03/17/19 5:52pm
We are looking for guest columns that make compelling arguments from the Penn community to gauge a variety of different perspectives.
12/14/18 7:10pm
2018 was a year to remember. Take a look back on Penn's most memorable moments with The Daily Pennsylvanian's Year in Review.
10/23/18 1:38am
The 2016 presidential election ushered in a contentious period in U.S. politics that placed a Penn alumnus in the White House and that has divided our campus and our country. Two years later, much is at stake as the Penn community prepares to vote in what many experts call the most important midterm elections in our lifetimes. Here's what you need to know.
02/08/18 12:46am
Looking for a fun way to anonymously confess your undying love to a classmate? Tap into your inner-romantic and submit a Love Note before Feb. 10.
04/19/17 6:20pm
The Daily Pennsylvanian is pleased that the task force sought and used student input, and we believe the recommendations are mostly practical and well-considered.
04/18/17 11:03pm
We wish to clearly reaffirm some basic principles: Violence is never, under any circumstance whatsoever, an appropriate or acceptable response to the peaceable exchange of ideas, however hateful or otherwise reprehensible they might be.
04/06/17 3:02pm
Penn can no longer claim to be doing all it can to be assembling the highest-quality class possible each year while drawing well more than half of its admittees from less than a sixth of the applicants. It is time to do away with Early Decision.
04/02/17 10:03pm
Last week, more than two thousand applicants around the world received the news that they have been accepted for enrollment at the University of Pennsylvania.
03/21/17 8:14pm
Although The Daily Pennsylvanian is a Penn-focused publication, we are acutely aware that the forces which shape what becomes news here on campus, like springtime snowstorms which disrupt classes, often originate elsewhere.
03/02/17 5:40pm
Penn President Amy Gutmann spoke with three Daily Pennsylvanian editors on Thursday in a sit-down interview in her College Hall office.
02/21/17 11:06pm
Next Tuesday, Irvine Auditorium will host a panel forum entitled “A Formidable Foe: Cancer in the 21st Century” as part of its David and Lyn Silfen University Forum series. While the forum will notably feature Penn President Amy Gutmann and former Vice President Joe Biden, one of the other panelists has stolen some of the spotlight by virtue of being embroiled in a lawsuit over discrimination against an Iraqi family.
02/17/17 10:17pm
In a widely-cited piece of compelling data journalism, The New York Times last month compiled a list of the 38 American colleges and universities that enroll more students from the top one percent of the U.S.
02/07/17 10:56pm
Commencement should, in our view, aim to broaden the horizons of departing students one last time – to be one last lesson before graduates leave the academic sphere.
02/02/17 7:00pm
We commend the participants of these marches, but we implore students to use these protests as an opportunity to revisit issues on our own campus, to channel this level of intensity and energy into tangible fixes within our own community.
01/31/17 11:23am
Trump’s order transcends mere partisan or intellectual dispute and rather enters the realm of immoral, lawless cruelty.
01/24/17 10:25pm
In the wake of the inauguration of 1968 Wharton graduate Donald Trump to the Presidency of the United States, Penn faces an institutional dilemma.
01/21/17 8:03pm
Although the University denied knowledge of any Penn staff being instructed to interfere with the protests, a FRES worker running the engine of a noisy maintenance vehicle at the site of one of the demonstrations said he had been instructed to drown out the protesters by someone from the University.
01/10/17 10:56pm
As Penn President Amy Gutmann announced on Dec. 2 of last year, Penn Provost Vincent Price will be departing the University on July 9 to assume the presidency of Duke University.
12/07/16 9:38pm
This semester has been tumultuous. Regardless of whether you personally were affected by current events — the election, Black Lives Matter, sexual assault — those around you were.
