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Housing arrangments may cause a physical and social-economical divide on Penn campus//Carson Kahoe | Staff Photographer

A House Divided

By Jack Cahn · Oct. 14, 2015

Welcome to The Radian: Where lush couches, flat-screen televisions and spiral staircases fill duplex lounges, where gyms with state-of-the-art equipment have windows that extend from the floor to the ceiling and where modern kitchens are furnished with the newest appliances.


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On Tuesday, the Women In Art Initiative hosted a panel of six artists featured in the “10 Philadelphia Female Artists You Need to Know” by PhillyVoice. The women in the panel included: Kiki Gaffney, Diane Feissel, Hollis Heichemer, Mallory Weston, Leslie Boyd and Katherine Fraser.













The University City Science Center's campus currently extends from 34th to 39th Streets along Market Street. (DP File Photo)

What do murder, biological warfare and gentrification all have in common? They all helped shape Penn as a world-leading institution. “Becoming Penn,” a new book written by professor John Puckett and and University Archives and Records Center Director Mark Frazier Lloyd, presents Penn’s rise to an internationally-reputed intellectual destination. “For Penn to be attractive to... international audiences, it had to develop as a place that fostered the greatest number of incentives to students to study,” Lloyd said.








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