Venus ultimate frisbee team enters new season in the 'spirit of the game'
A noticeable increase in popularity is propelling Venus, Penn’s 35-year-old all-women ultimate Frisbee team, into a new competitive season.
A noticeable increase in popularity is propelling Venus, Penn’s 35-year-old all-women ultimate Frisbee team, into a new competitive season.
In more ways than one, it’s a new era for Penn volleyball. Sure, it’s easy to point out the absences of five senior captains from 2015 – players that accounted for four of the team’s top five in kills, not including Ivy League assists leader Ronnie Bither.
Once again, Penn field hockey won in a one-goal game that fails to represent the team’s dominance during the course of play.
The thought of having to perform this balancing act is enough to make any confident time-manager quake in his or her boots; however, there is one subset of student-athletes that have a particularly difficult run of things. They are the minority — or maybe you just never see them because they are tucked away on the east end of campus coding into the waning hours of the morning. They are the engineer-athletes.
In more ways than one, it’s a new era for Penn volleyball. Sure, it’s easy to point out the absences of five senior captains from 2015 – players that accounted for four of the team’s top five in kills, not including Ivy League assists leader Ronnie Bither.
Once again, Penn field hockey won in a one-goal game that fails to represent the team’s dominance during the course of play.
Will Snow, Sports Editor: The best team headed into Ivy play has to be women's soccer.
Beware the comments section. It’s a nasty, nasty place where productive discussions turn vile, where attacks are not based on arguments but the people who produce them. Four years of publishing articles and I’ve only had one foray into the pseudo-cyber bullying the comments section breeds.
While New York City is known as the “city that never sleeps,” Philadelphia magazine recently said “Philly refuses to become a 24-hour city.”
There’s a particular reaction that folks like me — who worry openly about the presence and spread of “trigger warnings” on American campuses — hear a lot.
BEN CLAAR is a College sophomore from Scarsdale, N.Y. His email is bclaar@sas.upenn.edu.
I’d wager that more than half of the Penn student body either watched the presidential debate on Monday or at least kept track of it somehow.
Living in a dorm automatically entails close corridors, shared facilities and of course, an RA or GA.
Don't tell the freshmen in the New College House, Kings Court English College House or Stouffer College House, but every year the freshman halls of the Quad are the loudest in bragging about their closeness. Here are this year's five (self-proclaimed) contenders for the closest hall.
A college dorm room isn’t exactly the coziest place.
Housing can be a confusing checklist item to navigate at Penn.
See it as a challenge to get some action yourself. Just, elsewhere.
Anything dipped in Nutella: Is an explanation needed?
The New College House's freshman residents all seemed to share a positive sentiment. But some non-residents don’t look at Penn's newest dorm in the same way.
Pros and cons for freshmen living in the Quad vs. living in the New College House