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Wednesday, February 14

Good morning, Penn.


Happy Valentine's Day! You might be waiting for a love note today, but consider this edition of Daybreak the DP's valentine to you. 

The former president of Poland spoke at Perry World House earlier this week, and a Penn adjunct professor and Nobel Prize laureate appeared in a Super Bowl commercial over the weekend.

But first, a former School of Dental Medicine administrator is suing the Dental School and its dean.
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TODAY'S TOP STORY

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Penn Dental dean Mark Wolff facing lawsuit
 
The Dental School and its dean are engaged in an ongoing legal battle with a former school administrator, who claims that he faced termination in retaliation for raising a sexual misconduct complaint against a department chair. The University denies the allegations raised in the lawsuit.
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FOUR MORE BIG STORIES

  The School of Engineering and Applied Science will soon launch a major in artificial intelligence, making Penn the first Ivy League school to do so.
  Lech Wałęsa, the former president of Poland, spoke at Perry World House on Monday to discuss the future of democracy. 
  Nobel Prize laureate and Penn Medicine adjunct professor Kaitlin Karikó appeared in a Super Bowl commercial for Pfizer. 
 
  Penn delayed its opening yesterday due to inclement winter weather, cancelling all classes beginning before 10 a.m.

MOST READ

Penn students left 'panicked and puzzled' by competitive Wharton club application process

OPINION

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COLUMNIST EMILY CHANG exposes racist questioning in a recent Senate hearing, which speaks to the broader culture of American xenophobia. 

SPORTS

  Penn women's fencing claimed a piece of the Ivy championships this past weekend — the team's first since 2004.
  Cleveland Browns head coach and Penn alumnus Kevin Stefanski was awarded coach of the year at the NFL Honors presentation.

TODAY IN DP HISTORY

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In 1947, Penn moved the ENIAC — the world's first large-scale digital computer — to an Army research laboratory in Maryland after it was constructed on Penn's campus. Today, Penn continues to be a technological trailblazer, becoming the first Ivy League school to offer an undergraduate major in AI. 

TAKE A BREATHER

Click here to play today's DP crossword, which was constructed by Natalie Cheng, Derek Wong, Rosemary Yang, and Sangitha Aiyer. 

And click here to play today's DP mini crossword, which was constructed by Evan Stubbs.

 

FROM 34TH STREET MAGAZINE

  We all say we want love, but some of us have higher standards than others. Apps like Raya and The League appeal to the “amorously ambitious,” heavily limiting who can access their platforms. Street dives deep into elitism and social stratification on some of the world’s most exclusive dating apps.
  In the lonely months of December, Penn Marriage Pact swept campus by storm with its promises of romance delivered straight to your inbox. But what did this grand experiment in love leave in its wake? Street reveals the contradictions between Marriage Pact’s simple premise and the complex reality of relationships at Penn. 

FROM UNDER THE BUTTON

UTB explores the especially weak grasp of 18th-century literature of New York Times crossword doers. Shape up! If you're doing the mini in your ENGL 1000 course you at least gotta know “Blimey!”
Today's newsletter was copy edited by Diamy Wang.
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