Quick Takes | Higher education round-up: March 23
A weekly roundup of news from around the Ivy League and the higher-education community
A weekly roundup of news from around the Ivy League and the higher-education community
While seniors scramble to secure jobs before the recruiting season ends, one particular group of students faces more difficulties than everyone else.
Hundreds of students pulled all-nighters Wednesday night not for an exam, but for an opportunity to score floor passes to see Passion Pit and Tiësto. VIDEO: Students Camp Out for Fling Tickets
A write-up of the study suggested that stigma, trust and unpleasant experiences were some of the primary factors that discouraged black students from seeking counseling services in college.
While seniors scramble to secure jobs before the recruiting season ends, one particular group of students faces more difficulties than everyone else.
Hundreds of students pulled all-nighters Wednesday night not for an exam, but for an opportunity to score floor passes to see Passion Pit and Tiësto. VIDEO: Students Camp Out for Fling Tickets
In a final non-conference tune-up before Ivy play starts next weekend, Penn fell to local rival Temple, 4-3.
Penn women’s softball suffered two narrow defeats Wednesday afternoon in a doubleheader at Lehigh, as the Mountain Hawks scored in just two innings in the two games. Meanwhile, Lehigh’s pitching held Penn scoreless, leading the team to 3-0 and 2-0 victories over the Quakers.
Lee Benson, the late professor emeritus of History and Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Netter Center for Community Partnerships, died last month at Springfield Hospital in Delaware County at age 90.
A Wednesday night event was formed in response to a Computer and Information Science@Penn Facebook discussion thread that occurred the week before spring break. The thread drew heated responses because of a suggestion to create Spring Fling shirts that featured the word “Brogrammers.”
Taking interest in student ideas, professors are helping launch students’ careers by investing money in startup companies
Though seniors Zane Grodman and Vidur Kapur did not win an Ivy title this year — nor any in coach Andy Ma’s three-year tenure — they helped the team come together during a tumultuous period, leaving Ma in excellent position for future seasons.
The Quakers beat Villanova Wednesday afternoon to get their first win against the Wildcats since 2009.
While the final score was an 11-9 Hoyas victory, the most important number of the night was 17, the amount of turnovers the Red and Blue committed.
Palestra custodian Dan Harrell plans to retire at the end of this school year after 23 years tending to the Cathedral of College Basketball.
Beginning Thursday, senior Brendan McHugh will compete in the NCAA men’s swimming championships in Seattle, Wash.
A Daily Pennsylvanian reporter checks out multi-company workspace Independents Hall — or IndyHall, as it’s also known — in this reporter’s notebook.
Penn Excelano Project, created in 2001, is one of the top collegiate spoken word poetry groups in the nation. In April, members of the group will be traveling to California for the College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational, one of the most elite spoken word competitions in the country.
When I sat down to chat with Dan Savage on Monday, he readily admitted that he can be quite inflammatory — but said that his strategy doesn’t obscure the bigger picture of fighting for LGBT equality.
The easiest thing to do when a campaign like KONY 2012 is brought to our attention is to pick apart everything that’s wrong with it. KONY isn’t perfect and its creator, Jason Russell certainly isn’t either — but neither is a world in which every day, children are kidnapped, sexually assaulted and forced to murder their parents.