After less than three years on the job, 1983 College graduate Rich Ross stepped down as chair of Walt Disney Studios on Friday.

College senior Megan Reed recently sat down with The Daily Pennsylvanian to reflect on her experience as the president of Penn’s chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Homewood Suites, owned by Hilton Hotels and Resorts, will have a soft opening May 1 with operations fully open to the public. An official grand opening with formal tours will take place early August. GALLERY: Homewood Suites on Walnut Street

On Friday afternoon, members of Rekindle Reason, a campus atheist group, outdid Klondike. They offered Locust Walk passersby the chance to sign away their souls for chocolate chip cookies.

Trading a black suit for a ginger wig and polka-dot pajamas, Aasif Mandvi, member of the Daily Show’s Best F#@king News Team Ever, joined the cast of Mask & Wig on stage for the 14th Annual Intercollegiate Comedy Festival Friday night. The event was co-sponsored by the Social Planning and Events Committee.

On Friday, more than 100 middle and elementary school students from the Philadelphia area learned what it is like to spend a day in the life of a college student.

Philly Tech Week, which begins Monday, April 23, is a string of workshops, panels and hackathons. The week is a celebration of the technology scene in Philadelphia and aims to showcase what tech-savvy people and organizations in Philadelphia have been working on for the past year.

Penn’s Gamma Chapter of Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity has voted to relinquish its charter as a University-recognized fraternity, Office of Student Affairs/Fraternity Sorority Life Director Scott Reikofski wrote in an email statement Friday afternoon. INTERACTIVE: Recent history of Alpha Epsilon Pi at Penn

Last night, Holocaust survivor Michael Herskovitz was brought to Penn’s campus by the Hillel Holocaust Education Committee to tell his story.

Chairez’s lawyer Lloyd Long said, however, the date may change in order to allow Chairez and Bryn Mawr College junior Jessica Hyejin Lee, who was arrested with Chairez on March 14, to face trial on the same day.

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Members from Penn Police, PennComm, Department of Fire and Emergency Services and AlliedBarton Security were awarded commendations of merit.

Miller, who formerly served as the vice chair for nominations of the NEC, sat down with The Daily Pennsylvanian to discuss some of his goals for the year ahead.

According to undergraduate department chair and music composition professor James Primosch, the Music Department will be adding more performance-based courses in the fall as part of an effort to emphasize the value of performance among music majors.

Browning, coordinator of Clinical Pastoral Education at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, was working his monthly night shift as the only on-call chaplain in the hospital.

According to SEAS Communications Director Joan Gocke, the Engineering School received about $11 million — or 21 percent of the school’s total research budget — in Department of Defense funding for the 2011 fiscal year.

Penn’s most innovative entrepreneurs gathered yesterday to compete for the top prize at PennVention’s final Innovation Fair.