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The Daily Pennsylvanian

9/11 10th Anniversary Issue

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While he was a student at Penn, Larry Maltz spent his free time in the library. But unlike other students, he wasn’t poring over statistics or chemistry — he was reading. For fun. INTERACTIVE: Recent graduates’ career plans


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By Glenn Shrum · Oct. 26, 2011

Nearly 350 celebrated the renaming of the Medicine School after a $225 million donation made by 1940 Wharton graduate Raymond Perelman and his late wife, Ruth, where Raymond was also presented with a Medal for Distinguished Achievement from Penn.






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Each year, in partnership with Hong Kong’s Polytechnic University, 13 students travel with faculty to Hong Kong for two weeks where they treat disabled children throughout the area.


President Barack Obama announced a new “Pay As You Earn” proposal that will help students manage their loans. The program aims to limit monthly loan payments for 1.6 million college students and borrowers, according to a White House statement. VIDEO: Students sound off on loans










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Early Tuesday evening, a small group gathered in the Penn Bookstore to listen to Stephen Tow, author of The Strangest Tribe: How a Group of Seattle Rock Bands Invented Grunge.