With 40 percent of its members being students of color, Penn's class of 2010 is its most diverse to date. But this triumph of diversity was not won without aggressive effort. As admissions officials nationwide, including Penn, fight for higher percentages of minorities at their schools, more and more are using a range of multicultural recruitment programs.
By Leanne Ta The Daily Pennsylvanian Hundreds of protest groups, numerous online petitions, a public demonstration and an organized boycott: not the way Facebook.com officials expected users to respond to the site's recent makeover. "We really messed this one up," Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerburg wrote in an open letter to Facebook users Friday morning.
In her Sept. 10 op-ed in The New York Times, Susan Sontag anticipated that the anniversary of Sept. 11 would serve as "a day of mourning" and "an affirmation of American solidarity." "But," she continued, "of one thing we can be sure. It is not a day of national reflection.
Ex-Wharton professor Scott Ward is stuck in jail - for now. A federal judge ruled on Friday that Ward, charged with importing child pornography, will remain in Virginia court custody until his trial. The judge overturned last Wednesday's ruling that Ward could return to his Massachusetts home if he posted bail set at $2 million and abided by strict regulations, which included wearing a GPS-tracking device and never accessing travel documents or a computer.
By Leanne Ta The Daily Pennsylvanian Hundreds of protest groups, numerous online petitions, a public demonstration and an organized boycott: not the way Facebook.com officials expected users to respond to the site's recent makeover. "We really messed this one up," Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerburg wrote in an open letter to Facebook users Friday morning.
In her Sept. 10 op-ed in The New York Times, Susan Sontag anticipated that the anniversary of Sept. 11 would serve as "a day of mourning" and "an affirmation of American solidarity." "But," she continued, "of one thing we can be sure. It is not a day of national reflection.
By Josh Wheeling The Daily Pennsylvanian Despite facing nearly 20 teams each in the men's and women's Fordham Invitationals on Saturday, the women's cross country team won the event, while the men came in second behind Navy. No Penn runner finished with a top three time in either race, but depth carried the Quakers to two high finishes.
Week of affordable dining in Center City This fall's Center City Restaurant Week began yesterday, but hurry to make your reservations - it only runs through Friday. The event, which occurs annually, allows patrons to dine for $30 at some of the city's most expensive restaurants.
Entering this weekend's Penn Invitational, the women's soccer team was one of the many Quakers squads that had yet to score a goal, much less win a game. But after all was said and done, Penn had accomplished both of those things as part of an Ivy sweep of the Penn Invitational.
By Krista Hutz The Daily Pennsylvanian Penn field hockey coach Val Cloud expected sophomore transfer Margaretha Ehret to make an immediate impact for her team. And with one goal she did just that. Ehret scored the Red and Blue's first goal of the season and her first in a Quakers uniform, in Penn's 2-0 win over Harvard (0-3, 0-1 Ivy) on Saturday.
After being in New York on Sept. 11, 2001, a lot of things changed. I started reading the newspaper. I figured out that both America and my beloved home city weren't indestructible. And to this day, I give a second look to every plane that flies over Manhattan.
By Leanne Ta The Daily Pennsylvanian High schools and small laboratories can now access a piece of world-class equipment they once could only dream of, thanks to graduate student Brian Edwards. That device is a pair of tweezers. Well, sort of. Edwards, an Electrical and Systems Engineering doctoral candidate, has created "electric tweezers" that allow researchers to manipulate microscopic particles simply by moving a joystick.
The Daily Pennsylvanian spoke with University President Amy Gutmann about Scott Ward's time as a Wharton Marketing professor. DP: Why was Ward allowed to remain on the faculty after two arrests? AG: The most important fact is that Mr. Ward is no longer at Penn.
When you think of the few nationally publicized sports at Penn, men's basketball and football are the first ones to come to mind.
College freshman Douglas Halperin got in to Penn during the most competitive admissions season in the University's history.
No one would ever accuse the Ivy League of being a powerhouse conference in football or basketball. In this day and age, Penn and its counterparts are simply never contenders for a bowl game, let alone a national championship. To many, it is comical that the sports in which the Ivy League tends to excel are ones like squash, fencing, lacrosse and crew.
Although their tastes in music might be very different, there is one thing many Penn students can have in common: a sleek software called iTunes that sells millions of digital songs. But a new program is trying to compete. Having dominated the digital music industry - and the laptops of Penn students - for the past several years, iTunes may soon be challenged by the social-networking Web site MySpace.
One team is going to walk out of Franklin Field tomorrow excited and breathing a sigh of relief, while the other will be left with yet another mark in the loss column.
Ex-Wharton professor emeritus Scott Ward likely won't be going home anytime soon, despite his option to post $2 million bail, legal experts say. Even if he is willing to pay, experts say the decision to grant bail could be overturned, and there is still the matter of the separate charges that he faces in Pennsylvania.
Barbaro coverage To the Editor: Thank you for the continual coverage of Barbaro ("Barbaro recovering under Penn vets' care," DP, 8/31/06). I'm not involved with horse racing at all, but I was really touched by the courage of this horse, the wisdom of his jockey and the dedication of Dean Richardson.
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