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(05/13/16 5:24am)
Ever since the announcement of Lin-Manuel Miranda, the composer and star of the hit Broadway musical “Hamilton,” as this year’s Commencement speaker, Penn has been eager to embrace Alexander Hamilton’s legacy into the University’s history.
(04/28/16 6:51am)
Every year, on the first day of reading days in April, the junior class celebrates their initial “moving up” as seniors in the annual Hey Day parade and celebration. Students march down Locust Walk dressed in red shirts, straw hats and canes, to President Amy Gutmann, who awaits the class on the steps of College Hall. Students roar and cheer, welcoming in their final year at Penn.
(04/27/16 6:29am)
On Tuesday night, Democratic presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke at the Terrace Ballroom of the Philadelphia Convention Center after winning four of five state primaries on the east coast.
(04/26/16 6:03am)
On Monday, Republican presidential candidate John Kasich stopped by the Penrose Diner in South Philadelphia to talk with Pennsylvania voters.
(03/03/16 5:34am)
On Tuesday, the House Committee on Ways and Means met to discuss free speech on college campuses.
(03/03/16 5:37am)
In May 2011, Ruth Perelman, with her husband Raymond, donated $225 million to the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, making it the largest gift to a U.S. medical school in history. Two months later, she passed away in the hospital that now bears her family name.
(02/24/16 7:07am)
Last fall, while working on a bone marrow floor, Nursing junior Christian Perucho lost a patient half an hour into beginning his clinical. Minutes later, his student group performed postmortem procedures, caring for a body after death. It would not be the only time this happened that semester.
(02/04/16 7:30am)
Three hundred and fifty marchers gathered to protest, marching westward down the streets of Philadelphia. From City Hall to 37th and Walnut streets, activists condemned the Institute for Cooperative Research, accused of conducting research for the U.S. war in Vietnam. The protestors, students and professors alike hailed from across the Northeast and represented Penn, Yale, Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Temple.
(12/24/15 2:24am)
Last week, the Democratic presidential primary race was shaken up when Bernie Sanders’s campaign gained access to data privately obtained and managed by Hillary Clinton’s staff.
(07/23/15 3:43am)
In his “100 Love Sonnets,” Pablo Neruda wrote, “I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.” In a wildly separate realm, Taylor Swift, in her hit song “Red,” proclaims, “Losing him was blue like I’d never known, missing him was dark grey all alone, forgetting him was like trying to know somebody you never met, but loving him was red.”
(09/13/14 8:27pm)
I don't spend a lot of time on Tumblr. I'm probably not as active a feminist as I should be. I'll sometimes dress a little differently if there's a guy I think is cute. I've ambivalently accepted the objectification and heteronormativity of the "ratios" required by frats to enter their parties, and have proceeded to dance the night away with my friends.