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Slideshow: Hillel Week Kickoff

Students kicked off Hillel Week — a week of events aimed at increasing exposure of the Hillel community — with pastries and Israeli music Monday.


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By Sara Schonfeld · March 15, 2011

To challenge the stereotype that electric cars are 'slow and boring,' student group Penn Electric Racing is building an electric car from scratch that can compete with racing cars on a track.

Emotional responses to United States House Representative Peter King’s (R-N.Y.) hearings on homegrown radicalization among American Muslims have pervaded news media, but members of the Penn Muslim community appear more introspective than voluble.





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With 90 percent of students graduating with internship experience, Penn was ranked as the top school in the country at producing undergraduate interns.





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Penn's Executive Vice President Craig Carnaroli wrote a letter to the editor explaining that Penn is not participating in the relocation of the McDonald's on 40th and Walnut streets.




Pizza eatery closes over spring break

Owners of Italian restaurant Taglio recently shut down the eatery, with plans to replace the space with Asian-inspired TBowl, featuring rice bowls and organic and bubble teas.






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Jurors in the trial against Wharton alumnus Raj Rajaratnam heard tapes on March 10 of recorded conversations between Rajaratnam and those who allegedly supplied him with insider trading information, according to a New York Times article.


Livin' it up with Mardi Gras

With Penn’s spring break coinciding with Mardi Gras festivities this year for the first time in over a decade, students flocked to New Orleans to join in the celebrations.