Choosing between houses, apartments and landlords can be daunting. The DP breaks down your options.

Students wishing to live with other transfers could choose to live in a hall designated specifically for them in Hill College House.

Instead of purchasing all new furniture and appliances for their dorms, some students choose to collect used or borrowed items piled up in hallways and outside of student houses during move-out.

Most partments in the Radian, University City Housing and University Enterprises buildings are filled by the time the on-campus housing process ends.

One of the main critiques of the process last year concerned the points-based system. The system was not designed to accommodate decimals, and some students got later selection times because their average number of points was weighted the same as someone who may have had fewer points.

Off-Campus Services has recently revamped their website to allow accepted graduate students to familiarize themselves with housing resources.

Last year, Provost Vince Price approved a change in the academic year after his office discovered that Penn’s calendar didn’t align with Middle States Commission on Higher Education regulations. As a result, students will have to come back to campus early to start classes in August for the first time since 1974.

The brainchild of coach Mike McLaughlin two years ago, the “Charge for a Cure” program gives the team an opportunity to impact lives by raising funds for five charities.

My proposal is for a multi-use dorm with dorm rooms, a student center, lecture halls, classrooms, athletic facilities, a library and even an auditorium. In essence, it is a campus within a campus.

There will always be some who spin stories to ask for money, but there are 4,000 Philadelphians who are homeless tonight. Many of these people are veterans or victims of the recession; some suffer from addiction or mental illness.

I was saddened, if not surprised, by the University’s plans to demolish 400 S. 40th Street in order to build apartments on the site

Dubbed a “future star for Sri Lanka” by the country’s national newspaper at the age of 12, Vimuktha De Alwis has only just begun to show his potential with the Quakers.

Over the last year, the junior forward has transformed from cautious sixth-man to assertive superstar.

Coach John Ceralde’s freshmen are joining a squad with high expectations following a season in which the team won the Ivy Classic and the ECAC Championship.

Last year, Penn completely overhauled the housing application system, changing the way students apply to live on-campus by moving everything online to a site called My Home at Penn. One of the main critiques of the process last year concerned the points-based system.

The company currently owns a portfolio of nearly $200 million of real estate comprising 145 properties across the country.

When only one of Penn’s residence houses — Sansom Place — offers graduate student housing, it isn’t difficult to see that on-campus housing options for graduate students are limited.