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Amy Gutmann

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Tennessee has certainly not been kind to Penn's basketball teams this season. The Red and Blue's two basketball programs have both traveled to the Volunteer State to take on SEC opponents over the past month.


Over the past week, the story of Phi Delta Theta's questionable holiday card has been all over the news. The card featured a dark-skinned blow-up doll that the fraternity says was a Beyonce blow-up doll. Now Philadelphia Magazine senior reporter Victor Fiorillo has written a column about the card, saying that while the card was racially insensitive, it was not in fact racist. "Stupid?

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Phi Delta Theta's Christmas photo, which includes a dark skinned sex doll (upper left), sparked concerns over the fraternity's cultural sensitivity.

Over the past week, the story of Phi Delta Theta's questionable holiday card has been all over the news. The card featured a dark-skinned blow-up doll that the fraternity says was a Beyonce blow-up doll. Now Philadelphia Magazine senior reporter Victor Fiorillo has written a column about the card, saying that while the card was racially insensitive, it was not in fact racist. "Stupid?


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It is every high school senior's worst nightmare: A mistaken acceptance letter. Johns Hopkins, which accepted 15 early decision applicants, sent emails to 294 rejected students that said they were accepted to Class of 2019. The Washington Post reported the mistake, with the email saying "Embrace the YES," that was sent to 285 denied applicants and nine who were deferred. Hopkins Vice Provost for admissions and financial aid David Phillips said the mistake was due to human error. “We apologize to the students affected and to their families,” Phillips said to the Post.


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Law school enrollment is at its lowest level since 1982, according to multiple reports. The American Bar Association said that law school enrollment fell seven percent from last year and has gone down 17.5 percent since 2010.


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The Obama Administration has pushed for a college ratings system and the Department of Education will unveil the outline for one on Friday. The Department of Education will display the outline of its metrics, which the federal government will use to rate colleges.


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Riepe College House's Mentors program brings Penn freshmen to tutor West Philadelphia elementary school students. Mentors is a freshman residential program that has been in place for over a decade, pairing 25 Penn freshmen with West Philadelphia elementary school students.




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While Penn made its early decision announcement yesterday, it wasn't the only school to release its early admission decisions recently. The rest of the Ivy League as well as Stanford and MIT has released its early action and early decision numbers, which Business Insider neatly tied up in one article for your reading pleasure. MIT had the lowest acceptance rate among the top colleges listed, accepting just 9.6 percent of over 6,000 applicants.





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A New York Times article looked into why colleges around the country haven't taken the steps necessary to eliminate the large number of binge drinking cases that plague universities. The article, written by Beth McMurtrie of The Chronicle for Higher Education, focuses on how universities have identified the issue of college drinking yet aren't fixing the problem.


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2015 Cheshire Academy (Ct.) shooting guard Tyler Hamilton verally committed to Penn basketball on Monday, becoming the fifth member of the Quakers' Class of 2019, reports Alex Kline of The Recruit Scoop. Hamilton is a 6-foot-4, 180 pound guard from Norcross, Ga.



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A study by the Bureau of Justice Statistics found that women enrolled in college at ages 18 to 24 are less likely to be victims of sexual assault than their nonstudent counterparts. The study said that the rate of sexual assault and rape was 1.2 times higher for nonstudents than for students.