“Where I come from there’s nothing like rush. There’s nothing like Greek life or sororities and fraternities. It was new to some extent, I didn’t get what the point of it was,” Engineering freshman Zena Kipkenda said. “When it comes to public colleges, joining clubs in Kenya is up to an individual.”

The room will have glass walls, wood ceilings, lights to mimic the stars, and a wool and silk sculpture by artist Claudy Jongstra, who is featured at the Barnes Foundation. Rogers added that the sculpture will help with sound reduction as the fabric will absorb outside noise. The room will also feature 84 seats in the main area, and 13 “soft seats.”

This weekend, Cohney attended his first hacker convention in Washington, D.C., where he learned physical and information security skills. “There was a room dedicated to locksport, which is competitive lock picking,” Cohney said.

“There are so many opportunities on campus for innovation,” Director of Weiss Tech House Anne Stamer said. “We have a program for everybody.”

Long club elections are hardly unique at Penn. While club leaders see comprehensive elections as necessary to select the most suitable executive team, many acknowledge that intense elections have repercussions on students’ energy and their emotional well-being.

Last Wednesday, Litwin sent out a Google form to different student groups like PennQuest and Bloomers, inviting four or five students to a meal at a Philadelphia restaurant. 

Events around campus include a “Privilege Walk,” a screening of the film “Hidden Figures” and a lecture on social justice.

As students flooded off campus to their holiday destinations, Facilities was hard at work getting the college houses ready for break.

This program is not the first of its kind, and similar programs have been successful at universities like Brown, Cornell and Columbia.

The 5B groups include the Asian Pacific Student Coalition, Lambda Alliance, Latin@ Coalition, United Minorities Council and UMOJA. 

Roommates are incredibly fickle — some become lifelong friends, while others quickly fade into the background.

Affiliated fraternities begin their official spring recruiting process with rush events on Thursday, Jan. 12 and Friday, Jan. 13. 

The interfaith group “Sharing Our Scriptures” has members that practice Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and Christianity. 

Previously named About APA Women, the Spice Collective aims to provide a forum for women of Asian descent to discuss social, academic, political and economic issues.

Despite the widespread student and administrative backlash to the suggestive OZ email outed last semester, the outgoing IFC president said Fraternity recruitment numbers have doubled. 

Late Thursday night, College sophomore Victor Arellano covered the LOVE statue in flyers describing what he viewed as racist treatment from the fraternity’s executive board.

Nayef Yassin Nayef, a sophomore in Engineering, felt the two-day travel time to his home in Palestine was too long for this year's shortened winter break, so he decided to make alternative plans.