For Burger, the road to developing the World Trade Center began during his freshman year at Penn.

The adage goes: “it’s a marathon, not a sprint”, but starting a distance race on the right foot sure can’t hurt.

In what will be the team’s longest and most-challenging road trip of the season, the team will benefit from the ability to have a home away from home with the families of their players.

After a solid opening weekend at Vagelos Field, Penn field hockey will look to use two more nonconference games to shape into form ahead of Ivy play.

On the athletic field, however, there seems to be no need for a comparison or ranking:  The Ivy League schools play each other for Ivy titles, and the stats clearly say who is the best — after all, the Ivy League is primarily an athletic conference.

Last year, she was relatively in the dark about the school's

Seven school district parents with the group Parents United for Public Education filed a lawsuit on Wednesday claiming that the Pennsylvania Department of Education has failed to investigate complaints about “curriculum deficiencies” in the School District of Philadelphia.

You might be paying too much for your textbooks.While many students buy their course materials online to save time and money, they may be overlooking an important tax exemption.

Integration of humanities and the arts in research universities will take center stage this weekend at the Humanities and the Arts in the Integrated Knowledge University (HAIKU) Conference at the Penn Museum.

The hardest part of being on leave was dealing with the shame of what felt like such a heavy failure. To me, every day I wasn’t in class was another day that I was being idle. It didn’t matter how much I helped my family out around the house, how much I volunteered or how many doctor’s appointments I went to. If I wasn’t a student, if I wasn’t employed, I wasn’t a productive member of society — end of story.

I found myself relying on my friends majoring in international relations and political science — and various friends’ Facebook statuses — to learn about major world news. I was unaware of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 and the unfolding events of the Israel-Palestine conflict for hours or sometimes days after the fact.

A few short days after a tough nonconference loss to Delaware, Penn volleyball will get a shot at No. 1.

Penn women’s tennis lost one of its all-time greatest coaches back in November 1996 when Cissie Leary died of scleroderma. This weekend, the team will once again uphold her memory.

Last semester I took “Communication and the Presidency," taught by David Eisenhower in the Annenberg School. A hidden gem of Penn, the course provided a stipend to fly to any Presidential Library to do research for the course’s assignment of a 30-page paper. I flew to Dallas, Texas, where I studied George W. Bush’s epideictic rhetoric in his three major post-9/11 speeches.

Hannah Rosenfeld is a College sophomore from Tokyo. Her email address is hannahro@sas.upenn.edu.

Anneka DeCaro is a College freshman. Her email address is annekaxiv@gmail.com.

The American Association of University Professors has taken a formal position opposing the use of 'trigger warnings' in instructional materials, saying that they threaten academic freedom.