Typically, Penn’s low-rise housing refers to Gregory, Stouffer and W.E.B. Du Bois College Houses. They are called "low" in comparison to the taller high rises — Harrison, Harnwell and Rodin. They house students of all ages.
Community Living is for students who want to live in on-campus housing with a group of six to eight friends. The program allows residents to occupy multiple rooms in the same building and usually on the same floor.
This past Sunday, Wharton sophomore Jeffrey Tillus was elected the new planning and facilitating chairman of UMOJA, the umbrella organization for groups of the African Diaspora at Penn.
For upperclassmen who wish to remain in their buildings, each college house holds its own lottery to assign rooms. While each house’s lottery is different, most houses award points based on seniority and the number of semesters lived in the house.
Community Living is for students who want to live in on-campus housing with a group of six to eight friends. The program allows residents to occupy multiple rooms in the same building and usually on the same floor.
This past Sunday, Wharton sophomore Jeffrey Tillus was elected the new planning and facilitating chairman of UMOJA, the umbrella organization for groups of the African Diaspora at Penn.
Admissions representatives travel to over 30 countries in any given year, according to Dean of Admissions Eric Furda. And in spite of University-wide budget cuts, the admissions travel budget “hasn’t been cut at all.”
Three suspended members of the wrestling team were arrested Nov. 16 in connection with an aggravated assault allegedly committed on Oct. 3. A preliminary hearing is set for 8 a.m. today.
After dropping a double-overtime heartbreaker to Delaware Saturday, the Quakers (0-3) will set out for redemption tonight against Drexel (0-3).
For this group of Quakers, the future is just as bright as the present.
Princeton head football coach Roger Hughes was “relieved of duties” Sunday after 10 seasons at the helm of the Tigers.
The freshman is making his mark as a valuable member of the M. Hoops squad.
Members of the University community spoke out against sexual assault for the second time this semester last night in the Penn Women’s Center.
SafeAssign is a plagiarism detection tool that works within the Blackboard courseware system. Professors are in the process of testing the system through a pilot program. The tool will be put to use next semester.
I don’t know how to write about rape. If it were something abstract to me, I could probably distance myself, but victims of sexual assault are my friends and classmates, and it’s happening all the time.
For most, Halloween Friday is a bacchanalia of wild parties and scandalous outfits; I saw Shakespeare.
It is an understatement to say that the Penn student body has been through a lot this semester. And this past week, with one student’s death and a sexual assault, has been particularly trying.
At a grief counseling session Monday afternoon, associate chaplain Stephen Kocher confirmed that College sophomore Alex Ryles "did take his own life."
Police have identified and interviewed a man who allegedly raped a Penn freshman woman at an off-campus fraternity party early Sunday morning, but no arrests have been made.
Vice President Joe Biden spoke at the Committee of Seventy’s annual breakfast yesterday at the Park Hyatt at the Bellevue.
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