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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.
On the Friday afternoon following the death of College senior Nicholas Moya, staff members from Counseling and Psychological Services, the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life and Student Intervention Services visited the kitchen of the Sigma Delta Tau chapter house, where members of the sorority gathered together, sharing hugs and warm pizza.
For many LGBTQ freshmen, arriving at Penn is a chance to find a community that might not exist at home. For others, it can be a chance to open up about their sexual and gender identities, maybe even for the first time.
Jake Crouthamel was the first player ever signed by the Dallas Cowboys and one of the founding fathers of the Big East Conference as the athletic director of Syracuse University. He was also the only coach in Ivy League history to win championships in each of his first two seasons — until Penn football coach Ray Priore became the second last November.
If you’re not talking about the fraternity party you went to Saturday night, Snapchatting pictures of the breathtaking campus or posting on Instagram with friends you made two hours prior, are you really having a good time in college? The fact of the matter is, even if you are doing these things, there’s a good chance that you feel alone.
Jack Stokes (W '19) was pleased when he heard that Pret A Manger, a popular chain of sandwich shops, would be replacing Huntsman Hall's Bridge Cafe this fall. Being from Manhattan, where the chain has more than a dozen locations, Jack was familiar with the fast-casual locale. And because he had taken 2 full semesters of French (he claims to have taken another semester, but admits he withdrew halfway through the course), he knew how to pronounce "Pret A Manger" like a true Parisian. But once he got to campus, his excitement faded to disappointment—not in the food, but in the students.
Just a few months ago, the announcements of newly minted Wharton internal transfers, coordinated and uncoordinated dual-degree students of every school at Penn flooded my Facebook News Feed. To all my peers who have successfully switched into the programs that they wanted, I applaud them and admire them. There’s excitement and anticipation behind their cheers, for sure, but also — and this might just be me — an underlying exhaustion.
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Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, a 1986 Wharton graduate with over two decades of experience in the Department of Justice, has been the subject of numerous headlines since he wrote a highly publicized statement recommending the firing of former FBI Director James Comey in May. A week after that memo, Rosenstein appointed former FBI Director Robert Mueller to head a special counsel investigation into the links between President Donald Trump's 2016 election campaign and the Russian government's interference in the 2016 presidential election. Rosenstein has continued to expand the investigation even as Trump has dismissed the probe as a "a total fabrication" and "a witch hunt."
In a fall season where many of Penn’s teams look poised to contend with the best, Penn field hockey struggled out of the gate in its opening weekend, falling to Rutgers by a score of 1-0, and to top-ranked UNC, 3-1.
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