Jared Mitovich | Keep your palace gates open
(05/16/25 12:54am)
I had barely made it to the closing scene of my housemate’s play when the text came through.
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The Graduation Issue 2025: Five things to know about Commencement speaker Elizabeth Banks
(05/16/25 5:36am)
Get to know 1996 College graduate Elizabeth Banks, the actress and film director who will deliver Penn’s 269th Commencement speech on May 19.
Caleb Crain | Putting the ‘student’ back in ‘student journalist’
(05/16/25 12:47am)
I still remember it vividly. The call came after midnight on Sunday, Nov. 19, 2023. It lasted just over a minute, but it still managed to change my life. In so many words, I learned that I was not going to be podcast editor on The Daily Pennsylvanian’s 140th Board. Once my term as sports editor concluded the following month, my time in the DP’s leadership would be done.
Liz Magill, Scott Bok discuss Penn ‘crisis’ in first joint public appearance since resignations
(05/06/25 9:41pm)
NEW YORK — Former University Board of Trustees Chair Scott Bok and former Penn President Liz Magill discussed Bok’s upcoming book at an event in New York City on Monday, marking their first joint public appearance since resigning from their respective posts in December 2023.
'A game of constant failure': Pitcher Josh Katz relies on resilience to excel on the mound
(05/01/25 2:05am)
Sophomore right-handed baseball pitcher Josh Katz calls the game one of “constant failure” — but his continued resilience has led to an impressive record of striking his opponents out.
Piper Slinka-Petka | Let Penn change you
(05/06/25 12:00pm)
When I called my parents in my first semester, I would refer to Penn as a foreign, yet well-oiled machine. To others, it was a self-fulling prophecy where stars aligned, and everything fell into place. Everyone already knew how to move through the machine; who to talk to, which clubs to join, and what to wear. To me it was a new world chugging along past me faster than I could get on. Penn felt cold, and fast. Like an iron cast meant to mold us passion-filled and optimistic students into shiny and strategic future investment bankers. How was this my dream school?
Mariana Martinez | What poker and the Ivy League have in common
(04/29/25 1:17am)
Meritocracy is dead. In his article, How the Ivy League Broke America, David Brooks argued that the Ivy League had come to rely on segregating people based on their IQ, putting immense amounts of pressure on kids. This is a system doomed to fail, he posited, because the Ivy League ended up recycling an elitist mechanism by giving preference to kids with the most impressive resumes. Resumes that were carefully crafted by parents willing to spend thousands of dollars in making their kids more competitive through extracurriculars and fancy education, like the AP courses.
Penn Hillel hosts Holocaust survivor in Remembrance Day event
(04/24/25 3:25am)
Penn Hillel hosted 1949 College graduate and Holocaust survivor Michael Katz on April 23 for a Holocaust Remembrance Day event.
Chief AI scientist at Meta visits Penn for AI Month fireside chat
(04/21/25 4:22am)
Yann LeCun, the chief artificial intelligence scientist at Meta, visited Penn last week for a fireside chat hosted by Computer and Information Science professor Michael Kearns.
Penn women's lacrosse clinches Ivy tournament spot with 18-10 win over Cornell
(04/21/25 1:12am)
At the last guaranteed game at Franklin Field, No. 18 Penn women’s lacrosse (8-5, 4-2 Ivy) did just that. They dominated Cornell (9-5, 3-3 Ivy) 18-10 to clinch a spot in the Ivy League Tournament. Senior midfielder Anna Brandt scored nine goals for the Red and Blue — half of the team’s final tally. Brandt's nine goals also tied the program record for most goals in a single game. Earlier this season, she broke the team's all-time goal record.
'Beyond the finish line': How women’s track and field coach Chené Townsend is shaping champions
(04/23/25 11:35pm)
Junior sprinter Moforehan “Fore” Abinusawa stepped up to the line at the 2023 NCAA regional championships, thoughts racing through her head. Being a freshman on the 4x400-meter relay team meant being less experienced than her three teammates. She was surrounded by the nation’s best sprinters in an event she seldom ran in high school.
One year later, Bryce Louie reflects on senior year as an NCAA champion
(04/30/25 2:13am)
Every college athlete dreams of the moment when their years of early-morning practices and sacrifices pays off, the one where the lights shine the brightest. They all dream of hoisting the NCAA trophy.
How three former Penn swimmers came together to sue the University
(04/17/25 5:20am)
The controversy surrounding the inclusion of transgender women in women’s sports has been a polarizing topic for years — one that was brought to the national spotlight after 2022 College graduate Lia Thomas competed on the Penn women’s swimming and diving team at the NCAA level during the 2021-22 season.
Penn Relays has a legacy of Black excellence
(04/23/25 9:46pm)
On the Rogers-O’Hern Lyons Oval/Track in Franklin Field, the brick wall below the bleachers is adorned with the gold and black plaques of the Penn Relay Carnival Wall of Fame. The newly recognized 2025 inductees include four individuals and two relay teams — one of which is the 1950 4x400-meter relay team from Morgan State, a historically Black university.
Slinka-Petka | Our athletes are showing up. Why aren’t we?
(04/14/25 2:08am)
The Palestra is empty. Franklin Field is desolate. A tumbleweed occasionally rolls through Penn Park. Our athletes are unsupported, and so are their wins.
Penn Makuu celebrates 25th anniversary featuring current, former directors
(04/10/25 4:02am)
On April 7, Penn Makuu: The Black Cultural Center held a conversation celebrating its 25th anniversary.
Tina Njike keeps it real about her healing journey and love for activities off the court
(04/10/25 12:44am)
On a Penn women’s basketball trip to Arizona this past winter break, sophomore center Tina Njike met a childhood friend from Canada, who she used to play basketball with. When Penn played Arizona State, her friend’s family watched the game, and she met him again after five years. Together in Canada, reuniting in Arizona.
Yoonmee Chang Memorial Lecture features activist author, filmmaker to discuss award-winning memoir
(04/08/25 2:02am)
Author, filmmaker, and activist Curtis Chin delivered the Asian American Studies Program’s 2025 Yoonmee Chang Memorial Lecture on his award-winning memoir, “Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant.”
From the weight room to the lecture hall: How Penn student-athletes schedule their classes
(04/07/25 3:28am)
5 a.m. 5:15 a.m. 5:50 a.m.
Jason Zhao | This isn’t about the swim team
(04/07/25 10:00am)
Lia Thomas who? I opened up my news feed a week ago to a surreal sight: headline after headline devoted to how the United States has been gripped by intense political dogfights and moral reflection over … watersports. A genocide in Sudan? The collapse of the United States’ international alliances? $4 trillion of capital value wiped out in the stock market due to tariffs? No, clearly the Penn swimming and diving team is our most important concern.
