The UA writes about its communication with DPS after the Nov. 21 shooting, and a Residential Advisory Board member responds to a housing guide story about negative experiences with on-campus housing.

Start anew and pick your own traditions. Odds are, you don’t really enjoy at least a few of your family’s typical holiday activities, and there’s no reason to keep them up.

Clickers are used in hundreds of universities across the country to help professors take attendance and gauge whether students are doing their homework and paying attention. They certainly have downsides.

Penn wrestling will head to State College, Pa., Sunday morning for the Nittany Lion Open with three freshmen in its starting lineup.

The iPad craze has hit Penn, and students can be seen using it in classrooms and study spots all over campus. Sales have shown an average monthly increase of 33 percent over April sales, and still growing.

Carlos Beltran’s “Barrios Vol. 1,” a series of 25 black-and-white photographs documenting Venezuela’s slums, now line the walls of the Rotunda, where the photojournalist spoke yesterday.

Students involved in the new co-op housing initiative will be alleviated of the problem of finding roommates by committing to shared values and democratic decision-making.

The Penn volleyball team will compete Friday afternoon in Durham, N.C., against Ohio University in the first round of the NCAA tournament.

Programs in Religion, Interfaith and Spirituality Matters, Penn's interfaith student group, hosted “AHHH!!! Muslims!!!” in the basement of the 1920 Commons to discuss the negative stereotypes associated with Islam.

The Quakers have taken on a new philanthropic initiative this year: Charge for a Cure. Fans have pledged to donate a certain amount of money for every charge that a Penn player takes.

College sophomore Christopher Cruz-Guzman was elected the new United Minorities Council chairman yesterday. Cruz-Guzman discussed his plans to promote unity, diversity and awareness on campus with the Daily Pennsylvanian.

College sophomores Isabel Friedman and Jake Shuster will take charge of the Penn Democrats as president and vice president, respectively. Having been elected Wednesday, they discussed their plans for the group with The DP.

On Thursday, the Associated Press reported that nationally, November retail sales were strong — an early indicator of optimism about the rest of the year’s profits. Several retailers around Penn are similarly enthusiastic.

From her favorite Yiddish word — kibbitz — to her family history, Penn President Amy Gutmann discussed a wide range of topics in her “Fireside Chat” with about 100 students at Hillel.

Recently discovered e-mails reveal that a document published in 2003 by Psychiatry Department Chairman Dwight Evans may not have been honest work.

Academic ghostwriting — in which individuals hire others to write papers or articles for them without attribution — is not an uncommon practice. And it has no place in academia.

Military tension between North and South Korea — which last week resulted in the first attack on a civilian area since the end of the Korean War — has concerned some students.