Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey announced on Wednesday that the ban on women serving in the military would be lifted. However, female students preparing for the navy and military already have a mostly integrated training experience.

The Penn Gamers Club meets every Wednesday on the third floor of Houston Hall to play obscure, interactive board games. Members of the club speak about the hours they spend competing and ‘trash talking’ as if they’re playing sports.

Students who participate in Penn Greek life speak of the strong bonds they acquire through their sororities and fraternities – bonds that extend to their careers. Some of the benefits include OCR advice and alumni networking.

With a banner behind him displaying words like “consumer choice” and “consumer convenience,” Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett announced an aggressive new proposal Wednesday to privatize the state-owned liquor industry.

Penn President Amy Gutmann’s father, who escaped Germany at the beginning of the Holocaust, influenced her in powerful ways.

Thomas Murphy, the chief information officer at DaVita HealthCare Partners, will serve as Penn’s next vice president for information technology and CIO, the University announced Wednesday.

Bringing a widespread trend to campus, the Kelly Writers House hosted their second annual Edible Books Party last night. In a relaxed and friendly atmosphere, students recreated popular literary titles using food and their imaginations, filling the dining room table with anything from ketchup on rye bread to “Steve Cobs” — a portrait of the late Apple founder composed mostly of corn.

On Jan. 25, Pennsylvania State Sen. Donald White (R-Indiana) introduced a bill — which was referred to the Law and Justice Committee — that would grant alcohol vendors the ability to confiscate an identification card if they have reason to believe that it is a fake.

Steven Fluharty sat down with The Daily Pennsylvanian the other day to discuss some of his priorities as he transitions into his new role at SAS.

While the new West Philadelphia Shake Shack location will be on Drexel’s campus, Penn retailers are not worried about business. The restaurant will be coming to 32nd and Chestnut streets this summer, an expansion from its Center City location which opened last June on 20th and Sansom.

See the incidents that occurred in the Penn Patrol Zone between Jan. 18 and Jan. 24

Since the Perelman School of Medicine eliminated its Office for Diversity and Community Outreach in June 2012, the school has been working to restructure its diversity and inclusion programs.

Givology, a 100 percent volunteer social impact group that was started in part by 2008 College graduate Joyce Meng in her senior year, published a book titled “A Guide to Giving” in January.

Penn’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, the School of Design and Carnegie Mellon University are working on a collaborative effort to improve the future of transportation through an interdisciplinary research group known as the Consortium for Technologies for Safe and Efficient Transportation.

Graduate students have the option of five graduate fraternities across the Perelman School of Medicine, the School of Dental Medicine and the School of Veterinary Medicine. However, the majority of Penn’s 12 graduate schools do not have specific fraternities.

The rhetoric is heating up in 1993 Fels Institute of Government graduate Brett Mandel’s bid to unseat Alan Butkovitz as Philadelphia City Controller. The two Democrats also battled for the same position in the 2009 Philadelphia municipal election, where Butkovitz prevailed over Mandel in the Democratic primary.

Sunday night, the members of the Undergraduate Assembly ratified a new committee to ensure quality in election debates.