A few days ago, I had a deep conversation with a friend — something that I had been missing for a while.

The University City District is working to encourage area businesses to make use of Philadelphia’s Storefront Improvement Project, which subsidizes the renovation of storefront facades.

The Quakers were headed for another middle of the pack finish as they entered the final game of the first half of the Ivy season against Dartmouth. Penn was 2-4, sitting in a last-place tie with Dartmouth, Cornell and Princeton.

This week’s crime log includes vandalism, public drunkenness, public urination, robbery, burglary, and theft.

We talk in-depth with the former Penn and current Temple assistant about his memories of Penn basketball and what it was like to follow Fran Dunphy to Temple.

We break down five stats from the Temple tilt that jump off the page.

We identify who’ll be up and who’ll be down after the Quakers and Hawks are done battling Tuesday night.

Trisha Low, a 2011 College graduate, has just published her first book, “Compleat Purge.”

All of the events headlining Asian Pacific American Heritage Week will now have donation jars on site.

With women’s and men’s soccer, field hockey and football trying to hang onto their postseason hopes and men’s hoops tipping off for the first time all season, our staff followed every high and low point of Homecoming weekend, minute-by-minute.

The Quakers waited to hear their name get called. But they never did, learning that they hadn’t been awarded an NCAA at-large bid and that their season was over.

For sophomore swimmer Chris Swanson, outdoing freshman year will be a much taller order. In addition to setting three school records in the 500, 1000 and 1650 meter freestyle events, Swanson also captured an individual title at the Ivy League Championships in the 1650 freestyle.

The report outlined six key objectives that it recommends the University work toward in the next five years.

On Sunday, members of the Undergraduate Assembly considered whether its body is truly representative of the student body.

Penn (0-1) will look to assuage its rebounding woes as the Quakers travel to New Jersey to take on Monmouth (1-0).

The crime reduction in University City is over twice the percentage of crime reduction in all of Philadelphia, according to UCD’s press release.

Penn Secular Society takes our role as a secular group very seriously, and the majority of our activities are aimed at providing a community for the irreligious.