Greg Johnson

Photo credit: University Archives Up until the 1960s, Penn had gender-separate student government organizations—a male Undergraduate Council and a Women’s Student Government Association (WSGA).

Pop culture today is filled with tales of older women seducing younger men, men who seemingly hop from woman to woman and unwed parents quarreling over their children (and everything else under the sun). In 2005, former “Brat Packer” Demi Moore was labeled a “cougar” for marrying actor Ashton Kutcher, who is 16 years her junior.

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In the Caster Building at 3701 Locust Walk, the Penn School of Social Policy & Practice is one of the oldest social work programs in the world.

Through nearly 30 years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, the infection rate among African Americans has remained steadily high. Although they represent only 13 percent of the U.S.

 

On average, the City of Philadelphia receives about 20 inches of snow a year, according to the National Climate Data Center.

In July of 1995, a 20-day-old baby was rushed to the emergency room at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia after being in a car crash.