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Financial oversight

By Huizhong Wu · Jan. 22, 2015

While SFS uses a number of methods to communicate with students regularly, when situations outside the norm arise, communication can break down.

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Dr. Suhnne Ahn has left her post as House Dean of Harnwell College House to become the Dean of Residential Life and Student Activities at the Colburn School, a performing arts school in Los Angeles.



Average Federal Loans Taken Out by Students

Financial oversight

By Huizhong Wu · Jan. 22, 2015

While SFS uses a number of methods to communicate with students regularly, when situations outside the norm arise, communication can break down.



Mens Basketball vs Princeton

For a moment, it looked as if Penn basketball had turned a corner when it gave then-No. 5 Villanova a serious scare at home on Saturday. Apparently not. Playing to a mostly-empty Palestra crowd, the Quakers came out sleepwalking against Monmouth and paid dearly.



Dani BlumThe Danalyst

As I bounce back and forth between different rush events, I’m frustrated that I can’t summarize myself. I can’t articulate some spiffy conclusion from the various odds-and-ends that make up who I am.





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A Penn study has shown a correlation between a person's tweets and their rates of coronary heart disease.  Because hostile communities can lead people to drink more, have relatively poor diets and spend more times in solitude--all of which lead to heart disease--people with hostile communities on twitter become more susceptible to heart disease.  Though this correlation has been found, researchers highlight that this is not a causal relationship.  Read more about the study here.


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In response to spikes in sexual assaults taking place on college campuses, particularly at fraternity houses, female students have begun wondering whether or not holding parties in sorority houses would help decrease the number of sexual assaults that take place, The New York Times Reported.  Various female students have reported fraternity parties as being conducive to assault due to the amount of alcohol served and fact that males have the advantage of knowing the layout of the fraternity houses, including all the exits.  Now everyone agrees that sorority houses serving alcohol and hosting parties will reduce the amount of sexual violence that takes place on campuses.


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Upon returning to their schools from studying abroad, students are facing "reverse culture shock," USA TODAY College reports.  Though schools put a lot of time into preparing students for the culture shocks they will experience while living in another country, they do little to ease their transition back to American schools.  Emory University student Harlan Cutshall explains that after returning from abroad, college activities felt dull.