A few hours after the weekend ended and our tired bodies were flinged/flang/flung out, curious friends pelted us with the same question: "What’s Fling like for MERT?" Our answer to this question is always the same: "organized chaos." But also, as far as our positions are concerned, "you have no idea." It’s no rumor that Fling weekend is MERT’s busiest.

While some may follow Penn’s lead and assume that since both contain the word “Africa” they must be similar enough to simply be merged into one, this thinking is unfounded and wrong. This oversimplified reasoning serves as yet another example of the suppression and the overgeneralization of black voices in the world, and within our own University.

With all due respect to the first two days of Penn Relays competition, Saturday was the day that the track and field world had been waiting for.

Brown softball coach Katie Flynn has been accused of bullying players, leading to poor player retention, according to the Brown Daily Herald. The Daily Herald spoke with multiple players who said that Flynn had made remarks about players' weights and appearances, including a particularly disparaging quote about one player whose parents were hosting the team on the west coast. “She lives a block away from an ice cream shop?

When we allow ourselves the time to invest in relationships and feel wholly connected to each other, we can fill ourselves with a renewed energy built of the passions of our peers.

The suspects allegedly robbed a 7-11 on 42nd and Walnut Streets.

Ideas for Action asks youth ages 18-35 in teams of two to five from all over the world to submit proposals with their ideas for financing solutions to deliver the post-2015 development agenda.

Much like time itself, the Penn Relays have essentially become an inevitability over the past 120 years at Franklin Field. However, as Penn track and field understands on a deep level, the results that the Relays yield are all but inevitable.

Submatriculation, a program that allows students to complete their first year of graduate study during their senior year as undergraduates, exists in many forms on Penn’s campus.

It wasn't a great week for Penn's next-door neighbor. Drexel sent out 495 congratulations emails to students it had rejected, when the University meant to send the emails only as a follow-up to accepted students. The nearly 500 students had been either rejected or had sent incomplete applications, according to the Associated Press.

This new incident won't be helping fraternities in the public eye. The University of Florida chapter of Zeta Beta Tau is currently being investigated for spitting on veterans and urinating on American flags.

A member of the group stood on a box with plastic chains around her neck, reciting a poem directed at the members of the fraternity, calling them out for their choice to feature a black blow-up sex doll in their holiday photo last December. 

Private universities such as Yale and Cornell have, in recent months, attempted unionization drives — but this doesn't seem to be the case at Penn.

The Penn Relays have a way of sneaking up on the Penn community as a whole, and this year was no different. Tucked between Spring Fling and final exams, it’s understandable; this is an especially busy time of year for students on campus.

When the anonymous polling app WhatsGoodly came to campus it caused controversy for claims of cyberbullying.

University of Virginia’s associate dean of students, Nicole Eramo, has publicly denounced the now-retracted Rolling Stone article detailing an alleged gang rape that took place in a UVA fraternity house.

Dartmouth has announced that David Brooks, a conservative social and political commentator, will speak at the college’s commencement this year.