Equality of Penn admissions called into question
Sean Vereen and the other speaker at the UMC talk, English professor Herman Beavers, feel that Penn groups aren't doing enough to address the inequalities caused by the meritocracy.
Sean Vereen and the other speaker at the UMC talk, English professor Herman Beavers, feel that Penn groups aren't doing enough to address the inequalities caused by the meritocracy.
Penn's Division of Public Safety was ranked the number one university on Security Magazine's "Security 500" list.
No. 25 Harvard Crimson Last Season: 27-5, 13-1 Ivy Coach: Tommy Amaker, 8th season, 139-70, 67-31 Ivy Ivy League Media Poll predicted finish: 1st Last Ivy League Title: 2013-2014 Will win if: They can stay healthy and play up to expectations (or anywhere close). Wesley Saunders and Siyani Chambers give the Crimson one of the nation's best backcourts. Will lose if: The team’s lack of backcourt depth comes back to haunt it while the team’s frontcourt depth turns out to be more quantity than quality. Last year vs.
President Amy Gutmann will be honored Wednesday for Penn's successful partnership with the American Defamation League.
Penn's Division of Public Safety was ranked the number one university on Security Magazine's "Security 500" list.
No. 25 Harvard Crimson Last Season: 27-5, 13-1 Ivy Coach: Tommy Amaker, 8th season, 139-70, 67-31 Ivy Ivy League Media Poll predicted finish: 1st Last Ivy League Title: 2013-2014 Will win if: They can stay healthy and play up to expectations (or anywhere close). Wesley Saunders and Siyani Chambers give the Crimson one of the nation's best backcourts. Will lose if: The team’s lack of backcourt depth comes back to haunt it while the team’s frontcourt depth turns out to be more quantity than quality. Last year vs.
Sophomore 133-pounder Caleb Richardson has been under bright lights of college wrestling’s biggest stage when he went to the NCAA tournament as a 12- pound freshman.
Although this will also be his last campaign on the Quakers’ sideline, Bagnoli made it perfectly clear before the year started that he never wanted his impending retirement to overshadow what his players did on the field.
As one of the Quakers’ top players, sophomore forward Alec Neumann has been able to focus on his game, but as he becomes an upperclassman, he will try to add ‘leader’ to his impressive list of accomplishments at Penn.
Penn basketball is hard at work preparing for its opener against MEAC foe Delaware State on Saturday night.
Alpha Delta Pi invited numerous leaders on-campus to get pied in the face to raise funds for the Ronald McDonald House Charities at their Pie-a-President event. They raised a total of over $1200 through this philanthropy fundraiser.
This year, outside expectations are virtually nil for the Quakers. And they like it that way.
For me, that’s the most troubling part of flipped classrooms — the idea that, with all the great faculty Penn has, they don’t spend time teaching. A freshman in an active learning Math 103 course told me that she is required to watch online lectures. Once she is actually in class, her professor puts her into groups and gives them worksheets.
I hope that I will love my child the instant I know they are mine — as my parents felt with me. I will love an adopted child with the same deep, irrational and unconditional love my parents have given me. Just like my parents, I will then begin the lifelong process of getting to know who they really are, and loving them not just as my child, but as their own person.
When it comes to student government, Penn does not have a participation problem. Participation with Penn Student Government has undoubtedly improved over the past few years, from higher voter turnout to increased student participation in various appointed committees. Penn does, however, have an ownership problem.
Nick Moncy is a College junior from North Miami, Fla. His email address is nickmon@sas.upenn.edu.
Understandably, the team wants to stress the process and not the results this year. That makes perfect sense with a young roster that was projected to finish seventh in the Ancient Eight in the Ivy preseason poll. But there will need to be results this year alongside the all-important process.
Starting in May of this year, there was a new presence around Penn basketball as Quakers alum Nat Graham joined Jerome Allen’s staff as a new assistant coach. And with Graham came a new buzz word: Tremendous.
With several important upperclassmen from last year parting ways with the program, the Red and Blue will count on the underclassmen to produce, and Howard will be looked upon to lead the way.
Mike Lintulahti isn’t one for the spotlight. For him, basketball has always been about the players first and foremost. And now, taking over as one of the assistant coaches for Penn men’s basketball, Lintulahti has the chance to shape the players in this program in ways that he never could before.