I hope that I will love my child the instant I know they are mine — as my parents felt with me. I will love an adopted child with the same deep, irrational and unconditional love my parents have given me. Just like my parents, I will then begin the lifelong process of getting to know who they really are, and loving them not just as my child, but as their own person.

When it comes to student government, Penn does not have a participation problem. Participation with Penn Student Government has undoubtedly improved over the past few years, from higher voter turnout to increased student participation in various appointed committees. Penn does, however, have an ownership problem.

Nick Moncy is a College junior from North Miami, Fla. His email address is nickmon@sas.upenn.edu.

Understandably, the team wants to stress the process and not the results this year. That makes perfect sense with a young roster that was projected to finish seventh in the Ancient Eight in the Ivy preseason poll. But there will need to be results this year alongside the all-important process.

Starting in May of this year, there was a new presence around Penn basketball as Quakers alum Nat Graham joined Jerome Allen’s staff as a new assistant coach. And with Graham came a new buzz word: Tremendous.

With several important upperclassmen from last year parting ways with the program, the Red and Blue will count on the underclassmen to produce, and Howard will be looked upon to lead the way.

Mike Lintulahti isn’t one for the spotlight. For him, basketball has always been about the players first and foremost.  And now,  taking over as one of the assistant coaches for Penn men’s basketball, Lintulahti has the chance to shape the players in this program in ways that he never could before.

Luckily for Penn basketball, all the negativity surrounding the program is external. Inside the Palestra, the atmosphere pervading Jerome Allen’s players is one of positivity, optimism and belief. And it starts with two of the four seniors on the roster.

Having lost several key players – either due to graduation or other reason – from last year, the Red and Blue will look to a talented freshman class to help get the program back on track and moving in the right direction.

Columbus State Community College is small compared to nearby Ohio State University, yet its new president David Harrison is making changes that will have lasting impacts on students and those in the greater community. Harrison has committed to helping the Lumina Foundation — Indianapolis-based foundation — work towards its goal of increasing the proportion of Americans with college degrees, certificates, or other credentials to 60 percent by 2025.  Harrison has engaged the help of the broader Columbus community, and so far many companies have pledged their support.

Sixteen years after the notorious scandal, Stephen Glass, former associate editor of New Republic, apologizes for his previous deeds. Glass was a rising star in the journalism who published "bizarre and amazing" stories that were immediate success.

Rafael Robb, a former economics professor at the University of Pennsylvania who was sentenced to 10 years in prison for beating his wife to death after pleading guilty to manslaughter in 2007, now faces a Montgomery County Court jury that will decide whether to award his remaining assets to his daughter. The attorneys of his late wife, Ellen Gregory Robb, are suing for punitive and compensatory damages under the state’s wrongful death act.

At their Nov. 9 meeting, the Undergraduate Assembly will be selling airport shuttle tickets online this year.

Apple Vice President of Environmental Initiatives Lisa Jackson came to her post from the Environmental Protection Agency, but she's proving that the private sector can save the planet, too.

Polling locations at Penn saw a 23 percent decrease in the number of voters as compared to the last gubernatorial election, according to the most recent data available from the city. 

Every day, hundreds of students and parents flock in and out of Irvine Auditorium to go on a campus tour.

At a Penn Speaks for Autism event Monday night, Director of Disabilities Rights at the Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia Sonja Kerr spoke about the difficulties that people with autism and their families face.