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THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSIT Y OF PENNSYLVANIA

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 2013

THE

PHILADELPHIA

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recaps a summer of news around the world

Guide to Penn AND PHIladelphia

Landlords shift leases for 2013-14 school year

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Summer additions around campus Rx the Farmacy

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HipCityVeg

Wishbone

The vegan fast food restaurant is expanding from Rittenhouse Square to its new location on 40th and Walnut streets, replacing Won Oriental Restaurant. Set to open in September, the new location will share the same 100 percent plant-based menu as the original.

Predicted to open in October, Wishbone is a specialty fried chicken restaurant that will open at 40th and Walnut streets. The restaurant's menu will consist of a signature flavor chicken, a flavor that changes about every week and a range of sauces. It replaces Lee's Hoagie House, which closed in June.

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Gregory College House The Class of 1925 building in Gregory College House underwent several interior renovations. Room decorations, including lamps and bookshelves were changed, common spaces were redesigned and floors were refinished. Residential rooms were switched to an electronic lock, unlocked with a card.

BY FIONA GLISSON Staff Writer Changes in Penn's academic calendar to meet state standards have necessitated many in the community to adapt. Classes will begin August 28 this year, more than a week earlier than in the past. Scheduling changes have also been made to both fall and Thanksgiving breaks in order to meet the standard on the number of classroom hours. The change in the calendar has affected groups from area landlords to departments within the University. Landlords have shifted their leasing schedules to accommodate the new calendar. Campus Apartments shifted the leasing schedule two years ago. While leases used to end in August, they now end on July 25 and start on August 1, allowing students to arrive in time for classes to start. According to Daniela Talanca, assistant

U. City housing prices increase above average, report finds

Graphic by Ryan Anderson, Claire Cohen and Hailey Edelstein Photo credits top to bottom: Yixi Sun, Luke Chen, Drew Crockett, Amanda Suarez, Jen Rizzi

This BYOB on 44th and Spruce streets is replacing the Italian restaurant Rimedio. Rx will serve brunch and dinner and has a focus on using locally sourced and organic ingredients. Their comfort food menu includes fried pickles, poutine and chicken and biscuits.

Changes to the academic calendar reflect efforts to comply with state policy

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HubBub

The coffee truck originally on 38th Street between Spruce and Locust is moving to a coffee bar at 37th and Spruce streets — the old Gia Pronto storefront. The cafe will open this fall.

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Steinberg-Dietrich Hall

The Steinberg-Dietrich Hall’s West Addition was completed mid-May, with landscaping being finished over the summer. A grand opening will soon follow but the building is currently in use.

36th Zavino

Italian restaurant Zavino is opening another location later this month or in September at 32nd and Chestnut streets. It was originally located on 13th and Sansom streets and offers entrees around $15, which include pizza, pasta and meat and cheese plates.

Athletic Fields

Singh Center

A new field hockey turf field was added in Penn Park. Also in Penn Park, the Rhodes Soccer Field was moved closer to the new hockey field and the softball diamond was modified to include track throwing space.

Major construction at the Singh Center for Nanotechnology was completed with its adjacent building, the Edison Building, being demolished. Construction is ongoing on a courtyard and the dedication ceremony will be in October.

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U. officials, experts cite employee mortgage program, Penn Alexander School as causes BY WILL MARBLE Staff Writer Six years after Philadelphia housing prices topped out, University City prices increased at a rate above the city average over the past year — indicative of a neighborhood revitalization driven in part by Penn's investments. A report released in July by Kevin Gillen, a senior research consultant at the Fels Institute of Government, shows that University City housing prices increased 11.8 percent between the second quarter of 2012 and the second quarter of this year — over 11 percentage points more than the city as a whole. While home prices near Penn dipped between the first and second quarters of this year, Gillen noted that there were only a dozen sales in the second quarter, causing “statistical noise.” In the late 1990s under the leadership of thenPresident Judith Rodin, Penn began an effort to improve University City to address high levels of crime. Penn’s options were to “either build a moat around 40th Street or extend [its] borders,” said Chair of SEE HOUSING PAGE A11

New bioethics minor offered this fall The minor will mark the first collaboration of this kind between SAS and Med School BY EMILY DELISLE Staff Writer Starting this fall, interested students will be able to take on a new interdisciplinary minor: bioethics. This minor, which was approved on March 28 last year, is now being offered for the first time this fall. It is the

first cross-school minor between the Perelman School of Medicine and the School of Arts and Sciences, according to Autumn Fiester, director of education in the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the Medical School. The minor will require not only classes exploring philosophical issues of right and wrong, but also those focused on research, clinical work and allocation of medical resources. Students will be required to take six courses to complete the minor, with no

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more than three in any one department. The initiative to create the minor began in the fall of 2011 and was the result of separate student and faculty efforts. Lance Wahlert, assistant professor of medical ethics and health policy and director of the master of bioethics program at the Medical School, explained that a student petition for the minor first circulated in 2011 and was followed by a formal proposal submitted that fall by then-College junior Kyle Henson, a former

Daily Pennsylvanian columnist. Fiester said Henson’s proposal came just as faculty within the Department of Medical Ethics were trying to create the minor by "work[ing] channels within the School of Arts and Sciences." She explained that his proposal provided “student movement” which further advanced the process. Fiester added that Penn is unusually well-equipped to SEE BIOETHICS PAGE A9

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