The last time Penn women’s basketball played a team from Philadelphia, the Quakers did something never before seen in program history, clinching a share of the Big 5 title in dramatic fashion. Now, with the Red and Blue set to do battle against another local rival, the squad has the opportunity to cross another seldom achieved goal off its bucket list: beat Villanova. Having already knocked off La Salle, St.

With Ivy League play looming, the Quakers (4-9, 0-1 Ivy) look to continue their success against MAAC teams - they are 2-1 this season with wins over Marist and Niagara - with Wednesday's game against Monmouth (9-9).

If the admissions process at a university can accomplish anything, it should be to detect applicants who are interested in close scrutiny and critical appraisal of their own lives and screen those who are not.

For too long, the uninsured have gone without life-saving medical treatment or lived in fear of bankruptcy. Survivors fleeing abuse have been forced to sleep in the streets after their last lifeline of state assistance was cut off. The recently laid-off have waited in vain for help at County Assistance Offices.

On Monday, 14 students woke up early to give their time to a local Philadelphia middle school, Middle Years Alternative. 

Roughly 7,000 people, including students from Penn, marched through Philadelphia yesterday as a part of #ReclaimMLK Day

Phi Delta Theta will participate in sexual misconduct education.

Several Penn students participating in fraternity recruitment said that the controversial holiday photo itself didn’t exert a major influence on their choices during the process.

Pedro Rivera is a Philadelphia native and former teacher and principal in the School District of Philadelphia. 

An all high school team competed in the health hack with their app “Helix,” an app designed to streamline the directions patients receive from their doctors. The app won best overall health hack and best consumer health hack.

The Supreme Court will hear an appeal to the 6th circuit’s decision to uphold gay marriage bans.

It's apt to think of a collegiate track team like a car: if left to sit alone in a garage for the winter, it mostly likely won't be going from zero to sixty in record time on the first time out. With that said, Penn track showed no real signs of stalling in its first competitive action since winter break, collecting 11 victories in Saturday’s Angry Birds Invitational at Lehigh. The men’s team finished second out of five squads, losing only to Monmouth while compiling 131 total points.

Once again, Penn finds itself .500 on the week. For the second time in as many weekends, both the men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams split their respective Ivy dual meets, with both programs defeating Brown while falling to Harvard on Saturday. On the men’s side, the Quakers finished their regular season against the Ivy League with a 203-95 win over Brown and a 190-108 loss to Harvard. The men’s squad was anchored by its pair of standout juniors, as Eric Schultz and Chris Swanson both scored maximum points for Penn in their freestyle events.

After a less than stellar winter break, Penn wrestling needed some sort of success to right the ship before opening Ivy play.

This weekend, hackers converged on Penn for the biannual PennApps hackathon. Here were the top ten projects of over 200 submissions developed this weekend. 

Penn paying Payments in Lieu of Taxes (PILOTs) is still not on the agenda. 

Anneka DeCaro is a College freshman from Austin, TX. Her email address is annekaxiv@gmail.com.