Though Penn men’s basketball lost narrowly to Columbia University on Saturday, the annual “Greeks at the Palestra” event helped keep spirits up at halftime.

Lucia Xiong stepped down on Saturday because of time conflicts, and Manya-Jean Gitter was “removed” and “chose not to contest her removal,” UA Chairman Alec Webley said.

Cornell was expected to blow out the Quakers, but it was clear from the get-go that Penn would hang with the Big Red on this night.

Of the 30 scholarships awarded to Americans this year, three went to Penn students — College seniors Donielle Johnson and Jill Portnoy and Penn Law graduate Amanda Marzullo.

The snow days on Wednesday and Thursday were the first back-to-back University closings since 1994. Previously, the most recent snow-related University closing was in February 2003.

Though valuable seniors leave the program each spring, the Penn women’s squash family never really gets smaller.

On Thursday night, best-selling author and renowned feminist Rebecca Walker give the Women’s Week 2010 keynote address in the packed rooftop lounge of Harnwell College House.

How Philly Moves — a 50,000-square foot, five-story-tall mural to be displayed on the side of the Philadelphia International Airport parking garage — is part of a movement by the Mural Arts Program to beautify the city’s gateways.

After visiting last summer to capture footage, Google has launched a Google Maps Street View feature of Penn’s campus — with interactive, three-dimensional imagery of the University’s facilities.

Overall crime this January rose by 8.3 percent as compared to last January and 10.2 percent as compared to December 2009, according to statistics provided by the Division of Public Safety.

Arabic is spoken by over 300 million people in the world — including the members of Penn’s newest language club.

Jennifer Higdon won the Grammy for Best Classical Contemporary Composition for her Percussion Concerto, recorded by the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Penn’s V-Day Campaign will host its 10th-annual production of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues at 8 p.m. on Feb. 11 and 12 in Irvine Auditorium, as part of an effort to break the silence surrounding sexual violence against women.

The event, named “Hoops for Haiti,” will feature a three-on-three co-ed basketball tournament at Hutchinson Gymnasium throughout the day and will conclude with a happy hour at the Blockley Pourhouse, where various items will be raffled off.

The project consists of an estimated 20 city street lights and 40 pedestrian-scale lights, to be installed from 34th to 38th streets on Lancaster Avenue.

The all-women team won first place in the undergraduate division of the 2010 Marketing Summit at the Wake Forest University School of Business.

This year, three Penn students received the Thouron Award, which will fund their pursuit of a graduate degree at a United Kingdom university for up to two years.