Since its formation in 1954, the Ivy League has been perhaps the most stable conference in Division I. It has enjoyed a remarkable level of parity and is still the only D-I league whose membership has never changed. But the distribution of financial aid money - and its effect on athletics - is threatening to upset that balance.

Today is the day to think about love. But this Valentine's Day, some social scholars are taking a new perspective: they want to know what love means and where traditional notions of it have gone, especially on college campuses. What is love at Penn? Hard to define, if anything.

A central component of University President Amy Gutmann's Penn Compact is engaging globally. Now, a former U.S. President wants to help colleges to do just that. Next month in New Orleans, Bill Clinton will launch the Clinton Global Initiative University, or CGI U, a project aimed at bringing students, faculty and global leaders together "to discuss [global] problems and take action," he announced in a conference call yesterday.

Penn plans to work with interest groups in order to modify the Higher Education Act so the legislation corresponds with the University's interests, according to Bill Andresen, head of Penn's office in Washington. The Higher Education Act was renewed by the U.

Wharton senior Lisa Jiang wanted to take her business education outside of Huntsman Hall and into Philadelphia. Jiang and four other classmates founded the Social Impact Consulting Group, an organization that offers free consulting services to local non-profit organizations, which include conducting cost analyses and coming up with marketing strategies.

Area residents are still up in arms about a proposed hotel at 40th and Pine streets - and they don't seem to be backing down. At a zoning committee meeting of the Spruce Hill Community Association, developers presented their proposal for an 11-story extended-stay hotel that would be located at 40th and Pine streets.

Former Neurosurgery professor Tracy McIntosh was sentenced to 3 1/2 to seven years in prison yesterday for the 2002 sexual assault of his college roommate’s niece.

Ask students on campus about the quality of Penn's printing services and you'll probably get a variety of answers. Engineering students get five free pages per day, and Wharton recently lowered its printing prices by 20 percent. College students, on the other hand, are on their own.

'How willing are you to marry an average-looking person that you liked, if they had money?" This simple question rekindled a debate on Internet message boards over a topic older than John McCain, Ben Franklin and even Valentine's Day itself - are relationships based on the quest for love or money? Last December, The Wall Street Journal ran a column discussing the results of a nationwide survey in which they posed this exact same question to 1,134 Americans.

Yesterday, members of the Penn community got the opportunity to listen, laugh and learn from one of its own, Penn alum and accomplished journalist Brian Tierney. Tierney, publisher and CEO of The Philadelphia Inquirer and CEO of the Philadelphia Daily News, addressed a group of 36 students, faculty and alumni at the St.

When Mathematics professor Erik van Erp began teaching in America, he was struck by a focus on grades that didn't exist in his native Holland. Astronomy professor Ravi Sheth was thrown off by students using teachers' first names - a norm not found in India, where he grew up.

The cursory numbers are enough to tell you about the Penn-Princeton basketball rivalry over the past few decades. The two P's have had a hand in 46 of the past 49 Ivy titles. In the past 19 seasons, no other Ivy team has been to the NCAA tournament. Three years and three Penn Ivy titles later, the rivalry had lost something.

The prospect of an 11-story hotel in a residential neighborhood near campus has become a contentious subject among residents. Tonight, the Zoning Committee of the Spruce Hill Community Association is holding a meeting to discuss the proposed extended-stay hotel, which would be located at 40th and Pine streets.

The stats didn't support the outcome tonight. Penn shot 38.6 percent from the field and Princeton shot 50 percent. Penn converted 17 baskets and Princeton had 24. Penn scored 20 points in the paint and Princeton had 42. Yet the Quakers still won. Princeton had a distinct advantage in almost every offensive number but one - free-throw shooting.

Reaching the end of an economics scenario, professor Rebecca Stein said, "Let's go ahead and draw our production possibilities frontier." She drew the graph, helping me understand a concept that had been a bit confusing when I had first tried to understand it from my textbook.

Sometimes even trash can become a work of art - or be the cause for one. Students from the Residential Advisory Board and the Penn Environmental Group painted murals in the trash room in Ware College House and outside the Starbucks under 1920 Commons, respectively.

Whether students were attempting to relive the past glory of the rivalry or hanging on to the slight hope that the Quakers could turn the season around, the Red and Blue Crew was out in full force for last night's game. "Everybody always comes out for Penn-Princeton," said senior Abraham Dauhajre, who shows up to every home game in a taco costume.