As competition for most job positions increases, personal recommendations and networking continue to be an important part of the job hunt, according to assistant Wharton professor Matthew Bidwell, who studies employment patterns.

Penn will participate in the President’s Interfaith and Community Service Campus Challenge, which was released by the White House last spring. The Challenge will encourage college campuses to institute more interfaith and community service programming.

Students enrolled in the Political Science class “Citizenship and Democratic Development” this semester were shocked when they heard why their professor, the late Henry Teune, couldn’t be at the first day of class.

Penn Park has a multitude of benefits, but the question remains — will students actually go that far east to utilize it?

The Palestinian strategy for statehood has flipped in a matter of eight years. The strategy now seems to follow a new script: statehood first, negotiations later.

Netflix jumped the gun by convincing millions of its subscribers to choose between price and quality.

George Mason wasted no time in putting an end to Penn’s five-game shutout streak on Sunday.

The truth is that the Quakers were not out-coached, but rather exposed by an underdog Lafayette team led by a quarterback making his first collegiate start.

It was halftime of a scoreless battle, and an upbeat Colleen Fink had only one message for the Penn field hockey team: score first. As the second half began, the Quakers generated chance after chance.

The result was eight shots and two goals for Baker, who paced the Quakers to a 2-1 victory over Villanova.

It wasn’t quite like the 70-0 Princeton beatdown last year, but the sprint football still ran roughshod over the Tigers under the Friday night lights of Franklin Field this weekend.

In the spirit of transparency, the University released its annual Jeanne Clery crime report Sept. 15, detailing three years of crime and emergency on campus.

On Monday night during the Tampa GOP debate, Michele Bachmann, a Minnesota Congresswoman, attacked Texas Governor Rick Perry for his use of an executive mandate for all 11- and 12-year-old girls in the state to receive the Human papillomavirus vaccine, Gardasil.

Starting last Friday night at 6 p.m., nearly 200 students from universities all over the U.S. gathered in Towne Building for the next 48 hours to design and build phone and internet applications.

Last Friday, the 2013 and 2014 class boards kicked off the weekend with the resurrected Skimmer tradition that featured hot air balloons, delicious free food and plenty of long lines.

An outbreak of listeria illness — linked to cantaloupes from Colorado-based producer Jensen Farms — has forced the fruit off menus at Penn.

While hundreds of professors have begun to upload syllabi online in recent years, hundreds more have yet to make their way onto the internet.