Taking on local rival Villanova on Friday, the Red and Blue fell, 5-3, at Rhodes Field. A quick turnaround Sunday at No. 12 Georgetown resulted in a 3-1 loss.

Big Red junior Hannah Balleza recorded her first career hat trick, notching three goals in the game’s first 22 minutes.

Penn men’s tennis had a mixed start to the season over the weekend at the Princeton Invitational.

In Steve Dolan’s competitive debut as head coach, the men finished sixth out of 14 teams, while the women posted a second-place finish for the second consecutive year.

Penn got out to a sluggish start Friday night against George Mason, needing four sets to dispatch their lowly opponent. Saturday, the Quakers lost their final two matches to Radford and Rutgers.

This academic year, SAC has $1,001,067 allocated from the Undergraduate Assembly to distribute to the 201 student groups it recognizes.

This August, along with reminding me to ignore the liberals and to enjoy Penn State, my family members and neighbors advised me to avoid the “bad parts of town.”

During the beginning of each school year, we are all involved in making sure freshmen know what’s what on campus. We want them to know about our club, our major, our leadership opportunities. Yet most of us don’t know half of what occurs at Penn.

It’s 6 p.m. on Friday. The Hall of Flags is packed with over 300 students. The lights of laptops and tablets illuminate the room, but almost no one is on Facebook because everyone is in work mode. VIDEO: PennApps Hackathon PHOTO GALLERY: PennApps Hackathon

Particularly when tied with the Voter ID laws, many Democrats label the new redistricting plan as an attempt at gerrymandering given that the GOP has a majority in both chambers and lead the drafting of the maps proposed in January and April.

“There was a culture at Harvard where it was acceptable to collaborate on take-homes,” said Engineering junior Sharon Roth, co-chair of the University Honor Council, a student group that works closely with the OSC to promote academic integrity. “That’s not allowed here.”

For Critical Writing Program Director Valerie Ross, the access codes to the online programs are an added bonus that come at a better price. However, College junior Aliyyah Camp said that her writing seminar did not use the codes at all.

Senior quarterback Billy Ragone threw three interceptions in the first quarter alone, all of which led to Leopard touchdowns. The Leopards scored all their points on Penn turnovers in a 28-21 victory.

Penn’s three senior running backs have kept alive the long tradition of the Quakers’ offensive rushing attack on the gridiron. They call themselves “The Stable.”

Cal associate head coach Patrick Baker was the head coach at Penn from 1994-98 and is responsible for building the then-fledgling program into what became an Ivy powerhouse for years to come.

In his freshman year, Alex Reddy joined the Penn soccer team poised to be a star. As he soon learned, however, expectations can be tempered quickly at the collegiate level.

If you haven’t checked out Shoemaker Green yet, do so whenever you get the chance. But if you were planning on checking it out at a football pregame tailgate, you may be out of luck.