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Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026
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	Freshman thrower Theresa Picciallo (third from right) has bounced back after suffering a severe elbow injury in her senior year of high school.

Theresa Picciallo has been a revelation for the Quakers as they look to compete for an Ivy Championship outdoors. The Upper Saddle River, N.J., native needed only two collegiate meets to break Penn’s 15-year old indoor shot put record, which she did with a throw of 14.11 meters in early January.


Jim Senese, Engineering senior on the Heavy Weight Crew Team, has chosen to build a device — which expands like a telescope — that will be able to shift oars outward and inward. The system is similar to that of gears on a bike.

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Agatston Urban Nutrition Initiative’s launched student-supported Fruit Stands. Here, Penn students work with public school students to prepare and sell fruit, fruit salads and smoothies to their classmates during the school day.

Over the course of these 31 games, many words have been spent on the Quakers’ ability to stay energized. But the Red and Blue, Hicks in particular, fed off of the Palestra crowd against Princeton.


Palestra photos for Hinkle Fieldhouse comparison column.

Over the course of these 31 games, many words have been spent on the Quakers’ ability to stay energized. But the Red and Blue, Hicks in particular, fed off of the Palestra crowd against Princeton.



	Engineering senior James Senese designed a device that would allow the rowers to control the amount of an oar in the water.

Jim Senese, Engineering senior on the Heavy Weight Crew Team, has chosen to build a device — which expands like a telescope — that will be able to shift oars outward and inward. The system is similar to that of gears on a bike.


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On Tuesday, the Pennsylvania General Assembly’s House Judiciary Committee nearly unanimously confirmed the bill that was introduced the day before by Representative Michael Vereb (R-Montgomery). Vereb aims to send it to the Senate as soon as next week.



Oxford Professor Richard Dawkins speaking at the Annual Oration of the Philomathean Society

Richard Dawkins — evolutionary biologist and former Oxford University professor — addressed a crowd of about 1,500 with a lecture titled “Proof, Science and Skepticism” for the Philomathean Society’s Annual Oration, in celebration of the group’s 200th anniversary.



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Penn Hookups lacks the good vibes of its sister pages. While the other pages mostly praise our peers, Penn Hookups solicits strange commentary about our sex lives — especially things that we wouldn’t say offline.


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This year the election season is seeing a striking number of new candidates. By the numbers in the Undergraduate Assembly elections, there are 24 people running for 16 College seats, nine running for five Wharton seats, and two running for one Nursing seat. Only the Engineering seats will go uncontested.




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Unfortunately, the court could strike down race-conscious admissions policies in Fisher. And one reason is that elite, private universities like Penn do exactly what Justice Alito maligned: preferring minority students from privileged schools over those who are less privileged.



Michele Ozer ·

The month of February has brought nine assaults this month on campus— an increase from the same period in 2012 — but only one of the victims was affiliated with the University. There were 62 thefts from buildings within the Division of Public Safety patrol zone during the first two months of this year — up from 33 during the same period last year — and in January, there were 42 thefts from buildings alone.




JMS Speaker Series: Phil Weinberg

On Tuesday evening, the John Marshall Pre-Law Honor Society hosted Phil Weinberg in Huntsman Hall as a part of the society’s mission to expose undergraduate students to successful and high-profile lawyers. With blunt honesty, Weinberg — executive vice president and general counsel of Comcast-Spectacor — presented the truth about law school and the evolving nature of law as a career.