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Convocation 2011

Tuesday evening, over 2,500 freshmen and transfer students escaped the rain and huddled into the Palestra for the University’s 272nd Convocation.


New bathrooms, hallways, furniture and floors were installed in the college house this summer. The roof, stairs and lighting were updated and student rooms were repainted and outfitted with new window coverings.

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This fall, Elmhurst College applicants will have the option to answer a question about their sexual orientation. Since Penn has been recognized as a leader among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender-friendly colleges, students and administrators wonder whether the University will follow suit.



Redoing a floor in Kings Court College House

New bathrooms, hallways, furniture and floors were installed in the college house this summer. The roof, stairs and lighting were updated and student rooms were repainted and outfitted with new window coverings.









Clyde F. Barker Penn Transplant House

Located at 3940 Spruce St., the Transplant House opened July 18 as a guest house for the families and loved ones of patients receiving organ transplantation at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.




For pre-orientation programs — the biggest feeder of early move-in students on campus — the show must go on, hurricane or no hurricane.



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A two-day-old boy is on his way back to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania after being taken by his mother around noon Thursday, and the Amber Child Abduction Alert has been lifted.



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The government deal on raising the debt ceiling may hurt some college students. The deal will result in changes that could make it more challenging for students to pay for the cost of higher education.



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