Baseball is known as “America’s national pastime,” a sport with a ton of history. However, despite the sports roots in the past, Penn baseball has set itself up for the future solid youth contingent for the 2015 season. The Red and Blue will see 10 freshmen grace the diamond of Meiklejohn Stadium this spring.

Everyone knows the old adage: If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Well, it wouldn’t exactly be fair to say that John Yurkow failed to succeed in his first season as the head coach of Penn baseball.

One day after confirming the hire, Columbia officially introduced its new head football coach, Al Bagnoli

The University received a prestigious three-year grant from the National Science Foundation to establish an I-Corps Site to support translation of research into the marketplace.

The program came out of a group project in the ABCS course, "the Politics of Food."

The Finance department introduced two new classes over the past year.

Wright State University in Ohio is apologizing for what students call an "offensive and disrespectful" menu for Black History Month that included fried chicken and collard greens.  Chartwells Higher Education Dining Service, the dining provider for the university, explained that its goal is to "celebrate national events on campus with authentic and traditional cuisine...In no way was the promotion associated with Black History Month meant to be insensitive." Wright State's vice president of multicultural 

A group of students at Wesleyan University were hospitalized after overdosing on Molly at a party last weekend.  Police suspect that the students--10 Wesleyan students and two guests--received a "bad batch of the drug." The students were taken to Middlesex Hospital and Hartford Hospital.

College sophomore Chaz Smith paired up with One Student, a nonprofit organization that looks to raise awareness of sexual assault to produce a video on the importance of gender roles the way conversations on sexual assault are carried out.  In the video, Smith makes analogies to baseball to explain societal ideas about the sexual behavior of men and women.

While Penn got the United State Ambassador to the United Nations for its Commencement speaker, Harvard went local for its speaker. Harvard announced on Monday that the speaker for its 364th Commencement will be former Massachusetts Governor and Harvard graduate Deval Patrick.

Abraham is the second candidate to visit Penn this month, following Former City Councilman Jim Kenney’s visit last Tuesday.

In the past few weeks, many girls have walked into their dorm rooms to be greeted by colorful posters, warm Wishbone chicken wings and cookies lying on their beds.

NICK MONCY is a College junior from North Miami, Fla. His email address is nickmon@sas.upenn.edu.

Whether or not the “No-Loan Policy” is an achievable goal for the University of Pennsylvania at this time, the fact that Penn continues to sell the fabricated existence of the “No-Loan Policy,” while subsequently ignoring the pleas of students who are forced to take out loans, shows a “determined ambivalence” on behalf of both the University and Student Financial Services.

Sometimes it’s easy to sweep sexism under the rug. Sometimes it's easy to see it as a problem that exists elsewhere — not on college campuses, and certainly not at a place as progressive as Penn.

Penn should use this failure as grounds upon which to seek an injunction against the enforcement of these regulations, which mandate a system which is both deeply flawed in theory and in practice has an abominably bad record at delivering justice for students.