10/21/09 2:14pm
Power in Harnwell College House went out Tuesday night around 10:10 p.m. It was restored at about 11:40 p.m.
04/09/08 5:00am
*This article appeared in the 2008 Joke Issue.
03/07/08 5:00am
2:00pm - March 12th, 2008
Hillary Clinton kicked off six weeks of political attention for Philadelphia with a rally yesterday evening at Temple University.
Before a cheering crowd of 3,000 to 4,000 supporters Hillary delivered a campaign speech that was decidedly short on mentions of her chief rival, Barack Obama, but big on populist promises to help the working class.
02/19/08 5:00am
Old Original Bookbinder's has been a Philadelphia institution for over 140 years.
It's been in the family of current owner John Taxin since his grandfather raised the money to buy it from it's founders. According to Taxin, his grandpa worked at the grocer across the street and ate lobster at Bookbinder's every day, breakfast and lunch.
11/30/07 5:00am
The number of early-decision applications to Penn dropped slightly for the second year in a row, admissions officials announced yesterday.
Penn received 3,929 early-decision applications this year, a 1.8 percent fall from last year's 4,001 applications.
Interim Dean of Admissions Eric Kaplan said he expects early-decision applicants to make up 45 to 48 percent of the class of 2012, which translates to an acceptance rate of about 30 percent.
11/21/07 5:00am
Yet another round of pre-litigation letters from the Recording Industry Association of America hit Penn students last week.
The RIAA, which represents the country's major music labels, continued its legal onslaught against college students last week, sending pre-litigation letters to 16 Penn students and 401 other students across the country.
11/16/07 5:00am
It's hard to imagine a more appropriate location for last weekend's Ron Paul rally than Independence Mall.
The National Constitution Center, the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall provided the inspiration for his political beliefs; the nearby U.S. Mint and Federal Reserve branch, he wants to do away with.
11/05/07 5:00am
The Division of Public Safety tested its new PennAlert emergency-notification system Thursday, with 95.3 percent of the targeted individuals receiving a notification either by phone, e-mail or text-message.
DPS simulated a hazardous materials accident in the Caster Building, located at 3701 Locust Walk, and the new system successfully alerted 429 of the 450 individuals slated to receive a notification.
10/31/07 5:00am
University President Amy Gutmann's refusal to disclose the details behind former Dean of Admissions Lee Stetson's resignation represents an outlier in a long trend of openness as an academic and administrator.
10/24/07 5:00am
Just as applicants to Penn come from all over the world, people interested in Penn admissions are everywhere, too.
And so, without a real watercolor to gossip over, they turn to an online one.
Since his departure from Penn, blogs and Internet forums have been sustaining interest and driving conversation about former Dean of Admissions Lee Stetson.
10/19/07 5:00am
The University's capital campaign kick-off this weekend is arguably the most important event in Penn President Amy Gutmann's tenure.
But as the tents go up and officials prepare to reveal their multi-billion dollar goal for the campaign, the University remains demonstrably less public about another turning point from this semester: the abrupt departure of former Admissions Dean Lee Stetson.
10/02/07 5:00am
Former Dean of Admissions Lee Stetson attended an annual admissions conference in Texas last weekend as questions swirled in the admissions community about his sudden departure.
09/28/07 5:00am
In a Senate Finance Committee hearing yesterday, a panel of experts urged Congress to set a minimum spending requirement for university endowments in order to make college more affordable.
09/20/07 5:00am
Along with at least 1,000 other scholars, Linguistics professor Mark Liberman is part of a recent trend of professors delving into a new, informal aspect of academia: the blog.
09/13/07 5:00am
Last week, both houses of Congress passed a comprehensive student-aid bill that considerably raises the maximum Pell grant and halves the interest rate students pay on federal loans.
09/12/07 5:00am
A lot has changed about U.S. News & World Report's college rankings since their simple beginning in 1983. But looking at today's top four schools, you wouldn't realize it.
The very first ranking began with a single survey sent to university presidents asking them to pick what were, in their opinions, the five best schools in the country.
09/11/07 5:00am
Congress passed a new financial-aid bill Friday that will overhaul federal student-aid programs, including increases in grants and the slashing of interest rates on some student loans.
The program, which was approved by both houses of Congress, constitutes a major increase in the Pell Grant Scholarships, raising them from a current maximum of $4,050 to $5,400 by 2012.
09/06/07 5:00am
Even among unplanned departures, Stetson's case is a strange one for a university that has seen its fair share of faculty and staff scandal.
08/30/07 5:00am
The newest campus bagel shop - serving cream cheese, lox and the theory of relativity.
Einstein Bros. Bagels, a chain based out of Colorado, will open in the basement of Houston Hall this fall.
The store represents the first bagel store on campus since Univerity Bagels closed in 1998.
