2008 Woodie Awards
Vote Absentee
From the Undergraduate Assembly and the Division of Public Safety to the Office of the University Provost, officials are stepping in to handle the controversy that emerged last week surrounding allegations of racial profiling.
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Tickets for this year's Spring Fling concert - headlined by Ben Folds and prefaced with a set from Third Eye Blind - went quickly yesterday, the first day they were available on Locust Walk.
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Every Friday, as the rest of campus wraps up a week of classes, Muslims across Penn's campus head for the top floor of the ARCH building.
Financial Aid: Revamped packages reach out to middle-income families
$60,000 no-loan program to target 'high-need' students was unforseen last spring
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In the University's quest to increase access to a Penn education, middle-income students are the next frontier.
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It isn't every day that directly breaking University rules pays off.
But that's exactly what happened for Randal Pinkett, the Season Four winner of The Apprentice, when he started a compact-disc business out of his dorm room at Rutgers University.
"It violated every single rule Rutgers had," Pinkett said of his CD business, which eventually evolved into BCT Partners, the multi-million dollar management, technology and policy consulting services firm of which he is currently the CEO.
UA pushes changes to Locust Walk, dining
Seniors seek out additional funds; approved proposals to go to University officials
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About 60 people gathered Sunday night in Huntsman Hall for the weekly Undergraduate Assembly meeting. On the agenda: a contingency budget request, Locust Walk repairs, improvements to Penn InTouch and dining.
n The senior class requested $1,000 additional funding to cover Senior Performing Arts Night and keep the event free for seniors.
Seniors seek out additional funds; approved proposals to go to University officials
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Students at Community College of Philadelphia are expected to return to class today after an agreement was reached Sunday between CCP's staff and faculty and the administration.
Classes had been canceled for the past two weeks after the Faculty and Staff Federation of CCP went on strike in response to disagreements over pay.
As former Penn Neurosurgery professor Tracy McIntosh waits to see if the Pennsylvania Supreme Court will hear his case appealing a resentencing order from a Superior Court, the case seems to have become a battle of the briefs.
In December, a Superior Court ordered McIntosh to be resentenced by a lower court in connection to sexual-assault charges that he pled no contest to in 2004.
Male unaffiliated with U. robbed at gunpoint
HUP Security guard assaulted in separate incident last week
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A 33-year-old male, unaffiliated with the University, was robbed at gunpoint on the 4000 block of Market Street Friday night, Lt. John Walker of the Philadelphia Police said.
The complainant was walking alone when he was approached by three males who allegedly demanded money at about 11:30 p.
HUP Security guard assaulted in separate incident last week
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