Zachary Levine: The Anatomy of an All-Ivy
Nobody seemed to know if he even belonged at this level, but four years later, Mark Zoller is a favorite for Ivy League Player of the Year.
Nobody seemed to know if he even belonged at this level, but four years later, Mark Zoller is a favorite for Ivy League Player of the Year.
Lambda Law's peaceful protesting this week was an ideal way to challenge the military's stance on gays.
Penn's pretty good at fundraising - relatively speaking. The University raked in $409 million last year, enough to earn fourth place in a recent survey that ranked the top fundraisers in higher education. But Penn's sum was no match for Stanford University's, which totalled $911 million in 2006.
Rap artist Juelz Santana will likely be performing at Spectrum's spring concert.
Lambda Law's peaceful protesting this week was an ideal way to challenge the military's stance on gays.
Penn's pretty good at fundraising - relatively speaking. The University raked in $409 million last year, enough to earn fourth place in a recent survey that ranked the top fundraisers in higher education. But Penn's sum was no match for Stanford University's, which totalled $911 million in 2006.
Jonathan Spector, vice dean of Wharton Executive Education, will leave Wharton to be the next president and CEO of The Conference Board. The Conference Board is a New York-based research and business organization that produces the Consumer Confidence Index, the leading economic indicator for the U.
Every time the Penn women's lacrosse team moved the ball down field in the first half, it seemed the result was a goal. In the first period, the Quakers used a 9-6 advantage in draw controls and picked up seven ground balls to keep Temple back on defense during Penn's 15-5 victory over the Owls yesterday.
Alicia Puglionesi is an College junior from Haverton, Pa. Her e-mail address is puglionesi@dailypennsylvanian.com.
Fundraising, facilitating internal growth and reaffirming urban partnerships are on the agenda for incoming Graduate School of Education Dean Andrew Porter. Currently the director of Vanderbilt University's Learning Sciences Institute, Porter will replace Susan Fuhrman, who left GSE last spring to assume the presidency of Columbia University's Teachers College.
The athletic department announced today that offensive coordinator Shawn Halloran will no longer hold that position next year. Halloran, who also served as the tight ends coach, was serving in his first year. Previously, he had been the coach at Division III Franklin and Marshall College.
Already known for "Rockin' the Suburbs," Ben Folds will be rockin' Penn's campus this April. Folds will be this year's Spring Fling headline performer, Social Planning and Events Committee officials confirmed yesterday. Folds, a singer-songwriter, announced on his Myspace.
Chi Omega has been under an internal investigation since last week regarding events that took place during pledging. "Chi Omega did experience some small issues and inappropriate behavior during their new-member education process by a couple of individuals," Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs director Scott Reikofski said.
Speed is one of the key factors that women's lacrosse coach Karin Brower hopes will help the Quakers outplay Temple today. And Ali DeLuca, a new face on the field, has already added significantly to that. "Ali had a fantastic first game," Brower said of the weekend's 12-4 win over Drexel.
Senior Kenny Yoo had played varsity baseball for the first three years of his college career. But this year, he decided to play for the club team instead. And Yoo is not alone in his decision - former varsity teammate and pitcher Wes Donehower has also elected to play club baseball this season.
Coach Cole's first season with Penn didn't yield great results. The team was 12-27 overall and 7-13 in the Ivies, though the record was less reflective of Cole than of the enormous transition the team was undergoing.
Few teams were better tailored for a novel than the 2005-06 Penn wrestling squad. Last year's contingent featured a new coach, Zeke Jones, and came within striking distance of an EIWA title. Oh yeah, it had a 2006 NCAA Champion, too. So G. Wayne Renneisen inadvertently stumbled on a gold mine when he decided to follow the team all year for his book.
Theft Feb. 17 - A male student reported that his camcorder, worth about $800, was stolen from a room inside Meyerson Hall at about 5:00 p.m. Feb. 17 - Michael Urquhart, 32, of the 700 block of Mayfair Street, allegedly took items without paying from the Wawa located at 3604 Chestnut St.
Students should take advantage of programs like Ruckus, which provide the same services as illegal downloading without the risk.
At Yale University, bright ideas don't necessarily require that much energy. Yale officials announced last week that energy consumption in its 20 undergraduate college houses has decreased by 17.3 percent since the 2004 academic year. Installing new technology in the dorms, as well as educating students about conservation, helped the dorms cut down energy usage, Yale's energy manager Thomas Downing said.