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For Penn men’s soccer, it is always one game at a time. After drawing Yale soccer on Saturday night, the Red and Blue are looking forward to playing their final nonconference match of the year when West Virginia travels to Rhodes Field on Tuesday night.


Men's Soccer v. American

For Penn men’s soccer, it is always one game at a time. After drawing Yale soccer on Saturday night, the Red and Blue are looking forward to playing their final nonconference match of the year when West Virginia travels to Rhodes Field on Tuesday night.




DP Reporters and Editors Meeting with Amy Gutmann

In imaginary America, affirmative action is unfair because it treats two equally privileged candidates unequally. It is unnecessary because Martin Luther King, Jr.’s dream has been realized and we all see character, not skin. It is nonsensical because minorities aren’t disproportionately poor, uneducated and incarcerated. We can hope for this America but we cannot pretend it exists or has ever existed.


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But the ratio does the most damage to the frats themselves. I’ve been amazed by how Penn frats defy the stereotype. I’ve defended fraternities to my friends at small liberal arts colleges who think they’re the epitome of archetypal, dumb college groups. Actually talk to a frat brother, and you’ll find a different story.


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Income inequality is also preventing economic mobility. We love to talk about the “American dream,” that working hard and playing by the rules leads to success, but it’s harder for Americans who are born poor to succeed than it is in just about any other advanced nation.





Van Pelt, College Green, Huntsman, Annenberg

Like prospective undergraduates and MBA’s, prospective Wharton professors have to stand out a pool of candidates to score a spot on the faculty roster. 


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On Oct. 28 this year, PennWorld is hosting its Mix It Up event to encourage intercultural conversations, as well as identifying and questioning social boundaries. Students will be assigned seats in dining halls so they can eat and talk with someone they don't normally interact with. The location in dining halls creates a symbol for change in a place where, normally, segregation is common.


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More than a vote

By Jonathan Baer · Oct. 27, 2014

Students are volunteering for political campaigns across the country, hoping to help influence the 2014 midterm elections


GreenFest

This year's Fall Green Week began Oct. 21, and will run until Oct. 28. Once a semester, organizations including the Penn Environmental Group, the Student Sustainability Association at Penn, the Kelly Writer's House, the Philomathean Society, and the Penn Vegan Society host the event, which broaches a number of environmental issues.


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College 2006 graduate Adam Weber, along with College 2007 graduate Jimmy Goldblum, co-produced and co-directed a documentary called “Tomorrow We Disappear,” which premiered last weekend. The film was inspired by Salman Rushdie’s novel "Midnight’s Children," written in 1981 about India’s transition from British Colonialism to independence to British partition.


According to Wharton’s new dean, the biggest challenge facing women in the business world is ensuring that they “can have a balance between their families and their professional lives, with their husbands and partners.”