As the push for health care reform continues, nurse practioners’ special approach to health is being increasingly looked at as part of an improved care system — especially in addressing the mounting shortage of primary care providers.

Penn Feminists is the newest women’s rights group on campus. Graduate Nursing student Ellen Hansen, the groups’s founder, hopes to set members of Penn Feminists apart from those of similar organizations on campus in the range of issues they discuss.

Outgoing Multicultural Greek Council President and College senior Agnes Nam said interest in the MGC among freshmen is noticeably higher than in previous years. The MGC will decide whether to expand in either the spring or fall of next year.

On Saturday night, members of Philo and other participants dressed in black robes, masks and costumes and chanted the haunting stanzas of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven” and “The Bells of Ill Omen” as they marched down Locust Walk for its traditional Poe Vestpertil event.

On Saturday, PAACH held a homecoming reception marking its 10th anniversary. The event was catered to students and alumni involved with PAACH, who gathered in the ARCH building lobby to discuss their experiences.

On Friday, the Caring People Alliance and a Management 100 group held the Fifth Annual Caring People Alliance’s Halloween Carnival at the West Philadelphia Community Center.

The Student Labor Action Project used Gutmann’s Halloween party as an opportunity to protest Penn’s economic sponsorship of HEI Hotels and Resorts, in a setting where they could not be ignored.

On Friday night, the Christian Association opened its doors to students, alumni and community members for an official welcoming of new Executive Director Rob Gurnee.

On Friday, Zeta Beta Tau raised over $1,000 at its first-annual “Charity Car Smash,” at which participants were asked to donate a small sum to take a swing at an old car with either a baseball bat or a sledgehammer.

Homecoming weekend has expanded beyond just the football game, now featuring academic, performing arts, and cultural opportunities for past and present Quakers

The Philadelphia Tea Party Patriots Penn Branch held a debate in Houston Hall in which founder Dan Chinburg and Wharton junior Emma Perkins fielded questions from an audience of four.

Earlier this year, Wharton alumnus Raynard Kington became the first openly gay president of Grinnell College, one of the nation’s top liberal arts colleges.

Derek Hicks, a professor at Lancaster Theological Seminary, presented on “The Splendor of Degraded Flesh: Black Embodied Experience and Religious Responses" Wednesday.

PennMod — a student-run, staff-monitored initiative — began in September as a new campus-wide support group advocating moderation over abstinence.

Student interests at Penn do not align with the results of a recent Bloomberg Businessweek list naming College Students' Top Employers.

Huwaida Arraf and Adam Shapiro addressed a crowd of about a hundred people at Penn, discussing the International Solidarity Movement— a Palestinian rights organization they co-founded — and the flotilla mission to Gaza this May that generated international attention and outrage.

“My dad would have loved the movie,” Zvi Bielski said of his late father Zus Bielski, who is played by Liev Schreiber in the 2008 film Defiance. Bielski was invited to campus by Chabad leader Rabbi Levi Haskelevich, to address students Tuesday evening.