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With August comes move-in. With November comes Family Weekend. With May comes graduation. Each of these events brings me a familiar sense of sadness and longing. On Locust Walk, I see brothers, but not mine. I see grandparents, but not mine. I see families, but not mine.
With one player each from Canada, Croatia, Poland, and Russia, the 2019 Penn women’s tennis roster features 10 student-athletes who represent a greater number of countries than they do states. Ever since coach Sanela Kunovac took the reigns of the program, however, that kind of roster composition has been anything but abnormal.
Esports, or professional video game-playing, is set to gain a foothold in Philadelphia with the construction of a $50 million video gaming arena.
Less than a week after news broke on the nationwide admissions scandal, John Legend, a 1999 College graduate, criticized the college admissions system for being "rigged" while at the iHeartRadio Music Awards on Mar. 14.
When I heard a fellow student say to his friend, “He made a living by cheating and taking standardized testing for other people,” I immediately thought, “Oh! Another Suits fan.” One of the protagonists in the legal drama television series did exactly that. Minutes later, I opened a link my editor had sent me. The headline wrote, "Actresses, Business Leaders and Other Wealthy Parents Charged in U.S. College Entry Fraud,” and I knew the pair of friends were talking about something much more serious than Suits.
Philadelphia is ranked as the city with second most aggressive drivers.
On Thursday, Penn Athletics announced that the remaining four home men’s basketball games will be broadcast live in Mandarin. Calling the games will be four Penn graduate students who are Chinese natives and speak fluent Mandarin. The contests will be shown in both English and Mandarin on ESPN+ in the United States and on Stretch Internet internationally. In China, the multinational technology conglomerate Tencent will simulcast the Penn broadcast.
By 2080, Philadelphia's climate will feel like today’s Memphis, Tenn. if current trends persist, according to a recent study. The report projects that Philadelphia's typical winter temperatures will rise by about 9.1 degrees Fahrenheit.
Upon seeing Urooba Abid’s article in The Daily Pennsylvanian on Monday morning, I will admit I was a little taken aback by the headline.
1982 College graduate Daniel Greenstein, newly elected chancellor of Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education, said his interest in higher education started when he was a history major at Penn. He was officially sworn in last week and now oversees and develops policies for the state's public universities.
Developed in 2012 by scientists at the University of California at Berkeley, “CRISPR” is a procedure that could allow scientists to edit the human genome more cheaply and effectively than ever before. Since its introduction, much has been speculated about the double-edged nature of the technology: It could bring about an end to some of humanity’s worst diseases, but it could also bring about the dystopia of genetically modified humans and “superbabies.”
Expect big things from the wrestlers in the Class of 2022.
Forbes released its annual ranking of the 400 wealthiest people in the United States, and Penn can once again boast about having the most alumni out of any university on the list.
A new Forbes magazine ranking places Philadelphia among the top 10 rising cities for startups in the United States.
Democracy is based on the notion that the people should govern themselves — that the people have a voice. When we don’t vote, we lose that voice. In doing so, we do ourselves, and our community a disservice. And this disservice will not be short-lived. The reverberations of the 2018 election will be felt far into the future. If we don’t vote, we won’t have a say in that future.
For the first time, Penn students can learn Mongolian and delve into a new culture.
Every year, students from across the United States arrive at the eight Ivy League schools peppered along the East Coast. After graduation, however, a disproportionate number of these students all head to one place: New York City.
Over the past few weeks, I have read countless headlines and declarations expressing grief and outrage at the death of Mollie Tibbets, who was studying psychology at the University of Iowa. It is understood that Cristhian Bahena Rivera followed Tibbets and killed her after she rebuffed his advances and threatened to call the police. Many accounts focused on the fact that Rivera was an undocumented immigrant, and used this tragedy as a platform for their political parade preaching the end to all undocumented residencies in the United States.
Penn is third on a list of universities that have the most billionaire alumni, according to a new ranking.
Penn and the rest of the Ivy League have been at the top of the rankings for centuries.
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