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Leaving behind barriers

By Sophia Witte · April 30, 2015

Last spring, College freshman Kathryn Dewitt was facing her own crisis amidst a semester marked by two student suicides in three weeks.


Penn President Amy Gutmann, center, spoke at a University Council meeting last year during which she introduced the Task Force on Student Psychological Health and Welfare.

Leaving behind barriers

By Sophia Witte · April 30, 2015

Last spring, College freshman Kathryn Dewitt was facing her own crisis amidst a semester marked by two student suicides in three weeks.








SOUL Protests the merging of the African Studies and Africana Departments at College Palooza

Beyond blackness

By Sophia Witte · April 28, 2015

Many African and African-American students at Penn believe that the black community is unified because of a shared experience of living as a black person in America — not because black people constitute a homogenized group with assumed similarities beyond the color of their skin.