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Thursday, Jan. 1, 2026
The Daily Pennsylvanian

Amy Gutmann


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A referendum this week will reveal if Penn students support fossil fuel divestment, but the vote is only the first step in a long process leading to change.   Starting Monday, Penn undergraduates can vote in a referendum on whether or not they believe the University should divest from fossil fuels.


Members of Fossil Free Penn used a variety of metrics to estimate that four percent of Penn’s $9.6 billion endowment is currently invested in fossil fuel companies.

A referendum this week will reveal if Penn students support fossil fuel divestment, but the vote is only the first step in a long process leading to change.   Starting Monday, Penn undergraduates can vote in a referendum on whether or not they believe the University should divest from fossil fuels.




SOUL hosted its Student Debt Demonstration in Houston Hall this past Friday.

Students Organizing for Unity and Liberation held a Student Debt Demonstration this past Friday to protest Penn’s no loan policy.






Swimming vs. Delaware

Ivy League swimming has for many years been just a three horse race. But at this year’s Ivy Championship Meet, Penn women’s swimming showed that the rest of the league that it is not so far behind. The Red and Blue finished fourth overall with 952 total team points, the most the team has registered at Ivies since 2008.





Instead of intuition, our choices are tempered and tampered by our fear of not succeeding. These metrics of success rarely arise from our own organic origins, and instead come from being enveloped in Penn’s homogenous zones, which are aroused only by the touch of traditional success.