As we hit the midpoint of the semester, all of Penn Athletics' fall teams now have their seasons underway. Many players have stood out with strong starts to their campaigns, but who has been the MVP thus far? Our editors tackle the question below.
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A Penn study found that gun violence isn't actually contagious. Here's why that's controversial.
"It’s been known for some time that gun violence, like many other forms of crime and other social problems, can be clustered within certain neighborhoods."
Sara Merican | 'Tis the season to support
Instead of always spending time agonizing over how to boost the number of people attending our club’s next event, we should perhaps take some time to go to a friend’s concert or activity.
Penn moves to standardize how undergraduate faculty are notified of student deaths
The deans of each undergrad school had previously been able to choose whether or not to inform their constituent faculty members, leaving swaths of faculty uninformed of student deaths.
A Penn study found that gun violence isn't actually contagious. Here's why that's controversial.
"It’s been known for some time that gun violence, like many other forms of crime and other social problems, can be clustered within certain neighborhoods."
Sara Merican | 'Tis the season to support
Instead of always spending time agonizing over how to boost the number of people attending our club’s next event, we should perhaps take some time to go to a friend’s concert or activity.
Meet the Super Seniors: Penn volleyball's veterans make the most of their time running the show
In college athletics, every new season brings plenty of new faces and, more painfully, a host of goodbyes. But this was not the case last season for one Penn team, a rarity which will make the end of this season all the more bittersweet.
With 120 officers, Penn has the largest private police force in Pennsylvania
While it's common for a university of Penn's size to employ a private police force, Penn has more than triple the number of sworn officers than its closest neighboring institution in Philadelphia.
Rookie Parker Jones lights up the court for Penn volleyball
Already garnering such impressive titles as Ivy League Volleyball Rookie of Week (twice in three weeks) and DP Sports’ Player of the Week, freshman Parker Jones is making her presence well-known very early in her college career.
A man who was convicted of sexual assault exposed himself near campus. Why weren't students notified?
A Penn student who witnessed the incident said she was “livid there was no alert” sent out to the Penn community, especially because the man was let go by police.
Penn students and faculty are working together to bring Amazon to Philadelphia
Various competitions have been set up inviting students to make arguments for Philadelphia to be made the home of the tech giant's next headquarters.
President Amy Gutmann remains silent on how the task force's recommendations directly combat sexual violence
Gutmann said the Task Force’s “overarching” goal had been to keep students safe from all types of harm, from sexual assault to “falling behind in their studies.”
Penn volleyball's junior captain leads the team by example
The first word that comes to mind when thinking of junior volleyball co-captain Taylor Cooper is hardworking. Dedicated to the sport and her team, Cooper constantly works to attain more both on and off the court.
In the Quakers’ first contest since taking a 6-0 loss at the hands of defending Ivy League champion Harvard — the team’s worst loss since 2014 — Penn made sure it wouldn’t feel that sting twice in a row. Led by a shutout from goalie Ava Rosati, the Red and Blue trounced Dartmouth, 3-0, seizing their largest margin of victory all season to stay in contention for their first Ivy League title since 2004.
Penn publicizes its general, undergraduate acceptance rate each year, but does not release the precise admissions statistics governing internal transfers or dual degrees.
Sarah Khan | Studying for midterms
SARAH KHAN is a College freshman from Lynn Haven, Fla.
Penn sprint football's Eddie Jenkins bounces back to earn DP Sports' Player of the Week
Saying Penn sprint football's Eddie Jenkins had a bounce-back performance is a gross understatement.
Accounts of Penn faculty committing sexual harassment prompt graduate students to start petition
In a survey taken in 2015, 42.4 percent of female Penn graduate students who responded said they have been victims of sexual harassment.
Penn volleyball rallies to split weekend matches with Harvard, Dartmouth
Penn volleyball showed that on Saturday with a resilient four-set victory over Dartmouth after losing a five-set heartbreaker Harvard the previous night.
Penn alumna fired after saying she was unsympathetic to the Las Vegas shooting victims
Hayley Geftman-Gold, a top lawyer at CBS who graduated from the College in 1997, was fired after posting on Facebook that she wasn't sympathetic for victims of the Las Vegas shooting.



















