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On 40th and Locust, Sadik Karakulak leans over the front window of his food truck and hands a fresh order of falafel to his third customer in the last 10 minutes. He removes his gloves, checks his phone and returns to the front of the truck.


On 40th and Locust, Sadik Karakulak leans over the front window of his food truck and hands a fresh order of falafel to his third customer in the last 10 minutes. He removes his gloves, checks his phone and returns to the front of the truck.







Fifty years ago, after a long and sometimes bloody struggle waged by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and civil rights activists around the country, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law. Put simply, this act prohibited racial discrimination in voting on both a state and federal level.


In recent years, the Penn community has been pushing toward reform regarding the treatment of mental illness, both bureaucratically within Counseling and Psychological Services and socially among students. We have seen agendas written up, sensitivity training initiated, and we’ve been urged to learn and relearn that it is okay to not be okay. But even so, at Pennsylvania Hospital, I found it difficult to reach out to my peers.






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The Harvard Crimson conducted a senior survey and produced some interesting statistics about Harvard's Class of 2015. Here's some bullet points of the most interesting figures from the survey (To check out the whole survey, click here). 74 percent of black students felt marginalized because of their race while they were at Harvard. 3.64 mean reported GPA while 72 percent of those who responded felt that grade inflation wasn't a big problem. 19.5 percent admitted to cheating while recruited athletes were more likely to have said they cheated than the rest of the Class of 2015. 24 percent said they did not have sex while at Harvard. 14.4 percent of women said they had been sexually assaulted. Do you think these stats would be similar for Penn's Class of 2015? Do you think grade inflation is an issue at Harvard?




The five inaugural winners of the President's Engagement Prize will use this summer to prepare for their respective community engagement projects across the world. The President's Engagement Prize was announced last summer as part of Penn President Amy Gutmann's vision for students to engage with the world, as set forth in the Penn Compact 2020.