The symbolic strike, held in solidarity with the Occupy Oakland movement, began at noon and lasted exactly 99 minutes long. TOPICS: Occupy movement

Felony disenfranchisement should never be seen as the proper execution of justice when it more closely resembles cruel and unusual punishment.

As of Monday, you are one of 7 billion people on Earth. How can 7 billion voices be heard? How can 7 billion individual sets of desires be met?

It’s important to bring attention to problems with Penn Course Review, but the solution cannot be to stop using it altogether.

Penn extended its ED application deadline from Tuesday, Nov. 1 to Friday, Nov. 4 due to last weekend’s Northeastern snowstorm, along with peer schools like Yale and Columbia.

By 2005, Penn men’s soccer assistant coach Rob Irvine had grown tired of living in Hobbs, N.M., a small town of 30,000 people more than 300 miles from Albuquerque, N.M., the closest large city.

NFL veteran Roy Hilton has been teaching his grandson Brandon Copeland about the game since his grandson picked up a football in fifth grade.

Bernardini has most recently battled an ankle injury which sidelined him from most summer basketball activity, but with just over a week before the season tips off, he said he’s ready to roll.

If convicted of all counts, Leslie Mosby faces a maximum sentence of life imprisonment with a minimum of 10 years, a $500,000 fine, five years supervised release and a $200 special assessment.

The Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival will feature screenings, film shorts and more in its fourth year. The bulk of the programming will take place at the Ibrahim Theater in Penn’s International House.

Theft Oct. 27 — A female student, 19, reported than an unknown suspect removed her wallet from her unattended purse at the Starbucks located at 3401 Walnut St at about 3:30 p.m. Oct.

On Tuesday, the president announced a “Pay as You Earn” proposal to help struggling college graduates with student loan debt, though officials believe the proposal will only translate to Penn “minimally” because of Penn’s no-loan financial aid policy.

The Young Americans for Obama program will hold its national launch event in Houston Hall’s Hall of Flags Wednesday at 6 p.m. The National Obama Student Summit, which will be broadcast on national television, will feature appearances by Obama Campaign Manager Jim Messina and Philadelphia Mayor and 1976 Wharton graduate Michael Nutter.

Penn Medicine, in collaboration with the Gift of Life Donor Program, performed the first bilateral hand transplant in the Delaware Valley region last month, described by Penn doctor L. Scott Levin as a “medical miracle.”

Sakai, still in the early stages of development, may be an alternative to the course management program Blackboard. Sakai is currently being tested in 24 courses across the University.

After long-time Director June Chu departed from the Pan-Asian American Community House, the Asian American umbrella organization has named Meeta Kumar the interim director of the organization.

Lauren Shapiro, a senior at Doris and Alex Weber Jewish Community High School in Atlanta, Ga., said “it’s absolutely necessary that [the college I attend] has some Jewish population.” Of 10,000 undergraduate at Penn, around 25 percent are Jewish.