Letter to the editor | Chris Corsi
It was with a mix of great sadness and severe frustration that I read about the death of Wharton junior Olivia Kong yesterday.
It was with a mix of great sadness and severe frustration that I read about the death of Wharton junior Olivia Kong yesterday.
On the heels of one of the best all-around seasons in Penn squash history, the Quakers are doing everything they can to maintain their success from 2015-16.
When they first set foot in University City, many freshmen athletes learn to keep their heads down and work hard in the hopes of receiving just a smidge of playing time by the time they are an upperclassmen.
For the second time this season, Penn baseball will sandwich an out-of-league matchup between two strings of four straight Ivy League doubleheaders.
On the heels of one of the best all-around seasons in Penn squash history, the Quakers are doing everything they can to maintain their success from 2015-16.
When they first set foot in University City, many freshmen athletes learn to keep their heads down and work hard in the hopes of receiving just a smidge of playing time by the time they are an upperclassmen.
It takes a lot to be a Penn athlete. It takes even more to be a successful Penn athlete. And it’s damn near impossible to excel in the world of professional sports.
We're heading down the home stretch of the spring season as most of Penn's teams are halfway through their Ivy League campaigns.
Ohio University canceled various Greek Week events after students wrote Pro-Trump campaign messages on a graffiti wall.
Students for a Democratic Society and Penn Political Union engaged in a formal debate Monday night, arguing over the merits of the Central Intelligence Agency and its role in promoting global security.
Organized by SASgov, a graduate student government group for the School of Arts and Sciences, the forum on Monday allowed graduate students to raise questions for Associate Dean for Graduate Studies Eve Troutt Powell. Issues of financing and diversity loomed throughout the course of the discussion.
The energy industry burns hundreds of millions of dollars worth of methane as fuel every year, simply because it’s currently the most efficient use of the gas. But Penn Chemistry professor Daniel Mindiola is researching cleaner and more productive uses.
April is Autism Awareness Month and Penn Speaks for Autism is working to get a dialogue started about Autism Spectrum Disorder, or ASD.
SEPTA had previously hoped to begin implementing the new payment technology in April but it has been pushed back to at least early June
One Penn professor has set his sights far beyond University City: He has teamed up with NASA to discover planets like Earth that exist beyond our own galaxy.
On April 8, Fossil Free Penn released a letter in support of divestment from fossil fuels that was signed by 100 faculty members across 10 out of the 12 schools at Penn.
The vote by the eight Ivy League football coaches to end tackling at in-season practices is Penn Athletics' philosophy in action.
This year was supposed to be a step backwards for Penn baseball. After a program-record 14 Ivy League wins a season ago, the Red and Blue graduated a cavalcade of veteran standouts; a total of ten seniors played their final games in 2015, two of whom — Austin Bossart and Ronnie Glenn — were talented enough to take their skills to the professional level. And accordingly, the team has not been as dominant as it was a year ago.
To completely change the culture of any group, the first step is to start from within. And for a Penn Athletics brand looking to re-ignite its formerly passionate fan base, the road to recovery is underway.
For Penn football, and the other seven Ivy League programs, two questions remained unanswered: Will the coaches’ proposal to eliminate tackling from regular season practices be passed? And if it does, what effect will it have on the players?