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(04/12/18 2:41am)
Penn is no longer the place Playboy called the No. 1 party school in 2014. Given the controversial social policies (#NotMyEventObserver) adopted by Penn as a result of the Task Force on a Safe and Responsible Campus Community, we knew that this Fling would be different. What I didn’t expect was how much SPEC and students would contribute to this change.
(04/05/18 4:24am)
Greek life isn’t really alien to any of us, but in all my years of college and all I’ve heard on the subject, I’ve rarely — if ever — heard a simple public affirmation of Greek life from a present member of Greek life.
(03/22/18 12:49am)
“Freedom! No rules!”
(02/22/18 11:53pm)
“Abortion is good.” “Abortion is bad.” “Hate speech is not free speech.” “Freedom of speech is an imperative.” “We need guns for self-defense.” “Reasonable societies ban guns.” None of these statements are true. Not really, anyway.
(02/08/18 4:49am)
First off: Fly, Eagles, fly. I’m not a diehard football fan generally, but I grew up in an Eagles household, and my earliest Philadelphia memories are going to their games with my dad, so it’s certainly satisfying to see them earn this Super Bowl win.
(02/06/18 4:42pm)
I once heard a professor joke that “you can explain 80 percent of what happens in a classroom by the students’ desires to get dates.” He meant to point out jokingly that students — particularly younger ones — are often concerned with how they appear to their peers to the point that it can define how they approach and engage with their classes.
(01/25/18 1:30pm)
I’m a second-semester senior writing my first column – this is the college equivalent of the “old man yells at cloud” meme. That said, I was a transfer student from New York University, so maybe my desire to keep talking about Penn comes from the memory of being at a school radically different from this one.
(07/19/17 5:31am)
Jon Huntsman, Jr., the former Utah governor, diplomat and 1987 College graduate, is President Donald Trump’s choice to be the next ambassador to Russia, according to an announcement from the White House.
(06/27/17 1:54pm)
There's a new sheriff in town.
(06/08/17 7:40pm)
President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he intends to nominate Penn Law Professor Stephanos Bibas as a circuit judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, according to a statement from the White House.
(05/25/17 6:13pm)
The Harvard Crimson, Harvard University's student newspaper, was hacked earlier today and all signs point to The Harvard Lampoon, an undergraduate humor publication, as the source of the breach.
(10/11/16 7:50pm)
According to a Philadelphia Magazine article, Temple students will be able to enroll in "Marijuana 101" next semester. The course deals with a wide array of reefer-laden matters including: biological features, effects on the body, cultivation history, adoption into pop culture, public policy and its role in professional fields.
(10/11/16 2:07am)
Did you register to vote or change your registration to PA on campus this year?
(10/05/16 2:55am)
Penn professors recently announced a plan to euthanize turtles in the BioPond after deciding that they constituted an invasive species. Is this a necessary measure for preserving campus or, as one St. Joe's professor wrote, a step too far? Make your voice heard by voting and commenting below!
(10/04/16 8:17pm)
The PPD and the School District of Philadelphia released a joint statement informing the city’s residents that they’ve opened an active investigation into a series of “scary clown threats.”
(09/20/16 8:01pm)
Dean of Harvard College Rakesh Khurana announced via a College-wide email today that the Single Gender Policy Enforcement Committee — which aims to penalize and oversee Harvard’s “unrecognized” single-sex social groups, otherwise known as final clubs — has officially assembled.
(09/14/16 3:39am)
Despite a book's claim that all colonial-era universities have connections to slavery, Penn told The Philadelphia Tribune it has not found evidence to suggest a connection to slavery.
(10/06/15 5:49am)
A recent report shows that approximately 90 percent of all donations from students, professors, and affiliates of Ivy League universities have gone to democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.
(09/26/15 1:04pm)
Mounting political tensions are well-documented throughout the United States, and college campuses are no exception. Students at Connecticut's Wesleyan University this week have called for a ban and defunding of the school's 147-year-old student newspaper, The Argus, following the printing of an op-ed critical of the Black Lives Matter movement's handling of recent police assassinations which cited the movement.
(09/26/15 4:48pm)
With football season right around the corner, it's time to turn the clock back to a 2010 milestone. Five years ago this week, Penn became the tenth team in college football to reach 800 program wins.