The Penn cross country team picked a really good day to have its best race of the season.

My name is Laura. I’m a junior in the College, and I live in Harrison with the two sweetest, most compassionate and supportive roommates Penn has to offer.

The Penn men (0-1, 0-0) and women (1-0, 0-0), will both take on rival Columbia, in an early season Ivy League matchup. Unlike last weeks meet at UConn, the Penn team will be split up, with the women competing in Sheerr Pool and the men hitting the road to New York City.

Despite Penn’s slim title chances, a win Saturday would be huge for the Red and Blue. With a victory over the Crimson, the Quakers would salvage a chunk of pride and rest assured knowing they can put up more than just a fight against the Ivy elite.

If the Quakers want to beat Penn State at home on Saturday and get a winning streak going, they’ll have to be on guard … in more ways than one.

This is the second exhibition organized by CareLink with a Wharton Management group.

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On paper, Penn Athletics’ presence on campus Saturday couldn’t be any better. And in reality, it was awesome.

After a strong showing two weeks ago at Heptagonal Championships, the Red and Blue are looking to improve upon their pre-meet rankings of ninth for the men and eighth for the women. Both teams are chasing top six finishes in the region.

In last season’s finale, Penn and Harvard squared off on Rhodes Field to determine which team wouldn’t get last place in the conference. But on Saturday, the two will play in Boston with an Ivy League title on the line.

Scott Mackler, a longtime Penn professor, pioneering addiction researcher and physician who battled for 15 years with Lou Gehrig’s disease, died Wednesday evening.

The Ivy League title may be out of reach for Penn volleyball, but there is still the chance to end the season on a long winning streak and with a victory against every team in the Ivy League.

The system would reorganize the College House System and bring new amenities to dorms.

To focus on skin color or ethnicity as the lone proxy for diversity is naive, only setting us back in thought to an era when the masses believed blacks had fundamentally distinct physical and mental capacities than whites.

Penn researchers can tell by your tweets.

The Christian Life Movement will assumer leadership of the Parish this summer

The University received 5,133 applications, which is a 41 percent increase from 2008.