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Thursday night, Penn’s Women’s Political League hosted a small discussion with big ideas.

Penn Student Health and Physical Exercise will focus on mental and emotional health in addition to physical fitness and nutrition.

The Philadelphia Parking Authority mandated a law in 2005 stating that all taxicabs in Philadelphia are required to accept credit cards

A unique twist on the well-known TED Talk series came to Levine Hall on Wednesday night.

A number of undergraduates are given permission to take on part-time status each semester, which means they can take 2.5 credits or fewer in their final semester at Penn.

Last night, students in Huntsman Hall were greeted by a man dressed in bags of beef jerky. However, this wasn’t a new dining option — the Wharton Entrepreneurship Club was hosting a panel discussion on business startups.

On Tuesday morning, the venture fund announced its investment committee. Made up of nine Penn and two Drexel students, the committee will make capital investments between $10,000 and $20,000 in student-run startups.

Senator-elect and former Law School professor Elizabeth Warren (D.-Mass.) revealed in a fundraising email that her campaign has gone into debt despite record fundraising numbers.

Penn Hillel Director Rabbi Michael Uram was recently named one of the country’s top 50 Jewish leaders by The Jewish Daily Forward. He shares the honor with Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman and singer and actress Barbra Streisand, among others.

According to the World Health Organization, women and children in Africa spend around 40 billion hours collecting water each year, but they are systematically excluded from all decision making in areas of water and sanitation.

Rita Hodges, co-author of “The Road Half Traveled,” tells the DP that Penn is a leader in civic engagement but is “only beginning to tap the comprehensive set of resources in a sustainable, strategic way.”

Beth Comstock spoke Wednesday afternoon for the last of the Wharton Leadership Lectures of the semester. “Why be small when the world demands you to be big?” she asked the crowd, daring them to take risks.

Last night, Brown — developer of the Mandarin Oriental Boston hotel — spoke at the Wharton Undergraduate Real Estate Club’s event “Service Sells: Inside perspectives on luxury hospitality and development.”

According to a research report done at Stanford University, more than a third of faculty have partners who are also academics, making it a very common problem to which Penn is no exception.

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The Facebook page called Penn Compliments has posted more than 500 anonymously-submitted compliments about students since its inception.