“I’m closer to the student body,” College freshman Harrison Meyer said. “You know, I can understand them more easily than the current board — the current board makes very little effort to reach out to the students.” 

Cassandra Hsiao, a first-generation Malaysian immigrant, wrote about her struggles with the English language.

Students for Justice in Palestine are hosting "Israeli Apartheid Week" for the second time at Penn despite receiving backlash last year.

Stanford University spokeswoman Lisa Lapin noted the university’s nonprofit status as being an integral component of decisions regarding the image’s use.

For a large research institution like Penn that has received funding from the federal government for humanities research, this policy could drastically change many of the University's current programs.

Students at Penn spend a year looking forward to Spring Fling, but weather forecasts suggest that the weekend may not go as hoped.

The Penn Wharton China Summit brought leaders in the fields of technology, media and entertainment, commercial real estate, fashion and the arts to Penn’s campus this weekend.

There was an extensive application process to gain admission to the course, and students were notified via email whether or not they had been accepted. According to the email sent out to applicants, over 250 people applied for only 70 spots.

This past weekend, ten Penn students took the stage in Arch Auditorium to perform original monologues as part of Penn Monologues’ eighth annual production.

“At the end of the day, we need to balance the safety of our pedestrians and the environmental impact of what we do,” Penn Executive Director of Operations and Maintenance Faramarz Vakilizadeh said.

“This is an attachment that attaches onto the exhaust pipe of the wood burning stove, and it captures some of the heat that is being lost through the exhaust,” Engineering senior Kellen Sanna said.

A new contract between the University of Pennsylvania Health System and health insurer Independence Blue Cross is set to become effective July 1, 2017.

A study led in part by Penn scientists examined the DNA of over 10,500 Pakistanis in order to guide research on treatments for heart disease.

Professor of plastic surgery in the Perelman School of Medicine Paris Butler and vice-provost’s postdoctoral fellow in the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics Ahmaad Jenkins received the honor. 

Vice President Joe Biden will speak at Cornell University’s Convocation this May, according to the Cornell Daily Sun.

Biden was chosen to speak by a committee of senior class marshals that has selected the Class Day speaker since 1968.

“Before going abroad, I was worried something like this was going to happen, but not in Sweden," College junior Lacey Chaum said. "It was the first time I ever felt like Stockholm was unsafe.”