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And you thought baking Pillsbury brownies was a piece of cake. According to the rabbinic definition of baking, you don't even need the mix. Last night, David Freidenreich, a fellow at Penn's Center for Advanced Jewish Studies, discussed a taboo against eating foods prepared by people who are not Jewish and how definitions have been changed over time, sometimes in counter-intuitive ways, to get around the custom.


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Last night the field hockey team made it more clear than ever that Penn is indeed not Penn State. And the No. 8 Nittany Lions certainly had reason to be proud that they are not Penn. They pounded the Quakers 3-0 for Penn's second consecutive loss and its fifth defeat on the season as Penn State garnered its seventh consecutive win.







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College can be a bit different from sixth grade. Take student government, for example. Penn's Class Boards and Undergraduate Assembly actually matter, unlike their pre-pubescent counterparts. The UA, for one, allocates about $1.55 million in student funds.




Was '04 election stolen? prof asks

As the official story runs, President Bush was re-elected in 2004. But one professor has his doubts. In a speech at the Penn Bookstore last night, professor Steven Freeman said that exit polls predicted a victory for Democratic candidate John Kerry. He added that the electoral process might be to blame for the discrepancy.


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Tulane sophomore Thomas Krouse is gay, and as a temporary Penn student last fall, he let the school know about it when he publicly complained that he didn't want to leave the liberal northeast for his southern home. Fast-forward to today, though, and Krouse says he could not have been more wrong.