We don’t spend $50,000 a year over four years just to read textbooks and have our beliefs reinforced. We want to hear brilliant opinions and arguments from our professors.

If my team loses more than they win in my presence, I convince myself that I must be cursed. So after witnessing Penn men’s basketball’s two most lopsided losses of the season, I began to worry that I might be bad luck.

Why the heck is this Ivy Leaguer Zack Rosen a finalist for the Bob Cousy Award? National writers can barely spell his name right, and you’d better believe they don’t botch Jardine.

The government shut down the popular file-sharing website Megaupload and its affiliated video-streaming website Megavideo.

Despite Penn’s long and distinguished sports history, few of its teams have claimed an NCAA championship trophy of its own.

The ongoing movement against mountaintop removal took a big leap yesterday by securing a private meeting with top PNC Bank executives.

More than 500 students filled the Palestra Monday night to receive bids from fraternities.

In the past, the school allowed all students living within its catchment zone to enroll. This policy changed in the spring of 2011 when the school announced that it was at maximum capacity. GALLERY: Local residents camp out at Penn Alexander

With the new test, people under the age of 60 who own more than $2,000 in certain kinds of assets and people over 60 who own more than $3,250 will no longer be eligible to receive food stamps.

During its first general body meeting of the spring semester, the Undergraduate Assembly discussed improving its winter airport shuttle service, as well as the possible creation of an online service to help students find off-campus housing.

Last week, the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia denied three-year-old Amelia Rivera a kidney transplant. Without a transplant or a suitable substitute — such as dialysis — her life could be in jeopardy.

Washington state is having a serious crisis in higher education, according to two Penn researchers.

One of Penn’s oldest departments is bringing its younger members to the forefront.

With increased calls to examine the level of economic diversity on campus, Penn’s efforts to recruit students from across the income spectrum have been brought into question.

Today, the School of Arts and Sciences Student Technology Advisory Board — in collaboration with PennApps Labs — kicks off a three-day contest that allows students to submit ideas of their ideal mobile applications.

With the recent closing of Fine Wine & Good Spirits on 41st and Market streets, our campus has reverted to its Prohibition-era existence.

In the U.S., race is a trick question. I don’t know what the solution is, but I do know that our current system isn’t working. If Hispanics hope to gain the political influence to correspond with their growing population, we need to be counted as something distinct.