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The federal government launched an initiative Thursday to make repayment easier for students struggling to pay back their loans.

It was less than a decade after he left Penn in 1977, and Gary Ross found himself sitting in the home of his longtime friend Anne Spielberg.

The Philadelphia School District’s School Reform Commission’s March decision as to whether or not to close University City High School could significantly damage the Netter Center for Community Partnerships’ relationship with the students.

For many, trying to find a balance between faith and proof can become a difficult tightrope act.In conjunction with the University’s “Year of Proof,” Penn Secular Society brought Carnegie Mellon University philosophy professor Andy Norman to speak Wednesday afternoon in a lecture titled “Faith, Proof and Everything in Between.”

While women are getting ahead nationwide, their rate of advancement at Penn and at other elite institutions has grown stagnant.

The Towne building — located in the Engineering Quad — was evacuated at approximately 3:30 p.m. Thursday due to an accidental chemical spill.The spill, which occurred in a lab on the building’s first floor, was cleaned-up by Penn’s Emergency Health and Radiation Safety, according to the Division of Public Safety.

Sunday evening Penn students across campus will put down their Math 104 textbooks, marketing assignments and political science papers to tune in for the Oscars. Dorms throughout campus will be hosting a variety of screening events in their various spaces, including Hill House, King’s Court English House, Harrison College House, Rodin College House, and the Quad.

Two days after President’s Day, a celebrated biographer cast a new light on the man commonly known as the Father of Our Country.

Though the Vagina Monologues have come and gone, students are working to make sure its message is here to stay.

On Tuesday, March 19, the Social Planning and Events Committee’s board is bringing comedian Jason Sudeikis to Irvine Auditorium as this semester’s Connaissance speaker.

It was January 2011. College junior Layla O’Kane sat glued to her television, clicking back and forth between United States and international news channels.

For many of the nation’s soldiers, coming home from war can be almost as challenging as leaving for deployment.

Read the incidents that occurred in the Penn Patrol Zone from Feb. 8 to 13.

Two Penn undergraduate students took the train to Washington, D.C., in November 1972 to report on the presidential election for The Daily Pennsylvanian.

Demonstrators gathered in the freezing cold Wednesday afternoon on the steps of Houston Hall to protest the results of the lottery registration at the Penn Alexander School.

The Tobacco Free Hiring policy, which extends to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, aims to “improve the health of its workforce and reduce the cost of health-care benefits,” according to the system’s website.