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New School protest may reflect resurgence of student activism
by Jimmy Tobias | April 16, 2009 12:00AM
Student activism may not be dead. Last Friday, about 30 student and local activists staged an occupation at a buidling slated for demolition at The New School in New York City. The protest followed a similar lock-in at The New School in December, a student occupation at NYU in February and the many meetings and rallies that accompanied them.
SLAP still pushing for Penn action in labor dispute
by Jimmy Tobias | March 23, 2009 12:00AM
On March 13, three Penn students associated with the Student Labor Action Project returned early from spring break to attend their much-anticipated meeting with Executive Vice President Craig Carnaroli and an executive from HEI, a hotel-management corporation with ties to the University.
Students ask Penn to flex muscle in unionization debate
by Jimmy Tobias | March 5, 2009 12:00AM
In economic and business classes across campus, students learn about labor as an abstraction, as a commodity, as something to be traded on the market. But for Peter Ho and three other hotel workers who spoke last week with a group of students, faculty and staff, labor is deeply personal.
Perspective | Structuring the problem: from streets to shelters
by Jimmy Tobias | February 3, 2009 12:00AM
In Philadelphia, poverty often means death. At last count, more than 90 homeless men and women - a group that represents some of Philadelphia's most marginalized citizens - died on the streets in 2008. They died of exposure. disease and a lack of both service and support.
Students take sides in Gaza crisis | With interactive feature
by Jimmy Tobias | January 16, 2009 12:00AM
As Gaza burned and violence by Hamas and the Israeli Defense Force added to the mounting death toll of the current conflict in the Middle East, Penn students gathered on Locust Walk and College Green yesterday in protest, solidarity or both. They carried signs: "End the Genocide in Gaza"; "Israel We Stand with You"; "Zionism=Racism"; "Free the Palestinians from Hamas.
On the Campaign Trail | Eight years later, still committed to Clinton's cause
by Jimmy Tobias | March 26, 2008 12:00AM
When he was 13 years old, David Helfenbein fell head-over-heels in love - political love, that is - with Hillary Clinton. It all began on a fateful day eight years ago when Clinton came to speak at the now-College senior's middle school in Chappaqua, New York.
Students fight for security guard rights
by Jimmy Tobias | February 6, 2008 12:00AM
Don't let anyone tell you student activism is dead. Students involved in last week's victory for AlliedBarton security guards at Temple would say they proved the contrary. The security company granted its Temple guards up to three days' paid sick leave after coming under pressure from a coalition of its employees, Temple students and local activists.
Rap for a cause - keeping alumni in Philly
by Jimmy Tobias | September 27, 2007 12:00AM
In its continual effort to keep young talent in Philadelphia, city officials are turning to an unlikely source this weekend - hip-hop star Talib Kweli. This Saturday, Campus Philly is hosting its annual kick-off event at the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, with live performances by Kweli and other artists and free access for college students to 11 museums across the city.
Deep in West Philly, it's help on jobs, taxes
by Jimmy Tobias | September 24, 2007 12:00AM
West Philadelphia resident Latisha Turnage needed help. At 26, she had no job, no house, no education and no prospects. Her mother Tracy told her to go to a small office building at 61st Street and Osage Avenue, the local home of National Student Partnerships .
You threw up in my restaurant? That'll be 50 bucks
by Jimmy Tobias | September 13, 2007 12:00AM
The management of El Azteca was fed up with the vomit, the dining and dashing and the missing sombreros - all symptoms of having a drunken, college-age clientele. So the famous -or perhaps notorious - margarita-making restaurant at 7th and Chestnut streets took action last December.
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