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Penn’s Undergraduate Assembly and three other student organizations passed a resolution on Feb. 20 calling for the termination of Penn Law School professor Amy Wax on the basis of her repeated promotion of white supremacist ideology.
This weekend was a mixed bag for Penn basketball. While both the men’s and women’s teams were able to secure a win over Brown, the pair also picked up losses against Yale. Facing Yale was always going to be a challenge, but Penn basketball’s wins over Brown made it a worthwhile weekend.
Quaker fans have another team to get excited about.
On an overcast October morning in 2004, hundreds of students, faculty, and staff packed into Irvine Auditorium as the University of Pennsylvania formally inaugurated its eighth president, Amy Gutmann. The weather had canceled Gutmann’s planned procession down Locust Walk, but it did not dampen the community's enthusiasm.
It doesn’t take an NBA scout to tell that there isn’t one singular characteristic that connects the world’s best basketball players together.
Penn has been receiving national media coverage lately after Penn Law professor Amy Wax made racist comments against Asian and Black Americans. Her recent remarks are consistent with the comments that she made back in 2018 in a discussion titled The Downside to Social Uplift: "I don't think I've ever seen a Black student graduate in the top quarter of the [Penn Law School] class and rarely, rarely in the top half.” Essentially, her argument was that Black students are accepted into schools like Penn because of policies such as affirmative action, but underperform compared to their peers of other races.
Fire at McDonald's on Jan. 27, 2022.
Five fire trucks surrounded the 40th and Walnut Street McDonald’s near campus on Thursday evening.
Firetrucks and ambulance at McDonald's at 40th and Walnut Street on Jan. 27, 2022.
Firetrucks and ambulance at McDonald's at 40th and Walnut Street on Jan. 27, 2022.
Tenured Penn Law professor Amy Wax reiterated racist remarks against Asian and Black Americans, retaliating against the University's recent decision to initiate sanctions against her.
Universities regularly regard themselves as havens for broadening students’ horizons by exposing them to a wide range of perspectives. This sentiment is exemplified in university mottoes like Yale’s and Harvard’s, which invoke “veritas,” or the exposition of truth. In fact, diversity of thought is a foremost value in the core curriculums of institutions like the University of Chicago, where its inclusion is critical in a growingly performance-based pre-professional approach to higher education.
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated an already endemic housing crisis in Philadelphia, killing neighbors and destroying communities. The recent devastating fire in Fairmount took the lives of 12 people, including eight children. The 12 people were all members of a low-income, extended family squeezed into a four-bedroom apartment in a neglected building owned by the Philadelphia Housing Authority (PHA). The fire is the latest evidence of a systemic assault on Black residents, of which housing inequity is just one of many forms of violence. As Penn watches its endowment grow to over $20 billion and develops real estate across the city, tens of thousands of Philadelphians are struggling to find housing, turning to friends for shelter or living on the street. Penn is not just complicit in this inequity; it is one of its foremost perpetrators.
Penn senior and women's swimmer Lia Thomas has made local and national headlines for her recent record-breaking performance on the team.
A petition calling on Penn to suspend law professor Amy Wax and reform the University's tenure policy has garnered more than 800 signatures, ignited by Wax's scrutinized claims that "the United States is better off with fewer Asians and less Asian immigration."
Just before midnight on Monday night, two gunmen shot two victims waiting in their car at a red light at the intersection of 38th and Chestnut streets, near Penn’s campus.
A petition calling for Penn to fire a visiting scholar accused of committing human rights abuses as a high-ranking Ecuadorian state official has garnered nearly 11,000 signatures.
Moshe Porat, former dean of Temple University’s Fox School of Business, was convicted of committing fraud to raise Temple’s business programs in national rankings.
Calls to Penn’s student-run Medical Emergency Response Team are surging back to pre-pandemic levels, with more incidents relating to general medical emergencies than student intoxication this semester in a break from previous years.
So close, but not enough.
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