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.

Freshman Luona Wang and Wendy Zhao attended Vestavia Hills High School in Alabama and have fenced together for ten years.

Two Wharton School professors have detailed a set of threats to the future prosperity of the global economy in the 2012 Global Risks Report.

The event was hosted by Latitudes Reading Group, a Penn graduate student organization that hosts several speaker events on race and other sociological issues every semester.

In 2010, the month of December had four cited retail thefts, while 2011 had 15.

The building, which PLCB leased from a landlord, was “no longer a good option to have a store.”

These days, the Penn band, Quaker Girls and cheerleaders form the majority of the student contingent at many home games.

According to his Twitter bio, former Penn basketball player Justin Reilly is a “Wharton Grad. Entrepreneur. Poet. Activist. Writer. Retired D1 Athlete.”

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Both OccupyPenn and Occupy Philadelphia claim that they will maintain their momentum through the winter months.

Dean of Admissions Eric Furda believes there may be more to the numbers than meets the eye.

After taking a one-way flight to London, Lam travelled through Europe, stopping in France, Portugal and Spain before crossing the Mediterranean into Africa.

As part of an effort to remain in compliance with the federal Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008, the University released its own version of the calculator in late October.

Penn students are increasingly considering the option of graduating a semester early, as the typical four-year degree gives way to a variety of alternatives.