Dartmouth announces women's rugby as a varsity sport
Last week, Dartmouth athletic direction Harry Sheehy announced that the school’s women’s rugby club would be elevated to varsity status.
Last week, Dartmouth athletic direction Harry Sheehy announced that the school’s women’s rugby club would be elevated to varsity status.
Hoping to snap a five match losing streak, Penn men’s tennis faced off against St. John’s at home on Wednesday in before wrapping its Ancient Eight slate this coming weekend. However, in a tough ending to the nonconference season, the Quakers were unable to notch a win against the Red Storm (10-8), falling by a score of 5-2 for the third consecutive match. While it hoped to develop momentum from the match’s outset, Penn (14-9) lost the doubles point early by dropping two of its three matches by identical 8-4 margings.
It’s all hands on deck for Penn rowing this weekend.
Yankees legend Yogi Berra once said his sport was "90 percent mental, and the other half is physical." While the statement now draws its notoriety from its mathematical absurdity, its message still rings clear, even if the reasoning is not quite sound.
Hoping to snap a five match losing streak, Penn men’s tennis faced off against St. John’s at home on Wednesday in before wrapping its Ancient Eight slate this coming weekend. However, in a tough ending to the nonconference season, the Quakers were unable to notch a win against the Red Storm (10-8), falling by a score of 5-2 for the third consecutive match. While it hoped to develop momentum from the match’s outset, Penn (14-9) lost the doubles point early by dropping two of its three matches by identical 8-4 margings.
It’s all hands on deck for Penn rowing this weekend.
Two weeks ago, Penn men’s lacrosse had its collective back against the wall. Off to a 0-3 conference start, the Quakers knew they’d have to win out to have any hope of an Ivy League Tournament appearance.
The Quakers may have won three out of four games against a color but the Dragons were an entirely different beast. After taking three of four games from Cornell last weekend, the Red and Blue were dropped by their hometown rival Drexel, 8-0, in a nonconference matchup at Drexel Field. The score told the whole story in Wednesday’s West Philadelphia matinee.
Two teams. Two undefeated records. One winner. These were the stakes for Penn in their most highly anticipated game of the season against Princeton in Franklin Field on Wednesday Night.
For many Penn students, post-graduation plans begin to cast their shadow early, in a hazy and frequently terrifying way. Some manage to ease the anxiety with an unambiguous post-grad trajectory.
The Wall Street Journal found that students are declaring majors earlier, but that's not necessarily the case at Penn.
An estimated 3,000 students from Drexel, Penn, Temple and other colleges stood in front of McDonald's and marched down to the Market Street Bridge.
"Every law school... needs to recognize that we are in a shifting legal atmosphere both in the United States and around the world," Penn Law Dean Theodore Ruger said.
Creative thinkers from around the world have ideas for how to innovate education and a few are bringing them to Penn’s Graduate School of Education.
The Fund will award up to $2 million to qualifying Penn senior administrators and faculty this year.
The Benjamin Franklin Scholars program promises to offer undergraduates a fulfilling, intellectually rigorous way to pursue their interests at Penn, but some students say the program could use improving.
College junior Adam Cohen was named a 2015 Truman Scholar, the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation announced on Wednesday.
The event, which aims to celebrate the power, accomplishments and beauty of black women and girls has come under fire in the past from critics who claim the event promotes reverse racism.
I sat down to speak with coach Steve Donahue and asked him some questions that people submitted from Twitter.
NICK MONCY is a College junior from North Miami, Fla. His email address is nickmoncy@sas.upenn.edu.