Check out reactions to the choice of Passion Pit as this year’s opener for the Spring Fling concert.

Passion Pit will open the 2012 Spring Fling concert. The Social Planning and Events Committee announced their choice today via the website whoscomingtofling.com.

SPEC-TRUM, the Social Planning and Events Committee To Represent Undergraduate Minorities, hosted Ansari for their annual spring event.

Four rookies were among the top six players in minutes for the Quakers this past season: guards Renee Busch and Jackie Kates and forwards Katy Allen and Kara Bonenberger. The four freshmen had 62 starts combined.

Three members from last year’s graduating class have been playing professional basketball around the globe, from Germany to Spain to Mexico.

Students gathered in the Kelly Writers House on Tuesday to spend their lunch with a very special guest — the former executive editor of The New York Times.

Harter grew up in Pottstown, Pa., only 40 miles northwest of Philadelphia and enrolled at the university in the School of Education. He was a reserve guard on the men’s basketball team before graduating in 1953.

Find out what crimes happened on and around campus from March 2-8.

Wednesday afternoon the beautiful weather will provide Penn softball with a picturesque backdrop in its home opener against Saint Joseph’s in the first game at the new Penn Park stadium.

The James Joo-Jin Kim Program in Korean Studies is “providing important operational support this year for the program,” according to School of Arts and Sciences Dean Rebecca Bushnell.

It may not be the NCAA Tournament, and it may not be the NIT, but the Quakers begin their postseason Wednesday in the College Basketball Invitational against Quinnipiac at the Palestra.

The Quakers, who played eight games in Florida over Spring Break, are 3-5, and have been blown out in four of their losses. The coaches have been shifting its starting lineup, and three separate players have been used as cleanup.

Total crime in the Penn Patrol Zone in February decreased by 36 percent compared to February 2011 — from 66 to 42 incidents. January crime decreased by 22 percent — from 68 to 53 incidents — compared to last year.

Currently at 8th and Race streets, the headquarters will relocate to 46th and Market streets, where the current landmark Provident Mutual Life Insurance Co. building stands.

Il Rimedio will replace the popular brunch and BYO restaurant Rx at 45th and Spruce streets. Rx has been closed for about a month.

The Wharton School and the Perelman School of Medicine — which are among the largest of the University’s 12 graduate and professional schools — held their rankings of third overall and second among research-oriented medical schools in the nation, respectively.

Two PennDesign graduate students have developed a plan to save flooding cities.