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While most recent Penn alumni were prepping for grad school or enjoying new positions at prestigious companies, 2010 College graduate Jimmy Tobias was spending part of his post-college summer locked in a jail cell in West Virginia.








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This week, copyright law saw a major change that could benefit students in a number of ways when the Digital Millennium Copyright Act was renewed and expanded to protect the use of video clips for educational and other noncommercial purposes, such as documentary filmmaking.


HUP flunked food inspection

HUP's critical violations of the city health code included raw chicken being found above ready-to-eat foods, refrigeration temperatures of 54 degrees rather than the required 41 to prevent bacteria growth and a dishwasher that did not heat utensils enough to properly sanitize them.




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The Penn Literacy Network — a program in the University’s Graduate School of Education — hosted several elementary and middle-school teachers from Detroit for a week of teaching-based workshops.




Wistar to receive state-of-the-art research tower

On Tuesday, the Philadelphia City Planning Commission had a number of development proposals to discuss at their routine meeting. One was the “Institutional Development District Master Plan Amendment” — a proposal that would allow the Wistar Institute to erect a new research facility.


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Student's 'well'-doing

By Ellie Levitt · July 22, 2010

Last week, rising College Sophomore Brittany Young's charity, A Spring of Hope, finished fourth place in a Facebook competition led by Chase Community Giving. A Spring of Hope was granted $100,000, which the charity will use to advance its aspiration of widespread water availability.


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Recent College graduate Jimmy Tobias has been in jail for the past week after taking part in a protest affiliated with campaigns Climate Ground Zero and Mountain Justice to stop mining on West Virginia’s Coal River Mountain.