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Sunday, Oct. 11, 2026
The Daily Pennsylvanian

Amy Gutmann


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College application does not end with clicking the submit button on the Common App. Alumni interview is another procedure most Penn applicants go through. “Students are pretty nervous about the interviews,” Laurie Weingarten, a Penn alumna and director of One-Stop College Counseling said.

Forty organizations submitted applications for new charter schools to the Charter Schools Office of the School District of Philadelphia, with at least one application coming from every zip code in West Philadelphia.












Big 5 Cross Country Meet.  Penn dominated

And then there was one. While almost all of Penn’s cross country runners ended their seasons last weekend, junior captain Thomas Awad is the lone Quaker that still has one more race left in his season.


Women's swimming defeats Columbia 215-85 in their first home meet of the season, winning all 16 events and breaking 5 pool records.

How do the Penn women’s swimming coaches reward their swimmers during the two-week break after sweeping rival Columbia? “Simple,” coach Mike Schnur said. “Beating the you-know-what out of them.”



Men and Women's Squash vs. Columbia

Two days, three matches and early top 25 drama are slated for Penn squash this weekend in Maine, and a long 10 hour bus ride is all that stands between the Red and Blue and their first official games of the 2014-2015 season.




The Daily Pennsylvanian

As the past President of Penn Hillel and a proud Penn alum, I was embarrassed by the Daily Pennsylvanian’s coverage of the Students for Justice in Palestine meeting (“Palestinian University Students tell Penn peers, ‘We are Violated’, 11/19). While it is shameful enough that at such a distinguished university, students would be subjected to one-sided, hateful speech at an event like this, I would have expected the DP to make the effort to properly educate its readership on the controversial remarks spoken.