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Fall Festival crowds small but enthusiastic
Saturday afternoon, College Green was transformed into a yoga studio, concert venue and carnival at the Social Planning and Events Committee’s inaugural Fall Festival.
Student activists continue to protest Penn involvement with HEI corporation
“No more union busting,” read one of the banners at the Student Labor Action Project’s rally in front of College Hall and Steinberg-Dietrich Hall Friday.
ALA makes paying for college a little bit easier
Last Friday night at La Casa Latina’s 10th anniversary celebration, ALA announced the creation of an emergency fund to help students in financial straits.
Clinic ‘bridges’ language gap in S. Phila.
In response to the current H1N1 influenza outbreak, one organization in South Philadelphia is working with Penn students and professors to both treat and educate.
Celebrating Latin Heritage | La Casa Latina holds 10th-anniversary event
The focus of the center's anniversary gala was the future of Latinos at Penn.
Celebrating Latin Heritage | Nieves makes waves of social change on Telemundo
While most students are in class on Tuesday afternoons, College senior Christine Nieves is busy hosting her own show on Telemundo.
Nieves' work in Latino community is 'groundbreaking'
While most students are in class on Tuesday afternoons, College senior Christine Nieves is busy hosting her own show on Telemundo.
U. Council policy to benefit minorities
At Sunday’s Undergraduate Assembly meeting — the first this semester — the group passed a proposal to give one of its nine UC seats to the Nominations and Elections Committee, giving the NEC a total of seven seats.
As La Casa Latina celebrates 10 years, director reflects on center's role
Johnny Irizarry, director of La Casa Latina — the cultural hub for Latinos at Penn — has been an educator and community organizer for the Latino community in Philadelphia for over 20 years. Irizarry sat down with The Daily Pennsylvanian to discuss La Casa.
Reporter's Notebook | Queer eye for the Phila. guy
Each year during New Student Orientation, LGBT Center Director Bob Schoenberg leads a group of students in a proseminar that takes the form of a tour of Philadelphia's Gayborhood.