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Goodbye Frat Parties! Penn Class Teaches Students How To Live Like Monks

AP | By KATHY MATHESON | Posted 04.14.2012

PHILADELPHIA -- Looking for a wild-and-crazy time at college? Don't sign up for Justin McDaniel's religious studies class. The associate professor's ...

UPENN Student Government Found Guilty Of Hazing

thedp.com | Tiffany Xu | Posted 03.31.2012

The Undergraduate Assembly has been found to have violated the University’s Antihazing and Alcohol and Drug policies, the UA’s executive board ann...

The Rise Of MDMA And Electronic Dance Music At UPenn

34th Street Magazine | Posted 12.14.2011

Dude!" one boy grabbed his friend's hand. "I'm rolling face right now!" His friend nodded and swayed into him, putting an arm around the first boy's s...

How To Get More Women To Study Economics

WSJ | Ben Casselman | Posted 10.24.2011

By Ben Casselman of The Wall Street Journal How can we get more women to study economics? Try hiring more female economics professors. That’s ...

The 10 Private Colleges With The Largest Endowments

The Huffington Post | Lindsay Dittman | Posted 08.30.2011

On Tuesday, U.S. News and World Report published a list of the ten private universities with the largest financial endowments in fiscal year 2009, wi...

UPenn Medical School Gets Biggest Donation In History

AP | KATHY MATHESON | Posted 07.12.2011

PHILADELPHIA — The University of Pennsylvania received a $225 million gift for its medical school, creating an endowment that officials said wil...

The 10 Least Economically Diverse Colleges

Posted 07.05.2011

Although the country's wealthiest colleges and universities have tried to become more economically diverse in recent years, some schools have been mor...

Penn Student To Minority Applicants: Don't Go Here

Posted 06.20.2011

A Penn student wrote in a recent Daily Pennsylvanian column that he would "not recommend" that other minorities attend the university due to racially ...

Can You Believe These Pictures Are More Than 40 Years Old?

Posted 05.25.2011

Described by The New York Times as, "a treasure of fashion insiders," "Take Ivy" was originally published in Japan in 1965, setting off an explosion o...

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

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...

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

The Daily Pennsylvanian | Posted 05.25.2011

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

UPenn Students Petition For School To Recognize Black History Month

The Daily Pennsylvanian | By Karen Aquino | Friday, February 26, 2010 at 1:48 Am | Posted 05.25.2011

There are various events on campus going on for Black History Month, but the University [of Pennsylvania] does not officially recognize the celebratio...

Unlike Princeton, No Grade Inflation At UPenn

The Daily Pennsylvanian | Posted 05.25.2011

Penn currently has no plans to adopt a grade inflation policy, but certain departments seek to control grade inflation within their own courses. For e...

UPenn Doc Serves Olympians

The Daily Pennsylvanian | Posted 05.25.2011

While there may not be any Quakers competing for gold in Vancouver, Penn still has a presence at the 2010 Winter Olympics. Gary Dorshimer, a 1981 Pen...

Sam Stein

Ivy League Faculty Giving Democratic, More Heavily Than Ever

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Professors and administrators at the nation's top colleges are supporting Democratic candidates during the 2008 campaign at a rate higher than the his...