Letter No. 7

March 2, 2025

Dear DP,

Lot of cool stories and developments around the office for this week. Our sports team went to Cornell and Dartmouth to cover games, the multimedia crew wrote another historical photo essay, news continued stellar work following their breaking story regarding admissions being rescinded, and our business departments continued to grind it through at their working sessions.

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STAFFERS OF THE WEEK

Deputy Assignments Editor Isha Chitirala and Deputy Assignments Editor Finn Ryan are the staffers of the week! Isha and Finn authored a piece about Penn rescinding graduate admissions, which garnered close to 170,000 views. This story was cited by the Philadelphia Inquirer, The Atlantic, and Nature. I’ve personally received emails from readers commending them for this story. They have also been so good in their follow up stories… do give them a read!

Awards

Awards

The DP won 11 Keystone Media Awards for 2025, including the Sweepstakes Award for Division I papers (universities with enrollment of 10,000 or more).

Here are the pieces recognized:

  • Police in riot gear arrest 33 protesters, including Penn students, at Gaza Solidarity Encampment (The Daily Pennsylvanian Staff)

  • Where Ethiopia and Eritrea Meet West Philly (Kate Ratner/34th Street Magazine)

  • Super Sayin: Ahead of senior season, Penn's quarterback is ready to rise again (Walker Carnathan/The Daily Pennsylvanian)

  • I don't feel safe: Penn track and field program accused of sexual harassment, mistreatment (Walker Carnathan, Sean McKeown & Vivian Yao/The Daily Pennsylvanian)

  • A letter to Interim President Jameson: Learn from the shortcomings of Magill's tenure; The numbers Penn won't show us; Trump does not represent Penn (The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board)

  • Paris or Penn? The love incubator; College of Arts and Sciences: Penn's biggest branding fail; The '90s called: They want their plastic PennCards back (Diya Choksey/The Daily Pennsylvanian)

  • The kids really need this: Wharton student group allegedly withholds $90,000 promised to charity; These 'temporary guidelines' will hurt our University; Birds of a feather (Sophia Liu, Emmi Wu & Insia Haque/The Daily Pennsylvanian)

  • In Photos: 100 hours at the Gaza Solidarity Encampment on College Green (Chenyao Liu & Derek Wong/The Daily Pennsylvanian)

  • 2/3 of Penn trustees are male (Katrina Itona, Sophia Liu, Janine Navalta & Emmi Wu/The Daily Pennsylvanian)

  • University of Penn - The Daily Pennsylvanian (website award)

  • Pro-Palestine demonstrators arrested, Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Penn taken down (The Daily Pennsylvanian Staff)

Peek at Penn

Our business development team is collecting subscribers for Peek @ Penn, our newsletters aimed towards high schoolers applying to college.

Please take a moment to share the link and subscribe to the newsletter. We have just hit over 900 subscribers, with the goal of getting to over 1,000 by the start of spring break (which begins on Saturday). Help us hit it!

If you have feedback for the newsletter, feel free to reach out to me or Ranvith Adulla, the business development manager.

Have a great Spring break!

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