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While many students have been escaping the outdoor heat by heading inside to their air-conditioned dorm rooms, other students have not been quite so lucky.
When students think about spending a semester abroad in Paris or Beijing, few think about doing it in their final year of college. This year however, Penn has seen a marked increase in the number of seniors opting to study abroad.
Bonding with the residents of your freshman dormitory is a Penn tradition, but most students do not typically choose to stay in these dorms for more than a year — that is, until New College House came along.
As Penn opens its doors for another year and a new batch of incoming freshmen, here are some of the biggest stories from last semester.
Two months after Starbucks held a four-hour anti-bias training, some Philadelphia Starbucks employees say they believe the stores still aren't getting it.
The preliminary hearing to determine whether to proceed to trial in the case against 20-year-old Samuel Woodward, who was charged in the murder of Penn student Blaze Bernstein, has been postponed. The hearing was previously set for June 14.
Penn is third on a list of universities that have the most billionaire alumni, according to a new ranking.
It’s really easy to hide behind a camera.
Most people thought that a conference championship contest between the two regular season co-champions of the Ivy League would go back and forth.
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.
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