PILOTs has become something of a buzz word at Penn following the protest at Penn President Amy Gutmann’s annual holiday party last December. The Student Labor Action Project held an event Tuesday night to clarify what the term really means for students.

Some big institutions contributed nothing at all. Most conspicuous in its absence was the University of Pennsylvania, the city's largest nongovernmental employer. It declined to renew a PILOT agreement that expired in 2000. Drexel, Temple, St. Joseph's and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia also lacked PILOT agreements.