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(02/17/17 11:37pm)
Desiree Peterkin Bell, a strategic planner and political strategist with nearly 20 years of experience currently has an appointment as guest lecturer at the Annenberg School for Communication.
(02/16/17 3:54am)
Around 25 Penn students will leave behind their cellphones, laptops and other electronics and head to Nicaragua this May to fully escape the “Penn bubble” and study strategies for social impact.
(02/15/17 2:23am)
This semester, I’ve done my best to be as attentive as possible when examining Penn culture, and researching black history at Penn has truly strengthened that attentiveness. As I researched the unsung black heroes of Penn, a serious question struck me: Whom do we remember and why?
(02/14/17 7:03pm)
As all of our readers know, today is National Pet Theft Awareness Day. But to anyone who happens to be unfamiliar with the holiday, it occurs in the United States of America every February 14th, making this otherwise-innocuous February day remarkable. It is one of the most popular holidays in the country, and companies like Hallmark make big bucks off of it every year. This year, NPTAD truly couldn’t come soon enough. Amy Gutmann’s aggressive tweets have been alienating many, people have been tripping all over Locust Walk, and some students went a little too hard last weekend (okay, in terms of studying). What we’re saying is, Penn students really needed a pick-me-up. And what's a better fix than spreading the word about Pet Theft?
(02/09/17 3:01am)
On Wednesday night at Claudia Cohen Hall, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney implored students to work to foster change in the city of Philadelphia.
(02/09/17 2:29am)
For most Penn students, freshman year of college begins in the fall immediately following high school graduation. But some students choose to explore the world before exploring campus.
(02/09/17 2:28am)
An email from Penn’s Office of Admissions — containing a link to a secure portal — appeared in College freshman Srinivas Mandyam’s inbox.
(02/07/17 3:51am)
Dear Princetonian children, I hope this letter finds you well from the sacred and noble University of Pennsylvania. Our president, Ms. Amy Gutmann, left your school back in 2004 to pursue a career at what she decisively determined to be the nation’s superior institution, so I hope you will forgive my condescending nature towards you folks — perfectly intelligent tenants of a top-50 university yourselves.
(02/03/17 1:14am)
Senior Class Board President Darren Tomasso has been shaping more than policy this past year. Tomasso, a fitness trainer and 2016 Mr. Penn champion, is infamous at the Pottruck Health and Fitness Center for his "Brazilian Butt Lift" group fitness class.
(02/01/17 3:54am)
One of my favorite quotes from Martin Luther King Jr. states “We are not makers of history. We are made by history.” It causes me to think about all the hidden contributions people have made through time that have played a major role in constructing who I am.
(02/01/17 4:08am)
On the dawn of the Asian American Studies Program’s 20th Anniversary, founding faculty member, Dr. Grace Kao, accepted an offer from Yale University and is poised to leave. With this loss comes great uncertainty for the future of Asian American studies at Penn.
(01/31/17 3:46am)
President Donald Trump’s newly announced immigration ban has sparked panic among some international students and faculty at Penn, forcing them to reconsider their very future in the United States.
(02/02/17 2:54am)
The fate of Obamacare still remains a mystery after Donald Trump’s first 12 days as president.
(01/30/17 2:33am)
In the last year, 5000-to-1 long shots Leicester City won the English Premier League, the Cubs won the World Series, and the Cleveland Browns managed to win a football game, so one would be forgiven for thinking a Division III school had a real chance at taking down the defending Ivy League champions.
(01/29/17 2:29pm)
Penn sent out an email on Sunday, advising students from the seven Muslim-majority countries temporarily barred from entering the United States by President Donald Trump’s recent executive order to defer travel.
(01/26/17 8:12pm)
On Thursday
morning, thousands of protestors marched from Love Park in Center
City to the Loews Philadelphia Hotel to protest 1968 Wharton graduate and President Donald Trump's policies on the day of his arrival in Philadelphia for the GOP retreat.
(01/26/17 3:31am)
To all my black queer students at Penn,
(01/26/17 2:43am)
Warby Parker’s very first makeshift showroom was a small apartment in Center City.
(01/26/17 1:49am)
The women of Penn were among the millions of marchers who flocked to Washington D.C. the day after President Trump’s inauguration as part of the Women’s March on Washington.
(01/25/17 3:24am)
As a member of the track team, my first experience with the Penn track team was outside on a brisk sunny day in late August. I’ll never forget how nice it felt to breathe the fresh air of Franklin Field, run freely with my teammates and meet athletes from other teams.