Throughout the year, we constantly get asked the questions: "What does the UA do?" or "Why should I care about student government?" These questions, while seemingly simple, cannot be answered in this limited guest column. We hope, however, to explain some of our accomplishments from this past year and give you a preview of what to expect in the coming year.
Here is an anecdote I am not proud to tell. As a freshman I vigorously debated with my roommate, Ben Kowitt, the value of admitting athletes to Penn, and I was the one who stubbornly believed that athletes did not have special or worthwhile role at Penn. However, something changed that year.
When mom and dad ask us "What are going to do with your life?" they ask with a lot of worried expectation.
Usually, it's the antics of players like Ron Artest that draw the ire of the National Basketball Association. This time, however, the NBA has a slightly less athletic target: a Wharton professor. Business and Public Policy professor Justin Wolfers recently completed a paper with Cornell University graduate student Joseph Price that suggests implicit racial bias exists on the basketball court.
Here is an anecdote I am not proud to tell. As a freshman I vigorously debated with my roommate, Ben Kowitt, the value of admitting athletes to Penn, and I was the one who stubbornly believed that athletes did not have special or worthwhile role at Penn. However, something changed that year.
When mom and dad ask us "What are going to do with your life?" they ask with a lot of worried expectation.
Wharton Vice Dean and Undergraduate Division Director Barbara Kahn will be the third dean to leave Wharton for another position this year.
Recently hired University of Alabama football coach Nick Saban will earn $4 million for every year he spends on the field. But for those spending time in the classroom, the checks aren't as big. The average full-time professor at NCAA Division 1-A schools in the United States earns $101,774 per year, according to the American Association of University Professors.
Total crime in the Penn Police patrol zone this semester was up 1 percent compared to last year's spring semester, Division of Public Safety officials said. This spring, 256 crimes occurred, three more than last year's 253. Total crime for the month of April is down slightly, with 74 crimes last month compared to 75 during April 2006.
College senior Jenn Rineer has spent the last four years benefitting from the Philadelphia community, and now she's preparing to return the favor. Rineer is one of four graduating Penn seniors to receive a year-long fellowship to live and work in the city as part of the up-and-coming Philly Fellows program.
When the Penn women's tennis team hits the court at noon Friday in the first round of the NCAA Tournament in Williamsburg, Va., onlookers have every reason to doubt the Quakers. This is a team, the skeptics might say, that is bereft of senior leadership in the lineup and outmatched in the singles lineup.
Transferring to Penn from a school on the sunny, easygoing west coast wasn't easy, but the rewards made it worthwhile.
Thursdays at the Penn Relays include many high-school and long-distance events, and this year's wasn't without notable finishes and records. The high-school field events were particularly impressive, with Kimberly Williams of Vere Tech in Jamaica setting a Relays record in the triple jump.
Tim Kaijala won two Heptagonal championships last season, in the 1,000-meter and as part of Penn's winning 4x800m relay team. This year, he finally took home the title in his bread-and-butter event, the 800m, besting the field with a 1:49.76 and leading the Quakers to a fourth-place finish at the Ivy Heps in Princeton, N.
As they head off into the great unknown, this year's seniors will always have a home here.
Rodin to receive two honorary degrees Former University President Judith Rodin is slated to receive two honorary degrees over the next few weeks: One at Dartmouth College and one at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. In addition to taking home an honorary degree from USP, she will address the school's 186th graduating class on May 23 at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts.
Not 13 minutes into the biggest game of their lives, against No. 5 seed Maryland on Sunday, rock-solid Penn goalkeeper Sarah Waxman and the rest of the No. 4 Quakers were shell-shocked. "It hit me pretty hard," Waxman, a junior, said of the Terps' four quick goals.
Philadelphia's political elite have largely written off Penn students' influence on the upcoming city elections - and they may be right, at least if past elections are any indication. An analysis of voter turnout in the 27th Ward, the section of the city that includes students who live on campus, shows that Penn students turn out in exceedingly low numbers for elections similar to the one next week.
The mother of a female student was robbed of her purse by three juveniles last Friday near the intersection of 36th Street and Locust Walk, Division of Public Safety officials said. The mother, her husband and the student were sitting on a bench on Locust Walk at about 8:55 p.
It was never supposed to be like this. Me, I mean. I was never supposed to be like this.
Solutions by The State News
