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On Sept. 10, Pennsylvania’s highest state court declined to allow Penn to appeal a $9.65 million verdict awarded to former patient Eric Davenport, who sued in 2008 after he was misdiagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.

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By Rachel del Valle · Sept. 22, 2013

One of the rules I used to have for myself was that I’d never see a therapist. I thought that therapy was self-indulgent, excessive, the stuff of Woody Allen movies and not something you do in real life. But that changed two weeks ago.



HUP is in trouble!

On Sept. 10, Pennsylvania’s highest state court declined to allow Penn to appeal a $9.65 million verdict awarded to former patient Eric Davenport, who sued in 2008 after he was misdiagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.




	In 1993, a student free speech activist (left) speaks with Lucy Hackney, wife of the late Penn president Sheldon Hackney, at a rally held in the wake of the controversial water buffalo affair.

For all of Hackney’s achievements over his first 11 years in office, the former president’s handling of two free speech incidents in 1993, his final year, will remain forever etched into his Penn legacy.



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Penn raced out to a 10-0 start of its own en route to a 27-21 season-opening victory over Lafayette Saturday night at Franklin Field. The win marked just the second win for the Quakers (1-0) against the Leopards (0-3) since 2007.




Sprint Football defeats Mansfield in a second half comeback.

Freshman quarterback Mike McCurdy delivered a timely statement performance, slinging four second-half touchdowns to spearhead the Quakers’ 42-14 shellacking of Mansfield at Franklin Field Friday night.





Wandering Deliberate Lee

While I celebrate our entrepreneurial energy as vibrant evidence that the American Dream is alive, profit-driven startups should be balanced by social enterprises guided by the public good.