2008 Woodie Awards
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An incident Wednesday night has sparked outrage among campus minority groups, who allege that Penn Police and security guards used racial profiling in detaining a black male College student.
The United Minorities Council issued a statement yesterday demanding that the University address several of the organization's concerns relating to the "institutional discrimination" that "persists within our university.
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When Nursing junior Elsa Waldman went back to her dorm last night, something was noticeably different:
She was missing 11 inches of hair.
At the end of their first year at Penn, when other freshmen were just trying to figure out how they were going to pack up all their belongings, Peter Handy and his business partner, Joseph Leary, were coming up with a new entrepreneurial concept that would help make the entire moving process a lot easier for their fellow students.
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Trustees Meeting: Next year's tuition, fees to increase 4.9 percent
Officials say increase in line with those of peer institutions; $23M new revenue expected
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Being a Quaker just got more expensive.
As of this coming academic year, tuition, fees and room and board for Penn undergraduate students will add up to $46,124, up from $43,960 this year.
This new figure, announced yesterday at the Board of Trustees Budget and Finance Committee, marks a 4.
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Trustees Meeting: Penn raises no-loan threshold to $60,000
Families making smaller annual income won't have loans in financial aid; up from $50,000
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A revamped financial-aid package will now grant a no-loan financial aid policy to families earning $60,000 or less per year.
This policy was announced by Vice President for Budget and Management Analysis Bonnie Gibson at the Board of Trustees Budget and Finance Committee meeting yesterday.
Families making smaller annual income won't have loans in financial aid; up from $50,000
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After 200 years, bald eagle returns to its nest
Local woman spots first bald eagle in Phila. in over 200 years, but officials won't say where it is
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This season, Eagles fans finally have cause for celebration.
Bald eagle fans, that is: After a 200 year hiatus, the bird has returned to Philadelphia.
Philadelphia bird watcher Debbie Beer discovered a bald eagle's nest early last month after following a tip from a local truck driver who was passing the site on his way home.
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You may soon be asking for that coffee with a doubleshot of Chestnut.
The Hanover Company, which owns the Domus luxury apartment complex on 34th and Chestnut streets, is currently in talks with several companies to fill the building's retail component.
Wachovia Bank is slated to occupy a 5,000 square-foot space on the first floor, and Hanover is also looking to bring in two restaurants, a coffee shop and a sporting goods store, said Andi Pesacov, the real estate broker hired by Hanover.
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Oh the weather outside makes crime frightful
As the temp rises, more people stay outside - and more crime often occurs as a result
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The snow and hail that plagued the area last weekend may likely be the last evidence of winter, but warmer spring weather might bring some unpleasant side effects of its own.
Division of Public Safety officials and criminology experts say they expect crime rates to increase as warmer weather hits the area and more people head outdoors.
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Gary Onufer, a patient at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvanian who previously lived without a heartbeat, was released from the hospital yesterday, according to an Associated Press report.
Onufer, 46, received a Total Artificial Heart , an external device that is attached to the chest cavity in order to facillitate the pumping of blood, on Feb.
Voting seems a lot less tedious when it comes with cotton candy.
This afternoon, the Nominations and Elections Committee held its annual "Get Out the Vote" event, an afternoon of free food and music to remind students to vote for the 66 candidates running for spots in the Undergraduate Assembly and all four class boards.
At Penn, an a cappella anniversary
Off The Beat prepares show in celebration of 20 years of performance; alumni flock to Philly
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1986 was a big year for rock music.
There was the first induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Paul Simon released Graceland, and, here at Penn, then-College freshman Katie Goodman started an alternative-rock a cappella group, Off the Beat.
Twenty years later, OTB is preparing to honor its dedicated alumni at the 20th Anniversary Show, "5 Degrees Closer to Albino.
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