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The Daily Pennsylvanian

9/11 10th Anniversary Issue

Nov. 19, 2015

Part four of our four-part series on dysfunction within Penn's maintenance system. 


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Penn fencing will hope to justify its top-tier status and potentially usurp another fencing powerhouse when it attends the Elite Invitational on Saturday.



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Let's pay this bill tomorrow with a smile before we are assessed what we really owe. The climate has changed. Part of Penn’s success is because of Philadelphia, not in spite of it.


This week, a four-part series in The Daily Pennsylvanian exposed the concerning state of housing facilities across campus. Besides drawing attention to the run-down and quite frankly, unsafe conditions that 54 percent of students live in, the series highlighted another equally troubling phenomenon: Facilities and Real Estate Services’ widespread lack of concern for people, including students and workers.










In the wake of protests against racism on campuses around the country last week, many of my acquaintances took to social media to declare their status as “allies” of the protestors, and to affirm their solidarity with the various movements participating. It was far from first time I’d seen the term “ally” used in conjunction with social justice movements, but it raised the concept afresh in my mind.