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Penn changes FAFSA policy
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The adjustment could affect student financial aid packages JENNA WANG Staff Reporter
The University announced a change to the nationwide Free Application for Federal Student Aid application — and Penn students applying for financial aid will be affected. In an email sent on Oct. 4, the Office of Student Registration and Financial Services notified Penn undergraduates that FAFSA would be available three months earlier than in previous years. Students can now start their application for the 2017-18 school year, though the deadline for the application will remain the same, on April 15. Applicants will only be able to use tax returns from 2015 for their FAFSA, SRFS Director of Communications Karen Hamilton said in an email statement. According to the email, the purpose of the earlier application start date is to allow students the SEE FAFSA PAGE 5
Penn Leads the Vote, We Ar e Watchin g and Climate flooded students wi Next th ballot G applic ation en s DAN SPINELLI City News Editor
PROTEST POSTERS COVER LOCUST
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rom the Compass to Van Pelt Library, campus on Tuesday was a frenzy of student groups urging students to register on the last day before the Oct. 11 voter registration deadline. Volunteers, ranging from nonpartisan groups such as Penn Leads the Vote to issue advocates like NextGen Climate, flooded Locust Walk with flyers, tables and ballot applications. That’s to say nothing of the nearly eight-foot-tall painted posters of women, with “vote” plastered across their foreheads, placed
by members of the collective, We Are Watching. The group staffed a table outside Van Pelt throughout the morning and afternoon, handing out voter registration sheets alongside volunteers from NextGen Climate, a political advocacy group that is focused on climate change issues and opposed to Republican nominee Donald Trump. “Though we are not endorsing any
While it may be entertaining to stand around listening to these preachers scream about the Bible, some of their words are incredibly hurtful.”
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Wharton prof. criticizes ‘hypercompetitive’ atmosphere at Penn
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Adam Grant penned a New York Times op-ed ALLY JOHNSON Staff Reporter
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Wharton professor Adam Grant claims that Penn has a more hypercompetitive culture than peer institutions including Harvard and UNC.
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Forced grading curves create a “toxic” atmosphere in classrooms, according to Wharton’s youngest-tenured and highest-rated professor. In the Sept. 10 edition of The New York Times, professor Adam
Grant wrote an op-ed arguing forced curves — those that require students to compete against each other for a limited number of good grades — should be abolished because they create a “hypercompetitive” culture. Grant argued that this hypercompetitive culture may have a negative impact on campus mental health, since one predictor of depression SEE CURVE PAGE 2
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