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(05/22/15 6:00pm)
In the fall of 1969, in an act of quiet gallantry, a Penn
biology professor with a fondness for mountain climbing hoisted himself up the
flagpole in front of College Hall and restored its flag to full staff. Its cord
had been cut a day earlier in an unauthorized gesture of objection to the Vietnam War.
(04/16/15 5:18am)
For many Penn students, post-graduation plans begin to cast their shadow early, in a hazy and frequently terrifying way. Some manage to ease the anxiety with an unambiguous post-graduate trajectory.
(03/31/15 4:49am)
Both those reluctantly jumping through the hoops of Penn’s foreign language requirement and those taking up a new tongue for pleasure or professional advantage have gotten to know the mixed bag of characters in what is Penn’s Romance Languages Department.
(03/03/15 6:14am)
With its urban sophistication, cultural proximity and plentiful Wi-Fi, Europe’s status as a first-choice study abroad location is hardly astonishing.
(02/18/15 6:17am)
In a nondescript house on Chestnut Street, the Red and Blue Call Center hardly bears the appearance of a fundraising center that brings millions to campus each year.
(02/05/15 5:36am)
Among the gaggle of bankers and consultants that seem to overwhelmingly comprise Penn’s alumni pool, 1999 College graduate Doree Shafrir cuts a unique figure. Her position as executive editor of Culture at BuzzFeed has the ring of an emperorship to it — after all, the site is a pulsing pop culture dynamo, a byword for quirk whose content has become a staple of the Internet diet of millions.
(12/10/14 8:28am)
A cross-section of artist Nicole Eisenman’s imagination sprawls
across the white walls of the Institute for Contemporary Art on 37th and Sansom streets.
(12/03/14 6:48am)
A tall, stylish woman commanded the petite stage of the upper level of the World Café, a white pane projected to her right.
(11/18/14 1:42am)
A s I’ve scrolled through my Facebook news feed recently, I’ve stumbled every so often on emphatic promotional blurbs urging me to “beat Harvard.” With a “like” to The Daily Pennsylvanian’s Facebook page, apparently, I can stick it to those sneering Cambridge-ites and help overtake the popularity of their altogether-too-revered Crimson. The DP page’s count stands currently at a rather anemic 5,437, despite enticements of hot chocolate, with The Crimson sitting ever-pretty at 30,084 . It did not take long for Harvard to respond, dryly and without fanfare, to this rather clunkily calculated campaign, scraping it off like a fly off a boot. The lack of drama with which this was accomplished demonstrated how tiny and desperate these attempts seem to the remainder of the world, and how they characterize a broader, significantly entrenched cultural problem at Penn that bears revisiting.
(11/05/14 6:42am)
Even to the uninitiated, a research grant to the tune of $1.7 million from the National Institutes of Health seems like a striking accomplishment.
(10/22/14 6:06am)
Seventh grade hands shot up with each of the museum instructor’s prompts at the “mummification workshop” offered at the Penn Alexander school. “Yeah! I love dead guys!” shouted one student. There was a chorus of agreement.
(10/01/14 5:50am)
Philadelphia poet laureate Frank Sherlock, a frequenter of the Kelly Writers House, returned to campus on Tuesday to host a trio of guest poets from across the country.