On Monday, Feb. 9, Penn Professor Damon Centola and Andrea Baronchelli of the University of London, published their findings on how social conventions emerge even when there are already preexisting social conventions.

How one Wharton student (almost) got arrested, became a pimp, started a Mafia and became Singapore’s hottest young entrepreneur.

While half of the Ivy League, with Harvard most recently joining the ranks, rely on strictly defined policies to enforce sexual misconduct regulations, Penn’s 20-year-old policy lets social norms do the work.

With the release of the "Fifty Shades of Grey" movie over the weekend, students and faculty reflect on implications about real life relationships.

The Pope is likely to visit either a children's hospital or a juvenile prison while in the City of Brotherly Love.

The idea of Black History Month does not sit well with some black students at Penn. While the holiday is meant to be a celebration of black history, these students contend there are negative implications of having a separate month to applaud the African-American narrative.

One thing often overlooked amidst the day parties and star studded performances of Spring Fling is the work that goes into making the entire event possible. Approximately 50 undergraduate students plan the massive weekend-long event — from the concert to organizing food vendors for the quad.

Bernie Lemonick, one of the most illustrious players in Penn football history and an assistant coach with the program throughout the late 1950s, has died.

While it may not be a home matchup, Penn men’s lacrosse will not have to venture far for its matchup on Tuesday as it visits a local foe. In the midst of their earliest week of play in program history, the Quakers will travel to take on Saint Joesph’s, seeking to defend their undefeated mark against the Hawks. Tuesday’s contest marks the second game of the Red and Blue’s season following their season opener against UMBC on Saturday.

Conventional wisdom holds that when it gets cold outside, it’s best to stick together and huddle up.

Charles Darwin was hesitant, and rightly so. The implications of his crowning achievement, “On the Origin of Species,” would reach far and wide, setting off an upheaval in our conception of the natural world and our place within it.

ANNEKA DECARO is a College freshman from Austin, TX. Her email address is annekaxiv@gmail.com.

SHAWN KELLEY is an LPS junior from San Diego. His email address is skelley@sas.upenn.edu.

Somewhere along the line, a lot of people have come to see science as an ideology we can opt in or out of rather than a process of logical enquiry.

While many of our peer institutions also offer community space and more financial aid resources to international students, the request for an extended ISO, a proper transition to campus, is simple to satisfy.

From renting out the Philadelphia Museum of Art during NSO to developing new campuses in San Francisco and Beijing, Penn spends lavishly to maintain its reputation as one of this country’s most coveted Ivy League universities.

Penn students might be quick to support a recent Republican proposal in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives: more liquor stores and cheaper alcohol.