Alicia Puglionesi is a College sophomore from Havertown, Pa. Her e-mail address is puglionesi@dailypennsylvanian.com.
Objectivity To the Editor: I am writing out of concern for the objectivity that you display your news. Your recent article on a British author ("Author says Britain has become a jihadist hotbed," DP, 11/15/06) had a front-page teaser that read, "A cultural assault.
Dave Anderson is a College senior from Denver. His e-mail address is anderson@dailypennsylvanian.com.
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New software claims to be able to help pick out future murderers, but it's got more drawbacks than advantages - and no Tom Cruise.
Youngest-ever dean will be leaving Wharton with enormous shoes to fill.
Even after spending an entire childhood in California, I feel like a visitor in my parents' house during breaks.
Even after spending an entire childhood in California, I feel like a visitor in my parents' house during breaks.
Objectivity To the Editor: I am writing out of concern for the objectivity that you display your news. Your recent article on a British author ("Author says Britain has become a jihadist hotbed," DP, 11/15/06) had a front-page teaser that read, "A cultural assault.
Dave Anderson is a College senior from Denver. His e-mail address is anderson@dailypennsylvanian.com.
Penn basketballer Stephen Danley shares an insider's perspective of the Quaker basketball team.
22Americans who died in 2003 from being crushed by human stampedes.Source: Trans. Safety Board
Too many Penn students don't offer a hand to a person who trips or falls - unless the person falling is very attractive.
New program will better round out Penn's well-funded program offerings
1Of 2,562 College graduates from the classes of 1986 and 1987 surveyed, the number of males who list themselves as "stay-at-home dads." About 300 women from the class now stay home to raise children.Source: Career Services College Alumni Survey
It took my own home being burglarized for my wake-up call: Students aren't doing enough to protect themselves from crime.
President Bush's nominee to head his family-planning and teen-pregnancy programs is a staunch abortion foe.
Avery Lawrence is a College junior from Charlottesville, Va. His e-mail address is lawrence@dailypennsylvanian.com.
With a rash of recent robberies on and around campus, use caution outside.
The Division of Public Safety decided earlier this semester to stop releasing the specific University affiliations of crime victims to the public and media. When the DP found out, we called on DPS to change its ways. Not specifying whether a victim was a student, staff or faculty member made it difficult to track crime trends.
National crime patterns suggest that Penn is reporting many burglaries as larcenies, a much less worrisome crime.
Amira Fawcett is an Engineering sophomore from Houston. Her e-mail address is fawcett@dailypennsylvanian.com.
The day after Election Day, this newspaper ran a long editorial calling on Pennsylvania's newly elected legislature to reduce the body's size. Politicians, surprisingly, are supporting such a move. House Speaker John Perzel (R-Phila.) has called for a House-Senate task force to examine reducing the legislature's size, which would hopefully bring some competition to the 56 state races that were uncontested in this election.
There's nothing wrong with acting young - but it must be balanced with reality of getting older.
