Watching senior Allison Weisenfels in goal for Penn field hockey, you wouldn’t expect that she has only played in two games prior this season. What’s even more surprising is that this is her first season as goalkeeper.
Amy Gutmann
Lone goal ends Penn women's soccer's slide
It has been a bit of an up-and-down season thus far for Penn women’s soccer. However, the Red and Blue were firing on all cylinders in Monday night’s game against Loyola (Md.).
Jonathan Iwry | Getting away with 'murder'
Calling Palestinian deaths “murder” discourages objective scrutiny. To a layperson without serious knowledge of the conflict, it presents the situation in over-simplistic, one-sided and emotionally exploitative terms.For one thing, the accusation of murder yields little insight and discourages scrutiny by those who want to understand the conflict. How many deaths, for example, were accidental, or provoked by local insurgents? How many deliberately attacked Israeli soldiers? On important details such as these, the exhibit was characteristically silent.
Nowlan I Young talent means Penn football should look to 2015
One game into Penn football’s Ivy League schedule and the 2014 season is not off to a good start. In fact, it may be time for the young squad to look toward 2015.
Lone goal ends Penn women's soccer's slide
It has been a bit of an up-and-down season thus far for Penn women’s soccer. However, the Red and Blue were firing on all cylinders in Monday night’s game against Loyola (Md.).
Jonathan Iwry | Getting away with 'murder'
Calling Palestinian deaths “murder” discourages objective scrutiny. To a layperson without serious knowledge of the conflict, it presents the situation in over-simplistic, one-sided and emotionally exploitative terms.For one thing, the accusation of murder yields little insight and discourages scrutiny by those who want to understand the conflict. How many deaths, for example, were accidental, or provoked by local insurgents? How many deliberately attacked Israeli soldiers? On important details such as these, the exhibit was characteristically silent.
Guest column by Penn Democrats | Health care sanity
Right now, as we grapple with yet another tragedy on our own campus, any effort to help those suffering with mental health issues should be praised and bolstered, not condemned. When even the care that Counseling and Psychological Services provides — from one-on-one counseling to group therapy sessions — is not always enough for a student struggling with mental health issues, how can we begin to think about repealing a law that works to make this type of care affordable for all Americans?
Dani Blum | Stress test
These shouldn’t be the only two options, but stress creates a mob mentality. We talk about how overwhelmed we are, and then we feel left out if we’re not equally as scrambled. If we haven’t worked until midnight like our friends have, then we feel like we’re not adequate students. There’s a general feeling that if you’re not stressed out of your mind, you’re doing something wrong.
Letter to the Editor from Theodore Caputi | Make Penn a haven for students in recovery
We can help by providing students with safe and sober living quarters so they can stay in school even as they work to overcome addiction. The Haven At College is a nonprofit organization that provides housing and support services for students who attend school while dealing with addiction. The Haven has given college students the opportunity to attend college, despite their recovery needs.
Princeton officially ends grade deflation policy
In 2004, Princeton University established a grade deflation policy that required each department to maintain a percentage of no more than
Midshipmen sink Penn sprint football
The Quakers may not have been able to put Saturday night’s sprint football game at Franklin Field in the win column, but playing heavily favored Navy to a 21-19 nail-biter, they did come away with quite a few victories.
Leaving Penn to find herself
Jara Krys, a transgender student on a leave of absence from Penn, went into sex work to pay the bills.
Penn Museum opens archaeology study center
The Penn Museum will fully open its Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials this semester.
Ethicist presents philosophy of his legal religion
Yesterday, the Penn Secular Society hosted Hugh Taft, a leader in the ethical humanist movement, who spoke the reason, feeling, theory and praxis behind his legal religion. The philosopher broke the ice with Plato, before arriving to the materialism of capitalism, the great prompter of the 140 year old movement.
Admins express concerns with sexual assault bill
As federal legislators take up the effort to combat sexual assault on campuses, Penn administrators have concerns with a proposed bill to change sexual assault protocols at colleges across the country.
Wharton ponders new approach to teaching business
Administrators are leaving the goals of Wharton’s undergraduate curriculum review almost entirely up to the members of the review committee.
How to prevent college suicides is not well understood
Experts say suicides on college campuses tend to happen in waves.
With new Wharton class, the Skype's the limit
Andrew “A.T.” Trader’s face is projected across the walls of Huntsman Hall’s room F90 not once, not twice, but seven times.
Path to recognition unclear for new arts groups
The potential lift of the SAC moratorium on Oct. 23 will not apply to any performing arts groups.The Performing Arts Council imposed a moratorium for the recognition of new PAC groups on Sept. 10.
On the record: Gutmann talks mental health
The fight for better mental health at Penn is not yet a mission accomplished but it is an integral part of the University’s overall mission, according to Penn President Amy Gutmann.

















