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Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026
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It is not by accident that the right to bear arms is the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution─the founding fathers valued gun ownership highly, enumerating it just after the fundamental rights of free expression. A common misconception about the Second Amendment is that it is only referential to self-defense, to prevent other individual citizens from causing harm onto us.

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It is not by accident that the right to bear arms is the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution─the founding fathers valued gun ownership highly, enumerating it just after the fundamental rights of free expression. A common misconception about the Second Amendment is that it is only referential to self-defense, to prevent other individual citizens from causing harm onto us.


“Sara Danius, a literary scholar and the permanent secretary of the 18-member Swedish Academy, which awards the prize, called Mr. Dylan “a great poet in the English-speaking tradition” and compared him to Homer and Sappho, whose work was delivered orally.



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Before US Open champions Mohammed El Shorbaghy for the men and Camille Serme for the women are presented with their trophies, they will wait for head coach of the Penn women’s squash team to call their name. For the past four years, Gilly Lane has made the trek next door to Drexel University to serve as an emcee for the yearly US Open of Squash tournament. Before every match, the emcee is responsible for introducing each of the players and giving a quick bio before getting the crowd pumped up for the game.




Big 5 Cross Country Meet.  Penn dominated

This past Friday, Penn cross country took on some of the nation’s best — and the men and women proved that they were up for the challenge. Out of 31 teams, which included seven of the nation's top twelve women’s teams and six of the top twelve-ranked men’s teams, the Quakers finished 14th and 20th, respectively.




In the Navy Day Regatta, Penn women's rowing's 1V boat cruised through the 5,000-meter race, besting Navy and Drexel by almost 30 seconds.

“It’s game on at this point.” An enthusiastic Colin Farrell, head coach of the men’s lightweight crew program, was optimistic about the coming season after Penn rowing made a statement this morning at its first regatta of the year. Ideal conditions on the mighty Schuylkill found both the women’s and lightweight men’s 1V (or “A-team”) hulls finishing first at the annual Navy Day Regatta in a field that included Delaware, Temple, Drexel and the Naval Academy. The women’s team’s fastest eight-sweep (one coxswain and eight rowers, one oar apiece) crossed the finish line in 14:21.77, an impressive time for the lengthy 5000-meter race.