to its officers' concerns. In the next few months, that could all change.
(09/16/08 9:00am)
Like most people, I don't think I'm a racist. And until recently, I believed that the racism our country struggles with came from somewhere else - where, I didn't know, but certainly not from my own actions.
(09/09/08 9:00am)
There are stickers all over Philadelphia - political stickers, advertising stickers, bumper stickers and artsy stickers with mice on them that say "Glue." They're stuck on lampposts, parking meters and subway stops.
(05/02/08 9:00am)
Lawyers for the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania again denied any wrongdoing in College sophomore Anne Ryan's meningitis death last September.
(04/23/08 9:00am)
Lawyers for the family of Anne Ryan have dropped punitive damage charges from their malpractice lawsuit against the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
(04/10/08 9:00am)
A plea deal is likely in the works for former Marketing professor Scott Ward, who is facing child-pornography charges.
(04/01/08 9:00am)
It's uncertain if Wharton undergraduate Irina Malinovskaya's recent motion to dismiss murder charges against her will succeed, legal experts say.
(03/18/08 9:00am)
Former Marketing professor Scott Ward was indicted last Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on one count of making false statements to the State Department and two counts of transporting and shipping child pornography.
(02/26/08 10:00am)
Victims' advocacy groups said at the time of McIntosh's original sentence of 11 1/2 to 23 months of house arrest that Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Judge Rayford Means considered him "too important to go to jail" and therefore gave McIntosh an extremely light sentence for the 2002 sexual assault of McIntosh's college roommate's 23-year-old niece.
(02/21/08 10:00am)
McIntosh was sentenced to 11 1/2 to 23 months of house arrest in March 2005, which he served while the prosecution appealed that sentence on the grounds that it was too lenient. The Pennsylvania Superior Court vacated that sentence in November 2006, and McIntosh was sentenced last week to 3 1/2 to seven years in prison.
(02/18/08 10:00am)
McIntosh was sentenced last Wednesday to 3 1/2 to seven years in prison for his September 2002 sexual assault of the then-23-year-old first-year Penn veterinary student. Any appeal would most likely be an attempt to withdraw McIntosh's December 2004 no-contest plea and go to trial, rather than to seek a new sentence.
(02/14/08 10:00am)
Former Neurosurgery professor Tracy McIntosh was sentenced to 3 1/2 to seven years in prison yesterday for the 2002 sexual assault of his college roommate’s niece.
