The McDonald’s on the northeast corner of 40th and Walnut is one of the few things that hasn’t moved or left over the past few decades, but Penn officials would like to change that.

The Latino Coalition has been working to make sure that future applicants have the resources to overcome language barriers when applying for financial aid.

Today's tuition figures are starkly different from those of the 1958-59 school year, when undergraduate tuition was $1,000, and total expenses were around $2,000.

1953 College graduate Edward Netter, namesake and benefactor of the Barbara and Edward Netter Center for Community Partnerships, died last Wednesday at 78.

“‘I’m really confused about what the whole point is — sex? Commitment? Marriage? Fun?’” The lede to Daily Pennsylvanian columnist Bama Athreya’s 1988 column could easily be a text on anyone’s phone in 2011.

Now more than ever, students are feeling the pressure — and this isn’t the first time The Daily Pennsylvanian has made this claim.

Phi Kappa Sigma’s charter has been suspended by its national headquarters, barring the fraternity from holding activities or recruiting new members this semester.

In 1986, the mean undergraduate grade point average at Penn was 3.10 — a figure The Daily Pennsylvanian pointed to as grade inflation that made “traditional definitions of letter grades obsolete.”

The Blizzard of ’96 blanketed the Philadelphia area in 40 inches of snow, with snow drifts of over four feet. Then-Executive Vice President John Fry closed campus Monday and Tuesday that week.

Last night, more than 150 enthusiastic Penn students and community members packed into Huntsman Hall to view President Barack Obama’s second State of the Union address as part of a joint event hosted by the Penn Democrats and Penn College Republicans.

Penn Grad Mittal founded Innova Dynamics — inspired by his senior project called Innova Materials — to boost the performance of certain materials to impact a broad range of fields including optics, electronics and water treatment.

Concluding a week of events, Kaplan will host MBA Night at City Tap House, at which students 21 years of age and older will have the opportunity to speak informally with alumni from various business schools across the country, including Cornell, Emory and Notre Dame universities.

Throwback is the DP's weekly feature looking at top news stories this week in the past. This week, we look back to 1986, when students rallied against South African apartheid on Martin Luther King Day.

In celebration of Benjamin Franklin’s 305th birthday, the Faculty Senate is welcoming the entire Penn community to the Founder’s Day Symposium “Human Rights: Contested Principles and Practices.”

Skulls hopefuls may have to consider other options due to the fraternity’s exclusion from rush events, following the death of Matthew Crozier, who suffered fatal head injuries at the chapter house on New Year’s Eve.

It is unclear whether the change is in response to the death of a 20-year-old who suffered fatal head injuries after a fall at the fraternity house on Dec. 31.

Penn is currently investigating the death of John Carroll University student Matthew Crozier, who suffered fatal head injuries after a fall at the Skulls fraternity house on New Year’s Eve.