The Social Planning and Events Committee picked “Viva La Fliñg” as its theme for Spring Fling 2011, which will take place April 15-16.

It's time for city planners to rethink the way they rebuild cities devastated by natural disasters, according to a panel on campus Wednesday as part of Penn's "Year of Water" campaign.

55 percent of computer sales at the Penn Computer Connection are Macs, an extremely skewed number given Macs' smaller market share in the United States.

Documents leaked from Columbia listed 482 students in Columbia College and the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science who earned perfect grade point averages, raising the question of grade inflation.

The House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure held a hearing in New York to discuss the possibility of high-speed rail development in the Northeast corridor.

There are already many resources in place to address homelessness. We believe the Division of Public Safety should lead the way in publicizing them.

The data — in addition to other factors — has prompted CeaseFirePA to team up with the Undergraduate Assembly in the fight against gun violence.

Wharton does not only cater to manic number crunchers and Wall Street wannabes. Let business take its place alongside arts and humanities.

Finding a version of Penn that is somehow your own can be challenging, but it is the only way in which anyone can have a meaningful Penn experience.

About 50 students gathered Tuesday to weigh in on the debate on Asian parenting, stirred by Yale Law professor and self-proclaimed “tiger mom” Amy Chua.

At midnight on Tuesday, 40 volunteers — including two Penn students — went into Philadelphia to count the homeless as part of an initiative led by local nonprofit Project HOME.

A pre-trial conference was scheduled for March 2 at a Tuesday arraignment for Leslie Mosby, who allegedly crashed a stolen car into the barriers located at 40th Street and Locust Walk last November.

The DP's weekly crime blotter for the week of Jan. 21-27.

Last weekend, the chess team traveled to Columbia and became Penn’s newest Ivy League titleholders, defeating Harvard, Yale and Cornell as ferociously as a bunch of linemen.

The preliminary arraignment for Saad Masood, 30, a former School of Engineering and Applied Sciences student who was arrested on Jan. 20, was again postponed, this time to Feb. 15.

The men’s and women’s swimming teams both continued their winning streak against neighborhood rival La Salle Tuesday night.

On Monday, the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships announced seven recipients of the Thouron Award — a Penn-specific scholarship that provides full funding for undergraduate and graduate students to study in the United Kingdom.