Fall 2013 Undergraduate Assembly Elections
Find out more about the candidates vying for a seat on the Undergraduate Assembly. Click "here":http://www.thedp.com/section/fall-2013-class-board-elections to learn more about Class Board 2017 candidates. Voting ends at 5 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 20, and results will be announced that evening if there is no hearing.
To win in the 800m, runners try cross country on for size
Senior Tim Kaijala is used to winning races. But Penn's middle distance standout, who finished first in the 800 meters last season at the Heptagonal Championships, did not even place in his most recent race. There are no 800-meter races in October. Rather than wait for outdoor track and field to start in the spring, Kaijala has taken his training to a new level as a member of Penn's cross country team this fall.Ivy football notebook: McLeod runs into record books; Harvard runs by committee
Mike McLeod just keeps getting better. The junior waited just two weeks to break his own Yale single-game rushing record, putting up 276 in a 23-7 rout of Lehigh that was actually the Bulldogs' second-closest game of the year and the first in which they trailed.Robb to rely on surveillance footage for alibi
Economics professor and accused murderer Rafael Robb plans to use surveillance-camera footage at several locations he visited the morning his wife was killed in order to provide an alibi at his November trial, according to court papers filed Friday. In the papers, defense attorney Frank DeSimone outlines Robb's activities on the morning of Dec.Former ambassador slams war in Iraq*
Peter Galbraith refused to beat-around-the-Bush during his lecture on America's involvement in Iraq on Wednesday, calling the war a mistake and a failure in front of 100 students and faculty members who gathered in Silverman Hall to hear his speech. Galbraith, the former United States ambassador to Croatia, delivered a decisive and resounding seminar for 45 minutes.Alumni enjoy evening of talent showcasing in Los Angeles
Penn is getting a little more Hollywood. From one alumnus who directed treadmill-oriented music videos that are viewed 20 million times since its release on YouTube to another who became a singer-songwriter, Penn alumni like these were featured last week at PennFest - an annual alumni festival that takes place in Los Angeles, Calif.
Yale opponent spotlight: Coach gets his wish for another Abare
Yale linebacker Bobby Abare, an All-Ivy first-teamer, is a singular menace on defense. But coach Jack Siedlecki is the first to admit that a locker room can't be filled with players as impassioned as Abare - and Siedlecki probably wouldn't want one. "The players sometimes laugh at his intensity, but he rubs off on people, no question," Siedlecki said at a media luncheon this week.What to do with nuclear waste?
Deep below the surface of the earth, scientists are researching the best ways to dispose of nuclear waste left over from defense projects without harming the environment. As an inaugural speaker for its 2007-2008 lecture series, the Institute for Environmental Studies invited Laurence Brush from the Sandia National Laboratories to talk yesterday afternoon at the Lynch Auditorium in the Chemistry Building.Opinion Art | Joanne Tong
Joanne Tong is a Wharton senior from Manila, Philippines. Her e-mail address is tong@dailypennsylvanian.com.
Author discusses terrorism roots
According to the rhetoric of some of the Western world's most visible political leaders, poverty and lack of education are to blame for terrorism. But when Princeton economist Alan Krueger came to the Penn Bookstore last night to promote his new book, What Makes a Terrorist, he told an audience of 22 people that both associations were false.
Football: Quakers discover their new pieces are a good fit
NEW YORK, Oct. 13 - When Joe Sandberg received his 22nd and final handoff last Saturday against Columbia, he finished off one of the best performances of his career. It was fourth down and he needed only one yard. He got 13, enough for his fourth score of the game.Stetson Departure | Trustees not told reasons for exit
The Board of Trustees is the University's highest governing body, but some trustees are still in the dark about the reasons behind the departure of former Dean of Admissions Lee Stetson. About half of the trustees who spoke to The Daily Pennsylvanian said they had not been told why Stetson abruptly resigned in late August.Student Murder Trial | Bondar returns to stand after recess
WILMINGTON, Del. - Contradictions posed by previous sworn statements played a key role yesterday as the defense once again tried to discredit Robert Bondar, the ex-boyfriend of Wharton undergraduate Irina Malinovskaya. Malinovskaya is on trial for the third time for allegedly bludgeoning Bondar's then-girlfriend, Irina Zlotnikov, to death in Dec.Stephen Krewson | Warming up to Gore, almost
Who's honoring Al Gore now? These days it seems like just about everybody is. Last Friday, Gore - along with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - won the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts "to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.