Russell-ing the Leaves | Redefining activism for today
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Though more women are going to college than ever before — 71.5 percent of 2008 U.S. high-school graduates, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — this doesn’t mean more women are becoming professors.
With a matchup against Yale just a week away, Penn women’s basketball is doing everything it can to prepare for a strong start to the meat of Ivy play.
Last night outside Houston Hall, over three hundred of Penn’s newest sorority recruits were welcomed into their new homes with thundering cheers, balloons and banners.
Though more women are going to college than ever before — 71.5 percent of 2008 U.S. high-school graduates, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — this doesn’t mean more women are becoming professors.
With a matchup against Yale just a week away, Penn women’s basketball is doing everything it can to prepare for a strong start to the meat of Ivy play.
Zach Klitzman predicts that the men's squash team will fall to Trinity and its 211-game winning streak.
Division of Public Safety officials and security experts note that it is up to each university to craft its own guidelines for when emergency communication is appropriate.
Penn senior wrestlers Cesar Grajales and Matt Dragon are on the injury report once again as the Quakers travel across the state Saturday to take on No. 23 ranked Pittsburgh.
Missing from the M. Tennis roster are last year’s top player and one of this year’s captains. But when the Quakers open their season tomorrow at Levy Pavilion with a doubleheader against Drexel and Bucknell, they’ll still be playing with a target on their backs.
When they face the the No. 23 Panthers tomorrow, the Quakers will go up against many of the same wrestlers they upset in a 20-16 victory last year when the Panthers were ranked 24th.
Skirkanich Hall, home to Penn’s Bioengineering Department, recently received the 2010 Institute Honor Award for Architecture given by the American Institute of Architects.
Though ReadyNotifyPA — the platform that allows agencies to send notifications via e-mail and text to people living in the city — has been around for several years, the Philadelphia Police added new alerts that began on Dec. 31.
After seven H1N1 vaccine clinics across the university, the Student Health Service has immunized 8,313 students, according to SHS Public Health Nurse Sharon McMullen.
The Undergraduate Assembly has elected College junior Mark Pan to the new UA Communication Director position to help improve communications with students.
The Penn Fund, which receives annual donations from seniors and alumni, is 13.4 percent ahead of where it was at this point last year.
Four food trucks around the city have been decorated as part of the Lunch Truck Project by ArtWorks!, an after-school arts program for Philadelphia youth run by the Mural Arts Program.
The women’s tennis team successfully put out the Dragons’ fire in Sanela Kunovac’s coaching debut.
Intense man-to-man pressure from the Quakers (1-12, 0-3 Big 5) helped close the gap against La Salle (10-8, 1-1), driving Explorers coach Dr. John Gianninni into a frenzy of expletives.
SPEC and Mask and Wig announced Green as the guest host for their 2010 Annual Intercollegiate Comedy Festival