Tuesday, Penn Athletic Director Steve Bilsky gave a vote of confidence to coach Jerome Allen despite the fact that the Quakers could still end up with their worst record in the Ivy League era, since Penn is now 2-13 on the season.

Junior Alex Ott joins the DP Sports staff after two seasons of varsity baseball at Penn. Despite notching 17 appearances as a freshman (the fifth highest single-season total in school history), Ott chose to walk away from the sport with great reluctance and a greater story.

In spite of the November Gaza Strip conflicts, Penn students proceeded with the Penn Hillel and Jewish Renaissance Project Taglit-Birthright Israel trip over winter break.

The seven-member Commission on Student Safety, Alcohol and Campus Life — which President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price announced last week — contains a mixed bag of administrators from different departments around Penn.

Jan. 5 – An employee at Houston Hall was threatened verbally over the phone by a known suspect at about 2:45 p.m.

In his first year of college basketball, freshman center Darien Nelson-Henry has quietly transformed his game, embracing a foreign role under head coach Jerome Allen’s philosophy.

Just a season ago — though it may seem far longer to fans — Penn finished a respectable 20-13, including 11-3 in Ivy League play. In investigating the Quakers’ collapse this year, the first question should be, what’s changed for the worse since?

Throughout the entire University, the proportion of women faculty members rose from 28.4 percent in 2007 to 30.7 percent in 2011.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett announced Friday that the state would award a 20-year contract to Camelot Global Services to manage the Pennsylvania lottery.

After piloting the system in fall 2012 with some classes, Penn administrators have brought the Course Absence Report system to a wider range of courses.

Manny Diaz, who served as mayor of Miami from 2001 to 2009, spoke Monday night to a room of sixty about growing up — and later governing — in that city.

Penn students concerned about sustainability can now fill up their water bottles at the new bottle filling station in Huntsman Hall.

Recent studies demonstrated that self-compassion is a more effective motivator for self-improvement than self-esteem.

I had never thought of the coffee I drank every morning as something exotic. I thought every country would have it, every bodega. I’d depended on it, really — I wasn’t prepared to go without it.

Although the number of influenza-like illness cases usually peaks in mid-January, according to Division Chief of Penn Infectious Disease Ebbing Lautenbach, this year’s national and local ILI incidence peaked five weeks earlier than last year.

On Jan. 10, the United States Department of Homeland Security issued an advisory recommending computer users to temporarily disable the latest version of the software, Java 7, on their computers.

Founded in 2009 as a relatively small group, Penn Shooting Club has seen its membership increase dramatically over a nearly four-year span. Today, the organization has about 600 students on its email listserv — and it’s continuing to grow.