Penn received record number of applications to the Class of 2020
In total, there were 38,792 applicants — a 4 percent increase from last year.
In total, there were 38,792 applicants — a 4 percent increase from last year.
The practice of reflecting upon failings of the prior year at the start of a new one seems to me both honest and educational, particularly as someone whose somewhat inherently deceptive role is to publicly assert each week that I have a good answer to a significant problem or question.
I’m not someone who regularly writes down New Year’s Resolutions, mainly because they often remain consistent across the years: do well in school, go for a decent amount of runs every week, keep in touch with friends and family, journal more.
BRYN FRIEDENBERG is a College sophomore from Kirtland, Ohio. Her email is tobryn@sas.upenn.edu.
The practice of reflecting upon failings of the prior year at the start of a new one seems to me both honest and educational, particularly as someone whose somewhat inherently deceptive role is to publicly assert each week that I have a good answer to a significant problem or question.
I’m not someone who regularly writes down New Year’s Resolutions, mainly because they often remain consistent across the years: do well in school, go for a decent amount of runs every week, keep in touch with friends and family, journal more.
Johnathan Phillips, a senior at McKinney North High School in Texas who has struggled with homelessness for most of his life, will become a Penn freshman in the fall of 2016.
Police tape blocks traffic on Locust between 40th and 41st.
As many people start their new years with resolutions and hope, the Penn fencing team is following suit in preparation for a trophy-laden 2016.
Kyle Wilshusen's death was pronounced on Dec. 31 and ruled a suicide.
All great things must come to an end. Penn Squash knows that all too well after this weekend.
In a season defined by dominant veteran performances, Penn swimming’s youth movement made a mark of its own over the weekend.
Freshmen play clutch minutes in near-victory
By any conventional metric, the matchup between Penn women's basketball and Princeton on Saturday was anything but aesthetically pleasing.
It was that very defense that held Princeton coach Courtney Banghart’s squad to 48 points as Penn women’s basketball downed the Tigers to open Ivy play, 50-48, at the Palestra on Saturday.
Penn basketball guard Antonio Woods has been declared ineligible for the remainder of the season.
Around 11:30 p.m., suspect Edward Archer, 30, fired a semiautomatic pistol into Officer Jesse Hartnett’s police car near 60th and Spruce streets.
Nearly $3 million in assets and retirement benefits will go to Rafael Robb's daughter, Olivia, a municipal court judge ruled on Thursday.
Rapper Wale tweeted Wednesday afternoon that his next sneaker collaboration will involve the Penn Relays, the oldest track and field competition in America.
On Tuesday, The Daily Pennsylvanian confirmed that Hicks had elected to play his final season at Louisville in 2016-17. We spoke to Hicks by phone Wednesday afternoon.