A roundup of the characters down the hall

After Penn football’s 21-13 loss to Brown on Saturday, coach Al Bagnoli was not about to make any excuses for the Quakers’ offensive performance. But curiously enough, Brown coach Phil Estes was.

Homecoming has the potential to be great for any school. A ton of alumni (read: possible donors) all in the same place, interacting with your campus and taking in the athletic events you have on tap. But when events unfold like they did for Penn Athletics on Saturday, it is hard to call this rain-soaked Homecoming great for the athletic department.

Although I subscribe to the belief that, in our advanced society, it’s wrong to kill animals for food, I understand that we live in a world where there are enough starving people that moral outrage on behalf of the exploited honey bee seems a little misplaced, and where the objectification of women causes enough damage that PETA’s “I’d rather go naked than wear fur” campaign makes me worry more about the state of women in our society than the state of cattle.

Luckily, however, voters need not merely vote against the past four years. They can go to the polls and vote for the future. Tom Wolf, whom President Bill Clinton called “the best candidate for governor in America,” offers the chance for a new, progressive direction for Pennsylvania.

Hannah Rosenfeld is a College sophomore from Tokyo, Japan.

On October 27, 2014, M.I.T. released the results of a survey on sexual assault and harassment at its campus.

Penn celebrated on Friday the ceremonial groundbreaking of the Pennovation Center, a business incubator opening on Penn’s South Bank campus

Today marks the official release of LaunchQuad, a website that gives information about Penn affiliated start-ups. The site, which also lists job openings, currently has 14 member companies and counting.

This Monday, former Penn Economics professor Rafael Robb is going on a civil trial in Montgomery County for killing his wife Ellen Gregory Robb in December 2006. 

We were sober on Halloween. This is our story.

Wharton junior Jimmy Kwon has developed Blink, an app to find a remedy for the painful process of planning activities with friends. Blink arranges get-togethers by creating specific group messages based on activities and users' social circles.

Penn's Board of Trustees discussed updates on the recently announced Climate Action Plan 2.0 and how University administrators have preempted calls for Payments in Lieu of Taxes at meetings last week.

Among Geoffrey Garrett's top priorities for his deanship is his desire to communicate Wharton’s value in fields beyond finance. 

President Obama joined in a Tom Wolf for Governor campaign rally on Sunday at Temple University in Philadelphia.

Seven games into the 2014 season, it's impossible to deny the sense of disappointment surrounding Penn football.

This weekend was one of ups and downs for Penn field hockey.