Jessica Riegel

We’ve finally learned to manage our lives here, and we have to move on. Do I know how to manage, motivate and challenge myself in new contexts?

College junior Jessica Riegel's semester abroad at the University of Cape Town reveals the conflict of first and third worlds in South Africa.

A Cornell University junior died of complications from H1N1 influenza Friday night. Warren Schor, a 20-year-old economics and management major from New York, is the first university student in the United States to die of the infection.

This year, The Daily Pennsylvanian is following four freshmen through their first year of college. The occasional series will explore all aspects of the freshman journey, from moving in to cramming for finals - and everything in between.

Once you've settled into your dorm and navigated your way down Locust Walk, it's time to venture out into the rest of Philadelphia, which offers restaurants, shopping and museums galore.

While most students were saying goodbye to their dorms last Tuesday, College junior Joshua Bennett was being welcomed into a new room - one further to the East. Bennett was one of a handful of performers invited to celebrate poetry, music and spoken word in the East Room of the White House with the first family and about 200 guests.

Studying alone in Huntsman Hall last week, Senior Class President and College senior Brett Perlmutter got an e-mail that connected him to a nearly 150-year-old tradition. He found out that he, along with seven other soon-to-be graduates, will be awarded Senior Honor Awards at Ivy Day during this May's Commencement celebrations.

For four days in 1978, Penn students held a sit-in at College Hall. At first they were protesting University plans to cut sports programs, but soon the focus turned to anger about climbing tuition and residence fees. As the protest continued, a few participants began to think even bigger, setting their sights on a student organization to unite and empower campus minority groups.

The United Minorities Council, the umbrella for 20 minority groups on campus, elected Wharton and College junior Ezegozie Eze as its chair Wednesday night. Eze, who transferred from Princeton University this semester, won the three-way race for the helm of the organization, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary.