2008 Woodie Awards
In federal court Friday Engineering junior Ryan Goldstein pleaded guilty to helping a hacker crash the School of Engineering and Applied Science's server in February 2006. Goldstein pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting another person to gain unauthorized access to a protected computer, a federal misdemeanor.
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The gloomy days are over for graduate students who are single and ready to mingle. They can find their true love - at speed dating.
The Graduate and Professional Student Assembly organized its first speed-dating event on Friday evening at the Graduate Student Center.
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The common perception of Asian American students as the "silent minority" is being broken down by student responses to some questionable comments made by students at a conference held two weeks ago.
After attending this year's East Coast Asian-American Student Union conference at Cornell University, students at Penn have started an e-mail campaign to raise awareness about remarks made about the Asian-American community by senior administrators at Cornell.
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Attorneys for Irina Malinovskaya, the Wharton undergraduate accused of killing her ex-lover's girlfriend in 2004, have filed motions to have the case dismissed.
Malinovskaya has faced three trials in the case, all of which have ended in hung juries.
Delaware state prosecutors have not said if they will seek a fourth trial.
Universities around the country are richer than ever, but the money is not necessarily coming out of alumni's pockets.
Contributions to colleges have reached $29.75 billion in 2007 - the highest ever - but the amount of that contribution that comes from alumni has decreased by 1.
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The Los Angeles Times may be able to take a tip or two from four Wharton seniors on how to increase its profits.
The undergraduate Wharton team placed second at the University of Southern California's annual Marshall International Case Competition, in which participating teams have to solve a real world business problem in 24 hours.
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In preparation for next month's Pennsylvania primary, Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama both set up Philadelphia campaign headquarters this weekend.
Obama, an Illinois senator, opened his headquarters at 15th and Sansom streets on Saturday.
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You think profs lean to the left? You're right
Study: conservatives less likely than liberals to want to be professors
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It is often said that college students tend to be overwhelmingly liberal - and it seems this is true of college professors as well.
A recent study conducted by Penn State University professor Matthew Woessner and Elizabethtown College professor April Kelly-Woessner found that people who identify themselves as conservatives are simply less likely to pursue a doctorate.
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Seniors bid farewell to Feb Club festivities
Students celebrated the end of a month of parties and events at Smokey Joe's on Friday
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Hundreds of seniors gathered at Smokey Joe's Friday night to mark the end of the annual month-long celebration that is Feb Club.
A chance for seniors to attend events on campus and throughout Philadelphia together, Feb Club has expanded since it took on its current form in 2004 of having multiple events during the month, Wharton senior and class president Puneet Singh said.
Students celebrated the end of a month of parties and events at Smokey Joe's on Friday
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The Philadelphia music community has a vital hub just a few blocks from campus, though many Penn students don't know about it.
In the past three months, Counting Crows, Ingrid Michaelson, Feist, Rilo Kiley and Iron and Wine have performed or recorded in-studio interviews at WXPN radio, a professionally run, University-owned radio station located at 30th and Walnut streets.
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