Editorial | We're open to open learning
(09/15/15 4:21am)
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.
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Penn men's soccer deals with rainy trip to Florida
(09/14/15 4:59am)
It was a rainy trip to Florida for Penn men’s soccer this weekend, both literally and figuratively.
Editorial: Controversial? Bring it on
(09/10/15 3:52am)
The day before classes started, Provost Vincent Price sent an email to all undergraduates about the recently launched “Campaign for Community.” An ambitious project, its goal is to help the Penn community “discuss and confront issues that are often avoided because they may seem ‘controversial’ or intractable.” To that effect, Price also encouraged faculty and staff to consider serving as Open Expression Monitors — observers sent to potentially fraught events or programs to ensure that the rights of the “meeting or demonstration participants to express their opinions in non-disruptive ways” are upheld.
Men's Soccer Issue | Talented rookie class demands attention
(09/10/15 6:26am)
Every championship team in collegiate athletics begins with a core class, the players who build the foundation for the entire season.
Penn women's soccer looks to build on strong opening
(09/03/15 4:28am)
Fresh off a successful season opener, Penn women’s soccer is tasked with maintaining its momentum against against Temple and Mount Saint Mary’s at Rhodes Field this weekend.
Theodore L. Caputi | No pay, no gain
(09/02/15 1:59am)
Ivy League colleges have a reputation for catering to the cashmere-clad upper class. But in recent decades, Penn has eschewed elitism and minimized the advantages of financial privilege so well that I sometimes forget I share a campus with some fabulously wealthy classmates. This is not by accident. Since arriving at the University in 2004, President Gutmann has made equity a priority and increased financial aid by 160 percent. Under Gutmann, Penn became the largest school (by student population) to boast a no-loan — now “all-grant” — financial aid policy and launched countless initiatives to level the economic playing field. With all this good work, it’s time for Penn to address one remaining bastion of inequity: the unpaid (or underpaid) internship.
Editorial | Another step forward for mental health
(08/28/15 4:15pm)
When Penn administrators welcomed the Class of 2018 last year, their message to students was to engage the world.
Editorial | S is for summer, but not security
(07/16/15 2:37am)
On the morning of July 4, around 1:30 a.m., two men were shot while walking down Sansom street. The shooting — in which both suspects and victims fired rounds — occurred near Kings Court English College House and popular local dining spots Mad Mex, New Deck Tavern and Doc Magrogan’s.
Women's tennis looks to grow, reload for 2016
(07/02/15 9:00am)
For Penn women’s tennis, 2015 was a streaky but ultimately successful season. By the year’s end, the team had notched several wins against nationally ranked teams and generated excitement for bigger things to come in 2016.
Men's tennis weathers the storm
(06/11/15 9:06am)
The story of the Penn men’s tennis 2015 season is not one that can be told simply by looking at the team’s final record.
A civic choice: Endorsement for Mayor
(04/30/15 3:31am)
Ask yourself this: Do you know all of the candidates in the running for the upcoming Philadelphia mayoral election? Or even one?
Against all odds: Penn women's tennis coach's war-torn journey
(04/29/15 12:09pm)
It’s a constant at any match. Arms crossed. Hat pulled down low. An intimidating but composed gaze. At big moments, she erupts with a fist pump and a “let’s go!””
Editorial | Africa ? Africana
(04/27/15 3:58am)
The University should not look at the Africa Center, the only space exclusively devoted to Africa at Penn, as a space that can be shut down. Following cuts of federal funding, the University recently announced both the closure of the Africa Center and the merging of the African studies major with the Africana Studies Department, decisions that sparked anger and dissatisfaction among students. On April 13, in a protest led by African studies majors, the Penn African Students Association and Students Organizing for Unity and Liberation, students took to College Green to display their disapproval of the decision to close the center and the injustice of the conflation of Africana and African studies.
Editorial | A nontraditional viewpoint
(04/23/15 4:17am)
The College of Liberal and Professional Studies within the School of Arts and Sciences has been receiving a fair amount of attention recently. While there are some issues with the college, overall it continues to offer successful — if sometimes unknown — programs for nontraditional students.
Penn women's tennis picks up pair of Ancient Eight wins to wrap season
(04/20/15 4:11am)
Although most of Penn’s campus spent the weekend partying it up at Spring Fling, the women’s tennis team was all business, as it closed out their season with two wins against nationally ranked Ivy League opponents.
No. 1 player off of Penn men's tennis' roster
(04/16/15 7:57am)
On March 21, Penn men’s tennis was prepared for matches against Temple and the joint team of Claremont-Mudd-Scripps. Despite two tough losses over spring break, the Quakers were in the midst of one of the best starts to their season in school history, sitting at 12-3 through 15 contests. Each of those losses came without their best player, freshman Nicolas Podesta. The team was far from concerned.
Editorial | When housing is not a home
(04/13/15 4:01am)
With the New College House set to open next year, we wanted to question the role of housing in fostering culture at Penn. Though often taken for granted, housing at Penn plays a substantive role in shaping students’ unique experiences at college. As freshmen, we’re sorted into vastly different living arrangements. Many are lucky enough to be placed in the Quad, which instills a sense of collegiate community. Others are placed in dorms like Mayer, which most students have never heard of. Some are assigned houses like Kings Court or Hill, which form their own bubbles.
Penn men's tennis has dynamic recruiting class on tap
(04/08/15 5:09am)
Part of what makes college athletics so dynamic and fun is its constant turnover of student-athletes.
Editorial | A house divided cannot stand
(04/06/15 1:48am)
The turnout for the recent Undergraduate Assembly elections was just 39 percent, down from last year’s 54 percent. This means that our president elect, Jane Meyer, was chosen by a small sliver of the undergraduate population that she now represents. The vast majority of that population was — and probably remains — indifferent.
Penn women's tennis knows love in any language
(04/01/15 3:40am)
Late in the third set of her match against Princeton last Saturday, Penn women's tennis' top singles player and senior captain Sol Eskenazi was in the middle of an epic battle. Trailing in a tiebreaker, the senior ripped a lefty forehand up the line, leaving the Princeton player dead in her tracks, forced to watch the ball fly by.