Last night, Brown — developer of the Mandarin Oriental Boston hotel — spoke at the Wharton Undergraduate Real Estate Club’s event “Service Sells: Inside perspectives on luxury hospitality and development.”

According to a research report done at Stanford University, more than a third of faculty have partners who are also academics, making it a very common problem to which Penn is no exception.

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The Facebook page called Penn Compliments has posted more than 500 anonymously-submitted compliments about students since its inception.

Preliminary results from the Career Services Class of 2012 Career Plans Survey Report revealed that 64 percent of graduates obtained full-time employment, a slight increase from 62 percent full-time employment for 2011 graduates. About 1,956 graduates responded to the survey.

The Office of Admissions is orchestrating several changes to the preview days, including a new date on April 5 exclusively for students admitted through early decision and a student-run committee on changing specific Preview Days events.

A Folklore Department hasn’t existed at Penn since 1999, and currently only graduate students can get certificates in Folklore Studies.

The report, which was published by the Evelyn Jacobs Ortner Center on Family Violence at Penn’s School of Social Policy and Practice features 12 agencies who service domestic violence victims. The report addresses their actions and makes recommendations for the groups.

This past year, these flex seats were occupied by UA members. Flex seats are seats that are not reserved for UA representatives or the Nominations and Elections Committee and may be assigned to either branch. However, after College senior and Speaker Pro Tempore Jon Monfred’s resignation Sunday night, a seat became available and prompted a heated discussion between the NEC and the UA.

For their final projects, students in English professor Sam Apple’s “Entrepreneurial Journalism” class presented their ideas for innovative startup media platforms at the Kelly Writers House.

A group of Wharton juniors is circulating a petition to develop a program focused on the business of fashion and design. They initially drafted the document for a project that required them to galvanize support for a cause on campus for their “Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management” class.

Rave Cinemas is not selling their assets out of necessity. With 62 theaters across the country, Rave just completed 52 consecutive weeks of outperforming the movie industry.

The newly-minted department is currently working on putting together an action plan for new hires, though they have been able to “hire” one faculty member, honorary emeritus professor W.E.B. Du Bois.

During the years MacCarthy actively wrote in Hollywood between 1978-81, he says he had a “modicum of success.” After his win in the contest, MacCarthy was partnered with Paul Taylor, another writer, and they were signed to 20th Century Fox. Together, they sold multiple pilots, wrote a story for M*A*S*H and had frequent meetings with networks.

Total crime is down 21 percent in the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania for Jan. to Dec. 2012 as compared to 2011, according to the Division of Public Safety.

Two large classrooms that had undergone renovations throughout this semester are scheduled to be open for student use by early January. However, the rest of the building will not be ready until July of 2013.

A new report from the National Center for Health Statistics indicates that Americans are consuming an average of almost 100 calories a day in alcoholic beverages. This can translate into a weight gain of about 5.2 pounds per year.