Penn fencing alum Shaul Gordon to compete for Canada at Olympic Games
Shaul Gordon, who was an athlete on the Penn fencing team and graduated in 2016, will be representing Canada this summer at the Olympic Games.
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Shaul Gordon, who was an athlete on the Penn fencing team and graduated in 2016, will be representing Canada this summer at the Olympic Games.
Penn will be present at FIBA Women’s EuroBasket 2021 in the form of Nikola Kovacikova, who will be competing for the Slovakian women’s national team.
This is part of a series on Juneteenth, the anniversary of the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States. In their columns, members of the community evaluate slavery, Penn’s relationship to it, and how this informs our understanding of race today.
After spending time at both Penn and Western Carolina University, Ryan Glover has chosen to continue his college football career at the University of California.
USRowing recently announced the athletes that would be competing for them at this summer’s Olympic Games in Tokyo. Included in that list is Penn alumna Regina Salmons, who will be competing in the Women’s Eight.
Over the course of four days last week, Penn track and field competed at the Division I NCAA East Region Preliminaries, with many Quakers having strong showings.
Penn Athletics’ search for a new athletics director has come to a close, as they announced the hiring of Alanna Shanahan to fill the role.
To cap off an unusual season, the Penn men’s lightweight and heavyweight rowing squads competed at the Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) National Championships, notching several high-place finishes in the process.
In a move that will continue Penn Athletics’ partnership with Nike, both sides recently agreed to a five-year contract through the 2025-26 athletic year.
After back-to-back seasons appearing in the play-in tournament, the Memphis Grizzlies have reached the NBA Playoffs for the first time since 2017, fueled in large part by second-year head coach and 2007 Wharton graduate Taylor Jenkins.
Course quality and difficulty ratings were not significantly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic despite the switch to online learning.
Unlike the winter and spring seasons, fall sports has only missed one season due to COVID-19 cancellations. While it did not miss as much time as the other sports, it does have its fair share of memorable athletes.
While it didn’t end as abruptly as last year's season did, this year’s athletics season was marred by cancellations and a lack of competition.
While it didn’t end as abruptly as last year's season, this year’s athletics season was marred by cancelations and a lack of play. For many of Penn’s graduating seniors, this meant that they had no traditional senior night.
As faculty and graduate group members in the Department of Africana Studies, we feel it is incumbent upon us to speak to the tragic, sorrowful, and racist treatment of the remains of two children, Delisha Africa and Tree Africa, killed in the bombing of MOVE. Although this tragic event occurred on May 13, 1985, the presence of these remains within the Penn Museum only very recently became public knowledge. We recognize that other departments on campus are working to raise awareness about systemic racism and the legacies of slavery and racial discrimination, particularly when exploring Penn’s own history. Nonetheless, the Department of Africana Studies was founded to play a special role as academic witnesses to and chroniclers of the ferocity of racism.
This past Monday, the Penn Museum formally apologized for possessing the remains of at least one child killed by Philadelphia police in the 1985 MOVE bombing. However, Penn Museum's apology has not been without controversy. Members of MOVE, a Black liberation advocacy group, rejected the apology as insufficient, demanding the immediate return of the remains, the firing of a key employee of Penn Museum at the center of the scandal, and financial reparations.
In the past week it has come to light that the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology has for over 35 years held, studied, and at times displayed the human remains of a child named Tree Africa, a member of West Philadelphia’s MOVE organization. The bones of 14-year-old Tree Africa, and possibly also 12-year-old Delisha Africa, were reportedly handed over by the medical examiner’s office to Penn anthropologists for forensic study in the 1980s after the May 13, 1985 killing of eleven West Philadelphia residents, when Philadelphia Police dropped an aerial bomb on the MOVE residence and let fires destroy over 60 homes in the Cobbs Creek neighborhood adjacent to our university.
This is The Daily Pennsylvanian’s final issue until the fall, and hopefully the last with full pandemic restrictions in place. In the spirit of reflection and commemoration, the DP’s opinion staff grades how we — as a university and as a community — responded to the COVID-19 pandemic.
As we approach the end of an unprecedented academic year, students have much more to think about than politics. Still, it is important that students bring their enthusiasm from this fall to the present and vote on May 18, 2021 in the local Philadelphia primary election. Even though the election will occur after finals and commencement, Penn students must still make their voices heard.
This year, as many Penn students struggle to find summer opportunities, Penn’s summer course offerings provide the chance to stay engaged and get ahead on coursework and requirements. However, at a price of $4,694 to $7,092 per course unit, depending on the school, these classes do not come cheap. Without grant-based aid during the summer terms, and limited other assistance, Penn’s courses remain inaccessible to many.