Omar Barghouti — a pro-Palestinian researcher, human rights activist and author — spoke at Claudia Cohen Hall Tuesday. His lecture, hosted by Penn for Palestine and PennBDS, in partnership with Philly BDS and Philadelphia Jewish Voice for Peace, was titled “Israel is No South Africa.”

Humor and comedy have always been a central part of the Penn Band since its inception in 1897. This year, two College sophomores, Kylie Murrin and Lauren Mendoza, are leading the Penn Band in that same direction.

Gov. Tom Corbett released his annual budget proposal TUesday morning, which includes over $600 million in spending increases, as well as new revenue from proposed changes to the state pension system and liquor privatization.

In the face of the administration’s diversity controversy, the Undergraduate Assembly Steering Committee met Tuesday night to discuss how diversity in the higher levels of the University impacts student groups.

Won, which was located on 40th street between Walnut and Locust streets, closed on Dec. 31 after its main manager, Jay Han, fell ill and could no longer take care of the restaurant.

In October, the Penn men’s lacrosse team began working with Comegys Community School through the Comegys University-Assisted Community School partnership. Once a week, the team tutors fourth to sixth grade boys and teaches them how to play lacrosse.

For Steve Bilsky, neither ESPNU nor NBC Sports Network — with whom the Ivy League landed a two-year television contract in May — holds the future destiny of Quakers athletics on the small screen. Rather, it’s streaming.

After taking a year of absence to play professionally for the North American Soccer League’s Puerto Rico Islanders, Barreiro returned to campus this January to receive the final 5.5 credits that he needs to earn his Wharton degree.

In a departure from recent funding trends, Penn and its peer public institutions will likely avoid the state budget axe for the upcoming fiscal year.

The Wharton School announced on Jan. 30 that Ellen and Richard Perlman have contributed $1.65 million to the Wharton Business Plan Competition to go towards funding the grand prize of the competition, now titled the Perlman Prize.

The Penn Communications Operations Center is a conduit that handles 111,000 emergency calls a year and monitors security footage from a total of 123 closed circuit television cameras across campus.

See what incidents occurred in the Penn Patrol Zone last week.

Given the fortuitous timing of Mr. Barghouti’s talk — one year after the National BDS Conference held at Penn last February — we would like to reflect on the progress that BDS and the Palestinian non-violent resistance movement have made over the last year.

Jumping on the bandwagon after a season has aired and catching up on an online streaming service is becoming more and more common.

While some mourn the end of the era of boyfriends and girlfriends and dates at Pod, others find the hook-up culture to be less stressful than trying to hold a conversation with someone over the duration of a three-course meal and find it much more conducive to our busy schedules.

After 35 years, Alpha Sigma Phi is back.

More than two centuries after the original was signed in Pennsylvania, a new Bill of Rights has been drawn up.