When Michael Hamann got out of the pool, he knew something was wrong.

Their biggest meet may still be months away, but the Quakers will finally have a chance to get their feet wet this weekend. The Penn swimming season will get underway when the women head to New York to face Columbia on Friday before heading to Baltimore, where they will be joined by the men's team, as both squads face off against UMBC on Saturday. Both teams are coming off fourth-place finishes in last year's Ivy championships.

For many, transitioning to college is like a cannonball dive. You plunge into the cold waters and just hope that the undercurrent doesn’t pull you down.

The program, previously just offered to freshmen, may become mandatory if not enough students complete it before the spring semester.

A new contactless PennCard swipe system has been installed by the Division of Public Safety in major buildings on campus, and the futuristic tap-security setup is streamlining entrances and advancing safety at Penn. 

It was a beatdown, to be sure.

Not many things in this world get better with age, but don’t tell that to the pair of Penn men's swimming senior captains. Over the last three seasons, Eric Schultz and Chris Swanson have won countless races and championships, including a combined eight individual Ivy titles.

One sis, two sis, Red sis, Blue sis.

College junior Jeremy Cohen will lead the Student Activities Council until next October

Management and psychology professor writes that ordinary citizens may be able to out-predict professional analysts and pundits with confidential information

While Penn students attempt to follow the paths of tech giants like Mark Zuckerberg and Steve Jobs by taking time off from school to work on their tech startups, the ultimate decision of whether to return to classes or forgo the degree isn't an easy one.

Of all the college houses, the change will have a particularly strong impact on Gregory and DuBois. 

A few weeks ago, I watched a film called “Drunk, Stoned, Brilliant, Dead,” which chronicled the rise and fall of National Lampoon, a controversial humor magazine which was immensely popular in the 1970s through ‘90s.

BEN CLAAR is a College freshman from Scarsdale, N.Y. His email is bclaar@sas.upenn.edu.

Penn for Jeb, a political group backing Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush, is still in the process of getting the word out via their Facebook page. 

The “Gender Across Cultures” film series will highlight the struggle of varying gender identities across the globe, as well as their historical importance.

A man was killed after being struck by an elevated subway train in West Philadelphia Tuesday morning. The man appears to have jumped intentionally, according to SEPTA officials.