Jasmine Orders (C03,
left) and Lauren Marianni (C03, right) keep silent watch with
fellow students, faculty and staff during the annual Martin Luther
King Jr. Antiviolence Vigil Jan. 15. The event, sponsored by Alpha
Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., featured an address by University Chaplain
Rev. William Gipson and a candlelight march down Locust Walk to
College Green.
“I really do see the wait list as the final touches to a class.”
Eric J. Furda, dean of admissions at Penn, on students who are neither accepted nor rejected from a school. Last year, Penn offered 87 students admission off its active wait list of 1,200. (Philadelphia Inquirer, April 23, 2013)