This year the tables are turned on Yale and Brown, as the struggling teams will meet Penn’s new arsenal of freshman talent on Friday and Saturday, respectively, at Penn Park in the Quakers’ Ivy League opener.

It’s time to put it all together for the Penn baseball team (8-9), which seems to be catching fire at the right time heading into this weekend’s Ivy openers against Brown and Yale.

Saturday on the Schuylkill, the Penn lightweight rowing team will face former head man Mike Irwin and St. Joe’s. The Quakers would love nothing more than to pull out a few first-place finishes.

No. 8 Penn hosts No. 3 Maryland Friday, but will have to do so without leading goal scorer Maddie Poplawski, who is out with a concussion.

Hope lurks around the corner Saturday when Penn (1-5, 0-2 Ivy) takes on Yale (2-4, 0-2) in New Haven, Conn.

Philadelphia resident Khalid Moffitt, 37, rose from being a prisoner and gunshot victim to an author, poet and activist. The Philadelphia NAACP branch board member spoke at Thursday night’s candlelight vigil for Trayvon Martin in Center City.

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Greek members, alumni and administrators from the Interfraternity Council, Panhellenic Council and Multicultural Greek Council packed the venue.

David Cohen received JNF’s Tree of Life Award at a gala last night at 600 N. Broad Street. Philly BDS organized a protest of about 30 people outside of the JNF’s event.

In our digitized, connected world, we’re quick to judge those who lunch like Liz — by themselves.

I heard with some consternation that the selection of Geoffrey Canada as commencement speaker was met with some surprise and not a small amount of disappointment on campus. “Who’s that?” seemed to be a common refrain. The man Michelle Obama calls her “personal hero,” the man Mayor Bloomberg hails as “the greatest living New Yorker”?

In order to realize this energy-filled moment, the D2S club has been preparing since last semester.

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Beginning May 9, Penn will start construction on a $6-million renovation project in Commons, which will be completed by the start of the next academic year.

About 20 students and community members, including members from the Student Labor Action Project, came out in support. SLAP also began circulating a petition to support the officers in their efforts to unionize.

Experts say Kim — a physician and co-founder of the nonprofit Partners in Health — would bring a major change to the banking institution, which has historically been led by economists and government officials.

When dealing with panhandlers, DPS’s first approach is to speak to them personally, obtain biographical information and understand the problems the panhandlers are facing. They then ask them to “cease and desist.”