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Columbus State Community College is small compared to nearby Ohio State University, yet its new president David Harrison is making changes that will have lasting impacts on students and those in the greater community. Harrison has committed to helping the Lumina Foundation — Indianapolis-based foundation — work towards its goal of increasing the proportion of Americans with college degrees, certificates, or other credentials to 60 percent by 2025.  Harrison has engaged the help of the broader Columbus community, and so far many companies have pledged their support.


The Latest

Sixteen years after the notorious scandal, Stephen Glass, former associate editor of New Republic, apologizes for his previous deeds. Glass was a rising star in the journalism who published "bizarre and amazing" stories that were immediate success.

Rafael Robb, a former economics professor at the University of Pennsylvania who was sentenced to 10 years in prison for beating his wife to death after pleading guilty to manslaughter in 2007, now faces a Montgomery County Court jury that will decide whether to award his remaining assets to his daughter. The attorneys of his late wife, Ellen Gregory Robb, are suing for punitive and compensatory damages under the state’s wrongful death act.






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At a Penn Speaks for Autism event Monday night, Director of Disabilities Rights at the Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia Sonja Kerr spoke about the difficulties that people with autism and their families face.


National Distance Learning Week Schedule

Events this week include an open house, panels featuring Penn professors who teach online courses and discussions about the new education platform. The panels will be available online as webinars and one of them will take place in the Active Learning Classroom in the ARCH building.







New Jersey Assemblyman Raj Mukherji

¨I encourage everyone to become involved in the political process. I just remind Republicans that voting day is always on Wednesday,¨ Democrat assemblyman Raj Mukherji said at an on-campus event Monday.


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The new text messaging

By Patricia Jia · Nov. 11, 2014

WeHUB Messenger, a start-up messaging app founded by Wharton MBA alumnus Hagen Lee , aims to give users greater control over their conversations. Eleven of the app's main features are pending patent approval. Hagen said that the app aims to give users the ability to “express emotion in its purest form.” It officially launched in mid-October, and WeHUB hosted a Penn scavenger hunt with clues given through the app from Oct.


Headshot Shawn

Normandy, Iwo Jima, Pusan, Khe Sanh, Fallujah, Kamdesh. For some, these names might not mean much. Maybe they have seen them in history books or have heard the names before. Yet for those who fought, those names and many others are forever branded in their memories. They recall the desperation and the sounds of battle, and most of all, those they fought beside. It is a brotherhood that runs deeper than any fraternity, one that traverses time and location. It is a bond forged in blood and fire.



DP Reporters and Editors Meeting with Amy Gutmann

Luckily enough, after three years of immersion in “Penn culture,” I have good news to share with any worried underclassmen or compassionate, concerned outsiders who’d like to hear it. I am, in fact, capable of occupying myself with activities that will never make it onto my resume, I have never justified the time I’ve spent eating a meal with a friend by calling it networking and Fear Of Missing Sleep consistently trumps Fear Of Missing Out on my list of concerns.