For most, Halloween Friday is a bacchanalia of wild parties and scandalous outfits; I saw Shakespeare.

It is an understatement to say that the Penn student body has been through a lot this semester. And this past week, with one student’s death and a sexual assault, has been particularly trying.

At a grief counseling session Monday afternoon, associate chaplain Stephen Kocher confirmed that College sophomore Alex Ryles "did take his own life."

Police have identified and interviewed a man who allegedly raped a Penn freshman woman at an off-campus fraternity party early Sunday morning, but no arrests have been made.

Vice President Joe Biden spoke at the Committee of Seventy’s annual breakfast yesterday at the Park Hyatt at the Bellevue.

The University of Pennsylvania was among seven healthcare systems sued yesterday on allegations that the hospital did not properly compensate nurses and other employees who worked during meal breaks.

Penn Medicine celebrated the opening of the new Roberts Proton Therapy Center, beginning what Penn President Amy Gutmann called “a new chapter” in Penn’s history.

College senior Joshua Bennett won the 2010 Marshall Scholarship, which pays for young Americans to study in the United Kingdom. Forty scholars are selected each year.

With On-Campus Recruiting for next summer starting up, the word “internship” is on many students’ minds. But Mark Hughes’ new course “Sustainability 101” puts a very different spin on the word.

At the Undergraduate Assembly’s shortest meeting of the semester — less than an hour — the group passed a resolution to support Native American students.

So, you’ve got a place to live, but now it’s time to furnish your new pad. What’s a budget-conscious student to do?

With planning and a little research, students can close the gap between Penn and downtown Philadelphia, opening a new frontier of living possibilities.

Chances are, at some point during your Penn career, you will need to know a thing or two about subletting.

This year, Penn produced no domestic Rhodes scholars this year. The scholarship is among the world’s most prestigious academic distinctions.

The Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology was transformed into Philadelphia’s own Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to host “Harry Potter and the Magical Muggle Museum.”

Houston Hall’s Bodek Lounge rang with cheering and the tunes of Mario Kart yesterday afternoon in the spirit of the Kite and Key Society’s “Kart for the Kure.”

DeSeve, as special advisor to Obama for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act visited Philadelphia’s Park Hyatt to deliver a keynote address at the day-long Wharton Finance Conference.