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It's every Penn girl's dream. Jonathan Safran Foer peers out from behind trendy square-rimmed glasses, smiles and serves you delicious Jewish food. Wake up, and head over to 38th and Spruce streets. Nissim Agiv does wear Dolce & Gabbana glasses; he does serve dishes like shish kebob and matzo ball soup.

Wharton MBA students Himanshu Agarwal and Pranjal Shah are members of a team selected as a finalist for JPMorgan's Good Venture competition. The Good Venture competition asks participating undergraduate and graduate teams of up to four members to choose an existing philanthropic non-profit organization to champion.

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By DEENA GREENBERG · Nov. 28, 2006

A select few members of the Class of 2011 will have the chance to earn extra honors for their community-service work. The University will announce today the creation of the Civic Scholars Program, an academically based service program that will begin with the Class of 2011.

If a team is trying to gauge its role in the national picture, then facing the No. 12 squad in the nation can help in finding an answer. When the team also takes on the No. 1 in the nation on the same day, the question changes from 'where do we fit in?' to 'how can we fit in?' Saturday at the Journeyman/Brute Northeast Collegiate Duals, the Penn wrestling team fought to a 2-2 record.


Wrestlers head back to the drawing board after losses to Nos. 12, 1

If a team is trying to gauge its role in the national picture, then facing the No. 12 squad in the nation can help in finding an answer. When the team also takes on the No. 1 in the nation on the same day, the question changes from 'where do we fit in?' to 'how can we fit in?' Saturday at the Journeyman/Brute Northeast Collegiate Duals, the Penn wrestling team fought to a 2-2 record.


It's every Penn girl's dream. Jonathan Safran Foer peers out from behind trendy square-rimmed glasses, smiles and serves you delicious Jewish food. Wake up, and head over to 38th and Spruce streets. Nissim Agiv does wear Dolce & Gabbana glasses; he does serve dishes like shish kebob and matzo ball soup.


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Wharton MBA students Himanshu Agarwal and Pranjal Shah are members of a team selected as a finalist for JPMorgan's Good Venture competition. The Good Venture competition asks participating undergraduate and graduate teams of up to four members to choose an existing philanthropic non-profit organization to champion.



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Editorial | Follow up

By Opinion Board · Nov. 28, 2006

The day after Election Day, this newspaper ran a long editorial calling on Pennsylvania's newly elected legislature to reduce the body's size. Politicians, surprisingly, are supporting such a move. House Speaker John Perzel (R-Phila.) has called for a House-Senate task force to examine reducing the legislature's size, which would hopefully bring some competition to the 56 state races that were uncontested in this election.






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Penn's Division of Public Safety has announced that it will resume releasing crime victims' specific affiliations with the University. The division had decided earlier this year to only indicate whether crime victims are affiliated with the University, ceasing to distinguish between students, faculty and staff members.


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Gov. Ed Rendell, a Penn graduate, has named Criminology professor Lawrence Sherman to the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency. Sherman is the director of the Jerry Lee Center of Criminology and serves as president of the International Society of Criminology in Paris.


W. Squash freshman comes one short of title

Freshman Kristen Lange proved this weekend that age has little effect on outcome in squash. The freshman advanced all the way to the finals at the Constable Invitational this weekend, climbing Princeton's ladder in the process - starting with Casey Riley and ending with Princeton's No.


Police link four sexual assaults near campus

Police believe that one individual may be responsible for a slew of sexual assaults and robberies of women that have recently occurred in the area east of Penn's campus, as well as one outside Franklin Field. At least four women have reported being sexually assaulted and robbed east of the Schuylkill River since Nov.


At the president's mansion, the parties serve a purpose

University President Amy Gutmann's last big bash at 3812 Walnut St. - the stately "President's Mansion" - turned into a public-relations nightmare after she posed in a photograph with a student dressed as a suicide bomber. But Gutmann's staff didn't skip a beat, and they're already busy planning the next student soiree, Dec.


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Another woman has allegedly been attacked by a man wielding a screwdriver, Penn safety officials say, bringing the total number of West Philadelphia screwdriver robberies to eight.



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Disingenuous To the Editor: The Daily Pennsylvanian's most recent editorial ("Putting PR Above Safety," DP, 11/22/06) is an incredibly disingenuous and sensationalistic statement that has had the unfortunate effect of obfuscating the substantive issue involved: victim privacy.