On Dec. 1, SPEC will host the first annual concert of the Penn Music Collective, a group of local independent student musicians.

In basketball, a coach will say he wants his best player to have the ball when the game is on the line. For Penn men’s swimming coach Mike Schnur, that equivalent player — or in this case, swimmer — is sophomore Rhoads Worster.

Busch’s experience was the driving force in her winning a starting position in her first year at Penn.

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Earlier this month, around 70 Harvard University students walked out of professor N. Gregory Mankiw’s introductory economics class due to a perceived conservative bias in his lectures and textbook.

At a Board of Trustees’ committee meeting on Nov. 3, Penn President Amy Gutmann and Vice Provost for Global Initiatives Ezekiel Emanuel expressed interest in creating a Wharton Center in China to strengthen Penn’s global ties.

Penn students who study abroad are charged a home-school tuition of nearly $20,000 a semester, regardless of the program they pick. For some, the tuition disparity between Penn and the foreign university proves to be frustrating when peers at the school abroad pay next to nothing.

Penn professor Michael Meister’s research has taken him all over South Asia, including to temple sites in Pakistan and the Himalayas.

Philadelphia native Gerald Sterrett’s charity near campus, the Second Mile Center, has been mistakenly associated with the nonprofit founded by former Penn State assistant football coach and alleged rapist Jerry Sandusky.

An armed robbery occurred at Starbucks in 1920 Commons at about 10 p.m. Tuesday night. The suspect was armed with a gun and stole cash. No injuries were reported, and Penn Police is currently investigating the incident.

Having adopted Pennsylvania as our home, we need to think of ourselves as residents of the state rather than just as members of the Penn community.

If we take away anything from Ash Ketchum’s adventures, it should be to revere the dream and not allow other considerations to prevent it from ever being reached.

As Occupy Wall Street reaches its two-month anniversary, the protest — with 4,049 arrests, countless police raids and three deaths to its name nationwide — was raided by police early Tuesday morning. RELATED: Penn professors discuss Occupy movementTIMELINE: Occupy movement

Wednesday evening in Huntsman Hall, Chair of Penn’s Board of Trustees David Cohen shared life anecdotes along with career advice.

When senior Brendan McHugh was 17, he participated on a summer swim team with younger brother Dillon, now a freshman, and his three other younger siblings. Thus it was business as usual when the two brothers reunited on the Quakers squad this year.

Though it took the team some time to adjust, several players faced the challenges head on and worked tirelessly to improve their play.

Penn fencing has an advantage that no other varsity team at the school can boast — the men and women go head to head in practice.