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Although Penn's weekly undergraduate COVID-19 positivity rate decreased from 0.97% to 0.59% this week, administrators urged students to be as vigilant as ever.
The 11 players who take the football field for the Red and Blue's offense tend to get most of the credit when the team scores points. However, for about every two offensive players, there's an assistant coach working magic behind the scenes.
The University of Pennsylvania has announced five 2021 Thouron Scholars, including four seniors and a 2019 graduate.
Penn alumni are spearheading a movement to establish America’s only municipal public bank in Philadelphia, which its supporters believe could address issues ranging from racial justice to climate change and the power of big finance.
On January 1, 1917, 25,000 people packed into the extra grandstand seating at Tournament Park in Pasadena, Calif. to witness a game that would change the landscape of College Football forever.
While thousands of students are living on campus for a hybrid spring semester, many chose to not return to Philadelphia at all in fear of contracting the virus.
Like many other students of color around the nation, College junior Luke Coleman felt cynical in the days leading up to the 2020 presidential election. A Black biracial man, Coleman viewed his vote between two polarizing candidates as a choice between the lesser of two evils.
The Biden-Harris presidential administration officially takes office on Jan. 20 — bringing in a new slate of Penn affiliates to serve as political appointees in the White House.
Penn accepted a record-low 15% of early decision applicants to the Class of 2025, a significant decrease from last year's 19.7%.
As 2020 wraps up, this year will clearly be defined by the COVID-19 restrictions that began in March and persisted to varying degrees throughout the year. The scientific consensus is that lockdowns, stay-at-home orders, and social distancing practices were at least mostly helpful at preventing the transmission of COVID-19 in the United States. This evidence is further corroborated with the fact that, internationally, countries with less-stringent lockdowns had worse outbreaks than their neighbors, (Sweden vs. the rest of Scandinavia, the U.S. vs. Canada). Based on the scientific evidence and recommendations of top doctors, the COVID-19 restrictions that were put in place seem like a no-brainer. Yet, opposition to restrictions has steadily increased, and it seems that people are increasingly unwilling to stay inside even as super-spreader events lead to spikes in cases and deaths. Although misguided, this opposition to restrictions is very understandable, and is indicative of a recurring trend of the government’s failure to respond to the economic needs of the working class after significant global changes.
Nearly one-third of adults in the United States reported feeling symptoms of depression or anxiety in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, a recent Penn study found.
Along with 1968 Wharton graduate Donald Trump's presidential campaign, there are 16 other Penn graduates who are running for governmental office across the country. They span across six states and the majority are running for seats in the United States House of Representatives. Nine are incumbents, while seven are running for the first time.
Any passive politics enthusiast knows that the outcome of this election is as unpredictable as ever. With the issues of race relations, climate change, and COVID-19 on the line, this voting season will determine whether the nation can heal after months of conflict, not to mention whether the elected candidate can reorient the US down a path toward sustainability. Current polls anticipate that former Vice President Biden will come out on top, though one can never be sure. As we learned in 2016, a candidate who does not win the popular vote may still be inaugurated due to the electoral college. Whether the US people favor this institution is another question, however.
With the expansion of early voting in Pennsylvania this year, many Philadelphia residents and Penn students have already cast their ballots and are encouraging others to do so weeks before Nov. 3.
On the heels of a summer of protests against systemic racial inequality and police brutality, universities nationwide are grappling with how to address racism on campus. While students, faculty, and staff are calling on Penn to join other colleges and institute a mandatory class on ethnic studies and anti-racism, the University maintains it offers enough courses and opportunities for learning in this area.
Penn Medicine's COVID Watch project was granted $2.5 million by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to study the program's impact on patient outcomes, especially on those whose communities have been disproportionately affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
Penn's athletes often go pro or transfer to continue their careers, but with the COVID-19 pandemic cutting seasons short and adding uncertainty to the future, the past few months have seen more movement than usual. Here's a roundup of what recent graduates are up to since their time on campus.
Imagine you are a College first year moving into the Quad in September of 1918. The War in Europe rages on, so you enlist as a trainee in the Student Army Training Corps, which will play an active role in your academic and social life, since a majority of Penn students are members. Two days later, there is a war bonds parade with 200,000 Philadelphians in attendance, leading to 658 new cases of influenza by October 1, igniting a local epidemic of a lethal global pandemic.
Throughout the current wave of the Black Lives Matter movement, many organizations at Penn have released statements of solidarity supporting the Black community. While some statements outline measurable next steps, others have taken on more of a general stance for championing equality. As we take this time to reflect on the fabric of diversity that makes Penn, Penn, we must also acknowledge the accountability many organizations have avoided and the lack of progress they have seen for decades. One of the most obvious forms of collective racism exists within sororities, a fundamental part of our Greek life system.
Next semester, a new class in the Spanish and Latin American and Latino Studies departments will use the coronavirus pandemic as a lens to examine social inequalities in the United States and Latin America.
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