Also, several Penn courses address the 2024 presidential election.
Thursday, September 5
Good morning, Penn.
Today is National Be Late for Something Day, but I hope the crowds on Locust Walk don't make that "something" your 10:15 a.m. class.
The DP takes a look at the highly anticipated presidential debate happening next week at Philadelphia's National Constitution Center, and Penn rowers performed well in last month's World Rowing Under 23 Championships.
But first, the DP sat down with the new College of Arts and Sciences Dean Peter Struck to discuss his goals and his first month on the job.
One month after he started his new job as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Peter Struck sat down with the DP to discuss his goals — including revamping the general education requirements.
Struck's tenure began after an academic year filled with pro-Palestinian activism. In his interview, he highlighted the role that the liberal arts can play in bridging the difference between viewpoints.
"The impasses we got to came from an inability to talk across vast differences of viewpoints,” Struck said. “Sorting our way through that is our ticket through these problems.”
Several Penn courses offered this fall in political science, English, and communication center around the 2024 presidential election.
Next week's presidential debate at the National Constitution Center is the first since the one that led to President Joe Biden's departure from the race.
Sports Editor Walker Carnathan argues his case for an 11-game Ivy football season.
TODAY IN DP HISTORY
Photo by Emily Xu
In 2013, the DP reported that New College House would be renamed Lauder College House following a large donation from the Lauder family. Last year, 1965 Wharton graduate Ronald Lauder announced he would cease his donations to Penn due to his dissatisfaction with how the University handled antisemitism on campus.
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