Both token and cash fare increases are set to take effect on July 1, should SEPTA’s newest budget be approved by the agency’s board. The cost of both token and cash fare will jump by 25 cents, to $1.80 and $2.25, respectively. Once the system phases in its new payment technology, which will use fare cards and other microchip-equipped devices, cash fare will increase to $2.50.

At last night’s talk, Appelbaum’s speaking style was just as straightforward and logical as his journalistic writing. He explained the central problem surrounding the financial crisis — that in the United States, economic policymaking dictates foreign policy, and the government is run by lawyers who occasionally take advice from economists.

Last night in Houston Hall, the Civic House Associates Coalition hosted the CHAC Community Dinner to facilitate discussion between local nonprofit organization leaders and Penn students.

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman discussed the evolution of massive open online courses with The Daily Pennsylvanian

For the fourth time, a group of Penn students held a Locks of Love event at the Penn Newman Center near the corner of 38th and Walnut streets.

A recent reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act may affect the way in which Penn is required to report details about sexual violence on campus.

Congressman Chaka Fattah (D-Pa.) announced that $960,000 in Affordable Housing Grants would be awarded to sponsors of building projects that will house veterans, homeless families and the mentally ill.

Four Wharton students calling themselves the “Team Work” team won the 4th Annual Villanoval Real Estate Challenge, taking away a $1,000 prize.

A full-time poet and part-time lecturer at the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, Kenneth Goldsmith is also a self-professed “institutional critic.” So when he was named the first “poet laureate” of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in January, Goldsmith was naturally “suspicious.”

Organized by Wharton sophomore Andrew Hudis and David Feinman, a childhood friend who currently attends Bucks County Community College, this unorthodox 5K race will test the runners’ abilities to survive a zombie apocalypse.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced in March that petitions for H-1B international work visas — which allow internationals to temporarily live and work in the United States for three years—will be limited to 65,000 for the 2014 Fiscal Year.

Venmo co-founder and 2005 College graduate Andrew Kortina defied this stereotype by creating Venmo, an app for exchanging money.

If you think hoodies, jackets and other Penn paraphernalia are expensive, think again.

There’s more than just oinks and moos at Penn School of Veterinary Medicine’s New Bolton Center.

On March 22, the University filed suit in the United States District Court of Eastern Pennsylvania against St. Jude in the matter of a patent issued to St. Jude on March 19, which Penn claims is invalid.

A lawsuit recently filed by Penn against a company by the name of “Wharton” hinges on the issue of trademark infringement, among other allegations.

As the race heats up for a second city casino license, the Philadelphia City Planning Commission hosted three open houses this week to gather citizen opinion. “We’re trying to get these proposals to be as good as they can possibly be,” Deputy Mayor Alan Greenberger, who also chairs the PCPC, said. Posterboards displayed renderings of each casino, the projects’ statistics and maps of current land use in the area.