News brief: Fight near high rises draws Penn security
A fight apparently broke out near the high rise college houses last night, drawing about 20 Penn police officers and security guards to 39th Street and Locust Walk around 11 p.m.
A fight apparently broke out near the high rise college houses last night, drawing about 20 Penn police officers and security guards to 39th Street and Locust Walk around 11 p.m.
Awave of University press releases in the last month proudly proclaimed Penn's standing in a slew of new rankings.
While the Quakers' victory brought head coach Al Bagnoli's win total to the century mark, Norries Wilson was just getting started as head coach of Columbia. The Lions pulled an impressive 37-7 upset victory over Fordham, scoring 20 points off of turnovers.
After sweeping both games on their North Carolina road trip, Jessica Fuccello and the Penn women's soccer team will make a short commute this evening to face cross-town rival Temple in Ambler, Pa.
Awave of University press releases in the last month proudly proclaimed Penn's standing in a slew of new rankings.
While the Quakers' victory brought head coach Al Bagnoli's win total to the century mark, Norries Wilson was just getting started as head coach of Columbia. The Lions pulled an impressive 37-7 upset victory over Fordham, scoring 20 points off of turnovers.
EASTON, Pa. - Watching the game in real time, the question was obvious: Looking at the box score, it became even more pressing.
Saturday could have been quite a day for Penn sports. Four teams are playing at home - women's tennis is hosting the Cissie Leary Invitational, football is playing against Villanova, men's soccer against Harvard and volleyball against Binghamton in the Penn-Sheraton Invitational.
College junior Jose Palau spent his summer in India and Ecuador helping impoverished people get online. While many of his classmates dealt in mutual funds and money markets, he worked with one of India's major banks to help set up Internet kiosks in the south of that country.
The jury that will decide the fate of Irina Malinovskaya saw two versions of her ex-boyfriend, Robert Bondar, yesterday.
NEW ORLEANS - A crazy quilt jungle of high-fashion headwear, the French Quarter boutique Fleur de Paris is already an overwhelming place to walk into. But 2006 College alumna Miji Park got more than she bargained for last weekend when, just seconds after she strolled in the door, owner Joe Perrino burst out from behind a hat rack and told her to get out.
For years, Penn junior Collette DeBenedetto lifted weights as a means. It was just another facet of her workout, another way to improve her track and field career. Now, weightlifting is her end - her sport.
The Undergraduate Assembly passed a proposal Sunday night to support unionization efforts by workers on campus. The proposal, spearheaded by UA member and College sophomore Hayling Price, seeks to promote dialogue between the University and Penn security guards, who are technically employed by an outside company, about wages, training and benefits.
Miji Park and her Idea Corp co-workers have been providing free consulting to 20 distinctive New Orleans small businesses since this summer. They've been helping the stores find ways to cope with the declining number of tourists by expanding their customer base and online operations.
The rock-and-roll lifestyle of Pale Nimbus - a band of Penn graduates and students - is too wild for print. "We'd rather not have [our stories] published," said Pale Nimbus guitarist Bobby Frisch. With the juicy parts left to the imagination, the band is all about the music.
Students excited about wireless Internet access in their dorm rooms are receiving disappointing advice from hallmates and the technology experts at Penn: Don't throw out those Ethernet cords yet. University officials pledged $700,000 to provide wireless Internet access in all college houses by the time students moved in this year.
Squeezing in to a closed class is about to get easier - but at a price. A Wharton and Engineering senior has created a program called "Class Buster" that will enable Penn students to know the exact second space opens up in a full class. The site - located at hometown.
About 22,000 students attend the University of Pennsylvania, and up to half of them are graduate students.
The lack of Engineering graduates who actually go on to be engineers is having a dentrimental effect on the quality of the school.
Abdi Farah is a College sophomore from Owings Mills, Md.