When 2010 alum George Karandinos moved above a Kensington diner a few blocks from the city’s most dangerous drug trade, he was almost certain he’d be robbed.

The Student Activities Council voted Thursday to temporarily prevent new student groups from receiving recognition and funding because of SAC’s financial situation.

In his first competition for the Red and Blue, highly-touted freshman high jumper Maalik Reynolds has already put his stamp on the Penn program.

Sophomore Dana Bonincontri led the Quakers with a second-place performance on the uneven bars and third place in the all-around competition at the one-day invitational hosted by George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

If you’re a fan of the Eagles (the band, not the disappointment of a football team), you know exactly the motto that traveling partners Penn and Princeton are living by this January: take it easy.

Midway through the winter sports season, Director of Penn Athletics Steve Bilsky sat down with the Sports Editors of The Daily Pennsylvanian to talk about a successful fall for the Quakers and what’s on tap for 2011.

A new evaluation system will enable professors to send out feedback forms to their classes by e-mail at any time — not just at the end of the semester.

A graduate student wrote a letter to the editor commenting on the need for government-funded social programs in addition to the recent increase in social entrepreneurship.

The event — which was divided into multiple moderated discussion groups — grew out of a partnership between the Penn Project for Civic Engagement and NewCORE, or New Conversation on Race and Ethnicity, an organization committed to furthering the cause of racial dialogue and cooperation.

Members of the Penn and Philadelphia communities participated in a rally Monday afternoon to stand up for individuals facing deportation from the United States.

The Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative — launched as an expansion of the Wharton Interactive Media Initiative — will also be integrated into the undergraduate Wharton curriculum.

The five-term senator will teach a course next fall on the relationship between Congress and the Supreme Court, with a focus on separation of powers and the confirmation process.

Though students and faculty had the day off Monday, around 500 community members participated in service events as part of a larger symposium on social change.

Roughly 50 students attended the presentation, which examined the media's labeling of so-called "criminal madmen" in the wake of the shooting of an Arizona congresswoman.

Next month, the College Board will announce details of an extensive remodeling of its Advanced Placement program to emphasize depth — instead of breadth — of coverage.

Not even injury could slow down the No. 10 men’s squash team on Saturday when they took on No. 11 Williams at Ringe Courts.

Despite a 41-day layoff since their last match, the Red and Blue (5-1, 2-1 Ivy) showed few ill effects against Williams (6-6), ultimately winning 8-1.