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But it turns out the Penn Club, the New York City digs of his alma mater, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, has come up with a neat, conflict-free solution to the problem: hanging a portrait, and then hiding it behind a sofa.”
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pagesix.com/2023/05/21/n...
‘Trump admin freezes $175M in UPenn funding for letting trans athletes compete in women’s sports’
“…for defying the president’s executive action and continuing to let transgender athletes compete in women’s sports.”
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nypost.com/2025/03/19/u...
“… Now that Trump is no longer in office, Orts and Sheller are requesting that the University reconsider its initial dismissal of the investigation and begin an investigation of the former president’s alleged fraud under the Policy Regarding the Revocation of Degrees.”
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“… The request comes months after Provost Wendell Pritchett rejected a request in July 2020 from six Wharton professors — including Orts — demanding that Penn President Amy Gutmann investigate the allegations made against Trump …”
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www.thedp.com/article/2021...
“… To hedge his bets he enlisted Joe Shapiro, a smart kid with a reputation for being a good test taker, to take his SATs for him. That was much easier to pull off in the days before photo IDs and computerized records. Donald, who never lacked for funds, paid his buddy well.”
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“”… Concerns about cheating are exacerbated when the alleged perpetrator is a public figure in high office. Failing to investigate an allegation of fraud at such a level broadcasts to prospective students and the world at large that the playing field is not equal…””
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“”… When a student gains admission by fraudulent means, it undermines the integrity of our academic standards and fairness of our admissions process,” the professors wrote in a letter to Penn President Amy Gutmann.”
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poetsandquantsforundergrads.com/news/wharton...
“… The professors—all of whom teach ethics at Wharton—believe the university should revoke Trump’s 1968 undergraduate business degree if a probe can confirm the claim originally made by his niece …”
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‘Wharton Profs Demand Probe Of Claim That Trump Cheated On The SAT’
27 Aug 2020
“At least half a dozen professors at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School have called on the University of Pennsylvania to investigate …”
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poetsandquantsforundergrads.com/news/wharton...
“… In Don Jr's freshman year in 1996 to 1997, Trump donated more than $100,000 to the Penn Club of New York, as per an article published in the campus paper the Daily Pennsylvania in 1997.”
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www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
“… In the midst of the college admission scandal shaming Hollywood, … Trump's generous donations to the University of Pennsylvania around the time his son Don Jr attended the prestigious school have come under a microscope.”
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www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
‘Donald Trump donated $1.5million to UPenn while his kids were students’
‘Donald Trump donated at least $1.4MILLION to the University of Pennsylvania, writing a check for $100K the SAME year Don Jr got into the Ivy League school’
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www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
“… Shoemaker added that other board members complained about Trump, threatening to leave the board if he stayed. Trump was not reappointed for another term in 1990.”
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www.thedp.com/article/2017...
“”… His ego was so big that he wanted to do all the talking,” Shoemaker said. “Thankfully he didn’t do any homework, he didn't know what was going on.” Shoemaker added that other board members complained about Trump, threatening to leave the board if he stayed. …”
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“… Attendance-wise, Trump was not a particularly dedicated member of the board. Other board members who served alongside him only remember him attending one or two meetings. But during that meeting, the flamboyant, brash personality … was on display.”
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“… board members are appointed because of their leadership in the business world, but also because their business success has given them the means to give back. That meant Trump, whose net worth in 1988 was at least $1 billion, would have been a prime target.”
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“… In the 1980s and 1990s, Trump was one of Wharton’s highest-profile alumni, a celebrity to many students, a symbol of entrepreneurial prowess — and a target for the school’s fundraising efforts.”
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www.thedp.com/article/2017...
‘Inside Wharton's years-long effort to court Donald Trump's billion-dollar fortune’
“In 1987, the Penn Board of Trustees voted to appoint a new member to the Wharton Board of Overseers for a three-year term.”
“… And …Trump got the nod.”
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www.thedp.com/article/2017...
“… The president has frequently bragged that he was a great student at a great school (Wharton). Thus, the public is entitled to a contrary view from somebody who was there (Dr. Kelley), and I faithfully report it here.”
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www.alternet.org/2017/10/form...
“… Kelley told me this after Trump had become a celebrity, but long before he was considered a political figure. Kelley often referred to Trump’s arrogance when he told the story that Trump came to Wharton thinking he already knew everything.”
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www.alternet.org/2017/10/form...
“… Professor Kelley told me 100 times over three decades that “Donald Trump was the dumbest goddam student I ever had.” I remember his emphasis and inflection — it went like this: “Donald Trump was the [i] dumbest goddam student I ever had [/i].””
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www.alternet.org/2017/10/form...
“… The future president began generously donating to the University of Pennsylvania right around the time that Donald Trump Jr. began classes there in 1996 and Ivanka Trump began doing so in 2000, although records are unclear as to the exact amount he gave during that period.“
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‘Former admissions official describes how Donald Trump got into Wharton: "It was not very difficult"’
09!July 2019
‘"I certainly was not struck by any sense that I’m sitting before a genius," James Nolan recalled of Trump’
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www.salon.com/2019/07/09/f...
“… That book and some reports in the 1980s claimed Trump didn't graduate first in his class and didn't graduate with honors.
A 1968 commencement program shared Friday by the Daily Pennsylvanian backs that up.”
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www.pennlive.com/news/2017/02...
“… In 1973 and 1976, the New York Times reported that Trump graduated first in his class in 1968 from the Wharton School of Finance.
During campaign stops in Pennsylvania, Trump frequently said he was "a very smart guy" and knew the state well because he went to Wharton.”
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‘What is Trump's real record at Wharton?’
“For decades, the national media has reported that Trump graduated "first in his class" at Wharton, often confusing his undergraduate degree with the Ivy League university's top-ranked MBA program”
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www.pennlive.com/news/2017/02...
“… As he battled non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma he taught at California State University in Los Angeles.”
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www.rawstory.com/2020/07/joe-...
‘Joe Shapiro -- the man who took Trump's SATs for him’
“”To hedge his bets he enlisted Joe Shapiro, a smart kid with a reputation for being a good test taker, to take his SATs for him. That was much easier to pull off in the days before photo IDs and computerized records. …”
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“… While there’s no lack of Trump hotels, casinos and golf courses, no building on Penn’s campus bears his name.”
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www.thedp.com/article/2015...
“… In a manner hardly consistent with his outsized personality, college-aged Donald Trump was barely seen around campus on weekends, remained uninvolved in most campus activities and his picture was even absent from the yearbook.”
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www.thedp.com/article/2015...
