The Campaign is a Penn initiative that aims to create conversation and dialogue between different groups on campus, and to foster a more closely knit community at Penn. It is an attempt to “to provide a forum for constructive conversations about the most difficult issues facing our students, campus community and larger society,” according to Provost Vincent Price.

Abraham recovered but could not finish the debate.

The only Republican candidate running for mayor wants Philadelphians to have alternatives.

The date was April 13, 2014. Those of you with keen memories will remember this day as the Sunday of last year’s Fling weekend.

While Penn track and field’s runners and jumpers practice on the track at famous Franklin Field, the Red and Blue’s throwing team is almost always hidden, out of view behind the Hollenback Center down River Fields Drive. As a result of their isolation, the throwers take a different approach to practice and have become members of a close-knit unit.

Part of what makes college athletics so dynamic and fun is its constant turnover of student-athletes.

After a weekend road trip, Penn softball is looking forward to staying close to home. In the midst of the Ivy League stretch, Penn will face local rival Villanova at Penn Park on Wednesday.

“I didn’t think it was a big deal... In the worst case, I thought that I’d be missing one match.” If only that were the case.

On Tuesday, Penn baseball took a seven-game winning streak to Plymouth Meeting, Pa., to take on Villanova in the Liberty Bell Classic.

Brigham Young University-Idaho student Jacob Espinal was charged with felony computer fraud and grand theft after it was discovered he had changed his grades which resulted in him winning a scholarship.

NICK MONCY is a College junior from North Miami, Fla. His email address is nickmoncy@sas.upenn.edu.

Just over a month ago, the undergraduates voted whether Penn should divest from fossil fuels, and an overwhelming 87.8 percent of participants voted yes.

In the context of psychological research on identity development, the concept of gendered race is relatively new. Gender and race are also not the only aspects of identity that overlap. Issues of ethnicity, class and sexuality among others all significantly affect the way one acts and is perceived.

College factual ranked Penn as the best private college in the U.S. According to College factual--which ranks schools based on graduation rates, loan default rates, and average starting salaries--Penn was selected as the best school because of its programs, many of which rank in the top 10 in the country as well as its interdisciplinary curriculum and student civic engagement.  Yale, Duke and Harvard were selected as the number two, three and four schools, respectively.  See the rest of the top 10 at USA TODAY College. 

According to a survey by Higher One, a financial aid company, and EverFi, and education technology company, college students are becoming worse at managing their finances. The survey found that in the past three years, students have become less likely to follow budgets, pay credit card bills on time and in full and save money.

While undergraduates are busy biting hats on Hey Day, jumping in bouncy castles during Fling, or banding together to scream the night before the first economics midterm, graduate students live in a different world.

A Columbia student was arrested on April 2 after his Venmo record revealed he had been using the service to accept payments for drugs, reports Capital New York. Michael Getzler, the alleged dealer, required the Venmo transaction descriptions "to be funny." Descriptions to Venmo payments made to him included "Halal or something funny," "Kale salad" and "Snoop Dogg's shizzle." Two days before the arrest, an anonymous op-ed titled "Confessions of a departing dealer," that ran in the Columbia Spectator was rumored to have been written by Getzler.