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Rising senior defense Meg Markham spent the past weekend trying out for the U.S. women’s lacrosse team along with 83 of the best lacrosse players from around the country. Though Markham didn’t make the final roster, the experience was definitely a valuable one for one of Penn’s key returning starters.

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By Colin Henderson · June 18, 2014

For Penn track and field, the past weekend was the proverbial pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.After months of hard work and continuous team improvement, three of Penn’s top athletes got the chance to represent the school at collegiate track and field’s most elite and competitive meet: the NCAA Finals.

Since the end of the dreadful 2013-14 season for Penn men’s basketball, we’ve seen three players and two assistants leave the program. But we’ve also seen coach Jerome Allen go to work.While things seemed to be crumbling around him, Allen kept on moving, introducing his former Penn teammate Nat Graham as his assistant while adding four recruits.


Men's basketball defeats Monmouth

Since the end of the dreadful 2013-14 season for Penn men’s basketball, we’ve seen three players and two assistants leave the program. But we’ve also seen coach Jerome Allen go to work.While things seemed to be crumbling around him, Allen kept on moving, introducing his former Penn teammate Nat Graham as his assistant while adding four recruits.


W Lacrosse v. Delaware

Rising senior defense Meg Markham spent the past weekend trying out for the U.S. women’s lacrosse team along with 83 of the best lacrosse players from around the country. Though Markham didn’t make the final roster, the experience was definitely a valuable one for one of Penn’s key returning starters.




Wharton MBA recipient Lorenzo di Bonaventura is no stranger to Hollywood, having produced such films as "The Matrix", "Salt"  and the G.I. Joe series. His latest work, "Transformers: Age of Extinction" , will be released on June 27.




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As a teenager living at a boarding school where many of those choices were made for me by higher authorities, my vegetarianism felt like something I could control. Something I could do, myself, to fight for a cause I cared about.


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The point is that I’m quick to judge. I think that my upbringing has a lot to do with this because in order to make up for my differences, I felt as though I had to comment on other women’s bodies. Judging became my defense mechanism.



SEPTA Street Feature.

Obama stepped in at the request of Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett, ordering a presidential emergency board to help negotiate an agreement between SEPTA and the two unions representing its locomotive engineers and electrical workers.


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Senior researcher at the Annenberg Public Policy Center Bruce Hardy and his team found that viewers of “The Colbert Report” were more knowledgeable about the finances of political campaigns than those who watched other news broadcasts by surveying 1,232 adults in the U.S. about SuperPACs — which are used to collect campaign funds — and tax exemption policies and comparing the different news programs each citizen watched.



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A lot has happened in the world of international soccer since the last World Cup was held four years ago in South Africa.All-time greats like Ronaldinho have faded away from their once seemingly untouchable positions of supremacy.