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Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026
The Daily Pennsylvanian

9/11 10th Anniversary Issue

Environmental issues feel abstract and distant in Philadelphia, experienced in their extremes only through news items and stories, through conversations in science and political science classes that end at the close of a lecture and through brief bouts of social activism like the campus referendum for fossil fuel divestment. But in California they have become unavoidable as the drought has progressively worsened, coloring the landscape and creeping into residents’ daily routines.


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In the fall of 1969, in an act of quiet gallantry, a Penn biology professor with a fondness for mountain climbing hoisted himself up the flagpole in front of College Hall and restored its flag to full staff.





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Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders has a proposal that would make a lot of newly minted voters quite happy. Sanders, a 73-year-old Vermont senator, introduced a bill known as the "College for All Act" that would make all four-year public college and universities tuition free.


This year's commencement speaker will be UN representative Samantha Power, who is also a member of President Obama’s cabinet and a Pulitzer-prize winning author.

On Monday, Samantha Power gave the graduation address to Penn students. And now you can read the entire thing. Power posted a link to the speech on her Twitter account and you can check out the entire thing here. She also posted the following tweets about her speech.  Today w/@Penn grads: Amidst the darkness of the world it can be easy to lose sight of the bright spots.