Articles by Wil Hershner

05/16/08 5:00am

Wil Hershner | Attitude is everything

A month ago, you'd be hard-pressed to hear me give my experience at Penn a positive review. But like most things in life, you only really appreciate something once it's truly gone. And now, situated at that cusp between "the best four years of your life" and the rest of it, I've started to realize that my own natural tendency to be miserable and deprecating aside, Penn wasn't all bad.
10/02/07 5:00am

Giving freshmen food, waiting to fish hoping for fishing

After beating 11 candidates with 239 votes, Wharton freshman Keith Williams landed the one of the most coveted roles among his freshman peers: class president. The new leader, whose term begins immediately, sat down with The Daily Pennsylvanian to share his to-do list for the year to come, a bit about his past and why he already thinks he can read your mind.
09/05/07 5:00am

Crime Log

Theft Aug. 28 - Two juveniles were arrested by the Penn Police for allegedly attempting to remove secured bicycles from a bike rack at 415 Curie Blvd. by cutting the locks at about 1:45 p.m. Aug. 28 - A male unaffiliated with the University reported that an offender broke into his secured vehicle and removed his GPS device at about 5:30 a.
01/31/07 5:00am

Home-grown vs. imported? No contest

Yasser El-Halaby wowed the squash world the last four years on his way to four straight individual titles - a feat never accomplished before. However, El-Halaby was just one part of a recent tradition of exceptional international squash players. A United States-born player has not won an individual title in over 15 years.
10/11/06 5:00am
With only breakfast and lunch hours and an entrance snugly fit between two larger buildings, La Cigale is easy to overlook.
07/20/06 5:00am

Wil Hershner: Facing the stigma of mental help

Walking down 36th Street, one can see various locales of Penn's campus: the Bookstore, Cosi, the Institute of Contemporary Art. Yet one location on campus that is oft-overlooked is on the second floor of 133 S. 36th Street. You might have no idea what building I am referring to, but you've probably all seen it.
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