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Janelle Monae is the first of three artists to be announced for Penn’s annual Spring Fling concert. Monae marks a turn from the electronic genre of last year’s Fling. She is known for her debut album The ArchAndroid, which earned her a nomination for best contemporary R&B album at the Grammys in 2011.

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Now in its second semester, Resident Select — an online movie-streaming website offered through the Penn Video Network, which supplies traditional cable TV on campus — now has 800 to 1,000 hits a month.




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Janelle Monae is the first of three artists to be announced for Penn’s annual Spring Fling concert. Monae marks a turn from the electronic genre of last year’s Fling. She is known for her debut album The ArchAndroid, which earned her a nomination for best contemporary R&B album at the Grammys in 2011.








	Students work a fruit stand at the now-closed Drew Elementary School in the city. They are using a Youth Urban Mobile Market table, selling fruit and smoothies. Read the full story here.

Agatston Urban Nutrition Initiative’s launched student-supported Fruit Stands. Here, Penn students work with public school students to prepare and sell fruit, fruit salads and smoothies to their classmates during the school day.



	Engineering senior James Senese designed a device that would allow the rowers to control the amount of an oar in the water.

Jim Senese, Engineering senior on the Heavy Weight Crew Team, has chosen to build a device — which expands like a telescope — that will be able to shift oars outward and inward. The system is similar to that of gears on a bike.


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On Tuesday, the Pennsylvania General Assembly’s House Judiciary Committee nearly unanimously confirmed the bill that was introduced the day before by Representative Michael Vereb (R-Montgomery). Vereb aims to send it to the Senate as soon as next week.



Oxford Professor Richard Dawkins speaking at the Annual Oration of the Philomathean Society

Richard Dawkins — evolutionary biologist and former Oxford University professor — addressed a crowd of about 1,500 with a lecture titled “Proof, Science and Skepticism” for the Philomathean Society’s Annual Oration, in celebration of the group’s 200th anniversary.


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This year the election season is seeing a striking number of new candidates. By the numbers in the Undergraduate Assembly elections, there are 24 people running for 16 College seats, nine running for five Wharton seats, and two running for one Nursing seat. Only the Engineering seats will go uncontested.