2008 Woodie Awards
PRINCETON, N.J. - Princeton students couldn't claim to be uninformed yesterday.
Volunteers for PVotes, a non-partisan, get-out-the-vote organization at the university, walked dorm-to-dorm to let students know where and how to vote in the day's New Jersey primary.
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When Scott Reich first stepped onto Penn's campus seven years ago, he had little idea what journey lay ahead.
Now, fourteen semesters later, this History and Communications double-major is president of the Penn Law class of 2008.
The job entails handling various fundraising initiatives, planning a prom for the Law School and ensuring that the class of 250 students keeps in touch.
Despite living in China as a child, it wasn't until Zhi Geng returned as a study abroad student that she discovered her own jewel in the capital city: a small restaurant near the west gate of Beijing University that serves the most amazing chicken wings.
For the Wharton and College senior, spending a semester in Beijing allowed her to reconnect with her cultural roots, which she had few memories of as a child.
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Yesterday may have been Super Tuesday across the country, but here in Pennsylvania, it wasn't much different than any other day of the week.
That's because this state will not hold its primary until mid-April, and by that time, some experts say, both the Democrats and Republicans may already have clear choices for their nominations.
Don't let anyone tell you student activism is dead.
Students involved in last week's victory for AlliedBarton security guards at Temple would say they proved the contrary.
The security company granted its Temple guards up to three days' paid sick leave after coming under pressure from a coalition of its employees, Temple students and local activists.
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Actor Woody Allen once quipped, "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying." His wish might just come true.
Aubrey de Grey of Cambridge University, author of Mitochondrial Free Radical Theory of Aging and Ending Aging, spoke yesterday in Levine Hall about the possibility of indefinitely preventing aging.
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At Columbia, attention on Obama
Obama supporters come out strong on campus, while Clinton efforts more focused at a city level
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NEW YORK - At Columbia University yesterday, students turned out in high numbers to support Illinois Sen. Barack Obama's run for the Democratic presidential nomination.
But the showing was lighter for New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, even on her home turf.
Students for Obama set up a phonebanking station on Barnard College's campus and made calls throughout the day.
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Several members of the Penn faculty and staff recently received a threatening e-mail, which claimed that the recipient was marked for death by an alleged hit man, whose contract could only be terminated if the recipient paid a certain amount of money.
The e-mail was brought to the attention of the Division of Public Safety, which then discovered that the message was part of a national e-mail scam currently being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Prosecutors are expected to decide later this month whether to try Wharton undergraduate Irina Malinovskaya a fourth time for first-degree murder.
"Presently, we are waiting for motions to be filed by the defense," Delaware prosecutor Paul Wallace said.
Wallace declined to specify the exact nature of these motions but did say some had already been filed and attorneys for Malinovskaya - who is accused of having killed her ex-boyfriend's then-girlfriend in December 2004 - had until today to file the rest.
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