The Civic Scholars program may implement an advisory board over the next year.

It might have been April Fools’ Day, but on Wednesday night, World Cafe Live’s lineup was anything but a joke.

As many of Penn's teams approach the midpoint of their spring seasons, the women's golf squad is still waiting to tee its 2015 campaign off.

Penn track and field may be known for traveling distances quickly on the track, but this weekend, the program will take its traveling abilities to the extreme. In the course of only a few days, the Quakers will send athletes to compete in Florida, California and Princeton in what should will serve as their biggest competitive test to date of the still-young season.

Thus, the pressure is on for Saturday. But Penn has been in this position before. And with a little bit of luck, they just might be able to pull off a perfect April once again.

Penn men’s tennis has its eyes on the prize, and the Quakers certainly have the pieces in place to make it happen this season. What is possibly the most talented squad in Penn history started off the year hot, taking down then-No.

As Penn baseball opened up its April slate on Wednesday afternoon, Saint Peter's stood no chance of fooling the Quakers at Meiklejohn Stadium. Behind senior infielder Mitch Montaldo's two home runs and three RBI and a masterful outing by senior pitcher Dan Gautieri, the Red and Blue scored their seventh win in their last eight contests with an 11-4 victory over the Peacocks.

Peaks and valleys? Try Mount Everest and the Grand Canyon. Penn softball split a doubleheader with lowly nonconference foe Lafayette on Wednesday evening.

Recently hired Penn women’s soccer coach Nicole Van Dyke started from humble beginnings, but she comes to Penn with the ambitious goal of putting the Quakers on a national stage. Taking the program to new heights will be no small feat, as Van Dyke succeeds Darren Ambrose, one of the most successful and prolific coaches in Ivy League history.

SEAN MCGEEHAN is a College junior from Philadelphia. His email address is seanmcgeehan@verizon.net.

From a policy standpoint, the most important thing is that policy makers are upfront with the American people about these tradeoffs.

While President Obama’s proposal to increase the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 languishes in the Republican-controlled Congress, Penn Democrats applauds Governor Tom Wolf’s effort to increase Pennsylvania's minimum wage.

Penn is ranked the number five school for social science majors.  The School of Arts and Sciences offers some of the best programs in the social sciences, including sociology, criminology and psychology. Unique to Penn is its Social Science and Policy Forum, which "builds scholarship around areas of public interest." On average, social science majors at Penn go on to have average mid-career salaries of $105,000. Other schools on the list include George Washington University in the number one spot, Harvard in second and Columbia in third.  Find out what the top 10 schools for social science majors are here.

Ivy League acceptances for the class of 2019 have been released.  This year, Penn accepted 3.697 students from a pool of 37,267, a 9.9 percent acceptance rate.

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Democratic Candidate for Philadelphia Mayor Doug Oliver previously worked in the administration of Former Pennsylvania Governor and Philadelphia Mayor Ed Rendell.

Though Penn's acceptance rate is as low as ever, a new ranking claims that's not the only data point that matters.