The Civic House Association Coalition hosted a panel on the DREAM Act for 30 students in McClelland Hall as part of its monthly “Think About It” event series.

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Penn’s Race Dialogue Project collaborated with several student cultural groups at Penn to host a dialogue about race in light of the social virality of the “Shit People Say” videos.

This exchange took place Thursday night at Café 58 inside Irvine Auditorium, where students attended a self-defense workshop, designed to teach girls about public safety and how to respond in crisis situations.

InternMatch, an internships website co-founded in 2005 by a Penn graduate, will debut at Penn later this month.

Last week, “The Government and Legal Environment of Business” — a mandatory course for all first-year Wharton MBA students — began with its first pair of lectures.

Created by College junior Chris Cruz, the website’s interface is relatively simple: enter a Penn email address and you’ll be paired up with another Penn student randomly by a computer algorithm for a lunch meeting within a few hours.

Nate Kleinman, a member of Occupy Philadelphia, will run in the Democratic primary for the House of Representatives in Pennsylvania’s 13th district, which includes northeast Philadelphia.

Yesterday, Aharoni and another Israel Consul Raslan Abu Rukun spoke at “Brand Israel,” an event exploring the connection between marketing, world politics and Israel’s current “brand image” around the world. The event was hosted by the Marketing Undergraduate Students Establishment.

On Wednesday night, Ware College House hosted the East Coast premiere of First Generation, a documentary that follows the lives of four first-generation college applicants.

Founded in 1862, the Glee Club is celebrating its 150th anniversary with a gala this weekend. In honor of the milestone, it is preparing — and tirelessly rehearsing — for a special edition of its annual spring show, to be performed on Friday and Saturday. GALLERY: Glee Club then and now

The decline in autopsies at HUP mirrors a drop in autopsy rates across the nation, although academic hospitals have fared better than their non-academic counterparts.

Several bus riders have been robbed by Derrick Gilham, 44, who frequented SEPTA bus stops along Broad Street — particularly Olney

Wharton and College senior Eileen Moison was one of 40 winners selected by the scholarship to pursue graduate studies at the University of Cambridge for up to three years.

Alcohol was found to be the number one culprit for students seeking treatment for substance abuse.

The Pennsylvania state government will start collecting sales taxes from online retailers that have physical sites in the state, including Amazon.

As 49 Catholic high schools and elementary schools are slated for closure throughout the Philadelphia area this year, school administrators are being forced to say goodbye to the schools they are attached to.