2008 Woodie Awards
It's time for Campus Inn to check in to its new home at 40th and Pine streets.
Plans by developers to build an 11-story hotel at the corner of the two streets - on land leased to them by the University - have faced strong opposition from some community members.
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Penn's Police can now send you text messages.
On Friday, The Division of Public Safety conducted a comprehensive test of its new emergency alert system. Taking a page from PhillyCarShare's ComprehensiveFieldGuideAboutHowToNameThings, UPennAlert decided in its message that putting spaces between words just takes too long.
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When Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast, causing the failure of New Orleans' levees, I had no appreciation for the severity of the crisis.
What do terms like mandatory evacuation, flood zone, storm surge and levee breach mean? What would they look like in your hometown?
Coming from a place where streets are blanketed in snow instead of flooded with water, I couldn't picture any of these things.
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Daniel Schwartz is a College sophomore from Decatur, Ga. His e-mail address is schwartz@dailypennsylvanian.com.
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