Editorial | Skidding on Walnut
Philadelphia did a poor job making campus streets driveable.
Philadelphia did a poor job making campus streets driveable.
Penn is at least $1 billion into its current fundraising campaign, but shhh - you didn't hear it from us. Since 2004, the University has been in the quiet phase of a capital campaign - Penn's most ambitious in history, University officials say - that isn't scheduled to go public until this fall.
Slick sidewalks, lots of slush and furious winds won't get in the way of Cupid's bow, at least as far as students are concerned.
PRINCETON, N.J., Feb. 15 - It might only be Day One of the 2007 Ivy League Women's Swimming Championship, but Penn has already made history. "We had a finalist in every event, and that's the first time that's happened in school history," coach Mike Schnur said.
Penn is at least $1 billion into its current fundraising campaign, but shhh - you didn't hear it from us. Since 2004, the University has been in the quiet phase of a capital campaign - Penn's most ambitious in history, University officials say - that isn't scheduled to go public until this fall.
Slick sidewalks, lots of slush and furious winds won't get in the way of Cupid's bow, at least as far as students are concerned.
The number of spots available at some of the top business schools in the country is dropping - but not at Wharton. The Yale School of Management is planning for an incoming class of 195, compared to its 220-person class of 2008, and Stanford's Graduate School of Business is also aiming to scale back its class size by 20.
188Estimated millions of Valentine's Day cards exchanged across the United States each year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau
On a busy night of studying, Mustafa Al-ammar was chatting on instant messenger. But the College junior was not procrastinating or making plans to go to a frat party: He was chatting about an upcoming assignment with a professor. "I never go to office hours," Al-ammar said.
It took 157 words for Joe Scott to explain his goals for the rest of the season after his Tigers fell to 1-6 in the Ivy League Tuesday at the Palestra. It took only six to show just how far the Princeton program has fallen under Scott's watch. It's not about the end result.
Penn's three-game winning streak has by no means been pretty. The Quakers have not run anyone off the Palestra floor, and they have played sloppily for stretches on both ends of the floor. But three wins are three wins, and they have vaulted Penn back into sole possession of first place in the Ivy League at 6-1.
Sometimes, all it takes is a little chardonnay to get a neighborhood back on track. Part of a larger revitalization of the area, demolition is set to begin on the current over-the-counter liquor store on the 4900 block of Baltimore Ave., which will be moved down the block and will re-open in late spring.
Joanne Tong is a Wharton junior from Manila, Philippines. Her e-mail address is tong@dailypennsylvanian.com.
Many Wharton graduates go into i-banking. Others hope to make their fortune from the stock market. But one Wharton senior is looking to make money from the most basic principle of business: Wear a good suit. Alex Avendano started a custom-suit company called Henry Davidsen, and this recruiting season, he's hoping almost every Wharton undergraduate will be wearing one of his pieces.
By Jody Pollock Contributing Writer gamail@dailypennsylvanian.com In San Francisco, it broke the HIV/AIDS story. In Houston, it could have prevented the Enron scandal. And in Minot, N.D., it could have saved lives. Local news, explained Eric Klinenberg, the guest speaker at last night's 2007 Dean's Lecture at Annenberg, is the fabric that ties our nation together - but that fabric is being unraveled as major media conglomerates claim control over increasingly unregulated airwaves, sapping the country of its local flavors.
One-horse race. That's that would come to mind if someone was asked to describe the EIWA tournament over the past five years. The word "parity" would not have been in EIWA coaches' vocabularies, but it is slowly finding its way back to their tongues this year.
With Penn smothering Princeton's offense, Stephen Danley's layup to put the Quakers up by 10 seemed like it could be the final dagger to the Tigers' hopes for an upset. The Princeton squad was not ready to concede yet. Danley's basket would be the last points that Penn would score for the next eight minutes.
The doorbell was set to the tune of the Star Spangled Banner. As it rang through the whole house, the fraternity brothers stopped for a moment, grinning. "Listen to that!" Engineering sophomore Alex Numann said. "We're hearing America," College junior Matt Fiedler exclaimed.
It's wrong to accuse Harvard of picking its president based only on gender.
College is the time for students to find their voices, not to have them silenced in the name of political correctness.