Penn’s polling stations saw less than a third of voter turnout this election cycle 

In addition to partially lifting the moratorium on new student groups, the Student Activities Council also recently elected a new chair.  The Daily Pennsylvanian sat down with recently elected SAC Chair and College junior Renata O'Donnell to discuss her plans for the upcoming year.  Daily Pennsylvanian: What’s something you what to accomplish as SAC chair that you want to have be your legacy? Renata O'Donnell: I think [previous SAC chairs] have done an amazing job.

It’s hard to have a freshman season much better than Sydney Stipanovich did last year.

The view is different from the top. And it’s been quite a few years since Penn women’s basketball has had that view.

Last year, Penn’s women’s basketball proved it was the best time in the Ivy League. This year, the Red and Blue will put their skills to the test against some of the best teams in the entire country, facing a strong schedule fit for the defending Ivy champions.

Penn emerged victorious from last year’s Ivy scramble. Let’s take a look at how the league is shaping up as we enter the new season.

The Quakers’ four seniors – forwards Katy Allen and Kara Bonenberger along with guards Renee Busch and Kathleen Roche – have been named the captains for the 2014-15 season and plan on carrying the torch from last year’s successful group.

This season, the freshman class as a whole will be playing a big role from the opening tip on Nov. 14 in Tennessee.

Queer and gendered narratives are stripped from the black narrative, resulting in a solely heteronormative, male, black narrative, which effectively serves as an act of erasure. We are expected to drop our identities — identities that interact in ways that open us up to violence that is largely ignored. We are expected to silence our criticisms about our treatment in order to focus our attentions on the struggles of black men.

There is probably no single course on-campus that is as profoundly hated as the writing seminar. Organic chemistry plagues the pre-med, math is feared by many, BEPP is the bane of the Wharton freshman, but the writing seminar is the common enemy of all.

Nick Moncy is a College junior from North Miami, Fla. His email address is nickmon@sas.upenn.edu.

Map of today's polling places and list of resources to guide your vote

At their Nov. 2 meeting, the Undergraduate Assembly passed a resolution that urges the administration not to change the credit value of a course after the first day of classes. They also discussed making syllabi for all classes available on Penn InTouch.

Real estate mogul Sam Zell spoke at Penn on Monday, offering a glimpse of his contrarian philosophies.

Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof offered his thoughts on the "empathy gap" in a talk on Monday.