Dr. Cornel West sees the "beautiful" in the incarcerated.“You go to these prisons and you see all of these beautiful chocolate people – and some of them deserved to be punished, some of them are rapists and murderers – but others are serving 20 years for soft drugs,” he said.

After a particularly exciting election season, College junior Joyce Kim was elected as the new Undergraduate Assembly President, the first female UA President since the position's inception in 2010.

After a weekend full of rainouts, Ivy season couldn’t have come soon for Penn baseball.The Quakers were originally supposed to play a doubleheader against Yale on Saturday afternoon but the weather washed out both games, leading to a Monday matinee between the Red and Blue and the Elis.

The sun was beaming for Penn softball Tuesday, both literally and figuratively.

Last Sunday, the general manager of Fado Irish Bar, Casey Neff, sent an email to the DP, along with Penn Lacrosse Team and Athletic Director, claiming that the Penn Lacrosse Team had broke his facilities and performed “deplorable” behaviors at the bar.

Eugene Kohn, the architect for Huntsman Hall, visited Penn last Thursday to give a speech on his career in architecture.

Since coming to Philadelphia 28 years ago, Helen Gym has become one of the most prominent city activists.

The UA is not an airport shuttle club, as I have heard some people say. For most, if not all, of the representatives, it is an innate call to do something productive with their lives while fostering a better University.

Expressing femininity in a way that I have been actively and passively told that I am not supposed to has been such a powerful and important experience. It’s helped me to understand my gender and myself in ways that I have previously not been able to.

This year brings a significant increase to the Multicultural Greek Council's involvement in the week.

Though rain pounded Penn’s campus over the weekend, the men’s and women’s rowing teams found different ways to deal with the precipitation.

Searching for its first conference victory against Yale, the Red and Blue picked up a season-saving victory over the Elis, 6-5.

Hoping to defy expectations and win its first match of Ivy play this season, the outgunned Penn women’s tennis team instead lost in predictable fashion to a rival squad.

It’s the beginning of a new era for the Penn men’s swimming team — and Chris Swanson is leading the way.

Graduate students from Wharton, PennDesign and other graduate schools — 75 students in total — volunteered for Rebuilding Together Philadelphia by providing essential repairs to homes on the 37th and 38th streets on Fairmount Avenue and the surrounding neighborhood.

Chilcote won the VP seat while Bittar was also disqualified.

Newly uncovered documents show the University offered to purchase Drexel University in November, but the offer was dropped when the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice threatened to block the proposed merger.