Pennsylvania is part of a minority of states that does not have a minimum wage over the federal standard.

Throughout its season, Penn swimming often has fewer home contests than any other sport. With a majority of the program’s meets taking place on the road, it’s on the Quakers to make the most of their As a result, this weekend, the Red and Blue will try to make the most of a rare opportunity as both the men’s and women’s squads prepare for matchups with Delaware at Sheerr Pool on Saturday. In what will be the second and final home meet for both of coach Mike Schnur’s squads, Penn’s matchups with the Blue Hens will be the first of three consecutive nonconference meets before the program swims in the Ivy Championships starting on Feb. 19.

It’s a busy weekend for Penn Athletics, as eleven teams will compete over the next several days with seven teams set to throw down on the Quakers’ home courts, pool and track on Saturday and Sunday.

A trip to Ithaca is never pleasant this time of year due to its lack of cellphone service and subarctic conditions.

The 2015 White Paper includes proposals to the administration.

When a group of Stanford students publicized a method of obtaining one's admissions file, Penn's admissions office saw an explosion of requests for access to their files.

Dr. Suhnne Ahn has left her post as House Dean of Harnwell College House to become the Dean of Residential Life and Student Activities at the Colburn School, a performing arts school in Los Angeles.

Trujillo’s exit comes as a surprise to observers who saw the political outsider as a wild-card candidate.

While SFS uses a number of methods to communicate with students regularly, when situations outside the norm arise, communication can break down.

College senior and community college transfer Emanuel Martinez weighs in on the new proposal. 

For a moment, it looked as if Penn basketball had turned a corner when it gave then-No. 5 Villanova a serious scare at home on Saturday. Apparently not. Playing to a mostly-empty Palestra crowd, the Quakers came out sleepwalking against Monmouth and paid dearly.

One of the greatest injustices is that of the consistent minimizing of the smaller and weaker. Working to reduce abortion and infanticide, and speaking against euthanasia seeks to promote justice for those who cannot speak up for themselves.

As I bounce back and forth between different rush events, I’m frustrated that I can’t summarize myself. I can’t articulate some spiffy conclusion from the various odds-and-ends that make up who I am.

Sean McGeehan is a College junior from Philadelphia. His email address is seanmcgeehan@verizon.net

Looking to go 4-0 in the Big 5 on the season, the Red and Blue instead found themselves at the mercy of a Villanova squad firing on all cylinders, losing 70-44.

Penn Glee Club, Penn Sori, and Penn Shabbatones performed at the White House over winter break.

A Penn study has shown a correlation between a person's tweets and their rates of coronary heart disease.  Because hostile communities can lead people to drink more, have relatively poor diets and spend more times in solitude--all of which lead to heart disease--people with hostile communities on twitter become more susceptible to heart disease.  Though this correlation has been found, researchers highlight that this is not a causal relationship.  Read more about the study here.