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(03/26/20 1:24am)
Over 5,000 people have signed their name on a petition calling on the University of Pennsylvania to take action against laying off 140 dining hall employees after March 31st. I signed it. My sister at UCLA signed it. My mother signed it. I sent it to my friends from Florida. I am thankful to everyone who has signed their name, especially to Amanpreet Singh, the creator of the petition. However, I should not have to sign a petition. I should not be desperately sending the link to random people scattered throughout the states who are already reeling and confused from the world’s events. Penn should be doing the right thing without student intervention, and that means not laying off 140 hard workers in the middle of a global crisis.
(03/05/20 5:13am)
Penn’s Medical Emergency Response Team received an increased number of calls in fall 2019.
(03/04/20 1:54am)
Kenneth J. Braithwaite, a Penn graduate and the current United States Ambassador to Norway, was officially nominated as the new Secretary of the Navy on Monday. The White House announced its intention to nominate Braithwaite last Friday.
(03/03/20 3:27am)
In a big weekend around the Ivy League, both Penn basketball teams saw up and down results. While both teams took care of business against Brown, they suffered difficult losses to Yale with the men collapsing down the stretch and the women getting blown out. Despite the results, the two teams did create plenty of buzz with a number of exciting plays.
(03/02/20 3:50am)
Penn men’s basketball pulled off an impressive win over Brown this weekend to keep its Ivy League Tournament hopes alive. Despite all the passion and drive that the members of the team put forth every season, there will be more than just Brown’s tough perimeter defense getting in their way for the coming years.
(02/29/20 9:31pm)
Starting strong has never been the issue for the Quakers. Racing out to a 4-2 lead early in the first period was a testament to that. Finishing strong, though, has been another story.
(02/29/20 2:33am)
Approximately 30 members of Fossil Free Penn protested outside Penn's Board of Trustees meeting on Friday, creating a "partial blockade" outside the room and prompting most of the trustees to leave through the fire exit.
(02/25/20 2:22am)
It was an up-and-down weekend across the Penn basketball world. While the men were swept by Dartmouth and Harvard in a disappointing road trip, the women pushed their Ivy League winning streak to seven games by locking down the Palestra in two dominant wins. Here are the plays that made our top five.
(02/24/20 3:39am)
Cyntoia Brown-Long was sentenced to life in prison at just 16 years old after killing a man who solicited her for sex. Exonerated after serving 15 years, Brown-Long visited campus to speak at a conference organized by Penn’s student-led criminal justice reform group, Beyond Arrests: Rethinking Systematic Oppression.
(02/23/20 4:03am)
Last time the Quakers played Harvard, they only scored 13 points in the first half. This time around, the Red and Blue were up 12-0 four minutes into the game and never looked back.
(02/21/20 2:32am)
Retail Theft:
(02/20/20 3:53am)
In a wave of high-profile clemency orders earlier this week, President Donald Trump pardoned ‘junk bond king’ Michael Milken, a 1979 Wharton MBA graduate.
(02/21/20 2:24am)
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner has been sued by two former prosecutors who claim Krasner fired them on the grounds of age discrimination, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
(02/19/20 2:07am)
With three weekends remaining in Ivy League action, it's shaping up to be a five-team race for the four Ivy Madness spots. Yale and Princeton are tied for first in the Ancient Eight, but Harvard, Brown, and Penn are just one game back. Here's where all eight schools stand with six games left.
(02/17/20 3:15am)
The largest oil refinery on the East Coast is about two miles from Penn's campus – but after decades of pollution and deadly fires, the refinery will close permanently following its sale to Hilco Redevelopment Partners.
(02/17/20 2:00am)
Penn women’s lacrosse ended last season with a loss in double overtime to Georgetown, but this season is different. Revenge is sweet, and for the Red and Blue this weekend, their game against Georgetown proved that.
(02/17/20 2:57am)
The Quakers were on fire for two and a half quarters. But then Maryland woke up.
(02/13/20 3:00am)
Starting off your season with the team that ended your last?
(02/06/20 1:26am)
It is hard to consistently give attention to everyone that contributes to Penn men’s basketball.
(02/04/20 6:15am)
Six Philadelphia public schools and an early learning center have closed since September due to hazardous asbestos damage, leading Penn students who attended these schools to worry about their health.
