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The University of Pennsylvania has been blasted for nominating controversial transgender swimmer Lia Thomas for a top student sports' award. UPenn has named Thomas, 22, as one of two students it has nominated for the National College Athletics' Association's Woman (NCAA) of the Year Award. The college's other nominee is Russian tennis player Luliia Bryzgalova. Each school is allowed two nominations as long as one of the athletes is an international student or a person of color and both must be graduating. The winner will be announced at an NCAA event in San Antonio, Texas, in January 2023. Thomas, 22,...

Swimmer Lia Thomas, who became the first openly transgender athlete to win an NCAA Division I national championship earlier this year, has been nominated for the 2022 NCAA Woman of the Year Award.

A University of Pennsylvania professor drew ridicule online for suggesting that first responders waited too long to engage the shooter in Uvalde, Texas last week because “police didn’t give a damn” about “brown kids.” In a since-deleted tweet from Friday, UPenn Religious Studies and Africana Studies Professor Anthea Butler — who is also an MSNBC contributor — suggested that racism was responsible for the police failure to stop a gunman at a Texas elementary school in an attack that left 19 children and two adults dead.

University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) professor and MSNBC contributor Anthea Butler suggested that Texas police didn’t respond sooner to the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde because they “didn’t give a damn” about a school filled with mostly “brown kids.” “So since no one else will ask, I will. Did those children die because most of them were Mexican American and the police didn’t give a damn about a school w predominately brown kids? I mean, because it’s Texas.. and if you think everyone who isn’t white is illegal,” Butler tweeted on Friday.

President Joe Biden looked lost again Thursday after finishing a speech on the nation's ongoing supply chain crisis when he turned around and stuck his hand out as if to shake hands - but there was no one else on stage. The blunder from 79-year-old Biden comes days after he looked disoriented during an event that saw former President Barack Obama visit the White House for the first time since leaving office. Immediately after ending the speech in Greensboro, North Carolina. with the signoff 'God bless you all,' footage from the event shows Biden turning to his right and seemingly...

A University of Pennsylvania Law School professor's comments to Tucker Carlson have ignited a firestorm of criticism. Amy Wax told Carlson that "American Blacks" and non-Westerners feel "resentment, shame, and envy" toward Westerners for their "outsized achievements and contributions." Wax also referred to India as a "shithole" and said non-Western immigrants shouldn't criticize America because their countries are inferior. Nikki McCann Ramírez, senior research director at Media Matters for America, posted two clips of the exchange on Twitter. In fewer than 24 hours, the clips are approaching a cumulative 2 million views. The first begins with Carlson asking Wax about...

A government watchdog is demanding the US Attorney probing Hunter Biden in Delaware investigate tens of millions in anonymous donations from China to the University of Pennsylvania, where an academic center is named for his father, President Biden. The Ivy League college raked in a total of $54.6 million from 2014 through June 2019 in donations from China, including $23.1 million in anonymous gifts starting in 2016, according to public records.

Female swimmers at the University of Pennsylvania published a statement this week about their teammate, William “Lia” Thomas, who is a biological male competing on the women’s swim team. In the statement, which was shared with ESPN, the swimmers voiced their support for Thomas’ transition and said they “value her as a person, teammate, and friend.”As I covered, Thomas made headlines in recent months for breaking two national women’s records at a competition in Ohio. In the 1,650-yard freestyle, the runner-up finished 38 seconds behind Thomas. At a competition last month, Thomas was “crushed” in two races by a biological...

The University of Pennsylvania is considering a lawsuit if Lia Thomas is barred from competing in the upcoming NCAA women’s swimming championship, according to a report. A swimmer on the Penn women’s team, speaking on the condition of anonymity, claimed to Fox News that administrators were considering legal action if Thomas is prohibited from participating in the championship. “I have a feeling that if USA Swimming changes their rules, they will be filing a lawsuit for Lia to swim, but they wouldn’t do that for us,” she said. “That’s just really upsetting.” The swimmer said she had “heard that from...

Caitlyn Jenner has called on the National Collegiate Athletic Association to immediately stop transgender athletes like UPenn swimmer Lia Thomas from competing against their biological counterparts. Jenner said there was no doubt that the rules need to be changed just as the NCAA Board of Governors were meeting to review rules on transgender athletes. "All of this woke world that we are living in right now is not working", said Jenner. "I feel sorry for the other athletes that are out there, especially at Penn or anybody she's competing against, because in the woke world, you've got to say, 'Oh,...

