Monday, November 23, 2009

University of Pennsylvania

Penn, Drexel Fall Short in Plan to Avoid Commuting Snarl

Communication hampers universities' efforts to help employees during a transit strike. more >>

Education Expert Touts a Three-Year Degree

Robert Zemsky, chairman of the Learning Alliance for Higher Education, talks about his new book. more >>

With G-20 Summit Over, Pitt Students Describe Experience

Protests and riots rocked the University of Pittsburgh's campus late last week. more >>

Penn Student's Cause of Death Still Unknown

Chinese authorities are investigating the death of a Penn student who was studying abroad. more >>

Summer Reading Assignment: Newspapers

Holy Cross asked incoming freshmen to read newspapers and interact online over the summer. more >>

Top Colleges See Record-Low Acceptance Rates

Number of applicants spike, forcing acceptance rates down, while schools expect yield rates to increase. more >>

Interest in Greek Life at Penn Is Up

Sororities offer 19 percent more bids this year than last. more >>

Students Vote, Then Party for Obama

Midnight revelry sprouts on campuses in Michigan, California, D.C., Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Wisconsin. more >>

College Newspapers Endorse Obama Over McCain, 63 to 1

The only student paper to pick McCain as of October 31 was from the University of Mississippi. more >>

Penn State Greets Clinton; Campus Leaders in Philly Endorse Obama

Tomorrow is the Pennsylvania primary, so naturally, we must talk about it. more >>

Bear Stearns Rescinds Student Job Offers

The displaced students are being offered free career help and other internships. more >>

Penn's April Fools' Obama Heartbreak

Three University of Pennsylvania students broke the hearts of their classmates this week by successfully pulling off an elaborate Barack Obama-related April Fools' Day hoax. more >>

The Undie Run Epidemic

At least three more schools think it's a good idea to organize a large mass of people to run around half-naked. more >>

Giant Headshot Begets Dubious Fame

Conceptual art has given one Penn student a taste of minor campus celebrity status. more >>

Philly Robbery Victims: Fleeced, but Not Stranded

Crafty but courteous armed robbers have been plaguing the Philadelphia taxi-riding scene, and at least one UPenn student has fallen victim. more >>

Candidates Try to Be Funny but Are Unintentionally So

It's that time of year again at the University of Pennsylvania, when ambitious, credential-grubbing resume builders run for student government. more >>

A Generation's Defining Moment

In an anniversary year that isn't even a multiple of five, colleges (and their newspapers) across the nation commemorate the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon six years ago. more >>

Wharton Students Under Investigation for Cheating

 The University of Pennsylvania is looking into allegations of cheating by a "large number" of students on a final project in a Wharton business school freshman class last semester, the Daily Pennsylvanian writes.. more >>

The Impact of 'Sicko' on Popular Opinion About Healthcare Reform

Even people who haven't seen the movie have changed their minds. more >>

Board Up Your Homes! The Fourth Graders Are Coming

Several groups of prepubescent boys have reportedly been assaulting and harassing University of Pennsylvania students and staff, leaving "people at fear when they see little children," reports the Daily Pennsylvanian. more >>

Trail Mix

*UC-Davis is opening its own Robert Mondavi Institute, the California Aggie reports. Best final exams ever?. more >>

Penn Professor Is Suspect in Wife's Murder

"They always start with the family members first," the attorney of a University of Pennsylvania professor told the Daily Pennsylvanian, after a local district attorney announced the professor is the prime suspect in his wife's murder. "Nevertheless," the DP writes, economics Prof. more >>

Trail Mix

South Carolina has become the latest SEC school to get a live mascot, the Daily Gamecock reports. The new mascot is a 13-year-old English black-breasted red gamecock named Sir Big Spur. more >>

Trail Mix

Before graduation, University of Arizona students will be searched--for tortillas, which students traditionally toss into the air, the Daily Wildcat reports . "A tortilla, especially if it is dried, can really injure someone," the associate dean of students explains. more >>

Trail Mix

The CIA wants you to work for it--but don't expect a James Bond lifestyle, says the Arizona State Press. At the University of North Texas, drunk students don't just cab it home--they can get a limo ride with a Christian driver ("Limo Don") who sees shuttling them as his mission, the NT Daily says. more >>

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