Students sled down Locust, build igloos
The snow days on Wednesday and Thursday were the first back-to-back University closings since 1994. Previously, the most recent snow-related University closing was in February 2003.
The snow days on Wednesday and Thursday were the first back-to-back University closings since 1994. Previously, the most recent snow-related University closing was in February 2003.
After visiting last summer to capture footage, Google has launched a Google Maps Street View feature of Penn’s campus — with interactive, three-dimensional imagery of the University’s facilities.
Overall crime this January rose by 8.3 percent as compared to last January and 10.2 percent as compared to December 2009, according to statistics provided by the Division of Public Safety.
How Philly Moves — a 50,000-square foot, five-story-tall mural to be displayed on the side of the Philadelphia International Airport parking garage — is part of a movement by the Mural Arts Program to beautify the city’s gateways.
After visiting last summer to capture footage, Google has launched a Google Maps Street View feature of Penn’s campus — with interactive, three-dimensional imagery of the University’s facilities.
Overall crime this January rose by 8.3 percent as compared to last January and 10.2 percent as compared to December 2009, according to statistics provided by the Division of Public Safety.
Arabic is spoken by over 300 million people in the world — including the members of Penn’s newest language club.
Jennifer Higdon won the Grammy for Best Classical Contemporary Composition for her Percussion Concerto, recorded by the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
Penn’s V-Day Campaign will host its 10th-annual production of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues at 8 p.m. on Feb. 11 and 12 in Irvine Auditorium, as part of an effort to break the silence surrounding sexual violence against women.
The event, named “Hoops for Haiti,” will feature a three-on-three co-ed basketball tournament at Hutchinson Gymnasium throughout the day and will conclude with a happy hour at the Blockley Pourhouse, where various items will be raffled off.
The project consists of an estimated 20 city street lights and 40 pedestrian-scale lights, to be installed from 34th to 38th streets on Lancaster Avenue.
The all-women team won first place in the undergraduate division of the 2010 Marketing Summit at the Wake Forest University School of Business.
This year, three Penn students received the Thouron Award, which will fund their pursuit of a graduate degree at a United Kingdom university for up to two years.
Minority student groups worked together to convince Penn President Amy Gutmann to take a public stance on the Development, Relief, Education for Alien Minors Act.
Confusion over where students are counted in the census has lead to miscounts in the past, but Penn students and staff are doing their part to make Penn’s count as seamless as possible.
Although Columbia sophomore guard Chris Crockett now plays behind upperclassmen, in high school he was the key player on two teams.
Coach Mike McLaughlin will look for leadership from his seniors when W. Hoops heads to Cornell and Columbia tonight and Saturday, respectively. Both games will tip off at 7 p.m.
Since rejoining the Quakers, Amy Donovan has been testing her comedy act in the locker room in hopes of perfecting her routine for open mic nights.
While Penn won’t be sending any student athletes to Vancouver, freshman Evan Prochniak will be the sole representative for the Penn fencing program at this year’s Junior Olympics.
Although many may scoff at the idea that Penn (8-4, 2-0 Ivy) could take down No. 7 Cornell (5-4-1, 1-0), it remains to be seen what will happen once the two Ivies take the mat tomorrow at the Palestra