One of the United Minorities Council’s initiatives this year is to bring the UMC to you. In an effort to promote the urgency and import of our mission, we’ve decided to introduce ourselves.

Unlike our counterparts stuck in college towns, we can learn more from Philadelphia than from any book or lecture given at Penn. The experience has the potential to change our lives.

With a bill passed Dec. 9 set to triple the tuition cap for universities across England, British students may have more of a reason to consider studying abroad.

Two Wharton profs and a first-year Applied Economics Ph.D. candidate argue that “measured subjective well-being grows hand in hand with material living standards.”

The Penn Wrestling team transitioned seamlessly from wrestling in tournaments to wrestling in duals, defeating Rider, 23-18, in their first dual meet of the season.

Whoever said that December is the most wonderful time of the year was probably not a college student.

After crushing Maine, 69-48, Friday, the Penn women’s basketball team enters winter break in a much different position than it did last season.

Sunday night’s second-annual Dancing With the Professors featured four Penn faculty members in a heated dance-off in Houston Hall.

Penn has lost the last three dual meets against the Columbia Lions. On Friday, however, that dual meet losing streak ended for the Red and Blue with a victory at Sheerr Pool.

Although there are benefits to implementing “small ball,” basketball is and always will be a big man’s game. If Penn’s frontcourt players don’t step up soon, the Quakers will learn that the hard way.

Winter break is the most wonderful time of the year — except if you’re a swimmer or a wrestler, who undergo the most rigorous portion of their training over break.

SCOUT BANANA presented everything from storytelling to drumming to water-related health trivia Saturday evening at an event titled “All About Africa” in Claudia Cohen Hall.

Starting next semester, the University plans to schedule campus tours in Spanish once or twice per week, according to Dean of Admissions Eric Furda.

The Penn men's basketball team will play three road games over winter break — against Delaware Dec. 22, at Marist Dec. 29 and a final one, at Rupp Arena.

Philanthropic organization Minerva Initiatives has teamed with the Class Boards of 2013 and 2014 to raise money to build a maternity ward in a Kenyan hospital, to be named “the Penn Classes of 2013 and 2014 Ward.”

President Obama recently agreed to extend income tax cuts for all American citizens, as opposed to his former stance to extend benefits for all but the wealthiest two percent of Americans. The compromise — which will be presented to the Senate Monday — includes a plan for tuition spending as well.

On Thursday, eBay Inc. — the world’s largest online marketplace — announced its $75 million purchase of Milo Inc., a company developed by 2008 Wharton graduate Jack Abraham.