Quick Takes | Higher education round-up: April 6
A weekly roundup of news from around the Ivy League and the higher-education community
A weekly roundup of news from around the Ivy League and the higher-education community
United States Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor spoke at Irvine Auditorium as part of a culmination of a week’s worth of events to celebrate Golkin’s formal opening.
Take Back the Night is an international grassroots event to protest sexual and relationship violence.
On April 5, The Daily Pennsylvanian published an article under the headline, “Some religious organizations near campus show ‘darker side.’” The DP has since retracted the article due to a combination of factual and editing errors.
United States Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor spoke at Irvine Auditorium as part of a culmination of a week’s worth of events to celebrate Golkin’s formal opening.
Take Back the Night is an international grassroots event to protest sexual and relationship violence.
While crime, poverty and unemployment still plague Philadelphia, the city is nevertheless becoming increasingly attractive to young adults, according to the 2012 State of the City Report.
Check out what crimes happened on and around campus last week.
While the Supreme Court deliberates the constitutionality of the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act, Penn professors are also debating the issue.
With one hashtag at a time, Detective Joe Murray is making Philadelphia a little safer.
One fortunate Wharton student will be crowned the “ultimate corporate raider ” tomorrow.
The Student Health Advisory Board held a block party to raise awareness of basic health needs, including hydration and stress management.
In an arraignment on April 2, Wharton sophomore Tania Chairez rejected the court’s offer of the Accelerated Misdemeanor Program, opting instead to go to a full trial.
Ly co-founded the Asian Student Association in Philadelphia — an anti-bullying group for Asian students created soon after the South Philadelphia High School violence began to draw media attention.
The Lauren and Bobby Turner Social Impact Executive Series began in 2010 to instill in students the importance of “doing well and doing good.” Andre Agassi spoke last year and Magic Johnson the year before.
“One of the biggest problems is lack of discourse about this topic at Penn,” College junior and PIR member Joey Wallerstein said. “[This event wants] to encourage people, not just people who believe in immigrant rights as a cause, but to those who don’t know anything about it and who might be opposed to it.”
Emmy-winning journalist and neurosurgeon Sanjay Gupta spoke on his life, career before 800 people as this spring’s SPEC Connaissance speaker.
Kasparov was the guest of honor at the Philomathean Society’s Annual Oration this year. The event, which took place Apr. 3 at Penn Museum’s Harrison Auditorium, drew a large audience of students eager to meet the master.
After a week of dealing with the consequences of nearly a foot of flooding, residents of Gregory College House have finally received help.
The Office of the Vice Provost for University Life announced that Jeremy Lin may soon fill the vacant position of Pan-Asian American Community House director.