The brains behind the next big start-up may not be computer science prodigies or Wharton graduates, but former inmates.

The first win is out the way. Already ahead of last year’s pace, there should be many more to come for Penn baseball. The Red and Blue dropped two of three games against Stetson in Florida to open their 2015 season, winning the second game in between losses in the series opener and rubber match on Friday and Sunday, respectively.

Tory Bensen had been quiet all game for Penn women’s lacrosse. One week after scoring six goals against Delaware, the Red and Blue star attack had only notched one score as the Quakers entered overtime in their matchup with Vanderbilt on Sunday.

Since 1942, the Palestra has played host to the playoffs of the Philadelphia Catholic League, the city’s athletic organization for Archdiocesan schools.

Oftentimes in sports, the stats accurately show everything one would need to know about a contest.

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With the release of the Mental Health Task Force’s recommendations, many are left feeling dissatisfied with the efforts made to improve quality of life for students.

People who believe that it constitutes a real harm to be exposed to an opinion they find bigoted will never feel safe in the sort of conversation that needs to be had the most: one that actually engages with the opposition.

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If a college mishandles sexual assault in the future, the federal government may come cracking down. A group of senators proposed legislation last week that would raise fines on colleges that mishandle sexual assault accusations while also implementing more requirement for transparency.

An offensive party at the University of Texas caused an uproar on campus but will go unpunished by the University. The fraternity Phi Gamma Delta threw a "border patrol" themed party with students showing up in sombreros and ponchos.

A national survey of Jewish students shows a high number of students experiencing anti-Semitism in some form on campus. The National Demographic Survey of American Jewish College Students was conducted as an online survey and was taken by 1,157 students.

Students at Stanford are tackling the question of what the college experience will look like in the 22nd century.  As part of a thought experiment in 2013, student from the Institute of Design at Stanford thought of four ways in which institutes of higher education will look like in the future.  One idea the students came up with is changing the time frame from four years of education to six years, which students would be able to use at any point during their lifetimes — that is, they can attend school for four years, leave to work, then return for their two final years at any point in they wanted.

On Saturday night at the Palestra, Penn women’s basketball celebrated the careers of its four seniors, and throughout the game that followed, the Quakers never needed to stop their celebration.

Taline King, a Drexel freshman, was found dead in her dorm room on Saturday.

Already written off as bound for last place in the Ivy League, Penn basketball came oh-so-close to pulling off an upset on Yale that would have sent the conference into chaos.

Penn isn't the only Ivy school with a tuition hike in the making. Both Yale and Cornell announced tuition increases for the 2015-16 fiscal year.