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(10/05/10 1:29am)
With an ever-increasing spotlight on head trauma in football, the parents of a Virginia teen who committed suicide shortly after suffering a concussion playing football will donate his brain to Boston University's Center for study of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), according to the Washington Examiner. The article, written by former Daily Pennsylvanian editor Emily Babay, says that Austin Trenum's suicide was "out of character," though it can't be linked directly to the concussion he suffered two days before his death.
(09/24/10 7:16am)
West Philadelphia residents who are accustomed to hearing the “buy local” mantra are increasingly offered opportunities to “grow local” as well.
(09/17/10 7:02am)
Many college students seem to have an unhealthy obsession with being a “healthy weight.” As both a self-conscious teen and a health nut who hasn’t touched a cookie in about two weeks (but who’s counting?), I can sympathize. Whether attaining the perfect size means trying crash diets, depriving ourselves of our favorite foods or feeling unattractive because of an extra five pounds that may or may not be there, many young adults have been victimized by the skinny ideals parading throughout the media and into our consciousness.
(07/22/10 7:06am)
If college students woke up tomorrow morning to find the drinking age had been lowered to 18, the resulting weeklong party would be the most impressive in the nation’s history, followed by an equally impressive revolution in responsible drinking. I say this with confidence because this is the trajectory I have followed during my summer in Beijing, where the drinking age is 18. Now that the novelty of easy alcohol wore off, I have quickly fallen into more responsible drinking habits.
(06/10/10 9:01am)
When 1993 College graduate Caren Lissner entered the working world after matriculating from Penn, she said, she suddenly found herself thinking, “gee, I should have been in Wharton these past four years!”
(06/10/10 5:01am)
When 1993 College graduate Caren Lissner entered the working world after matriculating from Penn, she said, she suddenly found herself thinking, “gee, I should have been in Wharton these past four years!”
(06/03/10 10:31pm)
Strikes Bowling Lounge, the bowling alley at 4040 Locust, is shutting its doors!
(05/14/10 4:37am)
With graduation just three days away, it’s too easy to rely on rose-colored nostalgia and be all, “OMG, best four years EVER!” But I’m going to spit some real talk in the next few hundred words. My college experience has been important and transformative, but it was by no means perfect.
(04/01/10 1:34pm)
What do a bunch of zany teens in FNAR-337: Information Design and Visualization do when you hand them a bunch of numbers? Why, make some diagrams of course! The students were instructed to find an interesting way of expressing the data... And there's what they came up with.
(03/25/10 8:43am)
Wednesday, #FlashMob became one of Twitter’s most tweeted-about topics in Philadelphia.
(03/24/10 8:52pm)
The Division of Public Safety warned earlier that a "large gathering of juveniles" may convene near 40th and Market streets Wednesday afternoon.
(02/26/10 8:31am)
Barbie’s gone geek and she’s all about the binary. Earlier this month, Mattel announced that Barbie’s new career would be none other than a computer-science engineer.
(02/18/10 9:49am)
For me, sex education in middle school consisted of watching awkward 1970s videos about puberty. We never really learned too much about sex — any time the county attempted to expand the health curriculum, a firestorm of parental protests quickly erupted.
(02/18/10 8:54am)
Naked men, drunken college students, giggly pre-teens and Nicole Richie?
(02/11/10 10:33am)
Pennsylvania State Representative and Penn alumnus Mark Cohen thinks it’s time to raise the state’s minimum wage again — a measure that would affect many college students working minimum wage jobs.
(02/04/10 12:59pm)
Two-time Emmy award winning filmmaker Jennifer Maytorena Taylor visited campus Wednesday to screen her latest film, New Muslim Cool — a documentary that follows drug dealer turned Muslim rapper Hamza Pérez on his spiritual journey.
(02/03/10 11:30am)
In an effort to promote higher education among West Philadelphia high schoolers, Penn’s Netter Center for Community Partnerships matched adolescents with advisors Tuesday as part of Shadowing Day.
(01/27/10 12:09pm)
Students on campus seem to pack their schedules so full that it’s almost standard to hear friends bragging about their latest all-nighters or their crammed calendars. But in addition to hours shuffled between class and extra-curriculars — from volunteering and student government to Greek life and Smokes — a growing population of students are also working an extra shift.
(01/27/10 10:16am)
Our fascination with the creation and destruction of celebrities is at once deeply disturbing and strangely understandable.
(01/27/10 7:09am)
Penn Women's Center event to get pledges for Locks of Love hair donations
