Insurance and design woes continue to dominate news of Ground Zero and the fate of a permanent memorial.
Don't support China To the Editor: My son recently received advertising from the University of Pennsylvania Computer Connection. It promoted Dell, Apple and IBM ThinkPad laptops. IBM recently sold its IBM ThinkPad laptop product line to a company called Lenovo.
From the archives: Paul Hendrickson | Struggling through stories
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Paul Hendrickson
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Sept. 11, 2006
A perverse theorem keeps proving itself true in my relatively brief time as a teacher at Penn: the students give back to me far more than I can ever impart to them. They help me to get through things, instead of it being the other way around. A year ago, in the early afternoon of Sept.
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Harvard University made yet another splash in the world of higher education yesterday by announcing it will no longer accept any early applications for admission.
I began Sept. 11, 2001, doing what I do best: eating - I had breakfast in the West Wing.
The events of Sept. 11 have made many of us immigrants question our identities and sense of belonging and shocked us into the realization that we as a nation are as vulnerable as any developing country - unprepared for the attacks and the subsequent renewal.
The events of Sept. 11 have made many of us immigrants question our identities and sense of belonging and shocked us into the realization that we as a nation are as vulnerable as any developing country - unprepared for the attacks and the subsequent renewal.
Don't support China To the Editor: My son recently received advertising from the University of Pennsylvania Computer Connection. It promoted Dell, Apple and IBM ThinkPad laptops. IBM recently sold its IBM ThinkPad laptop product line to a company called Lenovo.
From the archives: Paul Hendrickson | Struggling through stories
By
Paul Hendrickson
·
Sept. 11, 2006
A perverse theorem keeps proving itself true in my relatively brief time as a teacher at Penn: the students give back to me far more than I can ever impart to them. They help me to get through things, instead of it being the other way around. A year ago, in the early afternoon of Sept.
After being in New York on Sept. 11, 2001, a lot of things changed. I started reading the newspaper. I figured out that both America and my beloved home city weren't indestructible. And to this day, I give a second look to every plane that flies over Manhattan.
In her Sept. 10 op-ed in The New York Times, Susan Sontag anticipated that the anniversary of Sept. 11 would serve as "a day of mourning" and "an affirmation of American solidarity." "But," she continued, "of one thing we can be sure. It is not a day of national reflection.
Five years ago today, the world was irrevocably shaken. Who does not remember where they were? Who has not told the story a dozen times? Huddled around television sets across the country, we watched New Yorkers flee from Lower Manhattan, a swelling cloud of dust and ash chasing them from their offices and homes.
For most students, the years spent at Penn are fairly self-absorbed. It's time spent boosting a resume, or partying, or studying for final exams. From Wharton to Nursing, a Penn education is a ticket to a better life, but it's a ticket that bears a very high price: a responsibility to do everything we can to contribute to our community and to our world.
Jarrod Gutman | Can the School of Medicine survive the health care crisis?
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Jarrod Gutman
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Sept. 8, 2006
This July, many full-time employees of the School of Medicine received a pleasant surprise in our mailboxes - a $500 bonus, to be credited to our September paychecks.
New Student Orientation is over, which means a whole new class of freshmen is about to learn that college is not only about partying - unless you're an upperclassmen crashing NSO again. Those same freshman are about to learn that their peer advisors, those beacons of maturity during orientation, will most likely show up to Thursday-morning class quite hung over from Wednesday-night sink-or-swim at Smokey Joe's.
Amira Fawcett is a College senior from Houston.
Barbaro coverage To the Editor: Thank you for the continual coverage of Barbaro ("Barbaro recovering under Penn vets' care," DP, 8/31/06). I'm not involved with horse racing at all, but I was really touched by the courage of this horse, the wisdom of his jockey and the dedication of Dean Richardson.
The School of Arts and Sciences e-mail system didn't even wait to for the semester to begin before its first breakdown. On Sept. 1, the thousands of professors and students who check their e-mail via SAS's Webmail system were unable to access their account for more than 8 hours.
In one of the more defining moments of my Penn life under Amy Gutmann's reign, 34th Street asked the University president if she believes art has to be beautiful. "No," she answered flatly, definitively. Next question. The notion of what art truly is and what it looks like is a topic that connoisseurs and dilettantes debate with equal tenacity - what qualities make something art? What makes a Jackson Pollack "art" over, say, a larger-than-life rendering of a fictitious Philadelphia icon? The Philadelphia Museum of Art has wondered that recently, as it fought to preserve its artistic hegemony over a city proposal to set an eight-foot-six-inch bronze Rocky Balboa statue at its steps.
Back in 1982, my mom was studying for her teaching certificate when she met my dad in an English class. He mustered the courage to talk to her one day over verb conjugations, and they began dating. It was love. In 2006, the game hasn't changed too much. A significant proportion of women still find their husbands while they're attending school.
I begin this new academic year at Penn grateful to be a part of a University community so joyfully infused with the desire to learn and the commitment to serve. Thanks to our dedicated move-in and New Student Orientation teams - who did a fabulous job helping new students navigate the transition to life at Penn-our campus is bustling with more creative energy and camaraderie than ever.
David Anderson is a College senior from Denver. His e-mail address is dga@sas.upenn.edu.
