Last night, Penn's entire girl's varsity soccer team volunteered at the Hillel Soup Kitchen's first-ever going-away party.
The soup kitchen is part of the University City Hospitality Coalition program which runs soup kitchens five nights of the week in University City.
As engineering becomes an increasingly global profession, officials at the Engineering school say their students are going abroad more than ever before - but still not as much as they would like them to.
Getting more students to go overseas is a tricky issue, they argue - and one that will require changing student perceptions about the feasibility of such opportunities.
When Gym Class Heroes drummer Matt McGinley was in the ninth grade, he was in a band that had no singer.
And then he met Travis McCoy, now the lead singer of Gym Class Heroes.
Still, McGinley's band needed a singer, and McCoy took on that role.
He was "into poetry," McGinley said in a post-concert interview.
Penn has emerged unscathed from the latest round of e-mail scams targeting college servers.
The fake e-mails, known as phish, have recently changed their tactics to target colleges, according to Douglas Pearson, technical director of an information-sharing and analysis center at Indiana University at Bloomington.
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Photos by Carmela Aquino, Will van Eaton, Matt Cianfrani, Priscilla des Gachons, Mustafa Al-ammar, Alvin Loke
New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, who is trying to win the Democratic presidential nomination, focused on crime as she campaigned in West Philadelphia last week.
At the YMCA located at 51st and Chestnut streets on Friday, Clinton announced a $4-billion-a-year anticrime initiative that she said is aimed at halving the murder rate in large cities.
The Recording Industry Association of America has hit a roadblock in its efforts to prosecute four students at Boston University for copyright infringement.
Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner forbade Boston University - which had been subpoenaed by the RIAA - from providing the names of students to the organization until she further investigates the school's privacy policy.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton looked somber following her speech at the AFL-CIO convention last week.
"We need to do something so that our party and our people can make the right decision," she said.
The reporters in the room looked around eagerly and uncomfortably, wondering where this speech was leading.
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Even the pouring rain couldn't dampen spirits at the Spring Fling concert Friday night.
Hosted by the concerts and SPEC-TRUM subcommittees of the Social Planning and Events Committee, the concert featured rock group OK Go and indie hip-hop band Gym Class Heroes along with rapper Ludacris, who headlined the show.
