Erina Gudono, daughter-in-law of Indonesian President Joko Widodo, is facing backlash over her scholarship to Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice, with critics arguing her privileged background makes her an undeserving recipient. l8r.it/6QeC
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- Donald Trump, the only Penn graduate ever elected to the presidency, has been impeached.buff.ly/2Q4qQXI
- Chloe x Halle, Wale, and Wizkid will perform for the second weekend of Spring Fling on April 16 and April 17, Penn’s Social Planning and Events Committee announced Wednesday night.
- A petition advocating for Penn to fire a visiting scholar, María Paula Romo, has garnered nearly 11,000 signatures.
- In front of a socially distanced crowd in Clark Park, @AndrewYang delivered an urgent plea for young Americans to vote this fall. After the event, he spoke with the DP about the Asian American electorate and his universal basic income plan.
- SCOOP: Penn asked the Philadelphia Police Department for immediate help to disband the Gaza Solidarity Encampment, a source familiar told The Daily Pennsylvanian. However, PPD declined. @diamywang reports:
- BREAKING: Over 1,900 Penn doctoral, master’s, and undergraduate student workers have signed authorization cards to form a union, creating a group now called Graduate Employees Together at the University of Pennsylvania.
- A Manhattan grand jury voted to indict 1968 Wharton graduate and former President Donald Trump, making him the first former president to face criminal charges.
- Guest Column | Fifty-six scholars discuss why María Paula Romo should be discharged from her position as Penn’s visiting scholar.
- Black students at Penn are reeling after a wave of racially charged group messages shocked the campus.
- BREAKING: Over 60 protestors have rushed Franklin Field during the Penn homecoming football game. The game has been paused for over 30 minutes and protestors — members of Fossil Free Penn — have refused to leave the field. Story to follow.
- BREAKING: Penn President Liz Magill will resign the presidency effective Dec. 9, according to an email sent to the Penn community around 4 p.m. today.
- Replying to @dailypennPenn asked the Philadelphia Police Department for immediate help to disband the Gaza Solidarity Encampment, a source familiar told The Daily Pennsylvanian. PPD declined, asking that the University provide proof that the encampment — and the rally today — presents danger.
- BREAKING: 1987 College graduate Jon Huntsman Jr. told Penn President Liz Magill on Saturday that his family will stop donating to Penn, stripping the University of a longtime donor amid backlash from influential trustees and alumni.
