Funding cuts for Phila. schools
The School Reform Commission decided yesterday what action to take with dozens of privately run Philadelphia schools by retaining private managers but giving them less funding.
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The School Reform Commission decided yesterday what action to take with dozens of privately run Philadelphia schools by retaining private managers but giving them less funding.
Turns out, you don't have to be a celebrity to give a university commencement address.
Patrick Harker, the dean of the Wharton School since 2000, will leave next year to become president of the University of Delaware.
A car caught on fire outside the Penn Bookstore yesterday at around 12:20 p.m.
The Associated Press has declared incumbent Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell the victor in his race for a second term. His opponent was Republican Lynn Swann, a political novice and pro football Hall of Famer. Rendell had been heavily favored in recent polls. The AP called the race based on "a statistical analysis of the vote from voter interviews conducted for The Associated Press by Edison Media Research and Mitofsky International."
The Associated Press has called Pennsylvania's Senate race in favor of the challenger, state Treasurer Bob Casey Jr. Casey's opponent, Sen. Rick Santorum, has been in the seat since 1994 and is the No. 3 Republican in the Senate leadership. The Pennsylvania seat is one of those the Democrats counted on taking in order to win control of the Senate.
This is a takeout campus, not a restaurant campus. We've got Qdoba, the Greek Lady and food trucks galore. You can sit down at some of these places, but they're not restaurants; no one comes to your table to take your order, and you don't leave a tip.
The jury in the first-degree murder trial of Wharton undergraduate Irina Malinovskaya deliberated all day on Friday but recessed without reaching a verdict. Deliberations will resume on Tuesday. Monday is Columbus Day. Malinovskaya is accused of killing Temple University student Irina Zlotnikov in the Delaware apartment of Robert Bondar. Bondar was dating Zlotnikov and had previously been in a relationship with Malinovskaya.
The Upper Quadrangle and Stouffer College House were evacuated Thursday night because of a bomb scare, though there turned out to be no threat.
The jury that will decide the fate of Irina Malinovskaya saw two versions of her ex-boyfriend, Robert Bondar, yesterday.
Harvard University officials announced today that the school will end its early-admissions option beginning with the class entering in 2008.
When a group of students at the University of California at Berkeley convened to protest on-campus military recruitment last year, they hoped their effort would get some attention.
A fire broke out in a rowhouse at 4042 Sansom Street at about 3:35 this morning. Seven students were sent to the hospital, according to Philadelphia Fire Department officials.
The Philly Diner sits on the 3900 block of Walnut Street, across from the Walnut West branch of the Philadelphia Free Library.
Nestled in the recesses of the basement of Van Pelt Library, Mark's Cafe serves up lunch-type fare and caffeine for a clientele that presumably consists mainly of frantic studiers who are availing themselves of the nearby Rosengarten Reserve.
With the advent of powered flight at the turn of the 20th century, balloon flight might have seemed doomed to extinction. However, the practice -- invented in 1783 -- has a new lease on life at the forefront of astronomy.
Campusfood.com, an online food-ordering service that got its start at Penn in 1997, has expanded in a direction that may bring it more directly into competition with colleges' own dining plans.
The debate over free speech and campus ideology has Pennsylvania as its latest flashpoint. A resolution passed by the state House of Representatives will form a committee to investigate issues of academic freedom in Pennsylvania's public universities.
The debate over free speech and campus ideology has Pennsylvania as its latest flashpoint. A resolution passed by the state House of Representatives will form a committee to investigate issues of academic freedom in Pennsylvania's public universities.
The United States has its Harvard, England has Oxford and France has the Sorbonne, but Germany lacks a big-name international institution.