Dave Micahnik had an effect on Penn fencing: 722 career wins, 22 Ivy titles. Both his 1981 men’s team and his 1986 women’s team won the national championship.

Should we blame Koren for feeling uncomfortable that from day one in office, she became identified as the female that won the competitive election?

Despite learning very dutifully how to wrap a condom onto a banana, I have yet to find a practical use for applying contraceptives to my fruit.

According to a recently publicized Medicare report, many teaching hospitals ­­— including the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania — were found to have higher complication rates than the U.S. national rate.

In our text-heavy world, fonts are everywhere — from the page you are reading to the sign on the building you are reading it in to the cellphone that you will likely fish out of your pocket at least once during these 668 words.

MTP volunteers help out at the shelter after collecting students’ spare meal swipes at Penn dining halls. The group served this month’s meals yesterday evening.

The chain, headquartered in Illinois, is currently linked to a five-state outbreak of E. coli.

On Sunday, the Undergraduate Assembly passed a resolution urging the University to reevaluate its relationship with longtime partner PNC Bank.

Diving plays a pivotal role in the fate of scored meets, and the much-improved diving program over the past four years demonstrates its impact.

Here’s a message for Tyler Bernardini: When you step off that bus in Hanover, N.H., Friday afternoon, do so without the intent to play against Dartmouth.

Squash runs in the Mattsson family. Thomas and Oscar’s mother, Deborah Lippincott, played squash for the Quakers in the mid-1970s. Their brother, Nils, played at Navy.

Last month, Graduate School of Education professors Laura Perna and Marybeth Gasman discussed some of their recent research findings at the U.S. Department of Education’s conference, Evidence-Action-Innovation: A College Completion Symposium.

The Graduate Management Admission Council — which owns the GMAT — announced recently that the exam required by graduate business school programs across the nation will be experiencing a makeover.

Joining a Greek chapter on campus includes paying dues that some believe are unreasonably high.

Drexel’s $97.6 million project will create a building complex on 32nd and 33rd streets that consists of student housing and retail businesses. It will be completed by September 2013.

The project — which will kick off in May — will include the addition of 32 new faculty offices, two completely re-done classrooms with updated technology, a lawn area, a new West entrance with an open pavilion and a new glass tower.

Annenberg Public Policy Center Kathleen Hall Jamieson — along with FlackCheck.org, run by the APPC as a sister site of Annenberg’s popular FactCheck.org — is on a crusade to prevent deceptive political ads from being aired.