Six police officers injured in shooting near Temple University

An active shootout near Temple University between an armed suspect and police has passed its fifth hour. 

Guest Column by Brittany Xiao | Callowhill BID could harm Chinatown's immigrant communities

For the last 50 years, developments of all forms, including a baseball stadium, a casino, and a detention center, have been proposed both inside of and surrounding Chinatown. Another proposal by a large developer, which calls for the implementation of a Business Improvement District in Chinatown North, could further threaten this immigrant community. A BID is a commercial district in which all the property owners must pay an annual fee in exchange for special services such as cleaning, greening, and lighting.

Shots fired in attempted armed robbery on 35th and Market streets

Shots were fired in an attempted armed robbery at PNC Bank on 3535 Market Street, prompting a UPenn Alert.

Editorial | Amy Wax is an insult to Penn’s values

While speaking at the National Conservatism Conference, Penn Law professor Amy Wax claimed that America would be “better off with more whites and fewer nonwhites.” 

James Morrison | Amy Wax is part of the Penn community. She should start acting like it.

Penn Law Professor Amy Wax has come under fire this past week for advocating for a “cultural distance nationalism” at the National Conservatism Conference, where, according to a Vox reporter, she stated that “our country will be better off with more whites and fewer nonwhites.” This is not the first time that Wax has made comments of this variety. In an op-ed published two years ago, she advocated for a return to the ideals of the bourgeois, white culture of the 1950’s, while sharply criticizing “the anti-‘acting white’ rap culture of inner city blacks [and] the anti-assimilation ideas gaining ground among some Hispanic immigrants.”

Penn Law Dean Ted Ruger on Amy Wax’s remarks: 'bigoted' at best, 'racist' at worst

Penn Law Dean Ted Ruger released an official statement denouncing the recently reported comments made by controversial Penn Law professor Amy Wax at the Edmund Burke Foundation’s National Conservatism conference last week.

Thousands petition for Amy Wax to be reprimanded by Penn over racist remarks

Days after Penn Law professor Amy Wax made inflammatory statements on immigration at a conference, students have created multiple petitions urging the University to take action.

Guest Column by Mark Hughes | Philadelphia Oil Refinery explosion is a learning moment

On the early morning of June 21, the PES refinery and surrounding neighborhoods were rocked by two explosions and resulting fires that appeared to be related to a leak in Unit 433, which is a particular kind of alkylation unit that uses hydrofluoric acid to catalyze part of the process of refining petroleum into gasoline products. Five days later, with the site still being monitored and the incident under multiple investigations, PES announced that the refinery would be shutdown and put up for sale.

Penn Law prof Amy Wax claims America is 'better off with more whites and fewer nonwhites'

Controversial Penn Law professor Amy Wax advocated for an immigration policy favoring immigrants from Western countries over non-Western countries at this week’s inaugural National Conservatism Conference.

James Morrison | Joe Biden needs to earn his salary

Joe Biden recently released his tax returns as part of his bid to win the Democratic nomination. As the DP reported last week, according to those tax returns, Biden’s salary as the Professor of Presidential Practice at Penn was $371,159 in 2017 and $405,368 in 2018. Compare that to the $225,000 salary he earned while he served as Vice President of the United States, and to the $213,613 salary earned by the average Penn professor. These numbers paint a clear picture: Joe Biden is paid an egregious amount of money for the limited amount of work that he does on this campus.

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Two months after firing nearly the entire staff, Penn Athletics has hired its strength and conditioning coaches for 2019.

Penn Athletics hires strength and conditioning staff after mass dismissal in May

After firing almost all of his entire team in early May, Director of Strength and Conditioning Cory Walts revealed the five members of his staff on Tuesday.

Former Penn coach Jerome Allen avoids jail time in admissions bribery scandal

On Monday, former Penn men’s basketball coach Jerome Allen was sentenced to four years of probation, of which six months will be spent on house arrest, the Miami Herald reported. Allen had pleaded guilty to accepting bribes from Philip Esformes in exchange for his son Morris’ admission to Wharton.

Maeve Masterson | Oil refinery explosion reveals long-standing environmental injustice

“We’re here to make a statement. We’re here to start a fight. We’re here to let the people know that breathing is our right.”

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Two workers trapped after Van Pelt building construction scaffolding collapses

Two workers were stranded on top of the scaffolding that partially collapsed on the east side of Van Pelt Library on June 17.

Wharton alum Taylor Jenkins named Memphis Grizzlies head coach

Wharton graduate Taylor Jenkins is joining the Memphis Grizzlies as head coach, the team announced in a press release on Tuesday. 

Akins and Nwogwugwu making history as Penn track and field heads to NCAA Championships

With a record-breaking team of ten athletes, five of whom are the first Quakers to qualify for their events, Penn track and field is geared up for the NCAA Championship this week.

No. 4 Penn men's lacrosse overpowers Army in NCAA first round matchup

Start fast. Finish strong. 

Guest Column by Andrea Goulet | Why the Penn Book Center is our Notre-Dame

When the spire of Notre-Dame Cathedral caught fire last month, Le Monde and other news outlets were quick to quote a passage from Victor Hugo’s 1831 novel, Notre-Dame de Paris (known to Disney fans as The Hunchback of Notre Dame). The French novelist’s lines seemed prescient, even prophetic: “All eyes were raised to the top of the tower. What they saw was extraordinary. On the top of the highest gallery, higher than the central rose-window, rose a great flame between the two bell towers with swirls of sparks, a great, ragged, furious flame, from which at times the wind would snatch a strip into the smoke.”