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Pregaming turkey with a night on the town

Sure, you might down shots on New Year's Eve - but Thanksgiving? Strange, but true: For bars and clubs across Philadelphia, Thanksgiving Eve is one of the most hopping partying opportunities of the year, with people reuniting with old friends and family in their hometowns.


Study-abroad participation at Penn was the seventh highest among American colleges last year, according to a report released last week. The University jumped five spots - from No. 12 to No. 7 - in the annual study-abroad participation ranking by the Institute for International Education, which promotes educational ties between the United States and foreign countries.

Penn researchers have established that while men are subjected to more traumatic events, women are more likely to be diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. David Tolin of the Institute of Living and Psychiatry professor Edna Foa reviewed 290 studies conducted between 1980 and 2005 to determine whether men or women were more likely to experience potentially traumatic events and post-traumatic stress disorder.

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No Penn student won a Rhodes scholarship this year, and the loss may be part of a larger decline of the Ivy League monopoly on major international awards. While Penn succeeded in sending 4 students -- out of a total of 32 Penn applicants - to the finals of the U.

University President Amy Gutmann's $150,000 gift for financial aid may seem modest compared to the millions trustees donate, but seasoned fundraisers say it will likely inspire others to give - just like Gutmann wanted.

Four college-age women have been robbed at the point of a screwdriver near campus in the past two weeks, prompting public safety officials to issue a warning to students. The first such robbery occurred Nov. 9, officials say. DPS issued a crime alert about the cases yesterday, asking students to come forward with any information they have.


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Four college-age women have been robbed at the point of a screwdriver near campus in the past two weeks, prompting public safety officials to issue a warning to students. The first such robbery occurred Nov. 9, officials say. DPS issued a crime alert about the cases yesterday, asking students to come forward with any information they have.


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Study-abroad participation at Penn was the seventh highest among American colleges last year, according to a report released last week. The University jumped five spots - from No. 12 to No. 7 - in the annual study-abroad participation ranking by the Institute for International Education, which promotes educational ties between the United States and foreign countries.


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Penn researchers have established that while men are subjected to more traumatic events, women are more likely to be diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. David Tolin of the Institute of Living and Psychiatry professor Edna Foa reviewed 290 studies conducted between 1980 and 2005 to determine whether men or women were more likely to experience potentially traumatic events and post-traumatic stress disorder.


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Nelson Pavlovsky says culture should come from the bottom up - and that intellectual property rights keep it from happening. Pavlovsky, a Swarthmore College undergraduate and founder of FreeCulture.org, gave a talk before a small number of students and faculty in the Class of 1938 Lounge in Kings Court/English House yesterday.




Let there be light

Let there be light

By Zoe Tillman · Nov. 21, 2006

When asked about the snowflake lanterns that line the tops of trees on Locust Walk, College sophomore Jordan Cohen's face lights up.



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Opening Up the Ivies

By Jeremy Baron · Nov. 21, 2006

Ivy League universities are about to get a whole lot larger. Physically, for one. Penn will acquire the postal lands, a 42-acre swath of land directly east of campus, next year; construction will span the next few decades.



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For the second time in five days University officials have released a security warning to students, this time involving one crime adjacent to campus and three just east of campus. The second security warning, released earlier today, comes after a series of four incidents which may be connected.




An historic black organization makes its debut at Penn

W. E. B. Du Bois, a co-founder of the NAACP, once taught classes at Penn. But until now, the University never had a chapter of its own. Having elected a board and amassed more than the 25 dues-paying members required to form a chapter, Penn's branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, a civil-rights group, recently held its first public meeting.



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Prosecutors' initially said they would retry Wharton undergraduate Irina Malinovskaya a third time for first-degree murder. But defense lawyers say they haven't heard anything else about a retrial. Meanwhile, Malinovskaya is still in jail in Delaware.


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Chaka Fattah has officially declared his candidacy for Philadelphia mayor, barely two weeks after cruising to re-election to Congress. Fattah, who is the U.S. representative for Penn's district, announced his intentions Saturday outside the West Philadelphia High School of the Future before a crowd of over 500.