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Campus construction has delayed $50 million in work after a seven-week pause on many projects due to COVID-19, Facilities and Real Estate Services said in a campus construction updates meeting with trustees on June 11.
As rising second-year MBA students at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, we are proud to be part of the record-breaking class of 2021 with the highest percentage of women, 47%, in Wharton’s history. Now, we also have the exciting chance to be an inaugural class under Dean Erika James, whose first official day is today, July 1, 2020. Dean James is the first woman and the first person of color to lead The Wharton School in its 139 year history.
In January, Jihed Chehimi, the owner of Chez Yasmine, the French-Tunisian fusion food truck at Spruce and 37th streets, donned a mask and began preparing for COVID-19 to reach the United States. Around him, long, tightly-packed lines for other food trucks filled the streets. There were no masks, no gloves, and no designated physical distance between customers.
In late March, restaurants throughout Philadelphia were forced to close in accordance with the city's efforts to limit the spread of coronavirus. With a fully stocked pantry and no one to serve, New Deck Tavern General Manager Erin Parson donated more than 80 pounds of untouched food to the public charity Ronald McDonald House.
David Cabello, a 25-year-old Philadelphia native, once made $1,100 in 30 hours delivering food on a bike through PostMates, UberEats, and Caviar. Now, Cabello runs his own food delivery business catering exclusively to Black-owned restaurants, and is delivering $20,000 worth of orders per week.
After a significant decrease in business during the coronavirus pandemic, Hakim's Bookstore has seen a huge influx in orders due to Americans' desire to support Black-owned businesses and read anti-racist literature.
In mid-March, New Deck Tavern on Sansom Street was ready for its biggest weekend of the year. The tents were up; the DJ was hired; nearly a hundred cases of green beer bottles had been ordered. The tavern’s freezers were full with ingredients for Shepherd’s pie, Reuben sandwiches, and other authentic Irish fare. New Deck Tavern Manager Erin Parson had been planning for the annual Saint Patrick’s Day block party since January.
Police cars patrolled the streets every hour, blaring stay-at-home messages below the apartment window of 2019 College graduate Wilson Fisher, as he quarantined for seven weeks in Ukraine.
In March, 2020 College graduate Ton Nguyen was offered a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Indonesia. By April, her program was canceled.
After a seven-week delay, construction of the Wharton Academic Research Building restarted on May 1.
It was in the midst of just another High Tide, the annual spring break college ultimate frisbee tournament in Myrtle Beach, S.C, that the 50 members of the University of Pennsylvania ultimate frisbee teams, Venus and Void — together, “Venoid” — heard the devastating news.
With a new decade comes a new group of students set to take the reins as leaders of The Daily Pennsylvanian, Inc. College junior Isabella Simonetti will lead the organization as president, while Wharton junior Ben Zhao and Wharton sophomore Dane Greisiger will take charge as executive editor and business manager, respectively.
We are quick to fight over blame when alcohol is linked to sexual violence. The first step was admitting to the problem, but we did that. On a national scale, it took an epic power shakedown for leaders to acknowledge the ubiquity of sexual assault across institutions. At Penn, student groups, individual voices, and Penn President Amy Gutmann have repeatedly brought attention to sexual assault on campus.
At a “Day of Play” event designed to foster wellness in the Penn community, surrounded by celebration and positive messaging from the balloons, photo ops, and free food, I felt like joy was being shoved down my throat. In the moment, I tried to force cheeriness, but real wellness is a sustained set of choices motivated by a long-term goal. It isn’t faking a smile at a party.
Picture Penn’s campus mid-July – it’s a humid Philly summer, but you and most other students are far, far away, probably either at the beach or at an investment bank. Still, somehow I found myself right back in University City, working as an RA and TA at one of the many high school business programs on campus. Unfortunately, it became clear that many participants and their families overvalue these pre-college programs, expecting a magic shortcut to college admissions.
Advice is like an armpit: Everyone has one, and most of the time it stinks. As you begin your time at Penn, you'll certainly be bombarded with unsolicited advice from upperclassmen, professors, and other people who most likely have no clue what they’re talking about. So, here’s some from me, a slightly jaded Penn senior who gets to write a letter in the newspaper.
Navigating Student Financial Services can be headache-inducing for anyone. After giving yourself a pep-talk, you walk into an office, input your name into a kiosk, and watch it linger endlessly on a waiting list while you squirm in a chair. The experience is often not only tedious, but frustrating and demoralizing.
Upon seeing Urooba Abid’s article in The Daily Pennsylvanian on Monday morning, I will admit I was a little taken aback by the headline.
If you haven’t heard about Birthright, it sounds like fantasy: an organization that offers a free 10 day trip around Israel to thousands of young Jewish adults each year. My first thought when I heard about this program through Penn Hillel? There is definitely a catch. My second thought? I am definitely not Jewish enough for this.
There’s a word document I created the summer before my freshman year that was aptly named “clubs Penn.” It contained a list of nine clubs I planned to join that fall. I’ve always been an anxious person, so I thought coming into this new, unfamiliar environment with some sort of roadmap would make my college experience less scary. Here’s a shocker — it didn’t.