Furthermore, as college students, we’re consumers of a product. Penn’s tuition is $47,668 a year. If the average student takes five courses a semester, that’s $4,766.80 per class. We wouldn’t buy a $4,000 dress without trying it on, and we shouldn’t have to register for courses without testing them out.

For Penn men’s swimming, this weekend’s opening tri-meet could prove to be a good opportunity to see what the season has in store.

At the Garret Penn State Open this weekend, Penn men’s and women’s fencing knew they would take on some of the best teams in the country, such as OSU, Notre Dame, Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Penn State. And they came out strong.

Coming out of the first weekend of the regular season, Penn squash could not have asked for much better results.

Jose Antonio Vargas, one of the faces of the undocumented immigrant as well as a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, will be SPEC's fall speaker this year.

In a star-studded competition, including 22 ranked wrestlers and a defending national champion, there was no match more anticipated, by Penn fans and college wrestling fans alike, than the 184 pound final bout in Sunday’s Keystone Classic.

After dismantling La Salle during their home opener on Wednesday, the Red and Blue defeated Navy, 60-51, in Annapolis on Saturday, another impressive victory for the defending Ivy League champs.

Despite a furious second-half rally, the Quakers fell to 0-3 on the year, losing to Lafayette, 83-77, to finish a three-game season-opening homestand.

The Quakers were down by double digits soon within seven minutes of tip-off and struggled to hang with Lafayette, finding themselves down, 45-30, at the half.

Fraternities at the University of Virginia have been suspended until January 9, 2015 following Sabrina Rubin Erderly's viral Rolling Stone article about a sexual assault that took place at the university.

Welcome back to the Palestra for the end of a three-game homestand to start Penn basketball's season.

In the end though, Penn would prevail over the Big Red, 34-26, behind a career day for senior receiver Spencer Kulcsar in his final collegiate game.

Both teams had their share of turnovers, and neither could manage to establish a true lead. At the half, Penn ended up on top 21-18.

However, there will be at least one man in the Palestra on Saturday who has been a part of an incredible amount of Quakers success: Lafayette head coach Fran O’Hanlon.

Penn basketball will look for its first win on Saturday, so we decided to look at three keys to victory for the Red and Blue against Lafayette.

As colleges and universities have increasingly begun using applicants' social media to judge the candidates, applicants have become more selective of what they do on social media.  A report from Kaplan Test Prep that polled 403 admissions officers found that only 16 percent of admissions officers that looked into applicants' social media found damaging information, compared to 35 percent finding the same in 2012. Reasons given for the lack of harmful information found on applicants' social media include the wider variety of social media platforms now being used that make it harder to keep track of a student's activity, as well as students untagging themselves and not using their real names online. Use of social media as part of the admissions process varies from school to school, with smaller schools looking more into their applicants' online activities.

The Business Insider profiles Penn professor Kenneth Goldsmith's "Wasting Time on the Internet" class, the unexpected amount of Internet attention it has received, and the inspiration behind it.