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Sarah Gadsden



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The Young Americans for Obama program will hold its national launch event in Houston Hall’s Hall of Flags Wednesday at 6 p.m. The National Obama Student Summit, which will be broadcast on national television, will feature appearances by Obama Campaign Manager Jim Messina and Philadelphia Mayor and 1976 Wharton graduate Michael Nutter.





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Throwback: Feb. 24

By Sarah Gadsden · Feb. 24, 2011

Today's tuition figures are starkly different from those of the 1958-59 school year, when undergraduate tuition was $1,000, and total expenses were around $2,000.



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Throwback: Feb. 3

By Sarah Gadsden · Feb. 3, 2011

In 1986, the mean undergraduate grade point average at Penn was 3.10 — a figure The Daily Pennsylvanian pointed to as grade inflation that made “traditional definitions of letter grades obsolete.”


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Throwback: Jan. 27

By Sarah Gadsden · Jan. 27, 2011

The Blizzard of ’96 blanketed the Philadelphia area in 40 inches of snow, with snow drifts of over four feet. Then-Executive Vice President John Fry closed campus Monday and Tuesday that week.


Word on the Walk: Occupy Philadelphia cleared

By Jared McDonald and Sarah Gadsden · Dec. 1, 2011

We asked students what they thought of protesters being ordered out of Dilworth Plaza by police early Wednesday morning. Related: Topics: Occupy movement

Word on the Walk: Occupy Philly

By Jared McDonald , Sarah Gadsden and Sunny Shen · Oct. 11, 2011

Students voice their thoughts on the Occupy Philadelphia movement, which stemmed from the Occupy Wall Street protest in New York. Related: Topics: Occupy Philly