2008 Woodie Awards
After twenty years away from his alma mater, 1987 Penn graduate Eric Furda will be back this March - with a few more responsibilities than he had while he was here as a student.
Long lines, cold weather, dimpled chads and senior citizens.
When contemplating voting, those are just a few terms that enter a student's mind.
But increasingly, students are turning to absentee voting as a way to remain active back home.
Though law-school applications are down recently, for some groups of applicants, the decline has more constant.
Minority enrollment has decreased in the past decade. First-year enrollments of African American and Mexican American students dropped from 3,937 in 1992 to 3,595 in 2005, according to a recent Columbia Law School study.
In keeping with his initiative to reduce the crime rates in Philadelphia, Mayor Michael Nutter appointed Charles Ramsey as the city's new Police Commissioner.
Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush says that she believes that "Commissioner Ramsey will be making a big difference in the Philadelphia Police Department and the City of Philadelphia.
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Professor Modi has arrived on campus.
For this semester only, Kalpen Modi - more popularly known as Kal Penn - is an adjunct professor in the Asian American Studies Department, teaching ASAM 109: Asian Americans in the Media.
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Hiring policy: background or 'middle ground'?
University debates the value of a self-disclosure policy versus background checks
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Though criminal self-disclosure has been championed as a step toward improving campus safety without an obtrusive criminal background check, its effectiveness remains in question.
University debates the value of a self-disclosure policy versus background checks
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