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Some important area school news! First of all Penn State ranked number 5 on Princeton Review's annual list of the Top 20 Party Schools in the nation. Meanwhile, Bryn Mawr College ranked number 19 on the opposing list of the Top 20 Stone Cold Sober Schools. (You can see the entire lists here.) Meanwhile, the Daily News has the info on area public school registration for this year.
Meanwhile, the Ada H. Lewis Middle School in East Germantown might be voted closed on June 20th by the School Reform Commission, due to declining enrollment and a $38 million repair estimate. But parents and teachers are fighting to keep the school open, especially since it sounds pretty clear that $38 million is a ridiculously inflated number.
In yet more local school news, the faculty and staff at the Community College of Philadelphia went on strike yesterday morning, as threatened, when an agreement could not be reached on their new contract.
Philadelphia's homicide count hit 358 Wednesday night, with the deadly shooting of a 19-year old on the 5300 block of Hazelhurt Street.
Bank robbers in the Frankford area of the city apparently left some "money and clothes" at the scene of their crime. The money they got away with was without dyepacks, so police are hoping their leave-behinds will be their undoing.
Andy Warhol may have made Campbell Soup art, but Campbell Soup heiress, Dorrance H. Hamilton has done one better - she's contributing to the future of art by giving $25 million to the University of the Arts via her charitable trust.
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The United in Memory 9/11 Victims Memorial Quilt, a 16,000-square-foot quilt made to honor each victim of the attacks on September 11th, 2001 and consisting of more than 3,000 squares made by more than 3,000 volunteers from 18 different countries, will be on display at Cabrini College in Radnor from September 15th through the 17th.
On a similar line, some folks aren't so happy with the idea of splitting Independence Square in half with a $2 million, seven-foot-high iron security fence, and we can understand why. We don't think you could even make up a better metaphor for all of this "we must take away your freedoms to protect your freedoms" War on Terror crap than bisecting a place called Independence Square with a giant fricking fence. Which, we're sure, will keep the hijacked planes away very effectively.
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Texas is thawing, the Northeast is freezing, and a sort of natural order seems almost restored to the Ist-A-Verse. Almost.
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Sunday. Usually, a quiet, contemplative day in the Blogosphere. But not here in the Ist-a-Verse. Nonono! Just look below and see all of the wild and crazy stuff our staffs are up to.
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Bostonist experiences schadenfreude because of a stupid criminal. We experience schadenfreude every time we listen to the soundtrack.
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For those of who prefer "educational and cultural" to "shameless and sensational", Philadelphia Stories airs this week on Tuesday and Saturday [10 pm, WYBE]. Tuesday's show includes: Ballycastle, which follows Manayunk-based painter Stuart Shils; Mother Divine, a short film by Philly independent filmmaker Jeff P. Elstone II; and Divine Lorraine Hotel, which was produced by Christina Ortiz, age 14, and highlights Philly's formerly magnificent -- and now crumbling -- landmark. Saturday's film is Under New Management: Student Voices & School Reform in Philadelphia. According to WYBE, "This documentary examines the first year of privatization of the Philadelphia Public School System by focusing primarily on those who are affected the most by this reform: the students and their families."
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