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Tina Njike keeps it real about her healing journey and love for activities off the court

(04/10/25 12:44am)

On a Penn women’s basketball trip to Arizona this past winter break, sophomore center Tina Njike met a childhood friend from Canada, who she used to play basketball with. When Penn played Arizona State, her friend’s family watched the game, and she met him again after five years. Together in Canada, reuniting in Arizona. 




Jason Zhao | This isn’t about the swim team

(04/07/25 10:00am)

Lia Thomas who? I opened up my news feed a week ago to a surreal sight: headline after headline devoted to how the United States has been gripped by intense political dogfights and moral reflection over … watersports. A genocide in Sudan? The collapse of the United States’ international alliances? $4 trillion of capital value wiped out in the stock market due to tariffs? No, clearly the Penn swimming and diving team is our most important concern.





Piper Slinka-Petka | Meritocracy isn’t dead

(03/05/25 2:00am)

We’ve all heard David Brooks’s news: The meritocracy is dead. Like a haphazardly built house of cards, the previous sliver of meritocracy at elite institutions has collapsed into nothingness. With admissions serving as a system “undermined by a 'hereditary aristocracy of wealth,'” and elite schools’ campus cultures reaffirming status through social hierarchies, modern students are navigating a system where status matters more than skill.








Tiyya Geiger and Piper Slinka-Petka | Must be LOVE on the brain

(02/17/25 3:19pm)

As the salt continues to melt the icy Locust Walk, we welcome the month of February. Penn clubs are calling for you to buy their candy grams and the drug stores are calling for you to buy their Valentine's teddy bears. As you engage in (or hide from) the festivities of Valentine's Day, we ask that you turn your attention from the paper mache to something else: actual love.




In Photos: Penn's campus overflows in Super Bowl spirit as Eagles score second-ever victory

(02/10/25 2:42pm)

On Sunday evening, the Penn community gathered across campus to watch the Philadelphia Eagles take on the Kansas City Chiefs. After the Eagles’ devastating loss two years ago, students were ready to watch the Eagles take home their second-ever Super Bowl victory. From Houston Hall to the high rise rooftop lounges, see how The Daily Pennsylvanian’s photographers captured a night filled with anticipation, excitement, and emotion.