Campus & Community

Gun violence in PG-13 movies has substantially increased in the past 30 years. The rise in gun use in movies is especially strong since 2000, and this parallels a rise in gun injuries seen in emergency departments in the United States. There has also been a rise in mass shootings over the past 10 years.

Anyone who has seen Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster film “Jurassic Park” likely has an image of a Velociraptor—depicted in the movie as large, aggressive, green monsters with razor-sharp claws and teeth—seared in their brain.

The human imagination has no boundaries. It is capable of traveling at the speed of light to galaxies far, far away, and falling, very slowly, down, down, down the rabbit hole. It has put a man on the moon and in the deepest parts of the ocean. It has built the computer, video games, and the internet. It has made phones that are smart, self-driving cars, and unmanned aerial vehicles.

Eugene Janda’s office in the Division of Public Safety building on Chestnut Street is full of memorabilia from a career dedicated to fire safety.

In April, at the Division of Public Safety’s (DPS) spring Commendation Ceremony, Mayor Michael Nutter presented Penn with the city’s inaugural Hero of Philadelphia Award.

Penn Athletics is closing the Franklin Field track for the entire summer.

Current locker holders at the Department of Recreation are able to renew their locker for the 2015-16 membership year. Any member who fails to renew his or her locker by the designated deadline of July 24 will forfeit use of the locker on Aug. 20.

The Burrison Gallery at the University Club will hold its fifth annual University Club Members Exhibit from June 19 through Aug. 14.

The Morris Arboretum celebrates the grand reopening of the Garden Railway on Saturday, May 23, from 1 to 3 p.m.

Does owning a dog improve one’s quality of life?