For a moment, it looked as if Penn basketball had turned a corner when it gave then-No. 5 Villanova a serious scare at home on Saturday. Apparently not. Playing to a mostly-empty Palestra crowd, the Quakers came out sleepwalking against Monmouth and paid dearly.

One of the greatest injustices is that of the consistent minimizing of the smaller and weaker. Working to reduce abortion and infanticide, and speaking against euthanasia seeks to promote justice for those who cannot speak up for themselves.

As I bounce back and forth between different rush events, I’m frustrated that I can’t summarize myself. I can’t articulate some spiffy conclusion from the various odds-and-ends that make up who I am.

Sean McGeehan is a College junior from Philadelphia. His email address is seanmcgeehan@verizon.net

Looking to go 4-0 in the Big 5 on the season, the Red and Blue instead found themselves at the mercy of a Villanova squad firing on all cylinders, losing 70-44.

Penn Glee Club, Penn Sori, and Penn Shabbatones performed at the White House over winter break.

A Penn study has shown a correlation between a person's tweets and their rates of coronary heart disease.  Because hostile communities can lead people to drink more, have relatively poor diets and spend more times in solitude--all of which lead to heart disease--people with hostile communities on twitter become more susceptible to heart disease.  Though this correlation has been found, researchers highlight that this is not a causal relationship.  Read more about the study here.

In response to spikes in sexual assaults taking place on college campuses, particularly at fraternity houses, female students have begun wondering whether or not holding parties in sorority houses would help decrease the number of sexual assaults that take place, The New York Times Reported.  Various female students have reported fraternity parties as being conducive to assault due to the amount of alcohol served and fact that males have the advantage of knowing the layout of the fraternity houses, including all the exits.  Now everyone agrees that sorority houses serving alcohol and hosting parties will reduce the amount of sexual violence that takes place on campuses.

Upon returning to their schools from studying abroad, students are facing "reverse culture shock," USA TODAY College reports.  Though schools put a lot of time into preparing students for the culture shocks they will experience while living in another country, they do little to ease their transition back to American schools.  Emory University student Harlan Cutshall explains that after returning from abroad, college activities felt dull.

Obama proposed free community college, increased cybersecurity and bipartisanship.

Sure, ghosts might not exist, but that doesn’t mean they haven’t haunted our footsteps.

Several international students at Penn didn’t have the good fortune of returning home for winter break.

Despite declining enrollments in summer abroad, Penn will be expanding its summer programming to Tel Aviv, Havana, Athens, Berlin and Rotterdam.

With Penn basketball approaching the midway point in its season, fans and opposing coaches alike seem to think they know what Penn is made of. But the advanced stats tell the whole story.

There will always be those who are staunch defenders of anti-tournament model for the Ancient Eight, but that’s exactly what it is: ancient.

Following the Making History Campaign’s unprecedented fundraising success, University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann recently announced the University’s intention to raise one billion dollars for financial aid by 2020.

Penn Band embarked on a new performance journey during this winter break.