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On July 16, Penn announced that its 2025-26 undergraduate admissions process would no longer include conversations with alumni, sparking mixed reactions from members of the Penn Alumni Ambassador Program.
In the public conversation, tennis is less popular than sports like football, basketball, and baseball. And at Penn, school spirit towards athletics is sadly already low. But Penn women’s tennis has a special appeal — and is arguably underrated on campus. The strong performance of the players, the engaging multi-match style, and the unique environment of Penn Park make it easy to be a fan of women’s tennis.
With graduation right around the corner, here are the best graduating women’s student-athletes in the Class of 2025.
The Woodlands Cemetery is only two blocks from Penn’s campus, but it couldn’t feel further away. With its 18th-century mansion, winding brick paths, Victorian funerary monuments, and over 1,000 species of trees, it’s a different world, one that takes you out of the Penn bubble and 21st-century Philadelphia.
My education at the University of Pennsylvania is cleanly severed into two eras: BDP and ADP, also known as before The Daily Pennsylvanian and after the DP. I joined the DP at a time most student journalists would consider late: my junior year, and with it came a sharp change to my life.
I had barely made it to the closing scene of my housemate’s play when the text came through.
Get to know 1996 College graduate Elizabeth Banks, the actress and film director who will deliver Penn’s 269th Commencement speech on May 19.
I still remember it vividly. The call came after midnight on Sunday, Nov. 19, 2023. It lasted just over a minute, but it still managed to change my life. In so many words, I learned that I was not going to be podcast editor on The Daily Pennsylvanian’s 140th Board. Once my term as sports editor concluded the following month, my time in the DP’s leadership would be done.
NEW YORK — Former University Board of Trustees Chair Scott Bok and former Penn President Liz Magill discussed Bok’s upcoming book at an event in New York City on Monday, marking their first joint public appearance since resigning from their respective posts in December 2023.
Sophomore right-handed baseball pitcher Josh Katz calls the game one of “constant failure” — but his continued resilience has led to an impressive record of striking his opponents out.
When I called my parents in my first semester, I would refer to Penn as a foreign, yet well-oiled machine. To others, it was a self-fulling prophecy where stars aligned, and everything fell into place. Everyone already knew how to move through the machine; who to talk to, which clubs to join, and what to wear. To me it was a new world chugging along past me faster than I could get on. Penn felt cold, and fast. Like an iron cast meant to mold us passion-filled and optimistic students into shiny and strategic future investment bankers. How was this my dream school?
Meritocracy is dead. In his article, How the Ivy League Broke America, David Brooks argued that the Ivy League had come to rely on segregating people based on their IQ, putting immense amounts of pressure on kids. This is a system doomed to fail, he posited, because the Ivy League ended up recycling an elitist mechanism by giving preference to kids with the most impressive resumes. Resumes that were carefully crafted by parents willing to spend thousands of dollars in making their kids more competitive through extracurriculars and fancy education, like the AP courses.
Penn Hillel hosted 1949 College graduate and Holocaust survivor Michael Katz on April 23 for a Holocaust Remembrance Day event.
Yann LeCun, the chief artificial intelligence scientist at Meta, visited Penn last week for a fireside chat hosted by Computer and Information Science professor Michael Kearns.
At the last guaranteed game at Franklin Field, No. 18 Penn women’s lacrosse (8-5, 4-2 Ivy) did just that. They dominated Cornell (9-5, 3-3 Ivy) 18-10 to clinch a spot in the Ivy League Tournament. Senior midfielder Anna Brandt scored nine goals for the Red and Blue — half of the team’s final tally. Brandt's nine goals also tied the program record for most goals in a single game. Earlier this season, she broke the team's all-time goal record.
Junior sprinter Moforehan “Fore” Abinusawa stepped up to the line at the 2023 NCAA regional championships, thoughts racing through her head. Being a freshman on the 4x400-meter relay team meant being less experienced than her three teammates. She was surrounded by the nation’s best sprinters in an event she seldom ran in high school.
Every college athlete dreams of the moment when their years of early-morning practices and sacrifices pays off, the one where the lights shine the brightest. They all dream of hoisting the NCAA trophy.
The controversy surrounding the inclusion of transgender women in women’s sports has been a polarizing topic for years — one that was brought to the national spotlight after 2022 College graduate Lia Thomas competed on the Penn women’s swimming and diving team at the NCAA level during the 2021-22 season.
On the Rogers-O’Hern Lyons Oval/Track in Franklin Field, the brick wall below the bleachers is adorned with the gold and black plaques of the Penn Relay Carnival Wall of Fame. The newly recognized 2025 inductees include four individuals and two relay teams — one of which is the 1950 4x400-meter relay team from Morgan State, a historically Black university.
The Palestra is empty. Franklin Field is desolate. A tumbleweed occasionally rolls through Penn Park. Our athletes are unsupported, and so are their wins.
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