Campus quiet but festive over holiday break
Though planes, trains and automobiles were full of Penn students last week as residents headed home to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday, the campus was not deserted.
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Though planes, trains and automobiles were full of Penn students last week as residents headed home to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday, the campus was not deserted.
On the morning of March 21, 1999, Michael Tobin, a 1994 College graduate and brother at the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, was found dead in a pile of garbage in the back of the FIJI house after its annual Pig Roast alumni dinner.
After the Supreme Court's decision on affirmative action this summer, admissions officers nationwide are using race to evaluate applicants with the Court's express permission.
Penn officials expect to finalize ongoing negotiations for the purchase of the postal lands -- 24 acres of property located near 30th Street Station and currently owned by the Postal Service -- by January at the latest, a delay in the timeline predicted over the summer.
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With less than 48 hours before the conclusion of Philadelphia's mayoral campaign, Democratic incumbent John Street is ahead in the polls -- but neither camp is making any assumptions about the election's outcome.
Wednesday's protest of a former Penn professor who conducted research on prison inmates and the elderly has raised questions about the ethical standards by which experiments of previous decades are judged.
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Although the bug that the Federal Bureau of Investigation planted in Philadelphia Mayor John Street's City Hall office has reportedly not turned up any incriminating evidence, FBI investigations surrounding city officials continue.
Despite 1,000 housing units, four supermarkets and nearly 30 years of political experience to her name, councilwoman, majority leader and finance chairwoman for City Council, Jannie Blackwell, sits unassumingly in her office on the fourth floor of City Hall -- the same office she has occupied since January 3, 1976.
Education, housing and crime are among the issues that West Philadelphia residents say are most important in the upcoming mayoral election, in which incumbent John Street will face off against Republican challenger Sam Katz.
In the 1840s, a group of English weavers developed the idea of a food co-operative -- a system to bring inexpensive, quality food to their impoverished town.
The group might have been small, but the issues were huge at yesterday's Civic House discussion regarding the origins of current relations between Penn and West Philadelphia.
Mayor John Street has claimed he will emerge from the current Federal Bureau of Investigation probe smelling like roses -- just like he did nearly 25 years ago when the government launched Abscam, a sting operation to trap corrupt officials throughout the country.
Teetering gables and peeling plaster encase the heart of West Philadelphia -- which some of its residents say is beating more strongly than ever these days.
West Philadelphia community members have taken note of the recent increase in robberies in and around Penn's campus, but are generally unruffled by the spike in crime.
"The brain's freaking out!" a group of Sayre Middle School students exclaimed as they tossed "neurotransmitters" -- represented by crumpled up pieces of paper -- through the air.
While most aspiring humanitarians think globally and act locally, College senior Mei Elansary's achievements have been much more far-reaching.
Two men robbed College freshman Rob Hitschler at around 2:15 a.m. Monday morning on 37th Street between Spruce and Locust streets.
The Knowledge Industry Partnership has begun churning out initiatives this year to achieve a triad of goals -- getting college students first to arrive, then to explore and finally to achieve in Philadelphia. And many agree that Penn and the city have much to gain from the project's anticipated success.