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(03/13/14 4:56pm)
Former Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and 1984 Law School graduate John Hanger announced Thursday that he would no longer be pursuing the Democratic Party’s nomination for governor.
(03/06/14 2:14am)
He could only describe it as an “out-of-body experience.”
(03/03/14 11:31pm)
Two weeks ago, an article appeared in 34th Street written by a sophomore who has been raped three times at Penn. Did you read it?
(03/02/14 7:10am)
The exhibition hall at the Penn Museum was packed.
(02/28/14 2:02am)
While the country’s courts and legislature
continued to grapple with gay rights this week, a new LGBT group launched on
campus.
(02/27/14 11:37pm)
University City High School, which enrolled 655 students last school year, closed last June along with 22 other Philadelphia schools.
(02/27/14 12:01am)
A new app, designed by Whartonites, lets users earn money by looking at advertisements on their Android phone.
(02/26/14 10:52pm)
Penn’s fifth Presidential Term Professorship will bring a former faculty member and student back to Penn’s campus.
(02/25/14 4:25am)
Twelve years before Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price announced the creation of a task force to study mental health on campus, a similar committee presented its findings to the University’s provost in June 2002.
(02/18/14 10:40pm)
The Faculty Senate Executive Committee unanimously voted in support of a proposal for tobacco divestment, yesterday’s Faculty SEC Actions report announced.
(02/13/14 1:54am)
Classes and all University operations are canceled tomorrow, according to the Division of Public Safety website.
(02/12/14 10:57pm)
F or two decades, Som alia has been war torn. Lawlessness has permeated the country, where the AK-47 determines who has power and who doesn’t. The country has been a chronic victim of unbridled decentralization, a disease so toxic that it has replaced society with chaos. At the risk of sounding melodramatic, I believe that Penn suffers from a similar disease. It is decentralized to an extreme, with each academic department and social organization living in its very own universe, each vying for attention at the expense of the others, rendering the school essentially cultureless.
(02/09/14 6:33pm)
Imagine if for three days a week, instead of sitting silently in your math lecture, you could use that class time to work with other students on problems, with the professor and TAs right there to answer any questions.
(02/07/14 4:11am)
In light of recent undergraduate deaths on Penn’s campus, The Daily Pennsylvanian examined how students, administrators and communities at two other universities have reacted to student deaths on their campuses.
(02/06/14 11:11pm)
Everyone has a Barry in his life – that ruthlessly crude friend who lacks any semblance of a filter.
(02/06/14 3:47am)
The Titanic was discovered by accident.
(02/06/14 12:42am)
Two prestigious health programs at Penn have scheduled their departures.
(02/03/14 10:30pm)
At its meeting on Sunday, the Undergraduate Assembly discussed the proposition of a new pre-orientation program dedicated to research.
(02/02/14 8:31pm)
Working in Mantua, West Philadelphia — which is just a mile north of Penn’s campus — isn’t easy. Dorothy Dicks, a church administrator, has been approached by many women in need of help, be it poverty, drug abuse or physical abuse.
(01/26/14 9:42pm)
Driving back from a party over break, I witnessed a friend experience something between an epiphany and a mental breakdown. He felt as though technology was engulfing his life and asked whether our generation had sold its soul to social media. “This isn’t what I signed up for,” he confessed, “and I don’t think I want it anymore.”