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 Students standing silently in support of Tania Chairez, an undocumented Wharton sophomore who was arrested

The passion of the Civil Rights Era continues today in student leaders on campus. However, the activism comes in a different format. The student leaders of various minority groups on campus emphasized that activism for them very much revolves around dialogue within their respective communities and with the University’s administration.


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Feb. 1 — An unaffiliated female at Presbyterian Hospital reported an unattended pocketbook missing upon her return at about 9 a.m.









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A group of Penn students has begun calling on the University to divest its financial holdings in fossil fuel companies, joining a national movement that has picked up steam over the past several months.




Photo: JUILLIARD ORCHESTRA, JAMES DePRIEST, Conductor with STEPHEN BEUS, Pian; and Alumni Reception; concert photographed: Saturday, February 23, 2008;  8:00 PM at Isaac Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall; Photograph: © 2008 Richard Termine.
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The international music community lost one of its great conductors on the morning of Feb. 8, when Penn alumnus James DePreist died at the age of 76 from heart attack complications in his home in Scottsdale, Ariz.



Just hours after a gunman shot down three in a courthouse in nearby Wilmington, Del., Vice President Joe Biden sat down for a roundtable discussion on gun control with local government and law enforcement leaders on Monday.