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Penn To Offer Tax Benefits To Employees In Same-Sex Relationships

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The University of Pennsylvania is implementing a new policy that will offer benefits to faculty and staff in same-sex partnerships who a...

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Calculator Shopping, the Night Before the SAT

J.D. Rothman | Posted 05.05.2012

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What time does Staples close, in case your child can't locate his TI-183 calculator the night before the SAT exam? What is the ACT?

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Penn State Officials Eager To Confront Perjury Charges In Sandusky Scandal

AP | MARYCLAIRE DALE | Posted 02.14.2012

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PHILADELPHIA — The case against two Penn State officials accused of perjury in a child sex abuse case will come down to what an assistant footba...

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Occupy Wall Street Speaks for America: A "Centrist" Hit Job's Polling Data Helps Prove It

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 12.17.2011

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Thanks to a hit piece by one of those Beltway pseudo-"bipartisans" we can now state conclusively what many of us have long suspected: Occupy Wall Street speaks for the American majority. We've got the polling numbers to prove it. We now know where the real center lies.

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Tom Kovic, Victory Collegiate Consulting: 27 Million And Counting

The Huffington Post/AOL Small Business | Lauren Drell | Posted 07.28.2011

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Starting your own business is a noble -- not to mention exciting, rewarding and often crazy -- undertaking. The experience is an adventure, to say the...

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Camel Causes Controversy At Penn

The Daily Pennsylvanian | Posted 06.25.2011

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Kahn, a five-year-old camel owned by traveling petting zoo Peaceable Kingdom, showed up on campus during Spring Fling last weekend to mixed reviews....

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Are Women's Colleges Outdated?

Tom Matlack | Posted 06.08.2011

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Beyond serving a destination for horny young men, I've always been skeptical about women's colleges.

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Up Close And Personal With Penn's Student Sex Workers

34th Street Magazine | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's Sunday night, and Susan is watching Jersey Shore. While Snooki and Vinny trade inane blows in the background, she grabs a mottled blanket and sli...

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Despite Efforts, Penn Still Lacks Minority Faculty

The Daily Pennsylvanian | By Eillie Anzilotti | Sunday, February 6, 2011 at 7:15 Pm | Posted 05.25.2011

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Although Penn professes a "commitment to diversity" on its website, its statistics on standing minority faculty may reflect a different reality....

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Ask Rod, Episode 28: Should I Pursue An Advanced Degree?

HuffingtonPost.com | Rod Kurtz | Posted 01.26.2012

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Executive Editor Rod Kurtz advises students at the University of Pennsylvania about graduate school, angel investors and venture capital. Go Quakers! ...

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LGBT Interest In University Of Pennsylvania On The Rise

The Daily Pennsylvanian | By Anjali Tsui | Tuesday, September 28, 2010 at 12:51 Am | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's great to be gay at Penn, according to Newsweek, the publication that recently ranked Penn as the most gay-friendly college in the United States. ...

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Website Sponsors Gambling On Grades At 36 Colleges

AP | OSKAR GARCIA | Posted 05.25.2011

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LAS VEGAS — Think you're going to ace freshman year? Want to put money on that? A website called Ultrinsic is taking wagers on grades from stud...

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Students Protest Professor's Tenure Denial

The Daily Pennsylvanian | By Rebecca Kaplan | Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 1:31 Am | Posted 05.25.2011

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On Monday night, nine College seniors in the final stages of writing their honors theses gathered on the third floor of Van Pelt Library. They wanted ...

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Tom Green Parties With Penn Students

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Comedian and Drew Barrymore-ex Tom Green stopped by a University of Pennsylvania party last week. Green, 38, posted a video on his website of him d...

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COLUMN: Lecture Classes Lack Intellectual Heft

The Daily Pennsylvanian | By Dennie Zastrow | Wednesday, March 3, 2010 at 11:43 Pm | Posted 05.25.2011

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Harold Ford Jr.'s College Op-Eds

Under the Button | Posted 05.25.2011

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As you may have heard, Penn grad Harold Ford Jr. isn't running for New York Senate. But before Ford was broadcasting his thoughts on the New York Time...

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Using Gay Students To Recruit Gay Students

The Huffington Post | Fernanda Diaz | Posted 05.25.2011

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The University of Pennsylvania is leading the way on a new recruitment approach that specifically focuses on gay and lesbian applicants. By treating L...

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UPenn's Chilean Students React To Earthquake: 'It's A Big Step Back For Our Country'

The Daily Pennsylvanian | Posted 05.25.2011

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The three Penn undergraduates currently studying abroad in Santiago, Chile are all "safe," Executive Director of the Office of International Programs ...

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STUDY: Sex-Ed Classes With Abstinence Focus Can Delay Sex In Teens

Washington Post | Rob Stein | Posted 11.17.2011

Sex education classes that focus on encouraging children to remain abstinent can convince a significant proportion to delay sexual activity, researche...

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Mark Penn's Firm Paid $4.3 Million By Clinton Campaign

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Even if his candidate fails to secure the Democratic nomination, Mark Penn, the chief strategist for Sen. Hillary Clinton, has profited quite handsome...

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