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By Dani Blum · March 18, 2015

We’ve all heard the urges to get into Center City more, to escape Penn’s boundaries and take advantage of the tourist destination at our fingertips. I love Philadelphia and have made some of my fondest memories this year exploring downtown, but I’m so attached to the environment we create on campus.








Pussy Riot members Nadya Tolokonnikova (left) and Masha Alekhina (right) spoke at Penn Museum last semester.

The faces of the Russian counterculture took the floor last night.  The Slavic Languages Department and Perry World House brought Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, two of the founders the Russian band Pussy Riot to Penn for a question and answer session on Tuesday.










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A video of a University of California, Los Angeles Undergraduate Students Association Council meeting in which members raised concerns about a judicial board candidate's ability to be "unbiased" due to her Jewish background has since been removed.  Rachel Beyda, who was nominated by the USAC president for a role on the school's Student Judicial Board,attended the council meeting to defend her candidacy.  While at the meeting, however, Beyda was met with various questions pertaining to her Jewish identity by the council members.  One USAC representative asked, "Given that you are a Jewish student and very active in the Jewish community...how do you see yourself being able to maintain an unbiased view?" Baral described the questions as "inappropriate." Since the video was removed, the pro-Israel advocacy and educational organization StandWithUs has circulated clips of the video and the conservative blog Legal Insurrection has uploaded the complete video.  Read more here.


The report makes clear that the mostly-white city government systematically and intentionally used the police and courts to extract money from the mostly-black population. It was not simply that the government’s composition did not reflect that of the electorate, the government was acting directly against the majority’s interests.