ANNEKA DECARO is a College freshman from Austin, TX. Her email address is annekaxiv@gmail.com

With the release of the Mental Health Task Force’s recommendations, many are left feeling dissatisfied with the efforts made to improve quality of life for students.

People who believe that it constitutes a real harm to be exposed to an opinion they find bigoted will never feel safe in the sort of conversation that needs to be had the most: one that actually engages with the opposition.

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If a college mishandles sexual assault in the future, the federal government may come cracking down. A group of senators proposed legislation last week that would raise fines on colleges that mishandle sexual assault accusations while also implementing more requirement for transparency.

An offensive party at the University of Texas caused an uproar on campus but will go unpunished by the University. The fraternity Phi Gamma Delta threw a "border patrol" themed party with students showing up in sombreros and ponchos.

A national survey of Jewish students shows a high number of students experiencing anti-Semitism in some form on campus. The National Demographic Survey of American Jewish College Students was conducted as an online survey and was taken by 1,157 students.

Students at Stanford are tackling the question of what the college experience will look like in the 22nd century.  As part of a thought experiment in 2013, student from the Institute of Design at Stanford thought of four ways in which institutes of higher education will look like in the future.  One idea the students came up with is changing the time frame from four years of education to six years, which students would be able to use at any point during their lifetimes — that is, they can attend school for four years, leave to work, then return for their two final years at any point in they wanted.

On Saturday night at the Palestra, Penn women’s basketball celebrated the careers of its four seniors, and throughout the game that followed, the Quakers never needed to stop their celebration.

Taline King, a Drexel freshman, was found dead in her dorm room on Saturday.

Already written off as bound for last place in the Ivy League, Penn basketball came oh-so-close to pulling off an upset on Yale that would have sent the conference into chaos.

Penn isn't the only Ivy school with a tuition hike in the making. Both Yale and Cornell announced tuition increases for the 2015-16 fiscal year.

Which Philadelphia university is the safest? Billy Penn answered that question with some helpful data. Billy Penn used data from 2011-13 to look at the level of crime at six Philly universities -- Penn, Temple, Drexel, Saint Joseph's, Villanova and La Salle.

The United Minority Council says there is more to it than just funding.

It was a mismatch from the opening tip. And the Red and Blue frontcourt of freshman Michelle Nwokedi, sophomore Sydney Stipanovich and senior Kara Bonenberger reaped the benefits all night as they powered the Quakers to a 75-58 victory.

Staring at the ultimate humiliation of a 20+ point loss to Brown, Penn basketball relied on an unlikely group of characters to give itself a chance. It still wasn’t enough.

Matt White played starting center on the 1979 NCAA Final Four team.