Philadelphia Police arrested and detained Wharton sophomore Tania Chairez — an undocumented immigrant — at a protest this afternoon.

Check out reactions to the choice of Passion Pit as this year’s opener for the Spring Fling concert.

Passion Pit will open the 2012 Spring Fling concert. The Social Planning and Events Committee announced their choice today via the website whoscomingtofling.com.

SPEC-TRUM, the Social Planning and Events Committee To Represent Undergraduate Minorities, hosted Ansari for their annual spring event.

Students gathered in the Kelly Writers House on Tuesday to spend their lunch with a very special guest — the former executive editor of The New York Times.

Find out what crimes happened on and around campus from March 2-8.

The James Joo-Jin Kim Program in Korean Studies is “providing important operational support this year for the program,” according to School of Arts and Sciences Dean Rebecca Bushnell.

Total crime in the Penn Patrol Zone in February decreased by 36 percent compared to February 2011 — from 66 to 42 incidents. January crime decreased by 22 percent — from 68 to 53 incidents — compared to last year.

Currently at 8th and Race streets, the headquarters will relocate to 46th and Market streets, where the current landmark Provident Mutual Life Insurance Co. building stands.

Il Rimedio will replace the popular brunch and BYO restaurant Rx at 45th and Spruce streets. Rx has been closed for about a month.

The Wharton School and the Perelman School of Medicine — which are among the largest of the University’s 12 graduate and professional schools — held their rankings of third overall and second among research-oriented medical schools in the nation, respectively.

Two PennDesign graduate students have developed a plan to save flooding cities.

Professor Loretta Jemmott has selected 48 barbershops in West Philadelphia to partake in an ongoing study. When black males between the age of 18 to 24 come into the barbershop, they are offered the option of undergoing general testing for STDs.

A study released by Bullhorn Reach, a division of the recruiting software company Bullhorn Inc., reveals that social media websites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn are set to become important recruitment tools for employers.

The Office of Admissions is making more of a push to reach out to students who don’t have the resources to take an extensive look at the campus.

Bent Button Productions, a student film production group, must raise $30,000 in donations by the end of March to fund the documentary they plan to make out of Luke Kelly’s journey to Brazil.

A Law School student group got itself into haute water with Louis Vuitton.