Penn Athletics Eco-Reps and Wharton’s Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership held a dinner Tuesday night in order to promote the Greening Penn’s Campus Initiative.

Rowing is one of the few varsity sports on campus that allows walk-ons without hesitation at the beginning of each year, but it has struggled with the departures of many rowers, even experienced ones.

After a tough start to the season, the Penn men’s squash team is more motivated than ever to get a win, especially over the rival Tigers.

The Quakers will need to be perfect on Wednesday night, as they try to knock off the rival Tigers in New Jersey.

After opting to have surgery in his freshman year at Penn, sophomore forward Greg Louis returned to the hardcourt, and one year later than expected, he finally began his college career.

Penn’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, the School of Design and Carnegie Mellon University are working on a collaborative effort to improve the future of transportation through an interdisciplinary research group known as the Consortium for Technologies for Safe and Efficient Transportation.

Graduate students have the option of five graduate fraternities across the Perelman School of Medicine, the School of Dental Medicine and the School of Veterinary Medicine. However, the majority of Penn’s 12 graduate schools do not have specific fraternities.

The rhetoric is heating up in 1993 Fels Institute of Government graduate Brett Mandel’s bid to unseat Alan Butkovitz as Philadelphia City Controller. The two Democrats also battled for the same position in the 2009 Philadelphia municipal election, where Butkovitz prevailed over Mandel in the Democratic primary.

Sunday night, the members of the Undergraduate Assembly ratified a new committee to ensure quality in election debates.

Engineering junior Michelle Ho is the recently-elected Chair of the Student Committee on Undergraduate Education. The DP sat down with her to discuss her role in SCUE and her goals for the next year.

In my personal version of Dante’s inferno, I imagine that this is the circle of hell that comes right after the dentist’s chair during a filling and just before the rat-infested alley behind Copa.

If I had been more diligent about checking the reviews on a hostel I stayed at briefly in Barcelona, I wouldn’t have my checking-out-at-4 a.m.-because-of-bed-bugs story.

Professor Emeritus John Mikuta, who taught gynecologic oncology in the Perelman School of Medicine, died last Friday of natural causes. He was 88.

Doug Lynch, a former Graduate School of Education vice dean who resigned in April 2012 after falsifying a doctoral degree, is continuing to misrepresent his credentials.

The six plaintiffs suing the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, Inc. over housing conditions have reached a settlement with the University.

As junior forward Fran Dougherty returns to play in Penn’s Ivy home opener Friday night against Columbia, the question becomes what does Doc’s return really mean for the Quakers.