With parents weekend beginning Friday, it is clear each Penn athlete owes much of his or her success to the guidance and support offered by their parents.

Friday, junior defender Brianna Rano will be a key factor as the Red and Blue play Columbia at Rhodes Field. Both teams come into the game undefeated in the Ivy League.

The Red and Blue are coming off a two-game road swing and hoping home-field advantage will help set them straight after dropping two consecutive games. They are currently 3-1 on their home turf.

The men’s soccer team hopes to turn around a heartbreaking stretch at home. The Quakers (2-8, 0-1 Ivy) have played five games on their home turf so far this season, all of which have been losses.

This arbitrary rule distracts from the substance of elections and leads to petty violations.

With such a deep history and continued commitment to Afro-American history, what could stop me from living in the house?

On Thursday night, the Alice Paul Center & The Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program held a discussion outlining pertinent issues in the upcoming elections.

Though Pennsylvania courts issued an injunction to the voter ID law this Tuesday, the Civic House hosted a panel discussion of the law as part of its “Think About It” initiative Thursday night.

This weekend, Penn will host the second annual Collegiate Alliance for Immigration Reform Summit.

“Bold Ambitions: The Campaign for Penn Law,” officially announced in 2006, has exceeded expectations by $5 million.

Leder and his business partner met Romney when the candidate was at Bain Capital and they were at Lehman Brothers.

At the Kod*lab — a subsidiary of the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception Laboratory — students and researchers apply their skills to create dynamic and dexterous robots.

Federal Communications Commission Chair Julius Genachowski spoke in Huntsman Hall on Thursday about his agency’s work in mobile communications.

Daphne Koller, co-founder and CEO of the free online course provider Coursera, hopes to bring her company into a global context.

From pursuing the candidate in a motorboat to lingering in a Las Vegas casino awaiting his arrival at a fundraiser, Parker and her press team never witness a dull moment.

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