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Field Hockey v. Yale 2011

A problem Penn often faces when it travels to play a team with an AstroTurf field is that it needs to practice on AstroTurf, the default playing surface in Division I field hockey. Unfortunately for the Quakers, Franklin Field is composed of Sprinturf.


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Facing a dominant Brown team on the road, the Penn football team might be slapped with the ‘underdog’ tag in an Ivy League matchup for the first time since its 2009 title run. But don’t count the Quakers among those who see this pivotal game that way.

Every year, around 300 students at Penn are identified with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder by Student Disabilities Services. But Disability Services Director Susan Shapiro suspects many more students suffer from the mental disorder.


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Every year, around 300 students at Penn are identified with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder by Student Disabilities Services. But Disability Services Director Susan Shapiro suspects many more students suffer from the mental disorder.










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Starting Friday, students were no longer charged the $5 hourly fee to play recreational tennis at Penn Park’s outdoor Hamlin Tennis Courts. Following complaints from students, the Undergraduate Assembly worked with Penn Athletics and the Office of the President to remove the charges.


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Wednesday, Assistant Sociology professor David Gibson spoke about tapes of John Kennedy in the first of three installments of the Lightbulb Café held at the Penn Museum. The series allows the community to ask questions of experts in an informal setting.


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A Penn laboratory has successfully programmed the PR2 robot to scoop poop. “We wanted to do something difficult but utterly pedestrian, something that people could relate to,” third year Computer Science doctoral student Anthony Cowley said.


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Flood waters that have been rising in Bangkok, Thailand, since July have displaced family members of Penn students. The Thai student association PennThai has been fundraising to aid those affected.



*Members of Bloomers* prepare for their fall show "GoopleFace: OCR We There Yet?" at a dress rehearsal.

The all-female comedy troupe Bloomers joked that the CEOs of Google, Apple and Facebook will be present at their fall show, opening Thursday night. The show, titled “Goopleface: OCR We There Yet?”, will take a look at corporate America. GALLERY: Photos from behind the scenes of Bloomers’ show


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StartUp Academy, launched this month through Bain Capital Ventures, matches students with a startup company. Although students often find startups a “risky” place to work, Bain matches students with companies they believe are “growing,” such as SurveyMonkey and Rent the Runway.


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While he was a student at Penn, Larry Maltz spent his free time in the library. But unlike other students, he wasn’t poring over statistics or chemistry — he was reading. For fun. INTERACTIVE: Recent graduates’ career plans