University of Pennsylvania

As Growth Shifts Into Overdrive, NYU Faces a Rebellion From Within

Invasion Of The Charter Schools

Former City Councilmember Eva Moskowitz, with Bloomberg's union-busting blessing, is pushing her Success Academy edu-franchise into Brooklyn. The natives aren't buying.

Free Online Classes: Unlocking the Ivory Tower

Colleges flock to offer courses for all, but questions abound

Kutsher's Tribeca's Zach Kutsher on Billy Crystal Fart Jokes, the Borscht Belt Part 2

Yesterday, we talked smelly cow's feet and kosher food with Kutsher's Tribeca's Zach Kutsher. Today, we continue by delving into the health advantage, or lack thereof, of using the rendered chicken fat known as schmaltz, his Dirty Dancing childhood, and what the Borscht Belt would be like if gamblin ... More >>

House Dems Ream Bloomberg Over NYPD's Muslim Spy Scheme

Ten House Dems have come down on Mayor Mike's response to the NYPD's Muslim spy scheme, decrying his reaction as "underhanded and unprofessional." As detailed by The Associated Press (via Washington Post), the pols have demanded that Bloomberg end out-of-state spying. The electeds' outcry stems f ... More >>

NYPD Spied On Muslim College Students All Across the Northeast

Last year, the Village Voice reported on the NYPD's "spectacularly offensive smear of American Muslims" in the form of a full-length Islamophobic training video. Now the AP comes forward with their investigative report that details how the NYPD watched Muslim students at colleges all across the Nort ... More >>

Angela Davis Visits Occupy Washington Square Park and Occupy Wall Street

​Sunday evening, noted activist, author, and former Black Panther Angela Davis joined a growing list of notable figures to speak to Occupy Wall Street participants. But first, Davis stopped to speak to the General Assembly of Occupy Washington Square Park, a smaller group autonomous of, but lo ... More >>

Real Men Get Their Facts Straight

Ashton and Demi and Sex Trafficking

Robot to Throw Out Ceremonial First Pitch at Phillies Game

​A robot built by two UPenn students will throw out the first pitch at today's game between the Philadelphia Phillies and Milwaukee Brewers. Named "PhillieBot," the machine is constructed from a Segway, an extra wheel, and a robotic arm with a pneumatic cylinder. No one had the heart to tell i ... More >>

Battle of the West Eighth Street Chocolate Chip Cookies: Sarivole v. Insomnia

Rebecca MarxInsomnia's chocolate chunk on the left, Sarivole's on the right.​ Insomnia Cookies has sat on West Eighth Street since 2008, and during that time has cultivated the loyalties of numerous NYU students thanks to its namesake product: cookies delivered throughout the wee hours, usual ... More >>

Dogfish Head Brewery's Sam Calagione Talks About His New Beer TV Show: Do Not Expect Fistfights and Crying

Sam Calagione's nine-year-old daughter owns part of the brewery. Will be popular in high school.​ Sam Calagione, the head brewer at Dogfish Head Brewery in Delaware, might look like a frat boy and sound like a total dude, but he's one of the biggest geeks around when it comes to beer. His new ... More >>

Injustice! Employers Discriminate Against Boozing Job Applicants

​There are certain times in our worklife that we imagine boozing might be almost a requirement of our job -- writers are by and large some of the drinkingest people out there, after all; a little whiskey hones our already razor-sharp wits, while only ever-so-slightly decreasing our type speed, ... More >>

Clip Job: The Abortionist, Before Roe v. Wade

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. August 18, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 44 The Abortionist on The Circuit of Fear By Marlene Nadle The abortionist is the man hunted by the police and a million desperate women a year. No city can be without him. Few are. In almost ever town ... More >>

City moves in to preserve World's Fair pavilion

​The city has started renovation work on the Philip Johnson-designed New York State Pavilion from the 1964 World's Fair in Flushing Meadow Park. Volunteers have begun clearing weeds and debris from the inside of the space so that workmen can put down a layer of sand and gravel to protect the t ... More >>

The City's Bid to Save Cash Leaves New Teachers Out in the Cold

Clip Job: Warhol Causes a Near-Riot in Philly!

​ October 14, 1965, Vol. X, No. 52 Help! By David Bourdon The latest Arthurian exploit of the legendary Andy Warhol occurred last Friday at the public opening of his first comprehensive exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art on the University of Pennsylvania campus. (The show clos ... More >>

Gotham Book Collection Donated to Penn

If you miss the old Gotham Book Mart -- the historic literary mecca which nourished (both literally and figuratively) writers of varying fame from 1920 to 2007, as detailed in John K's lovely testimonial here -- you will soon be able to go to the University of Pennsylvania and survey its contents. ... More >>

Luke Wilson Romantic Development

Nina, Meet Jesus

Three new artists and the black diaspora

Doctors With Borders

Bioethics matures into a formal academic field—and faces an identity crisis

Private Dick

A sexual exhibitionist walks out of the spotlight

Scattered Class

Software gives peek at admissions odds

A Hypochondriac's Dream

Coming soon—a home cancer-screening device

Private Dick

A sexual exhibitionist walks out of the spotlight

Not Bourgie

Albert Ayler met Paul Gonsalves and Sonny Rollins's saxophone lineage was re-established

Reading Ahead

Colleges get freshmen on the same page with a summer book

On the Move

Young progressives are dusting themselves off. Anyone for Congress in 2006?

O, You Cosh-Boned Posers!

Awful poems sought and found: From spam to Google, flarf redefines random

Weird Science: The Implications of Playing With Nature

The Whistle-Blower at the Art Party

A Curator Takes on His Museum

Manthia Diawara Won't Budge

NYU's Renaissance Man Contemplates the Fate of the African Expat

Get Your Hood On

War Reporting Is Risky Business

Foucault's Turntable

Hip-Hop Scholars Bumrush the Academy

Working Vacations

Where Does the Art World Go in the Summer?

Nation

Tipping Toward Hate

Protests Turn Ugly as Pro-Palestinian and Pro-Israeli Forces Face Off On Campus

Camera Obscura

••• Tracking Down Film Studies’ Fall Guy

Hell-Raising in Philly

An Activist’s Guide to Protests Outside the Republican Convention

Dogma Days

Catholic Colleges and Academic Freedom

As Hundreds Cheer

The Glum Triumph of The Magnetic Fields

China’s Brutal Police State

Fifty Years of State Terrorism

Longer Harder Faster

From Sex Parties to Raves, for Both Men and Women, It's Not Bob Dole's Viagra Anymore

New York’s Mean Streets

The Boogie Doctor

What gives Dr. David Seitz the greatest pleasure is having the music he loves "get more respect."

Out Takes

Stalk Options

If you get sued in Ruthless.Com, does it hurt in real life?

Escape from the Nation of Islam

Farrakhan Heir Bolts from Black Muslim Following to Lead a Hip Hop Movement

Lab Rats

A new book revisits shocking experiments on Pennsylvania prisoners

New York's Drug-Law Debacle

Governor Rockefeller started the war on drugs in 1973. His laws have packed prisons, cost billions, and failed to stop the drug trade. On the 25th anniversary, there's new momentum for change.

Setting Fire to Offensive Ideas

No Exceptions in the First Amendment for Bigotry and Racism