2008 Woodie Awards
Vote Absentee
City Council President Anna Verna can order a special election to fill three vacant Council seats as early as today, but several local groups are calling the process undemocratic.
Because Verna announced the election in August - therefore eliminating the possibility of a primary - ward leaders, not voters, will select the party nominees.
Ex-Wharton professor emeritus Scott Ward likely won't be going home anytime soon, despite his option to post $2 million bail, legal experts say.
Even if he is willing to pay, experts say the decision to grant bail could be overturned, and there is still the matter of the separate charges that he faces in Pennsylvania.
With the first week of the semester under their belts, administrators and students are starting to buckle down to discuss the fate of Hey Day.
But nobody's sure exactly what they want to say.
Discussions are set to begin within the next two weeks. The Office of the Vice Provost for University Life is planning to work with both the junior class board and other members of the Class of 2008 to make the annual tradition "safe and fun," according to Valarie Swain-Cade McCoullum, head of VPUL.
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College freshman Douglas Halperin got in to Penn during the most competitive admissions season in the University's history.
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From parties to community service... and back again?
ZBT will likely move back in to their campus house, and its occupants won't put up a fight
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On the third floor of the Stouffer College House Annex live 13 students interested in public service.
But the first floor of the building - with a pool table, TV area and large lounge room - resembles a fraternity house more than a dorm.
And next year, a fraternity may actually return to claim the house as its own.
ZBT will likely move back in to their campus house, and its occupants won't put up a fight
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FBI sought student records for terrorist searches
Dept. of Education released records on student finances, some concerned with privacy issues
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Student financial-aid records have been helping to fight the war on terror for the past five years - but without students' knowledge.
The Department of Education acknowledged last week that one of its offices had been running a program, which was discontinued last June, that searched for evidence of terrorist activity via financial-aid records.
Dept. of Education released records on student finances, some concerned with privacy issues
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By Meagan Steiner
The Daily Pennsylvanian
Trade in crowded frat parties for some classy schmoozing along the banks of the Schuylkill River this weekend.
Although, like frat parties, the "Rockin' on the River" concert series on the Schuylkill River banks features dancing, alcohol and free admission.
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Although their tastes in music might be very different, there is one thing many Penn students can have in common: a sleek software called iTunes that sells millions of digital songs.
But a new program is trying to compete.
Having dominated the digital music industry - and the laptops of Penn students - for the past several years, iTunes may soon be challenged by the social-networking Web site MySpace.
Faculty recruits offer courses on Israeli politics, writers under 30
Notable profs from diverse backgrounds bring fresh research to Annenberg, SAS
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You can't check out these new professors on Penn Course Review, but you might want to look into their classes.
The new faculty members - most of whom previously taught at other universities - have come to Penn to share their expertise in fields ranging from political science to the modern Middle East to Romance languages.
Notable profs from diverse backgrounds bring fresh research to Annenberg, SAS
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Council President Anna Verna's announcement of a Nov. 7 special election for the three vacant City Council seats seemed like good news for Florence Cohen.
The 88-year-old widow of late Councilman David Cohen would have a chance to finish the term of her husband, who died in office last fall at the age of 90.
