2008 Woodie Awards
A four-block stretch of Locust Street was subject to five violent crimes during the first week of July, prompting the Division of Public Safety to issue an alert on juvenile crime.
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Lehigh University official and former Penn employee Steven Devlin was arrested last Tuesday for allegedly soliciting sex withpeople he thought were a mother and her two daughters, aged 7 and 9.
Devlin, 49, was charged with criminal attempt to commit rape, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and aggravated indecent assault.
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t seems like the honor roll doesn't end in eighth grade - at least for the Penn Health System.
U.S. News and World Report, known for its college ranking system, recently released its list of the nation's top health systems.
Of the 173 hospitals that were ranked, the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania came in 12th, scoring it a place on an "honor roll" which consists of the top 18 hospitals in the country.
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Student financial aid revamping
Bill proposed to reduce interest rates on federally subsidized loans and increase size of grants
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In an effort to battle escalating college tuition costs and increasing student debt, the House of Representatives approved the College Cost Reduction Act of 2007 July 11, revamping the structure of federal student financial aid.
The bill will cut $19 billion in federal subsidies to student lenders over five years.
Bill proposed to reduce interest rates on federally subsidized loans and increase size of grants
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Assault
An 88-year-old retired faculty member reported that his tenant punched him and struck him with his walker inside a building on the 3900 block of Delancey Street on July 9. The victim was treated for head and arm injuries and released. Cliff Jung, 35, was arrested on the scene as he attempted to exit the building.
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The Division of Public Safety issued an alert when a wave of juvenile crime hit on or near campus this month. But that alert didn't come until the evening of July 13, 10 days after the first assault and robbery were reported and six days after five of the eight recent crimes attributed to juveniles - including both robberies and three assaults - had occurred.
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Same-sex domestic partners of gay and lesbian professors at Pennsylvania's 14 state-owned universities will soon be eligible for health-care benefits.
The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education pledged in a tentative contract with its faculty union to extend health benefits to same-sex partners of faculty members for couples who can prove they are financially interdependent, faculty-union president Pat Heilman said last week.
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Harassment alleged at Van Pelt Library
Woman who came to library for job interview says she was groped by potential employer
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A man was scheduled to be arraigned last night for alleged sexual harassment in Van Pelt Library.
Eber Devine, 30, was to be charged with burglary, criminal trespass, indecent assault, simple assault, false imprisonment, unlawful restraint and sexual harassment.
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2005 Penn alum gored by bull in Spain
2005 Penn alumnus Michael Lenahan was visiting Pamplona, Spain, for a summer adventure when he and his brother, 26-year old Lawrence Lenahan, were gored by the same bull during the annual running of the bulls.
The tradition, which was popularized in Ernest Hemingway's novel, The Sun Also Rises, is part of the annual festival of San Fermin in which thousands of people chase and are chased by bulls through the narrow streets of the town in northern Spain.
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