Last semester, Penn College Republicans elected College junior Arielle Klepach as its president. The Daily Pennsylvanian sat down with her to chat about this year’s plans and conservatives on campus.

Due to low funding and attendance, six parishes in West Philadelphia will merge to become three later this month. Catholic organizations at Penn, however, manage to maintain membership by straying from a strictly worship-based community model.

Saigon Cuisine opened on 40th and Chestnut streets to replace the French-Thai restaurant Nan. Nan’s owner, Kamol Phutlek, fell ill and closed the restaurant in October. Joey Sang opened Saigon Cuisine in December as a Vietnamese BYOB, yet he moved in without receiving a permit or a certificate of occupancy.

The Career Plans Survey, released by Career Services, reveals that 75 percent of School of Nursing graduates obtained full-time employment, a major increase from 59 percent full-time employment for graduates of the class of 2011.

Penn President Amy Gutmann’s salary of $1,462,742 in 2010 made her the 12th-highest-paid private university president in the nation.

On the heels of a series of broad changes to Penn’s practices governing alcohol use, the University announced Wednesday afternoon that it will be forming a new commission to study the impact of alcohol on student safety.

This year, like in the 128 years before us, our aim is still to showcase the student voice. But we’ll be doing it in more 21st century ways.

Now as a sophomore in a sorority, I feel that I would be able to rush much more painlessly if I were to go through the process again. Here are some things I learned that I hope you can benefit from.

Two new classrooms that are set to open in Steinberg-Dietrich Hall for student use today, after almost a year of planning and building.

Fourteen games into the season, Jerome Allen still does not know who this team is — and more importantly, who he trusts to play when it counts.

Ali and Hayley here, and after a semester traipsing across the pond, we’re back!

Starting off 2013 with their first home games since December 3rd, the Red and Blue have fallen back to earth somewhat, beating Morgan State (4-10), 79-73, on Tuesday, after falling to St. Joseph’s (9-5) on Saturday, 66-53.

Nearly 100 PennDesign students and faculty members — along with experts from outside the University — began the new semester with an open-ended conversation concerning the role of design education and practice in disaster response and prevention.

Should significant spending cuts happen in two months — whether automatic or through a deal that similarly cuts spending — Penn could see reductions in funding from the federal government.

The man who robbed multiple University City restaurants at gunpoint last spring — including the Chipotle Mexican Grill on the 3900 block of Walnut Street — is headed to prison.

Penn (2-12) allowed Lafayette (7-10) to shoot 61 percent from the field, making whatever offensive flow the Quakers found virtually meaningless.

Over winter break, the leaders of Chi O were informed of underlying electrical issues in their chapter house on 3926 Spruce St. The issue forced them to temporarily relocate to the former chapter house of fraternity Alpha Epsilon Pi, located at 4035 Walnut St.