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Today, April 16, the first of the Ivy League spring weekend events begins. Down in Philadelphia, Penn’s Spring Fling will feature performances by Snoop Dogg, Kid Cudi, and Shwayze at Franklin Field. According to The Daily Pennsylvanian, some teachers have even moved assignments due today until Monday, just so their students can go partake in the fun. Harvard professors: we can haz the same for Yardfest...
Former Harvard president Larry Summers spoke Thursday at Penn. Though the Pennsylvanian doesn't say much about what Summers actually said, it notes that Summers said that the "major story of our times” will be the rise of developed countries. Though FlyBy was not there, we're pretty sure Summers was referring to developing countries like China and India...
Over a quarter (26%) of Daily Pennsylvanian readers...
...ineffective deterrent? In fact, experts on criminology tend to reject such notions as a flawed understanding of being tough on crime versus evidence-based reasoning about what works. Lawrence Sherman—Professor of Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania—explained in an article for The Daily Pennsylvanian: “There’s no evidence that the death penalty does anything to reduce homicides.” Linked to this flawed belief in ‘deterrence’ is the common perception that putting a criminal to death is less costly than lifetime imprisonment. Again...
...year 2060 in America, or 1960? Jon Stewart at the Oscars and voters in the street have noted there's something sci-fi about an election in which two leading candidates are a woman and a black man. "By the time this came," a Pennsylvanian told the New York Times Magazine, regarding Barack Obama's run, "I thought I'd be flying around in a spaceship or driving in some kind of Jetsons vehicle...