Front Breaking
Ravi Jain | Have you found your match?
Though the details may differ, arranged marriage and online dating have a lot in common and can even overlap at times.
2014 College graduate Zack Seigel dies from lymphoma
Lightweight rower and 2014 College graduate Zack Seigel passed away on Saturday, Jan. 10 after a fifteen-year struggle with Crohn’s disease and a battle with lymphoma that began in February of 2014.
Alec Ward | A principled punishment?
Though the punishments imposed are hardly earth-shattering, to punish members who are not earnestly believed to be wrongdoers for the sake of public relations would be a reprehensible act of scapegoating.
Ravi Jain | Have you found your match?
Though the details may differ, arranged marriage and online dating have a lot in common and can even overlap at times.
2014 College graduate Zack Seigel dies from lymphoma
Lightweight rower and 2014 College graduate Zack Seigel passed away on Saturday, Jan. 10 after a fifteen-year struggle with Crohn’s disease and a battle with lymphoma that began in February of 2014.
Tydings | Jerome Allen on the hot seat after Penn's loss to Princeton
The clock is ticking on Jerome Allen. Penn basketball is 3-8 this season, a subpar record in its own right.
Penn basketball loses 15-point lead, drops Ivy opener to rival Princeton
PRINCETON - Everything was set up for Penn basketball to set the tone for the remainder of Ivy League play, to capture a win over its biggest rival in an arena that had been a house of horrors for over half a decade. But suddenly, the opportunity was gone.
Princeton easily dispatches Penn women's hoops, 83-54, in Ivy opener
Last season, Penn women’s basketball went on the road and ended Princeton’s season, upsetting the Tigers to win the Ivy League title. In their return trip to Jadwin Gym, the Quakers wouldn’t be so fortunate.
UPDATE: Family of missing student hires PI
The family and investigator say police have not been sharing information.
Entrepreneur Magazine named Wharton junior Aaron Goldstein Top College Entrepreneur of 2014 after he developed FeverSmart, a device that monitors temperature and sends cellphone alerts when a fever spikes. Goldstein came up with the idea for the device after his freshman-year roommate, fellow Wharton junior Colin Hill, had to keep his temperature constantly monitored while being treated for Hodgkin's Lymphoma.
Phi Delta Theta on probation following holiday photo
The chapter is barred from participating in social activities until it completes cultural sensitivity and sexual and relationship misconduct education programs.
Penn School of Design student receives National Italian American Foundation scholarship
Penn Graduate School of Design student Matt DiScenna has been awarded a scholarship by the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF), according to a press release from the foundation. DiScenna received the Raffaele DeRitis Scholarship.
Penn women's basketball defeats Temple, clinches first Big 5 title
For most of Monday evening at the Palestra, offense was tough to come by for Penn women’s basketball. But unlike the majority of their shots, the Quakers did not allow their shot at history to rim out.
Forbes Under 30 Summit to return to Philly in 2015
Forbes and the City of Philadelphia announced on Monday that Forbes will be returning to Philadelphia in October for the second annual Forbes Under 30 Summit.
Penn International Affairs Association President Akhilesh Goswami released a statement regarding former New York Times Middle East bureau chief Chris Hedges allegedly being uninvited from a conference run by the IAA that will take place in April. Hedges said that he was uninvited following an article he wrote for Truthdig.com titled "ISIS – the New Israel" that compared Israel's founding fathers to ISIS. In the statement released on Dec.
Former New York Times reporter Chris Hedges was banned from a Penn conference about the possibility of peace in the Middle East after he compared Israel to ISIS. Hedges had been invited to speak at the conference sponsored by Penn's International Affairs Association (IAA) that will take place on April 3.
ONGOING: Mental health concerns, new leads in missing student case
Both of Hamlett’s parents received phone calls from a blocked number after the disappearance.
Wenik | Penn basketball needs to find an offensive identity
Take a step back into the world of 1990’s rap, if you will, and pause to consider Penn coach Jerome Allen surveying the state of his team with a withering look somewhat akin to the gaze of the Nurse Ratched figure in Eminem’s “The Real Slim Shady” video. “I don’t really know where we’re at,” he said when asked to describe his team’s progress following last night’s 82-67 loss to La Salle.
HUP penalized for high injury and infection rates
The federal government is cutting some funding to 721 hospitals around the nation, including the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP), due to high rates of infection and patient injuries. The new policies, which will be accessed via a cut in Medicare payments, will affect those 721 hospitals through the end of this fiscal year, which ends in September 2015. According to NBC 10's report, one out of every seven hospitals in the nation are being penalized via a one percent reduction in Medicare payments. According to federal reports, there had been a reduction in avoidable errors from 2010 to 2013, but there was still a high frequency of avoidable complications.









