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.
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.
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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.
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.
Insurance and design woes continue to dominate news of Ground Zero and the fate of a permanent memorial.
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.
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.
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.
