Nayef Yassin Nayef, a sophomore in Engineering, felt the two-day travel time to his home in Palestine was too long for this year's shortened winter break, so he decided to make alternative plans.

Penn men’s basketball will take a vacation over the next few weeks, with its next game coming December 28 against Drexel at the Palestra.

Penn wrestling is approaching winter break ready to work hard and win some key matches. As winter break approaches, the Quakers are preparing for two major tournaments – the Southern Scuffle in Chattanooga, Tennessee and the Lehman Open in Lancaster, Pennsylvania – before a huge dual meet against Princeton on January 8.

While student leaders of minority groups on campus said they were not surprised with the results of a recent study by Brandeis University, which found Penn to be lacking in socio-economic diversity and “hostile” to students of color, they felt the study left out certain nuances of their experiences at Penn. 

With only preseason tournaments under their belt thus far, Penn’s men and women fencing teams will look to use winter break as one of the final tune-ups before the rigors of the conference season begin.

The Penn women’s and men’s squash teams go into the winter break having two somewhat distinct experiences to start their seasons.

A lot can happen in three weeks. When Penn women’s basketball next takes to the court, three weeks will have gone by since the team’s last outing. Last Saturday, the Quakers won a nail-biter against Richmond 47-44, but now they’ll have a new challenge, not playing basketball. “It’s a chance for us to take a little bit of a pause and reflect on where we are at,” coach Mike McLaughlin said.

As classes end and reading days roll around, Penn students start gearing up for the last hurdle before winter break: finals.

One Penn professor's latest book is winning multiple awards.

On Thursday, a video dating app called Spin the Bottle Video Chat was launched at Penn. The DP sat down with the app’s CEO and co-founder, Matthew Cohen, to discuss this revolutionary new way of dating.

Rachel Pomerantz sat down with The Daily Pennsylvanian to speak about Penn Dems’ agenda for the spring semester.

During Thanksgiving, winter and spring breaks students can take advantage of free residence visits by Penn Police to check for signs of criminal activity or security breaches.

“Disability studies focuses not on the fixed medical trait, but focuses more on the social and cultural experience.”

Students across campus are planning to promote continued dialogue surrounding the Trump administration, which they see as a necessary first step for the future of campus election-related protests.

If you find yourself on Locust Walk this week, you may begin to notice a recurring subject in conversations taking place between stressed-out students.

With finals getting closer every minute, Penn students have hit the libraries to cram during the two-day reading period. Meanwhile, students at Harvard University have had all week to prepare for their exams.

Every day from 9 am to 6 pm on the hour, the sound of bells fills Penn’s campus. But unlike universities with prominent bell towers, Penn’s bells are nowhere to be seen.