At midnight on Tuesday, 40 volunteers — including two Penn students — went into Philadelphia to count the homeless as part of an initiative led by local nonprofit Project HOME.

A pre-trial conference was scheduled for March 2 at a Tuesday arraignment for Leslie Mosby, who allegedly crashed a stolen car into the barriers located at 40th Street and Locust Walk last November.

The DP's weekly crime blotter for the week of Jan. 21-27.

Last weekend, the chess team traveled to Columbia and became Penn’s newest Ivy League titleholders, defeating Harvard, Yale and Cornell as ferociously as a bunch of linemen.

The preliminary arraignment for Saad Masood, 30, a former School of Engineering and Applied Sciences student who was arrested on Jan. 20, was again postponed, this time to Feb. 15.

The men’s and women’s swimming teams both continued their winning streak against neighborhood rival La Salle Tuesday night.

On Monday, the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships announced seven recipients of the Thouron Award — a Penn-specific scholarship that provides full funding for undergraduate and graduate students to study in the United Kingdom.

Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Formspring Ade Olonoh spoke at a digital question-and-answer session hosted by Penn’s Interactive Media Group Tuesday evening.

Despite battling a cramp-inducing muscle condition, squash junior Thomas Mattsson’s has retained his number one spot on the ladder.

In the past three years, about 18 percent of Penn's new hires were alumni, with about five percent earning degrees while employed by the University.

Two sections of MBA classes are participating in a Wharton Computing pilot, which gives students access to free iPads.

Penn hopes to include questions on sexual orientation and gender identity in its supplement despite the Common Application’s decision last week to exclude such questions.

SEPTA announced that it has finally made progress on its plan to implement an electronic fare system. It is imperative that it stays on schedule and does not miss its mark.

Following widespread protests on January 25, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak instituted internet censorship in an attempt to curb protesting.

The reverberations of the Egypt protests against President Hosni Mubarak’s nearly 30-year-old regime have been felt a world away, here on campus.

Group projects often lead to unfair work distribution and some students receiving grades that they don’t deserve. We shouldn’t have to sacrifice our GPAs to do them.

Residences should continue the academic mission of the University — and there needs to be more student involvement to produce excitement and buy-in.