In this election cycle, Penn employees are cumulatively the third-highest political donors among Ivy League schools.

Last night, GO! Athletes featured headline speaker Joanna Lohman at their re-launch event in Bodek Lounge. Lohman is an openly gay professional women’s soccer player for D.C. United. The purpose of the event was to raise awareness of homophobia and discrimination in sports.

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Although the Red and Blue have won seven of the last 10 against the Lions, they lost last year on the road by a score of 5-1.

Formed in 2010, the board is a collaboration among student leaders, Wharton’s undergraduate and graduate divisions and Wharton Operations.

When Penn faces Dartmouth on Saturday in Hanover, N.H., the Quakers will look to start fast from the opening whistle against a Big Green squad that is on the rise in the Ivy League.

The lecture, titled “Learning for All: The World Bank Strategy 2020 for Education,” was the second in the Graduate School of Education’s International Educational Development Program Lecture Series.

Penn Electric Racing, which began in 1989, is a student organization that designs, builds and races alternative energy vehicles.

Living on One’s two co-founders and two cameramen lived for 56 days in a rural Guatemalan village on just one dollar a day. Battling E. coli and giardia, an intestinal disease, they documented their challenges, successes and overall experience for the rest of the world to see.

We all feel pain, fall violently ill, lose loved ones and experience betrayal. Suffering is — and always has been — the universal human condition.

Penn provides an incredible education and should be charging more.

Freshmen Brendan Smith, Brandon Clark and Thomas Awad are leading a freshman charge for the Quakers. All three placed in the top 10 at the Paul Short Invitational last month and are making the future of Penn cross country look a little brighter.

Indeed, Penn’s defensive group is young, and throughout the first 11 games of the season, coach Rudy Fuller has had to tinker with which combination of four guys works best in the back.

Through nine games this year, she has two goals and two assists. What’s more impressive, however, is that she has mostly been employed as a change-of-pace, substitute player.

Let’s just say this up front: The first four games of the Penn football schedule were rough.But here’s the good news: Columbia and Yale are up next.

After losing several key seniors following last season, defensive coordinator Ray Priore knew that some of his underclassmen would need to step in to fill their shoes. And just when duty called, Dan Wilk and Dan Davis emerged as stars of the Quakers’ young defense.

This year, the Lauren and Bobby Turner Social Impact Executive Speaker Series hosted Eva Longoria as its fourth ever social impact speaker. With over 2,500 RSVP’s for the event, students and press packed the auditorium.