Three Penn alumni are currently members of the Philadelphia City Council. Here’s a brief introduction to each one of them.

“I said, well, that’s weird not to be accepted to this group that seemed like they should want more people to talk about rape and sexual assault,” Butkiewicz said. 

The Undergraduate Assembly and Student Activities Council have partnered to make club recruitment a less stressful and more fair process by passing six new guidelines. 

For Zhou, sleep is a vital component to her well-being. The Detroit native said health is her “number one priority” and getting enough sleep allows her to work more efficiently in the mornings and throughout the day.

“Overall, I think the point of the panels was really to elevate [youth] voices over professional voices because they are the experts on their lives,” Rosemary Thomas, Program Coordinator for the Penn Medicine Program for LGBT Health said. “It’s really powerful for professionals to hear real life experiences if they haven’t before”

Penn Design lecturer Gabe Martinez said viewing Cuban art and interacting with Cuban artists influenced students' projects and so the content of some of their projects actually shifted in turn.

Lee and Oh began creating the app during the 2016 presidential campaign because they felt the ways in which people got their news had an unprecedented impact on the election result.

Wharton freshmen Victoria Sacchetti and Katrina Arman completed an obstacle course to win the prize.

“You learn to dance from the elders in your tribe,” Dienes said. “So you don’t want to do the same moves that your mom and dad did.”

“Sometimes on college campuses that seem really big and massive and sprawling, it’s really easy to forget one another, or not see one another, or look past one another,” Brencher said. “We miss opportunities to serve one another if we aren’t present.”

On Tuesday, DHS announced that individuals flying from Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Morocco would not be permitted to carry electronic devices bigger than a smartphone on planes.

“They wanted people who had more knowledge of mechanical engineering,” Wharton and Engineering freshman George Pandya said. “I was able to get some experience with developing mechanical tools before I came here and that really helped me get the position when I applied.”

Thompson spoke as part of the SPEC Connaissance & Film event in Irvine Auditorium on Tuesday

College freshmen Tiffany Wang and Lisa He Wu launched a video campaign to encourage students to "Be proud of your roots. We're rooting for you."

Some crimes are less visible than others, and the Students Against Human Trafficking club at Penn is determined to end one of the most insidious.

College freshman Adam Algalith, one of the board members for the Ware College House Council, said that the council is “definitely planning to throw a watch party for the final game with Chipotle or pizza for food.” 

“Why can’t we print in your building without a Wharton ID? Not even that, why can’t I log into a computer?” Trivedi said. “At [David Rittenhouse Laboratories], my home base, we invite everyone to freely print. Same with Engineering, my second home base.”