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A little over three months ago, I triumphantly wrote a column asking Penn students to tear off their masks and embrace their friends after getting their vaccine. Given the information I had at the time about the vaccines, I assumed the pandemic was winding down, and that “normalcy” was on the horizon.
At about 11 p.m. on June 20, 2021, Nashville Sounds relief pitcher Jake Cousins had just finished a Triple-A game in Gwinnett County, Ga. against the Gwinnett Stripers and was heading to the locker room to use the bathroom.
The smoke from the west coast wild fires has spread rapidly across the United States in a jet stream and has settled down at a low altitude above Philadelphia and the East Coast. (Photo by Daria Devyatkina | CC 2.0)
An Air Quality Alert has been issued in the Philadelphia area on Wednesday, July 21, as a heavy haze begins to set in due to West Coast fires.
Penn Law School students revitalize a student organization, Penn Law Students for Justice in Palestine, to support Palestinian liberation and petition against University-backed trips to Israel.
On Tuesday night, one man was killed and another was injured after a drill rig collapsed in University City.
I learned something unexpected during the pandemic: I gained a deeper appreciation for cooking and eating. That in and of itself is not unusual – social media and the internet are oversaturated by self-proclaimed “foodies” posting cheese boards and brunch spreads. But in my case, I came to appreciate the social aspect of cooking and eating.
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Penn Students Against the Occupation of Palestine released a statement calling on the University to divest from and terminate contracts with companies complicit in "the illegal occupation of Palestine."
Father's Day is not only about celebrating our fathers in the present; it is also about honoring the men that came before us. Father’s Day is a meaningful opportunity to celebrate our family’s fathers for their love, their sacrifice, and their character.
My first assignment as an intern at the District Attorney’s Office was to attend a Pennsylvania Supreme Court hearing at City Hall. District Attorney Larry Krasner filed a "King’s Bench" petition seeking to have the death penalty ruled unconstitutional in Pennsylvania. That day, as I made my way down the humid hallways of the centuries-old courthouse, the idea of capital punishment becoming abolished became a real possibility to me.
More than 300 West Philadelphia and Penn community members gathered outside the Penn Museum on April 28 to demand the immediate return of the remains of victims killed in the 1985 MOVE bombing and to honor the lives of Tree and Delisha Africa, whose remains the Africa family believes were held by the Museum.
This past Monday, the Penn Museum formally apologized for possessing the remains of at least one child killed by Philadelphia police in the 1985 MOVE bombing. However, Penn Museum's apology has not been without controversy. Members of MOVE, a Black liberation advocacy group, rejected the apology as insufficient, demanding the immediate return of the remains, the firing of a key employee of Penn Museum at the center of the scandal, and financial reparations.
In the past week it has come to light that the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology has for over 35 years held, studied, and at times displayed the human remains of a child named Tree Africa, a member of West Philadelphia’s MOVE organization. The bones of 14-year-old Tree Africa, and possibly also 12-year-old Delisha Africa, were reportedly handed over by the medical examiner’s office to Penn anthropologists for forensic study in the 1980s after the May 13, 1985 killing of eleven West Philadelphia residents, when Philadelphia Police dropped an aerial bomb on the MOVE residence and let fires destroy over 60 homes in the Cobbs Creek neighborhood adjacent to our university.
Popular University City nightclub West & Down has drawn long lines since its reopening last month, raising concerns from students who allege the club is breaking Philadelphia's COVID-19 guidelines.
George Washington University Law professor Catherine Ross discussed the tension between upholding the first amendment and preventing the spread of lies that threaten democracy at a virtual Penn event.
From a step-by-step voting manual to a comprehensive "who's who" on the ballot, here's your guide to the 2021 primary election in Philadelphia.
Demonstrators marched through Philadelphia Tuesday night as part of the Justice for Daunte Wright protest. Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, was shot and killed by white police officer Kim Potter during a traffic stop in Brooklyn Center, Minn. on Sunday. The protesters called for justice for Black and transgender lives, as well as the abolition of the police. Earlier in the day, Potter resigned as a Brooklyn Center police officer. On April 14, Potter was arrested and charged with second-degree manslaughter.
The Daily Pennsylvanian asked Gibson Thomas of Penn women’s tennis 15 questions about her time with the team, her experience at Penn, and her life overall. Here's what the sophomore had to say.
Two major campus political groups, Penn Democrats and Penn Justice Democrats, endorsed Larry Krasner for reelection as Philadelphia’s district attorney in the upcoming primary election.
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