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Penn Only Bothers to Consider 1 of 7 College Essays Submitted by Applicants

Sirens sounded this week for college-bound high-schoolers tinkering away at college application essays. The Common Application Board of Directors announced that students would no longer […]

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University City Skyscraper to House Penn, Drexel Students

A 33-story, $159 million tower is slated to open in University City in fall of 2014. The dorm (yeah, I guess that’s what it is) […]

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The Perelmans Are Now Fighting Other Families With Similar Names

Some families have Scrabble night. Others amuse themselves by suing one another. The famous Perelmans are at it again, except this time, instead of competing […]

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Racial Tensions Swirling At UPenn as Africana Studies Profs Lash Out as Gutmann

Yesterday, six senior faculty members in the Department of Africana Studies wrote an extremely angry DP op-ed about UPenn President Amy Gutmann. They charged that […]

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The State of Pennsylvania Is Coming for Your Fake IDs

As if it weren’t hard enough for college students to get their hands on liquor in this state, a PA state lawmaker (guess which party?) […]

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Philly’s Big Five Basketball Is Actually Good, Better Than New York Ball

So says Dick Weiss at the New York Daily News, who notes that LaSalle, Temple, St. Joseph’s and Penn all have good basketball teams this […]

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Penn Students Sue University for Gross Housing Conditions

Here’s a familiar college tale: Students move off-campus, get rats and mold, want money back, can’t locate absentee landlord. That’s what happened to six UPenn […]

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A Bit Late, Penn Wades Into the Fracking Debate

A team of toxicologists at the University of Pennsylvania are mounting a major study on the health effects of fracking, the controversial method of removing […]

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Is Penn Meeting Its Title IX Responsibilities?

The Daily Pennsylvanian takes a look at how Penn is performing under Title IX, the 1972 law that demands parity between men’s and women’s athletics, […]

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Penn Professor Who Killed Wife Will Be Paroled

Rafael Robb, the former Penn professor of economics who killed his wife in “a moment of madness,” is set to be paroled. Robb was sentenced […]

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Temple #3 “Sugar Daddy” School in the Country

What does that headline mean, you ask? It means a lot of female Temple students are having sex with rich older men (not the other […]

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LGBTQIA Penn Students Pushing For Even More Letters

Every few years, a new letter gets tacked on to what was once just LGBT: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender. Lately, Q, for “queer” or […]

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Penn Frats Getting Tax Breaks They Don’t Deserve

In recent years, Philly has revoked tax-exempt status for several non-profits, including a church, a halfway house, and two UPenn fraternities, for failing to file […]

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Return of the Cliff: Penn Set to Lose Tens of Millions

Though the battle in Washington over tax hikes ended a week ago, big automatic spending cuts still loom. If no deal is reached on the […]

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We’d Tell You More About Penn’s Fake Mars Mission, But We’re Getting Too Fat and Sleepy

Penn is reporting the results of its “Mars 500” study, which simulated a Mars mission by sticking six men—all volunteers—in cramped quarters for a year-and-a-half. […]