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In the last 24 hours, several women have come forth to accuse Dominican-American writer Junot Diaz of behaving inappropriately. Among them is Carmen Maria Machado, a faculty member and artist-in-residence at Penn.
I knew that life could be challenging. I had to ask my parents twice for a Canada Goose jacket before they bought me one in middle school. I actually had to pay someone to complete my application to Penn, even though I’m a double legacy and the application is just a formality. But last Wednesday, I experienced the true difficulty of a world set against me. I ordered a vanilla latte at Pret, and I had to wait eight minutes before they gave me my drink.
It was a Cinderella story. Not once, but twice.
The student researchers in the Penn Slavery Project expanded upon their initial findings further demonstrating the University's connections to slavery at a presentation April 23.
Just after 2006 College graduate Conor Lamb won a close special election in the mostly-Republican Pennsylvania 18th district, he launched a campaign for reelection in Pennsylvania’s newly defined 17th district. If he is selected as the Democratic candidate during May's primaries, he will officially be up for reelection for the congressional seat in the 17th district.
It’s always tough to have a shot at victory and come up just short.
Multiple students say this year's Spring Fling concert — a "throwback show" featuring performances by CupcakKe, Sage the Gemini, JoJo, and The All-American Rejects — seemed to have a lower turnout rate than in previous years.
It’s nice to get away for a while.
Penn Law School professor Amy Wax argued for the importance of traditional marriage values in ensuring children's future success at a Penn Law event on April 16, alongside fellow panelist and Co-director of the Center on Children and Families, Isabel Sawhill.
Since on-campus recruiting began its shift to the fall from the spring approximately two years ago, trends in Penn study abroad programs have shifted too. Data shows that there has been an increase in students studying abroad in the spring semester and in less conventional study abroad programs over the summer and during school breaks.
Roughly two-thirds into our phone call, I finally pulled off the impossible — I made Kyra Levi crack.
Jamie-Lee Josselyn, who was the pre-major academic advisor of College sophomore Blaze Bernstein, will be dedicating her participation in the Blue Cross Broad Street Run on May 6 to the Penn student, who died in a homicide in January.
Penn’s rich alumni network often provides valuable networking opportunities for students looking for a leg up during the job search. But what if your entire chances of getting hired hinged upon whether or not alumni believed in you?
The in-bounds area of a doubles court measures only nine feet wider than that of a singles court, but, in fact, that may be the least significant difference between the two games.
The 17-year-old son of Bon Appetit staff member Troy Harris was shot in February near his home in South Philadelphia, and Penn students have been fundraising to cover his estimated $10,000 in medical expenses. Bon Appetit is the service provider at Penn Hillel, where Harris works.
Underappreciated shouldn’t mean underestimated.
Penn’s pole vaulting records are on red alert — if they haven’t been broken by Sean Clarke already, that is.
Penn broke another record this year with its lowest-ever overall acceptance rate of 8.39 percent.
The springtime festival of Pesach (“Passover”) begins sundown this Friday evening. From Los Angeles to Tel Aviv, Scarsdale, N.Y. to Namutumba, Uganda, Jews around the globe will gather in each other’s homes to eat symbolic foods, drink four cups of wine, and to retell the saga of our people’s exodus from slavery in Egypt toward freedom in the Promised Land.
Penn’s Fels Institute of Government announced that it will be restructuring its Master of Public Administration program and will not be accepting applicants for the 2018-2019 academic year. Students and alumni have expressed confusion about the changes, and many say that Fels has not been transparent about the restructuring process.
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