Several incidents of crime occurred this past weekend involving a group of 12- to 17-year-old youths congregating around South Street.

The recently completed Weave Bridge is the first part of the University’s ambitious PennConnects plan

In shying away from the term “swine flu,” officials ignore the source of the problem

Uprisings around Philadelphia should motivate Penn to take action

Darryll Oliver’s performance at last weekend’s NCAA East Regional Championships summed up the event for the men’s track and field team: lots of talent but little results.

Anna Aagenes was just a second away from automatically qualifying for next week’s NCAA Track and Field Championships. Now, she’ll have to wait a whole year before she can redeem herself.

As the first interim provost in the University’s history chosen to permanently fill the position, Vincent Price already made his mark last Thursday when Penn President Amy Gutmann announced his selection — but he’s not taking any chances on missing a beat.

A former Penn professor has made her mark on religious history. Reverend Leslie Callahan was recently chosen as the new pastor for St. Paul’s Baptist Church — located at 1000 Wallace Street in Philadelphia — making her the first female pastor in the church’s 119 years of history.

New attempts to protect students from debt will only hurt them in the long run

While most Penn students were settling in to another semester of math problems, term papers and study sessions, I was on the other side of the world, nervously fumbling with a piece of chalk as I presented grammar lessons to a group of 10-year-olds.

Burglary May 25 - A male employee, 22, reported at about 11:30 p.m. that an unknown suspect entered his secured apartment, located on the 300 block of 42nd Street, and removed personal items. May 31 - Property was reported at about 11:30 a.m. to have been removed from the 3800 block of Chestnut Street.

Penn's best underdog story of the year had to wait until after graduation. With several seniors fresh out of cap and gown, the women's Club Ultimate Frisbee team ventured to the Midwest for the UPA College Women's Championships last weekend. The team, known by its members as Team Venus, didn't leave Columbus, Ohio with the trophy.

Despite recent downgrades in credit ratings across universities, Penn remains unscathed. Penn has retained its original ratings of AA+ from Standard & Poor's Ratings Services and Aa2 from Moody's Investor Service that it earned last year. Last week, credit ratings of numerous colleges - including Dartmouth and Bard Colleges -- declined due to waning endowment values and other financial issues, said Executive Vice President Craig Carnaroli.