Amira Fawcett is a College sophomore from Houston.
The lack of Engineering graduates who actually go on to be engineers is having a dentrimental effect on the quality of the school.
About 22,000 students attend the University of Pennsylvania, and up to half of them are graduate students.
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College can be a bit different from sixth grade. Take student government, for example. Penn's Class Boards and Undergraduate Assembly actually matter, unlike their pre-pubescent counterparts. The UA, for one, allocates about $1.55 million in student funds.
Awave of University press releases in the last month proudly proclaimed Penn's standing in a slew of new rankings.
Abdi Farah is a College sophomore from Owings Mills, Md.
Abdi Farah is a College sophomore from Owings Mills, Md.
The lack of Engineering graduates who actually go on to be engineers is having a dentrimental effect on the quality of the school.
About 22,000 students attend the University of Pennsylvania, and up to half of them are graduate students.
In a high-stress campus crawling with Type-A personalities, psychological concerns are bound to be rampant among students. The question is: To whom do we turn? Well, as we read in Wil Hershner's July 20 column, we are supposed to go to Penn's Counseling and Psychological Services.
This weekend, Penn football coach Al Bagnoli hit a milestone: He led the football team to its 100th victory during his career. That's a lot of wins for a team that only plays once a week, for three months a year. In fact, the only man who has more wins for Penn than Bagnoli is George Woodruff, who led the Quakers to 124 victories and three national championships - from 1892 to 1901.
I suppose it's old news by now that Penn has fallen to No. 7 (from No. 4) in the U.S. News & World Report rankings this fall. What a disappointment! What did we do to deserve this? Increasing class sizes? Disappointing statistics for the Class of '10? And, most importantly, was Amy Gutmann reprimanded? Apparently not.
Alicia Puglionesi is a College sophomore from Havertown, Pa.
Six years after the fight truly began, this city can finally bask in the glow of a victory for the people: Philadelphia has banned smoking from restaurants. On Thursday, Mayor Street announced - at the last possible moment, of course - that he had signed a ban that took City Council months to pass.
Wharton's current internal transfer policy admits students in descending order by GPA. This means students who take a light, easy courseload freshmen year have a better chance than those who challenge themselves.
I have two secrets. Secrets so horrible that less than five people know the awful truths. No, I don't sleep with a night light or sing in the shower. My secrets are much, much worse than either of those - at least within the hallowed halls of Huntsman.
It wasn't long ago that the corner of 40th and Walnut street was dead at night. Where people from Penn and all over Philadelphia now eat dinner at Marathon Grill, there was an ugly Burger King.
Graduate Employees Together-University of Pennsylvania's Bill Herman suggests ("A Year Later, NYU TAs Back in Class," DP, 9/12/06) that the reason his group hasn't repeated strike action since the two-day protest in spring 2004 is because "things are pretty stable here right now."
Anyone who has eaten a meal at 1920 Commons in the past four years cannot have missed the colorful display of hands in various gestures of expression.
We at the Solomon Asch Center for the Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict worry about refugees, what causes ethnic conflicts and how to resolve them. Sept. 11 added something important to our agenda: What is the optimal response to the type of threat posed to America and its allies by militant Islamic fundamentalism? Fortunately, research psychology can shed some light on responses to terrorism.
Almost a cliche - even during its immediate aftermath - the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center was, according to eyewitnesses and witnesses of the television, "like a film." In their struggle to articulate the unimaginable that they saw, individuals would repeatedly compare that horror of burning and collapsing buildings to the disaster films that have become Hollywood currency in recent decades.
Once again, politics is coming before the health of Philadelphia citizens. After City Council finally came together - despite years of infighting - to ban smoking in restaurants, Mayor John Street is threatening to once again ruin everything. The mayor must veto or sign the bill by 10 a.
Each of us has a personal story regarding his or her experience with the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. I was starting a sabbatical at Columbia University, having arrived the first week of September. As an avid cyclist, I was riding my bike along the Hudson River that day.
