Throughout the week, Penn for Syrian Refugees, Penn Arab Student Society and Al Bustan Seeds of Culture are hosting Syria Awareness Week.

Shonda Rhimes is producing a new show that is — basically — based on Penn.

The fundraising campaign has raised $4,020 as of publishing time.

A DP reporter played a night of chess with male players who play at McDonald's (and sometimes the Fresh Grocer) nearly every night.

On Wednesday evening, the Wharton and Engineering Schools, the Mack Institute for Innovation Management, and the Penn Center for Innovation held a kickoff event for the annual Y-Prize competition.

The Shakespeare Globe Theatre's opened their performance of King Lear at the Annenberg Center for Performing Arts Wednesday night

The two-year-long moratorium has prevented new groups from receiving SAC funding.

To study history is to take ownership of the human race, sharing in its triumphs and bearing witness to its sins and follies. We join a legacy of transient beings striving to craft a fleeting world for the better. Only by linking ourselves to them across the ages do we keep that legacy intact.

We have the rest of our lives to focus on our chosen field of work. Take advantage of Penn’s opportunities now.

Some say numbers never lie, but Penn volleyball may disagree.

“All About That Bass” is not the first pop song to tell young women and girls that the only real value of their bodies is how men perceive them. “What Makes You Beautiful” by One Direction, “Just the Way You Are” and “Treasure” by Bruno Mars are just some examples of pop hits that require the man to define a woman’s beauty for her. “Men love curvy women.” “Guys love skinny girls.” These back and forth arguments are unhealthy and put down other women. Girls shouldn't have to justify their body types by pointing to what men find attractive.

After an outstanding performance at last week’s Big 5 Invitational in which the Quakers took six of the top seven spots in the women’s race and the top seven in the men’s, the Red and the Blue are ready to follow up their success Thursday at the Main Line Invitational.

Another ranked squad, and unfortunately for Penn men’s soccer, another loss.

There’s a certain mantra that’s been circulating around Penn football this week. It’s been uttered at every practice and pasted on every sheet of paper at every meeting.

When the Quakers play Cornell at Franklin Field on Friday, it will conjure up some mixed memories.

Penn women’s soccer’s game against Harvard will mark the beginning of conference play on Saturday.

Penn field hockey, which last defeated Lafayette in 2007, submitted a strong comeback effort on the shoulders of senior Emily Corcoran to topple the Leopards, 4-2, Wednesday evening.