College rankings spark debate

While the latest release of college rankings has kept Penn’s campus abuzz, their effect on prospective applicants to the University has been up for debate.

Emily Orrson | Convention celebrates celebrity

Ann Romney isn’t the only desperate housewife taking the stage at this year’s national conventions. Eva Longoria, co-chair of the Obama campaign, will speak at tonight’s DNC.

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Gchat

Gchat, arguably the most legitimate of all instant messaging services, gets even more dynamic this week.  Huffington Post recently featured Penn professor Michelle Taransky’s Gchat poetry as part of their Reading Series.  Taransky’s “Sorry Was In The Woods” is an excerpt from her forthcoming book and subsequently makes us feel self-conscious for not even including vowels in our Gchats. Sry.

Brushstrokes Of Genius

Neuroscience and the fine arts, together at last. It seems like a match made in Opposite Backwards Mirror Land, but Penn PhD candidate Greg Dunn has managed to pair the two quite harmoniously.

Cairo calls to Aaron Ross

The revolution in Egypt has certainly changed the Middle East, but for former Penn soccer player Aaron Ross, it has also changed his life.

Jeremy Lin's emergence leads people to care about Ivy League athletes turned pro

Harvard is getting a lot of attention for its athletic program these days.

Bill proposes mandatory ultrasounds for women seeking abortions

A new bill being introduced in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives has brought issues of gender inequality under debate.

Wharton graduate left his job to travel across the globe

Attempting to stay afloat in the modern rat race to success can leave little room for individuality.

Best Of 2011: 365 Days Of Amy

2011 was a great year for our Resident President, that Crimson Mistress: Dr. Amy Annabel Gutmann. (We made "Annabel" up. But could you imagine– !) Amy wined, dined, chatted, danced, shimmied, shimmered, gave speeches, danced some more, won the titles of Mr. and Mrs. Penn (we wish), had a picnic at her house, bought some new red blazers, coiffed her hair (That hair!), went to bed and did it 364 more times. Let's take a trip down memory lane and relive some of her best moments, shall we?

Cornell pres. Skorton advocates concussion rules

The Ivy League made some headlines this summer when it announced rule changes that directly aimed to reduce chances for football players to get concussions. Penn coach Al Bagnoli was part of an Ivy committee formed to take a hard look at the issue, and the changes represented a "proactive" move by the league on an important topic,Ivy League director Robin Harris said back in July.

Resolution '12 encourages altruistic New Year's resolutions

It might still be November, but Resolution ’12 wants to change the way you think about New Year’s resolutions. With nearly 100 submissions of socially conscious, service-driven resolutions to date, the project is looking to make a difference in the world, one resolution at a time.

The World's Greatest--In yet another seemingly arbitrary competition, Penn makes the cut for Huffington Post's list of World's Best Universities.

Brian Goldman | Occupying ‘Occupy Wall Street’

Occupy Wall Street is the embodiment of an organic political movement that a free society encourages. But what is it really about? It seems, at least superficially, to be ignited from the collusion of big government and corporations, especially in the wake of bailouts, a sluggish economy and stalled recovery.

House passes law to restrict abortion

Nationwide and statewide changes are on the horizon regarding one of politics’ most heated topic — abortion.

Samantha Sharf | The ranks of wives and mothers

I am a single female without any children.

Political Science department admits mistake over Teune class

On Sept. 13, nine students showed up to Henry Teune’s “Citizenship and Democratic Development” class, unaware that their professor had died five months ago.

Samantha Sharf | Consequences of the press of a button

If you are a living, breathing member of the Penn community, you know by now that professor Henry Teune did not show up to teach “Citizenship and Democratic Development” this semester because he died in April. You also know that nine students did show up for the Political Science class only to receive an email from a department administrator explaining there had been an “oversight.” Perhaps you are one of the 35 commenters on the Under the Button post that broke the story or you (like me) are one of the 267 people to “like” the post on Facebook.

Samantha Sharf | Lighting the free speech FIRE

Although I would describe my adolescent self as too shy to dream of uttering a controversial phrase, as a teenager I was obsessed by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, particularly the section that prohibits Congress from “abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.”

Breaking: We're On Another HuffPo List

Is it just us, or is the Huffington Post slowly killing the whole list thing? Our latest ranking accomplishment is one of the ten colleges with the fewest cars, or a "duh" moment filled with urban institutions and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. This would've been ten times more interesting if they just said "look, Wisco doesn't allow cars on campus!" since that was kind of the only interesting point.

F*** Yeah Free Speech

How many times have you wanted to stand up in the middle of recitation and scream "SHENANIGANS!!!" but were just too scared your constitutional rights would not be respected? Fear not, comrades: the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has your back!