Over the past few days, I’ve tried to explain Fling to my friends back home. “It’s a carnival,” I tried to tell them. “It’s a few days to just relax.” In our work-hard, play-hard environment, Fling means the chance to take a break from Penn, but also to epitomize our dear University.

A brawl broke out this afternoon at a SEPTA stop on the Market-Frankford Line.

Fraternities are having an identity crisis, according to Scott Ellman of Quartz.   Hazing practices and their "exclusionary nature" are the source of fraternities' problems.

Two Penn students have taken their coursework beyond the classroom and put a new spin on the Critical Writing Seminar in the process.

A student at the University of California, Santa Barbara is speaking out against a meeting held by the student senate to vote on a resolution written by UCSB students that called for the school to divest from companies that assist the Israeli Defense Forces that turned into hours of UCSB students making derogatory comments about Jews.  "I am disturbed that half of my student representatives felt it right to pass a resolution that countless Jewish students vocalized as being offensive, threatening and blatantly anti-Semitic," Margaux Gundzik wrote in a letter to the editor.

Cornell's 2015 Convocation Committee has selected Gabrielle Giffords and Mark Kelly to speak at the school's 150th Convocation ceremony.  Giffords, a Cornell alumna, served as an Arizona district representative from 2007 to 2012, during which time she was nearly killed during an assassination in 2011.

This Spring Fling, the Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement officers checked issued only two citations for underage drinking — down from 35 during last year’s Fling.

As the University expands its global reach in the 21st century, the school is focused not only on making an impact around the world, but also ensuring that the name Penn has the same meaning for individuals in Ghana, in China and elsewhere as it does for those in Philadelphia.

At Penn, student groups engage in issue-related advocacy but rarely turn out to vote.

The 2014 Penn Relays had everything you could ask for: dramatic finishes, record setting performances and a number of impressive victories by the hosts.

Towards the end of spring break, the basketball teams -- and respective fan bases -- from Harvard and Yale gathered at the Palestra for the Ivy League's one game playoff.

Last year, then-sophomore distance runner Thomas Awad came out of the Penn Relays the victor in the Olympic Development open mile with only the second sub-4:00 mile in Penn history.

Jake Brenza is no stranger to the Penn Relays, but he’ll be seeing the meet from a different perspective this year. Brenza, who graduated from Penn last spring after throwing for Penn for four seasons, has remained at his alma mater this year as a volunteer assistant coach. “It’s something I love to do,” Brenza said of his desire to remain a part of the team.

Penn freshman track and field star Mike Monroe loves to jump. And Mike Monroe can jump pretty damn high. This weekend, the young phenom will make his Penn Relays debut in the 121st running of the annual event.

Track is a unique sport in that months of training all boil down to one race on one day that is over in a matter of minutes. The story is no different for Penn’s women’s 4x800-meter relay, as just nine minutesseparate four runners from glory. For the first time in nearly a decade, Penn will be represented in the championship heat for the 4x800m relay with a squad of junior Taylor Hennig, freshman Candace Taylor, and sophomores Ashley Montgomery and Carey Celata.

While most people are planning to return home or work internships this summer, Huntsman freshman Menelaos Mazarakis will be returning to a remote area in Peru for the fifth summer in a row.