Potential SEPTA fare increase, service reduction cause concern for Penn students
On April 10, SEPTA announced it may increase prices and cut bus and train routes if its funding gap in Pennsylvania’s state budget is not addressed.
On April 10, SEPTA announced it may increase prices and cut bus and train routes if its funding gap in Pennsylvania’s state budget is not addressed.
The April 11 announcement came five days after Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the U.S. State Department would immediately revoke visas issued to all South Sudanese passport holders.
The April 11 vigil — which was announced in an Instagram post by Penn Students Against the Occupation of Palestine — began around 10 a.m. on Locust Walk.
A new interactive map co-developed by researchers at Penn’s Annenberg School for Communication shows that proposed NIH funding cuts may lead to an estimated $16 billion in economic loss and 68,000 jobs lost.
The April 11 announcement came five days after Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the U.S. State Department would immediately revoke visas issued to all South Sudanese passport holders.
The April 11 vigil — which was announced in an Instagram post by Penn Students Against the Occupation of Palestine — began around 10 a.m. on Locust Walk.
An April 8 letter from the United States House of Representatives and Senate Committees on the Judiciary accused Penn and the Ivy League of collusion and engaging in unfair financial aid practices.
The April 9 presidential memo directed federal agency leaders to “immediately suspend any active security clearance held by Taylor” and accused him of “possibly violating the Espionage Act.”
Amy Gutmann has joined a group of former university presidents in a joint statement calling on Donald Trump’s second administration to end the attacks on higher education.
The March 18 complaint described Penn Medicine's Black Doctors Directory, an online index designed to help patients locate Black doctors, as “racially discriminatory.”
Several Penn faculty members and state and local politicians spoke with The Daily Pennsylvanian and criticized the visa revocations.
The Philadelphia demonstration was part of the second “Nationwide Day of Action” — organized by Labor for Higher Education and Higher Education Labor United.
“I’m horrified by the Trump Administration’s actions that are hurting many of our communities, including our college campuses,” Pennsylvania Speaker of the House Joanna McClinton (D-Phila.) wrote in a statement to the Daily Pennsylvanian.
Demonstrators held signs bearing anti-Trump slogans and chanted as they marched from City Hall to Independence Mall, where several members of Congress and Pennsylvania legislators spoke.
Since the start of the year, several finance companies — including Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, and Deloitte US — have laid off thousands of employees and cut junior positions.
Oz — who received an MD from the Perelman School of Medicine and an MBA from Wharton in 1986 — was approved by a 53-45 vote along party lines.
The professors are among nearly 2,000 signatories, all of whom are academic researchers and elected members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
If passed, Pennsylvania would become the 25th state to legalize recreational marijuana, joining states like New York, California, and New Jersey.
Their three nominations await confirmation from the Senate.
“It might be more than 300 at this point. We do it every day. Every time I find one of these lunatics, I take away their visa,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said at a March 27 news conference.