2008 Woodie Awards
When College '86 alumna Julie Seaman was in school, her future plans seemed uncertain, and she certainly didn't expect to be speaking to a conference room of undergraduates at a Fox Leadership event Tuesday night.
During her talk, entitled "Can you have it all? Maybe not all at once: Getting in and out of the workforce," Seaman used personal examples to advise students on life after college.
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Former Wharton Dean Patrick Harker didn't take long to start making waves again in the higher-education world.
Just months after leaving Penn to assume the presidency at the University of Delaware, Harker and the school have made headlines after his suspension of the Residence Life Escalation Program, a residential program that encouraged students to address diversity issues.
The Philadelphia District Attorney's office called former Neurosurgery professor Tracy McIntosh's petition to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court "frivolous" and "legally irrelevant" in its reply to McIntosh's request to the court to block his resentencing.
The brief, filed last week, outlines the prosecution's opposition to McIntosh's attempt to halt resentencing in connection with a 2002 sexual assault.
Last Thursday, the eight people who direct the fate of over 800 undergraduates met for the first time this year.
Their decisions could involve something as simple as planning the next study-break party or Disney movie marathon, or it could mean influencing housing policy across the board.
Student Murder Trial | Jury deadlocks again for third mistrial
Malinovskaya still in limbo as jury splits in favor of conviction
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WILMINGTON, Del. - The murder trial of Irina Malinovskaya ended in a hung jury yesterday, the third mistrial for the Wharton undergraduate.
The jury was unable to reach a consensus regarding three of four charges levied against Malinovskaya, including counts of both first- and second-degree murder.
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An informed electorate, one student at a time
Management 100 team aids politically minded Web site
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Most Wharton Management 100 teams plan events and sell T-shirts to raise money for their clients and causes.
But for Team Shout, the goal is different: raising political awareness.
Working for entrepreneur and Wharton alumnus Ryan Comfort, the team is promoting Our Voice 2008, a Web site that seeks to politically engage voters between the ages of 18 and 30.
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With Harvard and Princeton holding out until the spring, could a binding early-decision acceptance to Penn be not so binding?
The possibility of early admitted students breaking matriculation agreements is usually fairly marginal, but this year marks the first admissions season in which students will not have the option to apply early to Harvard and Princeton universities.
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Getting West Philadelphia greener, bin by bin
Student group places recycling bins around off-campus housing to build environmental awareness
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Students are taking environmental-sustainability messages to the streets - literally.
Through this week, leaders of the Penn Environmental Group distributed nearly 1,000 recycling bins to residences between 38th and 42nd streets between Sansom Street and Baltimore Avenue.
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