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The Student Activities Council overallocated its budget and intended to cover the difference using its dwindling reserve funds, prompting a freeze on funding for new student groups.

During last week’s interview with Athletic Director Steve Bilsky, the DP Sports Editors chatted with the Number One about Penn basketball and some improvements soon to arrive at the Palestra.

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The Hilton Homewood Suites Hotel — under construction at 4109 Walnut St. — was once moved due to community outrage. It is slated for completion in spring 2012.


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The Hilton Homewood Suites Hotel — under construction at 4109 Walnut St. — was once moved due to community outrage. It is slated for completion in spring 2012.


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The Student Activities Council overallocated its budget and intended to cover the difference using its dwindling reserve funds, prompting a freeze on funding for new student groups.


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During last week’s interview with Athletic Director Steve Bilsky, the DP Sports Editors chatted with the Number One about Penn basketball and some improvements soon to arrive at the Palestra.



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Instead of suspending funding for new groups, SAC should restructure its electronic request system to make the process more transparent and develop a more judicious way to allocate funds.





Clickers increase class participation

Audience response systems and associated software are increasingly prevalent in the classroom, allowing teachers to pose questions that students answer on individual remote controls.


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While the fight that broke out between male students from West Philadelphia high schools near 46th and Market streets Friday was not a direct threat to the Penn community, it affects the University’s active role in West Philadelphia.


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An investigation conducted by ProPublica revealed that 20 Penn School of Medicine doctors have delivered lectures to colleagues on behalf of pharmaceutical companies since 2009, violating a Penn policy prohibiting doctors from engaging in marketing activities and other inappropriate activities.


Pro soccer dreams not dead yet

Penn senior midfielders Jason Gorskie and Loukas Tasigianis have been in talks with Major League Soccer teams to play next season, though neither has officially signed.



Coach Leibo heads back to the nest

Assistant hoops coach Dan Leibovitz returns to Temple Wednesday — where he spent 10 years as a top assistant — as an opponent for the first time.


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Michael Lemole, a 1995 School of Medicine alumnus, is one of three primary doctors for the congresswoman who was shot in the head outside a Tucson, Ariz., supermarket on Jan. 8.