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Amid the recent, mainly Republican backlash against accepting Syrian refugees by many states, Gov. Tom Wolf’s decision to allow refugees to settle in Pennsylvania is a refreshingly ethical decision in American politics today.
Last year, the University revamped its sexual assault adjudication process in response to changes in federal guidelines for sexual assault on campus. As part of the overhaul, Penn created a new sexual violence investigations office and hired Christopher Mallios to serve as its inaugural head.
Systemic racism at college campuses across the country was thrown into the spotlight two weeks ago, with protests at the University of Missouri and Yale University demanding action to address the institutional marginalization of people of color.
This week, a four-part series in The Daily Pennsylvanian exposed the concerning state of housing facilities across campus. Besides drawing attention to the run-down and, quite frankly, unsafe conditions that 54 percent of students live in, the series highlighted another equally troubling phenomenon: Facilities and Real Estate Services’ widespread lack of concern for people, including students and workers.
Facilities and Real Estate Services’ continual struggle to maintain quality living standards in campus buildings, publicized in a four-part series in this week’s issues of The Daily Pennsylvanian, comes as no surprise to most students living on campus.
Sexual assault is a problem at Penn that has recently been on everyone’s mind, especially after nearly a third of female undergraduates reported having been sexually assaulted. The issue is even more prevalent on campus this week in light of the ”It’s On Us” campaign, a national action week devoted to preventing sexual assault.
On Friday, Penn announced that it will not revoke Bill Cosby’s honorary degree, after weeks of declining to comment on the subject.
Today and tomorrow, the Board of Trustees will meet to consider some of the most pressing matters facing the University. One of those issues, we hope, is whether Bill Cosby should keep the honorary degree that Penn awarded him in 1990.
On Sunday, a new round of high school hopefuls for Penn’s Class of 2020 submitted their applications to the University through the Early Decision Program. This year, the number of ED applications is higher than ever, with 5,629 high school seniors applying.
It’s no surprise when Penn increases the cost of being a student every year. In February, the University typically announces a tuition increase, then spins it as only raising the tuition by less than 4 percent. The Trustees typically raise housing and dining prices, too, generally around when students start thinking about where they’ll be living the following year.
The mayoral race is pretty much over. Tuesday is Election Day and almost everyone knows that Jim Kenney, the Democratic candidate, is going to win. That’s simply the reality of Philadelphia politics.
The mayoral race is pretty much over. Tuesday is Election Day and almost everyone knows that Jim Kenney, the Democratic candidate, is going to win. That’s simply the reality of Philadelphia politics.
For over a year now, Bill Cosby has been the subject of numerous accusations of sexual misconduct. As of today, over 50 women have come forward alleging that Cosby either raped or sexually assaulted them.
We’ve all been there: striding out of Van Pelt Library after a successful homework session, or maybe trudging under the mound of books strapped to your back. One inconvenience — albeit a small one — is the bane of the conscientious student and the eternal procrastinator alike: bag checks.
There aren’t many surprises in Career Services’ annual compilation of Penn undergraduates’ top employers. The University itself tops the list, followed closely by the typical list of banks and consulting firms — Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, the Boston Consulting Group, etc. One employer in particular, however, stands out from the overwhelmingly corporate list: Teach For America clocks in at number four, having hired 24 people from Penn’s 2014 senior class.
On campus, the prevailing mentality is “work hard, play hard.” Work as hard as you can. Maximize your fun on the weekends. Maybe get some sleep; maybe not. Then back to work again.
Earlier this week, The Daily Pennsylvanian reported that Penn President Amy Gutmann’s salary has reached an all-time high of nearly $3.5 million.
It’s official: Course selection for next semester has begun. The unusual number of Penn seniors planning to take classes like “Ideas in Mathematics,” “Oceanography,” “Survey of the Universe” and “Sex and Human Nature” might be puzzling to those unfamiliar with Penn’s arcane general education system, or, as it is known officially, the “Sectors of Knowledge.” But, as many students in the College of Arts & Sciences might have found, the sector requirements seem to focus more on Sector VIII: The Navigation of Bureaucracy, rather than on actually giving students a well-rounded liberal arts education.
The freedom from feeling upset, it seems, now trumps the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press on many American college campuses.
There is no shortage of horrifying statistics in the latest report on sexual assault at Penn, released Monday as part of a national survey across 27 universities.