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.

Preliminary results from the Career Services Class of 2012 Career Plans Survey Report revealed that 64 percent of graduates obtained full-time employment, a slight increase from 62 percent full-time employment for 2011 graduates. About 1,956 graduates responded to the survey.

The Office of Admissions is orchestrating several changes to the preview days, including a new date on April 5 exclusively for students admitted through early decision and a student-run committee on changing specific Preview Days events.

A Folklore Department hasn’t existed at Penn since 1999, and currently only graduate students can get certificates in Folklore Studies.

The report, which was published by the Evelyn Jacobs Ortner Center on Family Violence at Penn’s School of Social Policy and Practice features 12 agencies who service domestic violence victims. The report addresses their actions and makes recommendations for the groups.

This past year, these flex seats were occupied by UA members. Flex seats are seats that are not reserved for UA representatives or the Nominations and Elections Committee and may be assigned to either branch. However, after College senior and Speaker Pro Tempore Jon Monfred’s resignation Sunday night, a seat became available and prompted a heated discussion between the NEC and the UA.