Student Life
Penn freshmen discuss how selective their residential programs are — and whether it makes a difference
Some residential programs have fewer participants than their stipulated capacity while others have an acceptance rate of as low as 30 percent.
Students have created a Penn-centric version of the game 'Cards Against Humanity'
Called "Squirrels Without Morality," the meme-based card game is meant to be "a light-hearted medium for students to laugh at the absurdity of Penn's culture."
A year after its opening, New College House has yet to change its 'descriptor' name
Penn said the name of the dorm would be temporary, but NCH has yet to receive a new one. Now, a new building near the west end of campus is being named New College House West.
Trump's decision to end TPS program sparks new immigration concerns at Penn
In several announcements throughout November, the Trump administration has left tens of thousands of migrants from El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Haiti with just months to leave the country.
Two Penn students have been awarded the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship
Penn seniors Adnan Zikri Jaafar and Christopher D’Urso bring the number of Rhodes Scholars from Penn to 26.
Penn students embrace their 'raw feelings' about food in this new book
"The book, in a way, challenges the notion of Penn Face because it really conveys students’ raw feelings and lets other people know it’s okay to be vulnerable."
Penn students and faculty discuss how Larry Krasner's 'seismic' election may affect the city
"[T]here's already a bit of tension between what the DA says he wants and what the police department say they want," said political science professor Marc Meredith.
Meet the Penn student who has written an entire musical adaptation of 'The Great Gatsby'
Theater Arts and English lecturer David Fox said that alhough he has seen many students write plays, this is the first fully-developed musical that he has seen from a student.
The Netter Center at Penn celebrated 25 years of community engagement last week
The two-day conference featured speeches from Penn President Amy Gutmann, Provost Wendell Pritchett, Dean of Admissions Eric Furda, and Netter Center Founding Director Ira Harkavy.
To connect to students, new College Dean Paul Sniegowski has joined Snapchat
After debating between social media platforms with DAB members and his children, the dean decided on Snapchat — and signed up as "sniegowskisnaps."
Why this Asian advocacy group is calling the Common Application discriminatory
In a letter, the Asian American Coalition for Education called on the Common App to "stop the practice of subdividing Asian American applicants into 10 subcategories."
Graduate students at UChicago formed a union in October — why hasn't Penn been able to?
GET-UP member and education PhD student Miranda Weinberg said the group has been waiting three times as long as it usually takes to have their petition processed.
Construction delays from University Realty have left dozens of Penn students without a home for months
Close to 70 students who were told that they could move into a new building at 4046 Chestnut St. in August have been shuttled from one temporary location to another.
One of Israel's top politicians expressed her support for a two-state solution at Penn on Thursday
“There are those who say that it is either peace or security,” Tzipi Livni said. “We can have both. It is peace and security.”
A new poll shows that Joe Biden would lead Trump in the coming 2020 general election
The survey showed that in a potential match-up between the two politicians, Biden would lead Trump 46 to 35 percent.
Penn students were moved to tears by Joe Biden's stories of loss and grief on Thursday
In a "raw and emotional" talk, Biden discussed the 2015 death of his son to cancer as well as the deaths of his wife and daughter in 1972.
After the death of a fraternity pledge, Texas State University suspends all Greek life
20-year-old Matthew Ellis has become the fourth fraternity pledge to die this year.
Penn just approved its third housing project in four years. But is another dorm necessary?
Despite statements from administrators, student accounts, along with data from off-campus housing facilities, suggest that there isn't an increasing demand for on-campus housing.
Only one Penn dining hall serves halal food — and students say it has made multiple mistakes
Multiple students have reported incidents of halal food at Kings Court English House being cooked with cooking wine, which is not permissible under the rules of halal.