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By Emily Hoeven · Feb. 23, 2016

Every week in my creative writing class, the most common critique of people’s writing has been that it is too cliche . When I wrote my first short story assignment, I was careful to not include any cliches in any aspect of the story, whether in regard to the phrasing, the plot or the characters.

At Caitlyn Jenner’s speech last Wednesday evening, once the question and answer began, I didn’t have to wait long for the question I’d come to Irvine expecting to hear.








Penn men's tennis coach David Geatz, who played for New Mexico during his collegiate days and coached the team from 1983-1988, led the Quakers to a dominant victory over his alma matter last weekend.

In its first action since a busy weekend where the team went 1-2 against three ranked Ivy squads at the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference Tournament, Penn men’s tennis rebounded swiftly with a 6-1 defeat of New Mexico.










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History was made by the Penn women’s swimming team at the Ivy Championships this weekend. The Quakers finished fourth overall at the Championships, which came to conclusion Saturday afternoon at the DeNunzio Pool at Princeton. Penn finished with 1,025 points, only behind three historic powers of Ivy League swimming, with Harvard, Yale and host Princeton making up the top three spots by the end of the weekend. The fourth place-finish was overshadowed by several individual performances — including eight school records — and the Red and Blue reaching the 1,000-point mark for the first time in the program’s history. Coach Mike Schnur was elated with his team’s performance, crediting the success on hard work that started way before the season even got fully under way. “Almost everything went right, “ he said.