On Wednesday, October 29, Penn will participate in the national “Carrying the Weight Together” National Day of Action. Students across the country will carry mattresses and pillows in protest of sexual assault.

The Teachers Institute of Philadelphia brings together Penn faculty and public school teachers from West and Southwest Philadelphia to learn from each other and from Penn professors. 

2007 Engineering and Wharton graduate Karthik Sridharan cofounded Kinnek, an online marketplace that matches small businesses with suppliers suited to their individual needs. The startup just received $10 million in funding.

As SEPTA union members could potentially go on strike starting next week, Penn has a plan to provide alternative transportation options.

Last week, the Mask and Wig fund officially announced the recipient of the first-ever Mask and Wig Club Performing Arts Scholarship. This year’s recipient is Nora Lueth who is an active member of multiple performing arts groups on campus.

Penn’s endowment returns were just average compared to its peers during fiscal year 2014.

There is less than a week remaining before early decision candidates for the Class of 2019 have to submit their applications. 

At 1-5 and already beset with two Ivy losses, Penn football is, for all intents and purposes, done in 2014. But believe it or not, there’s still plenty of reason to watch.

After a disappointing draw against Yale, Penn women's soccer closes out its nonconference slate against Lehigh on Tuesday.

Penn men's and women's basketball took to the court on Saturday for their Red and Blue scrimmages, giving fans their first look at newcomers and the development of returning players.

For Penn men’s soccer, it is always one game at a time. After drawing Yale soccer on Saturday night, the Red and Blue are looking forward to playing their final nonconference match of the year when West Virginia travels to Rhodes Field on Tuesday night.

Hannah Rosenfeld is a College sophomore from Tokyo, Japan.

Yesterday, the DP reported that this year marks the fourth year in a row that the University has failed to publish an annual report on student disciplinary matters at Penn.

In imaginary America, affirmative action is unfair because it treats two equally privileged candidates unequally. It is unnecessary because Martin Luther King, Jr.’s dream has been realized and we all see character, not skin. It is nonsensical because minorities aren’t disproportionately poor, uneducated and incarcerated. We can hope for this America but we cannot pretend it exists or has ever existed.

But the ratio does the most damage to the frats themselves. I’ve been amazed by how Penn frats defy the stereotype. I’ve defended fraternities to my friends at small liberal arts colleges who think they’re the epitome of archetypal, dumb college groups. Actually talk to a frat brother, and you’ll find a different story.

Income inequality is also preventing economic mobility. We love to talk about the “American dream,” that working hard and playing by the rules leads to success, but it’s harder for Americans who are born poor to succeed than it is in just about any other advanced nation.