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Fall 2013 Undergraduate Assembly Elections

Find out more about the candidates vying for a seat on the Undergraduate Assembly. Click "here":http://www.thedp.com/section/fall-2013-class-board-elections to learn more about Class Board 2017 candidates. Voting ends at 5 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 20, and results will be announced that evening if there is no hearing.

10/02/06 5:00am

Inflated GPAs aren't just for SAS students

Engineering School sophomore Kristen Ying says she didn't study for her finals last year, and she did fine. At least for her College courses, anyway. Her Engineering courses were a whole different story. "During reading days, I studied for my Engineering finals whenever I was awake," she said.
10/02/06 5:00am

Dartmouth dashes Field Hockey's title hopes

The team that senior Melina Tsui called "the best it's ever been" couldn't have seen this loss coming. Faced with a winnable game, the Quakers crumbled in Hanover, N.H., to Dartmouth on Saturday evening. Dartmouth (3-5, 1-2 Ivy) went ahead 2-0 at halftime and withstood Penn's second-half comeback.
10/02/06 5:00am

M. Tennis trashes Lions in final, earns another ECAC title

When the Penn men's tennis team stepped on to the court Friday to participate in the ECAC Tournament, it knew that it had a target on its back. The Quakers won the tournament last year in impressive fashion and were looking to repeat. And Penn handled the added pressure well.
10/02/06 5:00am

Shooting Shooter

Actor Mark Wahlberg rides in his Suburban on the set of 'Shooter,' a movie that filmed just off campus yesterday. Wahlberg stars in the film, about an exiled marksman, along with Danny Glover.
10/02/06 5:00am

Gutmann defends stance on early apps

Penn President Amy Gutmann wrote an op-ed that appeared in yesterday's Washington Post defending the use of early decision policies. Gutmann argued that moving to a single application deadline is an ineffective method of increasing a school's accessibility compared to other methods, such as increasing outreach efforts and need-based financial aid.
10/02/06 5:00am
On the sixth floor of Van Pelt Library, Molly Freedman sits in a small room filled with stacks of CDs, Jewish-themed posters and antique music-playing equipment.
10/02/06 5:00am
Freshman Jess Rothenheber always knows where her roommate is. On Saturday, Rothenheber saw Jessica Fuccello cut between two defenders and pass her the ball, which Rothenheber converted for the game's only goal in the women's soccer team's 1-0 victory over Cornell.
10/02/06 5:00am

Agustin Torres | All-or-nothing grading doesn't reflect learning

Suppose you have a bucket with infinite space. If this is starting to sound like one of those out-of-touch-with-reality math problems, it is, but please bear with me. When there is one minute left until noon, add 10 balls to the bucket, labeled one through 10, and then remove the ball labeled "one.
10/02/06 5:00am

Editorial | Taking the high road

The citizens of Philadelphia have showed time and again that they want better ethics in government and they won't stand for corruption.
10/02/06 5:00am

Outsourced e-mail gets mixed bag of reviews

Outsourcing school e-mail can be a great move, but be careful how you do it, say students and officials at schools that have made the switch. Penn has announced that in January it will begin a switch to an e-mail system managed by Google or Microsoft. Officials say the goal is to avoid the cost of performing in-house upgrades, and any outside service would be free to Penn.
10/02/06 5:00am
Dartmouth had just scored on a miracle catch and needed an onside kick recovery to have a chance to finish its miracle comeback.
10/02/06 5:00am

Female scientists still face bias, report finds

Ever wonder why most of your professors in science and engineering are men?
10/02/06 5:00am
In a thriller of a match on Saturday night at the Palestra, the Penn volleyball team lost its Ivy League opener to Princeton in four games. The Tigers (10-0, 1-0 Ivy) had already grabbed a 17-11 lead in an electrifying first game when coach Kerry Carr was forced to call a timeout.
10/02/06 5:00am
Receiver Matt Carre was in sync with sophomore quarterback Robert Irvin on Saturday. So was Braden Lepisto. And Chris Mizell. One week after throwing for under 100 yards and two interceptions, Irvin was hitting all of his targets on Saturday. Three Penn receivers set career highs in the win over Dartmouth.
10/02/06 5:00am

Alicia Puglionesi | Opinion Art

Alicia Puglionesi is a College sophomore from Havertown, Pa. Her e-mail address is puglionesi@dailypennsylvanian.com.
09/29/06 5:00am

Bar owners ask: Is this thing on?

Mayor John Street may have signed a citywide smoking ban into law this month, but the issue is far from extinguished.
09/29/06 5:00am

They teach CPR, and they haven't graduated

Jen Morrison, a senior in the School of Nursing, has gotten great career advice at Penn - from her peers. When she was a freshman and needed help choosing classes and buying books, these nurses were there with advice. When she became a junior and needed to get CPR-certified, they were once again there to help.
09/29/06 5:00am

New Brief: Report critiques 'U.S. News' ranking system

Penn's No. 7 spot on the 2007 U.S. News & World Report college rankings may not be an indicator of the University's ability to educate students, according to a new report from an education think tank. The report from the Washington-based Education Sector criticizes the popular U.
09/29/06 5:00am

(Not) finding their way around the classroom

This country is dropping the ball when it comes to teaching teachers, an expert said yesterday. Arthur Levine, the former president of Teachers College at Columbia University, spoke yesterday afternoon at Irvine Auditorium about his report on the state of teacher education in America.
09/29/06 5:00am

News brief: Mayor with Wharton ties ousted in Shanghai

What do you get when you combine the Wharton School, rampant corruption and the Chinese Communist Party? A purging, of course. Last Sunday, Chinese security forces removed Chen Liangyu, a graduate of the first Wharton senior executive training program run in Shanghai in 1990, from his post as Shanghai's Communist Party boss and placed him under house arrest.