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On FaceTime with a friend from high school, right after an Instagram-official couple post on my part, she teased me, “What happened to ‘I hate labels, relationships are a burden, freshman year is for the girls’ Kaliyah?”
February 7, 2017. Penn vs. Princeton.
“It’s totally unique. People don’t know what it is; we don’t even know what it is.”
Nearly a hundred members of the Penn community crowded together on College Green to honor the lives of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting victims.
Puerto Rico is still struggling to recover after being devastated by hurricanes last year, but students and faculty in Penn’s School of Design are hoping to bolster the relief process and make the island stronger than ever before.
As a group of joggers barreled down Locust Walk this Friday, heads turned. Maybe it was because of the complex maneuvers it took to get around the crowds. Or, maybe it was because of the lecture on blockchain technology that was happening in the middle of the jogging group.
Beneath the silent first floor of the Fisher Fine Arts Library, Penn students might be surprised to find a room filled with bustling printing presses and a hand press dating from approximately 1850 — the very kind Benjamin Franklin would have used in the late 18th century.
After the University announced a new policy that would require sophomores to live on campus, Penn students responded en masse, citing issues concerning lack of cheaper housing options, the potential damage on the West Philadelphia community, and the risk of destroying Greek Life.
The summer after my freshman year at Penn, I was raped by another student.
Bipartisanship is becoming increasingly elusive in the United States, pundits say. But Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.), a 1997 College graduate, has nonetheless made it his priority.
Penn football just completed its longest road trip of the 2018 season. In 2019, the Quakers are going a bit farther.
It was just a normal midseason practice. No full contact allowed, per school rules, so the players hit dummies to practice their tackling.
It isn’t that uncommon to find Penn students who hold leadership positions in multiple clubs. It is much more rare, however, to find one who has done that and been a part of a varsity sports team. Angelo Matos has done both – without even counting his sprint football career.
Penn announced on Sept. 24 that Michael DiBerardinis, the managing director of Philadelphia, will join the Fels Institute of Government faculty in January 2019 as a professor of practice. This comes amid ongoing alumni efforts for Fels to be more transparent about the drastic administrative turnover within Fels and include input from the larger Fels community, including alumni, students, and other stakeholders.
Residents of 3929 and 3931 Pine St., many of whom are Penn students, may be evicted next Friday on Oct. 26, according to a notice posted on the building and confirmed by Philadelphia’s Department of Licenses and Inspection.
That's how you keep the momentum going.
Eating Thanksgiving dinners, opening holiday gifts, and Penn playing Princeton in the Palestra are all time-honored traditions. Sometimes though, the turkey burns, you don’t get the gift you hoped for, or Princeton walks away with a win on Penn’s historic home court.
Roxie* is a 34-year-old, divorced mother of two. Originally from Maryland, she moved to Philadelphia on a whim a few months ago, and quickly fell in love with the city. She has a job in the medical industry, and enjoys taking detours to South Philly and Chinatown on the weekends. The cost of living in Philadelphia can be brutal. Luckily, Roxie has a lucrative side-gig: She makes $2,000 per month as a prostitute.
As I begin my senior year, I want to take some time to reflect on my Penn experience. Although it's not over yet and there are many months to go, I think it's important for me to start coming to terms with what my time at Penn has both given me and taken from me. Our time as Quakers not only shapes us into who we are as people, but also reveals a sense of who we will become in the future and how we will confront the adversity that life will throw at us.
The state of Pennsylvania has 18 seats in the House of Representatives and two seats in the Senate — all of which are currently held by men. But come this season's midterm election, 1984 Penn Law graduate Mary Gay Scanlon might help change that.
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