New Facilities and Real Estate head has little experience at Penn so far.
Amira Fawcett is a Engineering sophomore from Houston. Her e-mail address is fawcett@dailypennsylvanian.com.
For certain AlliedBarton security guards, the stench of garbage and the sight of rats marked the start of every work day for the past several months.
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Pennsylvania Senatorial candidate Bob Casey isn't running on his on platform - he's just running against Santorum.
When I was 8, I decided to renounce fortune cookies, Communism and Jackie Chan forever.
Avery Lawrence is a College junior from Charlottesville, Va. His e-mail address is lawrence@dailypennsylvanian.com.
Avery Lawrence is a College junior from Charlottesville, Va. His e-mail address is lawrence@dailypennsylvanian.com.
Amira Fawcett is a Engineering sophomore from Houston. Her e-mail address is fawcett@dailypennsylvanian.com.
For certain AlliedBarton security guards, the stench of garbage and the sight of rats marked the start of every work day for the past several months.
'There ain't no such thing as a free lunch," opines Manuel, a character in Robert Heinlein's science fiction classic The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. Since the release of that book in the 1960s, the maxim has become inextricably interwoven with economics. Each year, legions of Penn students have that cliche drilled into their heads when they take Econ 1.
A City Council bill threatens to delay smoking ban's enforcement for months. Why does Council want to cut the legs out from its own law?
As students returned to campus this fall, many got their first glance inside Skirkanich Hall - and just about everyone was impressed.
Graduate-student life causes insomnia with thoughts like "Will I ever finish my dissertation?" "Will I find a job?" and "Am I going to die alone?" Needless to say, a mind already filled with these kinds of irrational thoughts has a short trip to others like urban crime.
The Penn-Princeton rivalry is just a sham, because a real rivalry has to extend beyond just the basketball court.
Abdi Farah is a College sophomore from Owings Mills, Md. His e-mail address is farah@dailypennsylvanian.com.
Shows like 'Double Dare' and 'Guts,' which inspired healthy competition in a generation of kids, have all but disappeared.
In January 2005, then-Harvard University President Lawrence Summers gave the speech heard 'round the world. In a talk presented at a conference on diversifying the science and engineering workforce, he hypothesised that differences in innate abilities are responsible for the relative scarcity of women in science.
Nearly every morning this summer, I scrambled out of my Columbia University dorm room to squeeze through the swarming porthole at 116th and Broadway - the entrance to the 1 train. One morning in June, I saw a startling change in the subway-car decor: the once proverbial Budweiser ads had all but disappeared, only to be replaced by the gleaming propaganda of Jews for Jesus.
Suppose you have a bucket with infinite space. If this is starting to sound like one of those out-of-touch-with-reality math problems, it is, but please bear with me. When there is one minute left until noon, add 10 balls to the bucket, labeled one through 10, and then remove the ball labeled "one.
The citizens of Philadelphia have showed time and again that they want better ethics in government and they won't stand for corruption.
Alicia Puglionesi is a College sophomore from Havertown, Pa. Her e-mail address is puglionesi@dailypennsylvanian.com.
There are classic rude awakenings. Maybe your little brother dumps a glass of water on you.
Start small To the Editor: In your recent editorial ("Don't follow Harvard, yet," DP, 9/13/06), you glibly state that it is "simply not feasible" for Penn to dispense with its early-decision policy altogether. Yes, Penn does not have the financial and administrative resources necessary to make such a move overnight, but perhaps we all need to think a little more creatively.
