On Sunday, the UA spent over 30 minutes debating how to improve mental health on campus.

Four current students in the Education Policy master's program in the Graduate School of Education can practically pinpoint the moment they realized they wanted to change the system.

Skylar Grey will headline the Social Planning and Events Committee’s fall concert on Oct. 25.

In a impromptu School Reform Commission meeting this morning, the commission voted to cancel the contract with between the School District of Philadelphia and Philadelphia Federation of Teachers.

Is a good thing worth sacrificing the opportunity to look for something better?

The Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life has a new member. Last week, Meghan Gaffney took over as Associate Director at OFSL.

Watching senior Allison Weisenfels in goal for Penn field hockey, you wouldn’t expect that she has only played in two games prior this season. What’s even more surprising is that this is her first season as goalkeeper.

In a sport like soccer, where win-loss records, shots taken and goals scored define post-game analysis, it is easy to get caught up in the statistics. But sometimes the numbers don’t tell the whole story.

Prior to his shutout performance at Cornell for Penn men’s soccer, we spoke with junior goalkeeper Max Polkinhorne to ask him a few questions in this edition of 30 Seconds With.

One game into Penn football’s Ivy League schedule and the 2014 season is not off to a good start. In fact, it may be time for the young squad to look toward 2015.

It has been a bit of an up-and-down season thus far for Penn women’s soccer. However, the Red and Blue were firing on all cylinders in Monday night’s game against Loyola (Md.).

Calling Palestinian deaths “murder” discourages objective scrutiny. To a layperson without serious knowledge of the conflict, it presents the situation in over-simplistic, one-sided and emotionally exploitative terms.For one thing, the accusation of murder yields little insight and discourages scrutiny by those who want to understand the conflict. How many deaths, for example, were accidental, or provoked by local insurgents? How many deliberately attacked Israeli soldiers? On important details such as these, the exhibit was characteristically silent.

Right now, as we grapple with yet another tragedy on our own campus, any effort to help those suffering with mental health issues should be praised and bolstered, not condemned. When even the care that Counseling and Psychological Services provides — from one-on-one counseling to group therapy sessions — is not always enough for a student struggling with mental health issues, how can we begin to think about repealing a law that works to make this type of care affordable for all Americans?

These shouldn’t be the only two options, but stress creates a mob mentality. We talk about how overwhelmed we are, and then we feel left out if we’re not equally as scrambled. If we haven’t worked until midnight like our friends have, then we feel like we’re not adequate students. There’s a general feeling that if you’re not stressed out of your mind, you’re doing something wrong.

We can help by providing students with safe and sober living quarters so they can stay in school even as they work to overcome addiction. The Haven At College is a nonprofit organization that provides housing and support services for students who attend school while dealing with addiction. The Haven has given college students the opportunity to attend college, despite their recovery needs.

In 2004, Princeton University established a grade deflation policy that required each department to maintain a percentage of no more than

The Quakers may not have been able to put Saturday night’s sprint football game at Franklin Field in the win column, but playing heavily favored Navy to a 21-19 nail-biter, they did come away with quite a few victories.