Joke Issue: Canada out as Penn looks for new grad speaker
Bowing to student pressure, the University announced Tuesday that social activist Geoffrey Canada will no longer be this year’s Commencement speaker.
Bowing to student pressure, the University announced Tuesday that social activist Geoffrey Canada will no longer be this year’s Commencement speaker.
Six groups of Wharton undergraduates and MBA students from Harvard Business School worked together to raise money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation — a nonprofit organization that grants wishes to children with life-threatening medical conditions.
Around 1 a.m. last Tuesday, a blog monitoring public spots to hear the oral arguments (that I had been refreshing for hours) reported that there were still spots available. I immediately decided to travel to the capital.
Students filled Huntsman G55 to near capacity Monday night to hear Hyun speak about “breaking the bamboo ceiling.” She wrote a book of the same title in 2005.
Six groups of Wharton undergraduates and MBA students from Harvard Business School worked together to raise money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation — a nonprofit organization that grants wishes to children with life-threatening medical conditions.
Around 1 a.m. last Tuesday, a blog monitoring public spots to hear the oral arguments (that I had been refreshing for hours) reported that there were still spots available. I immediately decided to travel to the capital.
Wharton assistant professor Jeremy Tobacman was one of five faculty members to speak at Monday afternoon’s Social Impact Talks. The Penn Social Entrepreneurship Mentoring program hosted the event for about 80 students in Huntsman Hall.
Beneath the corny Undergraduate Assembly election posters adorned with shameless rhyme schemes — “Sex Under The Button, Vote for Abe Sutton” … umm — that we saw last week, student government may actually be the outlet for our grievances.
Three to four times a week, College senior Kristen Jackson takes a break from her life at Penn to interact with a completely different set of students — West Philadelphia public school students. Many of the students Jackson mentors bounce from home to home, sleeping at different places every night.
The men’s golf team missed out on a chance to repeat as champions in the Quaker Invitational, falling to IUPUI, 613-614.
First-year men’s tennis coach David Geatz came in with mild expectations. He saw a team that had talent, but not a team that was on par with the one he had coached at Cornell a few years back.
Krishna P. Singh, Holtec International Corporation chair CEO, is among a group of six local investors who will acquire the Philadelphia Media Network for $55 million, the company announced yesterday.
After being blown out, 12-2, in the first game of a doubleheader against Brown on Monday afternoon, the Quakers rebounded with a 7-5 comeback win.
Beginning with the Portsmouth Invitational Tournament, a showcase for elite college seniors running from April 11-14, Rosen will look to impress professional scouts in the hopes of hearing his name called during the NBA draft on June 28.
Though neither player doubted that they were playing well together, the doubles pairing of junior captain Jules Rodin and freshman Sol Eskenazi surprisingly cracked the top 60 Intercollegiate Tennis Association rankings.
Welcome to the life of 19-year-old Zhao — college dropout and successful self-made entrepreneur. Zhao taught himself how to code in his spare time as a student and a Division I athlete for Penn’s sprint football and track and field teams.
About seven months after it was first opened, Penn Haven — a housing co-op located at 40th and Chestnut streets — is still providing its residents with an alternative option to the University’s mainstream social scene.
The tent is an initiative put together by Penn for Jesus, an umbrella organization of different Christian groups on campus, in the hopes of inspiring prayer among students.
To the surprise of many in the medical community, patients with both liver disease and a certain kind of liver cancer are eight times less likely to die than those who just suffer from the disease.
The Admissions Office waitlisted 2,017 students this admissions cycle, continuing a trend of shrinking the waitlist over the past few years. Penn waitlisted 2,400 students last year and more than 3,500 students three years ago.