W. Lacrosse Recap
Friday night, the Penn men’s lacrosse team took down the Blue Devils by a final score of 14-9 at Franklin Field.
The No. 23 Quakers dominated Princeton and Drexel in their final home meets.
If a State of the Union proposal becomes law, low-wage workers may see income increases, and Penn work-study students may feel their wallets fatten in the coming months.
Friday night, the Penn men’s lacrosse team took down the Blue Devils by a final score of 14-9 at Franklin Field.
The No. 23 Quakers dominated Princeton and Drexel in their final home meets.
The Penn women’s gymnastics team was unable to hold onto its crown as the two-time defending Ivy League champions.
The men’s and women’s squads finished seventh and sixth out of eight, respectively, in the Ivy League Heptagonal Indoor Championships held at Harvard University.
With the two wins this weekend, it is the first time in program history that Penn has improved its win total in three straight seasons.
After a 79-71 win over Cornell Friday night, the Quakers couldn’t get past a Columbia team which had lost seven of its previous eight games, losing to the Lions, 58-41.
Tony Hicks already has the flash and flair to make himself look good. That said, it will be his ability to make his teammates look good too that will determine whether Penn reclaims the Ivy crown in his time.
The three students were taken to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania for examination and treatment.
After the sweep of Harvard and Dartmouth last weekend put Penn in full possession of second place, the Quakers again dominated the Ivy competition, beating the Big Red, 67-40. Penn led the entire game.
The Red and Blue were able to jump to a lead early in the second half that would set the tone for the rest of the game, clinching the game at Cornell, 79-71.
A single car crash occurred at the intersection of 38th and Spruce streets Friday around 2:45 p.m. The crash knocked down a traffic signal.
When Susan Komen was diagnosed with breast cancer in the late 1970s, people walking through the town of Peoria, Illinois, would cross the street when they saw her, out of fear that they would catch what they called “the big C.”After Komen’s younger sister, Nancy Brinker, made a promise to put an end to breast cancer forever, Brinker founded Susan G. Komen for the Cure — an organization that has invested almost $2 billion around the globe in ground-breaking research, education, screening and treatment.
Last night, members of the Philadelphia and Penn community learned about hip-hop from one of the masters of the trade.The Center for Africana Studies Undergraduate Advisory Board brought Grammy Award-winning producer, artist and scholar Patrick Douthit — better known as 9th Wonder — to speak at the Annenberg School about the history of contemporary hip-hop music and its influence on his life.
Last night, J Street U Penn — a pro-Israel and pro-peace student group at Penn — hosted Daniel Seidemann, an Israeli attorney and legal expert on east Jerusalem policy. For his talk, Seidemann delved into his professional experience and lent some rational insight on the possibility of a two-state solution between Israelis and Palestinians.
It is unequivocal that Penn’s administration should be more diverse. However, less than two years ago, Penn launched its Faculty Diversity Action Plan, geared at increasing the diversity of Penn’s faculty.