While most students take the upcoming winter break to recover from finals and spend time with friends and family, Penn squash will be taking no days off as they continue to prepare for the tough Ivy slate ahead. The Quakers will be thrust into new environments and pitted against tough competition on their road to the Ivy League opener at the Ringe Squash Courts, including a trip across the pond.. “The boys are looking forward to the England trip,” Assistant coach Gilly Lane said.

For Penn wrestling, hopefully the stress of exams coupled with the joy of the holiday season will enable it to put the first half of the wrestling season behind it as the Quakers prepare for the Midlands Championships on Dec.

On Dec. 27, the men’s and women’s squads fly down to Florida for a ten-day intensive training trip. In preparation for the remainder of the Ivy season, the Ivy Championship and, potentially, the National Championships, the Quakers will endure coach Mike Schnur’s swimming boot camp.

I felt certain that the latter was always fabricating stories to extract emotions and dollars off compassionate, privileged Ivy students. Now I am actually a little bit more open to the idea that, frighteningly, the former might have made things up to do their job right — to ensure the safety of Penn’s campus and its students using whatever method necessary. ...

According to popular assumption, there’s a simple dichotomy between science and religion. Science represents collective knowledge of objective reality; religion, a traditional codification of subjective experience.

Our unforgivingly competitive and pre-professional environment teaches us to place getting ahead before genuine human connection. But too many people get caught up in the flow of “every man for himself,” and too many students bristle at sharing notes for fear that someone else might get a chance to excel.

Vera Krillov’s guest column last Wednesday showed that other students found the body image pressures on campus troubling as well. Why is it that so many of us are dissatisfied with our bodies — the same bodies that keep us moving, thinking, loving, dreaming, living?

More information exists at your fingertips than ever before, but how much do you really know about what’s going on in the world?

Live by the three, die by the three. Tuesday night, both Penn basketball and Marist found themselves embodying opposite clauses of that basketball cliché.

Penn students took over Penn President Amy Gutmann’s annual holiday party on Tuesday night, demanding that the University pay money to support Philadelphia schools.

When the second half began, the Quakers came alive, defeating the Hawks, 66-51, to end a two-game losing streak.

Recently, my fellow columnist Yessenia Gutierrez wrote about challenging the misguided notions about low-income students being “privileged” and “lucky” for not having to pay tuition.

We took a look at some key issues for Penn Athletics in our second annual columnist issue. Whether it is Jerome Allen's job security, student apathy, the Penn-Princeton rivalry or the very definition of Penn Athletics, we tried to give you a better understanding of the issue at hand, one column at a time.

Several Ivy peers are more open about how they punish sexual assault.

Despite constant criticism that selective colleges are inaccessible to students of lower socio-economic background, the number of Pell Grant recipients has increased in the last six years at Penn. Since 2008, the Pell Grant recipients rose by 60 percent, with 15 percent of freshman receiving the grant as a part of their financial aid package.

When was the last time you heard of a Penn athlete who achieved national celebrity status? For most current Penn students, the answer to this question is probably “never.” This is not necessarily a problem of student apathy towards Penn athletics, however, but rather a reflection of Penn’s priorities as a university.

Jon M. Huntsman's life has been a story of Idaho cornfields, quirky business ventures, and a big dose of luck.