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Fall 2013 Undergraduate Assembly Elections


Neal Goss is a quadriplegic and uses a wheelchair to get around. But the 2006 Wharton graduate says Penn made a conscious effort to accommodate his disability and make him feel the same as every other student. Since the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed in 1990, the University and other educational, business and cultural institutions say they have worked to become more accessible to those with disabilities.

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Imagine being able to vote in major American elections without stepping foot outside your front door, without the aid of the Internet or some type of telepathy. Just put on a bathrobe and walk into the voting booth during the commercials of The Jerry Springer Show: That's all it takes.

The Penn basketball season does not officially start until Friday, when the men participate in the BCA Invitational, but for the hundreds of students who lined up in the Palestra this weekend, the season is already under way. "The Line," the annual Red and Blue tradition in which basketball fans claim their season tickets, kicked off the basketball year with a weekend of festivities.

PRINCETON, N.J. - Before sophomore Alex Grendi could get back on his feet, his classmate Kevin Unger had done it again. In a bizarre ending to the Penn men's soccer team's regular season at Princeton on Saturday, Unger netted his second golden goal of the season, propelling the Quakers (9-4-2, 5-1-1 Ivy) to a 1-0 win in overtime.


M. Soccer: Golden goal might not be enough

PRINCETON, N.J. - Before sophomore Alex Grendi could get back on his feet, his classmate Kevin Unger had done it again. In a bizarre ending to the Penn men's soccer team's regular season at Princeton on Saturday, Unger netted his second golden goal of the season, propelling the Quakers (9-4-2, 5-1-1 Ivy) to a 1-0 win in overtime.


16 years after disability law, progress

Neal Goss is a quadriplegic and uses a wheelchair to get around. But the 2006 Wharton graduate says Penn made a conscious effort to accommodate his disability and make him feel the same as every other student. Since the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed in 1990, the University and other educational, business and cultural institutions say they have worked to become more accessible to those with disabilities.



Med staff fights cancer in Asia

A group of Penn medical staff traveled halfway around the world last month to teach Taiwanese doctors how to perform an innovative cancer procedure - and ate some chicken heads on the side. The team of six assisted Taiwanese surgeons, who had invited them over a year ago, in giving a light-based treatment to a woman suffering from lung cancer at an advanced stage.


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At about 5:30 a.m. on Sept. 5, 1972, Dan Alon awoke to the sound of machine guns and a bullet ripping through the wall of his apartment, just behind his bed. The Israeli fencer - who survived the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre - addressed around 250 people on Friday in the Terrace Room of Logan Hall, giving a personal account of what he called one of the "worst acts of terror in history.




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Fantasy football players have put the odds of the Philadelphia Eagles and the Pittsburgh Steelers meeting in Super Bowl XLI at 200 to 1. But sports fans can preview a showdown between the two cities just by following the governor's race between former Philadelphia mayor and Democratic incumbent Ed Rendell and his opponent, former Steelers wide receiver and Republican candidate Lynn Swann.


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The Quakers have landed their fourth recruit in what is a rapidly growing Class of 2011. Jack Eggleston, a 6-foot-8 forward, has verbally committed to Glen Miller's program, according to The Miami Herald. Eggleston, out of St. Thomas Aquinas in South Florida, averaged 8.


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Only a day before the mid-term elections, West Philadelphia resident Solange Chadda is taking her fight to get on the ballot to the highest level. Today, Chadda plans to submit a brief to the United States Supreme Court requesting a 60-day delay of the Pennsylvania Senate election so that she can get her name alongside those of Republican incumbent Rick Santorum and his Democratic challenger, Bob Casey.


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Tomorrow, as Americans, we have an opportunity - and a responsibility - to make a decision about the future of our country. Will we continue the misguided war in Iraq, or will we adopt a timetable for bringing our troops home? Will we continue the $12.



Volleyball: Penn rides home crowd to one win out of two

In the final home matches of their career, the seniors had a bittersweet weekend with a gutty win and a disappointing loss. The Penn volleyball team faced two of its Ivy foes, beating Brown 3-2 in a thrilling five game match but losing to Yale 3-0 the next day in a sweep.


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This proposition is simply not the best way to accomplish the goal of rewarding servicemen and -women. A proposition much like this one went to - and was not approved by - voters shortly after the first Gulf War more than 15 years ago. There seems to be little reason veterans of this particular war are much more deserving than they were 15 years ago.



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Next time you are in a New York City restaurant, you might find calories listed alongside menu items, displayed just as prominently as the item price. New York City's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has issued a proposal calling for calorie disclosure in certain city dining establishments.