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The impending sale of an 80-year-old West Philadelphia apartment building has united the fight against losing affordable housing in the city. As the deadline approaches for all 19 residents to vacate the building, the city government and community members are working together — believing that Penn can help in the future with promoting affordable housing.
As far as tune-up games go, this one went about as well as coach Mike McLaughlin could hope.
The art of being black at a predominantly white institution isn’t always pretty.
A few weeks ago, my 12-year old cousin asked me an important question.
Making friends — as a little kid, it was a breeze. Little me would spot another little girl or boy playing where I wanted to play. Maybe by the end of playtime, we'd dub each other best friends for life. Maybe we wouldn’t even remember each others’ names the next day. It didn’t matter. At the core, we were enjoying each other’s company and having fun.
For a pair of former Penn athletes, four years alone wasn’t enough time to be with the team.
If you had polled 10 of the biggest Penn men’s basketball fans in the world after last season, asking each of them to predict next year’s leading scorer, you would probably get a few different answers.
Penn's School of Dental Medicine was one of the first schools to implement the Counseling and Psychological Services' program of embedding clinicians in schools to make mental health resources more accessible for students. But despite efforts by administrators to improve the system, Dental students still say they face obstacles in utilizing the services.
Princeton, N.J. — You can't do the same thing over and over again and expect different results.
Being a senior comes with expectations. It’s Year Four, our time at Penn is coming to an end, and it is time for us to step into the shoes of those who graduated before us.
In an apparent prank, two men staged a stabbing in the crowded Terakawa Ramen restaurant on 40th street, causing some Penn students to flee the crowded restaurant and run outside on Nov. 13.
In the 18 months since Penn Medicine broke ground on the construction of the $1.5 billion Pavilion for the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, HUP's neighbor, the Penn Museum, has had to take steps to protect itself from the reverberations caused by the construction.
Former Penn student Blaze Bernstein went missing over winter break while visiting his family before being found dead in a park in Orange County, Calif. in January. Within weeks, Samuel Woodward, a former high school classmate of Bernstein, was arrested for his murder. Since then, prosecutors in the case have accused Woodward of killing Bernstein in a hate crime because the Penn student was Jewish and gay.
Every year like clockwork, alumni flock back to campus to cheer on Penn during Homecoming. For some, the weekend is also a time to pass on Penn traditions to the next generation of Quakers in the family.
Donald Trump? “A moron on many things.” The Democratic party? “They don’t control me.” The American electorate? “[They] want a fighter.”
While he is heralding his victory as a “Celebration of Freedom,” and promising that his government will be a “defender of the Constitution, democracy and liberty,” Brazil's president-elect Jair Bolsonaro presents a new political reality to many people worldwide — including presumably the 75 or so Brazilians who are part of the Penn community.
You are nine years old. Your mom comes into your room at 6:30 a.m. to wake you up. You climb out of bed, brush your teeth, have breakfast, then run to the bus stop. The driver yells at you to hurry up. You sit silently as the bus loops around the blocks, bringing you to school right before the first bell.
After a day of historically high turnout at the polls, Penn students gathered at bars, fraternity houses, and dorm lounges to monitor the results of Tuesday's midterm elections. The atmosphere across campus changed as various races were called throughout the night, but as the early morning approached, it grew clear that the Democrats had taken control of the U.S. House of Representatives while the Republican party had secured a majority in the U.S. Senate.
I’m not the biggest partier. Growing up, I never went to any school dances, and only after my friends relentlessly pestered me, I agreed to go to senior year prom. I didn’t have anything against parties; I was simply uninterested. However, my interest began to grow after I committed to Penn, widely known as the “Social Ivy” and one of the best party schools in the country. I started telling my friends, “Catch me at the parties,” genuinely thinking that I’d soon be sending them Snapchats of me in dark basements holding red Solo cups.
Who’s surprised?
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