Penn baseball will escape the cold with a trip to Florida to open up the 2015 season against Stetson this weekend. The Quakers are coming off of a strong 2014 season.

Five consecutive losses. A combined scoring deficit of 98 points in this five-game losing skip. A dismal ranking of 303rd in the most recent Pomeroy rankings. Most importantly, a league-worst 2-7 Ivy record thus far this season. These are just a few of the most blatant indicators of the team’s recent misgivings that Penn basketball will need to ignore this weekend on the road against Brown and Yale. Of course, leaving these sorts of statistics at the door and focusing solely on the game at hand is easier said than done, but they are hoping to do so by looking towards the future. “This year in so many ways was about more than wins and losses,” assistant coach Nat Graham said.

Death, taxes and Michelle Nwokedi winning Ivy League Rookie of the Week. There are certain events that are virtually guaranteed in life.

SEAN MCGEEHAN is a College junior from Philadelphia. His email address is seanmcgeehan@verizon.net.

As much as I remind myself that this summer won’t define my career, it’s hard to escape the group mentality that permeates out of Huntsman — which was why I was so impressed when my roommate came home one day and announced she wasn’t looking for internships.

Emoji have recently appeared in the media due to their purported lack of diversity. A recent “Saturday Night Live” segment drew attention to the controversy when comedian Sasheer Zamata joked that she had to use the emoji for a new moon as none of the faces resembled her.

The University is not exempt from the lessons of this tragedy. UNC Chapel Hill, in many ways, resembles Penn. It is academically rigorous, diverse and has a significant Muslim student population.

With financial aid season taking off, Senior Vice President and Edvisors.com Publisher Mark Kantrowitz is explaining to the Washington Post how to prevent the most typical financial aid mistakes. Among the most common errors Kantrowitz cites are students forgetting to fill out the FAFSA form, which disqualifies them from Federal Pell Grants, filing out the FAFSA form for the previous year instead of the upcoming one, filing their forms after March, which results in receiving less grant funding and incorrectly reporting marital status levels, as sometimes changes in marital status are anticipated and reflected in the applications, but not fulfilled.  Read about more common financial aid mistakes at the Washington Post.

Graduate degrees provide the biggest income boosts for those that majored in fields such as political science, history and engineering according to the Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce.   Students with graduate degrees in computer science see an average $30,000 increase in their incomes.

Cameron Fegers is calling for students who do not side with Emma Sulkowicz--who claims she was raped by Paul Nungesser-- to be able to express their opinions without fear of being stigmatized for it.    In his letter to the editor on the Columbia Daily Spectator, Fegers explained that though he believes Sulkowicz's version of events, it is more important to him that everyone be able to form their own opinions than they side with Sulkowicz.  "The extent to which we actively drown out dissenting voices on this issue symbolizes a judgment call from the masses--that the opinions of those who don't believe Emma are inferior and unworthy of consideration," Fegers said, adding that people should not be afraid to express their true opinions out of fear as being labeled "pro-rape." Fegers believes all the attention being given to the case should come to an end. Rather than expend so much energy figuring out who is telling the truth in the case, Fegers says, energy should be put into "fostering a community dedicated to combating sexual violence."  Read the rest of his opinion at the Columbia Daily Spectator.

The referendum to divest from fossil fuels has received enough votes to be valid.

Nourish International is a non-profit group that helps college and high school students run business ventures on their campuses to support local community organizations worldwide

DPS has received 15 reports of fraud since January.

College applicants who want to round out their application with a high class rank can forget their troubles for a while.

Almost a third of faculty signed a letter criticizing the procedures for lacking due process.

Receiving emails from Canvas for note takers is nothing unusual for Penn students. For some, sign language translators at lectures are not so surprising either.

"A Comedy of Terrors" centers on the efforts of two brothers who try to win over more viewers for their paranormal investigation TV show against a rival show.