New School protest may reflect resurgence of student activism
Student activism may not be dead.
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Student activism may not be dead.
On March 13, three Penn students associated with the Student Labor Action Project returned early from spring break to attend their much-anticipated meeting with Executive Vice President Craig Carnaroli and an executive from HEI, a hotel-management corporation with ties to the University.
In economic and business classes across campus, students learn about labor as an abstraction, as a commodity, as something to be traded on the market.
See a photo essay on the homeless in Philadelphia here.
As Gaza burned and violence by Hamas and the Israeli Defense Force added to the mounting death toll of the current conflict in the Middle East, Penn students gathered on Locust Walk and College Green yesterday in protest, solidarity or both.
When he was 13 years old, David Helfenbein fell head-over-heels in love - political love, that is - with Hillary Clinton.
Don't let anyone tell you student activism is dead.
In its continual effort to keep young talent in Philadelphia, city officials are turning to an unlikely source this weekend - hip-hop star Talib Kweli.
West Philadelphia resident Latisha Turnage needed help.
The management of El Azteca was fed up with the vomit, the dining and dashing and the missing sombreros - all symptoms of having a drunken, college-age clientele.
Paul Glover says cities are like armies, and Philadelphia is camped way too far from its sources of supply - the average ingredient in a Philadelphia meal comes from 1,500 miles away.
First impressions are everything.
Is the South Street Bridge falling down?
In a decision last Friday by a Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas jury, Penn was ordered to pay Mark Helpin, a former Penn faculty member, more than $4 million in a workplace dispute centering around a dental clinic he helped start up.
From Botox and plastic surgery to red sports cars and Rogaine, it seems everybody wants to be younger.
Some people love college to death.
The farmer's market at 36th and Walnut streets is getting bigger and better - and it's all natural, of course.
When Rosita Worl was born, she was sent to live with her grandparents in Alaska in order to learn about her Native American heritage.
When College freshman Alex Lee learned that an Asian was responsible for the 32 deaths at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, one thought crossed his mind: "I hope he's not Korean."
From Vietnamese hoagies - "the new Philly cheesesteak," as one student called them - to buckets of hummus and Chinese egg tarts, tables of food reflected the diversity of Penn's campus.