Many students have decided to take a leave of absence to pursue job opportunities or start their own businesses, Director of Career Services Patricia Rose said.

Every year, there are cases of theft at fraternity parties. While some cases are the result of “long standing rivalries” between fraternity houses, other cases involve students who are not affiliated with the Greek community.

The UA voted in favor of sending professors emails at the start of every school year to remind them of religious holidays. The resolution will be up for approval in October.

Because Penn is witnessing a surge of applicants from charter schools, admissions officers will add a code to track charter schools for the first time.

The newly-opened Center for Innovations in Health Care Financing will use ideas in behavioral economics to improve patient health and reduce healthcare costs.

As competition for most job positions increases, personal recommendations and networking continue to be an important part of the job hunt, according to assistant Wharton professor Matthew Bidwell, who studies employment patterns.

Penn will participate in the President’s Interfaith and Community Service Campus Challenge, which was released by the White House last spring. The Challenge will encourage college campuses to institute more interfaith and community service programming.

Students enrolled in the Political Science class “Citizenship and Democratic Development” this semester were shocked when they heard why their professor, the late Henry Teune, couldn’t be at the first day of class.

In the spirit of transparency, the University released its annual Jeanne Clery crime report Sept. 15, detailing three years of crime and emergency on campus.

On Monday night during the Tampa GOP debate, Michele Bachmann, a Minnesota Congresswoman, attacked Texas Governor Rick Perry for his use of an executive mandate for all 11- and 12-year-old girls in the state to receive the Human papillomavirus vaccine, Gardasil.

Starting last Friday night at 6 p.m., nearly 200 students from universities all over the U.S. gathered in Towne Building for the next 48 hours to design and build phone and internet applications.

Last Friday, the 2013 and 2014 class boards kicked off the weekend with the resurrected Skimmer tradition that featured hot air balloons, delicious free food and plenty of long lines.

An outbreak of listeria illness — linked to cantaloupes from Colorado-based producer Jensen Farms — has forced the fruit off menus at Penn.

While hundreds of professors have begun to upload syllabi online in recent years, hundreds more have yet to make their way onto the internet.

The University announced at a Board of Trustees meeting Thursday that its endowment return — which indicates how well the sum of its investments performed — for Fiscal Year 2011 was 18.6 percent.

Bounded by the cement and steel of urban traffic ways, Penn Park — which opened to fireworks and celebration on Sept. 15 — marks a historical development in Penn’s eastward expansion.

Thirteen of Penn’s 30 Interfraternity Council chapters will recruit sophomores and transfer students this semester. The number of fraternities participating in fall rush has increased from nine last year.