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Penn students rushed to purchase bottled water Sunday after an emergency announcement from the City of Philadelphia advised residents that they may want to avoid drinking or using tap water.
As the Kansas City Chiefs were crowned Super Bowl LVII champions in Glendale, Ariz., crowds of people gathered throughout Philadelphia to mourn the season that was — a season where they were so close to a championship. Sunday's result gives the Chiefs their second Super Bowl championship in four years, while the Philadelphia Eagles remain at one.
In its season opener on Monday at Iona, Penn men’s basketball scored only 50 points throughout the entire game behind an abysmal 3-25 from three. But on Friday night, Penn (0-2) reached the half-century mark just a few minutes into the second half, and matched that total from downtown with its sixth shot.
Penn football has won seven out of eight games this year, scoring 12 more points per game than its opponents. But with two games left, the fate of this season, and how it will be remembered, is still to be determined.
Philadelphia released new, permanent regulations for outdoor dining areas on Wednesday, replacing the temporary rules for "streeteries" put in place during the pandemic to support restaurants.
The Pennsylvania Public Interest Research Group recently found an unsafe amount of lead (determined by scientists to be any amount over 1 part per billion) in the water of 98% of tested Philadelphia public schools. Approximately 61% of total outlets, including bathroom sinks, kitchen faucets, and water fountains, were discovered to be contaminated at this level, and some schools, like the Tanner Duckrey School in North Central Philadelphia, showed extremely high concentrations at 8,768 parts per billion.
There is a Phoebe Bridgers song called “I Know The End” — while the song can be said to be about leaving places and people you love and accepting that everything comes to an end, the title remains an enigma for me. How can we know anything about the end? If at all, we as a society have learned the exact opposite, that tomorrow is elusive and that the end is anything but clear. I speak from experience when I say this, because my time at the University of Pennsylvania has embodied the paradoxical serendipity of not knowing anything for sure.
You might not notice an athlete in your class if it weren’t for their bright blue Powerade bottle, but they make up nearly 10% of Penn’s undergraduate student body. These 988 individuals train year-round to represent Penn to the best of their ability, both on the field and in the classroom, winning Olympic medals, earning All-American honors, securing teaching assistant positions, and making the honor roll. This success begins with a commitment to this University and its respective sports. In season, athletes spend over 25 hours a week at practice, competitions, weight training, film sessions, injury treatment, team meetings, and more.
Philadelphia City Councilmember and Penn graduate Helen Gym plans to introduce legislation for lead-free water filtration in Philadelphia public schools after a Penn study revealed the presence of lead in the schools' drinking fountains.
Positive COVID-19 cases among undergraduate students skyrocketed during the week from Jan. 23 to Jan. 29, nearly tripling in number from the previous week and ending optimistic trends needed for a return to the normal policy on indoor social gatherings.
When was the last time you did nothing?
On the 20th anniversary of 9/11, many of us come of age with a tragedy that we are unable to personally recall. Like many young people who were either unborn or not old enough to remember the terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001, I asked my parents where we were during that tragic day.
The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation has announced the recipients of its Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander artist grants.
For the past year, the news has been especially depressing with the increasing rates of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths. The statistics continue to flip this emotional switch in my head that has me feeling too invested in the drastically large numbers or feeling drained and numb. On a more positive note, I saw people who were once distrustful of journalism rely on the news to serve as their eyes of the outside world during quarantine.
After COVID-19 forced him to cancel a pizza night with friends in March, second-year Wharton MBA student Ben Berman lowered 10 homemade pizzas out of his apartment window to give to his friends.
Wharton and Engineering junior Effie Guo was completing a problem set for ESE 501: "Networking - Theory and Fundamentals" from her home in Dallas when the lights in her room suddenly flickered, and her power went out in the early morning on Feb. 14.
Hill College House residents reported brown water pouring from sinks in their bathrooms early on Wednesday. The water cleared up later in the afternoon on its own, according to Penn's Facilities and Real Estate Services, but the cause of the incident is unclear.
Philadelphia’s annual New Year’s Day Mummers Parade was canceled this year because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, but that didn’t stop some Mummers and residents from marching down 2nd Street to protest Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney and celebrate the beginning of 2021.
Students, faculty, and staff who are enrolled in Penn’s fall testing program and have not already tested positive for COVID-19 will be able to transition to the University’s new saliva-based screening test for the rest of the fall semester.
Eagles fans, and for that matter, all Philadelphia sports fans, have a long reputation for being exceptionally hostile, with plenty of individual instances to show for it. The most notorious is arguably the time that they booed Santa Claus, an event which occurred at Penn’s own Franklin Field, where the Eagles played from 1958-1970.
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