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Students looking for a space to celebrate their cultures and identities are no longer able to find comfort in the basement of ARCH, where three of the six cultural resource centers are housed.
It has only been one year since Caroline Douglas made the cross-country move to Penn, and she has already been instrumental for the Quakers on the volleyball court.
The Daily Pennsylvanian asked Penn men's soccer's Joey Bhangdia 15 questions about his sport, his time at Penn, and his life overall. Here's what the senior midfielder had to say.
For 32 years, Beijing Restaurant's red and yellow sign has lit up 3714 Spruce Street's windows. First years wandering from the Quad for an off-campus meal, a loyal Philadelphia customer base, and boisterous BYOs have filled the place's booths.
A Philadelphia-based anti-capitalist group appears to have been responsible for the civil unrest that occurred near Penn's campus on Aug. 25.
It’s easy to forget the past.
More than a century ago, while Philadelphia was facing a similar situation as the city is today, Franklin Field still had football.
Though it has been almost two decades since Gavin Hoffman was a Quaker, his legacy persists in Penn’s record books.
You’d think the nickname "Dash" refers to the fastest person on the football field.
Over a month after the Ivy League announced its decision to cancel fall athletics, bigger and more recognizable conferences are finally following suit. But not if a certain former Quaker has anything to do with it.
After finishing an assignment in his dorm room in Kings Court English College House, rising Engineering sophomore Muhammad Abdullah Khalid met up with rising Engineering sophomore Amelia Sharpe to get dinner from 1920 Commons.
In early June and throughout the last year, Penn students from Hong Kong have protested in the crowded streets, chanting, “Liberate Hong Kong! The revolution of our times!”
Field hockey sensation Alexa Hoover rewrote the record books at Penn. But her work isn't done just yet.
Last spring, renowned Psychology professor and New York Times bestselling author Angela Duckworth began teaching a course unlike any other at Penn: enrolling 60 students across the four undergraduate schools graded on a mandatory pass-fail basis and featuring weekly alumni guest speakers.
In April 2020, New York City resembled a ghost town with empty streets and shuttered businesses. In the days following Governor Andrew Cuomo’s stay-at-home order, the most populous city in the United States fell silent, except for the eerie echoes of loudspeakers urging individuals to maintain physical distance. Inside the city’s emergency rooms and hospitals, however, healthcare workers were facing the worst experience of their careers. Forced to work with insufficient equipment, personnel, and space, New York City’s physicians were at the mercy of an illness they barely understood.
The biggest challenge of my childhood occurred when my family moved from the suburbs of Bucks County, Pennsylvania to Northeast Philadelphia. I was nine years old. The biggest hurdle was not getting used to our new home or neighborhood, but rather adjusting to my new school. As a newly registered School District of Philadelphia pupil, the standards that I was accustomed to went out the window. My new reality was an overpacked classroom that lacked air conditioning, a teacher stretched too thin to embrace students’ individuality, an abundance of unhappy classmates, questionable lunches, supply shortages, and long walks home — because there were no yellow school buses.
In recent weeks, many organizations have issued statements supporting the nationwide movement for racial justice, committing to promote internal diversity and inclusion. Among these organizations is the National Book Critics Circle, in which one Penn professor, who is a former NBCC president and longtime board member, is facing backlash for objecting to the ideas referenced in the organization's proposed statement written in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.
After months of speculation, the Ivy League will announce the fate of its fall sports seasons on July 8.
In January, Jihed Chehimi, the owner of Chez Yasmine, the French-Tunisian fusion food truck at Spruce and 37th streets, donned a mask and began preparing for COVID-19 to reach the United States. Around him, long, tightly-packed lines for other food trucks filled the streets. There were no masks, no gloves, and no designated physical distance between customers.
On June 18, the Penn community received an email from Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Wendell Pritchett, which many students expected to contain Penn's decision on the fall semester. Instead, the message read that Dean of Admissions Eric Furda will step down from his role at the end of this year.
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