Although fraternities refrain from using the phrase "dirty rush," they invite freshmen to social events throughout the fall semester. Some say entire pledge classes are chosen before official rush begins.

The Perelman School of Medicine, which first opened its doors in 1765, kicked off its 250th Anniversary yesterday on College Green with 500 cupcakes. Penn President Amy Gutmann, Dean of the Perelman School of Medicine J. Larry Jameson and CEO of the University of Pennsylvania Health System Ralph Muller spoke at the event.

The War on Drugs is a pandemic, and we do not pretend that these policies are a panacea. Still, the City Council’s and Sen. Leach’s prescriptive measures are steps in the right direction, and we can’t afford to miss the forest for the trees.

I don’t want to accept that Penn’s losing its sparkle. I want to re-believe in the glossy admissions brochure images I taped to my wall back home, and to not feel gypped when every day isn’t an adventure.

Texts and emails that replace mundane small talk and logistical planning aren’t depriving us of deep conversation. Who among us hasn’t complained about the shallowness of brief introductions and perfunctory pleasantries?

After rising from eighth to seventh last year, Penn has fallen back down to eighth in U.S. News and World Report’s rankings of the nation’s best colleges.

Though the Quakers were starting a few new players, the real fireworks started flying when the reserves started coming in in the early second half.

With a strong alumni game, a government shutdown and the mercy rule, Penn sprint football had an interesting 2013 to say the least.

In almost any sport, if you spend the fewest minutes on the field of anyone on the team, it makes you a scrub or a benchwarmer. In cross country, though, this same condition makes you something different entirely: a star.

Teach for America has been under scrutiny from insiders and outsiders for a number of years.

Are you concerned about the growing student debt crisis? So is HBO's Last Week Tonight host John Oliver.

Dilworth Park, an area to the west of City Hall, reopened last Thursday after a $55 million renovation that began in 2012.

Then-Wharton and College junior Vladimir Bernstein protested the 1991 Soviet coup that would have brought a return to hardline communism.

Sometimes you just need to be in the right place at the right time, and with less than a minute remaining, that's exactly where Duke Lacroix was.

Sponsor hopes to bring the bill to a vote in the state Senate on Sept. 16.

The school district announced an $81 million budget deficit this summer

When Penn women's soccer faced Old Dominion over the weekend, they had one goal in mind: avoid deja vu.