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Summer Recap | New Provost Vincent Price settles into job

Provost Vincent Price became the first interim provost in University history to permanently fill the position when he officially assumed office July 1. He replaced former Provost Ron Daniels, who left Penn last winter to serve as president of Johns Hopkins University.


On a typical night during New Student Orientation, hordes of freshmen are seen pouring from the Quad and Hill College House on their way to the parties that lie just beyond 40th Street. This year, though, things are changing.

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The recently released executive compensation figures for the 2008 fiscal year - which began on July 1, 2007 and ended on June 30, 2008 - were as expected, with no University officials receiving surprising increases in compensation.



NSO expands offerings to after dark

On a typical night during New Student Orientation, hordes of freshmen are seen pouring from the Quad and Hill College House on their way to the parties that lie just beyond 40th Street. This year, though, things are changing.






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Paul Rudd visits DRL

By Lara Seligman · Sept. 8, 2009

On an average day at Penn, there's not much to see at David Rittenhouse Laboratories except linoleum halls and a giant periodic table. But on Monday the building doubled as a set for the untitled James L. Brooks movie starring Reese Witherspoon, Paul Rudd and Owen Wilson.




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Crime log

By Harrison Garfinkle · Sept. 8, 2009

August 28 - Morton Reeves, 35, unaffiliated with the University and of the 300 block of Spring Garden St., was arrested at about 4:30 p.m. for allegedly spraying lighter fluid on four people at 40th and Market streets, then attempting to set them on fire.





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This year, The Daily Pennsylvanian is following four freshmen through their first year of college. The occasional series will explore all aspects of the freshman journey, from moving in to cramming for finals - and everything in between.



Running down a dream

Running down a dream

By Zach Klitzman · Sept. 8, 2009

This fall, the football team playing at Franklin Field will look retro. No, the players are not getting old school jerseys nor leather helmets.




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