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Though the punishments imposed are hardly earth-shattering, to punish members who are not earnestly believed to be wrongdoers for the sake of public relations would be a reprehensible act of scapegoating.


Though the punishments imposed are hardly earth-shattering, to punish members who are not earnestly believed to be wrongdoers for the sake of public relations would be a reprehensible act of scapegoating.








Entrepreneur Magazine named Wharton junior Aaron Goldstein Top College Entrepreneur of 2014 after he developed FeverSmart, a device that monitors temperature and sends cellphone alerts when a fever spikes. Goldstein came up with the idea for the device after his freshman-year roommate, fellow Wharton junior Colin Hill, had to keep his temperature constantly monitored while being treated for Hodgkin's Lymphoma.






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Penn International Affairs Association President Akhilesh Goswami released a statement regarding former New York Times Middle East bureau chief Chris Hedges allegedly being uninvited from a conference run by the IAA that will take place in April. Hedges said that he was uninvited following an article he wrote for Truthdig.com titled "ISIS – the New Israel" that compared Israel's founding fathers to ISIS. In the statement released on Dec.


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Former New York Times reporter Chris Hedges was banned from a Penn conference about the possibility of peace in the Middle East after he compared Israel to ISIS. Hedges had been invited to speak at the conference sponsored by Penn's International Affairs Association (IAA) that will take place on April 3.



Freshman forward Sam Jones has played a solid role for Penn basketball so far as a sharp shooter. However, he played just 10 minutes and went 0-for-3 in Dec. 30's loss to La Salle.

Take a step back into the world of 1990’s rap, if you will, and pause to consider Penn coach Jerome Allen surveying the state of his team with a withering look somewhat akin to the gaze of the Nurse Ratched figure in Eminem’s “The Real Slim Shady” video. “I don’t really know where we’re at,” he said when asked to describe his team’s progress following last night’s 82-67 loss to La Salle.


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The federal government is cutting some funding to 721 hospitals around the nation, including the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP), due to high rates of infection and patient injuries. The new policies, which will be accessed via a cut in Medicare payments, will affect those 721 hospitals through the end of this fiscal year, which ends in September 2015. According to NBC 10's report, one out of every seven hospitals in the nation are being penalized via a one percent reduction in Medicare payments. According to federal reports, there had been a reduction in avoidable errors from 2010 to 2013, but there was still a high frequency of avoidable complications.