Last night, Penn students and alumni joined together in the Amado Recital Hall at Irvine Auditorium to hear Asada’s stories from abroad. After studying in the Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business, Asada became a foreign service officer for the U.S. Foreign Service in Pakistan.

On Tuesday night, Brandywine Realty Trust along with Campus Crest Communities, Inc. and Harrison Street Real Estate Capital announced they will collaboratively develop a new student housing building called The Grove at Cira Centre South. The building will be located at 30th and Chestnut streets and is expected to be complete by fall 2014.

As seniors are hunting for jobs in the beginning of second semester and through on-campus recruiting, students still unemployed continue to explore a variety of options to find jobs post-graduation. “”:http://www.thedp.com/r/e4be5dc2Students who do not have jobs secured right after graduation are not alone. According to the Career Plans Survey for the Class of 2012, 17 percent of employed students accepted job offers after graduation.”“:http://www.thedp.com/r/e4be5dc2

Last night, as part of the Authors@Wharton Speaker Series, Anne-Marie Slaughter discussed her July 2012 article in The Atlantic, “Why Women Can’t Have It All,” offering some much-desired perspective on maintaining an optimal work-life balance.

While controversy can be prevalent on campus — from questions of diversity to off-campus living conditions — Penn offers numerous resources to resolve such disputes.University offices such as the Office of the Ombudsman and the Office of Student Conduct serve as forums to resolve disagreements between parties.

As soon as next week, students will have a new convenient option for breakfast, lunch or dinner on campus. The “PennDesign Café” is scheduled to open in the lower level of Meyerson Hall as soon as next Friday.

Last night, the simple lessons of children’s literature found an older audience of writers and readers alike at the Kelly Writers House.

The Du Bois College House was founded in 1972 after an increased enrollment of African American students due to the civil rights movement. Forty years later, the organization celebrates its anniversary and retains it’s identity as a ‘cultural center.’

Fran Dougherty is likely out for the year with a dislocated shoulder. Steve Rennard is likely out for the year with a torn plantar fascia. And Penn basketball can use this as a learning opportunity.

With Fran Dougherty out for the year, Cam Gunter, oft unnoticed by both fans and media alike, may be just who the Quakers need to get back on their feet and back into the Ivy League race.

Pairing an identity with a name is not a new phenomenon, but now researchers have the data to recognize and support name trends with statistical analysis. So thanks for raising me, Mom and Dad, but you did most of the heavy lifting just by slapping a name on that birth certificate.

Among professional sports, the NFL is unique — a look at the different financial structures of other sports leagues makes the NFL’s socialist tendency even more apparent. Although Americans call European soccer a socialist sport, it is far more capitalist than our beloved NFL.

The fact that USC is willing to hire Lynch less than a year after the controversy shows a willingness to overlook Lynch’s actions. While this does not amount to condoning what Lynch has done, we feel it is akin to saying it’s acceptable. This disregard for ethical standards represents an inherent breakdown in the system.

The newest thing in the world of sex technology is Bang With Friends. The app — which has already gathered over 250,000 users since it launched last week — notifies pairs of Facebook friends who have identified that they’d like to “bang.”

While we’ve all been warned against sending pictures of ourselves in the buff, what’s more worrisome is that we don’t seem the least bit concerned about forwarding, sharing and further exploiting our peers. Worse, this trend is not bounded by the cybersphere — it’s alive in real time.

Omar Barghouti — a pro-Palestinian researcher, human rights activist and author — spoke at Claudia Cohen Hall Tuesday. His lecture, hosted by Penn for Palestine and PennBDS, in partnership with Philly BDS and Philadelphia Jewish Voice for Peace, was titled “Israel is No South Africa.”

Humor and comedy have always been a central part of the Penn Band since its inception in 1897. This year, two College sophomores, Kylie Murrin and Lauren Mendoza, are leading the Penn Band in that same direction.