Also, over 200 faculty expressed support for graduate student workers.
Tuesday, April 16
Good morning, Penn.
Wharton will be offering a new class focusing on using data analytics to guide real estate investments, and Philadelphia's inaugural voting shop opened in West Philadelphia.
But first, multiple Penn administrators offered insight into the matching process between first-year students and their pre-major advisors.
The College of Arts and Sciences' director of academic advising sat down with The Daily Pennsylvanian to discuss the process by which the College matches first-year students with their pre-major advisors. They discussed how advisors attend admissions committee meetings and complete a survey with a range of questions.
Adapting to the changing industry, Wharton will offer a new real estate course covering the usage of data analytics in real estate investments.
A new satellite voting station near Penn's campus opened earlier this month — the first of ten planned locations in West Philadelphia.
Penn Carey Law lecturer Joe Khan, one of the contenders for the Democratic nomination in the race to serve as Pennsylvania's next attorney general, spoke with the DP about his campaign and experience at Penn.
COLUMNIST NIHEER PATEL argues that Penn’s overwhelming support for consulting and financial sector jobs for all of its students limits their potential.
In 2014, the DP reported that 22 students were hospitalized over Spring Fling weekend for alcohol-related incidents. This Friday, Penn students will welcome Daya and Metro Boomin to a hopefully accident-free Spring Fling.
VIDEO
Video by Derek Wong
Just how fast is Penn athlete Matt Fallon at swimming? DP Sports put the Olympic hopeful to the test in our first episode of “Pro vs. Joes."
Watch to see four average students race one of the nation’s top swimmers in the 200-yard breaststroke on our YouTube channel.
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FROM 34TH STREET MAGAZINE
In honor of our April Issue, Street will be hosting "Street Session," a concert with all the hottest bands on campus. In preparation Street sat in on practice with Combo 4, Bloomers Band, Melatonin Sex Dreams, and Good Boys to find out what makes these bands tick—other than a metronome of course.
Turns out, making music at Penn is a quarter talent and a whole lot of love. Spending hours together each week, its hard to tell whether these musicians love each other or the music they make more. But what they can tell you? It's a ton of fun.
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