2008 Woodie Awards
Harvard scored Harry Potter mastermind J.K. Rowling for a Commencement speaker, and Princeton roped in Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert for its 2008 Senior Class Day.
With graduation less than a semester away, students are wondering: Who will command Franklin Field at Commencement?
The name of Penn's Commencement speaker - along with the other honorary degree recipients - will be released in mid-February, according to University Secretary Leslie Kruhly.
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They went for the beads. They left for their lives.
Amidst a hotly disputed election and the deadly violence that followed in its wake, five Wharton MBA students and a professor spent two weeks in Kenya this winter break.
The group is working through the Global Consulting Practicum, a Wharton course in which students consult for international firms.
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It's hardly the calm before the storm.
Florida has become a pivotal - and competitive - race in pursuit of the Republican presidential nomination.
As Floridians vote today, they are effectively determining who goes to the playoffs on Feb. 5, when 22 states hold their primaries.
SCUE elects 2008 steering committee
New chair Zach Fuchs aims to beef up academic research, get online syllabi
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The oldest branch of student government just got a little newer.
The Student Committee on Undergraduate Education, in charge of undergraduate academics, elected its new six-member Steering Committee this past Sunday. The board will be led by College and Wharton junior Zach Fuchs, who will be taking over for outgoing chair and College senior Elizabeth Slavitt.
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Former neurosurgery professor Tracy McIntosh's resentencing hearing has been pushed back from today to Feb. 13 due to scheduling conflicts.
"The court was unavailable," said Philadelphia Assistant District Attorney Richard DeSipio.
Judge Pamela Pryor Dembe, who has been handling the case since September, "was promoted to supervisory judge," he said.
Brains and beauty for Miss Pennsylvania
Rachel Brooks, a grad student aiming for a master's in Fels, competes in Miss America
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Penn boys, get ready - this female Quaker is flaunting both her brains and her beauty.
Rachel Brooks, a master's student in the Fels School of Government and the 2007 Miss Pennsylvania, competed in the Miss America pageant last Saturday night.
Though Brooks did not make it to the top 10, she said the competition was "an awesome experience.
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The preliminary hearing scheduled for today for Joseph Cho, the former Penn Law student facing charges of attempted murder, has been postponed.
Cho is accused of firing 15 shots into the door of his downstairs neighbors on Jan. 31, 2007.
Judge Frank Bailey issued a continuance yesterday, as Cho's attorney Peter Bowers was unable to attend the preliminary hearing.
The campaign for the United States presidency is reaching a feverish pitch.
And as the group of Democratic and Republican candidates diminishes, the level of swift-boating and misleading statements will only continue to rise, according to Brooks Jackson, director of the Washington D.C.-based nonprofit whistle-blowing organization FactCheck.org, which is run through Penn's Annenberg Public Policy Center.
Students welcome Karl Rove as speaker despite his politics
Both Democrats and Republicans laud the 'educational' value
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In the wake of the announcement that former Bush strategist Karl Rove will be the Social Planning and Events Committee spring speaker, students have shown unified interest in a divisive figure.
Mr. Rove has been famous - or infamous, depending on a person's point of view - for injecting partisan politics, often to drive a wedge between his opponents.
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For Dems, 2 historic candidates lead the field
Analysts, students unsure how gender and race will impact Clinton, Obama campaigns
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With one of the two leading contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination a woman and the other an African American, this year's primaries represent a number of firsts for American politics.
After Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and the other contests thus far, New York Sen.
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