Penn launches off-campus mail service
Starting Monday, the service will allow off-campus residents to send their packages to on-campus locations for $4 a package.
Starting Monday, the service will allow off-campus residents to send their packages to on-campus locations for $4 a package.
The Student Activities Council, which funds over 200 student groups, attempted to start afresh by dropping previously accrued debt, lifting the freeze on funding for new student groups that had been in place since January and introducing a new penalty-based debt policy.
Starting Oct. 7, the Rave will offer a student rate of $8 seven days a week.
The man, unaffiliated with Penn, was shot at Westpark Apartments Friday night and is currently in stable condition. Philadelphia Police have identified and are looking for a suspect.
The Student Activities Council, which funds over 200 student groups, attempted to start afresh by dropping previously accrued debt, lifting the freeze on funding for new student groups that had been in place since January and introducing a new penalty-based debt policy.
Starting Oct. 7, the Rave will offer a student rate of $8 seven days a week.
Two College sophomores spent the summer constructing the Pre-Med Authority, a social-media network tailored to pre-med students.
The University announced Thursday that it received a $13.6-million donation from 1950 College graduate Roy Vagelos and his wife, Diana, to establish a new interdisciplinary program focusing on alternative energy.
DateMySchool, an online dating website that targets college students, launched at Penn in August.
A partnership between the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly and the Undergraduate Assembly at Penn will pay for students who are interested in graduate school to grab coffee at Starbucks or Cosi with a graduate student mentor.
The Penn Women’s Center will unveil Penn’s first eco-kitchen on Friday afternoon.
The South Asia Studies Department is beginning to rebuild after experiencing troubles over the past few years.
Judith Rodin, Penn’s former president, was named the 71st most powerful woman in the world by a Forbes magazine ranking last month.
“Share the Road,” an annual campaign educating bicyclists, motorists and pedestrians, kicked off at Penn on Tuesday.
On Wednesday, SAC canceled student groups’ debt and lifted its moratorium — originally put in place when SAC’s reserve fund dropped to a low point last semester — on preventing new groups from receiving funding.
Eugene Tinsley, who posed as a Penn student, pled guilty this year to two counts each of theft, forgery, receiving stolen property and securing execution of documents by deception.
Piper, a ‘trendy and affordable’ boutique, will open on 34th Street between Walnut and Sansom after the University’s Fall Break.
Services will be held for Rosh Hashanah and Jewish groups will head to the Schuykill River to take part in the tradition of Tashlich. This year, many students observing Rosh Hashanah will stay on-campus because the holiday falls mid-week.
One of the donations to the $3.5 billion ‘Making History’ campaign included a collection of hundreds of pre-17th century documents to the University’s library systems.
1959 Wharton MBA recipient Alberto Vitale established the Wharton Innovation Fund which will award 25 $5,000 grants to fund students’ business ideas.