David Lei | Computing the need
The Class of 2013 will have one less option to choose from when requesting a housing assignment for next year. According to the College Houses and Academic Services Web site and an e-mail sent to the Kite & Key tour-guide listserv, Rodin College House will stop admitting freshmen temporarily.
April 4, 11:30 a.m. Last night, the Nominations and Elections Committee announced newly elected members of the Undergraduate Assembly and Class Boards. College junior Rachel Levick of the NEC also announced that a record 49.77 percent of undergraduates voted online through Penn InTouch.
The new kid on the online food-ordering block is now GrubHub.com, which went live for Philadelphians last week. GrubHub aims to provide a comprehensive list of restaurants' menus while also working with some restaurants to streamline their delivery and pickup business through online ordering.
The Class of 2013 will have one less option to choose from when requesting a housing assignment for next year. According to the College Houses and Academic Services Web site and an e-mail sent to the Kite & Key tour-guide listserv, Rodin College House will stop admitting freshmen temporarily.
April 4, 11:30 a.m. Last night, the Nominations and Elections Committee announced newly elected members of the Undergraduate Assembly and Class Boards. College junior Rachel Levick of the NEC also announced that a record 49.77 percent of undergraduates voted online through Penn InTouch.
An open call from Mayor Nutter To the Community: During last year's 1st Annual Philly Spring Cleanup, friends, family and neighbors got together, rolled up their sleeves and went to work cleaning our neighborhoods and parks. The first Philly Spring Cleanup set a record as the largest single-day cleanup effort in U.
As advance registration comes to a close this weekend, students will have one more chance to register for courses on the old Penn InTouch system. This June, Penn InTouch will finally get an extreme makeover two years in the making. During that time, Student Registration and Financial Services "refreshed" the Penn InTouch online system with the help of Information Services and Computing and two advisory committees.
With only one senior on the roster, Penn baseball needed some juniors to step up this season. Say hello to Tom Grandieri and Will Gordon. Both of them have taken on leadership roles this season and have batted tremendously thus far. Grandieri is hitting .
Yesterday, ten talented engineering students strutted their stuff and fought a battle of wits in the ARCH auditorium in an attempt to win the coveted title of Mr. or Ms. SEAS. The event was organized by the Engineering Student Activity Council and consisted of a walk-off, a talent show, a question-and-answer section and a date auction for the five male and five female contestants.
This weekend the Penn women's lacrosse team could be in the zone - Harvard's zone defense, that is. The Quakers have not faced a zone defense so far this season, but the Crimson have a history of employing it. No. 3 Penn (9-0, 3-0 Ivy) will have to utilize its multifaceted attack in order to defeat the unranked Crimson's (4-5, 1-1) defense tomorrow in Boston.
If Penn softball has one thing going for it this year, it's a deep pitching staff with some proven studs. Those aces will get their toughest test yet against the two top offensive teams in the Ivy League, Brown and Yale, when the Quakers (6-17-1, 1-3 Ivy) make a road trip this weekend.
Daniel Schwartz is a College junior from Decatur, Ga. His e-mail address is schwartz@dailypennsylvanian.com.
Robbery March 25 - A woman unaffiliated with the University, 28, reported at about 1:30 a.m. that an unknown suspect took her money at gunpoint on the 4000 block of Spruce Street, before fleeing in an unknown direction. March 26 - A man unaffiliated with the University, 19, reported that a group of unknown males displayed a handgun and a knife, robbed him of cash and personal property, then fled north on 41st Street.
Penn researchers received $1.7 million from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to organize and share the database resources on parasite genomes. David Roos, the E. Otis Kendall Biology professor, will lead this project. According to Roos, scientists have accumulated a large amount of genomic data.
Today's men's lacrosse match may not determine the Ivy League champion, but at the moment it looms pretty large for the Quakers. The team will attempt to halt its six-game losing streak against Dartmouth at 4 p.m. this afternoon at Franklin Field. Both teams have been disappointing thus far this season - the Red and Blue (1-6, 0-3 Ivy) and Big Green (2-6, 0-1) are the only two Ivy squads without a conference win.
When shown a photograph of a condom and a gun and the statement "Which would keep [a rapist] from coming back for more?" would you do a double-take? I did when I first visited ConcealedCampus.org, the Web site for Students for Concealed Carry on Campus. That photo is one of the first images shown on the site.
Penn Law professor Wendell Pritchett was named chancellor of Rutgers University-Camden Campus and will assume his post on June 30, Rutgers announced yesterday. Pritchett has taught at Penn Law since 2001. After serving as associate dean at Penn Law from 2006 to 2008, he will begin similar administrative and developmental responsibilities at Rutgers.
The clock on court two of Levy Tennis Pavilion read 6:30. Officially, practice begins at four o'clock and ends at six o'clock, but sophomore Alexa Ely and freshman Emily Wolf had just finished hitting. Ely's day of class and tennis began with an early-morning individual session with interim coach Sara Schiffman while most Penn students were still sleeping.
Marjane Satrapi, critically acclaimed graphic novelist, introduced herself last night as someone who "writes with pictures." The room in College Hall where she spoke was overflowing with students eager to listen to the creator of Persepolis, the graphic novel about a girl growing up during the Iranian Revolution.