Girls who went through sorority recruitment this past week experienced a homecoming of sorts last night, as they received their bids and met their new sisters.

Quoting King, Gutmann exhorted the Penn community to be “maladjusted” to injustice and to recognize that strength can be drawn from diversity to improve the world.

The possibility of closure for some Catholic schools in Philadelphia has provoked reactions from Penn’s religious community.

Several student groups, as well as alumni, have been engaging in activism and discussion in anticipation of the national Boycott, Divest and Sanction Conference that will be hosted by PennBDS in early February.

Shlomo Klapper argues that Penn For Palestine’s demonstration on College Green ignored both the context of and some inconvenient facts regarding the 2009 Gaza War.

Mitt Romney’s seemingly inevitable path to the Republican nomination for president became less certain yesterday, as Rick Perry dropped out of the race and endorsed Newt Gingrich.

The Office of the Provost selected the new theme for the 2012-13 academic year — the Year of Proof — which will “examine just what the nature of proof is.”

This week, the Pan-Asian American Community House narrowed down its search for a new director to four candidates. Students have taken an active role in the search to replace former director June Chu, who left in September to take on the post of assistant dean of undergraduate students at Dartmouth College.

Floating above the Earth’s atmosphere — 120,000 feet above ground — the Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope, or BLAST, takes measurements of the stars and our universe. It now resides in the newly-completed High Bay BLAST laboratory located at 31st and Walnut streets.

With less than a year to go and $3.64 billion raised to date, Penn is in the final stretch of “making history.” However, while the Making History fundraising campaign reached its overall goal of $3.5 billion in September — over a year ahead of its scheduled close this December — many of its core goals and priorities have not yet been met.

If these videos exclusively targeted one particular group or gender, I would have questioned their humor. But as it turns out, just about everyone says that are worth making fun of.

Let’s talk about sex. Let’s talk about what it means to us, how it’s important in our lives and how we can begin to re-frame these conversations.

We refuse to believe that these are the only viable solutions to targeting piracy and urge this community to take a stance.

Marveling at the inside of the self-proclaimed ‘Cathedral of College Basketball,’ I was rudely awakened from my daydream when my red-and-black plaid Washington Nationals cap was roughly flipped off my head.

Last week, 14 Penn students attended the White House Asian-American and Pacific Islanders Youth Leadership Briefing, which involved about 200 high-school and college students from across the nation.

Penn’s first Speakeasy of 2012 started off with a full house and wacky raffle prizes like a black porcelain unicorn and “the soundtrack to Friends on a real CD.”

Advocates for Great Elementary Education was founded in the spring of 2011 to protest an enrollment cap at the Penn Alexander School on 42nd and Spruce streets that was put in place due to overcrowding.