As those who attended Penn last year would know, students found themselves in the midst of an incredibly competitive and polarizing election cycle. On Locust, then-freshmen such as myself were greeted by volunteers and activists seeking to register us to vote or campaigning on behalf of individual causes. While activists and campaigners from Planned Parenthood, the Harris Campaign, and Dave McCormick’s campaign held events here, I encountered little conversation about the war in Ukraine.
Lexi Boccuzzi | Romanticize your real life
On the Record | Find meaning in your day-to-day, not just your days off Photo credit: The Map That Leads to You, Prime Video By Lexi Boccuzzi “Live like your time is running out, and abandon your ‘real life’ for love, beauty, travel, and the existential.” That’s the message of…
Breaking News | Conservative activist, Charlie Kirk, fatally shot during Utah campus event
Conservative Activist, Charlie Kirk, was shot and killed during TPUSA event at Utah Valley University Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore By: Dillon Nittoli Editor’s Note: This article was last updated on September 11, 2025, at 11:02 AM and reflects what was known at that time. It will be updated if new…
Abraham Franchetti | Wharton’s new club rules must be repealed
Restricting merit-based interviews will increase confusion, worsen nepotism, and leave students unprepared for the real world. Photo Credit: University of Pennsylvania Facebook By: Abraham Franchetti On July 30th, Wharton administrators unveiled a set of new club regulations they claimed necessary to comply with the recently enacted Stop Campus Hazing Act.…
Wesley Liu | Hookups, algorithms, and the death of intimacy at Penn
At a university where efficiency is a moral virtue, intimacy, too, has become streamlined. PMP mirrors the logic of contemporary dating apps: forms, filters, swipes, metrics. The slow unfolding of affection has been replaced by the calibrated precision of compatibility scores. In a world built on optimization, even love is expected to perform.
Bo Goergen | The Gospel according to Zohran
In the age of social media politics, Zohran Mamdani has emerged as Gen Z’s ideal candidate. His platform reads more like a child’s wish list than a serious plan to lead the nation’s largest city. However, that’s exactly what makes him appealing to a generation raised on instant gratification and online idealism.
Breaking News | Penn GSE email hacked
The Penn Graduate School of Education experienced a cybersecurity breach, where an unknown body sent a series of mass emails via the email addresses of several GSE faculty members and the official GSE School Leadership Program.
Penn to pay significantly increased endowment taxes
Penn will pay significantly increased endowment taxes in the 2026 fiscal year as a result of the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.” The act will affect many private, non-profit higher education institutions which have accumulated large endowments, such as the University of Pennsylvania.
AWS failure causes campuswide Canvas disruptions at Penn
At approximately 10 AM on October 20, 2025, Instructure’s Canvas, Penn’s preferred learning management system, began experiencing technical difficulties as a result of an Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage that started around 3:11 AM EST.
Wharton professor injured in e-bike collision, prompting policy change
Itamar Dreschler, Professor of Finance at Wharton was hit by an e-bike in Norristown, Pennsylvania last June, suffering a traumatic injury which has sparked a broader dialogue regarding the safety of electric bicycles. He has since had to take a temporary leave of absence from teaching.
Breaking News | Penn decides against signing White House Compact
In a decisive move, the University of Pennsylvania rejected the Trump administration’s Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education earlier this afternoon.
Breaking News | Arrested Harvard Professor was visiting scholar at Wharton
On the eve of Yom Kippur, Harvard Law Professor Carlos Portugal Gouvea was arrested near a Massachusetts synagogue. He is accused of firing a pellet gun adjacent to the synagogue, which caused it to enter lockdown given the current rise in antisemitic violence.
Emma McClure | Charlie Kirk’s death is a tragedy, not an opportunity to make a political point
On September 10th, Charlie Kirk was fatally shot in the neck. While many rightfully condemned the violence, many members of the media and Penn students alike have responded disgracefully.