While many are gearing up for this weekend’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day programs, few on campus remember — or even realize — the Penn-King connection.

Steven Fluharty, who currently serves as senior vice provost for research at Penn, will succeed Rebecca Bushnell as the next dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, the University announced Thursday afternoon.

The massive, wanton destruction wreaked by the Israeli military — often with the use of high-precision weapons and advanced aircraft technology against a refugee and civilian population — was beyond excessive.

This past Monday, I became an American citizen along with 60 strangers, altogether representing 31 countries. Again, “melting pot” etched its way across my mind, reminding me that identification comes in the form of a shared or inspired human experience, not the flesh that portrays it.

Most of the time, the worst that comes of those extra shots is an embarrassing moment or an inside joke from another time at Smoke’s. Yet all too often, the results are on a much larger scale.

Villanova (14-2, 4-0 Big 5) pulled away from the Quakers with an early second half run, defeating the Quakers in a low-scoring affair, 48-44.

Penn has the worst proportionality of male to female athletes in the Ivy League, according to the U.S. Department of Education’s Equity in Athletics database.

The Quakers are just 2-13 and have yet to win a road game this season. Penn will seek its first road win and 1700th win as a program Thursday night against the NJIT Highlanders (9-8) at the Fleisher Athletic Center.

Last night, Legend joined Camille Charles, director of the Center for Africana Studies, to deliver the 12th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture in Social Justice. The event was part of an annual symposium, sponsored by the Center for Africana Studies, to honor blacks dedicated to positive social change.

In his four years as an assistant coach at NJIT, Bowman played a large role in helping the program achieve respectability — going from 1-30 in his first season to 15-15 and 15-17 in his third and fourth seasons, respectively.

Penn’s chapters of Sigma Phi Epsilon and Alpha Psi recently lost their tax exempt status as nonprofit institutions. According to the Internal Revenue Service website, Alpha Psi’s tax-exempt status was revoked on May 15, 2010 and SigEp’s was revoked on Nov. 15, 2010.

The BFS course design grants, which started in May of 2011, has made huge strides in providing new and inventive courses for students.

Last year saw a decrease of 7 percent in the total number of crimes committed in and around Penn’s campus.

Former Utah governor, 2012 presidential candidate and 1987 College graduate Jon Huntsman is returning to campus this afternoon to discuss United States-China relations. He will be the first speaker in a series of annual lectures offered by the Center for the Study of Contemporary China.

In a press announcement Wednesday afternoon, Obama outlined proposals to Congress and a series of 23 executive actions to curb gun violence in response to last month’s mass shooting in a Connecticut elementary school.

Food is an integral part of the open rush process for both genders. This past week, fraternities and sororities each served up a different plat du jour, subliminally reinforcing their specific dose of gender stereotyping in such choices.

This past summer, ISAC had six students working with 10 faculty members on the Integrating Sustainability Across the Curriculum program this summer. The program paired members of faculty with summer student interns to research sustainability as it relates to the course material and incorporate it into the curriculum.