Investigative journalist Rose George — a Penn alumna who authored the Penn Reading Project book The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters — spoke in Meyerson Hall Tuesday to address the sanitation crisis.

Four officers were cleared of any criminal wrongdoing for fatally shooting a suspect in the November carjacking that ended in a gunfight at 40th and Locust streets.

A proposal to make the Law School Admission Test optional for law-school entry is being considered by the American Bar Association. A final decision is expected next year.

Hand2Paw, founded by College junior Rachel Cohen, brings together homeless youth and homeless animals to foster care, responsibility and mutual support.

Yarden Odinak’s teammates claim she’s indestructible, while Pia Trikha has an unblemished record. Penn will need strong performances from both squash players as they head to Princeton on Wednesday.

Whether you’re watching at home or at the Penn Dems-College Repubs viewing party, this drinking game will make your experience more enjoyable.

In the last five years, Penn has more than quadrupled the amount of funding for students teaming with faculty in research programs.

Composting on campus will resume as soon as Bon Appetit, Penn's dining provider, is able to comply with new city regulations.

Despite the fact that total crime on and around campus was up by 12.2 percent from 2009, “2010 was a good year,” according to Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush.

On-campus recruiting's focus on an “important, but limited, sector of the economy” is apparent to many undergraduates outside of Wharton.

The Penn Dems-College Republicans joint State of the Union address watch party is a time for us to have a discussion about how we should be moving forward with political debates.

Congressional Republicans face a defining choice — work with the president on major policy issues or obstruct his agenda for the next two years.

Robert Cohen was in the Poconos with his family when he watched his apartment complex, at 48th and Walnut streets, burn down on the news.

With Ivy play beginning for Penn Friday night, this is our last chance to romp through the Ancient Eight without implications, without being shot down by those roaring Lions of Columbia. So here we go:

We encourage DPS to publish guidelines that govern its decision to send alerts. DPS will be doing students and itself a favor by expressly defining when the broadcast of an alert is justified.

Sportswriters love a good storyline, but emotion from a last-chance Big 5 victory isn't enough. There’s still many a statistic to be combed through.

Despite prevention efforts, certain races and ethnic groups show higher rates of disease and death.