Friday marks the 13th annual Freedom to Marry Day — a holiday that promotes the right of people to marry whomever they want, regardless of gender or sexual orientation.

We appreciate Penn’s decision to make the calls to cancel classes early, though we would have liked the University to have notified students via e-mail.

Hold onto these snow days, and use them to reconnect with the kid inside you.

Penn was slated for a rematch with West Chester and Ursinus Wednesday, but the blizzard postponed and eventually canceled the meet.

Douglas Sheppard, a native of Rutherford, N.J., received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Delaware and would have graduated from Wharton this year.

The University will not hold classes on Wed., Feb. 10 due to snow, according to Executive Vice President Craig Carnaroli, but “essential personnel” are required to report to campus as scheduled.

The study was conducted with 662 12-year-old students from Philadelphia, who were divided into four different educational approaches.

Two students participating in On-Campus Recruitment made “egregious” changes to their paperwork before sending it to employers, according to Career Services.

The Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission has repercussions on our electoral system.

A list of crimes in University city from Jan. 30 through Feb. 5

Recognizing this principle, the Division of Public Safety introduced GeoCAMS in 2002, an extensive crime-mapping and analysis system updated daily with information about all crimes reported to the Philadelphia Police Department within DPS’s patrol region — both on and near the Penn campus.

This past week, Facebook — which has over 400 million active users worldwide and is worth $6.5 billion, according to Silicon Alley Insider — has introduced a site redesign to 80 million of its users. Redesign for all users is expected to occur over the next few months.

The Quakers garnered 354 votes in the poll, only 46 behind unanimous first-choice, Northwestern

At a sold out Lavietes Pavilion, Princeton pounced on a highly touted Harvard team with a 56-53 win.

When Penn was founded the faculty consisted solely of white, Christian males. Now, out of a standing faculty of 2,549 professors, there are 704 women and 411 minority faculty members

On Saturday, the Pennsylvania Democratic State Committee voted to endorse incumbent Senator Arlen Specter over Congressman Joe Sestak in the 2010 U.S. Senate election.

The bank — which will be located in the Radian between Capogiro and Kaplan Test Prep — is slated to open in early March, according to Bank of America spokeswoman Nicole Nastacie.