When the 1998 Winter Olympics were held in Nagano, Japan, they brought with them a curious sport that quickly caught on as a fad in the United States.
Two students have been charged with aggravated assault for allegedly smashing a beer bottle into another student's ear last week.
Ruckus sure has taken off fast. The free online music service, furnished by the Undergraduate Assembly, has 4,100 Penn subscribers not two weeks after its debut, though it has been unofficially available to students for over a month. But it has detractors as well as supporters, and other schools' experiences indicate it risks losing momentum.
Determining what makes a person a Native American is harder than you might think, according to Bethany Schneider. Schneider, a professor who teaches a graduate-level Native American literature class at Penn, discussed Indian identity at a meeting of Six Directions, a student-run group focusing on Native American issues, yesterday.
In 1904, a French renaissance manor was constructed at 42nd and Pine streets. Over 100 years later, the mansion is re-opening its doors to residents - this time, to anyone who wants to live there. This January, residents will begin moving into the space, which has been transformed into 28 luxury condominiums as part of a project initiated by Penn.
After earlier mishaps two years ago, SPEC seems to have gotten its act together.
After earlier mishaps two years ago, SPEC seems to have gotten its act together.
Two students have been charged with aggravated assault for allegedly smashing a beer bottle into another student's ear last week.
Ruckus sure has taken off fast. The free online music service, furnished by the Undergraduate Assembly, has 4,100 Penn subscribers not two weeks after its debut, though it has been unofficially available to students for over a month. But it has detractors as well as supporters, and other schools' experiences indicate it risks losing momentum.
Every year, the Penn Relays attract over 15,000 athletes and 100,000 fans to Franklin Field for one of the country's greatest amateur athletic events. For Frank Dolson, a longtime Philadelphia sportswriter who passed away last weekend at age 73, there was little better in the world than the Penn Relays.
WILMINGTON - A third day of deliberations passed yesterday without a verdict in the first-degree murder trial of Wharton undergraduate Irina Malinovskaya, much to the surprise of spectators and lawyers alike.
It was your typical crowd considering the circumstances: 6 p.m. on a Monday in a restaurant that teetered on the edge of Rittenhouse Square, Rouge was about to be flooded with a classy, well-dressed crowd of Center City's clearly sophisticated, pseudo-European crowd.
Penn alum Winnifer Culter might not have made Harvard's list of most influential, but few others have the power to get you lovin'.
When it comes to seafood restaurants in the city, Philadelphia Fish & Company is a catch.
Not allowing students to use computers in class isn't the issue, the problem is why students aren't paying attention.
If you like Italian food, and your wallet is $20 light, Ecco Qui is one of the best Italian spots in Philadelphia. The restaurant at 32nd and Chestnut is tailored to a college student's lifestyle, as it boasts a bar, outside seating, numerous entrees under $10 and iron cast Dragons to show that it is in the heart of Drexel's campus.
Three years, three restaurants. If you go by the numbers, the retail spot at 3716 Spruce St. seems doomed to cater to a never-ending parade of eateries, each incapable of attracting a sizeable following. But what is it really like inside the new Aramark-run freshman hub now known as Savory? Is three times the charm? Being the hard-hitting reporter I am, I decided to brave the hordes of Quadrangle residents and find out for myself.
Old Original Bookbinder's hardly needs an introduction.
Talk-show host Maury Povich stopped by campus yesterday, but no paternity tests were administered. Povich, a Penn alumnus, and his wife, TV journalist Connie Chung, visited the Kelly Writers House yesterday evening to inaugurate the first Povich Writer-in-Residence at the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing.
The similarities are striking: Last year, a 6-2-2 women's soccer team lost 1-0 to Columbia and was unable to recover, winning just one of its final five games. Today, four days after playing some of their worst soccer of the season, the Quakers are looking to rebound from another 1-0 defeat by the Lions and avoid a repeat of last year's failures down the stretch.
Ever wonder why you see the same faces year after year in student government? It may be because after freshman year, few people run who aren't already in office. Last year, the presidential candidates for the classes of 2007 and 2008 ran unopposed. Several positions, such as treasurer for the Class of 2007 and College representative for the Class of 2009 even remained vacant, with no contenders vying for their spots.
The Northern Liberties section of Philadelphia is an area that has seen quite a bit of development in the last few years. It is quickly becoming one of the city's hottest spots, and is already home to an array of trendy restaurants and shops.
You may think you are too nice to make it in the cutthroat world of investigative journalism, but, according to Judy Bachrach, even nice people can be good reporters. At an intimate lunchtime conversation in Kelly Writers House yesterday, Bachrach, a contributing editor to Vanity Fair magazine, spoke with a dozen Penn students about her experiences as an investigative reporter.
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