What a long, strange trip it’s about to be. This Friday, Penn men’s swimming begins the first of seven straight Ivy League road matchups at Columbia.

When a once-in-a-generation player like senior forward Duke Lacroix enters his final men’s soccer match, people take notice. This Saturday, Penn will need to rally behind the team’s five seniors in their final tilt of 2014 when Harvard comes to town.

So now we know where Penn cross country stands in the Ivy league, but where does that put the program in the larger scheme of things? The Red and Blue will provide an answer to this question this Friday as they look to improve on their results from Ivy Heptagonals two weeks ago at NCAA Regionals.

This pervasive notion that black people have to change their bodies is ingrained in our society and makes it difficult to recognize how external forces have been internalized. Whether this self-loathing comes in the form of using makeup or chemicals to brighten skin tones or using heat or treatments to straighten hair, the goal has been to meet a standard of beauty that elevates one group of people and simultaneously demeans another.

People who say they are colorblind miss the point of cultural acceptance. Yes, you should not make assumptions about me or treat me unkindly because of the color of my skin. But you should also not strip me of the rich backgrounds that have shaped my life and made me who I am today.

Anneka DeCaro is a College freshman. Her email address is annekaxiv@gmail.com.

Winter is coming, and so are sushi burritos.

Penn Student Government will be holding an evening gala consisting of a keynote speech, an Open Forum, and a dessert reception as a part of its State of the School event tonight at the Sheraton Hotel at 7pm.

The new home of Penn's political science and economics departments is on track to be completed by January 2018, and as of now is almost halfway done being designed.

While the concept of innovation might evoke images of computers, start-ups and engineers, it increasingly impacts faculty in all disciplines at Penn.

Wharton MBA graduate Kenneth Beck spent Tuesday evening recalling the practical joke that played a role in creating the Ivy League's first student credit union.

Bloomberg Businessweek’s biennial list of the country's best MBA programs is out.

Sean Vereen and the other speaker at the UMC talk, English professor Herman Beavers, feel that Penn groups aren't doing enough to address the inequalities caused by the meritocracy.

Our 2014-15 Penn basketball supplement came out today and below is everyone of our in-depth articles about the upcoming season.

New groups only have eight days remaining to apply for SAC recognition this year.

President Amy Gutmann will be honored Wednesday for Penn's successful partnership with the American Defamation League.

Penn's Division of Public Safety was ranked the number one university on Security Magazine's "Security 500" list.