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(09/28/11 3:57am)
If you are a living, breathing member of the Penn community, you know by now that professor Henry Teune did not show up to teach “Citizenship and Democratic Development” this semester because he died in April. You also know that nine students did show up for the Political Science class only to receive an email from a department administrator explaining there had been an “oversight.” Perhaps you are one of the 35 commenters on the Under the Button post that broke the story or you (like me) are one of the 267 people to “like” the post on Facebook.
(09/21/11 4:52am)
I have spent many happy hours flipping through the pages of Vogue and could fill a semester of columns with lessons learned in my mother’s closet.
(09/14/11 4:20am)
Armed with a fluffy white pillow, I took to the streets of New York on March 22, 2008. As strangers turned a corner or ascended from subway stations I instantly knew who shared my destination. My compatriots were holding pillows and wearing enormous grins (sometimes in addition to ridiculous costumes). We were heading to a giant pillow fight.
(09/07/11 4:46am)
Today’s average college student was between the ages of eight and 11 on Sept. 11, 2001. We were old enough to know there was a problem, to feel that something had been lost, to watch the events unfold on the news. But we were young enough to not completely understand what was going on.
(06/09/11 7:18am)
Although I would describe my adolescent self as too shy to dream of uttering a controversial phrase, as a teenager I was obsessed by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, particularly the section that prohibits Congress from “abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.”
(11/21/10 1:12pm)
Multiple students reported hearing shots fired near the high rises around 3 a.m. Sunday morning.
(10/12/10 9:57pm)
Penn Law professor Alan Lerner died Thursday after a battle with lymphoma. He was 68.
(09/02/10 10:53pm)
Lu Gan, a member of the class of 2013, died July 30 after a long illness.
(07/15/10 6:56am)
The work day has ended. Research, lesson plans and business ventures have been put to bed for the night. Clad in assorted shorts and t-shirts, a surprising group takes the field at Meiklejohn Stadium.
(06/17/10 6:10am)
The dollar store faces some mean competition.
(06/10/10 8:46am)
Mount your bike outside the Pottruck Fitness Center and peddle your hardest to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Turn around and ride back to Pottruck.
(06/10/10 8:16am)
Mount your bike outside the Pottruck Fitness Center and peddle your hardest to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Turn around and ride back to Pottruck.
(05/27/10 8:06am)
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued a 51-page report early this week based on inspections of the 12 Veterans Affairs hospitals that currently have brachytherapy programs. Brachytherapy is a prostate cancer treatments in which radioactive seeds are implanted near cancerous tissue.
(05/27/10 8:03am)
This month the Annenberg Public Policy Center’s FactCheck.org was awarded two Webby Awards. The watchdog site took both the Webby and People’s Voice Awards in the politics category.
(04/15/10 12:12am)
A 28-year-old female was struck by a SEPTA Route 40 westbound bus at 40th and Spruce streets at about 3:45 p.m. Wednesday, according to SEPTA spokeswoman Sylvana Hoyos and the Division of Public Safety.
(02/22/10 8:47pm)
Smoke was seen coming from the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity house at 39th and Spruce streets Monday morning.
(02/19/10 8:04pm)
A 41-year old male postgraduate student was assaulted at about 9 a.m. Friday at 38th and Sansom streets, according to the Division of Public Safety.
(11/25/09 11:14am)
Lucky in the roommate lottery of freshman year, I thought I was home free. I passed the pre-meeting Facebook stalk, survived the "it is so nice to finally meet you" and ended the year with good friends. But as I moved into my off-campus apartment this fall, I once again had to learn how to share a space with a stranger.
(06/18/09 9:00am)
This week, Computer World ranked Penn fourth in their national list of the 100 Best Places to Work in Information Technology. The University is also ranked first in the Mid-Atlantic region.
(06/11/09 9:56pm)
Last Saturday, the Casino-Free Philadelphia Twitter feed read, “Today, we brought our communities to their casino. We beat the house. And we’ll be back.”
