This past Wednesday, Apple sent shockwaves throughout the education world after unveiling the highly anticipated iPad. In doing so, Steve Jobs sent a message to publishers and universities: media and technology may soon entirely shape our educational experience.

Students from a wide range of Penn dance groups participated in the Emily Sachs Dance Benefit — commemorating Penn student Emily Sachs who died from asthma — at the Iron Gate Theater last weekend. The annual benefit raises money to support asthma research and the Art-Reach program.

With Zack Rosen starting on the bench, the Quakers fell into a hole and weren’t able to dig themselves out, as the Bulldogs cruised to a 61-48 victory.

Despite controversy surrounding referee Kevin Quirk’s decision to count the bucket, the Quakers left the Pizzitola Sports Center Saturday night with a thrilling 55-54 victory over Brown.

The Big Red (18-3, 4-0 Ivy) made quick work of a Harvard (14-4, 3-1) team that was predicted to be their most formidable Ivy opponent. Columbia broke a five-game skid Saturday night with a 63-51 victory over Dartmouth. Princeton bullied the Elis 58-45 Saturday in New Haven, Conn.

The Quakers walked away from their trip to Hofstra on Sunday having won six of their eight contests on the day (each team won a decision by forfeit), culminating in a 31-12 drumming of the Pride (5-7-2).

People are thinking about why they eat what they eat. And if you haven’t started thinking about it too, you need to start now.

At Penn, it is easy to take only those classes that fit our schedules or promise lighter fare. Given the temptation of this academic comfort zone, I have come to believe that when it comes to education, Columbia University does it best.

Recruitment for this year’s Relay for Life began Friday afternoon at the Relay for Life kick-off at Houston Hall’s Bodek Lounge.

The University’s switch from private lending to Direct Lending from the government starting this summer is an initiative that will hopefully make students’ lives easier.

Despite the budget constraints that have eclipsed many of Nutter’s planned initiatives, Penn officials and political analysts say Nutter’s real accomplishment has been changing the tenor of university relationships, making City Hall much more accessible and open to College Hall.

Members of “The Politics of Food and Agriculture” course, along with several Penn groups and Bon Appetit, are launching Food Week ­— a five-day initiative aimed at raising awareness about all aspects of the food production, preparation and consumption process.

The International Opera Theater’s production of Brundibar and the Children of Theresienstadt yesterday afternoon at the International House Philadelphia commemorated the original production performed in concentration camps during the Holocaust.

Strong effort wasn’t enough for the women’s basketball team in its first Ivy weekend, as it lost 58-51 to Yale and 61-47 to Brown.

More than 40 students with majors varying from international relations to biology took on roles as non-government organizations, military forces, government coalitions and two factions of locals in Bosnia during a real time mission simulation.

At Friday evening’s memorial, friends described the College sophomore as ‘beautiful, inside and out’ and University Chaplain Chaz Howard said there was a "sweetness in the air."

A "mentally unstable" man who dressed as a woman was arrested Friday afternoon after attacking an AlliedBarton Security Supervisor, according to the Division of Public Safety.