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A conflict between the Undergraduate Assembly and the Nominations and Elections Committee over questions of student representation on the University Council came to a head after a failure to implement a compromise between the two groups.
Penn Law School recently received three major donations — totaling $12.1 million.
How much does a Penn education cost? For enrolled students, it’s over $60,000 per year. But for other students, Penn courses don’t even cost a cent.
Penn Law School has a lot of money rolling in thanks to a former U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
On Friday morning at 7 a.m., a cohort of Penn students will embark on the campaign trail for positions on the Class Board of 2019 and in the Undergraduate Assembly.
Whether it’s his attacks on Fox News’ Megyn Kelly, his stance on immigration or his daily media appearances from Trump Tower, everybody seems to be talking about Donald Trump.
Every year during the first week of school, students scramble to perfect their schedules on Penn InTouch. The Daily Pennsylvanian rounded up some of Penn’s most in-demand courses for those looking to round out their schedules or those who are already scoping out their classes for next semester.
With most of last year’s team still intact, Penn sprint football coach Bill Wagner believes his squad can take a step forward from last season’s 4-3 performance.
Students have gone to extreme measures to protest soaring tuition costs. At USC, students climbed on tables, stripped off their shirts and threw money in the air in protest at a Board of Regents meeting. At the University of Warwick, a sit-in ended in Taser threats and tear gas. And while their cries that “tuition is too damn high” have fallen on deaf ears — Penn’s tuition has risen at twice the rate of inflation in recent years — research indicates that students could be right.
Between the hundreds of clubs on Penn’s campus, it might be difficult to decide which one is right for you. Clubs require different time commitments and many offer opportunities for greater involvement beyond attendance at a General Body Meeting. The Daily Pennsylvanian caught up with a few organizations on campus to share their missions, time commitments and recruitment strategies.
For the thousands of students from 195 countries who enroll in one of Penn’s online courses, the benefit of free, accessible education is obvious. But the professors who spend hours planning lessons, recording lectures and moderating online forums benefit from the surge in online learning as well.
Officer Roberts from the UPenn Police department waits outside Smokey Joes as people begin to leave at around 2am on Sunday morning.
We are less than three months away from the true beginning of the Steve Donahue era for Penn basketball.
The Evans Building, home to Penn Dental Medicine for one hundred years, is slated for a $34 million reconstruction in the hope of lasting another hundred years.
Penn’s Board of Trustees met on June 19 to discuss and approve several major initiatives within the University. Here are some of the highlights.
It was a historic day on June 26 in Washington, as supporters of same-sex marriage gathered on the steps of the Supreme Court to celebrate the legalization of same-sex marriage in all 50 states. As the nation reacted to the momentous decision, members of the Penn community shared their thoughts on the long-controversial issue and its new future.
Elon Musk, the 1997 Wharton and College graduate who has been dubbed by Robert Downey Jr. as the real-life Iron Man, may have outdone even Iron Man with his latest creation.
Fifty years ago, after a long and sometimes bloody struggle waged by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and civil rights activists around the country, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law. Put simply, this act prohibited racial discrimination in voting on both a state and federal level. By passing new regulations on election administration and specifically banning measures such as literacy tests that were used for decades to keep minority populations from registering and casting ballots, the act allowed for the mass enfranchisement of an embattled black population in the American South. It has, as the Department of Justice notes, “been called the single most effective piece of civil rights legislation ever passed by Congress.”
It didn't take long for coach Steve Donahue to get going.
At the 259th Commencement Ceremony at Franklin Field, United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations Samantha Power warned the Class of 2015 about international problems — and provided tangible ways to solve them.
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