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The international music community lost one of its great conductors on the morning of Feb. 8, when Penn alumnus James DePreist died at the age of 76 from heart attack complications in his home in Scottsdale, Ariz.

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Roughly 2.7 mojitos into the evening, one member of our little party whipped out her phone with a wry smile and passed it around the table. She was messaging a boy on a dating app, and we were all reviewing their exchange.


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Roughly 2.7 mojitos into the evening, one member of our little party whipped out her phone with a wry smile and passed it around the table. She was messaging a boy on a dating app, and we were all reviewing their exchange.


Photo: JUILLIARD ORCHESTRA, JAMES DePRIEST, Conductor with STEPHEN BEUS, Pian; and Alumni Reception; concert photographed: Saturday, February 23, 2008;  8:00 PM at Isaac Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall; Photograph: © 2008 Richard Termine.
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The international music community lost one of its great conductors on the morning of Feb. 8, when Penn alumnus James DePreist died at the age of 76 from heart attack complications in his home in Scottsdale, Ariz.





Just hours after a gunman shot down three in a courthouse in nearby Wilmington, Del., Vice President Joe Biden sat down for a roundtable discussion on gun control with local government and law enforcement leaders on Monday.




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A Department of Defense white paper outlining the circumstances in which the U.S. government can order the killing of any member of Al Qaeda’s leadership abroad provoked a variety of reactions among several Penn faculty whose research interests relate to drone warfare.


	Last Saturday, The Inspiration — an R&B-inspired student a capella group — collaborated with the Excelano Project for their fifth annual “Love Talk and Slow Jams” event at the Rotunda.  The show featured an open mic session followed by music, poetry and comedy performances.

The R&B-inspired a cappella group, The Inspiration, collaborated with the Excelano Project — Penn’s award-winning spoken word group — for the fifth year in their annual Valentine’s Day show, “Love Talk and Slow Jams.”




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Since receiving $300,000 from the AT&T Aspire Local High School Impact Initiative for the Academic Support & Enrichment Program, the Netter Center for Community Partnerships has been hard at work to encourage ninth graders at Sayre and University City High Schools to improve their academic performance and graduate on time.