Penn (12-7) took on Lafayette (3-17) in two doubleheaders on Saturday and Sunday, winning the first three games before dropping the last one on Sunday afternoon.

In the first track and field meet of the outdoor season, the Quakers came out strong, including freshman Sam Mattis, who on his first ever collegiate attempt broke Penn’s 19-year-old discus throw record.

One year after senior Micah Burak finished seventh at 197 pounds to become Penn’s 26th All-American, the Quakers came back empty-handed from Des Moines, Iowa.

Sophomore Alexis Borden continued her pitching dominance by throwing a no-hitter until the seventh inning, giving the Quakers a 5-1 victory over Holy Cross in the first game of the doubleheader Saturday afternoon.

In their last pre-Ivy game, the Quakers (8-5) finally managed to win on the road, garnering a 5-2 victory over St. John’s in New York.

After winning the doubles’ point, the Quakers took down the Owls in a clean sweep at home this weekend.

The men took home the McCausland Cup at George Washington’s expense after losing the Burk Cup to Northeastern in the morning. Meanwhile, the women’s team swept both George Washington and St. Joseph’s.

With their second highest score of the season (193.725), the Quakers eked by Cornell (193.250) to clinch their second ECAC title in a row.

A late Alyssa Baron three-pointer advanced the Quakers to the semifinals of the Women’s Basketball Invitational, where they will face the winner of Detroit and The College of Charleston.

A group known as Americans for Free Speech marched to protest the removal of Gujarat chief state minister Narendra Modi from the Wharton India Economic Forum Saturday afternoon.

Friday night, the Nominations and Elections Committee presented the results of the spring 2013 student government elections. College and Wharton junior Abe Sutton won the presidency uncontested, while College sophomore Gabe Delaney won a close election for vice president against Wharton sophomore Christian Cortes.

A pipe in the first floor ceiling of Skirkanich Hall leaked this afternoon at around 12:20 p.m, causing water to spill over the first floor.

We are a place of tolerance, appreciation of diversity and respect. Except this Friday, when there is a party planned with the tagline, “Join the brothers of St. Elmo for a night of papal blasphemy. Let’s get sacrilegious in honor of Pope Francis, a true minister to the poor, the sick, and the blackout.”

Obama should have used his visit to Israel to put forth a comprehensive proposal for peace and the establishment of a Palestinian state.

Every weekend, college campuses across the country are transformed into hotbeds of crime by misguided laws with track records of abysmal failure.

The Body Electric, a new student group, dedicated exclusively to poetry, officially inaugurated their first general meeting Thursday night at the Kelly Writers House.

After a first attempt, a spinoff venture and a brief debacle with Facebook, the social networking site Greekdex is once again live across Penn’s campus.