The Quakers held up their end of the bargain on Saturday. But now they need some help. Penn men's lacrosse pulled out a 15-12 victory over Dartmouth at Franklin Field in its last game of the regular season. The Quakers (6-6, 3-3 Ivy) celebrated Senior Day before taking on the Big Green (4-7, 1-4), but it was a junior who would provide the heroics in this match up, as attack Nick Doktor had the most explosive scoring game of his career, scoring five goals and notching three assists. "He's been very, very good all year for us," coach Mike Murphy said.

Penn softball took a resounding series win from Princeton this weekend, and have set itself up nicely for the season’s end. Facing their bitter rivals at home in doubleheaders on Saturday and Sunday, the Quakers bested the Tigers in the weekend’s first three games before dropping the fourth and final game in a close loss.

Although most of Penn's campus spent the weekend partying it up at Spring Fling, the women's tennis team was all business, as they closed out their season with two wins against nationally ranked Ivy League opponents. On Saturday, the Quakers (10-8, 3-4 Ivy), took on No.

Students say wristbands had the potential to leave people out, because of their price and limited quantity.

In the coming week, MERT is working to show that their organization is even more than late night rescuers, through their inaugural First Aid Week, which stretches from Sunday to Friday.

Africa is a diverse continent, with a great number of political, economic and cultural strides being taken, in line with the “Africa rising” narrative.

Travel doesn’t necessarily broaden the mind. It’s possible to live in another country for a few months without learning much of anything. A group of American friends and a Eurotrip mentality is all it takes to extend the “Penn bubble” to a different continent.

ANNEKA DECARO is a College freshman from Austin. Her email address is annekaxiv@gmail.com. 

The Asian Pacific Student Coalition — the umbrella organization for Asian and Pacific Islander groups — is teaching freshmen to leap into action through its program, Leadership in Events and Programming.

On May 20, Philadelphia voters will head to the polls to select their primary candidates for Mayor and City Council.

Amy Gutmann chairs the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, which released a report on Ebola.

The Penn Haven Co-op, located on Woodland Avenue, is a vegan cooperative living community that values local engagement and conscious living.

See what crimes happened in the Penn Patrol Zone from April 2 to April 9.

A Jewish student at Stanford University seeking a seat on the student senate has claimed that she was asked how her religion affects her view of divestment from Israel, causing a debate about what constitutes anti-Semitism to spill into the university’s student government election. Molly Horwitz, a junior who was adopted from Paraguay, sought an endorsement from the Students of Color Coalition, a group that has helped many students win student senate seats in the past.

Both Harvard and Princeton have recently come under fire for their treatment of monkeys in research facilities. Harvard’s New England Primate Medical Research Center, run by the university’s medical school, has experienced additional criticism following accusations that a dozen monkeys were found dead in their cages between 1999 and 2011.

Last week, Dartmouth athletic direction Harry Sheehy announced that the school’s women’s rugby club would be elevated to varsity status.

The Council of Graduate Schools has reported that from 1996 to 2005, the typical seven-year Ph.D completion rates in STEM fields for minority candidates has risen by five percent.  Though it is not clear exactly what is causing this to happening, the report, "The Doctoral Initiative on Minority Attrition and Completion," makes recommendations on ways to improve rates, including "providing interventions throughout the doctoral process, not just at the beginning, and building a culture of diversity and inclusion on campuses and within programs." Schools have been implementing programs like the ones recommended in the study.