On the sixth floor of Van Pelt Library, Molly Freedman sits in a small room filled with stacks of CDs, Jewish-themed posters and antique music-playing equipment.
Outsourcing school e-mail can be a great move, but be careful how you do it, say students and officials at schools that have made the switch. Penn has announced that in January it will begin a switch to an e-mail system managed by Google or Microsoft. Officials say the goal is to avoid the cost of performing in-house upgrades, and any outside service would be free to Penn.
Dartmouth had just scored on a miracle catch and needed an onside kick recovery to have a chance to finish its miracle comeback.
Freshman Jess Rothenheber always knows where her roommate is. On Saturday, Rothenheber saw Jessica Fuccello cut between two defenders and pass her the ball, which Rothenheber converted for the game's only goal in the women's soccer team's 1-0 victory over Cornell.
Suppose you have a bucket with infinite space. If this is starting to sound like one of those out-of-touch-with-reality math problems, it is, but please bear with me. When there is one minute left until noon, add 10 balls to the bucket, labeled one through 10, and then remove the ball labeled "one.
The citizens of Philadelphia have showed time and again that they want better ethics in government and they won't stand for corruption.
The citizens of Philadelphia have showed time and again that they want better ethics in government and they won't stand for corruption.
Outsourcing school e-mail can be a great move, but be careful how you do it, say students and officials at schools that have made the switch. Penn has announced that in January it will begin a switch to an e-mail system managed by Google or Microsoft. Officials say the goal is to avoid the cost of performing in-house upgrades, and any outside service would be free to Penn.
Dartmouth had just scored on a miracle catch and needed an onside kick recovery to have a chance to finish its miracle comeback.
Ever wonder why most of your professors in science and engineering are men?
In a thriller of a match on Saturday night at the Palestra, the Penn volleyball team lost its Ivy League opener to Princeton in four games. The Tigers (10-0, 1-0 Ivy) had already grabbed a 17-11 lead in an electrifying first game when coach Kerry Carr was forced to call a timeout.
Receiver Matt Carre was in sync with sophomore quarterback Robert Irvin on Saturday. So was Braden Lepisto. And Chris Mizell. One week after throwing for under 100 yards and two interceptions, Irvin was hitting all of his targets on Saturday. Three Penn receivers set career highs in the win over Dartmouth.
Alicia Puglionesi is a College sophomore from Havertown, Pa. Her e-mail address is puglionesi@dailypennsylvanian.com.
Mayor John Street may have signed a citywide smoking ban into law this month, but the issue is far from extinguished.
Jen Morrison, a senior in the School of Nursing, has gotten great career advice at Penn - from her peers. When she was a freshman and needed help choosing classes and buying books, these nurses were there with advice. When she became a junior and needed to get CPR-certified, they were once again there to help.
Penn's No. 7 spot on the 2007 U.S. News & World Report college rankings may not be an indicator of the University's ability to educate students, according to a new report from an education think tank. The report from the Washington-based Education Sector criticizes the popular U.
This country is dropping the ball when it comes to teaching teachers, an expert said yesterday. Arthur Levine, the former president of Teachers College at Columbia University, spoke yesterday afternoon at Irvine Auditorium about his report on the state of teacher education in America.
What do you get when you combine the Wharton School, rampant corruption and the Chinese Communist Party? A purging, of course. Last Sunday, Chinese security forces removed Chen Liangyu, a graduate of the first Wharton senior executive training program run in Shanghai in 1990, from his post as Shanghai's Communist Party boss and placed him under house arrest.
For Nyssa Liebermann, tomorrow's game at Dartmouth hits close to home. In the Hanover, N.H., contest, Penn's senior captain will be pitted against Lizzie Bildner, the Big Green's leading scorer and the Penn forward's childhood friend. "She's a pretty happy-go-lucky girl," Liebermann said.
As a new freshman at Penn, I can hardly describe my excitement for the coming four years. Already, I have experimented with uranium, participated in meaningful discussions on U.S. poverty and learned much from amazing professors. Just as Noam Harel wrote in his guest opinion last Friday, "there has never been a better time for current or past Penn students to puff our chests out when we say, 'I go to Penn,' or 'I went to Penn.
Penn's poor play against Villanova won't cut it against Princeton. Tomorrow at the Palestra, the Quakers volleyball team (4-6) kicks off its Ivy league season against undefeated Princeton (9-0). This will be Princeton's first Ivy League match as well. On Wednesday, the Quakers lost to Villanova in a clean sweep.
Sex under the Button may just be the stuff of Penn mythology, but the University is giving hopeful students 50,000 chances to make sure they do it safely. The Office of Health Education purchases 50,000 Lifestyle condoms per year, according to Director Susan Villari.
Most professors probably wouldn't question the worth of a disabled baby's life. Peter Singer, however, is not your average professor. In his book Practical Ethics, Singer wrote that "killing a disabled infant is not morally equivalent to killing a person.
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