NEWS BRIEFS
Penn rates again
Penn was ranked among the top ten universities in America for the third consecutive year in the U.S. News & World Report rankings of colleges and universities.
Caltech took the No. 1 spot for the first time ever, displacing last year’s top schools, Harvard (2), Princeton (4) and Yale (4). MIT was third, Stanford sixth and Penn, Duke and Johns Hopkins tied for seventh. Last year, Penn tied for sixth with Duke and Cornell, which fell to 11th.
The other Ivy schools on this year’s list were Columbia (10), Dartmouth (11) and Brown (14).
What’s hotÉ
on campus? Check out the new campus events calendar, on preview now. It goes “officialÓ Sept. 27. The new calendar interface is easier to view and navigate; designers expect it to be more comprehensive and up-to-date. It’s part of the revised Penn Web, which is also still being tested.
You can view the new calendar at the Penn Calendar Web site or preview the entire Penn Web site.
And what’s hot É
in the city? Your source for that is philly2nite.com, launched by Vijay Chattha (C’99), Nihal Mehta (EAS’99) and former Daily Pennsylvanian columnist Malik Wilson (C’99) in July. The site, which bills itself as “the online source for arts and entertainment in Philadelphia,Ó offers listings, reviews and features on music, movies, nightclubs, bars, restaurants and art. You can even register to win an orange on the site.
It’s official
After consulting with student and other campus leaders over the summer, President Judith Rodin accepted the recommendations of the Working Group on Alcohol Abuse in August. The group’s recommendations, which called for better enforcement of existing rules, more entertainment and recreation alternatives, and the creation of a “rapid response teamÓ for alcohol policy issues, have been incorporated into the University’s revised Alcohol and Drug Policy.