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Fall 2013 Undergraduate Assembly Elections

If the admissions process at a university can accomplish anything, it should be to detect applicants who are interested in close scrutiny and critical appraisal of their own lives and screen those who are not.


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For too long, the uninsured have gone without life-saving medical treatment or lived in fear of bankruptcy. Survivors fleeing abuse have been forced to sleep in the streets after their last lifeline of state assistance was cut off. The recently laid-off have waited in vain for help at County Assistance Offices.






The winning high school team from left to right: Isaiah Turner, James Harnett, Krish Dholikaya, Rohan Shah.

An all high school team competed in the health hack with their app “Helix,” an app designed to streamline the directions patients receive from their doctors. The app won best overall health hack and best consumer health hack.



Junior thrower Sam Mattis will look to repeat a strong performance last year at the 2015 Relays.

It's apt to think of a collegiate track team like a car: if left to sit alone in a garage for the winter, it mostly likely won't be going from zero to sixty in record time on the first time out. With that said, Penn track showed no real signs of stalling in its first competitive action since winter break, collecting 11 victories in Saturday’s Angry Birds Invitational at Lehigh. The men’s team finished second out of five squads, losing only to Monmouth while compiling 131 total points.


Swim meet vs. UConneticut

Once again, Penn finds itself .500 on the week. For the second time in as many weekends, both the men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams split their respective Ivy dual meets, with both programs defeating Brown while falling to Harvard on Saturday. On the men’s side, the Quakers finished their regular season against the Ivy League with a 203-95 win over Brown and a 190-108 loss to Harvard. The men’s squad was anchored by its pair of standout juniors, as Eric Schultz and Chris Swanson both scored maximum points for Penn in their freestyle events.







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The Vision | Facts only

By The Vision · Jan. 19, 2015

At the request of Mr. Rohrback, we have compiled a list of facts that we deeply believe the PPA should rely on. It is our belief that “[p]olicing an open, urban, multicultural and densely-populated university environment such as Penn,” as the Penn Police department website states, requires a commitment to protect all its community members, especially when that West Philadelphia community is predominantly Black and Brown.



President Barack Obama's free community college proposal has the support of Penn President Amy Gutmann. Obama is expected to propose a plan to provide free community college for millions of students in his Tuesday 'State of the Union.' Gutmann appeared on CNBC's "On the Money," talking about the positives of increased opportunities for higher education. Even though Penn's price of tuition continues to rise, the University has a all-grant, no-loan financial aid policy.


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Amy Gutmann is far from alone as a woman leading an Ivy League institution: starting in July, there will be three others. Elizabeth Garrett is set to take over the presidency at Cornell in July, the beginning of Cornell's fiscal year, joining Gutmann, Drew Gilpin Faust (Harvard) and Christina H.