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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.
It had been four days since Election Day, and it was still unclear who the 46th President of the United States would be. Votes continued to slowly roll in from the few states that had not decided yet, and an anxious nation was desperate for the race to be called. But late on Saturday morning, major news networks began to project former Penn Presidential Professor of Practice Joe Biden as the winner of the state of Pennsylvania, pushing him beyond the threshold of 270 electoral votes to secure the presidency.
As the Penn community awaits the University's decision on spring 2021 operations, some of Penn’s on-campus buildings and operations have reopened for students in a limited capacity.
Last Tuesday, thousands of MAGA hat-clad Pennsylvanians of all ages — many of whom opted not to wear face masks — descended upon John Murtha Johnstown-Cambria County Airport in Johnstown, Pa. — a secluded town of less than 20,000. They came for the "the Trump experience," as many of them told The Daily Pennsylvanian, and the 1968 Wharton graduate did not disappoint.
The Daily Pennsylvanian sat down for an interview with women's soccer senior Breukelen Woodard. Here's what she had to say.
“We weren’t going to let Cornell stop us from winning an Ivy League Championship,” then-junior running back Brian Schoenauer said. And the Quakers didn't.
To address the increasingly uncertain relationship between the United States and China, Penn’s Center for the Study of Contemporary China has launched a new research project: The Penn Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations.
During the past month, Engineering and Wharton sophomore Aliris Tang had to be ready to leave her home in Portland, Ore., at a moment's notice. As wildfires devastated the West Coast, Tang would wonder what things she might bring with her if and when evacuation day came.
Over 100 protesters, which included students and faculty from Penn and Drexel University, marched through University City on Sunday calling on both universities to defund and disband the Penn and Drexel Police Departments.
Few patients receive critical follow-up treatment for opioid overdoses.
Grace Estabrook usually jumps into a pool at least once a day, but now she’s jumping onto a yoga mat.
Amid global protests for racial justice and ongoing discriminatory effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, a Penn professor's controversial tweets about current events have recently surfaced — calling into question how the University should grapple with its own instances of discrimination against marginalized communities.
In mid-March, New Deck Tavern on Sansom Street was ready for its biggest weekend of the year. The tents were up; the DJ was hired; nearly a hundred cases of green beer bottles had been ordered. The tavern’s freezers were full with ingredients for Shepherd’s pie, Reuben sandwiches, and other authentic Irish fare. New Deck Tavern Manager Erin Parson had been planning for the annual Saint Patrick’s Day block party since January.
Protesters brought and distributed bottles of water as temperatures rose above 80 degrees.
I have seen innumerable people — on social media, politicians, on cable news channels, authors — question whether riots or protests are productive modes of change the past week amid the protests in response to George Floyd’s murder. It is a question that has, for generations, relentlessly reared its head during contentious fights for liberation.
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It was in the midst of just another High Tide, the annual spring break college ultimate frisbee tournament in Myrtle Beach, S.C, that the 50 members of the University of Pennsylvania ultimate frisbee teams, Venus and Void — together, “Venoid” — heard the devastating news.
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