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The Latter-day Saints Student Association, which became an official student group on campus last December, obtained formal recognition by the Students Activities Council at that time and will soon begin to receive funding for events and programs.

Jackson — who, in 2006, became the University’s first-ever Penn Integrates Knowledge professor — was recently appointed the first-ever senior adviser to the provost for diversity.

College senior Rachel Abeles, Panhel’s outgoing president, congratulated the new members on getting through the “cold, long, crazy week of recruitment” — which came to a close with sorority bid night on Thursday.


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College senior Rachel Abeles, Panhel’s outgoing president, congratulated the new members on getting through the “cold, long, crazy week of recruitment” — which came to a close with sorority bid night on Thursday.







Girls who went through sorority recruitment this past week experienced a homecoming of sorts last night, as they received their bids and met their new sisters.




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Several student groups, as well as alumni, have been engaging in activism and discussion in anticipation of the national Boycott, Divest and Sanction Conference that will be hosted by PennBDS in early February.



The Office of the Provost selected the new theme for the 2012-13 academic year — the Year of Proof — which will “examine just what the nature of proof is.”


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This week, the Pan-Asian American Community House narrowed down its search for a new director to four candidates. Students have taken an active role in the search to replace former director June Chu, who left in September to take on the post of assistant dean of undergraduate students at Dartmouth College.


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Floating above the Earth’s atmosphere — 120,000 feet above ground — the Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope, or BLAST, takes measurements of the stars and our universe. It now resides in the newly-completed High Bay BLAST laboratory located at 31st and Walnut streets.


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With less than a year to go and $3.64 billion raised to date, Penn is in the final stretch of “making history.” However, while the Making History fundraising campaign reached its overall goal of $3.5 billion in September — over a year ahead of its scheduled close this December — many of its core goals and priorities have not yet been met.