In November 2020, when University of Pennsylvania graduate student Mackenzie Fierceton won the prestigious and highly competitive Rhodes scholarship to study at Oxford — one of just 32 scholars selected from a pool of 2,300 applicants — she was praised by the Ivy League school’s president in a newsletter. “Mackenzie is so deserving of this prestigious opportunity,” declared President Amy Gutmann of the 23-year-old from suburban St. Louis. “As a first-generation [to go to college] low-income student and a former foster youth, Mackenzie is passionate about championing young people [and] dedicating herself to a life of public service.” But a...

The Real Winner This is Anna Kalandadze, the first woman to finish the 1500m freestyle swim at the Zippy Invitational in Akron, Ohio last weekend. Let’s promote her win. Let’s promote fairness. UPenn Cheats is trending… If I were the Director of Athletics at an Ivy League university like @AlannaShanahan is, I'd be ashamed to have thousands of people all saying #PennCheats like this about my sports teams.But Shanahan & the rest of @pennathletics don't seem to mind being famous for cheating. pic.twitter.com/8vPzLiPvY3— ♀️Jennifer Gingrich (@fem_mb) December 11, 2021 This is Anna Kalandadze, the first woman to finish the 1500m...

A lot of history was made at the Zippy Invitational swim meet in Akron, OH, on December 3.Lia Thomas, swimming for the University of Pennsylvania, took 38 seconds off the Women’s 1650 Freestyle event.As my colleague Jim Thompson pointed out in BREAKING: Dude Beats Women at Swimming Because, He’s a Biological Dude, 38 seconds is a long, long time in swimming. Watching the video, Lia appears to have won by about two laps.And Jim also gave away the punchline. Lia is a man. Lia, back when he was still Will, swam for three years with UPenn’s men’s team and was...

A teammate of Lia Thomas on the University of Pennsylvania women’s swim team has spoken out as the transgender swimmer has shattered school records. SNIP “Pretty much everyone individually has spoken to our coaches about not liking this. Our coach [Mike Schnur] just really likes winning. He’s like most coaches. I think secretly everyone just knows it’s the wrong thing to do,” the female Penn swimmer said. “When the whole team is together, we have to be like, ‘Oh my gosh, go Lia, that’s great, you’re amazing.’ It’s very fake.”

A 22-year-old transgender swimmer at the University of Pennsylvania continued her dominant performance this season — setting numerous pool, meet and program records at a three-day event in Ohio last weekend.

The president's harsh town hall response on canceling America's $1.7 trillion college debt revealed he doesn't understand the issue. [snip] Joe Biden might not hold an Ivy League sheepskin, but during his brief stint between the vice presidency and the presidency he was paid more than $900,000 by Penn for ill-defined work that helped to pump up the Philadelphia university and its public image. Now, one has to wonder if the Ivy seduction of a future president didn’t also foster a status quo view of higher ed in America that doesn’t comport with the real-world aspirations and struggles of an...

A week and a day into a Biden administration and there is already more evidence of Chinese influence being revealed than the entire body of “evidence” presented in the Russia probe against President Trump. The latest very questionable circumstance happened in 2017 when the University of Pennsylvania formed the Penn Biden Center.In the 37 months prior to the center’s formation, the university received $21,187,333 from China. In the 39 months after the formation of the Penn Biden Center, donations from China more than tripled to $71,274,675. Republican Representatives James Comer, Jim Jordan, and Virginia Foxx sent a follow-up letter to...

The University of Pennsylvania pocketed a $3 million donation last year from a mysterious Hong Kong shell company that is owned by a Shanghai businessman with deep ties to Chinese government officials. The donation from Xu Xeuqing, who has no apparent connection to the University of Pennsylvania and was previously embroiled in a Shanghai public corruption scandal, raises questions about the true source of the money. Documents reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show Xeuqing has close ties to the Chinese Communist Party. China has poured money into American universities in recent years, in part to buy influence on campuses,...

Millions of college students will be closing out the semester from home, with online courses replacing in-person offerings. Due to the abrupt change, many schools are acknowledging the disruption, and associated changes in students’ circumstances, may lead to a decrease in academic performance unrelated to effort or intelligence, and are therefore instituting grading policies that provide appropriate understanding for the bizarre situation. Many universities, including Georgetown, Duke, University of Pennsylvania, have extended the deadline for taking a class pass/fail until either the last day of classes or even a week after report cards are released. However, many student groups are...

The University of Pennsylvania’s medical school is set to perform clinical trials to see if a drug used to treat arthritis and malaria can also treat COVID-19. The Perelman School of Medicine is enrolling patients to study if hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) can treat already infected people or help prevent infection altogether. Dr. Ravi Amaravadi, an oncologist and the study’s principal investigator, has been studying the drug as a treatment for cancer for more than a decade. He said side effects on cancer patients have not been severe, which could indicate HCQ might be safe for coronavirus treatment. “We think this is...