The appointment of Christina Paxson will maintain the current balance of male-to-female Ivy League presidents.

Students, faculty and staff at Penn — as well as from schools across Philadelphia — walked out of their classrooms Thursday for the National Day of Action for Education, joining together in solidarity for a march to City Hall. GALLERY: Education WalkoutVIDEO: March for Education Reform

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Last Saturday, Penn Dems announced that College junior Andrew Silverstein resigned from his position as president. College sophomore Andrew Brown will assume the position, effective immediately, in leading the student group for the next year.

Each trip has a different project on a different site, but all of them share the same basic structure: groups of 12-14 travel somewhere in the country and engage in community service.

The coding and startup community at Penn has been steadily growing in recent years.

Diversity in outward markers often reflects diversity of experience and thought, which are highly beneficial for a college community.

The Division of Public Safety recently concluded an investigation of a reported swastika engraving on campus.

Before arriving at Penn, 22-year-old College freshman John Cheo was somewhere in the middle of Brunei’s jungles on a survival expedition, living off whatever he could scavenge from the area while fulfilling Singapore’s military obligations.

I had just reached the ripe age of 16 when my mother marched into my room, fresh from watching The Oprah Winfrey Show and announced: “We need to get you a vibrator.”

I personally don’t know what dedicating a theme year to the Bible would have achieved, but what concerns me is the public’s outrage against the slightest semblance of religiosity in our government.

The Penn Project for Civic Engagement has teamed with the region’s chapter of a national service organization, to host community forums.

During the break, Wharton Dean Thomas Robertson will visit Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Buenos Aires, Argentina, as part of his plan to meet with alumni and other influential people associated with Wharton.

Maalik Reynolds won the indoor Ivy League Championships and will compete at the NCAA Championships on March 10-11.

Freedom to Marry Day is celebrated all over the nation and involves symbolically marrying student couples throughout the day. It is organized by National Marriage Equality USA, a grass roots nonprofit organization.

This weekend, five Penn wrestlers will compete at the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Championships. While three Quakers have already qualified for the NCAAs, the other two need to win to qualify.

At the end of the month, four members of the Penn football team will put their talents on display for NFL scouts in the hopes of getting picked up for training camp.