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People crowded David Rittenhouse Laboratory on Saturday morning as a frenzy of Penn's Medical Emergency Response Team members responded to a bomb explosion — the incident, however, was part of a practice drill for MERT, not an actual emergency.
Penn's president is in hot water today after a series of tapes surfaced suggesting a conflict between the president and dean of admissions.
Controversial Penn Law School professor Amy Wax has spoken out for the first time since she was barred from teaching first-year law students.
Amid discussions about gun violence at schools, proposals to arm American teachers have surfaced in public discourse. At Penn and across the country, educators are pushing back against proposals to arm teachers with weapons.
Staffing shake-ups continue to rock Washington as President Trump is considering Penn Law professor and frequent purse-clutcher Amy Wax to replace Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education, according to a source with ties to the presidential administration. DeVos has been on thin ice since her disastrous "60 Minutes" interview earlier this month, and Wax’s recent controversial remarks have placed her firmly on the radar of an administration that strives to pick the worst possible candidate for any given position.
Walking down Locust Walk, it is not uncommon to see fellow Quakers sporting Penn apparel. And while the University undoubtedly supports the public display of "Penn pride," the process of licensing Penn's logo — whether it be for sweatshirts, hats, t-shirts, or any other trinkets — comes at a cost.
The secret to Penn baseball's success in recent years – good recruiting and baptism by fire.
Finish strong.
In Elena Ferrante’s “Neapolitan Novels,” the main character, Elena Greco, feels a sentiment throughout her life that many small-town kids know all too well. It is the fear of never getting out, never making it, never leaving behind this little place and these little people who never could contain the big dreams you were hiding in your heart.
As the debate around Penn Law professor Amy Wax continues to grow, pundits are calling her comments and her experience emblematic for what they see as larger, endemic issues within higher education. In the past weekend alone, a leader of the Black Lives Matter movement has weighed in on Wax's comments, prompting a fiery response from a notable critic of the BLM movement.
Reed Junkin is simply on fire.
The clock reads 10:33 a.m. My linear algebra professor stumbles in, wearing an oversized sweater and holding a Trader Joe’s tote bag full of decaying books. He glances at the clock, mumbles something incomprehensible, and shuffles to the podium.
Northwestern University urged students to hide after local police received a call reporting an active gunman in a residential building on March 14. It was later determined to be a false alarm.
You have to make your free throws.
Listen, I’m a child of the digital age. I’m not going to pretend that I’m not aware of the repercussions of posting things on the internet. The stakes were drilled into me at a young age by well-meaning, if slightly alarmist adults: Anything you post online will be around forever. Anyone can see it. Beware, here there be dragons.
Penn men's basketball is looking to become the first No. 16 seed to knock off a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament when it takes on Kansas on Thursday. While it's never happened before, many pundits are giving Penn as good of a chance as any No. 16 seed in history.
It’s great to watch a back and forth battle between two evenly matched teams.
Students discussed anti-Asian discrimination at an event Wednesday night, following an incident at a local Taco Bell where an employee described a Penn student using a racial slur.
The final regular season matchups are upon us.
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