Check out what happened around Penn’s peer schools this week

A number of students, through groups and fraternities, are leaving Penn’s Spring Fling concert for Villanova University’s Alesso concert.

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“You nine folks hold the keys to the kingdom,” North Philadelphia resident Penelope Giles said to the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board, in town Thursday to hear citizen input on a new city casino.

From Penn Muslim Students Association’s Family Fair to Penn Newman’s Stations of the Cross, the Penn Faith Fund has been making ambitious religious events possible since 2010.

For both its clients and the law students who work there, Penn Law School’s Gittis Center for Clinical Legal Studies is more than just a building on Sansom Street — it’s Penn Law’s very own “law firm.”

“Nice socks.” That’s what Wharton alum Ricky Choi hears on a daily basis.

A new campus presence initiative from the Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement is responsible for an increased presence of undercover officers at this weekend’s Spring Fling.

On Thursday afternoon, a group of students gathered on College Green to participate in the Jewish Heritage Program’s annual PB&J-a-thon.

Don’t bank on double majoring to guarantee a job after graduation.

World War II veteran and Dachau liberator Don Greenbaum and Holocaust survivor Ernie Gross were invited by the Holocaust Education Committee at Hillel to share their stories with Penn students and faculty.

Though there’s still over a year before the primary, the race for Pennsylvania’s 13th congressional district seat is getting crowded — and several of the candidates have strong Penn connections. Tuesday, Fels Institute of Government faculty member Marjorie Margolies — who represented the 13th district from 1993-95 — made headlines with speculation that she may enter the race.

On Wednesday and Thursday, Pop Shop is showcasing products from four different e-commerce brands. Three out of four of these brands are run by Wharton MBA students. Customers who are interested in the products can buy them at the two-day event or can go online and purchase them.

Scott Mackler, a 54-year-old professor in the Perelman School of Medicine, was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis — more commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease — in 1999.

Alpha Delta Pi will not participate in formal recruitment in spring 2014, but will be able to recruit in both the fall and spring of the 2014-2015 academic year.

Both token and cash fare increases are set to take effect on July 1, should SEPTA’s newest budget be approved by the agency’s board. The cost of both token and cash fare will jump by 25 cents, to $1.80 and $2.25, respectively. Once the system phases in its new payment technology, which will use fare cards and other microchip-equipped devices, cash fare will increase to $2.50.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, Penn’s Division of Facilities and Real Estate Services conducted four focus groups with representatives from Streetsense, a consulting firm working with the University, and Michael Salove Company, the University’s retail broker, to discuss how to improve University City’s retail offerings