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38Th And Spruce Street Intersection

In light of recent accidents at the intersection at 38th and Spruce streets, the Daily Pennsylvanian has begun reporting on why the intersection is dangerous, and what experts feel can improve the intersection's safety.

11/03/16 2:23am
As the season winds down to its final game, the week has been the last of 2016 for Penn field hockey.
11/02/16 11:56pm
iAspire is a platform that matches students looking for an advantage in their career search with students and recent graduates who already have a foot in the industry.
11/02/16 11:54pm
While Dylan kept his reactions low-key, many individuals in literature and musical communities reacted strongly to the announcement. Some showed support for the legendary songwriter, while others criticized the prize being granted to such a well-established song writer.
11/02/16 11:53pm
Penn has another prize for innovation — this time, for ones that contribute to Jewish life.
11/02/16 11:52pm
The Multi-Purpose Room at the Pottruck Health and Fitness Center, which contains a variety of exercise equipment, padded mat areas and punching bags, has been closed since the beginning of the 2016-2017 academic year for reasons unknown to students.
11/02/16 11:51pm
To Linda Lucker-Leibowitz, an expert in the Graduate School of Education in studying childhood bullies, Republican nominee Donald Trump has proven to be a perfect test case.
11/02/16 11:02pm
CLAUDIA LI is a College junior from Santa Clara, California.
11/02/16 11:02pm
“The idea that people are born gay — or lesbian or bisexual — is appealing for lots of reasons,” noted John D’Emilio, former Director of the Policy Institute at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
11/02/16 11:01pm
You don’t have to be a Republican to know that The Donald is not the best candidate Republicans have to offer.
11/02/16 8:29pm
Benjamin Schüttler was pursuing an MBA at Wharton as well as a Masters degree of Public Policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. 
11/02/16 3:33pm
The New York Times recently analyzed Trump and Clinton's student debt policies. 
11/02/16 3:33pm

Ivy League pitcher to start for the Cubs in Game 7 of the World Series tonight

As if this year's World Series couldn't get crazier — the Chicago Cubs' very own starting pitcher for Game 7, Kyle Hendricks, once pitched against Penn as a member of Dartmouth's Big Green baseball team.  Before Hendricks rose up to the Major League, he joined Dartmouth and pitched the clinching game against Cornell in the best-of-three Ivy League Championship Series as a freshman in 2009 — his skill of pitching series-deciding games was acquired early on in his career.  When Hendricks faced off against Penn in 2011, the junior recorded six strikeouts.
11/02/16 3:28pm
Tiffany Trump, Trump campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, and reporter, Bobby Knight, walked into Wawa in King of Prussia, Pa. with the Republican presidential candidate after he delivered a speech in Valley Forge.
11/02/16 3:24pm
Members of the "alt-right" movement plan to supply black Philadelphians with liquor and marijuana to deter them from voting.
11/02/16 1:38am
It is a month-long live-action game where participants are assigned targets — other students — whom they need to get “out” in three separate rounds by hitting them with a foam stress ball. 
11/02/16 1:36am
Lorenzo Bonfiglio’s pretrial at the Criminal Justice Center was originally scheduled for July 14 this year, but has since been pushed back three times and is currently scheduled for Nov. 29
11/02/16 1:35am
A giant beach ball covered in declarations ranging from expletives, to “Black Lives Matter” to “Support Trump,” sat in front of Van Pelt library Tuesday afternoon.
11/02/16 1:34am
At 12:01 Tuesday morning, members of the Transportantion Workers Union Local 234 — the largest union of SEPTA workers — began a strike after they were not able to reach a contract deal with SEPTA.
11/02/16 1:33am
In the middle of October, the College Republicans executive board voted to formally condemn Trump, but the decision was never carried out.
11/02/16 1:31am
DPS pays careful attention to the character and history of job applicants before hiring them, and even after being hired, they go through a lengthy orientation program.