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(05/15/17 5:13pm)
This past weekend, from May 12-15, Penn alumni of all ages and privileged backgrounds gathered on campus to reconnect with former classmates and faculty. However, attendees were shocked by the appearance of one unexpected guest on Saturday. President Amy Gutmann made an impromptu presentation on campus, attempting to solicit money as a result of her heart-wrenching 2.7% salary decrease.
(05/09/17 7:35pm)
It took almost two weeks for runner Blake Claras to cross the finish line-- a new record in his event, the 10,000-meter run. The record, unfortunately, is for the slowest recorded time. When he finished, he was the only person still participating in a Penn Relays event.
(05/09/17 12:20am)
There’s no stopping it. Your final game might end in heartbreak. It might end with injury. It might even be for an Ivy title.
(05/12/17 7:40pm)
The one other time I wrote about my experience as the “DP Guy,” I mentioned that I grew up listening to The Clash. That same semester, I said “nice shirt” on the Compass to a girl with a London Calling shirt on. I didn’t remember that happening — until she told me the story after we had dated for two months.
(06/19/17 10:17pm)
For many Penn freshmen, the best places on campus are ones they discover outside of Penn’s college brochure. From obscure locations to secret group study rooms in fitness buildings across campus, Penn students reflect on what they’ve learned about Penn outside of the classroom.
(06/13/17 3:44am)
Penn advertises various pre-orientation programs as fun ways for incoming freshmen to meet other students. But what do students have to say about them?
(04/27/17 8:07pm)
High school senior Anna Johnson can finally be herself. All throughout high school, Johnson was deliberately uncool to avoid peaking.
(04/26/17 5:07am)
Of 2,085 students surveyed from the Class of 2016, 89 percent secured full-time employment or continued their education at the end of the school year, according to Career Services data.
(04/24/17 2:46am)
Five Philadelphia university presidents gathered in one auditorium at the Barnes Foundation last Thursday to discuss how their institutions relate to the city.
(04/23/17 11:52pm)
Penn administrators and alumni said it might be premature to make conclusions of the “Trump effect” on applications from international students.
(04/19/17 11:53pm)
They call her the girl who walks on water.
(04/18/17 10:51pm)
Some students struggle to sit through a 90-minute lecture. But what if the class went on for seventy years straight?
(04/19/17 4:46am)
Penn’s cost of attendance increased by 3.9 percent this year; that’s in line with the rest of the Ivies, which all saw their sticker prices increase within an incredibly thin margin — Brown University, Cornell University, Harvard University and Yale University all increased their tuition between 3.5 and 4 percent for the 2017-18 year.
(04/18/17 3:07am)
When College freshman Sherry Tseng decided to take Computer and Information Science 110 this spring, she did not expect the popular introductory-level computer science course to curtail her interest in the subject altogether.
(04/18/17 3:02am)
More than 30 Philadelphia schools were placed on lockdown for nearly two hours on Monday afternoon due to an unconfirmed sighting of Steve Stephens, the fugitive who posted a video of himself murdering a man on Facebook.
(04/17/17 1:51am)
Wharton’s youngest tenured and highest-rated professor, Adam Grant, has been an outspoken critic of Penn’s cutthroat environment — but also teaches a class that is unusually competitive to even get into.
(04/13/17 2:32am)
Thousands of students crowded campus on Wednesday with red and blue lanyards, juggling brochures, schedules and Penn merchandise. The “baby quakers” are here.
(04/12/17 12:29am)
Want a free trip inside a Super Bowl team’s locker room? On Tuesday night, Penn’s undergrad student body got as good a glimpse as possible.
(04/10/17 9:56pm)
There’s no denying Penn’s place as a global leader in being, well, global. Stroll down Locust Walk at high noon and you’ll see just about every culture represented. This is what makes Penn such an amazing place — it brings people together from all different regions of the world.
(04/10/17 2:51am)
Penn Democrats has not historically kept a close relationship with the Pennsylvania College Democrats, a statewide body with 45 chapters. But this weekend, the two groups came together to make Penn's predominantly liberal campus even bluer.
