Upon stepping into Penn Park, it becomes clear that the space is dedicated to serve a purpose — to provide a space for organized games, and not for simple lounging. It’s not so much a park as a collection of fields.
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In recent years, however, the term “flash mob” has acquired a new meaning. Philadelphia’s non-violent high-school and college-aged residents need to reclaim the flash mob.
While politics often brings out the worst in people, it can occasionally bring out the very best.
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Alexey Komissarouk
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Sept. 14, 2011
Like a faint electric buzz, excitement about new ways to use technology is permeating throughout campus. As your tech columnist, I’ll be doing my best to make you aware of some of the cooler stuff going on.
I’ll tell you why we really get fat. You might not like it. You probably won’t believe me either. But after reading some outstanding work by science writer Gary Taubes, I’m a die-hard believer.
At an institution that constantly emphasizes the importance of building relationships with professional firms like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley via on-campus recruiting, I wonder if students increasingly overlook the value of building relationships with everyday people — people who play integral roles in our community.
At an institution that constantly emphasizes the importance of building relationships with professional firms like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley via on-campus recruiting, I wonder if students increasingly overlook the value of building relationships with everyday people — people who play integral roles in our community.
In recent years, however, the term “flash mob” has acquired a new meaning. Philadelphia’s non-violent high-school and college-aged residents need to reclaim the flash mob.
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While politics often brings out the worst in people, it can occasionally bring out the very best.
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Penn should sweat the small stuff. Minor issues affect student happiness and create inefficiencies for the University.
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The superficial health-consciousness is troublesome. Many products benefit the companies that make them more than the consumers that buy them.
Elizabeth Jacobs
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Bryn Mawr College professor Clark McCauley writes that we were unable to predict how far our overreaction to 9/11 would go.
Today’s average college student was between the ages of eight and 11 on Sept. 11, 2001. We were old enough to know there was a problem, to feel that something had been lost, to watch the events unfold on the news.
Columnist Brian Goldman argues that the term ‘9/11 generation,’ invoked by the national press, is a bit misleading and even confining.
"Home" students have a lot they should learn about international students.
The Penn Board of Trustees needs to be more transparent with how it makes it decisions.
Gutmann can achieve her dream of "[making] our nation stronger, and our future brighter," by focusing on what Penn can do, not legislation.
I thought that getting my dream internship was all-important, but now I realize an internship is an alternative summer plan, rather than the summer plan.
We’ve finally learned to manage our lives here, and we have to move on. Do I know how to manage, motivate and challenge myself in new contexts?
We have to break up. It’s not you; it’s me — you know the drill. We both have to move on. Like any relationship, ours contained its good and its bad.
My experience at Penn has not been typical, and nearly each semester has felt like an entire college experience in itself.
When I look back at the timid 18-year-old who showed up on campus four years ago, I realized that my time at Penn has been full of change.
We should cherish our fleeting feelings of universal participation. The chances that we’ll have another uniting experience like Spring Fling are slim to none.
