2008 Woodie Awards
The University's decision to bring James Baker to speak at this year's Commencement may be raising concerns among pro-Israel and Jewish students, but experts say that Baker's political and personal viewpoints should not have kept the University from inviting him.
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In a city covered with over 2,700 murals, Penn's walls remain strikingly blank.
So earlier this year, City Planning professor Amy Hillier proposed painting a mural to honor W.E.B. DuBois by beautifying the west wall of the Kappa Sigma fraternity house.
She received ambiguous responses from University officials, who are still deciding whether to paint what would be the first mural on campus.
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If all goes as planned, today's City Council hearing may be the next step in community leaders' fight to stop the construction of Philadelphia's casinos.
Councilman Frank DiCicco, whose district encompasses the locations of two casinos that are scheduled to open next year, has sponsored a bill that would place a referendum on the May 15 primary ballot asking voters to ban casinos within 1,500 feet of any home, school or house of worship.
Paul Farmer fights for world health
Harvard prof, co-founder of Partners in Health speaks to packed audience at Dean's Forum
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Few people would guess that a Harvard professor and renowned physician would have much of a sense-of-humor - that is, until they meet Paul Farmer.
From lightly asking permission from SAS Dean Rebecca Bushnell and College Dean Dennis DeTurck to telling anecdotes to remarking on a patient recovering from malnutrition having to do sit-ups after gaining back a lot of weight, Farmer infused his informative lecture with humour before a packed Irvine Auditorium yesterday afternoon.
Harvard prof, co-founder of Partners in Health speaks to packed audience at Dean's Forum
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Amid multiple eruptions of applause, criminal lawyer Alan Dershowitz kept hundreds of audience members on the edge of their seats last evening during his lecture, "Global Terrorism: The New World War."
Dershowitz, also a Harvard law professor, spoke last night in the Zellerbach Theater for the fourth-annual Israel Awareness event.
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For elderly West Philadelphia residents, two may not necessarily be better than one.
In April, Living Independently For Elders, an all-inclusive health care program owned and operated by the School of Nursing, will move from their current two centers to a single new center that's double the size.
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Zachariah Ventress, a teaching assistant for Marketing 101, sits in the back of the lecture hall on Mondays, privy to a view of students' laptop screens.
"Most are checking their e-mail, instant messaging and [browsing] on Facebook," he said.
As a result, Ventress says he and other TAs have requested that laptops not be used during recitations.
