While it may be more convenient to volunteer close to campus, students are needed throughout the city. As an Alpha Phi Omega brother, I'm required to do at least 20 hours of community service a semester. It's relatively easy to accomplish, considering the opportunities we have around our campus - soup kitchens at Penn churches, Pennevelopes, work-study tutoring jobs in West Philadelphia, the list goes on.
Alicia Puglionesi is an College junior from Haverton, Pa. Her e-mail address is puglionesi@dailypennsylvanian.com.
980,000Philadelphians registered to vote in the upcoming mayoral election; 75 percent are registered Democrats. Source: Philadelphia City Paper
23Delta Zeta sorority members at DePauw University asked to leave; this included all overweight and minority members. Source: The New York Times
Natural threats To the Editor: I was very, very disappointed to read Geology Professor Giegengack's interview replies about the state of the planet's environment ("Inconvenient Truth with a 'political' slant," DP, 2/12/07). His remarks, which concluded that alarm over the environment is a political myth, were unfortunate, to say the least.
Creative workouts with friends and dormmates can be a nice alternative to the solo-oriented Pottruck.
Creative workouts with friends and dormmates can be a nice alternative to the solo-oriented Pottruck.
Alicia Puglionesi is an College junior from Haverton, Pa. Her e-mail address is puglionesi@dailypennsylvanian.com.
980,000Philadelphians registered to vote in the upcoming mayoral election; 75 percent are registered Democrats. Source: Philadelphia City Paper
Daniel Schwartz is a College freshman from Decatur, Ga. His e-mail address is schwarm@sas.upenn.edu.
Caveat emptor, prospective students, when it comes to looking at the latest college guidebooks and rankings.
Criminology isn't 'CSI' To the Editor: Your headline on the proposed major in Criminology ("Miles Davis, fingerprinting await," DP, 2/21/07) said that Penn is likely to teach fingerprinting. Nothing could be further from the truth. Your report misquotes me as saying "Criminology is not just forensic science.
The city's move to possibly prosecute Geno's owner Joey Vento for discrimination trivializes the meaning of the word.
Thanks to Penn's follow-through on promoting interdisciplinary education, Marx and Nietzsche are making a comeback.
HUP's lack of office space forces women to go to clinics for abortions and denies doctors a valuable learning experience.
Joanne Tong is a Wharton junior from Manila, Philippines. Her e-mail address is tong@dailypennsylvanian.com.
$28Total amount (in billions) donated to U.S. colleges and universities by alumni in 2006. Source: Associated Press
To keep Hey Day alive, the University rightfully made seniors responsible.
To fix the wireless Internet problem, students and staff need to get in sync.
1:45,000Odds that an asteroid - named Apophis by astronomers - will hit Earth on April 13, 2036. Source: Reuters
Until the federal government does more to protect illegal immigrants, Pennsylvania can take the lead.
Alicia Puglionesi is an College junior from Haverton, Pa. Her e-mail address is puglionesi@dailypennsylvanian.com.
The University of Illinois sets a bad precedent by bowing to NCAA pressure and getting rid of its Native American mascot.
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