Trump Claims Penn Degree Proves Intelligence but We Know Several Dumb People Here
This past Wednesday, President Donald J. Trump again referenced his Penn education in an effort to correct the popular opinion that he is “a moron."
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This past Wednesday, President Donald J. Trump again referenced his Penn education in an effort to correct the popular opinion that he is “a moron."
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One step closer to a top-three finish in the Ivy League.
Jacob Swartz (W ‘20) comes from a modest background. He was raised by a stay-at-home mother and a father with a partnership at a law firm. Swartz attended a $60,000-per-year private high school, and went on trips to international luxury resorts with his family four times a year. He felt secure about his family’s finances when living in a gated community where everyone had similar levels of wealth.
College lecturer and Executive Director of the Women’s Law Project Carol Tracy has always stood up to those in charge.
Anna Thompson, or “Gopher,” as her teammates now call her, stepped onto the ultimate frisbee field with only one year of experience under her belt. Little did she know that in two years’ time, as just a junior in college, she’d be headed to Perth, Australia to represent the United States in the World Under-24 (U24) Ultimate Championship.
During Stephen Paddock’s meticulously planned and morally incomprehensible act of mass murder, law enforcement officers shielded concertgoers with their own bodies. Concertgoers, who could’ve kept running, returned to save others. Locally, people went to donate blood the next day and all of America was hoping against hope that there would be few victims.
It’s the middle of October, and I’d like you all to take a deep, deep breath with me. On the count of three …
My mother, for as long as I can remember, has urged me to befriend more of my fellow Indian-Americans, particularly Hindu ones. It’s for my own good, she says — even more so now that I’m in college, where it’s so easy to get lost, but also so easy to find other Indian-Americans. “What if we don’t have anything in common?” I say. “You always have your culture in common,” she replies, and I can never argue much with that.
Penn’s student body now has a new mode of communication at its disposal with the introduction of the anonymous messaging application Tik Tak.
Penn upperclassmen can choose to live on or off campus, but transfer and exchange students don't have the same options.
In his sophomore year of high school, Chris Luciano was frustrated: his winter swim season did not go as well as he wanted it to.
Almost a decade ago, two luxury apartment complexes popped up in University City, changing the urban landscape of campus. The Radian and Domus are now distinctive fixtures of University City, though some students worry that these apartments have exacerbated socioeconomic divisions in the Penn community.
Eric Shuster (C '20) was standing at the corner of 39th and Walnut, waiting to receive a small Ziploc bag filled with drugs, when he realized that he was in a predicament. While he made his simple, secure, and practically fun exchange of mobile currency for narcotics, Shuster wondered: what would he make his Venmo caption?
The Manning brothers. The Williams sisters. The Touche brothers?
They say lightning never strikes twice, but Penn women’s soccer is looking to change that this time around.
Mental health has been a focus at Penn for several years, and more recently, Counseling and Psychological Services has undergone significant changes to expand its resources.
On June 26, Jason Calhoun, the husband of Penn’s Athletic Director, Dr. M. Grace Calhoun, was announced as the next head coach of the men’s golf program.
People often don’t believe College sophomore Jennifer Higa when she says she was born and raised in Japan. Higa, who is of Japanese descent, says that her American accent often confuses people.
It’s no secret that if Penn football wants to pull off its unprecedented Ivy League three-peat, some new kids on the block will have to step up.