The schedule says the Penn women’s soccer team is only six games into its season, but the Quakers are preparing to begin what amounts to a high-stakes, seven-game playoff.

Elizabeth Hitti’s goal with just over five minutes remaining gave Penn a 4-3 win over La Salle and the oh-so-desperate boost it needed heading into its Ivy home opener against Harvard on Saturday.

For the last three years, the number ‘12’ has carried weight with the Penn soccer team. Thomas Brandt wore the number during both years of his captaincy, and after Brandt’s graduation, junior Jonny Dolezal took over the number as well as the captaincy.

Wednesday night at Delaware, the Quakers (5-5) defeated the Blue Hens (3-10), 3-2 (22-25, 23-25, 25-21, 26-24, 15-13), winning the final three sets to secure a .500 record entering conference play.

Rave Cinemas, located on the corner of 40th and Walnut streets, swarmed with Penn students gathered to catch the free advanced screening of the musical comedy “Pitch Perfect” last night.

A college education is not just about academics, it also has a lot to do with learning from your community. It should invite you to think about your role in the neighborhood, the city and the world. All you have to do is take a walk.

Pitchfork isn’t offensive. It’s hilarious.

During On-Campus Recruiting, many become more conscious of the undergraduate school listed at the top of the resume.

Registration will be open this weekend for preceptorials, non-credit, non-graded classes that normally meet once or twice a semester. VIDEO: Word on the Walk – Preceptorials

A dozen classes across Penn’s campus are piloting a new system, called the Course Absence Report, to facilitate communication between instructors and students regarding long-term absences.

Professor Mary France Berry gave a one minute lecture on “What Would the Founders Think: Political Polarization and the 2012 Election” as a part of the 60-Second lecture series.

Nancy Cox, a 1971 Nursing graduate who co-founded the University City Arts League and the University City Swim Club in the 1960s with her husband, died on Aug. 28 after suffering a stroke. She was 81.

The parents of a John Carroll University student who died last year after suffering fatal injuries at a Phi Kappa Sigma New Year’s party have filed a wrongful death lawsuit that some believe may result in a multimillion-dollar payout.

SPEC Concerts Co-Director and Wharton senior Ronnie DiSimone said that although SPEC Concerts typically puts on an indie-rock show, it wanted to take an alternative route with this year’s artist.

Coursera, an online open-learning platform, announced Wednesday that 17 new universities have joined to offer “massively open online courses,” known as MOOCs. These new schools will double the number of Coursera’s partnerships from 16 to 33.

Nutter unveiled The Woodland Avenue Pedestrian Plaza as part of a joint initiative between University City District and the city’s Office of Transportation and Utilities to transform parts of city streets into small pedestrian seating areas and parks.

If we corral the polluted air in one place, if we quarantine the smoke, there’s a big chance that it’ll be easier to breathe everywhere else.