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Get your gay on this week at the U Penn campus with a slew of great events that make up QPenn 2008. QPenn is Penn's annual LGBTQ pride and awareness week. The programming kicked off late last week but there are plenty of highlights still to come, including the launch party tonight (6:00 PM at the Penn LGBT Center).

- Accidents on Roosevelt Boulevard have been a long-time problem - and it seems that previously installed red light cameras may have exacerbated, rather than aided, the problem. Currently, there is discussion to add radar enforcement to the speed deterrents. City Councilman Brian O'Neil has said, "The mayor should just shut down the middle six lanes until there is a solid plan in place -- or forget the middle lanes are there and green them over." Phillyist used to live in the Northeast - and whereas we think the entire neighborhood would be lost without Route 1 to rely on, greening over those middle lanes might not be a bad plan.
- As one of our tipsters has pointed out there on the sidebar , 60 Minutes' Philadelphia-bred Ed Bradley has passed away, having succumbed to leukemia.
- Bad news for Philly schools - the School District is planning some deep cuts in order to help assuage their $73-million + deficit. Thankfully for the students, the proposed cuts seem to fall on the administrative, rather than the educational, ends. (Children, after all, are our future - if Ms. Houston is to be believed.)
- There's a movement to impeach the prez, and right here in our own town; specifically, at Independence Hall on the 11th. More info here. (via, which gets props for creative headlining)
- Not exactly news, but as I know several people who were curious to hear what noted columnist and Santorum detractor Dan Savage might have to say about the outgoing Senator's defeat: here it is. (via) Image via Stock.xchng

Let's look back at a week in which no site in the -ist network adopted anyone from Africa...

Daily Pennsylvanian conservative columnist Stephen Morse interviews Dan Savage about his ire for Rick "Man On Dog" Santorum with rather flamboyant results: