2008 Woodie Awards
NEW ORLEANS -
Ben Franklin High may offer AP Calc, but it's a simple arithmetic problem that's been bedeviling it lately.
Before Katrina, the New Orleans powerhouse magnet school was piping about four students per year into Penn, with 17 applicants vying for space in the Class of 2008.
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There's nothing better than a free ride. This weekend, NJ Transit will allow college students to use its system for no cost.
A suspicious package outside the Quadrangle prompted police to evacuate the Upper Quad and Stouffer College House last night.
The Philadelphia bomb squad determined with an X-ray that the package was safe, however, and no one was injured.
At about 7 p.m.
Karma was a key word yesterday during Wharton undergraduate Irina Malinovskaya's trial, but not in the cosmic sense.
Instead, prosecutors called to the stand experts in animal DNA testing that provided testimony about hairs found in Malinovskaya's rental car.
Frats like having rush in the spring. So why is it creeping into fall?
At other schools, Greek students complain that early rush limits their social options
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University of Florida freshman Jason Attermann arrived on campus in Gainesville, Fla. several days before classes began in August.
He didn't want the extra time to settle in, participate in a community service program or even get a head start on course readings.
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Jimmy Goldblum is no stranger to the halls of Ben Franklin High. Last spring, the College junior spent six weeks in New Orleans assisting his older brother Josh with the production of an online documentary about the school.
Formerly the head of new media for the American Museum of Art as well as a Smithsonian employee, in the wake of Katrina, Josh decided that he wanted to create an online narrative to help educate people about the reality of the situation in New Orleans.
LGBT Center gets a 'Cybercenter'
A $30,000 grant made possible installation of workspaces, creation of online chat room
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When Bob Schoenberg started working at Penn's Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Center in 1982, a student in Gregory College House had just been beaten up in a violent incident of homophobia.
Yesterday afternoon, as the LGBT Center officially opened a state-of-the-art "Cyber Center" in the Carriage House on Spruce Street, Schoenberg, now the director of the organization, said Penn had made great progress over the past 25 years.
A $30,000 grant made possible installation of workspaces, creation of online chat room
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For Karan Shah, fall rush is his big second chance.
The Engineering sophomore wanted to join the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity last spring, but couldn't attend a majority of the rush events, eliminating his chances of getting a bid.
Yet Shah continued to hang out at the house, where several of his friends are brothers.
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Penn dodges gov't surveillance - for now
Lawsuit prevents government from tapping into private universities' Internet usage
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Some federal officials want the power to monitor Internet activity on college campuses. But although Penn - and most American universities - apparently won't have to go along, they are not entirely out of the line of fire.
Last year, the federal agency that regulates communication extended a law so that it could keep tabs on Internet activity, including that on college campuses.
Lawsuit prevents government from tapping into private universities' Internet usage
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For Ann Dapice, when it comes to the situation of Native Americans in her home state of Oklahoma, one sentence sums a lot up: "Oklahoma does not like Indians."
Dapice, who is of Cherokee and Lenape heritage and is a Penn alumna, shared her views on the current status of Native Americans in Oklahoma yesterday at the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology by describing the current state of her hometown.
According to one Penn professor, the American government - not extremist groups like al-Qaeda - is to blame for the war on terror.
Professor Ian Lustick asks whether the U.S.'s current conflict is necessary in his new book, Trapped in the War on Terror, which was presented to an audience of about 30 at the Penn Bookstore yesterday.
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