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David L. Cohen's favorite view from the Comcast Center is from the 56th floor.

From his office on the 52nd floor of the Comcast Center, David L. Cohen has a panoramic view of Philadelphia, the city in which he is so deeply involved. But he insists on heading to the 56th floor to see his favorite view from the skyscraper.


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A Texas A&M University Galveston professor failed his class via email and stated he would no longer be teaching the course.  "None of you, in my opinion, given the behavior in this class, deserve to pass, or graduate to become an Aggie, as you do not in any way embody the honor that the university holds graduates should have within their personal character," management professor Irwin Horwitz wrote in the email to his students. The email comes after what he describes as a "semester of disrespect, backstabbing, lying and cheating." Hortwitz is known to he a challenging professor.






Alec Ward | But for Wales?

By Alec Ward · April 28, 2015

It strikes me that, in calling for the punishment of images they find offensive, SOUL is calling for the destruction of the very rights which uphold and protect their ability to strive for the achievement of justice as they understand it.






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On Saturday, students at Harvard College attempted to break the world record for the longest glowstick chain in order to raise awareness about malaria. The students, part of Harvard College Students Against Malaria, wanted to "do something fun and cool and to raise awareness for malaria," according to SAM co-founder and co-president Mohammed Toure.


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Paul Nungesser, the alleged rapist of Emma Sulkowicz--who has been walking around Columbia with a mattress to protest the school's lack of action against Nungesser--is now suing Columbia for failing "to protect him from a 'harassment campaign' by Sulkowicz." Nungesser is suing the school's board of trustees, president and a professor that allowed Sulkowicz to write her thesis on the matress-carrying protest. The lawsuit, filed on Thursday, reads, "Columbia University's effective sponsorship of the gender-based harassment and defamation of Paul resulted in an intimidating, hostile, demeaning...learning and living environment." The popularity of Sulkowicz's protest, which was picked up by The New York Times and New York Magazine, has also been damaging to Nungesser's and job prospects.  Columbia had no comment on the lawsuit.







SOUL Protests the merging of the African Studies and Africana Departments at College Palooza

Beyond blackness

By Sophia Witte · April 28, 2015

Many African and African-American students at Penn believe that the black community is unified because of a shared experience of living as a black person in America — not because black people constitute a homogenized group with assumed similarities beyond the color of their skin.