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Thursday, July 9, 2026
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9/11 10th Anniversary Issue

Ivy Football Notebook: Even McLeod's 'off game' is a good one

Yale's Mike McLeod had an off game, by his standards, against Dartmouth on Saturday. The Ivy League's most dangerous offensive threat carried the ball 27 times for 155 yards and one touchdown in the Bulldogs' 50-10 thrashing of the Big Green, 33 yards short of his season average per game.


Brown kids are hippy pot smokers, Columbia kids are artsy and deep, Harvard kids are arrogant pricks, but what are Penn kids? Are we even important enough to garner any sort of stereotype, whether negative or positive? I visited four other colleges (Drexel, Brown, Yale and Princeton) to find out.

Georgetown was winless in the Patriot League last year. It was 0-5 coming into this weekend, and had lost its last two games by a combined score of 100-7. But a win is a win. Penn secured its first victory of the season with a 42-13 drubbing of the Hoyas that was never close.

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Penn students did not generally express enthusiasm for the Social Planning and Events Committee's choice to have Ben Kweller as the headlining fall performer, but those who attended the concert would beg to differ.

No player on the Penn women's soccer roster has ever experienced a 2-0 start to the Ivy League season. That is, until Saturday, when the Quakers defeated Columbia in New York 2-1. In knocking off the defending conference champions, the Quakers (8-2-1, 2-0 Ivy) ended Columbia's (6-3-2, 1-1) eight-game unbeaten streak and extended a modest three-game winning streak of their own.


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No player on the Penn women's soccer roster has ever experienced a 2-0 start to the Ivy League season. That is, until Saturday, when the Quakers defeated Columbia in New York 2-1. In knocking off the defending conference champions, the Quakers (8-2-1, 2-0 Ivy) ended Columbia's (6-3-2, 1-1) eight-game unbeaten streak and extended a modest three-game winning streak of their own.


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Brown kids are hippy pot smokers, Columbia kids are artsy and deep, Harvard kids are arrogant pricks, but what are Penn kids? Are we even important enough to garner any sort of stereotype, whether negative or positive? I visited four other colleges (Drexel, Brown, Yale and Princeton) to find out.


Football: By George, It's a Win!

Georgetown was winless in the Patriot League last year. It was 0-5 coming into this weekend, and had lost its last two games by a combined score of 100-7. But a win is a win. Penn secured its first victory of the season with a 42-13 drubbing of the Hoyas that was never close.


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Think of any 10 undergrads at Penn. Would you believe that four or five of them might be depressed? According to a national survey of 13,500 college students published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2005, 45 percent of undergraduates reported experiencing depression severe enough to prevent them from functioning day to day.


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Days after thousands of monks marched on city streets thousands of miles away, a group of students organized their own solidarity protests on campus. The vigil, which took place on College Green Friday, was held in reaction to the current events in Burma, which has seen a series of monk-led anti-government protests.


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Haverford College inducted a former Penn professor as its 13th president Saturday. Stephen Emerson, a stem-cell biologist, comes to Haverford from the Penn Medical School, where he was a professor in Pediatrics and Pathology. He was also chief of oncology and hematology for the University's Abramson Cancer Center.



Class credit for a greener campus

Like anyone who has lived in the high rises, Soleil Roberts has had her fair share of encounters with the notorious section of Locust Walk known as the wind tunnel. One day last year, the now-College senior half-jokingly tossed an idea around with her Environmental Science professor, saying, "You should put up a windmill here - you could power the whole school.


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Explore Philadelphia! It's an upbeat message which the University (and the DP) often sends, as if students can simply jaunt around the city of brotherly love at their slightest whim. Just a few problems: SEPTA is a pathetic excuse for public transportation, taxis can be prohibitively expensive and most students have neither the time nor the ability to walk everywhere.


University honors Meyerson at memorial service*

If you are looking for an example of what a "full" life looks like, you'll find it with Martin Meyerson. Meyerson, Penn President from 1970 to 1981, succumbed to prostate cancer this past June at the age of 84. A memorial service was held in his honor last Friday inside the Harrison Auditorium of the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.


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It's official. The first 'W' is finally in the books for the Quakers. Penn's offense finally came together against Georgetown, converting on red-zone opportunities and snatching points turned down in games one through three. "It's something we needed to experience again," senior quarterback Bryan Walker said of the win.


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After leading the Quakers in scoring in each of the last two seasons, junior forward Mike Klein came into Saturday night's matchup against Columbia with no goals and only one assist through eight games. All of that changed in a hurry in the second half against the Lions.


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When it comes to happiness, women seem to be losing the battle of the sexes. A Wharton study released last month shows that women have become less happy relative to men, a turnaround from thirty years ago when women were the more satisfied sex. Business and Public Policy professor Betsey Stevenson, who, along with professor Justin Wolfers, authored the study, said the results "raise provocative questions about whether women have been made worse off by societal changes.


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The field hockey team has hit .500. After a successful weekend, which saw wins over Lock Haven (3-2) and Bucknell (2-0), Penn may have turned a corner. "We came up to do what we said we wanted to do and we did it," head coach Val Cloud said. "Could we have played better? Of course, but we played well enough to win.


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Division of Public Safety officials have now confirmed that one Penn student was a victim in the recent string of taxi cab robberies, and police officials continue to search for two men alleged to have robbed four individuals at gunpoint since Sept. 2.



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Very soon, the College of General Studies as Penn knows it will no longer exist. CGS is redefining its mission and vision - and, within the next few months, its name - in response to changing global and national trends in higher education as well as shifts in Penn's administration over the last few years.