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Sandy Hingston

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Best Thing This Week: Everything old is new again.

Even The Fresh Prince of Bel Air.

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The Best-Paid Local Public College Presidents Are …

Not at the schools that provide the best value in education. Surprise!

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Best Thing This Week: Closure

Hingston: Actually, lots and lots of closures.

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10 Great Places to Put Papal Pilgrims

HIngston: Screw AirBnB. There’s still plenty of room in Philly for our September guests.

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The Top Party School in Pennsylvania Is … Who?!?

Hingston: Princeton Review further erodes the shady rep of college rankings. Party on, kids.

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Pennsylvania Has a Ton of Student Debt

The average is higher here than in every state but Delaware and New Hampshire.

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Cheyney U. Is Down to One Math Major

Financial and academic struggles continue for the HBCU, half of whose students come from Philly.

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Best Thing: The Great SEPTA Papal Pass Lottery

Hingston: If you’re a person of faith, you know there’s no such thing as chance.

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Penn Dropping Essay Portion of SAT Test

Hingston: Is that Ben Franklin turning over in his grave?

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One Philly College Makes Forbes’ Top 10 List

But it’s not Penn.

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Haverford College’s “Unlikely Pipeline” to MLB

How the tiny Quaker college on the Main Line came to rule the diamond.

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Penn Dorm Makes (Short) NYT List of Really Crappy Dorms

It’s one of those places they don’t show you on the college tour.

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Best Thing: SEPTA Sold (a Couple of) Pope Passes

Hingston: Never change, SEPTA.

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Cheating Online Isn’t Safe Anymore

The Ashley Madison hackers have started naming names.

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5 Great Songs (You Might Not Know Were) Written in Philly

They were singing about that expressway?!?