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By Sean Foley · April 1, 2015

While President Obama’s proposal to increase the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 languishes in the Republican-controlled Congress, Penn Democrats applauds Governor Tom Wolf’s effort to increase Pennsylvania's minimum wage.

Penn is ranked the number five school for social science majors.  The School of Arts and Sciences offers some of the best programs in the social sciences, including sociology, criminology and psychology. Unique to Penn is its Social Science and Policy Forum, which "builds scholarship around areas of public interest." On average, social science majors at Penn go on to have average mid-career salaries of $105,000. Other schools on the list include George Washington University in the number one spot, Harvard in second and Columbia in third.  Find out what the top 10 schools for social science majors are here.









Wharton Professor Keith Weigelt started the Wharton initiative "Building Bridges to Wealth."

Approximately four years ago, Wharton Professor Keith Weiglet started Wharton initiative Building Bridges to Wealth, a program that helps combat the racial wealth gap in West Philadelphia by providing free financial literacy courses.



Softball beats Temple in overtime, 4-3.

Coming into 2015, Penn softball pitcher and first baseman Alexis Sargent had already recorded the eighth-most home runs in program history, notched the school's fifth-lowest career earned run average, been named second-team All-Ivy and led the Quakers to the Ivy League Championship series. All in her rookie season. Sargent’s tremendous debut in 2014 wasn’t totally unexpected, as the Virginia native joined the Red and Blue after being named to the All-State team three times in high school, among numerous other accolades.




Argentinian senior captain Sol Eskenazi calls the No. 1 singles spot for Penn her home away from home.

Late in the third set of her match against Princeton last Saturday, Penn women's tennis' top singles player and senior captain Sol Eskanazi was in the middle of an epic battle. Trailing in a tiebreaker, the senior ripped a lefty forehand up the line, leaving the Princeton player dead in her tracks, forced to watch the ball fly by. “Vamos!” Eskanazi, a native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, roared with a big fist pump. As exemplified by Eskanazi, college tennis has recently become a showcase of the best athletic talents from not only the United States, but nations worldwide.


There are upsides to being held accountable, but we lose something when we self-censor. We miss the goofy sentiments, the random toss-out of ideas to the universe, the fragility of paint splattered against a river bank. Too often we lose sight of what we want to say in fear we’ll say something wrong.


In the social consciousness of the American public, universities have ceased to be thought of simply as academic institutions, and have come to be regarded as the final step in the developmental process — processing factories for adults, even.



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Connecticut and New York are looking to implement procedures that will make it more difficult for students accused to rape to defend themselves.  New York Governor Andrew Cuomo proposed for 2016 a "'Victim/Survivor Bill of Rights' whose language presumes the guilt of anyone accused of 'sexual violence.'" The bill leaves out the words "alleged" and "allegation" as to not be able to give accused students a means to claim their innocence when such violations take place.  Brooklyn College professor KC Johnson explained that the bill would take away any student's chance to explain their side of the story.