I’ve been repeatedly welcomed to the “neighborhood” by people from other schools and departments, even taken to lunch.

This failure seems to hint at a pervasive resistance to change that plagues our society. This problem proves most dangerous when our stubbornness to adapt allows obvious, and sometimes even easily solved, inefficiencies to persist.

I’ve realized so much of life is plain trial and error. As all of our moms used to tell us when we refused to try new food: if you never try it, how will you know that you don’t like it? The same applies to life.

The report indicates that over nine million students have bank-affiliated student debit cards. While such an arrangement is not necessarily unfair, conflicts of interest easily arise when schools have obligations to certain banks.

Voiro was selected by the Oakland Athletics with the 469th pick overall. He became the highest-selected Quaker since Ben Krantz was picked in the 15th round by the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2003.

After six years of service as an assistant coach for Penn, the 2004 Brown graduate is returning to Providence, R.I., to take over as the head coach of Brown basketball.

The Quakers went into last week’s NCAA Track & Field Championship meet in Jacksonville, Fla., with a majority of the athletes needing career performances to advance.

The Ancient Eight definitely missed a trick by failing to provide a national stage for its post-Penn/Princeton era.

Erin Beck doesn’t know how long she’ll play soccer after she graduates next May, but this summer, she’ll be playing alongside the country’s top players in the newly formed Women’s Premier Soccer League Elite.

If Zack Rosen accomplishes his dream next month and gets drafted by an NBA team, he will have managed a truly rare feat in professional basketball.

That weekend, I tried to pair my observations of the mass actions with personal conversations — on both sides. I spoke to police and protesters, removing the blue helmets and black masks, asking whether the police are part of the 99 percent or part of a police state in which violence is the closest one can get to “dialogue.”

All summer I observed him work on his jump shot as I practiced my Yao Ming impression on my lowered hoop. Finally, on the first day of school, I introduced myself to him. Dharun Ravi and I have been friends ever since.

As senior associate vice provost for student affairs at Penn, Nair founded the Student Affairs Leadership Team, a collaboration between students and faculty to improve campus life.

This month, the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) implemented a new braking technology to prevent electricity from going to waste, using a new battery storage system to store excess energy from the train.

The IR section will consist of four question types: graphics interpretation, two-part analysis, table analysis and multisource reasoning.

Although brownouts have been in use for decades, several recent fire incidents have called into question the safety of the practice, which affects fire engines and ladders city-wide.

Taking the place of MidAtlantic Restaurant & Tap Room, which closed Feb. 24, Han Dynasty boasts new amenities and options at the new 37th and Market location.