Actively Moving Forward helps students cope with grief

The Daily Pennsylvanian - Tue, 11/13/2012 - 22:43
Each year, roughly a fourth of college students cope with the death of a family member or a close friend.

Yessenia Gutierrez | You are what you consume

The Daily Pennsylvanian - Tue, 11/13/2012 - 01:32
We choose our purchases to reveal who we are, so much so that even our personalities are commoditized.

Editorial | Feeling safe on Locust Walk

The Daily Pennsylvanian - Tue, 11/13/2012 - 01:30
Dephanie Jao’s encounter happened on Locust Walk around 9:40 p.m. Sexual assaults happen to one in four college women in the United States.

Red and Blue too sloppy in Tip-Off Tourney loss

The Daily Pennsylvanian - Tue, 11/13/2012 - 01:04
It’s hard to land a punch when every swing is aimless. That’s what the Penn men’s basketball team found out Monday night in its 84-69 loss to Delaware as the Quakers hacked, hacked, hacked away to the tune of 31 fouls. If there was a triple bonus, Delaware would have been in it.

Penn women's basketball falls short of pulling off upset against Virginia

The Daily Pennsylvanian - Tue, 11/13/2012 - 00:56
Though the Quakers lost a heartbreaker at home Monday night, 68-65, Penn had a 12-point lead over the Cavaliers at the half and went up by 15 to open the second frame. However, Virginia chipped away at the deficit throughout the half and hung on to win.

Bagherzadeh | No walk in the park for Penn wrestling

The Daily Pennsylvanian - Tue, 11/13/2012 - 00:53
Not counting the upcoming Keystone Classic and Midlands Championships, Penn’s wrestling team will take part in 13 duals this season before the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association Championships in early March.

Wisniewski | Penn football gives fans a reason to believe

The Daily Pennsylvanian - Tue, 11/13/2012 - 00:50
Leading up to the de facto Ivy championship tilt against Harvard, I still didn’t give the post-Yale Quakers much of a chance. But boy, did they prove me wrong.

UA recap: Members approve PennApps Labs resolution

The Daily Pennsylvanian - Tue, 11/13/2012 - 00:40
On Sunday night, the Undergraduate Assembly voted 25 in favor and one against on a resolution that will allow the UA speaker to vote for PennApps Labs to work on a proposed Events@Penn Calendar for this year’s project.

‘Hunting for Asians’ stirs discussion

The Daily Pennsylvanian - Mon, 11/12/2012 - 23:56
The Penn community is speaking out in response to a graduate student’s account of an alleged on-campus racial incident. In a Nov. 1 Daily Pennsylvanian guest column, Graduate School of Education student Dephanie Jao wrote of the encounter.

Art exhibit outside of Hillel commemorates Kristallnacht

The Daily Pennsylvanian - Mon, 11/12/2012 - 23:48
Seventy-four years after the Nazis destroyed over 7,000 Jewish businesses on the night known as Kristallnacht, Hillel’s Holocaust Education Committee is finding creative ways to commemorate the victims.

Penn Law students take a break from the books

The Daily Pennsylvanian - Mon, 11/12/2012 - 23:26
Established in 1977, the Light Opera Company is a Law School student group which produces, directs and performs a musical comedy every year.

Delaware tops Penn basketball in NIT opener, 84-69

The Daily Pennsylvanian - Mon, 11/12/2012 - 23:18
Fouls were the theme in Penn basketball’s dismal loss to Delaware in the opening round of the NIT Season Tip-Off.

EMS week keeps MERT students busy

The Daily Pennsylvanian - Mon, 11/12/2012 - 22:29
For EMS Week, MERT members shared what it’s like behind the scenes of the organization.

Mayor of Jerusalem visits Penn to talk business and governing

The Daily Pennsylvanian - Mon, 11/12/2012 - 22:07
Nir Barkat, who founded and led several Israeli tech startups, spoke to about 100 people on Monday in Steinberg Hall-Dietrich Hall about how the business philosophy he brought to Jerusalem has led to dramatic improvements in just four years.

Politics-based classes have to re-focus after election

The Daily Pennsylvanian - Mon, 11/12/2012 - 21:51
In the wake of last week’s election, several politics-focused courses at Penn are approaching the rest of the semester in slightly new ways.

‘Haunted’ former prison draws daring visitors

The Daily Pennsylvanian - Mon, 11/12/2012 - 21:21
Every year, Eastern State sees about 250,000 people, many who are looking for a thrill.

Penn volleyball closes season with two losses

The Daily Pennsylvanian - Mon, 11/12/2012 - 02:09
The last time the teams faced off, the Red and Blue swept both opponents. This time around, Penn (13-12, 8-6 Ivy) lost to both Columbia (13-9, 8-5) on Friday and Cornell (9-16, 5-9) on Saturday.

Brief | Freshman Thomas Awad Penn cross country's top finisher

The Daily Pennsylvanian - Mon, 11/12/2012 - 02:08
The Penn men’s and women’s cross country seasons came to an end Friday at the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional Championships, with a number of strong performances from underclassmen giving the team optimism for the future.

Red and Blue had Ragone’s back in the clutch

The Daily Pennsylvanian - Mon, 11/12/2012 - 01:59
It happened on the final play of the third quarter. Penn, up 21-14 at the time, faced a crucial third down with three yards to go on the Harvard 36. Ragone, as he had already done 15 times that afternoon, tucked the football away and took off running. He scrambled seven yards — easily enough for the first — before he was brought down violently around the neck by the Crimson’s Nnamdi Obukwelu.

Phillips | Penn finds its identity and gets the job done

The Daily Pennsylvanian - Mon, 11/12/2012 - 01:51
On Saturday, the Penn football team showed what it could do and then some, clinching at least a share of the Ancient Eight crown with a victory over a favored Crimson squad.