Sherrie Cohen, a 1975 College graduate, looks to become the first openly gay candidate elected to City Council. 

College freshman and 34th Street contributor Amanda Silberling lost things while moving out of her temporary room and found things missing after returning to her original room.

Workers plan to walk off the job on April 15th to advocate for increasing minimum wage to $15 per hour and rights to unionize.

Approximately four years ago, Wharton Professor Keith Weiglet started Wharton initiative Building Bridges to Wealth, a program that helps combat the racial wealth gap in West Philadelphia by providing free financial literacy courses.

As their senior design project, Engineering seniors Julia Sigal, Valerie Cohen, Jonathan Tieu and Sam Ettinger are creating a revolutionary bicycle helmet.

Coming into 2015, Penn softball pitcher and first baseman Alexis Sargent had already recorded the eighth-most home runs in program history, notched the school's fifth-lowest career earned run average, been named second-team All-Ivy and led the Quakers to the Ivy League Championship series. All in her rookie season. Sargent’s tremendous debut in 2014 wasn’t totally unexpected, as the Virginia native joined the Red and Blue after being named to the All-State team three times in high school, among numerous other accolades.

This week, Penn women’s lacrosse will attempt to tame the Lions before encountering top-ranked Wildcats. The Quakers, off to a fast start and ranked No.

It’s pretty safe to say Penn baseball coach John Yurkow could use a little less excitement in his life.

Late in the third set of her match against Princeton last Saturday, Penn women's tennis' top singles player and senior captain Sol Eskanazi was in the middle of an epic battle. Trailing in a tiebreaker, the senior ripped a lefty forehand up the line, leaving the Princeton player dead in her tracks, forced to watch the ball fly by. “Vamos!” Eskanazi, a native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, roared with a big fist pump. As exemplified by Eskanazi, college tennis has recently become a showcase of the best athletic talents from not only the United States, but nations worldwide.

There are upsides to being held accountable, but we lose something when we self-censor. We miss the goofy sentiments, the random toss-out of ideas to the universe, the fragility of paint splattered against a river bank. Too often we lose sight of what we want to say in fear we’ll say something wrong.

In the social consciousness of the American public, universities have ceased to be thought of simply as academic institutions, and have come to be regarded as the final step in the developmental process — processing factories for adults, even.

Today at 5 pm EST, regular decision applicants to the Class of 2019 will be able to access their decisions via the online applicant portal.

Connecticut and New York are looking to implement procedures that will make it more difficult for students accused to rape to defend themselves.  New York Governor Andrew Cuomo proposed for 2016 a "'Victim/Survivor Bill of Rights' whose language presumes the guilt of anyone accused of 'sexual violence.'" The bill leaves out the words "alleged" and "allegation" as to not be able to give accused students a means to claim their innocence when such violations take place.  Brooklyn College professor KC Johnson explained that the bill would take away any student's chance to explain their side of the story.

Since its launch at Penn just over a week ago once a Theos fraternity member who is the campus representative for the app shared it with friends, the app has quickly gained popularity in the Greek community

A look by Justice Department into the use of lethal force by police departments reveals that Philadelphia has an above-average number of police shootings compared to cities like Chicago, New York and Los Angeles.  The report was requested by Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey after an 2013 Philly.com reported that although the amount of crime in Philadelphia was decreasing, the amount of shootings by officers was increasing.

This fall will welcome the new Penn Antiviolence Educators, or PAVE, to campus—a new program slated to lead the fight against sexual and relationship violence at Penn.

In an interview with The Daily Pennsylvanian, Penn President Amy Gutmann, who is trained in political philosophy and political science, discussed the balance between fighting racism while protecting free speech.