Those who pursue the impractical and the esoteric are, I think, quite a bit misunderstood. The frame of mind that leads to our judgments of what is and isn't practical is very much a product of our environment. Yes, an artist may never cure cancer or build a million dollar company, but we should be a bit more grateful for what they do give us.

Philly Pride hosted the 2015 PrideDay LGBT Parade on Sunday, as various organizations marched past Independence Hall.

On Wednesday, Kenneth Kapikian and Dennis Gagliardi pled guilty in Pennsylvania federal court to defrauding Penn of more than $3 million.

See what crimes occurred in the Penn Patrol Zone between May 22 and June 4. 

2015 College graduate Reginald Steward is suing Phi Kappa Psi as well as 2014 College graduate Charles Gibson over a sexual assault he claims took place after a Phi Kappa Psi rush party in January 2013.

Hillegass, a senior at St. Paul’s School in Concord, N.H., was detained last month by local police for allegedly burning his girlfriend’s leg with a hot lamp after a school dance in January.

Every year, a handful of students achieve what seems impossible to many: acceptance into all eight Ivy League schools. While many of this year’s accepted students decided to attend one of the Ivy Leagues, one student chose elsewhere.

One Penn-founded website is doing its best to help voters know whether or not what the politicians are saying is actually true.

On 40th and Locust, Sadik Karakulak leans over the front window of his food truck and hands a fresh order of falafel to his third customer in the last 10 minutes. He removes his gloves, checks his phone and returns to the front of the truck.

Mark your calendars — Here’s four must-see matchups of the fall 2015 season: Women’s Soccer vs.

Astronomy assistant professor Cullen Blake and graduate student David Sliski hope to discover planets orbiting stars other than the Sun.

The story of the Penn men’s tennis 2015 season is not one that can be told simply by looking at the team’s final record.

Thousands of people gathered at St. Anthony of Padua Church in Wilmington, Del. for the funeral of 1991 College graduate Joseph R.

2015 Wharton MBA graduate Julia Kurnik started her post-graduation life by working full time on the startup that she founded in May 2014.

Fifty years ago, after a long and sometimes bloody struggle waged by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and civil rights activists around the country, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law. Put simply, this act prohibited racial discrimination in voting on both a state and federal level.

In recent years, the Penn community has been pushing toward reform regarding the treatment of mental illness, both bureaucratically within Counseling and Psychological Services and socially among students. We have seen agendas written up, sensitivity training initiated, and we’ve been urged to learn and relearn that it is okay to not be okay. But even so, at Pennsylvania Hospital, I found it difficult to reach out to my peers.

ANNEKA DECARO is a rising College sophomore from Austin. Her email address is annekaxiv@gmail.com.