This is the third straight year that Penn’s applicant pool has remained above 31,000, after a 39 percent increase from 2009 to 2011.

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Last night, Penn for Palestine, a student organization that raises awareness about Palestinian issues, screened the award-winning documentary, “Roadmap to Apartheid,” as part of the University’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Symposium on Social Change and was jointly hosted by the Center for Africana Studies.

Penn gymnastics will face off against Rutgers, Bridgeport and Ursinus in New Brunswick, N.J., on Saturday at 1 p.m.

This weekend, the women’s swimming team heads to Providence, R.I., for its last conference meet against Harvard and Brown.

With Penn heading to Lehigh Saturday for the second time in six weeks, they hope to build on what has been a solid season thus far.

The men’s swimming team will take the trek northward to Providence, R.I., to square off against Brown.

Having faced three top-10 schools within the span of a week, the Quakers take to the courts Saturday against No. 2 Trinity.

I read with interest about the installation of water bottle filling stations at Wharton.

Maybe if we were forced to confront that punishment, we actually could live in the most civilized country in the world.

Although Gutmann is comfortably in the one percent, she deserves a break.

Here’s The Daily Pennsylvanian’s guide to the schedule, useful websites, what-not-to-dos and Twitter handles to follow for updates.

Between Jan. 18 and 20, students from almost 40 universities around the country and Canada and Zurich will be gathering in the Towne Building for PennApps, a student-run 48-hour hackathon held every semester.

The 1987 College graduate, former Utah governor and 2012 presidential candidate was the inaugural speaker in the Center for the Study of Contemporary China’s new series of annual high-profile lectures.

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Every spring semester, Management 100 — required of all Wharton students to graduate — is open to Wharton and non-Wharton students alike.

Rafael Robb, the former Penn professor who was sentenced to prison in 2008 for killing his wife, Ellen, is set to be released later this month.